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From: andrew@otter.cuug.ab.ca(Andrew Tyldesley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Are you missing bcp on your black Sybase server??
Date: 31 Dec 1995 03:47:17 GMT
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
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> Robert La Ferla (rdl@world.std.com) wrote:
> : bcp is indeed missing. It shouldn't be hard to rewrite it.
No it probably wouldn't be hard to write, but why would one want to when it
used to ship with NeXTstep. Anyhow someone sent me a copy and it works fine.
Art Isbell informed me that he believes it last shipped on the 3.0 CD as
part of the Sybase_DB-Library.pkg package.
Andrew
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Are you missing bcp on your black Sybase server??
In-Reply-To: andrew@otter.cuug.ab.ca's message of 31 Dec 1995 03:47:17 GMT
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Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 08:19:14 GMT
Because NS 3.0 doesn't run on Intel, Sparc, or HP computers.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
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From: andrew@otter.cuug.ab.ca(Andrew Tyldesley)
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> Robert La Ferla (rdl@world.std.com) wrote:
> : bcp is indeed missing. It shouldn't be hard to rewrite it.
No it probably wouldn't be hard to write, but why would one want to when it
used to ship with NeXTstep. Anyhow someone sent me a copy and it works fine.
Art Isbell informed me that he believes it last shipped on the 3.0 CD as
part of the Sybase_DB-Library.pkg package.
Andrew
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@auswired.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring two IP addresses for one interface
Date: 31 Dec 1995 08:32:50 GMT
Organization: AusWired, Melbourne, Australia.
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To: chuck@its.com
chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
>kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe) wrote:
>> I'm interested in having a NeXT cube respond as if it had multiple IP
>> addresses. It's running a Web server (Spinner) that hosts multiple
>> "virtual" Web servers and I'd like each of my clients to have a Web site
>> within their own domain. SGI, Solaris, and BSDI hosts can do it. Can
>> NEXTSTEP?
>
>NEXTSTEP does not support virtual addresses, no.
>
>(Rumor has it that you can install PPP and use the additional ppp0: and ppp1:
>interfaces to host other addresses. This is a major unsupported hack,
>though, and I would not recommend doing so myself if you have the choice of
>running another operating system.)
If you have a cube, then I guess you have no choice. We use PNI to do this,
and it works okay (possibly a little cleaner than PPP because we don't load
any serial line protocols, only the interface gunk - PNI lets you layer only
the modules you need). PNI, however, is no longer supported and we are
looking at moving to PPP.
However, if you have an Intel machine, I'd really use BSDI instead!
luke
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Satan 1.1.1
Date: 31 Dec 1995 13:36:59 GMT
Organization: Petrel Communications - Geneva Switzerland
Message-ID: <4c63lr$jbh@news.petrel.ch>
Company: Colombus Inc.
Hi,
Did anyone succeeded in compiling Satan 1.1.1 for NeXTSTEP 3.3 Intel ?
Thanks
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From: fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com (Frank Lazar)
Subject: Re: JAZ vs. ZIP drive
Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group
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References: <4c1bba$13vm@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 1995 22:19:09 GMT
In article <4c1bba$13vm@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu
(Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote:
> Hello all,
> has anyone seen the new JAZ drive? Could anyone compare his/her
> experiences with JAZ and ZIP drives?
>
I've seen them both. They're two different ranges really, the Jaz being a
540/gig drive and the Zip a 25/100 megger. The Zip disks are more
compact, and possibly more abuse tolerant. the Jaz drives are
considerably faster, perhaps a bit faster than a Bernoulli 200 drive. The
drives themelves look almost the same, they'll stack atop each other with
no trouble, although not in a secured fashion, i.e. loose. Haven't used
them on NeXT stations, although they're both popular in Macintosh, WinTel,
and Amiga lands.
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From: nextjet@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: JAZ vs. ZIP drive
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 95 21:48:07 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
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Who did you have to kill to see the jazz drive. they're not even in production
yet.Please let me know if you can get ahold of one,I'll buy one Immediately.
thanks in advance. german gobel.nextjet@ids.net
From: ttruong@phoenix.net (Tuan Truong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swapfile management
Date: 1 Jan 1996 19:50:51 GMT
Organization: Phoenix Data Systems
Message-ID: <4c9dur$e6s@gryphon.phoenix.net>
Hi-
Relatively new NS User here :-)
I'm wondering if there are anything I can do to minimize the swapfile
growth, optimizations and such, or maybe reclaim some of the disk
space that NS 3.3 (with patch) never seems to give back to me.
The bug seems to be in the Window server. Once you get a lot of
images up or have a lot of concurrent links in OmniWeb, the
Window server starts to swap out, and after quitting the Apps,
the swap file never shrinks.
I know the easy answer is to get more disk space and more memory,
but that seems like a pretty inelegent solution :-(
On a P120 with 64 MBs of RAM with swapfile initially set at 16 MB.
Thanks.
-Tuan
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile management
Date: 1 Jan 1996 20:18:41 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In <4c9dur$e6s@gryphon.phoenix.net> Tuan Truong wrote:
>
> Hi-
Hi.
> Relatively new NS User here :-)
Me, too.
> I'm wondering if there are anything I can do to minimize the swapfile
> growth, optimizations and such, or maybe reclaim some of the disk
> space that NS 3.3 (with patch) never seems to give back to me.
>
> The bug seems to be in the Window server. Once you get a lot of
> images up or have a lot of concurrent links in OmniWeb, the
> Window server starts to swap out, and after quitting the Apps,
> the swap file never shrinks.
>
> I know the easy answer is to get more disk space and more memory,
> but that seems like a pretty inelegent solution :-(
Why inelegant? I think tons of memory is quite elegant.
You can set the hiwat to limit size but this will have disasterous effects
when you reach it. (numerous 1995 usenet posts describe this).
There is no other solution to reclaimation than rebooting.
It's one of those things.
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Be well,
Matthew Reichman
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From: fahnoe@loki.ncent.mccaw.com (Larry Fahnoe)
Subject: Re: Is a "refurbished" B&W monitor any good?
Message-ID: <DKIo2K.BJ4@loki.ncent.mccaw.com>
Organization: AT&T Wireless Services, Minneapolis
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Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 19:13:32 GMT
In article <4bjtm7$8ev@news.onramp.net>, <scotshep@onramp.net> wrote:
>
>It been brought to my attention that maybe people would like to know
>where they could get a 'refurbished' monitor if they wanted one. I exchange
>my monitors with Bell Atlantic via UPS. They send a working unit out and I use
>the same packing to return the defective unit. Works for us. Their number is:
>1-800-345-7950, ask for NeXT repair deparment.
Bell Atlantic is now called Decision One; the NeXT service center can be
reached at 800/325-6398, though the above number may work as well.
Once I found the above number (most Bell Atlantic folk that I spoke with
locally didn't know anything about NeXT) I was very pleased with my
dealings with them. I had an old N4000 that was sorely in need of a pair
of glasses, and after calling them I had a refurbished N4000 in a couple
of days. I was told they are replacing the original CRT with an updated
version which has an expected life of 50,000 hrs rather than the 20,000 of
the original, I didn't hear or ask about any other updates being done to
the monitor. The replacement monitor is clean and sharp, a real treat for
the eyes! Bottom line is that the exchange price was $389 plus tax and
return shipping.
--Larry
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larry.fahnoe@attws.com 612/832-7616 Minneapolis, MN 55431
From: Shakil Ahmed <pdcs@lava.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3, Linux and Windows95 on the same SCSI drive
Date: 2 Jan 1996 01:42:09 GMT
Organization: LavaNet - Hawai'i Internet Access
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I have a AHA2950W controller and a Seagate wide scsi 2gb hard drive.
I would like to have the following partitions.
1GB for NS3.3
350MB for Linux
and remaining for Windows 95.
What would be the safest way to install the 3 o/s?
I was thinking, Windows95 first, then Linux and then NS3.3. Will this be
advisable?
Thanks in advance.
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Switching over to new boot drive (from scratch)
Date: 2 Jan 1996 08:09:15 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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I have a drive "A" which is my boot drive. I have larger/faster drive "B"
which I want to make my boot drive. How can I make the switch without
having to reconfigure everything and reinstall all my apps from scratch?
Does "ditto" have anything to do with it?
At the moment drive "B" is unformatted.
Much appreciation for advice.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
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From: Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anonymous FTP - Some questions.
Date: 2 Jan 1996 08:05:55 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4cap13$qcl@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Hi, I have a few questions about anonymous ftp. If these are
answered in a FAQ of sorts (which I don't think they are) then
I would appreciate if you directed me to the document. My
questions are as follows:
1) how secure is it?
2) how do I enable logging of logins etc?
3) how do I set a login message?
4) how do I limit the number of anonymous ftp users?
5) what entries do I need in group and passwd files?
6) do group/passwd files need to be in anonymous ftp etc/ dir?
Thanks in advance,
Shaun
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anonymous FTP - Some questions.
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 09:13:23 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
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In article <4cap13$qcl@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
writes:
> 2) how do I enable logging of logins etc?
It does it anyway; but you probably want to install wu-ftp for logging of
anything more than just logins.
> 3) how do I set a login message?
> 4) how do I limit the number of anonymous ftp users?
Install wu-ftp.
> 5) what entries do I need in group and passwd files?
> 6) do group/passwd files need to be in anonymous ftp etc/ dir?
See man ftpd.
Paul
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From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile management
Date: 2 Jan 1996 09:23:26 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4catie$bgm@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <4c9dur$e6s@gryphon.phoenix.net>
In article <4c9dur$e6s@gryphon.phoenix.net> ttruong@phoenix.net (Tuan
Truong) writes:
> I'm wondering if there are anything I can do to minimize the swapfile
> growth, optimizations and such, or maybe reclaim some of the disk
> space that NS 3.3 (with patch) never seems to give back to me.
>
> The bug seems to be in the Window server. Once you get a lot of
> images up or have a lot of concurrent links in OmniWeb, the
> Window server starts to swap out, and after quitting the Apps,
> the swap file never shrinks.
I have the same trouble: on an HP 712/60 with a measly 500 MB (!) drive
and 32 RAM, OmniWeb/Image really fills it up. Not to fault Omni: I really
like OmniWeb, O2B especially.
I did the hard thing: put an entry in the crontab to reboot (using
shutdown) the machine every other night at 0300.
_Very_ inelegant, but it works.
Dave
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Followup: Re: HELP!! External disk stops mounting
Date: 2 Jan 1996 16:11:26 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
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In article <4buk58$kjn@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
Shane M Zatezalo <szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>I've got an external Quantum drive on our server. Last night
>the system crashed. I came in this morning, and rebooted. Since then,
>the drive will *not* come up. During boot, it comes up as a
>generic scsi device, although the drive *is* being polled
>because the lights flickering.
First off, thanks for all the email regarding this.
It seems as though NeXT's & Quantum drives (externals) have
problems. The drive went into what someone (via mail)
described as "sleep" mode.
No matter what I did, reboot-after-reboot, builddisk.app, wiring
re-config, termination changes, etc, the nextstation could not
identify it. (even a few taps on the drive mechanism)
The solution: I took the drive home with me - there I have
an adaptec 2940. On bootup, the 2940 pulled the drive alive
and immediately recognized it.
I brought the drive back into work, plugged it in, and viola,
it came right up.
I'm not sure if my assumptions are correct (ie diagnosing
the problem) but that's how it worked out. I received mail
from a few people describing the same problem, some of which
have never got their quantum drive to come back online.
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From: Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile management
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 08:41:23 -0800
Organization: CE-CERT
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Tuan Truong wrote:
>
> Hi-
>
> Relatively new NS User here :-)
>
> I'm wondering if there are anything I can do to minimize the swapfile
> growth, optimizations and such, or maybe reclaim some of the disk
> space that NS 3.3 (with patch) never seems to give back to me.
> * SNIP *
> On a P120 with 64 MBs of RAM with swapfile initially set at 16 MB.
>
I was once a sysadmin of a lab full of HPs, and their system
administrators manual suggested that you make the swap space roughly
twice as large as RAM. Each of our HP 715/33s had 32M RAM and a 500 meg
drive. There was a server which had the main disk space, but each
workstation had enough of the system files on it to boot standalone.
This left about 200 meg on each workstation's drive, so I made the swap
space that amount. Actually, I made it filesystem swap, which simply
used whatever free space was left on the disk. I never had to reboot
due to full swapspace, never.
My personal system is a NeXT black slab, with 16M RAM, and I allocate
roughly 20 meg for swap space. I'm booting off of an external 1G drive,
and using the internal 100 meg as a backup boot system, and the swap
drive. Again, I've never had to reboot due to a full swapspace, and I
have, generally, about 8 or 10 windows open at a time; some of which are
from co-Xist, and some are desktop.
--
Ron Wood, Systems Administrator CE-CERT, UCR
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From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [INN] INN1.4UNOFF3 compiled...
Date: 02 Jan 1996 08:28:45 -0800
Organization: x
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To: Tommy K Hwang <thwang@home.mysolution.com>
<thwang@home.mysolution.com> writes:
>If my inn works... This post should go out to the
>net...
> INN1.4UNOFF3 has been compiled for NextStep 3.3
>on both the Intel and NeXT systems.
Rich Salz's position on the UOFF patches is "buyer beware".
I choose not to use them.
--
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From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ATI Mach32 on Dell PowerEdge
Date: 2 Jan 1996 18:04:43 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cbs3s$ms0@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu>
Hi,
I have managed to install NS 3.3 on a Dell PowerEdge (P-75, PCI/EISA) with an
Adaptec 2940W controller and a Seagate Barracuda (FAST!) I cannot get NS to
recognize the onboard ATI Mach 32 graphics adapter. I would really prefer to
use something better than Default VGA -- even 800 * 600 ( I know I need
additional video memory to use any of the higher resolution modes.) Problem is
that when I select either of the drivers for the ATI Mach 32 in Configure.app
and set them for 800*600 I get an error once I reboot. NS reports an error
"Couldn't allocate 52ee-feef" and then switches to VGA mode and continues the
boot process.
This was addressed in an (obsolete?) NextAnswer #1763:
> * The ATI Ultra Pro driver reserves a large number of I/O ports to
> accomodate SoftPC in full-screen mode. Some of these ranges may conflict
> with other drivers. In particular, the range 0x52eee-0xfeef may be a
> problem. This conflict can be resolved simply by removing this reserved
> range from the driver configuration. Note, however, that this may prevent
> SoftPC from running correctly in full screen mode....
I looked in the Expert settings for the current drivers and there was no
reference to those addresses making it difficult to remove them. :-(
TIA,
Milo
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From: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configuring two IP addresses for one interface
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 13:24:00 -0500
Organization: University of Montreal
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In article <4c5hri$n6k@news.mel.aone.net.au>, Luke Howard
<lukeh@auswired.net> wrote:
> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
> >kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe) wrote:
> >> I'm interested in having a NeXT cube respond as if it had multiple IP
> >> addresses. It's running a Web server (Spinner) that hosts multiple
> >> "virtual" Web servers and I'd like each of my clients to have a Web site
> >> within their own domain. SGI, Solaris, and BSDI hosts can do it. Can
> >> NEXTSTEP?
> >
> >NEXTSTEP does not support virtual addresses, no.
> >
> >(Rumor has it that you can install PPP and use the additional ppp0: and
ppp1:
> >interfaces to host other addresses. This is a major unsupported hack,
> >though, and I would not recommend doing so myself if you have the choice of
> >running another operating system.)
>
> If you have a cube, then I guess you have no choice. We use PNI to do this,
> and it works okay (possibly a little cleaner than PPP because we don't load
> any serial line protocols, only the interface gunk - PNI lets you layer only
> the modules you need). PNI, however, is no longer supported and we are
> looking at moving to PPP.
>
> However, if you have an Intel machine, I'd really use BSDI instead!
>
>
>
>
> luke
I was able to make a cube respond to two IP addresses. You can have
as much IP addresses that you want for one ethernet port. To add an IP
address use the command "arp" (with the good arguments). You should add
this command in the boot process.
Take a look at "man arp".
Francois Magnan
--
Francois Magnan
magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Concerned about upgrade to 3.3
Date: 2 Jan 1996 19:45:02 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cc1vu$imu@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I am considering upgrading to 3.3 but have a few questions and concerns I
hope someone can answer.
First concern, I read where someone who upgraded to 3.3 could NOT read
their SyQuest disk formatted for NS under 3.2. Is this true? If so, is
there some sort of work around.
If there is no work around I would then have to copy all of my backed up
material onto my harddisk and then upgrade so I need to know that the
Upgrader app won't hose things up. Has anyone had any problems upgrading
from 3.2 to 3.3 (intel)?
Thanks
--
John Stanhope
jehu@vt.edu
From: guy@dpls4.dacc.wisc.edu (Laura Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: changing IP address
Date: 2 Jan 1996 20:17:05 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <4cc3s1$ngm@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Greetings all,
I run a small library that has two BLACK next boxes and
two INTEL boxes running N.S. All are running 3.3. All are
networked and one of the INTEL boxes (a pentium 90) is our
server.
I was just informed on THIS THURSDAY that all of our I.P.
addresses will change from xxx.xx.188.x to xx.xx.189.x.
Our SYSADMIN is on vacation and im wondering how to do
this change. Its important as we get all of our email through
our fileserver.
Would it be possible for one of you wonderful folks to
send instructions suitable for a non-techie on how to
do this? I'm hoping it will be fairly easy, but I
know N.S. well enough to know that most things arent
necessarily *that* easy!
ANY help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Laura Guy
guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Andrej Sali <sali>
Subject: (no subject)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <DKKMHE.8LH@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
Sender: notes@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator)
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Organization: Rockefeller University
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:34:26 GMT
Hi,
I would like to connect via ethernet a PC running Windows95 and a
NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.2 so that I can ftp, telnet, and
rcp between them.
Windows95 reports that the following items are installed properly on
the PC: ethernet adapter (NE2000 compatible), NE2000 TCP/IP protocol,
and there are also ping, ftp, telnet, arp, netstat, and route programs
in the \WINDOWS directory (I unpacked them from Windows95 as
distributed by COMPAQ, using add/remove software).
A complication is that both the NeXTstation and the PC already use the
same dialup PPP account from an Internet service provider (not at the
same time of course); I have a single permanent IP address for both
machines. On the NeXT, I have the ppp 2.02 software and on a PC, I
use Netscape.
What do I have to do on the PC and the NexTstation to make the ethernet
connection working? How do I assign the IP address to a PC (there is a
\WINDOWS\HOSTS file; I already have another unique IP number)? What are
the network interface names on a PC (the PC arp does not recognize
127.0.0.1)? How do I deal with dual dialup and ethernet interfaces on
the PC and the NeXTstation? Do they get assigned different IP addresses?
Any hints about any part of the problem will be very much appreciated
(please respond to my email address: sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu).
Best wishes, Andrej
--
Andrej Sali
The Rockefeller University, Box 270
1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399
voice (212) 327 7550; fax (212) 327 7540
e-mail sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Andrej Sali <sali>
Subject: QUESTION: NeXTstation <--> Windows95 ethernet connection?
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Sender: notes@rockyd.rockefeller.edu (News Administrator)
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Organization: Rockefeller University
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 21:09:43 GMT
-- Hi,
I would like to connect via ethernet a PC running Windows95 and a
NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.2 so that I can ftp, telnet, and
rcp between them.
Windows95 reports that the following items are installed properly on
the PC: ethernet adapter (NE2000 compatible), NE2000 TCP/IP protocol,
and there are also ping, ftp, telnet, arp, netstat, and route programs
in the \WINDOWS directory (I unpacked them from Windows95 as
distributed by COMPAQ, using add/remove software).
A complication is that both the NeXTstation and the PC already use the
same dialup PPP account from an Internet service provider (not at the
same time of course); I have a single permanent IP address for both
machines. On the NeXT, I have the ppp 2.02 software and on a PC, I
use Netscape.
What do I have to do on the PC and the NexTstation to make the ethernet
connection working? How do I assign the IP address to a PC (there is a
\WINDOWS\HOSTS file; I already have another unique IP number)? What are
the network interface names on a PC (the PC arp does not recognize
127.0.0.1)? How do I deal with dual dialup and ethernet interfaces on
the PC and the NeXTstation? Do they get assigned different IP addresses?
Any hints about any part of the problem will be very much appreciated
(please respond to my email address: sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu).
Best wishes, Andrej
Andrej Sali
The Rockefeller University, Box 270
1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399
voice (212) 327 7550; fax (212) 327 7540
e-mail sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
From: xli@delphi.umd.edu (XiaoJun Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How does logout hook work?
Date: 2 Jan 1996 21:45:13 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <4cc919$8qi@hecate.umd.edu>
I logged in as root and in the "preference/Login Window" section, define
the logout hook to a script I wrote that will purge the .NextTrash
directory. I am sure the unix file mode for that script is right and it
does the work for root. However, if I login in as someone else, it
doesn't work. What did I do wrong? (The NeXT manual said it supposed
to work for anyone!)
Yibing Wu
ywu@lan.mcl.bdm.com or yibwu@plato.sky.bdm.com
From: hugues@precipice.fdn.fr (Hugues RICHARD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: km_info_reloc ???
Date: 2 Jan 1996 18:47:07 GMT
Organization: Individual - France
Message-ID: <4cbujb$2ad@precipice.fdn.fr>
Hi,
while grabbing in /usr/lib on an NS3.0 copy, i've just found a kernel
server named km_info_reloc.
I loaded it into memory with kl_util and I only found this on the
console :
> phys_pages = 2559
>
Kernel memory information server installed
>
Kernel memory information server unloaded
Does anybody know who can use this (debugger like kdb ? Apps like
ProcessMonitor ?)
It is on the 3.0 distribution but not on the 3.2 one...
Hugues.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
hugues@precipice.fdn.fr - France (small NeXTMail OK)
------------ NS3.2 ------------ NS3.0J ------------ :-) ------------
From: kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Has anyone ported tcsh/ksh to NeXT?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 03:34:55 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4cctgv$j50@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
References: <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com>
How about pdksh in ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh
--KAI--
In <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com> Yibing Wu wrote:
> Has anyone ported tcsh to NeXT? What about Korn shell?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yibing Wu
>
>
--
Email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
NeXTMAIL & MIME Welcome
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi
From: Eric Baenen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Where can Cryptor.bundle be found???
Date: 3 Jan 1996 04:56:42 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <4cd2aa$9ff@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Keywords: bundles mail cryptor pgp
Does anyone know where Cryptor.bundle can be ftp'ed from? It doesn't
appear to be on cs.orst anymore. Has it gone commercial?
Thanks,
Eric
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: HTTP 1.05 MAB makefile(s) requested.
Date: 3 Jan 1996 02:18:23 GMT
Organization: InterNex Information Services 1-800-595-3333
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ccp1f$55n@voyager.Internex.NET>
Hi,
I'm looking for someone that has modified the 1.05
HTTPD server makefiles to support ALL NS archs.
NeXTmail me a copy of the files if you have them.
thanks,
Ian
From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting NS off another disc
Date: 03 Jan 1996 00:14:00 -0800
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.accessone.com
Message-ID: <eka39elvb.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
First off I've seen the next answer and it's not what I'm looking for
as I'm not using the NeXT Bootmanager on drive 0.
I'm using System Commander and I expected it to be able to just boot
on the first device in my SCSI chain. Note: I have an ide drive which
SC is running from. I get the the "Boot ...." prompt but then my
machine freezes.
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting NS off another disc
Date: 03 Jan 1996 00:39:37 -0800
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.accessone.com
Message-ID: <eivitekom.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
First off I've seen the next answer and it's not what I'm looking for
as I'm not using the NeXT Bootmanager on drive 0.
I'm using System Commander and I expected it to be able to just boot
on the first device in my SCSI chain. Note: I have an ide drive which
SC is running from. I get the the "Boot ...." prompt but then my
machine freezes.
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: ttruong@phoenix.net (Tuan Truong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile management
Date: 3 Jan 1996 03:50:35 GMT
Organization: Phoenix Data Systems
Message-ID: <4ccueb$p67@gryphon.phoenix.net>
Hi-
On 01/02/96, Ron Wood wrote:
| I was once a sysadmin of a lab full of HPs, and their system
| administrators manual suggested that you make the swap space roughly
| twice as large as RAM. Each of our HP 715/33s had 32M RAM and a 500 meg
| drive. There was a server which had the main disk space, but each
| workstation had enough of the system files on it to boot standalone.
| This left about 200 meg on each workstation's drive, so I made the swap
| space that amount. Actually, I made it filesystem swap, which simply
| used whatever free space was left on the disk. I never had to reboot
| due to full swapspace, never.
|
I only have 180 MBs of disk space free now and I fluctuate down 20 MBs or
so, depending on what I'm doing. I do plan on getting more disk space :-)
This means that I want to reserve ~200 MBs for the swap file? No need to
mess around with low water marks and such?
I've never encountered this before since I always rebooted. Does the
swap file tend to stay at a certain level after the initial big growth
spurt? Say for 32 MB RAM, the swap file will shrink and grow about a
120 MB mark?
Thank you for the info,
-Tuan
--
(NeXTmail friendly)
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Where can Cryptor.bundle be found???
Date: 3 Jan 1996 05:43:52 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4cd530$dff@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4cd2aa$9ff@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Eric Baenen wrote:
>
> Does anyone know where Cryptor.bundle can be ftp'ed from? It
> doesn't appear to be on cs.orst anymore. Has it gone commercial?
I imagine that Cryptor.bundle has never been available at any
FTP site in the United States. Our laws probably turn that into
a munition, and putting munitions up for anonymous FTP can cause
some government agencies to take lots of interest in your ftp
server. Probably more interest than you want them to take.
So, it's available at European ftp sites, such as
ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de
Probably try somewhere down in directory
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail/apps
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile management
Date: 3 Jan 1996 14:17:26 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ce35m$dij@news4.digex.net>
References: <4ccueb$p67@gryphon.phoenix.net>
ttruong@phoenix.net (Tuan Truong) wrote:
> I only have 180 MBs of disk space free now and I fluctuate down
> 20 MBs or so, depending on what I'm doing. I do plan on getting
> more disk space :-)
> This means that I want to reserve ~200 MBs for the swap file? No
> need to mess around with low water marks and such?
> I've never encountered this before since I always rebooted. Does
> the swap file tend to stay at a certain level after the initial
> big growth spurt? Say for 32 MB RAM, the swap file will shrink
> and grow about a 120 MB mark?
I think this might be a good general rule of thumb for developer
systems now (feel free to disagree, these are just based on my
experiences):
With the low cost of "small" sized drives (540megs-1gig), it is
worthwhile to just buy a separate SCSI drive to be used for swap
purposes (even used!). Just set the lowwater mark on the second
drive to say 300megs and the highwater mark at the drives capacity
and let it overflow onto your 'main' drive. With the cost of all
the things you _need_ to get NS working _decently_ as a developer
system, an extra ~$200 will be well spent on getting a reasonably
zippy swap drive. Having the extra scsi device will let your system
swap and access your main drive at the same time resulting in some
serious throughput gains...
Of course you should take into consideration your general system
as to what performance level the swap drive is... A general rule
of thumb that seems to work for the systems I deal with is: The
swap drive should be at least 70% of the main drive for the overall
performance to improve...i.e. if you have a wide scsi system, it
might not be a good idea to use a non-wide scsi drive for the swap
drive. Finally, if you are stuck using IDE, ignore all the above
(go out and buy a scsi controller--just kidding ;). Of course your
millage will vary.
P.S. It is also a good idea, if it is doable (most of the 'cheaper'
drives tend to have fixed block sizes) to set the block size of
the swap drive to 8192 bytes/sector (or as close to that as possible)
b/c NS's page size is 8k (I'm pretty sure it is anyway).
--
Thanks, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only...
Telepathy, It's coming | MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP (3P)
jkheit@cnj.digex.net | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
From: szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Normal NS3.3 system diskspace
Date: 3 Jan 1996 14:51:30 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4ce55i$cl2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
What is the normal free diskspace for a client Nexstation 3.3 system
that has the standard 105 quantum drive?
We upgraded to computers from 3.0 -> 3.3 & each has different
free disk space.
Also, if anyone has any pointers as to what can be removed
inorder to free up some space (but still keep standard services)
please post 'em. And yes, I realize 'standard services' is vague -
I'm referring to things like mail, /NextApps, etc.
--
http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane/
NeXTMail: shane@galadriel.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup device for m68k next machines
Date: 3 Jan 1996 16:08:30 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation Turbos and/or
Next Cube. All have SCSI-II port. What are some recommendations. My Optical
Disk on the Cube is giving me a lot of problems reading older optical disks.
Is there a driver for a ZIP drive for NeXTStep?
--
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrading to 3.3 ???
Date: 3 Jan 1996 17:17:31 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cednb$j3o@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
Has anyone has any problems upgrading to NS 3.3 on the intel platform from
3.2?
--
John Stanhope
jehu@vt.edu
From: black@winternet.com (Ben Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup device for m68k next machines
Date: 3 Jan 1996 17:52:00 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cefo0$m61@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
In article <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W.
Wooten) writes:
> I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation Turbos and/or
> Next Cube. All have SCSI-II port. What are some recommendations. My
Optical
> Disk on the Cube is giving me a lot of problems reading older optical disks.
>
> Is there a driver for a ZIP drive for NeXTStep?
>
no need for a driver. just set the scsi id (make sure you get a scsi zip
drive) to soemthing you aren't using, and go.
for backups of something other than a few, select files, you might want to
consider a DAT drive.
ben
black@winternet.com
From: black@winternet.com (Ben Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup device for m68k next machines
Date: 3 Jan 1996 17:52:09 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cefo9$m62@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
In article <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W.
Wooten) writes:
> I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation Turbos and/or
> Next Cube. All have SCSI-II port. What are some recommendations. My
Optical
> Disk on the Cube is giving me a lot of problems reading older optical disks.
>
> Is there a driver for a ZIP drive for NeXTStep?
>
> --
> - - - - - - - - -
> J. W. Wooten
From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks?
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:57:21 -0600
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Message-ID: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi all.
There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks
on the NeXT.
Did anyone ever solve this problem?
I am running NS3.3 on Black hardware, I also have the mentioned patch
from NextAnswers installed (did that prior to 3.3 upgrade)
When I pop in a DOS disk, it tells me it's unitialized, do I want to
initialize it? It offers me DOS as an option, but dies if I select DOS,
says it isn't supported.
Why can't it read the disk to start with? It is already formatted and
has files on it.
HAS ANYONE SOLVED THIS???
--
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2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (214) 790-2950
Irving TX 75061-6645 Email: dan@kypris.com
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From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup device for m68k next machines
Date: 3 Jan 1996 18:14:53 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ceh2t$dc5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <4cefo0$m61@blackice.winternet.com>
In article <4cefo0$m61@blackice.winternet.com> black@winternet.com (Ben Black)
writes:
> In article <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W.
> Wooten) writes:
> > I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation Turbos and/or
> > Next Cube.
> no need for a driver. just set the scsi id (make sure you get a scsi zip
> drive) to soemthing you aren't using, and go.
> for backups of something other than a few, select files, you might want to
> consider a DAT drive.
I'd second Ben's recommendation of a DAT drive. I've had a old HP 1.2-gig DAT drive
attached to my cube at home for a couple years now, and it's been a great backup
device. It's pretty quick, and tapes are dirt cheap relative to ODs. I've got a big
stack of backup tapes, going back almost as long as I've had the drive, and I've
even got a couple tapes elsewhere as an off-site backup.
Best,
Pete
--
***************************************************************************
Pete Clark | The thinking man looks at the world and
SunSoft Object Products Group | sees a comedy. The feeling man looks
Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (NeXTMail) | at the world and sees a tragedy.
***************************************************************************
From: Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Two or more IPs on one ethernet interface
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 11:19:01 -0800
Organization: CE-CERT
Message-ID: <30EAD6A5.2781E494@cert.ucr.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I was able to configure the ethernet interface on my NeXT Slab, running
NS2.1, to use 2 IPs simply by setting up a "machine" in NetInfo with a
new name and IP number, but with the same ethernet address. Then I used
arp to "advertise" it to the world. It was actually pretty simple.
I also have several slip interfaces configured as machines in NetInfo,
all with the same ethernet address and all advertised via arp.
To resolve the different names (in this case, bigtop.bville.com and
www.a.com) I simply added an appropriate entry in the DNS data base.
--
Ron Wood, Systems Administrator CE-CERT, UCR
Ink n.:
A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and
water,
chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote
intellectual
crime. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
From: Eric P Baenen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Anyone have cryptor.bundle working under 3.3?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 20:24:23 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <4ceoln$efg@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
References: <4cd2aa$9ff@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Keywords: mail cryptor pgp
Has anyone been successful in getting cryptor.bundle to work under 3.3?
I have ftped and installed according to directions and it seems to work
fine except for one small problem. I can't get it to read my keyring in
~/.pgp or add any new keys using the Encryption Keys window.
I have also installed encipher and it works just fine with my keyring.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
From: robert@steffi.accessone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <eivitekom.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
Control: cancel <eivitekom.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
Date: 03 Jan 1996 12:01:25 -0800
Organization: x
Message-ID: <ebuoldp4a.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
This is a cancel message from robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson).
From: Eric P Baenen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone have cryptor.bundle working under 3.3?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 20:25:21 GMT
Organization: Air Force Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <4ceonh$eg2@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
Keywords: mail pgp cryptor
Has anyone been successful in getting cryptor.bundle to work under 3.3?
I have ftped and installed according to directions and it seems to work
fine except for one small problem. I can't get it to read my keyring in
~/.pgp or add any new keys using the Encryption Keys window.
I have also installed encipher and it works just fine with my keyring.
Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Eric
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 14:32:01 -0700
Organization: A Big Black Cube
Sender: root@primenet.com
Message-ID: <4ceskh$36d@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com>
Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
> There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks
> on the NeXT.
>
> Did anyone ever solve this problem?
>
> I am running NS3.3 on Black hardware, I also have the mentioned patch
> from NextAnswers installed (did that prior to 3.3 upgrade)
>
> When I pop in a DOS disk, it tells me it's unitialized, do I want to
> initialize it? It offers me DOS as an option, but dies if I select DOS,
> says it isn't supported.
>
> Why can't it read the disk to start with? It is already formatted and
> has files on it.
>
> HAS ANYONE SOLVED THIS???
Now this is wierd, I run a patched NS 3.3 as well, and mine reads & writes
DOS formatted ZIPS fine, however, it will not format them. They usually
show up as a NeXT OD icon with a 'DOS' or the "apple" superimposed on them.
A NeXT-formatted ZIP shows up with a SCSI Icon. Although I have no trouble
with DOS formats, I usually use mine to transfer data easily between my
Daydream and NeXT sessions (Mac-formatted). NeXT will only format these
cartridges as NeXT or Mac, never DOS. You need a DOS machine to format a
ZIP as DOS, or, format it as NeXT & dump it in a Mac & select dos format.
--
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From: Jo Peters <peters@boystown.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bootpd
Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:22:14 GMT
Organization: Novia Internetworking <> 28.8kbps dialup; 402/390-2NET
Message-ID: <4ces26$t5r@nntp.novia.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I've just installed Intel NextStep 3.3. This machine will be our
network server, and bootpd is one of the services it will provide.
Currently, our bootpd server returns nameserver and gateway info
to the client in addition to IP address, etc.
I looked at the both /etc/bootptab and the NextStep man pages, and it
appears to me that NextStep is using an old bootp protocol which does
not provide a mechanism for including nameserver and gateway info in
the bootptab. Is this correct, or am I overlooking something? Is
there a way to return nameserver and gateway info to the client? Or,
do I need to install a different version of bootpd?
Thanks for your help,
Jo Peters
Boystown National Research Hospital
peters@boystown.org
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting NS off another disc
Date: 3 Jan 1996 13:45:03 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4cetcv$sf5@shellx.best.com>
References: <eka39elvb.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson) writes:
>First off I've seen the next answer and it's not what I'm looking for
>as I'm not using the NeXT Bootmanager on drive 0.
>I'm using System Commander and I expected it to be able to just boot
>on the first device in my SCSI chain. Note: I have an ide drive which
>SC is running from. I get the the "Boot ...." prompt but then my
>machine freezes.
Short answer:
It will be difficult to impossible to boot from a secondary device
in any manner other than the nextanswer; the kernel
needs to know where it came from. The PC boot protocol is poorly
defined, and next can't even guarantee that it will be started
with its own booter, so setting up a smarter protocol is
fragile.
-sam
(I wrote the intel booters...)
From: ian_stewart@nyro.com (Ian H. Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HTTP 1.5 I meant (makefiles needed)
Date: 3 Jan 1996 21:28:23 GMT
Organization: InterNex Information Services 1-800-595-3333
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cesdn$s38@voyager.Internex.NET>
CFLAGS=-g -arch m68k -arch i386 -arch sparc -arch hppa
does not work, when it links, the binary is for
a single arch, but the .o files are fat.
Help appreciated.
Ian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: laurent@planon.qc.ca (Laurent Daudelin)
Subject: OmniWeb access thru PPP?
Message-ID: <DKMKxw.5zA@planon.qc.ca>
Sender: laurent@planon.qc.ca (Laurent Daudelin)
Organization: Planon Telexpertise, Inc. Boucherville QUEBEC
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:56:19 GMT
Hi!
I'm the interim administrator of our small site, consisting of about 8
cpus. One of the cpu (a NEXTStation) is configured as the datas (uucp,
news, etc) and the fax receiver. It has a dedicated phone line and, with a
modem, can forward all external email to our internet provider.
What I would like to do is:
-Installing a PPP (prefered) or a SLIP package that would let us use our
PPP account on our provider.
-Allow any user on our network to use OmniWeb to connect to our provider
(using PPP), then to access the internet.
Is it possible and, if so, what is needed?
Thanks in advance for any help, pointer or info!
-Laurent.
--
******************************************************************
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Planon TELEXPERTISE Inc., Boucherville, Quebec, CANADA
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From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mount LINUX partition from NEXTSTEP
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 3 Jan 1996 16:25:37 GMT
Organization: PRZ/TU-Berlin
Message-ID: <4ceam1$bpq@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de>
References: <4bugau$d3d@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4c01lm$npn@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4c471v$brn@gate.seicom.net>
Hi,
Frank M. Siegert (frank@this.net) wrote:
...
> This is without any warranty. It works fine for me (kernel version
> 1.3.23, at the moment) with NEXTSTEP 3.2 and 3.3 partitions on two
> SCSI disks. There seem to be problems with symbolic links on UFS
> filesystems.
Sometime ago I found the bug and fixed it anf reported it
to the authors. Look for ufs-0.3.1.2 or whatever it's named
now.
Thomas
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From: terenz@neutron.reno.nv.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UUCP problem "wrong role"
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 04:27:25 GMT
Organization: Great Basin Internet Services, Reno, NV
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cfl10$37t@news.greatbasin.net>
Well, the NEC Versa 4000 running NS 3.3 is calling up the black
machine and logins in and all that jazz (but not as a Uxxxx user, as
the manual suggests - UserManager will not let you create a user with
an uppercase character in the name).
When the machines run and do the request etc., something happens and
the "wrong role" message is returned. No mail transfers have ever
been successful.
Any suggestions?
Boss doesn't want to use taylor as he would have to debug what he did
and what taylor does......
From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: black hardware needs format of 1024k block, yes?
Date: 3 Jan 1996 15:58:32 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4ce938$98@jnext.dannug.dk>
References: <4b4i3e$425@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <30D746BD.167EB0E7@cert.ucr.edu>
<4bc69b$980@master.ftn.net>
In <4bc69b$980@master.ftn.net> Stephen MacDougall wrote:
> In <30D746BD.167EB0E7@cert.ucr.edu> Ron Wood wrote:
> | Benjamin A. Grosser wrote:
> | >
> | > I'm ordering a new hard drive for a 68040 cube, and wanted to confirm
> | > that I need them to format it with 1024k blocks (as opposed to 512).
> | > Can anybody confirm this?
> | >
> | There's no requirement for either size.
> |
> However, the boot disk *MUST* be 512.
Not on black hardware (I'm speaking from experience here :-)
NS/Intel, however, requires the boot disk to be formatted to 512.
Regards,
Jacob
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& My own home page :-) http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob
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From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup device for m68k next machines
Date: 4 Jan 1996 03:16:34 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4cfgqj$na2@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) wrote:
> I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation Turbos
> and/or Next Cube. All have SCSI-II port. What are some
> recommendations. My Optical Disk on the Cube is giving me a lot
> of problems reading older optical disks.
You might want to consider the newer 230meg MO drives. There were
some 128meg MO drives that had trouble with NeXT hardware, but I
believe the 230-meg ones pretty much work. I have a 128-meg MO
that I use for backing up things, and it's pretty nice to have.
There's also tape drives, of course, but I have an aversion to
tape drives (due to experiences with tape drives on mainframes...).
> Is there a driver for a ZIP drive for NeXTStep?
You wouldn't need one. Just make sure to get a SCSI version of
the ZIP drive. Might need some special cables for hooking it
up (I have a zip drive on my Mac, and the SCSI cable it came
with wouldn't work on a NeXT).
---
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ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: dwright1@omni.voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! Netinfo sleeping
Date: 4 Jan 1996 15:05:54 GMT
Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
Message-ID: <4cgqci$9kt@news.voicenet.com>
I have a Dimension cube and an Intel machine, both running NS3.2
Until recently the Intel machine was the master domain server.
However, the intel machine crashed, and now the Dimension dsystem
sleeps when it is booting up. How can I get this back so that
it will not use netinfo at all (standalone), or be a server?/??
-Darren
From: jehu@blackbox.cl.ee.vt.edu (John Stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Who to contact at NeXT about getting NS 3.3 patches?
Date: 4 Jan 1996 16:49:19 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ch0eg$kb8@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I just upgraded to NS 3.3 and having been getting some crashes so I want
to grab the patches but I have to go over slip (serial stuff is causing
some of the crashes, I think) and downloading 28+ MB would be a miracle.
Who do I contact at NeXT about getting a CDROM with the patches?
Thanks
John
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo can't find parent domain, single computer [HELP]
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 10:22:57 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University Extension
Message-ID: <jray-0401961022570001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Hello,
Please excuse my complete ingorance on this, but I recently set up
a NEXTSTEP Intel machine. I'm somewhat experienced with UNIX, but am
very unexperienced with this "NetInfo" thing. I'm beginning to understand
how it works, and I (more or less) like the concept of the netinfo database.
The problem is - I have a standalone system (we may get more), which is
having some sort of problem. Everything works fine - but I'm getting messages
spit at me every 3 minutes which say "leviathan: could not open parent
domain" (the name of the machine is leviathan.) I managed to *stop* the
messages by going into SNSetup and choosing "provide these services: maintain
network administrative data"... That worked - however, when I did that, all
of a sudden I couldn't run the Netinfo manager, which I need to run to be
able to add services, etc - previously I have just been using the top setting
in SNS (I can't remember what it is... not the "client" setting).
Any help, pointers, suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
John Ray
From: jehu@blackbox.cl.ee.vt.edu (John Stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does PNI Slip 1.11 work under NS 3.3 ?
Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:05:35 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ch1cv$koh@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
After upgrading to 3.3 I thought I would try out slip, installed from
3.2. It seems to work for a while but then either dies after a minute
(using the Mux serial driver) or hangs the machine (using NeXT 3.3
serial driver, but not the latest driver (upgrading this today)). Has
anyone had problems or success' using PNI slip 1.11 under NS 3.3. If
not, what do you use for slip/ppp communication?
Thanks
John
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ImageServer?
Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:28:32 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ch2o0$ej5@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I get the message ImageServer started
on the console and fine a process imageserver running.
Who started it? and why?
it's at /usr/etc/imageserver but I can't locate man information or in
Next Developer or Next Admin information.
--
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup device for m68k next machines
Date: 04 Jan 1996 09:35:05 -0800
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.accessone.com
Message-ID: <en383lv7a.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
References: <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
To: woo@ornl.gov
<woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov> writes:
>I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation Turbos and/or
>Next Cube. All have SCSI-II port. What are some recommendations. My Optical
>Disk on the Cube is giving me a lot of problems reading older optical disks.
>Is there a driver for a ZIP drive for NeXTStep?
>--
>- - - - - - - - -
>J. W. Wooten
Get a HP 35480... there's a guy in Seattle that's apparently got two
new for sale for $350 dollars.
I don't know him but I'll put you in touch.
geney@oz.net
I'm receiving my HP 1533A today if UPS get here on time :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 17:40:08 +0100
From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Message-ID: <9601041640.AA14162@flexus>
Subject: lossy UUCP?
Dear UUCP experts,
I did an experiment with having L.sys connect to a different host with a faster
modem, and then telnetting to my mail relay. There were several interruptions,
and I now have a mail file sitting there all alone in my D. directory (this is
for UUCP experts only, so please pardon my French, as they say where they speak
English). My question is this:
- Was I wrong in assuming that UUCP is a secure channel as far as communication
is concerned (not counting crashing disks and the like, well, I once had a
problem when my mail relay's disk was full)? I mean, if the original file is
not deleted before a confirmation is received from the receiving system, or
something like that?
- If not, is the (then) bug likely to have been caused by my NeXTstation
running NEXTSTEP_3.2?
- If I was wrong, what problems can be expected?
Please use e-mail: I haven't subscribed to receive digests for this mail group.
Note: I know I still have to summarise about my NetWare problem, I have not
forgotten.
Thanks,
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium
If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think
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From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Who to contact at NeXT about getting NS 3.3 patches?
Date: 04 Jan 1996 11:42:26 -0800
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.accessone.com
Message-ID: <eraxfsq59.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
References: <4ch0eg$kb8@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
To: jehu@vt.edu
They are on NeXT's ftp site but they aren't small :-)
--
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From: matthewm@sgate.com (Michael Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPD files
Date: 4 Jan 1996 16:08:15 -0500
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <4chfjv$7np@sgate.com>
Can someone give me a simple step by step set of instructions to get a PPD
file to be recognized?
We just got a Tektronix 340 color printer, which does not have a PPD file
standard with NEXTSTEP 3.3 (we've got the 200, 220, 300, & 480 but no 340).
I got a PPD file off of ftp.tek.com for :
*ModelName: "Tektronix Phaser 340 with 600 dpi"
I put it in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/Tektronix_Phaser_340.ppd.
The filemode is 644.
This will be a network printer once we get our TCP/IP authorization code.
The printcap entry is:
# niutil -read / /printers/Tek340
name: Tek340
rm: tek340.sgate.com
rp: Tek340
lp:
ty: Tektronix Phaser 340 with 600 dpi
note: Color Printer
sd: /usr/spool/NeXT/Tek340
lo: lock
I am not sure of that 'rp' value -- none of the manuals seem to say which
printer name to put in there for LPR service.
I had thought that all you had to do was match 'ty' in the printcap database
with *ModelName in the PPD file. But when I try to choose this printer, I
get 'Printer description file not available.'
Anybody know why? Does NEXTSTEP have to actually *communicate* with the
printer, which it can't do yet?
I ask that, because I had a similar problem with a DEClaser 3500, also
network connected. It would NOT work if I directed the printcap file right
to the printer. It WOULD work if I bounced it off a DEC Alpha whose printcap
entry did nothing but bounce it right to the printer (e.g. NEXTSTEP printcap
entry -> DEC alpha -> printer).
(Bouncing does not help here, by the way.)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker)
Subject: UUCP bouncing Usenet news
Organization: Mordor International
Message-ID: <DKoDGn.6EM@ritz.mordor.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 21:09:58 GMT
I've been having a problem with my CNews / UUCP setup. I'm using the standard
NeXT (BSD) UUCP distribution and have been getting "bounced" news. That is,
when news comes in, it gets distributed by rnews to the correct
directories, but some of it seems to be bouncing back to the UUCP feed
and back to my service provider. Needless to say, this is causing long
connect times.
The way I deduced this was by watching uulog and seeing that rnews
queues up outgoing news after sendbatches is done. The
/usr/spool/news/out.going/<system>/togo file also shows that certain
articles are being queued up even though no one on my system posted them.
Could this be because I don't carry a full newsfeed? Or could it be
because something on my service provider's end has changed?
I'd sure appreciate some help. I've got the O'Reilly book, but it's not
too much help in this case. If you need any files from my config, please
let me know.
Thanks
Matt
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From: eravin@panix.com (Ed Ravin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: UUCP bouncing Usenet news
Followup-To: news.software.b
Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:28:06 -0500
Organization: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Message-ID: <4chk9m$ef2@panix.com>
References: <DKoDGn.6EM@ritz.mordor.com>
From somewhere in cyberspace, hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker) said:
>I've been having a problem with my CNews / UUCP setup...
>The way I deduced this was by watching uulog and seeing that rnews
>queues up outgoing news after sendbatches is done. The
>/usr/spool/news/out.going/<system>/togo file also shows that certain
>articles are being queued up even though no one on my system posted them.
>
>Could this be because I don't carry a full newsfeed? Or could it be
>because something on my service provider's end has changed?
Whatever it is, you need to fix it in your CNews setup files. It
has nothing to do with UUCP, since UUCP is only sending the files that
CNews tells it to.
Followups to news.software.b
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+1 212 678 5545 | to be a computer programmer because it was the
eravin@panix.com | most poetic and romantic occupation I could
| think of... -- John Updike, "The Music School"
From: Dan Pritts <danno@us.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Has anyone ported tcsh/ksh to NeXT?
Date: 4 Jan 1996 23:58:14 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management
Message-ID: <4chpim$9dt@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com> <4cctgv$j50@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
Originator: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu
>In <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com> Yibing Wu wrote:
>> Has anyone ported tcsh to NeXT? What about Korn shell?
first, your news client is messed up and does not give a correct
return address in your post.
second, tcsh 6.05 built for me "out of the box" on black 3.2.
danno
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something important, like the fall of communism or the fact that our
refrigerator is still working.
From: ywu@lan.mcl.bdm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Add Font to NeXT?
Date: 5 Jan 1996 01:14:28 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4chu1k$20u@news.mcl.bdm.com>
Has anyone add any customized fonts to NeXT? In general, how do you add fonts to
NeXT?
Thanks,
Yibing Wu
ywu@lan.mcl.bdm.com or yibwu@plato.sky.bdm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: [Q] mach: canon input overrun
Message-ID: <7xvimsj1hz.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: hardly any...
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 23:35:04 GMT
Could somebody please give me hints where this error comes from or how
I could track down the source of it and what it means:
Jan 4 00:12:39 burrow mach: tty3040: canon input overrun
I haven't figured out when it appears and what triggers it. It appears
especially when I mouseclick, but at other instances too. I think it
doesn't appear when I neither type nor move the mouse.
I assume more information is necessary to track this error, but any
pointers toward acquiring this information are highly appreciated.
markus g a/k/a the mole
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gerg@netcom.com (Greg Andrews)
Subject: Re: UUCP bouncing Usenet news
Message-ID: <gergDKow2q.MI2@netcom.com>
Organization: Deep Thought of the Day: A day without sunshine is like night.
References: <DKoDGn.6EM@ritz.mordor.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 03:52:02 GMT
Sender: gerg@netcom22.netcom.com
hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew Hocker) writes:
>I've been having a problem with my CNews / UUCP setup. I'm using the standard
>NeXT (BSD) UUCP distribution and have been getting "bounced" news. That is,
>when news comes in, it gets distributed by rnews to the correct
>directories, but some of it seems to be bouncing back to the UUCP feed
>and back to my service provider. Needless to say, this is causing long
>connect times.
>
>The way I deduced this was by watching uulog and seeing that rnews
>queues up outgoing news after sendbatches is done. The
>/usr/spool/news/out.going/<system>/togo file also shows that certain
>articles are being queued up even though no one on my system posted them.
>
>Could this be because I don't carry a full newsfeed? Or could it be
>because something on my service provider's end has changed?
>
No, your service provider can't make your software send news back.
Only you can do that.
Your news software's configuration files are incorrect. Check the
name your provider puts on the "Path:" line of each article, and
check the name in your news software's "sys" file or "newsfeeds"
file. You have an entry for your provider in that file, and the
name field of that entry (the part before the first colon) should
match the entry they put in the "Path:" line.
As soon as you do that, your news software will stop sending all
the news back to your provider. It will only send news that came
from somewhere else (e.g. your local users).
-Greg
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From: Shakil Ahmed <pdcs@lava.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question? NextStep 3.3, WIndows 95, Linux partitions on one drive
Date: 5 Jan 1996 04:19:17 GMT
Organization: LavaNet - Hawai'i Internet Access
Message-ID: <4ci8s5$evs@malasada.lava.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have a AHA2940W controller card with a Conner CP2107W 2GB Wode SCSI Drive.
I would like to do the following ;
1GB NEXT STEP 3.3 Partition
350MB Lunix Partition and the rest for
Windows 95.
What would be the ideal sequence of installing the O/S on the partitions?
Windows 95, Linux and then NextStep 3.3?
Thanks in advance!
From: murphy@wsc.com (Paul Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: 1,600 bpi vs. 6,250 bpi on a mag tape
Date: 04 Jan 1996 23:14:09 -0500
Organization: WSCIS
Sender: murphy@eos
Message-ID: <x4d98zqnvx.fsf@eos>
Does anyone happen to know how to get a mag tape -- attached to a SCSI
bus, on a NeXT machine -- to write at 6250bpi instead of the default
1600?
Thanks for your help.
Paul Murphy
From: brendan@banzai.xs4all.nl (Brendan Bank)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: UUCP bouncing Usenet news
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 10:37:29 +0100
Organization: Banzai Software
Message-ID: <brendan-0501961037290001@p028.mas.euronet.nl>
References: <DKoDGn.6EM@ritz.mordor.com>
In article <DKoDGn.6EM@ritz.mordor.com>, hocker@ritz.mordor.com (Matthew
Hocker) wrote:
> I've been having a problem with my CNews / UUCP setup. I'm using the standard
> NeXT (BSD) UUCP distribution and have been getting "bounced" news. That is,
> when news comes in, it gets distributed by rnews to the correct
> directories, but some of it seems to be bouncing back to the UUCP feed
> and back to my service provider. Needless to say, this is causing long
> connect times.
I had this problem also yesterday. Check that your news name
/usr/local/lib/news/myname matches up with your uucp name with witch you
dail in to your provider. If not strange thinks happen.
BTW I use Taylor uucp it works mutch better form me, it is easy to
configure and is a lot faster in my case.
Yours brendan
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From: Klaus Pommerening <pommeren@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail through firewall
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:58:09 +0100
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
A few days ago our institute hid itself behind a firewall (machine
name `irla') which provides a mail gateway. We have a net of
several NEXTSTEP machines, one of them acting as mailhost. Our
original sendmail (Sendmail NX5.67e/NX3.0X) does no longer work
for outside connections (incoming mail is ok). So we installed
sendmail 8.7.3 and defined the gateway as smart host (see appendix
1). This works in test mode (see appendix 2), but not when invoked
as a daemon (see appendix 3).
Questions: A. Is there a way to make Sendmail NX5.67e work through
the gateway? (The gateway is supposed to act as gateway only,
not as Mailhost.)
B. What's wrong with sendmail 8.7.3? Why does it work in test
mode?
Klaus Pommerening [pom@imsd.uni-mainz.de]
Institut fuer Medizinische Statistik und Dokumentation
der Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet, D-55101 Mainz, Germany
PGP fingerprint: F5 03 CE E7 70 C2 8C 74 BA ED EC 60 83 3B 7C 89
http://www.Uni-Mainz.DE/FB/Medizin/IMSD/TheMPO/Pom.html
---- Appendix 1 - sendmail configuration (imsd1.mc) --------
VERSIONID(`@(#)imsd1.mc 1 (Mainz) 3.1.96')
OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST', smtp:irla.imsd.uni-mainz.de)
MASQUERADE_AS(imsd.uni-mainz.de)dnl
FEATURE(nouucp)
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
---- Appendix 2 - sendmail 8.7.3 in test mode -------------
anke> cd /etc/sendmail/cf/cf
anke> m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 imsd1.mc > imsd1.cf
anke> /usr/lib/sendmail -C/etc/sendmail/cf/cf/imsd1.cf -t -v
To: pom
From: root
Subject: Test 4. Jan. 96 / 1.1
oioioioioi
pom... Connecting to local...
pom... Sent
anke> /usr/lib/sendmail -C/etc/sendmail/cf/cf/imsd1.cf -t -v
To: pommeren@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
From: root
Subject: Test 4. Jan. 96 / 1.2
auauauauau
pommeren@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de... Connecting to irla.imsd.uni-mainz.de. via smtp...
220 irla.imsd.uni-mainz.de SMTP/smap Ready.
>>> HELO anke.imsd.uni-mainz.DE
[...]
250 Mail accepted
pommeren@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de... Sent (Mail accepted)
Closing connection to irla.imsd.uni-mainz.de.
>>> QUIT
221 Closing connection
---- Appendix 3 --sendmail 8.7.3 as daemon -----------------------
---- [imsd1.cf copied to /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf] -----
---- [sendmail.new renamed to sendmail ---------------------------
anke> /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h &
[1] 1075
anke> ps -aux | grep mail
root 1077 0.0 1.5 1.78M 496K ? S 0:00 sendmail:
accepting connections
root 1084 0.0 0.6 1.60M 208K p1 S 0:00 grep mail
[1] + Done /usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h
anke> mail -v pom
Subject: Test 4. Jan. 96 / 3.1
qweqweqwe
.
EOT
pom... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost: host not found)
root... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost: host not found)
postmaster... Host unknown (Name server: mailhost: host not found)
Mailer-Agent... WARNING: writable directory /usr/tmp
Mailer-Agent... WARNING: writable directory /usr/tmp
Mailer-Agent... Saved message in /usr/tmp/dead.letter
anke> mail -v pommeren@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de
Subject: Test 4. Jan. 96 / 3.2
opopopopopopo
.
EOT
pommeren@goofy.zdv.uni-mainz.de... Host unknown (Name server:
mailhost: host not found)
[...]
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mount LINUX partition from NEXTSTEP
Date: 5 Jan 1996 13:56:35 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4cjamk$t0h@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <4bugau$d3d@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> <4c01lm$npn@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4c471v$brn@gate.seicom.net> <4ceam1$bpq@sandmann.prz.tu-berlin.de>
Thomas Wolfram (wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Frank M. Siegert (frank@this.net) wrote:
: > This is without any warranty. It works fine for me (kernel version
: > 1.3.23, at the moment) with NEXTSTEP 3.2 and 3.3 partitions on two
: > SCSI disks. There seem to be problems with symbolic links on UFS
: > filesystems.
: Sometime ago I found the bug and fixed it anf reported it
: to the authors. Look for ufs-0.3.1.2 or whatever it's named
: now.
Indeed. You'll find the last recently released version of ufs on
sunsite.unc.edu mirrors in /pub/Linux/ALPHA/ufs. Since neither Yossi
Gottlieb nor Bruno Haible seem to have any time to continue
development, I decided to take over maintenance for the time.
The last release is ufs-0.3.1.2, ran with Linux 1.3.12 and already
incorporates (I hope so ;-) Thomas' sym-link patch. This version
doesn't compile for recent 1.3.x kernels (like .42)
Just before putting a release for 1.3.45 on sunsite, I noticed that
this introduced severe problems that could result in system panics. I
wasn't able to reproduce these problems now, so this is a real
problem ;-).
Gregor
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup
From: @ (Ed Gurski)
Subject: Re: BootManager that sees three OS's?
Sender: usenet@news.zippo.com
Organization: Zippo
Message-ID: <DKpLsJ.7tJ@news.zippo.com>
References: <ezqcd543i.fsf@steffi.accessone.com> <4c062e$o46@nntp3.news.primenet.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:07:30 GMT
In <4c062e$o46@nntp3.news.primenet.com>, Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> writes:
>robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson) wrote:
>>
>> So with that in mind I'd like to run a boot manager on the IDE drive
>> that lets me select _all_ three OS's. Can boot managers span multiple
>> drives? I figure they can't.
>>
>
>I attempted the same, but with OS/2 instead of NT, OS/2's boot manager
>would crash NS every time if it was not on the first physical drive
>OS/2 and Linux didn't care where they were located though.
>
I was able to succesfully install and using OS/2's Boot Manager I can now boot:
OS/2 Warp Connect - Drive 0
DOS 6.22 w Win 3.11 - Drive 1
Windows 95 - Drive 1
Windows NT 3.51 WKS - Drive 1
My system contains 3 540M SCSI's. The third drive is used to contain all common
apps. The installation of Win 95 did cause some problems in that it insisted it be
installed on Drive 0. After many failed attempts (i.e. making a small partition on
Disk 0 then copying files after the install, etc...), it became apparent that the only
way to install Win95 on Disk 1 was to disconnect Disk 0, set the Win 95 partition
as the active partition and then boot from a floppy. Once Win95 was installed,
I reconnected Disk 0 and lo and behold I was able to use OS/2's boot manager to
successfully bot Win 95. I repeated these same steps when installing NT. The one
interesting sidebar I noticed was that Win95 wanted to be on the first HD even if NT
was installed there.....
Ed Gurski - Proud member of Team OS/2
Replies can be sent to : egurski@imf.org
egurski@ibm.net
edgurski@aol.com
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The opinions expressed here are solely mine and do not reflect either directly or indirectly
the opinions of my organisation....
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From: Joe Freeman <Joe@FreemanSoft.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba and usernames
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 08:29:31 -0500
Organization: FreemanSoft Inc.
Message-ID: <30ED27BB.20DE@FreemanSoft.COM>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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I've had a problem with samba where it never sees my password
entries, user names or home directories. The guest account
works great. Has anyone else seen this problem? I figure it
could be the way I built it (3.x with posix) or it could be the
config file. I don't have encryption turned on because I don't
have libdes. One other thing, I have the same problem when
connecting from both Win95 and WinNT.
Thanks,
<joe>
From: Joe Freeman <Joe@FreemanSoft.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Samba and usernames
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 09:35:11 -0500
Organization: FreemanSoft Inc.
Message-ID: <30ED371F.1F2B@FreemanSoft.COM>
References: <30ED27BB.20DE@FreemanSoft.COM>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Porblem solved , at least with NT.
For anyone that doesn't know about samba...
Samba lets you use your unix (NEXTSTEP) box as a network drive
server for windows machines, WinNT, Win95 and WinWFWG. I've
only been playing with it a little but it really helps when you
want to keep all of your source or "other stuff" out on your
next machine. Samba also supports remote printers , though NT
does that out of the box. I assume that the win is for WinWFG
or Win95 on the printer feature.
<joe>
Joe Freeman wrote:
>
> I've had a problem with samba where it never sees my password
> entries, user names or home directories. The guest account
> works great. Has anyone else seen this problem? I figure it
> could be the way I built it (3.x with posix) or it could be the
> config file. I don't have encryption turned on because I don't
> have libdes. One other thing, I have the same problem when
> connecting from both Win95 and WinNT.
>
> Thanks,
> <joe>
From: Joe Freeman <Joe@FreemanSoft.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Has anyone ported tcsh/ksh to NeXT?
Date: 5 Jan 1996 15:28:54 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <4cjg3m$5qo@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <4chpim$9dt@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
In article <4chpim$9dt@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu> Dan Pritts
<danno@us.itd.umich.edu> writes:
> >In <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com> Yibing Wu wrote:
> >> Has anyone ported tcsh to NeXT? What about Korn shell?
> second, tcsh 6.05 built for me "out of the box" on black 3.2.
You're kidding right? It takes a little bit of fudging, but it WILL work.
You need to use eithter gcc or cc -traditional-cpp to compile though.
On the other hand, tcsh-6.06 does better (still need the compiler switches
above).
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Computer System Manager Voice: (402)472-9747
Department of Mathematics and Statistics FAX: (402)472-8466
University of Nebraska - Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hhoff@flop.lb.bawue.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks?
Message-ID: <DKpLHG.1H1@flop.lb.bawue.de>
Sender: news@flop.lb.bawue.de
Organization: home
References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com> <4ceskh$36d@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 13:00:52 GMT
Robert Worne wrote:
> Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> wrote:
> ..various problems re-initializing DOS media..
I have a Syquest 270 drive and exactly the same problem.
The easy solution: get Brian Willoughby's <brianw@sounds.wa.com>
most excellent sdformat utility and use this to do a low-level
format of the medium. After that, Workspace will initialize
with DOS just fine. The only problem is that you have to do this
as root, since WS grabs the inserted medium and locks it..
-holger
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: !!! ftp server question !!!
Date: 5 Jan 1996 11:23:55 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <4cjjar$dop@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Is there an ftp server for the black NeXT OS 3.2 which accepts commands such
as "get directory.tar" or "get directory.tar.Z". Our SUN does that and it's
wonderful.
Please respond by e-mail. Thanks. Best regards...Paul
Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu
Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office)
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: matthewm@sgate.com (Michael Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPD file summary
Date: 5 Jan 1996 10:32:03 -0500
Organization: Southgate Internet Host
Message-ID: <4cjg9j$q1@sgate.com>
Thanks to Izumi Ohzawa izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu for solving my "printer
description file not available" problem: the 'ty' field in the printcap
NetInfo entry has to match the *filename* of the PPD file (spaces substituted
with underscores, and maybe one or two other substitutions as well), not any
records inside the PPD file itself.
Izumi also pointed out a rather nifty NetInfo property: If you set
_nxfinalform to '' (niutil -createprop / /printername _nxfinalform ''), any
nonstandard fonts in the printer will get downloaded.
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From: amm@NeXT.COM (Alan M. Marcum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question? NextStep 3.3, WIndows 95, Linux partitions on one drive
Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:04:35 GMT
Organization: NeXT Computer, Inc.
Message-ID: <4cjln3$h5s@news.next.com>
References: <4ci8s5$evs@malasada.lava.net>
Shakil Ahmed <pdcs@lava.net> asks about installing multiple operating
systems on one drive. There's a detailed description of the issues and
the process in NEXTSTEP in Focus, Volume 4, Issues 3&4 (combined issue),
Summer/Fall 1994. The article is called "One PC, More Than One OS?" and
is available as NeXTanswer 1951.
--
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NeXT Tech Support
amm@NeXT.COM
From: LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: managing email
Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:07:30 GMT
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com>
What tools are people using to manage email.
I'm looking for an automated way to take certain email messages and
automatically file them in a mailbox, or re-distribute them to a list.
Lowell
Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Help! Problems with mail in NS3.3 (Intel)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 05 Jan 1996 17:23:15 GMT
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Jan5172315@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi,
One of our Nextstep machines (Pentium running NS 3.3) is having
problems mailing to the outside world. This is not the only such
machine we have and all the other ones are working fine -- and as far
as I can see they have been configured identically.
Here's a sample error:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to epsilon:
>>> MAIL From:<jmf@strings9>
<<< 501 Unknown domain 'strings9'
554 j.m.figueroa@qmw.ac.uk... 554 Remote protocol error
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <jmf>
Received: by strings9.ph.qmw.ac.uk (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
id AA00202; Thu, 5 Jan 95 16:56:17 GMT
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 95 16:56:17 GMT
From: Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill <jmf>
Message-Id: <9501051656.AA00202@strings9.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
To: j.m.figueroa@qmw.ac.uk
Subject: test
this is a test.
Has anyone seen this problem before??? Is this a problem at our end
or at the mailer's end? If so then I may try to push the matter
further with the college postmaster.
Many thanks in advance -- oh, and could you reply my email -- I will
post a summary if there is interest.
Cheers, Jose
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hhoff@flop.lb.bawue.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Subject: Re: UUCP bouncing Usenet news
Message-ID: <DKppto.2B8@flop.lb.bawue.de>
Sender: news@flop.lb.bawue.de
Organization: home
References: <DKoDGn.6EM@ritz.mordor.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 14:34:35 GMT
Matthew Hocker wrote:
> I've been having a problem with my CNews / UUCP setup. I'm using the
standard
> NeXT (BSD) UUCP distribution and have been getting "bounced" news. That is,
> when news comes in, it gets distributed by rnews to the correct
> directories, but some of it seems to be bouncing back to the UUCP feed
> and back to my service provider. Needless to say, this is causing long
> connect times.
What can I say..'me too'. :-}
> The way I deduced this was by watching uulog and seeing that rnews
> queues up outgoing news after sendbatches is done. The
> /usr/spool/news/out.going/<system>/togo file also shows that certain
> articles are being queued up even though no one on my system posted them.
Yup, you deduced correctly.
> Could this be because I don't carry a full newsfeed? Or could it be
> because something on my service provider's end has changed?
Neither, nor..
> I'd sure appreciate some help. I've got the O'Reilly book, but it's not
> too much help in this case. If you need any files from my config, please
> let me know.
This sounds exactly like the problem I had when I started with CNews.
Here's the solution:
On page 180 of the O'Reilly book, the sys file's L flag is explained.
This flag is not set by default; just add it, like this:
flop>more /usr/local/lib/news/sys
<snip>
# Primary newsfeed:
luva:all,!junk,!general/all,!local:Lf:
^ add this
Thid did the trick for me - only my locally posted articles are sent.
-holger
From: mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POP3 server?
Date: 5 Jan 1996 18:22:52 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <4cjq9s$g54@shelob.afs.com>
Is there a POP3 mail server available for NEXTSTEP? Source, if available, is
fine.
Thanks!
--
Michael J. Matlack
Anderson Financial Systems, +1 215 653 0911
Mike_Matlack@afs.com (MIME & NEXT mail OK)
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: managing email
Date: 5 Jan 1996 19:10:41 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-45.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4cjt3h$t7o@usc.edu>
References: <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com>
In <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com> LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com wrote:
> What tools are people using to manage email.
>
> I'm looking for an automated way to take certain email messages and
> automatically file them in a mailbox, or re-distribute them to a list.
I think the most used and most robust tools are procmail and appnmail (for
appending nextmail into mboxes). Procmail will do everything.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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From: Jo Peters <peters@boystown.org>
Subject: Intel NextStep 3.3: disaster recovery
Message-ID: <157cc$1113b.36d@luzskru.cpcnet.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:01:59 GMT
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: peters
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I've recently installed Intel NextStep 3.3, and I have a backup system
in place. The system is running fine. Now, I want to make a plan for
recovering from a disk crash. Am I correct in my understanding that to
recover from a disk crash I would:
1) first re-install NextStep from the original distribution
(floppy and CD-ROM), then
2) do a complete restore (restore -r) on top of the new system.
Is there a way to do a complete restore w/o doing a complete
re-installation first?
Thanks for your advice,
Jo Peters
Boystown National Research Hospital
peters@boystown.org
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: managing email
Date: 5 Jan 1996 18:49:28 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4cjrro$43i@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com>
In article <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com>
LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com writes:
> What tools are people using to manage email.
procmail plus Carl Edman's excellent mailapp utilities.
> I'm looking for an automated way to take certain email messages and
> automatically file them in a mailbox, or re-distribute them to a list.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb access thru PPP?
Date: 5 Jan 1996 23:16:28 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ckbgc$3lj@news.its.com>
References: <DKMKxw.5zA@planon.qc.ca>
laurent@planon.qc.ca (Laurent Daudelin) wrote:
> -Installing a PPP (prefered) or a SLIP package that would let us use our
> PPP account on our provider.
PPP for NEXTSTEP is available from ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp.
> -Allow any user on our network to use OmniWeb to connect to our provider
> (using PPP), then to access the internet.
You need to enable routing via "routed -s" (or "routed -g"), and you'll
need to do things such as enable DNS via setting up nameservers in
/etc/resolv.conf and possibly running bind somewhere. Read the man pages.
Also, get the "TCP/IP Network Administration" by O'Reilly,
ISBN 0-937175-82-X.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: allen@cumbres.bio.nau.edu (Allen Sonafrank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep DNS Name Resolution Fails
Date: 6 Jan 1996 00:39:57 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ, USA
Message-ID: <4ckgct$jqb@ruby.ucc.nau.edu>
One of the geologists here has a black Next machine, the only
Next at this university as far as I know. He's just
reinstalled the operating system after a disk crash, and all is well
except:
Domain name resolution doesn't work. I added an /etc/resolv.conf
file, which made nslookup work. But telnet, FTP, and the web
browser get host unknown messages when given hostnames and URLs.
The resolver man page says that for a normally-configured machine,
/etc/resolv.conf should not be necessary. But it doesn't say
how name resolution should work.
My intuition is that DNS resolution must be done by the NetInfo
system, but I can't seem to find a menu option or man page clue
as to how to enable it.
How can I turn on DNS name resolution?
- Allen
--
Allen Sonafrank
College of Arts & Sciences, Box 5621 Voice: (520) 523-8106
Northern Arizona University Email: allen.sonafrank@nau.edu
Flagstaff, AZ 86011 HTTP://cumbres.bio.nau.edu/people/allen
From: black@winternet.com (Ben Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 server?
Date: 6 Jan 1996 01:36:23 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ckjmn$e98@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <4cjq9s$g54@shelob.afs.com>
In article <4cjq9s$g54@shelob.afs.com> mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack) writes:
>
> Is there a POP3 mail server available for NEXTSTEP? Source, if available, is
> fine.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Michael J. Matlack
> Anderson Financial Systems, +1 215 653 0911
> Mike_Matlack@afs.com (MIME & NEXT mail OK)
there is a pop3 server in the PopOver distribution. it is in an rtfd file with
all the instructions.
ben
black@winternet.com
From: black@winternet.com (Ben Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail through firewall
Date: 6 Jan 1996 01:43:19 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ckk3n$efs@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
Klaus Pommerening <pommeren@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> writes:
> A few days ago our institute hid itself behind a firewall (machine
> name `irla') which provides a mail gateway. We have a net of
> several NEXTSTEP machines, one of them acting as mailhost. Our
> original sendmail (Sendmail NX5.67e/NX3.0X) does no longer work
> for outside connections (incoming mail is ok). So we installed
> sendmail 8.7.3 and defined the gateway as smart host (see appendix
> 1). This works in test mode (see appendix 2), but not when invoked
> as a daemon (see appendix 3).
>
> Questions: A. Is there a way to make Sendmail NX5.67e work through
> the gateway? (The gateway is supposed to act as gateway only,
> not as Mailhost.)
for this i set the mail relay host in sendmail.cf to the firewall. however,
this makes mail appear to come from the FQDN of the real mailhost and not just
the domain, unless you do some more stuff (which i haven't bothered with yet).
> B. What's wrong with sendmail 8.7.3? Why does it work in test
> mode?
>
i'd like to know this too, because i can't use 8.7.3 for the same reason. that
mailhost unknown error is really bothersome.
ben
black@winternet.com
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Anyone have cryptor.bundle working under 3.3?
Date: 5 Jan 1996 17:52:29 GMT
Organization: "private site"
Message-ID: <4cjogu$8t5@eskimo.eskimo.bb.bawue.de>
References: <4cd2aa$9ff@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <4ceoln$efg@blackbird.afit.af.mil>
In <4ceoln$efg@blackbird.afit.af.mil> Eric P Baenen wrote:
:
: Has anyone been successful in getting cryptor.bundle to work under
3.3?
:
: I have ftped and installed according to directions and it seems to
work
: fine except for one small problem. I can't get it to read my keyring
in
: ~/.pgp or add any new keys using the Encryption Keys window.
:
: I have also installed encipher and it works just fine with my keyring.
:
: Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
You have to set $home in /User/eric/.profile
e.g.
HOME='/User/eric'
Then add
setenv PGPPATH ~/.pgp
to your .cshrc (if you use something else then bash than the appropriate
file).
Then it should work.
I first tried to adjust the PGPPATH to something like /User/eric/.pgp
but it didn't work.
--
Juergen
_______________________________________________________________________
Juergen Grieb juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de NeXTMail welcome
Picard: Well, five-card stud, nothing wild - and the sky's the limit...
From: vbragin@mercury.uucp (Victoria Bragin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Unable to print with JetPilot+HP DeskJet850C
Date: 6 Jan 1996 03:41:36 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4ckr1g$4rl@nuke.csu.net>
I purchased JetPilot as a driver for the HP Deskjet 850C. I installed the
temporary license given to me, the printer is attached to the parallel port,
and my system is a Pentium. However, I am unable to print. An alert panel
appears: "Some or all pages in your print request could not be printed."
The console reads: Server:Color_Printer[247]: Cannot open output device
'/dev/pp0': No such file or directory.
I have tried the following to no avail:
(1) Deinstalled the parallel port driver and reinstalled it using Configure.ap.
I even rebooted the system -- no success!
(2) Tried "makedev" in a shell - again, no success.
Any ideas on what I could try next would be greatly appreciated.
Vicki Bragin
From: swallow@cis.ohio-state.edu (keith lee swallow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with the ftpd
Date: 5 Jan 1996 23:15:17 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Message-ID: <4ckt0lINN8oq@saw.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Hello,
I have ftpd running on the next where I work. I was wondering if there is a way to
send a message to everyone that logs on. I haven't found anything in any of the configs
or any man pages. Plus I have little or no written documentation on the daemon. I have
also tried just placing a .message file but that hasn't worked either... SO any help
would be greatly appreciated. We have been taking a lot of hits on our machine as
anonymous so we have removed that. We want to send a message to them before the login
sequence if at all possible telling them that the open account is closed.. People can't
figure out why they can't get in anymore so they try to connect again and again. Thanks
a bunch for anyhelp... bye..
Keith Lee Swallow
swallow@cis.ohio-state.edu
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail through firewall
Date: 6 Jan 1996 05:03:46 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-39.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ckvri$hs7@usc.edu>
References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> <4ckk3n$efs@blackice.winternet.com>
In <4ckk3n$efs@blackice.winternet.com> Ben Black wrote:
> In article
<Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
> Klaus Pommerening <pommeren@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> writes:
> > B. What's wrong with sendmail 8.7.3? Why does it work in test
> > mode?
> >
> i'd like to know this too, because i can't use 8.7.3 for the same
reason. that
> mailhost unknown error is really bothersome.
Aside from the sendmail.cf, you should make sure that the local and the
mailhost and all machines are fully-qualified. Maybe if you are missing the
mailhost as a separate machine the correction would fix it???
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail through firewall
In-Reply-To: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 6 Jan 1996 05:03:46 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan6005101@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
<4ckk3n$efs@blackice.winternet.com> <4ckvri$hs7@usc.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 05:51:01 GMT
Just a reminder to everyone that you should cross post these to
comp.mail.sendmail. sendmail 8.7.3 is not NeXT specific. There are a
heck of a lot of sites using it and you will typically get a better, more
timely response by posting there.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4ckvri$hs7@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes:
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 6 Jan 1996 05:03:46 GMT
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In <4ckk3n$efs@blackice.winternet.com> Ben Black wrote:
> In article
<Pine.OSF.3.91.960105135644.21958C-100000@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
> Klaus Pommerening <pommeren@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> writes:
> > B. What's wrong with sendmail 8.7.3? Why does it work in test
> > mode?
> >
> i'd like to know this too, because i can't use 8.7.3 for the same
reason. that
> mailhost unknown error is really bothersome.
Aside from the sendmail.cf, you should make sure that the local and the
mailhost and all machines are fully-qualified. Maybe if you are missing the
mailhost as a separate machine the correction would fix it???
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: brad@his.com (Brad Knowles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Problems with mail in NS3.3 (Intel)
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 03:09:39 -0500
Organization: Heller Information Services, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <brad-0601960309400001@brad.his.com>
References: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Jan5172315@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
In article <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Jan5172315@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>,
J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill) wrote:
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While connected to epsilon:
> >>> MAIL From:<jmf@strings9>
> <<< 501 Unknown domain 'strings9'
> 554 j.m.figueroa@qmw.ac.uk... 554 Remote protocol error
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
This is a machine that does not know what domain it is in, and isn't
likely to be able to do much email successfully until this problem is
corrected.
Several possibilities present themselves:
1. Using fully-qualified domain names as the output from `hostname`.
Me, I always use FQDNs. Even if somethingis screwed up, it's easier to
figure out where it's screwed up if I can eliminate this problem.
2. Setting "domain ph.qmw.ac.uk" in your /etc/resolv.conf file (or
wherever the heck it is that NeXTstep puts it).
3. If you're running a recent release of BIND, you could even put in
a "search ph.qmw.ac.uk qmw.ac.uk" directive in the /etc/resolv.conf file
and eliminate any possibility of accidentally searching for strings9.ac.uk
(which could conceivably exist), as you try all the various permutations
and combinations of your domain name and the unqualified host name in the
email address.
4. Modifying your sendmail.cf so as to explictly set your domain
name. Personally, I don't like this one because it only fixes sendmail,
and all the other programs can still be screwed up. I prefer to fix the
machine as a whole (through the hostname, /etc/hosts, the DNS,
NIS/NIS+/NetInfo/whatever) and then let sendmail benefit from that correct
configuration.
--
Brad Knowles, comp.mail.sendmail FAQ Maintainer brad@his.com
The comp.mail.sendmail FAQ is located at:
<ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/mail/sendmail-faq>
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: managing email
Date: 6 Jan 1996 08:49:06 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4cld22$hlr@news.its.com>
References: <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com>
LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com wrote:
> What tools are people using to manage email.
>
> I'm looking for an automated way to take certain email messages and
> automatically file them in a mailbox, or re-distribute them to a list.
There's procmail, although that does not work at the appropriate level to
handle automatic mail filing into specific NeXT Mailboxes.
WhiteLight was working on a product called LightMail (or LightScript, or some
such) that would perform precisely the tasks you ask about, but WhiteLight
has left the NeXT market, leaving that product in limbo, unfortunately.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: bhardwaj@cuug.ab.ca (6486)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: (no subject)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 6 Jan 1996 00:19:40 -0700
Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
Message-ID: <4cl7qc$dna@hp715.cuug.ab.ca>
References: <DKKMHE.8LH@rockyd.rockefeller.edu>
I, too, am interested in configuring my machines in a similar manner once
I have installed a NIC in my Intel machine. Could you post any
suggestions to this group or copy me on the email?
Thanks.
Andrej Sali (sali) wrote:
: Hi,
: I would like to connect via ethernet a PC running Windows95 and a
: NeXTstation running NeXTstep 3.2 so that I can ftp, telnet, and
: rcp between them.
: Windows95 reports that the following items are installed properly on
: the PC: ethernet adapter (NE2000 compatible), NE2000 TCP/IP protocol,
: and there are also ping, ftp, telnet, arp, netstat, and route programs
: in the \WINDOWS directory (I unpacked them from Windows95 as
: distributed by COMPAQ, using add/remove software).
: A complication is that both the NeXTstation and the PC already use the
: same dialup PPP account from an Internet service provider (not at the
: same time of course); I have a single permanent IP address for both
: machines. On the NeXT, I have the ppp 2.02 software and on a PC, I
: use Netscape.
: What do I have to do on the PC and the NexTstation to make the ethernet
: connection working? How do I assign the IP address to a PC (there is a
: \WINDOWS\HOSTS file; I already have another unique IP number)? What are
: the network interface names on a PC (the PC arp does not recognize
: 127.0.0.1)? How do I deal with dual dialup and ethernet interfaces on
: the PC and the NeXTstation? Do they get assigned different IP addresses?
: Any hints about any part of the problem will be very much appreciated
: (please respond to my email address: sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu).
: Best wishes, Andrej
: --
: Andrej Sali
: The Rockefeller University, Box 270
: 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021-6399
: voice (212) 327 7550; fax (212) 327 7540
: e-mail sali@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
--
--
Dharam Bhardwaj |
E-mail: bhardwaj@cuug.ab.ca |
Fax: 403-282-8969 |
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: managing email
Date: 6 Jan 1996 18:12:58 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-39.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4cme3a$2t3@usc.edu>
References: <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com> <4cld22$hlr@news.its.com>
In <4cld22$hlr@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com wrote:
> > What tools are people using to manage email.
> >
> > I'm looking for an automated way to take certain email messages and
> > automatically file them in a mailbox, or re-distribute them to a
list.
>
> There's procmail, although that does not work at the appropriate level
to
> handle automatic mail filing into specific NeXT Mailboxes.
But using procmail with Carl Edman's mailapp utilities - esp appnmail and
formail will do just that. I use it all the time.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A Question about PNI 1.13 under 3.3
Date: 6 Jan 1996 23:16:15 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cmvrv$3sb@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
First off, thanks to those people that responding saying PNI SLIP 1.13 works
under 3.3, for them. On my system I can only get it to work once and that
once is a little weird. I manually start up PNI using
/etc/pni/pnirun pni0
and it works fine but I can't stop the process using
/etc/pni/pnirun -down pni0
because pnistat complains about not being able to find the pnid daemon
which is running (however pnistat -a reports some stats). So instead I
stop everything with a 'kill'. This brings down slip but when I try
and start it back up I get an error saying that slip can't register the
daemon with the portmapper. BTW - I do shut down the network stuff using
the ifconfig command.
Has anyone had a similar problem and found a solution?
--
John Stanhope
jehu@vt.edu
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Prev. Post about swapdisk reformatted to 8***bytes/sector???
Date: 7 Jan 1996 00:04:44 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-08.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4cn2ms$en8@usc.edu>
Someone posted that to enhance the speed of one's swapdisk you should reset
it to 8192 bytes/sector. Is this done by sdformat -b8192 ???
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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From: gregan@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Reply fields w/remote mail accounts
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 96 21:12:41 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4cna6v$612@paperboy.ids.net>
I have a slip account with an Internet service provider. I also have a
regular account which I use for receiving mail (gregan@ids.net): I
retrieve mail from there to my NextStation using PopOver. On sending mail
from my NextStation, I have my mail preferences set to cause my "Reply-To"
line to be the gregan@ids.net account. This is what shows up in the
"Reply-To" or "From: " field of the header on mail that I send out. However,
the "SMTP MAIL FROM" field of the mail envelope has the address of my slip
account. I know this by sending mail to bouncer@nic.near.net. How do
I get all the fields to say that the message is coming from my regular,
gregan@ids.net account? Thanx in advance.
Greg Arzoomanian
gregan@ids.net
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Reply fields w/remote mail accounts
Date: 7 Jan 1996 03:05:12 GMT
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In <4cna6v$612@paperboy.ids.net> gregan@ids.net wrote:
> I have a slip account with an Internet service provider. I also have a
> regular account which I use for receiving mail (gregan@ids.net): I
> retrieve mail from there to my NextStation using PopOver. On sending
mail
> from my NextStation, I have my mail preferences set to cause my
"Reply-To"
> line to be the gregan@ids.net account. This is what shows up in the
> "Reply-To" or "From: " field of the header on mail that I send out.
However,
> the "SMTP MAIL FROM" field of the mail envelope has the address of my
slip
> account. I know this by sending mail to bouncer@nic.near.net. How do
> I get all the fields to say that the message is coming from my regular,
> gregan@ids.net account? Thanx in advance.
1) What sendmail version are you using?
2) I believe what you need to do is get your envelope to be masquerade
properly.
3) If you are using sendmail 8.7.* then add
define(`_MASQUERADE_ENVELOPE_', 1)
to your m4 file.
Maybe that would help.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does PNI Slip 1.11 work under NS 3.3 ?
Date: 06 Jan 1996 16:02:23 -0800
Organization: x
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References: <4ch1cv$koh@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
To: jehu@vt.edu
Is the Mux driver necessary under 3.3?
Really just go and get Stephen Perkin's package from http://www.thoughtport.com:8080
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi (Juha Laiho)
Subject: Re: UUCP bouncing Usenet news
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
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Organization: NullNet r.y.
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 11:23:28 GMT
hhoff@cube.de said:
[ about news bouncing back to the provider, and how (not) to fix it ]
>On page 180 of the O'Reilly book, the sys file's L flag is explained.
>This flag is not set by default; just add it, like this:
>
>flop>more /usr/local/lib/news/sys
><snip>
># Primary newsfeed:
>luva:all,!junk,!general/all,!local:Lf:
> ^ add this
>
>Thid did the trick for me - only my locally posted articles are sent.
This works for leaf mahines, but not for anyone who forward news to any
downstream sites. Using this on a machine that forwards news to another
site would prohibit the news written on that other machine from reaching
rest of the net.
The correct way is to look at what your provider puts in the 'Path: '
header and use it as the system name or alias in the 'sys' file, i.e:
# Primary newsfeed:
luva/luva.lb.bawue.de:all,!junk,!general/all,!local:f:
or
# Primary newsfeed:
luva.lb.bawue.de:all,!junk,!general/all,!local:f:
--
Wolf a.k.a. Juha Laiho Espoo, Finland
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"...cancel my subscription to the resurrection!" (Jim Morrison)
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 6 Jan 1996 23:06:32 -0600
Organization: MCSNet Services
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References: <30EAC381.5123@kypris.com>
Dan Nichols (dan@kypris.com) wrote:
: Hi all.
: There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks
: on the NeXT.
: Did anyone ever solve this problem?
I do this ALL the time. It would kill me if this didn't work. So
I'll ask a question that may prompt some response.
What size disks are you using? From what I've been able to tell,
NS only supports 1.44M disks not 720K.
Peter Richardson
From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: managing email
Date: 06 Jan 1996 21:13:06 -0800
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.accessone.com
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References: <4cjlsi$dv7@news2.aimnet.com> <4cld22$hlr@news.its.com>
To: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
<chuck@its.com> writes:
>LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com wrote:
>>What tools are people using to manage email.
>>
>>I'm looking for an automated way to take certain email messages and
>>automatically file them in a mailbox, or re-distribute them to a list.
>There's procmail, although that does not work at the appropriate level to
>handle automatic mail filing into specific NeXT Mailboxes.
Works fine for me with Carl Edman's mail-app utilities. Basically the
stuff that can write in NeXT Mailbox format. Trivial to set up and
works a treat.
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
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From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using /tmp when booting from CD-ROM
Date: 7 Jan 1996 06:30:47 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4cnpan$qc2@usenet.rpi.edu>
I wanted to boot off a CD-ROM so I could do some futzing around
on my startup disk. I have a vague recollection from some usenet
article that this was supposed to work OK.
So, I popped in the floppy and the cd-rom for NS-3.3 (this is
on NeXT hardware). I tried a 'bfd -s', and sure enough it came
up in single user mode. The messages it wrote out include the
helpful tip of:
In particular, commands that try to create files in /tmp
will probably fail. One way to avoid this problem is to
mount a separate hard disk or floppy on /tmp using the
mount command. For example,'/etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp'
puts /tmp on the internal floppy disk. (The -n option
prevents mount from trying to record the mount in /etc/mtab.)
Now it happens that I have a spare hard disk partition that I can
use for /tmp, so I try the suggestion. It fails, saying that
/private/tmp is a read-only filesystem. Hrm. Looking at the
man page for mount, this seems understandable to me. /tmp is a
symbolic link to /private/tmp, and the man page specifically says
that trying to mount something on top of a symbolic link will cause
the mount to cover up the place the link is pointing to, and not
the link itself.
The question is, what do I therefore have to do to setup a
/tmp? Do I have to clone /private onto the spare partition,
and then mount the partition on top of /private instead of
/tmp? That seems a bit unlikely, given that /dev is also a
subdirectory of /private...
In my case, I didn't actually *need* /tmp, I just thought I'd
try out the suggestion when I saw it. So, I went on and did
what I needed to do without figuring out this little puzzle.
It seemed like it'd be a useful thing to know, though, in
case I did need it sometime.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Has anyone ported tcsh/ksh to NeXT?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 15:03:43 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Sender: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <960107150343.3613AACUP.malc@daneel>
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kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) suggested:
>In <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com> Yibing Wu wrote:
>> Has anyone ported tcsh to NeXT? What about Korn shell?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Yibing Wu
>>
>>
>How about pdksh in ftp://ftp.cs.mun.ca/pub/pdksh
>
>--KAI--
>
Someone else asked me about this a short while ago, so I compiled it up for
them quad-fat (very few problems).
You can get it from:
ftp://ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk/home/malc/NeXT/pdksh-5.0.6/
Note that /home/malc is an automount point so a WWW browser may not be able
to see the directory, in which case you could try command-line access
(sorry).
I'll see if I can upload it to cs.orst soon.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
posn. research facilitator
where institute for language speech and hearing
sheffield university
west court
2 mappin street
sheffield s1 4dt
england
vox (+44) 114 282 5269
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email m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: Using /tmp when booting from CD-ROM
Message-ID: <DKtpww.zx@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
References: <4cnpan$qc2@usenet.rpi.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 18:26:56 GMT
In article <4cnpan$qc2@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn
<gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> writes:
> I have a vague recollection from some usenet
>article that this was supposed to work OK.
Must be mine in the past.
The suggestion which NeXT gives is wrong.
You cannot use existnig directories for mount point, but you can use
non-existant ones. Thus,
mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp/floppy
will work as a 'virtual' directory is created. So, when booting single user
from a CD-ROM you cannot use any program that uses the /tmp directory but you
can get writable directories other than that by mounting 'virtually'.
In essence, the error made by NeXT is that the /tmp directory is there at all
on the CD. It is no use as it can't be written to and it's existence prevents
the suggestion they make themselves. I probably have BugNeXT-ed them about this
in the past, maybe it helps if someone else does too.
I hope they fix this on a following release. I also hope they will fix the
/etc/rc.cdrom file in such a way that you have more possibilities when setting
up your system (i.e. disk parameters like rpm) because the workaround is
troublesome.
--
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.
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Has anyone ported tcsh/ksh to NeXT?
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 21:08:34 GMT
Organization: Institute for Language Speech and Hearing, Sheffield University
Sender: mmalcolm Crawford <m.crawford@dcs.shef.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <960107210834.449AACUF.malc@daneel>
References: <4bv2tn$8lj@news.mcl.bdm.com> <4cctgv$j50@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <960107150343.3613AACUP.malc@daneel>
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I wrote earlier:
> Someone else asked me about this a short while ago, so I compiled
> it up for them quad-fat (very few problems).
>
> You can get it from:
>
> ftp://ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk/home/malc/NeXT/pdksh-5.0.6/
>
and was soon told (not that it surprised me, to be honest) that there's a
newer version of pdksh... so I've compiled that and replaced it:
You can get it from:
ftp://ftp.dcs.shef.ac.uk/home/malc/NeXT/pdksh-5.2.3/
or ftp.cs.orst.edu (it's in pub/next/submissions at the moment)
Best wishes,
mmalc.
From: marks@soli.inav.net (Mark Strand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Reading DOS-formatted Zip disks?
Date: 8 Jan 1996 03:15:39 GMT
Organization: INAV
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In article <4cnkco$6cc@Venus.mcs.com>, par@MCS.COM says...
>
>Dan Nichols (dan@kypris.com) wrote:
>: Hi all.
>: There was a flurry of posts a while back about DOS-formatted Zip disks
>: on the NeXT.
>
>: Did anyone ever solve this problem?
>
>I do this ALL the time. It would kill me if this didn't work. So
>I'll ask a question that may prompt some response.
>
>What size disks are you using? From what I've been able to tell,
>NS only supports 1.44M disks not 720K.
>
He said ZIP disks, not floppies. ZIP disks are 25M and 100M.
And I've used DOS-formatted ZIP disks on my slab and NSI with no
problems whatsoever. Works just as well as with NeXTSTEP-formatted
ZIP disks....
>Peter Richardson
>
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 8 Jan 1996 05:15:12 GMT
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Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site
comp.sys.next newsgroups
related newsgroups
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ftp sites
NeXTanswers
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
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This online community resource includes
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- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
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You can connect via the world wide web at:
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Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
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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
================
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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
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- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
of OpenStep now being developed
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From: New the Bie <newbie@startext.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to print with JetPilot+HP DeskJet850C
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 23:35:11 -0600
Organization: StarText department of the Fort Worth Star Telegram
Message-ID: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960107233245.8000A-100000@lepton>
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Did you use the printmanager to create the printer? I believe it creates
some files in the /dev/pp0 directory. It sounds to me that you need to
add the printer in printmanager any of the drivers prefixed with JP can
be used.
--griz
On 6 Jan 1996, Victoria Bragin wrote:
>
> I purchased JetPilot as a driver for the HP Deskjet 850C. I installed the
> temporary license given to me, the printer is attached to the parallel port,
> and my system is a Pentium. However, I am unable to print. An alert panel
> appears: "Some or all pages in your print request could not be printed."
> The console reads: Server:Color_Printer[247]: Cannot open output device
> '/dev/pp0': No such file or directory.
>
> I have tried the following to no avail:
> (1) Deinstalled the parallel port driver and reinstalled it using Configure.ap.
> I even rebooted the system -- no success!
> (2) Tried "makedev" in a shell - again, no success.
>
> Any ideas on what I could try next would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Vicki Bragin
>
>
From: robert@steffi.accessone.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! How to set up a PPP machine without network interface?
Date: 08 Jan 1996 00:38:49 -0800
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.accessone.com
Message-ID: <ehgy784iu.fsf@steffi.accessone.com>
OK I have PPP working but not to my liking.
I run both sendmail V8 and inn locally and I want to be able to
telnet steffi 119
instead of
telnet localhost 119
likewise sendmail
So at the moment I've got the following.
steffi:1#
steffi:1# nidump hosts /
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.42.72.1 steffi.accessone.com steffi
steffi:2# cat /etc/hostconfig
#
# /etc/hostconfig
#
# This file sets up shell variables used by the various rc scripts to
# configure the host. Edit this file instead of rc.boot.
#
# Warning: This is sourced by /bin/sh. Make sure there are no spaces
# on either side of the "=".
#
# There are some special keywords used by rc.boot and the programs it
# calls:
#
# -AUTOMATIC- Configure automatically
# -YES- Turn a feature on
# -NO- Leave a feature off or do not configure
#
HOSTNAME=steffi
INETADDR=192.42.72.1
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC- ### I think this should be = only.
IPBROADCAST=
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
steffi:3# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ppp0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
ppp1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT>
steffi:4# netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 13 1176 lo0
steffi:5#
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On my black box which works fine I've got something similar but
because I've got INETADDR=192.42.72.1 and there's an en0 interface it
can bind my bogus IP address to an interface.
Under Intel though I've no such luxury as I don't have a network card.
I've never properly understood how routing works.... with the
following on my black box.. why does it work? ie. without this on
the intel box when the link is down it just says host is unreachable
and when the link is up it just hangs and does nothing.
robert:/Users/robert>netstat -r 0:25
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 2 384 lo0
192.42.72 steffi.accessone.c U 6 1348 en0
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can somebody please explain in both configurations _exactly_ what happens
when you say
ping steffi
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
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From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot procedure stops after 'reboot ok'?!
Date: 8 Jan 1996 09:42:32 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <4cqou8$irq@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.951218154924.27707E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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Also be sure to check for /etc/shells' existance!
Torsten
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wiped out ~/.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L & D!!! What happened?
Date: 8 Jan 1996 09:18:46 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-16.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4cqnhm$ojf@usc.edu>
It all began when.....
1) I wanted to change terminal shell from csh to tcsh, so
I did so in Terminal.app preferences;
2) created a ~/.tcshrc;
3) noticed that Terminal still opened with csh shell, but
new Shell command gave me tcsh;
4) couldn't find the usenet article I once had explaining
how to install tcsh properly;
5) searched for any instance of "csh" in my home and
unluckily found it in .NeXTdefaults.L;
6) changed those instances to tcsh (using Edit.app);
7) restarted Terminal.app and noticed no change;
8) logged out, logged in, stuck my right hand out, stuck
my right hand in, and waived it all about, and
9) all my workspace preferences and defaults dissappeared!
and my ~/.NeXTdefaults.L & D files were magically empty!
10) I have, I think, remade my workplace to resemble what
it was (tho I'm wondering if thee is somethings I haven't
thought of), including having to relicense FrameMaker and
Mesa.
But, why did this happen in the first place?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: booting NS from second SCSI drive?
Date: 8 Jan 1996 13:17:20 GMT
Organization: Daimler-Benz AG
Message-ID: <4cr5h0$iru@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
Hi all,
is is possible to boot NS3.3/Intel from the second scsi drive?
I use DOS/Windows on the first drive and want to install NS
on the second one without installing a DOS partition on it.
.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: krebs@faps.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mount multiple local filesystems?
Date: 8 Jan 1996 18:19:02 GMT
Organization: FAPS, University of Erlangen
Message-ID: <4crn6m$92r@rznews.rrze.uni-erlangen.de>
Keywords: filesystems, mount
Hi,
during install of NS (1 of 4 OSs) on my intel box, NS created 3 equal sized
partitions.
I can manually mount all these partitions (/dev/rsd0a /dev/rsd0b and /dev/rsd0c)
but I don't know how to get NS to mount them at boot time.
I included all these filesystems into /etc/fstab but this doesn't help (they
can't even be mounted with mount -a).
Then I tried to include these fs into the netinfo database. Maybe I did it
wrong, but I always get an error report when I try to mount the fs now, that
seems that mount thinks these fs are of type nfs, although I put the type
4.3 into the netinfo database.
Can someone help me please???
Thomas
---
Thomas Krebs
Department for Manufacturing Automation and Production Systems FAPS
University of Erlangen
Egerlandstr. 7-9
91058 Erlangen
Tel.: +49 (0)9131/85-8740
Fax: +49 (0)9131/302528
http://www.faps.uni-erlangen.de:1200/persons/krebs.html
From: m@arachnid.plsys.co.uk (M Carling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo can't find parent domain, single computer [HELP]
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 18:08:49 GMT
Message-ID: <821124529.19953@arachnid.plsys.co.uk>
References: <jray-0401961022570001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
You need to run HostManager.app, click Local... to bring up the panel for
local configuration, and then click "Use local domain only".
M Carling
From: croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cleaning NeXT Optical Drives
Date: 9 Jan 1996 19:26:35 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <4cufhb$rmp@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
References: <RDL.96Jan8163658@world.std.com>
> In article <4ce9lu$hn6@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov
> (John W. Wooten) writes:
> I need a backup device for NextStep running on NextStation
> Turbos and/or Next Cube. All have SCSI-II port. What are
> some recommendations. My Optical Disk on the Cube is giving
> me a lot of problems reading older optical disks.
>
If you're not queasy with hardware, you could try to clean your OD. This
cured all my problems with it. The laser focussing lens gets covered in dust
and eventually has trouble reading the OD. I understand that there was an OD
drive cleaning kit from NeXT, but I don't have it, so here's how I cleaned my
drive:
0. Use static electricity precautions: Make sure you, the drive and your
workspace are grounded.
1. Remove the OD from the drive bay.
2. Open the top of the drive (with the labels on it) by removing the 4 screws
on top. The top should flip back on a "hinge" made of two screws.
3. At the back near the "hinge" on the left are two thin ribbon cables that
plug into white connectors, a long one and a short one. You need to disconnect
this so you can remove the bottom of the drive (where the laser assembly is).
These are disconnected by loosening the white connector shells a few
millimeters (don't remove the white shell entirely; it'll break). Once they
are loosened a bit, the ribbon cables will simply slide out of the white
shells. The best way to loosen them is from the back (you'll need to remove
the two "hinge" screws on the side to get access to the back of the white
connectors). Use a small screwdriver to pry the white shell off slightly.
It should move fairly easily and it should be obvious when to stop (there are
little "hooks" to prevent the white shell from coming all the way off). Once
the shell is loosened, just pull out the ribbon cables.
4. Close the top and turn the drive over and remove the 4 screws on the bottom
(there may also be 2 screws at the front holding the cover on if you have a
newer model).
5. Lift the bottom cover gently from the front of the drive a half inch or so.
Inside, there are two beige connectors by the left side near the front; one
with 3 wires connected to the main chassis part of the drive, and one with
several wires connected to the bottom of the drive. Disconnect both these
connectors by pulling and slightly wiggling them back and forth laterally (in
the same plane as the row of wires).
6. The bottom cover should come free now. Gently lift it off and turn it
over.
7. The laser lens should be obvious: it's the round bit of glass lens.
Dusty, huh?
8. Clean the lens GENTLY with a non-abrasive lens cloth (I just used a
Q-Tip). Don't use a solvent or any kind of liquid.
9. Reverse the above process to reassemble the drive. Things to be careful
of: There is a black wire running along the back-right of the bottom cover
that may need to be coaxed into the chassis before the bottom cover will seat
nicely down. And make sure you insert the ribbon cables all the way into the
white shell before pushing it closed (that takes a bit of coaxing too).
Disclaimer: I don't guarantee that this will work and I'm in no way
responsible for any consequences of following these instructions. All I
claim is that the above procedure fixed *my* drive. You're mileage may vary.
:-)
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca)
Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: trojaner@studbox.uni-stuttgart (Michael Hoess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fax via mgetty/linux
Date: 9 Jan 1996 21:32:14 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <4cumsu$25a4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Hi !
I have a NeXT-box and a 24h-running Linux-Box.
I want to use the Linux-box for converting the NeXT-Fax-PS-Files to
Fax-Files and sending them out over the modem.
So I need that the NeXT-Print/Fax-system copies NeXT's FAX-PS-Files
somehow over to my Linux-Box (via LAN).
It would be OK, if the NextPrintingSystem would simply leave the
FAX-PS-Files in a spool-dir and execute a script (which I would use for
starting the Linux-FaxSystem), or something like that.
I don't know wether I have to modify the Netinfo-records, only, or if I have
to write a Fax-Driver.
I couldn't find useful dox about NeXT's fax-system, so if someone has hints
or pointers to docs about this, or about the NeXT-Fax-Drivers/Stuff in
general etc. please write me.
Thanx in advance !
Michael Hoess
trojaner@studbox.uni-stuttgart.de
From: Jim Wu <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with NeXT 3.1
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:02:18 -0800
Organization: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960112235916.44507A-100000@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu>
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I am afraid I have screwed up my cube. I was trying to set up a TCP/IP
network between my Cube and my Pentium by messing with the simple network
tool and saved some settings in it. Now my Cube gets stuck trying to
start file sercive daemons. Is there any way I could boot the Cube in
standalone mode or do I have to reinstall the os? Please email me any
hints. TIA
-- Jim Wu | da060@oasis.calpoly.edu --
-- jiwu@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu | http://www.calpoly.edu/~jiwu --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Determining TCP/IP address
In-Reply-To: reali@connix.com's message of 10 Jan 1996 03:34:27 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan9233128@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4cvc43$m62@comet.connix.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:31:28 GMT
Try using PrintManager.app and if you don't see it there, look in NetInfo.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4cvc43$m62@comet.connix.com> reali@connix.com (Frank Reali) writes:
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 10 Jan 1996 03:34:27 GMT
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Good day,
Please forgive me but I am not a NeXT user myself and have no knowledge
of the operating system. I was upgrading a PostScript printer that was
attached to a NeXT computer via an ethernet connection. During the upgrade
the printer's internal TCP/IP address reverted back to 0.0.0.0. Naturally,
the NeXT machine can no longer print to this device. Prior to the upgrade
all was well. I need to determine what TCP/IP address the NeXT machine is
expecting to see the printer at. The network in question is small; two NeXT
machines and the printer. The user at this location is familiar with operating
the NeXT computers but is not knowledgable about system administration.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Frank Reali
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Root
In-Reply-To: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu's message of 9 Jan 1996 05:40:44 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan9235902@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4csv4s$1n52@saba.info.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 04:59:02 GMT
This really belongs in comp.sys.next.sysadmin. In any case, your /.cshrc
is probably set up incorrectly.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4csv4s$1n52@saba.info.ucla.edu> vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez) writes:
From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: 9 Jan 1996 05:40:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Hello,
Can someone please help me. When I used to su root I once had a
prompt like
localhost#
and I could enter commands like fsck right from the command line.
Now when I su root, I get
localhost>
the same old promt as before, and now I have to find fsck in the directory
stucure before I can execute the command.
Can someone plesae tell me how to fix this???
Rick
UCLA Physics
From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CD-ROM will not automount: why?
Date: 10 Jan 1996 19:03:52 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4d12io$mgr@agate.berkeley.edu>
I'm running black hardware, NeXT CDROM; it has always worked fine in the past.
A few weeks ago I took it off to use on another computer; when I reinstalled
the drive I found that it will no longer automount disks in my user account.
However, it automounts disks fine when I am logged in as root.
The error message I get in the console is:
Disk is Write Protected
/usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs/CDROM.name: Permission denied
/usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs/CDROM.label: Permission denied
probing for CDROM
Apparently I need to change permisssions on one of the devices;
but I don't know which device or what the permissions should be changed to.
Can anyone help me get this working again?
--
Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980
SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814
University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting with a date in the future
Date: 11 Jan 1996 16:22:19 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4d3dfr$esh@news.its.com>
References: <4d0hu0$1oa@zeus.stibo.dk>
ibh@stibo.dk (Ib Hojme) wrote:
> But if I boot once again NS tells
> me that the clock has lost 63 days !!! And I'm back to where I started.
Put a '/usr/etc/ntp -s -f -F _list_of_machines_that_should_be_up_' into
/etc/rc.local, so that the machine automatically resets the clock
appropriately when you boot up.
> The machine is on a network, and I have set it to ignore the network time.
> I don't have any clue where to go from here, so PLEASE help.
Why aren't you running NTP? If you have a network of machines, especially if
you use NFS, you should.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Problem with boot on black hardware
Message-ID: <DL377G.21n@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: news@euler.hnv.icem.de
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <4cu4n6$pcm@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 21:18:52 GMT
Robert A. Surtees writes
> I havee an old black system with no floppy drive but with a hard disk and
> optical drive running NeXTStep V3.3. All of a sudden the system won't
> boot and hangs after the following messages. Anyone got any clues as to
> how I go about tracking down the problem and fixing it?
>
> Here's what I get displayed on the screen before it stops:
>
> CPU MC68030 25MHz. memory 100nS
> Backplane slot #0
> Ethernet address: 0:0:f:0:43:a5
> Memory size 8mB
> Testing the FPU, SCC, SCSI, Enet, ECC, RTS, Timer, Event Counter, Sound
> Out
go to the rom monitor and disable (sound) test. When logged in, in Preferences
disable sound on error or whatever it's called.
If this gets you running for a while, you may need a new soundbox.
Silly, but a broken soundbox (or internal sound logic pcb board) renders your
machine quite useless.
Juergen
---
Fon +49 511 4406-88 NeXTMail welcome No Mime Fax +49 511 4406-17
= 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: naj@fraxinus.fast.net (M. `Naj' Najarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: How to call the fax modem from the command line?
Date: 13 Jan 1996 14:34:53 GMT
Organization: FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet
Message-ID: <4d8fud$o35@nn.fast.net>
On 01/12/96, rdk@khaderp.vnet.net wrote:
>Since the fax-modem installed as a spool server, can it
> be called from the command line like the printer:
Yup. You want fax-0.22.tar.Z from the standard archives.
From the readme:
> "fax" is a shell script that will let you fax files from the
> command line. It works by converting the file to PostScript,
> inserting some special PostScript comments into the file
> (destination phone number and so on) and submitting the
> document to "lpr" to be faxed.
>
> This script will also fill in the NeXT fax cover
> sheet of your choice if you wish.
>
> You can use this filter to fax plain text files (which will be
> run through "enscript" to convert them to postscript),
> postscript files, or rich text files. rtf or rtfd files can
> be converted to postscript via the "rtf2ps" program included
> in this distribution.
Naj
--
Ne me regardez plus comme ca, parce que | M. `Naj' Najarian
vous allez vous user les yeux. [Don't go | Kutztown, PA 19530-0065
looking at me like that, 'cause you'll | vox/tape: 610.756.6888
wear your eyes out.] --Zola | ee: fraxinus@fast.net
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: what is wrong with NetInfo's interface
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 11:23:09 -0500
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <gkxxlhS00iWTA1Pmwx@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <jcr.821384987@idiom.com>
<4d7m04$ceh@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <4d7m04$ceh@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 13-Jan-96 Re: what is
wrong with NetI.. by Mpaque@aol.com
> The people at NeXT responsible for NetInfo have at least responded to some
> USENET postings on NetInfo in the past, and have corrected a number of
> bugs reported here.
Can we turn NetInfo off entirely?
Failing that, I could live with NetInfo interactions for the rest of
things if I could only turn off the interaction between DNS lookups and
lookupd/NetInfo. If one could change the shared libraries, I would
immediately replace NeXT's resolver routines with the ones from the
BIND-4.9.x distribution.
By the way, compiling with libresolv.a from BIND is a very useful
technique to do when building replacement server daemons, although you
either have to feed NeXT's linker the '-m' option (which is not a
reassuring thing to do), or you have to compile with "cc -posix". Of
course, the later results in some interesting behavior in its own right,
with the most annoying being the POSIX "append file" bug which will
overwrite earlier portions of the file being appended with 0x00. One's
logfiles tend to become unreadable when you run things compiled with "cc
-posix".
It would make me very happy if I did not have to play such games in a
maze of twisty little passages in order to build daemons that do not
block due to lookupd interactions.
While I'm at it, there is one other thing I'd like. I would really like
to be able to put a fully-qualified domain name in the "HOSTNAME" field
of /etc/hostinfo and have NEXTSTEP work. The symptoms of putting a FQDN
include the pasteboard server daemon (/usr/etc/pbs) failing and the
Workspace being rather unstable. I believe the automounter gets screwed
up as well, but my system was already so hosed that it was difficult to
investigate further problems.
-Chuck
PS: I also directed this message to c.s.n.sysadmin, because I know that
people encounter problems with these issues and would like some helpful
suggestions or even solutions. Please don't post flames to the sysadmin
group.
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: rdk@khaderp.vnet.net ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: How to call the fax modem from the command line?
Date: 12 Jan 1996 16:55:35 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
Message-ID: <4d63q7$ntl@ralph.vnet.net>
Hi,
Since the fax-modem installed as a spool server, can it be called from the
command line like the printer:
lpr -....
thanks in advance
.
rdk@khaderp.vnet.net
From: John Hills <jhills@unix.infoserve.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.marketplace
Subject: SYS ADMIN HELP WANTED - YVR
Date: 13 Jan 1996 17:49:46 GMT
Organization: J Hills Radiology Inc.
Message-ID: <4d8rbq$8b9@news.infoserve.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I need help from some knowledgeable person to get my 68040 cube back on
the net. Terms like setuid and chmod leave me cold. I live in the Vancouver
(B.C.) area. I haven't had any response yet from a posting last weekend to
the local User Group.
From: jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com. (James Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: getty with uucp style locking?
Date: 13 Jan 1996 19:22:25 GMT
Organization: Visible Genetics
Message-ID: <4d90ph$5ms@nic.wat.hookup.net>
Is there a getty for NS (intel 3 2) that does uucp style LCK'ing? If
so, where can I grab it?
Thanks in advance!
Jim.
From: Yibing Wu <yibwu@plato.sky.bdm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question on Mail service
Date: 13 Jan 1996 19:27:17 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4d912l$68t@news.mcl.bdm.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
We have bunch of NeXT boxes using a HP as NFS, NIS and SMTP server. The
interesting phenomenon is: I can send mail from the NeXT stations and/or HP
server, however, the the recipient can only reply mails sent from the HP
server. For example, if I am posting this article from the HP server(that is
what I am doing now), you can send your reply to my mailbox; If I am posting
from one of the NeXT station, they your reply would probably be bounced back.
The error message is "Host unknow"---but within the company firewall, one can
use either ping or nslookup to find that exact host, because all the NeXT
stations are listed
in the /etc/host file on the HP server.
I am not a SMTP guy, and have no idea how SMTP resolve names(I assumed it uses
related system calls, which are also used by ping or telnet or nslookup). If
other system commands can resolve names, why can't the mail server? what did
I do wrong?
Thanks,
Yibing Wu
From: willers@swissbank.com (Moritz Willers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo error message: All object are read only!
Date: 12 Jan 1996 09:59:16 GMT
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation, Swiss Bank Center, Zurich Airport
Message-ID: <4d5bdk$fks@op1d56cmp.il.us.swissbank.com>
References: <4d3ihe$s4s@rdsunx.crd.ge.com>
Jianqiang Liu writes
> I got this message (the title) when I use HostManager.app or
> NetInfoManager.app to change any items in netinfo database.
>
> I logged in as root. I checked /etc/netinfo/local.nidb, files
> are [r/w]able.
>
>
I would say that your hostname and the value of the master property in the
netinfo database are different. So netinfo assumes you're only a clone
server.
To find this out you could do a
% niutil -read . /
master: localhost/local
% hostname
somehost
for niutil use the appropirate domain instead of '.'
Either change it in /etc/hostconfig to
% grep HOSTNAME /etc/hostconfig
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
again. or boot single user, startup netinfo and change the master prop in
netinfo with niutil (this is the hard way, won't tell you more on that).
Good luck - Moritz
From: trout@ACM.ORG
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with networking cubes
Date: 13 Jan 1996 20:07:53 GMT
Organization: ACM Network Services
Message-ID: <4d93eq$7q7@hopper.acm.org>
I am trying to network a '040 cube with 16MB RAM and a '040 cube with 8MB RAM
. I used the SimpleNetworkStarter.app and configured for autohost addition.
Everything went as the documentation describes. However, when a connected
and booted the host to add, no autohost addition dialog appears as the
documentation describes.
Upon inspection of the boot process for the server and host machines, I see
the following line:
The network is disabled or your computer is not connected to it.
I believe I have done something obviously wrong, but I am not network
literate enough to catch it. I may be using the wrong cable for thin ethernet
- coaxial 52 Ohms.
Thanks for any suggestions or pointers to documentation, books, etc...
Robert Trout
rtrout@capecod.net
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: question:possible to run Next programs on win95?
Date: 13 Jan 1996 20:44:47 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4d95k0$o3@news.its.com>
References: <congimanDL16q0.BzB@netcom.com>
congiman@netcom.com (Colin Corbett) wrote:
> k.. I have a win95 machine, it can run X, etc.
> However after some looking I realized that next uses some form of
> postscript X-windows (correct me if i am wrong).
NEXTSTEP uses a proprietary Display PostScript based windowing system called
the WorkSpace. There is no way to remotely display NEXTSTEP windows to an
X-Windows system, unfortunately.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Bad blocks
In-Reply-To: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE's message of 12 Jan 1996 23:23:18 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan13175934@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4d6qh6$as@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 22:59:34 GMT
If it's a SCSI disk, you can use the "reasb" command.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4d6qh6$as@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod) writes:
From: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 12 Jan 1996 23:23:18 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Is it possible to add and change the bad blocks to a disk without
reformatting. I ahve a disk giving problems with hardware problems
on certain blocks on the filesystem. I would like to specify these
as bad blocks. Is this possible with the UNIX on NeXTSTEP.
Please reply by email if possible.
Dave
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew)
Subject: /usr/adm/messages.old and many other troubles...
Message-ID: <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com>
Sender: edew@netcom23.netcom.com
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:23:36 GMT
Ok, I'm in a heap of trouble here, so I would appreciate as much help
as possible. Some info: I'm running NS 3.3user/3.2Dev on a black slab turbo
with a Seagate internal HD 406MB, 24MB RAM, and a 1.06GB Conner external HD.
A month ago, I bought the Conner 1.06GB external hard drive. I now
have it set up and working. No problem. However, whenever I reboot, the drive
doesn't mount. I have the drives entered in /etc/fstab as such:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /<mount_point> 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
/dev/sd1b /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
The Conner HD is partitioned into two parts, one has all the boot stuff in
case the internal dies one me, and the other partition is used as my
LocalApps directory, as shown above. When I reboot, the messages on the
NeXT ROM Monitor shows that all three sd's are mounted. However, when I
log on, I have to do
# mount /dev/sd1a /<mount_point>
# mount /dev/sd1b /LocalApps
every time. That's a pain in the ass, to say the least. Can anyone suggest
what I can do to have these mount points mounted when rebooting? Maybe I
should add these commands to the rc.local file? Yuck, that seems like such
a hack.
Secondly, my audio volume control no longer works. I can neither set
the volume via the key on the keyboard or in preferences. While I can see the
volume slider go from low to loud, it is always and uniformly loud. The mute
button seems to work, as does the visual system beep (the NeXT cube on the
top of the dock flashes...is this correct? I've never used the visual cue).
Thirdly, how long should the /usr/adm/messages.old be? Mine is getting to
be 1.3MB in size. Perhaps they are trimmed chronologically rather than by
size?
Fourthly (and lastly), I have multiple accounts for on my machine. Typically
when I'm in, say, edew, and I look at the home directory for joeschmoe (another
user account), I should see the two-house icon. Instead, I see the folder
icon. What gives? While I'm at it, when I log in to my edew account, I'm
logged onto the root directory (without root privileges, of course). What
is not being read here so that I'm dumped into the root directory. Seems like
/etc/passwd perhaps? After several log ins, I finally get to log onto my
home directory with the familiar house icon on the top left of the file viewer
window.
Any help out there? I would greatly appreciate any assistance.
Thanks in advance,
EDEW
(edew@netcom.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Marc RUTKOWSKI <mrutkow@redwood.asi.fr>
Subject: Need help for SAMBA on NEXTSTEP
Message-ID: <30F84478.1198@redwood.asi.fr>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:47:04 +0100
Organization: REDWOOD
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have some problems in using SAMBA on a NeXT Cube (under NS 3.3) with a
Win95 client :
- since I have install SAMBA (I run it in my rc.local in daemon
mode - putting it in the inetd.conf seems doesn't work), fsck
systematically check my root device at boot time.
- when I'm copying files from Win95 to a nextstep directory,
long names are preserved, but they're transformed in lower-case letters.
Thanks.
Marc RUTKOWSKI
mrutkow@redwood.asi.fr
From: gregan@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: V8 sendmail (Was: Q: Reply fields w/remote mail accounts)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 96 20:10:58 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4d9l77$4fa@paperboy.ids.net>
Earlier, I posted:
In <4cna6v$612@paperboy.ids.net> gregan@ids.net wrote:
> I have a slip account with an Internet service provider. I also have a
> regular account which I use for receiving mail (gregan@ids.net): I
> retrieve mail from there to my NextStation using PopOver. On sending
mail
> from my NextStation, I have my mail preferences set to cause my
"Reply-To"
> line to be the gregan@ids.net account. This is what shows up in the
> "Reply-To" or "From: " field of the header on mail that I send out.
However,
> the "SMTP MAIL FROM" field of the mail envelope has the address of my
slip
> account. I know this by sending mail to bouncer@nic.near.net. How do
> I get all the fields to say that the message is coming from my regular,
> gregan@ids.net account? Thanx in advance.
Thanks to Matthew Reichman, Charles Swiger, and Christian Neuss for their
responses. To clear up some questions, I'm using sendmail version NX5.67d.
Also, my envelope sender address is reported as:
@pslip180b.egr-ri.ids.net:greg@arzoo.egr-ri.ids.net
Needless to say, the reply from bouncer@nic.near.net using this mess of an
address isn't getting back to me. I can say that my SLIP account gives me
a Hostname of "pslip180b" and a Domain of "egr-ri.ids.net".
From the responses I got here and a similar post on comp.mail.sendmail, it
seems a good idea to upgrade to V8 sendmail. My question: is this
difficult for a NextStation, running NextStep 3.2? As an aside, it this
discussed in an FAQ or NextAnswers somewhere?
As always, thanx in advance.
Greg Arzoomanian
gregan@ids.net
From: david@dbynum.async.csuohio.edu (D E Bynum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NX swap ?
Date: 14 Jan 1996 01:35:36 GMT
Organization: Cleveland State University
Message-ID: <4d9ml8$32k@csu-b.csuohio.edu>
On my NS 3.2/I system, df shows a swap fs /private/vm/swapfile of 901240
blocks, 376356 used and 434760 available, whereas /etc/mtab shows the same
fs, /private/vm/swapfile mounted on /private/vm/swapfile.front, with
16,777,216 bytesize. ls -l confirms the latter as the actual current state of
the file. What the #@$%???
The question arises because I'm about to replace the original-equip. 1 gig
drive (too full) with its 4-gig cousin, and had the idea that I might clean
up the system's swapping by allocating a nice 192-meg swap partition (4x
installed memory). Can one do that on an NeXT /Intel machine (as I do with
Linux, for example), or does the mach kernel just insist on allocating for
swap in its own peculiar way? And what exactly is that way? Does it just look
at the free space on the bootable disk and make its own allocation according
to some cabbalistic secret proprietary algorithm? With a single line in
/etc/fstab
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
the swap space certainly isn't being set up there! Is /private/vm/swapfile
merely swap space for the kernel, or does it serve apps' memory requirements
too? (Doesn't seem likely, since vm_stat discloses "pageouts" as 0.) Is there
a "right" way to set up swap space, or does one just Let The Colonel Do It?
David
bynum@lserver.math.csuohio.edu
From: Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Adding a Hard Drive
Date: 14 Jan 1996 02:32:08 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4d9pv8$gvf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Hi,
I have an old 105 quantum drive. The drive was used previously
on a NeXT. I have just hooked it up to my machine. I expected
it to show up on my File Viewer, but it didn't. What do I have
to do to access the disk? I have tried build disk (to make it
a swap disk) but it fails. I have tried mounting it but to no
avail (mount /dev/sd1a /usr1). I also tried to add it to my
/etc/fstab file but it then my machine jumped into single user
when I tried rebooting. Perhaps someone please shed some light
on my mistake?
Regards,
Shaun.
PS - there is a chance the disk is fried, previous owner could
not use it as a boot disk.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing at boot...
Message-ID: <DL63q7.2ot@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 10:56:31 GMT
I have seen something along this line, but suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing
at boot time even when I have rebooted with "sync;sync;reboot". What could
cause this behaviour? This is rather new, it started after one of my last
infrequent total machine shutdowns, but I might have changed something, though
I don't know what.
Besides, I boot from an external disk (HP3725S). When this disk has been off,
it is very difficult to get the machine to boot. it will be "waiting for drive
to come ready" on the HD indefinitely.
System:Turbo NeXTdimension system.
OS: NS 3.3 + patch (maybe it is since the patch was installed, I reboot rather
infrequently)
Thanks,
--
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.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: "waiting for drive to come ready" indefinitely at boot time
Message-ID: <DL63u7.2pJ@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: G.R.O.S.S.
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 10:58:55 GMT
I boot from an external disk (HP3725S). When this disk has been off, it is very
difficult to get the machine to boot. it will be "waiting for drive to come
ready" on the HD indefinitely. What might cause this? Is there some dip I
should set or not on the HP3725 to startup itself?
System:Turbo NeXTdimension system.
I run ROM SCSI Test at system boot
Thanks,
--
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.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.1
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 08:54:29 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jan14.085429.23462@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <Pine.A32.3.91.960112235916.44507A-100000@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu>
In article <Pine.A32.3.91.960112235916.44507A-100000@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu>
Jim Wu <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> writes:
>
> I am afraid I have screwed up my cube. I was trying to set up a TCP/IP
> network between my Cube and my Pentium by messing with the simple
network
> tool and saved some settings in it. Now my Cube gets stuck trying to
> start file sercive daemons. Is there any way I could boot the Cube in
> standalone mode or do I have to reinstall the os? Please email me any
> hints. TIA
Standalone boot by pressing Right-Command-~ (~ here is the top left key on
the numeric keypad) during normal boot up, and type bsd -s when you get to
the NeXT> prompt.
Reset your network configuration by replacing /etc/hostconfig and
/etc/netinfo with the defaults set in /usr/template/client.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
(under construction)
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /usr/adm/messages.old and many other troubles...
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 08:52:01 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jan14.085201.23399@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com>
In article <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com> edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) writes:
> A month ago, I bought the Conner 1.06GB external hard drive. I now
> have it set up and working. No problem. However, whenever I reboot,
the drive
> doesn't mount. I have the drives entered in /etc/fstab as such:
>
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd1a /<mount_point> 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
> /dev/sd1b /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
Get rid of the noauto parameter on the last two lines.
> Thirdly, how long should the /usr/adm/messages.old be? Mine is getting
to
> be 1.3MB in size. Perhaps they are trimmed chronologically rather than
by
> size?
/usr/adm/messages.old is replaced by the current /usr/adm/messages file by
the daily admin script at 4am every morning. The solution to messages.old
getting too big is too leave the machine on overnight; the solution to
messages getting too big is to reboot.
> Fourthly (and lastly), I have multiple accounts for on my machine.
Typically
> when I'm in, say, edew, and I look at the home directory for joeschmoe
(another
> user account), I should see the two-house icon. Instead, I see the
folder
> icon. What gives? While I'm at it, when I log in to my edew account,
I'm
> logged onto the root directory (without root privileges, of course).
What
> is not being read here so that I'm dumped into the root directory.
Seems like
> /etc/passwd perhaps? After several log ins, I finally get to log onto my
> home directory with the familiar house icon on the top left of the file
viewer
> window.
Home directories come from netinfo, not /etc/passwd, so check there to see
that it is set properly. If the home is automounted (see the first
problem above), then you may well get the problems you have seen.
Another problm that causes homes to show as folders is if you have Unix
Preferences set to "Large File System", which causes the Workspace to skip
various checks.
Paul
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http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
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From: kevinc@netcom.com (Blue Song)
Subject: Using EZ-Drive with dump
Message-ID: <kevincDL69HA.F2I@netcom.com>
Keywords: dump EZ-Drive Syquest help
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 13:00:45 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Has anyone been able to use dump with an EZ-Drive
successfully.
I tried /etc/dump 0Of 126 /dev/sd0a / as root
and it works for the first cartridge only...
If you have backed up with a Syquest, I'd appreciate
your help!
Thanks in advance,
Song
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From: kevinc@netcom.com (Blue Song)
Subject: EZ-Drive dump backups reliable?
Message-ID: <kevincDL6CrF.Huo@netcom.com>
Keywords: EZ-Drive dump backup
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 14:11:38 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Has anyone used a Syquest EZ_Drive with dump?
I managed to get my backups done with:
dump 0Of 126 /dev/rsd0h /
Has anyone tried restoring these dumps? I am
wondering if the little hack above actually
dumps the disks.
I'm out of drives to try it myself... :-(
Song
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bad blocks
Date: 14 Jan 1996 17:08:37 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4dbdal$2hf@news.its.com>
References: <4d6qh6$as@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <4d6qh6$as@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>, you wrote:
> Is it possible to add and change the bad blocks to a disk without
> reformatting. I ahve a disk giving problems with hardware problems
> on certain blocks on the filesystem. I would like to specify these
> as bad blocks. Is this possible with the UNIX on NeXTSTEP.
Take a look at 'man reassb'.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Q: telnet on black hardware
In-Reply-To: afied1@pblea.uni-paderborn.de's message of 12 Jan 1996 16:08:19 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan14140751@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4d611j$qvv@news.uni-paderborn.de>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:07:51 GMT
It would be helpful if you gave us more information. Do you get any
error messages? Does it run at all? Did you check your /etc/inetd.conf
to see if the telnet service was enabled?
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4d611j$qvv@news.uni-paderborn.de> afied1@pblea.uni-paderborn.de (Alfred Fiedler) writes:
Xref: world comp.sys.next.sysadmin:27561
Path: world!news.mtholyoke.edu!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!golden-gate.owl.de!uni-paderborn.de!usenet
From: afied1@pblea.uni-paderborn.de (Alfred Fiedler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 12 Jan 1996 16:08:19 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Paderborn, Germany
Lines: 9
NNTP-Posting-Host: ford.uni-paderborn.de
Hi all,
two question about NS 3.3 on black hardware:
1) Why does telnet not work?
2) What to do to enable telnet?
Thanks,
Alfred.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /usr/adm/messages.old and many other troubles...
Date: 14 Jan 1996 20:16:59 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4dbobr$6f3@news.its.com>
References: <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com>
edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) wrote:
> A month ago, I bought the Conner 1.06GB external hard drive. I now
> have it set up and working. No problem. However, whenever I reboot, the
> drive doesn't mount. I have the drives entered in /etc/fstab as such:
>
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd1a /<mount_point> 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
> /dev/sd1b /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
Read the Sysadmin docs (search DL for "fstab").
Remove the "noauto" entry for /dev/sd1{a,b}.
> Secondly, my audio volume control no longer works. I can neither set
> the volume via the key on the keyboard or in preferences. While I can see
> the volume slider go from low to loud, it is always and uniformly loud.
That may be a hardware problem.
[ ... ]
> Thirdly, how long should the /usr/adm/messages.old be? Mine is getting to
> be 1.3MB in size. Perhaps they are trimmed chronologically rather than by
> size?
Take a look at /usr/adm/daily. Is it running correctly? It should trim that
file down to 200 lines.
> Fourthly (and lastly), I have multiple accounts for on my machine.
> Typically when I'm in, say, edew, and I look at the home directory for
> joeschmoe (another user account), I should see the two-house icon.
> Instead, I see the folder icon. What gives?
You probably set "large file system" in Preferences.app.
> While I'm at it, when I log in to my edew account, I'm
> logged onto the root directory (without root privileges, of course).
Check /etc/passwd and the NetInfo db via UserManager.app or
NetInfoManager.app.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /usr/adm/messages.old and many other troubles...
Date: 14 Jan 1996 13:00:06 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4dbqsm$fte@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com>
In article <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com>, Eric Dew <edew@netcom.com> wrote:
>
>/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
>/dev/sd1a /<mount_point> 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
>/dev/sd1b /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
Take out the "noauto" on /dev/sd1a and /dev/sd1b
Lusty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brendan@banzai.xs4all.nl (Brendan Bank)
Subject: Re: getty with uucp style locking?
Message-ID: <DL6qK2.2Gz@banzai.xs4all.nl>
Sender: news@banzai.xs4all.nl
Organization: Banzai Next Forever
References: <4d90ph$5ms@nic.wat.hookup.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:09:38 GMT
try mgetty, it can be found at
ftp.leo.org:/pub/comp/networking/communications/modem/mgetty/. The latest
Beta release is called 'mgetty099-Dec31.tar.gz' and I it works fine form me.
yours brendan.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: [NeXT] File System...
Message-ID: <1996Jan13.221556.4625@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4d07ke$pqr@blackice.winternet.com>
Distribution: global
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 22:15:56 GMT
In article <4d07ke$pqr@blackice.winternet.com> black@winternet.com (Ben
Black) writes:
> In article <30F3A659.6578@home.mysolution.com> Tommy K Hwang
> <thwang@home.mysolution.com> writes:
> > Is there a limit on the number of files or
> > subdirectories inside one directory in NeXTStep? A very
> > strange thing happened with INN during testing which leads
> > to this question.
> one word: inodes. you've run out of them.
>
Standard values for 'newfs' tend to create filesystems that don't provide
enough inodes for news servers. Postings normally are rather small and
defaults tend to overestimate the average size of files (in other words
underestimate the need for inodes). Unfortunately the only way to face
this situation is to either waste a lot of disk space or thoroughly study
the man-page on 'newfs' since the filesystem needs to be adjusted
manually. For big news servers it will pay, though the matter is somewhat
discouraging :-)
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a Hard Drive
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 22:33:36 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jan14.223336.24974@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4d9pv8$gvf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
In article <4d9pv8$gvf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
writes:
> I have an old 105 quantum drive. The drive was used previously
> on a NeXT. I have just hooked it up to my machine. I expected
> it to show up on my File Viewer, but it didn't. What do I have
> to do to access the disk? I have tried build disk (to make it
> a swap disk) but it fails. I have tried mounting it but to no
> avail (mount /dev/sd1a /usr1). I also tried to add it to my
> /etc/fstab file but it then my machine jumped into single user
> when I tried rebooting. Perhaps someone please shed some light
> on my mistake?
Does it show up when you do a verbose boot? If not, it is really fried.
If it does show up, see what scsimodes says about it, and try disk.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
(under construction)
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NX swap ?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 22:30:55 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jan14.223055.24905@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4d9ml8$32k@csu-b.csuohio.edu>
In article <4d9ml8$32k@csu-b.csuohio.edu> david@dbynum.async.csuohio.edu
(D E Bynum) writes:
> On my NS 3.2/I system, df shows a swap fs /private/vm/swapfile of
901240
> blocks, 376356 used and 434760 available, whereas /etc/mtab shows the
same
> fs, /private/vm/swapfile mounted on /private/vm/swapfile.front, with
> 16,777,216 bytesize. ls -l confirms the latter as the actual current
state of
> the file. What the #@$%???
It's a virtual file system.
> The question arises because I'm about to replace the original-equip. 1
gig
> drive (too full) with its 4-gig cousin, and had the idea that I might
clean
> up the system's swapping by allocating a nice 192-meg swap partition (4x
> installed memory). Can one do that on an NeXT /Intel machine (as I do
with
> Linux, for example), or does the mach kernel just insist on allocating
for
> swap in its own peculiar way?
You can set up a swap partition, but trust me, you don't really want to.
Let it do its own thing.
If you really, really want to try a swap partition, see man swaptab, and
read /etc/rc.swap.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
(under construction)
From: Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a Hard Drive
Date: 15 Jan 1996 00:02:20 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4dc5ic$mvs@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <1996Jan14.223336.24974@seer.demon.co.uk>
In article <1996Jan14.223336.24974@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch
<Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes:
>
> Does it show up when you do a verbose boot? If not, it is really fried.
> If it does show up, see what scsimodes says about it, and try disk.
This is the only place that I can find any recognition of the drive.
It is the second drive QUANTUM LP52S. Oh, when I open BuildDisk,
it recognizes that the other drive exists but it fails when I try
and build it - it says that it can't open the device file.
Shaun.
[clip from /usr/adm/messages]
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at
0x2114000
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730S Rev 241E as sd0 at sc0
target 1 lun 0
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Disk Label: Disk
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Disk Capacity 699MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: QUANTUM LP52S 950509405 Rev 2.8 as sd1 at sc0
target 2 lun 0
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Waiting for drive to come ready
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: ...................
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
--
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| -/\ ___\o \ o | o / o/___ /\- |
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<A HREF="http://philos.resnet.ubc.ca/~sfoy">sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca</A>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NeXT LaserPrinter and Unix station
In-Reply-To: jantzen@ccmitpa.univ-lyon1.fr's message of 10 Jan 1996 22:03:25 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan14191749@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4d1d3d$m97@tempo.univ-lyon1.fr>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:17:49 GMT
You can only attach NeXT laser printers to NeXT hardware systems. The
NeXT laser printer is a dumb laser printer that is controlled via
electrical signals over the cable. i.e. it's not a parallel or serial
connection. If you have a NeXT and a UNIX box, you can print through
the NeXT box to the NeXT printer by configuring your printcap appropriately.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4d1d3d$m97@tempo.univ-lyon1.fr> jantzen@ccmitpa.univ-lyon1.fr (Eric Jantzen) writes:
From: jantzen@ccmitpa.univ-lyon1.fr (Eric Jantzen)
Date: 10 Jan 1996 22:03:25 GMT
Organization: C.I.S.M. Universite de Lyon 1 / INSA de Lyon
Hello,
I have a NeXT LaserPrinter and I want use it on my
Unix Station.
It is possible???
What cable may I use?
and what soft config ??
Thank's
--
-----------------------------------------------------
Eric Jantzen | ejantzen@star.dedal.fr.net
France |
-----------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: benst@stuyts.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: Anyone got mgetty+sendfax running on Black NS3.3p1?
Message-ID: <DL74HJ.GG0@stuyts.nl>
Organization: Stuyts Engineering Haarlem BV
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 00:10:31 GMT
Dear net,
I am trying to use mgetty+sendfax 0.98 on my Black cube with NS 3.3p1. I
have the following problems:
1. I need to run it on /dev/cufa, because using /dev/ttydfa blocks the port
for outgoing calls like uucico. However, using cufa causes hangups from data
calls not to be recognized, which leaves the processes on that port running
after a carrier loss.
2. It compiles only with -posix. Because of the file append bug in the NeXT
posix support, I cannot look at the mgetty log files (with a tail -f logfile
for example) without triggering this bug. Even worse, it seems that incoming
data calls 'inherit' this problem. So I can't even use UUCon to check my
uucp log files, because they will be filled with zeroes.
3. I tried to convert mgetty to use BSD style sgtty support. Got it running,
but I ran into another problem: I cannot use /dev/ttydfa, because when
mgetty opens this port, it blocks, waiting for a carrier. So it cannot talk
to the modem, even not telling it to answer the phone. Apparantly this works
differently under posix. If I use /dev/cufa, I have the problem of not
getting SIGHUP's anymore.
Does anybody know a solution to this? AFAIK there is no workaround for the
append bug, right?
Thanks,
Ben
From: John Hills <jhills@unix.infoserve.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: 68040 cube as Mac printer
Date: 15 Jan 1996 05:31:58 GMT
Organization: J Hills Radiology Inc.
Message-ID: <4dcose$lpk@news.infoserve.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
There used to be a driver for the Mac that allowed you to connect to a cube
via the serial port and use the cube as a Mac printer. What is the current
status on this?
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help with adding router.
Date: 15 Jan 1996 00:01:03 -0500
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <4dcn2f$kju@Vir.com>
Hello,
I.m running NS3.3 on intel and I have a few questions about setting,
up my network and getting is connected to the Internet. I've setup NetInfo
using SimpleNetworkStarter.
Access to the Internet is provided by a Cisco router which has the
IP address 206.116.157.1 and my NetInfo server has the IP address
206.116.158.2. I inserted the router address in the Other Network
Information (the panel that opens when Network Options button is pressed)
but I am unable to ping the router.
Also when connecting to the Internet does NetInfo provide DNS
services or do I have to setup the DNS as in other UNIX systems?
Thank you in advance for any information.
stef
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What do these messages mean ...
Date: 15 Jan 1996 00:04:43 -0500
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <4dcn9b$g1q@Vir.com>
Hello,
I recently noticed the following messages in my /usr/adm/messages
file. What do they mean?
Jan 14 20:48:49 ringworld loginwindow[235]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Jan 14 20:48:49 ringworld Workspace[235]: logged in
Jan 14 21:14:36 ringworld mach: ttynxps0760: Software Overflow
Jan 14 21:16:19 ringworld last message repeated 58 times
Jan 14 21:16:21 ringworld mach: ttynxps0760: Software Overflow
Jan 14 21:16:44 ringworld last message repeated 14 times
Jan 14 22:04:12 ringworld mach: BLC timeout
Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:1495648
blockCount:10
Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:1495648
blockCount:10
Jan 14 23:26:38 ringworld mach: sd1: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
Jan 14 23:26:38 ringworld mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Read block:384
blockCount:16
Thank you in advance,
stef
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 15 Jan 1996 05:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4dcnsu$m5@digifix.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
- 188+ ISV company pages
- 433+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- Mailing List archives and information
You can connect via the world wide web at:
http://www.stepwise.com/
Additionally there is a Mail Server available. You can get
information on using the mail server at
ns-products@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
============================
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
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reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well.
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT
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===========================================
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now available as a mailing list digest as well.
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
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=====================================
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From: millert@suod.cs.colorado.edu (Todd C Miller)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: CU sudo 1.4 now avaiable
Date: 15 Jan 1996 07:09:04 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4dcuig$27v@csnews.cs.colorado.edu>
Keywords: sudo
Subject: CU sudo 1.4 now avaiable
After spending far longer in BETA than I ever intented,
CU sudo 1.4 is now available:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~millert/sudo/
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/sysadmin/utilities/cu-sudo.v1.4.tar.Z
Major changes from version 1.3.1 (see CHANGES file for full details):
1) Speed increase. Sudo 1.4 is faster than 1.3.1 by at least an
order of magnitude on slower systems.
2) Support for more authentication methods: shadow passwords,
s/key, SecurID, AFS, DCE, and kerberos[45].
3) New parser with support for groups of users (User_Alias)
and command line options.
4) New, friendlier visudo that catches more parse errors.
5) Simpler and better-documented configuration process.
6) Security improvements: more sanity checks are done on
the sudoers files and timestamp dir/files.
7) Timestamps may be per-tty instead of per-user.
8) Support for UN*X groups and netgroups in the sudoers file.
9) Better ip address/network support.
Sudo is expected to run on most UN*X variants. It has been tested
on the following platforms:
Op. System CPU Compilers Sudo Reported Special
Name Rev Arch Used Version By Options
======= ======= ======= =============== ======= ================ =======
Auspex 1.6.1 sun4 bundled cc 1.3.4 Alek Komarnitsky none
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 bundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller none
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller --with-kerb4
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller --with-C2
SunOS 4.1.3 sun4 gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller --with-skey
Solaris 2.4 sun4 gcc2.7.0 1.3.7 Andy Smith none
Solaris 2.4 sun4 SC3.0.1 1.3.5 Todd Miller none
Solaris 2.4 x86 gcc2.7.0 1.3.7 Andy Smith none
ISC 4.0 i386 bundled cc 1.4 Andy Smith none
ISC 4.0 i386 gcc2.7.0 1.4 Andy Smith none
ISC 4.1 i386 bundled cc 1.4 Andy Smith none
ISC 4.1 i386 gcc2.7.0 1.4 Andy Smith none
RISCos 4_52 mips bundled cc 1.3.7 Andy Smith --with-getpass
SCO 3.2.2 i386 bundled cc 1.3.4 David Meleedy --with-getpass
HP-UX 9.05 hp700 gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller none
HP-UX 9.05 hp700 gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller --with-kerb4
HP-UX 9.05 hp700 gcc2.6.3 1.3.5 Todd Miller --with-C2
HP-UX 9.05 hp700 unbundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
HP-UX 10.01 hp700 gcc 1.3.7 Jeff Earickson --with-DCE
Ultrix 4.2 mips bundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
Ultrix 4.2 mips gcc2.5.8 1.4 Todd Miller none
Ultrix 4.2 mips gcc2.5.8 1.4 Todd Miller --with-kerb4
IRIX 4.05H mips gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller none
IRIX 4.05H mips unbundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
IRIX 5.3 mips unbundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
IRIX 5.3 mips gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller none
IRIX 5.3 mips gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller --with-kerb4
NEXTSTEP 2.1 m68k bundled cc 1.3.7 Todd Miller none
NEXTSTEP 3.2 m68k bundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
NEXTSTEP 3.2 i386 bundled cc 1.3.2 Jonathan Adams none
NEXTSTEP 3.3 i386 bundled cc 1.3.2 Jonathan Adams none
DEC UNIX 3.2c alpha bundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
DEC UNIX 3.2c alpha gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller none
DEC UNIX 3.2c alpha gcc2.6.3 1.4 Todd Miller --with-kerb4
DEC UNIX 3.x alpha bundled cc 1.3.4 Tina Yang --with-C2
AIX 3.2.X rs6000 bundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
AIX 4.1.X rs6000 bundled cc 1.4 Todd Miller none
BSD 4.3 hp300 gcc2.5.6 1.4 Todd Miller none
BSD 4.3 mips bundled cc 1.3.4 Todd Miller none
ConvexOS 9.1 convex bundled cc 1.3.6 Todd Miller none
ConvexOS 9.1 convex gcc2.4.5 1.3.6 Todd Miller none
KSR OS 1.2.2 ksr bundled cc 1.3.3 Todd Miller none
BSD/OS 2.0 i386 gcc 1.4 Todd Miller none
NetBSD 1.1 i586 gcc-2.4.5 1.4 Todd Miller none
FreeBSD 1.1 i386 gcc 1.3.2 Dieter Muller none
FreeBSD 2.0.5 i386 gcc 1.3.4 Dieter Muller none
Linux 1.2.8 i486 gcc-2.5.8 1.3.5 Ted Coady --with-C2
Linux 1.2.13 i586 gcc-2.6.3 1.3.5 Ted Coady none
Systems on which CU sudo is expected to run on but hasn't been tested.
If you can verify any of these, please send mail to sudo-bugs@cs.colorado.edu
Op. System CPU Compilers Minor Reported Special
Name Rev Arch Used Version By Options
======= ======= ======= =============== ======= =============== ===============
AIX 3.2.X rs6000 bundled cc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE --with-AFS
ConvexOS 9.1 convex cc or gcc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE --with-C2
Ultrix 4.x mips cc or gcc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE --with-C2
UnixWare 1 i386 bundled cc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE none
IRIX 5.x mips cc or gcc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE --with-C2
IRIX 6.x mips cc or gcc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE none
IRIX 6.x mips cc or gcc 1.4 YOUR NAME HERE --with-C2
--
Todd C. Miller Sysadmin--University of Colorado Todd.Miller@cs.colorado.edu
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: !!! ftp server question !!!
Date: 13 Jan 1996 15:36:30 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4d8jhu$ai@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4cjjar$dop@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu>
nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) wrote:
> Is there an ftp server for the black NeXT OS 3.2 which accepts commands
such
> as "get directory.tar" or "get directory.tar.Z". Our SUN does that and
it's
> wonderful.
ftp.fb6.fhtw-berlin.de can do that. I installed wu-ftpd.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: gardner@frigga.UU.NET (Jonathan Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cygnus Kerberos on NeXTstep?
Date: 15 Jan 1996 10:10:09 GMT
Organization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Fairfax VA USA
Message-ID: <4dd961$hr8@gs2.UU.NET>
Hello,
I have a NeXTstation Turbo Color, and would like to kerberize
it. Has anyone successfully compiled Cygnus Kerberos under NeXTstep?
Additionally were there any signifigant impediments to doing so? Thanks.
_____________________________
Jonathan Gardner
gardner@uunet.uu.net
(My opinions are my own not those of my employer)
From: Patrick Klingbeil <padychci@sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting win95 partition with long filenames
Date: 15 Jan 1996 10:55:49 GMT
Organization: TU Berlin
Message-ID: <4ddbrm$fr@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am using NEXTstep 3.3 and Windows 95. The Harddisk with
win95 is automaticaly mounted on startup of NEXTstep, but
only with the ugly 8+3 filenames.
Is there a way to getr acces to the full filenames.
Thanks in advance
Patrick Klingbeil
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Interpretation of /aliases in NetInfo, sendmail ?
Date: 15 Jan 1996 14:06:40 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4ddn1g$3kh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
We would like to provide our users with a few, automatically
genererated aliases such as Firstname_Lastname@DOMAIN,
F_Lastname@DOMAIN, and intend therefore to enhance nu2.sh accordingly.
I first thought this would nicely fit in a shell script when I use
'niload aliases /' and 'nidump' to append the new aliases. Then, I had
two or more entries for each user, depending on the number of aliases
(two for the example above). In the `aliases' format
Firstname_Lastname: username
F_Lastname: username
or in niutil -read format
name: Firstname_Lastname
members: username
name: F_Lastname:
members: username
I was surprised to find that when going directly through NetInfo's
/aliases directory, it's possible to fit those two subdirectories in
one, with multiple values for the name field, i.e.
name: Firstname_Lastname F_Lastname
members: username
and indeed, NeXT's sendmail 5.7 the knows both aliases. On the other
hand, 'nidump aliases' gives me only first one back.
Now I wonder
- does sendmail 8.7 also understand these multiple names in /aliases ?
- is there any other drawback of using multiple names ?
- is there a better solution to achieve these aliases ?
- is it a bug that nidump doesn't resolve these multiple aliases ?
Gregor
--
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From: emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric Marshall (Faculty))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /dev/pp0 existence on Intel
Date: 15 Jan 1996 15:34:27 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <4dds63$m2q@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have an HP laser printer hooked up to the parallel port
on my Intel machine and sometimes when I boot it the /dev/pp0 device
appears and sometimes not. This doesn't seem to be dependent on
the printer being powered on because it's almost always off when
I boot.
Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4d4m5u$bgi@news.tamu.edu>
Control: cancel <4d4m5u$bgi@news.tamu.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 1996 16:16:36 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4ddul4$4nl@news.tamu.edu>
<4d4m5u$bgi@news.tamu.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help with adding router.
Date: 15 Jan 1996 17:21:42 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4de2f6$6k0@news.its.com>
References: <4dcn2f$kju@Vir.com>
stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) wrote:
> Access to the Internet is provided by a Cisco router which has the
> IP address 206.116.157.1 and my NetInfo server has the IP address
> 206.116.158.2. I inserted the router address in the Other Network
> Information (the panel that opens when Network Options button is pressed)
> but I am unable to ping the router.
You are unable to ping the router with a numeric address? That's bad,
perhaps you have a cabling problem. Also, check what SNS did to
/etc/hostconfig and make sure that you've got the correct info (including
netmask).
[ I'll assume you meant to say ".157.1" and ".158.2" above. ]
> Also when connecting to the Internet does NetInfo provide DNS
> services or do I have to setup the DNS as in other UNIX systems?
You'll want to ignore what NetInfo attempts to do with DNS information. Set
up an /etc/resolv.conf file as documented in "man 5 resolver".
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /dev/pp0 existence on Intel
Date: 15 Jan 1996 16:59:16 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4de154$h1g@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4dds63$m2q@portal.gmu.edu>
In article <4dds63$m2q@portal.gmu.edu> emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric
Marshall (Faculty)) writes:
> I have an HP laser printer hooked up to the parallel port
>on my Intel machine and sometimes when I boot it the /dev/pp0 device
>appears and sometimes not. This doesn't seem to be dependent on
>the printer being powered on because it's almost always off when
>I boot.
>
> Any help with this will be greatly appreciated.
I had a similar problem on an Intel Premiere II motherboard. Unless I set
the parallel port type to EPP in the BIOS, NEXTSTEP would not consistently
create /dev/pp0.
Another common problem with the parallel ports on Intel hardware seems to
be the power management feature which some have had to disable in the
BIOS.
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
Agoura Hills, CA # one's fellow citizens, to betray
# friends, to be without faith, without
far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means
(NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: black hardware needs format of 1024k block, yes?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DL8Iws.A41@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 18:19:39 GMT
References: <4b4i3e$425@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <30D746BD.167EB0E7@cert.ucr.edu> <4bc69b$980@master.ftn.net> <4d10ba-le2@svstch.ubs.ch>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4d10ba-le2@svstch.ubs.ch>,
Daniel Schneiter (by ubsswop) <daniel.schneiter@ubs.ch> wrote:
>In article <4bc69b$980@master.ftn.net>, stevem@RADium.ca (Stephen MacDougall) writes:
>|>
>|> However, the boot disk *MUST* be 512.
>|>
>
>As far as I can tell, that's not true. I use a 2 GByte internal HD
>as my boot disk for my NeXTstation turbo. Block size is 1024kByte.
>It works perfectly.
>
Right. NS/I requires 512-byte blocks on boot disks due to BIOS stupidities.
Motorola hardward does not.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Pete Helme <helme@genmagic.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep PPP and MTU settings
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 12:21:36 -0800
Organization: General Magic, Inc.
Message-ID: <30FAB750.41C6@genmagic.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
when using Telnet through PPP and a 28.8 link, the interactive response
is S-L-O-W. FTP and webbing seem to be OK though since usually one is
just sitting there waiting for graphics to download. I tried changing
the MTU setting to 576 (I think that's the Internet standard) thinking
it would help, but nothing changed. I think I finally found out why. I
checked the log messages left by the PPP server today and there is a
comment in there something like: "trying to change MTU to 576. NeXTStep
doesn't currently support adjusting the MTU, setting back to 1500." Ah
ha.
Does anyone know if this is true and if so why can't it be changed? Does
anyone have any hints on improving interactive performance?
thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTStep PPP and MTU settings
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DL8tJB.4v0@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:09:11 GMT
References: <30FAB750.41C6@genmagic.com>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <30FAB750.41C6@genmagic.com>,
Pete Helme <helme@genmagic.com> wrote:
>when using Telnet through PPP and a 28.8 link, the interactive response
>is S-L-O-W. FTP and webbing seem to be OK though since usually one is
>just sitting there waiting for graphics to download. I tried changing
>the MTU setting to 576 (I think that's the Internet standard) thinking
>it would help, but nothing changed. I think I finally found out why. I
>checked the log messages left by the PPP server today and there is a
>comment in there something like: "trying to change MTU to 576. NeXTStep
>doesn't currently support adjusting the MTU, setting back to 1500." Ah
>ha.
>
>Does anyone know if this is true and if so why can't it be changed? Does
>anyone have any hints on improving interactive performance?
>
Using the free PPP I use a MTU of 296 (256 bytes plus header.) I get a
"NeXTSTEP doesn't currently..." message, but it says it's going to try
anyway. It seems to work well, since when I set it to 1500 performance is, as
you say, dismal.
--
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: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SDT-5000 disktab info sought
Date: 15 Jan 1996 07:51:04 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4dd118$3fh@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <4d4m5u$bgi@news.tamu.edu>
A Sony SDT-5000 is a DAT streamer, i.e. no disktab. Under 3.3 you should
be able to write to the drive with tar cvf /dev/rst0 ....
Geert
Colin Allen writes
> Would some kind person please email me a disktab entry for a Sony
> SDT-5000. Thanks!
> --
> Colin Allen
> colin.allen@tamu.edu
>
> -Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [USER QUOTA]
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:41:20 -0500
Organization: INTERNET SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED
Message-ID: <30FBAB00.1A1A@home.mysolution.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
SVR$/BSD style User Quota Software has been successfully
compiled and is operational. Unfortunately, the quota shell
can not be compiled without cmd.h and the functions are not
declared anywhere in and of the header files. If there are
anyone with experience making shells, please contact me.
Without the quota shell, the binaries are as good as useless.
Thanks. (when the quotashell - qsh - has been completed and
tested, the binaries will be released).
-ME
PS. I also contacted NeXT but do not know if they are interested
in spending a little time making a quota shell for us
the unfortunate.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a Hard Drive
Message-ID: <DL906I.8K2@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <1996Jan14.223336.24974@seer.demon.co.uk> <4dc5ic$mvs@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:32:41 GMT
In article <4dc5ic$mvs@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca <sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca> wrote:
>This is the only place that I can find any recognition of the drive.
>It is the second drive QUANTUM LP52S. Oh, when I open BuildDisk,
>it recognizes that the other drive exists but it fails when I try
>and build it - it says that it can't open the device file.
>
>Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: QUANTUM LIGHTNING 730S Rev 241E as sd0 at sc0
>target 1 lun 0
>Jan 14 15:44:18 philos mach: QUANTUM LP52S 950509405 Rev 2.8 as sd1 at sc0
>target 2 lun 0
Shaun,
You might want to try my sdformat program, or NeXT's own sdform. These are
each low-level SCSI formatting commands. sdformat (see the index on
ftp.cs.orst.edu) allows larger sector sizes.
Perhaps a low-level format will set things straight with your drive, but
you will still have to Initialize the filesystem of your choice (e.g. BFFS,
Mac, DOS?) afterwards.
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
<http://nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/brianw.html>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
Subject: Re: Suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing at boot...
Message-ID: <DL90LK.8rB@sounds.wa.com>
Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
References: <DL63q7.2ot@rna.nl>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:41:43 GMT
In article <DL63q7.2ot@rna.nl>, <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> wrote:
>Besides, I boot from an external disk (HP3725S). When this disk has been off,
>it is very difficult to get the machine to boot. it will be "waiting for
>drive to come ready" on the HD indefinitely.
>
>System:Turbo NeXTdimension system.
>OS: NS 3.3 + patch (maybe it is since the patch was installed, I reboot
>rather infrequently)
>Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
How old is your drive, Gerben? Perhaps the motor is wearing out and is
having trouble spinning up? I, too, reboot infrequently, and it took me a
while to notice that my boot drive, an internal on my NeXTdimension, had
nearly gone south after more than three years of continuous use. I had the
same problem which seemed more likely to occur when the disk had been off,
and I got the exact same message during verbose startup. Fortunately, when
I explained the troubles with my aging drive, Maxtor sent a replacement at
no charge (with exchange).
On the other hand, my external does not start spinning until it sees power
on the SCSI bus, so if your cable is loose, it may not be getting the
signal to spin up.
I hope some of the above helps,
--
Brian Willoughby Software Design Engineer, BSEE from NCSU
NeXTmail welcome Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com Bellevue, WA
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From: aa423@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Jeff Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: putenv?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 00:43:00 GMT
Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet, Ontario, Canada.
Message-ID: <4desak$iql@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
I grabbed a program and it seems to want the "putenv" subroutine,
which isn't available with our version of NeXtStep 3.2 (black hardware).
Has anyone written their own, or worked out a patch for this?
putenv is a routine that assigns a value to an enviorment
variable and creates that variable. Any ideas?
--
Jeff Bamford Phone: +1-905-570-0130 fax: +1-905-570-1161
E-mail: jeffb@audiolab.uwaterloo.ca
Looking for an audio engineer who has studied Ambisonics, Dolby Surround
and Stereo? Check out: http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~jeffb/resume.html
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cygnus Kerberos on NeXTstep?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 03:03:58 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4df4iu$2gb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4dd961$hr8@gs2.UU.NET>
gardner@frigga.UU.NET (Jonathan Gardner) writes:
>Hello,
> I have a NeXTstation Turbo Color, and would like to kerberize
>it. Has anyone successfully compiled Cygnus Kerberos under NeXTstep?
>Additionally were there any signifigant impediments to doing so? Thanks.
I compiled CNS's v4 libraries without too much trouble. I
eventually quit trying to make krb5b4.3 on NS, because I didn't have
significant pressure to do so. I'll probably try it more later
(perhaps beta5)
It does require a bit of tweaking but it's pretty generic BSD generally.
From: Joe Freeman <Joe@FreemanSoft.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PCI, Stealth 64 DRAM and Adaptec 2940W
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:25:45 -0500
Organization: FreemanSoft Inc.
Message-ID: <30FAFE99.B30@FreemanSoft.COM>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have a strange problem with a system (did I post this
already?) where I have a triton chip set, an Adaptec 2940W
controller and a stealth 64 DRAM video card. It seems that NS
usually installs fine but that there are all kinds of bus errors
in programs at random times. Even installer can't open packages
some of the time. It appears that the apps are failing when
they attempt to go to the disk drive for a nib or some other
such thing. I know that there have been some discussions in
other groups about problems with stealth 64s and Adaptec 2940Ws
due to port conflicts but it is not clear that there is a real
problem. I have Win95 and NT which both run flawlessly on the
same system. Anyone else seen a problem like this?
<Joe>
--
The governer of MD was suprised people were upset when his aides
received involuntary severnce bonuses for following him from the
county seat to the state capital. Now he is suprised that people
don't like the notion of picking up the entire $300M tab for a
new football stadium which will be used 10 times per year.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: what is wrong with NetInfo's interface
Date: 15 Jan 1996 22:53:01 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4delsd$7nh@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <jcr.821384987@idiom.com> <4d7m04$ceh@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <gkxxlhS00iWTA1Pmwx@andrew.cmu.edu>
Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> Can we turn NetInfo off entirely?
>
> Failing that, I could live with NetInfo interactions for the rest
> of things if I could only turn off the interaction between DNS
> lookups and lookupd/NetInfo.
I thought that was part of the NS-3.3 patch. DNS seems to be
working better for me after the patch, at least.
> While I'm at it, there is one other thing I'd like. I would
> really like to be able to put a fully-qualified domain name in
> the "HOSTNAME" field of /etc/hostinfo and have NEXTSTEP work.
> The symptoms of putting a FQDN include the pasteboard server
> daemon (/usr/etc/pbs) failing and the Workspace being rather
> unstable. I believe the automounter gets screwed up as well,
> but my system was already so hosed that it was difficult to
> investigate further problems.
Hmm. I've always had the fully-qualified name on my NeXT's. I
use HostManager.app to set them. I'm not aware of any problems,
but then all my machines are running standalone (ie, they aren't
hooked up into one netinfo database, each machine is an island unto
itself). If I look in /etc/hostconfig I do see the fully-qualified
name there.
I've always done it this way, back to NS-2.1, because all the
other unix workstations on campus are setup that way.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: wu-ftpd
Date: 16 Jan 1996 07:49:04 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4dfl9g$7k1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Does anyone have wu-ftpd running on their machine?
I tried to install it but have had no luck. It compiles
OK but when I change over the inetd.conf file to call wu-ftpd
things go bad. I have included a little info below.
Thanks in advance,
Shaun.
--
[copy of connect transcript below]
Connected to localhost.
220 philos.resnet.ubc.ca FTP server (Version wu-2.4(1) Sat Jan 6
17:34:33 PST 1996) ready.
Name (localhost:sfoy): anonymous
221 Server shutting down. Goodbye.
ftp>
[end]
This message appears in my /tmp/console.log
Jan 15 23:49:11 philos ftpd[1180]: FTP session closed
--
\ o / o __| \ / |__ o \ o /
| -/\ ___\o \ o | o / o/___ /\- |
/ \ | \ /) | ( \ /o\ / ) | (\ / | / \
<A HREF="http://philos.resnet.ubc.ca/~sfoy">sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca</A>
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: putenv?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 05:39:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4dfdme$6on@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4desak$iql@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
putenv.c is available from NeXTAnswers under the information regarding
the building of SATAN.
In article <4desak$iql@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
aa423@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Jeff Bamford) writes:
> I grabbed a program and it seems to want the "putenv" subroutine,
>which isn't available with our version of NeXtStep 3.2 (black hardware).
>Has anyone written their own, or worked out a patch for this?
>
> putenv is a routine that assigns a value to an enviorment
>variable and creates that variable. Any ideas?
>
>
>--
>Jeff Bamford Phone: +1-905-570-0130 fax: +1-905-570-1161
> E-mail: jeffb@audiolab.uwaterloo.ca
>Looking for an audio engineer who has studied Ambisonics, Dolby Surround
>and Stereo? Check out: http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~jeffb/resume.html
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
Agoura Hills, CA # one's fellow citizens, to betray
# friends, to be without faith, without
far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means
(NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Re: Suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing at boot...
Message-ID: <DL9nvw.GHv@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <DL63q7.2ot@rna.nl> <DL90LK.8rB@sounds.wa.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:04:43 GMT
brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) wrote:
>In article <DL63q7.2ot@rna.nl>, <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL> wrote:
>>Besides, I boot from an external disk (HP3725S). When this disk has been
off,
>>it is very difficult to get the machine to boot. it will be "waiting for
>>drive to come ready" on the HD indefinitely.
>>
>>System:Turbo NeXTdimension system.
>>OS: NS 3.3 + patch (maybe it is since the patch was installed, I reboot
>>rather infrequently)
>>Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
>
>How old is your drive, Gerben?
About 1 year. No, it is already known who the culprit is: SAMBA. I started
noticing this after having installed SAMBA. The solution isn't clear yet.
--Gerben
From: albrecht@uni-paderborn.de (Paul Albrecht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI and EIDE disks problem
Date: 16 Jan 1996 08:31:19 GMT
Organization: University of Paderborn
Message-ID: <4dfnon$jir@news.uni-paderborn.de>
Keywords: NS 3.3 Intel SCSI EIDE disks netinfo
Hello!
I'm running NS 3.3 on an Intel Pentium system and i'm using
SCSI disks. Last week i've installed an EIDE disk and make it
bootable for NS (there are two other operating systems on that
disk). Everything works fine. Now i've removed the EIDE disk
from the system and NS always pop up an error message like
'disk unreadable' (or something similar). I've removed every entry
in /etc/fstab that belongs to /dev/hda1!
What is the reason for NS to search for the EIDE disk?
Thank you very much for any hint.
Best regards
Paul
PS: I doesn't find any entry in the netinfo database that belongs to
the EIDE disk!
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net
Subject: Re: question:possible to run Next programs on win95?
Department: Atelier
Message-ID: <DL9rzt.Muw@inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at newsutr)
Organization: NLnet
References: <congimanDL16q0.BzB@netcom.com> <4d95k0$o3@news.its.com>
Company: NextOneWorld
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:33:29 GMT
>congiman@netcom.com (Colin Corbett) wrote:
>> k.. I have a win95 machine, it can run X, etc.
>> However after some looking I realized that next uses some form of
>> postscript X-windows (correct me if i am wrong).
>
>NEXTSTEP uses a proprietary Display PostScript based windowing system called
>the WorkSpace. There is no way to remotely display NEXTSTEP windows to an
>X-Windows system, unfortunately.
>
>-Chuck
---
Be patient. It might all change when OpenStep96 for Windows will come along.
TIP: see the OpenStep/WebObjects video ;-) You can order it at NeXT
Personal regards, (D)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sbrandon@clarinet.music.gla.ac.uk (Stephen Brandon - SysAdmin)
Subject: Print quotas BADLY needed for black hw
Message-ID: <DL8nLA.KpC@udcf.gla.ac.uk>
Sender: news@udcf.gla.ac.uk (News)
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Service
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:00:45 GMT
Due to too many users stealing paper and not paying for their printing,
the department wants me to implement a quota system. "Other unices can do
it" I am told...
I've looked at the Mark Majka quota system, but the printing part of that
only works for NON-NEXT printers. (I've freely adapted the disk space part
of that system and it works very well)
Does anyone else have a working solution to this, or any idea if it can be
done? All I need to be able to do is to log how many pages users have
printed. Kludgy solutions involve getting all users to print in the dept
office, but the secretary would have a fit.
How about a wrapper for the printer device that looks for page start
commands (really out of my depth here...) ?
Any and all advice gladly appreciated.
Stephen Brandon
_____________________________________________________
Systems Administator,
Department of Music, e-mail: sbrandon@music.gla.ac.uk
14 University Gardens, (NeXT mail welcomed)
University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6065
Glasgow. Fax: +44 (0)141 307 8018
From: t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mounting remote disk
Message-ID: <3793@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 16 Jan 96 14:31:02 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Hi,
I have here a network with 7 machines with NeXTstep (2 black and 5 white).
One of the black ones is the server. I run 3.3 on all machines.
I have been trying to connect an external disk to one of the white
machines and that has succeeded more or less. However the other
machines refuse to see the disk.
Of course I exported the disk.
And of course I try to import it, and the NFS manager on the server
sees it as a possible import, so I presume the export worked.
The NFS manager then seems to be completely happy with the import.
But then the troubles start. It just does not mount, neither as a
subdirectory of /Net/otello of the computer (otello) in which the disk
has been exported, nor as a separate directory outside /Net.
I have even tried a mount via fstab but again no success.
Is there a rule that I violate? Is it at all possible to see this disk
on another machine?
Can anybody shed some light on this?
Jos Vermaseren
From: aa423@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Jeff Bamford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: putenv?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 15:41:10 GMT
Organization: Hamilton-Wentworth FreeNet, Ontario, Canada.
Message-ID: <4dggum$n7c@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
References: <4desak$iql@main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> <4dfdme$6on@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Felipe A. Rodriguez (far@ix.netcom.net) wrote:
: putenv.c is available from NeXTAnswers under the information regarding
: the building of SATAN.
Indeed it was. I even checked that page out but, for some
reason, did not see the obvious link to putenv.c. I know have the
routine and will try compiling again. Thanks for your help Felipe.
--
Jeff Bamford Phone: +1-905-570-0130 fax: +1-905-570-1161
E-mail: jeffb@audiolab.uwaterloo.ca
Looking for an audio engineer who has studied Ambisonics, Dolby Surround
and Stereo? Check out: http://audiolab.uwaterloo.ca/~jeffb/resume.html
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: what is wrong with NetInfo's interface
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:56:18 -0500
Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <EkyxWmq00iWZI45ncV@andrew.cmu.edu>
References: <jcr.821384987@idiom.com> <4d7m04$ceh@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <gkxxlhS00iWTA1Pmwx@andrew.cmu.edu>
<4delsd$7nh@usenet.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4delsd$7nh@usenet.rpi.edu>
Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 15-Jan-96 Re: what is
wrong with NetI.. by Garance A Drosehn:
>> Failing that, I could live with NetInfo interactions for the rest
>> of things if I could only turn off the interaction between DNS
>> lookups and lookupd/NetInfo.
>
> I thought that was part of the NS-3.3 patch. DNS seems to be
> working better for me after the patch, at least.
Yes, things do work better under 3.3 patched. "better" != "correctly".
Lookupd under 3.3 got multithreaded, which fixed the problem that a DNS
lookup (which can take anywhere up to 90 seconds or so to timeout),
would also block all other systems queries, so that even things like "ls
-l" would hang. Needless to say, this problem caused serious
performance penalties. However, even under 3.3, individual query types
appear to not be multithreaded; ie, you can block one process waiting on
a DNS lookup because another DNS lookup is going slowly.
Lookupd is *not*, repeat *not*, the correct place to cache DNS info, nor
is NetInfo a substitute for properly configuring your domain's DNS info
with a nameserver. DNS caching should be done by named, not lookupd.
Named does a far more intelligent and far more correct job of caching
and timing out DNS query results. For a clear example, examine
lookupd's log file when performing multiple lookups where the hostname
corresponds to a pool of machines. Lookupd's cache prevents
load-balancing via DNS from operating correctly.
This is why I really want to stop lookupd and NetInfo having anything
whatsoever to do with the DNS.
> [ ...FQDN problem... ]
I'll respond to this a little later. (I'm not free to replace my
machine's NetInfo db right now in order to demonstrate the problem.)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer
----------------+---------------------+---------------------
I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mounting remote disk
Date: 16 Jan 1996 15:46:36 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4dgh8s$69s@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <3793@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
In article <3793@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) writes:
> I have here a network with 7 machines with NeXTstep (2 black and 5
white).
> One of the black ones is the server. I run 3.3 on all machines.
> I have been trying to connect an external disk to one of the white
> machines and that has succeeded more or less. However the other
> machines refuse to see the disk.
> Of course I exported the disk.
> And of course I try to import it, and the NFS manager on the server
> sees it as a possible import, so I presume the export worked.
> The NFS manager then seems to be completely happy with the import.
> But then the troubles start. It just does not mount, neither as a
> subdirectory of /Net/otello of the computer (otello) in which the disk
> has been exported, nor as a separate directory outside /Net.
> I have even tried a mount via fstab but again no success.
If the machine is mounted on the white server properly in fstab, all the
rest should work. Remember that you must omit the noauto keyword from the
line.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: shepherd@pathfinder (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Interpretation of /aliases in NetInfo, sendmail ?
Date: 16 Jan 1996 17:21:23 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <4dgmqj$9bo@news.onramp.net>
References: <4ddn1g$3kh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Gregor Hoffleit (flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de) wrote:
[snip]
: I was surprised to find that when going directly through NetInfo's
: /aliases directory, it's possible to fit those two subdirectories in
: one, with multiple values for the name field, i.e.
: name: Firstname_Lastname F_Lastname
: members: username
: and indeed, NeXT's sendmail 5.7 the knows both aliases. On the other
: hand, 'nidump aliases' gives me only first one back.
Try: nidump -r aliases /
and then: niload -r -d aliases /
I believe that will answer your questions below and snipped above.
: Now I wonder
: - does sendmail 8.7 also understand these multiple names in /aliases ?
: - is there any other drawback of using multiple names ?
: - is there a better solution to achieve these aliases ?
: - is it a bug that nidump doesn't resolve these multiple aliases ?
: Gregor
BTW, be warned that there are problems with reading netinfo aliases
(sendmail 5.7 anyway) that just suddenly crop up. I don't know if it
has to do with the number of aliases or what but I 'suddenly' have
problems adding more aliases. Sometimes they just don't get 'seen'
by sendmail. ie., I add a new user, several aliases for him and the
aliases don't work. Nidump things to check and they are there. No
duplicates, typos, or any other visible problems. I've found 'moving'
the entry sometimes fixes that person, but may break another.
I also currently have the problem of a username in an alias list where one
person NEVER gets copies of mail sent to the list name however all
variations of that persons alias are valid and work individually,
just not as a part of the 'list', even after being moved around the
list, same person always gets left out.
I have resorted to making a backup copy of the netinfo aliases in
/etc/sendmail/aliases on the mail host to insure that if some users
aliases aren't being looked up as I described previously sendmail
checks here last and will find them. This doesn't help with the
problem of one user in a list being skipped however.
Your mileage may vary.
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: | MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 |
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From: bmuell@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bernie Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing to LaserJetIIP
Date: 16 Jan 1996 19:03:29 GMT
Organization: TRW, One Space Park MS O1/1061, Redondo Beach,CA 90278 (310) 813-0690
Message-ID: <4dgsq1$rut@ns5.nba.TRW.COM>
My setup:
m68k slab, ver3.2, LaserJetIIP with Pacific Page Postscript cartridge.
My problem:
fonts with first line '%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0' display properly on the screen, and
download to the printer, but after loading just get dumped off the print queue.
On the other hand, fonts with first line '%!PS-AdobeFont-2.0' print just fine.
Fonts that are present on the cartridge and in /NextLibrary/Fonts are type 1.0
and of course print without having to download.
Question:
The musical scoring program Calliope comes with a type 1.0 font; how can I get this to print?
Note:
Fiddling with different .ppd files seems to make no difference.
I couldn't get JetPilot to work at all.
--
bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com
From: mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS from NT
Date: 16 Jan 1996 21:03:56 GMT
Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <4dh3rs$r9j@shelob.afs.com>
Anyone ever get the SOSS NFS server to work from NT to NEXTSTEP? Any
suggestions on an NFS server for NT?
--
Michael J. Matlack
Anderson Financial Systems, +1 215 653 0911
Mike_Matlack@afs.com (MIME & NEXT mail OK)
From: ascarsy@jever.cis.uni-muenchen.de (Guido Eiben)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: MusikKit and Soundblaster
Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:30:45 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4dhfvl$re@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Hi there,
I have some problems making the MusicKit work. I can install ist ok, but
when I start the
MIDI player, there is no sound. Well, that's not much of a suprise if you
look at the
preferences. There You can choose one of the DSP and MIDI devices. Well, but
for
me there are no devices for choice. So I thought, maybe I gotta install a
MIDI driver.
But when I do this, it tells me a Interrupt (oops - yes I'm on Intel:)
conflict with my soundcard.
Well, that's because my soundcard is a Soundblaster AWE, which is MPU401
compatible.
Does anybody have some installation hints for me? I got:
486DX/50 (running NeXTSTEP 3.3)
Soundblaster AWE (MPU401)
I try to install the MusicKit, so I can use the MIDI functionality of my
soundcard.
help is really appreciated.
thanx
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates)
Subject: Solaris/NS Dual Boot Problem
Message-ID: <lorgbDLAFJD.8vx@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 19:02:01 GMT
Sender: lorgb@netcom12.netcom.com
Hello. I have a Sparc20 with two hard drives, one with Solaris and
another with NextStep. I was able to freely boot from both, but
suddenly I am not able to boot into NS. The boot process terminates
for some reason, and I am thrown into Solaris. I did check scsi, it
finds all the hard drives. Any insight into what may be wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Joseph Kim
LOR/Geske Bock Investments
lorgb@netcom.com
jkim@la.lorgb.com
phone 310.789.2000 x4012
fax 310.789.2010
From: david@dbynum.async.csuohio.edu (D E Bynum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to add NX Bootmanager to new disk?
Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:37:38 GMT
Organization: Cleveland State University
Message-ID: <4dhjt2$qup@csu-b.csuohio.edu>
Having successfully followed Mark Tacchi's directions for adding a new
(scsi) disk with three partitions to a NX/Intel system (/dev/sd1a, /dev/sd1b,
and /ms-dos_5), I now want to find | cpio the whole nicely configured NeXT
installation on the existing sd0, change the entries in /etc/fstab, pull the
old smaller-capacity sdO out of the system, reset the jumper on the new disk
to id 0, and thus effectively *replace* rather than simply *add* a bigger
hard drive.
The problem: how to write the boot manager to the new disk? Some part of it
at least seems to be written into the disk's boot sector. I _don't_ want to
reinstall the whole bloomin' 3.3 if I can possibly help it, and I do still
need the ms-dos_5 partition for OCR scanning of East European languages, for
which there still seems to be no NeXT software, but only DOS programs.
The only alternative I understand would be to change the existing sd0 to
sd1, make the new disk sd0 from the beginning, install 3.3 onto it from
scratch--including the boot manager--then apply the 3.3 patches, (whew, what
a long way around!), then just overwrite everything from the correctly
configured old disk. There's gotta be an easier way. What is it?
Please advise...
David
bynum@lserver.math.csuohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dkoski@netcom.com (David Koski)
Subject: Re: mounting remote disk
Message-ID: <dkoskiDLAB5H.1DF@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <3793@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:27:17 GMT
Sender: dkoski@netcom12.netcom.com
In article <3793@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>, Jos Vermaseren <t68@nikhef.nl> wrote:
...
>And of course I try to import it, and the NFS manager on the server
>sees it as a possible import, so I presume the export worked.
>The NFS manager then seems to be completely happy with the import.
>But then the troubles start. It just does not mount, neither as a
>subdirectory of /Net/otello of the computer (otello) in which the disk
>has been exported, nor as a separate directory outside /Net.
>I have even tried a mount via fstab but again no success.
...
I had this same problem with our network. I read somewhere that the items
in netinfo are mounted in reverse order, so here is what I did to fix the
problem:
run NFSManager
remove all entries for othello exporting stuff
add entries for othello back in in this order:
/Disk
/Users (whatever external disks you have)
/
It will show up in NFSManager sorted by name, but it should be in netinfo
in the order you entered it. Now all our disks mount properly.
David
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Interpretation of /aliases in NetInfo, sendmail ?
In-Reply-To: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de's message of 15 Jan 1996 14:06:40 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan17001318@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4ddn1g$3kh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 05:13:18 GMT
sendmail 8.7.x supports NetInfo aliases. It should do everything
you've said. You can also use the user database with 8.7.x to it
as well.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4ddn1g$3kh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes:
We would like to provide our users with a few, automatically
genererated aliases such as Firstname_Lastname@DOMAIN,
F_Lastname@DOMAIN, and intend therefore to enhance nu2.sh accordingly.
I first thought this would nicely fit in a shell script when I use
'niload aliases /' and 'nidump' to append the new aliases. Then, I had
two or more entries for each user, depending on the number of aliases
(two for the example above). In the `aliases' format
Firstname_Lastname: username
F_Lastname: username
or in niutil -read format
name: Firstname_Lastname
members: username
name: F_Lastname:
members: username
I was surprised to find that when going directly through NetInfo's
/aliases directory, it's possible to fit those two subdirectories in
one, with multiple values for the name field, i.e.
name: Firstname_Lastname F_Lastname
members: username
and indeed, NeXT's sendmail 5.7 the knows both aliases. On the other
hand, 'nidump aliases' gives me only first one back.
Now I wonder
- does sendmail 8.7 also understand these multiple names in /aliases ?
- is there any other drawback of using multiple names ?
- is there a better solution to achieve these aliases ?
- is it a bug that nidump doesn't resolve these multiple aliases ?
Gregor
--
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| MAIL: Mathematisches Institut PHONE: (49)6221 56-5771 |
| INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg / Germany FAX: 56-3812 |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: What do these messages mean ...
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References: <4dcn9b$g1q@Vir.com>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 05:08:59 GMT
>From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)>Subject: What do these messages mean ...
>Date: 15 Jan 1996 00:04:43 -0500
>
>Hello,
>
> I recently noticed the following messages in my /usr/adm/messages
>file. What do they mean?
>
>Jan 14 20:48:49 ringworld loginwindow[235]: running
>/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
>Jan 14 20:48:49 ringworld Workspace[235]: logged in
>Jan 14 21:14:36 ringworld mach: ttynxps0760: Software Overflow
>Jan 14 21:16:19 ringworld last message repeated 58 times
>Jan 14 21:16:21 ringworld mach: ttynxps0760: Software Overflow
>Jan 14 21:16:44 ringworld last message repeated 14 times
>Jan 14 22:04:12 ringworld mach: BLC timeout
>Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: Resetting SCSI Bus...
>Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
>Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:1495648
>blockCount:10
>Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: sd0: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
>Jan 14 22:04:23 ringworld mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Read block:1495648
>blockCount:10
>Jan 14 23:26:38 ringworld mach: sd1: UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying.
>Jan 14 23:26:38 ringworld mach: target:2 lun:0 op:Read block:384
>blockCount:16
The messages following the "BLC timeout" comes from a BusLogic SCSI
controller. I my case they disappeared after I installed new ROM chips that
BusLogic sent me when I called them and asked what the messages meant.
Don't ask me to explain what they actually mean... It may be worth calling
BusLogic sometime when you feel like wasting hours in a phone queue, though.
---
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME)
+1.312.702-1093 phone (lab)
+1.312.667-5331 phone (home)
+1.312.702-9740 fax
From: edmtl@alf.uib.no (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Unable to print with JetPilot+HP DeskJet850C
Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:31:45 +0100
Organization: University of Bergen
Message-ID: <4dhch1$a9e@alf.uib.no>
References: <4ckr1g$4rl@nuke.csu.net> <4d60o0$3jt@netty.york.ac.uk>
Just a thought...
At boot time (before NeXTStep starts) go into BIOS setup and
confirm that the parelell port is indeed at the adresses
specified in Configure, and that it is configured as a
normal (not EPP or similar) parelell port. If everything
is correct, I would begin suspecting a bad board or
bad port... but then I'm not any expert...
Regards,
--
Thor Legvold | This is the strangest life
NorNeXT User Group leader | I've ever known...
University of Bergen | - Jim Morrison, The Doors
Norway | edmtl@edb.uib.no (NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew)
Subject: Re: /usr/adm/messages.old and many other troubles...
Message-ID: <edewDLB522.K33@netcom.com>
Sender: edew@netcom11.netcom.com
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <edewDL4zBC.9EG@netcom.com> <4dbobr$6f3@news.its.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 04:13:14 GMT
I wan to thank all of you who sent in the fixes. The answer, by popular
demand, is get rid of the noauto (now that I think about it...duh...). As
for the folder icon on others' home directory, it's large file
system checked-off. No solution yet for the disabled sound (which is a pisser
because the sound is loud for somethings. I've switched to the lowest
volume system beep, which is ting, I believe is the spelling).
Again, muchos gracious.
EDEW
In article <4dbobr$6f3@news.its.com> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) writes:
>edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) wrote:
>> A month ago, I bought the Conner 1.06GB external hard drive. I now
>> have it set up and working. No problem. However, whenever I reboot, the
>> drive doesn't mount. I have the drives entered in /etc/fstab as such:
>>
>> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
>> /dev/sd1a /<mount_point> 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
>> /dev/sd1b /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
>
>Read the Sysadmin docs (search DL for "fstab").
>Remove the "noauto" entry for /dev/sd1{a,b}.
>
>> Secondly, my audio volume control no longer works. I can neither set
>> the volume via the key on the keyboard or in preferences. While I can see
>> the volume slider go from low to loud, it is always and uniformly loud.
>
>That may be a hardware problem.
>
>[ ... ]
>> Thirdly, how long should the /usr/adm/messages.old be? Mine is getting to
>> be 1.3MB in size. Perhaps they are trimmed chronologically rather than by
>> size?
>
>Take a look at /usr/adm/daily. Is it running correctly? It should trim that
>file down to 200 lines.
>
>> Fourthly (and lastly), I have multiple accounts for on my machine.
>> Typically when I'm in, say, edew, and I look at the home directory for
>> joeschmoe (another user account), I should see the two-house icon.
>> Instead, I see the folder icon. What gives?
>
>You probably set "large file system" in Preferences.app.
>
>> While I'm at it, when I log in to my edew account, I'm
>> logged onto the root directory (without root privileges, of course).
>
>Check /etc/passwd and the NetInfo db via UserManager.app or
>NetInfoManager.app.
>
>-Chuck
>
>Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
>--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
>CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Eric Peyton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I stop CDROM from ejecting at logout ???
Date: 17 Jan 1996 04:55:43 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4dhvgf$9qn@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
How can I stop my CD-ROM drive from ejecting my CD's every time I logout???
Thanks in advance,
Eric Peyton
espeyton@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: raphael@research.canon.oz.au (Andrew Raphael)
Subject: Re: Looking for secure telnet for NextStep
Message-ID: <DL7LL7.4Cs@research.canon.oz.au>
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
References: <kevincDKwyqK.5Cs@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 06:19:54 GMT
kevinc@netcom.com (Blue Song) writes:
>Is anyone out there aware of any secure telnet / Kerberos product
>for NextStep?
The SSH package from Finland works fine for me. I just localised the
default path. It replaces rsh, rlogin, & rcp.
--
Andrew Raphael <raphael@research.canon.oz.au>
"Oh! I see, it's your birthday. It's your big day, and I forgot."
From: kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: increasing swap space -- how?
Date: 17 Jan 1996 08:39:15 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <4dicjj$frl@miwok.nbn.com>
I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a 68040 cube with 16MB RAM and plenty of disk
space.
I'm attempting to set up glimpse, as a search engine for a Web site on the
NeXT. But glimpseindex aborts with an error when indexing any directory that
has more than few files.
Udi Manber suggested I am running out of swap space.
How do I check or change the size of the swap space under NEXTSTEP?
Daniel Kehoe
kehoe@fortuity.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: logging root's edits
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:38:35 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960117123416.1207E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
The following is a very useful shell script for me. I have renamed
'pico' to 'pico.orig' and named this script 'pico'.
I only tend to use pico when I am logged in as root when I need to do
some minor change to some file or another. I discovered that since I
stay logged in for weeks at a time, I often edit some file and forget
about it later. If I have some big problem, I wanted to be able to check
to see what files I had recently changed.
If that interests you, read on. If not, sorry for wasting your time.
#!/bin/sh
log=~/.pico.log
touch $log
# show the name of the file, as well as what
# directory you were in when you made the
# edit, so that pico ../somefile or 'pico
# very_important_file' will have some context
echo "`date`: using pico on ' $* ' from `pwd`" >> $log
# I moved the original binary 'pico' to
# 'pico.orig' if I want to edit a file
# without logging it, I can use 'pico.orig'
# rather than pico at the command line
/usr/local/bin/pico.orig $*
# echo that the log has taken place
echo "Logged: edit of ' $* ' invoked from `pwd` "
exit 0
# Since I edit root-only files through a shell (not
# through Edit.app) I use 'pico'. I made this little
# script to keep track of what files I edit using
# 'pico' (actually now it is 'pico.orig')
#
# This may seem a little trivial at first, but when
# you consider that the last time I messed something
# up and the booting wasn't going correctly, I could
# boot to single-user mode and go right to this log
# and see exactly what files I had changed recently.
# Had I changed /etc/ttys? No. Had I done something
# in /etc/rc? Yup. Now, if I could just remember
# _what_ I changed ;-) I don't know how to log that
# yet. But it is a definite place to start.
#
# It's a lot faster than trying something like:
# find / -mtime +7 -print
# and I can never remember the right syntax... plus,
# who wants to wait through all that searching??
# I imagine that most of you out there are probably
# more than able to remember what files you edit
# and what files are probably causing your problems.
# However, I offer this for the rest of us, who have
# trouble remembering all 3 items we were sent to
# the store to get.
# end
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Everything is easy when you know what you are doing"
Dr. Robert Cupper, Department of Computer Science,
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Psion drivers for NeXTSTEP
Date: 17 Jan 1996 18:56:24 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4djgoo$137@news.petrel.ch>
Company: Colombus Inc.
Hi,
Can anyone tell me where those drivers are and what exactly they do ?
Thanks
---
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: increasing swap space -- how?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:32:48 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960117122902.1207C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4dicjj$frl@miwok.nbn.com>
On 17 Jan 1996, Daniel Miles Kehoe wrote:
> I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a 68040 cube with 16MB RAM and plenty of disk
> space.
I've never heard of "plenty of disk space" but anyway...
>
> I'm attempting to set up glimpse, as a search engine for a Web site on the
> NeXT. But glimpseindex aborts with an error when indexing any directory that
> has more than few files.
>
> Udi Manber suggested I am running out of swap space.
>
> How do I check or change the size of the swap space under NEXTSTEP?
Well, you can use df at the commandline or WatchSwap
(at peanuts:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/performance/WatchSwap.1.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz)
as an application.
If you indeed have 'plenty of disk space' and you have not set a HIWAT
(check /etc/swaptab) then I don't know how you'd run out so quickly,
unless there is some VM chewing bug in the program. But I could be wrong...
> Daniel Kehoe
> kehoe@fortuity.com
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Everything is easy when you know what you are doing"
Dr. Robert Cupper, Department of Computer Science,
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
From: Stephen Johnson <srjohnson@tamu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp under NS3.0
Date: 17 Jan 1996 19:22:59 GMT
Organization: Food Services
Message-ID: <4djiaj$alq@news.tamu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does anyone have any experience with ppp under NS3.0? I need to
dynamically assign addresses but it appears to me the ppp calls for
fixed addresses to be put in rc.local and ppp config files. Is there a
way to get this to work (other than paying $400 to Morning Star for
their ppp for NS3.0) or do I just need to upgrade to NS3.2 or 3.3?
Stephen
srjohnson@tamu.edu
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: pppd ran as daemon
Date: 17 Jan 1996 21:34:12 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
Company: Colombus Inc.
Hi,
Being recently connected to the Net through a leased line, I'd like to be able
to start a PPP connection as soon as the computer is turned on. So far I used
GateKeeper 1.0 to help me out through a dial-up connection, but it means I have
to logged in first.
Is there a way to automatically start a PPP connection (I need to login into my
provider host with username and password for security reason) ?
If the PPP connection fail at one time or another, will it affect other
applications, or the system itself ?
Is it possible to automatically restart a PPP negotiation (including username
and password) if the PPP connection fail ?
To retrieve my mail, so far I used PopOver.app. Is there any other app I could
use ran as a daemon that would automatically and seamlessly retrieve my mail
from a Pop server ?
Thanks for all your help
---
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Satan 1.1.1 and NeXTSTEP
Date: 17 Jan 1996 21:35:32 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4djq34$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
Company: Colombus Inc.
Hi,
Did anyone succeeded in compiling Satan 1.1.1 for NS 3.3 Intel ?
How ? Is there an already compiled package somewhere ?
Thanks
---
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Newton and NS
Date: 17 Jan 1996 21:36:59 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4djq5r$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
Company: Colombus Inc.
Hi,
Are there any drivers to connect a Newton to a NS 3.3 Intel machine ?
Thanks
---
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: pppd ran as daemon
Date: 18 Jan 1996 02:59:26 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4dkd2e$rmr@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
In <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch> Jacques Garbi wrote:
> Is there a way to automatically start a PPP connection (I need to login
into my
> provider host with username and password for security reason) ?
> If the PPP connection fail at one time or another, will it affect other
> applications, or the system itself ?
> Is it possible to automatically restart a PPP negotiation (including
username
> and password) if the PPP connection fail ?
> To retrieve my mail, so far I used PopOver.app. Is there any other app I
could
> use ran as a daemon that would automatically and seamlessly retrieve my
mail
Hmmm... I believe that PopOver.app comes with a command line version that
you can call from cron. Further, you can write a pppup script that will log
you in using 'chat'. This could be placed in /etc/rc.local to start PPP
when the system boots. Further, if you have an intel system, get the latest
serial drivers. I believe they have a special device /dev/cudfa or
/dev/cudfb that will enable the system to detect hangups. When you use
these devices along with the 'persist' option, pppd will try to redial if it
gets disconnected.
Hope this helps.
- Steve
--
==============================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: wxli@harpy.ualr.edu (Wei Li)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT printer prints black page
Date: 18 Jan 1996 03:59:51 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Message-ID: <4dkgjn$jus@news.ualr.edu>
I need some help on a problem that I have been experiencing
in the last several month. My NeXT printer frequently
prints out pages full of black ink. I remember that the
printer used to (NS 2.1) print out blank pages without any
ink on it. I am using NS 3.0 now. Any help would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks.
-wei,
wxli@ualr.edu
From: espeyton@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Stopping Next from checking for a drive
Date: 18 Jan 1996 00:54:23 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4dk5nv$pvg@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
Hi Y'all,
On my system I have three hard drives. My second hard drvie is formatted for
Linux. This was done after Next was installed. Since I formatted for Linux,
every Next starts I get a message about how the second disk is unreadable,
with the initialize and cancel buttons. How can I stop Next from checking up
on this drive?? I've tried putting the drive into my fstab with the noauto
switch but that doesn't seem to do it (Or, more likely I did it wrong.). Any
suggestions would be appreciated. By the way, all the drives are either EIDE
or IDE.
Eric Peyton
espeyton@ix.netcom.com
From: eugene@ottrmain.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lost disk label
Date: 18 Jan 1996 00:54:37 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4dk5od$127o@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
After booting back to NS from DOS, one of the NS Intel
machines I look after has apparently lost it's disk
label and refuses to boot up without panicking.
The computer complains that it's unable to mount
root because there is no valid disk label.
I thought of trying to use disk -L to change the
label on the disk, but it doesn't seem to want to
cooperate.
What I'd like to know is if there's a relatively
painless way of fixing this without reformatting the
disk and going through the rather painful process
of reinstalling NS on the disk.
Anyone else suffer from this problem?
Many thanks
Eugene Mah
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail)
OTTR Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little
Liver Transplant Program Brain, and long words Bother
University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Michel Coste, please read, (was: Re: New 3.3 patch messed up my outgoing mail...)
Date: 18 Jan 1996 02:35:07 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4dkbkr$npr@news4.digex.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sorry to post, but it sounds like Michel needs some help, and the mail I
sent bounces...
Anyway, Michel mail I send you seems to bounce...here is the header I get
got from the bounced mail:
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>550 tupelo.micmac.com (ddn)... 550 Host unknown
>554 mic@tupelo.MiCMAC.COM... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from
name server)
Looks like my provider doesn't know your host...
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
>Return-Path: <jkheit>
>Received: by cjc08018.slip.digex.net (NX5.67f2/NX3.0M)
> id AA00452; Wed, 17 Jan 96 21:22:07 -0500
>Message-Id: <9601180222.AA00452@cjc08018.slip.digex.net>
>Content-Type: text/plain
>Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
>In-Reply-To: <9601180108.AA00543@MiCMAC.COM>
>X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
>Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2)
>From: John Kheit >Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 21:22:07 -0500
>To: mic@tupelo.MiCMAC.COM
>Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
>Reply-To: jkheit@cnj.digex.net
>References: <45ht9j$ehu@news4.digex.net> <9601180108.AA00543@MiCMAC.COM>
>Sender: John Kheit <jkheit>
Anyway, I originally wrote:
>> Hi, After installing the new 3.3 patch mail that I send out,
>> that used to get queued up and wait for my PPP connection, now
>> bounces... I can only send mail when I'm connected via my ppp
>> link i.e. when the link is up. I can no longer compose and send
>> mail off line...
>>
>> Does anyone know why this is happening and what I might be able
>> to do to fix it? I'm guessing it might be fixable via sendmail?
To which Michel responded:
>I found this ancient post of yours. The answer if any was not
>directed to my newsfeed. It happens that I've installed the patch
>sunday and the same fate you describe happened to me... In despair
>I've thought that sendmail 8.7.3 could be OK then! It was worse
>that the first time I've tried to install it (what a stange idea
>to put people in the need to get a DNS with a ppp connection!!!!)[talk
>about a braindead thing!] Anyhow I tried to return back to the
>original NeXT sendmail (3.3). Helas the package is one way
>street... So I changed only the sendmail and _lookupd_ (the real
>culprit) files. But now I have a strange behaviour: the "From:"
>and even "Reply-To:" headers are changed!!!! (no reply possible
>to my messages...)
>
>What to do?? Did you finally succeeded?
>In fact the patched sendmail should be OK {if fonctionning...}
>since I've seen it can do maskerading perfectly!
>I'm waiting eagerly for your answer (since sunday I'm in big
>trouble...)
>
>Amitis..
And my answer is:
Hi Amities,
Well, the solution to my problem was to run BOTH the post patch
scripts that came with the NS 3.3 patch. I read the instructions,
and it _SEEMED_ like the instructions wanted me to either run the
DNS _OR_ the other script, but not both... ...but in fact I had
to apply _BOTH_. After I applied the second script, everything
worked.
I never upgraded my sendmail like you, so I'm not sure how that
will complicate things... But if you run both scripts, I find
that fixes the sendmail problems...
Good luck, and let me know if I can help you any further...
--
Thanks, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: Boris.Erdmann@mail.in-kiel.de (Boris Erdmann)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 10:22:04 +0100
Organization: Toppoint e.V.
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
Hello Everyone!
Consider the following situation:
At home I have a small TCP/IP-LAN - about 6 machines, div. platforms.
The IP adresses I use are RFC 192.168.x.y's.
And I have an Internet Provider who offers PPP dial in - one IP adress only.
Now I want to use my IP clients as if the whole RFC subnet I am using was
routed by the provider. So what I need is a routing software that not only
analyses which way out going IP packets have to go, but even replaces the
senders's IP address by the IP address given by my internet provider. On
the other hand it has to know where an incomming IP packet is comming from
(it is now addressed to my router) and deliver it to the right machine in
the lan.
I think that this must be possible since incomming packets are always
responses to requests inside my lan.
So if anyone here knows if such a tricky piece of software exists, please
let me know about and how to get it.
Please reply by e-mail.
Many thanks in advance
Boris
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: 18 Jan 1996 11:06:26 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-58.usc.edu
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
In
comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.
unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctoo
ls.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.
routing you wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> Consider the following situation:
>
> At home I have a small TCP/IP-LAN - about 6 machines, div.
> platforms. The IP adresses I use are RFC 192.168.x.y's. And
> I have an Internet Provider who offers PPP dial in - one IP
> adress only.
>
> Now I want to use my IP clients as if the whole RFC subnet I
> am using was routed by the provider. So what I need is a
> routing software that not only analyses which way out going
> IP packets have to go, but even replaces the senders's IP
> address by the IP address given by my internet provider. On
> the other hand it has to know where an incomming IP packet is
> comming from (it is now addressed to my router) and deliver
> it to the right machine in the lan.
>
> I think that this must be possible since incomming packets
> are always responses to requests inside my lan.
If the last bit is true, then all you'd need to do is:
1) have your sendmail.cf rewrite all outgoing mail to have the
proper name and domain that your internet provider is giving you.
You could accomplish this by the combination of MASQUERADE and
ENVELOPE_MASQUERADE features to rewrite the domain of all
outgoing mail, and Rule 31 (I think) which is where you can
rewrite the name on outgoing addresses; then
2) have sendmail (through the sendmail.cf) add an extra header
line which would insert the appropriate name@domain of whomever
is mailing out from your network.
3) use procmail to distribute incoming response mail according
to this header line.
NOTE: the features I mentioned in #1 are relevant for sendmail
8.7.*. If you are using earlier versions, you should probably
post your question to comp.mail.sendmail, where you will get
defnitive answers.
If you happen to have incoming mail that is not a response to an
outgoing message, then you might decide to request specific
addressee information to be put in the Subject line and have
procmail process that. I guess such a request coulld be stuck in
another header line on all outgoing messages.
In short, if you don't have a way of I.D. tagging mail, then
there'd be no way to tell were it's supposed to go.
FINALLY - you could ask your provider if they wouldn't mind
installing an alias or some such file in their mail configuation
-- and that file would direct all mail to the proper domain but
with different names to be shuttled through your one IP address.
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
*PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
*Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: eek93@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Eren Kotan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing at boot...
Date: 18 Jan 1996 13:20:14 GMT
Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
Message-ID: <4dlhee$8ef@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
References: <DL63q7.2ot@rna.nl> <DL90LK.8rB@sounds.wa.com> <DL9nvw.GHv@AWT.NL>
Drs G. C. Th. Wierda (G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl) wrote:
: About 1 year. No, it is already known who the culprit is: SAMBA. I started
: noticing this after having installed SAMBA. The solution isn't clear yet.
Yep, I've had exactly the same problem with my NeXTDimension using samba. I
could not find a solution either, so I stopped using samba altogether.
Regards,
Eren Kotan
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Makebackup
Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:26:34 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4dlora$11l@turbocat.snafu.de>
Hi!
This is a little sh-script which makes a backup
to the tape. Someone was looking for that, I think.
The contents file has the advantage that you do not
have to scan the tape just to know how a file is named.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
turbocat:30# more /usr/local/bin/makebackup
#! /bin/sh
## $Revision: 1.0 $
## dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
## makes backup
date >/tmp/date
cd /
date
echo "Writing contents of disk to /tmp/contents"
ls -Rgla ./ >/tmp/contents
date
echo "/tmp/contents finished"
echo "starting gnutar"
gnutar czf /dev/rst0 ./tmp/date ./tmp/contents ./*
date
echo "backup finished"
sndplay /NextLibrary/Sounds/Glass.snd
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: black@winternet.com (Ben Black)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:05:02 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4dlniu$80m@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
In article <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
Boris.Erdmann@mail.in-kiel.de (Boris Erdmann) writes:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> Consider the following situation:
>
> At home I have a small TCP/IP-LAN - about 6 machines, div. platforms.
> The IP adresses I use are RFC 192.168.x.y's.
> And I have an Internet Provider who offers PPP dial in - one IP adress only.
>
> Now I want to use my IP clients as if the whole RFC subnet I am using was
> routed by the provider. So what I need is a routing software that not only
> analyses which way out going IP packets have to go, but even replaces the
> senders's IP address by the IP address given by my internet provider. On
> the other hand it has to know where an incomming IP packet is comming from
> (it is now addressed to my router) and deliver it to the right machine in
> the lan.
>
this is called ip masquerading and it is handled in the latest linux kernels.
you can also patch some earlier kernels to do it.
ben
black@winternet.com
From: tralala@cam.org (Andre Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OmniWeb access thru PPP?
Date: 18 Jan 1996 08:04:53 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Message-ID: <4dkuv5$7pv@tandem.CAM.ORG>
References: <DKMKxw.5zA@planon.qc.ca> <RDL.96Jan8163310@world.std.com>
In <RDL.96Jan8163310@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> If your ISP doesn't allow more than 1 system access to the Internet or if
> you want increased security, you can run a proxy HTTPD on the PPP server.
>
> Robert La Ferla
> Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
> Boston, MA
> Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
> Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
> E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
>
> In article <DKMKxw.5zA@planon.qc.ca> laurent@planon.qc.ca (Laurent
Daudelin) writes:
>
> Xref: world comp.sys.next.sysadmin:27404
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
> Path:
world!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsjunki
e.ans.net!Rezonet.net!altitude!planon_5!laurent
> From: laurent@planon.qc.ca (Laurent Daudelin)
> Sender: laurent@planon.qc.ca (Laurent Daudelin)
> Reply-To: laurent@planon.qc.ca
> Organization: Planon Telexpertise, Inc. Boucherville QUEBEC
> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:56:19 GMT
> Lines: 26
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm the interim administrator of our small site, consisting of about 8
> cpus. One of the cpu (a NEXTStation) is configured as the datas (uucp,
> news, etc) and the fax receiver. It has a dedicated phone line and,
with a
> modem, can forward all external email to our internet provider.
>
> What I would like to do is:
>
> -Installing a PPP (prefered) or a SLIP package that would let us use
our
> PPP account on our provider.
>
> -Allow any user on our network to use OmniWeb to connect to our
provider
> (using PPP), then to access the internet.
>
> Is it possible and, if so, what is needed?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help, pointer or info!
>
> -Laurent.
>
> --
> ******************************************************************
> Laurent Daudelin, Lead Software Engineer
> Planon TELEXPERTISE Inc., Boucherville, Quebec, CANADA
> laurent@planon.qc.ca <-- NeXTMail welcome! (MIME Mail welcome too!)
>
Bonjour Laurent,
You'll need OmniWeb2.0 (Web Browser) and I suggest GatorFTP (FTP),
GateKeeper (Connection), and PopOver (Mail Retrieval).
The best advise I can give you is to link up to <thoughtport.com> to get the
latest PPP version.
IMPORTANT: Read all instructions carefully BEFORE you do anything.
If you have problems,
call me.
Salut!
-Andr
From: karl@rivendell.osu.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serial port baud rate help
Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:55:55 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4dlqib$lal@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I recently installed NeXTstep 3.3 after having run 3.0 on my black
machine for quite some time. A long time ago I had made some changes in
order to get my modem to dial out at 14,400, but I don't remember what
they were. I had set the com port to 38400. When I sintalled 3.3 it blew
these changes away, and now I am limited to 9600. I was wondering if any
one could hlp me with this. I made the changes in the ttys and gettytab
files, but that doesn't seem to rectify the situation. Mybe I made them
incorrectly, or maybe that is the wrong place. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
Karl N. Matthias
matthias.3@osu.edu
From: jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net (James D. Meacham 3rd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail ? regarding SLIP and UUCP
Date: 17 Jan 1996 23:36:45 GMT
Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <4dk16d$g9o@mozart.jlc.net>
Hi All,
Is there a way to get sendmail to check whether my IP link is up, and if it
is, send my e-mail that way, and if it's down, to send it via UUCP. I
realize that this would probably require more intellegence than sendmail is
capable of, but I figured I'd give all you NeXT gurus a shot at it before I
gave up on it.
Alternately, is there a way of getting my machine to queue my mail until the
next time I bring my IP connection up?
Thanks in advance.
Peace,
James
--
_____________________________________________________________________
| The Rev. James David Meacham |
| First Unitarian Congregational Society of Wilton Center |
| e-mail:jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net |
| jmeacham@ants.ci.net |
| 603-654-9518 (Church) 603-654-9590(Home) |
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Whirlpools whirl, Dragnets drag, Hell is not the fire, Hell is your belief
In yourself as the higher---Peter Murphy
From: purquijo@roxette (Pablo Urquijo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Michel Coste, please read, (was: Re: New 3.3 patch messed up my outgoing mail...)
Date: 18 Jan 1996 15:11:17 GMT
Organization: ITESM Campus Monterrey
Message-ID: <4dlnul$4sp@academ00.mty.itesm.mx>
References: <4dkbkr$npr@news4.digex.net>
John Kheit (jkheit@cnj.digex.net) wrote:
: Sorry to post, but it sounds like Michel needs some help, and the mail I
: sent bounces...
Sorry to post here also, but I need to get urgently in touch with Michel.
Michel, if you can read this, please get in touch.
Francisco
(in Holand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (Blue Song)
Subject: Re: PPP connection from Win95 to NS?
Message-ID: <kevincDLDz3v.HDC@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
References: <4cu2ko$hnt@ns2.ny.ubs.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 16:57:31 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
In article <4cu2ko$hnt@ns2.ny.ubs.com> ubs!hadar@uunet.uu.net writes:
>The connection is made, and Windows95 recognizes it as a valid PPP
>connection at the right speed, etc., but nothing else works, like ping,
>for example. I can't even ping the other side of the connection, let alone
>any remote hosts.
>
>Has anyone else done this successfully yet, and if so, what's the procedure?
>
>--
>Hadar Pedhazur
>Global Equity Derivatives
>Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
It sounds like you missed the proxyarp option for a pppd 'server'. Have you
tried that already?
This is the command I used when I set up a Linux PPP server:
exec /usr/local/etc/pppd asyncmap 0 passive proxyarp :client's_ip_addr
The NS machine will then proxy for the Win 95 machine's IP addr as well.
You must give the Win 95 machine a valid IP address on the NS machine's
LAN.
If that's not the problem, you might want to upgrade. I just upgraded
my Next's pppd from 2.2-0.1.9 to 2.2-0.4.6.
Hope that helps.
---
Chuang Shyne Song
IT Infrastructure
UBS Singapore
From: Denis Gesbert <dgesbert@cdphot.u-strasbg.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Connecting a PC with NeXTSTEP on NT server
Date: 18 Jan 1996 17:21:49 GMT
Organization: ULP STRASBOURG FRANCE
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4dlvjd$62q@apopi.u-strasbg.fr>
Hi all,
I'm trying to connect a PC under NeXTSTEP with ppp. The server is a
WindowsNT server that accept ppp connection (that works fine with a
Macintosh using MacPPP). The trouble is when I use link menu in
GateKeeper, (or tip in a terminal window), I can dial and get a
connection with the server but I can't get "login prompt"!. It seems that
the NT server waiting for a string but I don't know witch one?
Does someone can hepl me...
Sincerly
Denis
From: trey@hsv.tybrin.com (Trey McClendon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: loginwindow problem.
Date: 18 Jan 1996 10:03:21 -0600
Organization: TYBRIN Corporation
Message-ID: <4dlr09$hod@tybrin4.hsv.tybrin.com>
Every now and then, a user will log into a NeXTstation (NS3.3 -
unpatched) and will not get into the Workspace. loginwindow will hang
with the following message on /usr/adm/messages:
Jan 18 09:39:55 the_host loginwindow[4560]: Problems may be
encountered, pbs not in bootstrap(Netnameserver: name not checked in)
Can anyone shed light on this?
Much appreciated,
Trey
--
Trey McClendon TYBRIN Corporation
trey@hsv.tybrin.com Huntsville, AL
NeXT / MIME Mail Accepted Fax: 205-837-3472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpmeia@netcom.com
Subject: Strange console message
Message-ID: <nntpuserDLE3At.6yD@netcom.com>
Keywords: sendmail
Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 18:28:05 GMT
I'm getting a strange console message every time I send a fax, after
the fax send is complete:
Jan 18 11:56:54 jpmeia sendmail[3680]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: cannot
chdir(/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
This has appeared ever since a botched attempt to install sendmail
8.7.1, after which I restored my original /etc/sendmail folder, and
re-linked sendmail.cf to sendmail.subsidiary.cf as it was before. I
have noticed no problems with sending/receiving mail.
I don't seem to have any problems other than this message.
Thanks for any help, please respond to:
jpmeia@netcom.com
nextmail welcome
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: boot block extends beyond front porch (HD prob)
Date: 18 Jan 1996 20:43:29 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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Howdy,
when initializing a Quantum Capella via "disk", the following
error message appears after having asked for the boot block:
Boot block is "/usr/standalone/boot", ok? y
boot block extends beyond front porch
The disk can be formatted, though, without any hassles. The
problem is with the filesystem.
Has anybody encountered this before? Any hints what to do?
Torsten
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Re: Suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing at boot...
Message-ID: <DLE7uL.3sI@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
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Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <4dlhee$8ef@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 20:06:21 GMT
In article <4dlhee$8ef@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk> eek93@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Eren
Kotan) writes:
> Drs G. C. Th. Wierda (G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl) wrote:
>
> : About 1 year. No, it is already known who the culprit is: SAMBA. I
started
> : noticing this after having installed SAMBA. The solution isn't clear
yet.
>
> Yep, I've had exactly the same problem with my NeXTDimension using
samba. I
> could not find a solution either, so I stopped using samba altogether.
>
> Regards,
>
> Eren Kotan
The solution is to compile Samba using the NeXT_3.0 definitions in
the Makefile. Don't pass the posix flag.
--
Mario Stargard | NeXTMail Welcome, MIME Tolerated
School of Optometry | http://quark.uwaterloo.ca/~mario
University of Waterloo |
Waterloo, Ontario | "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Canada, N2L 3G1 | -- Bill Gates '81
From: rragner@panther.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Stopping Next from checking for a drive
Date: 18 Jan 1996 22:30:54 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <4dmhmu$qgv@news.iastate.edu>
References: <4dk5nv$pvg@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>
In article <4dk5nv$pvg@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> espeyton@ix.netcom.com
writes:
> Hi Y'all,
>
> On my system I have three hard drives. My second hard drvie is
formatted for
> Linux. This was done after Next was installed. Since I formatted for
Linux,
> every Next starts I get a message about how the second disk is
unreadable,
> with the initialize and cancel buttons. How can I stop Next from
checking up
> on this drive?? I've tried putting the drive into my fstab with the
noauto
> switch but that doesn't seem to do it (Or, more likely I did it wrong.).
Any
> suggestions would be appreciated. By the way, all the drives are either
EIDE
> or IDE.
>
> Eric Peyton
> espeyton@ix.netcom.com
Eric,
Try using "ignore"!
Do a "man mntent" in a terminal window and read what it says about the
ignore mount type...
--
Rod Ragner, UNIX Systems Administrator/NEXTSTEP Application Developer
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University, 2630 Vet. Med. Bldg., Ames, Iowa 50011
Voice: (515) 294-4751, FAX: (515) 294-6961 or 3564, (NeXT Mail accepted)
Email: rragner@stallion.vm.iastate.edu or stryder@iastate.edu
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: I'm getting error 65 SCSI Bus Hung
Date: 19 Jan 1996 01:20:49 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <4dmrlh$clf@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
Hi:
We recently got a power outage and after that my computer (NeXTStation
Color 25MHz) gives me an error 65 (Could not load counter with test
pattern) at boot time. I have SCSI error testing on and then "SCSI Bus
Hung". I have an internal 1Gig Quantum Empire as SCSI 1 (Boot disk),
an External 500MB Fujitsu as SCSI 2, and an NEC 3X MultiSpin CD-ROM as
SCSI 6. I have managed to bring the machine up by connecting all the
external devices, but not powering them up and then powering them up
after the boot process starts and then re-starting. Can anyone help?
Please e-mail me.
Thanks.
--
Wassim M. Jabi
Doctoral Program in Architecture
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: ileslie@nmsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: pop3d for next?
Date: 18 Jan 96 10:58:27
Organization: New Mexico State University
Distribution: world
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Keywords: pop3d mail
I'm trying to set up my NeXTstation, at the university, so that I can read mail from my home PC. I was told that POP3D was the way to go. Our systems guy has tried to help me but when we test it we get the message `connection refused'. I am a complete amateur at setting up NeXTs, but the system fellow is good with unix. Has anyone been successful at setting up a NeXT so that mail can be read from outsideby a PC? I would appreciate any help in this regard.
Thanks in advance,
Ian Leslie
e-mail ileslie@nmsu.edu
From: Lennart_Lovstrand@NeXT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP3 server that supports UIDL?
Date: 19 Jan 1996 02:35:56 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4dn02c$ksq@news.next.com>
References: <4d3sfg$i7v@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
In article <4d3sfg$i7v@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
writes:
> Does anyone know of a POP3 server for NEXTSTEP that supports the UIDL
> command (to support Netscape 2.0's mail)?
Hi Chris,
I added UIDL to a version of popper that I got from UC Berkeley. I also fixed
a few other bugs. You can find it on http://www.next.com/~lennart/Popper.html
if you're interested. (4-way fat for NEXTSTEP 3.X)
Cheers,
--Lennart
--
Disclaimer: All characters in this posting are fictional. Any resemblence
between this posting and an official statement from NeXT is coincidental.
Slight side effects may be experienced. Void where prohibited by law.
From: espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Espeyton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Default application question
Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:53:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4dmq26$opv@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>
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Hi Y'all,
I want all of my .c and .m files to open with my ColorEdit application.
How can I get ColorEdit.app to show it's icon on the Inspector page to be
the default application?
Thanks for the help,
Eric Peyton
espeyton@ix.netcom.com
From: "Perry A. Stupp" <pstupp@inforamp.net>
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 23:56:18 -0500
Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
Message-ID: <30FF2472.739073B8@inforamp.net>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
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Boris Erdmann wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone!
>
> Consider the following situation:
>
> At home I have a small TCP/IP-LAN - about 6 machines, div. platforms.
> The IP adresses I use are RFC 192.168.x.y's.
> And I have an Internet Provider who offers PPP dial in - one IP adress only.
>
> Now I want to use my IP clients as if the whole RFC subnet I am using was
> routed by the provider. So what I need is a routing software that not only
> analyses which way out going IP packets have to go, but even replaces the
> senders's IP address by the IP address given by my internet provider. On
> the other hand it has to know where an incomming IP packet is comming from
> (it is now addressed to my router) and deliver it to the right machine in
> the lan.
>
> I think that this must be possible since incomming packets are always
> responses to requests inside my lan.
>
> So if anyone here knows if such a tricky piece of software exists, please
> let me know about and how to get it.
>
> Please reply by e-mail.
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
> Boris
Boris,
I have a similar setup at home although I only have three machines (po
old me). I'm not entirely sure if what you are trying to do is possible
as you describe it. I always get a little hazy once packets leave the
Server, but I believe that the routing tables along the way from the
remote host to your self-defined subnet will not contain any information
about your subnet (face it as far as the outside world is concerned you
don't exist :-). The dual homed machine that acts as your gateway is
visible to the outside world but there is nothing to tell the world that
machine is the primary router for your subnet, hence packets going out
but not coming back through this machine.
I believe that I have accomplish essentially what you are describing
through a slightly different method (it is also more secure). I have
made my linux machine a SOCKS proxy server (available from
ftp.net.com:/pub/security/... ). It's 'C' source code known to compile
properly on a wide range of systems. SOCKS is much like the magical
routing program that you described above. Socks allows your internal
machine (let's call it machine A) to talk to the dual homed machine
(gateway/socks server), in such a way that the socks server sends out
the packets on machine A's behalf (hence the term proxy). When packets
come back for machine A, the proxy server returns the packets to A and
the conversation is complete. Multiple machines can be proxied at the
same time (I have had up to four on a 28.8 connection, after that it's
slowsville $^& GRRR).
My configuration works like this; The linux machine establishes a ppp
connection to my service provider (one dynamic ip address only) and sets
up the necessary routing and firewall protection. Using the trumpet
winsock my PCs are connected to the linux machine via ethernet. This
method allows me to telnet, ftp (this is a little tricky), read mail and
use WWW browsers. There are a few utilities that do not work properly,
but I imagine that with enough playing around they will work (it took a
little while to figure out ftp). For unix machines, there are a number
of "SOCKISFIED" programs to do much the same. The
Take a look at what socks has to offer, if you have any other
questions, feel free to write me.
Sincerely,
Perry A. Stupp
pstupp@inforamp.net
From: "Perry A. Stupp" <pstupp@inforamp.net>
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Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 00:00:21 -0500
Organization: InfoRamp Inc., Toronto, Ontario (416) 363-9100
Message-ID: <30FF2565.1AC307C@inforamp.net>
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> I believe that I have accomplish essentially what you are describing
> through a slightly different method (it is also more secure). I have
> made my linux machine a SOCKS proxy server (available from
> ftp.net.com:/pub/security/... ). It's 'C' source code known to compile
Sorry, that should read ftp.nec.com
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Contacting PLI - Peripheral Land Incorporated?
Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:40:21 GMT
Organization: Arizona State University
Message-ID: <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu>
Keywords: Computer Hardware & Peripherals
Does anyone have any information that would help me to contact
PLI or Peripheral Land Incorporated. Telephone numbers, fax numbers, or
E-mail information would be dearly appreciated. I have a CD-ROM made by
them, but can't reach them through the older numbers they have listed.
Thank you for any help. Have a wonderful week!
Regards,
Sue
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: 021836b@dragon.acadiau.ca (Peter Burka)
Subject: Re: Q: Adding a Hard Drive
Message-ID: <1996Jan18.154957.29470@relay.acadiau.ca>
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Organization: Acadia University
References: <4d9pv8$gvf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <1996Jan14.223336.24974@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:49:57 GMT
Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes:
>In article <4d9pv8$gvf@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Shaun Foy (sfoy@zoology.ubc.ca)
>writes:
>> I have an old 105 quantum drive. The drive was used previously
>> on a NeXT. I have just hooked it up to my machine. I expected
>> it to show up on my File Viewer, but it didn't. What do I have
>> to do to access the disk? I have tried build disk (to make it
>> a swap disk) but it fails. I have tried mounting it but to no
>> avail (mount /dev/sd1a /usr1). I also tried to add it to my
>> /etc/fstab file but it then my machine jumped into single user
>> when I tried rebooting. Perhaps someone please shed some light
>> on my mistake?
>Does it show up when you do a verbose boot? If not, it is really fried.
>If it does show up, see what scsimodes says about it, and try disk.
Have you changed the jumpers on the drive to give it a unique SCSI id?
Peter
--
Peter Burka "If only we were weiner dogs our
Wolfville, NS, Canada problems would be all solved"
021836b@acadiau.ca -- The Bravest Little Toaster
From: chris@miles.opensource.com (Chris Miner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: boot block extends beyond front porch (HD prob)
Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:21:26 GMT
Organization: OpenSource Inc.
Distribution: world
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In article <4dmbdh$deo@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
writes:
> when initializing a Quantum Capella via "disk", the following
> error message appears after having asked for the boot block:
>
> Boot block is "/usr/standalone/boot", ok? y
> boot block extends beyond front porch
>
Torsten,
From NA 1533:
Why am I unable to partition and initialize my new big disk? It's a
2.7 gigabyte SEAGATE ST43400N. I get errors like "boot block extends
beyond front porch."
Could this apply to your situation? You don't mention the disk size...
Chris
From: "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [NeXT] File System... inode limit?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 13:50:41 -0500
Organization: INTERNET SOLUTIONS INCORPORATED
Message-ID: <30FFE801.2486@home.mysolution.com>
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Does the inode limited by the physical disk or
by partitions?
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Formatting Woes..
Date: 18 Jan 1996 23:39:42 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4dmlnu$ghd@nuke.csu.net>
I am trying to put a new 4GB drive on my NeXTstation color running
3.3.
But I keep running into problems trying to format the disk.
I have run the sdformat on the drive and have been able to do a low
level format. But when I try to Initialize the drive it keeps
failing.
I remember several years ago, when formatting a Fujitsu 2.0GB drive I
had to have an entry in the disktab file to be able to
format/initialize the drive. Something to do with extending the boot
porch.
Is this the problem with this new drive? Has anyone been able to
initialize this model drive? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks..
-Victor Quevedo
vqueved@calstatela.edu
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x31
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 0 failed
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x31
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 1 failed
No boot blocks on disk
--
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Samba and printing problems
Date: 19 Jan 1996 05:18:36 GMT
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <4dn9jc$her@news.xmission.com>
I'm running 3.3 on a Moto machine (heisenberg), using Samba to serve
NEXTSTEP directories to a Win95 machine (monolith) connected via Ethernet.
But I'm still having problems getting the Win95 machine to print to the
NeXT 400 dpi laser printer (PlanetaryPrinter).
Whenever I print in Win95 to PlanetaryPrinter, Windows displays the
dialog "There was an error printing to \\HEISENBERG\printers due to an
unknown system error."
The samba log for monolith (log.monolith) says
Thu Jan 18 21:39:59 1996
monolith (198.60.114.10) connect to service printers as user kris
(uid=100,gid=0) (pid 241)
Thu Jan 18 21:39:59 1996
monolith (198.60.114.10) closed connection to service printers
so it looks like heisenberg is trying to do something with the print request.
My smb.conf file has the following entries for [global] and [printers]:
[global]
autoservices = kris printers apps web
browseable = yes
hosts allow = 198.60.114.10
load printers = yes
guest account = nobody
log file = /usr/local/samba/log.%m
log level = 1
print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -r %p %s
; print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -r %p
printcap name = /usr/local/samba/printcap
printing = bsd
; security = user
status = yes
valid users = kris
workgroup = WORKGROUP
[printers]
path = /tmp
comment = Attached to heisenberg
printer = PlanetaryPrinter
hosts allow = 198.60.114.10
browseable = yes
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
create mode = 0777
valid users = kris
I'm using a printcap file in /usr/local/samba with the following:
PlanetaryPrinter|planetary_printer:\
:cf = /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/pscf:\
:df = /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psdf:\
:gf = /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psgf:\
:if = /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver:\
:lf = "/usr/adm/lpd-errs":\
:lp = /dev/null:\
:mx = 0:\
:nf = /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psnf:\
:note = "Attached to heisenberg":\
:nxformat = 3.0:\
:rf = /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/psrf:\
:rm = heisenberg\
:sb = "":\
:sd = /usr/spool/NeXT/PlanetaryPrinter:\
:sf = "":\
:ty=PostScript:
I'm not sure if the lpr command is correct, though I can print man pages,
etc., using that command.
I can see PlanetaryPrinter in the heisenberg directory as printers,
though the name isn't displayed anywhere.
I am using the NeXT printer driver from Adobe.
What do I need to do to fix it?
Thanks in advance,
....................kris
--
Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Contacting PLI - Peripheral Land Incorporated?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 08:36:53 GMT
Organization: Black Fish Soft
Message-ID: <4dnk9p$8lb@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu>
sugee@imap2.asu.edu wrote:
> Does anyone have any information that would help me to contact
>PLI or Peripheral Land Incorporated. Telephone numbers, fax numbers, or
>E-mail information would be dearly appreciated. I have a CD-ROM made by
>them, but can't reach them through the older numbers they have listed.
> Thank you for any help. Have a wonderful week!
Try Plextor I think they changed names a while back.
>Regards,
>Sue
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From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Re: Suddenly my machine starts fsck-ing at boot...
Message-ID: <DLF8AG.5x6@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:13:28 GMT
eek93@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Eren Kotan) wrote:
>Drs G. C. Th. Wierda (G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl) wrote:
>
>: About 1 year. No, it is already known who the culprit is: SAMBA. I started
>: noticing this after having installed SAMBA. The solution isn't clear yet.
>
>Yep, I've had exactly the same problem with my NeXTDimension using samba. I
>could not find a solution either, so I stopped using samba altogether.
I got the latest release of Samba (pl8) which can be compiled without -posix
(yep again a posix bug in NEXTSTEP). This is supposed to solve the problem,
though I haven't rebooted since (I'll do it this weekend).
From: Guillaume Laurent <glaurent@nissart.lagaude.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: 19 Jan 1996 10:35:45 +0100
Organization: IBM La Gaude Research Center
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References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
<4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>
In-reply-to: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 18 Jan 1996 11:06:26 GMT
In article <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes:
> > At home I have a small TCP/IP-LAN - about 6 machines, div.
[...]
> >
> > I think that this must be possible since incomming packets
> > are always responses to requests inside my lan.
>
> If the last bit is true, then all you'd need to do is:
>
> 1) have your sendmail.cf rewrite all outgoing mail to have the
[...]
The original poster was talking about IP packets and IP routing, not
email messages and routing.
I believe the IP_MASQUERADE feature of the kernel will solve half of
the problem (masquerading as the router). Don't know about the other
half.
--
--
Guillaume
From: d_burr@ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov (Donald Burr)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 06:41:45 GMT
Organization: Starfleet Command
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <DLF19L.A9@ncc-1701-d.starfleet.gov>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de> <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>
In article <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>,
Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@scf.usc.edu> wrote:
>In
>comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.
>unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctoo
>ls.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.
>routing you wrote:
>> Hello Everyone!
>>
>> Consider the following situation:
>>
>> At home I have a small TCP/IP-LAN - about 6 machines, div.
>> platforms. The IP adresses I use are RFC 192.168.x.y's. And
>> I have an Internet Provider who offers PPP dial in - one IP
>> adress only.
>>
>> Now I want to use my IP clients as if the whole RFC subnet I
>> am using was routed by the provider. So what I need is a
>> routing software that not only analyses which way out going
>> IP packets have to go, but even replaces the senders's IP
>> address by the IP address given by my internet provider. On
>> [...]
>If the last bit is true, then all you'd need to do is:
>
> [...]
I think what the originator is looking for is akin to the IP_MASQUERADING
option available under Linux. I've never been able to adequately explain
what this does, so I'm not even gonna try: here's some excerpts from the
Linux Networking HOWTO and some email that was slinging back and forth on
the nets a while ago...
> From: Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: IP Masquerading under FreeBSD?
Linux apparently has the ability to "masquerade" IP addresses, so that
addresses from ANY machine on my network will appear, to the outside
world, as coming from only one address.
for example:
My home network uses the class C address 192.160.60.xxx. I connect to
the outside world using PPP, and my PPP provider dynamically assigns me a
address, usually in the range of (Class C) 204.32.201.xxx. BUT, my PPP
provider DOES NOT know about my home-brew network (192.160.60.xxx), nor
can they provide a static route to it. Thus, accessing the outside world
from 192.160.60.100 (which happens to be my freeBSD machine, running ppp)
works fine, BUT if I try to access the outside world from any of the
various other DOS, Win95, OS/2, ... boxes in my house won't work,
because, even though my FreeBSD machine forwards packets, the other
internet machine I'm trying to communicate with doesn't have a clue as to
how to reach the 192.160.60.xxx network.
What the IP_MASQUERADE thing that Linux implements does, is to
"masquerade" packets coming from all machines on my 192.160.60.xxx
network, dynamically "rewriting" them to "pretend" like they're all
coming from one machine (mainly, the address that my PPP provider assigns
me, 204.32.201.xxx.) THIS way, the machine I'm trying to talk to, knows
how to get to the 204.32.201.xxx net, and everything's happy.
The follownig blurb from the Linux NET-2-HOWTO file should (hopefully)
better explain exactly what I'm trying to say:
-----cut here
13.11. IP_MASQUERADE - allow a number of hosts to pretend to be one.
If you are one of the many people who have some sort of local network
at home, whether it be a couple of machine connected via a
slip/plip/ppp link to each other, or a number of machines connected to
a private ethernet network who also has a dial-up Internet connection
then you have probably at one time or another wanted the machines not
directly connected to be able to communicate with the Internet. This
is normally achieved by getting a valid register IP network address
for your local network and asking your Internet Service Provider to
kindly provide a network route to your network connection instead of
the single host route they were previously providing. Unfortunately
many Internet Service Providers will ask you to provide a good deal
more dollars for the priveledge of better utilising the bandwidth of
your connection and you probably don't much like that idea.
IP_MASQUERADING provides a clever solution to this problem by making
all of the machines on your network look like one very active
networked machine. It does this by performing real-time, on the fly
address translations. Most of the code was authored by Pauline
Middelink <middelin@polyware.iaf.nl>.
Ken Eaves <keves@eves.com provided most the information contained
below and also provides the facilities to run the `masq' mailing list,
so if you find the following helpful, thank Ken.
-----cut here
Anyway, my question is : Does FreeBSD do something similar, if not
identical? Is it currently available, or is it still "in the works"?
And if so, where do I get it (what ftp site to grab the softwware from,
etc.) and what software, specifically, do I need?
Any and all help appreciated, thanks!
> From: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
> Subject: Re: IP Masquerading under FreeBSD?
> To: serges@umr.edu (Doug S.)
> Cc: d_burr@ix.netcom.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> I while back I had (and still have) the need to do this. It is such a
> powerful feature that I dont know why its not available under FreeBSD.
> (And Im not completely sure that its available under Linux. Anyone using
> it?)
>
> Im also curious about the implementation. How does the kernel encode the
> the internal hosts' IP address? Does it keep an internal list or does it
> save it in the IP packet? Where would it place the address (does anyone
> have a Stevens book handy? :)
The way this works is by remapping TCP and UDP port numbers, and keeping
an internal mapping of (ExternalPort) <-> (InternalIp, InternalPort) for
both TCP and UDP. As packets fly by you just change their source or
destination according to the table. New outgoing packets cause a new
(unused) external port to be allocated.
So most apps work, but you can't ping from the inside, for example (because
ping uses ICMP which is neither TCP nor UDP).
-Archie
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No dots in NetInfo mail aliases possible ?
Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:11:11 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4docaf$t8h@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Is it true that it's not possible to use dots for alias names in
NetInfo aliases ? Something like
Firstname.Lastname: username
does work as mail alias when used in /usr/etc/aliases, but it doesn't
work when put in NetInfo's /aliases !!! May this be a bug in NeXT's
sendmail, that's perhaps corrected with Robert's 8.7.x sendmail ?
Gregor
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From: ruth@snowbird.advis.com (RuthAnn Mackey)
Newsgroups: ne.jobs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: US-MA-BOSTON...System Administrator
Date: 19 Jan 1996 15:12:30 GMT
Organization: Advanced Information Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4doccu$s55@gate.advis.com>
Keywords: MA - BOSTON - SYS ADMIN JOB
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years of UNIX systems administration experience and a strong hardware
background. Knowledge of TCP/IP networking (including NFS, NetInfo, NIS,
SLIP/PPP, and SNMP) is needed. HTML authoring skills and shell
programming experience are also desirable. WAN and Internet experience is
a plus. This individual will assist AIS customers on network integration
projects and play a key roll in the development of our Systems
Administration Consulting Group.
Advanced Information Solutions (AIS) is a rapidly growing consulting and
systems integration company specializing in the development of
object-oriented, client-server information systems. AIS has established a
strong position in our target market through strategic partnerships with
NeXT Computer, NEC Technologies, and other companies in the NEXTSTEP
market.
Our customers are leading firms in the Financial Services, Medical, and
Communications industries. We offer our customers consulting services
covering the full application life cycle. We are looking for highly
qualified candidates for positions in all our service areas including:
NEXTSTEP development training , OO analysis & design, software
engineering, mainframe re-engineering, Unix systems administration,
systems integration, and software support. All candidates must have
excellent interpersonal skills. The ability to travel will be required
for most positions.
At AIS we set high standards for the services we offer our customers. If
you are interested in joining a world class team, send your resume and
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For additional background information on Advanced Information Solutions
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: 19 Jan 1996 16:38:42 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-32.usc.edu
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4dohei$d9m@usc.edu>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de> <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>
<7kag3kh6ha.fsf@nissart.lagaude.ibm.com>
In <7kag3kh6ha.fsf@nissart.lagaude.ibm.com> Guillaume Laurent
wrote:
> The original poster was talking about IP packets and IP
routing, not
> email messages and routing.
>
> I believe the IP_MASQUERADE feature of the kernel will solve
half of
> the problem (masquerading as the router). Don't know about
the other
> half.
Ooops. A bit too much coffee and too little solid foods!
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No dots in NetInfo mail aliases possible ?
Date: 19 Jan 1996 16:24:37 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4dogk5$dk7@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4docaf$t8h@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <4docaf$t8h@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) writes:
> Is it true that it's not possible to use dots for alias names in
> NetInfo aliases ? Something like
>
> Firstname.Lastname: username
>
> does work as mail alias when used in /usr/etc/aliases, but it doesn't
> work when put in NetInfo's /aliases !!! May this be a bug in NeXT's
> sendmail, that's perhaps corrected with Robert's 8.7.x sendmail ?
One of our customers uses this form of alias, so I can assure you it
works. Perhaps you missed the NeXT feature that you need two lines for
the alias, like so:
name: Gregor.Hoffleit
gregor.hoffleit
members: flight
We use the KZnetinfo technique to read the aliases.
Paul
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Satan 1.1.1 and NeXTSTEP
Date: 18 Jan 1996 17:35:01 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4dm0c5$js9@news.its.com>
References: <4djq34$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi) wrote:
> Did anyone succeeded in compiling Satan 1.1.1 for NS 3.3 Intel ?
> How ? Is there an already compiled package somewhere ?
You can get Satan to build under NEXTSTEP, but it is more trouble than it's
worth. Go find a Sun and build it under Solaris; it's a lot easier.
I really hope no one makes a precompiled version available (or is silly
enough to use an anonymously available version if one did exist). Satan is
intended to detect and report on security vulnerabilities across your local
network. It would be completely trivial to make that precompiled version
send a copy of that report somewhere in an almost undetectable fashion.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: norm@enel.ucalgary.ca (Norm Bartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOS partition invisible to NS
Date: 19 Jan 1996 17:57:47 GMT
Organization: ECE Department, U. of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Message-ID: <4dom2r$84o@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>
Hello all,
My DOS partition has mysteriously vanished from NS 3.3's view
on my Intel box. Trying to mount it manually with the mount command:
"mount -t dos /dev/rhd0h /dos" produces ...
mount: /dev/rhd0h on /dos: No such device
mount: giving up on:
/dos
However, I am able to examine the partitioning of the disk with
"fdisk /dev/rhd0h". What gives? Can anyone shed some light on this?
The DOS partition is on my IDE startup disk, shared by a small NeXT
boot partition and a Linux swap partition.
Many thanks for any tips,
Norm
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scott@ee.ucla.edu (Ryan Scott)
Subject: Re: Contacting PLI - Peripheral Land Incorporated?
Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon)
Message-ID: <DLFwEG.Jso@seas.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 17:54:16 GMT
To: sugee@imap2.asu.edu
References: <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu>
Organization: UCLA, Department of Electrical Engineering
Keywords: Computer Hardware & Peripherals
In article <4dmp9l$8gp@news.asu.edu>, sugee@imap2.asu.edu writes:
|> Does anyone have any information that would help me to contact
|> PLI or Peripheral Land Incorporated. Telephone numbers, fax numbers, or
|> E-mail information would be dearly appreciated. I have a CD-ROM made by
|> them, but can't reach them through the older numbers they have listed.
|> Thank you for any help. Have a wonderful week!
|>
|> Regards,
|> Sue
|>
|>
Here is some info to try:
Phone: (800)288-8754 (1994)
Fax: (510) 683-9713 (1993)
Service Phone: (800)517-6466 (1995)
The years are the last time I actually called these numbers.
I am not sure if they are still current.
Hope this helps.
Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Formatting Woes..
In-Reply-To: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu's message of 18 Jan 1996 23:39:42 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan19151836@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4dmlnu$ghd@nuke.csu.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:18:36 GMT
You need to partition it into two 2GB partitions since NS can't handle
more than 2GB per partition.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4dmlnu$ghd@nuke.csu.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo) writes:
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 18 Jan 1996 23:39:42 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
I am trying to put a new 4GB drive on my NeXTstation color running
3.3.
But I keep running into problems trying to format the disk.
I have run the sdformat on the drive and have been able to do a low
level format. But when I try to Initialize the drive it keeps
failing.
I remember several years ago, when formatting a Fujitsu 2.0GB drive I
had to have an entry in the disktab file to be able to
format/initialize the drive. Something to do with extending the boot
porch.
Is this the problem with this new drive? Has anyone been able to
initialize this model drive? Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks..
-Victor Quevedo
vqueved@calstatela.edu
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x31
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 0 failed
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 3
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 4
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 5
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 6
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 7
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 8
Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 9
sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x31
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 1 failed
No boot blocks on disk
--
Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Default application question
In-Reply-To: espeyton@ix.netcom.com's message of 19 Jan 1996 00:53:26 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan19152010@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4dmq26$opv@cloner2.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:20:10 GMT
You need to register a document extension in the Attributes section of
your PB.project.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4dmq26$opv@cloner2.ix.netcom.com> espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Espeyton) writes:
From: espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Espeyton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: 19 Jan 1996 00:53:26 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Hi Y'all,
I want all of my .c and .m files to open with my ColorEdit application.
How can I get ColorEdit.app to show it's icon on the Inspector page to be
the default application?
Thanks for the help,
Eric Peyton
espeyton@ix.netcom.com
From: alanf@izzy.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tar to raw floppy
Date: 19 Jan 1996 22:01:08 GMT
Organization: Comshare Inc.
Message-ID: <4dp4b4$qs0@INET_PRIME.comshare.com>
I'm writing an application that creates software distributions on a variety
of media, and need to tar to the raw floppy device. Is there a way I can
prevent the system from trying to automatically mount a floppy when it is
inserted?
Thanks in advance,
Alan M. Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q:How to choose the default icon for a file type?
Date: 20 Jan 1996 20:09:33 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4dri5t$cg@news4.digex.net>
We all know how to set the default app for a file type (Cmnd 3 in
WM). But what happens when you have several apps registering icons
for a single file type? There are multiple apps all setting an
icon for .tiff files. What do I have to do to have say, PixelMagician's
.tiff icon be displayed instead of some other app? Is there some
way to do this, or is it just random?
Thanks for any pointers.
--
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From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tar to raw floppy
Date: 21 Jan 1996 15:46:52 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
Message-ID: <4dtn5c$8mq@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <4dp4b4$qs0@INET_PRIME.comshare.com>
alanf@izzy.net wrote:
: I'm writing an application that creates software distributions on a variety
: of media, and need to tar to the raw floppy device. Is there a way I can
: prevent the system from trying to automatically mount a floppy when it is
: inserted?
Just don't insert the floppy, do your tar or whatever command to the raw
device and then a pop-up will appear that asks you to insert your floppy.
Willem
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <eric@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 08:22:23 -0800
From: Eric Trembly <eric@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
Message-ID: <199601211622.IAA04732@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
Subject: How do I stop CDROM from ejecting at logout ???
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <4dhvgf$9qn@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Eric Peyton) wrote:
> How can I stop my CD-ROM drive from ejecting my CD's every time
> I logout??? Thanks in advance,
Hi Everyone,
A customer a while back sent me this. I think this is what you are
looking for. Or part of it is at least.
Please note that the Nebula CDROM is now Quad-FAT with over
400 Quad-FAT applications on the CDROM. Most of them include
full source code.
Eric "E.T." Tremblay
Walnut Creek CDROM
1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
1 800 786-9907
+1 510 947-5996
+1 510 947-1644 FAX
info@cdrom.com or eric@cdrom.com (Electronic Mail)
http://www.cdrom.com/titles/nebula.html
Here's the forwarded message.
Item 4527089 94/03/04 01:40
From: RICHARD%RUNNER.UUCP@USC.EDU@INTERNET#
Subject: Re: Nova Second Addition
> Sorry, but since the CD-ROM is removable media. It will only mount after
> the workspace is initialized and it will be unmounted and ejected when the
> user who is using it logs out.
>
Ok, with a little help, I have learned how to keep a CD-ROM (Nova in my case)
permanently mounted. Here is how, incase anyone else asks.
1. Insert cd-rom as usual when logged in.
2. In a terminal window: /usr/etc/mount -p
This will give several lines, including one similar to:
/dev/rsd2h /NOVA_SE cfs ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM 1 2
This info can be used in a subsequent mount command or in /etc/fstab for boot
time mounting.
3. Eject the cd-rom
4. su root in your terminal window
5 Type a command similar to the following using the info received in step 2.
runner:2# /usr/etc/mount -t cfs -o ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM /dev/rsd2h
/NOVA_SE
6 Insert the cd-rom when a window tells you to.
now log out and your cd rom should NOT eject & will be available for all users.
(Including
remote users.)
note to eject the cd-rom after this procedure, no apps must be using the cd-rom.
(This means
you might have to log in as console (from the user/password screen) to do the
following)
1. su root
2. sync
3. /usr/etc/umount /dev/rsd2h (you might be /dev/rsd1h etc.)
4. /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rsd2h (you might be /dev/rsd1h ...)
NOTE: IF YOU DON'T umount BEFORE you eject, file system corruption could occur.
=============
Thanks for a great CD-ROM.
---
Richard
richard%runner.uucp@usc.edu
(ok to send NeXT Mail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How do I stop CDROM from ejecting at logout ???
In-Reply-To: Christian Starkjohann's message of Sat, 20 Jan 96 11:22:38 +0100
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan21143528@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <9601201022.AA00369@zaphod>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 19:35:28 GMT
That is a good way to damage your hardware. See the other post in this group
for how to really prevent your CD-ROM from being unmounted/ejected.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
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In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <4dhvgf$9qn@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Eric Peyton) wrote:
> How can I stop my CD-ROM drive from ejecting my CD's every time
> I logout??? Thanks in advance,
I have found a simple solution: I put a 1kg weight in front of the
drive's door. Whenever it opens, it stops on the weight and closes
again. On power down this happens several times, but in the end, the
weight wins.
Ciao -- Christian.
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I stop CDROM from ejecting at logout ???
Date: 21 Jan 1996 20:02:05 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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References: <9601201022.AA00369@zaphod> <RDL.96Jan21143528@world.std.com>
In <RDL.96Jan21143528@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> That is a good way to damage your hardware. See the other
post in this group
> for how to really prevent your CD-ROM from being
unmounted/ejected.
Yeah. he should be using super glue!!!! Works for my hamsters,
not to mention my front-door key (keeps me from losing it)!
;;;8-)
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: tar to raw floppy
Message-ID: <1996Jan21.114131.1181@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4dp4b4$qs0@INET_PRIME.comshare.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 11:41:31 GMT
In article <4dp4b4$qs0@INET_PRIME.comshare.com> alanf@izzy.net writes:
> I'm writing an application that creates software distributions
> on a variety of media, and need to tar to the raw floppy device.
> Is there a way I can prevent the system from trying to automatically
> mount a floppy when it is inserted?
Not without braking some valuables, I fear. But you don't need to. If
'tar' is issued and there's no disk present a panel will appear to insert
a disk. This disk will not mount and will just be used in raw mode.
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From: empath@a.crl.com (Tim Triemstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! Printers not selectable!
Date: 22 Jan 1996 00:01:26 GMT
Organization: Alpha Star International
Message-ID: <4duk4m$5vp@nntp.crl.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
Help me please! We had a complete system crash on our network when the
primary SCSI drive simply died! I was able to bring pretty much everything
back to life (no thanks to SafetyNet) however I am having problems selecting
printers now from user accounts.
Root accounts let me choose any of the network printers (2 black printers
connected to black machines and one JetDirect HP controlled by a third
machine) - this used to work fine on user accounts as well. However, now the
user accounts are stuck on whatever printer they last used. They can click on
other printers in the choosing dialog and the "Note:" field shows the
appropriate note for the clicked printer. However, the "Selected printer"
never changes and anything you print goes to that printer!
I tried to change the exported name of one of the printers (black) to see if
it was properly created in /usr/local/spool/NeXT/... and it deleted the old
networked printer name but did not add a new name. Is there a way to just
delete all the printer information and re-enter it and have it work? As of
right now, new printers act just like older ones (not selectable.)
Please help!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: CDR Danny Stevenson <stevensd@nosc.mil>
Subject: PPP "not 8-bit clean" error
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <30FDDAD2.1E36@nosc.mil>
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Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 05:29:54 GMT
I've installed PPP2.2.0.1.9 on my NeXT Turbo Color, but I've not
been able to establish a PPP link yet. I've looked in what FAQ's I
have, but can't seem to find the answer. I know the link works,
since when I switch my modem A/B switch to my Mac, MacPPP
establishes the connection with no problem.
I recently did a clean install of NS 3.3, and followed the PPP
install instructions. I've also installed NXFax, which works fine.
I modified one of the example scripts (pppup.annex) since I'm
logging into an annex server (the only thing I changed was the phone
number, user name, and password).
The debug file shows that the modem connects, sends the user name
and password properly, and then attempts to establish the PPP
connection. It immediately gets hung up in sending a bunch of
Conf_Req messages, and then informs me that the serial port is not
8-bit clean, that bit 7 is 0 in every byte, and drops the connection
and the modem hangs up.
I've been trying to make this work for two days. What configuration
file piece or procedure have I missed? Thanks in advance for any
help!
Danny Stevenson
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Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 22 Jan 1996 05:15:11 GMT
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Topics include:
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From: gq (G. Quinonez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOS download cannot be saved to DOS floppy using NSFIP 3.3
Date: 22 Jan 1996 06:47:10 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <4dvbte$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu>
Hello everyone.
Ive been getting a message that reads:
File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument
Diamond is the name of the DOS formatted disk under NSFIP. I formatted this
diskette with the workspace manager using initialize and named it Diamond.
The file that I downloaded(using OmniWEB beta 2) from the net was a DOS
executable file called GTW.EXE and initially opens as ascii file using
Edit.app. Then I try to use "save as" from the Edit menu and try to save
it to the diskette and I get the message as above.
Then, I saved the file to the hard drive, and tried to drag it to the DOS
diskette and I got the Processes panel and said again...
File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument
Then STOP and Proceed buttons appear. I choose stop of course.
Can anyone show me the correct way to download a DOS or Mac file in
NeXTStep3.3 FIP and save it to a respectively formatted disk under NeXT.
Thanks to whoever responds.
Please email to my address quinonez@ucla.edu
====================================================
G. Quinonez NeXTStep 3.3 FIP
__ "I'm not sure we understand everything
/\__/\ we know about this."
\/__\/ Charles M. Abernathy, Sr.
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MIME & Plain text: gquinonez@mem.po.com
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From: knguyen@callisto.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hard disks crash
Date: 22 Jan 1996 09:34:54 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4dvlnu$inr@news.tuwien.ac.at>
Hi all,
We have 3 machines with the same configuration running on NextStep 3.3
/Intel 486.
The configuration is :
- ATI Mach32 Ultra Pro graphic card
- Adaptec 1542CF SCCI controller + Quantum 500MB
- ProAudio Spectrum sound card
Our problem is sometimes the machines hang up (always with the hard disk
's light on). We think that there must be some problems with the
hardware configuration. Please tell us how to fix it.
All hints are appreciated.
Khanh Nguyen
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Panic: trap_hpmc
Date: 22 Jan 1996 09:49:11 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4dvmin$i40@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Does anyone know what causes this panic?
My users report that it (apparently) occurs when working with DOS
floppies, usually on logout without first explicitly ejecting the disk.
I've been unable to reproduce the error using their disks or attempting to
reconstruct their actions.
The last message before the panic was:
DOS File System: Initialized
panic: (Cpu 0) trap_hpmc
Could it be the result of the DOS disks being formatted using other
("better") formatting programs on the DOS machines, as one of my users
suggests?
thanks,
Dave
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From: michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How good are ZIP-Drives?
Date: 22 Jan 1996 12:09:33 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID: <4dvupt$1oi6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Hi,
I am just considering to buy a ZIP-Drive for my NeXT and I would like
to know whether anybody can report about experiences (good or bad)
with such a drive.
Thanks a lot
Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Malte Tancred
Subject: Re: DOS partition invisible to NS
Message-ID: <DLKu5H.A0r@oops.se>
Sender: usenet@oops.se
Organization: OOPS art, HB
References: <4dom2r$84o@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:53:41 GMT
In <4dom2r$84o@ds2.acs.ucalgary.ca> Norm Bartley wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My DOS partition has mysteriously vanished from NS 3.3's view
> on my Intel box. Trying to mount it manually with the mount command:
> "mount -t dos /dev/rhd0h /dos" produces ...
>
> mount: /dev/rhd0h on /dos: No such device
> mount: giving up on:
> /dos
>
> However, I am able to examine the partitioning of the disk with
> "fdisk /dev/rhd0h". What gives? Can anyone shed some light on this?
> The DOS partition is on my IDE startup disk, shared by a small NeXT
> boot partition and a Linux swap partition.
>
> Many thanks for any tips,
> Norm
>
Hi,
I've got a similar problem. I have an external CONNER CFP1080S which I've
had some trouble with. I want dos to be on the first partition or it won't
work correctly. For example, I couldn't choose to have a permanent swap file
in windoze due to 'your current disk partitioning'.
Well, anyways, I used DOS FDISK to partition my disk and then formatted it
for dos. It worked out well. Then I wanted to format the reminder of the
disk for NeXT (from my internal NeXT disk). I couldn't figure out how. NeXT
FDISK found two pratitions, dos and NeXT, but I couldn't acces the NeXT
partition.
After a lot of swearing I finally used the NeXT fdisk with the -dosPlusNeXT
action. This worked out ok, and I was able to initialize both dos and NeXT
partitions. I was able to boot from dos and set the permanent swapfile AND I
was able to reach my NeXT partition when booting from my internal disk. It
was mounted as sd1a. I could aslo reach my dos partition from within the
NeXT.
When I came to the office this morning I put the disk on one of our black
machines. I wanted to get the info that I saved on the NeXT partition last
night. I a very childish and naive way, I thought everything would work out
just fine :-). Well, it didn't. The dos partition was mounted, alright, but
as /dev/rsd1h! And the NeXT part was not visable. At home the NeXT part. had
been mounted as /dev/sd1a.
Now, what am I doing wrong?
When I tried to mount the NeXT part it said something about wrong ioctl. I
also tried disk -s to get some stats, but only got 'no valid label name'.
Then I made something stupid (I think :-) ). I changed the disk label. Now I
can't access the dos partition at all. Whatever I try to do , trying to
mount the dos or NeXT, I get either:
mount: /dev/rsd1h /ms-dos_6: Block device required
or
mount: /dev/dev/rsd1h /ms-dos_6: Device busy
or
mount: /dev/rsd1h /Seagull: Block device required (Seagull is the NeXT
part.)
Is there any hope?!?
Thanks for reading my unnecessarily long note,
Malte
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OOPS art, HB
Member of Swedish Object Guild
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From: pc25@
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Power Supply
Date: 22 Jan 1996 14:14:29 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik 3.3 Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4e0645$pq7@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
Dear NeXT-Users,
I am looking for a Power Supply, which allows to shutdown
our NeXT-Station in case of power failure. Cant get information
so far, any help appreciated!
For any help, hints or information thanks in advance!
Armin
-----------Armin Pollak----Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Telefon: 089 / 6004 3502 Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39,
FAX: 089 / 6004 3560 85577 Neubiberg, Deutschland
email: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de
From: cortesr@alleg.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Rebooted: Now where's the login panel?
Date: 22 Jan 1996 14:34:53 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <4e07ad$cik@speering.alleg.edu>
Hello:
I recently rebooted two NeXT Slabs running 3.2 and when they said reboot
complete verbosely, the login panel never came up. The two machines just sat
there saying the reboot was complete in the NeXT> window.
Any help?
Ricardo
--
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Allegheny College
cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK)
http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS download cannot be saved to DOS floppy using NSFIP 3.3
Date: 22 Jan 1996 07:47:25 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4e0bid$ajn@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4dvbte$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu>
In article <4dvbte$p36@saba.info.ucla.edu>,
G. Quinonez <quinonez@ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>File error for /diamond/gtw.exe: Invalid argument
>
>Then STOP and Proceed buttons appear. I choose stop of course.
>
>Can anyone show me the correct way to download a DOS or Mac file in
>NeXTStep3.3 FIP and save it to a respectively formatted disk under NeXT.
>Thanks to whoever responds.
The file name must be either in all caps or in all lower case (I never
remember which). I imagine this is the problem you're running into.
Lusty
From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Dialing into Black hardware from Windows95???
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:10:08 -0600
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Message-ID: <3103C4F0.4A9D@kypris.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Can anyone possibly help me?
I would like to be able to dial-in to my NeXT (Turbo color Station) from
Windows95.
I've setup the getty correctly (according to the manuals) and have a
28800 modem on both ends.
When I dialin, using hyperTerminal, for example, the connection is made,
but I get a bunch of garbage spit out to the Windows95 terminal and
immediate disconnect.
Can anyone tell me what to change, look at, etc. to be able to do this?
Thanks,
Dan
--
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2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (214) 790-2950
Irving TX 75061-6645 Email: dan@kypris.com
LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail welcome!
Web:<http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan>
From: Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with nntp
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 09:24:45 -0800
Organization: CE-CERT
Message-ID: <3103C85D.41C67EA6@cert.ucr.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I'm having an odd problem with nntp, and I wonder if anybody can help me
with it. I'm running nntp on a black slab with NS 2.1. The problem is
this: whenever I post an article with NewsGrazer, trn, or Netscape, I
get an nntp error: Cannot create temporary file. Yet when I use inews,
Pnews, rnews and tin to post articles, it works fine. All other features
of nntp work just fine.
I've spent months searching various FAQs, README files, and any source I
can get my hands on, yet none of them even mention nntp creating any
temporary files.
I expect the solution to simply be a matter of changing permissions in
an appropriate directory, I just can't find where that directory may be.
Can anyone help me?
--
Ron Wood, Systems Administrator CE-CERT, UCR
Ink n.:
A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and
water,
chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote
intellectual
crime. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
From: Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! Printers not selectable!
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:46:04 -0500
Organization: Alpha Star International
Message-ID: <3103B13C.75C7@a.crl.com>
References: <4duk4m$5vp@nntp.crl.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This problem is basically fixed now. It turns out that alot of
files that were restored ended up being owned by "root" - once I
changed the permissions in .NeXT in the users' accounts
everything seemed fine -
EXCEPT: Fax confirmations are not being mailed properly. E-Mail
seems to work but the receipts aren't coming back. Any ideas?
Could this also be permissions related, and for which
files/directories?
--
Tim. | There are parts of me that don't get nervous,
| not the parts that shake... empath@a.crl.com
From: Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAX receipts are lost
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:47:39 -0500
Organization: Alpha Star International
Message-ID: <3103B19B.5B12@a.crl.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
After I system crash recently (all data lost on the hard drive, had to rebuild
with a new drive and backups) I seem to have everything back online. The only
real lingering problem is that the fax confirmations are not being sent back
to the sender. I'm using NS 3.3 and NXFax software. I seem to recall
problems with sendmail in the past so this could be related.
Any ideas? I had alot of problems with permissions when restoring from
backups (alot of things were assigned to root because I was restoring under
root.) Is there a file or directory that I should check the permissions on?
Regular mail does work.
Thanks alot!
--
Tim. | There are parts of me that don't get nervous,
| not the parts that shake... empath@a.crl.com
From: user02@mail.futuris.net (NextAge User02)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 14:08:05
Organization: Futuris.Networks Inc.
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <user02.1.000E22E4@mail.futuris.net>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de> <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu> <4dohei$d9m@usc.edu>
In article <4dohei$d9m@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes:
>Path:
>futuris!news.sprintlink.net!news.voicenet.com!netnews.upenn.edu!dsinc!ub!news.ke
>i.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!usc!usenet
>From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)>Newsgroups:
>comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.a
>lt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networ
>king,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
>Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
>Date: 19 Jan 1996 16:38:42 GMT
>Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
>Lines: 30
>Sender: reichman@comserv-j-32.usc.edu
>Distribution: inet
>Message-ID: <4dohei$d9m@usc.edu>
>References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de>
><4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>
> <7kag3kh6ha.fsf@nissart.lagaude.ibm.com>
>Reply-To: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
>NNTP-Posting-Host: comserv-j-32.usc.edu
>Xref: futuris comp.admin.policy:7701 comp.sys.next.sysadmin:24915
>comp.sys.sun.admin:63200 comp.unix.admin:38934 comp.networks.noctools.wanted:479
>comp.os.linux.networking:20224
>In <7kag3kh6ha.fsf@nissart.lagaude.ibm.com> Guillaume Laurent
>wrote:
>> The original poster was talking about IP packets and IP
>routing, not
>> email messages and routing.
>>
>> I believe the IP_MASQUERADE feature of the kernel will solve
>half of
>> the problem (masquerading as the router). Don't know about
>the other
>> half.
>Ooops. A bit too much coffee and too little solid foods!
>--
>Be well,
>Matthew Reichman
>reichman@scf.usc.edu
>USC-CNTV
>NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
>NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
>===============================================================
>PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: swamys@pswa.psca.com (Swamy K. Sitarama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Test-ignore
Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:17:41 GMT
Organization: Paradigm Systems
Message-ID: <4e0nsl$grt@sunrise.pscwa.psca.com>
Test...
From: croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Opinions wanted for fax modems (New USR Sportster Vi?)
Date: 22 Jan 1996 19:51:01 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <4e0pr5$np1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
Has anyone tried the new USR Sportster Vi's ($179) under NEXTSTEP? It
supports class 2.0 Fax commands (which may or may not be distinct from
NEXTSTEP's supported "class 2" fax commands --- Zyxel says it supports class 1,
2 and 2.0 indicating that there may be a difference between 2 and 2.0).
The Vi also has voice mailbox capabilities. Has anyone tried to make use of
these under NEXTSTEP? Any idea what might be involved in writing a NEXTSTEP
interface to it?
Any other opinions for getting faxing to work under NEXTSTEP cheaply?
1. Set up my Windows box to do fax/voicemail and try and figure out how to
"Print to Fax" to it from my NeXTcube?
2. Any other cheap modems supporting Class 2 fax? I don't need data modem
capability.
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca)
Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT Rebooted: Now where's the login panel?
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 12:52:18 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960122124945.5386C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4e07ad$cik@speering.alleg.edu>
On 22 Jan 1996 cortesr@alleg.edu wrote:
> I recently rebooted two NeXT Slabs running 3.2 and when they said reboot
> complete verbosely, the login panel never came up. The two machines just sat
> there saying the reboot was complete in the NeXT> window.
Last time that happened to me I discovered that /etc/ttys had been
corrupted. Otherwise you might look for some problem in the
loginpanel.app (the windowserver might not be registering properly).
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Everything is easy when you know what you are doing"
Dr. Robert Cupper, Department of Computer Science,
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP "not 8-bit clean" error
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:00:40 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960122125339.5386E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <30FDDAD2.1E36@nosc.mil>
This message should be sent to the NeXT PPP Mailing list
<nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com> rather than posted to
comp.sys.next.sysadmin. I have forwarded it there and hopefully set my
'reply-to' properly for this message so that followups will be sent to
the original poster: CDR Danny Stevenson <stevensd@nosc.mil>
Sorry I don't know the answer to your question, but I believe it has been
discussed in the mailing list before.... You might email Brian Arthur
<barthur@DILAN.com> and see if anyone answered him when he asked....
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Everything is easy when you know what you are doing"
Dr. Robert Cupper, Department of Computer Science,
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
On Thu, 18 Jan 1996, CDR Danny Stevenson wrote:
> I've installed PPP2.2.0.1.9 on my NeXT Turbo Color, but I've not
> been able to establish a PPP link yet. I've looked in what FAQ's I
> have, but can't seem to find the answer. I know the link works,
> since when I switch my modem A/B switch to my Mac, MacPPP
> establishes the connection with no problem.
>
> I recently did a clean install of NS 3.3, and followed the PPP
> install instructions. I've also installed NXFax, which works fine.
> I modified one of the example scripts (pppup.annex) since I'm
> logging into an annex server (the only thing I changed was the phone
> number, user name, and password).
>
> The debug file shows that the modem connects, sends the user name
> and password properly, and then attempts to establish the PPP
> connection. It immediately gets hung up in sending a bunch of
> Conf_Req messages, and then informs me that the serial port is not
> 8-bit clean, that bit 7 is 0 in every byte, and drops the connection
> and the modem hangs up.
>
> I've been trying to make this work for two days. What configuration
> file piece or procedure have I missed? Thanks in advance for any
> help!
>
> Danny Stevenson
>
>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP: There is a Mailing list.
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:06:33 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960122130139.5386F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I offer this information because I think it is a better place to get
answers about PPP under NeXTStep. There is a very good listserv for NeXT
PPP setup by Stephen Perkins. 90% of the questions I have seen here
about PPP have been asked and answered on the mailing-list.
The address is: <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
If you use Stephen Perkins' PPP, he has asked (in the docs which came
with PPP) that people use the mailing list first before posting to any
of the csn-* groups.
simply FYI
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Everything is easy when you know what you are doing"
Dr. Robert Cupper, Department of Computer Science,
Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
From: hjp@wsr.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctools.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.routing
Subject: Re: Experts' Help needed on funny Problem
Date: 22 Jan 96 22:20:30 GMT
Organization: WSR, Vienna, Austria
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <hjp.822349230@wsrtest.wsr.ac.at>
References: <Boris.Erdmann-1801961022040001@yoltek.toppoint.de> <4dl9ji$cne@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes:
>In
>comp.admin.policy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.
>unix.admin,de.alt.admin,z-netz.netzwerke.lan,comp.networks.noctoo
>ls.wanted,comp.os.linux.networking,t-netz.linux,de.comm.internet.
>routing you wrote:
>> am using was routed by the provider. So what I need is a
>> routing software that not only analyses which way out going
>> IP packets have to go, but even replaces the senders's IP
>> address by the IP address given by my internet provider. On
>> the other hand it has to know where an incomming IP packet is
>> comming from (it is now addressed to my router) and deliver
>> it to the right machine in the lan.
>>
>> I think that this must be possible since incomming packets
>> are always responses to requests inside my lan.
>If the last bit is true, then all you'd need to do is:
> 1) have your sendmail.cf rewrite all outgoing mail to have the
The original poster wasn't talking about Mail, he was talking about
IP-packets.
I think there is commercial software available to do what he wants.
I can ask around.
The real question is, of course:
What do you want to do?
If it is sufficient that people on your internal hosts can use some
WWW browser, send and receive mail, and telnet out, all you need is
a web proxy server (e.g. cern httpd, or spinner), sendmail (configured
as described by Matthew, although I consider the bit about procmail
unneccessary, a few simple aliases are enough) and the telnet proxy
from TIS (for example). If you need additional protocols, you can find
a proxy almost certainly.
hp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How good are ZIP-Drives?
In-Reply-To: michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de's message of 22 Jan 1996 12:09:33 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan22202803@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4dvupt$1oi6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:28:03 GMT
The benefit of the Zip drive is the $199 price tag and widespread use. The
downside is that it uses magnetic media, stores only 100MB per diskette,
slow access and transfer times, and can only be set to certain SCSI IDs.
A better alternative for $479.00 is the Fujitsu DynaMO which uses
magneto-optical diskettes (30 year lifetime!), can store 230MB per diskette
($19), better access and transfer times, full SCSI compatibility, and is
a very well made unit.
There is also the Syquest EZ-Drive. It stores 135MB per magnetic diskette,
costs $179, has a manual eject control (bad), isn't nearly as popular as
Zip.
So, my recommendation is the Fujitsu DynaMO if you can afford it. If you're
on a budget and/or need to share files with other Zip owners, Zip isn't bad.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4dvupt$1oi6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de writes:
From: michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 22 Jan 1996 12:09:33 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Hi,
I am just considering to buy a ZIP-Drive for my NeXT and I would like
to know whether anybody can report about experiences (good or bad)
with such a drive.
Thanks a lot
Michael
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--University of Stuttgart, Inst. of Flight Mechanics and Flight Control
--Forststrasse 86, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany
--Phone: (+49) 711-121-1434 FAX: (+49) 711-634856
--Email: Michael.Paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de (NeXT-Mail welcome)
From: stevem@RADium.ca (Stephen MacDougall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for AnonFTP server info
Date: 23 Jan 1996 01:31:49 GMT
Organization: ftn Internet
Message-ID: <4e1dq5$btb@master.ftn.net>
References: <4cv8mc$8c0@news.onramp.net>
In <4cv8mc$8c0@news.onramp.net> scotshep@onramp.net wrote:
| As the subject says. All pointers appreciated.
|
| Scot
| shepherd@suite.com
|
Take a look at the man page for ftpd. It is fairly self-explainatory.
--
====================================================
Stephen MacDougall
Director of Research and Development
RADium Technology Centre (Canada)
stevem@RADium.ca
NeXT and MIME mail gladly accepted
====================================================
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP "not 8-bit clean" error
Date: 23 Jan 1996 02:44:51 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4e1i33$3f9@news.its.com>
References: <30FDDAD2.1E36@nosc.mil>
CDR Danny Stevenson <stevensd@nosc.mil> wrote:
> The debug file shows that the modem connects, sends the user name
> and password properly, and then attempts to establish the PPP
> connection. It immediately gets hung up in sending a bunch of
> Conf_Req messages, and then informs me that the serial port is not
> 8-bit clean, that bit 7 is 0 in every byte, and drops the connection
> and the modem hangs up.
Hmm. Have you tried using a standard comm program like tip or kermit and
gotten 8-bit connections okay? If not, you might have a cable problem (check
with an ohmmeter and verify things follow "man zs"), or maybe the serial port
is fried (try using the other serial port).
If you can get an 8-bit connection with other software, I don't know what to
tell you aside from the obvious fact that PPP is having a weird problem.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: briman101@aol.com (BriMan101)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: US-Nationwide - NeXT/Sun Systems Administrators - $55k to $75k
Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:23:07 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <4e1nrb$qb@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Several of my top corporate clients, located across America, are currently
looking for experienced NEXTSTEP Systems Administrators.
Candidates must have strong experience in NEXTSTEP administration, some
additional expereince with SUN is a distinct advantage.
Opportunities currently exist in Texas, Oklahoma, and Chicago.
Contact:
Brian Mitchell
Datacom Technology Group Inc
212-629-5720
212-629-3374(FAX)
From: bmuell@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bernie Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: test: please reply
Date: 23 Jan 1996 00:11:22 GMT
Organization: TRW, One Space Park MS O1/1061, Redondo Beach,CA 90278 (310) 813-0690
Message-ID: <4e193a$grn@ns5.nba.TRW.COM>
I have an ethernet connection between a black 040 slab (ver 3.2) and a PC.
I can see the files on the next with xfs on the PC, and can copy files back
and forth. However, the /Net directory does not display the two hosts, and
now I can't set the time in preferences because it apparently thinks that
the next is a client and not the server. On bootup I get the following lines
in /private/admin/messages:
Jan 22 15:07:54 myhost autonfsmount: WARNING: /Net not empty!
Jan 22 15:07:59 myhost lpd[159]: Removing spool directory for extra
Jan 22 15:08:02 myhost reboot: Reboot complete
If anybody has any suggestions I would be grateful. Bernie
--
bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com
From: dana@MCS.COM (Dana Shadrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Click Happy Mouse
Date: 22 Jan 1996 23:55:33 -0600
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4e1t8l$fff@Mercury.mcs.com>
I'm running Nextstep on an Intel box and my mouse has not been working
well lately. Occasionally my mouse will double click when I only press the
mouse button once. I've checked the preferences settings and replaced my
mouse, but the problem persists.
I'm using a bus mouse. Is it possible that there is a problem with the bus
card or is something going on with the NextStep driver?
Any help would be greatly Appreciated!
Thanks,
Dana Shadrick
Dana@sgsnet.com
From: rruth@studio.disney.com (Richard Ruth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot time mounting of CDROM - how
Date: 23 Jan 1996 05:41:12 GMT
Organization: Walt Disney Studios
Message-ID: <4e1sdo$4kh@cabinboy.studio.disney.com>
On a NeXTStation Color running NS 3.2, how do I have NS mount a CD ROM
during a system boot? I tried putting the following in /etc/fstab,
this does not work and does not give any errors.
/dev/rsd2h /NEBULA cfs ro,noquota 0 3
I have also tried the following from rc.local, also to no avial:
/usr/etc/kl_util -a /usr/filesystems/CDROM.fs/CDROM_reloc
/usr/etc/mount -r -t cfs /dev/rsd2h /NEBULA
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.
--
Richard
rruth@studio.disney.com
(NeXT-Mail welcome)
From: fordp@polaris.net (Perrone Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good are ZIP-Drives?
Date: 23 Jan 1996 01:04:33 -0500
Organization: Polaris Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <4e1tph$rrh@nexus.polaris.net>
References: <4dvupt$1oi6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de wrote:
: Hi,
: I am just considering to buy a ZIP-Drive for my NeXT and I would like
: to know whether anybody can report about experiences (good or bad)
: with such a drive.
Well, I have only one negative thing to say about my Zip drive. The
God-Dern disks are waaaayyyyy too hard to get a hold of!! I have a
supplier now (and my 3 month backordered GigPack finally came) so I can
get them much easier.
The performace is excellent, EASILY besting the OD in any application.
It is fast enough to run applications from, it is COMPLETELY plug and
play on my Cube, its quiet, takes just a second to spin up, holds a lot
for it's size, and has the labels in the correct place on the disk and
the case. I would give it up for the world... well maybe for a Jaz!!
Buy one, you wont be sorry or my name isn't ... (where the heck did I
write that name..) uuhhhh Beavis!
<----------------------------------------------------------->
Perrone Ford 1320 Terrace St.
HighTime Web Development Tallahassee, FL 32303
(904) 222-0620 or 681-6322 hightime@polaris.net
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<----------------------------------------------------------->
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HighTime Web Development Tallahassee, FL 32303
(904) 222-0620 or 681-6322 hightime@polaris.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How good are ZIP-Drives?
In-Reply-To: rdl@world.std.com's message of Tue, 23 Jan 1996 01:28:03 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan23014124@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4dvupt$1oi6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <RDL.96Jan22202803@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 06:41:24 GMT
I neglected to mention the new Iomega Jaz drive ($600) which can do 1GB
per magnetic disk. Availability of this drive is another question...
Fujitsu and several other manufacturers are planning to come out with
a high speed direct overwrite 3.5" 680MB MO that should give the Jaz a
run for the money. And of course, all these drives will be obsolete
when DVD (digital video disc) arrives next year.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <RDL.96Jan22202803@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) writes:
The benefit of the Zip drive is the $199 price tag and widespread use. The
downside is that it uses magnetic media, stores only 100MB per diskette,
slow access and transfer times, and can only be set to certain SCSI IDs.
A better alternative for $479.00 is the Fujitsu DynaMO which uses
magneto-optical diskettes (30 year lifetime!), can store 230MB per diskette
($19), better access and transfer times, full SCSI compatibility, and is
a very well made unit.
There is also the Syquest EZ-Drive. It stores 135MB per magnetic diskette,
costs $179, has a manual eject control (bad), isn't nearly as popular as
Zip.
So, my recommendation is the Fujitsu DynaMO if you can afford it. If you're
on a budget and/or need to share files with other Zip owners, Zip isn't bad.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4dvupt$1oi6@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de writes:
From: michael@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stuttgart.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 22 Jan 1996 12:09:33 GMT
Organization: Comp.Center (RUS), U of Stuttgart, FRG
Hi,
I am just considering to buy a ZIP-Drive for my NeXT and I would like
to know whether anybody can report about experiences (good or bad)
with such a drive.
Thanks a lot
Michael
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From: Kir Royale Limited <kiroyale@kiroyale.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UK NeXT work
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 12:40:57 GMT
Organization: Kir Royale Limited
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <320244706wnr@kiroyale.demon.co.uk>
If you are interested in working in the UK on either a contract or a
permanent basis then we *must* talk.
I am looking for a large number of NeXTSTEP developers for four
separate clients based in and around central London.
All candidates must have at least 18 months NeXT experience.
I am also looking for between 8 and 10 Analysts to work in the UK
travelling and implementing systems throughout Europe.
Contact:
Duncan Campling
All resumes/messages in plain text or uuencoded Word 6 formats only.
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From: paul@infohouse.com (Paul Guzyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need newer DNS greater than 128 domains
Date: 23 Jan 1996 14:21:36 GMT
Organization: er
Message-ID: <paul-2301960941450001@apu.infohouse.com>
Hello, I'm an ISP running NeXTStep 3.3 intel.
The darn DNS doesn't take more than 128 domains, and we're over that limit.
(everyone who puts up a web page wants their own domain these days)
Has anyone compiled a version of DNS that handles unlimited domains?
If not, does anyone want to make some bucks doing it for me?
Paul Guzyk
InfoHouse Inc
212-228-8988
paul@infohouse.com
From: knoop@css.itd.umich.edu (Peter A. Knoop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: PCMCIA ethernet cards for NS 3.3
Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:39:36 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and TheArts
Message-ID: <4e3308$evu@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
I've got an IBM ThinkPad up and running under NextStep 3.3. I need to get
an ethernet card for it now. Does anybody have any suggestions for a
good source of PCMCIA ethernet cards which work with NextStep 3.3?
Thanks!
______________________________________________________________________________
Peter A. Knoop System Adminstrator (ffive) knoop@umich.edu
ITD/LSA Partnership 313-936-3090
From: david@pfi.ibk.baum.ethz.ch (David EKCHIAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Malformed Mach-o file.
Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:26:38 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <4e327u$3bt@elna.ethz.ch>
Hi all,
I use NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a SPARC Station 20 and my code is a mixture of
Objective-C (for the interface) and C++ (for the back-end). I often
get the message "Malformed Mach-o file" after linking my App. If
I link again (always using Project Builder), it works fine!
Any explanation for this?
Many thanks,
David.
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From: dcl@panix.com (David C. Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP - fdisk on 4GB Conner drive
Date: 23 Jan 1996 12:42:06 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4e36le$2eq@panix.com>
Hi. I recently set up my machine to dual boot
Windows NT 3.51 and NS/I 3.3.
I have 3 SCSI disks arranged as follows:
#1: 359MB : 7MB NS partition, 351 DOS
#2: 1021MB : all NS
#3: 4095MB : currently, all NS
Disk #1 holds the NS booter, and all of NT.
Disk #2 is the root filesystem for NS.
What I would like to do is partition the 4GB disk
into DOS and NS filesystems for use with NT and NS,
respectively (not at the same time).
Unfortunately, /usr/etc/fdisk refuses to work with
the 4GB drive, reporting that there is bogus info in
the BIOS.
If I try to partition the 4GB disk from NS, then
use the DiskAdminisrator in NT, then my partitioning
info gets trashed.
Before I rearrange everything, I was wondering if anyone
had suggestions to accomplish the attempted setup, or al-
ternatively, does anyone know if I can partition the drive
using the DiskAdministrator _first_, then partition as
necessary using /usr/etc/disk from NS?
Thanks for any suggestions.
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: hard disks crash
Date: 23 Jan 1996 17:25:16 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4e35ls$nso@news.its.com>
References: <4dvlnu$inr@news.tuwien.ac.at>
knguyen@callisto.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) wrote:
> We have 3 machines with the same configuration running on NextStep 3.3
> /Intel 486.
> The configuration is :
> - ATI Mach32 Ultra Pro graphic card
> - Adaptec 1542CF SCCI controller + Quantum 500MB
> - ProAudio Spectrum sound card
>
> Our problem is sometimes the machines hang up (always with the hard disk
> 's light on).
That sounds a lot like a DMA conflict between the hard drive controller and
the sound card. Try switching the sound cards to a different DMA channel and
see whether that helps.
Of course, you should verify that you don't have IRQ conflicts or IO memory
address conflicts as well. (Don't you love PC hardware?)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bizarre PPP problem
Date: 23 Jan 1996 18:50:01 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <4e3akp$b42@news.onramp.net>
My ppp can connect and I can use ping and telnet just fine(with IPs or names),
but I can't use telnet, ftp, or finger. Does anyone know what could cause a
problem like this?
I'm running AlbyPPP0.3 on a NeXTstation with NS3.0. (upgrading NS is not an option)
Any help would be much appreciated,
Steve
From: kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: replace sort?
Date: 23 Jan 1996 19:37:13 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <4e3dd9$qms@miwok.nbn.com>
I've been having trouble running a program and I tracked the error to use of
the /usr/bin/sort command, specifically use of a -T option.
I've been told...
> The problem is that -T is used differently on different
> machines (it is the name of a temporary directory on some
> systems, and the record delimiter instead of
> '\n' on some others).
I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a 68040 cube. Someone else running NEXTSTEP 3.1
did not have this problem. Is this possible?
I've been told I should try GNU sort. Where can I find it compiled for
NEXTSTEP? I checked the index at peanuts and next-ftp.peak.org but did not
find it.
Daniel
kehoe@fortuity.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Michael Bush <Michael_Bush@byu.edu>
Subject: PCNFSD for NeXT
Message-ID: <31054B4D.1F1@byu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 13:55:41 -0700
Organization: Department of French and Italian
MIME-Version: 1.0
CC: bushm@jkhbhrc.byu.edu
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does anyone know where I can find PCNFSD for the NeXTStep Operating
System, Version 3.0 (NeXTCube)? I would prefer the binary although I
guess I could manage to compile it if necessary (if the source code is
all I can find.)
Thanks a bunch!
Cheers,
Mike Bush (Michael_Bush@byu.edu.
From: kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: replace sort?
Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:05:36 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <4e3pk0$hom@miwok.nbn.com>
References: <4e3dd9$qms@miwok.nbn.com>
In <4e3dd9$qms@miwok.nbn.com> Daniel Miles Kehoe wrote:
> I've been having trouble running a program and I tracked the error to use
> of the /usr/bin/sort command, specifically use of a -T option.
> I've been told I should try GNU sort.
Thank you to Matthew N. Reichman! I've resolved the problem. I obtained the
source for the GNU textutils-1.13 from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ and
had no problem compiling them under NEXTSTEP, including a new GNU sort. Now
that I've replaced my NEXTSTEP /usr/bin/sort with the GNU sort, sort works
fine, as does glimpseindex, the program I was using that was hanging on use
of sort.
I still don't know why sort behaves differently under someone else's
NEXTSTEP 3.1 and my NEXTSTEP 3.3.
Daniel
kehoe@fortuity.com
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP - fdisk on 4GB Conner drive
Date: 23 Jan 1996 14:31:06 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4e3nja$f4t@shellx.best.com>
References: <4e36le$2eq@panix.com>
dcl@panix.com (David C. Lambert) writes:
>What I would like to do is partition the 4GB disk
>into DOS and NS filesystems for use with NT and NS,
>respectively (not at the same time).
You either need to clarify how you're using tools
under NS, or become clear on the difference between
partitioning with NS fdisk vs partitioning with NS "disk".
/usr/etc/disk gives you unix partitions, but it does
nothing at all that is interesting or applicable to the
dos world. Fdisk partitions a disk to work with dos and
other os's, but does nothing with the filesystems on
those partitions. Since fdisk must construct partition
numbers in both absolute and bios geometry format, it
cannot work without believable bios geometry numbers.
For a large disk(>2G, I think) you will have to enable
bios translation in your controller card so that head
and cylinder values can be small enough to fit in small
(circa 1983 hard drive) fields.
In other words, until you have /usr/etc/fdisk working,
all bets are off.
>Unfortunately, /usr/etc/fdisk refuses to work with
>the 4GB drive, reporting that there is bogus info in
>the BIOS.
This is not good! Try enabling bios translation on the
card, and if that doesn't work, try removing the other
disk long enoiugh to install.
>If I try to partition the 4GB disk from NS, then
>use the DiskAdminisrator in NT, then my partitioning
>info gets trashed.
You later mention using /usr/etc/disk, which partitions
NeXT's area of the disk, but doesn't create any dos
partition table info. If that wasn't a typo, this
is the wrong approach. If the disk is partitions for dos,
you must run /usr/etc/fdisk first.
>Before I rearrange everything, I was wondering if anyone
>had suggestions to accomplish the attempted setup, or al-
>ternatively, does anyone know if I can partition the drive
>using the DiskAdministrator _first_, then partition as
>necessary using /usr/etc/disk from NS?
>Thanks for any suggestions.
Forgive me if I made any bad assumptions!
cheers,
-sam
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: replace sort?
Date: 23 Jan 1996 16:41:25 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4e3v7l$q8v@shellx.best.com>
References: <4e3dd9$qms@miwok.nbn.com>
kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe) writes:
>I've been told I should try GNU sort. Where can I find it compiled for
>NEXTSTEP? I checked the index at peanuts and next-ftp.peak.org but did not
>find it.
/usr/gnu/bin/sort...
Or you could build it yourself from the gnu file utilities.
-s
From: tralala@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: .cshrc files
Date: 23 Jan 1996 12:52:51 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Message-ID: <4e2ln3$nfs@tandem.CAM.ORG>
My .cshrc files seem to be no longer recognized in my account and in root.
How can this be fixed?
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Andr
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From: Luke Howard <lukeh@schnet.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: any luck with Majordomo under NS 3.3 (Intel) ?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 16:34:39 +1100
Organization: schoolsNET Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <3105C4EF.277EE791@schnet.edu.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone had any luck with Majordomo under Nextstep? I've fixed a couple of
problems with wrapper.c but I'm still having problems.
I'm using Perl 4 under Nextstep on Intel (3.3) ... it was running fine under
Linux and I don't really fancy changing to another list server.
vurt:30# mail -v majordomo
Subject: help
help
EOT
majordomo... aliased to "|/usr/local/mail/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
sh: 7590 Memory fault
"|/usr/local/mail/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"... unknown mailer error 139
regards,
luke.
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From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Quantum Trailblazer Probs in NextStations
Date: 24 Jan 1996 09:12:05 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4e4t55$5cj@paladin.american.edu>
I have put a couple Quantum Trailblazer TR 850 3.5 series into two
NextStations and I can't get the machines to recognize the drives. They
weren't recognized by the CD Installation program or by the ROM startup.
Has any one had experience with these drives? I have left the drive in the
condition it came in from the factory. (In other words I just plugged it into
the machine and have not messed with the jumpers.)
--
Torrey McMahon
From: pc25@
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD for NeXT
Date: 24 Jan 1996 10:37:46 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik 3.3 Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4e525q$kdb@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
References: <31054B4D.1F1@byu.edu>
In <31054B4D.1F1@byu.edu>, Michael Bush <Michael_Bush@byu.edu> writes:
>Does anyone know where I can find PCNFSD for the NeXTStep Operating
>System, Version 3.0 (NeXTCube)? I would prefer the binary although I
>guess I could manage to compile it if necessary (if the source code is
>all I can find.)
>
>Thanks a bunch!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Mike Bush (Michael_Bush@byu.edu.
>
Dear Mike,
I use pcnfsd.2.N from Geoff Arnold. Runs very good!
Sorry lost the source, ask archie (pcnfsd.2.N.bs.tar)!
Hope this helps
Armin
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From: matthias@arkon.amg.de.amg.de (Matthias Schuerhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Quantum Trailblazer Probs in NextStations
Date: 24 Jan 1996 12:45:01 GMT
Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH
Message-ID: <4e59kd$3jr@hagen.amg.de>
References: <4e4t55$5cj@paladin.american.edu>
I think the NeXT hardware handles hard disks only in asynchronous SCSI
mode. You should set the jumpers on your drives according to that.
Perhaps that helps.
Matthias
matthias@amg.de
> I have put a couple Quantum Trailblazer TR 850 3.5 series into two
NextStations and I can't get the machines to recognize the drives. They
weren't recognized by the CD Installation program or by the ROM startup.
> Has any one had experience with these drives? I have left the drive in
the condition it came in from the factory. (In other words I just plugged
it into the machine and have not messed with the jumpers.)
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: replace sort?
Date: 24 Jan 1996 16:34:46 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4e5n36$qkp@emerald.oz.net>
References: <4e3dd9$qms@miwok.nbn.com>
kehoe@fortuity.com (Daniel Miles Kehoe) wrote:
> I've been having trouble running a program and I tracked the error to use
of
> the /usr/bin/sort command, specifically use of a -T option.
>
> I've been told...
>
> > The problem is that -T is used differently on different
> > machines (it is the name of a temporary directory on some
> > systems, and the record delimiter instead of
> > '\n' on some others).
>
> I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a 68040 cube. Someone else running NEXTSTEP 3.1
> did not have this problem. Is this possible?
>
The problem with 3.3 /usr/bin/sort's T option is that the path of the
temporary directory is limited to something like 30 characters. A fixed-size
buffer was apparently used to store the path :-(
> I've been told I should try GNU sort. Where can I find it compiled for
> NEXTSTEP? I checked the index at peanuts and next-ftp.peak.org but did not
> find it.
/usr/gnu/bin/sort is included with NS 3.3 so there's no need to build
your own.
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From: mark_bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: replace sort?
Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:00:13 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4e5s3d$3jg@news.next.com>
References: <4e3pk0$hom@miwok.nbn.com>
Daniel Miles Kehoe writes
> Thank you to Matthew N. Reichman! I've resolved the problem. I
> obtained the source for the GNU textutils-1.13 from
> ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/ and
> had no problem compiling them under NEXTSTEP, including a new GNU
> sort.
You really didn't need to bother. See below.
> Now that I've replaced my NEXTSTEP /usr/bin/sort with the GNU
> sort, sort works fine, as does glimpseindex, the program I was using
> that was hanging on use of sort.
>
> I still don't know why sort behaves differently under someone else's
> NEXTSTEP 3.1 and my NEXTSTEP 3.3.
>
> Daniel
> kehoe@fortuity.com
In case anybody missed this the first time it got mentioned:
On NEXTSTEP 3.3, some of the GNU utilities are included in /usr/gnu,
including sort, diff, and cmp.
As to why sort works differently under 3.1 and 3.3, I'm not surprised.
having looked at the code for BSD sort, I'm surprised it works at all...
-Mark
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From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Problem attaching a non-PS laser to NeXT
Date: 24 Jan 1996 19:27:58 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <4e617u$8ns@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
References: <4dqupk$jjf@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4dr7i0$433@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Marcel Weiher (marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Well, you mention the cause in the title of the message:
: it is a non-PostScript printer.
: NeXTStep (or is it OpenStep-Classic for Mach?) only supports
: PostScript printers out of the box. A non-PostScript printer
: will outout the PostScript text, as shown above.
: If your Kyocera is PCL compatible (LaserWriter), then it can
: be made to work with a third party printer package like
: Dots, JetPilot or eXTRAPRINT ( http://www.gscorp.com/ ),
: with the latter one being near and dear to my heart as it
: helps pay my bills.
: Marcel
This is not entirely true. My objective in hooking the printer up was
not to produce postscript output, but just to print out text. It is
possible to hook a non postscript printer up to the next and use it as
a line printer.
The procedure is very simple. All you have to do is
startup NetInfoManager.app then open the root domain. After you do
that you will see a browser which has things like "Fax modems,
Printers" and etc. in it. Select printers, then select the name of
the printer you wish to modify. After you do that select Admin and
then hit "Create Property" in the menu type "TextPassThrough" and
hit enter. This should add the property. Then select "add value"
while the TextPassThrough property is selected. Enter the value "YES"
and save your work.
This procedure should allow you to use any printer as a line printer.
All it does is pass on the text it recieves to the printer without
converting it to postscript.
For more information see the 3.3 Release Notes on Printing.
Thanks,
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(c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IXBUILD problem for newbie
Date: 24 Jan 1996 22:52:31 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-69.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4e6d7f$gfv@usc.edu>
I am trying to do an ixbuild on a set of directories and ignore
certain files types.
Here's the ixbuild command I've tried:
===================
/usr/bin/ixbuild -vcdsfglu -LEnglish
-T/Users/reichman/.index.itype /Users/reichman/
===================
And this is my .index.itype:
===================
dp - string 0 *.dp
term - string 0 *.term
gradient - string 0 *.gradient
jpg - string 0 *.jpg
gif GIF string 0 *.gif
tiff - string 0 *.tiff
eps %!PS string 0 *.eps
ps %!PS string 0 *.ps
===================
I've also tried:
===================
- - - - *.dp
- - - - *.term
- - - - *.gradient
- - - - *.jpg
- - - - *.gif
- - - - *.tiff
- - - - *.eps
- - - - *.ps
==================
I bet my .index.itype is wrong. Any suggestions? I keep trying
different things to no avail.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! Panic causes HD "Media Errors"
Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:32:45 -0500
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-ID: <4e6fit$3i0@news.duke.edu>
After a kernel panic, my hard disk under
NS/I 3.3 now reports "Media errors"
upon reboot! This happened after I inserted a bad MO
disk into a Fujitsu M2512A drive that caused a
kernel panic. HELP!
THE CURRENT PROBLEM:
fsck reports
"sd1: Media Error; FATAL
target 1: lun:0 op:Read block:864813
CANNOT READ: BLK 432240
CONTINUE?"
on my 1GB Conner hard disk where the User file system is.
When I anser'y' to "CONTINUE?" it also reports
"THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 432246, 432247
** Phase 3- Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
26764 files, 87498 used, 141974 free (1758 frags, 17527
blocks, 0.2% fragmentation)
Files system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean."
Which I do, and end up at the same place. Trying
"fsck /dev/rsd1a -b 3" or other number doesn't solve the
problem.
HOW THIS CAME ABOUT:
I was backing up files onto a 230MB MO disk in a Fujitsu
M2512A drive, and suddenly got a kernel panic. During
rebooting, fsck reported a lot of errors on the system
disk /dev/rsd0a, but cleaned it up nevertheless. /dev/rsd1a
was also cleaned. When I inserted the MO disk, Workspace
Manager reported it damaged, so I clicked "repair" and it
fsck'd it clean. When checking /usr/adm/messages, it
reported numerous "SCSI Bus Violation"s before the kernel
panic.
After using the repaired MO disk, I noticed the system
hanging, and saw that more "SCSI Bus Violations" were
occurring, so I did alt-Numlock and cleanly shut the
system down. When it came back up and I inserted the
MO disk, Workspace Manager ejected it, reporting "Media
error"s. I logged out and inserted the MO, intending to
fsck it over the network (as a way of outwitting Workspace
Manager which tries to mount the MO). Instead, I got a
kernel panic. When the system tried rebooting, now I get
media errors reported on my hard disk!
So, how can I fix this other than reformatting both hard
disk and MO disk? And why is this happening? How can the
MO system do this to my HD?
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!
-- Lee Altenberg
altenber@mhpcc.edu
altenber@acpub.duke.edu
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! Panic leaves "Media Errors" on HD!
Date: 24 Jan 1996 18:39:04 -0500
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-ID: <4e6fuo$3im@news.duke.edu>
After a kernel panic, my hard disk under
NS/I 3.3 now reports "Media errors"
upon reboot! This happened after I inserted a bad MO
disk into a Fujitsu M2512A drive that caused a
kernel panic. HELP!
THE CURRENT PROBLEM:
fsck reports
"sd1: Media Error; FATAL
target 1: lun:0 op:Read block:864813
CANNOT READ: BLK 432240
CONTINUE?"
on my 1GB Conner hard disk where the User file system is.
When I anser'y' to "CONTINUE?" it also reports
"THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 432246, 432247
** Phase 3- Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
26764 files, 87498 used, 141974 free (1758 frags, 17527
blocks, 0.2% fragmentation)
Files system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean."
Which I do, and end up at the same place. Trying
"fsck /dev/rsd1a -b 3" or other number doesn't solve the
problem.
HOW THIS CAME ABOUT:
I was backing up files onto a 230MB MO disk in a Fujitsu
M2512A drive, and suddenly got a kernel panic. During
rebooting, fsck reported a lot of errors on the system
disk /dev/rsd0a, but cleaned it up nevertheless. /dev/rsd1a
was also cleaned. When I inserted the MO disk, Workspace
Manager reported it damaged, so I clicked "repair" and it
fsck'd it clean. When checking /usr/adm/messages, it
reported numerous "SCSI Bus Violation"s before the kernel
panic.
After using the repaired MO disk, I noticed the system
hanging, and saw that more "SCSI Bus Violations" were
occurring, so I did alt-Numlock and cleanly shut the
system down. When it came back up and I inserted the
MO disk, Workspace Manager ejected it, reporting "Media
error"s. I logged out and inserted the MO, intending to
fsck it over the network (as a way of outwitting Workspace
Manager which tries to mount the MO). Instead, I got a
kernel panic. When the system tried rebooting, now I get
media errors reported on my hard disk!
So, how can I fix this other than reformatting both hard
disk and MO disk? And why is this happening? How can the
MO system do this to my HD?
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!
-- Lee Altenberg
altenber@mhpcc.edu
altenber@acpub.duke.edu
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HDD prob:
Date: 25 Jan 1996 00:21:33 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <4e6ied$fnd@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
On a Fujitsu 1GB the FORMAT UNIT command cannot be executed
anymore and is aborted. The following error msg is written to
the console:
Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 1
Target 5: MEDIA ERROR; block 0H retry 2
..
It seems to be impossible to write to block 0.
Attempts to cure with reasb -r, disk, or sdformat -f, fail
for the same reason.
Any hints for hopeless cases?
Torsten
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP! Panic causes HD "Media Errors"
Date: 24 Jan 1996 20:21:58 -0500
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-ID: <4e6lvm$e4h@news.duke.edu>
I found a solution to fixing the Media errors left on my hard disk.
This had been caused by a kernel panic after I inserted a bad MO
disk (230 MB Fujitsu M2512A). This in on a NS/I 3.3 system.
I used the Adaptec 2940's disk media verification software, and it
found one bad sector #000D322Dh in the Conner 1GB HD, which it
remapped for me. After that, NS/I 3.3 was able to fsck it clean.
But this never should have happened in the first place. The
Fujitsu MO drive panicked the kernel after causing "SCSI Bus
Violoation" errors on all the mounted SCSI devices. I fist
saw this after formatting an MO disk with more inodes than
the default. But perhaps this was a spurious correlation.
The panic occurred this time when I was backing up files
onto the default-formatted MO disk. Any diagnostic ideas
would be welcome.
Thanks,
Lee Altenberg
altenber@mhpcc.edu
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pppd ran as daemon
Date: 25 Jan 1996 01:52:05 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4e6no5$mtq@news.onramp.net>
References: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
> Being recently connected to the Net through a leased line, I'd like to be able
> to start a PPP connection as soon as the computer is turned on. So far I used
> GateKeeper 1.0 to help me out through a dial-up connection, but it means I have
> to logged in first.
Put the ppp-startup command at the end of the machine's rc.local file.
> Is there a way to automatically start a PPP connection (I need to login into my
> provider host with username and password for security reason) ?
It wouldn't be difficult to write a simple script to do this.
--
Steve Dekorte
Objective-C/NEXTSTEP consultant
mailto:dekorte@suite.com (NeXTmail, MIME welcome)
http://www.marble.com/~dekorte
From: tm8025a@newssrv.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail robots for NeXT?
Date: 25 Jan 1996 07:03:19 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4e79vn$dh5@paladin.american.edu>
Does anyone know of a good e-mail robot for Nextstep?
--
Torrey McMahon
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IXBUILD problem for newbie - NEVER MIND!! 8-)
Date: 25 Jan 1996 09:22:02 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-05.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4e7i3q$588@usc.edu>
References: <4e6d7f$gfv@usc.edu>
Figured it out.
Aw bye meesef!
From: altenber@santafe.santafe.edu (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! HD Media errors from panic
Date: 24 Jan 1996 23:36:41 GMT
Organization: The Santa Fe Institute
Message-ID: <4e6fq9$2bs@tierra.santafe.edu>
After a kernel panic, my hard disk under
NS/I 3.3 now reports "Media errors"
upon reboot! This happened after I inserted a bad MO
disk into a Fujitsu M2512A drive that caused a
kernel panic. HELP!
THE CURRENT PROBLEM:
fsck reports
"sd1: Media Error; FATAL
target 1: lun:0 op:Read block:864813
CANNOT READ: BLK 432240
CONTINUE?"
on my 1GB Conner hard disk where the User file system is.
When I anser'y' to "CONTINUE?" it also reports
"THE FOLLOWING SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 432246, 432247
** Phase 3- Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
26764 files, 87498 used, 141974 free (1758 frags, 17527
blocks, 0.2% fragmentation)
Files system not may not be clean! Run fsck again to clean."
Which I do, and end up at the same place. Trying
"fsck /dev/rsd1a -b 3" or other number doesn't solve the
problem.
HOW THIS CAME ABOUT:
I was backing up files onto a 230MB MO disk in a Fujitsu
M2512A drive, and suddenly got a kernel panic. During
rebooting, fsck reported a lot of errors on the system
disk /dev/rsd0a, but cleaned it up nevertheless. /dev/rsd1a
was also cleaned. When I inserted the MO disk, Workspace
Manager reported it damaged, so I clicked "repair" and it
fsck'd it clean. When checking /usr/adm/messages, it
reported numerous "SCSI Bus Violation"s before the kernel
panic.
After using the repaired MO disk, I noticed the system
hanging, and saw that more "SCSI Bus Violations" were
occurring, so I did alt-Numlock and cleanly shut the
system down. When it came back up and I inserted the
MO disk, Workspace Manager ejected it, reporting "Media
error"s. I logged out and inserted the MO, intending to
fsck it over the network (as a way of outwitting Workspace
Manager which tries to mount the MO). Instead, I got a
kernel panic. When the system tried rebooting, now I get
media errors reported on my hard disk!
So, how can I fix this other than reformatting both hard
disk and MO disk? And why is this happening? How can the
MO system do this to my HD?
THANKS FOR ANY HELP!
-- Lee Altenberg
altenber@mhpcc.edu
altenber@acpub.duke.edu
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI controller swap: no problem
Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:05:22 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4e89o2$1bpk@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
There's been some chat about problems with changing SCSI cards lately, so I
thought I should post a note of my success. My system is an ASUS-motherboard
Pentium 90. I had an NCR53C810 SCSI board driving my Conner CFP2107S 2GB
disk, and wanted to upgrade to a DPT 2024 and use the NCR in another system.
I got my DPT card in the mail from BiFrost yesterday. I just took the latest DPT
driver for NS 3.3 from NeXTAnswers, ran Configure.app to change drivers
(after making a backup table to boot the NCR from, if the swap failed), stuck in
the DPT, and my system booted just fine from the new controller.
I don't have an IOZone output from the previous config to compare with
(NS 3.3 is slower than 3.2), but the DPT is noticeably faster than the NCR was.
--
----------------------------------------------
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: pete@voyager.whoi.edu (Peter Schmitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: failed to load /etc/mach_init
Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:07:51 GMT
Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Message-ID: <4e89sn$7j6@pearl.whoi.edu>
I just rebooted my NS3.3 cube and now it stops booting at this error.
Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
...and that is where it is stuck.
what can I do to repair this? I cannot boot from CD.
-pete
---
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Information Systems Assoc. II {###}
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From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I stop CDROM from ejecting at logout ???
Date: 25 Jan 1996 16:27:54 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4e8b2a$j5c@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <9601201022.AA00369@zaphod>
Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
: In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <4dhvgf$9qn@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com>
: espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Eric Peyton) wrote:
: > How can I stop my CD-ROM drive from ejecting my CD's every time
: > I logout??? Thanks in advance,
: I have found a simple solution: I put a 1kg weight in front of the
: drive's door. Whenever it opens, it stops on the weight and closes
: again. On power down this happens several times, but in the end, the
: weight wins.
Hmmm... This sounds similar (albeit different) to my solution. I was having
the same problem as the original poster -- but I didn't figure out the weight
deal... Instead, one day, I was walking down the street and met an old
fashioned "organ grinder" guy (with a live monkey!). The solution seemed pretty
clear to me -- I buy a monkey and train it to re-insert the CDROM at the
appropriate times.
I went down to the local pet store and bought a small "Egyptian" monkey (I call
him Fred). It took me awhile to teach him to re-insert the CDROM, and even
longer to teach him to do it at the right moment... Unfortunately, soon after I
got him trained, he was hired by MicroSoft to write the "Cairo" O/S (what with
all his "Egyptian" experience -- I should have seen it coming).
Maybe I should try the 2lb weight trick now? (Naw, MS would probably hire it as
a "reliability tester" for Cairo...)
---
robin -- "Take my wife, please. -- CLINTON '96 Campaign slogan"
P.S. ;-) ;-) ;-)
--
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*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good are ZIP-Drives?
Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:35:33 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4e8ihl$co1@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
>A better alternative for $479.00 is the Fujitsu DynaMO which uses
>magneto-optical diskettes (30 year lifetime!),
On my old NeXT cube, I could never get the ODs to remain uncorrupted for
more than a couple of month. They became quickly completely unreadable.
This was despite great claims of reliability. Does anyone have real-world
experience with the lifetime of these MODs?
/ivo welch
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
From: dcl@panix.com (David C. Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP - fdisk on 4GB Conner drive
Date: 25 Jan 1996 15:20:48 -0500
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4e8on0$dn7@panix.com>
References: <4e36le$2eq@panix.com> <4e3nja$f4t@shellx.best.com>
In <4e3nja$f4t@shellx.best.com> sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) writes:
>dcl@panix.com (David C. Lambert) writes:
>>What I would like to do is partition the 4GB disk
>>into DOS and NS filesystems for use with NT and NS,
>>respectively (not at the same time).
>You either need to clarify how you're using tools
>under NS...
<snip>
>... Fdisk partitions a disk to work with dos and
>other os's, but does nothing with the filesystems on
>those partitions.
Right...see below.
>Since fdisk must construct partition
>numbers in both absolute and bios geometry format, it
>cannot work without believable bios geometry numbers.
>For a large disk(>2G, I think) you will have to enable
>bios translation in your controller card so that head
>and cylinder values can be small enough to fit in small
>(circa 1983 hard drive) fields.
I think you've hit the problem right here.
>In other words, until you have /usr/etc/fdisk working,
>all bets are off.
That's what I suspected.
>>Unfortunately, /usr/etc/fdisk refuses to work with
>>the 4GB drive, reporting that there is bogus info in
>>the BIOS.
>This is not good! Try enabling bios translation on the card
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Aha! The secret incantation that I was missing!
>>If I try to partition the 4GB disk from NS, then
>>use the DiskAdminisrator in NT, then my partitioning
>>info gets trashed.
When I had trouble using fdisk on the big disk, I vainly
hoped that I could place 3 NS partitions on it, use two of
them from NS, then use NT's DiskAdministrator to allocate
the unused space in the last NS partition to NT and ideally
not screw up the NS partitioning at the same time. Unfortunately,
DiskAdministrator destroys the NS partition info in the disk label
before it does anything.
>>Thanks for any suggestions.
>Forgive me if I made any bad assumptions!
Not at all. Thanks for the info. I ultimately wound up putting all
of NS on the 4GB and NT on the 1GB anyway.
Thanks again.
PS - does enabling bios translation on the card (DPT2022) have
any performance impact?
--
David C. Lambert
dcl@panix.com
(finger for PGP 2.6.2 public key)
(key fingerprint "5F 88 1A 54 3C EA DA FA F5 8E 0B 68 48 4C 02 48")
From: tjallen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How good are ZIP-Drives?
Date: 25 Jan 1996 21:09:18 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <4e8rhu$1mj2@news.doit.wisc.edu>
References: <4e8ihl$co1@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
> On my old NeXT cube, I could never get the ODs to remain uncorrupted for
> more than a couple of month. They became quickly completely unreadable.
> This was despite great claims of reliability. Does anyone have real-world
> experience with the lifetime of these MODs?
I have been using Fujitsu DynaMOs for a couple of years now, as have
a couple of my friends and the department where I work. I have the
2511 128MB unit at home and it's been working well for two years now.
I have nearly three years' of total experience with the 2512's and
again, no problems. I'm thinking of purchasing a 2512 230MB for home
use in addition to the 2511, considering how inexpensive they've become.
--
Ted Allen
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: failed to load /etc/mach_init
Date: 25 Jan 1996 17:53:57 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4e8g3l$s26@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4e89sn$7j6@pearl.whoi.edu>
In article <4e89sn$7j6@pearl.whoi.edu> pete@voyager.whoi.edu (Peter
Schmitt) writes:
> I just rebooted my NS3.3 cube and now it stops booting at this error.
>
> Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
> Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
>
> ...and that is where it is stuck.
Last time I saw this, the entire /etc (and /private/etc) directories had
been deleted. Not good news.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: charlie@heinz.com (Carlos M.Navarro)
Subject: Re: seeking PPP guru
Message-ID: <1996Jan25.144417.2446@heinz.com>
Sender: usenet@heinz.com
Organization: F. HEINZ Consultora
References: <DLHrKw.179@empire.org>
Distribution: na,usa,world
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 14:44:17 GMT
In article <DLHrKw.179@empire.org> alby@empire.org (Albatross) writes:
>
> I believe you need to be running 3.2 or 3.3. I don't believe ppp2,2
> runs under 3.0.
>
> -Alby
I am not PPP guru, but I'm running pppd version 2.2 patch level 0alpha3 with
NEXTSTEP 3.3 in m68k and i386 without the Steve Dekorte's problems.
CHARLIE
---
Carlos M. Navarro
<charlie@heinz.com>
NeXTMail and MIME are welcome
F.Heinz Consultora
From: erich@photon (Eric Hermanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Motorola ISDN Modem Support
Date: 25 Jan 1996 23:47:42 GMT
Organization: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4e94qu$jbv@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>
Motorola has come out with a compact, relatively inexpensive
ISDN modem. It's called something like the "WaveRunner",
or "BitRunner", or something like that. Anyway, does anyone
know if it is supported under NEXTSTEP (or Unix, which would
probably work under NEXTSTEP)?
Please send responses to: eric@du.com
Thanks,
Eric Hermanson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How good are ZIP-Drives?
In-Reply-To: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu's message of 25 Jan 1996 18:35:33 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Jan25220213@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4e8ihl$co1@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 03:02:13 GMT
The NeXT MO was the worst MO ever. You will be suitably impressed by
the DynaMO. The hardware is quality through and through. BTW - Olympus
makes a faster version called the Deltis PowerMO.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
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>A better alternative for $479.00 is the Fujitsu DynaMO which uses
>magneto-optical diskettes (30 year lifetime!),
On my old NeXT cube, I could never get the ODs to remain uncorrupted for
more than a couple of month. They became quickly completely unreadable.
This was despite great claims of reliability. Does anyone have real-world
experience with the lifetime of these MODs?
/ivo welch
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: NT on object.station41
Date: 25 Jan 1996 21:23:03 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota
Sender: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu
Message-ID: <4e9hen$ptr@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Keywords: Canon object.station41, NeXTstep, windows NT
Is anyone out there running windows NT on an
object.station 41? I'd like to have NS and
NT co-existing on the same machine, since i have
a need to use some windows apps, and i'd like
to see (when it's available) how OpenStep functions.
any pointers regarding installation and configuring the
drivers for the object.station hardware would be appreciated.
TIA,
sharad
sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu (NeXTmail-ready)
shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu (non-NeXTmail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: newgrp on NextStep
Message-ID: <kevincDLrqsI.Cou@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 03:24:18 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Have any of you tried newgrp on NextStep? It causes my terminal window
to exit by itself! Wierd.
BTW, I'm using NS3.3 on an Intel DX4.
Song
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: HP SureStore 2000e on NS3.3 (Intel)
Message-ID: <kevincDLrr34.DKq@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 03:30:40 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Has anyone used a SureStore 2000 external with NS on Intel h/w?
It's a 2GB DAT backup device (SCSI).
The literature from HP does not list NS and the compat
table shows the internal version to be more compatible than the
external version with a variety of platforms.
Many thanks in advance.
Song
From: root@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: installing 4GB Quantum drive
Date: 25 Jan 1996 23:17:38 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4e932i$2i00@news.doit.wisc.edu>
I have two 4GB Quantum Gran Prix (XP34301) drives that I'm having problem
initializing on a NeXTstation. I read in the old NeXT FAQ (FAQ #M4) that
some of the Quantum's (Quanta?) are slightly incompatible. I have an Intel
machine and can try initializing it on there but it is our main file
server so I'd rather not mess with it there if it can be avoided.
Does anyone have any experience with these drives? Any tricks? Thanx,
- Gareth
PS I've been using 'sdformat' to format the drives and NeXT's 'disk'
program to (try) and initialize them. sdformat appears to work OK but if I
try and do a disk "init' it bombs out with lots of errors. This happens on
BOTH the new drives!
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: pppd ran as daemon
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 26 Jan 1996 04:29:43 GMT
Organization: Disorganized Bits
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4e9lbn$1bo0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <4djq0k$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
Jacques Garbi (jacques.garbi@colombus.ch) wrote:
: Being recently connected to the Net through a leased line, I'd like to be able
: to start a PPP connection as soon as the computer is turned on.
...
: If the PPP connection fail at one time or another, will it affect other
: applications, or the system itself ?
For that how 'bout running it from /etc/ttys instead of getty on this port?
'init' will take care of it.
--mj
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I stop CDROM from ejecting at logout ???
Date: 26 Jan 1996 05:03:44 GMT
Organization: Disorganized Bits
Message-ID: <4e9nbg$1bo0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <199601211622.IAA04732@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
Eric Trembly (eric@wcarchive.cdrom.com) wrote:
: 2. In a terminal window: /usr/etc/mount -p
: This will give several lines, including one similar to:
: /dev/rsd2h /NOVA_SE cfs ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM 1 2
: This info can be used in a subsequent mount command or in /etc/fstab for boot
: time mounting.
: 3. Eject the cd-rom
: 4. su root in your terminal window
: 5 Type a command similar to the following using the info received in step 2.
: runner:2# /usr/etc/mount -t cfs -o ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM /dev/rsd2h
: /NOVA_SE
: 6 Insert the cd-rom when a window tells you to.
Why you will not add an appriopriate line in /etc/fstab? Or two (if you
have CDs with different types of a file system on them). Adding 'noauto'
option will prevent system of trying automatically mount your CD when
booting - which may, or may not, be what you really want.
After that you just type 'mount /cdrom', assuming that /cdrom is a mount point
you specified in /etc/fstab and that it already exists, and everybody is happy.
Saves a lot of typing like in point 5 (uff!).
Use a superglue on eject button on your drive and use 'disk -e' to eject
unmonted CDs. Ejecting mounted CD can be bad to you and your file system.
Michal
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP "not 8-bit clean" error
Date: 26 Jan 1996 05:07:54 GMT
Organization: Disorganized Bits
Message-ID: <4e9nja$1bo0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <30FDDAD2.1E36@nosc.mil> <4e1i33$3f9@news.its.com>
Chuck Swiger (chuck@its.com) wrote:
: If you can get an 8-bit connection with other software, I don't know what to
: tell you aside from the obvious fact that PPP is having a weird problem.
"not 8-bit clean" seems to be a universal error message for ppp. The other
one is "serial line is looped back". It may simply mean that a password
on the other end was mistyped. I have seen both in such situations. :-)
It may also be telling truth, for a change.
Michal
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: restore and dump numbers
Date: 26 Jan 1996 06:28:12 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
Message-ID: <4e9s9s$705@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Hola!
I'm trying to use dump and restore to backup my harddrives to a Tandberg
QIC tape drive. How does one compute the proper density and length numbers
for dump that correspond to the various tape sizes? I've looked at the man
pages, but even the Exabyte example doesn't come out right (I can't duplicate
the calculations). I have density, track and length specs for the various QIC
formats, but they don't seem to work with dump. I don't think they work
because the estimate of the number of tapes the dump will require doesn't
seem to make sense e.g. 1.3 250M tapes to backup 240M?
It seems that underestimating the capacity of the tape only makes me use up
more tapes than I really need. What if I over-estimate (calculate?) the
numbers? Will I get a SCSI error? Will the data overwrite something on the
tape? Will the data just fall on the floor?
This should go in the FAQ somewhere....
Help!
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Using the Internet since 1984
http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~alvin
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Uh Oh - does root returning blue screen indicate something worse to come???
Date: 26 Jan 1996 07:33:04 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-06.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ea03g$m3o@usc.edu>
So this is what happened:
1) logged in as root and fired up UserManager with the intent of
changing the default shell for my users directory to zsh. Decided
to do that for root as well.
2) when asked to save root's user profile with new shell I was
told that root was using a number less than recommended 100 (or
something like that) - and it was - since it was using a zero. So
I figured - well that's how it was, so that's gotta be okay. So I
saved. Was told that "it" couldn't determine root's default
language. A note I promptly and considerately ignored.
3) logged out and at the login panel I typed "exit" to restart
window server AND the background turned blue!!! Normally all my
window backgrounds are black, including for the login panel. I
went back into root - it was blue, and Stuart.app had
dissappeared off the doc. So i reset everything (tho I noticed in
preferences that it was still saying I'd picked black for window
background) -- clicking on it gave me black again. I also went
back to default shell = csh.
But upon logout the background turned back to blue (and logging
back into root it was also blue and Stuart was missing again!)
On the other hand, logging into my home user directory and
everything seems quite normal.
I'd like the black back all over. But I'm defintely worrried this
is simply a symptom of some greater harm that I done - though
don't know how.
Please help before my machine blows up!!! (I know it won't, but
... sometimes ignorance leads to great panic!)
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: HELP - fdisk on 4GB Conner drive
Message-ID: <DLqnvK.1LG@onevision.de>
Sender: usenet@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <4e36le$2eq@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 13:23:42 GMT
In article <4e36le$2eq@panix.com> dcl@panix.com (David C. Lambert)
writes:
> Hi. I recently set up my machine to dual boot
> Windows NT 3.51 and NS/I 3.3.
>
> I have 3 SCSI disks arranged as follows:
>
> #1: 359MB : 7MB NS partition, 351 DOS
> #2: 1021MB : all NS
> #3: 4095MB : currently, all NS
>
Make sure that the BIOS support for more than 2 disks is aktivatet,
this is an Option in the Adaptec BIOS,
If you dont have an Adaptec, there might be a similar option
somewhere...
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(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I make a gif or jpg image with a transparent background ?
Date: 26 Jan 1996 11:15:43 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ead4v$9qc@news.petrel.ch>
Hi,
For Web pages, I'd like to be able to convert Tiff images with alpha
(transparency) into gif or jpeg format but so they keep the original
transparency (so that behind, the body background is still visible).
Does anyone know how to do that on NS 3.3 for Intel ?
Thanks
---
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: ARROUY William <arrouy@gm.insa-rouen.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT and Client Machine
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 12:24:02 +0100
Organization: CRIHAN, Mont-Saint-Aignan (France)
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960126121929.14984A-100000@gm.insa-rouen.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I have a NeXT machine with an SCSI card out of order. Hopefully,
the ethernet card is stiil good. So, I use this machine as a client of a
server ( the server is running under 3.3). I can make a rlogin or telnet
or ftp to that client machine. The trouble comes from the login panel. I
can't login with the login panel. It is like if a logout process is sent
just after the login. I modify the ttys file to give secure access, I
give all access to that machine with NFS manager, ... . What is strange
is that I can connect with a telnet but not with the login panel.
Does anybody knows something about that ??
Arrouy William
arrouy@gm.insa-rouen.fr
From: rjh@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Rupert Hollom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I restore the NeXT boot manager ?
Date: 26 Jan 1996 11:29:13 GMT
Organization: Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Message-ID: <4eadu9$6ot@bright.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
I have just installed Windows 95 onto a PC at work that also has
NeXTSTEP installed. The problem is that during the install process
Win95 crapped on the NeXT boot manager so I have to use FDISK to
switch between active partitions at the moment which is not too convenient.
Is there anyway that I can restore the NeXT boot manager without
losing any of the data on the disk ?
Any and all advice help appreciated !
Cheers Rupert
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Uh Oh - does root returning blue screen indicate something worse to come???
Date: 26 Jan 1996 11:23:27 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4eadjf$et4@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4ea03g$m3o@usc.edu>
In article <4ea03g$m3o@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> So this is what happened:
>
> 1) logged in as root and fired up UserManager with the intent of
> changing the default shell for my users directory to zsh. Decided
> to do that for root as well.
[snip]
Is this a case of using UserManager on root resetting the home directory
from / to /Users/root?
Paul
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Subject: Configure SGI as Nextstep look a like? How?
Message-ID: <DLsqI5.1x2@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 16:15:40 GMT
While running an SGI at work I miss a lot of NS' elegance and functionality.
Sure enough some others must have felt the same. The next group seemed a more
suitable place to ask...
So what can be reconfigured/installed on the Sgi to make things more familiar
(and more productive, I think)?
I tried
- run BowMan. Compiled ok but gives 'BadValue 0x0 on CreateWindow' upon
startup. Don't know how to fix or trace that.
- set 4DWm to click focus, 4DWm uses so much screen estate for its decoration I
find it pretty boring to run on a 17" monitor/Indy. It is usable on a
Indigo2+20". though.
- use xmodmap to have traditional Next kbd layout, super keys besides space to
resemble NS' cmd. Still need to tell Xemacs to recognize super keys and
associate bindings.
- What mousewarp parameters have you found suitably equivalent to NS' settings?
- Is there anything that comes close to NS' file viewer in Browser mode?
SGI's thing on irix5.3 is not good compared to it.
And did you notice that moving an opaque window under irix5.3 on an indigo2
feels slower than on an a 68k 25MHz Mono station? True, that's color vs. mono,
but on different h/w categories.
Ah, I like Nextstep the more I have to use irix.
Thanks for any pointers.
Juergen
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From: tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange console message
Date: 26 Jan 1996 19:47:34 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4ebb4m$c1a@paladin.american.edu>
References: <nntpuserDLE3At.6yD@netcom.com>
In article <nntpuserDLE3At.6yD@netcom.com> jpmeia@netcom.com writes:
:I'm getting a strange console message every time I send a fax, after
:the fax send is complete:
:
:
:Jan 18 11:56:54 jpmeia sendmail[3680]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: cannot
:chdir(/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied
:
:This has appeared ever since a botched attempt to install sendmail
:8.7.1, after which I restored my original /etc/sendmail folder, and
:re-linked sendmail.cf to sendmail.subsidiary.cf as it was before. I
:have noticed no problems with sending/receiving mail.
:
Well to most people it means that your mail isn't being sent out at all. If
fact all of the lines you can count with that message means a piece of mail
sent to the bit bucket. sendmail has to be setuid root, chmod 6555, or the
mqueue directory has to be world writeable. Pick your poison. I suggest
suid root.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: jessl@shellx.best.com (Jess Liao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exabyte 8200/8505 w/ Black HW
Date: 26 Jan 1996 11:05:13 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com>
I've searched NeXTAnswers without finding answers.
Does NeXT/Black support any of the Exabyte drive?
I was attempting to install the old Exabyte 8200 to
NeXTturbo color running 3.3. The tape drive was recognized
upon boot up but taring files from/to tape drive (/dev/nrst0)
will cause an I/O erro, at same time some scsi error messages
were displayed in console.
TIA
Jess
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From: indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (weintz steven cortelou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I make a gif or jpg image with a transparent background ?
Date: 26 Jan 1996 20:12:46 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4ebcju$c58@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4ead4v$9qc@news.petrel.ch>
jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi) writes:
>Hi,
>For Web pages, I'd like to be able to convert Tiff images with alpha
>(transparency) into gif or jpeg format but so they keep the original
>transparency (so that behind, the body background is still visible).
>Does anyone know how to do that on NS 3.3 for Intel ?
>Thanks
This would be a very convenient thing. For now, I composite the 'color to
be transparent' as a solid color, convert the TIFF to GIF with Pixel
Magician, then use 'giftrans' from the command line to make that color
transparent.
--
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P.O. Box 742 * Urbana, IL 61801
steve@dave-world.net * 217.344.5303 * 217.344.8981 fax
Staff Visioneer, Beckman Institute Visualization Facility * indy@uiuc.edu
From: dlk@tam2000.tamu.edu (Darrell L. Kristof)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Halt upon REBOOT
Date: 26 Jan 1996 19:21:15 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4eb9jb$j7c@news.tamu.edu>
Howdy,
Just wondering if anyone else is having any problems with NeXTSTEP 3.3
for Intel (I have installed the service patch that came out a few mons.
ago) and am still having problems with NS 3.3 after a "shutdown -r now".
The system will reboot completely (in verbose mode) and halts when it
starts loading NeXT Services (ie. pbs and exec_faxes), I have to press
<CTRL-C> and it will continue on, but still no login screen. They system
halts, not even any remote sessions are allowed. I have to power down,
and have it "fsck" then reboot again, and sometimes it works, sometimes I
end up rebooting again!
Can anyone help here???
Thankx
Darrell
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From: Rocky Rockwell <rockwell@connect.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot manager for NeXTSTEP, Linux and Windoze95
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 11:54:29 -0600
Organization: Connection Technologies
Message-ID: <31091555.5EE@connect.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: rockwell@connect.net
I don't remember the name (??? commader or commander ???).
What ever the name could sombody let me know where to get more info
and/or a place to buy it.
Thanks
rocky
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: joerd@wsunix.wsu.edu
Subject: Missing File Viewer
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
Message-ID: <960126151636.6993AAFgM.wayne@keizai2>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 23:16:36 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Organization: Washington State University
I hope someone can help.
I have System 3.2 on a Motorola box. I have just used User Manager to set
up a new account. (Actually, I've tried this several times.) Everything
seems to go fine but when I try the new account it doesn't have a File
Viewer. I can telnet to the account from another machine and I can look at
the accounts home directory from root.
Any ideas? I'm really stumped.
Wayne Joerding
Professor of Economics Ofc: 509-335-6468
Washington State University email: joerd@wsunix.wsu.edu
Pullman WA 99164
From: indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (weintz steven cortelou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Configure SGI as Nextstep look a like? How?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 01:31:09 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4ebv8t$7j@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <DLsqI5.1x2@euler.hnv.icem.de>
js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell) writes:
>While running an SGI at work I miss a lot of NS' elegance and functionality.
>Sure enough some others must have felt the same. The next group seemed a more
>suitable place to ask...
>So what can be reconfigured/installed on the Sgi to make things more familiar
>(and more productive, I think)?
>I tried
>- run BowMan. Compiled ok but gives 'BadValue 0x0 on CreateWindow' upon
>startup. Don't know how to fix or trace that.
I have a co-worker at the VizLab working on getting BowMan to run politely
on the Lab's mixed network of Indigo2 and RS6000's. When he gets it working
I'll post some info.
>but on different h/w categories.
>Ah, I like Nextstep the more I have to use irix.
Amen. Most folks in the lab do the usual -- pop open a dozen term shells
and ignore the GUI altogether. Judging from the way most of the Indigo
Magic desktop behaves, the SGI engineers feel kind of th same way.
It sure feels like I get more done on my Cube than on the SGI's, excepting
the fact that the chips are 5x faster and the RAM is more.
--
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P.O. Box 742 * Urbana, IL 61801
steve@dave-world.net * 217.344.5303 * 217.344.8981 fax
Staff Visioneer, Beckman Institute Visualization Facility * indy@uiuc.edu
From: tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStation hanging really strange like
Date: 27 Jan 1996 05:11:39 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4ecc6b$qot@paladin.american.edu>
Well I finally got my Quantum 850s working in one of the two NeXTstations I
have. The other one...well read on gentle reader.
I formatted the drive and installed the system with the CD. Everything
looked great, the system booted up like every other good 3.3 system should
until it set the tape sizes for the two nrst devices. Then the system
locked solid and when I say locks solid I mean I had to either unplug the
thing or hit [L]Alt-[L]Cmd-*.
The first NeXTstation I installed a Quantum 850 in had 16 megs of memory.
This NeXTstation has only 8 megs of memory in it. Any clues folks?
--
Torrey McMahon
From: alanf@izzy.net (Alan Frabutt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: no host on login panel
Date: 27 Jan 1996 02:07:03 -0500
Organization: Isthmus Corporation, Inc.
Message-ID: <4eciun$9j3@izzy4.izzy.net>
One of my 3.3 systems isn't displaying the hostid on the login panel.
Another symptom is sendmail is misbehaving terribly.
Have I messed up something in NetInfo? It is a standalone
machine, altho there are other NEXTSTEP machines on the network...
Thanks in advance,
Alan M. Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: failed to load /etc/mach_init
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 10:18:55 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
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On 25 Jan 1996, Paul Lynch wrote:
> In article <4e89sn$7j6@pearl.whoi.edu> pete@voyager.whoi.edu (Peter
> Schmitt) writes:
> > I just rebooted my NS3.3 cube and now it stops booting at this error.
> >
> > Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
> > Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
> >
> > ...and that is where it is stuck.
>
> Last time I saw this, the entire /etc (and /private/etc) directories had
> been deleted. Not good news.
Yeah, the last time you saw this was probably with me, and all of my /etc
and /private/etc files were gone. Because there had been some other
weirdness going on, I ended up buying a CD-ROM and reinstalling 3.2
entirely. However, I am not sure if that is what is entirely necessary.
I am guessing that you have tried booting into single user mode and it
did not work (that is what happened to me). However, if you _can_ boot
into single user mode, there are copies of the files needed in
/usr/template/client/etc.
When I had this problem someone at NeXT.com was nice enough to help me
out but I don't know if I still have his instructions around anywhere.
There was something about a way to get it to boot from a different
mach_init file than the one in /etc/. I'll try to find his email
messages but it might take some looking....
Feel free to send me email if you need to.
TjL
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no host on login panel
Date: 27 Jan 1996 08:16:01 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In <4eciun$9j3@izzy4.izzy.net> Alan Frabutt wrote:
> One of my 3.3 systems isn't displaying the hostid on the
> login panel. Another symptom is sendmail is misbehaving
> terribly. Have I messed up something in NetInfo? It is a
> standalone machine, altho there are other NEXTSTEP machines
> on the network...
> Thanks in advance,
> Alan M. Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
YES YOU HAVE IRRETRIEVABLY RUINED THAT POOR MACHINE!!!!! 8-)
Well, not really. But (1) getting the hostid back onto the login
panel is as simple as logging in as root, choosing preferences ->
login panel -> and then clicking on the button for hostid on
login panel.
AS FOR SENDMAIL - well, maybe you could be more specific - with
examples, version of sendmail, any special configuration, and
maybe even describing what you mean by misbehaving terribly (does
it include expletives in the subject lines???)
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: failed to load /etc/mach_init
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 13:00:19 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
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On 25 Jan 1996, Peter Schmitt wrote:
> I just rebooted my NS3.3 cube and now it stops booting at this error.
>
> Load of /etc/mach_init, errno 2, trying /etc/init
> Load of /etc/init failed, errno 2
>
> ...and that is where it is stuck.
>
> what can I do to repair this? I cannot boot from CD.
> pschmitt@whoi.edu
in ROM
NeXT> bsd -i -s
After the kernel starts, it will print:
init program?
If /usr/etc/init is still around, then you can say:
init program? /usr/etc/init
If not, try /usr/template/client/etc/mach_init
When it comes up in single user mode, you can (hopefully) fix things.
It may complain about the file system being read-only. You can fix
that with:
mount -o remount /dev/sd0a /
Basically what you _hope_ you can do is copy the files (copy, not move)
from /usr/template/client/etc/ to /etc. Some of the files in /etc are
really in /private/etc but are linked to /etc
Not to be melo-dramatic, but if you get it into single-user mode, move
quickly but carefully. I don't know if there is a way to figure out
which files are the one required for booting to single user mode (so you
can copy those first).
I would suggest not trying to do something like 'cp
/usr/template/client/etc /etc/' because it seems to me that when I tried
to do that it froze because it was trying to do too much at once. My
non-guaranteed advice would be to be patient and copy one file at a time.
Another thing to check would be /mach. /mach is really a funky symbolic
link. If it is misssing, fix it (in single user mode) with:
ln -s '$BOOTFILE' /mach
It should look like:
# /bin/ls -l /mach
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Feb 16 16:12 /mach -> $BOOTFILE
You'll want to check /etc/fstab and /etc/shells and /etc/ttys as I know
those are important files
Does anyone have or know where to get a listing of the files which are
used in the boot process? That would be very helpful at a time like this.
If I can be of any help, please let me know
TjL
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From: fox@jeans.fokus.gmd.de (Oliver Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sybase DBServer Reboot Problem
Date: 27 Jan 1996 13:29:57 GMT
Organization: GMD-FOKUS
Message-ID: <4ed9cl$si1@stern.fokus.gmd.de>
Keywords: sybase reboot
When my NeXT reboot it do not start the Sybase-Server.
I have to log in as "sybase" and start it by myself every time.
I already do the following:
write
source /usr/sybase/scripts/SetVars
/usr/sybase/bin/startserver
in file /etc/rc.local
but it still did not start automatically
Thanks for help
Oliver
From: xkueno@isid.co.jp (UENO Kotaro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Can I setup NextStep's passwd expiration?
Date: 26 Jan 1996 04:37:38 GMT
Organization: Information Services International - DENTSU, ltd. TOKYO, JAPAN.
Message-ID: <4e9lqi$54k@success.isid.co.jp>
Hello!
I would like to setup the expiration of NextStep's password for
more security. But I don't know the detail about NextStep secret
design, and I'm first experience using NextStep.
So far as I read some manuals, it seems that NextStep isn't
including the design of expirng user password.
Do anybody know for more detail or have good idea?
Thank you for any help,
Jan/26/96[Fri]
Kotaro Ueno
xkueno@isid.co.jp
From: James Rucker <jrucker@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: desperate help - simple question
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 07:17:33 -0800
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I have been away from my next machine for some time, starting making
changes to NetInfo (via the NetInfo Manager); first of all, now i cannot
even boot the machine - it's hanging at "checking system files", so my
first question is how do i boot the machine in single-user mode (i have
forgotten the key sequence to break from the normal boot-up sequence)?
Second, short of reinstalling the OS, is there anything I can do to
return NetInfo to a sane state, or is there a recommended way of
disabling it? Thanks a bunch in advance.
-- James
jrucker@ix.netcom.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: failed to load /etc/mach_init
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 20:03:10 GMT
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In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960126101201.12149J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
> On 25 Jan 1996, Paul Lynch wrote:
> > Last time I saw this, the entire /etc (and /private/etc) directories
had
> > been deleted. Not good news.
>
> Yeah, the last time you saw this was probably with me, and all of my
/etc
> and /private/etc files were gone.
It was last week. A small client had discovered that all of their user
directories, /etc, /private/etc and /usr/adm had vanished, on both
machines. Rather disturbing.
Paul
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From: "Robert D. Nielsen" <robert.nielsen@everest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone running HylaFAX on NS Intel 3.3?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 23:10:09 GMT
Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden)
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Greetings,
Is anyone running HylaFAX on NS Intel 3.3? I would love to hear what you
think of it.
For those of you who may not know, HylaFAX is a PD fax system written for
Unix so a single Unix host can fax serve for a wide variety of clients.
It was written by Sam Leffler so I bet it makes use of his TIFF libraries,
and it needs a PostScript server. From the sound of it, it works like
SMTP or POP3.
http://www.vix.com/hylafax
ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax
Cheers,
Robert
From: "Robert D. Nielsen" <robert.nielsen@everest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: restore and dump numbers
Date: 27 Jan 1996 23:18:15 GMT
Organization: TLGnet Inc., (formerly The Little Garden)
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To: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee) wrote:
>Hola!
>
> I'm trying to use dump and restore to backup my harddrives to a Tandberg
>QIC tape drive. How does one compute the proper density and length numbers
>for dump that correspond to the various tape sizes? I've looked at the man
>pages, but even the Exabyte example doesn't come out right (I can't duplicate
>the calculations). I have density, track and length specs for the various QIC
>formats, but they don't seem to work with dump. I don't think they work
>because the estimate of the number of tapes the dump will require doesn't
>seem to make sense e.g. 1.3 250M tapes to backup 240M?
>
> It seems that underestimating the capacity of the tape only makes me use up
>more tapes than I really need. What if I over-estimate (calculate?) the
>numbers? Will I get a SCSI error? Will the data overwrite something on the
>tape? Will the data just fall on the floor?
>
> This should go in the FAQ somewhere....
>
>Help!
>
>--
>Alvin Jee
>alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
>NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
>Using the Internet since 1984
>http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~alvin
Here are the numbers I use when doing a level 0 dump of /.
Maxell HS-4/60 (Helical-Scan 4mm Data Cartridge) [1.3 G/197 feet]
d = (1.3 x 10^9 bytes/197 feet) * (1 feet/12 inches) ~= 550,000 bytes/inch
/usr/etc/dump 0ufd /dev/rst0 550000 /
From: "Robert D. Nielsen" <robert.nielsen@everest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: restore and dump numbers
Date: 27 Jan 1996 23:21:09 GMT
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To: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee) wrote:
>Hola!
>
> I'm trying to use dump and restore to backup my harddrives to a Tandberg
>QIC tape drive. How does one compute the proper density and length numbers
>for dump that correspond to the various tape sizes? I've looked at the man
>pages, but even the Exabyte example doesn't come out right (I can't duplicate
>the calculations). I have density, track and length specs for the various QIC
>formats, but they don't seem to work with dump. I don't think they work
>because the estimate of the number of tapes the dump will require doesn't
>seem to make sense e.g. 1.3 250M tapes to backup 240M?
>
> It seems that underestimating the capacity of the tape only makes me use up
>more tapes than I really need. What if I over-estimate (calculate?) the
>numbers? Will I get a SCSI error? Will the data overwrite something on the
>tape? Will the data just fall on the floor?
>
> This should go in the FAQ somewhere....
>
>Help!
>
>--
>Alvin Jee
>alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
>NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
>Using the Internet since 1984
>http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/~alvin
Here are the numbers I use when doing a level 0 dump of /.
Maxell HS-4/60 (Helical-Scan 4mm Data Cartridge) [1.3 G/197 feet]
d = (1.3 x 10^9 bytes/197 feet) * (1 feet/12 inches) ~= 550,000 bytes/inch
/usr/etc/dump 0ufd /dev/rst0 550000 /
From: nicholas@infosciences.com (Nicholas Winterhalter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FS: NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER CD-ROM
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 17:37:01 -0700
Organization: Rt66.COM, Public Internet Access in New Mexico
Message-ID: <nicholas-2701961737010001@pmc25.rt66.com>
For sale used:
NEXTSTEP DEVELOPER CD-ROM
o Full Developer's Release 3.1
o For Intel Processors and NeXT Computers
Asking $900
---
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From: jonas@eunet.si (Jonas Znidarsic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I make a gif or jpg image with a transparent background ?
Date: 28 Jan 1996 08:56:41 GMT
Organization: Academic and Research Network of Slovenia
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In <4ebcju$c58@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> weintz steven cortelou wrote:
> jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi) writes:
>
> >Hi,
>
> >For Web pages, I'd like to be able to convert Tiff images with alpha
> >(transparency) into gif or jpeg format but so they keep the original
> >transparency (so that behind, the body background is still visible).
>
> >Does anyone know how to do that on NS 3.3 for Intel ?
>
> >Thanks
>
> This would be a very convenient thing. For now, I composite the 'color to
> be transparent' as a solid color, convert the TIFF to GIF with Pixel
> Magician, then use 'giftrans' from the command line to make that color
> transparent.
Yeah, but where can one get the Magician?
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I make a gif or jpg image with a transparent background ?
Date: 28 Jan 1996 17:02:53 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In <4efdo9$6qb@cmir.arnes.si> Jonas Znidarsic wrote:
> Yeah, but where can one get the Magician?
Bcchus, Inc.
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sybase DBServer Reboot Problem
Date: 28 Jan 1996 20:17:46 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
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fox@jeans.fokus.gmd.de (Oliver Fox) wrote:
> When my NeXT reboot it do not start the Sybase-Server.
>
> I have to log in as "sybase" and start it by myself every time.
>
> I already do the following:
>
> write
>
> source /usr/sybase/scripts/SetVars
> /usr/sybase/bin/startserver
>
> in file /etc/rc.local
>
> but it still did not start automatically
Unless you have rewritten SetVars, it contains C shell commands whereas
rc.local runs in a Bourne shell. So you can either rewrite SetVars or use
something similar to the following in rc.local:
# Start Sybase server if it is present
if [ -f /usr/sybase/scripts/SetVars ]; then
eval `/bin/awk '/SYBASE|DSQUERY|DSLISTEN|PATH/ {printf("%s=%s; export
%s;\n", $2, $3, $2)}' /usr/sybase/scripts/SetVars`
if [ -f /usr/sybase/database/$DSQUERY.sdb ]; then
fbshow -B -I "Starting Sybase Server $DSQUERY" -z 92
/usr/sybase/bin/dataserver -s$DSQUERY \
-d/usr/sybase/database/$DSQUERY.sdb \
-e/usr/sybase/database/$DSQUERY.errorlog &
fi
fi
Note that the above assumes that the Sybase database file is named
$DSQUERY.sdb whereas by default, Sybase creates a file named "master.sdb", so
you'll need to change either the database filename or the above script.
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From: coa@tor.teorfys.lu.se (Carl-Olof Almbadh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Building imake for nextstep 3.[23]
Date: 28 Jan 1996 21:33:35 GMT
Organization: Department of Theoretical Physics, Lund University
Message-ID: <4egq3f$cnu@merkurius.lu.se>
Has anyone succeded to get imake working properly on nextstep.
I would appear that there is a bug in gnu's cpp that prevents
this to work properly
#define A a
#define B b
A.B
The above three lines get expanded to
a .a
The extra blank inserted by cpp seems to break imake,
and also the patch program.
Carl-Olof Almbladh
coa@teorfys.lu.se
From: matthias.3@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Karl N. Matthias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: NeXTstep NFS and Solaris 2.5
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 00:03:55 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <matthias.3.2.310C0EEA@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I currently have a Sun SPARCstation-2 and a NeXTstation hooked together on
their own separate LAN. Currently I can telnet and ftp between them without
difficulty. The Solaris machine works fine on a Solaris-only network, with
NFS and NIS running. I took it from there and attached it only to the
NeXTstation. Both machines work fine independently and as I said I can telnet
and ftp between them. NFS, however, is a different story. I set up the
NFSManager on the NeXT to export some directories, and the Sun was already
exporting some. Then I tried to use NFSManager on the NeXT to mount the Sun's
exports and that does not work, nor does attempting to mount NeXT directories
from the Sun. Any ideas? I did notice at startup that the NeXT flashes the
message: "autonfsmount - unable to get my address." I don't know if this
affects anything or not, but I thought I throw it in there. I had read back
in September that some one was having trouble getting Solaris 2.4 to work with
NS. Does anyone know whatI need to do? Thanks
Karl N. Matthias
From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Building imake for nextstep 3.[23]
Date: 29 Jan 1996 01:34:19 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <4eh86r$s9d@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4egq3f$cnu@merkurius.lu.se>
In <4egq3f$cnu@merkurius.lu.se> Carl-Olof Almbadh wrote:
> Has anyone succeded to get imake working properly on nextstep.
> I would appear that there is a bug in gnu's cpp that prevents
> this to work properly
Have you tried invoking cpp with the -traditional switch ? That is the
usual fix in this situation. It certainly corrects the misbehaviour in the
example you gave.
Carl Edman
From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Building imake for nextstep 3.[23]
Date: 29 Jan 1996 01:34:28 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
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In <4egq3f$cnu@merkurius.lu.se> Carl-Olof Almbadh wrote:
> Has anyone succeded to get imake working properly on nextstep.
> I would appear that there is a bug in gnu's cpp that prevents
> this to work properly
Have you tried invoking cpp with the -traditional switch ? That is the
usual fix in this situation. It certainly corrects the misbehaviour in the
example you gave.
Carl Edman
From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Building imake for nextstep 3.[23]
Date: 29 Jan 1996 01:39:12 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
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In <4eh86r$s9d@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Carl Edman wrote:
> [blah]
and then again in
In <4eh874$s9d@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Carl Edman wrote:
> [same blah]
Please forgive the double post. I just discovered two bugs in RadicalNews
beta 0.8. It doesn't close the post window after posting an article
successfully and it doesn't allow me to cancel my own articles on the
grounds that I didn't write them.
Carl Edman
From: Ken Overton <kov@jhu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TCP Panic @ boot time
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 17:37:24 -0500
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HARDWARE: Black Cube 040; 16MB RAM. Not connected to any network.
SOFTWARE: NS 3.2 w/Developer
PROBLEM: Error logged in /usr/adm/messages every time it boots:
myhost netmsgserver[92]: network_init
myhost netmsgserver[92]: tcp_listener.bind failed: errno=48
myhost netmsgserver[92]: netname_init.netname_check_in fails, kr=1000.
myhost netmsgserver[92]: Panic: tcp
myhost netmsgserver[92]: Panic: netname_init fails.
errno 48 is "address already in use". My machine comes up fine other
than this, but I want to try PPP but I'd like to be a little surer about
my configuration before I try debugging PPP.
In my HostManager local configuration:
Netinfo Binding: use local domain only, "readable only by local net."
Hostname: myhost
NIS Domain: none
Internet Address: 127.0.0.1
Broadcast Address: default
Time Standard: Ignore Network Time
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Router: dynamic
I have NOTHING in my hosts file (verified by doing nidump hosts /, it
didn't output any names). I had overwritten the default hosts when I
had this machine on a campus network and thought maybe those campus
hosts were the problem so I removed them all.
Any suggestions via post or e-mail are appreciated,
- kov
From: nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Reboot complete" is a lie
Date: 29 Jan 1996 03:05:43 GMT
Organization: Music Program Zero, Annandale-on-Hudson NY 12504
Message-ID: <4ehdi7$mi4@core.bard.edu>
I have been making some improvements to our network of 2 cubes and a slab
(running NS 3.0). In the process, it seems something has been corrupted.
The NeXTstation will reboot and say "Reboot complete", but then it will
not give me the loginwindow. It will enter single-user mode without a
hitch, though. I have replaced /etc/ttys and loginwindow.app with fresh
copies (from the other machines, which are working fine). No good.
I suspect that this may be a network-related problem, but my
understanding of NetInfo is limited. Disconnecting the computer from the
network (physically) does not help. Nor does removing entries from
/etc/fstab solve the problem. But there is still something
happening--the /private/Net directory is under the control of something.
Please help me out! The smallest tip may go a long way.
Thanks,
Noel Bush
From: Dennis Glatting <dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: A problem with NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k, sendmail 8.7.3, and POSIX
Date: 29 Jan 1996 03:47:49 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ehg15$ock@news.accessone.com>
I am having a problem with sendmail 8.7.3 when compiled
and linked with the -posix option under NeXTSTEP 3.3
m68k, patch level 1. I defined NEWDB and previously
compiled and installed Berkeley db 1.85 using the -posix
option, though that appears not to be relevant.
The problem I am having is related to the readdir()
function used by the orderq() function in queue.c. The
following lines of code are the problem focal point:
register struct dirent *d;
...
while ((d = readdir(f)) != NULL)
The compiler generates a warning message indicated d and
readdir() are different types. I preprocessed (cc
-posix -E) queue.c and determined d and readdir() are the
same type. When the code executes it appears that d is the
type "struct direct" (indicated by the debugger) but
readdir() returns struct dirent, as it should.
Consequently, indexes into d are using the wrong
offsets.
I tried a trick. I preprocessed queue.c (cc -posix -E)
then compiled the result without the -posix flag and
linked it with the rest of the code specifying -posix. It
worked. It appears the the flag -posix has an effect after
preprocessing, possibly redefining "dirent" to
"direct".
Have any of you come across a problem like this? If so, how
did you solve it?
--
Dennis P. Glatting
From: gcrow@bayarea.net (George Crow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer Setup using TCP/IP
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 20:58:01 -0800
Organization: Bay Area Internet Solutions (408)447-8690
Message-ID: <gcrow-2801962058010001@gcrow.bayarea.net>
Does anyone know where I can find instructions for configuring my black
NeXT to print directly on a networked HP printer over ethernet?
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 29 Jan 1996 05:15:19 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4ehl57$e8t@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
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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.
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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.
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next-bugs-d
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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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If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
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identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
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To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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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.
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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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Manuel Menezes de Sequeira <Manuel.Sequeira@amalia.ist.utl.pt>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS problems
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 12:46:01 +0000
Organization: Instituto de Telecomunicacoes
Message-ID: <310CC189.4D62@amalia.ist.utl.pt>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I tried to set up a Next Cube running Nextstep 3.0 as an NFS
server for a Sparc 20 client running Solaris 2.4. When the mount
command is issued (in the sparc) no errors occur. However, no
matter what NFS options are used, a simple ls into the mounted
file system hangs, while the following error message appears in
the next's console:
svckudp_send: xdr_replymsg failed
nfs_server: bad sendreply from x.x.x.x [the sparc's address]
Thanks for your help with this problem.
Manuel
P.S. Please reply by email, since I don't read the news often.
--
Manuel Menezes de Sequeira (Manuel.Sequeira@it.ist.utl.pt)
IT, Torre Norte, 10-15, IST, 1096 LISBOA CODEX, Portugal
Tel:+351.1.8418461 Fax:+351.1.8418472
URL: http://it.ist.utl.pt/~mms
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer Setup using TCP/IP
Date: 29 Jan 1996 17:08:41 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4eiuup$gkg@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <gcrow-2801962058010001@gcrow.bayarea.net>
In article <gcrow-2801962058010001@gcrow.bayarea.net> gcrow@bayarea.net (George Crow) writes:
>Does anyone know where I can find instructions for configuring my black
>NeXT to print directly on a networked HP printer over ethernet?
NS3.3 supports networked HP printers (JetDirect MIO) natively via
PrintManager.app. I assume that you are using NS3.2 or earlier.
There are two TCP based printing protocols that JetDirect accepts.
One way is using LPD protocol directly specifying "rm" field in
printcap in NetInfo. See the following document for setup using
LPD, at the GSCorp web site:
http://www.gscorp.com/Support_Bulletins.html
ftp://ftp.gscorp.com/pub/support/HP_JetDirect_Configuration.rtfd.tar.gz
For the other solution that uses TCP port 9100 (AppSocket) via "if"
filter in the printcap, get JetDirectDriver* at the NS archive sites
or get the up-to-date version from:
ftp://pinoko.berkeley.edu/pub/next/sources/JetDirectDriver.compressed
--
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: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Newer than gcc 2.7.0 ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 29 Jan 1996 19:05:00 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4ej5os$24n@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
My gcc 2.7.0 compiler for NS regularly croaks with the message that there is
an internal compiler bug and asks me to submit a full bug report. Because
2.7.0 is no longer the last version, and my input file is quite complex, I
presume this is not worthwhile.
Is there a binary version of a later version of gcc for NS/FIP available
somewhere?
/ivo welch
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
From: Shakil Ahmed <pdcs@lava.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot manager for NeXTSTEP, Linux and Windoze95
Date: 27 Jan 1996 21:43:18 GMT
Organization: LavaNet - Hawai'i Internet Access
Message-ID: <4ee69n$2jp@malasada.lava.net>
References: <31091555.5EE@connect.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
please forward the info to me too...
thanks.
From: "Rolf Behrsing (Super-User)" <rolf@sandman.als.lbl.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Error installing EOF 1.1 Developer
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:35:42 -0800
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
Message-ID: <310D218E.16D9@sandman.als.lbl.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I recently picked up a copy of NEXTSTEP 3.3 User/Developer (Academic
Edition) which included EOF. I was able to install both User and
Developer without any problems. When I got to EOF I installed the User
Patch followed by the EOUser, but when I tried loading EOdeveloper
I got the following error:
Errors while installing
The log read as follows:
.
.
.
Running installation program...
checking compiler ...OK
Precompiling /NextDeveloper/Headers/eoaccess/eoaccess.h...
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/machine/stdarg.h:1 Warning: nondigits in
number and not hexadecimal
(This message along with other similar ones occur multiple times)
.
.
.
/NextDeveloper/Headers/eoaccess/eoaccess.h: cannot preparse
I tried the installation multiple time, but to no avail. Has this
error been reported before? Could it be that I have a corrupted
CD-ROM? I followed the installation instructions verbatim included
with the 3 CDs.
Thanks, Rolf Behrsing
RHBehrsing@lbl.gov
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: seeking PPP guru
Date: 29 Jan 1996 22:03:47 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Distribution: na,usa,world
Message-ID: <4ejg83$9ob@news.onramp.net>
References: <1996Jan25.144417.2446@heinz.com>
Thanks to everyone how took the time to send me their suggestions!
problem 1: ppp2.2 doesn't work on NS3.0
solution: use AlbyPPP0.3
problem 2: Now ppp connects and I can ping, but can't telnet or ftp
solution: Use -all ppp option - the problem was the MTU settting
problem 3: I can now telnet and ftp, but NeXTstep crashes on >100K ftp transfers
solution: ????
---
Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <zander@cnext.crec.mipt.ru>
Message-ID: <9601300208.AA07950@cnext.crec.mipt.ru>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Aleksey Sudakov <zander@cnext.crec.mipt.ru>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 05:08:11 +0300
Subject: SLIP for Intel is there such a beast?
Hello,
I want to setup my university white NS 3.3 to answer incoming SLIP
connections. Yes I know about ppp, but I want have SLIP as well.
Unfortunately, all I could find so far is SLIP.920904-A.N.b.tar.gz
from TransSys, Inc. which is a binary distribution for black boxes.
Thus the question is "Is there public domain SLIP package for Intel
hardware?"
Yes, if the beast exists any help on setting it up will be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Aleksey
_________________________________________________________________
Aleksey Sudakov
1A-1 Kerchenskaya Street
Moscow 113303,Russia.
________________________________________________________________
Home: +7(095)121-6100 + 3-45, +7(095)121-0561 + 3-45
EMail: zander@cnext.crec.mipt.ru (NeXTMail & MIME are OK)
WWW: http://www.crec.mipt.ru/~zander/
From: philip@sgiinda (Philip Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: su question
Date: 30 Jan 1996 03:29:20 GMT
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Message-ID: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
Thanks in advance.
From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: 30 Jan 1996 04:48:50 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ek7vi$13m@news.rwth-aachen.de>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
In article <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> philip@sgiinda (Philip Ling)
writes:
> A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
The user must be in the wheel group.
It's that easy.
sl
From: philip@sgiinda (Philip Ling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: 30 Jan 1996 06:11:23 GMT
Organization: The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ekcqb$q8f@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> <4ek7vi$13m@news.rwth-aachen.de>
Stefan Leuker (sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
: In article <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> philip@sgiinda (Philip Ling)
: writes:
: > A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
: The user must be in the wheel group.
: It's that easy.
: sl
Thanks !
By the way, is there any Netscape browser or www browser for NeXT ?
From: kschulz@ba-stuttgart.de (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Network Printer
Date: 30 Jan 1996 08:07:55 GMT
Organization: Berufsakademie Stuttgart
Message-ID: <4ekjkr$8fg@news.BelWue.DE>
Hi
We have a network printer with a special IP number
and so on.
I can print using ftp and put
How do I configure this in NeXTSTEP
Give a man a fish: feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish: feed him for life.
Teach a hundred men to fish: empty the lake of fish.
Kay Schulz
kay@cordis.lu
From: jklinke@ucsd.edu (Jochen Klinke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:31:31 GMT
Organization: The University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <4elh53$gmb@news1.ucsd.edu>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
In article <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> philip@sgiinda (Philip Ling)
writes:
> A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
add them to the wheel group
jk
From: jantzen@ccmitpa.univ-lyon1.fr (Eric Jantzen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LaserWriter NEXT and shared use
Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:04:23 GMT
Organization: C.I.S.M. Universite de Lyon 1 / INSA de Lyon
Message-ID: <4elfi7$ejc@tempo.univ-lyon1.fr>
Hello,
I want use my NeXT printer on my ethernet network.
How may I configure my NeXTstation color??
I use NeXTstep 3.2.
Thank's
--
-----------------------------------------------------
Eric Jantzen | jantzen@ccmi.univ-lyon1.fr
U.C.B.L. |
France |
-----------------------------------------------------
From: Eric P Baenen <ebaenen@mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! NetInfo server can't find itself
Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:55:15 GMT
Organization: Wright Laboratory - Avionics Directorate WPAFB, OH USA
Message-ID: <4elihj$f8b@ace.aa.wpafb.af.mil>
URL: http://www.mbvlab.wpafb.af.mil/~ebaenen/ebaenen.htmld
Please HELP!!!
Our office moved to a building next door (changed subnets) so I had to change
the IP and router address of my machine (NeXTstation color running NS 3.3,
address changes made to hostconfig) which also happens to be the NetInfo
server of a small NeXT network.
Now when I boot it tells me it can't find the parent NetInfo server (which is
itself) and the only way to get it to come up is to 'press c to continue'
which denies access to all the network accounts.
Furthermore I now get the additional error (never used to) of:
Jan 30 11:20:32 nextclient3 autonfsmount: Can't get my address
and the console is flooded continually with messages like:
Jan 30 11:24:29 nextclient3 syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Jan 30 11:27:32 nextclient3 last message repeated 2 times
Jan 30 11:30:42 nextclient3 syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Jan 30 11:31:40 nextclient3 syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
If anyone can give me a clue as to what has gone wrong I would be most
grateful.
Thanks,
Eric
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From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer Setup using TCP/IP
Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:49:43 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4eli77$v4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <gcrow-2801962058010001@gcrow.bayarea.net>
gcrow@bayarea.net (George Crow) wrote:
> Does anyone know where I can find instructions for configuring my black
> NeXT to print directly on a networked HP printer over ethernet?
In the online help of PrintManager.app (assumed you have NS3.3 - don't know
if it works at all with earlier versions)
Bye
Uli
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From: nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: loginwindow could not find WindowServer port!
Date: 30 Jan 1996 21:00:44 GMT
Organization: Music Program, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504
Message-ID: <4em0ts$s39@core.bard.edu>
Two machines in a network of three (all running NS 3.0) are hanging after
going through the boot process. The mach -> $BOOTFILE link is in place.
Replacing /usr/lib/NextStep and even the entire /private/etc and /usr
directories with fresh copies does not help. A look at the
/usr/adm/messages file reveals MANY repetitions of the message:
Jan 30 03:12:04 mpz_turbo loginwindow[12176]: loginwindow: could not find
WindowServer port!
Does anyone know about this problem?
Noel Bush
From: engelsmb@rtsg.mot.com (Benjamin D. Engelsma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting from CDROM on old cube
Date: 30 Jan 1996 21:07:24 GMT
Organization: Motorola Cellular
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4em1ac$7a2@newdelph.cig.mot.com>
Hi,
I want to install 3.3 from scratch on an old cube. It has
a single SCSI disk, an OD and no floppy disk. I want to be
able to boot from the CDROM and then proceed to install from
scratch 3.3. Can anyone help me? I have tried the following
from the ROM monitor without any success:
bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1
and I tried that with some variation (rootdev=sd1a) without success.
The device number on the back of the CDROM drive is 4.
Can someone help me get going?
Thanx, and please mail me!
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From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: network monitors, snoop
Date: 30 Jan 1996 20:14:46 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4elu7m$chj@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: network, monitor, snoop
I'm looking for a network packet monitoring program that will run
on NeXT Motorola machines. Any information in this regard will be
much appreciated.
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University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98105
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: root (Operator)
Subject: Re: su question
Message-ID: <DM0KD4.CFx@iquest.net>
Sender: news@iquest.net (News Admin)
Organization: IQuest Internet, Inc.
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 21:43:52 GMT
In <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> Philip Ling wrote:
> A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Simple. Add him/her to the group ' wheel'
Rafael A. Bonilla
Next/Sun Sys Admin
Environmental Health Laboratories
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:59:08 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960130105532.2562E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> <4ek7vi$13m@news.rwth-aachen.de> <4ekcqb$q8f@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4ekcqb$q8f@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
On 30 Jan 1996, Philip Ling wrote:
> Stefan Leuker (sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de) wrote:
> : In article <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> philip@sgiinda (Philip Ling)
> : writes:
> : > A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
>
> : The user must be in the wheel group.
>
> : It's that easy.
>
> : sl
>
> Thanks !
>
> By the way, is there any Netscape browser or www browser for NeXT ?
yes, there is OmniWeb and netsurfer
common NeXT ftp sites are next-ftp.peak.org (formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu)
and peanuts.leo.org (check the /pub/comp/platforms/next folder)
Two free tips:
1) add a 'reply-to' line with your actual return email address
2) when asking a new question, you might want to put in in a new post, so
people don't think it is part of the previous thread.
TjL
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From: wombat@smartt.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mount DOS partition from single-user mode?
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 17:21:54 -0800
Organization: KTK Commmunications Ltd. (SmarttNet)
Message-ID: <310EC432.2D93@smartt.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
Is it possible to mount a DOS partition from single-user mode in NS 3.3?
If so, how is it done?
Thanks,
Shea Phillips.
wombat@smartt.com
From: sacremon@access.mountain.net (David Kelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: getty entry for 28.8K
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:38:19 -0500
Organization: None
Message-ID: <sacremon-3001962038190001@slip5-12.mountain.net>
Hello,
I've recently installed a Motorola Lifestyle 28.8K on my color
NeXTStation, and need to know what the entry into gettytab should look
like so that the machine knows what all to look for. Any help would be
appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
David Kelman
sacremon@access.mountain.net
kelman@ncifcrf.gov
NeXTMail acceptable at either
From: dritz@mnsinc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dual Boot Problem
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 18:01:30 PDT
Organization: Monumental Network Systems
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.823053881.8598.dritzppp@ritz.mnsinc.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Help....I used to be able to boot into either DOS or NS Intel 3.2.
But I upgraged my DOS from 5.0 to 6.22. Now I do not even
get an option. It just boots into DOS. I can 'See' the NS partition
by running the fdisk DOS command. So I know NS is still there.
Any help would be appreciated....
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: newgrp on NextStep
Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:03:37 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4en7op$a0@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <kevincDLrqsI.Cou@netcom.com>
kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc) wrote:
> Have any of you tried newgrp on NextStep? It causes my terminal window
> to exit by itself! Wierd.
>
> BTW, I'm using NS3.3 on an Intel DX4.
>
> Song
Use "nudump group / >mygroup" Then edit that file. Now you can
"niload group / <mygroup".
Or you can use NetInfoManager.app.
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From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no host on login panel
Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:24:47 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4en90f$a0@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4eciun$9j3@izzy4.izzy.net> <4ecn01$an@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
(...)
> Well, not really. But (1) getting the hostid back onto the login
> panel is as simple as logging in as root, choosing preferences ->
> login panel -> and then clicking on the button for hostid on
> login panel.
Not all the time. I had one HP which did not display the hostname -- although
the checkbox was checked! Then I copied the hard disk of a working neighbour.
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(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
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From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Can I setup NextStep's passwd expiration?
Date: 31 Jan 1996 08:28:49 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4en981$a0@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4e9lqi$54k@success.isid.co.jp>
xkueno@isid.co.jp (UENO Kotaro) wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like to setup the expiration of NextStep's password for
> more security. But I don't know the detail about NextStep secret
(...)
I do not think that would be more secure. If you force your users
to chage their passwords frequently they will not remember the pw
as consequence they will write it down. Is that save?
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(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
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From: toolahjj@rubel.cs.tu-berlin.de (Budy Setiawan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with banner during printing
Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:20:30 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Sender: toolahjj@rubel (Budy Setiawan)
Message-ID: <4eo1bu$p75@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Hi,
Does anyone know why my printer HP 5MP (not direct connected to NeXT, but to my
PC with OS2 2.0 )always print the banner & info
about spool directory,status,owner, etc on the first and second page and
then it begin to print at the third page.
I assume that I have to reconfigure/change my /etc/printcap, but on the manual
I can't find the information about how to suppress banner at printing.
Thanks in advance
Budy Setiawan:
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where has the queued mail gone?
Date: 31 Jan 1996 14:20:40 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4entro$1h@news.tamu.edu>
Using my NS/I machine at home last night, I composed some mail messages
but could not bring up my ppp connection because the the university
modem lines were all busy. When I checked mailq I saw, as expected,
that the messages were deferred because of a Host Lookup Failure.
This morning I checked the mailq before bringing up ppp and it was
empty. So my question is what happened to those messages?
I had assumed that they would remain queued until sendmail could get
access to the domain nameserver and deliver the messages. And if they
could not be delivered I thought they would be returned to me. It
appears however that the messages were destroyed. Anyone know why,
and how to prevent this obnoxious behavior?
Thanks!
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-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with banner during printing
Date: 31 Jan 1996 18:21:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4eobva$an5@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <4eo1bu$p75@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In article <4eo1bu$p75@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> toolahjj@rubel.cs.tu-berlin.de (Budy Setiawan)
writes:
>Hi,
>Does anyone know why my printer HP 5MP (not direct connected to NeXT, but to my
>PC with OS2 2.0 )always print the banner & info
>about spool directory,status,owner, etc on the first and second page and
>then it begin to print at the third page.
>I assume that I have to reconfigure/change my /etc/printcap, but on the manual
>I can't find the information about how to suppress banner at printing.
Does OS/2 print via Ethenet JetDirect?
That is a "feature" for JetDirect until very recently.
There are three possible solutions.
[1] try to use "lpr -h ...rest of args..", i.e., with the -h option
for printing command. On most systems, this involves renaming
the original lpr to something else and install a script that now pose as
lpr which edit the command line to add -h.
[2] Get JetDirect firmware update and update flash ROM of JetDirect.
(That is if you can get their stinky downloader software to work on
a PC.) After the new firmware is installed, you can telnet to the
printer and turn off the burst page.
[3] Stop using LPD protocol and use Appsocket TCP port (9100). This
requires an LPD "if" filter that reads stdin and send the PS text
to the printer via TCP port 9100.
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From: gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu (George B. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: auto reboot after power failure not working
Date: 31 Jan 1996 19:07:18 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4eoel6$m8e@news.nd.edu>
For one reason or another, my Cube (NS 3.2) is not
rebooting anymore after power off/failure. It was working
fine until recently (can't remember what I've installed
recently that might affect it). I've checked the
Preferences.app settings as root and the box is set to
restart.
Is there a preferences file that might be corrupted and I
need to trash and reset things?
-george
George B. Ross Aero/Mech Engr University of Notre Dame
gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu http://stimpy.ame.nd.edu/gross/
From: chris@wakko.envision.com (Chris Cleeland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200/8505 w/ Black HW
Date: 31 Jan 1996 17:54:12 GMT
Organization: Envision, St. Louis, Missouri
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4eoac4$39f@Twain.MO.NET>
References: <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com>
In article <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com>,
Jess Liao <jessl@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>I've searched NeXTAnswers without finding answers.
>
>Does NeXT/Black support any of the Exabyte drive?
>I was attempting to install the old Exabyte 8200 to
>NeXTturbo color running 3.3. The tape drive was recognized
>upon boot up but taring files from/to tape drive (/dev/nrst0)
>will cause an I/O erro, at same time some scsi error messages
>were displayed in console.
I, too, have run into the same problem. Unfortunately, I haven't
solved it. I even tried using the Exabyte-special devices--
/dev/rxt0--etc., to no avail.
If anybody has an answer to this, there are two people who would
appreciate it!
-cj
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<<< This space available for witticisms >>>
From: "Mark S. Levin" <markl@inforamp.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: <<<CALL ME A JERK>>>
Date: 31 Jan 1996 23:14:16 GMT
Organization: Sound Advice Limited's Internet Access for KC
Message-ID: <4eot48$pj9@guitar.sound.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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I am a jerk.
thanks all
mark
From: "Mark S. Levin" <markl@inforamp.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: <<<CALL ME A JERK>>>
Date: 31 Jan 1996 23:14:44 GMT
Organization: Sound Advice Limited's Internet Access for KC
Message-ID: <4eot54$plm@guitar.sound.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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I am a jerk.
thanks all
mark
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to mount DOS partition from single-user mode?
Date: 31 Jan 1996 15:20:29 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4eotft$1hm@shellx.best.com>
References: <310EC432.2D93@smartt.com>
wombat@smartt.com writes:
>Is it possible to mount a DOS partition from single-user mode in NS 3.3?
>If so, how is it done?
/usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/DOS.util
-s
From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can NEXTSTEP and Solaris coexist?
Date: 1 Feb 1996 03:51:41 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Message-ID: <4epdcd$keh@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Hi:
At work we are about to buy some Sparcstations for running NEXTSTEP 3.3. NS
is definitely our choice for everyday use, but there are some things that we
need to do under Solaris. I'm wondering if it's possible to have separate
partitions in the system disk with NS and Solaris installed, and boot from
one or the other as required.
I suppose that if you have 2 separate physical disks connected, it should be
possible by selecting the boot device from the monitor mode, but it would be
nice to have a more civilized way of doing it.
Has anybody tried it, or know about it?
Thanks a lot!
Best regards.
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From: kevint@ix.netcom.com(KEVIN TAYLOR )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hp 5mp
Date: 1 Feb 1996 01:28:00 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4ep4v0$2vb@reader2.ix.netcom.com>
I have a hp 5mp printer that I have to attach to a IBM 350- p75 running
next 3.3. It takes 24 hrs to print a single page. The parallel port is
configured according to the next manual and there is no serial port. I
tried a different printer cable; I tried a different workstation with
the same results. If you boot the computer with dos it prints fine. Is
there anything else to configure ?
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4entro$1h@news.tamu.edu>
Control: cancel <4entro$1h@news.tamu.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 1996 05:53:34 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4epkgu$4k@news.tamu.edu>
<4entro$1h@news.tamu.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
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From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk Client from NS 3.0 on 3.3?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 18:43:05 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University Network Services
Message-ID: <31100C99.45B@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Can anyone tell me if I can run the AppleTalk Client from
3.0 on 3.3? I'm interested in getting it to try. How about a
good alternative piece of software? Please
email me.
Thanks to all,
Eric
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Where has the queued mail gone?
In-Reply-To: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu's message of 31 Jan 1996 14:20:40 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb1013708@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4entro$1h@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:37:08 GMT
Look in /usr/spool/mqueue.
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Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
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NNTP-Posting-Host: snaefell.tamu.edu
Using my NS/I machine at home last night, I composed some mail messages
but could not bring up my ppp connection because the the university
modem lines were all busy. When I checked mailq I saw, as expected,
that the messages were deferred because of a Host Lookup Failure.
This morning I checked the mailq before bringing up ppp and it was
empty. So my question is what happened to those messages?
I had assumed that they would remain queued until sendmail could get
access to the domain nameserver and deliver the messages. And if they
could not be delivered I thought they would be returned to me. It
appears however that the messages were destroyed. Anyone know why,
and how to prevent this obnoxious behavior?
Thanks!
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Dual Boot Problem
In-Reply-To: dritz@mnsinc.com's message of Tue, 30 Jan 96 18:01:30 PDT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb1013816@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <NEWTNews.823053881.8598.dritzppp@ritz.mnsinc.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:38:16 GMT
You need to write out a new boot block using disk -b.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <NEWTNews.823053881.8598.dritzppp@ritz.mnsinc.com> dritz@mnsinc.com writes:
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From: dritz@mnsinc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 18:01:30 PDT
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X-Newsreader: NEWTNews & Chameleon -- TCP/IP for MS Windows from NetManage
Help....I used to be able to boot into either DOS or NS Intel 3.2.
But I upgraged my DOS from 5.0 to 6.22. Now I do not even
get an option. It just boots into DOS. I can 'See' the NS partition
by running the fdisk DOS command. So I know NS is still there.
Any help would be appreciated....
From: jweiss@MCS.COM (Jerry S. Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200/8505 w/ Black HW
Date: 1 Feb 1996 00:12:42 -0600
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organi[sz]ation
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4eplkq$bj5@Venus.mcs.com>
References: <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com>
In article <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com>,
Jess Liao <jessl@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>I've searched NeXTAnswers without finding answers.
>
>Does NeXT/Black support any of the Exabyte drive?
>I was attempting to install the old Exabyte 8200 to
>NeXTturbo color running 3.3. The tape drive was recognized
>upon boot up but taring files from/to tape drive (/dev/nrst0)
>will cause an I/O erro, at same time some scsi error messages
>were displayed in console.
>
>TIA
>
I've used on on black. There are many different eprom varieties
out there for various emulations. Mine was MX2618 I think. Another
problem was that a tape had to be inserted in the drive for it
to work. Once the machine was up, you could put any tape inside.
Use a good dry tape head cleaner as well.
Jerry
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NIC cards required for PPP?
Date: 29 Jan 1996 23:08:17 -0500
Organization: Digital Gateway Systems
Message-ID: <4ek5jh$lkf@DGS.dgsys.com>
Can anybody tell me if NEXTSTEP is the only OS around that requies a NIC
card for a painless PPP configuration?
I'm toying with the idea of getting BSDi for my internet needs.
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: unknown host - more nameservers!!
Date: 1 Feb 1996 09:31:39 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-04.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4eq19r$8d@usc.edu>
I find that I cannot ping, whois or traceroute to most places outside the
U.S. Would someone be able to suggest nameservers that I could add to my
resolv.conf file so that I can do so successfully?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: shill@iphysiol.unil.ch (Sean Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP HP crashes
Date: 1 Feb 1996 09:33:38 GMT
Organization: University of Lausanne CH (Switzerland)
Message-ID: <4eq1di$av@cisun2000.unil.ch>
Does anyone else have random crashes with an NEXTSTEP/HP machine on the
network? If our HP machine is on the network (with some NFS mounted volumes)
and there is high levels of activity, the machine will become very unstable.
Our SGI, Macintosh, HPUX and NEXTSTEP/Intel machines are fine. Our two HP
712's running NEXTSTEP crash however. For example, just as I do a save over
the network it will give a kernel panic. Also, when opening a project... Or
reading news or browsing the web will crash it. On the weekends and evenings
it is typically fine.
Anybody else have the same trouble? I've written to NeXT but they have not
responded.
We've had our network technicians put in a new bridge and router and check
any possible fault in the wiring. They're pretty confident they fixed the
problems, yet the crashes persist.
I'd love to hear from anyone with any info!
Thanks-
Sean
---
Sean L. Hill Research in Computational Neuroscience
Institut de Physiologie E-mail: Sean.Hill@iphysiol.unil.ch
Rue du Bugnon, 7 Work: ++41 021 692.5516
CH-1005 Lausanne SWITZERLAND Fax: ++41 021 692.5505
From: empath@a.crl.com (Tim Triemstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Routing mail to non-network users
Date: 1 Feb 1996 16:06:34 GMT
Organization: Alpha Star International
Message-ID: <4eqoea$n1n@nntp.crl.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
I am trying to figure out how mail sent to my network user account (Tim) could
be double routed to also go to my local machine (which is on the network) user
account called "develop".
The machine is named developer, but mail to "develop@developer" never gets
there. Any ideas? The mail server machine is called "asiatl" if that will
help you structure the statement.
Thanks...
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200/8505 w/ Black HW
Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:02:32 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4eqrn8$1ma0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4eoac4$39f@Twain.MO.NET>
On 01/31/96, Chris Cleeland wrote:
>In article <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com>,
>Jess Liao <jessl@shellx.best.com> wrote:
>>I've searched NeXTAnswers without finding answers.
>>
>>Does NeXT/Black support any of the Exabyte drive?
>>I was attempting to install the old Exabyte 8200 to
>>NeXTturbo color running 3.3. The tape drive was recognized
>>upon boot up but taring files from/to tape drive (/dev/nrst0)
>>will cause an I/O erro, at same time some scsi error messages
>>were displayed in console.
>
>I, too, have run into the same problem. Unfortunately, I haven't
>solved it. I even tried using the Exabyte-special devices--
>/dev/rxt0--etc., to no avail.
>
>If anybody has an answer to this, there are two people who would
>appreciate it!
>
I had a problem using an 8200 on my black Turbo. I resolved it
(after a call to Exabyte) by changing DIP switch settings on one
of the cards. I've just looked up my notes, and it was the "Level 2
MX Card". Unfortunately, this was several years ago, and my notes
don't include the final setting that worked! I'm not using the drive
any more. I do have a FAXed copy of the DIP switch functions,
which might help you to guess which permutations to try.
--
----------------------------------------------
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: dana@MCS.COM (Dana Shadrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Perl-PDO-Solaris2.4
Date: 1 Feb 1996 11:07:36 -0600
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4eqs0o$ncr@Mercury.mcs.com>
I'm trying to make perl on Solaris2.4, but I am having a problem
getting it to compile.
I'm using the Next GNU C compiler and GNU Make that are part of PDO.
I've tried a number of different configuration options and they all
result in the following error:
gcc -o miniperl miniperlmain.o libperl.a -lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
./miniperl configpm tmp
sh mv-if-diff tmp lib/Config.pm
AutoSplitting perl library
AutoSplitting Text::ParseWords (lib/auto/Text/ParseWords)
./miniperl minimod.PL > tmp && mv tmp lib/ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm
`sh cflags libperl.a perlmain.o` perlmain.c
CCCMD = gcc -c -DHIDEMYMALLOC -O
Making DynaLoader (static)
Unable to find a perl (by these names: miniperl perl perl5 perl5.001, in these dirs: ../.. /etc /usr/local/bin /opt/SUNWweb/bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/ucb /usr/ccs/bin . /usr/local/bin)
Writing Makefile for DynaLoader
CCCMD = gcc -c -DHIDEMYMALLOC -O
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/dana/perl/perl5.001m/ext/DynaLoader'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `0'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/dana/perl/perl5.001m/ext/DynaLoader'
make config failed, continuing anyway...
make[1]: Entering directory `/export/home/dana/perl/perl5.001m/ext/DynaLoader'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `0'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/dana/perl/perl5.001m/ext/DynaLoader'
make: *** [lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a] Error 1
make: Leaving directory `/export/home/dana/perl/perl5.001m'
Perl compiles fine on my Next Intel box. Any help would be greatly
Appreciated!
Thanks,
Dana Shadrick
dana@sgsnet.com
From: robert@steffi.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NT install tips? (I don't want to trash my NeXTSTEP partition)
Date: 31 Jan 1996 00:23:10 -0500
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.dgsys.com
Message-ID: <e4ttdx7i9.fsf@steffi.dgsys.com>
OK, so is NT installation a no brainer? I know when i tried to install
DOS earlier this month it decided to format every drive in my SCSI
chain. Fortunately, I managed to interrupt it before it did any
serious damage.
So, if I already have NS installed on partition 0 on drive 0 and DOS
on paritition 1 how should one install NT Workstation?
I can live with NT replacing my bootblock as I'm using System
Commander and can easily restore that.
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: robert@steffi.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP SureStore 2000e on NS3.3 (Intel)
Date: 31 Jan 1996 00:26:48 -0500
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.dgsys.com
Message-ID: <e20ohx7c7.fsf@steffi.dgsys.com>
References: <kevincDLrr34.DKq@netcom.com>
To: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
I'm running a HP1533A with no problems under Intel. It's not a 2000
though it's the DDS2 type but I'd guess that yours will work fine.
--
"For I am Costanza, lord of the Idiots"
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Routing mail to non-network users
Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:46:20 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-44.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4equ9c$5kj@usc.edu>
References: <4eqoea$n1n@nntp.crl.com>
In <4eqoea$n1n@nntp.crl.com> Tim Triemstra wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how mail sent to my network user account (Tim)
could
> be double routed to also go to my local machine (which is on the network)
user
> account called "develop".
>
> The machine is named developer, but mail to "develop@developer" never gets
> there. Any ideas? The mail server machine is called "asiatl" if that
will
> help you structure the statement.
Besides the procmail suggestions that you'll probably get, I think a variant
of the following forward file in your Tim directory might do the trick....
Here's what I got once from the procmail mailing list:
====
Here is an interesting form of .forward file that can be used for testing
procmail:
\stern, "|<standard procmail stuff here>"
At least on our system, this saves both to the standard mailbox and also
does the piping to the procmail process. The '\' in front of your login
name keeps sendmail from going into an endless loop.
=====
So, if you replaced
<standard procmail stuff here>
With a formail and appnmail thing to your local machine....???
Otherwise, a procmail recipe like the offer in the procmailex would be
sufficient.
If you're using procmail you'd want to post your question to the procmail
mailing list:
procmail@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
If you're not using procmail, then you'd be better of posting to
comp.mail.sendmail
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: doyle@zeke.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP HP crashes
Date: 1 Feb 1996 18:37:24 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <4er194$dp7@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <4eq1di$av@cisun2000.unil.ch>
shill@iphysiol.unil.ch (Sean Hill) wrote:
> Does anyone else have random crashes with an NEXTSTEP/HP machine
> on the network? If our HP machine is on the network (with some
> NFS mounted volumes) and there is high levels of activity, the
> machine will become very unstable.
I see this most often with various NeXTSTEP platforms when they self-mount
directories. Are you doing this? If so, then remove the self-mounts and make
them links. This is a fairly easy problem to reproduce, but it has been there
since 2.x days at least.
Cheers,
Mark
From: hadar@ny.ubs.com (Hadar Pedhazur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP HP crashes
Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:24:53 GMT
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland, New York site
Message-ID: <4er425$ca5@ns2.ny.ubs.com>
References: <4eq1di$av@cisun2000.unil.ch>
In <4eq1di$av@cisun2000.unil.ch> Sean Hill wrote:
> Does anyone else have random crashes with an NEXTSTEP/HP machine on the
> network? If our HP machine is on the network (with some NFS mounted
volumes)
> and there is high levels of activity, the machine will become very
unstable.
[deletia]
> I'd love to hear from anyone with any info!
>
> Thanks-
> Sean
> ---
> Sean L. Hill Research in Computational Neuroscience
> Institut de Physiologie E-mail: Sean.Hill@iphysiol.unil.ch
> Rue du Bugnon, 7 Work: ++41 021 692.5516
> CH-1005 Lausanne SWITZERLAND Fax: ++41 021 692.5505
>
Hi. Long ago, we had similar problems. Thankfully, I can say that I can't
remember the last time it has happened ... Anyway, the biggest problems we
had were betwee HP 712s and NeXT m68k boxes. If the mounts were "soft", then
the NeXTs could not reliably "write" data on the HPs but could actually read
reliably. The HPs on the other hand, could not reliably "read" data from the
m68ks, but could write reliably! Weird, huh?
Anyway, changing the mounts to "hard" mounts (NeXT recommends this always,
and only!), cured most of our problems. For what it's worth, we had been
using soft mounts on an m68k and Sun network for 5+ years without a *single*
problem! So, while empirically I know that NeXT's answer was correct, I
still contend that is a "bug" in their implementation on the hp.
Above I said "most" of our problems. The remaining problems seemed to be
related to a machine going down (for a non-nfs reason, like maybe the power
plug being pulled :-). When a machine to which we had a mount (from an hppa
running NS) was unavailable for an extended period of time, the HP would
eventually lock up. Worse, other HPs would now cascade if they were mounting
the locked up HP, etc. This was one of the biggest (and only!) headaches we
had with the HP's over the past 18 months that we have been using them. For
whatever reason (maybe we're pulling the power less often now :-), this
hasn't happened in a while ...
Hope this helps (at least somewhat).
--
Hadar Pedhazur
Global Equity Derivatives
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS)
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: unknown host - more nameservers!!
Date: 1 Feb 1996 15:32:24 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4eqme8$hv0@news.its.com>
References: <4eq19r$8d@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> I find that I cannot ping, whois or traceroute to most places outside the
> U.S. Would someone be able to suggest nameservers that I could add to my
> resolv.conf file so that I can do so successfully?
Can you ping and traceroute to the IP addresses? If not, you're simply
encountering poor network connectivity that some areas of the world suffer
from. Make sure you do whois to (nic.)internic.net and not to nic.ddn.mil.
If the problem actually is resolving DNS names to IP addresses, you are
probably best off running a nameserver locally and becoming a secondary for
the domains you're interested in. Or you could send mail to the
administators of the nameservers you're currently using and ask them to check
up on addresses that you're having problems with.
You can only have three nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf, so you don't really
have much room to add random nameservers, nor is doing so likely to help.
Why not give us an example of an name which you can't resolve? It might be
that this address is not in the DNS correctly, in which case changing your
nameservers won't do anything.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Resident memory and window server
Date: 1 Feb 1996 21:37:45 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4erbr9$t49@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I have been seeing recently large resident memory sizes for window
server. For example from my home PC I see the top output given
below.
176 grindrod 16 0 33328K 18640K active 81:34 7.70%
WindowServer
What can be causing this large resident memory size for the window
server and is there anything I can do to reduce the resident size.
I have checked other programs and they seem at least reasonable
sized, but something is causing the windowserver to become large. I
have tried not starting any programs and still the resident size is
large.
I have seen this on both HP and Intel machines although black
hardware does not seem to exhibit the same problem. As it is after
opening a few apps the machine swaps especially when the WM is
accessed.
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: tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: <<<CALL ME A JERK>>>
Date: 2 Feb 1996 01:04:25 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4ernup$hd7@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4eot54$plm@guitar.sound.net>
In article <4eot54$plm@guitar.sound.net> "Mark S. Levin"
<markl@inforamp.net> writes:
:I am a jerk.
:
:thanks all
:
:mark
Did someone leave themselves logged in and leave the room? I hope you don;t
work for DIA.
--
Torrey McMahon
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP and Solaris coexist?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (system PRIVILEGED account)
Message-ID: <DM4IHx.8IE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 00:53:57 GMT
References: <4epdcd$keh@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4epdcd$keh@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>,
Diego Zamboni <diego@conga.super.unam.mx> wrote:
>Hi:
>
>At work we are about to buy some Sparcstations for running NEXTSTEP 3.3. NS
>is definitely our choice for everyday use, but there are some things that we
>need to do under Solaris. I'm wondering if it's possible to have separate
>partitions in the system disk with NS and Solaris installed, and boot from
>one or the other as required.
>
Nope--won't work.
>I suppose that if you have 2 separate physical disks connected, it should be
>possible by selecting the boot device from the monitor mode, but it would be
>nice to have a more civilized way of doing it.
>
That'll work fine.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: unknown host - more nameservers!!
Date: 1 Feb 1996 17:36:57 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4erprp$poj@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4eq19r$8d@usc.edu>
In article <4eq19r$8d@usc.edu>,
Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@scf.usc.edu> wrote:
>I find that I cannot ping, whois or traceroute to most places outside the
>U.S. Would someone be able to suggest nameservers that I could add to my
>resolv.conf file so that I can do so successfully?
What nameservers do you have in your resolv.conf now? Adding more (I
think it will only use 3, maybe 5 max) will not help you if the first
one you've listed is up, but just doesn't "know" for whatever reason.
It would be my guess that your first choice in resolv.conf just isn't
configured correctly with the root nameservers. Try a different one
in position 1 on the list.
Lusty
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NIC cards required for PPP?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (system PRIVILEGED account)
Message-ID: <DM4J2x.osw@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 01:06:32 GMT
References: <4ek5jh$lkf@dgs.dgsys.com>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4ek5jh$lkf@dgs.dgsys.com>,
Robert Nicholson <steffi@dgs.dgsys.com> wrote:
>Can anybody tell me if NEXTSTEP is the only OS around that requies a NIC
>card for a painless PPP configuration?
>
I know several people who are using PPP on NS/Intel with no network card and
it works quite well. What exactly do you mean by "painless"?
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jorice@cs.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Hung Shutdown: Motion 771, Mitsumi CDROM Culprits?
Date: 1 Feb 1996 18:29:57 GMT
Organization: TCD, Computer Science
Message-ID: <4er0r5$kjo@news.cs.tcd.ie>
I've got NS3.3 running on a Dell XPS P120 machine. Two components I
know to only be somewhat compatible - its #9 Motion 771 graphics card
and its Mitsumi EIDE 4x CDROM drive. Mostly I've been working around the
problems, but there is one which annoys me that I'd like to get rid of:
Any GUI-oriented shutdown (say, by clicking the shutdown or restart
buttons in the login panel, or choosing Shutdown or Restart in DOS from
WM) puts up the "please wait..." message and then just hangs (well, it
keeps the little disk icon going, but it never returns). I am guessing
that the problem is to do with the 771, as with this card, one has to
turn off graphical boots, which I have done. Do I have to twiddle some
config to turn off graphical shutdowns too?
Alternatively, perhaps the problem is with the CDROM? At the moment, I
actually have its controller fully switched off for day-to-day running
as its compatibility with NS is so bad. It *will* mount and recognise
a CD if it's in there at boot time, but you can't change or even eject
the disk without causing major problems (hanging, polling the disks, etc.,
yuck). So much for ATAPI compliance.
Or maybe there's some other cause I haven't thought of?
-- Jonathan Rice
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no host on login panel
Date: 2 Feb 1996 04:03:03 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4es2dn$6no@emerald.oz.net>
References: <4eciun$9j3@izzy4.izzy.net> <4ecn01$an@usc.edu> <4en90f$a0@turbocat.snafu.de>
dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) wrote:
> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> > Well, not really. But (1) getting the hostid back onto the login
> > panel is as simple as logging in as root, choosing preferences ->
> > login panel -> and then clicking on the button for hostid on
> > login panel.
> Not all the time. I had one HP which did not display the hostname --
although
> the checkbox was checked! Then I copied the hard disk of a working
neighbour.
After upgrading to NS 3.3, my hostname disappeared from my Login panel.
I ignored this minor problem until this posting and then tried to fix it.
But the root preferences already had the hostname option checked.
It turns out the loginwindow for some reason thought that the hostname
was "localhost". Apparently, "localhost" isn't displayed regardless of the
preferences setting. By changing the loginwindow HostName defaults value to
the real hostname, the hostname is displayed.
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From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can NS and Solaris coexist?
Date: 2 Feb 1996 03:32:21 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Message-ID: <4es0k5$pb0@news.mty.itesm.mx>
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Hi:
At work we are planning to buy some Sparcstations for running NS on them. NS
is definitely our choice for main use, but there are some things that we must
run under Solaris.
My question is: is it possible to have separate partitions on the hard disk,
one of them with NS, the other with Solaris, and boot from one or the other
as needed? I know that's possible with NS and MS-DOS on Intel machines, but
don't know about Sun.
I suspect it should be possible if you have two separate physical disks
connected to the system, since in that case you can tell it from the monitor
mode which device to boot from. But is it possible with a single disk?
As anybody tried it? Any opinions will be welcome!
- --
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From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: 2 Feb 1996 05:39:32 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Message-ID: <4es82k$pb0@news.mty.itesm.mx>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk> <4ek7vi$13m@news.rwth-aachen.de> <4ekcqb$q8f@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
In article <4ekcqb$q8f@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>, you wrote:
> By the way, is there any Netscape browser or www browser for NeXT ?
There are 3 WWW browsers for NS I know about: OmniWeb, Netsurfer
and SpiderWoman. Of the three, I amply reccomend OmniWeb, for the
following reasons:
- It's being actively developed. There's a mailing list about it,
and the developers are very responsive to what is said in the list.
- It's a commercial product, but the single-non-commercial-user
license is free.
- It supports most of the Netscape additions to HTML.
For more information, go to
http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/2.0/
Best regards, and happy surfing.
P.S. I tried to answer to you by e-mail, but the headers in your message were
incorrectly configured (there was no domain in your email address, only host
name). You may want to check that.
--
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From: john@ablecom.net (John Stytz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up a modem -> working, but questions
Date: 2 Feb 1996 08:59:01 GMT
Organization: Able Technical Services
Message-ID: <4esjol$4me@srv1.sj.ablecom.net>
Hi All,
I am attempting to set up a modem on a NSFIP box for dial in. At this point, I have
two questions regarding basic modem connectivity:
1) I have gotten the modem working, ie it answers calls, but to call in you must be
set to 7,even. Is there a way to change this to 8,N?
2) Also, sometimes when you call in and connect, the terminal interface does not
come up right away. You get something like "af8&65)]", and when you hit a letter
key, it refreshes the screen and you get the login: prompt with a "x" already typed for
you. I could live with this, but I'd really prefer to fix it.
For those who want to know, I have modifed /etc/ttys accordingly:
ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown on
ttydfb "/usr/etc/getty D9600" unknown on
and have left the D9600 entry in /etc/gettytab alone. I am also using the Serial
Port/Port Server drivers (3.33).
3) Another machine here has "vt100" instead of "unknown" for the terminal type.
Should mine be "unknown", "vt100" or does it matter?
4) What are valid speed entries (sp#) for descriptions in /etc/gettytab? Can I set the
ports to 57600?
Thanks for your help ....
--
John Stytz
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From: Carsten Isert <isert@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Hung Shutdown: Motion 771, Mitsumi CDROM Culprits?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 13:43:28 +0100
Organization: Munich University of Technology
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <311206F0.6B29@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Jonathan Rice wrote:
...
> problems, but there is one which annoys me that I'd like to get rid of:
> Any GUI-oriented shutdown (say, by clicking the shutdown or restart
> buttons in the login panel, or choosing Shutdown or Restart in DOS from
> WM) puts up the "please wait..." message and then just hangs (well, it
> keeps the little disk icon going, but it never returns). I am guessing
> that the problem is to do with the 771, as with this card, one has to
> turn off graphical boots, which I have done. Do I have to twiddle some
> config to turn off graphical shutdowns too?
>
I've got a similiar problem with a miro Crystal 20SV. Sometimes it hangs
and
the screen gets only black and NeXTStep does a complete check of the
filesystem
and sometimes it works fine.
So can anybody tell me what this could be.
I"'ve already turned of the boot graphics and there is nothing about the
20 SV
in the NeXTAnswers.
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no host on login panel
Date: 2 Feb 1996 11:12:09 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-48.usc.edu
Distribution: world
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References: <4eciun$9j3@izzy4.izzy.net> <4ecn01$an@usc.edu>
<4en90f$a0@turbocat.snafu.de> <4es2dn$6no@emerald.oz.net>
In <4es2dn$6no@emerald.oz.net> Art Isbell wrote:
> It turns out the loginwindow for some reason thought that the hostname
> was "localhost". Apparently, "localhost" isn't displayed regardless of
the
> preferences setting. By changing the loginwindow HostName defaults value
to
> the real hostname, the hostname is displayed.
I thought this was changed automatically with the changes in NetInfo.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: loginwindow could not find WindowServer port!
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 11:02:57 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960201110210.1825A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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This has always been a corrupt loginwindow.app, when I have seen it, but
it looks like you have replaced that (is the replacement off a cd?)
good luck
TjL
On 30 Jan 1996, Noel Bush wrote:
> Two machines in a network of three (all running NS 3.0) are hanging after
> going through the boot process. The mach -> $BOOTFILE link is in place.
> Replacing /usr/lib/NextStep and even the entire /private/etc and /usr
> directories with fresh copies does not help. A look at the
> /usr/adm/messages file reveals MANY repetitions of the message:
>
> Jan 30 03:12:04 mpz_turbo loginwindow[12176]: loginwindow: could not find
> WindowServer port!
>
> Does anyone know about this problem?
>
> Noel Bush
>
>
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is NextAnswer 1533 valid for NS3.3 m68k?
Date: 2 Feb 1996 12:42:20 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-48.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4et0rc$epk@usc.edu>
I am considering getting a Seagate Baraccuda 2+gig drive.
Is the complicated instructions of NextAnswer 1533 "Initializing and
Partitioning Large Disks " the way to do it or is their an easier way? Will
I need to break the drive down into at least 2 partitions?
If there is a better/easier way to handle such a drive please let me know.
Thanks.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What does "spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110" mean?
Date: 2 Feb 1996 12:55:40 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4et1kc$88b@news.rwth-aachen.de>
Keywords: DMA errorlog network NeXTcube
Since we connected various NeXTcube systems to the internet, there are
spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
messages in the consoles from time to time.
Anyone knows what that means?
Stefan
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Subject: How to get The MORTIMER Story
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Date: 2 Feb 96 12:04:49 GMT
Organization: Shut Up Blair
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Perl-PDO-Solaris2.4
Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:53:28 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4er5no$hv0@news.its.com>
References: <4eqs0o$ncr@Mercury.mcs.com>
dana@MCS.COM (Dana Shadrick) wrote:
> I'm trying to make perl on Solaris2.4, but I am having a problem
> getting it to compile.
[ ... ]
> Making DynaLoader (static)
> Unable to find a perl (by these names: miniperl perl perl5 perl5.001, in
these dirs: ../.. /etc /usr/local/bin /opt/SUNWweb/bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin
/usr/ucb /usr/ccs/bin . /usr/local/bin)
>
> Writing Makefile for DynaLoader
> CCCMD = gcc -c -DHIDEMYMALLOC -O
> make[1]: Entering directory
`/export/home/dana/perl/perl5.001m/ext/DynaLoader'
> make[1]: *** No rule to make target `0'. Stop.
Sounds like the build process wanted to find perl to generate a Makefile.
When it couldn't find perl, it choked trying to build a correct Makefile.
You might be better off trying to build perl-4.036 first, and maybe even
sticking with that version unless you need perl 5. I've had some problems
getting the perl-5 dynaloader to work properly myself. I seem to remember
having to grope through a bunch of files and tighten loose seams where things
didn't quite fit together.... :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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From: pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: would like to see extended dos partitions
Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:10:34 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4etk2q$3dr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi everyone,
how can I mount extended DOS partitions from
external DOS formatted harddisk. Workspace
manager mounts primary partions by itself,
but seems not to see the extended ones.
Is there a driver which allows to read/write
Windows95 long filenames from NextStep ?
Thanx,
Peter Geissler
pgeiss@giotto.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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From: fa@emf.emf.net (Farhad Afrahi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does NS support virtual hosts?
Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:09:08 GMT
Organization: "emf.net" Quality Internet Access. (510) 704-2929 (Voice)
Message-ID: <4etk04$cvm@emf.emf.net>
I apologize if this is somewhat of an FAQ, but does NEXTSTEP 3.3 support
virtual hosting? That is, can one configure a NEXTSTEP machine to have
multiple IP addresses?
Thanks in advance for responses.
--Farhad Afrahi
From: indy@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (weintz steven cortelou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NS support virtual hosts?
Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:39:21 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4etlop$ieh@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4etk04$cvm@emf.emf.net>
fa@emf.emf.net (Farhad Afrahi) writes:
>I apologize if this is somewhat of an FAQ, but does NEXTSTEP 3.3 support
>virtual hosting? That is, can one configure a NEXTSTEP machine to have
>multiple IP addresses?
I think it should go in the FAQ. No, alas, NS does NOT support virtual
hosting, nor will it anytime soon. Pity, it would save me from buying
another box for a Web server.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dkoski@netcom.com (David Koski)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200/8505 w/ Black HW
Message-ID: <dkoskiDM5wME.FLo@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <4eb8l9$j7t@shellx.best.com> <4eoac4$39f@twain.mo.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 18:56:38 GMT
Sender: dkoski@netcom14.netcom.com
In article <4eoac4$39f@twain.mo.net>,
Chris Cleeland <chris@wakko.envision.com> wrote:
...
>I, too, have run into the same problem. Unfortunately, I haven't
>solved it. I even tried using the Exabyte-special devices--
>/dev/rxt0--etc., to no avail.
>
>If anybody has an answer to this, there are two people who would
>appreciate it!
I use an Exabyte 8200 on a color station. I gnutar to /dev/rxt0 without
any problems. I had to set all the DIP switches on the "Level 2 MX Card"
to off. I think the important on was switch 5, "Fixed Block Mode on Power Up"
if the switch is off. If you don't set this, the following claims to
do it:
/*
* The following code configures the SCSI tape driver for /dev/rst0
* to support fixed-sized data transfers of 512 bytes each.
*/
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/file.h>
#include <nextdev/scsireg.h>
main()
{
int fd, error;
int blocksize = 512;
fd = open("/dev/rst0", O_RDWR, 777);
if (ioctl(fd, MTIOCFIXBLK, &blocksize))
{
perror("ioctl failed\n");
return 1;
}
close (fd);
return 0;
}
I don't know where I got this or if it works, but it might save you from
messing with the dip switches.
David Koski
dkoski@netom.com
From: nagendra@cs.bu.edu (nagendra mishr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: can't change IP ADDR w/ HOSTINFO
Date: 2 Feb 1996 19:40:46 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Message-ID: <4etpbu$qid@news.bu.edu>
I was trying to change my host IP Address but I can't seem to do it
anymore. I'm using the HostInfo Tool to change the values.
After trying file-local without luck, I then changed my localHost
ipaddr using file-open-localhost.
I know this was bad and shouldn't have done it because now, my
workstation scans the network (it's not connected to one) before
starting up.. And now, I can't seem to change it back....
help help help
Thanks in Advance
Nagendra
Date: 2 Feb 1996 18:58:55 GMT
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP and Solaris coexist?
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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 20:09:24 GMT
In article <4epdcd$keh@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> diego@conga.super.unam.mx
(Diego Zamboni) writes:
> Hi:
>
> At work we are about to buy some Sparcstations for running NEXTSTEP
> 3.3. NS is definitely our choice for everyday use, but there are
> some things that we need to do under Solaris. I'm wondering if it's
> possible to have separate partitions in the system disk with NS
> and Solaris installed, and boot from one or the other as required.
>
> I suppose that if you have 2 separate physical disks connected, it
> should be possible by selecting the boot device from the monitor
> mode, but it would be nice to have a more civilized way of doing
> it.
>
Both Solaris and NEXTSTEP use incompatible filesystems. My guess is you
can't have both kinds on the same disk. But if you were very careful
during initialization...
Two separate disks is certainly working.
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From: klinger@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Dr Allen Klinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using the HP LaserJet 5MP with NEXTSTEP/Intel
Date: 2 Feb 1996 14:14:37 -0800
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4eu2cd$f4e@lanai.cs.ucla.edu>
Hello,
My new HP LaserJet 5MP doesn't print under NEXTSTEP 3.3 (Intel) or
Windows 95. Has anyone had similar problems?
I chose the HP LaserJet 4MP in PrintManager (this was reported to work
by the computer system provider). Do I need a new /etc/printcap entry?
- Allen Klinger
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Routing mail to non-network users
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 12:49:24 -0500
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In-Reply-To: <4eqoea$n1n@nntp.crl.com>
On 1 Feb 1996, Tim Triemstra wrote:
> I am trying to figure out how mail sent to my network user account (Tim) could
> be double routed to also go to my local machine (which is on the network) user
> account called "develop".
>
> The machine is named developer, but mail to "develop@developer" never gets
> there. Any ideas? The mail server machine is called "asiatl" if that will
> help you structure the statement.
Is your local machine's hostname registered in the network? That is,
can you receive any mail at all on that machine?
using procmail, this is extraordinarily simple:
:0c
! you@otheraccount.ext
basically, the :0 is the beginning of the recipe, the 'c' tells it to
keep a copy locally, the ! tells it to 'forward' a copy and the email
address tells it which address to send the forwarded message to.
Formail, appnmail and all the other tools are very helpful, but this
particular situation seems relatively simple.
Of course, all that depends on your other account being able to receive
email... if you can do that, then using procmail (or the .forward file
Matthew mentioned) should be simple. Feel free to drop me a line if
you'd like some procmail help. I'm not an expert, but I handle some
basics pretty well.
TjL
--
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From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fastest NEXSTEP BOX (was Re: NEXTSTEP HP crashes)
Date: 1 Feb 1996 20:45:24 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4er8p4$2cm@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4eq1di$av@cisun2000.unil.ch>
shill@iphysiol.unil.ch (Sean Hill) wrote:
> Does anyone else have random crashes with an NEXTSTEP/HP machine on the
> network? If our HP machine is on the network (with some NFS mounted volumes)
> and there is high levels of activity, the machine will become very unstable.
Please give more information.
Our 10 712/60 work fine. How are your NFS-dirs imported? Automount? Our server
(a bigger HP I forgot the number) crashes on high load.
If you start OneVision on it -- it crashes! I am sure it's NOT OV fault!
If you start it form a client -- it works. The server has 64 MB RAM.
Anyway NEXTSTEP/intel seems to be better that NS HP. Here is a litte benchmark:
Server: (gecko.fb6.fhtw-berlin.de, 64 MB)
dave@gecko>dry_mu_reg
Start timer!
Stop timer!
Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 24
This machine benchmarks at 205128 dhrystones/second
Gecko20: (712/60, 64 MB RAM)
dave@gecko20>dry_mu_reg
Start timer!
Stop timer!
Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 41
This machine benchmarks at 121488 dhrystones/second
dave@gecko20>
Turbocat: (P100, ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4, 32 MB)
dave@turbocat> /private/tmp/O_dry_mu_reg/dry_mu_reg
Start timer!
Stop timer!
Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 24
This machine benchmarks at 203951 dhrystones/second
If you want to know your results check out
ftp://ftp.fb6.fhtw-berlin.de/pub/next/mach/dry_mu_reg
This server runs WU-FTPD.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: loginwindow could not find WindowServer port!
Date: 3 Feb 1996 15:35:46 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4evvci$9ah@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4em0ts$s39@core.bard.edu>
nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush) writes:
>Two machines in a network of three (all running NS 3.0) are hanging after
>going through the boot process. The mach -> $BOOTFILE link is in place.
>Replacing /usr/lib/NextStep and even the entire /private/etc and /usr
>directories with fresh copies does not help. A look at the
>/usr/adm/messages file reveals MANY repetitions of the message:
>Jan 30 03:12:04 mpz_turbo loginwindow[12176]: loginwindow: could not find
>WindowServer port!
>Does anyone know about this problem?
This used to be caused by a machine not being able to find its Netinfo
server when it thinks there should be one.
From: droux@nmia.com (Nicolas Droux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fastest NEXSTEP BOX (was Re: NEXTSTEP HP crashes)
Date: 3 Feb 1996 17:53:47 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
Message-ID: <4f07fb$v8f@thales.nmia.com>
References: <4eq1di$av@cisun2000.unil.ch> <4er8p4$2cm@turbocat.snafu.de>
dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) wrote:
>Anyway NEXTSTEP/intel seems to be better that NS HP. Here is a litte
benchmark:
>
>Server: (gecko.fb6.fhtw-berlin.de, 64 MB)
>
>dave@gecko>dry_mu_reg
>Start timer!
>Stop timer!
>Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 24
>This machine benchmarks at 205128 dhrystones/second
>
>Gecko20: (712/60, 64 MB RAM)
>
>dave@gecko20>dry_mu_reg
>Start timer!
>Stop timer!
>Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 41
>This machine benchmarks at 121488 dhrystones/second
>dave@gecko20>
>
>Turbocat: (P100, ASUS PCI/I-P54SP4, 32 MB)
>
>dave@turbocat> /private/tmp/O_dry_mu_reg/dry_mu_reg
>Start timer!
>Stop timer!
>Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 24
>This machine benchmarks at 203951 dhrystones/second
Yeah, and here's the result for a Pentium 166.
droux@hyperion:9> dry_mu_reg
Start timer!
Stop timer!
Dhrystone time for 5000000 passes = 15
This machine benchmarks at 332294 dhrystones/second
It'd be interesting to see the results on a PentiumPro... Anyone?
--
Nicolas Droux, droux@cs.sandia.gov
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From: barton@doggy.dircon.co.uk (Barton Friedland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can not install NEXTSTEP
Date: 3 Feb 1996 21:53:47 GMT
Organization: Direct Connection
Message-ID: <4f0lhb$eiq@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
I have a canon object.station41 w/Buslogic SCSI, When I try to install
NEXTSTEP, fdisk says ther eis bogus information about the hard disk in the
BIOS.
How do I enable BIOS translation with the Buslogic card? (I have tried the
variosu options in the Buslogic setup at startup. I can not find a BIOS
translation option.)
From: barton@doggy.dircon.co.uk (Barton Friedland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: can not mount root
Date: 3 Feb 1996 21:56:01 GMT
Organization: Direct Connection
Message-ID: <4f0llh$eiq@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
I have an Intel machine that will not boot with the "can not mount root" panic
message. Why can't it mount root? Can I fix this without reinstalling?
Single-user mode does not work.
From: jbf@frazer.com <James B(arney). Frazer>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS Dialup TCP/IP Question
Date: 4 Feb 1996 00:05:06 GMT
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <4f0t7i$mhn@linus.mitre.org>
I have a PPP dialup connection to my ISP. Normally I don't deal
with mail unless I have first brought up the PPP circuit. This
works even when I have subsequently dropped the PPP link. When
I composed some mail and "delivered" it without first bringing
up PPP the "Mailer-Agent" sent it back, as follows:
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
> To: root
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 421 mail1.tiac.net (ether)... Deferred: No such file or directory
> 554 litsios@who.ch... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name > server): No such
file or directory
Now I think I understand what happened, which is:
sendmail.cf selected the "ether" mailer with relay "mail1.tiac.net"
the mailer agent tried to find the relay via lookupd
lookupd didn't find mail1.tiac.net in netinfo and saw that resolv.conf
exists so it tried BIND, which wasn't available, hence gave up
the mailer agent next asked lookupd to find who.ch
lookupd failed again
the mailer agent sent the mail back to me, rather than queing it for
a later try
If this is correct, I guess I could hardwire the relay IP address in netinfo
to avoid the BIND call. Not the best approach, surely.
I could also kill the resolv.conf file and restart lookupd when I take ppp
down, to keep the system's info consistent with its current TCP-IP
connectivity. (But this wouldn't solve the problem of returned mail, would
it?)
It seems to me that there is a real need for a good writeup on how to modify
the BSD 4.3 environment to work with standalone dialup Unix machines. There
must be an army of these, with the popularity of Linux. Is there a good Linux
writeup that would help us poor NeXTStep users?
Suggestions and comments please.
Barney
From: bonilla@andrews.edu (Rafael A. Bonilla)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: loginwindow could not find WindowServer port!
Date: 4 Feb 1996 03:36:38 GMT
Organization: Andrews University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4f19k6$hho@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
References: <4em0ts$s39@core.bard.edu>
This problem ocurred to me when the DNS server my NextStation was
pointing to had stopped working. The login panel appeared after several
minutes of apparent hanging. The mail (of course) also appeared to hang
before I figured out what was wrong.
Hope it helps...
--
"The things we do for frequent flyer mileage" - James Bond, GoldenEye
"This is the PERFECT time to PANIC!" - Woody, Toy Story
bonilla@andrews.edu (Rafael Bonilla) http://www.andrews.edu/~bonilla
From: tlm@ameslab.gov(Dr. T. L. Marchioro II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: 3.2 versus 3.3 versus 3.3 patched on black HW
Date: 4 Feb 1996 04:02:44 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <4f1b54$123@news.iastate.edu>
Hi:
Have some good old black hardware here at the office (still amazing to
me how these things have stood the test of time. For many tasks it's
still far superior to my brand new Indy, although I prefer surfing the
WEB in color:) Anyway.... it's running 3.2, because when 3.3 was
installed on some of the other black machines here (particularly the
ND) it seemed noticeably slower and more trouble prone. However, more
and more applications are coming out that require 3.3 or EOF, and
there have been these "patches" to 3.3 for black posted at NeXT FTP
site (and the possibility of an NS 4.0 seems to be questionable) so I
am wondering if it isn't time to upgrade without or without the
patches. Am seeking comments from people who've done this, if things
are better with the patches, etc. etc. Would rather have the machine
run well than be able to run SpiderWoman or OmniWeb 2.0, but if 3.3
(patched or not) is as good or better than 3.2 on black I would like
to make the change.
Thanks in advance --- Tom
====================================================================
Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist
Applied Mathematical Sciences 515-294-9779
Ames Laboratory 515-432-9142 (home)
Ames, Iowa 50011 tlm@ameslab.gov
From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins
Date: 4 Feb 1996 05:59:41 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Message-ID: <4f1i0d$8ir@life.ai.mit.edu>
Keywords: beeper,unix,administration
Cc:
For a neat tool for Unix system admins, try viewing:
http://www.publictel.com/~cracraft/index.html
--Stuart
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT WebStone results?
Date: 4 Feb 96 04:26:13
Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of
Houston
Message-ID: <JASON.96Feb4042613@fisher.psych.uh.edu>
Hi!
Has anyone run WebStone against servers running on NEXTSTEP?
Perhaps on black/white/hp/? I'm curious to find out the
results, and if no one has done it yet, I'll try it on my
machines and at least be able to report the results for black
hardware.
Thanks,
Jason Asbahr 808 Sul Ross Suite 7
Reactive Systems / C.R.A.S.H. Houston, Texas 77006
Consulting and Development (713) 942-7937 voice
NeXT / Newton / Virtual Reality asbahr@crash.org (NeXTmail)
--
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Reactive Systems / C.R.A.S.H. Houston, Texas 77006
Consulting and Development (713) 942-7937 voice
NeXT / Newton / Virtual Reality asbahr@crash.org (NeXTmail)
From: tralala@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems installing NS3.3 FIP
Date: 2 Feb 1996 10:47:06 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Message-ID: <4esq3a$4ok@tandem.CAM.ORG>
Hello,
I have a big problem installing NS3.3 FIP on my system.
It won't boot after I insert the floppie into the driver.
Here is my system configuration:
FIC PT-2000 motherboard with Intel Triton chip set
Intel Pentium 90 Mhz CPU
16 mb RAM
Quantum Fireball 1.2 gig IDE HD
Seagate ST-1480 405 mb SCSI HD (from a NeXT Cube system)
3.5" floppy drive
Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM PCI (2mb) video card
Adaptec 1542 SCSI interface.
NeXT single speed CD-ROM drive
Ensoniq soundscape sound card
Mitsumi 104 key keyboard
Microsoft serial mouse
Cheap Daewoo 14" Daewoo monitor.
USRobotics 28.8 Sportster VI external modem
Is there something wrong with my configuration?
I'd like to install NS3.3 on the SCSI hard drive.
Please send a CC to my e-mail address below.
Thanks.
P@
-----
Patrique Lalonde
pat@sim.qc.ca
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <zander@cnext.crec.mipt.ru>
Message-ID: <9602041301.AA20107@cnext.crec.mipt.ru>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Aleksey Sudakov <zander@cnext.crec.mipt.ru>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 96 16:01:29 +0300
Subject: Help! FAXING with ZyXEL U-1496
Hi,
First of all I'd like to thank all of you who helped me to choose
am and JollysZyXEL_Fax for FAXing. But unfortunately I couldn't make
it work.
In both cases (sending and receiving faxes) my ZyXEL U-1496 and
Panasonic faxmachine failed to communicate. Scenarios are as follows
Sending fax from NS.
ZyXEL dials number allright, get connected, my fax machine pulls
out about inch of blank paper and ZyXEL get disconnected somehow
sending me am email that
"Your fax could not be delivered (0 pages sent, total time 0
minutes and 42 seconds).
The number you tried to fax to didn't answer."
Receiving fax.
ZyXEL answers a call, then I assume it starts the process of
negotiation and somehow fails to negotiate.
Could someone please give me some hints what is it all about.
Thanks.
Aleksey.
_________________________________________________________________
Aleksey Sudakov
1A-1 Kerchenskaya Street
Moscow 113303,Russia.
________________________________________________________________
Home: +7(095)121-6100 + 3-45, +7(095)121-0561 + 3-45
EMail: zander@cnext.crec.mipt.ru (NeXTMail & MIME are OK)
WWW: http://www.crec.mipt.ru/~zander/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: martin@cube.aball.de (Martin Ortlepp)
Subject: smail and Novell Netware (Pegasus)
Message-ID: <DM73ty.ot@cube.aball.de>
Sender: martin@cube.aball.de (Martin Ortlepp)
Organization: cube's corner
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 10:29:57 GMT
Hi,
I have a problem setting up a NeXTSTEP based system as a mailgateway to
work with a Novell Netware Server. Currently the users on the network use
Pegasus Mail to send and receive mail. Now I want to setup a NeXTSTEP
system to act as a gateway to send/receive internet mails.
Is there a way to setup Pegasus and smail this way?
-Martin
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From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: CryptorBundle for NEXTSTEP 3.3 mail.app
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 17:01:23 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University
Message-ID: <31153AC3.7A17@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am trying to locate CryptoBundle for the NEXTSTEP operating system.
I have read it is available via FTP from a German site, however my
attempts at locating it have been unsuccessful.
If anyone has information, please email me.
Thank You,
Eric
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From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netware oddities
Date: 4 Feb 1996 17:49:31 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota
Sender: shan0029@goldtc.umn.edu
Message-ID: <4f3gmb$h4p@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Keywords: NeXTstep 3.2, Netware
I've got an Intel system running NSFIP 3.2 which connects to
a NetWare 3.11 server. For the most part, this works without too much
trouble. I can access filesystems and printers on the NetWare server
without a hitch. Occasionally, the server seems to disappear. I go to
the /Net/NetWare directory, and the directory in which the server
file system is usually found is gone, and the system freezes.
Similarly, NetWareManager bombs out at these times.
My solutioin thus far has been to reboot the system. After authenticating
to the server, all is well... until these same problems occur in a few days.
Does anyone have a clue as to what is going on, and how I may get around
these troubles? If there was a way to simply kill the Netware daemons and
restart them, this would be an improvement over a full reboot.
TIA.
Sharad
=====================================================================
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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
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From: Matt_Watson@NeXT.com (Matt Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What does "spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110" mean?
Date: 4 Feb 1996 22:40:27 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4f3ckr$9su@news.next.com>
References: <4et1kc$88b@news.rwth-aachen.de>
In article <4et1kc$88b@news.rwth-aachen.de> sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de
(Stefan Leuker) writes:
> Since we connected various NeXTcube systems to the internet, there are
>
> spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110
>
> messages in the consoles from time to time.
>
> Anyone knows what that means?
It usually means you have a bad segment or piece of hardware on your
network. Check your terminators and tee connectors.
matt.
--
Matt Watson
NeXT Software, Inc.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:15:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4f43ot$t3j@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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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
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used
NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
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NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
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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!!!
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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.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
on NEXTSTEP systems.
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: felix.rauch@limmat.ch (Felix Rauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: 4 Feb 1996 17:47:12 GMT
Organization: Private NEXTSTEP-site
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4f2rf0$1kl@harka.limmat.net.ch>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
Philip Ling (philip@sgiinda) wrote:
> A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
Put that user in the 'wheel' group (with UserManager).
- Felix
--
Felix Rauch, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. E-mail: felix@nice.ch
NeXT/MIME-mail welcome. Member of NiCE - NeXT User Group
Homepage: http://nice.ethz.ch/~felix (includes pgp public key)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: can't change IP ADDR w/ HOSTINFO
Message-ID: <1996Feb4.175939.264@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4etpbu$qid@news.bu.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 17:59:39 GMT
In article <4etpbu$qid@news.bu.edu> nagendra@cs.bu.edu (nagendra mishr)
writes:
> I was trying to change my host IP Address but I can't seem to do it
> anymore. I'm using the HostInfo Tool to change the values.
>
>
> After trying file-local without luck, I then changed my localHost
> ipaddr using file-open-localhost.
>
> I know this was bad and shouldn't have done it because now, my
> workstation scans the network (it's not connected to one) before
> starting up.. And now, I can't seem to change it back....
>
Replace /etc/hostinfo and /etc/netinfo with the initial copies found in
/usr/template/client/etc. You can do this after booting standalone.
If you rename or move the original copies you could try to partially
recover the previous state by carefully tinkering with the NetInfo command
line tools.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Is NextAnswer 1533 valid for NS3.3 m68k?
Message-ID: <1996Feb4.180911.323@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4et0rc$epk@usc.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 18:09:11 GMT
In article <4et0rc$epk@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> I am considering getting a Seagate Baraccuda 2+gig drive.
> Is the complicated instructions of NextAnswer 1533 "Initializing and
> Partitioning Large Disks " the way to do it or is their an easier way?
> Will I need to break the drive down into at least 2 partitions?
>
> If there is a better/easier way to handle such a drive please let me
> know.
> Thanks.
>
Any partition that would contain more than 2^31 usable bytes will not
work. In many cases the built in heuristics in BuildDisk and 'disk' will
fail on large disks.
Reading the info block on the device with 'scsimodes' or even better with
PD scsitools and compiling a valid 'disktab' entry from these data and the
ones found on the OEM datasheet of the drive helped in any case I've
encountered until now.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: CryptorBundle for NEXTSTEP 3.3 mail.app
Date: 5 Feb 1996 10:25:09 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-27.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4f4lu5$h3s@usc.edu>
References: <31153AC3.7A17@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
According to Lycos's search engine:
1) Cryptor-Bundle [1.0000, 2 of 2 terms, adj 1.0]
Abstract: Cryptor-Bundle
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utils/ (0k)
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: erbalch@aol.com (ERBalch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with ppp-2.2
Date: 5 Feb 1996 05:28:58 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <4f4m5a$8fi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
I am setting up dial-up PPP with PPP-2.2 and encountering some problems
with the chat command. (I think...?)
My service provider's dial in number, upon connection, sends out 25 or so
CR/LF characters to push the text like "CONNECT 19200/ARQ" off the top of
the screen before it gives you the "Username:" prompt. Now I would not
normaly assume this would cause any problems but it seems that it does
when using the chat command to handel your login script.
When I look at the ppp-2.2.log file I can see that all the scripting I
setup to get the Modem init, dialing, and connect confirmation to seemed
to work but then the (what I think are CR/LF's) come in and seem to hose
up the next chat expect(). What I see in the log looks basicly like this:
f^x^@^x^@...^^^Xx where ... is repeating ^x^@'s or somthing of the sort...
Any help that anyone can provide would be much appreciated!
Reply here or send E-Mail to: erbalch@adnc.com
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help--lost ability to format DOS disks
Date: 5 Feb 1996 14:42:30 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4f550m$hs@news.tamu.edu>
After some intensive disk swapping activities last night that ended up
first with the Check for Disks menu item on the Workspace, which I fixed
by rebooting, I now no longer have the choice of a DOS filesystem when
I try to Initialize a disk. The only options are Next and Mac on the popup
list that appears.
Does anyone have an idea about what is wrong and how to fix it. I could
just reinstall from the CD-ROM, but I'd rather not!
Thanks.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with ppp-2.2
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:32:45 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960205103058.7408E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4f4m5a$8fi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4f4m5a$8fi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
This message probably should be sent off to the PPP mailing list (see my
.sig for the address) and certainly shouldn't be cross-posted in csn-*
and especially when the cross-posting is done one group at a time
TjL
ps -- If I knew the answer I'd be happy yo tell you here, but I do not,
so I'm suggesting the listserv.
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: m@plsys.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Reboot complete" is a lie
Date: 5 Feb 1996 16:47:30 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4f5cb2$2va@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4ehdi7$mi4@core.bard.edu>
nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush) wrote:
> The NeXTstation will reboot and say "Reboot complete", but then it will
> not give me the loginwindow. It will enter single-user mode without a
> hitch, though.
I had this problem a few years ago. Try adding a me account, or deleting it
if it's already there (I can't remember which). Neither I nor NeXT's
sysadmin could figure out what the underlying problem was.
M Carling
From: tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where has the queued mail gone?
Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:20:26 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4f5hpa$k6i@paladin.american.edu>
References: <RDL.96Feb1013708@world.std.com>
In article <RDL.96Feb1013708@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
Ferla) writes:
:Look in /usr/spool/mqueue.
:
:Robert La Ferla
:Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
:Boston, MA
:Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
:Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
:E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
:
..and look in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog.
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, and ASCII PGP and CyptorBundle
From: droux@nmia.com (Nicolas Droux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where are the NEXTSTEP 3.3 patches ?
Date: 3 Feb 1996 07:52:42 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
Message-ID: <4ev48a$fdl@thales.nmia.com>
I was going to patch my 3.3 system this week-end but I could not find the 3.3
patches on ftp.next.com anymore!
So, what do we have to do now to get them? Is the CD freely available from
NeXT for registered users? (it should be in my opinion...)
--
Nicolas Droux, droux@cs.sandia.gov
35 05' 02" N, 106 39' 01" W
From: droux@nmia.com (Nicolas Droux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: "Original-Received" field in mail headers
Date: 3 Feb 1996 07:57:24 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
Message-ID: <4ev4h4$fdl@thales.nmia.com>
Every message I send with NeXTMail (3.3, not patched) to a remote site
contain the following two stupid lines:
Original-Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2)
Pp-Warning: Illegal Received field on preceding line
I've seen this on every system I've installed, and it is really annoying. Is
there a way to avoid it?
--
Nicolas Droux, droux@cs.sandia.gov
35 05' 02" N, 106 39' 01" W
From: Abid
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NETINFO-sendmail 8.7.3
Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:02:58 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4f5goi$q94@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
Anyone out there using sendmail 8.7.3 with the NETINFO option compiled in? I'm
having the following problem:
I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 and doing a ppp dialup to a local ISP. To send mail,
I use either tcp or uucp depending on how it's addressed but use uucp to
download mail from the ISP. I ftp'ed the NeXT precompiled package and
installed it without problems and seem to be receiving and sending mail but
sendmail keeps hanging (only for a minute) and giving me the following errors
at the time of mail send and receive:
Feb 5 12:44:38 demerzel sendmail[545]: My unqualified host name (demerzel)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Feb 5 12:45:41 demerzel sendmail[545]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(demerzel) -- using short name
Anyone know what is happening here? What did I forget to do? Is it a
configuration problem with NetInfo?
From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SafetyNet file-format portability
Message-ID: <1996Feb5.102429.73194@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 96 10:24:29 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
Can tape backups made with SafetyNet on Black Hardware
be read with SafetyNet on White hardware?
- HRC -
hcole@spanky.idec.sdl.usu.edu
From: cshyneso@starnet.gov.sg (Chuang Shyne Song)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Satan 1.1.1 and NeXTSTEP
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 31 Jan 1996 14:49:09 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4envh5$dl7@mercury.starnet.gov.sg>
References: <4djq34$1e7@news.petrel.ch>
Jacques Garbi (jacques.garbi@colombus.ch) wrote:
: Hi,
: Did anyone succeeded in compiling Satan 1.1.1 for NS 3.3 Intel ?
: How ? Is there an already compiled package somewhere ?
: Thanks
Get NextAnswer 1893 from NeXT. It describes how you can compile Satan on
NextStep.
Hope this helps.
Song
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
Shyne-Song.Chuang@ubs.com UNIX Systems Administrator
Regional IT Infrastructure
Union Bank of Switzerland, Singapore NextMail: csong@tip.com.sg
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can I salvage this?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 00:43:36 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <4f687o$8ko@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
I haven't posted anything here for quite a while because all of my
NeXTStep systems have been working OK. Even the problem child was
behaving itself. Not any more.
The aforementioned infant is an Intel DX2/66 with a DPT 2012 SCSI controller,
Archive Viper 525 MB cartridge tape drive, and NeXTStep 3.2. From
the very first it has had disk problems. I had to tweak SCSI parameters
at some length to get it to install at all. The dealers proved
themselves quite incompetent to figure it out; their only Unix/NeXt
specialist quit during the breaking-in period. Since the installation
it has had two or three episodes when something goes kablooey in the
disk department, and a bunch of files get moved into /lost+found.
The last time it happened I was able to recover from the backup tape.
Recently it happened again. Among the files that got blown away
were the contents of /usr/Devices/SerialMouse and who knows what else.
I was able to log in remotely from another computer and locate the bare
minimum of stuff necessary to get the mouse going. That leaves dozens
of lost files unidentified.
I could fix it all in one shot if the backup tape was working.
The tape responds to commands from "mt", but every I/O operation using
restore or dd fails with "Tape/disk read error: I/O error" or
"read: I/O error". I'm running the little utility mtset to put
it into 512-byte fixed block mode, but it doesn't help. It used to
work.
A couple more little items:
* Ever since the previous disaster, the backspace key has no effect
about half the time. It seems to be random, not just every other
keystroke. Could that be software?
* Now every time it boots, it insists on having the installation floppy
disk so it can read the DPT 2012 driver. It can't find the Floppy
driver at all. I suspect that this might be related to a loss of
files from /usr/Devices too.
I feel a little better after getting all that out of my system.
If anyone can offer advice on any portion of this disaster, please
do so. One thing I would like to have is a listing of what files
are supposed to be in the subdirectories of /usr/Devices which
relate to the floppy, DPT SCSI, and serial mouse. If I knew the
file sizes and types maybe I could find them in /lost+found. I don't
have another computer of this configuration (Intel, 3.2) to compare.
--
* Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 *
* W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) *
* Stanford University *
From: droux@nmia.com (Nicolas Droux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Where are the NEXTSTEP 3.3 patches ?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 00:25:44 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Internet Access
Message-ID: <4f6768$mau@thales.nmia.com>
References: <4ev48a$fdl@thales.nmia.com>
Sorry folks, found them in /pub/Patches/NEXTSTEP3.3Patch1 (I was looking in
NeXTanswers...)
From: lewispsc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Philip Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextCube hangs after completed boot
Date: 5 Feb 1996 17:50:02 -0800
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Sender: lewispsc@leland.stanford.edu
Message-ID: <4f6c4a$m72@elaine38.Stanford.EDU>
My NextCube is running NS 3.2. It has a 330 MB boot disk, a CDROM
drive with NextStep 3.2 as sd1, a 400MB drive ("Disk") as sd2 and and
a PLI floppy as sd3. The cube completes the boot process, but the
loginwindow never appears.
It always stopped at the same place, after the trimming of the fax log
and NXFax announcing owner and users, and where the next thing that
would normally happen is identification of the modem and ROM
version. Support at Black and White Software suggested that either I
have a hardware fault or that changing permissions while installing
the MusicKit has affected NXFax, and that I should upgrade the
operating system.
How do I test whether I have a hardware fault? The same thing happens
whether a cable is attached to the serial port or not, and when I have
substituted another modem and cable known to work on a NextStation. In
addition the cable and modem I was originally using also work
perfectly well on a NextStation. Extended diagnostics appear to be for
Service Centers. I have booted single-user, and when I enter the
command "tip [telephone number} the return is "Unknown modem error-
0x0". Attempts to dial out of the other serial port have been
unsuccessful: "cannot synchronize with Hayes" or "bus error", as I
remember.
I wondered whether I could sidestep NXFax, and rather foolishly
deleted FaxMonitor and the NXFax entries under kern_loader, without
success. However, by renaming /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes I did
eliminate the appearances of the lines in which NXFax announced the
owner and users. The process still stopped at the same point, after
the completion of the boot and before the appearance of the
loginwindow. I am now at my wits' end, and am scared to experiment
further, even if I could think of something.
One of the things I did was to move most of the NeXTLibrary material
to Disk, and link it back to NeXTLibrary on the root disk. Might
that have caused a problem?
If it is a serial fault, is that something which can be
dealt with?
Thank you for any help. I cannot receive NeXTMail.
Philip Lewis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <a-gain.hanse.de!stefan@ccwnoc.hanse.de>
Message-ID: <m0tjLd6-000btOC@a-gain>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@a-gain.hanse.de>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 08:46:25 +0100
Subject: Q: How to change IP of the NetInfo-/Mail-Server under NS3.3 (patched
w/ P1)
Hi there folks,
I am trying to set up a new NetInfo-host to use all these nice
services under NEXTSTEP, as there is PPP, e-mail, WWW, ftp & News.
I am working on a 32MB Turbo cube and I started out with a blank
system disk I loaded 3.3 User + Dev. and PPP upon. Next, I did use
the SNS (Simple Network Starter) to make this machine the NetInfo-
and Mail-Server for the Network we have (I am testing the system at
home, so there is no hassle with the network). Using the SNS I did
use the NON-dynamic IP adress the Provider gave to me.
Next, I uploaded NeXT's 3.3 Patch 1 (User+Dev.) and ran the
3.3Patch.ImprovedDNS.post_install-Script.
Now, here comes my problem:
My provider (as nice as he is) gave me a IP-adress, which is now
unvalid and provided me a NEW IP-adress.
So I went ahead and used HostManager.app's Local Menue and
/etc/hostconfig to change its IP-adress.
The cube is booting alright (with PPP installed) but the
Network-accounts **are disabled**.
So can anybody tell me what to do next???
I positivly do not want to reconfigure the machine from scratch,
because my provider did this IP-thing......
Pls. e-mail and I'll summarize
Thanx in advance
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.. Stefan .. 8 ^)
Life spans many different colors, but ---- REAL Computing is black!
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From: scheer@next1.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Scheer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: How to allow NeXT and Linux systems to print on Sol2.4?
Date: 6 Feb 1996 13:20:25 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4f7kip$kpq@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Keywords: printing solaris linux next
Hi,
since our sun runs under SOLARIS 2.4 the NeXT and Linux
computers in the network can not access the printer queue
of the net printer any more. Executing lpq on Next or linux
system gives a "Sun down . Waiting for SUN to come up".
Printing on the sun is OK!
Can anyone help?
Christian Scheer
Inst. fuer Phonetik
Uni Muenchen
From: juergenp@nuertingen.netsurf.de (Juergen Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: pppd won't start
Date: 3 Feb 1996 16:56:44 GMT
Organization: ISC Dr.-Ing. Nepustil
Message-ID: <4f044c$hov@unaxp1.nepustil.net>
Hello
I've just installed ppp-2.2-0.4.5 on an IntelPC running NextStep 3.3.
Also running on this PC (same COM interface) is NxFax.
I want to run it as PPP-server when somebody dials in. First step was
to startup an ordinary shell when loging in. In this shell i started
pppd. After some seconds, the pppd died and i got the shell prompt
again. By looking in the logfile i saw the following message:
Feb 2 08:54:44 jpfeiffer pppd[308]: pppd 2.2.0 started by schoell,
uid 106
Feb 2 08:54:48 jpfeiffer pppd[308]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT):
Inappropriate ioctl for device
Feb 2 08:54:49 jpfeiffer pppd[308]: Exit.
What is wrong?
Thank You
--
________________________________________________________________
Juergen Pfeiffer juergenp@nuertingen.netsurf.de
Zaehringerstr. 42 Tel: +49-7021-51127
73230 Kirchheim/Teck (NeXTMail and MIME-Mail welcome)
Germany
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem w/ Mouse-X X11R4 Server
Date: 6 Feb 1996 15:39:00 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <4f7smk$pep@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.next.programmer ]
[ Author was Gregory John Casamento ]
[ Posted on 6 Feb 1996 02:53:19 GMT ]
Hi, I am having trouble w/ Mouse-X. Basically the problem is that
after I switch back to NeXTSTEP, using the Command-Command-Delete
sequence, when I go back into X the xterm window will not accept
anything and the mouse doesn't seem to work.
Does anybody know what is going on here??
Thanks,
--
Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu
(c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
--
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(c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
From: shepherd@pathfinder (Scot Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su question
Date: 6 Feb 1996 15:45:45 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <4f7t39$ea7@news.onramp.net>
References: <4ek3ag$i5i@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
Philip Ling (philip@sgiinda) wrote:
: A simple question, how can I allow a user to "su" to root ?
They must be made a member of the wheel group.
: Thanks in advance.
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help--lost ability to format DOS disks
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 11:59:33 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960206115716.16417A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4f550m$hs@news.tamu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4f550m$hs@news.tamu.edu>
On 5 Feb 1996, Colin Allen wrote:
> After some intensive disk swapping activities last night that ended up
> first with the Check for Disks menu item on the Workspace, which I fixed
> by rebooting, I now no longer have the choice of a DOS filesystem when
> I try to Initialize a disk. The only options are Next and Mac on the popup
> list that appears.
>
> Does anyone have an idea about what is wrong and how to fix it. I could
> just reinstall from the CD-ROM, but I'd rather not!
Hmm... all I can think of (which isn't saying much) is that your
/usr/filesystems/DOS.fs/
might have somehow gotten corrupted? I dunno... It seems to me that some
disks don't offer the _MAC_ formatting, but I don't think I've ever seen
one that wouldn't allow DOS formatting (except the 2.88 disks)
TjL
--
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NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: pppd won't start
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 12:04:41 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960206120203.16417B-100000-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4f044c$hov@unaxp1.nepustil.net>
This is another message which should be sent to the PPP under NeXTStep
mailing list (see my .sig for the address)
On 3 Feb 1996, Juergen Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've just installed ppp-2.2-0.4.5 on an IntelPC running NextStep 3.3.
> Also running on this PC (same COM interface) is NxFax.
> I want to run it as PPP-server when somebody dials in. First step was
> to startup an ordinary shell when loging in. In this shell i started
> pppd. After some seconds, the pppd died and i got the shell prompt
> again. By looking in the logfile i saw the following message:
>
> Feb 2 08:54:44 jpfeiffer pppd[308]: pppd 2.2.0 started by schoell,
> uid 106
> Feb 2 08:54:48 jpfeiffer pppd[308]: ioctl(PPPIOCGUNIT):
> Inappropriate ioctl for device
> Feb 2 08:54:49 jpfeiffer pppd[308]: Exit.
I believe this is a permissions problem, I am 90% sure it has been
discussed on tha mailing list and someone there will surely remember the
answer.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Have I done right? -> formatting a 2137mb drive with one partition as bootable
Date: 6 Feb 1996 18:07:12 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-55.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4f85ck$fc0@usc.edu>
1) Okay, so I've gotten a Seagate Barracuda @ 2137mb. Prior setup = 500mb
ext. boot disk @ sd0a; 250mb internal swapdisk @sd1a.
2) I sdformatted it with 1024 bytes per sector.
3) I logged in as root and initialized it (I guess that's using Buildisk)
which automatically partitioned it into 2 parts (tho it should have choked
according to what I've heard) (I am running with the 3.3 patch and I wonder
if they fixed the BuildDisk bug?). Named the thing "Grandiose".
4) Added the following fstab entries (the disk is at SCSI #2):
/dev/sd2a /sun 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
/dev/sd2b /moon 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
5) So I scsimodes looksee the two partitions:
midnight/#: scsimodes /dev/rsd2a
SCSI information for /dev/rsd2a
Drive type: SEAGATE ST32550N
1024 bytes per sector
57 sectors per track
11 tracks per cylinder
3511 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
9 spare sectors per cylinder
22 alternate tracks per volume
2188416 usable sectors on volume
midnight/#: scsimodes /dev/rsd2b
SCSI information for /dev/rsd2b
Drive type: SEAGATE ST32550N
1024 bytes per sector
57 sectors per track
11 tracks per cylinder
3511 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
9 spare sectors per cylinder
22 alternate tracks per volume
2188416 usable sectors on volume
midnight/#: scsimodes -v /dev/rsd2
6) Then I bsd -s and wanted to create duplicate bootdisk on /dev/sd2a, so I
was advised to:
# mount /dev/sd2a /mnt
# dump 0f - /dev/rsd0a | (cd /mnt; restore rf -)
Which I did while logged into my home directory and su root in terminal.
Since I was also logged onto the net I guess my newsreader was reading
.newsrc because the dump reported not seeing it. So I copied it from old
boot drive to new one. Dump also reported not seeing /Users/reichman/ but it
is there on the new drive.
7) I changed my fstab on orig boot disk & new boot disk partition from:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd2a /sun 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
/dev/sd2b /moon 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
To: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd0b /moon 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
/dev/sd2a /petite 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
8) Rebooted and now I'm running off my new drive. I opened Mail.app and it
warned that Active.mbox was locked by [me]. I opened it anyway. Otherwise,
everything seems to be okay.
+ + + + + + + +
MAIN QUESTIONS IF EVERYTHING looks fine so far.
A) I didn't seem to need to create the recommended disktab entries. Should I
do this anyway? I'm wondering if there are specific things that might not be
taken advantage of? Like rpm? Am I losing some useable diskspace?
B) Would this be the correct disktab entry for the above situation (evenly
dividing the 2137mb drive):
ST32550N|ST32550N-1024|SEAGATE ST32550N-1024:\\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3511:nt#11:ns#57:ss#1024:rm#7200:\\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\\
:pb#4194304:sb#1493822:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
B) I know that if I put in a disktab entry then I should reformat the drive
and go through the whole process from start, right?
Thanks for any tips/advice.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Another question (ugh) about swapfile (hey TJL!)
Date: 6 Feb 1996 19:14:32 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-26.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4f89ao$pvt@usc.edu>
I'm the proud owner of a 2gb Seagate Barracuda (tho wallet be sad).
I've been using the 250 internal drive on my Color Turbo as a swapdisk.
Clearly speed and seek times are quite different between two drives.
Would I get better performance by putting swapfile back onto my new
Barracuda boot drive? Or would the 2x access equal everything out?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: hong@bigbird.csulb.edu (Vision)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.netx.misc
Subject: compiling qpopper2.1.4 on 3.3
Date: 06 Feb 1996 10:39:34 -0800
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Sender: hong@bigbird.acs.csulb.edu
Message-ID: <yavvilks3h5.fsf@bigbird.acs.csulb.edu>
I have been trying to compile qpopper2.1.4 on 3.3.
First, I made "make.next" on the directory
and use options below.
It compiled very nicely except on "pop_xmit.c".
I have no idea where w_S and w_T comming from.
Can anybody make success with qpopper?
Is there any othere pop that supports UIDL?
Thank you
Jason
kanga:/net/wren/z/src/qpopper2.1.4 65$ grep = make.next
CSRCS = flock.c pop_dele.c pop_dropcopy.c \
OBJS = flock.o pop_dele.o pop_dropcopy.o \
DOCS = README pop3.rfc1081 pop3e.rfc1082 popper.8
INCLUDES = popper.h version.h
SRCS = ${CSRCS} ${INCLUDES}
SCCS = /usr/ucb/sccs
REL =
#CC = gcc -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return
CC = cc
MAKEFILE = Makefile
CFLAGS = -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG \
-O2 -g -Dpid_t=int -traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include
TARGET = popper.next
TAR = ${TARGET}.tar
INSTALLDIR = /usr/local/etc
MANPAGE = popper.8
CATPAGE = popper.0
MANDIR = /usr/local/man/cat8
kanga:/net/wren/z/src/qpopper2.1.4 66$
wren:/z/src/qpopper2.1.4 296$ make -f make.next
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c flock.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_dele.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_dropcopy.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_get_command.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_get_subcommand.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_init.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_last.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_list.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_log.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_lower.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_msg.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_parse.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_pass.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_quit.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_rset.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_send.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_stat.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_updt.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_user.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_xtnd.c
cc -DNODIRENT -DBIND43 -DHAVE_VSPRINTF -DDEBUG -O2 -g -Dpid_t=int
-traditional-cpp -I/usr/local/include -c pop_xmit.c
pop_xmit.c: In function `pop_xmit':
pop_xmit.c:136: request for member `w_S' in something not a structure or union
pop_xmit.c:136: request for member `w_T' in something not a structure or union
*** Exit 1
Stop.
wren:/z/src/qpopper2.1.4 297$
kanga:/net/wren/z/src/qpopper2.1.4 67$
From: Abid
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NETINFO-sendmail 8.7.3
Date: 6 Feb 1996 20:22:43 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4f8daj$32t@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
References: <4f5goi$q94@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
In article <4f5goi$q94@chinx4.thoughtport.net> Abid writes:
[##] Anyone out there using sendmail 8.7.3 with the NETINFO option compiled
in? I'm
[##] having the following problem:
[##]
[##] I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 and doing a ppp dialup to a local ISP. To send
mail,
[##] I use either tcp or uucp depending on how it's addressed but use uucp to
[##] download mail from the ISP. I ftp'ed the NeXT precompiled package and
[##] installed it without problems and seem to be receiving and sending mail
but
[##] sendmail keeps hanging (only for a minute) and giving me the following
errors
[##] at the time of mail send and receive:
[##]
[##] Feb 5 12:44:38 demerzel sendmail[545]: My unqualified host name
(demerzel)
[##] unknown; sleeping for retry
[##] Feb 5 12:45:41 demerzel sendmail[545]: unable to qualify my own domain
name
[##] (demerzel) -- using short name
[##]
[##] Anyone know what is happening here? What did I forget to do? Is it a
[##] configuration problem with NetInfo?
Cancel this request. Stupid configuration on my end. I never put in the fully
qualified domain name into netinfo.
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher A. Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Another question (ugh) about swapfile (hey TJL!)
Date: 6 Feb 1996 23:24:27 GMT
Organization: WolfWare (http://www.wolfware.com)
Message-ID: <4f8nvb$5ni@shellx.best.com>
References: <4f89ao$pvt@usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4f89ao$pvt@usc.edu>
On 02/06/96, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
>I'm the proud owner of a 2gb Seagate Barracuda (tho wallet be sad).
>
>I've been using the 250 internal drive on my Color Turbo as a swapdisk.
>Clearly speed and seek times are quite different between two drives.
>
>Would I get better performance by putting swapfile back onto my new
>Barracuda boot drive? Or would the 2x access equal everything out?
In a situation with a Barracuda 12450W (fast-wide 7200 RPM dual head drive)
and a Quantum 730 MB (5400 RPM, regular scsi-2) and 32M of RAM I found that
system performances benefitted -considerably- from moving the swap file to the
Barracuda rather than maintaining the Quantum as a separate swap disk. In
general I've found that if your swap drive is less than 2/3rds the speed of
your primary drive then it is better to move the swap file to the faster drive
even though it means sacrificing the dual-spindle advantage. Your mileage may
vary depending on usage patterns, amount of system RAM and other factors of
course.
--
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: NETINFO-sendmail 8.7.3
In-Reply-To: Abid's message of 5 Feb 1996 18:02:58 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb6212027@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4f5goi$q94@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 02:20:27 GMT
You need to add a FQDN in the host table in NetInfo. i.e. if your mail
hub is called "mailhost", you need to add a host alias called
"mailhost.solaria.com"
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4f5goi$q94@chinx4.thoughtport.net> Abid writes:
Xref: world comp.sys.next.sysadmin:27943
Path: world!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp!psinntp!psinntp!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!thoughtport!usenet
From: Abid
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 5 Feb 1996 18:02:58 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Lines: 17
Reply-To: abid@solaria.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: nyc-cisco01-tty4.thoughtport.com
Anyone out there using sendmail 8.7.3 with the NETINFO option compiled in? I'm
having the following problem:
I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 and doing a ppp dialup to a local ISP. To send mail,
I use either tcp or uucp depending on how it's addressed but use uucp to
download mail from the ISP. I ftp'ed the NeXT precompiled package and
installed it without problems and seem to be receiving and sending mail but
sendmail keeps hanging (only for a minute) and giving me the following errors
at the time of mail send and receive:
Feb 5 12:44:38 demerzel sendmail[545]: My unqualified host name (demerzel)
unknown; sleeping for retry
Feb 5 12:45:41 demerzel sendmail[545]: unable to qualify my own domain name
(demerzel) -- using short name
Anyone know what is happening here? What did I forget to do? Is it a
configuration problem with NetInfo?
From: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nextt.bugs
Subject: sendmail 8.7.3 Netinfo bug?
Date: 7 Feb 1996 00:58:38 GMT
Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe
Message-ID: <4f8tfu$4p7@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Hello,
I think I found a bug in the netinfo code of sendmail 8.7.3.
The code that looks up zhe properties, doesn't stop when it finds a
value, but always climbs up to the toplevel domain. In my two level
domain it results in finding the wrong sendmail.cf:
marvin ROOT 411 (.../sendmail-8.7.3/src): niutil -read /
/locations/sendmail
name: sendmail
mailhost: marvin
sendmail.cf: /etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf
marvin ROOT 412 (.../sendmail-8.7.3/src): niutil -read .
/locations/sendmail
name: sendmail
mailhost: marvin
sendmail.cf: /etc/sendmail/marvin.cf
If I start sendmail-8.7.3 it thinks the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf is
its config file. I fixed this by adding a break statement in the
ni_propval code:
char *
ni_propval(keydir, keyprop, keyval, valprop, sepchar)
.
.
.
*--p = '\0';
ni_namelist_free(&ninl);
/* Bugfix to prohibit further searching */
/* although we found what we are looking for */
break;
}
/*
** Clean up.
*/
if (ni != NULL)
ni_free(ni);
if (lastni != NULL && ni != lastni)
ni_free(lastni);
return propval;
}
Is the author of that code around and can comment on this?
Greetings
Bastian
--
Bastian Schlueter e-mail: buzz@cs.TU-Berlin.DE
Fehrbellinerstr. 39 buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE
D-10119 Berlin
Germany RRR100R
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Another question (ugh) about swapfile (hey TJL!)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 20:34:19 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960206201459.19436C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4f89ao$pvt@usc.edu>
On 6 Feb 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> I'm the proud owner of a 2gb Seagate Barracuda (tho wallet be sad).
you've bought a drive which will satisfy your needs for a good long
time... your wallet will recover. Where'd you get it? I'm hoping you
checked out 'Computer Shopper'
> I've been using the 250 internal drive on my Color Turbo as a swapdisk.
> Clearly speed and seek times are quite different between two drives.
well, since one is probably what, 3-4 years old? I'd guess you'd be
correct in that.
> Would I get better performance by putting swapfile back onto my new
> Barracuda boot drive? Or would the 2x access equal everything out?
without going into the other issues about swapdisks (ie /tmp location,
having to set HIWAT, and so on,) I believe that one pertinent issue to
think of: when will the disk(s) be accessed?
One of the prime reasons I think a swapdisk is a good idea is that it
allows one disk to perform the necessary overhead for swapping, while
freeing the other disk entirely for I/O with whatever else you are doing.
Also, using 'mkfile' you could create a quite large swapfile on the
swapdisk. This has two advantages: 1) the swapfile space is all together
in one place on the disk (not much of an advantage if there is nothing
else on the disk) and 2) you'll save yourself the overhead of the swapfile
being increased. This second point I have found to be a great way to get
a little boost: by having a larger swapfile, the swapping demands can be
met without having the swapfile increase in size (the process of which
takes some CPU cycles).
If we were talking about a Pentium 133MHz machine I might not stress
this. However, if we're talking about an 040, then I'd say that it is
worth looking into.
There is also some concern about 'disk fragmentation' when dealing with a
swapfile (especially if the free space is filled on the disk which has
the swapfile). I _think_ that keeping all the swapping on one disk would
minimize those concerns.
Were I you (and I ain't, of course) I'd take the time to reformat the 250
swapdisk with sdformat to 1024 blocksize (if it isn't already), setup the
necessary files to have a HIWAT at 250meg, use 'mkfile' to create the
swapfile at 240 meg (this will take some time) and setup WatchSwap.app to
tell you when the swapfile exceeds 240. [ I say 240 because I am trying
to give something of a buffer-zone, so that when your swapping exceeds
the 240 mark you will have some space left on THAT disk before it begins
swapping on your primary disk (the main problem with the swapdisk setup
is the bug/feature that when the swapdisk's swapfile fills up, swapping
begins on /private/vm/swapfile).
Wheh, that's a really long post... I hope my thoughts have been helpful,
if you've got more questions, I'd happily supply my responses, and I'm
sure others will too.
TjL, named in a post's Subject for the first time in his NeXTDom career
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: mp@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Pruefer DL8OAU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help--lost ability to format DOS disks
Date: 6 Feb 96 15:03:23 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <mp.823619003@maud.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>
References: <4f550m$hs@news.tamu.edu>
colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) writes:
>After some intensive disk swapping activities last night that ended up
>first with the Check for Disks menu item on the Workspace, which I fixed
>by rebooting, I now no longer have the choice of a DOS filesystem when
>I try to Initialize a disk. The only options are Next and Mac on the popup
>list that appears.
>Does anyone have an idea about what is wrong and how to fix it. I could
>just reinstall from the CD-ROM, but I'd rather not!
I have the same effect, and thought, this is a 'normal bug'?
My workaround: Initialize the disk as NeXT, and after this
try to initialize again. Then there will be
the option of a DOS disk too. 8-)
Martin
--
Martin Pruefer DL8OAU (M.Pruefer@tu-bs.de) | Tel: +49 531/391-7453
Institute for Robotics and Computer Control | __ Fax: +49 531/391-5696
Technical University of Braunschweig | /\_\ Why use Windows since
Hamburger Str. 267, 38114 Braunschweig, FRG | \/_/ there are doors?
From: pom@imsd.uni-mainz.de (Prof. Dr. Klaus Pommerening)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nextt.bugs
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.3 Netinfo bug?
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1996 07:39:52 GMT
Organization: Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
Message-ID: <4f9oet$ctb@kralle.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
References: <4f8tfu$4p7@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter) wrote:
>Hello,
>I think I found a bug in the netinfo code of sendmail 8.7.3.
>The code that looks up zhe properties, doesn't stop when it finds a
>value, but always climbs up to the toplevel domain. In my two level
>domain it results in finding the wrong sendmail.cf:
> [...]
>If I start sendmail-8.7.3 it thinks the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf is
>its config file.
Ahhh...!!! That's it. I probabably had to do with the same bug. My
sendmail 8.7.3 works since this morning, when I discarded the
sendmail.sh....cf and replaced with a link to the true sendmail.cf.
Thank you for the explanation.
Klaus Pommerening
From: barton@doggy.dircon.co.uk (Barton Friedland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: canon object.station41 Buslogic card settings
Date: 7 Feb 1996 09:30:56 GMT
Organization: Direct Connection
Message-ID: <4f9rgg$1gl@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
I am really stuck. No one seems to know anything about this problem. I have a
lot of data on my disk (again) that I can not access. I would like to install
NEXTSTEP to another disk so that I can boot NEXTSTEP and get my data.
When I try to install, the installer stops at the point where the fdisk command
executes. The installer states that the information about the disk in the BIOS
is bogus. What should I do?
Would someone with a similar system please look at the settings in the setup of
the Buslogic card and let me know if any need to be changed?
Buslogic Configuration
------------------------------
Adapter IO Port=330h
Adapter type=BT-44xC
BIOS address=DC00014
Interrupt Channel=11
DMA Channel=None
DMA Xfer rate=N/A
Adapter ID=7
SCSI Parity on=YES
Adapter Term. On=YES
DOS Space>1GB=NO
Firmware Rev=4.22G
BIOS Rev=4.82D
SCSI Number Specific Settings
------------------------------------------
ALL SETTINGS ARE THE SAME FOR EACH SCSI NUMBER
Enable Fast Xfer=YES
Enable Sync Xfer=YES
Enable Disconnection=YES
BIOS send start unit command=NO
Ignore in BIOS scan=NO
Advanced Options
-------------------------
Host Adapter BIOS enabled=YES
Host Adapter BIOS using INT 19h for system boot=YES
Host Adapter BIOS supports DOS space>1GB=NO
BIOS supports removeable Disk as Fixed Disk=NO
BIOS support for > 2 Drives=YES
Enable BIOS interrupt mode=NO
BIOS support Floptical=NO
Enable SCSI Bus reset=YES
Reserved RAM for BIOS access (Segment:offset) 0:=200
Set host adapter IO port address as default=YES
VESA Bus Speed>30Mhz=YES
Enable VESA burst write=NO
Enable VESA burst read=NO
I would really appreciate someone checking the settings on one of your canon
systems so that I can determine if the problem is in the SCSI card setup.
Thanks,
Barton
From: dritz@mnsinc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re-partition for Dual OS
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 96 09:20:53 PDT
Organization: Monumental Network Systems
Message-ID: <NEWTNews.823713889.23776.dritzppp@ritz.mnsinc.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I have dual OS (DOS and NS 3.2) with 1 gig of storage.
I originally partitioned 600 meg for NS and 400 meg for
DOS. Now I want to take 200 meg from the NS partiton and add
it to the DOS partition. Can I do that ? Do I have to
reformat the whole drive again and start over ?
I would like to end up with 400 meg for NS and 600 meg for
DOS.
Thanks in advance for any help.....
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disappearing Terminal window?
Date: 7 Feb 1996 18:58:51 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <4faspb$6k4@morrow.stanford.edu>
Hi Folx--
I just brought up 3.3 on two Sparcstations and everything seems to work
except for the Terminal app: nobody but root can use a terminal window;
other users can open one up for <1 sec which then closes, leaving the
message "syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services"
on the console. I couldn't see anything about this in NextAnswers; has
anyone else seen it and fixed it?
--
Eric Minch
Stanford Genetics Department
http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida)
Subject: [Q] Printing without using NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg
Message-ID: <DMFD3s.3I3@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: AppleTalk
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 21:31:04 GMT
Hello,
Is there a way to print documents from a laser printer on AppleTalk without
using NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg?
I have an HP LaserJet 4M shared by some Macintoshes connected on AppleTalk .
I would like to print some PostScript files from this printer. However,
unfortunately, I do not have NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg. Of course I can connect
the printer through the serial port, but it is not an allowed option. I do
not need to share files between NeXT and Macintosh. Just printing is
enough. Is there any (free) cool utility program out there to do printing
without using NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg?
_________________________________________________________
Hiro Yoshida
Kurt Rossmann Laboratories
Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, MC2026
5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60637
Phone: 312-702-1350, FAX 312-702-0371 ,,,
yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (* o)
_____________________________________.oOO--(_)--OOo._____
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Admin/Career position/ILL
Date: 8 Feb 1996 01:22:07 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <4fbj7v$rgj@tofu.alt.net>
System Administrator
NEXTSTEP
Prefer Sun Solaris commercial experience
Commercial experience required
Career position
Relocation assistance
Greater ChicAGO AREA
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
From: paul@infohouse.com (Paul Guzyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: 8 Feb 1996 01:47:56 GMT
Organization: er
Message-ID: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com>
I'll pay someone if they can help me fix this one...
I have a NS Intel 3.3 box and every few hours it completely fills the hard
drive, then freezes. It looks like the swapfile grows until the whole
computer dies.
After a cold boot, the machine has free space, works fine for a while,
then the cycle hapens again all over.
The highwater is set for swapspace but that doesn't seem to help.
Something is defineately wacky here...any NeXT Gurus want to tacke it?
Paul Guzyk
212-228-8988
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nextt.bugs
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.3 Netinfo bug?
In-Reply-To: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE's message of 7 Feb 1996 00:58:38 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb7203820@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4f8tfu$4p7@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 01:38:20 GMT
I'll take a look at it and work with Eric Allman to get this fix into
the next release. Vince Demarco, Eric Allman, and myself all contributed
to various aspects of the NetInfo support.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4f8tfu$4p7@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter) writes:
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From: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nextt.bugs
Date: 7 Feb 1996 00:58:38 GMT
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Hello,
I think I found a bug in the netinfo code of sendmail 8.7.3.
The code that looks up zhe properties, doesn't stop when it finds a
value, but always climbs up to the toplevel domain. In my two level
domain it results in finding the wrong sendmail.cf:
marvin ROOT 411 (.../sendmail-8.7.3/src): niutil -read /
/locations/sendmail
name: sendmail
mailhost: marvin
sendmail.cf: /etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf
marvin ROOT 412 (.../sendmail-8.7.3/src): niutil -read .
/locations/sendmail
name: sendmail
mailhost: marvin
sendmail.cf: /etc/sendmail/marvin.cf
If I start sendmail-8.7.3 it thinks the sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf is
its config file. I fixed this by adding a break statement in the
ni_propval code:
char *
ni_propval(keydir, keyprop, keyval, valprop, sepchar)
.
.
.
*--p = '\0';
ni_namelist_free(&ninl);
/* Bugfix to prohibit further searching */
/* although we found what we are looking for */
break;
}
/*
** Clean up.
*/
if (ni != NULL)
ni_free(ni);
if (lastni != NULL && ni != lastni)
ni_free(lastni);
return propval;
}
Is the author of that code around and can comment on this?
Greetings
Bastian
--
Bastian Schlueter e-mail: buzz@cs.TU-Berlin.DE
Fehrbellinerstr. 39 buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE
D-10119 Berlin
Germany RRR100R
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones)
Subject: too many "beeps"
Message-ID: <cjonesDMFzFu.Kpq@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 05:33:30 GMT
Sender: cjones@netcom21.netcom.com
I have NeXT runing on a Gateway Intelmachine; verion 3.3
On the occasions when I do something that would give me a system beep,
I get eight (8!) of them! each and every time!
for instance, if I open a terminal window and, at the system name
prompt (hostname>) I type a back arrow, I get a [D printed and 8 "you goofed"
sounds!
This did not used to happen (before I re-installed 3.3 and installed ppp;
that is the only thing I can think of that I did).
Anyway, anyone have any suggestions? It is driving me nuts!
thanks,
carl jones
From: "Theodore W. Hall" <twhall@cuhk.edu.hk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Display driver, Sun SPARC 10, leo graphics?
Date: 8 Feb 1996 06:36:09 GMT
Organization: Chinese University of Hong Kong
Message-ID: <4fc5kp$ceq@hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
What are the chances of getting NS to run on a Sun SPARC-10 with
1280x1024x24 "leo" color graphics? This is not specifically listed
in the "supported configurations", but ... ?
We have a Sun SPARC-20 with the officially-sanctioned graphics, but
it's our server, and not available for use as a NEXTstation.
The installation on the SPARC-10 goes okay, but when NS tries to boot,
it can't find a display driver. FYI:
leo(7) Special Files leo(7)
NAME
leo - double-buffered 24-bit SBus color frame buffer and
graphics accelerator
DESCRIPTION
leo (ZX) is a 24-bit SBus-based color frame buffer and
graphics accelerator. The frame buffer consists of 96 video
memory planes of 1280 x 1024 pixels, including 24-bit
double-buffering, 8 overlay planes, 24 z-buffer planes, 10
window ID planes, and 6 fast clear planes. Leo provides the
standard frame buffer interface as defined in fbio(7).
Application acceleration is achieved via the XGL native 3D
graphics library.
FILES
/dev/fbs/leo0 device special file
SEE ALSO
leoconfig(1M) mmap(2), fbio(7),
SunOS 5.4 Last change: 21 Jul 1993 1
Note the statement: "Leo provides the standard frame buffer interface
as defined in fbio(7)."
When NS boots:
Configuring Device Drivers
Using Default table for CG14FrameBuffer
Using Default table for CG6FrameBuffer
Using Default table for S24FrameBuffer
Using Default table for TYPE5Keyboard
Using Default table for SunLe
Using Default table for SCSAController
Registering: PCPointer0
Using Default table for SUNMouse
Configuring DBRI Audio
Using Default table for SunAudio
Registering: SunAudio
/usr/etc/driverLoader: No display driver added, trying VGA
driverLoader: scandir(/usr/Devices/VGA.config) error
Aborting configuration of driver VGA
.
.
.
<date> localhost WindowServer [<#>]: InitDrivers: Help! No Display
drivers loaded!
The last message repeats forever.
Sorry for the length of this post. Suggestions and/or sympathy welcome.
Hold the flames.
--
Ted Hall ^
Department of Architecture '-`
Chinese University of Hong Kong '- - -`
Sha Tin, New Territories '- - - - - -`
HONG KONG \'- - - - - - - - - -`/
From: mark@nextstep.dorm6.nctu.edu.tw (Lin Yi-chih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange Problem!
Date: 26 Jan 1996 18:56:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Eng., Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <4eb85l$n5n@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
Hi, there
I change the IP address and sendmail recently, and
have two problmes:
1. I change the IP from xxx.xxx.xxx.218 => xxx.xxx.xxx.221,
but from the SNS log, the INETADDR is different from
the Internet address
- - - - - SNS log - - - - -
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=nextstep
INETADDR=xxx.xxx.xxx.221 <------
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
NETMASTER=-NO-
Host name: nextstep
Internet address: xxx.xxx.xxx.218 <------
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
..
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
PS: I have check the /etc/hosts and NetInfo
2. The receiver of my Email get the wrong Reply-To message.
I check the Email header and found that the receiver
of Email get the correct in "From:" header but wrong
in "Reply-To:" header,
the "Reply-To:" header just show that
mark@domain_name
[ instead of mark@host_name.domrain_name ]
PS: I have checked the "Reply-To:" in Preference->Compose
Thanks for any help
Mark
From: mark@nextstep.dorm6.nctu.edu.tw (Lin Yi-chih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange Problem!
Date: 26 Jan 1996 19:33:44 GMT
Organization: Dept. Comp. Sci. & Info. Eng., Chiao-Tung Univ., Taiwan
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <4ebaao$opu@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
References: <4eb85l$n5n@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
> I change the IP address and sendmail recently, and
> have two problmes:
Problem 1 is solved ...
> 2. The receiver of my Email get the wrong Reply-To message.
I change sendmail to 8.7X (Robert Ferla's Sendmail.pkg)
The header of "From:" and "Reply-To:" are both wrong!
[ but I can send and received the Email without problem! ]
Mark
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disappearing Terminal window?
Date: 8 Feb 1996 09:24:01 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4fcffh$16b@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4faspb$6k4@morrow.stanford.edu>
Eric Minch (minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: Hi Folx--
: I just brought up 3.3 on two Sparcstations and everything seems to work
: except for the Terminal app: nobody but root can use a terminal window;
: other users can open one up for <1 sec which then closes, leaving the
: message "syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services"
: on the console. I couldn't see anything about this in NextAnswers; has
: anyone else seen it and fixed it?
I suggest cheching two things:
- Do the Users have valid entries for their user shells, is the
shell mentioned in /etc/shells
- Is Terminal.app/Terminal setuid and owned by 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: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: too many "beeps"
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 8 Feb 1996 09:25:31 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4fcfib$16b@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <cjonesDMFzFu.Kpq@netcom.com>
Carl Jones (cjones@netcom.com) wrote:
: I have NeXT runing on a Gateway Intelmachine; verion 3.3
: On the occasions when I do something that would give me a system beep,
: I get eight (8!) of them! each and every time!
Repeating sounds are mostly due to a misconfigured (that is:
used twice) irq line for the soundcard.
--
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: bm10009@pooh.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk (Ben Moseley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Reboot complete" is a lie
Date: 8 Feb 1996 09:41:41 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <4fcggl$1p4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
References: <4f5cb2$2va@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
In article <4f5cb2$2va@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> m@plsys.co.uk writes:
> nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush) wrote:
>
> > The NeXTstation will reboot and say "Reboot complete", but then it
will
> > not give me the loginwindow. It will enter single-user mode without a
> > hitch, though.
>
> I had this problem a few years ago. Try adding a me account, or deleting
it
> if it's already there (I can't remember which). Neither I nor NeXT's
> sysadmin could figure out what the underlying problem was.
>
> M Carling
This sounds like the LoginWindow.app failing to run. This can happen for a
variety of reasons - eg if the AppKit shlibs are corrupted. (This is the
first time the machine tries to use AppKit I think).
Try checking /usr/adm/messages to see if that gives any pointers...
--Ben
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: 8 Feb 1996 09:27:32 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4fcfm4$16b@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com>
Paul Guzyk (paul@infohouse.com) wrote:
: I'll pay someone if they can help me fix this one...
: I have a NS Intel 3.3 box and every few hours it completely fills the hard
: drive, then freezes. It looks like the swapfile grows until the whole
: computer dies.
: After a cold boot, the machine has free space, works fine for a while,
: then the cycle hapens again all over.
: The highwater is set for swapspace but that doesn't seem to help.
If highwater is set and the OS runs out of swap, it likely to crash/hang.
: Something is defineately wacky here...any NeXT Gurus want to tacke it?
I would suggest checking the processes running regularily (using
ps auxww). Watch for constantly growing processes.
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From: uther@uther.gac.edu (Matt C. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting a linux patition
Date: 8 Feb 1996 04:03:38 GMT
Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College
Message-ID: <4fbsmq$cuc@lunen.gac.edu>
Keywords: mount linux
Hello.
I am running NS3.3 for intel. I initially partitioned 2Gb HD with a 1Gb
NS partition, with the intention of adding a partition later as needed. A
couple of months later, I discovered that NS for intel does not support
more that 1 NS partition on a hard disk.
I recently thought of a fix for this situation - I thought if I made a new
linux partition and then used NS newfs on this partition, I could then
mount it and use my previously unusable disk space. Fdisk made the
partition fine, but I could not locate the new partition by name for the
life of me. Fdisk doesn't tell me what the partitions are called from w/i
NextStep, and my NS partition, which is the second partition on the HD
(the first being a dos partition) is called /dev/sd0a. To my way of
thinking, the second partition should be called /dev/sd0b...thus adding to
my confusion. I even tried running:
fdisk -N /dev/sd0x
with x being all of the partition letters from a to h. The only one that
responded was /dev/sd0a (my NS partition) by spitting back a bunch of
numbers, while the others returned: newfs: /dev/rsd0x: no disk label (No,
I didn't actually try /dev/sd0x).
Does anyone have any idea what the linux partition should be called (it is
the third physical partition on the hard drive), and/or, does anyone know
if this will end up working? Any help would be much appriciated.
Matt Anderson
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From: lewispsc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Philip Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Reboot complete" is a lie
Date: 8 Feb 1996 08:09:53 -0800
Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Sender: lewispsc@leland.stanford.edu
Message-ID: <4fd78h$gtj@elaine28.Stanford.EDU>
References: <4f5cb2$2va@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4fcggl$1p4@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
I have just had and posted what turned out to be the same failure of
the system to bring up the log-in window after booting. Thanks to Art
Isbell, who saw through a lot of verbiage about serial ports to the
fact that /NextLibrary did not, at the relevant time, have the folders
in it needed for the window to be written.
Philip Lewis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: CryptorBundle for NEXTSTEP 3.3 mail.app
Message-ID: <1996Feb7.195237.1452@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4f4lu5$h3s@usc.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:52:37 GMT
In article <4f4lu5$h3s@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> According to Lycos's search engine:
>
> 1) Cryptor-Bundle [1.0000, 2 of 2 terms, adj 1.0]
>
> Abstract: Cryptor-Bundle
>
> ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utils/ (0k)
>
Your search engine turned out to have found a lesser mirror site for
peanuts.leo.org
the famous Munich NEXTSTEP archive (rivaled only by cs.orst.edu ;-)
BTW, Peanuts is turning out CD/ROM versions of its archive on a regular
basis. More info from the above address.
--
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From: ericb@il.us.swissbank.com (Eric_Brown)
Subject: Problems with netinstall to a laptop
Message-ID: <1996Feb8.165349.7848@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 16:53:49 GMT
I am having a problem doing a netinstall of NS 3.3 to my new laptop (a Toshiba
Tecra 700CT with a Xircom psII PCMCIA enet card). I have followed NeXT's
directions in setting up the netinstall server and creating the install
floppies. The server was set up using the NetInstallHelper.app and appears to
be set up correctly (i.e. appropriate netinfo entries). The laptop boots,
loads the necessary drivers (including the Xircom and Adaptec 154x) and
recognizes the net card and correctly identifies it. It then gets a response
from the netinstall server correctly identifying its hostname and IP address.
Finally, it starts repeating a mountnfs portmap error message reporting that it
can't mount the netinstall directory as root.
Any suggestions? I know that a netinstall was successfully done to this laptop
using a Cogent PCMCIA network card, but I would prefer not to have to buy
another net card.
Thanks...
Eric Brown
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From: nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: login & "Try saving changes.." -- user accts dbm problem?
Date: 8 Feb 1996 18:28:41 GMT
Organization: Music Program Zero, Bard Coll., Annandale NY 12504
Message-ID: <4fdfcp$1eqk@core.bard.edu>
Two machines (a slab and a cube) on our network have experienced boot and
network problems. These seem to be fixed, but now:
When any user logs in, the message "Try saving changes to applications
before logging out" appears with only an "OK" button...when this is
clicked, the system just sits there and has to be rebooted. Only root
can log in.
I have tried creating dummy new accounts, and I get this message after
entering all the info:
"dbm: no open databse"
What gives?
Noel Bush
From: mark_bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: 8 Feb 1996 18:26:58 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fdf9i$50e@news.next.com>
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com>
Paul Guzyk writes
> I'll pay someone if they can help me fix this one...
>
> I have a NS Intel 3.3 box and every few hours it completely fills the
> hard drive, then freezes. It looks like the swapfile grows until the
> whole computer dies.
>
> After a cold boot, the machine has free space, works fine for a while,
> then the cycle hapens again all over.
>
> The highwater is set for swapspace but that doesn't seem to help.
>
> Something is defineately wacky here...any NeXT Gurus want to tacke it?
>
> Paul Guzyk
> 212-228-8988
Well, you obviously have a seriously leaky program on there somewhere.
What does the ps command show? Oh, and how much disk space is free after
a reboot?
I don't know why setting the highwater mark isn't working for you, but
it wouldn't help anyway. If the swapfile is growing, it's because some
program is allocating memeory. Setting the high-water mark will just
make the machine crash sooner.
--
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NeXT Software, Inc
Software Quality Assurance
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From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: canon object.station41 Buslogic card settings
Date: 8 Feb 1996 19:13:16 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <4fdi0c$4en@miwok.nbn.com>
References: <4f9rgg$1gl@newsgate.dircon.co.uk>
I>
> I would really appreciate someone checking the settings on one of your
canon
> systems so that I can determine if the problem is in the SCSI card setup.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Barton
>
Hi Barton:
I have an object.station on my desk. I think the problem you are having is
that the "usual" IO port setting for the BusLogic card is 334. This is what
the default settings of the driver are. Use the DIP switches on the host
adaptor to change, and see if that helps.
Good luck,
John
http://www.gscorp.com
From: cade@I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (James Cade Bodley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bootpd sending host name as gateway?!?
Date: 8 Feb 1996 19:45:02 GMT
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook.
Message-ID: <4fdjru$9gl@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>
I'm trying to get the Nextstep bootp deamon to give
some DOS machines their IP address when they telnet.
Everything seems to work fine except the bootpd is
sending its own host name as the gateway. This doesn't
work too well. Is there a way to change this? I know
under other bootpd you can set the gateway in the
bootptab file but the nextstep bootpd doesn't appear
to support this option.
Thanks
Cade@Rose.physics.sunysb.edu
From: Stanislav Mamonov <sm745@bard.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXT on a TCP/IP network... HELP!..
Date: 8 Feb 1996 23:04:16 GMT
Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
Message-ID: <4fdvhg$189r@core.bard.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Here is the problem:
NextStep installed on an Eclipse PC. Network adapter - 3Com Etherlink
III. Need to setup the computer on a TCP/IP network with a DNS service.
The IP address and the network netmask have been asigned. Problem -
can't ping any nodes on the network. Yes, the cable is attached and the
green light on the adapter is on. Also can ping the network interface on
the Eclipse - the adapter is correctly configured and is working. I have
also created the /etc/resolv.conf file. No luck.
Any suggestions will be appreciated. Please reply via e-mail:
sm745@bard.edu.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Message-ID: <1996Feb8.190328.22405@indyvax.iupui.edu>
From: rsanchez@indyunix.iupui.edu (Richard Sanchez)
Date: 8 Feb 96 19:03:28 -0500
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com>
Mr. Paul Guzyk,
Here is some info that may get you started. It is the
Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0 written by Timothy J. Luoma. You can find it at
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0.tar.gz
Mr. Luoma did a real nice job here.
Unfortunately, the problem that you are describing is an intrinsic limitation of the
current version of Mach that Nextstep is using. In my opionion, it really sucks. This is
one of the reasons why I am going to get an SGI Indy.
Don't get me wrong about Nextstep. In my opinion, Next has the BEST development
environment available and one of the most beautiful and intuitive GUIs on the market. It's
a shame that the underlying operating system doesn't live up to the same standards as the
development environment and GUI. To make matters worse, there have been some rumors
regarding the fact that the upgrade of the Mach kernel will be delayed yet again or even
worse completely dropped. The latest rumor seems to be that the next release of Nextstep
will be renamed Openstep for Mach and will be released in the second quarter of 1996.
It is really too bad that Next has not bothered to set the record straight with some sort
of press release regarding future support of Openstep for Mach. Will they continue to
improve and upgrade Mach and the underlying BSD operating system or will support be just
limited to driver support and occasional patches? It seems to me that this lack of
information really hurts the already struggling Nextstep software market because many users
are putting off buying new software and are taking a wait and see attitude.
On the bright side, it is clear that Next has a great future with their ports of Openstep
and Web Objects to other platforms including Windows NT. The problem is, who the hell
wants to use the ugly Windows NT system when such a beautiful and elegant system such as
Nextstep is available.
By the way, what are the chances that Next will port Openstep to SGI? Sorry, I guess I am
dreaming again.
Anyways, I have included a copy of the README file that accompanies the swapdisk FAQ. Hope
this helps.
********************************************************************************
What is this? It is a compilation of information regarding
swapfiles and swapdisks.
There is also a /bin/sh script to keep an eye on your swapspace,
either by a set byte-level or percentage remaining.
See the archive for more information.
Timothy J. Luoma
<luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
********************************************************************************
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Indiana University School of Medicine
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From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Finding site names from IP Addresses
Date: 9 Feb 1996 03:55:59 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net>
We have Web Site that we have been collecting IP Addresses of
computers. Is there an software (NeXT) that can trace down the
site names (locations/affiliation/site) of the IP Address in the
log of computers accessing our Web site?
Thanks.
-Victor Quevedo
vqueved@calstatela.edu
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From: neuss@sun39 (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Reboot complete" is a lie
Date: 9 Feb 1996 11:15:01 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Systemarchitektur, TH Darmstadt, Germany
Message-ID: <4ffabl$njj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <4ehdi7$mi4@core.bard.edu> <4f5cb2$2va@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
m@plsys.co.uk wrote:
: nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush) wrote:
> The NeXTstation will reboot and say "Reboot complete", but then it will
> not give me the loginwindow. It will enter single-user mode without a
> hitch, though.
: I had this problem a few years ago. Try adding a me account, or deleting it
: if it's already there (I can't remember which). Neither I nor NeXT's
: sysadmin could figure out what the underlying problem was.
I seem to remember you have to dremove DefaultUser, or maybe
dwrite to set it to another person. If DefaultUser is me and
the me account is deleted, it obviously causes this problem
(Note: this is from hearsay only, I never removed the me
account on my machines).
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From: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Finding site names from IP Addresses
Message-ID: <DMIHM8.1FE@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
References: <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net>
Distribution: na,usa,world
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 14:01:20 GMT
In article <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor
Quevedo) writes:
> We have Web Site that we have been collecting IP Addresses of
> computers. Is there an software (NeXT) that can trace down the
> site names (locations/affiliation/site) of the IP Address in the
> log of computers accessing our Web site?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Victor Quevedo
> vqueved@calstatela.edu
dig @<nameserver> <reverse_ipaddress>.in-addr.arpa any
dig @ns.foo.com 1.23.45.198.in-addr.arpa any
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: "Reboot complete" is a lie
Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:49:56 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4fftvk$39m@emerald.oz.net>
References: <4ehdi7$mi4@core.bard.edu> <4f5cb2$2va@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4ffabl$njj@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
neuss@sun39 (Christian Neuss) wrote:
> : nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush) wrote:
> > The NeXTstation will reboot and say "Reboot complete", but then it will
> > not give me the loginwindow. It will enter single-user mode without a
> > hitch, though.
>
> I seem to remember you have to dremove DefaultUser, or maybe
> dwrite to set it to another person. If DefaultUser is me and
> the me account is deleted, it obviously causes this problem
> (Note: this is from hearsay only, I never removed the me
> account on my machines).
I've always removed the "me" account and have never experienced this
problem, but that's probably because I've always had a password on the root
account. I could see a problem occurring if the "me" account had been
removed and root had no password, because loginwindow would then try to log
in to DefaultUser, "me", a non-existent account.
The DefaultUser loginwindow defaults variable is initialized to "me", but
isn't written to root's defaults database unless someone writes it,
presumably to a value different from "me".
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From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Server has no name on sybase startup
Date: 9 Feb 1996 18:17:27 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4fg33n$9n0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I get the messages
Opening Master Database ...
Jul 15 1982 8:43AM server: Recovering database 'master'
Feb 24 1992 2:00AM kernel: network name localhost, port 3696
Sep 24 1992 9:39AM server: server is unnamed
Oct 1 1992 5:35PM server: Recovering database 'model'
When starting sybase /usr/sybase/Install/startserver
How do I name the server?
This may be the reason why EOModeler can't connect to Sybase correctly for me.
Thanks,
John W.
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disappearing Terminal window?
Date: 9 Feb 1996 19:10:53 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <4fg67u$n7l@morrow.stanford.edu>
References: <4faspb$6k4@morrow.stanford.edu>
In article <4faspb$6k4@morrow.stanford.edu> I wrote:
> I just brought up 3.3 on two Sparcstations and everything seems to work
> except for the Terminal app: nobody but root can use a terminal window;
> other users can open one up for <1 sec which then closes, leaving the
> message "syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services"
> on the console. I couldn't see anything about this in NextAnswers; has
> anyone else seen it and fixed it?
>
Since then I've received helpful suggestions (check Terminal uid, check
/etc/utmp permissions, check /etc/shells and user default shells), but
everything seems to be kosher.
The temporary workaround is to tell everyone to use /bin/sh or
/usr/bin/zsh until I can figure out what's going on. Does that give anyone
a hint as to what's going on?
Eric Minch
Stanford Genetics Department
http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Finding site names from IP Addresses
Date: 9 Feb 1996 19:37:30 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-05.usc.edu
Distribution: na,usa,world
Message-ID: <4fg7pq$hht@usc.edu>
References: <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net> <DMIHM8.1FE@empire.org>
In <DMIHM8.1FE@empire.org> Albatross wrote:
> In article <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
(Victor
> Quevedo) writes:
> > We have Web Site that we have been collecting IP Addresses of
> > computers. Is there an software (NeXT) that can trace down the
> > site names (locations/affiliation/site) of the IP Address in the
> > log of computers accessing our Web site?
>
> dig @<nameserver> <reverse_ipaddress>.in-addr.arpa any
>
> dig @ns.foo.com 1.23.45.198.in-addr.arpa any
I don't understand what this means. "dig" is a utility? Where can one find
it?
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From: powell@tropic.aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP 712 locks up. Any ideas?
Date: 9 Feb 1996 21:18:44 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <4fgdnk$f8u@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
One of our HP 712's is locking up periodically. Any advice based on what I
show in the message file would be greatly appreciated.
The machine NFS imports 2 disks from the netinfo server. they are mounted in
foreground and set to retry interuptably.
Feb 7 13:18:58 updraft mach: ec0: Transmission line is not properly
terminated (around 58 meters).
this machine is located on ethernet cable between between 2 others using a
thin wire to LAN microtransciever connector that seems to be ok
Feb 7 13:22:48 updraft inetd[137]: amanda/udp: unknown service
Feb 7 13:22:54 updraft reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 7 13:23:22 updraft loginwindow[189]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 7 13:23:22 updraft Workspace[189]: logged in
Feb 7 13:38:03 updraft loginwindow[185]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv
0 ss 0).
Feb 7 13:38:04 updraft loginwindow[185]: creating new loginImage
Feb 8 11:10:12 updraft loginwindow[502]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 8 11:10:12 updraft Workspace[502]: logged in
Feb 8 11:43:57 updraft mach: Trying to null out rbd's
???? Is this some type of SCSI error?
Feb 8 11:57:56 updraft mach: SCSI: id: 0061e3, lbolt: 0, bp: 35a834, dev:
630, dev_type: (00) Direct Access, ansi: 2, rdf: 2, tag: 7f,
Feb 8 11:57:56 updraft mach: cdb: 28 00 00 01 f7 90 00 00 10 00
Feb 8 11:57:56 updraft mach: opcode: (28) bcount: 2000, addr: 2546000,
residual: 1,
Feb 8 12:54:36 updraft mach: SCSI: id: 00a2dc, lbolt: 0, bp: 35abd0, dev:
630, dev_type: (00) Direct Access, ansi: 2, rdf: 2, tag: 7f,
Feb 8 12:54:36 updraft mach: cdb: 28 00 00 02 5e f0 00 00 10 00
Feb 8 12:54:36 updraft mach: opcode: (28) bcount: 2000, addr: 255c000,
residual: 1,
Feb 8 13:01:49 updraft mach: NFS server tropic not responding still trying
Feb 8 13:01:57 updraft mach: NFS server tropic ok
Feb 8 13:22:43 updraft ntpd[111]: logical clock adjust timeout (86400
seconds)
Feb 8 13:41:41 updraft mach: NFS server tropic not responding still trying
Feb 8 13:41:48 updraft mach: NFS server tropic ok
Feb 8 13:42:10 updraft mach: NFS server tropic not responding still trying
Feb 8 13:42:20 updraft mach: NFS server tropic not responding still trying
Feb 8 13:43:23 updraft mach: NFS server tropic not responding still trying
Feb 8 13:44:11 updraft lookupd[106]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed
out
Feb 8 13:44:18 updraft lookupd[106]: NetInfo connection failed for server
192.111.123.130/network
Feb 8 13:46:11 updraft ntpd[111]: sendto: 192.111.123.130 No buffer space
available
Feb 8 14:03:15 updraft ntpd[111]: sendto: 192.111.123.130 No buffer space
available
Feb 8 14:20:19 updraft ntpd[111]: sendto: 192.111.123.130 No buffer space
available
Feb 8 14:37:23 updraft ntpd[111]: sendto: 192.111.123.130 No buffer space
available
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Message-ID: <1996Feb9.204913.2096@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 20:49:13 GMT
In article <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com> paul@infohouse.com
(Paul Guzyk) writes:
> I'll pay someone if they can help me fix this one...
>
> I have a NS Intel 3.3 box and every few hours it completely fills
> the hard drive, then freezes. It looks like the swapfile grows
> until the whole computer dies.
>
> After a cold boot, the machine has free space, works fine for a
> while, then the cycle hapens again all over.
>
> The highwater is set for swapspace but that doesn't seem to help.
>
But running against highwater has just the same effect as depleting space
on the filesystem. No mor memory to swap out means a freeze of the
system. Highwater is only helpful in a situation with two or more
swapfiles where you need to guard certain filesystems from completely
filling up. In case of just one there is no benefit!
Until you can't give some more info on the configuration and the other
circumstances leading to the freeze I can only guess that the machine is
apparently too small for her load, period.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Finding site names from IP Addresses
Date: 9 Feb 1996 23:00:48 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fgjn1$bbh@news.its.com>
References: <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net> <DMIHM8.1FE@empire.org>
In article <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor
Quevedo) writes:
> We have Web Site that we have been collecting IP Addresses of
> computers. Is there an software (NeXT) that can trace down the
> site names (locations/affiliation/site) of the IP Address in the
> log of computers accessing our Web site?
This perl script called ip2name:
-----------
#! /usr/local/bin/perl
use Socket;
#require 'sys/socket.ph'; # use this instead for perl 4.x, I think
$| = 1; # flush I/O after every write
while (<>) {
if(/\b([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)\b/){
$addr = pack('C4', split(/\./, $1));
($name, $rest) = gethostbyaddr($addr, &AF_INET);
if($name) {s/$1/$name/;}
}
print;
}
---------
....reads from stdin and outputs the same data, except that dotted quads in
the form 'a.b.c.d' have DNS lookup performed and are rewritten with the name
instead of the IP address.
Very handy for making webserver logs and named stats files more
human-readable.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:40:06 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960209153139.11235K-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com> <1996Feb8.190328.22405@indyvax.iupui.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <1996Feb8.190328.22405@indyvax.iupui.edu>
On 8 Feb 1996, Richard Sanchez wrote:
> Here is some info that may get you started. It is the
> Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0 written by Timothy J. Luoma. You
> can find it at
>
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0.tar.gz
>
> Mr. Luoma did a real nice job here.
Well thanks for the compliment!
In addition to being available from the ftp site, you can also get the
Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ via email (for times like this when FTP doesn't
seem to be working and you just have to read something).
Thanks to the wonders of 'procmail' and Carl Edman, the FAQ is available
by sending an email with the subject "send swapfaq". Don't include the "
marks of course ;-)
You can get my shell script via "send swapwatch.sh" but I'd suggest you
look at WatchSwap.app as well (it lets you look at the swapfile's size in
an icon)
ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/performance/WatchSwap.1.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz
or
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/software/NeXT/binaries/util/WatchSwap1.7.tar.gz
(I think that is the right URL)
TjL
ps -- we need a nickname for the new ftp site... we can't keep calling it
'orst' really, and "used to be orst" is just too long... How about
"peak"? Same number of letters.
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: joerd@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Wayne Joerding - Economics)
Subject: problem receiving mail
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
Message-ID: <DMJ69J.8Hp@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 22:53:43 GMT
Organization: Washington State University
HELP I'm having trouble receiving mail. I can receive mail at the me account
and I used to be able to receive mail at an account named wayne. But I deleted
this account in order to chang the UID and now I can't receive mail at the new account named wayne.
I don't seem to be able to receive mail at any newly created account. Can
anybody suggest a solution?
Thanks
Wayne
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: joerd@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Wayne Joerding - Economics)
Subject: problem receiving mail
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
Message-ID: <DMJ7p6.8q9@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 23:24:42 GMT
Organization: Washington State University
HELP again.
I just discovered that if I create an account with UID of 100 or 101 that it
can receive mail. But, if I create an account with UID of 506 or 507 it cannot
receive mail
Any ideas?
Wayne
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Finding site names from IP Addresses
Date: 10 Feb 1996 00:12:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: na,usa,world
Message-ID: <4fgnti$bkk@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4fg7pq$hht@usc.edu>
In article <4fg7pq$hht@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
>In <DMIHM8.1FE@empire.org> Albatross wrote:
>> In article <4fegkf$3fe@nuke.csu.net> vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
>(Victor
>> Quevedo) writes:
>> > We have Web Site that we have been collecting IP Addresses of
>> > computers. Is there an software (NeXT) that can trace down the
>> > site names (locations/affiliation/site) of the IP Address in the
>> > log of computers accessing our Web site?
>>
>> dig @<nameserver> <reverse_ipaddress>.in-addr.arpa any
>>
>> dig @ns.foo.com 1.23.45.198.in-addr.arpa any
>
>I don't understand what this means. "dig" is a utility? Where can one
find
>it?
>
>--
>Be well,
>
>Matthew Reichman
>reichman@scf.usc.edu
>USC-CNTV
^^^
How ironic. Dig is a tool which is distributed with BIND.
The following is from dig.c :
/*******************************************************************
** DiG -- Domain Information Groper **
** **
** dig.c - Version 2.0 (9/1/90) **
** **
** Developed by: Steve Hotz & Paul Mockapetris **
** USC Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI) **
** Marina del Rey, California **
** 1989 **
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
Agoura Hills, CA # one's fellow citizens, to betray
# friends, to be without faith, without
far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means
(NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail + majordomo question
Date: 10 Feb 1996 02:02:59 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4fgucj$rka@news.tamu.edu>
I've got majordomo successfully running but for one feature which is that
bounced mail is being returned to the majordom user instead of to the list
owner. My diagnosis of this is that the "Return-path:" header line is
defaulting to majordom. I can't find any way either in majordomo/resend
or in sendmail to make the return-path correct. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
Here are some more details:
I am using the -f option in my majordomo aliases file.
I am not using sendmail 8.7.x. I am using the original sendmail
version that came with NS3.x. I just tried to download sendmail 8.7.3
from next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/ binaries/mail. It gunzips to the
package all right but when I try to untar the tar.Z file in the pkg
directory I get a checksum error (I've tried downloading 3 times).
Thanks.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: Whitehea@Qucdn.QueensU.CA (Steven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How is the Internet Affecting Society Today?
Date: 10 Feb 1996 03:04:28 GMT
Organization: Queens University
Message-ID: <4fh1vs$jd6@knot.queensu.ca>
How Is the Internet Affecting Society Today? How Will it Affect
the Society 10 years From now?
I Am doing a science project on the internet on the question wich
I asked above. I am looking for oppions and stories on how the internet will
affect society what kind of things will be availible in the way of Software
(We already have things like REAL AUDIO and VDO LIVE) I wish to speculate on
things like that but to do this I have to have oppinions, software that is
being develops now and how fast it's been developed. I also was wondering if
anyone knew the estimated population of the Internet and the annual growth of
it.
So PLEASE send me YOUR views, oppions and stories about what you thinks going
to happen.
TTYL
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 10 Feb 1996 08:24:58 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-63.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu>
Can someone shine some light on why my Turbo Color (nonADB) would suddenly
start making sporadic purring noises (that come through the speaker)??
Everything was fine. Then I decided to test out removing my swapdisk and
letting the swapfile back onto my boot drive. So I renamed the swapdisk and
mounted it via fstab. Then I thought, well now that it's not swapdisk, let's
see if SCSI_Inspector can change the block size to 8192 and then I'll ....
anyway, I'd tried changing it in bsd -s mode with sdformat, but it would not
take. So it's back at 1024. Anyway went back in as root and started up
SCSI_Inspector and it registered problems with boot drive all of a sudden, a
power down and power up with fsck fixed that. But, now I have this
intermitten purring sound and it's pretty unnerving to say the least....
I do remember once someone mentioning this before but I don't really
remember 8-(
Advice help is appreciated. (I also have just installed Apache and
WebObjects) and the Frame Objects pkg. (I'm running NS3.3.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DNS and Virtual Domains
Date: 10 Feb 1996 18:56:55 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4fippn$ip7@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi All.
I have a question about mail routing and what I believe are called virtual
domains. This may not be the correct forum but some sys-admins should know
the answer.
I have applied for a domain name and I have found a company that will
provide Name service for me. Their domain name is similar to xxx.com.
Here is the situation. I currently don't have a network number for my doman
name. Thus, there are no machines in my domain. However, I would like to
have a Start of Authority record (SOA) and a mechanism for receiving mail
sent to the address.
My first thought was to create an MX record for yyy.com that pointed to a
mail server at xxx.com (on which I have an email account). It was easy
enough to add the MX record for yyy.com and have it point to
mailhost.xxx.com. xxx.com's name server responds correctly to queries on
these names.
However, the DNS server and the mail host are the same machine so the MX
record really points to itself. So I get an errror that "MX points to
itself".
My second thought was to give yyy.com the same address as mailhost.xxx.com.
I then took the MX record out. Thus, mail sent to yyy.com really goes to
host mailhost.xxx.com. This also failed becasue the host mailhost.xxx.com
would successfully receive the message, believe it was destined for a host
yyy.com and forward the message to the new host yyy.com. This resulted in
the machine sending the mail to itself. It would finally fail after the
message traversed too many hops.
Further thought shows the need for host mailhost.xxx.com to also believe
that it is yyy.com. I don't believe this is the same as 'multihoming'
since multiple IP addresses are not involved. However, I have heard the
term virtual domain.
Does anybody know how I can set up my domain so that mail sent to
perkins@yyy.com can forward to machine mailhost.xxx.com (on which I have an
account called 'perkins')?
Thanks for any tips!
- Steve
--
==============================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.3
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS and Virtual Domains
Date: 10 Feb 1996 21:57:21 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fj4c1$krp@news.its.com>
References: <4fippn$ip7@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) wrote:
> I have applied for a domain name and I have found a company that will
> provide Name service for me. Their domain name is similar to xxx.com.
>
> Here is the situation. I currently don't have a network number for my
> doman name. Thus, there are no machines in my domain. However, I
> would like to have a Start of Authority record (SOA) and a mechanism
> for receiving mail sent to the address.
Okay, fine. Did you let InterNIC know what the IP addresses of the
nameservers for your domain are?
> My first thought was to create an MX record for yyy.com that pointed to a
> mail server at xxx.com (on which I have an email account). It was easy
> enough to add the MX record for yyy.com and have it point to
> mailhost.xxx.com. xxx.com's name server responds correctly to queries on
> these names.
>
> However, the DNS server and the mail host are the same machine so the MX
> record really points to itself.
That's fine.
> So I get an errror that "MX points to itself".
That's sendmail doing an MX lookup on what it thought was a non-local address
and discovering that the MX record points to itself. Add all of the domain
names which should be considered local to the class w, by changing the line
in /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf that starts with "Cw".
If you have further problems, talk to your ISP (the people who are provide
DNS service for you). They'll probably charge you money if it takes very
long to fix things.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,alt.,security
Subject: NetSurfer & OmniWeb - do they implement SSL-compatible security??
Date: 10 Feb 1996 22:58:08 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-03.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4fj7u0$i3m@usc.edu>
Well, do they? And yes, I will email them both, too. I am just as curious
what people think in this group about the safety level of SSL?? Hmm should
post this in alt.security.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4fjaoj$52r@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Control: cancel <4fjaoj$52r@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Date: 10 Feb 1996 15:47:02 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <4fjapm$544@aimnet.aimnet.com>
<4fjaoj$52r@aimnet.aimnet.com> was cancelled from within trn.
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DNS and Virtual Domains
Date: 10 Feb 1996 15:48:28 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4fjasd$56t@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4fippn$ip7@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In article <4fippn$ip7@msunews.cl.msu.edu>,
Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@cps.msu.edu> wrote:
>
>Further thought shows the need for host mailhost.xxx.com to also believe
>that it is yyy.com. I don't believe this is the same as 'multihoming'
>since multiple IP addresses are not involved. However, I have heard the
>term virtual domain.
>
>Does anybody know how I can set up my domain so that mail sent to
>perkins@yyy.com can forward to machine mailhost.xxx.com (on which I have an
>account called 'perkins')?
There's a sendmail configuration option whereby you tell sendmail that
mail addressed to yyy.com should be delivered locally. See pages 168
and 737 in the O'Reilly sendmail book for details.
the ever helpful Lusty
From: jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com (James Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cpio
Date: 11 Feb 1996 04:12:08 GMT
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Message-ID: <4fjqao$cnf@nic.wat.hookup.net>
Where can I get a cpio for NS that works with linked files?
Thanks in advance.
Jim.
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exception #2 on boot-time
Date: 11 Feb 1996 05:40:03 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <4fjvfj$rge@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Hi,
I just re-installed NS 3.3 on my 25MHz ND, and since then each time I
power up the machine, as soon as the "Loading from disk" picture shows
up, the ROM-Monitor pops up and says "Exception #2 (0x8) at 0x100b9ae",
followed by the NeXT> ROM prompt. This did not happen before (also with
3.3) and I wonder what's wrong.
So, any idea what to change so that it smoothly boots?
Thanks,
- Stan
---
+-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
| Stan Jirman -- The Swiss CS Guy | |
| stanj@cs.stanford.edu NeXTmail / MIME | When you find yourself |
| http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj/ | in a hole, stop digging |
| Box 2642, Stanford, CA 94309, USA | |
+-------------------------------------------+-------------------------+
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.windows.ms
Subject: NetBEUI Client for NEXTSTEP needed!
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:30:59 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University- Network Services
Message-ID: <311D9B33.7878@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
How can I interact with Windoze 95 and OS/2 servers on a NetBEUI/NetBIOS
network? Is there any client products anyone's aware of?
Shareware/freeware would be preferable!
Thanks alot!
Eric
SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET!
------------------------------------------------------------------------Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University
PEACE LOVE
UNITY RESPECT
"Understanding is best learned via experience."
"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end."
Unknown ....
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: DNS software for NS?
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 01:39:21 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University- Network User Services
Message-ID: <311D9D29.6A38@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have so many questions recently...
What is the best shareware/freeware DNS software implementation for
NEXTSTEP?
Eric
SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET!
------------------------------------------------------------------------Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University
PEACE LOVE
UNITY RESPECT
"Understanding is best learned via experience."
"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end."
Unknown ....
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: kay@cordis.lu (Kay Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: DNS software for NS?
Date: 11 Feb 1996 14:39:54 GMT
Organization: Infopartners S.A. Luxembourg
Message-ID: <4fkv3q$kgq@oops.ip.lu>
References: <311D9D29.6A38@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
In <311D9D29.6A38@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Eric Dubiel wrote:
> I have so many questions recently...
What exactly?
> What is the best shareware/freeware DNS software implementation for
> NEXTSTEP?
It comes normally with any UNIX with TCP/IP
And since 3.3 I think it is buil in in Netinfo
>
> Eric
>
> SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET!
>
------------------------------------------------------------------------Eric
A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Network User Services
> mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Illinois State University
> PEACE LOVE
> UNITY RESPECT
> "Understanding is best learned via experience."
> "Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end."
> Unknown ....
> VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
>
--
A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no
responsibility at the other.
Kay Schulz k.schulz@cordis.lu
From: perry@ftp.ee.vill.edu (Rick Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: How to allow NeXT and Linux systems to print on Sol2.4?
Date: 11 Feb 1996 15:24:53 -0500
Organization: Villanova University
Message-ID: <4fljal$9t9@ftp.ee.vill.edu>
References: <4f7kip$kpq@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Keywords: printing solaris linux next
scheer@next1.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de (Christian Scheer) writes:
>since our sun runs under SOLARIS 2.4 the NeXT and Linux
>computers in the network can not access the printer queue
>of the net printer any more. Executing lpq on Next or linux
>system gives a "Sun down . Waiting for SUN to come up".
>Printing on the sun is OK!
I had a similar problem after upgrading the Sun print server from
Solaris 1 to 2.4. On the Sun end, the printer was not named ``lp''
and even if I put the correct name in the Linux /etc/printcap, linux
still seemed to want to connect to lp on the Sun. The problem was
solved by setting up duplicate printer entry on the sun with name lp.
...Rick perry@ece.vill.edu, http://www.ece.vill.edu/~perry [PGP]
Dr. Rick Perry, ECE Department, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085
610-519-4969, fax: 610-519-4436, hm: 610-259-8734
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: disappearing Terminal window?
Message-ID: <1996Feb11.121908.282@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4fg67u$n7l@morrow.stanford.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:19:08 GMT
In article <4fg67u$n7l@morrow.stanford.edu> minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric
Minch) writes:
> In article <4faspb$6k4@morrow.stanford.edu> I wrote:
> > I just brought up 3.3 on two Sparcstations and everything seems
> > to work except for the Terminal app: nobody but root can use
> > a terminal window; other users can open one up for <1 sec which
> > then closes, leaving the message "syslog: make_services: someone
> > else is already making services" on the console. I couldn't
> > see anything about this in NextAnswers; has anyone else seen
> > it and fixed it?
> >
> Since then I've received helpful suggestions (check Terminal uid,
> check
> /etc/utmp permissions, check /etc/shells and user default shells),
> /but
> everything seems to be kosher.
>
> The temporary workaround is to tell everyone to use /bin/sh or
> /usr/bin/zsh until I can figure out what's going on. Does that
> /give anyone
> a hint as to what's going on?
>
So it seems you got trouble with 'csh'.
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: problem receiving mail
Message-ID: <1996Feb11.123048.345@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <DMJ7p6.8q9@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 12:30:48 GMT
In article <DMJ7p6.8q9@serval.net.wsu.edu> joerd@unicorn.it.wsu.edu (Wayne
Joerding - Economics) writes:
> HELP again.
>
> I just discovered that if I create an account with UID of 100 or
> 101 that it can receive mail. But, if I create an account with
> UID of 506 or 507 it cannot receive mail
>
This a permissions problem. Most likely group access for the 100s and
500s is different.
Permissions have to be rwxrwxrwt (note the "sticky" bit) for
/private/spool/mail, sendmail has to be 'suid' root, and empty inboxes in
/private/spool/mail have to be deleted (they are dynamically created and
owned by the recipient).
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: NetBEUI Client for NEXTSTEP needed!
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 15:55:32 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University- Network User Services
Message-ID: <311E65D4.1A33@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <311D9B33.7878@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4fl56t$pdr@wavefront.wavefront.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Pohl Longsine wrote:
> Why not merely make the DOS-lineage machines speak TCP/IP? They can handle
> multiple protocol stacks, can't they?
> pohl@screaming.org
> http://mmm.screaming.org/
Yes they can, however I wish to use the native NetBeui/NetBIOS. I would
like to find some client for these services natively on NS.
Eric
SUPPORT FREE SPEECH ON THE 'NET!
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From: kevin@shadow.dartmouth.edu (kevin parks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: external drive help - please!
Date: 12 Feb 1996 03:42:14 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4fmcum$aso@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Keywords: help!
Hi
I just got a quantum 2.2 gig external drive for a NeXT (m68k)
and it won't come up automount (it came formatted Mac)
or ask me if i want to format it. I tried many scsi ids and
checked the termination. I got the almost the same drive
(a Tsunami from LaCie) before only it was a little smaller - 1.2 gig
and when i got it i stuck it right on my next and it came
up automount (formatted Mac) and showed me all those mac files.
I thought that this would be just as "cake"
as that was, but no go. Is there some limit on the size of an external
scsi for NeXTs? I know that the drive is ok because i put it on a mac
and it came up ok, so the drive is all right, but how to use it on the
NeXT? I tried the Cube and my station both and like i said unique
scsii numbers and proper termination.
any ideas? help! please!
Thanks very much
kevin parks
Bregman Electro-Acoustic Music Studio
Dartmouth College
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: external drive help - please!
Date: 12 Feb 1996 04:20:32 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-40.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4fmf6g$1pl@usc.edu>
References: <4fmcum$aso@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
In <4fmcum$aso@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kevin parks wrote:
> I just got a quantum 2.2 gig external drive for a NeXT (m68k)
[clipppetyclip]
> (a Tsunami from LaCie) before only it was a little smaller - 1.2 gig
I'd say the size was the difference. The 2.2 is a tad too large and might
need breaking into smaller pieces.
On the other hand, it should be accessable. What version NS you using? Have
you tried booting up in single user mode and mounting it by hand?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: 11 Feb 1996 19:17:54 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4flfd2$hh@jnext.dannug.dk>
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com>
In <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com> Paul Guzyk wrote:
> I'll pay someone if they can help me fix this one...
>
> I have a NS Intel 3.3 box and every few hours it completely fills the hard
> drive, then freezes. It looks like the swapfile grows until the whole
> computer dies.
>
> After a cold boot, the machine has free space, works fine for a while,
> then the cycle hapens again all over.
>
> The highwater is set for swapspace but that doesn't seem to help.
Nor should it... When the swapfile reaches hiwat, it's not possible to swap.
It gives the same result if you exhaust your disk space (no hiwat set!) as
when the hiwat is reached.
Actually, it's better to leave out the hiwat entry -- I believe the system
compares the hiwat with the *uncompressed* size of the swapfile (the
default is to use a compressed swapfile (at least for NS3.3))
How much disk space do you have before the swapping starts? I have a
swapfile about 43MB at the moment -- not normal for me but YMMV.
> Something is defineately wacky here...any NeXT Gurus want to tacke it?
It's the normal behaviour and the remedy is a larger disk (or a sepeate disk
used for swapfiles)
Regards,
Jacob
--
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Maintainer of NEXTSTEP Software Reviews http://www.dannug.dk/jacob
& My own home page :-) http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob
NeXTMail, MIMEMail and SUNMail jacob@dannug.dk
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 12 Feb 1996 05:15:17 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4fmid5$2m3@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
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Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT
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philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a
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===========================================
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org: The main site for North American submissions
(formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu)
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: (Peanuts) Located in Germany.
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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
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You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
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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.
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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.
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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:
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From: fxg@merry.imib.rwth-aachen.de (Felix H. Gatzemeier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTTeX -> LaTeX 2e Upgrade
Date: 12 Feb 1996 10:23:53 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <FXG.96Feb12112353@merry.imib.rwth-aachen.de>
I want to upgrade my existing NeXTTeX configuration to latex2e. Since the
distributions I retreived contain NO installation instructions, I have some
open questions:
1. will this have heavy performance consequences? It's just a Non-turbo slab
running the system...
2. how do i map the /NextLibrary/TeX files to the new (?) /usr/lib/texmf
structure? Will this work at all or is the path hard-coded all over the place?
thanks.
--
Felix
(fxg@(Pool.Informatik|imib).RWTH-Aachen.de NeXT-Mail ok, but slow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: drhays@cy.com (DrHayes)
Subject: GOOD COmputer Jobs
Message-ID: <2c7cc$02526.30f@vertigo>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 05:51:39 GMT
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From: empath@a.crl.com (Tim Triemstra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Routing mail to non-network users
Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:05:45 GMT
Organization: Alpha Star International
Message-ID: <4fndv9$k39@nntp.crl.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960202124304.11681H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960202124304.11681H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>,
>Is your local machine's hostname registered in the network? That is,
>can you receive any mail at all on that machine?
>
>using procmail, this is extraordinarily simple:
First of all, yes I can receive mail to network account by using this
machine. Actually this machine is setup exactly like any other machine on the
network the only difference is that I have a local (non-network) user account
created that I'd like to be able to access outside the scope of just that
machine for e-mail purposes. (The local account is for development.)
One would thing that "local_account@machine" would work but...
BTW: I'm using sendmail.
Date: 12 Feb 1996 13:50:56 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: drhays@cy.com (DrHayes)
Message-ID: <cancel.2c7cc$02526.30f@vertigo>
Control: cancel <2c7cc$02526.30f@vertigo>
Subject: cmsg cancel <2c7cc$02526.30f@vertigo>
EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by jem@xpat.com.
See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960212.19 for further details
From: yibwu@napoleon.plato.sky.bdm.com(Yibing Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with HTTPD, please help!
Date: 12 Feb 1996 15:53:42 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fnnq6$o37@news.mcl.bdm.com>
Hi, there:
I down-loaded the WebServer bulk from NeXT answer and installed it on my
Intel box. I could run the server alright, however, the client
software(OmniWeb Beta) had difficulty access the server. When I do
"http://localhost", the error message was:
Error- 404
____________________________________________________________________________
___
Requested Information
/
is unavailable. Failed to connect to server
localhost (80)
First, I thought it is because the Name Server, but now I can use "nslookup"
to get the localhost and so on.
By the way, the httpd is running as user bin and the SERVER directory is
readable and searchable to all others.
What did I do wrong?
Thanks,
Bing
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: 12 Feb 1996 18:03:36 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fnvdo$6v4@news4.digex.net>
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com> <4flfd2$hh@jnext.dannug.dk>
jacob@dannug.dk (Jacob Nielsen) wrote:
> > Something is defineately wacky here...any NeXT Gurus want to
> > tacke it?
> It's the normal behaviour and the remedy is a larger disk (or a
> sepeate disk used for swapfiles)
Hmmm...depends... Are you saying if you just boot your machine up,
log in, and then don't touch anything, the swap file grows anyway?
If that is so, you have some app/process being launched with either
a memory leak, or voracious apitite...
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: creating swapfile with 'mkfile'
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 12:54:19 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960212124949.29647D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
An interesting question posed to me by "Matthew N. Reichman"
<reichman@scf.usc.edu> :
When creating a swapfile via "mkfile", should one use the -n flag or not?
Here's the manpage reference from 'mkfile' explaining the flag:
-n Create an empty filename. The size is noted, but disk
blocks aren't allocated until data is written to them.
My answer was that if this is being done to save the processing overhead
time required to build the swapfile as increased swapspace is needed,
then NOT using the -n would seem to be preferable.
Any opinions (either for or against this supposition)? Please email, and
I'll summarize.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: ry23@rznext.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Stephan Jaeger)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to change local users to network-wide users ?
Date: 12 Feb 1996 18:45:29 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <4fo1s9$6ck@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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Hello people out there in NeXTland,
I tried to install a mini-network of two NeXTSTEP-Computers, one Motorola
Cube and one Intel-PC. After installing NS for Intel-PC, I tried to install a
Netinfo-Network. So, I started SNS on my Cube to provide data network-wide.
After finishing configuration, I rebooted the two machines and I could access
the cube's data and programs from the Intel-PC. After that, I tried to change
the local user-accounts to network-wide accounts. So, I started UserManager,
opened a local user, changed the home directory from /user/foo to
/Net/bar/user/foo and saved (oh sorry: tried to save :-/) this configuration
to the root domain (I wanted to install a two-level-netinfo-hierarchy). But
instead of saving the data, I got an alert: "This user account already exists
in this domain. Replace it ?" When I click "Replace", a panel shows me all
the data belonging to this user. After clicking "OK", I got an error "Netinfo
write failed! (No such directory)". What to do ? I don't know it. I tried
everything, but I didn't get it :-(
But, there is no entry in the root domain's netinfo database regarding to
this user.
By the way: I don't have any problems creating a new network-wide user.
Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance,
Stephan Jaeger
From: Lorenzo Stella <stella@paros.caspur.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help for X11 for NeXT
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:51:13 +0100
Organization: CASPUR Consortium for the Supercomputing Applications
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Dear netters,
I am not very familiar with Unix, and, as my first experience, I have to=20
fight with a NeXTstation. My problem now is to install X11R6, to be able t=
o
use my NeXTStation as a graphic terminal to connect to other computers.
Has anyone of you compiled X11R6 for NeXT? Up to now I have been able
to find on the net only an old X11R5 for monochromatic monitors.
I would be deeply grateful if you could tell me where I can find a
precompiled version of X11R6 for NeXT, or otherwise what should I do to
compile it on my system (if it is possible).
I thank you in advance for your help. Please, if possible, reply by mail
to the address below, since I can=A9t usually check these newsgroups. I
will post a summary of the answers I receive.
Lorenzo
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Lorenzo Stella
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Department of Biochemical Sciences
STELLA2@VAXROM.ROMA1.INFN.IT
Tel.:++39-6-49910957
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From: Henry Minsky <hqm@Ua.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to boot single-user, set root password
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 11:16:35 -0800
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Hi,
A friend is trying to resurrect an old NeXT cube at a lab, and
the root password has long since been lost for the machine, and of
course there are no manuals anywhere.
I have a manual set someplace, but can't find it either.
Can anyone who has the admin manual send me
the magic key sequence needed to boot the thing single user
bring the system up to the point where you
fire up the password admin tool?
Thanks,
Henry Minsky
hqm@Ua.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Problem ftp'ing from peak.
Message-ID: <DMo85v.L59@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 16:22:43 GMT
Hi gang,
After following the archives from nova to orst and now to peak,
I've come to depend on the wonderful service that they have
provided. However, I've been unable to successfully download
the new Omniweb beta from peak. After trying for several days
at off hours, early morning on Sunday etc, the most I've been
able to get across is 1.4 meg before getting a "service unavailable"
message from ftpd at peak. I'm directly connected to the internet
and although things have become quite slow with the advent of
the Webmaniacs ("We're the webmaniacs, we use bandwith to the max...")
I've had no trouble with other large files from the west coast.
Are others having trouble with peak, or is it something local?
Steve
---
The Webmaniacs Theme Song
We're the Web-o-maniacs
We use bandwidth to the max
So just sit back and relax
While your routers soil their slacks
We're the Web-o-maney
Totally Inaney
Download for Entertainey
Web-o-mani.....acs.
--
Steven M. Boker 804-982-5062 (voice/fax) 804-295-0009 (home)
boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/
Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ftp only account?
Date: 12 Feb 1996 18:53:57 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>
I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
Is there some way to do this?
Thanks.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Sendmail + majordomo question
In-Reply-To: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu's message of 10 Feb 1996 02:02:59 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb12194037@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4fgucj$rka@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:40:37 GMT
Nothin is wrong with the tar file. You need to use the Installer.app
in /NextAdmin to install it. Installer.app contains a special version
of tar.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail + majordomo question
Date: 13 Feb 1996 03:09:18 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4fovcu$78p@news.tamu.edu>
References: <4fgucj$rka@news.tamu.edu> <RDL.96Feb12194037@world.std.com>
Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote:
>Nothin is wrong with the tar file. You need to use the Installer.app
>in /NextAdmin to install it. Installer.app contains a special version
>of tar.
Thanks. I thought the "special version" was just gnutar. If it's not
gnutar, and it's not tar, what is it?
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: chayashida@asucla.ucla.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anonymous ftp?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 19:37:30
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <4fp11s$1a5m@saba.info.ucla.edu>
How does one set up anonymous ftp in NeXTStep? I have a NeXT workstation, running NeXTStep
version 3.0. I set up an account named "ftp", and anonymous login now works, but I can't see
any files on the workstation.
What am I doing wrong? Any assistance or pointers to information would be greatly appreciated.
Please respond by e-mail.
TIA,
Christopher Hayashida
chayashida@asucla.ucla.edu
From: john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 13 Feb 1996 05:07:44 GMT
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4fp6b0$3h3@shellx.best.com>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu>
In <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> Can someone shine some light on why my Turbo Color (nonADB) would suddenly
> start making sporadic purring noises (that come through the speaker)??
>
> I do remember once someone mentioning this before but I don't really
> remember 8-(
>
I started getting what seems like the same behavior right after I installed
NS3.3
on a non-turbo color. The sound (quite annoying) is intermittent and
sporadic -
its period ranges from a few seconds to hours. I have no idea what it is,
but I
really hope a simple fix for it is available.
Here's a uuencoded .snd file of the noise:
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From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail + majordomo question
Date: 13 Feb 1996 08:10:08 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4fph10$8dq@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4fgucj$rka@news.tamu.edu> <RDL.96Feb12194037@world.std.com> <4fovcu$78p@news.tamu.edu>
Colin Allen (colin@snaefell.tamu.edu) wrote:
: Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote:
: >Nothin is wrong with the tar file. You need to use the Installer.app
: >in /NextAdmin to install it. Installer.app contains a special version
: >of tar.
: Thanks. I thought the "special version" was just gnutar. If it's not
: gnutar, and it's not tar, what is it?
It's called installer_bigtar and is appearantly a hack to support
pathnames > 100 chars in length with a modified tar-format
(increased constant for the length of the field holding the path).
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: prog@.coss.de (Juergen Gnoss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: disktab entry for panasonic OD
Date: 13 Feb 1996 10:42:16 GMT
Organization: Nacamar Data Communications
Message-ID: <4fppu8$cqq@peanuts.nacamar.de>
Hi all,
what entry in disktab for a Panasonic LF-7300 and cardridge LM-D702W
anybody now please post me or send mail to < prog@coss.de >
thanks all
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Routing mail to non-network users
Date: 13 Feb 1996 14:31:30 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fq7c2$71u@news.its.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960202124304.11681H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4fndv9$k39@nntp.crl.com>
empath@a.crl.com (Tim Triemstra) wrote:
> First of all, yes I can receive mail to network account by using this
> machine. Actually this machine is setup exactly like any other machine
> on the network the only difference is that I have a local (non-network)
> user account created that I'd like to be able to access outside the scope
> of just that machine for e-mail purposes. [ ... ]
>
> One would thing that "local_account@machine" would work but...
>
> BTW: I'm using sendmail.
More to the point, you're presumably using NeXT's sendmail.cf files. Those
things redirect all mail to the central mail server, which is why you won't
get what you want to work.
Upgrade to a newer version of sendmail and the .cf file....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: pait@ece.rutgers.edu (Felipe Pait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: 13 Feb 1996 11:18:13 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Message-ID: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu>
I would like the spool file to be left in place after Mail.app
retrives new mail.
The reason is that my NeXT machine has just been connected to a
network, and mail is still received at the maiil server. We don't
want to change that. So I have a .forward in my account in the
main machine, which tells it to forward incoming mail to a file.
Then I set this file - which is in a directory available to the
NeXT - as the spool directory.
The trouble is that every time mail is read the spool file is
deleted. Afterwards sendmail cannot recreate the file, so any
messages sent by other users bounce.
I believe that the problem would disappear if mail.app left a
file in place, even if it's an empty file. Trouble is how?
I would appreciate if someone could help me!
Thanks in advance,
Felipe M Pait
pait@ece.rutgers.edu
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4fqeto$r9u@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Control: cancel <4fqeto$r9u@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Date: 13 Feb 1996 08:40:53 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Information Services
Message-ID: <4fqeul$rak@aimnet.aimnet.com>
<4fqeto$r9u@aimnet.aimnet.com> was cancelled from within trn.
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
Date: 13 Feb 1996 08:42:03 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>
In article <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>,
Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
>Is there some way to do this?
In UserManager, set the user's shell to be /bin/true.
Then make sure that /bin/true is included in the /etc/shells file.
Lusty
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Easy to install Web Server?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 13 Feb 1996 17:03:34 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Is there a simple-to-install Webpage server? I am new to this area, but I
have somehow managed to figure out basic HTML, and would like to give the
outside world access.
/ivo welch
--
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Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: P.W.Gould@liverpool.ac.uk (Paul Gould)
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
Message-ID: <DMq3H4.Fts@liverpool.ac.uk>
Sender: news@liverpool.ac.uk (News System)
Organization: The University of Liverpool
References: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 16:36:40 GMT
In <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote:
> I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
> Is there some way to do this?
Yes. Set up the account in the usual way, but specify something like
/bin/false as the shell.
Paul
--
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CTI Biology, Donnan Laboratories +44 151-794 4401 (Fax)
University of Liverpool, PO Box 147 P.W.Gould@liv.ac.uk
Liverpool L69 3BX, UK (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
From: Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@watson.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: kermit+PPP on NextStation with NS3.2 ?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:24:01 -0500
Organization: IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
Message-ID: <3120C931.794B@watson.ibm.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: kochhar
hi!
I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on a NextStation. Currently I use kermit to dial
into places, but recently my work computers started using PPP. So, my question
is: is there a PPP package that comes with NS 3.2, or can I download and
compile it, etc.? Can it use kermit as a dialer?
thanks.
--
----------------------------
Sandeep Kochhar
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Tel: 914-945-2150, Fax: 914-945-3242
P.O. Box 218 (Rte 134) Email: kochhar@watson.ibm.com
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 http://www.research.ibm.com/people/k/kochhar
From: Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: NEXTSTEP OOUI remote on MAC OS?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 11:49:41 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University
Message-ID: <3120CF35.6BF8@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I'm still searching to see if there's a way to do the NEXTSTEP OOUI remotely on
a MAC OS box? Sort of like an X Window session- except showing the NS
user interface with control of the NS box.
This could be a prodct similar to Timbuktu Pro. Also, is there ANY
solution to get AppleTalk on NS currently?
Please email and/or post
Thanks,
Eric
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem ftp'ing from peak.
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 12:47:58 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213124607.1623E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <DMo85v.L59@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Steven M. Boker wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> After following the archives from nova to orst and now to peak,
> I've come to depend on the wonderful service that they have
> provided. However, I've been unable to successfully download
> the new Omniweb beta from peak. After trying for several days
> at off hours, early morning on Sunday etc, the most I've been
> able to get across is 1.4 meg before getting a "service unavailable"
> message from ftpd at peak. I'm directly connected to the internet
> and although things have become quite slow with the advent of
> the Webmaniacs ("We're the webmaniacs, we use bandwith to the max...")
> I've had no trouble with other large files from the west coast.
>
> Are others having trouble with peak, or is it something local?
I haven't had any trouble with peak (peanuts, yes).
The best solution I know of is to try ncftp (or maybe even YFTP.app??).
ncftp now has a -C flag which will allow to to Continue a download. It
is very smart, and I've used it successfully many times.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 13:01:10 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu>
On 13 Feb 1996, Felipe Pait wrote:
> I would like the spool file to be left in place after Mail.app
> retrives new mail.
Mail.app used to do this, then it changed for some reason I still don't
understand.
>
> The reason is that my NeXT machine has just been connected to a
> network, and mail is still received at the maiil server. We don't
> want to change that. So I have a .forward in my account in the
> main machine, which tells it to forward incoming mail to a file.
> Then I set this file - which is in a directory available to the
> NeXT - as the spool directory.
>
> The trouble is that every time mail is read the spool file is
> deleted. Afterwards sendmail cannot recreate the file, so any
> messages sent by other users bounce.
Sounds like a situation sendmail _should_ be able to handle, but I don't
know if it can or not (it seems silly that sendmail can't create the file)
> I believe that the problem would disappear if mail.app left a
> file in place, even if it's an empty file. Trouble is how?
> I would appreciate if someone could help me!
I don't know if there is a way to change the behavior of the Mail.app itself.
I can think of a few hacks, (a hobby of mine) none of which are
guaranteed to work.
How about a shell script?
/bin/sh
while :
do
touch /usr/spool/mail/$USER
done
Or what if the spool file was a pipe or some kind of special file which
funnelled the mail into another file, say /usr/spool/mail/$USER.2 and
then telling Mail.app to retrieve /usr/spool/mail/$USER.2 rather than the
regular spool file...
I doubt you can change Mail.app's behavior in this matter, it would mean
changing the 'FetchMail' which probably isn't a great idea unless you
work at NeXT and know what you are doing.
TjL
ps if you want more idle speculation of things which might/might not
work, drop me a line. ;-)
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Easy to install Web Server?
Date: 13 Feb 1996 18:52:14 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4fqmku$421@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
In article <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
Welch) writes:
>
> Is there a simple-to-install Webpage server? I am new to this area, but
I
> have somehow managed to figure out basic HTML, and would like to give
the
> outside world access.
NeXT have packages for both NCSA and Apache downloadable from www.next.com
(both) and ftp.next.com (only Apache).
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kermit+PPP on NextStation with NS3.2 ?
Date: 13 Feb 1996 18:53:45 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4fqmnp$45r@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <3120C931.794B@watson.ibm.com>
In article <3120C931.794B@watson.ibm.com> Sandeep Kochhar
<kochhar@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> hi!
> I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on a NextStation. Currently I use kermit to
dial
> into places, but recently my work computers started using PPP. So, my
question
> is: is there a PPP package that comes with NS 3.2, or can I download and
> compile it, etc.? Can it use kermit as a dialer?
Take a look at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/. This can use kermit
to dial, but has an alternative method.
Paul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Message-ID: <DMqCBF.MBB@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 19:47:38 GMT
In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
> On 13 Feb 1996, Felipe Pait wrote:
>
> > I would like the spool file to be left in place after Mail.app
> > retrives new mail.
>
> Mail.app used to do this, then it changed for some reason I still don't
> understand.
>
> >
> > The reason is that my NeXT machine has just been connected to a
> > network, and mail is still received at the maiil server. We don't
> > want to change that. So I have a .forward in my account in the
> > main machine, which tells it to forward incoming mail to a file.
> > Then I set this file - which is in a directory available to the
> > NeXT - as the spool directory.
> >
> > The trouble is that every time mail is read the spool file is
> > deleted. Afterwards sendmail cannot recreate the file, so any
> > messages sent by other users bounce.
>
forward:
"|mail.sh"
mail.sh:
#!/bin/sh
# Set a umask so only you can read your mail
umask 077
# You won't need this, but what the hell...
if [ ! -f mail.spool ]; then
touch mail.spool
fi
# Send stdin to your spoolfile
cat >> mail.spool
# Send a blank line so your next message is separated from your last.
echo "" >> mail.spool
Happy Hacking...
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School of Optometry | http://quark.uwaterloo.ca/~mario
University of Waterloo |
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From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: 13 Feb 1996 20:43:13 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <4fqt51$hoa@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
> How about a shell script?
>
> /bin/sh
>
> while :
> do
> touch /usr/spool/mail/$USER
> done
Not on capitalist, you don't, Tim ! That script is going to eat every
single cycle it can get its hands on. At least insert a 'sleep 1' into the
loop. It is still a ugly hack, but at least it won't bring the machine down
to a crawl.
Carl Edman
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: external drive help - please!
Message-ID: <1996Feb13.210652.262@nidat.sub.org>
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References: <4fmcum$aso@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:06:52 GMT
In article <4fmcum$aso@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> kevin@shadow.dartmouth.edu
(kevin parks) writes:
> Hi
>
> I just got a quantum 2.2 gig external drive for a NeXT (m68k)
> and it won't come up automount (it came formatted Mac) or ask me
> if i want to format it. I tried many scsi ids and checked the
> termination. I got the almost the same drive (a Tsunami from
> LaCie) before only it was a little smaller - 1.2 gig and when i
> got it i stuck it right on my next and it came up automount
> (formatted Mac) and showed me all those mac files. I thought
> that this would be just as "cake" as that was, but no go. Is
> there some limit on the size of an external scsi for NeXTs? I
> know that the drive is ok because i put it on a mac and it came
> up ok, so the drive is all right, but how to use it on the NeXT?
> I tried the Cube and my station both and like i said unique scsii
> numbers and proper termination.
>
This little difference of just well under one Gig (oh boy, I still
remember the times when all computers on the campus didn't add up to that
number ;-) is making a big difference. NS can't deal with partitions
larger than 2.0 Gig, period. As Mach is de facto going to be discontinued
by NeXT this limit is very likely never to fall.
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP OOUI remote on MAC OS?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:28:11 GMT
References: <3120CF35.6BF8@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <3120CF35.6BF8@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>,
Eric Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:
>I'm still searching to see if there's a way to do the NEXTSTEP OOUI remotely on
>a MAC OS box? Sort of like an X Window session- except showing the NS
>user interface with control of the NS box.
>
>This could be a prodct similar to Timbuktu Pro. Also, is there ANY
>solution to get AppleTalk on NS currently?
>
It would require writing a DPS interpreter (and PDO-like stuff, I guess) for
the Mac, which wouldn't be quick. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it.
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From: jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapfile fills them locks up entire machine
Date: 14 Feb 1996 00:24:50 GMT
Organization: Organizing Organisms & Organs
Message-ID: <slrn4i26te.88u.jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com>
References: <paul-0702962109550001@apu.infohouse.com> <4fdf9i$50e@news.next.com>
On 8 Feb 1996 18:26:58 GMT, Mark Bessey <mark_bessey@next.com> wrote:
> Well, you obviously have a seriously leaky program on there somewhere.
Or a program that has an incomplete cache routine, like any version of
OmniWeb.
> I don't know why setting the highwater mark isn't working for you, but
> it wouldn't help anyway. If the swapfile is growing, it's because some
> program is allocating memeory. Setting the high-water mark will just
> make the machine crash sooner.
Programs that need to allocate a lot of space but don't do it via
app-specific cache files will also trigger this problem. However, I'm
curious why NS can't return a value to the offending program that says
something like "RAM and VM are too full to give you all the memory you
requested. Your memory allocation has failed." This could let the
programmer handle low memory conditions (make emergency saves, or do
whatever is needed to quit the app nicely).
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: 13 Feb 1996 15:25:23 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4fr6l3$2j9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>,
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
>On 13 Feb 1996, Felipe Pait wrote:
>
>> The reason is that my NeXT machine has just been connected to a
>> network, and mail is still received at the maiil server. We don't
>> want to change that. So I have a .forward in my account in the
>> main machine, which tells it to forward incoming mail to a file.
>> Then I set this file - which is in a directory available to the
>> NeXT - as the spool directory.
>>
>> The trouble is that every time mail is read the spool file is
>> deleted. Afterwards sendmail cannot recreate the file, so any
>> messages sent by other users bounce.
>
>Sounds like a situation sendmail _should_ be able to handle, but I don't
>know if it can or not (it seems silly that sendmail can't create the file)
I don't think the problem is sendmail. I think you need to take a
look at what you have in your .forward file. That's where you're
directing the mail to a file, so that's the thing that's going to need
to be set up correctly.
Lusty
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jwmeyer@denorca6 (James W. Meyer)
Subject: NetWare bind problem
Message-ID: <DMqJ8K.n0K@da_vinci.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
Sender: news@da_vinci.ecte.uswc.uswest.com (IT Netnews)
Organization: US WEST Information Technologies
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 22:17:08 GMT
I'm having a problem on one of my HP PA-RISC Workstations when trying to
enable Novell NetWare. I'm getting the following messages at boot time:
Feb 13 09:26:16 omahsoe2 mach: Netware UNIX Client v3.11
Feb 13 09:26:16 omahsoe2 mach: (C) Copyright 1991 Novell Incorporated
Feb 13 09:26:16 omahsoe2 mach: All Rights Reserved
Feb 13 09:26:16 omahsoe2 mach:
Feb 13 09:26:16 omahsoe2 mach: NetWare protocol enabled for interface en0,
type
"10MB Ethernet"
Feb 13 09:26:16 omahsoe2 syslog: npsd: Bind failed: No response from
server.
Feb 13 09:26:19 omahsoe2 reboot: Reboot complete
Any ideas?
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From: gregan@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing mail envelope reply field
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 96 20:33:23 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4fre59$qlv@paperboy.ids.net>
A while back I had asked about changing my mail envelop header so that mail
would look like it came from my service provider. I have a SLIP connection
from my home computer, a Nextstation. A few people suggested that I upgrade to
V8 sendmail. With the help of Matthew Reichman, I was able to successfully do
this. Kudos also to Robert La Ferla for his excellent sendmail package which I
was able to install the first time (and I almost never get installations right
the first time :-). Then using the masquerade feature, I was able to
get the header to show my mail as coming from the service provider's domain.
The one thing remaining was that my name on my home machine, "greg", was
different from my name with the service provider "gregan". And there didn't
seem to be anyway of getting sendmail to change the header reply field
for my name as well as for my domain. I eventually found out I could
change my user name by using the "-f" on the command line of sendmail,
but there didn't seem to be a way to handle this in the configuration
file. I've ended up hacking my mailer to run a "sendmail1" program
that calls sendmail with "-f gregan@ids.net" , so everything works. I
was wondering if there was a cleaner way of doing this.
Greg Arzoomanian
gregan@ids.net
From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Easy to install Web Server?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 02:01:26 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <4frfpm$aak@miwok.nbn.com>
References: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
In <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> Ivo Welch wrote:
>
> Is there a simple-to-install Webpage server? I am new to this area, but I
> have somehow managed to figure out basic HTML, and would like to give the
> outside world access.
>
> /ivo welch
>
>
Hi There:
NeXT has easy to use installer packages for both the NCSA and the Apache
server. You can find them here:
NCSA:
http://www.next.com/WebObjects/NCSAServer.html
Apache:
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/SoftwareDownload/SV.Apache.NS.tar
They're both easy enough to install that even an idiot like me can do it.
;-)
Take care,
John
http://www.gscorp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
In-Reply-To: lusty@aimnet.com's message of 13 Feb 1996 08:42:03 -0800
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb14000630@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu> <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 05:06:30 GMT
I don't follow that logic. Typically, a user named "ftp" is set up on
a firewall with a shell of "/usr/ucb/ftp" and a home directory which points
to a common ftp area.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com> lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench) writes:
In article <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>,
Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
>Is there some way to do this?
In UserManager, set the user's shell to be /bin/true.
Then make sure that /bin/true is included in the /etc/shells file.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: Problem ftp'ing from peak.
Message-ID: <DMqFo5.Ets@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
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Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 21:00:04 GMT
In article <DMo85v.L59@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) writes:
>
>Are others having trouble with peak, or is it something local?
>
I've determined that the problem was a problem with the T1 link between
UVa and D.C. Thanks to those who responded. Now back to your regularly
schedule Webomaniacs cartoon.
Steve
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing mail envelope reply field
Date: 14 Feb 1996 05:21:42 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-36.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4frrh6$oha@usc.edu>
References: <4fre59$qlv@paperboy.ids.net>
In <4fre59$qlv@paperboy.ids.net> gregan@ids.net wrote:
> A while back I had asked about changing my mail envelop header so that
mail
> would look like it came from my service provider. I have a SLIP
connection
> from my home computer, a Nextstation. A few people suggested that I
upgrade to
> V8 sendmail. With the help of Matthew Reichman, I was able to successfully
do
> this. Kudos also to Robert La Ferla for his excellent sendmail package
which I
> was able to install the first time (and I almost never get installations
right
> the first time :-). Then using the masquerade feature, I was able to
> get the header to show my mail as coming from the service provider's
domain.
First - what version sendmail are you using?
Second - if you're using 8.7.* then there is the m4 feature for envelope
masquerading
masquerade_envelope.m4
just add it to your sendmail.m4 and re-macro it.
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Easy to install Web Server?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 05:24:02 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-36.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4frrli$oha@usc.edu>
References: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> <4fqmku$421@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
What is the differences between the NCSA and the Apache servers?
AND
is it possible to run a webpage during dialup ppp sessions from the remote
machine (and I'd guess it'd be awfully slow).
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What is difference between NCSA and Apache webservers?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 05:25:48 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-36.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4frros$oha@usc.edu>
Also
Can one run (albiet tortoise-like) a web page from a dialup ppp session on
the remote machine?
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From: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems booting a Cube... doesn't boot
Date: 14 Feb 1996 02:37:20 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems. Lansing, MI (USA)
Message-ID: <4frht0$1kv@tkhut.sojourn.com>
I bought 2 black cubes, one an '030, and the other an '040. Both
are working. I took out the MB from the '030 and put in the
'040 MB (with all the ram, 16 megs) and the '040's 660meg HD
that had v3.0 on it (the system came from NeXT).
When I boot now, it hangs at the 'faking root mount entries'
point of the process....
I heard that this is fixible, but I can't find the person who knows....
Can you help me please? any ideas?
thank you very much !
Gary
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From: khiebert@wimsey.com (Kevin Hiebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Easy to install Web Server?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 07:51:53 GMT
Organization: I represent myself, thank you.
Distribution: world
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References: <4fqg96$hm4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
>Is there a simple-to-install Webpage server? I am new to this area, but I
>have somehow managed to figure out basic HTML, and would like to give the
>outside world access.
I just set up the Apache version advocated by NeXT at:
ftp://ftp2.next.com/pub/SoftwareDownloads/SV.Apache.NS.tar
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/SoftwareDownloads/SV.Apache.NS.tar
It is a little unusual in that it doesn't reside in the place most other
programs expect the httpd daemon to be (/usr/local/etc/httpd), but the .pkg
installer is a big help.
Enjoy!
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:05:36 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb14.080536.28642@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <RDL.96Feb14000630@world.std.com>
In article <RDL.96Feb14000630@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
Ferla) writes:
> In article <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com> lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
writes:
> In article <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>,
> Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote:
> >I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not
telnet.
> >Is there some way to do this?
>
> In UserManager, set the user's shell to be /bin/true.
>
> Then make sure that /bin/true is included in the /etc/shells file.
>
> I don't follow that logic. Typically, a user named "ftp" is set up on
> a firewall with a shell of "/usr/ucb/ftp" and a home directory which
points
> to a common ftp area.
Why don't you follow? Using /bin/true as the shell prevents a login,
whether or not it is in /etc/shells. This is the approach for creating an
anonymous ftp user, as suggested in Unix Systems Administration Handbook
and elsewhere.
Your approach permits telnet connections, as well as ftp. Lusty's
doesn't.
Paul
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 07:54:29 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb14.075429.28539@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4fr6l3$2j9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
In article <4fr6l3$2j9@aimnet.aimnet.com> lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
writes:
> In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>,
> Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
> >On 13 Feb 1996, Felipe Pait wrote:
> >
> >> The reason is that my NeXT machine has just been connected to a
> >> network, and mail is still received at the maiil server. We don't
> >> want to change that. So I have a .forward in my account in the
> >> main machine, which tells it to forward incoming mail to a file.
> >> Then I set this file - which is in a directory available to the
> >> NeXT - as the spool directory.
> >>
> >> The trouble is that every time mail is read the spool file is
> >> deleted. Afterwards sendmail cannot recreate the file, so any
> >> messages sent by other users bounce.
> >
> >Sounds like a situation sendmail _should_ be able to handle, but I
don't
> >know if it can or not (it seems silly that sendmail can't create the
file)
>
> I don't think the problem is sendmail. I think you need to take a
> look at what you have in your .forward file. That's where you're
> directing the mail to a file, so that's the thing that's going to need
> to be set up correctly.
Sounds like permissions on the directory in which the file is created.
Remember that sendmail may be running as root, which means that unless it
has root access to the NFS mounted file system, it will be treated as
nobody.
Paul
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http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Easy to install Web Server?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 09:45:28 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4fsavo$hoe@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4frrli$oha@usc.edu>
In article <4frrli$oha@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> What is the differences between the NCSA and the Apache servers?
Apache is derived from NCSA, but has many enhancements. In particular, it
supports virtual domain names, and gives much better performance.
> is it possible to run a webpage during dialup ppp sessions from the
remote
> machine (and I'd guess it'd be awfully slow).
If you mean have a page on your dialup system; yes. You can install a
server on the dialup, and give an appropriate URL. http is quite slow
anyway, so this isn't mcuh worse. You might be able to NFS export it to
an appropriate location on the server you are dialing in to, but this
might be awkward.
Paul
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From: Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Black NeXT requires me to type "bsd"
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:20:53 -0500
Organization: Alpha Star International
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Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I recently had the SCSI drive on an older NeXT box die on me so
I replaced it with a 245meg SCSI drive from Windows 486 box I
had lying around the office. The install of NS 3.3 for NeXT
seemed to work fine but when you do a power off and boot the
machine back up an error message comes up in the SCSI
diagnostics. I simply press COMMAND-~ then type "bsd" and
everything boots up alright. Is there a way to force it to
simply boot? When I turn off the diagnostics I am still forced
to go through this ritual.
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| not the parts that shake... empath@a.crl.com
From: Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Routing mail to non-network users
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:13:22 -0500
Organization: Alpha Star International
Message-ID: <311F3CF2.6D73@a.crl.com>
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In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960202124304.11681H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>,
>Is your local machine's hostname registered in the network? That is,
>can you receive any mail at all on that machine?
>
>using procmail, this is extraordinarily simple:
First of all, yes I can receive mail to network accounts by using this
machine. Actually this machine is setup exactly like any other machine on the
network the only difference is that I have a local (non-network) user account
created that I'd like to be able to access outside the scope of just that
machine for e-mail purposes. (The local account is for development.)
One would think that "local_account@machine" would work but...
BTW: I'm using sendmail.
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| not the parts that shake... empath@a.crl.com
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 14:23:44 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4fsr9g$213@news.tamu.edu>
References: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>
I <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
>Is there some way to do this?
Thanks for the suggestions. The approach I followed was similar to
placing /bin/truthvalue as the shell, but I followed the advice of
someone who emailed me with a short C program that prints a message
and exits. I registered it in /usr/shells, and made it the shell of
the new account. It works like a charm.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 13:23:17 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University Extension
Message-ID: <jray-1402961323170001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Hello,
We've got a NEXTSTEP 3.3 machine which is serving several web applications
for people at OSU. Unfortunately, there seems to be something bizarre happening
with the system - It will hang from time to time for a period of several
minutes. I'll telnet to it, but will only get a blank screen which will
EVENTUALLY let me log in. Http requests will sit there with "waiting for
reply"...
Then, for no reason at all, it will suddenly kick back in. It actually
happened while I was typing this... I rebooted, and it was still "stuck"...
about 2 minutes later, it was fine.
When it is working, it works like a charm.
The software I have running:
NCSA httpd 1.5a
SAMBA 1.9 (pretty close to the most recent version, although it was compiled
with -posix, and fsck runs everytime I reboot).
popper
The machine:
Pentium 100mhz
32MB RAM
2 Gig Quantum SCSI
Etherexpress Pro/10
Thats pretty much it... and to the best of my knowledge, it isn't related to
SAMBA or the popmail server.
Does anyone have any ideas? This is really putting a damper on a machine
which otherwise would be close to perfect for our needs.
http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~ohioline
Thanks for your input,
John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Black NeXT requires me to type "bsd"
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DMs24G.o6K@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:02:40 GMT
References: <311F3EB5.71D3@a.crl.com>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <311F3EB5.71D3@a.crl.com>, Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com> wrote:
>I recently had the SCSI drive on an older NeXT box die on me so
>I replaced it with a 245meg SCSI drive from Windows 486 box I
>had lying around the office. The install of NS 3.3 for NeXT
>seemed to work fine but when you do a power off and boot the
>machine back up an error message comes up in the SCSI
>diagnostics. I simply press COMMAND-~ then type "bsd" and
>everything boots up alright. Is there a way to force it to
>simply boot? When I turn off the diagnostics I am still forced
>to go through this ritual.
>
Perhaps the boot device has become unset somehow. If you ask for help in the
monitor I believe it will tell you what to do to set the boot device.
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 19:12:39 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Message-ID: <4ftc77$s47@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu> <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
In article <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com>,
Lusty Wench <lusty@aimnet.com> wrote:
>In article <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>,
>Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote:
>>I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
>>Is there some way to do this?
>
>In UserManager, set the user's shell to be /bin/true.
>Then make sure that /bin/true is included in the /etc/shells file.
Why not just use UserManager's feature in User->Enable/Disable Login?
That's what I did. Is there some problem with that method that I
do not know of?
--
--
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alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Keeping a hot backup of the root disk...
Message-ID: <DMs7yL.A9z@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:08:44 GMT
I want to keep a copy of the root disk to minimize downtime on our
server should something go wrong. I'm already backing up the system
regularly using a Sony DAT drive and SafetyNet.
Can anyone think of any reason that I shouldn't put
0 3 * * 7 root /bin/dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/rsd3a
into my /etc/crontab? Or should I use the dump/restore method? I've
already tried the dd thingy on my workstation and it produces a mirror
image of my root disk. There are two catches, neither of which really
bother me. One is that the mirror filesystem goes through an fsck on
bootup from it, but this is to be expected since it's a mirror of a
mounted filesystem. Two is that the mirror has the exact block
information that the original filesystem had. That means that if the
mirror disk is bigger than the root disk, then you'll lose space if you
don't partition the mirror disk properly via /etc/disktab.
Any other gotchas?
--
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From: azahid@.cstp.umkc.edu (Abbasi Zahid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: modem cofiguration on an PC
Date: 14 Feb 1996 21:28:01 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri Kansas City
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ftk51$m1p@kasey.umkc.edu>
Originator: azahid@selene
thanks,
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Computer Science & Telecomm. Program
azahid@cstp.umkc.edu
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 21:47:40 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb14.214740.476@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <jray-1402961323170001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
In article <jray-1402961323170001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) writes:
> We've got a NEXTSTEP 3.3 machine which is serving several web
applications
> for people at OSU. Unfortunately, there seems to be something bizarre
happening
> with the system - It will hang from time to time for a period of several
> minutes. I'll telnet to it, but will only get a blank screen which will
> EVENTUALLY let me log in. Http requests will sit there with "waiting
for
> reply"...
Two things occur to me:
- DNS lookups timing out. Fix this (as far as is possible so far) by
installing the 3.3 patches.
- SCSI bus hangs or NFS timeouts. Both will cause login problems. I have
experienced bad problems with SCSI timeouts, possibly due to disk,
controller or driver.
Paul
--
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http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: wnelson@cmgm.stanford.edu (Will Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compiling gcc 2.7.2 on HP NeXT
Date: 14 Feb 96 22:30:55 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <wnelson.824337055@cmgm>
Keywords: gcc, hppa
Has anyone succeeded in compiling gcc 2.7.2 on an hppa NeXT system?
If so, do you have any suggestions?
--
Will Nelson
Senior Server Administrator
Filoli Information Systems
will@filoli.com
From: gwu@dataspec.com (George Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.misc,comp.emacs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Emacs-W3 and emacs 19.28 problem
Date: 14 Feb 1996 23:59:20 GMT
Organization: The Loop
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ftt0o$8hm@dobie.loop.com>
I recently installed Emacs-W3 2.3.28 and emacs 19.28 on my NEXTSTEP
3.2 system. Everytime I try to run Emacs-W3 I get the following
error:
Signalling: (wrong-type-argument stringp [:family ("serif") :weight
nil :style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil])
set-face-attribute-internal(10 font [:family ("serif") :weight nil
:style 0 :size nil :registry nil :encoding nil] #<frame Error
0x1c0090>)
internal-set-face-1(\(\[:family\ \(serif\)\ :weight\ nil\ :style\ 0\
:size\ nil\ :registry\ nil\ :encoding\ nil\]\ nil\ nil\) font
[:family ("serif") :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry
nil :encoding nil] 3 #<frame Error 0x1c0090>)
internal-set-face-1(\(\[:family\ \(serif\)\ :weight\ nil\ :style\ 0\
:size\ nil\ :registry\ nil\ :encoding\ nil\]\ nil\ nil\) font
[:family ("serif") :weight nil :style 0 :size nil :registry
nil :encoding nil] 3 nil)
w3-handle-emphasis(nil)
w3-handle-single-tag(html nil)
w3-preparse-buffer(#<buffer *URL*>)
w3-prepare-buffer()
w3-pass-to-viewer()
w3-sentinel(#<buffer Error>)
w3-fetch("file:/SharedApps/OmniWeb/Start.html")
w3()
* call-interactively(w3)
execute-extended-command(nil)
call-interactively(execute-extended-command)
Does anyone know what's going on here ? Any help is greatly
appreciated.
George
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
In-Reply-To: Paul Lynch's message of Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:05:36 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb14204802@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <RDL.96Feb14000630@world.std.com> <1996Feb14.080536.28642@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 01:48:02 GMT
Misunderstanding of the problem. If you want to create an account for use
by ftp, your method is correct. i.e. you ftp to a host and use that account
as the username. If you want to create a ftp account that allows only ftp, my
method is correct. i.e. you rlogin to a host as user "ftp" to do ftp and ftp
only.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <1996Feb14.080536.28642@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes:
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 08:05:36 GMT
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In article <RDL.96Feb14000630@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
Ferla) writes:
> In article <4fqf0r$rd9@aimnet.aimnet.com> lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
writes:
> In article <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>,
> Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote:
> >I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not
telnet.
> >Is there some way to do this?
>
> In UserManager, set the user's shell to be /bin/true.
>
> Then make sure that /bin/true is included in the /etc/shells file.
>
> I don't follow that logic. Typically, a user named "ftp" is set up on
> a firewall with a shell of "/usr/ucb/ftp" and a home directory which
points
> to a common ftp area.
Why don't you follow? Using /bin/true as the shell prevents a login,
whether or not it is in /etc/shells. This is the approach for creating an
anonymous ftp user, as suggested in Unix Systems Administration Handbook
and elsewhere.
Your approach permits telnet connections, as well as ftp. Lusty's
doesn't.
Paul
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http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: danno@admin.lsa.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] Printing without using NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg
Date: 15 Feb 1996 05:02:35 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan - College of Literature, Science, and The Arts
Message-ID: <4fuepb$mtr@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <DMFD3s.3I3@midway.uchicago.edu>
Keywords: AppleTalk
In article <DMFD3s.3I3@midway.uchicago.edu>,
Hiro Yoshida <yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>Is there a way to print documents from a laser printer on AppleTalk without
>using NeXT_AppleTalk.pkg?
CAP, the columbia appletalk package, can do what you want, probably,
i have never tried to get it running on a next (at least not since
nextstep 1.0).
if you have suns or linux boxes, get netatalk (ftp
terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu) and print via lpd through these boxes,
netatalk is probably a superior appletalk package for unix, but
is less portable since it works at the kernel level.
Alternately, if you can stand some performance hit on your mac when you
print from the next, search the various mac archives for MacLPD, which
will accept lpd jobs from the next and print them off.
--
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I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink a beer to celebrate
something important, like the fall of communism or the fact that our
refrigerator is still working.
From: Jeff_Sickel@sickel.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SMTP error over PPP
Date: 15 Feb 1996 05:42:18 GMT
Organization: Charm.Net Baltimore Internet Access, Hon (410) 558-3900
Message-ID: <4fuh3q$ina@canton.charm.net>
HELO out.there
Seems some changes through my ISP have wrecked havok on my ability over my
ppp link. Has anyone seen/heard of/know how to fix the following smtp error
message:
<<< 554 Transaction failed -- I/O error
421 bad.isp.net (ddn)...Deferred: Connection reset by peer during HELO wait
with bad.isp.net
554 destination@somewhere.org... 554 Service unavailable: Connection reset by
peer during HELO wait with bad.isp.net
This is a totally new situation every since something happened on the ISPs
site.
PopOver still works, by mailing out does not.
Thanks
jas
From: Ravi Mendis <lady0098@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP OOUI remote on MAC OS?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 22:50:52 +0000
Organization: Oxford University
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960214224752.23291A-100000@sable.ox.ac.uk>
References: <3120CF35.6BF8@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
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On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Eric Dubiel wrote:
> ...is there ANY solution to get AppleTalk on NS currently?
Wasn't there a product called uShare? I'm not quite sure if it is around
for NEXTSTEP still?
uShare is supposed to bring AppleTalk (AppleShare?) compatibility to NS.
ravi
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Why doesn't mount -vat 4.3 work?
Date: 14 Feb 1996 22:27:29 -0800
Organization: Zach's House
Message-ID: <4fujoh$ajk@crl.crl.com>
Hi, I'm trying to add a disk to my NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel system. The disk
is a Micropolis 2217 1.7 giger. The first bad thing is that NEXSTEP only
seems to format and use 1 gig of it. Why is this?
The second bad thing is that when I try to mount this with the command:
mount -vat 4.3
nothing happens! Here's my fstab:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
The mount point does exist. What's worse is that when NS boots up the
Workspace Manager mounts it as a user disk. To get the thing to mount
properly, I have to issue the command:
mount /Users
Right now, I've got rc.local mounting the thing. And that gives me the
desired results on booting. But how come "mount -vat 4.3" doesn't work?
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Could it be how I initialized the
disk in the first place (I used the disk program). Is there any good
sources of documentation on this process?
Thanks in advance for any help,
Zach
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From: mpaque@aol.com (Mpaque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: creating swapfile with 'mkfile'
Date: 15 Feb 1996 01:53:04 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <4ful8h$k95@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960212124949.29647D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960212124949.29647D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>,
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
>When creating a swapfile via "mkfile", should one use the -n flag or not?
>
>Here's the manpage reference from 'mkfile' explaining the flag:
>
> -n Create an empty filename. The size is noted, but disk
> blocks aren't allocated until data is written to them.
Don't use -n. You'll get better swapfile performance if you bite the
bullet up front and allocate nice big contiguous clusters of blocks.
Mike Paquette
--
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why doesn't mount -vat 4.3 work?
Date: 15 Feb 1996 07:00:04 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-02.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4fullk$19h@usc.edu>
References: <4fujoh$ajk@crl.crl.com>
In <4fujoh$ajk@crl.crl.com> Zach Copley wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to add a disk to my NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel system. The disk
> is a Micropolis 2217 1.7 giger. The first bad thing is that NEXSTEP only
> seems to format and use 1 gig of it. Why is this?
Did you do a low-level formatting using the PD sdformat? I'm not sure about
Intel, but m68k NS3.3 handles up to 2gigs before requiring a partition. If
you are only seeing 1 gig then you might have a partitioned disk, in which
case you should (a) figure out why something <2g is being partitioned at
all, or (b) mount the second partition:
dev/sd1b /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
> The second bad thing is that when I try to mount this with the command:
>
> mount -vat 4.3
>
> nothing happens! Here's my fstab:
>
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
Take out the "noauto" for /dev/sd1a
I'm also pretty sure that the line should read (note the "1" instead of "2"
at the end):
/dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
I think it's questionable why you want to mount it at /Users. Why there? Why
not at root level
or in /private to hide it?
[chopchop]
> Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Could it be how I initialized the
> disk in the first place (I used the disk program). Is there any good
> sources of documentation on this process?
What disk program? Do you mean sdformat, disk, BuildDisk??
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>
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From: crb@eng.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black NeXT requires me to type "bsd"
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 02:54:24 -0500
Organization: University of Maryland
Message-ID: <crb-1502960254240001@128.8.23.44>
References: <311F3EB5.71D3@a.crl.com> <DMs24G.o6K@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
In article <DMs24G.o6K@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
(David Evans) wrote:
> In article <311F3EB5.71D3@a.crl.com>, Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com> wrote:
> >I recently had the SCSI drive on an older NeXT box die on me so
> >I replaced it with a 245meg SCSI drive from Windows 486 box I
> >had lying around the office. The install of NS 3.3 for NeXT
> >seemed to work fine but when you do a power off and boot the
> >machine back up an error message comes up in the SCSI
> >diagnostics. I simply press COMMAND-~ then type "bsd" and
> >everything boots up alright. Is there a way to force it to
> >simply boot? When I turn off the diagnostics I am still forced
> >to go through this ritual.
> >
>
> Perhaps the boot device has become unset somehow. If you ask for help
in the
> monitor I believe it will tell you what to do to set the boot device.
In a similar vien, when I first used my cube the quantum drive in it would
auto boot fine when I turned on the machine. Since my cube has an OD I
decided that I wanted to set the machine so that it would require a
password to boot from OD. This had the unwanted effect of forceing me to
type a password every time I booted from the internal HD so I used the rom
monitor command to change it so booting doesn't require the hardware
password, only now it won't auto boot, I have to type bsd every time I
wand to boot. So I again used the rom monitor to tell it that my boot
command should be bsd, but still no dice. I will boot fine if I type bsd
at the rom prompt, but I can't get it to boot by itself even if I tell it
the the boot command is bsd. Any one have any suggestions?
-----
Christopher R. Bowman
crb@eng.umd.edu
<A HREF="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~crb">My home page</A>
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SMTP error over PPP
Date: 15 Feb 1996 09:31:46 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4fuui2$a19@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4fuh3q$ina@canton.charm.net>
In article <4fuh3q$ina@canton.charm.net> Jeff_Sickel@sickel.com writes:
> <<< 554 Transaction failed -- I/O error
> 421 bad.isp.net (ddn)...Deferred: Connection reset by peer during HELO
wait
> with bad.isp.net
> 554 destination@somewhere.org... 554 Service unavailable: Connection
reset by
> peer during HELO wait with bad.isp.net
At a guess, your IP provider is accepting smtp connections, but times out
while validating your site address on the HELO. Try a mail -v to see
where the delay are. Personally, it looks like they screwed up and should
fix it.
Paul
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:35:49 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960214183501.16117D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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On 13 Feb 1996, Carl Edman wrote:
> In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
> > How about a shell script?
> >
> > /bin/sh
> >
> > while :
> > do
> > touch /usr/spool/mail/$USER
> > done
>
> Not on capitalist, you don't, Tim ! That script is going to eat every
> single cycle it can get its hands on. At least insert a 'sleep 1' into the
> loop. It is still a ugly hack, but at least it won't bring the machine down
> to a crawl.
Ok, that wasn't really a serious suggestion, but it would _work_
technically ;-)
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: kermit+PPP on NextStation with NS3.2 ?
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 18:38:37 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960214183745.16117F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <3120C931.794B@watson.ibm.com>
On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Sandeep Kochhar wrote:
> hi!
> I'm running Nextstep 3.2 on a NextStation. Currently I use kermit to dial
> into places, but recently my work computers started using PPP. So, my question
> is: is there a PPP package that comes with NS 3.2, or can I download and
> compile it, etc.? Can it use kermit as a dialer?
all your wishes and deepest desires can be satisfied at:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Black NeXT requires me to type "bsd"
Date: 15 Feb 1996 14:20:02 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <4fvfei$7j3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <crb-1502960254240001@128.8.23.44>
In article <crb-1502960254240001@128.8.23.44> crb@eng.umd.edu (Christopher R.
Bowman) writes:
> I will boot fine if I type bsd
> at the rom prompt, but I can't get it to boot by itself even if I tell it
> the the boot command is bsd. Any one have any suggestions?
Try setting the boot command to "sd" rather than "bsd"
Robert
--
Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ftp only account?
Date: 15 Feb 1996 13:48:14 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <4fvdiu$h4o@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu>
In article <4fo2c5$h9e@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
writes:
> I'd like to set up an account that allows ftp connections but not telnet.
> Is there some way to do this?
Yes. Set up a normal account, but it a shell of /bin/false. This will allow
ftp's, but not telnets.
--
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME)
Computer System Manager Voice: (402)472-9747
Department of Mathematics and Statistics FAX: (402)472-8466
University of Nebraska - Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: blazek@entropy2.stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Disk for Cube
Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:45:04 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4fvke0$1edc@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi all,
I have bought an internal disk for my cube (040 processor). The disk is
Seagate ST51080N (1GB, Fast SCSI-2), but the cube doesn't want to accept
it. The message from /etc/disk is that the boot sector cannot be found
(written into).
I tried write a disktab entry for the disk, didn't work either. So we
exchanged the disk. The same result with the new one.
I put an old 100MB disk inside the cube to see if the controller has a
problem. The old disk (Fujitsu, originally from NeXTstation) works just
fine.
Now the questions are:
1. Am I doing something wrong? Somebody suggested to me that the disk might
have problem with my cube's SCSI-1 controller.
2. Well, if that is the case, we would go for a different choice. The disk
we are looking at are listed below. Do you have any experience regarding
their compatibility with NeXT cube (040 processor)?
Fujitsu FJ1606S
Quantum QUFB1080S
(Both 1GB, SCSI-2)
Thank you very much, I appreciate any help.
Rudy Blazek
Dept. of Statistics and Prob.
Michigan St. Univ.
blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 15 Feb 1996 15:17:31 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4fviqb$irc@news.its.com>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> Can someone shine some light on why my Turbo Color (nonADB) would suddenly
> start making sporadic purring noises (that come through the speaker)??
I've seen a couple of machines do that.
A "purring" or "bird-chirping" sound, which typically falls in pitch, is
probably due to a capacitor bleeding electrical charge into the inputs of the
audio amplifier circuitry within the monitor. This happens because a
partially-conductive path has been made where it shouldn't be.
Probably the best solution is to disassemble the monitor completely and use
compressed air to blow all of the dust off the circuit boards. That should
stop the noises, and will probably have beneficial effects on the rest of the
circuitry.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: steveg219@aol.com (SteveG219)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetWare bind problem
Date: 19 Feb 1996 05:31:11 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <4g9jhf$jd1@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
References: <DMqJ8K.n0K@da_vinci.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
A couple of things to check out:
Do you have the NUC.NLM loaded and running?
Do you have NFS.NAM loaded on startup on the Netware server?
What frame types do you have active on the Netware Server? I seem to
recall NX using only one of them (802.3?)
Also note that the 3.3 CD ommitted the documentation for loading the
proper files onto the Netware server so that you may be missing a peice of
the picture altogether! Note that the Netware support files are much
better in 3.3 than in 3.2 and I suggest you load them from the 3.3 CD
Regards,
Steve Greenberg
Sunsource International Inc.
home- steveg219@aol.com
office sgg@sunsource.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 08:14:35 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb16.081435.5339@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4g0fse$flu@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
In article <4g0fse$flu@risc.agsm.ucla.edu> ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo
Welch) writes:
> On 02/14/96, Paul Lynch wrote:
> >In article <jray-1402961323170001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
> >jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) writes:
> >> We've got a NEXTSTEP 3.3 machine which is serving several web
> >applications
> >> for people at OSU. Unfortunately, there seems to be something
bizarre
> >happening
> >> with the system - It will hang from time to time for a period of
several
> >> minutes. I'll telnet to it, but will only get a blank screen which
will
> >> EVENTUALLY let me log in. Http requests will sit there with "waiting
> >for
> >> reply"...
> >
> >Two things occur to me:
> >
> >- DNS lookups timing out. Fix this (as far as is possible so far) by
> >installing the 3.3 patches.
> >
> >- SCSI bus hangs or NFS timeouts. Both will cause login problems. I
have
> >experienced bad problems with SCSI timeouts, possibly due to disk,
> >controller or driver.
>
>
> And this can be determined by looking at /usr/adm/messages. If the SCSI
> bus has problems, there will be a lot of messages about it. To
determine
> if it is DNS problems, I tend to ping the nameserver to see if it is up.
You won't always get lots of messages for a problem disk. Some problems
generate messages, I agree, but not all.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network Printer
Date: 16 Feb 1996 08:33:26 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4g1fgm$38a@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4g0fpi$ffk@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Ivo Welch (ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
: I would like to add a high-speed network printer to the sets of printers
: available. PrintManager.app does not seem to allow me to add network
: printers. Librarian.app gives me a gazillion matches to network and
: printer. Is there a document that covers this?
I don't know, but I did the following.
Made a printcap entry like this in a file named /tmp/foo:
---------- cut here ----
Laserjet_4M_Plus: \
:_nxfinalform:lp=:rm=laserjet:lo=lock: \
:if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver:sb: \
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/laserjet4mplus: \
:ty=HP LaserJet 4 PostScript 600DPI:
---- cut here ---------
This assumes that the Printer behaves like a unix host with
lpd and has the name 'laserjet'. sd names the spool directory.
The type can be taken from /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj
Replace all _ with spaces in the printer type.
Then do:
niload printcap / </tmp/foo
and you'll be happy.
HTH
Axel
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Date: 16 Feb 1996 08:36:24 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4g1fm8$38a@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <jray-1402961323170001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu> <1996Feb14.214740.476@seer.demon.co.uk> <4g0fse$flu@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Ivo Welch (ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu) wrote:
[...]
: And this can be determined by looking at /usr/adm/messages. If the SCSI
: bus has problems, there will be a lot of messages about it. To determine
: if it is DNS problems, I tend to ping the nameserver to see if it is up.
The ping to the nameserver is not the most reliable test in the
world as it might be up but has to ask another nameserver for
a certain address. Using nslookup on a suspicious name might
be a better idea (though not optimal).
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: deleting users remotely
Date: 16 Feb 1996 08:44:34 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4g1g5i$38a@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4g0oco$p3k@miwok.nbn.com>
Daniel Miles Kehoe (kehoe@fortuity.com) wrote:
: I'm administering a server remotely and I cannot delete users.
: I tried
: myserver:13# niload -d passwd . < passwd.txt
: and got the message
: deletion for johndoe failed: Cannot delete name object with children
: How can I find these "children" and remove them? I'm logged in remotely so I
: can't use the graphical NetInfoManager.
Every User has a subdirectory (in NetInfo) called 'info'.
This is the reason for niload not being able to delete.
I would suggest using 'nu'. Edit /etc/nu.cf first to
set the proper domain.
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,bit.listserv.pmail
From: Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG (Russell Schulz)
Subject: Re: smail and Novell Netware (Pegasus)
Message-ID: <960219.024443.0f1.rnr.w164w@locutus.ofB.ORG>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 02:44:43 -0700
References: <DM73ty.ot@cube.aball.de>
Organization: Private System, Edmonton, AB, Canada
martin@cube.aball.de (Martin Ortlepp) writes:
> Currently the users on the network use Pegasus Mail to send and receive
> mail. Now I want to setup a NeXTSTEP system to act as a gateway to
> send/receive internet mails. Is there a way to setup Pegasus and smail
> this way?
sure -- look up `UDG' (User Defined Gateway) in the Pegasus Mail docs.
--
Russell_Schulz@locutus.ofB.ORG Shad 86c
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 17 Feb 1996 01:59:46 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-02.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4g3cqi$8qu@usc.edu>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> <4fp6b0$3h3@shellx.best.com>
<4g2rqu$b80@bud.shadow.net>
In <4g2rqu$b80@bud.shadow.net> Dino Bagdadi wrote:
> Guys,
>
> This is really funny!
>
> This is the sound used by WatchSwap.app. Everytime the swapspace file
> increases, it will play the sound you posted. The soundfile is called
> Stretch.snd
>
> So, check your system for this app and turn it off!! How's that for a
quick
> fix? :)
Now, considering all the responses I got, this is extremely funny. And, yes,
I had that feature inadvertently turned on.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 09:41:55 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960219094025.3046E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> <4fp6b0$3h3@shellx.best.com>
<4g2rqu$b80@bud.shadow.net> <4g3cqi$8qu@usc.edu>
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On 17 Feb 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> In <4g2rqu$b80@bud.shadow.net> Dino Bagdadi wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > This is really funny!
> >
> > This is the sound used by WatchSwap.app. Everytime the swapspace file
> > increases, it will play the sound you posted. The soundfile is called
> > Stretch.snd
> >
> > So, check your system for this app and turn it off!! How's that for a
> > quick fix? :)
>
> Now, considering all the responses I got, this is extremely funny. And, yes,
> I had that feature inadvertently turned on.
heh heh.... been there, done that... Couldn't figure out what the (kinda
spooky) noise was at _ALL_. Forgot all about it when this thread came up...
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Problems with Novell server on Tokenring network
Message-ID: <Dn0qop.tJ@onevision.de>
Sender: usenet@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:34:00 GMT
At a customer site we have a NEXTSTEP system with an IBM tokenring
card.
Everything works perfect, except it is not possible to copy any file
above about 1K to the file server. The effect is that the novell client
obviously logs out and the netware login panel appears again.
The server runs Netware 3.12 and runs the 802.2 frametype say s the
novell client
Anybody any hints?
======================================================================
Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH
Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11
Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg
(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 19 Feb 1996 15:48:00 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ga63g$4jd@news.its.com>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> <4fp6b0$3h3@shellx.best.com> <4g2rqu$b80@bud.shadow.net> <4g3cqi$8qu@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
>> This is the sound used by WatchSwap.app. Everytime the swapspace file
>> increases, it will play the sound you posted. The soundfile is called
>> Stretch.snd
>
> Now, considering all the responses I got, this is extremely funny.
> And, yes, I had that feature inadvertently turned on.
That is funny. I had thought the problem occurred as soon as you powered up
the machine, not after someone had logged in. Save my response for machines
which "purr" when you first turn them on.... :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Pitfalls for new-to-net NeXT
Date: 19 Feb 1996 16:11:16 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ga7f4$4jd@news.its.com>
References: <4g3rqo$fnm@agate.berkeley.edu>
pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown) wrote:
> What do I need to worry about? Are there any non-obvious security
> precautions that I need to take?
There are several books written about Unix and Internet security. You can
browse your local bookstore for 'em. Also, I'd do a web search on security
and take a look at what you see.
Two particularly good pieces of software for analyzing system security are
"cops" and "satan", although you'll definitely want to check with your local
sysadmins before sic'ing Satan on the local network. In fact, you should
talk to your local admins about security anyway; since they should be able to
help you with any site-specific pecularities.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 19 Feb 1996 05:15:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4g9110$6nk@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
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next-programmer-d
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
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The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
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INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
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To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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:
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Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4g95n0$3rq@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Control: cancel <4g95n0$3rq@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 1996 18:53:36 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <4gagvg$qkm@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
<4g95n0$3rq@gap.cco.caltech.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
--
there must be something i can dream tonight
-patti smith
From: patricia@cco.caltech.edu (Patricia M. Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! init exited with 2 :-( can't boot NS
Date: 19 Feb 1996 18:57:20 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <4gah6g$qsh@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
:-(
I just installed Netscape on the Dos partition.
And now for some reason the NeXT side won't boot.
Um.... help. :-}
Thanx,
-patricia
PS the last three lines before it stops are:
Registering kmDevice0
rootdev 600, howto0
init exited with 2
--
there must be something i can dream tonight
-patti smith
From: bhu@hydra.syr.edu (Bing Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem Installing Netpbm
Date: 19 Feb 1996 20:58:11 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4gao93$ja8@newstand.syr.edu>
Hi! I was trying to install Netpbm in my NeXT machine ruuning
NeXTstep, it requires libtiff . SO I download a zip file and
make it according to the instructions and then mv it under the
netpbm installation directory, but when I try to make the
netpbm, it give me error message "ld: table of contents for archive:
../libtiff/libtiff.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)
" then exit 1 stop.
I checked the libtiff several times and remake it several times, it
makes well every time, and it is dated 1994.
Can anybody tell me what is wrong, or I need to get a latest version
of libtiff ? And where ?
PS. I need netpbm or pbmplus to install latest version of latex2html,
yet my server doesn't have it.
--
*****************************************************************
Bing Hu
School of Computer and Information Science
Office: 317A Carnegie, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: klc@gasco.com (Lance Charlish X5744)
Subject: netinfo server
Message-ID: <Dn1ECJ.KEH@gasco.com>
Sender: news@gasco.com (Owner of USENET News)
Organization: Northwest Natural Gas Company of Portland Oregon
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 19:05:07 GMT
The CPU went south over the weekend on the machine that serves as the netinfo
master and home directory server. I am thinking about transferring the system disk
(which I believe still works) to a new CPU. Will it just work? Or will the new
MAC address cause problems for netinfo? Should I anticipate other problems if I
transfer the disk?
Lance Charlish
klc@gasco.com
--
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 20 Feb 1996 00:12:03 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-55.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gb3kj$ooo@usc.edu>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> <4fp6b0$3h3@shellx.best.com>
<4g2rqu$b80@bud.shadow.net> <4g3cqi$8qu@usc.edu>
<4ga63g$4jd@news.its.com>
In <4ga63g$4jd@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> >> This is the sound used by WatchSwap.app. Everytime the swapspace file
> >> increases, it will play the sound you posted. The soundfile is called
> >> Stretch.snd
> >
> > Now, considering all the responses I got, this is extremely funny.
> > And, yes, I had that feature inadvertently turned on.
>
> That is funny. I had thought the problem occurred as soon as you powered
up
> the machine, not after someone had logged in. Save my response for
machines
> which "purr" when you first turn them on.... :-)
Well, I am now dutifully cleaning my slab's innards. The color monitor is a
bit more difficult as I'm a bit timid about taking off that metal cage one
finds inside the black case. So I'm contenting (?) myself with blowing
compressed air through the holes in the cage.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Mail configuration
In-Reply-To: rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu's message of 18 Feb 1996 08:04:05 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb19194251@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <RWGK.96Feb18030405@kepler.csb.yale.edu>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:42:51 GMT
Install sendmail 8.7.3 from ftp://next-ftp.peak.org:/pub/next. Export
/usr/spool/mail on the HP. Mount it on the NeXT clients by creating
a fstab entry in NetInfo for the domain. Use the clientproto.mc template
for creating the sendmail.cf's for the clients. Done.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <RWGK.96Feb18030405@kepler.csb.yale.edu> rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve) writes:
Xref: world comp.sys.next.sysadmin:28161
Path: world!uunet!in1.uu.net!news.ultranet.com!bigboote.WPI.EDU!news3.near.net!yale!news.ycc.yale.edu!news.yale.edu!rwgk
From: rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 18 Feb 1996 08:04:05 GMT
Organization: HHMI & MB&B
Lines: 27
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: kepler.csb.yale.edu
Hi,
we have a cluster of NeXT's with one single NetInfo server,
and all other client machines. The NetInfo server is also
the main mail-server, not only for the NeXT's but also for
some other Unix (HP, SGI) machines.
Unfortunately, the NeXT NFS (NextStep 3.2) doesn't seem to
handle locking attempts correctly and causes mail-clients on
non-NeXT machines to hang.
Therefore we'd like to make a HP machine the main mail-server,
to which all NeXT's - including the NetInfo server - should
forward the mail messages.
Moreover, all NeXT's - including the NetInfo server - should
mount the mail directory (/usr/spool/mail) from the HP machine.
Using the sendmail term: we want all NeXT's to be "nullclients".
Which steps are necessary to make the desired transition
(if possible at all)?
Any hints are very much appreciated!
Ralf
From: danno@econ.lsa.umich.edu (Dan Pritts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: creating swapfile with 'mkfile'
Date: 20 Feb 1996 03:44:16 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Department of Economics
Message-ID: <4gbg2g$mc3@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960212124949.29647D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4g75a5$mg@news.its.com>
In article <4g75a5$mg@news.its.com>, Chuck Swiger <chuck@its.com> wrote:
>"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
>>> When creating a swapfile via "mkfile", should one use the -n flag or not?
>Using '-n' to create your primary swapfile is likely to give you a fragmented
>swapfile. You really want your primary ("preferred") swapfile to be
>contiguously allocated because you do not want to grow the swapfile one
>section at a time while possibly also writing to some other file.
i recently had a sun (not a next, yeah i know) panic when i did a swapon
onto a file i had created with mkfile -n.
I wasn't concerned about the best performance, i was concerned about
giving the machine enough space to swap on to last till the evening when
i could do some quickie drive repartitioning (goodbye AFS cache, hello
swap). Next time i skip the -n.
Not sure this was the problem, but it sure looks that way.
danno
--
dan pritts ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support dan.pritts@umich.edu
I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink a beer to celebrate
something important, like the fall of communism or the fact that our
refrigerator is still working.
From: dguthrie@iisys.com (Don Guthrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Virtual IP interfaces???
Date: 20 Feb 1996 02:33:47 GMT
Organization: insanely interactive systems, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gbbub$47q@gypsy.iisys.com>
Keywords: virtual ip interface
Is there any way to get multiple virtual IP interfaces on a single NeXT Cube
(black) machine? I have NeXTStep v3.3 (User) with 3.2 Developer.
I'm currently running Linux as a web server and would like to move this over
to my NeXT and I require this functionality.
Where do I download such software or how do you configure the current
configuration to support this?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Don
From: bmuell@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bernie Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing type 1 fonts
Date: 20 Feb 1996 05:55:28 GMT
Organization: TRW, One Space Park MS O1/1061, Redondo Beach,CA 90278 (310) 813-0690
Message-ID: <4gbnog$jba@ns5.nba.TRW.COM>
I am trying to print downloadable fonts from a 68k slab, ver3.2 to a LaserJet
IIP and have discovered that type 3 fonts will print, whereas type 1 fonts
download but do not print. How can I get the type 1 fonts to print? Is there
a means to convert them to type 3?
--
bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I tell who has accessed my webpage?
Date: 20 Feb 1996 10:02:29 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-06.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gc67l$mmf@usc.edu>
Is there a way to automatically log who accesses my webpage(s)? Not a form
to be voluntarily filled out, but an automatic full recognition of
name@domain, etc. and when?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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From: ronald@trace.com.tw (Ronald Wiplinger)
Message-ID: <cancel.728708Au4642to52212@news.trace.com.tw>
Control: cancel <728708Au4642to52212@news.trace.com.tw>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <728708Au4642to52212@news.trace.com.tw>
Date: 20 Feb 1996 11:22:04 GMT
Cancelled by jem@xpat.com. 824815324
NEWYEAR
Original Subject was: *+* Happy New Lunar Year *+*
From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 20 Feb 1996 11:52:57 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Message-ID: <4gccmp$ngi@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> <4g3cqi$8qu@usc.edu> <4ga63g$4jd@news.its.com> <4gb3kj$ooo@usc.edu>
In article <4gb3kj$ooo@usc.edu>,
Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@scf.usc.edu> wrote:
>Well, I am now dutifully cleaning my slab's innards. The color monitor is a
>bit more difficult as I'm a bit timid about taking off that metal cage one
>finds inside the black case. So I'm contenting (?) myself with blowing
>compressed air through the holes in the cage.
AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Don't do that!!! If you pop the back off of a CRT device
and happen to contact the wrong thing, you'll get the (last) shock of
your life. There is a great big capacitor in there that buffers the
charge that the electron gun needs, and grounding it with your body can
supply well more than the minimum number of amperes needed to stop your
heart. There is a necessary device (a big resistor) that technicians use
to discharge the capacitor before servicing a monitor or television.
Be careful!
Paul
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problem with tcsetattr & tcgetattr
Date: 20 Feb 1996 14:08:18 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gckki$7hb@news.its.com>
References: <4g0prm$oae@news.acns.nwu.edu>
mallen@nwu.edu (Mark Allen) wrote:
> I'm trying to compile the s/key security package for NS3.3; and I keep
> getting errors from the linker with
> "unresolved symbols:
> _tcsetattr
> -tcgetattr"
>
> errors. Now apparently, the C libraries don't contain this function? The
> only one that I saw that seemed to have these symbols was the libposix.a
> package; [ ... ]
Read the compiler documentation. Compile with "cc -posix" if you want to
call POSIX functions, and be prepared to encounter severe bugs, especially
unless you are running NS 3.3 patched.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Fax Cover Pages
Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:35:05 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Howdy,
I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file Cover.draw into
~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing faxes.
The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is "Edit Cover"
button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can add a comment
to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting various cover
sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to select from a
bunch of cover pages?
I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.
Thanks a lot, have a nice day.
Rudy Blazek
blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing path to man pages
Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:37:52 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4gd4e0$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi all,
I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I tried to change the path to my new
man pages, but wihout success (e.g /usr/local/man... or ~/Unix/man...). Not
even the -M option for man worked for me.
Am I doing something silly or is there a problem with 'man' under NS
3.2?
Thank you.
Rudy Blazek
blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 affect NEXTSTEP
Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:53:25 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gd5b5$qcv@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4g0imf$nve@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu>
In article <4g0imf$nve@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu> Milo Velimirovic
<milov@uwlax.edu> writes:
:Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 - BIND Version 4.9.3 affect NEXTSTEP?
:
Well you could always install 4.9.3 pl1 just in case. It probably works
better and faster. Definitley closes that security problem.
4.9.3 pl1 is available Quad-fat at peanuts and peak.
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, and ASCII PGP and CyptorBundle
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I tell who has accessed my webpage?
Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:04:35 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gd603$dig@usc.edu>
References: <4gc67l$mmf@usc.edu> <4gcov7$i9f@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
In <4gcov7$i9f@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss wrote:
> Matthew N. Reichman (reichman@scf.usc.edu) wrote:
> : Is there a way to automatically log who accesses my webpage(s)?
> : Not a form to be voluntarily filled out, but an automatic full
recognition
> : of name@domain, etc. and when?
>
> Yeah.. its called a Web server :-)
>
> They normally have a loggin facility. You will need some mechanism for
> evaluating this format (its pretty low level). You can either roll your
> own (if you're into Perl, you might want to check out
> http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/Handbook) or use one of the
> utilities available from the Net.
>
> Very often, an fgrep foo < file.log | wc -l does the job, too. :)
Apologies - I didn't specify that I was referring to the following
situation:
My school runs the web server and each student gets an html directory as a
subset of their home directory. There I can store webpages, etc.
So, since I don't run the webserver, what is the solution?
Also, please note, I've not yet begun to study html so I am asking from an
high level of ignorance. Right now, all I need is to know who visited my
page(s).
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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===============================================================
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages
Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:05:42 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gd626$dig@usc.edu>
References: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <NO AUTHOR> wrote:
> Howdy,
> I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file Cover.draw into
> ~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing faxes.
> The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is "Edit Cover"
> button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can add a
comment
> to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting various cover
> sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to select from a
> bunch of cover pages?
> I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.
Same place as Cover.draw. Just name them something besides "Cover". That's
all.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OHOH - my Turbo Color is purring???
Date: 20 Feb 1996 19:07:22 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gd65a$dig@usc.edu>
References: <4fhkoq$src@usc.edu> <4g3cqi$8qu@usc.edu>
<4ga63g$4jd@news.its.com> <4gb3kj$ooo@usc.edu>
<4gccmp$ngi@agate.berkeley.edu>
In <4gccmp$ngi@agate.berkeley.edu> Paul Robert Brown wrote:
> In article <4gb3kj$ooo@usc.edu>,
> Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@scf.usc.edu> wrote:
> >Well, I am now dutifully cleaning my slab's innards. The color monitor is
a
> >bit more difficult as I'm a bit timid about taking off that metal cage
one
> >finds inside the black case. So I'm contenting (?) myself with blowing
> >compressed air through the holes in the cage.
>
> AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Don't do that!!! If you pop the back off of a CRT device
> and happen to contact the wrong thing, you'll get the (last) shock of
> your life. There is a great big capacitor in there that buffers the
> charge that the electron gun needs, and grounding it with your body can
> supply well more than the minimum number of amperes needed to stop your
> heart. There is a necessary device (a big resistor) that technicians use
> to discharge the capacitor before servicing a monitor or television.
>
> Be careful!
Thanks for potentially saving my life. 8>)
At least I know I have right on my desk an easy way out if things get too
difficult! 9-)
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dump/Restore question
Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:50:06 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gd54u$ecb@news.its.com>
References: <4g2nh2$8o3@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> Here is the situation:
> I have a 1gig boot drive with about 600 megs of stuff total on it.
> I have a 250mb drive that I want to turn into a backup boot drive with all
> the same configuration as my 1gig'er.
[ ... ]
> Any suggestions about how to do this?
Option 1: build a new system disk from CD-ROM, and copy whatever changes you
want to the new disk.
Option 2: use BuildDisk.app to make a new system disk; this will copy many of
the local changes you've made.
Option 3: do a dump/restore sequence on a limited portion of the filesystem.
Depending on your intentions, they all have some advantages and
disadvantages. I'd probably choose 2, but whatever.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Changing path to man pages
In-Reply-To: blazek@stt.msu.edu's message of 20 Feb 1996 18:37:52 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb20195820@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gd4e0$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 00:58:20 GMT
Try:
setenv MANPATH=/usr/local/man:/usr/man
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Virtual IP interfaces???
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:03:39 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb20.230339.2266@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4gbbub$47q@gypsy.iisys.com>
In article <4gbbub$47q@gypsy.iisys.com> dguthrie@iisys.com (Don Guthrie)
writes:
> Is there any way to get multiple virtual IP interfaces on a single NeXT
Cube
> (black) machine? I have NeXTStep v3.3 (User) with 3.2 Developer.
>
> I'm currently running Linux as a web server and would like to move this
over
> to my NeXT and I require this functionality.
Look at the PPP FAQ on http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP. There is a
comment in there about how you can install the kernel driver from PPP to
allow you to use virtual IP addresses (you don't need to activate the rest
of PPP).
Paul
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Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Virtual IP interfaces???
Date: 21 Feb 1996 01:16:41 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4gdrpp$1glp@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4gbbub$47q@gypsy.iisys.com> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960220102842.5092E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960220102842.5092E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
>
> I believe theat when this has come up before the answer has always been
> that there is no known way to do this under NeXTStep.
>
Hmmm... While I don't have the original post in front of me, you might check
out:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html#MultiHome
This may do what was asked...
- Steve
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Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 affect NEXTSTEP
Date: 21 Feb 1996 01:42:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gdt9b$i36@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4gd5b5$qcv@paladin.american.edu>
In article <4gd5b5$qcv@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@mailhost.soc.american.edu (Torrey McMahon) writes:
>In article <4g0imf$nve@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu> Milo Velimirovic
><milov@uwlax.edu> writes:
>:Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 - BIND Version 4.9.3 affect NEXTSTEP?
>:
>Well you could always install 4.9.3 pl1 just in case. It probably works
>better and faster. Definitley closes that security problem.
>
>4.9.3 pl1 is available Quad-fat at peanuts and peak.
>--
>Torrey McMahon
While some of the potential holes are plugged, BIND 4.9.3 is still
susceptible to spoofing. Per the advisory this problem will exist until
some type of cryptographic authentication is added to BIND.
Bottom line is that if you are a security freak and some service in
NeXTStep or another UNIX variant relies on BIND for authentication you may
want to disable said service.
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
Agoura Hills, CA # one's fellow citizens, to betray
# friends, to be without faith, without
far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means
(NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 affect NEXTSTEP
Date: 21 Feb 1996 01:45:31 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gdtfr$i69@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <GUENTHER.96Feb20103929@lunen.gac.edu>
In article <GUENTHER.96Feb20103929@lunen.gac.edu> guenther@gac.edu (Philip
Guenther) writes:
>
>In article <4g0imf$nve@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu> Milo Velimirovic
<milov@uwlax.edu> writes:
>
>> Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 - BIND Version 4.9.3 affect NEXTSTEP?
>
>> I scanned /usr/etc/named and found "4.20 (Berkeley) 2/17/88" which
leads me to
>> believe that NS 3.2 and 3.3 are both several versions behind and not
affected
>> by this advisory.
>
>> Anyone have a definitive answer?
[snip]
>I believe that NS's named is 4.8.x based. The "4.20" you pulled out of
>the binary are SCCS ident lines, and have (almost) nothing to do with
>the overall revision of the software. As for whether they are covered
>by the advisory, the answer is *YES*. Basically _all_ revisions of
>named prior to 4.9.3 are vulnerable. The date you saw "2/17/88" should
>say it all. Heck, that's over _5_years_ before rfc1535, which covers a
>fairly basic flaw in most resolvers, and it's definitely before any of
>the other flaws (cache corruption, irrelevant responses, etc) were
>widely recognized.
>
>
>Philip Guenther
>
While this is true. I'm not really sure how vulnerable NeXTStep is in
general since so many things rely on Netinfo and not on BIND.
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill
Agoura Hills, CA # one's fellow citizens, to betray
# friends, to be without faith, without
far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means
(NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Date: 21 Feb 1996 03:34:55 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ge3sv$rk4@news.its.com>
References: <jray-1402961323170001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu> <DMxBtK.2C4@euler.hnv.icem.de>
js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell) wrote:
> What is the power-up time of the machine when hanging occurs first?
> Some drives go into self-reconfigure/repair mode after ?? hours and of
> course cannot i/o any data while self-adjusting.
I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, but possibly:
Hard drives normally undergo "thermal calibration" ("TCAL") on a regular
basis, every 10-30 minutes or so if I remember. This should only cause a
small (under 1 second) pause that is not very noticable except when doing
time-critial I/O like audio/visial recording or playback. And, of course,
there are A/V model hard drives that handle TCAL differently and will not
have such pauses.
> This is said to happen with ibm dfhs drives every 72 hours.
> It is not important if you power off in between, so probably does not
> show on non-server machines at all. such drives are cheaper also.
Could you (or someone) provide more information about this behavior?
I can't think of anything offhand.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: deniseh@shellx.best.com (Denise Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing path to man pages
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:42:59 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4ge0rj$o8s@shellx.best.com>
References: <4gd4e0$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote:
: Hi all,
: I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I tried to change the path to my new
: man pages, but wihout success (e.g /usr/local/man... or ~/Unix/man...). Not
: even the -M option for man worked for me.
: Am I doing something silly or is there a problem with 'man' under NS
: 3.2?
Don't forget to run catman with the -M option; perhaps you were confusing
this with man -M?
Denise
--
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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: hs283@bard.edu (Hans Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: installing NSFIP machine on Next net
Date: 21 Feb 1996 04:02:35 GMT
Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
Message-ID: <4ge5gr$1p19@core.bard.edu>
I am trying to install our new pentium in our existing NetInfo net of one
turbo and three cubes as the NetInfo/mail/LocalApps server but
SimpleNetworkStarter keeps bombing. It actually bombed so bad I had to
reinstall Nextstep. I have followed all the directions in the online
docs, but I keep on getting an error when it starts configuring NetInfo
saying it can't start NetInfo because "Duplicate domain tags" and then it
reboots. I then managed to screw up the original NetInfo server, a
NeXTStation Turbo, and now I get the same message, if the
SimpleNetworkStarter did its stuff properly. Sometimes SNS on Turbo thinks
there is another server running and only allows me to set up the Turbo as
a clone server even though there is only one cube attached to it. The
only other info I can think of is that the NSFIP machine was put on our
computer center OS/2 net before after much trouble. So I am asking for
advice on what the problem is and also where I can learn about the
details of what's going on. The online docs just seem to cover the nifty
Apps (SNS, HostManager), but I would like to know about how I can do this
manually. Also, a place to learn about the boot sequence of NeXT/mach
and how to deal with it manually.
The Bard Music Department and I thank you for your help...HC
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From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: dump/restore
Message-ID: <Dn3MDn.HLI@ecf.toronto.edu>
Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:53:47 GMT
In preparation for upgrading from V2.1, I am trying to dump
my boot disk to an HP 4mm dat, then restore to a second disk.
The dump appears to go fine, but restore rf /dev/rst0
generates a Tape/Disk I/O error.
I can write and read tar files with this drive.
Can anyone help?
My system is a mono 25MHz NeXTstation.
Colin Walsh
walshc@ecf.toronto.edu
From: "Gerard T. Curd" <gcurd@tricon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Simple Network Startup
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:19:47 -0800
Organization: Tri-Cities Connection
Message-ID: <312AB983.39CD@tricon.net>
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I'm trying to set up a Simple Network with a Cube and two NextStations. The cube is the file
server. All systems are running 3.2. I did the 'Be A Server' steps with the SNS on the cube
and 'Be A Client' steps with the client machines. It all setup just as the manual said it
would. All are connected via thinnet with terminators. It doesn't work.
On each machine while booting the message says 'Network is not running or not attached to
the network'. I missed something here but can't figure it out. If anyone has any ideas
please let me know.
Thanks for your help!
Gerard
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Feb 19 15:13:05 ems_server loginwindow[228]: failed login to account: gcurd
Feb 19 15:13:14 ems_server loginwindow[1205]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 19 15:13:15 ems_server Workspace[1205]: logged in
Feb 19 16:35:50 ems_server loginwindow[228]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Feb 19 16:36:14 ems_server loginwindow[1277]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 19 16:36:14 ems_server Workspace[1277]: logged in
Feb 19 16:37:38 ems_server loginwindow[228]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Feb 19 16:37:44 ems_server reboot: rebooted by root
Feb 19 16:37:45 ems_server syslogd: going down on signal 15
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Killing all processes
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: continuing
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: unmounting Data ... done
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: rebooting Mach...
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach:
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: FPU version 0x40
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: available memory = 29.21 megabytes.
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: NBIC present
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Disk
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Data
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: odc0 at 0x2112000
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: od0 at odc0 slave 0
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: od1 at odc0 slave 1
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:a7:b0
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: root on sd0
Feb 19 16:38:27 EMS_Server mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
Feb 19 16:38:51 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 19 16:39:09 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 19 16:39:13 EMS_Server reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 19 16:39:22 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Feb 19 16:39:22 EMS_Server mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1
Feb 19 16:39:22 EMS_Server mach: 16 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured
Feb 19 16:39:25 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension server running (31)
Feb 19 16:39:26 EMS_Server mach: audio kernel server initialized
Feb 19 16:51:21 EMS_Server loginwindow[239]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 19 16:51:21 EMS_Server Workspace[239]: logged in
Feb 20 08:27:12 EMS_Server mach: DOS File System: Initialized
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: FPU version 0x40
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: available memory = 29.21 megabytes.
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: NBIC present
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Disk
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Data
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: odc0 at 0x2112000
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: od0 at odc0 slave 0
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: od1 at odc0 slave 1
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:a7:b0
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: root on sd0
Feb 20 08:47:18 EMS_Server mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
Feb 20 08:47:42 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 08:47:45 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 08:48:03 EMS_Server reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 20 08:48:11 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Feb 20 08:48:11 EMS_Server mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1
Feb 20 08:48:11 EMS_Server mach: 16 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured
Feb 20 08:48:14 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension server running (31)
Feb 20 08:48:16 EMS_Server mach: audio kernel server initialized
Feb 20 08:48:30 EMS_Server loginwindow[235]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 20 08:48:30 EMS_Server Workspace[235]: logged in
Feb 20 08:50:15 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on /dev/ttyp1
Feb 20 09:03:49 EMS_Server WindowServer[229]: IPCFlushOutput: failed to flush output for stream 0x1f1ad4.
Feb 20 09:03:50 EMS_Server loginwindow[230]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Feb 20 09:04:02 EMS_Server halt: halted by root
Feb 20 09:04:03 EMS_Server syslogd: going down on signal 15
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: FPU version 0x40
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: available memory = 29.21 megabytes.
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: NBIC present
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Disk
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Data
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: odc0 at 0x2112000
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: od0 at odc0 slave 0
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: od1 at odc0 slave 1
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:a7:b0
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: root on sd0
Feb 20 09:05:23 EMS_Server mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
Feb 20 09:05:46 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 09:05:50 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 09:06:07 EMS_Server reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 20 09:06:16 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Feb 20 09:06:16 EMS_Server mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1
Feb 20 09:06:16 EMS_Server mach: 16 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured
Feb 20 09:06:19 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension server running (31)
Feb 20 09:06:20 EMS_Server mach: audio kernel server initialized
Feb 20 09:06:36 EMS_Server loginwindow[235]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 20 09:06:36 EMS_Server Workspace[235]: logged in
Feb 20 09:11:34 EMS_Server su: SU to root by root on /dev/ttyp1
Feb 20 09:13:54 EMS_Server su: SU to gcurd by root on /dev/ttyp1
Feb 20 09:14:28 EMS_Server su: SU to gcurd by root on /dev/ttyp1
Feb 20 09:15:40 EMS_Server loginwindow[230]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Feb 20 09:15:47 EMS_Server reboot: rebooted by root
Feb 20 09:15:48 EMS_Server syslogd: going down on signal 15
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Killing all processes
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: continuing
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: rebooting Mach...
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach:
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: FPU version 0x40
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: available memory = 29.21 megabytes.
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: NBIC present
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Disk
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Data
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: odc0 at 0x2112000
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: od0 at odc0 slave 0
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: od1 at odc0 slave 1
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:a7:b0
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: root on sd0
Feb 20 09:16:43 EMS_Server mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
Feb 20 09:17:06 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 09:17:10 EMS_Server su: SU to root by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 09:17:27 EMS_Server reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 20 09:17:36 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Feb 20 09:17:36 EMS_Server mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1
Feb 20 09:17:36 EMS_Server mach: 16 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured
Feb 20 09:17:39 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension server running (31)
Feb 20 09:17:40 EMS_Server mach: audio kernel server initialized
Feb 20 09:17:57 EMS_Server loginwindow[235]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 20 09:17:57 EMS_Server Workspace[235]: logged in
Feb 20 09:24:44 EMS_Server loginwindow[230]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Feb 20 09:24:49 EMS_Server reboot: rebooted by root
Feb 20 09:24:51 EMS_Server syslogd: going down on signal 15
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Killing all processes
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: continuing
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: rebooting Mach...
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach:
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.4 v65
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 21:57:41 PDT 1993; root(rcbuilder):mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: FPU version 0x40
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: physical memory = 32.00 megabytes.
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: available memory = 29.21 megabytes.
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: NBIC present
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: fc0 at 0x2114100
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd0 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Disk
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: FUJITSU M1606S-512 Rev 6234 as sd1 at sc0 target 2 lun 0
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Disk Label: Data
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Disk Capacity 1041MB, Device Block 512 bytes
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: odc0 at 0x2112000
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: od0 at odc0 slave 0
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: od1 at odc0 slave 1
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: en0 at 0x2106000
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:a7:b0
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: dsp0 at 0x2108000
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: np0 at 0x200f000
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: sound0 at 0x200e000
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: root on sd0
Feb 20 09:25:45 EMS_Server mach: The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
Feb 20 09:26:08 EMS_Server su: SU to oracle by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 09:26:12 EMS_Server su: SU to root by root on (null pointer)
Feb 20 09:26:29 EMS_Server reboot: Reboot complete
Feb 20 09:26:38 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Feb 20 09:26:38 EMS_Server mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1
Feb 20 09:26:38 EMS_Server mach: 16 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured
Feb 20 09:26:41 EMS_Server mach: NeXTdimension server running (31)
Feb 20 09:26:42 EMS_Server mach: audio kernel server initialized
Feb 20 09:26:53 EMS_Server loginwindow[230]: failed login to account: root
Feb 20 09:27:01 EMS_Server loginwindow[235]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 20 09:27:01 EMS_Server Workspace[235]: logged in
Feb 20 09:28:34 EMS_Server loginwindow[230]: loginwindow: Workspace exited ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0.
Feb 20 09:28:42 EMS_Server loginwindow[254]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Feb 20 09:28:42 EMS_Server Workspace[254]: logged in
Feb 20 10:01:01 EMS_Server mach: DOS File System: Initialized
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup Disk Symbol?
Date: 21 Feb 1996 06:19:31 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-21.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gedhj$ai@usc.edu>
I labelled a disk "Backup" and it comes up with its own special icon. Never
knew that.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.0.3 <-> NeXT Networking Problems
Keywords: networking, Sun 3/60, NeXT, ethernet, help
Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <Dn3E4A.1Dr@yedi.iaf.nl>
References: <4g8pim$spj@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:55:21 GMT
Check if your 3/60 has the thinwire port enabled. Jumpers on the
main board may have been set to AUI (the 15 pin port)
Just a guess
Wilko
From: dchan@earthlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: re:telnet and sndplay
Date: 19 Feb 1996 05:59:52 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <4g93ko$b2k@chile.it.earthlink.net>
References: <9602171920.AA00518@earthlink.net>
Thanks for all your responses. I totally forgot about the Security
options in Preferences.app. Once I turned on Public Sound Server it
worked.
Thanks again to all the e-mailed me.
In article <9602171920.AA00518@earthlink.net> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to run sndplay in a telnet session and have the sound
played
> on the host that you're logged into?
>
> Currently, when sndplay is run on the telnet session by the remote user
the
> error "sndplay:cannot play sound file" is returned.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> ---
> Derek Chan
> dchan@earthlink.net
> (NextMail preferred)
--
Derek Chan
dchan@earthlink.net
(NextMail preferred)
From: dchan@earthlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: telnet/rlogin question
Date: 16 Feb 1996 06:07:22 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <4g16uq$442@ecuador.it.earthlink.net>
Hi,
I'm trying to run sndplay from within a telnet session but it doesn't
work. What I would like to happen is.... when I run sndplay I would like
the host that I'm logged into to play the sound through its speaker. Is
there any way to do this?
Thanks.
--
Derek Chan
dchan@earthlink.net
(NextMail preferred)
From: neuss@sun39 (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I tell who has accessed my webpage?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 21 Feb 1996 10:26:53 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <4ges1d$g8v@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <4gc67l$mmf@usc.edu> <4gcov7$i9f@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <4gd603$dig@usc.edu>
Matthew N. Reichman (reichman@scf.usc.edu) wrote:
: Apologies - I didn't specify that I was referring to the following
: situation:
: My school runs the web server and each student gets an html directory as a
: subset of their home directory. There I can store webpages, etc.
: So, since I don't run the webserver, what is the solution?
Well, I in turn have to apologize if I did not make that clear enough..
If somebody accesses your Web page, there is a server involved. In the
case of your school, they run a Web server and have configured it in
such a way that your homedirectory is accessible via the /~user
mechanism.
And where there's a web server, there's a log file.
So, hopefully, all you have to do is ask the webmaster where the
log file is stored. Take a look at it, there format is easy to
figure out.
It might, however, be that they deny you read access to the file.
If _that_ is the case, you can embedd a <IMG SRC="/cgi/script">
into your page, and let the CGI script do the logging. That is,
however, not very good style, and should be used as the last resort.
Besides, it requires that you get familiar with CGI scripts.
Get back to me in personal mail if you need further assistance.
Chris
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From: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I tell who has accessed my webpage?
Date: 21 Feb 1996 05:07:07 -0500
Organization: x
Message-ID: <m3pwb9ouus.fsf@steffi.mnsinc.com>
References: <4gc67l$mmf@usc.edu> <4gcov7$i9f@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
<4gd603$dig@usc.edu>
You have two choices...
If you're school is running a server side includes supported server you can log accesses yourself.
Or... if you're school will ScriptAlias a cgi bin directory for you then you can dynamically create
your home page from a cgi script and the script to maintain a log also.
From: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dump/restore
Date: 21 Feb 1996 05:09:01 -0500
Organization: x
Message-ID: <m3n36dourm.fsf@steffi.mnsinc.com>
References: <Dn3MDn.HLI@ecf.toronto.edu>
In article <Dn3MDn.HLI@ecf.toronto.edu> walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh) writes:
From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 23:53:47 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
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In preparation for upgrading from V2.1, I am trying to dump
my boot disk to an HP 4mm dat, then restore to a second disk.
The dump appears to go fine, but restore rf /dev/rst0
generates a Tape/Disk I/O error.
I don't use Dump but I'd like to know how to do a similar thing.
In my case I want to know if I can backup an "image" of a bootable drive onto
DAT and restore from this later onto _what_? ie. a basic kernel that lets me run tar?
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Still looking for easy way to make backup boot disk Selective replica of primary...
Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:42:56 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gfb1g$cs8@news.its.com>
References: <4g97il$jl6@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> Still looking for easy way to make backup boot disk Selective
> replica of primary...
You aren't going to find an "easy way" to fit 600+ MB into 247 MB;
you are going to have to do some work.
> Because of the difference in size between my boot drive (total mb used =
> 600+) and my desired backup boot drive (247mb max) I need to make a
> selective backup boot drive
BuildDisk or a fresh install from CD-ROM will give you a bootable secondary
drive. If you want to put more things on that drive, use gnutar to copy them
by hand. There isn't going to be an easier way.
> Which means everything should be the exact same (including symbolic links)
> except:
>
> LocalApps & User accounts
Question: why bother?
All I want from a backup boot drive is the ability to start the system from
it and have an environment that I can fix whatever happened to my primary
drive. BuildDisk or CR-ROM install will provide that.
So what more do you need?
> Dump/restore doesn't seem to be selective
Read "man restore" from the 'x' option.
> BuildDisk and cp doesn't retain symbolic links, and seems to have left out
> everything in my /etc/ directory except the ppp and sendmail directories
> (which BuildDisk installed).
'cp' does not copy links; use 'gnutar'.
BuildDisk most certainly will create a system disk with all of the
appropriate symbolic links. BuildDisk will not copy any modifications
you've done besides those which alter original system files, as defined
by 'lsbom /usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom'.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail configuration
Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:27:03 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gfa3n$cs8@news.its.com>
References: <RWGK.96Feb18030405@kepler.csb.yale.edu>
rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve) wrote:
> Unfortunately, the NeXT NFS (NextStep 3.2) doesn't seem to
> handle locking attempts correctly and causes mail-clients on
> non-NeXT machines to hang.
That makes sense.
> Therefore we'd like to make a HP machine the main mail-server,
> to which all NeXT's - including the NetInfo server - should
> forward the mail messages.
Why do that if your machines can route packets to the Internet themselves?
I much prefer to have every machine on the network capable of sending
non-local email directly, rather than incurring the overhead of sending the
mail to a local "mailhost".
> Moreover, all NeXT's - including the NetInfo server - should
> mount the mail directory (/usr/spool/mail) from the HP machine.
[ ... ]
> Which steps are necessary to make the desired transition
> (if possible at all)?
Okay, so NFS mount the HP's mail spool directory on /usr/spool/mail for all
NeXT machines including the current NetInfo/mail server and see whether that
solves your problem with NFS locking.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ipaschke@xlan.hil.de (Ingo Paschke)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.0.3 <-> NeXT Networking Problems
Message-ID: <Dn3CGv.5zw@xlan.hil.de>
Keywords: networking, Sun 3/60, NeXT, ethernet, help
Organization: private
References: <4g8pim$spj@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:19:43 GMT
Hi!
msander@magic.ocunix.on.ca (Michael Sanderson) writes:
>When I try to ping the Sun from the NeXT I get a 100% packet loss error.
>When I try to ping the NeXT from the sun I get the following message over
>and over:
> le0: No carrier - tranceiver cable problem?
>le(4s) says that this error is reported when the LANCE chip has lost input
>to its carrier detect pin while trying to transmit a packet.
This looks like your Sun 3/60 tries to use the AUI-port: Slide out the
board, there's a jumper labeled "EXTXVR" ("external transceiver") (right
next to the memory-settings): Short means "use external transceiver
connected to the AUI-port"), open enables the on-board BNC-connector.
Ciao,
Ingo.
--
Ingo Paschke
Braunschweig, Germany
[MIME, Nextmail welcome.]
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: WebServer.pkg
Date: 21 Feb 1996 16:13:12 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4gfgao$5et@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <199602181647.IAA26199@wcarchive.cdrom.com>
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To: eric@wcarchive.cdrom.com
I don't know about this problem specifically, but a lot of networking stuff won't work right
unless you have added the hostname to the HostManager (if NetInfo is running, which it
defaults to). It looks like your hostname is nebula, so you need to add that machine name to
the databse. Hopefully that will fix it. If this is not there, it will also cause trouble
with the NFS automounter.
Karl
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From: Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Avoiding ^C to startup without network connection?
Date: 21 Feb 1996 03:25:01 GMT
Organization: Genoa Software Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ge3ad$j6@saturn.genoa.com>
References: <4frjd1$avp@styx.uwa.edu.au>
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In <4frjd1$avp@styx.uwa.edu.au> Leigh Smith wrote:
> I'm hoping to prevent the timeout and ^C behaviour so it will boot without
> intervention.
run HostManager.app in /NextAdmin
bring up the local config panel from the main menu
change the netinfo binding settings appropriately
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Message-ID: <1996Feb21.131018.29359@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 13:10:18 GMT
References: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Organization: Cookson, Peirce & Co., Pittsburgh, PA
In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
>On 13 Feb 1996, Felipe Pait wrote:
>
>> I would like the spool file to be left in place after Mail.app
>> retrives new mail.
>
>Mail.app used to do this, then it changed for some reason I still don't
>understand.
>
>Sounds like a situation sendmail _should_ be able to handle, but I don't
>know if it can or not (it seems silly that sendmail can't create the file)
>
>I don't know if there is a way to change the behavior of the Mail.app itself.
>
>I can think of a few hacks, (a hobby of mine) none of which are
>guaranteed to work.
I don't believe sendmail is involved at this point. Mail.app removes
the /usr/spool/mail file after reading it. What I do is to go to
/usr/spool/mail in a terminal window; copy my mail file to a tmp; load
it with Mail.app; and restore the tmp.
Why do I do this? Because I only use Mail.app when I have to read Next
formatted mail. Why do I do that? Because it takes too darn long and
it is too darn inconvenient to save a piece of mail in a mail file under
Mail.app compared to BSD mail.
I am still running 3.2. Does anybody know if 3.3 is better and faster?
I like the idea of directory trees to save mail, but I don't like how
long it takes under 3.2.
--
Bob Peirce Pittsburgh, PA 412-471-5320
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)]
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well
please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take
the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
From: helpdesk@asucla.ucla.edu (ASUCLA Help Desk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anonymous ftp?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 96 22:02:24 GMT
Organization: Associated Students, UCLA
Message-ID: <4gg4o3$10gg@saba.info.ucla.edu>
I have a NeXT station running version 3.0 of NeXTStep. How can I configure it
for anonymous ftp? I have created the user ftp, but I am experiencing many
problems.
A pointer to a document any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Please e-mail me at chayashida@asucla.ucla.edu.
TIA,
Christopher Hayashida
Management Information Systems, Associated Students UCLA
chayashida@asucla.ucla.edu
From: Dan Pritts <danno@us.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why doesn't mount -vat 4.3 work?
Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:41:05 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management
Message-ID: <4gha71$kpj@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <4fujoh$ajk@crl.crl.com> <4fullk$19h@usc.edu> <4g0chh$cjc@news1.ucsd.edu>
Originator: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu
Carl Lowenstein <cdl@helium.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>|> nothing happens! Here's my fstab:
>|>
>|> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
>|> /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
>|I'm also pretty sure that the line should read (note the "1" instead
>|of "2" at the end):
>| /dev/sd1a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1
>Well, actually, if you read "man fstab" you would learn that the last
>number in the line is the pass number for "fsck". I'm not sure how
>the average SCSI host adapter would react to trying fsck on two disks
>simultaneously. I wouldn't try it myself.
Never tried it on an Intel next, but in general there should be no
problem with this sort of thing; In fact, the whole point of having
multiple fsck passes defined is so that fsck can do different disks
simultaneously (but not attempt to do same partitions on the disk
simulatneously, which would work but would be mighty slow and would
thrash your disk's head about unnecessarily).
danno
--
dan pritts ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support dan.pritts@umich.edu
I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink a beer to celebrate
something important, like the fall of communism or the fact that our
refrigerator is still working.
From: Dan Pritts <danno@us.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:45:38 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, Operations Management
Message-ID: <4ghafi$kq8@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gg9dg$4m8@news.iastate.edu>
Originator: danno@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu
>"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
>> I get that message when I try to do 'login root' from a shell (yes I
>> about 'su', but for one task I have to use 'login')
>> How can I tell my NeXT to allow that? It's a standalone so security
look at the ttys man page (/etc/ttys)
ttys not marked as secure do not allow root login.
if the machine is on the network at all, it's really a bad idea.
danno
--
dan pritts ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support dan.pritts@umich.edu
I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink a beer to celebrate
something important, like the fall of communism or the fact that our
refrigerator is still working.
From: amajjiga@tosca.rutgers.edu (Aswin Majjiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Omniweb on NeXT ...
Date: 22 Feb 1996 16:41:07 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Message-ID: <4gintj$86n@tosca.rutgers.edu>
Keywords: Omniweb, co-Xist
Hi,
I have installed OmniWeb 1.0 on a NeXT machine running NeXTSTEP 3.0. but I am not able to access any sites. I would appreciate if any of you could tell me what the reason might be and how to solve it. The machine is connected to the network. My Sys - Admin says that the problem might be beacause of the older version of "telnet".
And also I was wondering if there was co-Xist for NeXTSTEP 3.0 .....
Thanks for your time.
-- aswin
From: herding@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bernd Herding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: 22 Feb 1996 14:02:14 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4ght16$bai@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gg9dg$4m8@news.iastate.edu>
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rragner@panther.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner) writes:
>Tim,
>Try creating a /.rhosts file in the machine on which you wish to remotely
>log and put the name of the machine(s) you want to be able to log onto
>that machine (one name per line) in the /.rhosts file. Reboot the
>destination machine and try to remote login as root - it should work, did
>for me...
As Tim said, the problem came along with a standalone machine.
Perhaps it's just a missing "secure" entry in his ttytab (or
whatever the thing's called -- again, I have no NeXT around :-()
Just a hint,
Bernd
From: chiu7134@sparky.cs.nyu.edu (Chiu Wen-Shin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SNMP agent for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 22 Feb 1996 05:05:24 GMT
Organization: New York University
Message-ID: <4ggtik$6np@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>
Any product available?
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Wenshin
From: gclem@dannug.dk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Date: 22 Feb 1996 08:04:02 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gh81i$6fo@snaps.dannug.dk>
References: <DMxBtK.2C4@euler.hnv.icem.de>
We have also experienced that a machine will "pause" for a few seconds
every now and then. Most recently was when we prepared two new DEC
Celebris XL 5133 for shipment, both of these machines will pause every now
and then, often when logging in or launching applications. In our office
we have a bunch of similar machines networked, and the problem is
non-existing, except on one machine. This particular machine was a while
ago, during an experiment, configured as a non-NetInfo network client,
then brought back into the office NetInfo network. The two DEC Celebris XL
5133 machines are both configured as non-NetInfo network clients, with no
NetInfo server in the network. So by now, we suspect that non-NetInfo
network clients may need some tweaking, other than a normal configuration,
in order to avoid the pausing. Maybe the nameserver in 3.3 Patch can help,
we will at least do some experimenting.
Geert
From: tralala@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages
Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:46:37 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Message-ID: <4girod$58l@tandem.CAM.ORG>
References: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
On 02/20/96, Rudolf B. Blazek wrote:
>Howdy,
> I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file
Cover.draw into
>~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing
faxes.
> The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is
"Edit Cover"
>button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can
add a comment
>to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting
various cover
>sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to
select from a
>bunch of cover pages?
> I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.
>
>
>Thanks a lot, have a nice day.
>
>
>Rudy Blazek
>blazek@stt.msu.edu
>
Put your different cover pages in
/NextLibrary/Fax/language.lpro/your_files.draw
(where language.lproj is either English.lproj or French.lproj or
German.lproj, etc.)
-Andre
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I turn on printer accounting? (solution)
Date: 23 Feb 1996 01:59:00 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gj714$da3@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
References: <4gi2a3$ovg@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
In-Reply-To: <4gi2a3$ovg@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
On 02/22/96, Francois Magnan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>How can I turn on printer accounting in NS3.3? I know I must play
with
>netinfo but I really don't know what to do. Anybody was able to do
>this?
>
>Thank you very much,
>Francois Magnan
>
>--
>______________________________________________________
>Francois Magnan
>Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
>Universite de Montreal
>email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
>
>
I finally found the solution myself. It is very simple. In
NetInfoManager open printers and double-click on Local_Printer and add
a new key named "af" with value "/usr/adm/pracct". Then do a "touch
/usr/adm/pracct". This is all.
To actually see the accounting information use the command "pac".
This is very neat.
I just don't understand why the online manual doesn't speak about
this. What books am I missing?
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to clear Console window?
Date: 22 Feb 1996 22:20:20 -0500
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-ID: <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu>
I would like to be able to clear my Console window, but Cmd-k
is not enables to do this. How can you do it in NEXTSTEP3.3?
I can delete the file /tmp/console.log, close and reopen the
Console window, and it is blank, but it no longer logs syslog
or stderr output. Thanks for any tips,
Lee Altenberg
altenber@mhpcc.edu
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Date: 23 Feb 1996 02:25:50 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-70.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gj8je$bnt@usc.edu>
References: <4ggtu6$n0m@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
> On 22 Feb 1996, Operator wrote:
>
> > I have Cube with a 1gb external HD, where I store a lot of very
important
> > data (I know I should had made a BackUp).
> > A friend was trying to format a floppy disk but instead of formatting
the
> > floppy, he unfortunately format the HD.
> >
> > That was done with "initialize" option from the "Disk" menu of Workspace
> > Manager.
>
> ?!?!
> Is this a commonly known problem? If so, what can be done to protect the
> HD from this process? Excuse my saying so, but that's extremely
> user-unfriendly.
Why would one of the hard drives come up as an option to initialize from the
workspace anyway, unless that disk had some problems already. I thought only
unrecognized disks were offered up to be initialized from the workspace.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Q: MOD LF-1000
In-Reply-To: Erwin Achermann's message of Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:51:04 +0100
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb23013903@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <312B3F68.41C67EA6@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:39:03 GMT
Those are phase change disks. From my understanding they are different
from magneto-optical. They are very slow. Access time is in hundreds
of ms vs. 17-30ms for MO. Look at the new Fujitsu DynaMO...
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <312B3F68.41C67EA6@inf.ethz.ch> Erwin Achermann <acherman@inf.ethz.ch> writes:
Hi guys,
Panasonics LF-1000 is supposed to write (Magneto?)Optical Discs and to read=
CD-Rom at =
4x Speed, and it has a SCSI-II interface.
Has someone made any expierences with that Device?
I wonder, if it could be a good solution for backing up my Disk and at the =
same time
could be a CD-rom drive?
=
Any Hints, experiences, warnings etc. are welcome.
Thanks and have fun!
Erwin
-- =
Erwin Achermann Tel: ++41 1 632 7=
4 40
Institut f=FCr wissenschaftliches Rechnen FAX: ++41 1 632=
11 72
ETH Zentrum, IFW C29.2 email: achermann@inf.eth=
z.ch
CH-8092 Z=FCrich URL: http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/ache=
rman/
> Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but =
<
> when there is no longer anything to take away. =
<
> -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe=
ry <
From: ugu@polaris.net (Unix Guru Universe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A UNIX web site
Date: 22 Feb 1996 23:30:05 -0500
Organization: Unix Guru Universe
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Date: 23 Feb 1996 07:25:55 GMT
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to clear Console window?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 08:27:45 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb23.082745.10051@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu>
In article <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu> altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee
Altenberg) writes:
> I would like to be able to clear my Console window, but Cmd-k
> is not enables to do this. How can you do it in NEXTSTEP3.3?
> I can delete the file /tmp/console.log, close and reopen the
> Console window, and it is blank, but it no longer logs syslog
> or stderr output. Thanks for any tips,
Swap to using Spy.app, which support Command-k to clear its output window.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: zump@rom.org (Zump)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.0.3 <-> NeXT Networking Problems
Date: 19 Feb 1996 13:10:16 GMT
Organization: Rivers of MUD
Message-ID: <4g9sro$7vd@mars.efn.org>
References: <4g8pim$spj@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
In-Reply-To: <4g8pim$spj@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
To: msander@bnr.ca
There is a jumper near the memory simms to select between thin and
thicknet.. It's labelled 'ExtTxvcr' or something like that.
In article <4g8pim$spj@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>,
msander@magic.ocunix.on.ca (Michael Sanderson) writes:
>
>The NeXT has never been connected to a network before (other than through
>PPP, where it works fine). The sun used to be connected to a network via
>its 10base5 interface, where it worked fine. Could there be a setup problem
>here? Do I somehow have to inform the Sun that it should be talking over
>it's thinnet port, and not it's thicknet port anymore?
>
>I'm at a total loss here, any help would be greatly appreciated. If
>necessary I can provide more information.
>
>Cheers,
>Michael
>
--
---
Zump http://www.rom.org/ telnet://rom.org:9000
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with Novell server on Tokenring network
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 23 Feb 1996 09:16:46 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va.
Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu
Message-ID: <4gk0lu$qro@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <Dn0qop.tJ@onevision.de>
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Summary: wish I had an easy solution but
No easy solution on this, BUT, if you look in /usr/netware,
and specificly in bin & etc there, you will find in addtion
to the components of netware that normaly run, some
debugging tools as well. Also, some of the programs have
non-obvious options etc, so look at them with strings &
the like.
Hope that helps. NS deals with novell fairly well, considering
that it's a really gross way to network things in many respects.
The problem you're having is damned odd to say the least.
Tim
From: bbum@friday.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I tell who has accessed my webpage?
Date: 23 Feb 1996 12:41:52 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gkcmg$uo@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
References: <4gc67l$mmf@usc.edu> <4gcov7$i9f@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <ZHAO.96Feb21080519@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
#Re: How do I tell who has accessed my webpage?
#by Z. Zhao, Computing Research Lab/New Mexico State University
Matthew N. Reichman (reichman@scf.usc.edu) wrote:
: Is there a way to automatically log who accesses my webpage(s)? Not a form
: to be voluntarily filled out, but an automatic full recognition of
: name@domain, etc. and when?
# httpd doesn't cary remote user information, but only remote
# hostname or IP, browser name, refering path and etc., which is
# different from email and other services. unless the user is in
# your AuthUserFile or asked to input user name for access permission,
# you wouldn't be able to get his/her name recorded.
#
# zhao
As well, the remote hostname/IP address may be that of a firewall-- ie; one
cannot assume that the remote IP address uniquely identifies the user for
even a single session...
b.bum
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:14:35 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gj0tb$juk@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
> I get that message when I try to do 'login root' from a shell
> (yes I know about 'su', but for one task I have to use 'login')
>
> How can I tell my NeXT to allow that? It's a standalone so
> security isn't a problem I concern myself with too much (who
> wants to steal my papers?)
Check out the documentation on /etc/ttys. I think that's
what controls where root can log into.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why doesn't mount -vat 4.3 work?
Date: 23 Feb 1996 00:18:17 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gj149$k2k@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4gha71$kpj@controversy.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
Dan Pritts <danno@us.itd.umich.edu> writes:
> Never tried it on an Intel next, but in general there should be
> no problem with this sort of thing; In fact, the whole point of
> having multiple fsck passes defined is so that fsck can do
> different disks simultaneously (but not attempt to do same
> partitions on the disk simulatneously, which would work but would
> be mighty slow and would thrash your disk's head about unnecessarily).
In general, you do not want to fsck any other partition, on any
disk, at the same time you're fsck-ing the root partition on the
bootup volume.
After that, it's OK to check different partitions (if they are on
different disks) in the same fsck pass.
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netinfo master(?) problem
Date: 23 Feb 1996 15:56:24 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <4gko38$7c3@crcnis3.unl.edu>
I have a small, but severe, problem that I urgently need a solution to.
I changed the hsotname of a master netinfo server from just its basename to a
Fully-Qualified Domain Name. For example, from 'machine' to
'machine.unl.edu'. I also updated the netinfo entry: /machines/machine to
/machines/machine.unl.edu. All was/is fine, until I try to make any
modifications to the netinfo database. When trying to do updates/changes
with NetInfoManager/UserManger/niutil/niload/etc... I am now greeted with the
error: "netinfo communication error".
I now know my error. I should have also updated the master property for the
root domain from:
master: machine
to
master: machine.unl.edu
I can't undo my changes (base->FQDN) because of the aforementioned error, nor
can I update the master tag. So... what am I to do?
Please respond via e-mail. (I can read news too, I suppose (-; ).
____
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK)
Computer System Manager Voice: (402)472-9747
Math/Stat Department FAX: (402)472-8466
University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help for X11 for NeXT
Date: 23 Feb 1996 13:22:45 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <4gkf35$36h@news.rwth-aachen.de>
References: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960212113919.7794A-100000@paros.caspur.it>
Copyright: This message is Copyright (C) 1996 by Stefan Leuker
Lorenzo Stella <stella@paros.caspur.it> wrote:
<DEL>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> Lorenzo Stella
Get a better signature!
Try
http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~leuker/Xnext/
Xnext is a shareware X11R6 system.
Stefan
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:06:47 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4gkomn$sgt@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
References: <4ggtu6$n0m@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gj8je$bnt@usc.edu>
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To: reichman@scf.usc.edu
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
>In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
>"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
>> On 22 Feb 1996, Operator wrote:
>>
>> > I have Cube with a 1gb external HD, where I store a lot of very
>important
>> > data (I know I should had made a BackUp).
>> > A friend was trying to format a floppy disk but instead of formatting
>the
>> > floppy, he unfortunately format the HD.
>> >
>> > That was done with "initialize" option from the "Disk" menu of Workspace
>> > Manager.
>>
>> ?!?!
>> Is this a commonly known problem? If so, what can be done to protect the
>> HD from this process? Excuse my saying so, but that's extremely
>> user-unfriendly.
>
>
>Why would one of the hard drives come up as an option to initialize from the
>workspace anyway, unless that disk had some problems already. I thought only
>unrecognized disks were offered up to be initialized from the workspace.
>
No.... On my system I also noticed that I could have done the same thing... I am running
3.3. It only happens if you have either put the disk in the top shelf of your workspace
manager intentionally, if it is damaged (as you said), or if you have highlighted the main
folder on the disk. For instance, I had a Quantum Fireball attached to my slab in an external
case. It was formatted for NeXTstep, and I was getting rid of it, so I wanted to format it for
Mac. I just highlighted it and pulled down Initialize from the menu. Bam, it worked. This
doesn't seem like a very safe way to conduct business...
Karl
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: BuildDisk...
Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:09:51 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4gkosf$sgt@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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I have a slab running 3.3 and I want to create another boot disk, without dragging out the
CDs and messing around with all that. Isn't BuilDisk supposed to be able to do this? And,
isn't one of the reasons for this so that you can just create a disk that is bootable and has
the same config files as your current machine? I have built disks this way several times and
never was it able to boot. It would pretedn to boot when I issued the bsd command, but after a
short time it would return with an error showing some register information. Does anyone know
what this could be, or what I need to do to get it to work properly?
Thanks for your time
Karl N. Matthias
From: patrick@opensource.com (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Omniweb on NeXT ...
Date: 23 Feb 1996 16:54:55 GMT
Organization: OpenSource Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gkrgv$mae@trane.opensource.com>
References: <4gintj$86n@tosca.rutgers.edu>
In article <4gintj$86n@tosca.rutgers.edu> amajjiga@tosca.rutgers.edu
(Aswin Majjiga) writes:
> Hi,
> I have installed OmniWeb 1.0 on a NeXT machine running NeXTSTEP 3.0.
but I am not able to access any sites. I would appreciate if any of you
could tell me what the reason might be and how to solve it. The machine is
connected to the network. My Sys - Admin says that the problem might be
beacause of the older version of "telnet".
OmniWeb has a number of options for setting up your connection. I would
suggest looking at how the DNS (nameserver) queries are set up on your
machine; perhaps OW can't resolve any hostnames. Alternatively, you may
need to specify the proxy server if you are behind a firewall.
> And also I was wondering if there was co-Xist for NeXTSTEP 3.0 .....
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> -- aswin
co-Xist does run under 3.0; a separate, non-MAB binary is on the CDROM. Of
course, co-Xist is quad-fat, too; so you can run it on all four platforms
that NEXTSTEP runs on should you get a different machine in the future.
More information about co-Xist can be found at:
http://www.opensource.com/Software/Emulation/co-Xist.html
Cordially
--
Patrick Giagnocavo, Account Executive, email:patrick@opensource.com
OpenSource, Inc. 1776 Lincoln Street, Suite 1012 Denver, CO 80203
Check us out on the WWW at http://www.opensource.com
(303).861.4411 Fax: (303).861.2393 1-800-TRY-OPEN (879-6736)
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rcs.log locked?
Date: 23 Feb 1996 20:23:46 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gl7oi$o7f@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I'm getting the almost continuous message
RCS logfile /private/adm/rcs.log seems permanently locked.
Please alert system administrator
The permissions on the file in questions are:
woonext:GUEST_APPT 126 % ls -agl /private/adm/rcs.log
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root wheel 20687 Feb 23 14:50 /private/adm/rcs.log*
Since I am the administrator, it behooves me to figure this out, but I can't
find any information about what to do about this message.
Any clues?
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Does CERT Advisory CA-96.02 affect NEXTSTEP
Date: 23 Feb 1996 20:31:37 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gl879$31n@news.its.com>
References: <GUENTHER.96Feb20103929@lunen.gac.edu> <4gdtfr$i69@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez) wrote:
> While this is true. I'm not really sure how vulnerable NeXTStep is in
> general since so many things rely on Netinfo and not on BIND.
NetInfo is pretty much orthagonal to BIND security issues because it's
completely impractical to load any significant portion of the DNS heirarchies
into NetInfo. Simply loading the 20,000 line /etc/hosts file that's around
at CMU (which only lists local hosts and a few important remote hosts) was
enough to choke NetInfo the last time I tried.
Running a modern version of BIND with a correct db.cache file that lists the
current root nameservers will provide a system that is a lot less suceptible
to nameserver database pollution, whether accidental or malicious.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jpanico@netcom.com (Joe Panico)
Subject: TApe drives under NS 3.3 Intel.
Message-ID: <jpanicoDn9130.Ln2@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:59:23 GMT
Sender: jpanico@netcom11.netcom.com
Hi,
The only mention of tape drives I can find in NextAnswers is:
General Overview notes: This is a SCSI Tape peripheral driver. It supports most SCSI tape drives that use the generic SCSI command set for Tape Devices. A SCSI Host Adapter and associated NEXTSTEP driver are required in order to use this driver
Are any of the non-SCSI tape drives supported?
Which SCSI tape drives are known to work? Are there any price $500 or less?
Thanks for any info.
--
Joe Panico
NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer
BLaCKSMITH Inc.
jpanico@netcom.com
/* Please no NeXTMail, I can't read it at this address */
From: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Latest NcFTP for NS 3.3
Date: 23 Feb 1996 19:11:46 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gl3hi$210@bud.shadow.net>
Keywords: ncftp
Has anyone compiled the latest version of NcFTP for NS 3.3? If so, could
someone post the binaries and source to the next ftp sites?
Is it possible for any of the NS web browsers to support NcFTP's commands
(especially the command to continue an aborted/failed transfer)? Gentlemen
(Omni, Netsurfer), are you listening?
Thanks.
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@hyper.shadow.net'
From: Uri <uri@harmonic.co.il>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup/dump across LAN
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 23:27:40 -0800
Organization: Harmonic Lightwave
Message-ID: <312EBDEC.7F0B@harmonic.co.il>
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Hi,
This is the fifth time I try to get help, so, if you know something
PLEASE HELP ME...
I have few unix machines, but two are most important -
The first is my main server - sparc 20 run SunOs 4.1.4 (solaris 1.1.2)
with 4 m"m, 8 Mb, 120m, HP dat scsi tape attach to it.
The second is NeXT machine run Mach10. (kind of unix)
I want to dump (or other backup method) the NeXT file systems on the
sparc's tape.
The regular rdump command return error or without any parametrs want me
to replace the tape cassate (the default NeXT dump/rdump parameters are
for 135Mb dat tape, and I don't know how to config the NeXT to 8Mb,
120meter, 4m"m HP dat tape).
Any idea ???
do not auto replay yor answer, please mail it to: uri@harmonic.co.il
--
***************************************************
* Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator *
* Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) MATAM, haifa *
* uri@harmonic.co.il, s2404675@t2.technion.ac.il *
* Phone: 972-4-8550180 Fax: 972-4-8550180 *
***************************************************
From: tmartin@datus-usa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I fix a disabled Eject-Button
Date: 24 Feb 1996 02:43:45 GMT
Message-ID: <4glu11$2hj@client1.news.psi.net>
System:
P-133, AHA 2940W (Driver Version 3.32 or 3.37), 2G Seagate Baracuda,
Logitech bus mouse, ATI Graphics Ultra Pro Turbo, 2MB VRAM, Toshiba 3401
(external SCSI CD-ROM, correctly terminated)
Situation:
a floppy or CD-ROM is mounted (after selecting 'Check for Disks' from the
Workspace Manager's Disk-Menu or just sliding it into the drive) - the
appropriate icon is selected
Problem (occurred just recently):
the Eject-Button in the Workspace's Disk-Menu is always disabled even
though the appropriate icon is selected, not allowing us to eject any
floppy disks or CD-ROMs. (although the disk -e commad works)
maybe somebody knows the fix, thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: sendmail 8.7.4 on next-ftp.peak.org
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb24002216@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 05:22:16 GMT
There's an official announcement coming. However, given that
there was a CERT advisory on 8.7.3., I think it's acceptable
to inform everyone that I have placed sendmail 8.7.4 on the
FTP archives. In addition to the security fix, I made an
additional fix for the NetInfo bug and improved the package
and associated documentation.
The pre-announcement is as follows:
Finally, a decent modern sendmail for NEXTSTEP! This latest version is
compiled for multiple architectures (NeXT m68k, Intel x86, HP PA-RISC,
Sun SPARC), supports NetInfo, NIS, smrsh (sendmail restricted shell), and
outgoing aliases (YourName@host.com) with the user database. This version
also includes a NetInfo bug fix not available in the Berkeley source
distribution.
To obtain a copy of my distribution:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/submissions/sendmail-8.7.4.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
To verify that you have an authentic copy of my distribution, execute the
following command. Note that the first number is the 16-bit checksum which
must match exactly and that the second number is the number of blocks and can
vary.
# sum sendmail-8.7.4.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
16317 1382
To unpack the distribution:
% gnutar xvzpf sendmail-8.7.4.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
This will create a .pkg file. You need to be logged in as "root" to install
the package.
Documentation for sendmail 8.7 is in /etc/sendmail/doc. Configuration files
are in /etc/sendmail/cf. You will need the GNU m4 compiler to create a .cf
configuration file for use with this version of sendmail. It is available in
the proglang subdirectory on next-ftp.peak.org's NeXT FTP archive.
I recommend that you pick up a copy of the O'Reilly and Associates book on
sendmail before using this version of sendmail. Furthermore, the installation
and use of this software is entirely at your own risk. Read the README notice
for more details.
Enjoy,
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How: timed or some other time related daemon setup
Date: 24 Feb 1996 02:10:31 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4gls2n$15j6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi all.
I have a NeXT connected to the internet, but only the local domain is setup
in the NetInfo database. We have very, very mixed net here.
I was wondering, how I could setup some time related daemond in this case. I
read a lot of info, but all I got was how to setup time masters etc. in a
NetInfo network.
How do I make my pure NeXT talk to some unix box and adjust the time?
Thanks a lot, I spent a lot of time on this without success.
Good luck.
Rudy.
From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Latest NcFTP for NS 3.3
Date: 24 Feb 1996 00:45:42 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gln3m$7d5@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4gl3hi$210@bud.shadow.net>
In <4gl3hi$210@bud.shadow.net> Dino Bagdadi wrote:
> Has anyone compiled the latest version of NcFTP for NS 3.3? If so, could
> someone post the binaries and source to the next ftp sites?
I just did so a few days ago (posix-free and with ncurses) and encountered
minimal problems, so it seems hardly worth the trouble.
Carl Edman
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: netinfo master(?) problem
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 10:04:41 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb24.100441.13524@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4gko38$7c3@crcnis3.unl.edu>
In article <4gko38$7c3@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex
Dieter) writes:
> I changed the hsotname of a master netinfo server from just its basename
to a
> Fully-Qualified Domain Name. For example, from 'machine' to
> 'machine.unl.edu'. I also updated the netinfo entry: /machines/machine
to
> /machines/machine.unl.edu. All was/is fine, until I try to make any
> modifications to the netinfo database. When trying to do
updates/changes
> with NetInfoManager/UserManger/niutil/niload/etc... I am now greeted
with the
> error: "netinfo communication error".
Your email address bounced...
Edit /etc/hostconfig on a netinfo server to have the correct, unqualified
hostname. This will then boot up and be recognised a the netinfo master,
and you will be able to update netinfo. If necessary, you can copy the
/etc/netinfo databases to a different machine, but you shouldn't have to
do that.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Stephen_MacDougall@radium.ca (Stephen MacDougall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for Sound Blaster AWE32 driver
Date: 20 Feb 1996 02:09:10 GMT
Organization: ftn Internet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gbag6$c2p@master.ftn.net>
References: <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com>
In <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com> George Wu wrote:
> Does ####################################################################
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From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Extra swap space problems
Date: 24 Feb 1996 04:06:02 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
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Reply-To: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
NNTP-Posting-Host: osci.me.ttu.edu
Keywords: swap disk
Hello, I am trying to allow my system to swap on a 400 meg drive I
have and I think I have followd the directions in the man pages and
librarian. I renamed the disk swapdisk and it is succesfully
mounted (no change in fstab) at /private/swapdisk. When I
completely get rid of the swap space in /private/vm by deleting its
entry in swaptab the configuration seems to work except I get a
mount error at bootup after mach-swapon is started. The error says
that it cannot mount the swapfile.front file and it gives up. I do
not know what to do about this error. The system seems to work.
The error does not show up if I swap on /private/vm/swapfile instead
of /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile. Also I seem to run into trouble
if I want to swap on both the above files by having both entries in
swaptab. I limited the hiwat of the /private/vm/swapfile and made
it preferred, and the mach_swapon does appear to know both are there
because the sum of the lowat shows up in the application watchswap,
however, the preferred file still seems to run my boot disk out of
space. Just so I know how to do this kind of thing could somebody
send me their or THE procedure for setting up multiple disks/files
as swap space. I have read the manuals, and still missed it :-).
Thanks!
---
Alan
______________________________________________________________
Alan A. Barhorst | alan@osci.me.ttu.edu
Mechanical Engineering | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/
Texas Tech University | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail.
______________________________________________________________
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.3 (with the netinfo patch) configuration
Date: 24 Feb 1996 18:34:22 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4gnlne$i2t@news1.panix.com>
Keywords: sendmail netinfo configuration
Hi!
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca wrote:
> I have sendmail 8.7.3 (with the netinfo patch) running on the hosts on
> our network.
>
> The sendmail mc/netinfo configuration is as follows:
>
> NEXTSTEP 3.3 (Motorola)
> mailhost.mc (generates mailhost.cf)
>
> OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
> MASQUERADE_AS(audiospeech.ubc.ca)dnl
> MAILER(local)dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
>
> niutil -read / /locations/sendmail
> name: sendmail
> mailhost: mailhost.audiospeech.ubc.ca
> sendmail.cf: /Net/mailhost/etc/sendmail/nullclient.cf
>
> niutil -read . /locations/sendmail
> name: sendmail
> mailhost: mailhost.audiospeech.ubc.ca
> sendmail.cf: /etc/sendmail/mailhost.cf
What setup do you use and where do you find the netinfo patch?
I loaded my sendmail from:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail/programs/s
endmail/sendmail.8.7.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz
Thanks! John Boller
jboller@panix.com
PS my machine is a m68k-next-nextstep3.3 with a CSLIP interface
which I would like to run a SMTP connection over.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How: timed or some other time related daemon setup
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 18:12:07 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Feb24.181207.14628@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4gls2n$15j6@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In article <4gls2n$15j6@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf
B. Blazek) writes:
> I have a NeXT connected to the internet, but only the local domain is
setup
> in the NetInfo database. We have very, very mixed net here.
>
> I was wondering, how I could setup some time related daemond in this
case. I
> read a lot of info, but all I got was how to setup time masters etc. in
a
> NetInfo network.
>
> How do I make my pure NeXT talk to some unix box and adjust the time?
/usr/etc/ntp -s timeserver
The netinfo based time service is slightly more complex, but basically
does the same thing.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Help partitioning 9GB drive under NS3.2 on black...'disk' command probl
Message-ID: <1996Feb24.103735.480@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4gi7lh$ejq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 10:37:35 GMT
In article <4gi7lh$ejq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> grosser@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu
(benjamin grosser) writes:
> Hi,
>
> I just aquired a new Seagate ST410800N 9GB drive for my black
> cube server running NS 3.2. Since BuildDisk can't partition
> drives so large, I attempted to follow the instructions under
> NeXTAnswer 1533 'Partitioning Big Disks', which tells how to
> partition a disk w/o BuildDisk.
>
> I ran into trouble running 'disk' after creating a disktab entry
> for the drive, and the instructions in the NeXTanswer don't seem
> to quite conform to what's going on. It doesn't like the
> drive-type, either from my command line arg (sent in the way next
> says to), or from the disktab entry maybe. The scenario
> follows...ANY help would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> ---
>
> The drive came formatted with 1024k blocks from MTI (formerly
> NPI), so I skipped the first step which was to do a low-level
> format of the drive, and went to step 2, which was to run
> scsimodes...I got this:
>
> localhost# scsimodes /dev/rsd2a
> SCSI information for /dev/rsd2a
> Drive type: SEAGATE ST410800N
> 1024 bytes per sector
> 70 sectors per track
> 27 tracks per cylinder
> 4926 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders)
> 9 spare sectors per cylinder
> 27 alternate tracks per volume
> 9362420 usable sectors on volume
>
> Next, I created a disktab entry for the drive, based on the information
> given to me in the NeXTanswer. I took the relevant info from scsimodes,
> and made those changes to the example, and changed everything else that
> seemed like they should be changed.
>
> MY DISKTAB:
>
> ST410800N|ST410800N-1024|SEAGATE ST410800N-1024:\
> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4926:nt#27:ns#70:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
> :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
> :pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
> :pb#2097152:sb#2097152:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
> :ib:tb=4.3BSD:
> :pc#4194304:sc#2097152:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
> :ic:tc=4.3BSD:
> :pd#6291456:sd#2097152:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#32:dd#4096:rd#10:od=time:\
> :id:td=4.3BSD:
> :pe#8388608:se#973490:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#32:de#4096:re#10:oe=time:\
> :ie:te=4.3BSD:
...munch...
One of the identifiers in the disktab entry must match the drive type
field of the scsimodes output exactly (yours doesn't!). 'disk' will
recognize the drive automatically afterwards and will use that disktab
entry in all subsequent actions.
Make sure you've set your drive to operate in asynch mode. Many problems
from failing to do so might masquerade as formatting problems, otherwise.
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: installing NSFIP machine on Next net
Message-ID: <1996Feb24.110826.554@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4ge5gr$1p19@core.bard.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:08:26 GMT
In article <4ge5gr$1p19@core.bard.edu> hs283@bard.edu (Hans Steiner)
writes:
> I am trying to install our new pentium in our existing NetInfo net
> of one turbo and three cubes as the NetInfo/mail/LocalApps server
> but SimpleNetworkStarter keeps bombing. It actually bombed so bad
> I had to reinstall Nextstep. I have followed all the directions
> in the online docs, but I keep on getting an error when it starts
> configuring NetInfo saying it can't start NetInfo because "Duplicate
> domain tags" and then it reboots. I then managed to screw up the
> original NetInfo server, a NeXTStation Turbo, and now I get the
> same message, if the SimpleNetworkStarter did its stuff properly.
> Sometimes SNS on Turbo thinks there is another server running and
> only allows me to set up the Turbo as a clone server even though
> there is only one cube attached to it. The only other info I can
> think of is that the NSFIP machine was put on our computer center
> OS/2 net before after much trouble. So I am asking for advice on
> what the problem is and also where I can learn about the details
> of what's going on. The online docs just seem to cover the nifty
> Apps (SNS, HostManager), but I would like to know about how I can
> do this manually. Also, a place to learn about the boot sequence
> of NeXT/mach and how to deal with it manually.
>
The SNS.app isn't one of my darlings, really! It coaxes novices into
tampering with network setup and then failing to do its job properly so
many times. There is nothing like an experienced sysadmin and the good
ol'e manual setup ;-)
First, you should have a clean client setup to start from. The files in
/usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig and /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo
need to be copied to /private/etc to achieve this.
/etc/hostconfig on the client should then look like this (comment
ommitted):
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
The NetInfo of the client should only contain 'localhost' and
'broadcasthost' in its 'machines' directory. The domain defining your
NetInfo server (usually root) should have a 'machines' entry for the
client to be served. You can create this entry by means of
HostManager.app or manually inside NetInfoManager.app (best to be done on
the server itself but you can do it on any machine in the network if you
choose the domain properly).
Use DigitalLibrarian to learn more about NetInfo and the associated tools
from the sysadmin manuals in /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf.
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Message-ID: <1996Feb24.113426.673@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:34:26 GMT
In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> >
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes: On
> 22 Feb 1996, Operator wrote:
>
> > I have Cube with a 1gb external HD, where I store a lot of very
> > important data (I know I should had made a BackUp). A friend
> > was trying to format a floppy disk but instead of formatting the
> > floppy, he unfortunately format the HD.
> >
> > That was done with "initialize" option from the "Disk" menu of
> > Workspace Manager.
>
> ?!?! Is this a commonly known problem? If so, what can be done
> to protect the HD from this process? Excuse my saying so, but
> that's extremely user-unfriendly.
>
This can only happen for automounted drives. Every hard mounted drive is
protected from this (if there isn't some part of this mechanism broken by
some improper action of some unknown sort).
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Message-ID: <1996Feb24.113051.616@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <1996Feb21.131018.29359@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:30:51 GMT
In article <1996Feb21.131018.29359@investor.pgh.pa.us>
rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
> In article
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
> >On 13 Feb 1996, Felipe Pait wrote:
> >
> >> I would like the spool file to be left in place after Mail.app
> >> retrives new mail.
> >
> >Mail.app used to do this, then it changed for some reason I still don't
> >understand.
> >
Mail.app uses the presence of a inbox to determine its signalling of
incoming new mails. The inbox is to be owned by the user for to be
deleted after retrieval of new mails. If this inbox happens to be owned
by root (or any other but the owner) sendmail can still deliver mail (runs
suid root!) but Mail.app can't remove the inbox anymore. In consequence
the new mail signalling of Mail.app will be broken, thereafter. Second
possibility is that /private/spool/mail had improper permissions (rw to
all and set to sticky) and therefore Mail.app failed to remove the inbox.
...munch...
>
> I don't believe sendmail is involved at this point. Mail.app removes
> the /usr/spool/mail file after reading it. What I do is to go to
> /usr/spool/mail in a terminal window; copy my mail file to a tmp; load
> it with Mail.app; and restore the tmp.
>
> Why do I do this? Because I only use Mail.app when I have to read Next
> formatted mail. Why do I do that? Because it takes too darn long and
> it is too darn inconvenient to save a piece of mail in a mail file under
> Mail.app compared to BSD mail.
>
> I am still running 3.2. Does anybody know if 3.3 is better and faster?
> I like the idea of directory trees to save mail, but I don't like how
> long it takes under 3.2.
Never had any speed considerations running Mail.app. Mine was always more
than acceptable. Do you run Mail.app on megabit mails or have you mounted
the inbox over a modem connection ;-)
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: neuss@sun38 (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:54:31 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <4gs3h7$kr4@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu) wrote:
> I get that message when I try to do 'login root' from a shell (yes I know
> about 'su', but for one task I have to use 'login')
> How can I tell my NeXT to allow that? It's a standalone so security
> isn't a problem I concern myself with too much (who wants to steal my
> papers?)
Remove the "secure" attribute asociated with the terminal in file
/etc/ttys. Note: in general, I wouldn't do that, its a minor
security problem. For a standalon machine its probably safe
enough though.
Peace,
Chris
--
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// neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
// http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/
// +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: teddy@hubert.fukt.hk-r.se (Teddy Hogeborn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to update the resolver in NS 3.0?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: 29 Feb 1996 05:49:04 +0100
Organization: FUKT Computer Society
Sender: teddy@hubert.fukt.hk-r.se
Message-ID: <kkhgwa4tz3.fsf@hubert.fukt.hk-r.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Keywords: bind, shared libraries, resolver
I use some features in our local nameserver setup that requires
resolvers to understand CNAMEs in reverse lookups. I have therefore
compiled the newest version of bind (4.9.3-REL-Patch1), and it works
fine.
But naturally the system binaries don't use the libresolv.a, so *how*
do I fix it? I think I that all of /lib/libsys_p.a, /lib/libsys_s.a
and /usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib have the resolver routines in them,
(NS 3.0, black hw) but I don't dare to muck with a shared library libc
for fear of creating a forever unbootable system.
So how do I replace the resolver routines with the new versions? What
part of the online manual should I read? I found nothing simple in it
about creating shared libraries.
Please reply by email, and I'll summarize, as I don't read this group.
/Teddy
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: HELP: disktab entry for Quantum Atlas 2GIG
Date: 26 Feb 1996 19:45:52 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <4gt2lg$d3d@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
References: <4ggh1v$j8m@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4ggh1v$j8m@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
On 02/21/96, Wassim M. Jabi wrote:
>Hi:
>
>I need a disktab entry for a Quantum Atlas 2GIG disk (XP32150)
>How much can I expect to get out of it in terms of usuable
>space.
>
>Please e-mail me (wjabi@umich.edu)
Well, I finally broke down and wrote my own entry with the
help of my advisor Prof. Harold Borkin. You might need to lower
the "black magic number". I used: ca#32
Disclaimer:
1. Get NeXTAnswers first:
http://www.next.com/
Title: Initializing and Partitioning Large Disks
Entry Number: 1533
Creation Date: Novmeber 7, 1995
and the article:
Title: Adding On without Flipping Out
Journal: NEXTSTEP In Focus, Spring 1994 (Vol. 4, No 2)
Author: Mark Tacchi
2. Get the Specs on the Quantum Disk from:
http://www.quantum.com/
3. Check the entries in disktab with SCSIMODES:
ss 512 bytes per sector
ns 109 sectors per disk
nt 10 tracks per cylinder
nc 3907 cylinders per volume
4. Check the entries with Manufacturer's Specs
rm 7200 Rotational Speed per minute
DISKTAB ENTRY PROVIDED AS IS. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I ASSUME
NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR DISK OR COMPUTER
# Quantum Atlas XP32150 (2Gigabyte SCSI Hard Disk)
XP32150|XP32150-512|Quantum XP32150|Quantum XP32150-512:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:ns#109:nt#10:nc#3907:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
You'll get about 1.77Gigabytes out of it.
--
Wassim M. Jabi
Doctoral Program in Architecture
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.3 on a standalone machine (using PPP)
Date: 28 Feb 1996 14:29:41 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4h1osl$1hia@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <4gubqp$og5@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) wrote:
: Hi,
: Has anybody beed able to configure sendmail 8.7.3 to work well with a
: standalone machine sending mail over a PPP link. I am currently able
: to send mail when I am connected via PPP but I get strange error
: messages when I am not connected:
: Feb 26 00:23:08 localhost sendmail[347]: My unqualified host name
: (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
: I would like outgoing email to go in the queue when I am not
: connected. The mailq command itself seems not to work when I am not
: connected (the pointer starts spinning forever).
I would think this would be an effect of not being able to resolve your
hostname. Try adding "localhost" (as well as your 'real' hostname) to your
NetInfo "hosts" entry... That might help...
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Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu (Bill Bereza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for Parallel Port Driver
Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:12:33 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University
Message-ID: <4gvl31$1oc@news.gvsu.edu>
References: <4gth41$6pd$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>
In article <4gth41$6pd$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Rod Gilchrist
<103127.17@CompuServe.COM> writes:
> Does anyone know of a parallel port driver for Intel 3.3 with
> source available?
>
I had problems with standard 3.3 parallel driver also. My machine would
slow down and eventually freeze if I had my printer turned off. Christian
Starkjohann's ParallelPortDriver1.2 works great without this problem. I
got the source from somewhere on ftp.leo.org. You can definitely find the
source at:
ftp://ftp.csis.gvsu.edu/pub/next/ParallelPortDriver.1.2.I.bs.tar.gz
What I would really like to have is source code for an HPPA parallel
driver. Right now I'm working on porting this driver, but I have no
examples of HP drivers. Christian's driver should be easy to port.
--
Bill Bereza berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu <NeXT/MIME>
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: Sendmail has suddenly become case *sensitive*
Message-ID: <DnEoLD.2FL@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <DnCH4J.3uD@nvc.cc.ca.us> <RDL.96Feb25162534@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 23:15:12 GMT
In article <RDL.96Feb25162534@world.std.com>,
Robert La Ferla <rdl@world.std.com> wrote:
>What version of sendmail are you running? I presume it's NeXT's 5.67?
It's NeXT's 5.67f2, running on Intel.
I've played with several other computers, both Intel and m68k, all
with 5.67f2, and none of them have this problem.
Why has this one computer suddenly become case sensitive?
--
Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Voice: 707 253 3130
Napa Valley College Fax: 707 253 3063
2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy., Napa, CA, 94558
<fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> MIME ok, NeXTMail tolerated
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:55:00 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-12.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gt6n4$7a4@usc.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb24.113426.673@nidat.sub.org>
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960226101359.23719D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960226101359.23719D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
> Ok, so do I understand correctly that ANY user can [accidentally] format
> the Hard drive (ie "/") of my NeXT (or I could accidentally do this
myself?)
>
> What do I do to protect this from happening (there has to be a way, or
> else what would provent Evil Users from doing this all the time?)
No TJL -
You can only accidentally format a harddrive that is a mounted drive, e.g.
you find it in the directory listings or click on it on the shelf. If you
have permission to write to that drive (say, wheel or root) then boom bala
boom, go to the nearest bar and do some serious reformatting! :-)
The case in question that brought up this whole issue was someone let a
friend of theirs format something under their (the first one's) login. I'm
not sure it would have been possible if they'd had a benign guest login for
that person with no permissions serious permissions (like wheel). That
hasn't been mentioned in any of the posts.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: 26 Feb 1996 20:58:45 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-12.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gt6u5$7a4@usc.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gs3h7$kr4@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
In <4gs3h7$kr4@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> Christian Neuss wrote:
> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu) wrote:
>
>
> > I get that message when I try to do 'login root' from a shell (yes I
know
> > about 'su', but for one task I have to use 'login')
>
> > How can I tell my NeXT to allow that? It's a standalone so security
> > isn't a problem I concern myself with too much (who wants to steal my
> > papers?)
>
> Remove the "secure" attribute asociated with the terminal in file
> /etc/ttys. Note: in general, I wouldn't do that, its a minor
> security problem. For a standalon machine its probably safe
> enough though.
Why can't you just open Teminal.app or whatever with OpenSesame and be in a
root terminal? Maybe you are having something being done within a script
that needs to go to root? I'd be curious to know what you are cooking up.
I remember once something about writing a cron script that would auto unlog,
reboot and relog into one's home directory. No that's not it. Tho now that I
think about it, wouldn't mind figuring out a script like that. Any
suggestions (the logout and login seem to be the tricky parts)?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: dlh@clipper.cb.att.com (-D.Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT using NIS group.byusr map problem
Date: 27 Feb 1996 22:42:57 GMT
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: att
Message-ID: <4h01dh$eru@nntpa.cb.att.com>
I have a set of NeXT clients that I what to use a Solaris 2.4 NIS server.
I got the NIS to bind but the NeXT login window manager fails.
I called SUN after snooping the network. They say
It looks like the nextstep client is calling for " group.byusr ".
NIS clients should use - group.byname or group.bygid
to request ypcompat information from the group.org_dir NIS+ table.
The question is - why is the nextstep client calling for group.byusr ????
Does anyone know why and how to resolve this problem.
Thanks,
Don Hayes
Lucent Tech.
don.l.hayes@att.com
From: David Williams <wingchun@wingchun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing on Black Next w/nextlaser from Win95/Win NT
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:24:42 -0800
Organization: Bay Area Wing Chun Association - Planet Wing Chun
Message-ID: <313554BA.4EB9@wingchun.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Is there a simple way to have my 3.0 next be a print server for my
Win 95/Win NT box? ie I want to use that 400dpi printer without having
to buy a new laser for the 95/NT box.
And yes I do have the ability for them to be networked to each other,
have em both on a hub, just haven't introduced em yet in their
respective lmhosts/hosts netinfo databases.
Do I need a later release of the nextOS?
I've switched over to Win 95/NT as my desktop and the Nextstation is
dormant at this point.
Please email any answers on this.
Thanks,
David Williams
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I fix a disabled Eject-Button
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:22:09 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960226101920.23719E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4glu11$2hj@client1.news.psi.net>
It would be wrong to call this a 'fix' but for the time being it might help:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/eject.1.1.NI.bs.tar.gz
Inside is a binary (compiled for NeXT and Intel, with source) which does
NOT have to be run as root, and will eject from the commandline. There
is also a /bin/sh script which does the same, but only when run as root.
I don't know for sure that it will help, but it _should_.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:15:49 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960226101359.23719D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb24.113426.673@nidat.sub.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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In-Reply-To: <1996Feb24.113426.673@nidat.sub.org>
On Sat, 24 Feb 1996, Peter Nitezki wrote:
> >
> > ?!?! Is this a commonly known problem? If so, what can be done
> > to protect the HD from this process? Excuse my saying so, but
> > that's extremely user-unfriendly.
> >
> This can only happen for automounted drives. Every hard mounted drive is
> protected from this (if there isn't some part of this mechanism broken by
> some improper action of some unknown sort).
Ok, so do I understand correctly that ANY user can [accidentally] format
the Hard drive (ie "/") of my NeXT (or I could accidentally do this myself?)
What do I do to protect this from happening (there has to be a way, or
else what would provent Evil Users from doing this all the time?)
Thanks
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Printer accounting...This should be a no-brainer!
Message-ID: <DnHtEz.KAx@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 15:52:11 GMT
I would like to get printer accounting to work. I've followed the
steps outlined in the manual and man pages. I've seen a post recently
where someone wanted the same thing and he explained it like it was in the
manual. The difference here is that no NeXT computer is hosting the
printer. The printer is hosted by a Gatorbox. Everyone prints through
the server (a NeXT for Intel, 3.2). Here's my printcap entry for the
printer:
admin1: \
:_nxfinalform:lp=:af=/usr/adm/pracct: \
:rm=admingb:rp=admin1:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/admin1: \
:ty=QMS-PS 1700:
I did make sure that /usr/adm/pracct exists.
I couldn't find anything about this in NeXTanswers.
Would some kind soul in the know please explain how printer
accounting works and how to get it going in a situation like this?
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:29:54 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
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On 27 Feb 1996, Bapi Gupta wrote:
> I have deleted /usr/template/user/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox and put the
> following line somewhere in my account creation scripts (generated by my
> own C program that I use for account management).
>
> ln -s /usr/spool/mail/user ~user/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
>
> This way Mail.app accesses your spool without eating it.
> bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
Ok, what happens when someone deletes the last message from their
Active.mbox and compacts it? Does the link die?
TjL
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen Savor - 2 monitors
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 16:31:03 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
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On Wed, 28 Feb 1996, Francois UGUEN wrote:
> In <4gvo49$hm0@tandem.CAM.ORG> tralala@cam.org wrote:
> > Hi:
> > I have a NextDim with 2 monitors (one color & one B/W).
> > Is there a way to dim one of the monitors when not in use?
> > MetroTools has a screen saver that will only work on both
> > monitors simultaneously.
> > Thanks,
> Au choix, soit tu lui mets un drap sur l'ecran soit a la main tu l'eteins en
> appuyant sur le bouton!
> ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) :-) |-) 8-( 8-o 8-Q
Damn... I knew I'd regret taking Spanish in high school....
TjL
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From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with DNS
Date: 28 Feb 1996 16:17:50 GMT
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <4h1v7e$o91@park.interport.net>
Hi all:
I am having some problems with our DNS. We are connected to the internet
through ISDN and our connection has been going up at weird hours at night
when I know when no one is using it. The connection seems to be coming up
because of DNS packets being sent to the router. The i.p address that the
dns is looking for are different every time , except for some repetitions.
Now I am not sure why or where from these packets are sent. Can anyone
suggest me a way to do this or have an idea on how to fix this problem?
Anyhelp will be greatly appreciated.
Shourav
udas@northstar.com
From: cello@virgil (Sean Varah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Looking for Sound Blaster AWE32 driver
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Date: 27 Feb 1996 16:59:07 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Message-ID: <4gvd8r$blc@decaxp.harvard.edu>
References: <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com> <4gbag6$c2p@master.ftn.net> <4gqgr2$i2j@core.bard.edu> <4grqok$o1f@shellx.best.com> <4gsu69$24k@turbocat.snafu.de>
David Wetzel (dave@turbocat.snafu.de) wrote:
: I have the same problems with my Mircrosoft W. SoundSys (clone)
: BUT with
: sndplay (1) - play soundfiles
: sndrecord (1) - record a soundfile from sound-in or the DSP
: it simply works!
: That should be an easy fix for NeXT.
Ah, yes. One might think so. But no. A very nice programmer at NeXT
wrote a program to fix the playback problems with Intel hardware, implemented
in Paul Lansky's Pplay.app program (see the Princeton links on my home page).
Recording is another issue. I'd be curious to know if you can record TRUE
stereo 44.1Khz from your card (The MediaTrix). Most NS-FIP cards simply
record the left channel TWICE (once to each channel of the file) instead
of real stereo. The only card I've actually got stereo recording from is
the Pro Audio Basic.
One program I haven't tried recording with is called Production_Partner,
by someone in Germany (sorry, I forget the name). That might be more
successful.
In the meantime, I'm debating moving over to SGI or LINUX. Gee, the NeXT
platforms USED to be a pro-audio platform. . .
Sean
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From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Agh! Upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 and now "can't mount root"
Date: 28 Feb 1996 01:46:37 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4h189t$rg9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
I've just upgraded my PC from version 3.2 to 3.3, and now the thing
refuses to boot because:
rootdev 600, howto 0
vfs_mountroot: error=6
panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
I've tried other combinations of boot commands with various rootdev
specifications, all with similar results.
I'm using a DPT scsi card, but I notice that when NS is registering
device drivers it doesn't appear to list the DPT card (the screen scrolls
by too fast for me to really see it all). When it gets past that part
and starts listing the devices it finds, it lists:
EISA0
PS2Controller
PCKeyboard0
fc0
fd0
fd0a (huh?!)
com0
event0
kmDevice0
Significantly, that list contains nothing about any scsi card, bus, or
drive. However, the machine boots off a different partition of the same
drive with success. There are 3 partitions: A and B are DOS and
extended DOS partitions, respectively, and C is the NS partition (it is
marked active). Obviously it gets far enough to see that because I get
the NS boot manager.
I've tried booting with config=Default, but that doesn't seem to help.
I even tried booting with config=Instance0--(yeah, well, there used to
be one there, albeit in a different location). But still no luck.
Has anybody seen this problem before? Does anybody know what I can do
to recover? Obviously I can attempt to just re-install from scratch
but--you guessed it!--I didn't do a backup :(
Lusty
From: kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,com.sys.next.software
Subject: WebObject <BusError on i386>
Date: 25 Feb 1996 08:01:12 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4gp508$ivl@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
I got a buserror when i run WebObject. At fixes?
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From: kohler@lithnext (Vincent Kohler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot disk gone bad - fixable?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:51:57 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Message-ID: <4gv9at$gie@disunms.epfl.ch>
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Mike Cox (mc2@sparc.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM) wrote:
: In article <4gtrt4$4br@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>,
: Mike Cox <Mike.Cox@SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> wrote:
: >My system crashed and will no longer boot from th original boot disk.
: >I was able to build a new disk to boot from, and I can mount the original
: >disk and everything looks OK. When I try to boot from it the system stops
: >or hangs after printing the line "rootdev 600, howto 0" . When I boot
: >from the new disk the next thing that comes out is the date and then
: >the windowmanger starts up. I tried doing a disk -b but that didn't
: >change anything.
: >
: >Any ideas on how I can track down what is wrong?
: >
: >Thanks...
Just to be sure: type the entire line below, instead of just disk -b
/usr/etc/disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a
replace rsd0a with the appropriate device
(rsd0a if the first SCSI drive or rhd0a if IDE)
I used this when I lost the dual boot. It worked well for me.
Hope it helps
Vincent
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Laboratoire d'Informatique Theorique
EPFL
Switzerland
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From: Rod Gilchrist <103127.17@CompuServe.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Looking for Parallel Port Driver
Date: 26 Feb 1996 23:52:32 GMT
Organization: Visible Genetics
Message-ID: <4gth41$6pd$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>
Does anyone know of a parallel port driver for Intel 3.3 with
source available?
The standard one returns from write after every character when
connected to my DeskJet 660C. This is not too useful when
transfering the output of ghostscript to the printer (27 minutes
per page for a page with just PS text).
Has anyone run into this before?
--
Rod Gilchrist
Visible Genetics, Toronto
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS errors
Date: 29 Feb 1996 17:27:59 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4h4nmv$109a@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
(originally posted in csn.hardware...)
Recently one of my machines (a non-turbo colour slab) has started
crashing on a daily basis and leaving these kinds of errors in
/usr/adm/messages:
Feb 27 16:49:05 anger mach: NFS server raddi not responding still trying
Feb 27 16:49:05 anger mach: NFS server raddi ok
Feb 27 17:29:49 anger mach: NFS read error ESTALE to host raddi fh 611 0
80000 e0f266f2 396c0000 80000 27961 42fa0000
Feb 27 17:29:49 anger mach: vnode_pageout: failed!
Feb 28 10:20:51 anger mach: enrx: no network buffers
at which point I have to bring down the machine with the Command-Command-~
and go into the ROM monitor in order to reboot the machine.
Can anyone out there shed some light on what might be causing this problem?
Thanks
Eugene
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: Sendmail has suddenly become case *sensitive*
Message-ID: <DnHzwK.C0A@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 18:12:20 GMT
In article <DnEoLD.2FL@nvc.cc.ca.us>,
Chris Osborn <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>Why has this one computer suddenly become case sensitive?
Figured it out!
For some reason, the sendmail.mailhost.cf distributed with 3.3 has the
"u" flag set for the local mailer. It *only* seems to have an effect
on aliases, not on actual account names.
On all the other computers I've been using my own custom sendmail.cf,
which is why I wasn't getting the problem anywhere else.
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From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SOLUTION: Agh! Upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 and now "can't mount root"
Date: 29 Feb 1996 09:41:30 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4h4oga$phl@aimnet.aimnet.com>
I posted recently, saying that NS seemed unable to recognize my hard
drive at all upon trying to reboot after upgrading from 3.2 to 3.3
(despite seeing the NS boot manager on the drive and starting with it!)
Many people had extremely helpful and cogent suggestions. The problem
was that the set of boot drivers NS was using did not include the DPT
scsi driver required for my scsi card. By issuing a "Boot Drivers"="<list>"
command at the boot prompt, I was able to specify the drivers it
should use, and get into single-user mode to modify the Default.table
to something that would actually boot.
Of course, as luck would have it my Configure.app is acting decidedly
schizophrenic now, so I'm not completely out of the woods yet. But
this I can deal with.
Thank you to everyone who sent me suggestions--nearly all of them were
exactly on track.
Lusty
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printer accounting...This should be a no-brainer!
Date: 28 Feb 1996 18:43:02 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
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References: <DnHtEz.KAx@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
In article <DnHtEz.KAx@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca> mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard) writes:
> I would like to get printer accounting to work. I've followed the
>steps outlined in the manual and man pages. I've seen a post recently
>where someone wanted the same thing and he explained it like it was in the
>manual. The difference here is that no NeXT computer is hosting the
>printer. The printer is hosted by a Gatorbox. Everyone prints through
>the server (a NeXT for Intel, 3.2). Here's my printcap entry for the
>printer:
>
>admin1: \
> :_nxfinalform:lp=:af=/usr/adm/pracct: \
> :rm=admingb:rp=admin1:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/admin1: \
> :ty=QMS-PS 1700:
Pager accounting on NS is performed by the NetInfo printcap "if" filter:
if=/usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/prserver
Therefore, as long as all NeXTs are printing via the LPD remote printer
mechanism (with "rm" spec in NetInfo printcap), you won't get any
page accounting. For accounting to work, a designated NS server machine must
print through 'prserver' or an equivalent if filter. Typically, the "if" filter
must query the printer for the cumulative page count before and after each job
and take the difference to get pages/job. I think there is no support for
doing that in LPD protocol using the "rm" mechanism.
Is Gatorbox basically a LPD/LPR to AppleTalk protocol converter?
If that is the case, I don't see any easy way to make it work, other
than having Gatorbox do the accounting, which is probably asking too much
from a dumb converter box. The bottom line is that a machine that wants to
the accounting must talk to the printer directly via a bi-directional comm
channel.
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.3 on a standalone machine (using PPP)
Date: 27 Feb 1996 09:02:59 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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In <4gubqp$og5@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Francois Magnan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody beed able to configure sendmail 8.7.3 to work well with a
> standalone machine sending mail over a PPP link. I am currently able
> to send mail when I am connected via PPP but I get strange error
> messages when I am not connected:
>
> Feb 26 00:23:08 localhost sendmail[347]: My unqualified host name
> (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
>
> I would like outgoing email to go in the queue when I am not
> connected. The mailq command itself seems not to work when I am not
> connected (the pointer starts spinning forever).
8.7.3 needs to have all machine names and the mailhost entered into NetInfo
and /etc/hostconfig as fully-qualified domain names. Then you won't have any
problems.
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From: fox@jeans.fokus.gmd.de (Oliver Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: need help to change sybase sizes
Date: 28 Feb 1996 19:45:43 GMT
Organization: GMD-FOKUS
Message-ID: <4h2bd7$d0t@stern.fokus.gmd.de>
Keywords: sybase
Hi
need help with my sybase database
when I installed the sybase database i agree to the size of 16 Mb
- now it is to small
how I can change the overall size ?
I new about ALTER DATABASE
but with this I only can make some of my training Databases bigger till
the
summ of them all reaches 16Mb and than -all its over
OK here are the two questions:
How I can make the overall size for the database bigger?
How I can reduce the size of a example database?
thank you for help
Oliver
Tel.: +49 30 25 499 123
Fax: +49 30 25 499 202
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From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Re: Looking for Sound Blaster AWE32 driver
Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:29:29 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4gsu69$24k@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com> <4gbag6$c2p@master.ftn.net> <4gqgr2$i2j@core.bard.edu> <4grqok$o1f@shellx.best.com>
sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) wrote:
(...)
> under mail. I must wonder if this is a problem with the
> applications under Intel. When it works (about half
> the time) it works fine. Weird. I bet sound recording
> under Intel never got much testing...
>
> cheers,
> -sam
I have the same problems with my Mircrosoft W. SoundSys (clone)
BUT with
sndplay (1) - play soundfiles
sndrecord (1) - record a soundfile from sound-in or the DSP
it simply works!
That should be an easy fix for NeXT.
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(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
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From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Agh! Upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 and now "can't mount root"
Date: 28 Feb 1996 21:11:29 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4h2ge1$6r4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4h189t$rg9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Lusty Wench (lusty@aimnet.com) wrote:
: I've just upgraded my PC from version 3.2 to 3.3, and now the thing
: refuses to boot because:
[...]
I just fixed a machine which had the same problem. Let me try to
remember what I did:
Boot off the installation disk. At the boot prompt give
it the magic line (which is also mentioned in the 3.3 manual
in the troubleshooting section)
"Ask for Drivers"="YES" rootdev=sd0a -s
supposed sd0a is you NeXTSTEP partition.
Then it should ask for the drivers disk after having booted
the kernel. Select the right DPT driver and the machine will
boot into singleuser mode. It might ask you if you want to
proceed, because it tells you that this is an installation.
It is safe to answer 'yes' to this question as long as it
is the first and only one (it will ask again before attemping
to clean out you NS partition).
When booted singeluser, you must try to fix the problem by
modifying the appropriate config-files by hand. This is
a bit tricky as the problem of the failed upgrade stems from
a symbolic link pointing to nowhere (at least it did for me.
Maybe you got something like a kickdisk/kickpartition - then
you'll need to include the DPT driver in this config).
Check /private/Drivers/i386 and /usr/Devices
The latter should be a symbolic link to the former. Both
must contain all the .config directories necessary to
boot your NeXTSTEP. Check /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table
If there is no such thing, check /usr/Devices/System.config/Default.table
instead. The "Boot Drivers" section should list all drivers
necessary for booting including the DPT. The drivers should
all be there on the harddisk somewhere. If not, mount the
3.3 cd and copy them over (you will not be able to mount
a floppy as NeXT omitted the floppy driver from the installation
disk). There might be two different directories containing
drivers (the upgrade process must have been a bit confused).
Take the directory in which the .config dirs contain
Instance0.tables as your Devices-directory.
Then type 'reboot' and pray. It might be necessary to repeat
the first steps (boot from floppy) several times until you
have a running system again (at least it was necessary for me,
but you might be faster with my nice instructiuons).
HTH.
Feel free to ask if you're not successful.
Cheers,
Axel
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haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Agh! Upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 and now "can't mount root"
Date: 28 Feb 1996 21:13:57 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4h2gil$6r4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4h189t$rg9@aimnet.aimnet.com> <4h2ge1$6r4@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
Axel Habermann (kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
: Lusty Wench (lusty@aimnet.com) wrote:
: in the troubleshooting section)
: "Ask for Drivers"="YES" rootdev=sd0a -s
It might be that only
"Ask For Drivers"="YES" rootdev=sd0a -s
^
works (don't have the manual at hand).
It might also be that 'rootdev=sd0' is better.
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.3 on a standalone machine (using PPP)
In-Reply-To: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca's message of 27 Feb 1996 07:28:25 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb27083655@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gubqp$og5@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:36:55 GMT
BTW - Be sure to ftp sendmail 8.7.4 from next-ftp.peak.org. CERT
recently found a security hole in 8.7.3. It is fixed in 8.7.4 along
with the NetInfo bug.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Sendmail has suddenly become case *sensitive*
In-Reply-To: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us's message of Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:38:43 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb25162534@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <DnCH4J.3uD@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:25:34 GMT
What version of sendmail are you running? I presume it's NeXT's 5.67?
Robert
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: panic: can't find blk in cyl
Date: 28 Feb 1996 20:55:56 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4h2fgs$kdv@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <4gvmbj$nns@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4gvmbj$nns@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Because I have not received an answer, I presume this one is genuinely new.
Noone experienced such a problem on NS/FIP before?
/ivo
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Backup/dump across LAN
Message-ID: <1996Feb25.112710.2367@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <312EBDEC.7F0B@harmonic.co.il>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 11:27:10 GMT
In article <312EBDEC.7F0B@harmonic.co.il> Uri <uri@harmonic.co.il> writes:
> Hi,
> This is the fifth time I try to get help, so, if you know something
> PLEASE HELP ME...
>
> I have few unix machines, but two are most important -
> The first is my main server - sparc 20 run SunOs 4.1.4 (solaris 1.1.2)
> with 4 m"m, 8 Mb, 120m, HP dat scsi tape attach to it.
>
> The second is NeXT machine run Mach10. (kind of unix)
>
> I want to dump (or other backup method) the NeXT file systems on the
> sparc's tape.
>
> The regular rdump command return error or without any parametrs want me
> to replace the tape cassate (the default NeXT dump/rdump parameters are
> for 135Mb dat tape, and I don't know how to config the NeXT to 8Mb,
> 120meter, 4m"m HP dat tape).
>
I've never tried it on my own but here some of my thoughts for comment and
reconsideration.
'rdump' relies on '/etc/rmt', the remote tape operations utility.
NEXTSTEP is BSDish, Solaris is SysVish, so will the 'rmt' interface really
fit? IMHO, this is a case for some serious dig up in the manuals.
The calculation of tape size parameters is simple arithmetic (capacity =
length x density) guided by a bit of man-page study (to know what is given
and what is variable).
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Extra swap space problems
Date: 24 Feb 1996 22:57:15 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-b-61.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4go54b$7b0@usc.edu>
References: <4gm2ra$q4f@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
In <4gm2ra$q4f@hydra.acs.ttu.edu> Alan A. Barhorst wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to allow my system to swap on a 400 meg drive I have
> and I think I have followd the directions in the man pages and librarian.
> I renamed the disk swapdisk and it is succesfully mounted (no change in
> fstab) at /private/swapdisk.
So far so good. At this point what you've successfully accomplished was
creating an external swapdisk that will automatically be used for swapping
AND temp files. Automatically. You don't have to do anything more.
But you did.....
> When I completely get rid of the swap space in private/vm by deleting its
> entry in swaptab the configuration seems to work except I get a mount
> error at bootup after mach-swapon is started.
You absolutely do not need to mess with the swaptab at all. You only change
things there when you are using a disk that is not labelled swapdisk. And
for any ext. swapdisk, really the easiest and simplest way is to use the
rc.swap file for making specific changes.
So, you should put back your swaptab file to the original settings.
[snip]
> Also I seem to run into trouble if I want to swap on both the above files
> by having both entries in swaptab.
If all you were to do is name a disk swapdisk, then you would already have
two swap files to use. The first one to be used will be the one on your
swapdisk, and, when that's full, swapping will go back to the original
swapfile on your boot drive. This is without making any changes to any
system files whatsoever.
[snip]
> I limited the hiwat of the /private/vm/swapfile and made it preferred, and
> the mach_swapon does appear to know both are there because the sum of the
> lowat shows up in the application watchswap, however, the preferred file
> still seems to run my boot disk out of space.
Return all your system files to what they were before you "optimized" them,
and your system should be fine. If you want more information than that you
can email me, or get that great FAQ on swapfiles created by Timothy J. Luoma
by mailng him with te correct subject:
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: mwdaniel@uiuc.edu (Michael W. Daniels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help partitioning 9GB drive under NS3.2 on black...'disk' command probl
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 96 23:04:20 GMT
Organization: Univ. Of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Message-ID: <4go5g7$k9q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4gi7lh$ejq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <1996Feb24.103735.480@nidat.sub.org>
In article <1996Feb24.103735.480@nidat.sub.org>, Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote:
>> MY DISKTAB:
>>
>> ST410800N|ST410800N-1024|SEAGATE ST410800N-1024:\
>> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4926:nt#27:ns#70:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
>> :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
>> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
>> :pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
>> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
>> :pb#2097152:sb#2097152:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
>> :ib:tb=4.3BSD:
>> :pc#4194304:sc#2097152:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
>> :ic:tc=4.3BSD:
>> :pd#6291456:sd#2097152:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#32:dd#4096:rd#10:od=time:\
>> :id:td=4.3BSD:
>> :pe#8388608:se#973490:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#32:de#4096:re#10:oe=time:\
>> :ie:te=4.3BSD:
Another problem is that the disktab will not parse in this form -- you
need to indent (with a tab) every line other than the first. Also, make
sure you have a hard-return after the last line. Your disktab could be
correct in every other respect and these two things would make it fail.
I've successfully installed the same drive on a 3.2 Intel machine, so I
know a little bit about what works.
Mike Daniels
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.3 (with the netinfo patch) configuration
In-Reply-To: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net's message of 24 Feb 1996 18:34:22 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb24181545@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gnlne$i2t@news1.panix.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 23:15:45 GMT
Get my distribution of sendmail 8.7.4 on next-ftp.peak.org. It fixes the
security hole that CERT warned us about and has the NetInfo patch.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: bkmoore@taurus.oac.uci.edu (Brian Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting the Man path
Date: 26 Feb 96 21:30:57 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <bkmoore.825370257@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
OK, I know there is another post about setting the man path, but
I'm still trying to figure out how to set it in the .cshrc, .profile
or in the .login files.
When I type "export MANPATH=/usr/man:/usr/local/man" from the
command line, it sets the path. But this is a drag to type
whenever I log in. I added the above statement to my .login
file, but it doesn't set the manpath.
Could anyone tell me where I should add the command in my configuration
files? BTW, I use the ZSH if that matters.
Thank You
Brian Moore
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Agh! Upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 and now "can't mount root"
Date: 28 Feb 1996 23:47:06 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4h2phq$mi6@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <4h189t$rg9@aimnet.aimnet.com>
lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench) wrote:
: I've just upgraded my PC from version 3.2 to 3.3, and now the thing
: refuses to boot because:
: rootdev 600, howto 0
: vfs_mountroot: error=6
: panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
: I've tried other combinations of boot commands with various rootdev
: specifications, all with similar results.
: I'm using a DPT scsi card, but I notice that when NS is registering
: device drivers it doesn't appear to list the DPT card (the screen scrolls
: by too fast for me to really see it all). When it gets past that part
: and starts listing the devices it finds, it lists:
: EISA0
: PS2Controller
: PCKeyboard0
: fc0
: fd0
: fd0a (huh?!)
: com0
: event0
: kmDevice0
: Significantly, that list contains nothing about any scsi card, bus, or
: drive. However, the machine boots off a different partition of the same
: drive with success. There are 3 partitions: A and B are DOS and
: extended DOS partitions, respectively, and C is the NS partition (it is
: marked active). Obviously it gets far enough to see that because I get
: the NS boot manager.
: I've tried booting with config=Default, but that doesn't seem to help.
: I even tried booting with config=Instance0--(yeah, well, there used to
: be one there, albeit in a different location). But still no luck.
: Has anybody seen this problem before? Does anybody know what I can do
: to recover? Obviously I can attempt to just re-install from scratch
: but--you guessed it!--I didn't do a backup :(
Odds are that your BusLogic card is not configured to the default NEXTSTEP
thinks it should be... This means that it isn't recognized by the initial boot
loading process, so it can't find the root device (even after it obviously found
the boot sector from the device and found the disk to start the load process!).
Try setting your BusLogic to the NEXTSTEP default settings:
VL-bus: Port address=0x330, IRQ=11
EISA-bus: Port address=0x330, IRQ=11
ISA-bus: Port address=0x330, IRQ=11, DMA Chan=5
PCI-bus: <should auto-config... if not, you're screwed>
This assumes you will remove/adjust any conflicting cards in your box too... I
noted that on the BusLogic shipped with the Canon Objectstation41, the default
settings were: IRQ=10, PortAddr=0x334... NEXTSTEP did _NOT_ install this way.
If that isn't it, I have no other ideas for you...
Good Luck,
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies
701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: nando@ccrma.stanford.edu (Fernando Pablo Lopez Lezcano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP Vectra series 4 P166 or VT PPro 150, anyone installed NS on them?
Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:24:12 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <4h2rnc$fqb@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Keywords: compatibility
Hi netters!
Anyone out there has already installed NextStep in one of these machines?
HP Vectra VL series 4 Pentium 166MHz
HP Vectra VT Pentium Pro 150MHz
HP Vectra XU Pentium Pro 150MHz
In the case of the VL series 4 I'm particularly interested in the EIDE
controller and drive compatibility, since it does not have on board scsi
or ethernet controllers. In the Pentium Pro models my concern is the built
in SCSI and Ethernet controllers... I don't have details on chipsets used
and so on.
Thanks for any info, email me of post a followup...
-- Fernando
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GDB for GCC 2.7.2 on NeXTStation m68k-next-nextstep3.3
Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:48:27 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4gqovr$635@news1.panix.com>
Keywords: GNU GDB GCC NeXT m68k
Hi!
I am looking for GBB for GCC 2.7.2 on NeXTStation m68k-next-nextstep3.3.
Currently GDB 4.7 (NeXT 3.1) bus errors/segmentation faults with ObjC
executables generated by GCC 2.7.2. (er..Mach executables?).
gdb-4.15.1 does not build for the NeXT Motorola 68040
(m68k-next-nextstep3.3)
I would greatly appreciate and hints or pointers to help!
Thanks, John Boller
jboller@panix.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to clear Console window?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:29:37 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960226102644.23719G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu> <RDL.96Feb25163124@world.std.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <RDL.96Feb25163124@world.std.com>
On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Easy!
>
> % echo > /tmp/console.log
True, but will /tmp/console.log still 'tail' the console, or will that
be broken? If I remember correctly, it used to break.
I still think grabbing FastConsole from peanuts.leo.org is the best idea:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/FastConsole.1.01.NIHS.b.tar.gz
It let's you filter what goes shows up in its own console window, so you
can avoid seeing useless messages
Spy.app is also good:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/Spy.1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: problem of installl WebObject..
Date: 29 Feb 1996 16:09:18 GMT
Organization: Academic Computing Services, Sheffield University
Message-ID: <4h4j3e$b0t@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4h0vjv$rce@sydney1.world.net>
In-Reply-To: <4h0vjv$rce@sydney1.world.net>
On 02/28/96, Operator wrote:
> when i try to install the WebObject, i got the following error message..
>
> Installing WebObjects.pkg into / ...
> Installing /NextLibrary/WebObjects-Beta1/Executables/DefaultApp-Beta1
... OK.
> **** directory checksum error (7581 != 33734)
> **** There were errors while installing WebObjects.pkg.
> .... errors.
>
If you're doing this from command-line, I got similar when I tried to install
WO. When I used Installer.app it worked fine -- with the same .pkg.
Very odd indeed.
If you're doing this using Installer.app, maybe the file was corrupted when
you downloaded it (this was my first suspiscion).
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: "Chuang, Shyne-Song" <Shyne-Song.Chuang@ubs.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SATAN 1.1.1 on NextStep
Date: 29 Feb 1996 02:22:42 GMT
Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland
Message-ID: <4h32li$fhm@svdns1.ubinet.ubs.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I remember someone asking for directions for compiling SATAN on NextStep.
I remember pointing him to the instructions for SATAN 1.0 in NeXT
Answers.
The instructions are slightly different for 1.1.1. I skipped Step 9) and
managed to get SATAN running propoerly.
A long time ago, someone posted that SATAN found a lot of vulnerabilities
in his NextStep machine. This is definately not true (on NS 3.3). Of
course, SATAN checks for holes that have been known for quite a while...
Regards,
Song
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.4 and Mail.app problem
In-Reply-To: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca's message of 29 Feb 1996 00:55:53 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb28220516@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4h2tip$4ma@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 03:05:16 GMT
Francois,
* How do I rewrite my From: lines to read ``First_Last@My.Domain''?
There are a couple of ways of doing this. This describes
using the "user database" code. This is still experimental,
and was intended for a different purpose -- however, it does
work with a bit of care. It does require that you have the
Berkeley "db" package installed (it won't work with DBM).
First, create your input file. This should have lines like:
loginname:mailname First_Last
First_Last:maildrop loginname
Install it in (say) /etc/userdb. Create the database:
makemap btree /etc/userdb.db < /etc/userdb
You can then create a config file that uses this. You will
have to include the following in your .mc file:
define(confUSERDB_SPEC, /etc/userdb.db)
FEATURE(notsticky)
Lastly, go into Mail.app's expert preferences and add an
additional outgoing header:
From myusername
Go into Mail.app's Compose preference and add a
Reply-To: My Full Name <My_Full_Name@mydomain.com>
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4h2tip$4ma@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) writes:
Hi,
I am using sendmail 8.7.4 in NS3.3. I use the user databe feature of
this new version of sendmail to modify the "From" and "Reply-to"
fields of outgoing messages. For example:
All mail posted from userA has fields:
From: userA@domainA
Reply-to: user@domainA
All mail posted from userB has fields:
From: userB@domainB
Reply-to: userB@domainB
domainA and domainB have even noting to do with my machine domain.
This works very well when I send mail using the "Mail" shell command.
However, when I use Mail.app the user database is not used and wrong
return addresses are in the headers.
Anybody knows how to prevent Mail.app from overriding the senmail.cf
definitions?
Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.3 on a standalone machine (using PPP)
In-Reply-To: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 27 Feb 1996 09:02:59 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb27083526@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gubqp$og5@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> <4guhc3$cpm@usc.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:35:26 GMT
/etc/hostconfig? Don't you mean /etc/hosts?
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Mail.app & sendmail 8.3
In-Reply-To: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca's message of 27 Feb 1996 07:23:23 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb27084340@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gubhb$o52@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:43:40 GMT
The problem is that sendmail doesn't like the comment part of your e-mail
address e.g. your full name in either <> or (). I've spoken to Eric Allman
about this and it's not high on his priority list to fix. He doesn't like
First_Last e-mail addresses. In any case, you can go into Mail.app. Select
Preferences->Expert and add two additional outgoing headers for your account:
From username
Reply-To Full Name <username>
I haven't tried putting just username in the Reply-To but it should work...
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4gubhb$o52@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) writes:
Hello everyone,
I installed sendmail 8.3 on my NeXTCube running NS3.3. I noticed the
following strange problem:
I use the user database capabilities of sendmail8.3. This makes me
able to change the "From:" and "Reply-to:" fields of the outgoing
messages. The problem is that everything work well when I send an
email using unix "mail" shell command. When I try to send the same
message using Mail.app the user database is no used and I get the
usual "From:" field (which is wrong since my host is only connected
temporarily via a PPP link).
Anybody knows what is different between "mail" and Mail.app???
Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: steved@ec.bankone.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange console message
Date: 26 Feb 1996 02:11:25 GMT
Organization: Bank One
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gr4sd$i7@ec.bankone.com>
Can anyone explain the following messages which are appearing in my console?
Feb 25 18:44:55 ec mach: tty2912: canon input overrun
Feb 25 18:44:56 ec last message repeated 39 times
Feb 25 20:10:23 ec mach: tty3040: canon input overrun
Feb 25 20:10:26 ec last message repeated 7368 times
Feb 25 20:18:50 ec mach: tty3040: canon input overrun
Feb 25 20:19:03 ec last message repeated 6987 times
I've been having problems with my bridge (Pipeline 50). Any relation,
perchance?
Thanks,
Steve
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for Sound Blaster AWE32 driver
Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:24:52 -0800
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <4grqok$o1f@shellx.best.com>
References: <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com> <4gbag6$c2p@master.ftn.net> <4gqgr2$i2j@core.bard.edu>
hs283@bard.edu (Hans Steiner) writes:
>You mean you can record with your AWE too? We've been having problems
>getting it to record anything...
I have this card (just bought it last week) and it works
fine for sound output under nextstep, but recording
is rather flaky. Sound.app will record something fine,
but then it will break somehow and fail to record later.
Restarting the app usually fixes the problem. Same thing
under mail. I must wonder if this is a problem with the
applications under Intel. When it works (about half
the time) it works fine. Weird. I bet sound recording
under Intel never got much testing...
cheers,
-sam
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting the Man path
Date: 29 Feb 1996 07:16:29 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4h3jsd$5pr@news.its.com>
References: <bkmoore.825370257@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
bkmoore@taurus.oac.uci.edu (Brian Moore) wrote:
> OK, I know there is another post about setting the man path, but
> I'm still trying to figure out how to set it in the .cshrc, .profile
> or in the .login files.
[ ... ]
> Could anyone tell me where I should add the command in my configuration
> files? BTW, I use the ZSH if that matters.
Yes, the shell you use matters. /bin/csh uses .login and .cshrc; /bin/sh
uses .profile; /bin/zsh uses .zlogin and .zshrc (as well as up to 5 other
files; read the manpage for why).
Put:
export MANPATH='/usr/local/man:/usr/man'
...in your .zshrc.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Date: 26 Feb 1996 21:12:33 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-12.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gt7o1$7a4@usc.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb24.113426.673@nidat.sub.org>
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960226101359.23719D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gt6n4$7a4@usc.edu>
I'd like to add that I think the story's one more reason to mount ext
harddrives under .private and link out the directories. That way nobobdy
except wheel would even be able to find the drives.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 26 Feb 1996 05:15:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4grfkt$iv@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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===========================================
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To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
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The ftp sites
=============
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(formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu)
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=====================================
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From: info.trend-soft@t-online.de (Torsten Rendelmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SNMP agent for NeXTSTEP?
Date: 29 Feb 1996 19:21:25 GMT
Organization: Trend-Soft, Germany
Message-ID: <4h4ubl$kr3@news00.btx.dtag.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi,
> Any product available?
I know about products "AGENT" and "NetWatch" from Ridgeback Solutions,
but have only a fax number: 001-310-456-9715 (call from germany).
Please mail if it was not the right number, 'm looking for more information.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
> Wenshin
----
Torsten Rendelmann; Trend-Soft, Germany
Tel. +49 5305 90100-1
Fax +49 5305 90100-2
eMail info.trend-soft@t-online.de
From: Dean_Reece@NeXT.com (Dean Reece)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOLUTION: Agh! Upgrade from 3.2 to 3.3 and now "can't mount root"
Date: 1 Mar 1996 01:53:29 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4h5lap$e1h@news.next.com>
References: <4h4oga$phl@aimnet.aimnet.com>
Yes, Configure.app get queasy when "System.config/Instance0.table"
is not in sync with all of the other "*.config/Instance*.table"s.
The basic rule is that in every driver listed on the "Active Drivers"
and "Boot Drivers" line of "System.config/Instance0.table", you must
have at least an "Instance0.table". Also, you must not have any
"Instance*.table"s present in any drivers NOT listed in
"System.config/Instance0.table".
Also, Instance table numbers start with 0 and increment without skipping
any positions. In other words, it is illegal to have an "Instance1.table"
without an "Instance0.table" in the same bundle. Likewise, you can't
have an "Instance0.table" and "Instance2.table" without "Instance1.table".
Lastly, You can hand create "Instance*.table"s within drivers by copying
the appropriate prototype table (i.e., "Default.table", "PCI.table",...).
If the prototype table is anything other than the "Default.table"
(ex."Foo.table"), you must add the line "Default Table" = "Foo";
That's about it for getting Configure to deal with hand edited instance
tables.
Cheers,
- Dean
Lusty Wench writes
| I posted recently, saying that NS seemed unable to recognize my hard
| drive at all upon trying to reboot after upgrading from 3.2 to 3.3
| (despite seeing the NS boot manager on the drive and starting with it!)
|
| Many people had extremely helpful and cogent suggestions. The problem
| was that the set of boot drivers NS was using did not include the DPT
| scsi driver required for my scsi card. By issuing a "Boot
Drivers"="<list>"
| command at the boot prompt, I was able to specify the drivers it
| should use, and get into single-user mode to modify the Default.table
| to something that would actually boot.
|
| Of course, as luck would have it my Configure.app is acting decidedly
| schizophrenic now, so I'm not completely out of the woods yet. But
| this I can deal with.
|
| Thank you to everyone who sent me suggestions--nearly all of them were
| exactly on track.
|
| Lusty
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NXFax notification
Date: 27 Feb 1996 15:15:24 GMT
Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver
Message-ID: <4gv76c$276@unity.westfalen.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi friends,
since 14 days or so I didnt get any fax notification in my mail. Before I
always get infos from agent about recieving faxes (not send faxes -it should
work too)
Im using smail.
Thanks for help
peter
--
peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki)
Am Bredberg 21 49143 Bissendorf Germany
"The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it!
NeXTmail and MIME welcome
Phone:+49(0)5402 98050
Public Key on request
From: bapi@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bapi Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: elm for white
Date: 26 Feb 1996 22:58:13 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <4gtdu5$bdv@newsreader.wustl.edu>
This is probably really simple, but we can't seem to get elm to compile
on our white NeXTs. Does anyone have 1) an ftp site for elm and 2) an
installation protocol to go with?
thanks,
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
Arts & Sciences Network Manager
Washington University in Saint Louis
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Logging all kinds of stuff
Date: 27 Feb 1996 06:02:23 -0800
Organization: Zach's House
Message-ID: <4gv2tf$ikl@crl.crl.com>
Hi,
I'm wondering how I can log all the telnet and ftp connections to my
machine. Other access logging would be good, too. As much as possible.
I've tried configuring /etc/syslog.conf with everything that I can think
of, but the best I can get my machine to do is log authorization failures.
I've studied the syslogd and syslog man pages extensively, but I haven't
been able to get very detailed logging of user activities going on.
wtmp is not enough for me. What can I do?
Here's what I have in syslog.conf now:
----------------------------------------------------
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;authpriv.none;mail.crit /dev/console
kern.debug;daemon,auth.notice;*.err;mail.crit /usr/adm/messages
lpr.debug /usr/adm/lpd-errs
mail.info /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
auth.info /usr/adm/auth.log
*.alert;kern.err;daemon.err operator
*.alert root
*.emerg *
*.notice;daemon.debug;*.info;mail.none /usr/adm/info.log
----------------------------------------------------
This doesn't give me very much useful info about who's accessing my
machine when and for what.
Any suggestions?
Zach
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: setting the Man path
In-Reply-To: bkmoore@taurus.oac.uci.edu's message of 26 Feb 96 21:30:57 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb26221758@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <bkmoore.825370257@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:17:58 GMT
Don't know about zsh. If you are running csh, you put the following in
your ~/.cshrc:
setenv MANPATH '/usr/local/man:/usr/man'
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How to clear Console window?
In-Reply-To: altenber@acpub.duke.edu's message of 22 Feb 1996 22:20:20 -0500
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb25163124@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:31:24 GMT
Easy!
% echo > /tmp/console.log
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu> altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) writes:
I would like to be able to clear my Console window, but Cmd-k
is not enables to do this. How can you do it in NEXTSTEP3.3?
I can delete the file /tmp/console.log, close and reopen the
Console window, and it is blank, but it no longer logs syslog
or stderr output. Thanks for any tips,
From: Greg Howland <gregory@interport.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: downloading mail from shell account
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 22:19:12 -0500
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960229220811.8506K-100000@interport.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
How can I download mail from a shell account that I have
with an ISP? I am using telnet from a NS machine that is
already connected to the net to get to my shell account.
I would like the mail to come into my NeXTMail inbox and
keep their original headers. The shell account is SunOS
currently set-up for me to use the Pine mail reader.
Thanks,
Greg
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Extra swap space problems
Date: 26 Feb 1996 13:51:12 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4gsdsg$1md@news.its.com>
References: <4gm2ra$q4f@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
> [ ... ]
There's a FAQ on this floating around. Basicly, either:
a) keep the swapdisk labelled "swapdisk" and edit /etc/rc.swap to adjust how
to use that drive without having an entry in /etc/swaptab
b) don't label the disk "swapdisk", deal with mounting it yourself, and have
an entry in /etc/swaptab.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Looking for Sound Blaster AWE32 driver
In-Reply-To: hs283@bard.edu's message of 25 Feb 1996 20:29:22 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb25162814@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com> <4gbag6$c2p@master.ftn.net>
<4gqgr2$i2j@core.bard.edu>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:28:14 GMT
I can record with my SoundBlaster 16 VE. You may need to go into DOS,
run the diagnose.exe program and/or mixer to get it to work right. I'm
not intimately familiar with the NS driver internals so I don't know why
it's not doing that for you. What I can tell you is that it worked for me.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk.
Date: 29 Feb 1996 20:23:47 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4h520j$lsa@news.its.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960222101555.24284J-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb24.113426.673@nidat.sub.org> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960226101359.23719D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Ok, so do I understand correctly that ANY user can [accidentally] format
> the Hard drive (ie "/") of my NeXT (or I could accidentally do this
> myself?)
No, because '/' is hard mounted, not automounted. Hard drives which are not
in /etc/fstab get automounted and owned by the currently-logged-in user, just
as floppy disks are.
> What do I do to protect this from happening (there has to be a way, or
> else what would provent Evil Users from doing this all the time?)
Add the drive to /etc/fstab so that it gets mounted as root when booting the
system.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: downloading mail from shell account
Date: 1 Mar 1996 05:56:25 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-10.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4h63i9$o8v@usc.edu>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960229220811.8506K-100000@interport.net>
In <Pine.SUN.3.91.960229220811.8506K-100000@interport.net> Greg Howland
wrote:
> How can I download mail from a shell account that I have
> with an ISP? I am using telnet from a NS machine that is
> already connected to the net to get to my shell account.
> I would like the mail to come into my NeXTMail inbox and
> keep their original headers. The shell account is SunOS
> currently set-up for me to use the Pine mail reader.
PopOver.app will do the trick for you. Look on the main ftp sites.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
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Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: gwu@dataspec.com (George Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to install SCSI tape drive without rebooting
Date: 29 Feb 1996 22:44:24 GMT
Organization: The Loop
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com>
We have a SCSI DAT drive that is shared between an Intel NEXTSTEP
box and a Windows NT server. We often move the tape from one machine
to another while they are powered up. The problem is that the
NEXTSTEP box does not recognize the drive if it was not present when
the machine booted up. Is there a way to install the tape drive
without rebooting the system ? Any help is greatly appreciated.
George
From: anstine@orion.sas.upenn.edu (David R. Anstine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problems with NeXTstation and IBM disk drive
Date: 29 Feb 1996 22:03:29 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <4h57rh$84l@netnews.upenn.edu>
I just purchased an IBM 540mb SCSI for use as an internal disk in a
NeXTstation. When I try to initialize it, it gives me the following errors:
disk name: IBM DALS-3540
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x1e00, resid = 0x1c48, retry 2
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
...r/w returned -1; expected 50176
Write of boot block 0 failed
The model of the drive is IBM DALS-3540. I tried every possible jumper
combination to no avail. Anybody have any ideas?
-dave
From: levman@localnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The enema Within
Date: 26 Feb 1996 04:43:58 GMT
Organization: LocalNet Corporation
Message-ID: <4grdqe$1s1@prometheus.localnet.com>
To all my netizen friends:
I have a NeXT. Mine is black hardware. I have a 21' monitor and 400 meg internal
drive. I believe in my machine and read this news group. Though Jobs never saw it,
i free lances a great marketing strategy for NeXT. I named the b&w model, the Orca
Kriller Baby. The color model, (like mine), i named, the Colorful Cachalot, after the
sperm whale. The three main slogans were, "The Rolls Royce machines with the
Model T price", "The Platform for Individual and World Wide Designs", and,
"Today's Machine for Tomorrow's Technology". The main metaphor in all the ad
copy was, In a sea of information these machines cut through data the way whales
eat herring. . . . . by the ton. All the ads had a sperm whale on the monitor, swishing
by a bunch of open windows. How i planned the distribution would have made Jobs
into a billionaire, but then you wouldn't be reading this with vanilla hardware. OK. I'm
jealous, sort of. I could get into my clickedy NeXT keyboard with the Alpha chip
secretly running the show. So onward.
Find out why they killed my friend Danny Casalaro, at the end of this letter to you.
I'm a candidate for President of USA. When I post my drug platform you are no doubt
going to want to join my campaign, whether you have ever used any drugs or not,
because I have worked out a world solution to the prob limb. I have analyzed the
election laws and have devised a way to put ten thousand dollars in your pocket,
walkin around money, as one of my reps, and leave me wiith enough bucks to
expose the fascists on TV, but I might not live that long as I am targeted by
Stassi-USA, my name for the fascist domestic intelligence op, that brought us Waco
and Ruby Ridge. So read, whether you could use an additional ten grand or not,
because I want to live. I'm entitled to that..
You saw me a week ago, on Charles Osgood, and again, last tuesday, my 15
seconds of fame was on the ABC News. You might haave seen me getting ripped
off, on America's talking, onJanuary 16. For every prob limb facing our nation I
have an innovative non -partisan solution.
I will post my platform, The Lev Deal, soon. Something else first.
Your government, those volks from Stassi-USA, the dudes connected with those
triggers at Waco and Ruby Ridge, are at the stage of talking, just talking now, about
some more extreme prejudice, against an American citizen, one of your not quite
known candidates for President, and, the same as in the Danny Casalaro matter, the
Stassi-USA has begun to harass me, a bona fide candidate for President, with
cryptic phone calls-messages left on my voice mail box -just when I step out the
house for a few minutes-suddenly it's the FBI announcing they are FBI and they will
be getting back to me later.
The agent's name-that left in my voice mail box -is not associated with the Buffalo
office of FBI, as the man announces in his message-it is a cryptic, hidden message
they were leaving me-that I should drop out of politics altogether, or we, the
Stassi-USA are going to smear your character.
These fascist scummies are very liberal. Just like with Danny Casalaro, they are
letting me know, in advance, that whatever happens, I will not be allowed to speak
during the campaign for the presidency, and as long as I am going to keep pushing
on my First Amendment rights, only harm will befall me.
My response is to them is to push that much harder, thus my first posting.
I have provided the access codes to my voice mail box one person on the net,
known as, John Q. Public, who I have read around in all the political news groups,
and who I actually accidentaly met up with, in the flesh, and I have personally
challenged him to listen to the FBI harrasment on my voice mail box, for himself.
That FBI message is followed by one, not directly connected to FBI, from Robert
Baker, of the FCC. The slimy bureaucrat is telling me that the PBS station's counter
offer of five minutes to my proposed New Hampshire two hour speech, that followed
by a second request for one hour of access, was on the table.....in other words, an
affirmative right to access, exercised by the other candidates, is not my right.
Though I am a United States citizen, born here, so qualified to run for President, my
first amendment rights to political speech are/have been stripped away by this
fascist bureaucracy. Even a write-in candidate is entitled to access, though I am the
only citizen ever to have actually crossed the FCC threshold of being certified a true
bona fide write-in candidate.
Now they are busy rewriting the rules to insure my broadcast rights will continue to
be denied. What the FCDC jerk is saying, on my voice mail, is that the states where
I got on the ballot aren't enough-you can smell the fascist in his voice-now there are
additional requirements-and the Internet, as a campaign vehicle that can level the
political field, does not count. Got that.
The new threshold is that I have to physically travel to your state and .....then what?
Give a speech on a street corner. For who.? How do I prove to the fascists that I was
there. Can't. Now you can understand why I want to send you my recorded 58
minute speech.
What you will find from that is I am an inspired man who could, given the chance,
show you the way to a 6 hour day, 4 day week, 7 month year, with enough for a
spouse and two kids. Or explain how to cut your rent in half and begin the slow
disinflation of the world's economy so that in 40 years beer cost a nickle and space
travel is free, with every line a derlicate sensible rhyme. And give you this info in a
mull tie lingual format, running and punning in every spoken tongue, as above, with
every line a delicate sensible rhyme.
If Bob Dole wanted an hour or two from PBS, to make a speech, the door is open and
the time is his bacause that is the law. But not Michael Stephen Levinson.
I don't have any right to make any speech on TV. Only the others have that
affirmative right to access which they mostly use for 30 sec. ads, though the law was
written and enacted for substantive speech.
I also submitted my one hour studio taped speech to PBS, in Virginia, and they are
running their own fascist confusion of reality, as we speak, in order to continue the
denial of my rights, until something happens to me .
The PBS Virginia-Langely attorney writes, Without reaching the question of whether
you are a nationally qualified candidate, you have not yet complied with our
proceedures for scheduling access requests, and we cannot distribute any
programming on your behalf until you do so. This is in writing. The FCC jerk on my
phone claims he talked with the PBS volks and Jews and Dogs need not alpply for
First Amendment rights to speech.
Very tricky. Everything is delay delay delay ubntil the primary is past and
then-tough luck sucker. Without recognizing my bona fides, as a legally qualified
candidate, any satellite distribution of my speech merely goes over the air without
even being downloaded onto tape, for broadcasting anywhere. My speech would be
down loaded for FBI domesrtic Stassi-USA purposes only. So how do I get them to
write down their fascistic crap on paper so I can begin the thankless task of
challenging them. And how long before they raise the ante on their veiled telephone
threats and wipe me out altogether, because they aren't playing.
I would love to make a copy of my one hour speech available to all of the readers of
this post. You could then, upon viewing, submit it to your local access channel. I
can't. The only people with access to the community channels are those people in
the community who subscribe. It's all very tricky. These access channels were all
spun off from the Cable stations, to be ultimately under funded and mismanaged into
oblivion. The fascist FBI-Stassi hand in this, though hidden, was/is-to limit access
by individuals for political sprechens.
Were you able to see fresh faces in our pallah tics, you might get a feel for some
other candidate for an important federal office, like President, or congress, and
vote for them or give them a hand in their campaigns. Originally local access meant
local, professionally operated studios, with programs originating in the communities.
Spinning them off was a mistake, obviously, from my point of view, a fascist plot.
The access law, on which the must carry element of all those political commercials
is based, was written for speech. Telecommunications 312(a)(7) states the station
can have its license revoked for the willful and repeated failure to allow access. PBS
is under the same access law. So you don't have to compromise your integrity,
begging money to run, and the PBS doors are supposed to be open to political
speech.
Could it be that I am the only citizen in America who understands this. Michael
Stephen Levinson, 87 FCC2d, 433, 1980; (there are two versions of this case-one
they sent me in the mail, and the other one they printed in law books that was fatally
flawed-this to discourage anyone from ever examining this First Amendment issue
my original complaint shows.
The most recent, Michael Steven Levinson (note they willfully misspell my middle
name-to discourage access via electronic data base) is from 1992. When Tom
Brokaw had the debate with the six democrats, at the end Gerry Brown was going
1-800-me me me....I wrote a request for access, to NBC, and PBS, pointing out I was
entitled to parity, and as long as they were not on the ballot in ten states (the
arbitrary FCC threshold) then why should I have to be on the ballot in ten states.
Get The New York Slimes, from January 16, 1992. Maureen Dowd had a front page
article: Immersing Himself in Nitty-Gritty, Bush Barnstorms New Hampshire, that line
appeared beneath a picture of Bush petting a cow in some New Hampshire barn.
Dowd writes: Swinging Wildly: "Mr. Bush started out apologetic but he ended up
swinging wildly at opponents on the left and right, using his high pitched campaign
voice and what he has called his "red meat" vocabulary. "He lashed out at
"mournful pundits," "egg head academicians," "smart aleck columnists" (and)
"jacklegs jumping up demanding equal time with some screwy scheme."
Who put my request for access on the President's desk back in '92-is that a scary
compliment? (would that have set you back on your heels) I sought my own time-not
e quill time as Bush mischaracterized my request, as there isn't any e quill time
because everything the networks do is exempt. All of Perot's speeches could have
been delivered for free on PBS, but Ross' media advisors forgot to tell him that.
I was entitled to make a nationwide speech and this was suppressed and I waited
two and a half years for FCC to finally rule with their fascistic slime, and I
immediately appealed in the Dist. of Columbia Circuit-and now to the Supreme
"Coat, where I hang barely by a thread."
Three days after I filed in the Court of Appeals, a government person came to
Belleville, Wisconsin, where I was hanging out, and photographed me, and then he
photographed my car. Three weeks later the same dude showed up where I was
working, just after I left for breakfast (I was semi-independent), claiming he'd heard
from one of my friends, who was a friend of his, that I was selling my car, and that
was why he was there (sure; my 1985 Dodge Charger, with 187,000 miles on it at
the time was a hot car to be looking to purchase, and he had a cellular phone so he
got a call letting him know when I was finishing eating, and he was gone.
I didn't have any friends in Wisconsin. I was merely living there, without roots put
down. This is your government's way of letting me, the citizen know that they, the
FBI, for whatever their reasons, don't like me, (or you), and that they know who you
are (I am) and where and when you go to and fro.
As far as the highest court goes, I reached the Conference level, but it is veddy
skeddy. They don't hear any case they don't read about first, in The Wall Street
Gurgle, or The New York Slimes. I said to a clerk: This is scary. The clerk blurted
out, Yes it is.
But I digress all over the place, and why not , when FBI is getting ready- at least
talking about -another Casalaro to cover their slime.
I had a website. Recently I had a dispute with my provider who accused me of
spamming. Spamming, from my point of view, is a million emails-not a couple
hundred queries-so he erased my pages or removed them. As soon as I reestablish
my web site somewhere else I will let all know where you can see pages from a
prophetic work of art that was written down in multi-lingual form by a man who
walked and talked with [ the lan lord uh pin heaven ] (don't fret-such an experience
had to happen to some buddy who would then be into re-ledgend-a retelling of all the
ancient stories) that was written down in design to perform on world wide television,
like old blind Homer, for all the world's peoples to see, listen to and, interactively be
a part of all at once, via the AT&T, ITT natch a rill rig up.
Heavy duty. World pizza. every buddy getz a slice. The recitration of a prophetic
work of art where every major event of the century was foretold in advance becomes
DEUTERONOMY, a whole new bookie, the laying down of the law-you lay
down-relax-sit back, like a God, get set-get yer television set
in yer living room and the inspired Homeric one tells his own vision-it don't cost
nuthin to listen-and delivers a dusk until dawn twelve our video trans crypt world
thriller. What's wrong with a world vid cultural event that qualifies, politically, as the
first peaceful night in five thousand years of recorded history.
That would be the first peaceful night in five thousand years of recorded history
because everyone would be doing the same thing at the same time-watchin TV.
Even the most alienated person would tune in to see what everyone else is doing.
Start with the creation-Adman and Even in the Gar Den ov Edum. You saw me on
ABC News last Tuesday night, in New Hampshire-I'm watchable. With giant
concepts like the one haphazardly expressed above, of course the Washington
control freaks have someone surreptiously watching me like a hawk. Stay with me
because I am going to expose the whole Casalaro business rye-cheer, including the
pipeline from The Washington Post, where Casalaro brought his synopsis and signed
his own death warrant.
But , getting back, could I ask for your vote based on one five minute sprechen. Of
course not. I requested two hours for a major address. There are giant issues facing
our nation. You are entitled to spend an evening with the person who could send
your children to war, the day after election.
Before the primary opened in New Hampshire, my phone was ringing from the
Secretary of State's office in New Hamp. Was I going to run for president, and would
I be coming up on the first day because lots of local reporters wanted to interview
me. So I did it.
I'm on the docket in the United States Supreme Court, hanging by a thread: No
95-5876. The case is against the FCC, and behind them WGBH, in Boston, and the
New Hampshire NHPTV. It won't be heard so your rights are surely being disolved.
Ok Danny Casalaro. Here is why they murdered my friend. In the mid eighties, the
govt. stopped printing a limited giant book that contained the names and addresses
of every person getting a check from the Federal government. This book was
available to Members of the House and Senate, and a few of the agencies. The info
is out there, but with the rise of computers, they stopped snail printing that particular
volume.
Does the federal gov use electronic depositing. It used to be, that direct deposit of a
social security check meant that a physical check was delivered to the actual bank
for processing. Are you ready: With INSLAW software the direct deposits can be
quickly separated from the other 30-50,000,000 checks going out every month.
Then, using INSLAW, that super powerful search software, access the nationwide
white pages, which are now on CD rom.
Guess what dummies? There are 57,000 checks going out, every month, being
directly deposited where there isn't anyone in the local telephone book, or even
unlisted, to match up with the bank account. Whoops.
For that the scum bags murdered poor Danny. To protect the 57,000 little fascists
making a living giving FALSE WITNESS about ordinary people, to justify their
domestic above-the-law intelligence bank account. Family. 57,000 fake bank
accounts, into which are directly deposited your tax dollars. Danny Casalaro was on
the edge of it-just starting to see why the governmemnt tried to kill the INSLAW
company by stealing their search software and playing hardball-when he signed his
own death warrant by bringing his synopsis up to the Washington Post, a noose
paper famous from Watergate.
He handed his synopsis over to one Joanne Aramao, who is or was The
Washington Post City Desk Editor. She copied it and gave itr to her husband, Larry
Mcniece, who works in a print shop-they tell me-outside of Washington. The two of
them are a Stassi team and have been connected to domestic intelligence since
they were students at the State University of Buffalo where the both of them were
working for the student newspaper, The Spectrum, as undergraduates. McNiece is
easily exposed. You come to Buffalo and I will show you his FBI photographic
handiwork.
Then, under Freedom of Information Act you check out the files of people whose
pics he took and see the Joanne Aramao's husband's picturesas thewy were taken
to be placed in that person's files.
As soon as my name appeared in Time Mag, on December 18, 1995,as a poet, from
Buffalo, N.Y. with a jobs program Larry, Jo-anne Aramao's husband was on the
phone to his superiors, telling them I could be a prob limb in a big way, because I
could expose and identify both him and his wife.
As an undergraduate, she became editor-in-chief of The Spectrum, and HOWIE
KURTZ, the Wash Toast medja critic, was her protog. In the early eighties, after I
left buffalo, N.Y., coincidenrtally, so did Jo-anne Aramao and Larry McNiece. She
called in the chits, and Howie got her a job at the Post. Kurtz is not involved except
that he does not like Michael Stephen Levinson because one of the deals, years
ago, when he became the editor of The Spectrum, was that he was NOT to print any
thing written by your humble poet. That was the word that came from the back room
of the paper, where Larry McNiece stayed on working, after graduating. Anyone
Post connected now begins to understand why I am badmouthed in the Post
newsroom-not that I am the main topic for anything there except for someone to say
that I am not worth covering.
This is the good ship mother earth. Whatever deck you live on, the cards are dealt
out evenly. When it comes time to change the course of human history, on the good
ship mother earth, all the world cries out for, is a spokesman, a spokes person, to
turn the wheel. You can quote me.
I don't have any ax to grind with these fascist scummies.: Joanne Aramao and her
little Hitler husband, Larry. They have to live with themselves, knowing forever that
were it not for them Casalaro might still be a father to his son. I have spent fifteen
years simply trying to give a speech. Where ever I have ever gone there is always
someo9ne there to say, "Not you, Mr. take a walk. you are not allowed to speak:
Nightwatch on the ship's prow
The stars are out in disorder.
Everything ever been seen
By the naked eye
Is out tonight.
Michael Stephen Levinson
My next post will have planks in my platform, the innovative solutions I bring to our
highest office. Peace.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Logging all kinds of stuff
Date: 29 Feb 1996 23:21:57 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4h5cem$r1t@news.its.com>
References: <4gv2tf$ikl@crl.crl.com>
gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley) wrote:
> I'm wondering how I can log all the telnet and ftp connections to my
> machine. Other access logging would be good, too. As much as possible.
Look for wu-ftpd to replace NeXT's ftpd. This provides a lot more logging
info. You might be able to find a replacement telnetd as well, or you can
look at the output of 'last'.
If you want to do more than that, you can use a wrapper executable which gets
called from inetd and logs whatever you want, then execs the actual daemon.
Replace the daemon invokations in /etc/inetd.conf with your wrapper; one
version out there is called tcp_wrapper.....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu (Wade Blomgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: spurious "can't read scsi - initialize?"
Date: 29 Feb 1996 23:53:25 GMT
Organization: The University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <4h5e9m$cck@news1.ucsd.edu>
I swapped out the disks in a pair of turbo slabs (black, 3.0) for larger,
quieter disks by attaching the new disk as target 2, running builddisk on
it, partitioning and building it, then mounting it and mirroring the
old system partition onto the new with dump piped to restore, then
reinstalling the new disk as target 1 and rebooting.
All seems well, the systems boot off the new disks normally. Login
window is presented. Upon logging in to the console (as any user including
root), the workspace is displayed but the dialog "can't read scsi disk"
pops up a few seconds later. Ignore it (click ignore) and all is well.
Accept it (not as root!) and the system tries to initialize "the disk" but
fails, and again all is well. Opening a Terminal and running df works
fine. I have seen the dialog come up once only or twice, but that's it.
Once it is gone it seems to stay gone.
The new partition on the new disk is an exact copy of the old. (There is
an unused, unmounted, never been mounted second partition on the disk.)
Any theories on what is putting up this spurious initialize dialog?
(I suppose it might have something to do with the fact that I had two
disks on the system at one time and now I don't, but the second disk
was NEVER in /etc/fstab, it was just mounted manually. And in fact
both of the new disks were built on one system, the second system just
had its disk swapped - it never had two disks mounted - so I don't
think that has anything to do with it)
Wade Blomgren
wade@hobbes.ucsd.edu
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: International characters and ghostscript
Date: 26 Feb 1996 23:45:38 -0500
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <4gu29i$d2p@Vir.com>
Hello All,
I'm running ghostscript with NS3.3 and HJ 660C Deskjet. When I
try to print any characters with accents, I get blanks where the
characters with accents should be.
How do I solve this problem?
stef
From: white@entropy3.stt.msu.edu (Alexander K. White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Spanish Speller Dictionary
Date: 1 Mar 1996 00:18:53 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4h5fpd$15kn@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Howdi NeXTperts,
This is my first time posting on the newsgroup. I am interested in
finding a Spanish dictionary to use with the Next Speller engine. I
installed the Spanish.pkg from the system software and everything spoke
spanish except for the Speller dictionary. Does anyone know where I can get,
buy, borrow, or steal one?
Alex White
MSU
white@entropy3.msu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: jaime@low-impedance.com (Jaime Guerrero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: unable to export external SCSI drives to network- help!
Date: 1 Mar 1996 01:13:10 GMT
Organization: Direct Network Access
Message-ID: <4h5iv6$6r7@hilbert.dnai.com>
I have a two NeXTStation network. One machine is the Netinfo server, and
this is used for all userid and password stuff. Both machines NFS-export
their internal drives (root dir) to the network (at /Net/machinename), and
are visible to the other.
However, I am unable to get the NFS-exported external SCSI drives to appear
on the other machines' file systems. The drives are explicitly mounted in
the /etc/fstab files of each machine to a uniquely named directory:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 (internal drive- standard entry)
/dev/sd1a /aaa 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 (external drive- my new entry)
on the other machine, the external is mounted to /bbb.
The NFS imports are background auto-retry r/w mounts. The exports
explicitly grant r/w and root access to the other machine.
But while NFSManager seems to show they are mounted, they do not appear in
the *file systems* of the other machine.
According to the docs, this is all that is required, so I am baffled as to
why I cannot see the external drives across the network.
Any help is appreciated, posted or email. Thanks.
--
Jaime Guerrero "verbing weirds language"
jaime@low-impedance.com
From: matt@shellbne.bluesky.net.au (Matt Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: console messages
Date: 27 Feb 1996 06:06:56 GMT
Organization: AUSNet Services pty. ltd.
Message-ID: <4gu720$n6m@sydney1.world.net>
how do i up the console level .. /etc/syslog.conf
*.* /dev/console
but the updates seem pretty pitiful.. i'm regretting i even install NeXT
the documentation is to say the least shithouse
--
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Phone: +61 (07) 3344-5779, FAX: +61 (07) 3344-5739
E-mail: matt@BlueSky.net.au
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting the Man path - zsh shell
Date: 27 Feb 1996 03:56:03 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-b-34.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gtvcj$n3v@usc.edu>
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In <RDL.96Feb26221758@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Don't know about zsh. If you are running csh, you put the following in
> your ~/.cshrc:
>
> setenv MANPATH '/usr/local/man:/usr/man'
In .zshrc:
manpath=($X11HOME/man /usr/man /usr/lang/man /usr/local/man)
export MANPATH
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From: hs283@bard.edu (Hans Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Looking for Sound Blaster AWE32 driver
Date: 25 Feb 1996 20:29:22 GMT
Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
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References: <4g2i0c$rlm@dobie.loop.com> <4gbag6$c2p@master.ftn.net>
You mean you can record with your AWE too? We've been having problems
getting it to record anything...
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From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app & sendmail 8.3
Date: 27 Feb 1996 07:23:23 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gubhb$o52@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Hello everyone,
I installed sendmail 8.3 on my NeXTCube running NS3.3. I noticed the
following strange problem:
I use the user database capabilities of sendmail8.3. This makes me
able to change the "From:" and "Reply-to:" fields of the outgoing
messages. The problem is that everything work well when I send an
email using unix "mail" shell command. When I try to send the same
message using Mail.app the user database is no used and I get the
usual "From:" field (which is wrong since my host is only connected
temporarily via a PPP link).
Anybody knows what is different between "mail" and Mail.app???
Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
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From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail 8.7.3 on a standalone machine (using PPP)
Date: 27 Feb 1996 07:28:25 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4gubqp$og5@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Hi,
Has anybody beed able to configure sendmail 8.7.3 to work well with a
standalone machine sending mail over a PPP link. I am currently able
to send mail when I am connected via PPP but I get strange error
messages when I am not connected:
Feb 26 00:23:08 localhost sendmail[347]: My unqualified host name
(localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry
I would like outgoing email to go in the queue when I am not
connected. The mailq command itself seems not to work when I am not
connected (the pointer starts spinning forever).
Any help would be apreciated.
Thank you,
Francois Magnan
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From: David Williams <wingchun@wingchun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing on Black Next w/nextlaser from Win95/Win NT
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 01:50:03 -0800
Organization: Bay Area Wing Chun Association - Planet Wing Chun
Message-ID: <3136C84B.158D@wingchun.com>
References: <313554BA.4EB9@wingchun.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Thanks to all that responded. Its nice to see the old timers are still
around in the newsgroups...
The answers for those who are interested were...
David Williams wrote:
>
> Is there a simple way to have my 3.0 next be a print server for my
> Win 95/Win NT box? ie I want to use that 400dpi printer without having
> to buy a new laser for the 95/NT box.
> Either use SAMBA which provide file/print service for 95/NT on Unix,
or get a shareware app called "WLPRS" that creates a windows printer
that spools on the PC and used LPR/LPD protocol to send jobs to
a Unix host or a network printer. It works with 3.1x/95 and
NeXT laser. Set up the window side printer choice as Apple
LaserWriter.
You must turn off leading Ctrl-D generation in WIN.INI, as always.
Search in Windows archives in WinSock section.
---------
I do this with my Windoze95 and WfW boxes using Samba on my slabs.
The latest release is 1.9.15p8 and is available from
ftp://fnimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba
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From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Sendmail has suddenly become case *sensitive*
Message-ID: <DnCH4J.3uD@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 18:38:43 GMT
For some strange reason, the sendmail running on one of my mail
servers has become case *sensitive* when dealing with NetInfo aliases.
I now get this when I use Mailer-Agent:
game-genie:# /usr/lib/sendmail -bv mailer-agent
root... deliverable
game-genie:# /usr/lib/sendmail -bv Mailer-Agent
Mailer-Agent... 550 User unknown
root... deliverable
What is going on? What got messed up?
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From: mc2@sparc.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM (Mike Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot disk gone bad - fixable?
Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:58:35 -0800
Organization: NCR PDE Interconnect (El Segundo, CA)
Message-ID: <4gts0r$4dq@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>
References: <4gtrt4$4br@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>
In article <4gtrt4$4br@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>,
Mike Cox <Mike.Cox@SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> wrote:
>My system crashed and will no longer boot from th original boot disk.
>I was able to build a new disk to boot from, and I can mount the original
>disk and everything looks OK. When I try to boot from it the system stops
>or hangs after printing the line "rootdev 600, howto 0" . When I boot
>from the new disk the next thing that comes out is the date and then
>the windowmanger starts up. I tried doing a disk -b but that didn't
>change anything.
>
>Any ideas on how I can track down what is wrong?
>
>Thanks...
Oh yeah, this is an Intel 3.2 machine if that makes a difference.
Thanks again......
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From: mc2@sparc.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM (Mike Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot disk gone bad - fixable?
Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:56:36 -0800
Organization: NCR PDE Interconnect (El Segundo, CA)
Message-ID: <4gtrt4$4br@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>
My system crashed and will no longer boot from th original boot disk.
I was able to build a new disk to boot from, and I can mount the original
disk and everything looks OK. When I try to boot from it the system stops
or hangs after printing the line "rootdev 600, howto 0" . When I boot
from the new disk the next thing that comes out is the date and then
the windowmanger starts up. I tried doing a disk -b but that didn't
change anything.
Any ideas on how I can track down what is wrong?
Thanks...
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How to clear Console window?
In-Reply-To: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of Mon, 26 Feb 1996 10:29:37 -0500
Message-ID: <RDL.96Feb26222116@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4gjbpk$1q0@news.duke.edu> <RDL.96Feb25163124@world.std.com>
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960226102644.23719G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 03:21:16 GMT
It works fine under 3.3. I tested it before posting. I did the "echo"
then did a "su" but supplied a bad password. The message got logged and
Tools->Console showed it. That problem occurs only if you 'rm' the
console.log. Try it for yourself.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
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In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960226102644.23719G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
On Sun, 25 Feb 1996, Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Easy!
>
> % echo > /tmp/console.log
True, but will /tmp/console.log still 'tail' the console, or will that
be broken? If I remember correctly, it used to break.
I still think grabbing FastConsole from peanuts.leo.org is the best idea:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/FastConsole.1.01.NIHS.b.tar.gz
It let's you filter what goes shows up in its own console window, so you
can avoid seeing useless messages
Spy.app is also good:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/Spy.1.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz
TjL
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From: tralala@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screen Savor - 2 monitors
Date: 27 Feb 1996 20:04:25 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Message-ID: <4gvo49$hm0@tandem.CAM.ORG>
Hi:
I have a NextDim with 2 monitors (one color & one B/W).
Is there a way to dim one of the monitors when not in use?
MetroTools has a screen saver that will only work on both
monitors simultaneously.
Thanks,
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: panic: can't find blk in cyl
Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:34:11 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4gvmbj$nns@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
I am trying to duplicate my system from the internal IDE to a partition on
an external SCSI (connor 4gb). The dump/restore works fine for a while,
but brings down the system after 5 minutes with
pos=0 i=298 fs=<a just newfs-ed file-system>
alloccble: can't find blk in cyl
My guess would be that I have a bad block on the connor. Now, [1] is there
a way to verify this? [fsck reports no problems]; and [2] how do I use
reasb to fix this problem? (It is the third partition on the SCSI disk,
and I presume the i=298 refers to a filesystem inode, not to a physical
block.)
I am concerned that newfs decided to write over the end of the volume on
this disk:
sd0: CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB 2B4B
/dev/sd0a 2082207 1655483 218503 88% /Local
/dev/sd0b 1041390 894749 42502 95% /sd0b
/dev/sd0c 1041391 9 937242 0% /sd0c
but again, I do not know how to diagnose this.
Any help would be appreciated.
/ivo welch
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From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: 27 Feb 1996 12:45:10 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4guucm$302@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gs3h7$kr4@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
neuss@sun38 (Christian Neuss) wrote:
>
> Remove the "secure" attribute asociated with the terminal in file
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
??????????
The "secure" is needed to allow root to login!
Place a "secure" for each terminal you want to login as root.
> /etc/ttys. Note: in general, I wouldn't do that, its a minor
> security problem. For a standalon machine its probably safe
> enough though.
_ _
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Fax Cover Pages
Message-ID: <DnArMM.1Gr@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <4gd626$dig@usc.edu>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:30:21 GMT
Matthew N. Reichman writes
> In <4gd48p$1d51@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <NO AUTHOR> wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > I am running NS 3.2 on black HW. I have put a file Cover.draw into
> > ~/Library/Fax so I have a custom cover sheet for my outgoing faxes.
> > The question is the following. On the FAX panel there is "Edit Cover"
> > button. When I click that, I can get into a panel where I can add a
> comment
> > to the cover sheet. I can also see a selector for selecting various cover
> > sheetts. So: Where do I put the files in order to be able to select from a
> > bunch of cover pages?
> > I looked everywhere but couldn't find it.
>
> Same place as Cover.draw. Just name them something besides "Cover". That's
> all.
Best use Draw.app to create them. This app 'knows' how to add cover related
fields.
Juergen
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From: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Subject: Re: Intel NEXTSTEP machine "pauses" from time to time???
Message-ID: <DnAs50.1LC@euler.hnv.icem.de>
Sender: js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell)
Organization: Ink Unknown
References: <4ge3sv$rk4@news.its.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 20:41:24 GMT
Chuck Swiger writes
> js@euler.hnv.icem.de (Juergen Sell) wrote:
> > What is the power-up time of the machine when hanging occurs first?
> > Some drives go into self-reconfigure/repair mode after ?? hours and of
> > course cannot i/o any data while self-adjusting.
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, but possibly:
>
> Hard drives normally undergo "thermal calibration" ("TCAL") on a regular
> basis, every 10-30 minutes or so if I remember. This should only cause a
> small (under 1 second) pause that is not very noticable except when doing
> time-critial I/O like audio/visial recording or playback. And, of course,
> there are A/V model hard drives that handle TCAL differently and will not
> have such pauses.
>
> > This is said to happen with ibm dfhs drives every 72 hours.
> > It is not important if you power off in between, so probably does not
> > show on non-server machines at all. such drives are cheaper also.
>
> Could you (or someone) provide more information about this behavior?
> I can't think of anything offhand.
IBM is said to have provided this info:
DFRS disks are first (alpha?) DFHS disks with minor differences to the current
DFHS disks.
- same specs/performance,
- after a max. of 72 hours goes into self-cleaning-mode for ~23 seconds. (heads
go into special media zone, lands, motor off. restart.)
I sure would like to know of any experience with these drives.
Juergen
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From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: Help partitioning 9GB drive under NS3.2 on black...'disk' command probl
Message-ID: <1996Feb27.192621.15342@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <4gi7lh$ejq@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <1996Feb24.103735.480@nidat.sub.org> <4go5g7$k9q@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 19:26:21 GMT
mwdaniel@uiuc.edu (Michael W. Daniels) wrote:
> In article <1996Feb24.103735.480@nidat.sub.org>, Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org
(Peter Nitezki) wrote:
>
> >> MY DISKTAB:
> >>
> >> ST410800N|ST410800N-1024|SEAGATE ST410800N-1024:\
> >> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4926:nt#27:ns#70:ss#1024:rm#5400:\
> >> :fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> >> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
> >> :pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
> >> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
> >> :pb#2097152:sb#2097152:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
> >> :ib:tb=4.3BSD:
> >> :pc#4194304:sc#2097152:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\
> >> :ic:tc=4.3BSD:
> >> :pd#6291456:sd#2097152:bd#8192:fd#1024:cd#32:dd#4096:rd#10:od=time:\
> >> :id:td=4.3BSD:
> >> :pe#8388608:se#973490:be#8192:fe#1024:ce#32:de#4096:re#10:oe=time:\
> >> :ie:te=4.3BSD:
>
> Another problem is that the disktab will not parse in this form -- you
> need to indent (with a tab) every line other than the first. Also, make
> sure you have a hard-return after the last line. Your disktab could be
> correct in every other respect and these two things would make it fail.
>
> I've successfully installed the same drive on a 3.2 Intel machine, so I
> know a little bit about what works.
>
> Mike Daniels
You need a "\" at the end of EACH line EXCEPT the lat one.
The entry in disktab is ONE logical line per disk.
Hope that helps.
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From: bapi@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bapi Gupta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: 27 Feb 1996 22:34:00 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <4h00so$cd5@newsreader.wustl.edu>
References: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb21.131018.29359@investor.pgh.pa.us>
I have deleted /usr/template/user/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox and put the
following line somewhere in my account creation scripts (generated by my
own C program that I use for account management).
ln -s /usr/spool/mail/user ~user/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
This way Mail.app accesses your spool without eating it.
I think if you were really bold you could go in and mess around with the
scripts in /etc/nulib, but I am too paranoid of side-effects.
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From: soren@zeus.datashopper.dk (Soren Mathiasen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Boot
Date: 1 Mar 1996 16:07:04 +0100
Organization: DataShopper Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Message-ID: <KQANxcm0fJbN089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>
Hi..
I have a problem, every time I reboot my NeXT (intel) computer i have to
write rootdev=sd0, otherwise it won't boot.... What's the problem ??
Please help me, I'm a Newbie
Soren
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.3 on a standalone machine (using PPP)
Date: 27 Feb 1996 19:52:26 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-68.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4gvndq$9if@usc.edu>
References: <4gubqp$og5@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> <4guhc3$cpm@usc.edu>
<RDL.96Feb27083526@world.std.com>
In <RDL.96Feb27083526@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> /etc/hostconfig? Don't you mean /etc/hosts?
Uhm... yeah. At 3am when I irresponsibly posted... who knows what I meant
8-)
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A host named x
Date: 1 Mar 1996 18:44:06 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
What is the significance of the hostname "x" in NeXTSTEP? It seems that
it resolves as 0.0.0.0 (ie "this host"), regardless of entries in NetInfo.
On my little network at home, we have a machine called x, so I added a
hosts entry in NetInfo's root domain for x = 10.0.2.16. Programs seem to
resolve this as 0.0.0.0.
So, I tried the other NeXTSTEP machine with the same host entry, and it
pings 10.0.2.17 (another machine entirely), but if you "telnet x", it
goes to 0.0.0.0.
It seems from some more experimentation, that all NeXTSTEP hosts do this,
even if they don't have any host entries for "x".
Why the magic "x"?
--Chris
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From: kostya@osd.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lookupd connections to netinfo
Date: 1 Mar 1996 22:37:13 GMT
Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA
Message-ID: <4h7u6p$1ru@kaleka.seanet.com>
We have 3 netinfo servers (master, clone1, clone2) on the same subnet serving
netinfo ".." domain (tag:network). lookupd on clone1 connects to netinfo ".."
domain on master, lookupd on master connects to netinfo domain ".." on clone2
and lookupd on clone2 connects to netinfo ".." on itself. The network is
heavily loaded at some moments and some of the servers can be responding slow.
If one server is slow (or dead) it causes lookupd on other server hang with
"Netinfo sleeping: RPC timeout message", because lookupd on the other server is
not connected to local netinfod. That hangs the other server too. So if the is
a problem with one server it also affects other(s), because lookupd is not
connected to netinfo on local host.
The question is: is there any control over where lookupd connects to?
The reason for having clone servers is this: every one of them runs a number of
local processes that heavily use netinfo ".." domain (11000+ records). For
example there is authentication daemon that runs on all three. One of them is
primary. If it dies or hangs the daemon on the other computer kicks in. We
programmed these daemons to always connect to netinfo on localhost so that they
don't depend on other servers. But lookupd (which we can't modify) connects
where it wants. And that affects other processes (like sendmail) that depend on
lookupd for user info lookups etc. (calls like getpwent, getservbyname etc.)
Note: this has nothing to do with a known lookupd bug, because we either
installed patch for 3.3 or linked stuff with BIND resolver library.
Any insight or advice will be greatly appreciated.
Kostya Martynenko
OSD Inc.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: why was 'kern_loader -n'
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:47:49 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960229104441.1216B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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/usr/etc/kern_loader -n
was sucking some serious CPU for about 5 minutes after I logged in... No
strange messages when booting, nor in the console window. But there was a
'mach task' and the kern_loader sucking about 80% of the CPU (KPerf went
totally black). Killing kern_loader solved the problem, but it is not a
very good solution.
The extra only thing I know it loads is the stuff for PPP, but that has
been in place for quite some time and I have not seen this problem before.
I don't know if this matters or not, but the problem occurred when I
logged in the first time after a panic. Could something have been
corrupted? the eternal 'fsck' showed a lot of errors, but seemed to
indicate they had been fixed during the boot process.
What should I look for if this problem persists?
Thanks!
TjL
--
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 Questions: booting from CD and backing up floppy disk
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 10:58:17 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960229105336.1216D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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Note:
This is under NeXT 3.2 on a NeXTStation.
The ROM version "ROM 2.2 v63"
#1
3 entries, main disk (1 gig Disk), slab (100 meg swapdisk), and my CD-ROM
Disk is sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0
swapdisk is sd1 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
CD-Rom is sd2 at sc0 target 3 lun 0
If I wanted to boot from the CD-ROM, what would I have to input from the
ROM monitor? I've heard people say that you need to 'set the CD to
zero' or something like that, but I'm not sure what is meant by that, and
I'd rather figure it out now, before I find myself needing to know.
Note: to install the OS I had to use the floppy disk which came with the
CDs, and boot using the 'bfd' (boot floppy disk) command.
Question #2: How do I make a backup of the floppy disk I need to use? Can
I just copy it? I thought of using 'dd' but I'm not sure of the syntax,
even after reading the man page.
Thanks!
TjL
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and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: lookupd and resolv.conf
Date: 1 Mar 1996 22:28:59 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4h7tnb$v5q@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Our Campus DNS server flaked out for a while today. We have a couple
of backup servers, and I have the IPs for the primary and backup
servers listed in my /etc/resolv.conf. I was surprised to find that
my system couldn't find a DNS server when the primary one was down.
I've just been told that NeXT's lookupd can't use backup DNS servers,
even if their IPs are properly listed in /etc/resolv.conf. Is this
true? If yes, is there a patch for lookupd?
I'm running 3.3 on Intel, and yes, I have installed the 3.3 patch with
the "ImprovedDNS" post-install script.
--
----------------------------------------------
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Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
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From: jcassidy@proton.genesoft.com. (James Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ppp server
Date: 25 Feb 1996 12:48:43 GMT
Organization: Visible Genetics
Message-ID: <4gplrb$fk6@nic.wat.hookup.net>
I'm trying to set up ppp2.2 to run as a ppp server. But I continue getting
pppd[832]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP
messages during the remote machine's attempts at connecting. Would anyone
who has been here before be able to lend me some asistance?
Thanks!
Jim.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to update the resolver in NS 3.0?
Date: 1 Mar 1996 23:11:13 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4h806h$sm6@news.its.com>
References: <kkhgwa4tz3.fsf@hubert.fukt.hk-r.se>
teddy@hubert.fukt.hk-r.se (Teddy Hogeborn) wrote:
> I use some features in our local nameserver setup that requires
> resolvers to understand CNAMEs in reverse lookups. [ ... ]
> So how do I replace the resolver routines with the new versions? What
> part of the online manual should I read? I found nothing simple in it
> about creating shared libraries.
Unfortunately, you are simply out of luck. You can't replace the resolver
routines in the shared libraries, because NeXT does not provide any means of
creating or changing their shared libraries.
You can try linking with the "-m" option to allow multiply defined symbols,
but I've tried and never gotten the resolver routines to work correctly under
such circumstances.
If you had a newer version of NEXTSTEP than 3.0, you could compile with "cc
-posix" and the libresolv.a from the BIND distribution; this combination
works. However, you can't use things like the AppKit with "cc -posix", and
NeXT's POSIX routines have some severe bugs, so that doesn't get you very far
either.
Sorry. Go complain to NeXT.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A host named x
Date: 2 Mar 1996 00:05:04 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4h83bg$jb5@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
In <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Chris Saldanha wrote:
> What is the significance of the hostname "x" in NeXTSTEP? It seems that
> it resolves as 0.0.0.0 (ie "this host"), regardless of entries in NetInfo.
>
> It seems from some more experimentation, that all NeXTSTEP hosts do this,
> even if they don't have any host entries for "x".
>
> Why the magic "x"?
>
X as in X-Windows. You got me why its doing it though. You're not running
co-eXist or something are you?
--
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American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
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PGP Key available via finger and home page. Check the headers for both.
From: perkins@sidney.cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP LKS 4.9 r1 panicking NS 3.2 Black?
Date: 2 Mar 1996 06:22:28 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4h8pf4$1flk@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4h8mc0$qeo@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
In <4h8mc0$qeo@chinx4.thoughtport.net> Timothy Reed wrote:
> Hi,
> A customer of mine is using PPP LKS 4.9 r1 on her moto station running NS
> 3.2, and her system panics fairly regularly when dialed into the net.
She's
> just running the ppp-on and ppp-off scripts to start and stop PPP. At some
> point she'll install Gatekeeper but right now she just wants a reliable PPP
> connection. Is this normal behavior for this version of PPP and NS, and
can
> anyone recommend a more reliable alternative?
> Thanks - e-mail to me directly and I'll summarize.
Yes. Upgrade to the latest version of PPP. The package is 0.4.6 and the LKS
version in that package is 4.14. See:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Hope this helps!
- Steve
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==============================================================
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Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at>
Message-ID: <9603010939.AA00332@zaphod>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Christian Starkjohann <cs@hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 10:39:05 +0100
Subject: Re: Looking for Parallel Port Driver
In article <4gvl31$1oc@news.gvsu.edu> berezaw@river.it.gvsu.edu (Bill
Bereza) writes:
> In article <4gth41$6pd$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Rod
> Gilchrist <103127.17@CompuServe.COM> writes:
> > Does anyone know of a parallel port driver for Intel 3.3 with
> > source available?
> >
>
> I had problems with standard 3.3 parallel driver also. My machine
> would slow down and eventually freeze if I had my printer turned
> off. Christian Starkjohann's ParallelPortDriver1.2 works great
> without this problem. I got the source from somewhere on
> ftp.leo.org. You can definitely find the source at:
>
> ftp://ftp.csis.gvsu.edu/pub/next/ParallelPortDriver.1.2.I.bs.tar.gz
> [...]
I just wanted to mention that I have found a bug that may cause system
panics in that version. I am currently testing version 1.4, which will
be released as 1.5 if it works correctly. The current version is
available at:
ftp://hal.kph.tuwien.ac.at/pub/ParallelPortDriver1.4.gnutar.gz
If you want to test it, feel free to download. It implements Axel
Habermann's changes (he also has a version available by ftp, and I
think his version 1.4.1 is the same as my 1.4, although I have not
checked. The final release will be version 1.5 to avoid confusion).
Axel has implemented the capability to print without a working
interrupt, which turned out to be very useful for many applications.
Bye, Christian.
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Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 10:42:50 +0100
From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Message-ID: <9603010942.AA00320@flexus>
Subject: How to get back some info in an unusable NetInfo database
Hello experts,
I've done some silly experiments with NFS. If I remember correctly, I mounted
the local filesystem / on /mot or something in a domain one higher than the
local domain (don't ask, it was in an attempt to see whether this MS-NT thing
would mount NFS). (I'm running NEXTSTEP_3.2 on a NeXTstation.)
Anyway, I didn't restore everything to its previous state, apparently, and now
I can't reboot. During ``Mounting remote filesystems'', right after RPC.
Inspection of /etc/rc.boot tells me that this is during ``mount -at nfs'', so I
suppose that mount, at this stage, is looking at the NetInfo information. It
just hangs there, and if I do control-c, the system will boot, there are
problems with NetInfo. I can't get access at the domains using NetInfoManager,
because that will *only* interface with the netinfo daemon instead of editing
the files directly. Those files are in a binary format, of course...
Well, I'm not totally irresponsible, and I've made a backup of the NetInfo
database, which I'm now using, but it's two years old and I'd like to make sure
I'm not missing anything I changed in the meantime. I don't have the time to do
things I don't know will work for sure.
Any useful ideas much appreciated,
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium
If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 10:55:26 +0100
From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Message-ID: <9603010955.AA00448@flexus>
Subject: Re: How to get back some info in an unusable NetInfo database
Hello experts,
Please (also) reply in e-mail if you respond to my question of a few moments
ago.
Thanks,
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium
If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 23:23:53 +0100
From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Message-ID: <9603012223.AA00417@flexus>
Subject: Re: How to get back some info in an unusable NetInfo database
Hello experts,
Sorry for wasting your time with this. The solution was of course in the
analysis I made in my first posting: comment out the ``mount -at nfs'' line,
reboot, use NFSManager.app to correct things, restore /etc/rc, and reboot once
more.
Still, it does make a point for a file interface to the ni* command-line tools,
maybe the GUI ones, instead of just communication with the NetInfo daemons. Or
perhaps a plain-text file format for the .nidb files...
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium
If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think
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From: mc2@sparc.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM (Mike Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot disk gone bad - fixable?
Date: 1 Mar 1996 20:35:18 -0800
Organization: NCR PDE Interconnect (El Segundo, CA)
Message-ID: <4h8j66$joi@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>
References: <4gtrt4$4br@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> <4gts0r$4dq@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> <4gv9at$gie@disunms.epfl.ch>
In article <4gv9at$gie@disunms.epfl.ch>,
Vincent Kohler <kohler@lithnext> wrote:
>Mike Cox (mc2@sparc.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM) wrote:
>: In article <4gtrt4$4br@sv303.SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM>,
>: Mike Cox <Mike.Cox@SanDiegoCA.ATTGIS.COM> wrote:
>: >My system crashed and will no longer boot from th original boot disk.
>: >I was able to build a new disk to boot from, and I can mount the original
>: >disk and everything looks OK. When I try to boot from it the system stops
>: >or hangs after printing the line "rootdev 600, howto 0" . When I boot
>: >from the new disk the next thing that comes out is the date and then
>: >the windowmanger starts up. I tried doing a disk -b but that didn't
>: >change anything.
>
>Just to be sure: type the entire line below, instead of just disk -b
>
>/usr/etc/disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a
>
>replace rsd0a with the appropriate device
>(rsd0a if the first SCSI drive or rhd0a if IDE)
>
>I used this when I lost the dual boot. It worked well for me.
>
>Hope it helps
>
>Vincent
Unfortunately that didn't help. It looks like what is really happening
is the system starts to boot but after it loads the OS it hangs. I'm guessing
the next step is to start looking at the rc scripts and see if I can figure
out where it is getting hung.
Thank you very much for the suggestion,
--mike
--
| "Nothing is ever really broken,
--mike 8 it just lacks duct tape."
mc2@sparc.sandiegoca.attgis.com | Tim Nyberg - "The Duct Tape Book"
From: kykim@access.digex.net (Kevin Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: user management script
Date: 2 Mar 1996 08:55:27 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4h92dv$10i@news4.digex.net>
Hi all,
I need a script that will allow me to delete a user from the netinfo
database, but not their home directories.
"nu -k username" deletes the home directory.
i tried doing a "nidump passwd . > passwd", editing the file, then
"niload passwd . < passwd", but i get an error message
"deletion for test failed: Cannot delete name object with children"
i plan on calling this script from another script, so using nu is
not really an option.
thanks,
-kevin
--
Kevin Kim
kykim@access.digex.net
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: downloading mail from shell account
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 12:25:01 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960301121432.13349A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960229220811.8506K-100000@interport.net>
On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Greg Howland wrote:
> How can I download mail from a shell account that I have
> with an ISP? I am using telnet from a NS machine that is
> already connected to the net to get to my shell account.
> I would like the mail to come into my NeXTMail inbox and
> keep their original headers. The shell account is SunOS
> currently set-up for me to use the Pine mail reader.
If they are running a pop daemon, then PopOver.app is definitely a good
suggestion.
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/mail/PopOver.v1.4.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
It is a great app, which has a lot of nice features.
However, from my own recent experience talking with some ISP's about
shell accounts, they don't all run popdaemon's with their basic accounts.
There are two other alternatives I can offer, although I have not used
either one:
1) pine supposedly has some functionality built into it which will allow
for retrieval of mail from another site. I don't know exactly how this
is done, but you might ask on comp.mail.pine.
2) If you have 3.3, then the Mail.app has a special dwrite, which was
found by Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
dwrite Mail RemoteFetch "somehostname"
Someone (I don't think it was Carl) explained its functionality:
"this is nice !! If you set this to a hostname, Mail fetches the mail from
that host !! I don't know how it does that, but I have the host I tried it
with in my /Net directory. Don't know if that's needed. I tried to make it
a list of hostnames, but it didnt accept it."
So, you could try to use the fully qualified name of the host which you
are connecting to, and see if that works (I'd probably try the IP
address too, if there are problems with the remote fetching).
Please let me know what you end up doing, as I may do something similar
myself if my %^$&^^@#$ ISP doesn't get their PPP working again soon (been
waiting on Novell to send an update since Sept 15th, 1995).
TjL
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install SCSI tape drive without rebooting
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 12:35:08 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960301123242.13349F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com>
On 29 Feb 1996, George Wu wrote:
> We have a SCSI DAT drive that is shared between an Intel NEXTSTEP
> box and a Windows NT server. We often move the tape from one machine
> to another while they are powered up. The problem is that the
> NEXTSTEP box does not recognize the drive if it was not present when
> the machine booted up. Is there a way to install the tape drive
> without rebooting the system ? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Umm... I don't know if this will work.
Try this: go to the mini-monitor (cmd-cmd-~ on black hardware), hook up
the DAT drive, and then type 'cont' in the mini-monitor.
Someone suggested this a while back about something else (a scanner I
think). They were talking about NeXT hardware at the time, I don't know
if that matters.
Good luck
TjL
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swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A host named x
Date: 2 Mar 1996 17:21:17 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <4ha02d$2j6@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <4h83bg$jb5@paladin.american.edu>
Torrey McMahon (tm8025a@american.edu) wrote:
: > It seems from some more experimentation, that all NeXTSTEP hosts do this,
: > even if they don't have any host entries for "x".
: > Why the magic "x"?
: >
: X as in X-Windows. You got me why its doing it though. You're not running
: co-eXist or something are you?
Nothing to do with X, methinks, since I don't have X11 on my system.
Clearly this is something at the OS-level in the system calls since "x"
resolves regardless of entries in netinfo, /etc/hosts, or DNS.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha | "I want to become so famous
Carleton University (Comp. Sci) | that people buy tapes of me
csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (NeXT/MIME) | reading source code."
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh | -Scott Hess
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with DNS
Date: 2 Mar 1996 21:45:20 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hafhg$5d@news.its.com>
References: <4h1v7e$o91@park.interport.net>
udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas) wrote:
> I am having some problems with our DNS. We are connected to the internet
> through ISDN and our connection has been going up at weird hours at night
> when I know when no one is using it. The connection seems to be coming up
> because of DNS packets being sent to the router. The i.p address that the
> dns is looking for are different every time , except for some repetitions.
> Now I am not sure why or where from these packets are sent. Can anyone
> suggest me a way to do this or have an idea on how to fix this problem?
If you're not running named locally, you should try doing so.
A nameserver running locally should be able to satisfy most DNS requests
locally without bring up the ISDN line.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: How to install SCSI tape drive without rebooting
Message-ID: <1996Mar2.080427.16077@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 08:04:27 GMT
In article <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com> gwu@dataspec.com (George Wu)
writes:
> We have a SCSI DAT drive that is shared between an Intel NEXTSTEP
> box and a Windows NT server. We often move the tape from one machine
> to another while they are powered up. The problem is that the
> NEXTSTEP box does not recognize the drive if it was not present when
> the machine booted up. Is there a way to install the tape drive
> without rebooting the system ? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
This is very risky!
You might fry your SCSI bus or hit your file system during connection or
power up of the peripheral. For Unix you can never really tell when a
disk access might occur. And NT might sport the same behavior. If you
use that tape to secure your operations through regular backups you
probably shan't hamper these operations with dubious SCSI bus stunts. It
is certainly outside specifications!
For a well behaved device a power down after configuration and power up
before operations might be ok. And you could try whether a descent into
monitor followed by a 'continue' would cause NEXTSTEP to recognize a newly
powered up device. But still no guarantie...
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: dekorte@suite.com (Steve Dekorte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Simple Internet Starter Kit
Date: 3 Mar 1996 01:02:51 GMT
Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <4har3r$ad@news.onramp.net>
http://skylee.com/sis.html
A nice app to make setting up home internet connections easy on NeXTstep.
(Just ran across this and didn't remember hearing about it on news yet -
hope it's not old news)
Steve
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: Problems with NeXTstation and IBM disk drive
Message-ID: <1996Mar3.010134.649@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <4h57rh$84l@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 1996 01:01:34 GMT
IBM seems to do very strange things on SCSI or putting their default SCSI
options differently from other manufacturer.
Your problem seems to be a Tagged Command Queueing or Disconnect/Reconnect in
the mode select pages of your drive (check carefully in the drive manuals).
FYI here is a copy of what is required to make an old IBM 2 Gig 0664 work
with the black hardware (0662 used to have Tagged Command Queueing options
problems).
____________________________Cut here_________________________________
How to use the IBM 0664M1H 2 Gb SCSI drive with NeXT hardware
These instructions are provided on an as-is basis for your information. Use
at your own risk. Under no circumstances will we be held responsible for
problems caused by following these instructions.
These instructions have only been tested to work on a NeXTstation, mono,
non-turbo, running NS3.0.
Abstract
These instructions were used to make NeXTstation mono, non-turbo, NS3.0, to
work with an IBM 0664M1H 2Gb SCSI drive (drive firmware revision 5K51). Read
this document fully before you begin working.
Description of Problem
The IBM 0664M1H comes configured to disconnect/reconnect on demand, which
causes problems with the NeXT. Fortunately, this feature can be disabled and
kept disabled across reboots by altering the contents of one byte on a Mode
page.
What you need
In addition to the computer, drive, appropriate cables and terminator, you
must obtain and install the scsitools package off a NeXT ftp site
(sonata.cc.purdue.edu is one such).
Procedure
Power off your system, attach the new drive with appropriate terminations if
necessary.
Power on the NeXT. After the "Checking Hardware" window disappears and is
replaced by the spinning disk, hold down both Command keys and type the
back-quote character (`, just above 7 on the numeric keypad). You should see
a NeXT> prompt.
Type halt<CR> which should yield another NeXT> prompt. Type bsd -s which will
bring the machine up in single user mode, logging you in as root. During the
boot procedure the computer will print the makes, model numbers and firmware
revisions of all the attached harddrives.
Change directory to the scsitools directory, and make the programs if
necessary.
Run the inquire command, which will list the attached SCSI devices, along
with their target (SCSI ID numbers). Here's some example output:
-t 1 -l 0 "SEAGATE /ST1480 /5736/" typ=0 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=2
-t 5 -l 0 "ARCHIVE /Python 27416-XXX/3.58/" typ=1 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=2
removable
-t 6 -l 0 "IBM OEM /0664M1H /5K51/" typ=0 dev=0 ans=2 fmt=2
Make note of the target number of the IBM OEM /0664M1H entry; in the above
example it is 6 (the number immediately following -t).
Now use the sense command to read the contents of page 2 and put the output
in a file called oldsense.dat (say). The argument format for the sense
command is
sense -t<target> [-l<lun>] -p<pagecode>.
The output I got is given below.
# sense -t6 -p2 >oldsense.dat
#-INQUIRY data
# vid /IBM OEM /
# pid /0664M1H /
# firm /5K51/
-ilen 0064
-idat 0000 00
-idat 0001 00
-idat 0002 02
-idat 0003 02
-idat 0004 9f
-idat 0005 00
-idat 0006 00
-idat 0007 1e
-idat 0008 49
-idat 0009 42
-idat 0010 4d
-idat 0011 20
-idat 0012 4f
-idat 0013 45
-idat 0014 4d
-idat 0015 20
-idat 0016 30
-idat 0017 36
-idat 0018 36
-idat 0019 34
-idat 0020 4d
-idat 0021 31
-idat 0022 48
-idat 0023 20
-idat 0024 20
-idat 0025 20
-idat 0026 20
-idat 0027 20
-idat 0028 20
-idat 0029 20
-idat 0030 20
-idat 0031 20
-idat 0032 35
-idat 0033 4b
-idat 0034 35
-idat 0035 31
-idat 0036 30
-idat 0037 30
-idat 0038 30
-idat 0039 38
-idat 0040 30
-idat 0041 30
-idat 0042 33
-idat 0043 36
-idat 0044 38
-idat 0045 36
-idat 0046 46
-idat 0047 30
-idat 0048 36
-idat 0049 36
-idat 0050 35
-idat 0051 20
-idat 0052 20
-idat 0053 20
-idat 0054 20
-idat 0055 20
-idat 0056 00
-idat 0057 00
-idat 0058 00
-idat 0059 00
-idat 0060 00
-idat 0061 00
-idat 0062 00
-idat 0063 00
#-MODE SENSE data
-mlen 0028
# Parameter List Header
#mhdr offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mhdr 0000 1b 1b # 1b 1b 1b 1b
-mhdr 0001 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mhdr 0002 10 10 # 10 10 10 10
-mhdr 0003 08 08 # 08 08 08 08
# Parameter List Block Descriptor Format
#mbdf offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mbdf 0000 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mbdf 0001 3c 3c # 3c 3c 3c 3c
-mbdf 0002 03 03 # 03 03 03 03
-mbdf 0003 70 70 # 70 70 70 70
-mbdf 0004 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mbdf 0005 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mbdf 0006 02 02 # 02 02 02 02
-mbdf 0007 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
# Page Code 02
#mp02 offs val msk # cur msk def sav
-mp02 0000 82 82 # 82 82 82 82
-mp02 0001 0e 0e # 0e 0e 0e 0e
-mp02 0002 00 ff # 00 ff 8a 00
-mp02 0003 00 ff # 00 ff 8a 00
-mp02 0004 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0005 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0006 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0007 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0008 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0009 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0010 00 ff # 00 ff 00 00
-mp02 0011 00 ff # 00 ff 00 00
-mp02 0012 00 03 # 00 03 00 00
^^ ^^___________________highlight
-mp02 0013 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0014 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
-mp02 0015 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
Note that byte 12 of page 2 (highlighted line above) has value 00 and mask
03. The value must be changed from 00 to 03.
To make the necessary change, copy oldsense.dat into newsense.dat, and edit
newsense.dat. Go down to the highlighted line, and change 00 in the third
column to 03. The file should look like this:
...
-mp02 0011 00 ff # 00 ff 00 00
-mp02 0012 03 03 # 00 03 00 00
-mp02 0013 00 00 # 00 00 00 00
...
Save newsense.dat and leave the editor. Now use the select command to write
newsense.dat to page 2. This is done by typing (change -t6 to whatever the
target id of the IBM drive is in your case).
# select -t6 -fnewsense.dat
The drive can now be formatted and its filesystem built as indicated in the
NeXT Admin manual.
Acknowledgments
I gratefully acknowledge the help of the Dynatek Technical Support staff.
They were friendly, professional, and expert. Particularly I would like to
thank Saeid Yazdanmehr.
I also wish to thank the authors of the scsitools collection, and all those
who responded to my original question on the Net.
Anees Munshi,
Butterfly Signal Processing Inc.
asm@eecg.toronto.edu
________________________________Cut here __________________________________
Hope that helps.
Fabien
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From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMail to Sun
Date: 3 Mar 1996 02:04:01 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu>
Has anyone else seen this incompatibility I keep running into between
NeXTMail and some Sun mail program. When I send PlainText apparently the Sun
mail program is catching the MIME header or something and not displaying the
message at all. People at Sun keep saying "I got nothing in your message,
please fix your mail and resend."
Any help for a workaround would be appreciated.
I am using NeXTMail on a 3.3 system and EnhanceMail 1.0
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, and ASCII
From: yibwu@napoleon.plato.sky.bdm.com(Yibing Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Help: PPP on NeXT 3.3 White with NXFax.
Date: 3 Mar 1996 04:50:14 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hb8e6$g9r@news.mcl.bdm.com>
The following is a mail between me and a PPP guru.
The problems I had:
>I am installing ppp-2.2-0.4.6 on a Intel box running NeXT 3.3. The machine
>had NXFax on it before, I cannot tell the version of NXFax itself, but the
>Monitor program has a version of 1.04.
>...
>after I modified the rc.local and syslog.conf and rebooted the machine,
there
>are many error messages during reboot:
>hostname mach:ttyscc1:receive error 2 (-902)
>hostname mach:ttyscc1:receive error 2 (-900)
>hostname mach:ttyscc1:receive error 2 (-900)
>These three messages came out right after the "Reboot complete" message
>and repeated themselves many times. After that, whenever I tried to run
pppd,
>another error message would show up in the console window:
>pppd[355]: ioctl: TIOCMBIS/BIC: Inappropriate iotcl for device.
His answer:
<Hmmm... are you certain this is correct? This is the error that states
that the serial
<interface was overrun with characters. This could only happen if data were
flowing over <the interface (i.e. PPP or NXFax sent something). PPP is more
likely to generate these.
<Here are several solutions:
< 1) Use a slower DTE speed (38400 instead of 57600). Make sure your
serial
< card or motherboard has 16550 High Speed UARTs.
< 2) Make sure you use /dev/cufa or /dev/cufb.
< 3) Make sure you configure your modem to use Hardware flow control
< 4) If on Intel, Get the latest serial drivers from NeXT answers (version
3.33). These
<work best with PPP. You may need to check with Black and White to make
sure that
<NXFax works OK with them.
< 6) Make sure you give pppd the 'modem' option and that you don't
< give it the 'local' option.
However, I still don't understand:
what is DTE?
How to change/set it?
How do I make sure I use "/dev/cufa or /dev/cufb"? (Are these the tty option
after pppd?)
Can any one land me some help here???
Thanks in advance.
Bing
From: descarte@hermetica.com (Alligator Descartes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Booting lockup? How to solve?
Date: 3 Mar 1996 15:36:27 GMT
Organization: Hermetica
Message-ID: <4hce9r$edc@news.bt.net>
Hi there. I have a NeXT machine given to me a few weeks ago without, you've
guessed it, manuals. It's a Motorola 68040 machine, and it's black. That's
about all I know about it. It appears to be running NeXTStep 3.x.
On booting, it gets to "Checking system files", then hangs completely. Now,
I come from a Sun background and was wondering if there was some way to
boot the machine without all this graphical stuff, since I haven't got a clue
how to get it past this bit. It has done before, but there was a power
failure that seems to now cause the machine to lock up on booting.
I read in NeXTAnswers that you hold down the "Right ALT key and Num Lock" to
drop in a prompt thing, but the keyboard I have doesn't have NumLock! Or, if
it does, it's not marked as such!
Any help on this would be utterly appreciated.
Thanks.
A.
--
Alligator Descartes | "...Nil posse creari De nilo"
descarte@hermetica.com | -- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, l.155
http://www.hermetica.com/descarte |
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Booting lockup? How to solve?
Date: 3 Mar 1996 18:23:32 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4hco34$o26@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <4hce9r$edc@news.bt.net>
descarte@hermetica.com (Alligator Descartes) wrote:
> I read in NeXTAnswers that you hold down the "Right ALT key and
> Num Lock" to drop in a prompt thing, but the keyboard I have
> doesn't have NumLock! Or, if it does, it's not marked as such!
No NeXT (black) hardware owner should be unaware of the existence
of the Three Nerve Pinches.
The Baby Nerve Pinch: <RIGHT-Command> and <`> (the backtick over
the seven on the numeric keyboard), simultaneously. If nothing
worse than an application or a window-server crash has occurred,
this lets you reboot or shut down.
The Daddy Nerve Pinch: <RIGHT-Command> <RIGHT-Alternate> <`>,
all simultaneously. Gets you to the Non-Maskable Interrupt
monitor, if the system is functioning at all at a bare Unix
level. From here, you can type 'halt', and shut the system
down in an orderly manner, leaving yourself in the ROM monitor,
which is the command-line bootup thing a Sun user will find
familiar. Or, if that hangs, you can type 'mon', which blasts
you out to the ROM monitor unconditionally, leaving the disk
unsync'd and forcing you to fsck when you next boot.
The DonchuBeFuckinWitMeNow Big Mama Nerve Pinch: <LEFT-Alternate>
<LEFT-Command> <far-RIGHT-keyboard-*>. This turns the machine
off, immediately. If this doesn't work, try de-installing the
Alternating Current Availability Peripheral from the back of
the cube, or from the wall socket. If that doesn't work, run.
Anyway, if you do the Daddy Nerve Pinch at any point in the
bootup sequence, you should be dumped in the ROM monitor,
from which you can type 'bsd' to observe the bootup, or
type 'bsd -s' to come up in single-user mode and examine
files, or type '?' for help. There is a parameter-changing
thing you can find through this help that will let you bring
up your computer verbosely (i.e., in the ROM monitor, without
the graphics) by default, if you prefer that. Sorry I can't
tell you exactly what the command is, but I don't have the
time to reboot right now.
In Wein gibt es Weisheit. |====================================================
In Bier gibt es Staerke. | Joshua W. Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu
In Wasser, nur Bakterien. |====================================================
From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4gubvv$mmt@agate.berkeley.edu>
Control: cancel <4gubvv$mmt@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 1996 08:37:25 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <4gufs5$og6@agate.berkeley.edu>
<4gubvv$mmt@agate.berkeley.edu> was cancelled from within trn.
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 Questions: booting from CD and backing up floppy disk
Date: 3 Mar 1996 19:40:17 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hcsj1$gh8@news.its.com>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960229105336.1216D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Note: to install the OS I had to use the floppy disk which came with the
> CDs, and boot using the 'bfd' (boot floppy disk) command.
You can boot from the CD and not go through the install via 'bfd -s'.
Exit the root shell to continue with multiuser startup.
> Question #2: How do I make a backup of the floppy disk I need to use? Can
> I just copy it? I thought of using 'dd' but I'm not sure of the syntax,
> even after reading the man page.
Try:
dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/tmp/Disk bs=512 count=2880
...to copy from floppy to HD, and reverse the file names to go back to a
(new) floppy. This was from memory, so it may not be perfect.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple Internet Starter Kit
Date: 3 Mar 1996 20:21:13 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4hcuvq$ps5@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4har3r$ad@news.onramp.net>
In <4har3r$ad@news.onramp.net> Steve Dekorte wrote:
>
> http://skylee.com/sis.html
>
> A nice app to make setting up home internet connections easy on NeXTstep.
>
> (Just ran across this and didn't remember hearing about it on news yet -
> hope it's not old news)
>
Hi. I've never really looked at it, but it sounds nice. Please be aware
that the docs
state you should get the latest PPP. The one included in the package is
severly out of date.
See:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
for the latest version.
- Steve
---
==============================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail to Sun
Date: 3 Mar 1996 20:58:42 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) wrote:
> Has anyone else seen this incompatibility I keep running into between
> NeXTMail and some Sun mail program. When I send PlainText apparently the
> Sun mail program is catching the MIME header or something and not
> displaying the message at all. People at Sun keep saying "I got nothing in
> your message, please fix your mail and resend."
Oh, boy. The EnhanceMail bundle with Mail 3.3 includes some MIME headers,
ie:
Content-Type: text/plain
MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
The presence of these headers should not cause a MIME-compliant mail reader
to completely fail. Tell the people at Sun to fix their mail readers, and/or
stop using EnhanceMail (bummer!), and/or send MIME mail and not plain-text.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: yibwu@napoleon.plato.sky.bdm.com(Yibing Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem: Mixed Network with NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.0 PR2
Date: 4 Mar 1996 00:25:23 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hdd9j$50r@news.mcl.bdm.com>
Keywords: NetInfo,OpenStep, Network
I have problem setting up OpenStep (4.0 pr2) within an existing network.
The network we have has many NeXT white boxes, running 3.3 and a HP server,
the NetInfo master and one clone are both running NeXT 3.3. When I was
trying to setting an existing NeXT machine to OpenStep, I had the following
problems:
1. the newly configured OpenStep machine does not recognize NIS info on HP.
I had to run a script given by NeXT to make it work. But I am wondering,
once the NIS is changed, will the one on OpenStep be kept in synch?
2. I could not define the OpenStep machine as a pure client, instead, I
have to define it as a "clone" server. If I set the status as "Access
network as a client" in SimpleNetworkStarter, even if I have this new client
registered in NetInfo or HostManager, the OpenStep box would not be given
host name, Internet address during boot time, and would fail to connect to
the NetInfo server.
Has someone had similar problems before? Does anyone know how to solve them?
Thanks in advance.
Bing
From: jmgomez@alpha2.cs.cinvestav.mx (Jos Manuel Gmez Soto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help!! Recovering disk contents from a initialized hard disk 2
Date: 2 Mar 1996 07:10:40 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <4h8s9g$3g6@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Hi there!
Somebody know how recover data from an initialized hard disk.
Have NeXTSTEP any tools to do this???
Thanks,
Jose Manuel Gomez Soto
jmgomez@alpha2.cs.cinvestav.mx
From: jmgomez@alpha2.cs.cinvestav.mx (Jos Manuel Gmez Soto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: recovering data from an initialized hard disk
Date: 2 Mar 1996 07:32:18 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <4h8ti2$3g6@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Hi!
Somebody know how recover data from an initialized hard disk?
Have NeXTSTEP any tool to do this?
Can anybody suggest a solution?
Thank you,
Jose Manuel
jmgomez@alpha2.cs.cinvestav.mx
From: jmgomez@alpha2.cs.cinvestav.mx (Jos Manuel Gmez Soto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: recovering data from an initialized hard disk 2
Date: 2 Mar 1996 07:46:05 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <4h8ubt$3g6@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Hi there!
Somebody know how recover data from an initialized hard disk?
Have NeXTSTEP any tool to do this?
Can anybody suggest a solution?
Thank you,
Jose Manuel
jmgomez@alpha2.cs.cinvestav.mx
From: edew@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't use tip to log on to my ISP
Date: 4 Mar 1996 06:28:40 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4he2io$3ov@news.next.com>
I have a shell account with netcom. I log onto netcom using tip. Lately,
when I log on, I can enter my account name and then my password. But when
the shell prompt comes up, I cannot use the carriage return key or the
backspace key. All other keys seem to enter properly, but when I hit the
return key or the backspace key, either nothing is happening or the cursor
goes back to the front of the line (where the prompt is). ^C does get me
another line, but that's hardly a good way to get any commands to run.
I'm using ZyXel-1496E running on User 3.3 on black turbo. I have been
able to log on, but it stopped being able to only recently.
Any suggestions? Is my /etc/remote file corrupt? (Doesn't look like it.)
Should I look anywhere else?
EDEW
(edew@netcom.com)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: HELP: sendmail 8.7.4 .cf-file problem
Message-ID: <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:01:36 GMT
My E-mail is broken and I'm feeling down /:-|
Being not really new to sendmail (experienced enough to keep my hands
off), I gladly followed Robert La Ferla's advice on building a sendmail.cf
for 8.7.3 to get a conf for NEXTSTEP with qualified domain names over
Taylor-UUCP. Unfortunately, my hopes for a smooth setup went up in a
smoke.
All seemed to work fine until I tried to start the 8.7.4 sendmail Robert
kindly put on the archives for use by fellow NEXSTEPers. Now, all I get
is an error message and then sendmail quits.
> > > > 554 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 589: invalid rewrite line "R* < @ * .m.
> * #smtp @ 2.m. : 1 < @ 2.m. > 3" (tab expected)
(a single line broken by the news poster, no additional quotes added!)
The sendmail.cf at the said line looks like this:
> # figure out what should stay in our local mail system
>
> R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
> DUNiDat.sub.org
> CwNiDat.sub.org NiDat.sub.org.UUCP
(quotes added by me for better readability)
Any hints?
P.S.: Please post or Fax (you know the reason why)
--
Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth
Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: pc25@
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: newest WEB-Browser for NeXT-Cube??
Date: 28 Feb 1996 11:45:11 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik 3.3 Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4h1f87$amv@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
What is the newest WEB-Browser for NeXT-Cube?
I have OMNIWEB, but this browser even isnt able to CENTER documents, ....
For any help thanks in advance!
Armin
-----------Armin Pollak----Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Telefon: 089 / 6004 3502 Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39,
FAX: 089 / 6004 3560 85577 Neubiberg, Deutschland
email: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 4 Mar 1996 05:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4hdu8u$2c0@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news:comp.sys.next.advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in
the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy
flame wars from .misc.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com
where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Archives are available by ftp at
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
news:comp.sys.next.bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material
e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for
the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This
newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post
stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense
to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual
reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well.
news:comp.sys.next.hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with
NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices
belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used
NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
news:comp.sys.next.marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to
misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups.
news:comp.sys.next.misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here
by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no
crossposting!!!
news:comp.sys.next.programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are
appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal"
newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach,
comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest.
news:comp.sys.next.software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
on NEXTSTEP systems.
news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
will spill over into .programmer or .software.
Related Newsgroups
==================
news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for
discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news:comp.object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT
and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost
philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a
programmer/philosopher.
(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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTMail to Sun
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:33:55 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Mar4.083355.9877@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com>
In article <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) writes:
> Oh, boy. The EnhanceMail bundle with Mail 3.3 includes some MIME
headers,
> ie:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
>
> The presence of these headers should not cause a MIME-compliant mail
reader
> to completely fail. Tell the people at Sun to fix their mail readers,
and/or
> stop using EnhanceMail (bummer!), and/or send MIME mail and not
plain-text.
Some PC mail readers have the same problem. If there are any MIME headers
in there, the message shows as blank.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: phy070@spo9.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A host named x
Date: 4 Mar 1996 12:21:37 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <4hen8h$808@sun1.uni-essen.de>
References: <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
Chris Saldanha (csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca) wrote:
: ...
: resolve this as 0.0.0.0.
: ...
: Why the magic "x"?
One idea would be an extremely(!) shortened 'number/digit'-address
as for e.g. 0xabcd (in hex) then abbreviated to 'x' being a short
form of 0x0 meaning 0.0.0.0?
Just a suggestion,
greetings
Ruediger Oberhage
From: mp@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Pruefer DL8OAU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Formatting floppy disks
Date: 4 Mar 96 12:16:53 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <mp.825941813@maud.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>
References: <4h8dr7$b73@nexus.polaris.net>
fordp@polaris.net (Perrone Ford) writes:
>Hello,
> I apologize for bringing up this subject again, but I simply cannot find
>the old postings or an answer in NeXTAnswers. My Cube reads but will not
>format MS-DOS floppies. I am using 3.3 on an '040. Can anyone shed some
>light on this for me, either by direct e-mail or on the newsgroup??
I found the same with my NeXT-Station.
Workaround: 1st format as Mac or NeXT,
2nd format again, and you will find also DOS available.
Has anybody a solution for that?
thank you
Martin
--
Martin Pruefer DL8OAU (M.Pruefer@tu-bs.de) | Tel: +49 531/391-7453
Institute for Robotics and Computer Control | __ Fax: +49 531/391-5696
Technical University of Braunschweig | /\_\ Why use Windows since
Hamburger Str. 267, 38114 Braunschweig, FRG | \/_/ there are doors?
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple Internet Starter Kit
Date: 3 Mar 1996 20:05:01 -0700
Organization: My Cube
Sender: root@primenet.com
Message-ID: <4hdmkt$qti@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <4har3r$ad@news.onramp.net> <4hcuvq$ps5@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) wrote:
>
>Hi. I've never really looked at it, but it sounds nice. Please be aware
>that the docs
>state you should get the latest PPP. The one included in the package is
>severly out of date.
>See:
> http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
In addition to that, there was no pointer to the file, apparently it is
only on the Big Green CD (Network Version). If it is available for
download, I would love to look at it.
What other nice pieces of software have the Japanese NS users cooked up
that we haven't heard about? First a graphical IRC client, now this...
hmmm....
--
Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS
Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve...
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From: kiwi@ariane.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Formatting floppy disks
Date: 4 Mar 1996 16:29:20 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4hf5p0$9v3@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4h8dr7$b73@nexus.polaris.net> <mp.825941813@maud.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>
Martin Pruefer DL8OAU (mp@rob.cs.tu-bs.de) wrote:
: fordp@polaris.net (Perrone Ford) writes:
: >Hello,
: > I apologize for bringing up this subject again, but I simply cannot find
: >the old postings or an answer in NeXTAnswers. My Cube reads but will not
: >format MS-DOS floppies. I am using 3.3 on an '040. Can anyone shed some
: >light on this for me, either by direct e-mail or on the newsgroup??
: I found the same with my NeXT-Station.
: Workaround: 1st format as Mac or NeXT,
: 2nd format again, and you will find also DOS available.
: Has anybody a solution for that?
When I remember correctly, this bug was mentioned in the release notes
for the 3.3 patch as corrected.
--
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: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: 4 Mar 1996 14:56:06 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com>
In <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Oh, boy. The EnhanceMail bundle with Mail 3.3 includes some MIME headers,
> ie:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
>
> The presence of these headers should not cause a MIME-compliant mail reader
> to completely fail. Tell the people at Sun to fix their mail readers,
and/or
> stop using EnhanceMail (bummer!), and/or send MIME mail and not plain-text.
Are you sure this is the fault of EnhanceMail ? I get those headers even if
I disable EnhanceMail.
There is one problem with EnhanceMail which I can't reproduce but which has
been reported several times, so I'm pretty certain that it is real.
Apparently EnhanceMail will send plain mail as NeXTmail under some
circumstances. It would be a great help if anybody who has experienced this,
sent me mail with their configuration and optionally any comments they may
have on this problem or EnhanceMail. My inability to fix this one is the
main reason there hasn't been a new release of EnhanceMail yet.
On another matter: I know that EnhanceMail partially breaks with the
Mail.app from OS4.0. That's not too surprising considering the way
EnhanceMail was written. Probably it would be fairly easy to fix if I had
access to an OS4.0 system, but NeXT in their wisdom have not put me on their
pre-release list.
Carl Edman
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install SCSI tape drive without rebooting
Date: 4 Mar 1996 17:24:12 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hf8vs$2m1@news.its.com>
References: <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com> <1996Mar2.080427.16077@nidat.sub.org>
Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote:
> In article <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com> gwu@dataspec.com (George Wu)
> writes:
>> We have a SCSI DAT drive that is shared between an Intel NEXTSTEP
>> box and a Windows NT server. We often move the tape from one machine
>> to another while they are powered up. The problem is that the
>> NEXTSTEP box does not recognize the drive if it was not present when
>> the machine booted up. Is there a way to install the tape drive
>> without rebooting the system ? Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> This is very risky!
>
> You might fry your SCSI bus or hit your file system during connection or
> power up of the peripheral. For Unix you can never really tell when a
> disk access might occur.
Let me second this caution. You shouldn't be able fry the SCSI bus doing
that (they did design SCSI to be pretty robust), but it's entirely possible
to corrupt data and/or mess up the filesystem.
Besides, why in the world would you want to move a tape drive? Just NFS
mount whatever it is you want to have backed up on the machine with the tape
drive, and perform backups across the local ethernet at night when
performance doesn't matter. (Or use 'rdump' or whatever....)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Modems and Software for White Hardware
Date: 4 Mar 1996 12:50:23 -0600
Organization: University of Minnesota
Sender: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu
Message-ID: <4hfe1f$qkv@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Keywords: NeXTstep, modem
I've finally decided to set up my home NSFIP system
(Canon object.station 41 running 3.2 or DOS/WFWG 3.11)
to dial into our University Pool which only runs SLIP
at the moment.
What's the status of the modem market for NSFIP at the moment?
With which modems have people had the best success under NSFIP?
I know there are problems with the 3.2 Serial driver... did the
NeXT patch help things, or is there a better fix?
Secondly, it seems that the only "free" SLIP implementation
is available from TranSys... is this correct?
Email replies welcome!
-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: hong@csulb.edu (Vision)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Latest NcFTP for NS 3.3
Date: 4 Mar 1996 18:44:56 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Sender: hong@wren.acs.csulb.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <yav91hgbsv3.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
References: <4gl3hi$210@bud.shadow.net>
In-reply-to: Dino Bagdadi's message of 23 Feb 1996 19:11:46 GMT
Spent long time on this but a bar which shows the percentage of
file being transfered does not show up.
Here is log file.
robin:/usr/local/src/ncftp-2.1.1 120$ diff -c fat/Makefile fat/Makefile.orig
*** fat/Makefile Wed Sep 27 15:17:19 1995
--- fat/Makefile.orig Wed Sep 27 12:42:03 1995
***************
*** 33,44 ****
CC=cc
#CFLAGS=-g -W -Wall -Wimplicit -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
! CFLAGS=-O2 -g -posix -Dpid_t=int
VPATH=..
! CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
! LIBS=-lncurses
! LDFLAGS=
# Any -D definitions:
DEFS=-DHAVE_CONFIG_H
--- 33,44 ----
CC=cc
#CFLAGS=-g -W -Wall -Wimplicit -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
! CFLAGS=-g
VPATH=..
! CPPFLAGS=-I/net/wren/u1/hong/include -I/usr/local/include
! LIBS=-lposix -lcurses
! LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib
# Any -D definitions:
DEFS=-DHAVE_CONFIG_H
In article <4gl3hi$210@bud.shadow.net> Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com> writes:
From: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com>
Keywords: ncftp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 23 Feb 1996 19:11:46 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Reply-To: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com>
Path: csulb.edu!csulb.edu!newshub.csu.net!news.Cerritos.edu!news.Arizona.EDU!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.shadow.net!usenet
Lines: 16
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-mia-54.shadow.net
X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) v0.8 Beta
Xref: csulb.edu comp.sys.next.software:25124 comp.sys.next.sysadmin:28170
Has anyone compiled the latest version of NcFTP for NS 3.3? If so, could
someone post the binaries and source to the next ftp sites?
Is it possible for any of the NS web browsers to support NcFTP's commands
(especially the command to continue an aborted/failed transfer)? Gentlemen
(Omni, Netsurfer), are you listening?
Thanks.
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@hyper.shadow.net'
From: descarte@hermetica.com (Alligator Descartes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SOLVED: Booting lockups.
Date: 4 Mar 1996 21:31:32 GMT
Organization: Hermetica
Message-ID: <4hfnfk$off@news.bt.net>
Thanks to everyone that replied to my plea for help concerning trying to
find the correct key sequence to give me a boot monitor on my Motorola NeXT
box.
It worked completely fine, and the patient has recovered completely!
Thanks folks.
A.
--
Alligator Descartes | "...Nil posse creari De nilo"
descarte@hermetica.com | -- Lucretius, De Rerum Natura I, l.155
http://www.hermetica.com/descarte |
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: unable to export external SCSI drives to network- help!
Message-ID: <1996Mar4.173638.5131@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <4h5iv6$6r7@hilbert.dnai.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:36:38 GMT
In article <4h5iv6$6r7@hilbert.dnai.com>, you wrote:
> I have a two NeXTStation network. One machine is the Netinfo server, and
> this is used for all userid and password stuff. Both machines NFS-export
> their internal drives (root dir) to the network (at /Net/machinename), and
> are visible to the other.
>
> However, I am unable to get the NFS-exported external SCSI drives to appear
> on the other machines' file systems. The drives are explicitly mounted in
> the /etc/fstab files of each machine to a uniquely named directory:
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 (internal drive- standard entry)
> /dev/sd1a /aaa 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 (external drive- my new entry)
>
> on the other machine, the external is mounted to /bbb.
>
> The NFS imports are background auto-retry r/w mounts. The exports
> explicitly grant r/w and root access to the other machine.
>
> But while NFSManager seems to show they are mounted, they do not appear in
> the *file systems* of the other machine.
>
> According to the docs, this is all that is required, so I am baffled as to
> why I cannot see the external drives across the network.
>
> Any help is appreciated, posted or email. Thanks.
>
> --
> Jaime Guerrero "verbing weirds language"
> jaime@low-impedance.com
>
You need to add an exports entry in NetInfo io der to get yhe nfsd (nfs
deamon) started from /etc/rc.
The easiest is to use NFSManager to set up your exports and restart your
machine.
Hope that helps.
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Panic: (cpu 0) fp not one
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 4 Mar 1996 23:53:44 +0200
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi
Message-ID: <OTTO.96Mar4235341@tukki.jyu.fi>
Recently, I've got a couple of these panics upon logging in to the workspace.
What does it mean, is my CPU beginning to die on me?
Monochrome NeXTstation with 32Mbytes of memory and 1Gbyte internal hard disk,
couple of CD-ROMs on an external SCSI bus. System Release 3.2, workspace 367.
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From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install SCSI tape drive without rebooting
Date: 4 Mar 1996 22:39:20 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Message-ID: <4hfreo$4ve@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
References: <4h5a88$tu9@dobie.loop.com> <1996Mar2.080427.16077@nidat.sub.org> <4hf8vs$2m1@news.its.com>
In article <4hf8vs$2m1@news.its.com>, Chuck Swiger <chuck@its.com> wrote:
>Besides, why in the world would you want to move a tape drive? Just NFS
>mount whatever it is you want to have backed up on the machine with the tape
>drive, and perform backups across the local ethernet at night when
>performance doesn't matter. (Or use 'rdump' or whatever....)
I can think of a reason.. I can't get a NeXTSTEP filesystem nfs'd to NT.
We have an NT server running Intergraph's nfs daemon. Can't seem to get
the NeXT's (NS3.3/I) disk to export to the NT macine. Works well with the
IBM RS6K, but not he NT.. too bad the DAT drive is on the NT machine.
--
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Alvin Jee
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
From: rubsamen@pro-audio.freinet.de (Marcus Ruebsamen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple Internet Starter Kit
Date: 4 Mar 1996 23:33:14 GMT
Organization: FreiNet (XLINK-PoP Freiburg)
Message-ID: <4hfujq$rac@bock.freinet.de>
References: <4har3r$ad@news.onramp.net> <4hcuvq$ps5@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <4hdmkt$qti@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) wrote:
>perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins) wrote:
>>
>>Hi. I've never really looked at it, but it sounds nice. Please be aware
>>that the docs
>>state you should get the latest PPP. The one included in the package is
>>severly out of date.
>>See:
>> http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
>
>In addition to that, there was no pointer to the file, apparently it is
>only on the Big Green CD (Network Version). If it is available for
>download, I would love to look at it.
me too!
- Marcus
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: root login refused on this terminal
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:14:04 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960227130503.10439G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960221131109.16231F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4gs3h7$kr4@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <4gt6u5$7a4@usc.edu>
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In-Reply-To: <4gt6u5$7a4@usc.edu>
On 26 Feb 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> Why can't you just open Teminal.app or whatever with OpenSesame and be in a
> root terminal? Maybe you are having something being done within a script
> that needs to go to root? I'd be curious to know what you are cooking up.
Well, since you asked...
It stems from still not being able to use RBrowser (no response from
anyon there either) as root. I found a program called 'Periscope' on an
old CD which looks like it does the same thing, but it needs root to be
able to login on a tty
> I remember once something about writing a cron script that would auto unlog,
> reboot and relog into one's home directory. No that's not it. Tho now that I
> think about it, wouldn't mind figuring out a script like that. Any
> suggestions (the logout and login seem to be the tricky parts)?
Well, that was me too, but you're a little ahead of where I was. The
only thing you can safely do is have it reboot at a certain time (there's
no way I know to logout via a script or anything like that). However, if
you were to (dangerous part coming up) remove your password and put your
account name as the default user in the loginwindow, then when it was
rebooted, it would automatically log you back in. This is NOT a good
idea if the computer is on the 'net (no password = bad idea) but for a
standalone machine it would work.
The tricks would be to figure out how to fool it into thinking there was
no password (or removing the password, rebooting, and restoring the
password). Another interesting idea would be recording what apps were
running when you logged out and have them auto-started on the auto-login.
The biggest problem I see is if you had any unsaved materials when the
time for the reboot came.
TjL
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NeXTStep Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ: send mail with subject 'send swapfaq'
Other info-via-email available, send mail with subject 'send info'
For information on PPP under NeXTStep <nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com>
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Base 64 Decoding
Date: 28 Feb 1996 05:19:44 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-b-31.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4h0olg$3qo@usc.edu>
References: <4g3ubh$g9k@news.doit.wisc.edu>
In <4g3ubh$g9k@news.doit.wisc.edu> Jess Anderson wrote:
>
> Is there an app for decoding base64-encoded images that runs
> on NeXT machines?
Opener.app
It's on most ftp sites.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CryptorBundle for NEXTSTEP 3.3 mail.app
Date: 28 Feb 1996 05:22:36 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-b-31.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4h0oqs$3qo@usc.edu>
References: <4f4lu5$h3s@usc.edu> <1996Feb7.195237.1452@nidat.sub.org>
In <1996Feb7.195237.1452@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote:
> In article <4f4lu5$h3s@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
> writes:
> > According to Lycos's search engine:
> >
> > 1) Cryptor-Bundle [1.0000, 2 of 2 terms, adj 1.0]
> >
> > Abstract: Cryptor-Bundle
> >
> > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/utils/ (0k)
> >
> Your search engine turned out to have found a lesser mirror site for
>
> peanuts.leo.org
>
> the famous Munich NEXTSTEP archive (rivaled only by cs.orst.edu ;-)
No, that was by choice as peanuts asks that large downloads be done from the
other mirror sites, especially during business hours.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cube ROM password??? HELP!
Date: 5 Mar 1996 03:42:16 GMT
Organization: Zeus Enterprises
Message-ID: <jray-0403962241020001@ts27-2.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
I *know* I've seem something about this, but now that I need to know,
I can't find anything. Just got a Cube, but it has a password set,
so I can't do anything from the monitor (which I really need to do
in order to diagnose some problems...) How can I kill this password?
Many thanks,
John
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From: Paul R. Brown <pbrown@math.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: a cheap way to connect AUI<->10bT
Date: 5 Mar 1996 03:54:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <4hgdue$8gd@agate.berkeley.edu>
I just recently moved a computer to campus from home, and I needed a way to
connect it to the local thick-net. I had thought this would cost me $500 or
so, but I was happily mistaken! NuData ((908-)-842-5757, and probably other
networking supply stores, too) have little AUI <--> 10-base-T transceivers
for around $150, and the boxes are pleasantly small.
I have no conection with them at all... I am using the little adapter to post
this message, though.
Paul
From: root@whitesun.BlueSky.net.au (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem of installl WebObject..
Date: 28 Feb 1996 07:18:23 GMT
Organization: AUSNet Services pty. ltd.
Message-ID: <4h0vjv$rce@sydney1.world.net>
when i try to install the WebObject, i got the following error message..
Installing WebObjects.pkg into / ...
Installing /NextLibrary/WebObjects-Beta1/Executables/DefaultApp-Beta1 ... OK.
**** directory checksum error (7581 != 33734)
**** There were errors while installing WebObjects.pkg.
... errors.
anyone have any idea??????
how can i fix it??
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fuguen@paris.fdn.fr (Francois UGUEN)
Subject: Re: Screen Savor - 2 monitors
Message-ID: <DnGoo8.9DH@paris.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@paris.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - PARIS - Francois UGUEN
References: <4gvo49$hm0@tandem.CAM.ORG>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 01:12:07 GMT
In <4gvo49$hm0@tandem.CAM.ORG> tralala@cam.org wrote:
> Hi:
> I have a NextDim with 2 monitors (one color & one B/W).
> Is there a way to dim one of the monitors when not in use?
> MetroTools has a screen saver that will only work on both
> monitors simultaneously.
> Thanks,
Au choix, soit tu lui mets un drap sur l'ecran soit a la main tu l'eteins en
appuyant sur le bouton!
;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) :-) |-) 8-( 8-o 8-Q
--
NeXT-mail : fuguen@paris.fdn.fr
From: emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric Marshall (Faculty))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ISDN on white hardware?
Date: 5 Mar 1996 04:51:26 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <4hgh8e$8t4@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Anyone out there running ISDN on white hardware? If so, I'd
like to hear about your experiences as well as your system configuration.
Thanks in advance.
From: jmm@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: no sound on NeXT side of Intel
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 06:24:55 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <960305012455.220AABqH.jmm@reid.econ.lsa.umich.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Patricia could get sound on her NeXT partition, but not on DOS. I just
configured a new Intel machine, and have the opposite problem.
I get sound on DOS (windows), and can play audio CDs.
When I insert an audio CD under NEXTSTEP, CDPlayer.app comes up, and
claims that it is playing, but no sound. I have set both sound and
display servers to public in my Preferences.
My Soundblaster16 is Configure.app'ed to DMA 1 and 5, IRQ 5. (IRQ 7 is
claimed by the parallel port, and IRQ 10 by my Intel Ethernet express card.)
Help!
Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason
Dept. of Economics
Univ. of Michigan
jmm@umich.edu
From: robert@steffi.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anybody with Perl4 please try this script...
Date: 04 Mar 1996 23:36:39 -0500
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.dgsys.com
Message-ID: <eka102m20.fsf@steffi.dgsys.com>
Even when I run this locally I get connection refused errors...
Can somebody else please try these perl4 scripts that mirror a web
site?
I'm running on NeXTSTEP for Intel 3.3
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From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail.app user spoofing
Date: 5 Mar 1996 06:46:27 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4hgo03$5gu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
I would like to have a local account (call it user1) on one host on
our Netinfo network be able to run Mail.app and obtain its spooled
mail from a network account (call it user2).
Is there any way to customise user1 Mail.app preferences so as to
obtain spooled mail for the user2 network account? Mail.app allows
for the setting of the spool directory but it does not allow for the
setting of the user spool file.
If I set a link from /usr/spool/mail/user1 to /usr/spool/mail/user2
(on the network spool directory), the link is deleted upon each mail
fetch.
Could this kind of spoofing be enabled with some kind of trickery with
the MailFetch program embedded in Mail.app?
Thanks for any suggestions.
... John
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Cube ROM password??? HELP!
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dns6qI.3Du@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 06:15:54 GMT
References: <jray-0403962241020001@ts27-2.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <jray-0403962241020001@ts27-2.homenet.ohio-state.edu>,
John E. Ray <jray@ag.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>I *know* I've seem something about this, but now that I need to know,
>I can't find anything. Just got a Cube, but it has a password set,
>so I can't do anything from the monitor (which I really need to do
>in order to diagnose some problems...) How can I kill this password?
>
Easiest way is to take it apart, take out the battery, go have lunch, replace
battery, and go.
All the other ROM preferences will also be hosed, though, so you'll have to
reset them.,
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to install SCSI tape drive without rebooting
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 06:54:58 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Mar5.065458.13712@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4hfreo$4ve@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
In article <4hfreo$4ve@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
writes:
> I can think of a reason.. I can't get a NeXTSTEP filesystem nfs'd to
NT.
> We have an NT server running Intergraph's nfs daemon. Can't seem to get
> the NeXT's (NS3.3/I) disk to export to the NT macine. Works well with
the
> IBM RS6K, but not he NT.. too bad the DAT drive is on the NT machine.
Have you set the rsize to 1024? This coerces the different versions of
NFS to talk to each other most times.
Alternatively, install Samba on your NeXT box, and forget about NFS.
Paul
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From: pbrown@asparagus.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IB problem; can't open .nib's
Date: 5 Mar 1996 09:11:44 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4hh0gg$hqs@agate.berkeley.edu>
When I try to open a nib file, I get
Runtime error: NXReadOnlyString: does not recognize selector -replaceWith:
I have obviously done something silly to netinfo, but what? Can anyone
tell me what to fix?
Thanks in advance.
Paul
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no sound on NeXT side of Intel
Date: 5 Mar 1996 08:35:56 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <4hgudc$h06@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
References: <960305012455.220AABqH.jmm@reid.econ.lsa.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <960305012455.220AABqH.jmm@reid.econ.lsa.umich.edu>
On 03/05/96, jmm@umich.edu wrote:
>
>
>Patricia could get sound on her NeXT partition, but not on
DOS. I just
>configured a new Intel machine, and have the opposite problem.
>
>I get sound on DOS (windows), and can play audio CDs.
>
>When I insert an audio CD under NEXTSTEP, CDPlayer.app comes
up, and
>claims that it is playing, but no sound. I have set both
sound and
>display servers to public in my Preferences.
>
>My Soundblaster16 is Configure.app'ed to DMA 1 and 5, IRQ 5.
(IRQ 7 is
>claimed by the parallel port, and IRQ 10 by my Intel Ethernet
express card.)
>
>Help!
>
>
>Prof. Jeff MacKie-Mason
>Dept. of Economics
>Univ. of Michigan
>
>jmm@umich.edu
>
>
In order to listen your CD music from your speaker, the sound
card driver has to support the internal audio connection
between you CDROM and your sound card. If you can hear the
music by earphone, I would guess it is the driver's problem.
I don't know much about SB16, but there are free drivers for
PAS16, which allow you to listen your CD music from your
speaker. Maybe you can find some similar drivers for SB16, but
I am not sure.
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From: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slowly growing swapfile
Date: 5 Mar 1996 11:30:42 GMT
Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association
Message-ID: <4hh8l2$6ln@hock.apana.org.au>
Organisation: Sargood Manor
Is there any way to get the swapfile to shrink in size??
I've applied the 3.3 patch but the damn thing just keeps growing.
Not consistently, not constantly but in fits and starts, and it never,
ever, shrinks. Eventually I have to reboot the damn machine to clear it and
free up disk space as well.
I do plan to add a separate swapdisk RSN, but in the mean time is there any
way to fix this??
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What opinions?
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A host named x
Date: 5 Mar 1996 03:16:20 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4hgbm4$fi6@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <4h83bg$jb5@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) wrote:
: In <4h7ghm$sp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Chris Saldanha wrote:
: > What is the significance of the hostname "x" in NeXTSTEP? It seems that
: > it resolves as 0.0.0.0 (ie "this host"), regardless of entries in NetInfo.
: >
: > It seems from some more experimentation, that all NeXTSTEP hosts do this,
: > even if they don't have any host entries for "x".
: >
: > Why the magic "x"?
: >
: X as in X-Windows. You got me why its doing it though. You're not running
: co-eXist or something are you?
Hey, watch it... This isn't the fault of co-Xist (or any X-Windows system)...
This is a "feature" of the name resolver routines on most Unix variations. The
"x" as the first character of a host name indicates an IP address in _hex_...
As in:
telnet x01010101
which would be the same as:
telnet 1.1.1.1
I doubt you'll be able to find a workaround for this (other than starting the
host name with some other character).
I imagine that NEXTSTEP defaults (as others might) x<blank> to a hex value of
zero (hence you get an IP address of 0.0.0.0).
(When I used to work in defect support for IBM's AIX, we had to field this
question about twice a week. It seemed to be a constant source of irritation
for some users too...)
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From: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting the Man path
Date: 28 Feb 1996 10:00:21 -0500
Organization: x
Sender: robert@steffi.mnsinc.com
Message-ID: <eybpn4hru.fsf@steffi.mnsinc.com>
References: <bkmoore.825370257@taurus.oac.uci.edu>
To: bkmoore@taurus.oac.uci.edu (Brian Moore)
Add the statement to your .zshenv file
obert:/Users/robert>grep MANPATH ~/.zshenv 9:59
export MANPATH="/usr/local/X11/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/X11R6/man:/usr/man"
export MANPATH="/usr/local/man:/usr/man"
oops :-)
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From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.software
Subject: CFP (2): Save OPENSTEP for HP-PA
Date: 5 Mar 1996 13:43:58 GMT
Organization: GMD-FOKUS
Message-ID: <4hhgeu$36l@stern.fokus.gmd.de>
To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin, comp.sys.next.misc, comp.sys.next.advocacy,
de.comp.sys.next, comp.sys.next.software
CFP: Save OPENSTEP for HP-PA
Dear colleagues,
I repeat my call for participation in a petition to NeXT and HP. Several
sources has proved true, that NeXT will not support the HP platform anymore.
So send me your remarks and electronic business card to forward it to NeXT!
The first draft of the covering letter to NeXT and to HP could be find at the
end of this posting. Any help is appreciated to correct it or make it even
better ;-)
I'll collect all replies by March 15. What do you think is the best e-mail or
postal address to send the petition to?
Robert.
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GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology
FOKUS - Research Institute for Open Communication Systems
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========= Petition for saving OPENSTEP/HP-PA ===========
Dear Madams and Sirs,
all rumours that NeXT don't want to support the HP-PA platform seem to become
true. All the signatories of this petition beg you to think over this decision
one more time.
We all think this is an extremely poor decision on the part of NeXT. It may be
penny wise, but it is certainly pound foolish, because it shows a lack of an
extremely important quality for a corporation --- integrity. Integrity always
involves some sacrifice on the micro-scale, but serves to promote macro-scale
qualities --- e.g. trust and solidity. NeXT probably figured out that
supporting HP-PA wasn't worth the revenue it would generate. That's the
micro-scale. But dropping HP support undermines trust in making any kind of
resource commitment toward NeXT --- NeXT appears to lack integrity towards its
users.
Sure, the day will come, when *the* NeXT computer will not be supported anymore
but this hardware has had its best days. The HP platform is powerful and
'up-to-date' and will be built and supported the next years at least. Many of
the signatories have invested in this platform or are planning to do so. They
will switch to another hardware or --- to another software platform, which
couldn't be in your interests.
Moreover many of us will loose not even money, but - which will be of more
importance at all - we will loose our confidence in NeXT.
Best regards,
- all the signatories -
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From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Anybody with Perl4 please try this script...
Date: 5 Mar 1996 14:00:52 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4hhhek$ir8@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <eka102m20.fsf@steffi.dgsys.com>
In article <eka102m20.fsf@steffi.dgsys.com> robert@steffi.dgsys.com
(Robert Nicholson) writes:
> Even when I run this locally I get connection refused errors...
>
> Can somebody else please try these perl4 scripts that mirror a web
> site?
>
> I'm running on NeXTSTEP for Intel 3.3
It's a problem with the sockets stuff in the Intel version of perl that
you are using. Works fine on black.
Paul
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From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail 8.7.4 and Mail.app problem
Date: 29 Feb 1996 00:55:53 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4h2tip$4ma@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Hi,
I am using sendmail 8.7.4 in NS3.3. I use the user databe feature of
this new version of sendmail to modify the "From" and "Reply-to"
fields of outgoing messages. For example:
All mail posted from userA has fields:
From: userA@domainA
Reply-to: user@domainA
All mail posted from userB has fields:
From: userB@domainB
Reply-to: userB@domainB
domainA and domainB have even noting to do with my machine domain.
This works very well when I send mail using the "Mail" shell command.
However, when I use Mail.app the user database is not used and wrong
return addresses are in the headers.
Anybody knows how to prevent Mail.app from overriding the senmail.cf
definitions?
Thank you very much,
Francois Magnan
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From: skrans@winternet.com (Steve Krans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail config question
Date: 5 Mar 1996 15:37:34 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Message-ID: <4hhn3u$kdb@blackice.winternet.com>
Hi!
Is there a way to have all mail directed to mailhost? My Next machine
lives on a Sun network and it has problems delivering to an unqualified
address when that address runs a sparc binary in its .forward file.
Please cc any replies via email.
Thanks,
Steve
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skrans@winternet.com
From: skrans@winternet.com (Steve Krans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo can't open parent domain
Date: 5 Mar 1996 16:01:58 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Message-ID: <4hhohm$m6r@blackice.winternet.com>
Hello...
I've setup my Nextstep/sparc machine to use NIS for network services per
Next's guide, but I'm continually getting these in /var/adm/messages:
Mar 5 09:34:11 nsmmws30 syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Have I missed something? Please cc any replies via email.
Thanks,
Steve
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Slowly growing swapfile
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DnsxyM.ItE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 16:03:57 GMT
References: <4hh8l2$6ln@hock.apana.org.au>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4hh8l2$6ln@hock.apana.org.au>,
David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> wrote:
>Is there any way to get the swapfile to shrink in size??
>
Possibly.
>I've applied the 3.3 patch but the damn thing just keeps growing.
>Not consistently, not constantly but in fits and starts, and it never,
>ever, shrinks. Eventually I have to reboot the damn machine to clear it and
>free up disk space as well.
>
You can try typing "exit" at the login window to restart the window server,
but this isn't guaranteed to work.
>I do plan to add a separate swapdisk RSN, but in the mean time is there any
>way to fix this??
>
I'm afraid you're mostly stuck. You could always make cron reboot the
machine every now and then.
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Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: phy070@spo9.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no sound on NeXT side of Intel
Date: 5 Mar 1996 18:07:11 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <4hhvsf$g56@sun1.uni-essen.de>
References: <960305012455.220AABqH.jmm@reid.econ.lsa.umich.edu>
Check if sound-volume is strong enough (sound-settings in preferences and
the 'volume'-wheel in the player app). Sometimes (one of) these are simply
set to low.
Ruediger Oberhage
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rick@helix.nih.gov (Rick Troxel)
Subject: Re: HELP: sendmail 8.7.4 .cf-file problem
In-Reply-To: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org's message of Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22: 01:36 GMT
Message-ID: <RICK.96Mar5125527@helix.nih.gov>
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
References: <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 17:55:27 GMT
In article <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org
(Peter Nitezki) writes:
> > > > 554 /etc/sendmail.cf: line 589: invalid rewrite line "R* < @ * .m.
> * #smtp @ 2.m. : 1 < @ 2.m. > 3" (tab expected)
(a single line broken by the news poster, no additional quotes added!)
The sendmail.cf at the said line looks like this:
> # figure out what should stay in our local mail system
>
> R$* < @ $* .$m. > $* $#smtp $@ $2.$m. $: $1 < @ $2.$m. > $3
> DUNiDat.sub.org
> CwNiDat.sub.org NiDat.sub.org.UUCP
(quotes added by me for better readability)
The DU and Cw definitions in the midst of a ruleset look suspicious to
me; I'd move them up toward the top of the file. Also, line 589 as you
posted it really does not have the needed tab character in front of
$#smtp.
Hope this helps,
--
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From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: sendmail 8.7.4 .cf-file problem
Date: 5 Mar 1996 16:45:01 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4hhr2d$n0@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org>
Hi!
Sendmail was a real easy one.
This is my turbocat.mc
VERSIONID(`@(#)generic-bsd4.4.mc 8.1 (Berkeley) 9/12/95')
OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(uucp)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST',uucp-uudom:harvey)
define(UUCPNODES, `|/usr/local/bin/uuname')
MASQUERADE_AS(turbocat.snafu.de)
FEATURE(mailertable)
Then from the shell:
/usr/local/bin/m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/turbocat.mc >
/somewere/sendmail.cf
If you need a Mailertable:
makemap hash /etc/mailertable
max smtp:max
auuhost uucp-uudom:auuhost
[ctrl-d]
If you have clients in the net:
VERSIONID(`@(#)clientproto.mc 8.6 (Berkeley) 8/16/95')
OSTYPE(nextstep)
#FEATURE(nullclient, mailhost.$m)
FEATURE(nullclient, turbocat.$m)
All you need is to replace turbocat with your sitename and harvey with your
uucp-feed. Note: Turbocat (NS 3.3 pl1) and Harvey (Linux) use Tailor UUCP.
_ _
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(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Replacement for /bin/login ?
Date: 5 Mar 1996 18:12:08 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4hi05o$41a@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
According to some rumours and my own experiences, I get more and more
the impression that /bin/login is broken. At least on my Intel machine
with the most recent serial drivers, login doesn't seem to acknowledge
the settings of the tty interface. Therefore, the "password" line is
always scrambled when I try to log in with 8-bit/no parity.
This happens with mgetty, but similar seems to be true for NXFax.
Any idea if it is possible to replace /bin/login with another variant,
e.g. from *BSD ?
Gregor
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From: Jo Peters <peters@boystown.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bootstrap_register failed error
Date: 5 Mar 1996 19:52:25 GMT
Organization: Boys Town National Research Hospital
Message-ID: <4hi61p$dpg@nntp.novia.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In my /usr/adm/messages file, this error occurs w/ great frequency:
> Mar 5 08:53:54 lcfnext loginwindow[242]: bootstrap_register failed -
> -102
Does anyone know what it means or how the condition can be corrected?
The system is an Intel NS 3.3
Thanks,
Jo Peters Boystown National Research Hospital
peters@boystown.org 555 N. 30th St. Omaha, NE 68131
(402) 498-6672
From: Jo Peters <peters@boystown.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: (no subject)
Date: 5 Mar 1996 19:46:40 GMT
Organization: Boys Town National Research Hospital
Message-ID: <4hi5n0$dp3@nntp.novia.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In my /usr/adm/messages file, I routinely see this error msg. many times:
> Mar 5 08:53:54 lcfnext loginwindow[242]: bootstrap_register failed -
> -102
What does it mean? What needs to be fixed, if anything? The system
appears to be functioning normally. BTW, it's an Intel NS 3.3
Thanks,
Jo Peters Boystown National Research Hospital
peters@boystown.org 555 N. 30th St. Omaha, NE 68131
(402) 498-6672
From: ernie@bac-ground (Ernesto Baca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: From: field needs fixing
Date: 5 Mar 1996 21:03:50 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hia7m$3vm@degas.ICSI.Net>
When I use Mail.app the From: address shows as:
From: Ernesto Baca <ernie>
When I use Alexandra.app the From: address shows as:
From: ernie@bac-ground (Ernesto Baca)
My account name is: ernie
My machine name is: bac-ground
My Domain name is: icsi.net
How do I fix this? Please explain in easy to follow steps, I'm a novice at this.
Thank you
Ernie
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: 6 Mar 1996 00:30:58 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4himc3$a0l@news.its.com>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> <4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
> In <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>> The presence of these headers should not cause a MIME-compliant
>> mail reader to completely fail. Tell the people at Sun to fix their
>> mail readers, and/or stop using EnhanceMail (bummer!), and/or send MIME
>> mail and not plain-text.
>
> Are you sure this is the fault of EnhanceMail ? I get those headers
> even if I disable EnhanceMail.
No, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's the combination of 3.3 Mail.app and
EnhanceMail? I don't have an earlier version of Mail.app handy to test right
now, but I remember that earlier versions did not include such headers.
> There is one problem with EnhanceMail which I can't reproduce but which has
> been reported several times, so I'm pretty certain that it is real.
> Apparently EnhanceMail will send plain mail as NeXTmail under some
> circumstances. It would be a great help if anybody who has experienced
> this, sent me mail with their configuration and optionally any comments
> they may have on this problem or EnhanceMail.
Hmm. I have noticed that doing a Cmd-R (reply) with the "reply in same
format" Mail.app preference set creates a compose window with the text inside
not auto-wrapped as one would expect for plain-text mode.
Clicking the mail type button 3 times then reformats the text according to
the "plain text line length" preference. Possibly the compose window isn't
fully going into plain-text mode (regardless of what the button says) and
wi;ll send this as NeXTmail?
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: newest WEB-Browser for NeXT-Cube??
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 15:37:39 -0800
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <313CD043.7F04@mpr.ca>
References: <4h1f87$amv@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
pc25@ wrote:
>
> What is the newest WEB-Browser for NeXT-Cube?
> I have OMNIWEB, but this browser even isnt able to CENTER documents, ....
>
> For any help thanks in advance!
>
> Armin
>
> -----------Armin Pollak----Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
> Telefon: 089 / 6004 3502 Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39,
> FAX: 089 / 6004 3560 85577 Neubiberg, Deutschland
> email: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de
>
Try the latest beta version of Omniweb 2.0. It's great and has
lots of new features.
Check out
http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniWeb/2.0/Features.html
There is also Spiderwoman and Netsurfer but I haven't tried
these so I can say what they are like.
Happy surfing
Scott Mewett
MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C.
mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only
mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Simple Internet Starter Kit
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:18:32 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960305121806.11545D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On 3 Mar 1996, Robert Worne wrote:
> In addition to that, there was no pointer to the file, apparently it is
> only on the Big Green CD (Network Version). If it is available for
> download, I would love to look at it.
>
> What other nice pieces of software have the Japanese NS users cooked up
> that we haven't heard about? First a graphical IRC client, now this...
> hmmm....
Well, when I got this app it was not off the Big Green CD, but from:
ftp://ftp.cnds.canon.co.jp/pub/SKIN/BasicPackages/SimpleInternextStarter1.2E.pkg.tar.gz
As I recall it required some other packages which could all be found in
the same folder, but I haven't used it so I don't really remember.
TjL
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From: beaucham@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to boot from external drive?
Date: 6 Mar 1996 04:07:30 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4hj322$nri@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
I got my Fireball connected as an external drive, and using BuildDisk I
reformatted it and got the systems files there. It is supposedly now a boot
disk. But how can I get it to boot off of this external drive? My 2.0 Sys Admin
manual (admittedly out of date, but I don't think they changed the monitor
mode) says to use "bsd(1,0,0)", but even though it started out trying to boot
off the external, it gave up and went back to the internal.
BTW, I'm running 3.2 on black hardware.
Jim Beauchamp
j-beauch@uiuc.edu
From: jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing NS 3.3 on Black hardware/picking SCSI id to boot from/etc... *HELP*
Date: 6 Mar 1996 04:34:18 GMT
Organization: Zeus Enterprises
Message-ID: <jray-0503962333030001@ts33-2.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
I'm at the end of my rope here...
I just got a cube... it has a SCSI drive installed at ID #2. I want to install
NS 3.3. I hook up a CD-ROM at ID #0. I boot off of the CD, and everything is
fine - the install runs, then it asks to reboot so that the new disk can
start up and the installation can be finished.
Now, the problem. While the CD is ID#0, it WON'T boot from ID#2. If I do a
bsd(1,0,0), it starts to boot from ID#2, then gets to a point at the
startup where it says "root on sd0" - and it then proceeds to finish the
boot from the CD, and the installation starts all over again. How in the
world do I get the thing to boot all the way from one ID?
If I bump the CD up to a high SCSI ID, it will boot off of my ID#2 drive,
but it won't be able to finish the installation because it tries to
mount the CD somewhere based on its SCSI id (I'm assuming it writes some
sort of installation script on the fly, and the installation device's
ID is hard coded in there somewhere.
How do I get this to work? It is giving me MAJOR headaches!
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
John
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app user spoofing
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:30:46 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960305122325.11545F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4hgo03$5gu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4hgo03$5gu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
On 5 Mar 1996 jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca wrote:
> I would like to have a local account (call it user1) on one host on
> our Netinfo network be able to run Mail.app and obtain its spooled
> mail from a network account (call it user2).
Um... call this another simple answer to a complex problem, but why not
use a .forward file? You can even set it up to keep a copy at the
original account.
> Is there any way to customise user1 Mail.app preferences so as to
> obtain spooled mail for the user2 network account? Mail.app allows
> for the setting of the spool directory but it does not allow for the
> setting of the user spool file.
If there is, I don't know what it is. You might try
'su user2 -c /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail'
(or something much like that)
From a Terminal window. This will open the Mail.app as if user2 had
opened it.
If POP is running, you might try using the wonderfully excellent
PopOver.app and see if you can somehow set that up to retrieve said mail.
> If I set a link from /usr/spool/mail/user1 to /usr/spool/mail/user2
> (on the network spool directory), the link is deleted upon each mail
> fetch.
yup, as recently discussed, Mail.app USED to leave /usr/spool/mail/$USER
empty after mail was fetched. Now it removes it. Not sure what version
of the OS saw this change.
> Could this kind of spoofing be enabled with some kind of trickery with
> the MailFetch program embedded in Mail.app?
More than likely, but I doubt it would be easy to figure out. For fun I
tried to fetch my own mail from my own machine using my own username via
MailFetch at the commandline, and it failed horribly. It was not meant
for interactive use.
Personally, I think the .forward is your best option.
TjL
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slowly growing swapfile
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 12:37:41 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960305123145.11545G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4hh8l2$6ln@hock.apana.org.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4hh8l2$6ln@hock.apana.org.au>
On 5 Mar 1996, David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Is there any way to get the swapfile to shrink in size??
Several. /bin/rm -f /private/vm/swapfile is one... a very very very bad
one, but one.
Generally speaking, no there is no way. Logging out and logging back in
might help. Logging out and logging in as 'exit' might help. But
nothing significant. You really must reboot.
> I've applied the 3.3 patch but the damn thing just keeps growing.
> Not consistently, not constantly but in fits and starts, and it never,
> ever, shrinks. Eventually I have to reboot the damn machine to clear it and
> free up disk space as well.
>
> I do plan to add a separate swapdisk RSN, but in the mean time is there any
> way to fix this??
Not really. You can add RAM, which will lessen the growth somewhat, but
installing a separate swapdisk is really the best solution to maximizing
time between reboots.
You can get a copy of the Swapfile and Swapdisk FAQ (v 1.0) from:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0.tar.gz
or by sending me an email with the SUBJECT:
'send swapfaq'
Don't put the ' in your subject, though...
TjL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: shayman@Objectario.com (Steve Hayman)
Subject: Re: A host named x
Message-ID: <1996Mar6.040500.664@objectario.com>
Sender: news@objectario.com
Organization: Steve Hayman + Associates / NeXTSTEP Consulting / Toronto
References: <1996Mar6.035934.420@objectario.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 04:05:00 GMT
Chris Saldanha observed some weird behaviour with a host named "x".
I'm not sure I can rationalize this particular behaviour, but just
FYI, after experimenting a bit it appears that lookupd or netinfo
or something is treating certain hostnames as C-style hexadecimal
numbers. And "x" must map to "0x0".
"telnet x" == "telnet 0" (== "telnet localhost")
"ping 0x8112198B" == "ping 129.18.25.139"
Cool. and weird. and definitely a bug.
Steve
---
Steve Hayman
Systems Engineer, NeXT Software Canada, Toronto
Steve_Hayman@NeXT.com || (416) 769-8995
From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing NS 3.3 on Black hardware/picking SCSI id to boot from/etc... *HELP*
Date: 6 Mar 1996 07:08:05 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <4hjdkl$105@news.rwth-aachen.de>
References: <jray-0503962333030001@ts33-2.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
Copyright: This message is Copyright (C) 1996 by Stefan Leuker
jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray) wrote:
>
>
> Now, the problem. While the CD is ID#0, it WON'T boot from ID#2. If I do
a
> bsd(1,0,0), it starts to boot from ID#2, then gets to a point at the
> startup where it says "root on sd0" - and it then proceeds to finish the
> boot from the CD, and the installation starts all over again. How in the
> world do I get the thing to boot all the way from one ID?
>
You did the installation wrong. The system is missing the CDROM that was
present while installing (see below).
> If I bump the CD up to a high SCSI ID, it will boot off of my ID#2 drive,
> but it won't be able to finish the installation because it tries to
> mount the CD somewhere based on its SCSI id (I'm assuming it writes some
> sort of installation script on the fly, and the installation device's
> ID is hard coded in there somewhere.
>
It should work if the CDROMs ID is greater than the HDs, and you are using
the floppy disk to boot from.
That should give you a propper installation
(I did that with various HDs several times, and it allways worked)
Stefan
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Mia: Is that a fact?
Vince: No, it's just what I heard; just what I heard. (pf)
From: beaucham@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to boot from external drive?
Date: 6 Mar 1996 05:47:22 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4hj8ta$eb@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4hj322$nri@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
recently I wrote:
>I got my Fireball connected as an external drive, and using BuildDisk I
>reformatted it and got the systems files there. It is supposedly now a boot
>disk. But how can I get it to boot off of this external drive? My 2.0 Sys Admin
>manual (admittedly out of date, but I don't think they changed the monitor
>mode) says to use "bsd(1,0,0)", but even though it started out trying to boot
>off the external, it gave up and went back to the internal.
>BTW, I'm running 3.2 on black hardware.
I figured it out -- set the SCSI# of the external drive to '0'. It then
takes over as the boot drive. I thought this would cause a conflict, but it
evidentally doesn't. The internal drive comes up as 'MyDisk'.
Jim Beauchamp
j-beauch@uiuc.edu
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: From: field needs fixing
Date: 6 Mar 1996 11:55:55 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4hjugb$7u@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4hia7m$3vm@degas.ICSI.Net>
ernie@bac-ground (Ernesto Baca) wrote:
> When I use Mail.app the From: address shows as:
> From: Ernesto Baca <ernie>
>
> When I use Alexandra.app the From: address shows as:
> From: ernie@bac-ground (Ernesto Baca)
>
> My account name is: ernie
> My machine name is: bac-ground
> My Domain name is: icsi.net
In Alexandra 0.81 (October, 32nd, 95) You can set this in Info->Prefenrences.
choose Compose in the PupUp. Then add:
[Header | Value]
--------+-----------------------------------------
From | ernie@bac-ground.icsi.net (Ernesto Baca)
Older Versions than mine cause problems with headers.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Replacement for /bin/login ?
Date: 6 Mar 1996 12:04:29 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4hjv0d$7u@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4hi05o$41a@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) wrote:
> According to some rumours and my own experiences, I get more and more
> the impression that /bin/login is broken. At least on my Intel machine
Yes. Definitely. It seems to hate 8 bit mode.
> Any idea if it is possible to replace /bin/login with another variant,
> e.g. from *BSD ?
I started to port a NetBSD login but as I found out that the old
works, I stoped that due to time limits.
Put this into the .login file of each user:
stty pass8 pass8out
After login, you get a little rubbish but then the connection is OK.
(I tested this with Modulator.app and a second modem.)
> Gregor
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: mp@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Martin Pruefer DL8OAU)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Latest NcFTP for NS 3.3
Date: 6 Mar 96 12:52:48 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <mp.826116768@maud.rob.cs.tu-bs.de>
References: <4gl3hi$210@bud.shadow.net> <yav91hgbsv3.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
hong@csulb.edu (Vision) writes:
> Is it possible for any of the NS web browsers to support NcFTP's commands
> (especially the command to continue an aborted/failed transfer)? Gentlemen
> (Omni, Netsurfer), are you listening?
> Thanks.
Try Yftp. It is great, uses his own cache, and works quite stable.
Martin
--
Martin Pruefer DL8OAU (M.Pruefer@tu-bs.de) | Tel: +49 531/391-7453
Institute for Robotics and Computer Control | __ Fax: +49 531/391-5696
Technical University of Braunschweig | /\_\ Why use Windows since
Hamburger Str. 267, 38114 Braunschweig, FRG | \/_/ there are doors?
From: kelley@mudpot.ATMOS.ColoState.Edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: netmsgserver - Crashing Server - HELP
Date: 6 Mar 1996 16:09:54 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Message-ID: <4hkdci$1672@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
hi all.
in the past month, my trusty netinfo master/file server nd cube has been
crashing (need to pull the plug type of crash...) generally in the late
afternoon about
1-2 times a week. of course this happens AFTER i leave for the day and i
either get a call at home from a user or i find it dead on my desk the next
morning.
i've found this in the syslog before the crash:
Mar 1 16:24:14 kiwi netmsgserver[22]: port_set_add() returned 4
and it's repeated around 30 times. i couldnt find info on this in the FAQ or
NeXTanswers.
can anyone out there provide any insight? thanks for your time!
kelley wittmeyer
dept of atmospheric science
colorado state university
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing NS 3.3 on Black hardware/picking SCSI id to boot from/etc... *HELP*
Date: 6 Mar 1996 17:49:42 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4hkj7m$a2j@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <4hjdkl$105@news.rwth-aachen.de>
In article <4hjdkl$105@news.rwth-aachen.de> sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker) writes:
>jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray) wrote:
>> Now, the problem. While the CD is ID#0, it WON'T boot from ID#2. If I do a
>> bsd(1,0,0), it starts to boot from ID#2, then gets to a point at the
>> startup where it says "root on sd0" - and it then proceeds to finish the
>> boot from the CD, and the installation starts all over again. How in the
>> world do I get the thing to boot all the way from one ID?
>>
>You did the installation wrong. The system is missing the CDROM that was
>present while installing (see below).
According to NeXT, it is "wrong" starting with NS3.3. Was OK for earlier NS
versions.
>> If I bump the CD up to a high SCSI ID, it will boot off of my ID#2 drive,
>> but it won't be able to finish the installation because it tries to
>> mount the CD somewhere based on its SCSI id (I'm assuming it writes some
>> sort of installation script on the fly, and the installation device's
>> ID is hard coded in there somewhere.
>>
>It should work if the CDROMs ID is greater than the HDs, and you are using
>the floppy disk to boot from.
>That should give you a propper installation
>(I did that with various HDs several times, and it allways worked)
Sometimes, it's hard to use a kick-floppy on NeXT cubes (like a
non-existent drive). Setting CDROM to target (ID)=0 has an advantage
in this case, as long as the HD contains NS3.x (or at least a
CDROM-capable boot block on HD), because then it can boot from CDROM
without any floppy.
When you install NS3.3 booting off CDROM that is sd0 and HD as sd1,
"sd1" is hard coded into /etc/fstab. It used to be (for NS3.2 and
earlier) that /etc/fstab always contained boot drive "sd0", regardless
of the the device was during installation. NeXT considered this
as a "bug" and "fixed" it so that the root mount entry always
reflects the device that was actually used during builddisk.
Personally, I wish they retained the old behavior of always making
root-mount device to "xx0", but this is a "feature" now, and not
a big deal as long as you know how to fix it (see below).
Here I quote a response from a NeXT person long time ago about this
behavior, and a fix:
You're right, it is the /etc/fstab that is causing this behavior.
In previous releases, it was a _bug_ that the disk for booting
was written into the fstab was always sd0. This causes problems
if you want to install to and boot NEXTSTEP from an external disk,
with some other OS on an internal disk. HP machines, too, don't
appreciate this.
It's unlikely that we will revert to the previous behavior. It's
up to a system administrator to edit the fstab on the disk before
the move (a trivial modification).
If you've moved the drive already, you can boot with "rootdev=sd0
-s" as parameters to get into single user mode, then change the
fstab. (Modify that "sd0" as appropriate to be the current SCSI
device with NEXTSTEP.) The system cannot magically know which
device to mount on / at boot, so it uses the default in /etc/fstab,
unless you tell it otherwise with "rootdev=" at the boot prompt.
--
Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail.app user spoofing
Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:22:48 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4hkl5o$os8@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <4hgo03$5gu@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960305122325.11545F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960305122325.11545F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Thank you to everyone who made suggestions and replied to my query.
My query about spoofing was prompted by problems with sendmail
delivery timeouts between our mailhost and one rogue client system.
Hence, solutions involving the alias database or .forward files were
not working.
The suggested solution that does work is using another protocol (POP)
and the PopOver application.
Thanks again for your help.
... John
--
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
University of British Columbia
Electronic mail: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: From: field needs fixing
Date: 6 Mar 1996 20:21:45 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-56.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4hks4p$9h3@usc.edu>
References: <4hia7m$3vm@degas.ICSI.Net> <4hjugb$7u@turbocat.snafu.de>
In <4hjugb$7u@turbocat.snafu.de> David Wetzel wrote:
> ernie@bac-ground (Ernesto Baca) wrote:
> > When I use Mail.app the From: address shows as:
> > From: Ernesto Baca <ernie>
> >
> > When I use Alexandra.app the From: address shows as:
> > From: ernie@bac-ground (Ernesto Baca)
> >
> > My account name is: ernie
> > My machine name is: bac-ground
> > My Domain name is: icsi.net
>
> In Alexandra 0.81 (October, 32nd, 95) You can set this in
Info->Prefenrences.
> choose Compose in the PupUp. Then add:
Looks like you got a problem with sendmail, as well as your newsreader.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: gt4501c@prism.gatech.edu (Bhagvan Kommadi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Immediate job opp-RS/6000 SP2 administrator
Date: 6 Mar 1996 14:33:09 -0500
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <4hkp9l$kgo@sundial.gatech.edu>
sir,
There is an immediate opportunity available for
RS/6000 SP2 system administrators (GOOD AIX SKILLS).
contact
Wayne Bicknell
770 3942441 Phone
770 3921455 FAX
wbick@atl.mindspring.com
Please give my name as the reference,
Bhagvan Kommadi
--
Bhagvan Kommadi
gt4501c@prism.gatech.edu
From: doyle@mmm.lanl.gov (Mark Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: 4 Mar 1996 20:38:25 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <4hfkc1$aho@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> <4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
> There is one problem with EnhanceMail which I can't reproduce but which
> has been reported several times, so I'm pretty certain that it is real.
> Apparently EnhanceMail will send plain mail as NeXTmail under some
> circumstances. It would be a great help if anybody who has experienced
> this, sent me mail with their configuration and optionally any comments
> they may have on this problem or EnhanceMail. My inability to fix this
> one is the main reason there hasn't been a new release of EnhanceMail
> yet.
I use EnhanceMail all of the time and have never seen this problem. What I
have seen is that the URLifier bundle from NeXT uses an 8-bit ASCII character
to represent the little lightning bolts and if you reply to a message with a
URL in it (quite common nowadays --- even headers have them), it will go to
NeXTMAIL if you don't get rid of the character (European < thingy) in front
of the URL. It always puts the red triangle on the deliver button, but I have
sometimes missed this and sent the mail as NeXTMail. Maybe this is what
people are seeing.
Cheers,
Mark
From: rupert@blitzen.misha.net (Hans Rupert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Help: PPP on NeXT 3.3 White with NXFax.
Date: 6 Mar 1996 22:44:49 GMT
Organization: MISHA Group, Inc
Message-ID: <4hl4h1$kmt@delta.misha.net>
References: <4hb8e6$g9r@news.mcl.bdm.com>
In <4hb8e6$g9r@news.mcl.bdm.com> Yibing Wu wrote:
>>Can any one land me some help here???
>>Thanks in advance.
>>Bing
Bing -
Worry not. Just don't use PPP for your transport. I had the same problem
with a client site, and had to use Mux V1.7. It works great, and has all the
documentation you need. You should be able to find it on next-ftp.peak,org.
Aslo, make certain that you have the new Core 3.3 drivers from NeXT - TTY
Port Server, Serial Port. I personally use PPP wiht NXFax to send, but
cannot EVER get it to receive. Just don't even bother mucking with it. Hope
that helps.
Bests,
Hans Rupert
--
Hans Rupert
<rupert@misha.net> / NeXTmail ~ MIME encouraged
Direktor
noir
From: nurban@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: multiple NS partitions on same drive
Date: 5 Mar 1996 00:02:18 -0500
Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Message-ID: <4hghsq$6so@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
I have a SCSI drive with multiple partitions for various OSes. I want
to format over one of them (an OS/2 HPFS filesystem) and turn it into a
NEXTSTEP partition. fdisk reports:
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
OS/2 Boot Mgr 0 8 Active
NEXTSTEP 8 502 -
DOS, 16 bit FAT 510 400 -
Type 17 910 118 -
(The OS/2 filesystem is the Type 17 one.)
Unfortunately, this doesn't tell me what character device is associated
with that partition, so I can't use newfs to put a filesystem on it.
I've waded through a lot of online documentation, man pages and such,
but I still can't seem to figure out how to do this. Help! I can post
any system information necessary.
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nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/
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From: Rakesh_Dubey@NeXT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bootstrap_register failed error
Date: 6 Mar 1996 23:25:41 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4hl6tl$luh@news.next.com>
References: <4hi61p$dpg@nntp.novia.net>
In article <4hi61p$dpg@nntp.novia.net> Jo Peters <peters@boystown.org> writes:
| In my /usr/adm/messages file, this error occurs w/ great frequency:
|
| > Mar 5 08:53:54 lcfnext loginwindow[242]: bootstrap_register failed -
| > -102
|
| Does anyone know what it means or how the condition can be corrected?
| The system is an Intel NS 3.3
|
You probably don't have an audio device configured in. This message is harmless.
-Rakesh
From: lgoodall@toto.pitton.com (Larry Goodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help fellow computer users. PROBLEMS WITH APC EQUIPMENT PROTECTION POLICY
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 03:38:12 GMT
Organization: SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hless$euo@opal.southwind.net>
Thanks for pulling me up to read. I recently had a bad experence with
the company APC on a claim for damages. APC has refused to honnor
their claim of EQUIPMENT PROTECTION FROM LIGHTING DAMAGE.
I sent the following letter to the CEO of APC after several attempts
to resolve the claim. Please help by firing off an Email to APC at
Anyone who would like to email APC their comments may do so at
unicom@indra.com questioning if they will pay YOU if your machine is
damaged after a lighting strike. All help will be greatly appricated.
Best Regards to all.
> I just wanted to post this letter for all to see the problems I have
>had in dealing with the company APC over their Equipment Protection
>Policy. Please note this posting is not a Threat, this is a letter of
>frustration. Please enjoy the following letter that I sent to the CEO
>of APC (at my expense).
>Thanks.
>APC
>American Power Conversion
>132 Fairgrounds Road
>West Kingston, RI 02892 February 10, 1996
>Attention: Chief Executive Officer.
>Dear Sir,
>I am writing to you today to express my frustration with your company,
>I am extremely disappointed to learn that you are not going to honor
>your Equipment Protection Policy after my computer was struck by
>lightning and destroyed as documented by Don Carrie owner of Creation
>Computers where I originally purchased both the computer and your
>protection unit.
>The facts are very clear. My house was struck by lightning. More that
>just my computer suffered damage, to include my Stereo, two VCRs, two
>Phones, Scanner and even the electronics in my kitchen stove were
>fried. In addition to this a 2 inch hole was left in my roof from the
>strike. An electronics technician for Sears verified that the
>entertainment electronics had been struck by lightning, as did the
>repairman for the stove and my insurance agent. I called the place I
>bought the computer from and he told me to bring the computer to his
>shop. He took the cover off and you could SMELL the cooked
>components.
> I left the equipment with Mr. Carrie and he told me to call your
>company and file a claim that he would keep the components for 30
>days. Your company requested the unit be sent to your office but
>determined that there was nothing was wrong with it.
>Well I did not make up this damage and I know the system was struck
>had enough that it burnt the cable from the computer to my printer and
>the speaker cables in to as did the telephone line FROM your unit to
>the computer.
>I think your decision to not honor my claim is improper. I am going
>to file a complaint with the State of Kansas consumer fraud division,
>and the Better Business Bureau, in addition to making a formal
>complaint it is my intent to share my experience with your company
>with every single computer user I know to include the MIS director for
>Motorola Incorporated, Unified School board, Superior Industries
>International, Computerland, Compaq Computers and United Airlines. In
>addition I will write a letter to consumer magazine to express a REAL
>FIELD EXPERIENCE and post an open letter on the internet for all to
>read.
>I may not get this claim satisfied by your company but I will let
>others know the truth about your so called EQUIPMENT PROTECTION
>POLICY.
>Good Day!
>Larry Goodall
>lgoodall@toto.pitton.com
>Enclosed is your Equipment Protection Policy, Do what seems natural
>with it!
From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: 6 Mar 1996 14:18:32 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <4hk6ro$3u4@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com>
<4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4himc3$a0l@news.its.com>
In <4himc3$a0l@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
> > In <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >> The presence of these headers should not cause a MIME-compliant
> >> mail reader to completely fail. Tell the people at Sun to fix their
> >> mail readers, and/or stop using EnhanceMail (bummer!), and/or send MIME
> >> mail and not plain-text.
> >
> > Are you sure this is the fault of EnhanceMail ? I get those headers
> > even if I disable EnhanceMail.
>
> No, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's the combination of 3.3 Mail.app and
> EnhanceMail? I don't have an earlier version of Mail.app handy to test
> right now, but I remember that earlier versions did not include such
> headers.
It is possibly Mail.app 3.3, but I don't think it has anything to do with
EnhanceMail. Why not just do a simple test ? Send a message with Mail.app
with EnhanceMail bundle enabled. Then move EnhanceMail.bundle to another
directory temporarily, restart Mail.app and send the same message. Is the
existance of those Content-Type headers affected ? That should settle this
question.
> > There is one problem with EnhanceMail which I can't reproduce but which
> > has been reported several times, so I'm pretty certain that it is real.
> > Apparently EnhanceMail will send plain mail as NeXTmail under some
> > circumstances. It would be a great help if anybody who has experienced
> > this, sent me mail with their configuration and optionally any comments
> > they may have on this problem or EnhanceMail.
>
> Hmm. I have noticed that doing a Cmd-R (reply) with the "reply in same
> format" Mail.app preference set creates a compose window with the text
> inside not auto-wrapped as one would expect for plain-text mode.
Yes, that is a known bug which was fixed some time ago. I believed that
might fix the whole problem, but I sent the patched version to one of the
people who had complained about the unintentional NeXTmail problem and he
claimed that this problem hadn't gone away.
Carl Edman
From: kzin@isc.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with Nextstep mounts and automounter
Date: 7 Mar 1996 02:54:48 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4hlj5o$p8n@nuke.csu.net>
I recently installed Nextstep 3.3 on my Sparcstation, and decided
to use my second hard drive for user home directories. I have it
mount at /users. However, there's a strange side-effect that every
so often everyones home directory ends up chowned to my user account
(I'm the only one who logs in on the console, and it only seems to
happen when I'm on the console..it also doesn't happen if root is
on the console.. then it looks like their files are owned by the
appropriate user). There's also a problem that everytie I log in the
first time after a reboot, it thinks my home directory is /, and not
/users/kzin. This is all rather annoying.
So, a friend reminded me about automounter.. and I decided to have
this partition mounted normally.. I put it in the fstab, and loaded the
fstab with niload. I also checked the xtab, which doesn't list
_anything_ at all (and there doesn't appear to be an xtab portion in
netinfo). I also checked the fstab entries in netinfo. Here's what
they look like when nidumped:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /users 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
But, here's what mount reports:
arcadia:(autonfsmount[130]) on /Net type nfs (ro,intr,port=729)
/dev/sd0a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto)
/dev/sd1a on /users type 4.3 (rw,noquota)
Notice, it skips the thing about noauto. I suspect that both
problems are being caused by automounter doing things I didn't
want nor ask it to do. Can anyone fill me in on how to stop this, without
killing automounter (in case I want to keep it around for other, useful,
things)?
Also, since it looks like /etc/xtab isn't where this info is kept,
where IS it kept?
(oh, and there isn't a man page for fstab nor xtab under NS 3.3
for Sparc.. anyone know what happened to it? It _is_ referenced by
other man pages (the fstab one, I mean))
Thanks
John
--
John "Kzin" Rudd kzin@isc.sjsu.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
=========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.============
When I hear people sigh 'life is hard', i am always tempted to ask,
'compared to what?'" -- sydney j harris
From: rainer@rainix.jena.thur.de (Rainer Sokoll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Replacement for /bin/login ?
Date: 6 Mar 1996 20:10:20 GMT
Organization: Thueringen Net, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4hkrfc$57i@rainix.jena.thur.de>
References: <4hi05o$41a@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4hjv0d$7u@turbocat.snafu.de>
David Wetzel (dave@turbocat.snafu.de) wrote:
: I started to port a NetBSD login but as I found out that the old
: works, I stoped that due to time limits.
David, I would mail you time as much as you need!
: stty pass8 pass8out
: After login, you get a little rubbish but then the connection is OK.
: (I tested this with Modulator.app and a second modem.)
This is, in my experience, true. But what if you have a script looking for
the "ogin:"-sequence?
BTW: With Trumpet Winsock - no problems. Why?
Greetings,
Rainer
--
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From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: More efficient swapdisk technique
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 7 Mar 1996 06:12:23 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va.
Sender: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu
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Summary: try it
I wanted to pass on a technique that I've found to increase the
efficiency & speed of a (my) swapdisk. It's somewhat technical,
but I found it to be worth the effort I've gone to to do it.
It is a very simple solution. And involves one of the more
traditionaly overlooked switches in a tradtionaly overlooked
program, "tunefs". I am sure there'sa good chunk of you out
there who have messed with the -m & -o prefrences, especialy
if you are on black h/w & are using the old 105 to swap to...
if you're not, and you have the 105 you should be ;>
Basicly -m does "minfree", the 105 get's set at 5% by default,
which is VERY low. it should be at least 15%, so you do -m 15
to fix it. The -o switch is either "time" or "space", and "space"
is the default on 105's.
Another ~very~ important factor to recall is that the machine,
(and this applies to ALL disks on ALL platforms) will automaticly
get changed from "time" to "space" if you fill the disk, so an occasiona
'tunefs' is called for as part of ormal maintinance. it doesn't automaticly
change back...
Overlooked however, and I say this because I have NEVER seen anyone
speak of it, refer to it, or otherwise make any note of it in
the NeXT community in the past 6 or so years is the "-e" switch,
which does the max contigious blocks in a cylinder group.
The man page describes greater values as being better for large files
(like a swapfile), and damned if it doesn't make a big difference
to change it.
The default on a 105 meg disk is 256 bytes per cylinder group, which
if the setup is "typical" according to the man page is 1/4 of the
group. not too efficent for large files at all, cause it goes
read 1/4, seek 3/4, read 1/4, etc.
I decided to change this, basicly to be more efficient, and here's what
I did:
Booted the machine without having the swapdisk mount.
removed the "old" swapfile,
unmounted the drive
"tunefs -e 1024 -m 15 -o time /dev/rsdXa" where X is my drive #.
mounted the drive.
created a new swapfile "mkfile -v 50m swapfile"
rebooted
I belive you can get away with doing it on a mounted filesystem
with no negative impact too. Apperently tunefs is designeed to work
on mounted devices ok.
To explain, the default was 256, changing it at all returns a "was" &
"is now" reading from it. So you can change it back. I derived 1024
becasue it was 1/4 of the default and I knew that 1024 was the frag size,
so I figured it was a good value. Going higher than frag size seems like
it'd be a Bad Thing.
The result I got was a perceptible increase in my machine's speed. The
swap i/o seems to be much faster, and there's the aural factor. All of
a sudden my disk is way the hell quieter, and is making far less
"seeking" noises. I use a 50 meg swapfile by default, and grow it as
needed up to 80 megs, & then kick over to a non-prefered file on a
different drive.
I highly reccomend that if you are swaping on a separate disk, that
you investigate this as a solution. YMMV but it worked well for
me.
Tim Scanlon
________________________________________________________________
tfs@vampire.science.gmu.edu (NeXTmail, MIME) Tim Scanlon
George Mason University (PGP key avail.) Public Affairs
I speak for myself, but often claim demonic possession
From: kzin@isc.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with Nextstep mounts and automounter
Date: 7 Mar 1996 07:32:02 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4hm3di$a46@nuke.csu.net>
References: <4hlj5o$p8n@nuke.csu.net>
Well, I seem to have fixed my own problem.
Here's what I did:
I first took out the "noauto" part for /users, and I changed its
mount point to /Users (since I don't have many users it wasn't a
problem).
This actually didn't fix it, even though I had loaded it into NetInfo
and it was in the /etc/fstab file, still didn't work. Why?
I had to find and change the file
/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/etc/fstab and correct it. Why? I
dunno, but it works now. I guess soemthing about that hierarchy is
more important than NetInfo. I'll remember to look there next time.
Thanks to everyone who posted after my first message, but before
this one.
--
John "Kzin" Rudd kzin@isc.sjsu.edu (ex-kzin@cc.gatech.edu)
=========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatable.============
When I hear people sigh 'life is hard', i am always tempted to ask,
'compared to what?'" -- sydney j harris
From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Recovering disk contents, more details.
Date: 5 Mar 1996 21:47:54 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Message-ID: <4hicqa$1fm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Hi:
I think I have a common friend with Jose Manuel, since I was also asked for
help with this accidentally initialized disk. I was looking for related
articles in c.s.n.sysadmin when I found hist postings and the responses.
Unfortunately, so far nobody has talked about a possible solution.
Here are some additional details, in case they are useful:
- The system is a NeXTstation, with an internal hard disk and an external 1GB
MicroNet hard disk.
- NEXTSTEP version is 3.0.
- The external disk was apparently automounted, since it belonged to the
currently logged-in user.
- As was previously said, the external disk was accidentally formatted when
trying to format a floppy disk.
- The formatting process could not be interrupted by software, and was not
interrupted by hardware (for example, by turning off the disk) since they
thought (correctly, in my opinion) that that could cause more severe damage.
I really hope somebody can help.
Best regards.
--
Diego Martin Zamboni Jefe del Area de Seguridad en C'omputo
diego@conga.super.unam.mx DGSCA, UNAM, Mexico. Tel. (52-5)622-85-29
(NeXTMail ok) Fax. (52-5)622-80-43
WWW home page: http://ds5000.super.unam.mx/~diego/
PGP key: finger diego@conga.super.unam.mx
Date: 7 Mar 1996 10:43:10 EST
From: lgoodall@toto.pitton.com (Larry Goodall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <cancel.4hless$euo@opal.southwind.net>
Control: cancel <4hless$euo@opal.southwind.net>
Subject: cmsg cancel <4hless$euo@opal.southwind.net>
EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca.
See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19960307.02 for further details
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Boot Block on Black -->URGENT!!!!
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 17:28:13 -0500
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <313F62FD.6157@osu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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I did a really dumb thing and accidentally typed the following line:
dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/rsd0a
I then wasn't sure whether to let it keep running or stop it asap, so I
decided to stop it (pressed ctrl-c). Okay, so I messed it up pretty
badly. I had system 3.3 on the machine, and no longer have the CDs...
My drive no longer boots.
I luckily have a friend wiht a NeXT runing 3.0 I attached the drive to
his machine and ran fsck. It gave me lots of errors and I was not sure
what to do with them, so I quit that, too. To make sure that things
were still on the drive, I mounted it (manually because the Workspace
Manager would hang when I tried from there), and checked to see if there
were still files. Yes, but the links of /dev and /etc were now 0k
files. I tarred all the files and put them on another drive to store
them just in case. Now, I tried to run "disk -b /dev/sd2a" from
/mnt/etc (where my etc was mounted). It did it, but then when I tried
to boot the machine it dropped to a bunch of register dumps.
I'm sure I have really messed things up by now, but if anyone can tell
me what to do I would REALLY appreciate it. I think it must have copied
the 3.0 boot block onto my drive instead of the 3.3 one.
Thanks so much in advance
Karl N. Matthias
From: jth9904@chenext2.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 reboot for no reason
Date: 7 Mar 1996 17:33:14 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4hn6kq$2gf@news.tamu.edu>
We have had a problem with our server going down for no apparant reason.
Here is the message file in /private/adm.
It seems that there is a problem with the fs = /users/Userdisk1. Each time
we have had this reboot, it is usually that someone has just saved
something or was in the process of saving somthing to this disk. Can
anyone decipher this. I have run a filesystem check on the disk.
Also, what are all of the 2's printed out before the reboot?
Thanks,
Jeromy
jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
Mar 7 10:58:37 chenext1 mach: mode = 0100644, inum = 97289, fs =
/users/Userdisk1
Mar 7 10:58:39 chenext1 syslogd: going down on signal 15
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: Killing all processes
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: continuing
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting NetWare ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting /Net ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting Former_Students ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting j1s3936 ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting /users/ResearchGroup ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting Userdisk1 ... FAILED
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting swapdisk ... done
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: Root unmount FAILED
Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
rebooting Mach...
From: soren@zeus.datashopper.dk (Soren Mathiasen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Memfree
Date: 8 Mar 1996 01:14:45 +0100
Organization: DataShopper Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Message-ID: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>
Hi....
Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux displays
amount of mem free on the system
Thanks, Soren
--
Soren Mathiasen
soren@datashopper.dk
Student at Roskilde EDB skolde, DK
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: HELP: sendmail 8.7.4 .cf-file problem
In-Reply-To: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org's message of Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:01:36 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar7210605@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:06:05 GMT
The problem appears to be with your .mc file. Please post what you used
here.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: HELP: sendmail 8.7.4 .cf-file problem
In-Reply-To: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org's message of Sat, 2 Mar 1996 22:01:36 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar7211446@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org>
Distribution: world
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 02:14:46 GMT
No need to post your .mc. The solution is VERY SIMPLE. The error message
said that a tab was expected. I bet you copied and pasted the .mc
lines and the tabs got converted to spaces. Simply change the
whitespace between $* and $#smtp to a TAB. While you can do this to
the sendmail.cf file, it's better that you do it to the .mc file and
recompile it with m4.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:46:25 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960307114418.298Q-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> <4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4himc3$a0l@news.its.com>
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On 6 Mar 1996, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
> > In <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> >> The presence of these headers should not cause a MIME-compliant
> >> mail reader to completely fail. Tell the people at Sun to fix their
> >> mail readers, and/or stop using EnhanceMail (bummer!), and/or send MIME
> >> mail and not plain-text.
> >
> > Are you sure this is the fault of EnhanceMail ? I get those headers
> > even if I disable EnhanceMail.
>
> No, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's the combination of 3.3 Mail.app and
> EnhanceMail? I don't have an earlier version of Mail.app handy to test right
> now, but I remember that earlier versions did not include such headers.
With 3.3, all messages started having the Context/Text MIME header,
whether you send ASCII mail, NeXTMail, or MIME mail. I know that because
before that I (mistakenly) thought that the mere presence of that line
meant that there was a MIME attachment.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: gregan@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail trouble: "Connection refused"
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 06:49:30 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4hp6se$stg@paperboy.ids.net>
Sendmail suddenly stopped working for me. The only thing I've done
recently is rebooted. I have a NeXTStation running V3.2. I'm running
sendmail V8.7.3. I have a slip connection open to my service provider
that works fine otherwise (telnet, etc.). The following is a transcript
of what happens when I run sendmail by hand:
******
arzoo:2# /usr/lib/sendmail -v -d0 -d16.1 bouncer@nic.near.net < sendmail1
Version 8.7.3
Compiled with: LOG MATCHGECOS MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINFO
NETUNIX NEWDB NIS SCANF USERDB XDEBUG
============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = arzoo
(canonical domain name) $j = $w.$m
(subdomain name) $m = egr-ri.ids.net
(node name) $k = arzoo.ids.net
========================================================
bouncer@nic.near.net... Connecting to ids.net. via smtp...
makeconnection (ids.net. [155.212.1.2])
makeconnection: fd=7
bouncer@nic.near.net... Deferred: Connection refused by ids.net.
******
The "Connection refused" part looks like the problem, but I can't
imagine why it should suddenly start doing this. Any help
would be appreciated.
Greg Arzoomanian
gregan@ids.net
From: pc25@
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: WWW-Editor for NeXT
Date: 8 Mar 1996 12:07:00 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik 3.3 Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4hp7t4$3p2@infosrv.rz.unibw-muenchen.de>
Help!!
I need for the secretary a WWW Editor. Easy to use, of course!
I have found some Editors, but none for NeXT!
Is there such an editor?? Where can I get it??
For all information, hints or help thanks in advance!
Armin
-----------Armin Pollak----Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Telefon: 089 / 6004 3502 Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39,
FAX: 089 / 6004 3560 85577 Neubiberg, Deutschland
email: pollak@pluto.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk
Subject: rarpd?
Message-ID: <DnyBI4.1sy@isltd.insignia.com>
Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com
Organization: Insignia Solutions plc
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:44:27 GMT
Is there a rarpd for NeXTStep?
I can't find one, but I need to boot a machine on my network diskless
(non-next so it can use bootptab stuff).
Thanks
Ian
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System Admin/Career Position/ILL
Date: 8 Mar 1996 15:04:08 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <4hpi98$7ev@tofu.alt.net>
System Administrator
Career Position
Exceptional opportunity
Relocation assistance
NEXTSTEP
ILL
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
From: Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents, more details.
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 09:25:56 -0800
Organization: CE-CERT
Message-ID: <31406DA4.41C67EA6@cert.ucr.edu>
References: <4hicqa$1fm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Diego Zamboni wrote:
* SNIP *
> - The formatting process could not be interrupted by software, and was not
> interrupted by hardware (for example, by turning off the disk) since they
> thought (correctly, in my opinion) that that could cause more severe damage.
>
> I really hope somebody can help.
Actually, turning off the disk might have made recovery easier. If the
format process had not finished, then fsck might have been able to see
that data, and rebuilt the inode list appropriately.
With the inode table for the residing data gone, and a new inode table
having been created by the format command, about the only way to
retrieve the data would be to use a raw disk tool to get each block of
data individually. Then someone would have to try to figure out which
blocks went together and in what order to reconfigure the files. If fsck
had been run regularly, then most of the files should reside in
contiguous blocks; if not, then pieces of the files could be anywhere.
The only tool for this I am aware of is rawdisk; which I've never used.
It is available on the OSU site, and I have it on my own anonymous ftp
server (bigtop.bville.com), under /pub/archive/rawdisk.tar.Z.
Be advised, that since a new inode table has been created, then any disk
operations done after the format command will obliterate many blocks of
the data on the disk. Not all of the data will be recoverable.
--
Ron Wood, Systems Administrator CE-CERT, UCR
Ink n.:
A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and
water,
chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote
intellectual
crime. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
From: gregan@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: Sendmail trouble: "Connection refused"
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 12:35:05 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
Message-ID: <4hpr4d$6np@paperboy.ids.net>
References: <4hp6se$stg@paperboy.ids.net>
In Article <4hp6se$stg@paperboy.ids.net>
gregan@ids.net writes:
>
>Sendmail suddenly stopped working for me. The only thing I've done
>recently is rebooted. I have a NeXTStation running V3.2. I'm running
>sendmail V8.7.3. I have a slip connection open to my service provider
>that works fine otherwise (telnet, etc.). The following is a transcript
>of what happens when I run sendmail by hand:
>
>******
>
>arzoo:2# /usr/lib/sendmail -v -d0 -d16.1 bouncer@nic.near.net < sendmail1
>Version 8.7.3
> Compiled with: LOG MATCHGECOS MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINFO
> NETUNIX NEWDB NIS SCANF USERDB XDEBUG
>
>============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
> (short domain name) $w = arzoo
> (canonical domain name) $j = $w.$m
> (subdomain name) $m = egr-ri.ids.net
> (node name) $k = arzoo.ids.net
>========================================================
>
>bouncer@nic.near.net... Connecting to ids.net. via smtp...
>makeconnection (ids.net. [155.212.1.2])
>makeconnection: fd=7
>bouncer@nic.near.net... Deferred: Connection refused by ids.net.
>
>******
>
>The "Connection refused" part looks like the problem, but I can't
>imagine why it should suddenly start doing this. Any help
>would be appreciated.
>
>Greg Arzoomanian
>gregan@ids.net
False alarm, folks (I'm the poster). It turns out the trouble is
with the ISP.
Now, what would be nice, if someone could tell me, is how can I make
my system complain loudly when this happens. As it is, Mail.app thinks
it sent the mail, and I wouldn't know anything was wrong if I wasn't
looking at the Console window.
Greg Arzoomanian
gregan@ids.net
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: 8 Mar 1996 19:45:04 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4hq2o0$f8o@news.its.com>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com> <4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4himc3$a0l@news.its.com> <4hk6ro$3u4@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
> It is possibly Mail.app 3.3, but I don't think it has anything to do with
> EnhanceMail. Why not just do a simple test ? [ ... ]
> Is the existance of those Content-Type headers affected?
No, they were not affected, although I didn't try 3.2 Mail.app with and
without EnhanceMail.
Regardless, I don't believe that adding a Content-type header is a bad thing
for either one to do-- the fault lies in the Sun mail readers that choke on
it for no reason.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail error problem.
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 19:56:15 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers,Inc. (Austin, TX)
Message-ID: <960308145615.286AAEYJ.pmt@a22459>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Bonjour,
I get the following error message after 5 days and a warning after 4 hours
after sending a message.
>From: Mail Delivery Subsystem >Subject: Returned mail: Cannot send message for 5 days
>Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 10:46:57 -0500 (EST)
>To: pmt
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>
>The original message was received at Fri, 1 Mar 1996 10:41:34 -0500 (EST)
>from pmt@localhost
>
> ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----
>callard@zone.ca (unrecoverable error)
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>callard@zone.ca... Deferred: Connection timed out during initial connection
with mail.zone.ca.
>Message could not be delivered for 5 days
>Message will be deleted from queue
What could cause a connection timed out? I'm on a LAN and I can send to my
internal domain without problem. As soon as I get out of cdn.tandem.com or
tandem.com I have problems. I can receive with no problem. Any hints???
Thanks.
Michel
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail not ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents, more details.
Message-ID: <1996Mar8.171328.13606@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4hicqa$1fm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:13:28 GMT
In article <4hicqa$1fm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> diego@conga.super.unam.mx
(Diego Zamboni) writes:
> Hi:
>
> I think I have a common friend with Jose Manuel, since I was also
> asked for help with this accidentally initialized disk. I was
> looking for related articles in c.s.n.sysadmin when I found hist
> postings and the responses. Unfortunately, so far nobody has
> talked about a possible solution.
>
The reason why you got no response: Your cause is lost and void.
The disk now is in pristine condition. And no effort short of a special
data recovery service costing thousands of dollars will give you back a
single bit. Even if you knew the inner workings of the file system
(doable 'cause all PD) and a virtuous hackership in Unix tools you could
not do it manually. The size of the task is simply overwhelming.
So, kiss your data good bye and take backups more frequently, from now on.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Q: Boot Block on Black -->URGENT!!!!
Message-ID: <1996Mar8.172252.13665@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <313F62FD.6157@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 17:22:52 GMT
In article <313F62FD.6157@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu>
writes:
> I did a really dumb thing and accidentally typed the following line:
>
> dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/rsd0a
>
> I then wasn't sure whether to let it keep running or stop it asap,
> so I decided to stop it (pressed ctrl-c). Okay, so I messed it up
> pretty badly. I had system 3.3 on the machine, and no longer
> have the CDs...
> My drive no longer boots.
> I luckily have a friend wiht a NeXT runing 3.0 I attached the
> drive to his machine and ran fsck. It gave me lots of errors
> and I was not sure what to do with them, so I quit that, too.
> To make sure that things were still on the drive, I mounted it
> (manually because the Workspace Manager would hang when I tried
> from there), and checked to see if there were still files. Yes,
> but the links of /dev and /etc were now 0k files. I tarred all
> the files and put them on another drive to store them just in
> case. Now, I tried to run "disk -b /dev/sd2a" from
> /mnt/etc (where my etc was mounted). It did it, but then when
> I tried to boot the machine it dropped to a bunch of register dumps.
> I'm sure I have really messed things up by now, but if anyone can
> tell me what to do I would REALLY appreciate it. I think it must have
> copied the 3.0 boot block onto my drive instead of the 3.3 one.
>
After all these failed and and crippling attempts your filesystem is now
mangled so badly I can't think of anything but building it anew.
The best option is a rebuild from CD (BTW, I can't think of any condition
that could part me from my distribution CDs) but you have 'em no longer...
So, then attach the drive to your friend's 3.0 machnine and BuildDisk the
thing. You'll have downgraded to NS 3.0 afterwards but your system will
be up and running, at least.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: 9 Mar 1996 00:22:32 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
To date I've been unable to get this to compile. Any
one out there suceeded?
--
Sherwood Botsford # sherwood@space.ualberta.ca
Physics Dept # 403 492 5728 mornings (Math Dept)
University of Alberta # 3713 afternoons 0714 Fax
Edmonton, AB, T6G 2J1 # Contract Unix system admin & troubleshooting
From: minmiramar_a@ppp.com(minMiramar Associates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: min...Renters .... Buy a Home with No $$ Downmin
Date: 9 Mar 1996 04:30:46 GMT
Organization: adnc.com
Message-ID: <4hr1hm$5tl@taurus.adnc.com>
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From: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Network backup devices [Advice sought]
Date: 07 Mar 1996 22:40:41 GMT
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Mar7224041@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi,
I need some advice on network back-up devices. We have about 10 Un*x
machines (Nexts, and PCs running Linux and NS) which are for the most
part independent, but we would like to perform backups of all the
machines to the same tape device. We have been looking around at
what's available, and the most attractive idea seems to be a "tape
station": a tape machine which hangs off the net. I wanted to know if
anyone has had any experience with such devices and whether there are
any pitfalls I should be aware of. Also if anyone recommends another
kind of backup media for such a small network... I'd love to hear it.
One thing that bothers me is that in the ads I've seen, it's mentioned
that these tape devices are shipped with software for DOS, Windows,
and Novell -- none of which apply to our setup. Thus I was wondering
just how difficult would it be to make them work in our case. Is it
simply a matter of mounting the device remotely and then (r)dumping?
Or is it something more complicated? If anyone could enlighten me on
how this kind of network tape devices work I'd be inmensely grateful.
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Jose
--
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
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| Department of Physics (Rm. 227) | Fax: +44.181.981-7465 |
| Queen Mary and Westfield College | mailto:J.M.Figueroa@qmw.ac.uk |
| Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | |
| and |
| http://stringswww.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~jmf/jmf.html |
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 13:17:39 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>
On 8 Mar 1996, Soren Mathiasen wrote:
> Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux displays
> amount of mem free on the system
I think you might be looking for 'df'
for a GUI version: check out the Workspace INFO menu option (one of the
sub-menus also has this info)
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: minmiramar_a@ppp.com(minMiramar Associates)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 09 Mar 1996 10:37:35 EST
Control: cancel <4hr1hm$5tl@taurus.adnc.com>
Subject: cmsg cancel <4hr1hm$5tl@taurus.adnc.com>
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Spam cancelled by dsr@lns598.lns.cornell.edu
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: From: field needs fixing
In-Reply-To: ernie@bac-ground's message of 5 Mar 1996 21:03:50 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar9125608@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4hia7m$3vm@degas.ICSI.Net>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 17:56:08 GMT
In Alexandra, Ihink you can go into Info->Preferences->Compose menu and add
a header called "From" header with a value of
"Ernesto Baca <ernie.bac-ground.icsi.net>" Don't put the quotes in the fields.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:07:13 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960309130421.18623D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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On 9 Mar 1996, System Administrator wrote:
> To date I've been unable to get this to compile. Any
> one out there suceeded?
indeed, someone has:
at peanuts and mirrors:
/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/shell/tcsh.6.06.NIHS.b.gz
my suggestion would be:
ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/shell/tcsh.6.06.NIHS.b.gz
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: NS3.3 reboot for no reason
Message-ID: <1996Mar9.100652.16213@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4hn6kq$2gf@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 10:06:52 GMT
In article <4hn6kq$2gf@news.tamu.edu> jth9904@chenext2.tamu.edu (Jeromy
Hollenshead) writes:
> We have had a problem with our server going down for no apparant
> reason. Here is the message file in /private/adm.
>
> It seems that there is a problem with the fs = /users/Userdisk1.
> Each time we have had this reboot, it is usually that someone
> has just saved something or was in the process of saving somthing
> to this disk. Can anyone decipher this. I have run a filesystem
> check on the disk.
>
>
> Also, what are all of the 2's printed out before the reboot?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeromy
> jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
>
> Mar 7 10:58:37 chenext1 mach: mode = 0100644, inum = 97289, fs =
> /users/Userdisk1
> Mar 7 10:58:39 chenext1 syslogd: going down on signal 15
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: Killing all processes
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: continuing
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting NetWare ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting /Net ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting Former_Students ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting j1s3936 ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting /users/ResearchGroup ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting Userdisk1 ... FAILED
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting swapfile.front ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: unmounting swapdisk ... done
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: Root unmount FAILED
> Mar 7 11:08:11 chenext1 mach: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
> rebooting Mach...
Although I never saw a NEXTSTEP rebooting cause of filesystem trouble I
guess it is really in the integrity of 'Userdisk1'. And even as I can't
give you an answer why I can tell you what I'd do ;-)
A 'fsck' on 'Userdisk1' is telling what?
And a low level disk check is telling what?
The 'fsck' thing should be clear so more about the low level thing.
There is no obvious way to check a disk on the block level in a Unix
system, apperently. The trick is in the "obvious", as Unix always has at
least one way to do things (there must be something to distinguish hackers
and lusers :-)
Open the console window to make it visible. Open a terminal window and
type 'dd if=/dev/rsdXY of=/dev/null' (XY being the parameters for the disk
in question). This command will read every block on the partition and
throw the result into the trash bin. This is safe in any situation, no
need for standalone or any other precaution. The down hand side is that
is is extremely slow (several hours per GB). The console window will
display the block numbers of any block that had problems while reading.
They can be replaced with 'reasb' afterwards.
Hope this helps
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: buckley@mayo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Touch'ed dir won't open in Workspace
Date: 9 Mar 1996 22:53:21 GMT
Organization: BBS Systems - San Francisco
Message-ID: <4ht251$r1s@cyberE.creative.net>
I still occasionally want to use Touch (to move files back and forth
to my ISP disk space) but when Touch mounts this one computer system
(a Sun) Workspace won't open it and says so in the console. Traversing
to that directory in a shell works, but a listing shows two copies of
each (.) and (..). One side effect of not having a Workspace browser
open is that Touch does not encounter a busy filesystem at unmount
time.
Any ideas as to why this might be happening?
cuchulain 7 > ll
total 5
1 drwxrwxrwx 1 paul 7 Dec 31 1969 ./
1 drwxrwxrwx 1 paul 7 Dec 31 1969 ./
1 drwxrwxrwx 2 root 1024 Mar 9 14:49 ../
1 drwxrwxrwx 2 root 1024 Mar 9 14:49 ../
1 drwxr-xr-x 7 paul 512 Dec 31 1969 public_html/
--
_________________________________________
Paul Buckley
555 Clayton St., #25
San Francisco, CA 94117
Email: buckley.paul@mayo.edu
Tel: 415-558-9381
_________________________________________
From: david@dbynum.async.csuohio.edu (D E Bynum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Serial drivers: Mux or NS 3.3?
Date: 10 Mar 1996 03:20:37 GMT
Organization: Cleveland State University
Message-ID: <4hthq5$71f@csu-b.csuohio.edu>
This will have been discussed long ago, when everybody else did their
NS 3.3 upgrades...
Which work better for serial line communications; the Mux 1.7 drivers, or
the NS 3.3 drivers with which the NS 3.3 upgrader.app replaced my old set of
Mux special files?
Thanks for a reply...
David
bynum@lserver.math.csuohio.edu
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 10 Mar 1996 04:46:47 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4htmrn$d7@news.its.com>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>
soren@zeus.datashopper.dk (Soren Mathiasen) wrote:
> Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux
> displays amount of mem free on the system
Depending on what you mean, /usr/bin/vm_stat or /bin/df. /usr/bin/vm_stat
will tell you how many pages of RAM are in use and some info about VM and
swapping behavior.
/bin/df tells you how much space you have left on your hard drives. The
amount of free space available on the drives you swap to is proportional to
the total additional amount of virtual memory that is available at that
moment. The actual amount of memory you have available depends on what you
do with it (for various complex reasons).
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 10 Mar 1996 13:50:09 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <4hummh$kso@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
> On 8 Mar 1996, Soren Mathiasen wrote:
>
> > Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux
displays
> > amount of mem free on the system
>
> I think you might be looking for 'df'
>
> for a GUI version: check out the Workspace INFO menu option (one of the
> sub-menus also has this info)
>
> TjL
>
>
The Linux's free command is totally different with df or Workspace->Info. If
you type free in any Linux machine you'll see the following report.
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 31520 12072 19448 2928 8724
-/+ buffers: 3348 28172
Swap: 33132 0 33132
IMO, Linux's free is very usefull. For instance, from this report you can see
this Linux machine has 32MB memory and one 32MB swap disk (Linux can support
mutiple swap disks), and currently there is no swap at all.
Yuwen Cheng
yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network backup devices [Advice sought]
Date: 10 Mar 1996 11:12:23 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4huden$cf@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Mar7224041@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need some advice on network back-up devices. We have about 10 Un*x
> machines (Nexts, and PCs running Linux and NS) which are for the most
You can use gnutar and rsh like this: (I am not at work now)
root@hosta> gnutar czf - ./* | rsh tapehost "cat > /dev/rst0"
tapehost is the host with the tape.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: Network backup devices [Advice sought]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <960310102739.704AAFcX.magnus@koa>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Mar7224041@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk> <4huden$cf@turbocat.snafu.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 16:27:39 GMT
David Wetzel (dave@turbocat.snafu.de) writes:
>You can use gnutar and rsh like this: (I am not at work now)
>
>root@hosta> gnutar czf - ./* | rsh tapehost "cat > /dev/rst0"
>
>tapehost is the host with the tape.
There is a simpler way: gnutar -f user@host:/dev/rst0
---
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
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From: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Subject: Filesystem 3.3
Message-ID: <Do2B3q.1vG@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Distribution: na,usa,world
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 17:26:13 GMT
Could anybody tar up/UUencode and mail me the
/usr/filesystems directory for NeXT 3.3?
-Alby
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Recovering disk contents, more details.
Date: 10 Mar 1996 17:40:41 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4hv46p$dmt@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4hicqa$1fm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> <1996Mar8.171328.13606@nidat.sub.org>
Peter Nitezki (Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org) wrote:
: In article <4hicqa$1fm@hp.fciencias.unam.mx> diego@conga.super.unam.mx
: (Diego Zamboni) writes:
: > Hi:
: >
: > I think I have a common friend with Jose Manuel, since I was also
: > asked for help with this accidentally initialized disk. I was
: > looking for related articles in c.s.n.sysadmin when I found hist
: > postings and the responses. Unfortunately, so far nobody has
: > talked about a possible solution.
: >
: The reason why you got no response: Your cause is lost and void.
Sort of...
: The disk now is in pristine condition. And no effort short of a special
: data recovery service costing thousands of dollars will give you back a
: single bit. Even if you knew the inner workings of the file system
: (doable 'cause all PD) and a virtuous hackership in Unix tools you could
: not do it manually. The size of the task is simply overwhelming.
: So, kiss your data good bye and take backups more frequently, from now on.
If you're just interested in recovering some _very_important_ files,
it might be a solution to read from the raw device and grep for some
unique string supposed to be in the data you're looking for. Use the
-b option to grep to find out about the block number.
As the BSD filesystem tries to allocate data in contiguous blocks,
you might be lucky not to find the blocks of the file scattered all
over the place. The recovery of the last block of a file will be
problematic due to sub-allocation (fragmentation).
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network backup devices [Advice sought]
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 10 Mar 1996 17:45:31 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4hv4fr$dmt@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Mar7224041@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk> <4huden$cf@turbocat.snafu.de>
David Wetzel (dave@turbocat.snafu.de) wrote:
: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill) wrote:
: >
: > Hi,
: >
: > I need some advice on network back-up devices. We have about 10 Un*x
: > machines (Nexts, and PCs running Linux and NS) which are for the most
: You can use gnutar and rsh like this: (I am not at work now)
: root@hosta> gnutar czf - ./* | rsh tapehost "cat > /dev/rst0"
Be careful!
This will _not_ work with DAT drives set to variable block length.
It will write the tape but it won't be readable afterwards.
It will also miss all the dotfiles in the current directory...
--
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: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 10 Mar 1996 19:21:27 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4hva3n$8jr@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4hummh$kso@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4hummh$kso@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
On 03/09/96, yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote:
>In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
>"Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
>> On 8 Mar 1996, Soren Mathiasen wrote:
>>
>> > Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux
>displays
# vm_stat
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes)
Pages free: 3113.
Pages active: 1636.
Pages inactive: 2365.
Pages wired down: 708.
"Translation faults": 42306.
Pages copy-on-write: 6861.
Pages zero filled: 9352.
Pages reactivated: 16159.
Pageins: 2680.
Pageouts: 0.
Object cache: 5910 hits of 6695 lookups (88% hit rate)
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: fred biebesheimer <gunslngr@nwinfo.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.2 on AMD 486-120
Date: 10 Mar 1996 19:46:15 GMT
Organization: The World's LARGEST BBS Chat Network (Grants Pass, OR)
Message-ID: <4hvbi7$16v@news.chatlink.com>
I recently started using a computer with an AMD 486-120.
Has Anybody had success getting NS 3.2 to run on a machine
with the AMD processors?
When I try installing NS on this computer, I get a kernal
panic during installation (right after the "NEXSTEP is
preparing the drive" step. The message looked something like:
/private/tmp/mnta: bad dir ino at offset 0
manged entry
mode = 030700 inum = 47106 fs /private/tmp/mnta
panic: (cpu0) ialloc: dup alloc
panic
I've worked with NS a bit, but have not yet had the
opportunity to get into it, help! I appreciate any
suggestions.
thanks,
fred biebesheimer
gunslngr@nwinfo.net
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS3.3 reboot for no reason
Date: 10 Mar 1996 17:30:48 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4hv3k8$dmt@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4hn6kq$2gf@news.tamu.edu> <1996Mar9.100652.16213@nidat.sub.org>
Peter Nitezki (Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org) wrote:
: In article <4hn6kq$2gf@news.tamu.edu> jth9904@chenext2.tamu.edu (Jeromy
: Hollenshead) writes:
[...]
: Open the console window to make it visible. Open a terminal window and
: type 'dd if=/dev/rsdXY of=/dev/null' (XY being the parameters for the disk
: in question). This command will read every block on the partition and
: throw the result into the trash bin. This is safe in any situation, no
: need for standalone or any other precaution. The down hand side is that
: is is extremely slow (several hours per GB).
I recently used the command with a blocksize of 64KB on an IBM DFRS 2 GB
disk and it took about 5 Minutes to finish.
dd if=/dev/rsdXh of=/dev/null bs=64k
It will take significantly more time with blocksize of 512 bytes
(which is the default for dd, I think).
: The console window will
: display the block numbers of any block that had problems while reading.
: They can be replaced with 'reasb' afterwards.
--
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: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Quantum 4GB XP34300 Atlas - how to get running on Black???
Date: 10 Mar 1996 19:26:29 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4hvad5$8d@machthenext.dannug.dk>
Keywords: Quantum, 4GB, Atlas, XP34300, Black NeXT
Hi everybody,
Hopefully somebody out there has been through this before me,
and thus can answer my questions.
I have just gotten a Quantum XP34300 harddisk, from the Atlas
series, and I m having some difficulties installing it on my NeXT.
I know that I have to create an entry in my disktab, for the NeXT
to handle this, and that it has to be partioned, into 2 2GB
partitions, due the system constraints.
I have tried everything I have ever done to a harddisk, and still
I get errors when trying to initialize it.
Below here is the entry I created in my disktab, and everything
checks out with the drive specifications and the result of trying
scsimodes on the drive:
QUANTUM XP34300|Quantum XP34300-512|QUANTUMXP34300:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3907:nt#20:ns#109:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn:machthenext:r0=a:\
:pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
:pb#4194304:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
This would create to equally sized partitions on the drive, but trying
this gives an error of "boot block extends over labels", and trying
different combinations of parameters gives similar errors, such as
"boot block extends beyond front porch" and such....
Has anyone successfully installed one of these drives, and gotten it to run
on Black hardware, and if so, please share any info/files/knowledge that
you have obtained....
Thnx in advance
Michael
--
___________________________________________________________
Michael Hallin Copenhagen, Denmark
Editor in chief of DANNUG NEWS & DANNUG HOT!
ColorProduct Manager Rank Xerox Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
From: Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sg0 thru sg3 Devices
Date: 11 Mar 1996 00:33:05 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4hvsc1$j3h@news.accessone.com>
Keywords: Devices SCSI
Can someone explain what these devices are, or where I can read more about
them? I suspect they are a type of SCSI device.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori |
><
>< mailto:salvo@eskimo.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted
><
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EnhanceMail (was: NeXTMail to Sun)
Date: 11 Mar 1996 01:17:04 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4hvuug$svq@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4haumh$rcd@paladin.american.edu> <4hd162$gh8@news.its.com>
<4hf0a6$slp@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4himc3$a0l@news.its.com>
<4hk6ro$3u4@cnn.Princeton.EDU> <4hq2o0$f8o@news.its.com>
In <4hq2o0$f8o@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu> wrote:
> > It is possibly Mail.app 3.3, but I don't think it has anything to do with
> > EnhanceMail. Why not just do a simple test ? [ ... ]
> > Is the existance of those Content-Type headers affected?
>
> No, they were not affected, although I didn't try 3.2 Mail.app with and
> without EnhanceMail.
>
> Regardless, I don't believe that adding a Content-type header is a bad
thing
> for either one to do-- the fault lies in the Sun mail readers that choke on
> it for no reason.
>
> -Chuck
>
The same Sun mail program apparently sees the MIME header and then tries to
convert the message as an attachment text/plain. If you send it in MIME
format, not Plain Text, the SUN mail program knows better. Here is a
comparison of headers.
A true MIME mail message.
From tm8025a Thu Mar 7 00:35:42 1996
MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
A Plain Text message
From tm8025a Sat Mar 2 14:47:32 1996
Content-Type: text/plain
MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
Also, the NeXTMail App doesn't designate between MIME messages without
attachments and "normal" Plain Text message. In other words, If you send a
MIME message and don't send an attachment, just text, NeXTMail won't put the
little "M" next to it in your OutgoingMail mailbox. Perhaps this helps to
explain the problem where people sometimes send out a MIME message or
NeXTMail message when they intend to send just Plain Text.
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, and ASCII PGP and CyptorBundle
PGP Key available via finger and home page. Check the headers for both.
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 11 Mar 1996 03:09:30 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Message-ID: <4i05ha$hh@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4hummh$kso@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote:
: The Linux's free command is totally different with df or Workspace->Info. If
: you type free in any Linux machine you'll see the following report.
: total used free shared buffers
: Mem: 31520 12072 19448 2928 8724
: -/+ buffers: 3348 28172
: Swap: 33132 0 33132
: IMO, Linux's free is very usefull. For instance, from this report you can see
: this Linux machine has 32MB memory and one 32MB swap disk (Linux can support
: mutiple swap disks), and currently there is no swap at all.
This is what vm_stat(1) gives you, in part. Some of this doesn't apply to
NeXTSTEP since the swapfile is not a fixed-sized partition as in Linux;
it is a dynamically sized file in the filesystem.
--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: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 11 Mar 1996 05:15:09 GMT
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From: Tomaz Sustar <tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: How to use en0 and ppp0 on the same machine
Date: 10 Mar 1996 10:23:27 GMT
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I have an Intel using NSI 3.2 which is connected to small LAN. A few days
ago I got a PPP account and now I want to connect computer running NSI
3.2 to Internet. In the PPP documentation I found information how to
configure a standalone bot nothing about en0 and ppp0 together.
Any help will be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Tomaz
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From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: How to use en0 and ppp0 on the same machine
Date: 11 Mar 1996 10:20:49 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4i0uq1$stj@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4huaiv$b27@news.eunet.si>
In article <4huaiv$b27@news.eunet.si> Tomaz Sustar
<tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si> writes:
> news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
>
> I have an Intel using NSI 3.2 which is connected to small LAN. A few
days
> ago I got a PPP account and now I want to connect computer running NSI
> 3.2 to Internet. In the PPP documentation I found information how to
> configure a standalone bot nothing about en0 and ppp0 together.
> Any help will be appreciated
You don't have to do anything in the standard PPP installation to get it
to work, provided you are using legal IP addresses internally.
For further details, see the arp (to assign an IP address to an interface)
and route (to choose between interfaces) commands, and the /etc/iftab file
for additional information.
Paul
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From: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to boot from external drive?
Date: 11 Mar 1996 11:39:34 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <4i13dm$acv@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
References: <4hj322$nri@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
beaucham@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp) wrote:
> I got my Fireball connected as an external drive, and using BuildDisk I
> reformatted it and got the systems files there. It is supposedly now a boot
> disk. But how can I get it to boot off of this external drive? My 2.0 Sys
Admin
> manual (admittedly out of date, but I don't think they changed the monitor
> mode) says to use "bsd(1,0,0)", but even though it started out trying to
boot
> off the external, it gave up and went back to the internal.
>
> BTW, I'm running 3.2 on black hardware.
>
> Jim Beauchamp
> j-beauch@uiuc.edu
>
You must set the SCSI ID of your external Disk to 0
and set the SCSI ID of your internal Disk to 1
(NeXTStep can boot on ID 0 or 1 but It choose 0 at first)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: Quantum 4GB XP34300 Atlas - how to get running on Black???
Message-ID: <1996Mar11.084635.9846@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <4hvad5$8d@machthenext.dannug.dk>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:46:35 GMT
On black HW size are always expressed in 1k bytes sectors.
Try this:
QUANTUM XP34300|Quantum XP34300-512|QUANTUMXP34300:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3907:nt#20:ns#109:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn:machthenext:r0=a:\
:pa#0:sa#2097150:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:\
:pb#2097150:sb#2097150:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
:ib:tb=4.3BSD:
And I also added a '\' after :ia:ta=4.3BSD:
In article <4hvad5$8d@machthenext.dannug.dk>, you wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Hopefully somebody out there has been through this before me,
> and thus can answer my questions.
> I have just gotten a Quantum XP34300 harddisk, from the Atlas
> series, and I m having some difficulties installing it on my NeXT.
> I know that I have to create an entry in my disktab, for the NeXT
> to handle this, and that it has to be partioned, into 2 2GB
> partitions, due the system constraints.
> I have tried everything I have ever done to a harddisk, and still
> I get errors when trying to initialize it.
> Below here is the entry I created in my disktab, and everything
> checks out with the drive specifications and the result of trying
> scsimodes on the drive:
>
> QUANTUM XP34300|Quantum XP34300-512|QUANTUMXP34300:\
> :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3907:nt#20:ns#109:ss#512:rm#7200:\
> :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
> :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn:machthenext:r0=a:\
> :pa#0:sa#4194304:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\
> :ia:ta=4.3BSD:
> :pb#4194304:sb#4194304:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#10:ob=time:\
> :ib:tb=4.3BSD:
>
> This would create to equally sized partitions on the drive, but trying
> this gives an error of "boot block extends over labels", and trying
> different combinations of parameters gives similar errors, such as
> "boot block extends beyond front porch" and such....
>
> Has anyone successfully installed one of these drives, and gotten it to run
> on Black hardware, and if so, please share any info/files/knowledge that
> you have obtained....
>
> Thnx in advance
>
> Michael
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: Filesystem 3.3
Message-ID: <1996Mar11.085644.9973@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <Do2B3q.1vG@empire.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 08:56:44 GMT
In article <Do2B3q.1vG@empire.org>, you wrote:
>
>
> Could anybody tar up/UUencode and mail me the
> /usr/filesystems directory for NeXT 3.3?
>
> -Alby
For what architecture?
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From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org
Subject: Re: sg0 thru sg3 Devices
Message-ID: <1996Mar11.090142.10042@free.fdn.org>
Sender: news@free.fdn.org
Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant, Paris, France
References: <4hvsc1$j3h@news.accessone.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 09:01:42 GMT
In article <4hvsc1$j3h@news.accessone.com>, you wrote:
> Can someone explain what these devices are, or where I can read more about
> them? I suspect they are a type of SCSI device.
> --
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>
See the sg_example.c in /NextDeveloper/Examples/UNIX/SCSI/
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From: rputtkam@inf.ethz.ch (Roman Puttkammer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: unable to recognize scsi disk - NS crashes
Date: 11 Mar 1996 12:36:02 GMT
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Message-ID: <4i16ni$pjt@neptune.ethz.ch>
I have a PC with NS3.3 (patched) and quite a lot of problems with
the SCSI disks. The boot disk (1GB) has 2 partitions (DOS and NS). This
works fine.
- I added a 2nd 1GB disk. First I wanted to partition this one too
(DOS and NS), but didn't succeed. NS doesn't recognize the DOS partition
and when mounting manually, something goes wrong: Unmountig results in
a system crash... Additionally the Workspacemanager shows a size of 1GB
for a NS partition of only 1/2 GB size!
To use this disk I had to overwrite the first block on the raw device
several times, because NS wasn't able to read it... Using this disk with
only one partition (NS) now works.
- When adding a 3rd device (one 1GB DOS partition), NS does not recognize
it as DOS-type and asks when logging in "scsi-disk unreadable, initialize?".
Mounting the raw device with type=dos, there is no data visible.
Unmountig results in a crash...
Has anybody an idea, why NS isn't able to treat DOS partitions (not primary)
correctly. Maybe because they are not primary-DOS? And how can I avoid
this message "scsi-disk unreadable, initialize?". One day somebody will
answer yes, and my data will be lost ;-(.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
roman
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From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: skey for NetInfo?
Date: 11 Mar 1996 14:55:10 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4i1ese$st9@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
Had anyone got skey (or equivalent) to work with NetInfo?
Any tips etc that anyone can share?
Any relevant information welcomed.
Email replies would be appreciated, as we seem to lose 10% of the news here,
and I would rather not miss out on this one.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
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From: diego@conga.super.unam.mx (Diego Zamboni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Recovering formatted hard disk?
Date: 8 Mar 1996 04:22:53 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Message-ID: <4hocmt$kr@news.mty.itesm.mx>
(please forgive me if this is the second time you read this message. My
previous post apparently had some distribution problems, I'm posting to
another server now)
Hi:
I think I have a common friend with Jose Manuel (see recent
posts about recovering a hard disk), since I was also asked
for help with this accidentally initialized disk. I was
looking for related articles in c.s.n.sysadmin when I found
hist postings and the responses. Unfortunately, so far nobody
has talked about a possible solution.
Here are some additional details, in case they are useful:
- The system is a NeXTstation, with an internal hard disk and an external 1GB
MicroNet hard disk.
- NEXTSTEP version is 3.0.
- The external disk was apparently automounted, since it belonged to the
currently logged-in user.
- As was previously said, the external disk was accidentally formatted when
trying to format a floppy disk.
- The formatting process could not be interrupted by software, and was not
interrupted by hardware (for example, by turning off the disk) since they
thought (correctly, in my opinion) that that could cause more severe damage.
I really hope somebody can help.
Best regards.
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From: rasul@localhost.ios.com (scott turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sending Mail Out !
Date: 11 Mar 1996 19:20:15 GMT
Organization: Internet Online Services
Message-ID: <4i1udf$o1e@news.ios.com>
I have tried half the night trying to figure out why when i goto sendmail
after composing a message in Mail.app, when i hit the deliver message a
system file error message pops up and says that a /tmp/mail-##### is locked
and persion is denied. Also when a try to use popover to get my mail from my
ISP it also tells me a tmp file is locked. But i cannot find this
/tmp/mail-#### file at all.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where'd the error emssages go? (DOS formatted floppy disks)
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 15:27:11 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960311143230.10008C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I had nine 1.44 disks, each filled almost to capacity (dos formatted
under NS 3.2 m68k).
When I went to my DOS/Win machine, 6 that's 2/3rds of them, failed to
copy properly. They would be fine until near the end of the copy
process, and then the drive would make this horrible noise and say "I/o
error".
Running 'CheckDisk' on them showed 9K-16K of bad space. But nothing was
ever said when I was using them on my NeXT. Were there just no error
messages, or did they go somewhere I didn't look?
Is there any sort of disk-checking device out there? Can 'dd' be used
for this somehow? If so, please help.
TjL
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swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail Mailhost on CSLIP to Internet
Date: 11 Mar 1996 21:59:32 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i27o4$7h1@news1.panix.com>
Hi!
I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail
for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
(Marble Teleconnect).
I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
domain jboller.dialup.access.net
#nameserver 198.7.7.185
#nameserver 198.7.0.1
# search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
nameserver 198.7.0.2
nameserver 198.7.0.1
nameserver 198.7.0.3
This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
Thanks! John Boller
jboller@panix.com
From: cdl@helium.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTdimension
Date: 12 Mar 1996 00:29:42 GMT
Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Message-ID: <4i2ghm$fjt@news1.ucsd.edu>
I have just inherited a NeXTdimension system.
Has there been in the past a mailing list for ND, is there still such
a thing? If so, is the information archived anywhere? I have a lot
of historical catching up to do.
carl
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From: kzin@isc.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with Nextstep mounts and automounter
Date: 12 Mar 1996 01:09:38 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4i2isi$gnh@nuke.csu.net>
References: <1996Mar9.103413.16277@nidat.sub.org>
In article <1996Mar9.103413.16277@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org
(Peter Nitezki) writes:
>
> But what you told about the fix made me think there is something wrong
> about your /etc tree. You seem to netboot your machine, right? The
> 'tftpboot' thing is leading to this assumption.
> You either make the node selfbooting or enter a line into
> 'rc.local' (the net is up while 'rc.local' is run) that mounts all non
> yet mounted partitions ('mount -a', for instance).
Except that I'm _NOT_ trying to netboot this system...and have no
idea why it would be trying to do that (I just installed this system
last week.. it's a NS/Sparc system). how do I go about disabling the
netboot setup?
Btw: I tried to email you, but it bounced saying:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
.. while talking to subnet.sub.net.:
>>> RCPT To:<Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org>
<<< 553 <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org>... Preemptive Loop Detection
550 Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)... User unknown
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'compared to what?'" -- sydney j harris
From: kzin@isc.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Perl 5.x for Nextstep/Sparc?
Date: 12 Mar 1996 01:13:58 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4i2j4m$h1v@nuke.csu.net>
I've been trying to compile this for NS/Sparc for the last few days,
using the source files and configurations that were bundled in the
perl5 for NS3.2 stuff (which included a config.sparc file). It keeps
giving me problems with the Dynaloader stuff, even if I tell it not
to use Dynamic Loading.
Has anyone got this set up for NS/Sparc? is it available for FTP
anywhere?
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=========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============
When I hear people sigh 'life is hard', i am always tempted to ask,
'compared to what?'" -- sydney j harris
From: Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Boot Elements: event0, kmDevice0, rootdev & pdservd
Date: 12 Mar 1996 05:16:50 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4i31c2$60q@news.accessone.com>
Keywords: boot event0 kmdevice0 rootdev pdservd
In an effort to better understand NS, I am studying its boot process and
have been unable to determine what the following elements are:
event0
kmDevice0
rootdev
pdservd
Can someone explain what these do, or point to appropriate documentation?
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><
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><
From: badbear@ursus.org (Michael R. Delahoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New NeXT user needs help with intalling video drivers
Date: 12 Mar 1996 09:22:06 GMT
Organization: Ursus Consulting & Graphics
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i3fnv$lbt@kaleka.seanet.com>
Hi,
I have installed release 3.3 for Intel on my P120. I have a Matrox Millenium
4 meg card and I wish to install the accelerated server for it. Here is where
I am having trouble. I can't get the file to install because the system only
logs me in as 'me' and I need 'root' access to the system to get permission to
write to the neccessary directories.
I plead ingnorance with regards to UNIX and NeXT. How can I get the system to
allow me a root login? I am not presented with any prompts that I see during
the initial system startup, and the Workspace doesn't provide me with a login
window. It just immeadiately goes to the Workspace Manager for user 'me.'
I will ask around at work about this, but I would really appreciate figuring
this out with some input and my own experimentation. This is how I got to be
profficient with OS/2 and NT, and I really want to get up to speed with NeXT.
I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer. I hate looking at the
Workspace in greyscale and at 640 x 480 on a 21" NEC 6fg. This truly sucks.
TIA,
Mike
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From: jpmeia@netcom.com
Subject: NextMail won't copy to Active Mailbox
Message-ID: <nntpuserDo5AEz.5v5@netcom.com>
Keywords: Nextmail, spoolfile
Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 08:04:09 GMT
Help! Just got back from a road trip and downloaded mails with PopOver
(which I have set to erase mails once donwloaded). NextMail (NS 3.2) won't
copy the mails over to Active.Mbox and I get the following Warning Panel:
"Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error: No such file or
directory."
(However, I do have an Active.mbox file which opens when Mail does, with a
fair number of saved emails).
Also, I get the following Console message:
"MailFetch: can't make a copy of spoolfile."
Any suggestions? If I log out and in as root, I'm afraid I'll delete all my
emails forever!
Thanks for any help, please respond to:
jpmeia@netcom.com
(no nextmail, I can read from a shell account any new postings).
Thanks, JP
From: Matija Exel <exel@lag.ensieg.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem with HeaderViewer under v3.3
Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:40:49 GMT
Organization: E.N.S.I.E.G./Service Informatique et L.A.G.
Message-ID: <4i42dh$ege@naiad.grenet.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
hello,
i found the following problems with the HeaderViewer under v3.3
(which didn't exist under 3.2):
-- when searching within appkit.h>Application i get the file
for ActionCell!! (i solved this one by reloading the Application.rtf
file from my 3.2 release -- what else to do??)
-- when searching for method headers within a class file (say
"altImage" for ButtonCell class) the browser DOES NOT position the
file on the method header but on the first(?) occurrence of the
searched string ANYWHERE within the file's text. This is NOT very
helpful!!
My 3.3 release was installed by my distributor; i also checked that the
3.3Patch1 (from NextAnswers 2066) had been installed. I found no
information about this bug within KBNS of Raf Schietekat neither...
any cues?
Matija
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From: root@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Install Package when NextDeveloper is shared
Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:18:31 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i413n$10j@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Keywords: NextDeveloper Pkg
I am attempting to install NextStepDeveloperPatch on a system where I have the
/NextDeveloper on a disk that is mounted on several machines. The first
install goes fine. All of the rest from the other machines fail.
reason: /NextDeveloper/Headers/apps/InterfaceBuilder.h is read only and owned
by root when it gets installed. I've gone back and changed it to r/w, but it
still fails with an invalid permission. I am running as root on all of the
machines. All the permissions show root as owner and proper permissions (after
I reset the ones above).
the only reason I have to run the install program on each of these other
systems is that there are a few files in /usr/lib/... which are not shared
across the systems and have to be installed on each computer.
Questions:
1. Why am I getting an invalid permission when I try to write to the shared
disk that root owns and has write permission on?
2. What can I do to get the installation to proceed?
3. What are the files being written that are not in /NextDeveloper? Perhaps I
can mount them remotely also.
Thanks,
John W.
From: hong@csulb.edu (Vision)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 12 Mar 1996 17:46:57 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Sender: hong@wren.acs.csulb.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <yavd96ib3w4.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk>
In-reply-to: soren@zeus.datashopper.dk's message of 8 Mar 1996 01:14:45 +0100
What if you try this?
top-v0.3-NIHS.tar.Z
last pid: 15660; load averages: 17.91, 15.89, 13.46 09:46:36
45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping
Cpu states: 1.1% user, 0.0% nice, 11.1% system, 87.8% idle
Memory: 33M Tot, 5024K Act, 15M Inact, 3528K Wired, 6888K Free, 0K in, 0K out
PID USERNAME STATE PRI NICE THR VSIZE RSIZE %MEM %CPU TIME COMMAND
15620 root SW 9 0 1 2736K 1360K 4.02 5.20 0:02 xterm
15660 root R 10 0 1 1800K 376K 1.11 2.70 0:00 top
15636 root SW 10 0 1 1776K 336K 0.99 0.00 0:00 csh
201 root SW 10 0 1 1744K 64K 0.19 0.00 1:17 update
15621 hong SW 10 0 1 1944K 624K 1.85 0.00 0:00 bash
15637 root SW 10 0 1 1944K 608K 1.80 0.00 0:00 bash
1 root SW 10 0 1 736K 40K 0.12 0.00 0:00 init
15626 hong S 10 0 1 1944K 624K 1.85 0.00 0:00 bash
15625 root SW 10 0 1 3456K 2088K 6.18 0.00 0:00 xterm
114 root SW 10 0 1 2888K 464K 1.37 0.00 1:04 lookupd
120 root SW 16 -12 1 1888K 376K 1.11 0.00 0:08 xntpd
105 root SW 10 0 1 1736K 320K 0.95 0.00 0:16 netinfod
152 root SW 10 0 1 1672K 256K 0.76 0.00 0:00 rpc.mountd
104 root SW 10 0 1 1688K 208K 0.62 0.00 0:09 nibindd
99 root SW 10 0 1 1664K 184K 0.54 0.00 0:10 portmap
In article <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> soren@zeus.datashopper.dk (Soren Mathiasen) writes:
From: soren@zeus.datashopper.dk (Soren Mathiasen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 8 Mar 1996 01:14:45 +0100
Organization: DataShopper Danmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Hi....
Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux displays
amount of mem free on the system
Thanks, Soren
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Soren Mathiasen
soren@datashopper.dk
Student at Roskilde EDB skolde, DK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Do5uIs.905@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 15:18:28 GMT
References: <4i2ghm$fjt@news1.ucsd.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4i2ghm$fjt@news1.ucsd.edu>,
Carl Lowenstein <cdl@helium.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>I have just inherited a NeXTdimension system.
>
>Has there been in the past a mailing list for ND, is there still such
>a thing? If so, is the information archived anywhere? I have a lot
>of historical catching up to do.
>
I don't know of a mailing list, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one at
some point. You could just ask your questions here and hope Mike Paquette
reads them. :-)
--
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Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Perm/Relo
Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:01:22 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <4i4hm2$h9k@tofu.alt.net>
System Administrator
NEXTSTEP
Career Position
Excellent opportunity
Full Benefits
Relocation assistance
Illinois
To be considered--Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
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Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice]
1310 Craig
Maumee, Ohio 43537
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: 12 Mar 1996 17:47:30 +0200
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi
Message-ID: <OTTO.96Mar12174725@tukki.jyu.fi>
References: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
<Pine.NXT.3.91.960309130421.18623D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In-reply-to: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of Sat, 9 Mar 1996 13:07:13 -0500
In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960309130421.18623D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
> ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/shell/tcsh.6.06.NIHS.b.gz
I also was able to compile it for myself, but there seems to be a similar
problem as with earlier tcsh's: with pipelined commands, it occasionally
gets confused about the process statuses and can hang permanently wait()'ing
for them. Anyone else seen this?
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From: rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail configuration - Experiences
Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:11:57 GMT
Organization: HHMI & MB&B
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <RWGK.96Mar12141157@kepler.csb.yale.edu>
Hi,
about three weeks ago I posted a message, asking if it is
possible to set-up a non-Next machine as mail-hub for
a bunch of Nexts. (I wanted to do this, because the Next (3.2)
NFS causes our HP and SGI mail-clients to hang upon locking
attempts.)
I learned it should be possible. However, it turned out to
be very difficult.
After the usual difficulties to create the sendmail.cf file,
I tried to use a HP9000/735 running HP-UX 9.05 as mail-hub.
Problems: While the Next Mail.app works fine,
/usr/ucb/Mail cannot read the system mailbox
(mounted from the HP).
Reason: The HP mail delivery agent puts the time
without seconds in the "From " header. This
confuses /usr/ucb/Mail.
Furthermore, if the system mailbox is manipulated
with /bin/mail, the read/write permissions and
the group/owner ID's are set such that the HP
mail delivery agent can no longer append incoming
mail (this is a general BSD<->SysV problem).
The problem with /bin/mail is not really important, but we need
Mail.app and /usr/ucb/Mail to work at the same time. Therefore
I tried to use a Silicon Graphics as mail-hub.
Problems: While the Next /usr/ucb/Mail works fine,
Mail.app cannot read the system mailbox
(mounted from the Silicon Graphics).
Reason: Unknown.
At this point I stopped my attempts to move the mail-hub. Instead,
the Next mail-hub now mounts the /usr/spool/mail directory from
an HP.
This fixes the locking problem. (However, it is not really desirable
that two machines have to be up and running in order to receive
mail (1. the Next with the sendmail daemon, 2. the HP with the
system mail directory).)
In addition, I've replaced the native Next sendmail with sendmail-8.7.4
(including the NetInfo bug-fix). This works fine, except that the NetInfo
aliases are not used for some reason. My work-around was to create
/etc/sendmail/aliases with "nidump".
Ralf
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: 12 Mar 1996 20:10:18 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4i4lna$e3c@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <OTTO.96Mar12174725@tukki.jyu.fi>
Otto J. Makela (otto@tukki.jyu.fi) wrote:
: In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.960309130421.18623D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
: > ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/shell/tcsh.6.06.NIHS.b.gz
: I also was able to compile it for myself, but there seems to be a similar
: problem as with earlier tcsh's: with pipelined commands, it occasionally
: gets confused about the process statuses and can hang permanently wait()'ing
: for them. Anyone else seen this?
Yes. Had this starting with 6.04. Went down to 6.03 as 6.04 and 6.05
were nearly unusable due to this problem. 6.06 is better, but it happens
sometimes.
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sg0 thru sg3 Devices
Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:54:08 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4i4kp0$dcv@news.its.com>
References: <4hvsc1$j3h@news.accessone.com>
Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori) wrote:
> Can someone explain what these devices are, or where I can read more about
> them? I suspect they are a type of SCSI device.
From "man sg":
SG(4) UNIX Programmer's Manual SG(4)
NAME
sg - generic SCSI device driver
SYNOPSIS
Generic SCSI Device as sg[0-3] at sc0
DESCRIPTION
This driver allows a user to pass SCSI commands to any arbi-
trary device on the SCSI bus. The user specifies an arbi-
trary SCSI command descriptor block (CDB), an address at
which DMA is to occur to or from, a maximum allowed DMA
size, and a maximum I/O time in seconds (after which the I/O
will timeout and terminate). A status block is returned by
the driver, indicating such things as I/O status (e.g., suc-
cess, bus timeout, bad SCSI status, etc.), the SCSI status
byte, the number of bytes transferred in case of Data
In/Data Out phases, and so on.
[ ... ]
The following restrictions are placed on using the sg
driver:
1. You cannot bind the sg driver to a target/lun which is
already in use by any SCSI driver unless you are superuser.
This is an extremely hazardous operation.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu (George B. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension
Date: 12 Mar 1996 20:11:27 GMT
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i4lpf$2nt@news.nd.edu>
References: <Do5uIs.905@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
David Evans writes
> In article <4i2ghm$fjt@news1.ucsd.edu>,
> Carl Lowenstein <cdl@helium.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >I have just inherited a NeXTdimension system.
> >
> >Has there been in the past a mailing list for ND, is there still such
> >a thing? If so, is the information archived anywhere? I have a lot
> >of historical catching up to do.
> >
>
> I don't know of a mailing list, but that doesn't mean there wasn't one
at
> some point. You could just ask your questions here and hope Mike
Paquette
> reads them. :-)
>
> --
> David Evans (NeXTMail OK)
dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
> Computer/Synth Junkie
http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
> University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the
composer
> Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707
Manual
I've got a NextDimension summary article that was posted back in 1993 by
Steven Weintz(?). I can repost or email as appropriate.
The table of contents is as follows
PART I
1.0 Starters
1.1 Table of Contents
1.2 Preface
1.3 Editing conventions used
1.4 Credits
1.5 My original post
2.0 Debating NeXTdimensions vs. Intels (and SGI's)
2.1 Basic info
2.2 Cons
2.3 Pros
2.4 The Crux of the Biscuit
PART II
3.0 More Power! Brian Willoughby's ND Turbo summary
4.0 Tips culled from the Net
4.1 Two-headed ND's (contains several posts)
4.2 ND booting problem and fix under 3.1
4.3 ND Slots
4.4 ND memory check
4.5 Video.App bugfix
PART III
5.0 NeXTdimension Lore [5.2, 5.3 not available yet - see note]
5.1 What happened to the C-Cube chip
5.2 Dick Phillips, MediaView, and the ND
5.3 NeXTWORLD's pre-production review of the ND
6.0 NeXTanswers about NeXTdimensions
5.1 1036 NeXTdimension Software
5.2 1037 NeXTdimension Upgrades
5.3 1052 NeXTdimension Configuration
5.4 1065 NeXTdimension demos
5.5 A NeXT FAQ fragment about ND's: color, memory
-george
George B. Ross Aero/Mech Engr University of Notre Dame
gross@stimpy.ame.nd.edu http://stimpy.ame.nd.edu/gross/
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 CSLIP to Internet
Date: 12 Mar 1996 21:38:28 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com>
Hi!
I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
(Marble Teleconnect).
I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
domain jboller.dialup.access.net
#nameserver 198.7.7.185
#nameserver 198.7.0.1
# search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
nameserver 198.7.0.2
nameserver 198.7.0.1
nameserver 198.7.0.3
This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
Thanks! John Boller
jboller@panix.com
From: smbakh@milind (Milind Bakhle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 12 Mar 1996 21:03:08 GMT
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i4oqc$dru@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> <yavd96ib3w4.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
Vision (hong@csulb.edu) wrote:
: What if you try this?
: top-v0.3-NIHS.tar.Z
Can you please post the location and site where I can get the
compiled version.
Thank you.
--
Milind A. Bakhle
bakhle@lerc.nasa.gov
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTSTEP as a print and file server for Windows 95 ??
Date: 12 Mar 1996 22:38:09 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i4uch$5b2@news.petrel.ch>
Hi,
I have a NS 3.3 Intel machine and a Win95 machine connected to a HUB.
I have no idea how to make them work together.
I would like :
- To be able to share directories between them
- To be able to print to the printer that's connected to NS from Win95
- To be able to print to the printer that's connected to the Win95
machine from NS
- To be able to use the fax/modem connected to the NS machine from
Win95.
Thanks for your help.
Please, reply by e-mail, since my provider is having some problems in
getting the news
--
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MEDIA ERRORS, serious?
Date: 12 Mar 1996 21:37:04 GMT
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Sender: caro@mv.us.adobe.com
Message-ID: <4i4qq0$su@enquirer.mv.us.adobe.com>
My console has been printing messages like this for a month or so.
Is this serious? Do I need a new disk? I only have the one, with a
single partition (NeXTstation color):
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 3
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 4
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 5
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 6
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 3
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 4
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 5
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 6
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 7
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 8
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 9
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 3
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 4
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 5
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 6
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 7
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 8
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 9
sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x10
SCSI Block in error = 821188; Partition a F.S. sector 410434
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 3
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block c87c4H retry 4
Perry
--
caro@mv.us.adobe.com ...!{sun}!adobe!caro Contents: my opinions, no others
From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MEDIA ERRORS, serious?
Date: 13 Mar 1996 01:23:57 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i583d$4h5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <4i4qq0$su@enquirer.mv.us.adobe.com>
In article <4i4qq0$su@enquirer.mv.us.adobe.com> caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)
writes:
> My console has been printing messages like this for a month or so.
> Is this serious? Do I need a new disk? I only have the one, with a
> single partition (NeXTstation color):
Probably don't need a new disk, but reformatting the one you've got would be a good
idea.
Best,
Pete
--
***************************************************************************
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SunSoft Enterprise Dist. Objects | sees a comedy. The feeling man looks
Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (NeXTMail) | at the world and sees a tragedy.
***************************************************************************
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: sendmail 8.7.4 .cf-file problem
Date: 13 Mar 1996 01:18:14 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i57om$guv@news1.panix.com>
References: <1996Mar2.220136.415@nidat.sub.org> <4hhr2d$n0@turbocat.snafu.de>
Hi!
I am working with sendmail 8.7.5 and a CSLIP connection
and I am curious if this will solve my problem.
Thanks! John Boller
jboller@panix.com
In <4hhr2d$n0@turbocat.snafu.de> David Wetzel wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Sendmail was a real easy one.
>
> This is my turbocat.mc
>
> VERSIONID(`@(#)generic-bsd4.4.mc 8.1 (Berkeley) 9/12/95')
> OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
> DOMAIN(generic)dnl
> MAILER(local)dnl
> MAILER(smtp)dnl
> MAILER(uucp)dnl
> define(`SMART_HOST',uucp-uudom:harvey)
> define(UUCPNODES, `|/usr/local/bin/uuname')
> MASQUERADE_AS(turbocat.snafu.de)
> FEATURE(mailertable)
>
>
> Then from the shell:
>
> /usr/local/bin/m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4
/etc/sendmail/cf/cf/turbocat.mc >
> /somewere/sendmail.cf
>
> If you need a Mailertable:
>
> makemap hash /etc/mailertable
> max smtp:max
> auuhost uucp-uudom:auuhost
> [ctrl-d]
>
>
> If you have clients in the net:
>
> VERSIONID(`@(#)clientproto.mc 8.6 (Berkeley) 8/16/95')
>
> OSTYPE(nextstep)
> #FEATURE(nullclient, mailhost.$m)
> FEATURE(nullclient, turbocat.$m)
>
> All you need is to replace turbocat with your sitename and harvey with
your
> uucp-feed. Note: Turbocat (NS 3.3 pl1) and Harvey (Linux) use Tailor
UUCP.
> _ _
> _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
> (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
> _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
> (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
>
From: mobbster@ecimail.ucsb.edu (Paul Mobbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Network Mac <-> NeXT over thin ethernet
Date: 13 Mar 1996 01:57:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Message-ID: <mobbster-1203961759050001@d-60.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu>
I am trying to connect to my NeXTstation color with my Mac II via TCP/IP.
I have connected them together with coax. cable, I have tees and
terminators correctly placed.
I used the network starter on the NeXT to set up an IP address and affix a
name to its ethernet MAC address. Then I set up Mac TCP on my Mac to use a
specific IP address, and use the NeXT as the DNS.
When I ping the Mac with the NeXT none of the packets get returned. When I
try to telnet to the NeXT from my Mac I get a network timeout.
All I want to do is be able to ftp and telnet to my NeXT from my
Macintosh, over ethernet. I also have the AppleTalk package installed on
my NeXT, but it doesn't work either. It would be *really* nice if that
worked.
NeXT config:
NS 3.1 full install
NeXTstation color w/32MB RAM
Mac config:
Macintosh II w/5MB RAM
Apple Thin Ethernet NuBUS card
System 7.5
Any and all help appreciated!
Thanks,
Paul
mobbster@ecimail.ucsb.edu
--
Paul Mobbs UCSB Engineering
From: "William J. Peterson" <peterson@media.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem getting Intel on network
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 21:47:42 -0500
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Services (617) 396-0491
Message-ID: <3146374E.CC@media.mit.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am setting up a single Intel machine on a large
UNIX/MAC/WIndows network. I am wondering what I am doing wrong
it hangs on various items while booting up. Should I use
hostmanager.app (local) to set IP etc, should I manually edit
/etc/hostconfig? do I need to put my own machine IP in the
/etc/hosts? I have my router address, nameserver, a hostname
with domain name etc, what should I set the broadcast address
to? what avout network time.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks
Bill Peterson
peterson@media.mit.edu
From: ww@mpi-sb.mpg.de (Wolfram Wagner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network backup devices [Advice sought]
Date: 13 Mar 1996 07:46:48 GMT
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik
Message-ID: <4i5uh8$749@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de>
References: <4hv4fr$dmt@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In article <4hv4fr$dmt@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>, kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) writes:
>David Wetzel (dave@turbocat.snafu.de) wrote:
>: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill) wrote:
>: >
>: > Hi,
>: >
>: > I need some advice on network back-up devices. We have about 10 Un*x
>: > machines (Nexts, and PCs running Linux and NS) which are for the most
>
>: You can use gnutar and rsh like this: (I am not at work now)
>
>: root@hosta> gnutar czf - ./* | rsh tapehost "cat > /dev/rst0"
>
>Be careful!
>
>This will _not_ work with DAT drives set to variable block length.
>It will write the tape but it won't be readable afterwards.
>
>It will also miss all the dotfiles in the current directory...
>
>--
>Axel Habermann
>kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
>
>Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
>haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
Using Gnutar, you have far more possibilities. There is a rmt package that
comes with GNU cpio and can be used on all unix machines that don't have
it as standard tool. If this is installed on the tape host, you may just call
gnutar zScf tapehost:/dev/rst0 .
(S: handle sparse files efficiently, e.g. core-files)
This will give gnutar the full access to all tape specific options
(Blocking factor!) and save ALL files (including dotfiles).
If you need more comfort, it is a very good idea to take the skripts
level-0 and level-1 that come with gnu tar and change them to meet your needs.
They provide full and incremental backups of several hosts if neccessary.
--
Wolfram Wagner Email: ww@mpi-sb.mpg.de
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik Tel.: +49-681/9325-803
Im Stadtwald Fax: +49-681/9325-899
66123 Saarbruecken GERMANY
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 CSLIP to Internet
Date: 13 Mar 1996 03:17:43 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com>
References: <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com>
csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
> Well, what are your symptoms of things not working. IT might be
your
> sendmail configuration, in which case posting yuor
/etc/resolv.conmf is
> not much help, no?
From a test letter I got:
===================
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
To: root
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative
answer from name server)
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <root>
Received: by maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
id AA00831; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:57 -0500
Message-Id: <9603112124.AA00831@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net>
Content-Type: application/x-nextmail
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
From: Operator <root>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
To: grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com
Subject: nextmail test, let me know if this works
Thanks, John Boller
jboller@panix.com
===================================================
In <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> Hi!
> I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
> for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> (Marble Teleconnect).
>
> I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> nameserver 198.7.0.2
> nameserver 198.7.0.1
> nameserver 198.7.0.3
>
> This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> Thanks! John Boller
> jboller@panix.com
>
>
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 CSLIP to Internet
Date: 13 Mar 1996 04:29:26 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i5iv6$guv@news1.panix.com>
References: <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com>
From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
Status: R
John Boller said:
>550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
>554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative
answ
>er from name server)
Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
odd..
I really do not know what to say
Soren
In <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > Well, what are your symptoms of things not working. IT might be
> your
> > sendmail configuration, in which case posting yuor
> /etc/resolv.conmf is
> > not much help, no?
>
> From a test letter I got:
> ===================
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
> To: root
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> 554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative
> answer from name server)
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Return-Path: <root>
> Received: by maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
> id AA00831; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:57 -0500
> Message-Id: <9603112124.AA00831@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net>
> Content-Type: application/x-nextmail
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
> From: Operator <root>
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> To: grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com
> Subject: nextmail test, let me know if this works
>
> Thanks, John Boller
> jboller@panix.com
>
> ===================================================
> In <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
> > for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> > I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> > (Marble Teleconnect).
> >
> > I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> > domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> > #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> > #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> > nameserver 198.7.0.2
> > nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > nameserver 198.7.0.3
> >
> > This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> > I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> > Thanks! John Boller
> > jboller@panix.com
> >
> >
>
>
From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New NeXT user needs help with intalling video drivers
Date: 13 Mar 1996 04:37:17 GMT
Organization: Sirius Connections
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i5jdt$il9@sun.sirius.com>
References: <4i3fnv$lbt@kaleka.seanet.com>
In <4i3fnv$lbt@kaleka.seanet.com> Michael R. Delahoz wrote:
> Hi,
>
----munch----
>
> I plead ingnorance with regards to UNIX and NeXT. How can I get the
system to
> allow me a root login? I am not presented with any prompts that I see
during
> the initial system startup, and the Workspace doesn't provide me with a
login
> window. It just immeadiately goes to the Workspace Manager for user 'me.'
>
> I will ask around at work about this, but I would really appreciate
figuring
> this out with some input and my own experimentation. This is how I got to
be
> profficient with OS/2 and NT, and I really want to get up to speed with
NeXT.
> I would greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer. I hate looking at
the
> Workspace in greyscale and at 640 x 480 on a 21" NEC 6fg. This truly
sucks.
>
>
> TIA,
> Mike
>
Hi Mike:
When you first install NEXTSTEP, there exis only two user accounts: "me" and
"root," neither of which have passwords. After booting, you are
automatically logged into the me account, as you've noticed. To enable root
login, you must first create a password for the me account, which is very
simple. Double-click on the Preferences.app icon in the doc. It's the second
one from the top, and its icon looks like a calendar. Click on the password
icon, which looks like a padlock. Here, you'll be able to set a password.
Now, logout by selecting quit from the Workspace.app's menu.
You should then see a login panel where you can login as root (no
password--until you set one) or me (using the password you just set). The
Configure.app is found in /NextAdmin.
Hope this helps, and hope you enjoy NEXTSTEP, it's still a cool and elegant
OS.
Best regards,
John
john@gscorp.com
http://www.gscorp.com
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 and 'MX' records on CSLIP
Date: 13 Mar 1996 05:05:29 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i5l2p$guv@news1.panix.com>
Hi!
How do I look up 'MX' records?
Thanks, John Boller
jboller@panix.com
=====================================
Reply-To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:32:17 CST
From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
Status: R
John Boller said:
>Hi!
>What does this mean?
> Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
odd..
> I really do not know what to say
Well. Lets look at the output from a `host -a il.us.swissbank.com':
Trying null domain
rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=3
The following answer is not authoritative:
il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 10 swissbank.swissbank.com
il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay1.uu.net
il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay2.uu.net
This says that all the responses that you get are `MX' records. Or
mail exchangers. This means that the machine does not exist, but its
mail can be routed successfully.
For authoritative answers, see:
swissbank.com 98887 IN NS swissbank.swissbank.com
swissbank.com 98887 IN NS NS.uu.net
swissbank.com 98887 IN NS GATE.SBC.CO.UK
these are the people to ask the real questions
Additional information:
swissbank.swissbank.com 138838 IN A 146.180.1.2
relay1.uu.net 82272 IN A 192.48.96.5
relay2.uu.net 26699 IN A 192.48.96.7
NS.uu.net 69479 IN A 137.39.1.3
GATE.SBC.CO.UK 3935 IN A 193.114.243.33
and this is a collection of IP addresses that would be necessary to look
up this information.
so your response of `host not found' seems to indicate that you are not
looking up MX records (which is a very bad idea). It seems that they
are running a firewall (their smtp daemon is smap from the firewall
toolkit). Do a similar host(1) to see what you see. Maybe check your
sendmail.cf for weird things (try rebuilding it from scratch). This
might explain some of your problems
Soren
In <4i5iv6$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
> Status: R
>
> John Boller said:
>
> >550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> >554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative
> answ
> >er from name server)
>
> Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
> odd..
> I really do not know what to say
>
> Soren
>
> In <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > > Well, what are your symptoms of things not working. IT might
be
> > your
> > > sendmail configuration, in which case posting yuor
> > /etc/resolv.conmf is
> > > not much help, no?
> >
> > From a test letter I got:
> > ===================
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> > Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
> > To: root
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> > 554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown
(Authoritative
> > answer from name server)
> >
> > ----- Unsent message follows -----
> > Return-Path: <root>
> > Received: by maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
> > id AA00831; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:57 -0500
> > Message-Id: <9603112124.AA00831@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net>
> > Content-Type: application/x-nextmail
> > Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
> > X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
> > Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
> > From: Operator <root>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > To: grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com
> > Subject: nextmail test, let me know if this works
> >
> > Thanks, John Boller
> > jboller@panix.com
> >
> > ===================================================
> > In <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
> > > for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> > > I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> > > (Marble Teleconnect).
> > >
> > > I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> > > domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> > > #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> > > #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> > > nameserver 198.7.0.2
> > > nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > nameserver 198.7.0.3
> > >
> > > This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> > > I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> > > Thanks! John Boller
> > > jboller@panix.com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 CSLIP to Internet
Date: 13 Mar 1996 05:05:39 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i5l33$guv@news1.panix.com>
References: <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com>
<4i5iv6$guv@news1.panix.com>
Hi!
How do I look up 'MX' records?
Thanks, John Boller
jboller@panix.com
=====================================
Reply-To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:32:17 CST
From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
Status: R
John Boller said:
>Hi!
>What does this mean?
> Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
odd..
> I really do not know what to say
Well. Lets look at the output from a `host -a il.us.swissbank.com':
Trying null domain
rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=3
The following answer is not authoritative:
il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 10 swissbank.swissbank.com
il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay1.uu.net
il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay2.uu.net
This says that all the responses that you get are `MX' records. Or
mail exchangers. This means that the machine does not exist, but its
mail can be routed successfully.
For authoritative answers, see:
swissbank.com 98887 IN NS swissbank.swissbank.com
swissbank.com 98887 IN NS NS.uu.net
swissbank.com 98887 IN NS GATE.SBC.CO.UK
these are the people to ask the real questions
Additional information:
swissbank.swissbank.com 138838 IN A 146.180.1.2
relay1.uu.net 82272 IN A 192.48.96.5
relay2.uu.net 26699 IN A 192.48.96.7
NS.uu.net 69479 IN A 137.39.1.3
GATE.SBC.CO.UK 3935 IN A 193.114.243.33
and this is a collection of IP addresses that would be necessary to look
up this information.
so your response of `host not found' seems to indicate that you are not
looking up MX records (which is a very bad idea). It seems that they
are running a firewall (their smtp daemon is smap from the firewall
toolkit). Do a similar host(1) to see what you see. Maybe check your
sendmail.cf for weird things (try rebuilding it from scratch). This
might explain some of your problems
Soren
In <4i5iv6$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
> Status: R
>
> John Boller said:
>
> >550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> >554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative
> answ
> >er from name server)
>
> Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
> odd..
> I really do not know what to say
>
> Soren
>
> In <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > > Well, what are your symptoms of things not working. IT might
be
> > your
> > > sendmail configuration, in which case posting yuor
> > /etc/resolv.conmf is
> > > not much help, no?
> >
> > From a test letter I got:
> > ===================
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> > Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
> > To: root
> >
> > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> > 554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown
(Authoritative
> > answer from name server)
> >
> > ----- Unsent message follows -----
> > Return-Path: <root>
> > Received: by maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
> > id AA00831; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:57 -0500
> > Message-Id: <9603112124.AA00831@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net>
> > Content-Type: application/x-nextmail
> > Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
> > X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
> > Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
> > From: Operator <root>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > To: grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com
> > Subject: nextmail test, let me know if this works
> >
> > Thanks, John Boller
> > jboller@panix.com
> >
> > ===================================================
> > In <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > > I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
> > > for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> > > I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> > > (Marble Teleconnect).
> > >
> > > I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> > > domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> > > #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> > > #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> > > nameserver 198.7.0.2
> > > nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > nameserver 198.7.0.3
> > >
> > > This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> > > I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> > > Thanks! John Boller
> > > jboller@panix.com
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: trims@media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble)
Subject: Booting 3.3 on an Old Cube
Message-ID: <1996Mar11.225735.11079@media.mit.edu>
Sender: trims@EastFinchley.media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble)
Organization: Perceptual Computing, M.I.T. Media Lab
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 22:57:35 GMT
Sorry if this has been asked before (I did look in NeXTAnswers and the usual
appropriate places...)
I have an _ORIGINAL_ 68030 Cube. Yeah, complete with OD. I'd like to use NS3.3
on it (Even though it's slower than 2.1 on a '030). I did a successful BuildDisk
on a '040 cube, and then booted the disk on the '040, so I know my new disk is
fine. However, when I put it in the '030 cube and boot, it hangs right after the
following in the ROM monitor:
booting sd(0,0,0)sdmach
The only way I can get out of this is to unplug the computer. Do I need an
external floppy to start booting under 3.3 with an '030? Or what's up?
-Erik
trims@media.mit.edu
--
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--from the writings of Charles Babbage
From: colin@snaefell (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: retrofitting netinfo
Date: 13 Mar 1996 04:24:13 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4i5ild$e2q@news.tamu.edu>
Having spent 6 hours on this and not making much progress, I'm willing
to eat some humble pie and ask for help. We just came into a bunch of
NeXTStations that I'd like to set up in a netinfo domain using a
previously installed cube as the server. Question: can this be
achieved using SimpleNetworkStarter.app on the intended server?
My attempts to do this today lead to some bizarre effects. I set up
the machine as a master server. After doing so it would hang during
booting with the message that the netinfo server (i.e. itself) would
not respond. After rebooting in single user mode and editing the
hostconfig file by hand, I managed to get back and reset the machine
to be a stand alone. But then some weird things were happening.
First telnet and ftp were dying with bus errors. And httpd dies with
an error to the effect that it can't determine the hostname (although
"hostname" returns the correct name). I fixed httpd by setting the
hostname manually in httpd.conf. The telnet and ftp problems cleared
up after a couple of reboots, but httpd still cannot find its hostname
automatically.
Help! Any clues what is going on?
Thanks.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: faizel@mail.earthlink.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: problem with HeaderViewer under v3.3
Date: 13 Mar 1996 06:20:16 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <4i5pf0$1ph@ecuador.it.earthlink.net>
References: <4i42dh$ege@naiad.grenet.fr>
Matija Exel <exel@lag.ensieg.fr> wrote:
>
>hello,
>
>i found the following problems with the HeaderViewer under v3.3
>(which didn't exist under 3.2):
> -- when searching within appkit.h>Application i get the file
>for ActionCell!! (i solved this one by reloading the Application.rtf
>file from my 3.2 release -- what else to do??)
Yes, I believe this is a bug. You'll probably also see the same behaviour if
you look at the documentation for Application in Digital Librarian. I'm not
sure if the 3.3 patch fixes this though.
..faizel
--
Faizel Dakri
faizel@mail.earthlink.net (NeXTmail *friendly*)
faizel@pswtech.com (NeXTmail *friendly*)
From: rupert@blitzen.misha.net (Hans Rupert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New NeXT user needs help with intalling video drivers
Date: 13 Mar 1996 06:15:11 GMT
Organization: MISHA Group, Inc
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4i5p5f$l0m@delta.misha.net>
References: <4i3fnv$lbt@kaleka.seanet.com>
In <4i3fnv$lbt@kaleka.seanet.com> Michael R. Delahoz wrote:
Hi,
Isn't this the most fffrustrating, mindboggling thing you've ever seen? At
least I thought so a long while back. All you have to do is this: Log in as
me. Launch Preferences.app. Go to the section in which one changes the
password. Set a password for this "me" account. Logout. Now you may log in
as root, no password required. For the Matrox drivers, just execute the
driver.pkg, and then use Configure.app to set the res. of your card. Reboot,
and everything shoould be well.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Hans Rupert
<rupert@misha.net> / NeXTmail ~ MIME encouraged
Direktor
noir
From: Bapi Gupta <bapi@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next/niutil questions
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 04:15:22 -0600
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960313040748.772S-100000-100000@guava>
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To: Wendy <jstorey@ablecom.net>
cc: jstorey@ablecom.net, danno@us.itd.umich.edu, kykim@access.digex.net
In-Reply-To: <9603130238.AA21581@srv1.sj.ablecom.net>
I have 11000 users at my site. No way I'm using UserMangler (hey, I
kinda like that). But I would never use niutil either - no doubt nu is
easier. Here is fragment of the script that I generate from a C program
I wrote to handle the additions/deletions:
echo "adpfarr Albert D. Pfarr"
nu -A adpfarr "Albert D. Pfarr" 16008 1000 /bin/csh 12345678 /Art/Faculty/adpfarr Y N /artsci
cp -rp /Net/pear/usr/template/user ~adpfarr
ln -s /usr/spool/mail/adpfarr ~adpfarr/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
chown -R 16008.1000 ~adpfarr
chmod 711 ~adpfarr
1) use nu for batch additions
2) you still have to make the home directory, modify /usr/template/user
to your liking and cp it
3) I link the usr/spool/mail/$USER file to the place where Mail.app puts
your inbox, this keep Mail.app from eating it from the spool
4) you still have to chown and chmod the new home dir or root will own it and
it will have the permissions of your current umask
If you're interested in the C program I use to generate this stuff, I
could provide it to you, but don't ever ask me for support and it is quite
customized for my site!
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
Arts & Sciences Network Manager
Washington University in Saint Louis
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Wendy wrote:
> > From: Kevin Kim <kykim@tenteus.com> Date: Tue, 12
> > Mar 96 17:03:48 -0500 To: bapi@artsci.wustl.edu,
> > jstorey@ablecom.net, danno@us.itd.umich.edu Subject:
> > Next/niutil questions Reply-to: kykim@access.digex.net
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I hope I'm not being to annoying, but the three of you were able to answer
> > my previous NextStep/niutil questions, so I thought I'd go straight to the
> > source.
> >
> > Before, I was trying to delete users from the NetInfo database using "niutil".
> > Now I'm trying to add users via "niutil" I have all the user information,
> > I just can't figure out how to use "niutil" to enter this info.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail Mailhost on CSLIP to Internet
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:16:15 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960312103957.16994K-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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On 11 Mar 1996, Operator wrote:
> Hi!
> I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail
> for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> (Marble Teleconnect).
>
> I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> nameserver 198.7.0.2
> nameserver 198.7.0.1
> nameserver 198.7.0.3
>
> This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> Thanks! John Boller
> jboller@panix.com
you don't say what version of sendmail you are using. 8.7.5 is out on
the archives:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/sendmail-8.7.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
If you are using an older sendmail (like the one that came with it)
you'll need to edit the /etc/sendmail files (sendmail.cf and so on...)
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: robert@amo.mit.edu(Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Replacing /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch
Date: 13 Mar 1996 13:18:39 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <4i6hvf$cgj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hi.
I would like to eliminate PopOver.app from my dock by having Mail.app
execute /usr/local/bin/popOver before checking the spooldir. In addition
to dockspace, this avoids having to reset two preferences to change the
check interval, etc.
As near as I can tell, the executable Mail.app/MaiFetch removes incoming
mail from the spooldir and incorporates it into the ~/Mail/Active.mbox
setup.
I tried replacing Mail.app/MailFetch with the following script:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/popOver
/NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch.next $1 $2 $3 $4 >& /dev/console
and re-naming the original MailFetch to MailFetch.next.
What I find is that the script is called properly, but that MailFetch.next
does nothing and reports no errors.
I figured out the command line options to the original MailFetch and verified
that it does, in fact, work from the command line. However, (and here's
where it gets interesting), it does not work if you rename it to anything
but "MailFetch" or if you move it out of the Mail.app wrapper. My guess
is that for security reasons, NeXT has put some anti-tamper check in it.
Can I get Mail.app to call something other than /Mail.app/MailFetch ?
Is this a job for another add-on bundle?
I am welcome to any suggestions as to how to proceed.
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
---- NeXTmail always welcome ----
From: cmboggess@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Return of Tribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail configuration
Date: 12 Mar 96 13:15:36 -0500
Organization: Miami University
Message-ID: <1996Mar12.131536@miavx1>
howdy. I am having trouble configuring the sendmail.cf to get mail my network.
i am running NS3.3 and when I send mail to the server nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu
from a different machine i get a reflection error the and get the message back.
i have played around with the sendmail.cf and still get the problem. i can
send out mail and I can send and receive mail internal on the box, but i still
have this problem with sending mail to the machine from another machine.
Any help on this one would be appreciated.
--
-Clint
Admin for James.Bond.007 -> a very strange up and down mobile home on the net.
Co-admin for the Miami University NeXT network.
General techno-geek.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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and when it comes it will shake the Universe.
Emperor... we come for you.
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 and 'MX' records on CSLIP
Date: 13 Mar 1996 18:38:54 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i74nu$6ua@news1.panix.com>
References: <4i5l2p$guv@news1.panix.com>
Hi!
Actually the question is How do I get my Mail system
(including sendmail) to start retrieving and handling
'MX' records?
Thanks! John Boller
jboller@panix.com
In <4i5l2p$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> Hi!
> How do I look up 'MX' records?
> Thanks, John Boller
> jboller@panix.com
>
> =====================================
> Reply-To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:32:17 CST
> From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
> Status: R
>
>
> John Boller said:
>
> >Hi!
> >What does this mean?
> > Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
> odd..
> > I really do not know what to say
>
> Well. Lets look at the output from a `host -a il.us.swissbank.com':
>
> Trying null domain
> rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=3
> The following answer is not authoritative:
> il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 10 swissbank.swissbank.com
> il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay1.uu.net
> il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay2.uu.net
>
> This says that all the responses that you get are `MX' records. Or
> mail exchangers. This means that the machine does not exist, but its
> mail can be routed successfully.
>
> For authoritative answers, see:
> swissbank.com 98887 IN NS swissbank.swissbank.com
> swissbank.com 98887 IN NS NS.uu.net
> swissbank.com 98887 IN NS GATE.SBC.CO.UK
>
> these are the people to ask the real questions
>
> Additional information:
> swissbank.swissbank.com 138838 IN A 146.180.1.2
> relay1.uu.net 82272 IN A 192.48.96.5
> relay2.uu.net 26699 IN A 192.48.96.7
> NS.uu.net 69479 IN A 137.39.1.3
> GATE.SBC.CO.UK 3935 IN A 193.114.243.33
>
>
> and this is a collection of IP addresses that would be necessary to look
> up this information.
>
> so your response of `host not found' seems to indicate that you are not
> looking up MX records (which is a very bad idea). It seems that they
> are running a firewall (their smtp daemon is smap from the firewall
> toolkit). Do a similar host(1) to see what you see. Maybe check your
> sendmail.cf for weird things (try rebuilding it from scratch). This
> might explain some of your problems
>
> Soren
>
> In <4i5iv6$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
> > Status: R
> >
> > John Boller said:
> >
> > >550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> > >554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown
(Authoritative
> > answ
> > >er from name server)
> >
> > Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
> > odd..
> > I really do not know what to say
> >
> > Soren
> >
> > In <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > > > Well, what are your symptoms of things not working. IT might
> be
> > > your
> > > > sendmail configuration, in which case posting yuor
> > > /etc/resolv.conmf is
> > > > not much help, no?
> > >
> > > From a test letter I got:
> > > ===================
> > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > > From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> > > Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
> > > To: root
> > >
> > > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> > > 554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown
> (Authoritative
> > > answer from name server)
> > >
> > > ----- Unsent message follows -----
> > > Return-Path: <root>
> > > Received: by maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
> > > id AA00831; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:57 -0500
> > > Message-Id: <9603112124.AA00831@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net>
> > > Content-Type: application/x-nextmail
> > > Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
> > > X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
> > > Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
> > > From: Operator <root>
> > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > > To: grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com
> > > Subject: nextmail test, let me know if this works
> > >
> > > Thanks, John Boller
> > > jboller@panix.com
> > >
> > > ===================================================
> > > In <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > > Hi!
> > > > I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
> > > > for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> > > > I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> > > > (Marble Teleconnect).
> > > >
> > > > I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> > > > domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> > > > #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> > > > #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > > # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> > > > nameserver 198.7.0.2
> > > > nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > > nameserver 198.7.0.3
> > > >
> > > > This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> > > > I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> > > > Thanks! John Boller
> > > > jboller@panix.com
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Install Package when NextDeveloper is shared
Message-ID: <1996Mar13.202912.1402@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4i413n$10j@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 20:29:12 GMT
In article <4i413n$10j@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> root@polaris.scicntr.ortn.edu
(Operator) writes:
> I am attempting to install NextStepDeveloperPatch on a system
> where I have the
> /NextDeveloper on a disk that is mounted on several machines.
> /The first
> install goes fine. All of the rest from the other machines fail.
> reason: /NextDeveloper/Headers/apps/InterfaceBuilder.h is read
> only and owned by root when it gets installed. I've gone back
> and changed it to r/w, but it still fails with an invalid
> permission. I am running as root on all of the machines. All
> the permissions show root as owner and proper permissions (after
> I reset the ones above).
>
> the only reason I have to run the install program on each of
> these other systems is that there are a few files in /usr/lib/...
> which are not shared across the systems and have to be installed
> on each computer.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1. Why am I getting an invalid permission when I try to write
> to the shared disk that root owns and has write permission on?
Wonders of NFS: 'root' access is mapped to user 'nobody' unless explicitly
allowed (Any sysadmin who mounts one of your filesystems could mess it up
otherwise).
> 2. What can I do to get the installation to proceed?
Either set 'root' permission on the exported NFS directory, or don't
install at all.
> 3. Whatare the files being written that are not in /NextDeveloper?
> Perhaps I can mount them remotely also.
>
Installer writes logfiles in /NextLibrary/Receipts. Installer makes them
accessible through its built in log file viewer. I found the UI
selfdescribing (but that's me ;-)
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Problems with Nextstep mounts and automounter
Message-ID: <1996Mar13.210556.1466@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4i2isi$gnh@nuke.csu.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 21:05:56 GMT
In article <4i2isi$gnh@nuke.csu.net> kzin@isc.SJSU.EDU (John Rudd) writes:
> In article <1996Mar9.103413.16277@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org
> (Peter Nitezki) writes:
> >
> > But what you told about the fix made me think there is something wrong
> > about your /etc tree. You seem to netboot your machine, right? The
> > 'tftpboot' thing is leading to this assumption.
>
> > You either make the node selfbooting or enter a line into
> > 'rc.local' (the net is up while 'rc.local' is run) that mounts all non
> > yet mounted partitions ('mount -a', for instance).
>
> Except that I'm _NOT_ trying to netboot this system...and have no
> idea why it would be trying to do that (I just installed this system
> last week.. it's a NS/Sparc system). how do I go about disabling the
> netboot setup?
>
SimpleNetworkStarter: Oh, SNS, I despise you...
(Laments of an old Unix sysadmin towards the growing trend of not yet
intelligent enough tools trying to make system configuration a passtime
for lusers. Readers of this posting exempted, of course ;-) In the good
'ole days of Sys III you had to write assembler files and recompile and
link the kernel to make things work :-)
First, I have to state that all my knowledge comes from black machines. I
know PCs enough not to dump my money in white hardware, and I don't have
enough to make pay for HP or SUN!
The brief configuration dialog of the installation disk for black NS was
clear enough to make a successful standalone installation. SNS should be
stable enough to configure a network for out of the box machines (this out
of the box state is restored by copying /usr/template/etc/hostconfig and
/usr/template/etc/netinfo to /etc and reboot). And you have to run SNS if
you need to have a valid network connection to the outside world. But SNS
fails for complex cases and it is ill suited to modify existing settings
(a real starter app, so to say). You will have to study the online manual
(/NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf) and must try to master
NetInfoManager for serious modifications. NI is brilliatly clear and easy
once you got it and frustratingly diverse if you don't.
> Btw: I tried to email you, but it bounced saying:
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> .. while talking to subnet.sub.net.:
> >>> RCPT To:<Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org>
> <<< 553 <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org>... Preemptive Loop Detection
> 550 Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)... User unknown
>
A few weeks ago I was shamelessly abandoned by my UUCP feed (hear this,
Heiko ;-) and sendmail went nuts during my shift to an alternate provider.
Since I currently can't spare more than two hours in a stretch to try
fixing this...
And I tried to simplify things by introducing 8.7.4, which cost me another
weekend...
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: laser printer for NS on Intel
Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:24:10 GMT
Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Message-ID: <4i7ata$n49@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Keywords: laser printer, NSFIP
Hi,
Our group at work is getting ready to purchase several
Intel systems (probably DEC Celebris GL's or XL's), on
which we plan to run NEXTSTEP. Currently we each have a
NeXT workstation with a NeXT laser printer hooked to it.
When we switch to white hardware, obviously we can not
simply plug our NeXT printers into our Intel systems.
Three options have been suggested:
1. use our NeXT systems as print servers
2. buy a high-end printer and share it
3. buy everyone a less expensive printer
Option 1 is the cheapest, but our crowded offices would
become more crowded. Can color slabs run without the
monitors? If so, that would not take up much space. Don't
all other configurations (mono slabs, mono cubes, and
dimensions) require the monitors to be attached? This
would take up space and generate heat, both undesirable.
Option 2 makes sense, but a lot of people are used to
having their own private printers and want to continue
operating this way, so this option will not solve the
problem for everyone.
Option 3 is the one for which I need advice. Which laser
printers work well with NEXTSTEP on Intel? Of these, which
ones are the most affordable? Can someone recommend a
dealer who is helpful and does not charge a fortune?
If the printer is a postscript printer, I assume it "just
works" with NSFIP. Is this true? Will non-postscript
printers work if we buy the appropriate software? Is this
where DOTS and JetPilot come in? When comparing postscript
laser printers and non-postscript printers plus software,
which is cheaper? Which works better?
Thank you very much in advance. I would really appreciate
hearing from people who have a relatively inexpensive (say
less than $1000?) laser printer hooked up to their NS white
hardware. I'm interested in both good and bad experiences.
Thanks. Bye,
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: hong@csulb.edu (Vision)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Mouse dies on 486-NS3.3
Date: 13 Mar 1996 22:13:46 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Sender: hong@wren.acs.csulb.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <yavvik83alj.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
I am running ten NS3.3 on INTEL486 DX2-66 with 32 MRAM
and am using Logitech bus mouse.
Seems like mouse dies quite often and have not found
to be able to be the mouse back to life.
The only thing I can do is "Rebooting".
Is this very normal symptom for INTEL based NS3.3?
Jason
From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: perldb does not run on emacs 19
Date: 13 Mar 1996 18:02:24 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4i7k60$gdq@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
References: <yavu3zs39u1.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Vision <hong@csulb.edu>.]
In article <yavu3zs39u1.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>,
Vision <hong@csulb.edu> wrote:
> Is there anybody using perldb on emacs 19.xx?
I do not know, maybe there is. But my advice to you is: don't. Perldb
is a builtin now.
Yet better: upgrade to cperl-mode.el.
Ilya
P.S. Note also that g.e.sources is for sources only, and I did not see
any code in what you posted.
From: hong@csulb.edu (Vision)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.sources,gnu.emacs.help,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: perldb does not run on emacs 19
Date: 13 Mar 1996 22:30:19 GMT
Organization: Cal State Long Beach
Sender: hong@wren.acs.csulb.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <yavu3zs39u1.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu>
I can use perldb on emacs 18,
but can not run perldb on emacs 19.28.
The error message I am getting on emacs 19 is that
Symbol's function definition is void: make-shell
baboya:~/emacstest3 89$ ls -l /usr/local/src/perl-4.036/emacs/perldb.el
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 jbryans 15694 Feb 8 1993 /usr/local/src/perl-4.036/emacs/perldb.el
baboya:~/emacstest3 90$ ls -l /usr/local/src/perl5.001/emacs/perldb.el
16 -r--r--r-- 1 hong 15694 Oct 18 1994 /usr/local/src/perl5.001/emacs/perldb.el
I looked through any perldb.el and they are all same file.
I am using NeXTSTEP 3.3 and it happens both on INTEL 486 NeXT and
68x40 NeXT machines.
Is there anybody using perldb on emacs 19.xx?
Thank you,
Jason
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 and 'MX' records on CSLIP
Date: 13 Mar 1996 23:30:15 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4i7lq7$o0k@news1.panix.com>
References: <4i5l2p$guv@news1.panix.com> <4i74nu$6ua@news1.panix.com>
From: Brian Katzung <brian_katzung@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 17:07:25 -0600
To: jboller@panix.com
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 Looking up 'MX' records
> I don't have 8.7.x here, but in 8.6.x, MX record look-up comes with
including
> the BIND (DNS) code (NAMED_BIND in conf.h).
In <4i74nu$6ua@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> Hi!
> Actually the question is How do I get my Mail system
> (including sendmail) to start retrieving and handling
> 'MX' records?
> Thanks! John Boller
> jboller@panix.com
>
> In <4i5l2p$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > Hi!
> > How do I look up 'MX' records?
> > Thanks, John Boller
> > jboller@panix.com
> >
> > =====================================
> > Reply-To: csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu
> > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 22:32:17 CST
> > From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
> > Status: R
> >
> >
> > John Boller said:
> >
> > >Hi!
> > >What does this mean?
> > > Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that very
> > odd..
> > > I really do not know what to say
> >
> > Well. Lets look at the output from a `host -a il.us.swissbank.com':
> >
> > Trying null domain
> > rcode = 0 (Success), ancount=3
> > The following answer is not authoritative:
> > il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 10
swissbank.swissbank.com
> > il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay1.uu.net
> > il.us.swissbank.com 19755 IN MX 100 relay2.uu.net
> >
> > This says that all the responses that you get are `MX' records. Or
> > mail exchangers. This means that the machine does not exist, but its
> > mail can be routed successfully.
> >
> > For authoritative answers, see:
> > swissbank.com 98887 IN NS swissbank.swissbank.com
> > swissbank.com 98887 IN NS NS.uu.net
> > swissbank.com 98887 IN NS GATE.SBC.CO.UK
> >
> > these are the people to ask the real questions
> >
> > Additional information:
> > swissbank.swissbank.com 138838 IN A 146.180.1.2
> > relay1.uu.net 82272 IN A 192.48.96.5
> > relay2.uu.net 26699 IN A 192.48.96.7
> > NS.uu.net 69479 IN A 137.39.1.3
> > GATE.SBC.CO.UK 3935 IN A 193.114.243.33
> >
> >
> > and this is a collection of IP addresses that would be necessary to look
> > up this information.
> >
> > so your response of `host not found' seems to indicate that you are not
> > looking up MX records (which is a very bad idea). It seems that they
> > are running a firewall (their smtp daemon is smap from the firewall
> > toolkit). Do a similar host(1) to see what you see. Maybe check your
> > sendmail.cf for weird things (try rebuilding it from scratch). This
> > might explain some of your problems
> >
> > Soren
> >
> > In <4i5iv6$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > From: Soren Dayton <csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu>
> > > Status: R
> > >
> > > John Boller said:
> > >
> > > >550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> > > >554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown
> (Authoritative
> > > answ
> > > >er from name server)
> > >
> > > Looks like you are not respecting MX records. I find that
very
> > > odd..
> > > I really do not know what to say
> > >
> > > Soren
> > >
> > > In <4i5eon$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > > csdayton@midway.uchicago.edu wrote:
> > > > > Well, what are your symptoms of things not working. IT
might
> > be
> > > > your
> > > > > sendmail configuration, in which case posting yuor
> > > > /etc/resolv.conmf is
> > > > > not much help, no?
> > > >
> > > > From a test letter I got:
> > > > ===================
> > > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > > > From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> > > > Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
> > > > To: root
> > > >
> > > > ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
> > > > 554 grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com... 550 Host unknown
> > (Authoritative
> > > > answer from name server)
> > > >
> > > > ----- Unsent message follows -----
> > > > Return-Path: <root>
> > > > Received: by maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S)
> > > > id AA00831; Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:57 -0500
> > > > Message-Id: <9603112124.AA00831@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net>
> > > > Content-Type: application/x-nextmail
> > > > Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
> > > > X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 1.0)
> > > > Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
> > > > From: Operator <root>
> > > > Date: Mon, 11 Mar 96 16:24:40 -0500
> > > > To: grace_harrison@il.us.swissbank.com
> > > > Subject: nextmail test, let me know if this works
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, John Boller
> > > > jboller@panix.com
> > > >
> > > > ===================================================
> > > > In <4i4qsk$guv@news1.panix.com> Operator wrote:
> > > > > Hi!
> > > > > I am trying to figure out what I need to alter with sendmail 8.7.5
> > > > > for my standalone computer (m68k-next-nextstep3.3).
> > > > > I have a CSLIP connection to my Internet Service Provider.
> > > > > (Marble Teleconnect).
> > > > >
> > > > > I have altered the /etc/resolv.conf to read:
> > > > > domain jboller.dialup.access.net
> > > > > #nameserver 198.7.7.185
> > > > > #nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > > > # search panix.com nyc.access.net access.net
> > > > > nameserver 198.7.0.2
> > > > > nameserver 198.7.0.1
> > > > > nameserver 198.7.0.3
> > > > >
> > > > > This works fine for most references like telnet and ftp.
> > > > > I am not sure what additional I need for sendmail.
> > > > > Thanks! John Boller
> > > > > jboller@panix.com
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Network Mac <-> NeXT over thin ethernet
Date: 14 Mar 1996 00:11:09 GMT
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <4i7o6u$pop@miwok.nbn.com>
References: <mobbster-1203961759050001@d-60.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu>
In <mobbster-1203961759050001@d-60.home-ip.as.ucsb.edu> Paul Mobbs wrote:
> I am trying to connect to my NeXTstation color with my Mac II via TCP/IP.
> I have connected them together with coax. cable, I have tees and
> terminators correctly placed.
>
> I used the network starter on the NeXT to set up an IP address and affix a
> name to its ethernet MAC address. Then I set up Mac TCP on my Mac to use a
> specific IP address, and use the NeXT as the DNS.
>
Hi There:
It sounds like you did everything correctly. Did you use the MacTCP control
panel to fix a manual IP address. It should be on the same subnet. For
example, if the NeXT is at 192.42.72.1, the Mac should be something like
192.4.72.X
I've networked Mac and NeXTs together using a product called NFS/Share. For
info on how to do this, there's a support bulletin on our site:
http://www.gscorp.com/Support_Bulletins.html
Hope this helps,
John
john@gscorp.com
http://www.gscorp.com
>
I
From: Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Serial drivers: Mux or NS 3.3?
Date: 14 Mar 1996 02:08:23 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4i7v2n$e1j@news.accessone.com>
References: <4hthq5$71f@csu-b.csuohio.edu>
In <4hthq5$71f@csu-b.csuohio.edu> D E Bynum wrote:
> This will have been discussed long ago, when everybody else did their
> NS 3.3 upgrades...
>
> Which work better for serial line communications; the Mux 1.7 drivers,
or
> the NS 3.3 drivers with which the NS 3.3 upgrader.app replaced my old set
of
> Mux special files?
Both work well for me, granted I only work with 57K DTE. I opted for the
new 3.3 drivers to facilitate dial-on-demand with GateKeeper.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori |
><
>< mailto:salvo@eskimo.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted
><
From: Alex Blakemore <alex@genoa.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: 12 Mar 1996 05:21:16 GMT
Organization: Genoa Software Systems
Message-ID: <4i31kc$9ga@saturn.genoa.com>
References: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> System Administrator wrote:
> To date I've been unable to get this to compile. Any
> one out there suceeded?
I just placed an intel/motorola binary on the archives last night
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/tcsh-v6.06.NI.b.tar.gz
If anyone needs the source mods to build for Sparc or HP, send me mail,
and I'll pass them along.
--
Alex Blakemore
alex@genoa.com NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail accepted
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: 13 Mar 1996 06:51:59 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4i5raf$a7@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <OTTO.96Mar12174725@tukki.jyu.fi> <4i4lna$e3c@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) wrote:
(...)
> Yes. Had this starting with 6.04. Went down to 6.03 as 6.04 and 6.05
> were nearly unusable due to this problem. 6.06 is better, but it happens
> sometimes.
Have you ever thougt of optimizing the history? A command line should only go
into history if it differs from the last line in history.
What do you think?
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: Dick Phillips <rlp@lanl.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing to a non-NeXT printer
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:03:55 -0700
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <314897CB.113B@lanl.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi:
I've got a NeXT computer on a small network with a Windows NT
machine. An HP Laserjet 5MP (Postscript) printer is attached
to the NT. In order to print from the NeXT I need to issue
an lpr -v [filename] in order for Postscript to be correctly
on the HP. Otherwise all the Postscript text gets printed. The
-v option essentially tells the NeXT spooler to treat the print
stream as binary.
I'm trying to set up a printcap entry on the NeXT which
accomplishes the same thing as the lpr -v command, but no
luck. The stream still prints as Postscript text. Here's
my printcap entry:
LaserJet: \
:note=LaserJet 5MP:ty=HP LaserJet 5MP: \
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/LaserJet:lp=:rm=moonrise:rp=LaserJet: \
:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:af=/usr/adm/lp.acct:rw: \
:mx\#0:sf:sb:if=/usr/lib/transcript/psif: \
:of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof:gf=/usr/lib/transcript/psgf: \
:nf=/usr/lib/transcript/psnf:tf=/usr/lib/transcript/pstf: \
:rf=/usr/lib/transcript/psrf:vf=/usr/lib/transcript/psvf: \
:cf=/usr/lib/transcript/pscf:df=/usr/lib/transcript/psdf:
Any ideas on what parameters I should provide in order to get the
behavior I get with lpr -v?
Thanks for any help,
Dick Phillips
rlp@lanl.gov
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do I setup a NS 3.3 as a proxy server ?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 02:19:52 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4iak48$ku1@news.petrel.ch>
Hi,
My NS 3.3 Intel server is connected to the Internet through a PPP
line. We don't have any router and can't afford a C class.
I'd like to be able to surf the Web, FTP and Telnet from my other NS
3.3 Intel machine which is connected to the server one through
Ethernet (and a HUB). I've been told by Sun wizards that I should set
up my NS server as a proxy server (as a web, ftp and telnet proxy).
My problem is : how do I do that ?
Thanks a lot
--
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: printing to a non-NeXT printer
In-Reply-To: Dick Phillips's message of Thu, 14 Mar 1996 15:03:55 -0700
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar15010449@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <314897CB.113B@lanl.gov>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 06:04:49 GMT
Go to http://www.next.com and get the package that NeXT has provided
to fix this problem: 1919_Printing_From_NS_To_NT.rtfd
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: purdys7@aol.com (Purdys7)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted: NextStep Developer -- NYC area
Date: 15 Mar 1996 01:04:22 -0500
Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com
Message-ID: <4ib196$5ke@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
NextStep developer/sys admin wanted: NY metro area. 2-4 month assignment
with opportunity for full-time position. Experience with C, Objective C,
EOF, and QuickBase required. Exciting applications. Reply to us, the
employer, directly at purdys7@aol.com (we are not a recruiter or agency).
From: etlrdje@etlxd30.ericsson.se (Richard Jerome x4745)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT Cube Power Supply
Date: 15 Mar 1996 08:11:18 GMT
Organization: Ericsson
Message-ID: <4ib8n6$fi5@erinews.ericsson.se>
Hi!
I've been given the chance to get my hands on a NextStation (the
original black cube!) complete with colour monitor and laser
printer. The only snag is this is a USA computer and i live in
the UK. I'm planning to get it shipped back, but the difference
in mains voltage is the only thing worrying me.
The US is 110v 60Hz AC and the UK 240v 50Hz AC. I was wondering
if anyone knows whether the NeXT has a switchable power supply,
or whether a simply 240v->100v adapter would be fine? What sort
of wattage does the cube need? is the 50Hz/60Hz difference going
to cause problems?
Hope someone can help, i got a soft spot for NeXTs!
Richard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: retrofitting netinfo
Message-ID: <1996Mar14.205633.1908@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4i5ild$e2q@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 20:56:33 GMT
In article <4i5ild$e2q@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell (Colin Allen) writes:
> Having spent 6 hours on this and not making much progress, I'm willing
> to eat some humble pie and ask for help. We just came into a bunch of
> NeXTStations that I'd like to set up in a netinfo domain using a
> previously installed cube as the server. Question: can this be
> achieved using SimpleNetworkStarter.app on the intended server?
>
Well, yes and no.
SNS is quite fine to configure an out of the box setup. It is less
reliable to modify an existing setting. And it is almost never successful
in curing a messed up configuration.
Taking into account that you will loose all of the customization done
until now, copy /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig and
/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo to /etc and reboot. You now have a
pristine setting. Use SNS and HostManager to configure first the server,
then the clients. Now try to get back what was done in previous
costomization. It should work now.
> My attempts to do this today lead to some bizarre effects. I set up
> the machine as a master server. After doing so it would hang during
> booting with the message that the netinfo server (i.e. itself) would
> not respond. After rebooting in single user mode and editing the
> hostconfig file by hand, I managed to get back and reset the machine
> to be a stand alone. But then some weird things were happening.
> First telnet and ftp were dying with bus errors. And httpd dies with
> an error to the effect that it can't determine the hostname (although
> "hostname" returns the correct name). I fixed httpd by setting the
> hostname manually in httpd.conf. The telnet and ftp problems cleared
> up after a couple of reboots, but httpd still cannot find its hostname
> automatically.
>
Leaving the Web server aside things should work ok after the above cure.
--
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 | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: ccwf@acquine.klab.caltech.edu (Charles Fu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Question: Mail.app deletes spool file. Can avoid?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 10:11:53 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Message-ID: <4ibfp9$r2c@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
References: <4fqdk5$e6g@ece.rutgers.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960213125336.1623H-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <1996Feb21.131018.29359@investor.pgh.pa.us>
In article <1996Feb21.131018.29359@investor.pgh.pa.us>,
Bob Peirce #305 <rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> What I do is to go to /usr/spool/mail in a terminal window; copy my
> mail file to a tmp; load it with Mail.app; and restore the tmp.
What I do is use a mail filter (specifically, procmail) to route my
incoming mail into multiple mailboxes. Only specifically NeXT
Mail.app-style mail is deposited into /usr/spool/mail. Non-NeXT mail
is then read from these other mailboxes with other mail readers.
This has the additional advantages. (1) If a machine crashes while
Mail.app is retrieving mail from the spool file, only Mail.app-style
mail gets lost (because most other mailers are intelligent enough to
make sure you won't lose mail due to a crash). (2) Non-NeXT mail has
no chance to corrupt a .mbox file (Mail.app does not correctly parse
certain non-Mail.app-style messages).
-ccwf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Can I run TIS + PPP on my 'standalone' machine and have a working setup?
Message-ID: <DoB2sy.GH5@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 11:05:22 GMT
I was wondering...
I'd like to connect a NS machine to the internet, using PPP over ISDN. But I
want a secure connection to the outside world. Therefore, I need firewall
software. I have three options:
1. Take a 386, load a firewall kit, put it between a router (i.e. Ascend) and
my NeXT. This would mean that the NeXT has to run IP address 192.168.x.x on
the local net but NeXT and router would have to run some valid IP address to
the outside world. This implies 2 IP addresses on the en0 interface of the
NeXT computer.
Or run PPP directly on the NeXT and use some form of firewall setup:
2 With Morningstar PPP + ZyXEL 2864
3 With PPP + free firewall toolit + ZyXEL 2864
The latter would the cheapest (only modem needed). 2 and 3 burden my CPU with
PPP stuff. But then I need to install a firewall toolkit on my NS system,
which is used also as main development and user system. So I want the system
itself (and other systems on the local net under IP address 192.168.x.x) have
local access, but I want the external link secure.
Can I do that with TIS?
Thanks,
From: wfc@mint.cl.cam.ac.uk.cl.cam.ac.uk (William Clocksin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Where is <mach/features.h> ?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 11:26:01 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <4ibk49$cj0@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
I'm trying to build amd, but it fails because it cannot find the header
file <mach/features.h>. I don't know where it is either. Can anybody
suggest what to do? Thanks.
W F Clocksin
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
From: nevai@math.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SOS - question on accton - SOS
Date: 15 Mar 1996 09:39:15 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Sender: Paul Nevai
Message-ID: <4ibvej$54l@ops.mps.ohio-state.edu>
Please tell me how much will my machine be slowed down if I use accton
as in the following portion of my /etc/rc:
# accton is here for historical reasons.
if [ -f /usr/adm/acct ]; then
accton /usr/adm/acct && (echo -n ' accounting') >/dev/console
fi
#############################################################################
BTW I have a NeXT CUBE with OS 3.2.
Please respond by e-mail. Thanks. Best regards...Paul
Paul Nevai nevai@math.ohio-state.edu
Dept Math - Ohio State University 1-614-292-3317 (Office)
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1174, U.S.A. 1-614-292-1479 (Math Dept Fax)
From: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr (wilfrid Gaboriaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Quotas manager for NeXT ?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 15:38:09 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <4ic2t1$m4b@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
Is there a quota manager for Nextstep ?
(to limit disk space per user)
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From: powell@tropic.aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DPT 2012 driver for OS 4.0?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 16:24:16 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <4ic5jg$hom@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
Does anyone have a DPT 2012 driver for use with an Intel GX Pro eisa
compatible with OS 4.0 PR that they could neXTmail me?
Thanks!--
Dr. Mark D. Powell powell@aoml.noaa.gov
Research Meteorologist,
(Member, NOAA '96 Olympics Marine Forecast Team)
(Swimmer, IMCO Windsurfer, NEXTSTEP advocate)
NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply)
Miami, Fl 33149 Voice (305) 361-4403 Fax (305) 361-4402
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Problems using an Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS
Date: 15 Mar 1996 17:59:36 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4icb68$4cl@emerald.oz.net>
Our sales office is attempting to use an Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS with
NS 3.2 on a Canon object.station 41 with no success.
Apple has provided the pin-outs so that a custom Intel serial port
rectangle connector to Apple round connector could be made. I assume that
this was done correctly, but this could be the problem.
An Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS PDF isn't included with NS 3.2, but
apparently Apple indicated that a Laserwriter II NT or NTX PDF should work.
However, an attempt to print anything, including the test page in
PrintManager produces an Alert panel stating that one or more of the pages
could not be printed.
Is anyone successfully using an Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS under NS and
if so, are there any special setup requirements?
--
Art Isbell NeXT & MIME Mail: art@cubicsol.com
NeXT Registered Consultant Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
Trego Systems Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP managed care US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
contract and case management solutions
From: tjallen@theory1.physics.wisc.edu (Theodore J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Good PPD for HP LaserJet 5SiMX?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 20:03:54 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <4icifa$tru@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Does anyone know where I might find
a good PPD for the HP LaserJet 5SiMX?
There is one in the DOS directory on
ftp.adobe.com, but it doesn't provide
options to printing. We really need
those options to turn duplex printing
on and off.
I'm hacking one in the meantime, but
although it provides the duplex options,
they don't seem to have any effect on the
printer, which is set to duplex by default.
I'd appreciate ideas or pointers.
--
Ted Allen, Ph.D.
High Energy Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu
http://theory2.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DPT 2012 driver for OS 4.0?
Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:07:38 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corp.
Message-ID: <4icpna$spo@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4ic5jg$hom@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
In article <4ic5jg$hom@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>,
Mark Powell <powell@tropic.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>Does anyone have a DPT 2012 driver for use with an Intel GX Pro eisa
>compatible with OS 4.0 PR that they could neXTmail me?
>Thanks!--
Just off the top of my head, I'm guessing you're not going to find one.
I've discovered in the last few weeks that NeXT released two DPT drivers
with 3.3: DPT2000 and DPTSCSIDriver. The DPTSCSIDriver is listed in
NextAnswers as superseding the DPT2000 driver, but I can't get it (the
newer one) to work with my DPT 2012 card at all. The DPT2000 driver
works for me, but I'm betting that with OS 4.0 they started with the
DPTSCSIDriver and people with the DPT 2012 will be hosed. *sigh*
Lusty
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 12:21:55 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960313122004.29035M-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> <yavd96ib3w4.fsf@wren.acs.csulb.edu> <4i4oqc$dru@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4i4oqc$dru@sulawesi.lerc.nasa.gov>
On 12 Mar 1996, Milind Bakhle wrote:
> Vision (hong@csulb.edu) wrote:
>
> : What if you try this?
>
> : top-v0.3-NIHS.tar.Z
>
> Can you please post the location and site where I can get the
> compiled version.
ftp://nextftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/top-v0.3-NIHS.tar.Z
source code can be found in the sme directory fr those interested in that
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Replacing /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 15:39:49 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960313151753.1289A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4i6hvf$cgj@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
On 13 Mar 1996, Robert Lutwak wrote:
> I would like to eliminate PopOver.app from my dock by having Mail.app
> execute /usr/local/bin/popOver before checking the spooldir. In addition
> to dockspace, this avoids having to reset two preferences to change the
> check interval, etc.
[ very interesting MailFetch data omitted ]
Well, this might not be much of a solution, but I use Fiend, and put
PopOver.app on one of Fiend's docks, then choose 'hide icons' so PopOver
doesn't show up.
Rather than using Mail.app's 'Get Mail', I use the Services/Retrieve
Mail, which launches PopOver (if necessary) and fetches the remote mail.
I can't remember if "Get Mail" is command-G or command-g, but whatever it
was, I did this (when Mail.app was not running):
dwrite Mail NXCommandKeys "Retrieve Mail,g"
so all I have to do is 'command-g' to get my remote mail. No, you can't
use the 'Get Mail' box if you have manual retrieval, but this works
pretty well... and you can go it without using the mouse to click on 'get
mail'
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: a-prince@ix.netcom.com(Frank Bellino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't format floppy on external PLI drive
Date: 16 Mar 1996 10:56:06 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4ie6o6$4e0@reader2.ix.netcom.com>
Am running NS 3.2 on '040 cube with PLI SCSI floppy drive. I know there
is a hack (use an old binary?) that will permit me to format in this
configuration, but I can't find anything in the FAQs. My OD died so I
can no longer boot 2.x for the task. Any insights (or the offer of a
working OD) would be much appreciated.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: retrofitting netinfo
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:40:35 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Mar16.114035.29380@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <1996Mar14.205633.1908@nidat.sub.org>
In article <1996Mar14.205633.1908@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org
(Peter Nitezki) writes:
> In article <4i5ild$e2q@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell (Colin Allen)
writes:
> > Having spent 6 hours on this and not making much progress, I'm willing
> > to eat some humble pie and ask for help. We just came into a bunch of
> > NeXTStations that I'd like to set up in a netinfo domain using a
> > previously installed cube as the server. Question: can this be
> > achieved using SimpleNetworkStarter.app on the intended server?
> >
> Well, yes and no.
>
> SNS is quite fine to configure an out of the box setup. It is less
> reliable to modify an existing setting. And it is almost never
successful
> in curing a messed up configuration.
I quite agree, with one reservation: the more recent releases of SNS do
much more intelligent netinfo checking. It can be worthwhile launching it
just to check over your netinfo databases, provided that you read the
messages intelligently.
> Taking into account that you will loose all of the customization done
> until now, copy /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig and
> /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo to /etc and reboot. You now have a
> pristine setting. Use SNS and HostManager to configure first the
server,
> then the clients. Now try to get back what was done in previous
> costomization. It should work now.
I prefer to rename the original local.nidb and network.nidb to new names,
and leave them in /etc/netinfo. That was I can open them by tag, and drag
folders about to rescue old settings.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Having some problems configuring proxy server spinner under NS 3.3
Date: 16 Mar 1996 12:12:42 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ieb7q$1br@news.petrel.ch>
Hi,
I downloaded spinner and tried to configure it. Somehow, I failed :
it's not working. Besides, I don't clearly understand how to use it.
In my Win95 NetScape browser, I have to tell what's the proxy server
(??) and what port it's using for Web, FTP, Telnet, etc...
How in the world can I do that ?
And when I installed spinner, it detected my host all right
(colombus.colombus.ch) but when I launched OmniWeb.app, it didn't
work. So I had to reinstall spinner and tell him my hostname was
localhost. Is that bad.
Help !
Thanks
--
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ho can I print with Samba ?
Date: 16 Mar 1996 12:21:06 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4iebni$1dt@news.petrel.ch>
Hi,
I installed Samba to be able to share files and printers from my NS
3.3 to some Win95 machines.
After a few trials, it works perfectly fine with sharing files, but I
still can't print anything. All the files that I try to print from
Win95 to the HP4 attached to NS end up in /tmp. And a message in Win95
tells me that the hostname/printer is not attached correctly and then
automatically set the printer (within Win95 of course) to sleep (ie
unconnected).
For all of you who probably succeeded in printing through Samba,
please help me. I guess there is something wrong in my smb.conf, but I
don't know what.
Thanks for all your help
--
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: aalto@azure.nmt.edu (Eugene Aalto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.42.172.2
Date: 16 Mar 1996 12:58:04 GMT
Organization: New Mexico Insitute of Mining and Technology
Message-ID: <4iedss$383@newshost.nmt.edu>
I keep getting the errors in my console window on my NFS server!
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.42.172.2
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.42.172.2
The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it.
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.42.172.2
nfs_server: bad sendreply from 192.42.172.2
Most things, (including NFS seem to work fine.)
ping for both IP and Name (to client) works fine.
for some reason for IP address only I get:
===================================================
>
>14jerry$~>>telnet 192.42.172.2
>Trying 192.42.172.2... Connected to 192.42.172.2.
>Escape character is '^]'.
etc.... everything works fine
>
>15jerry$~>>rlogin 192.42.172.2
>192.42.172.2: unknown host
>16jerry$~>>
===================================================
Everything works fine for names but not for IP address when using rlogin and
rup, but no errors occur when using telnet and finger. This also applies to
the other client.
The server is a '040 NeXTstation (jerry), and the clients are 2 diskless,
headless '030s netbooting off of the '040. Everything is running NS 3.3
This problem only started happening recently. I didn't change anything,
just maybe bumped the cables, but they seem to be connected properly.
The '030s are running background calculations and maintain a constant load
of 1.They have been doing this since several months before the problem started.
Could this be a cabling problem?
Feel free to skip to the end of this part if you are not interested,
it is moderately long
Output of uptime, nfsstat, and netstat -s on server and a client:
===============================================================
26jerry$~>>uptime
5:09am up 8:36, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.13, 0.28
27jerry$~>>
11jerry$/etc>>/usr/etc/nfsstat
Server rpc:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
6662 0 0 0 0
Server nfs:
calls badcalls
6662 18
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read
0 0% 4130 61% 61 0% 0 0% 1229 18% 7 0% 606 9%
wrcache write create remove rename link symlink
0 0% 275 4% 223 3% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 131 1% 0 0%
Client rpc:
calls badcalls retrans badxid timeout wait newcred
4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Client nfs:
calls badcalls nclget nclsleep
4 0 4 0
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read
0 0% 3 75% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
wrcache write create remove rename link symlink
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 1 25%
12jerry$/etc>>
22jerry$/etc>>netstat -s
ip interrupt queue:
0 current length
50 maximum length
0 dropped packets
ip:
95513 total packets received
0 bad header checksums
0 with size smaller than minimum
0 with data size < data length
0 with header length < data size
0 with data length < header length
162 fragments received
0 fragments dropped (dup or out of space)
0 fragments dropped after timeout
0 packets forwarded
15 packets not forwardable
0 redirects sent
icmp:
23 calls to icmp_error
0 errors not generated 'cuz old message was icmp
Output histogram:
echo reply: 104
destination unreachable: 23
0 messages with bad code fields
0 messages < minimum length
0 bad checksums
0 messages with bad length
Input histogram:
echo reply: 123
destination unreachable: 16
echo: 104
address mask reply: 1
104 message responses generated
tcp:
70822 packets sent
46863 data packets (4929738 bytes)
15 data packets (655 bytes) retransmitted
23580 ack-only packets (23236 delayed)
0 URG only packets
0 window probe packets
39 window update packets
325 control packets
68388 packets received
47124 acks (for 4930002 bytes)
132 duplicate acks
0 acks for unsent data
47263 packets (5209537 bytes) received in-sequence
41 completely duplicate packets (7027 bytes)
1 packet with some dup. data (53 bytes duped)
63 out-of-order packets (1592 bytes)
0 packets (0 bytes) of data after window
0 window probes
1 window update packet
0 packets received after close
0 discarded for bad checksums
0 discarded for bad header offset fields
0 discarded because packet too short
83 connection requests
101 connection accepts
184 connections established (including accepts)
220 connections closed (including 5 drops)
1 embryonic connection dropped
47166 segments updated rtt (of 47185 attempts)
76 retransmit timeouts
5 connections dropped by rexmit timeout
0 persist timeouts
16 keepalive timeouts
0 keepalive probes sent
0 connections dropped by keepalive
udp:
0 incomplete headers
0 bad data length fields
0 bad checksums
23jerry$/etc>>
========================================================================
Output of same commands on a client:
(note that many of the errors are from the client timing out while
the server rebooted ( i was messing with the /etc/ttys file to try to
get my terminal to work (see my other post)))
=====================================================================
5jimi$~>>uptime
5:33am up 2 days, 7:54, 1 user, load average: 1.16, 1.08, 1.04
6jimi$~>>/usr/etc/nfsstat
Server rpc:
calls badcalls nullrecv badlen xdrcall
0 0 0 0 0
Server nfs:
calls badcalls
0 0
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
wrcache write create remove rename link symlink
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
Client rpc:
calls badcalls retrans badxid timeout wait newcred
27762 26 196 4 86 0 0
Client nfs:
calls badcalls nclget nclsleep
27729 0 27735 0
null getattr setattr root lookup readlink read
0 0% 15231 54% 289 1% 0 0% 5953 21% 141 0% 3225 11%
wrcache write create remove rename link symlink
0 0% 1129 4% 941 3% 4 0% 1 0% 0 0% 0 0%
mkdir rmdir readdir fsstat
0 0% 0 0% 808 2% 7 0%
7jimi$~>>netstat -s
ip interrupt queue:
0 current length
50 maximum length
0 dropped packets
ip:
74748 total packets received
0 bad header checksums
0 with size smaller than minimum
0 with data size < data length
0 with header length < data size
0 with data length < header length
13071 fragments received
0 fragments dropped (dup or out of space)
10 fragments dropped after timeout
0 packets forwarded
10 packets not forwardable
0 redirects sent
icmp:
0 calls to icmp_error
0 errors not generated 'cuz old message was icmp
Output histogram:
echo reply: 86
0 messages with bad code fields
0 messages < minimum length
0 bad checksums
0 messages with bad length
Input histogram:
echo reply: 31
destination unreachable: 25
echo: 86
address mask request: 2
address mask reply: 4
86 message responses generated
tcp:
4745 packets sent
2694 data packets (174848 bytes)
0 data packets (0 bytes) retransmitted
1136 ack-only packets (994 delayed)
1 URG only packet
49 window probe packets
762 window update packets
103 control packets
5802 packets received
2799 acks (for 174899 bytes)
66 duplicate acks
0 acks for unsent data
4199 packets (1803407 bytes) received in-sequence
0 completely duplicate packets (0 bytes)
0 packets with some dup. data (0 bytes duped)
39 out-of-order packets (0 bytes)
2 packets (0 bytes) of data after window
0 window probes
0 window update packets
1 packet received after close
0 discarded for bad checksums
0 discarded for bad header offset fields
0 discarded because packet too short
35 connection requests
39 connection accepts
74 connections established (including accepts)
69 connections closed (including 1 drop)
0 embryonic connections dropped
2832 segments updated rtt (of 2835 attempts)
0 retransmit timeouts
0 connections dropped by rexmit timeout
0 persist timeouts
52 keepalive timeouts
0 keepalive probes sent
0 connections dropped by keepalive
udp:
0 incomplete headers
0 bad data length fields
0 bad checksums
8jimi$~>>
======================================================================
Let me know what you think this is.
Thanks,
Eugene Aalto
aalto@nmt.edu
please reply though email, my news feed drops a lot of stuff.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ask me about SUN Sparc and sun3 monitors, keyboards, mice and VME boards for
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: oops, how do I get rid of that?
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:38:35 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960314092935.11363D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I seem to have managed to screwed up mounting a floppy disk (mounted it
as //name instead of /name). The 'Disk->eject' was still greyed out.
When I tried to 'umount' it by hand I got a message 'No such address'
I tried to rename it:
cannot rename X into Y: No such device or address
I tried to launch it:
Cannot open file : unknown file type
Any ideas what I could have done, other than rebooting?
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: m@ml.com (M Carling)
Subject: Re: Booting 3.3 on an Old Cube
Message-ID: <Do7Ktx.Hn@tigadmin.ml.com>
Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account)
Organization: ml.com
References: <1996Mar11.225735.11079@media.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:44:20 GMT
trims@media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble) wrote:
> Do I need an external floppy to start booting under 3.3 with an '030?
No.
> Or what's up?
You didn't indicate the ROM version on your 030 board. Try a later version
(preferably not a 3.X version, which were not thoroughly tested with
pre-Turbo boards) if you can find one.
M Carling
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP/System Admin/Career Position
Date: 16 Mar 1996 21:49:20 GMT
Organization: Norden 1 Communications
Message-ID: <4ifd10$ei0@tofu.alt.net>
System Administrator
NEXTSTEP
Sun Solaris---A Plus
Commercial experience
Career Position
Exceptional opportunity
Relocation assistance
To be considered---Fax resume or mail a hard copy.
--
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Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice]
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Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: HELP: swapping broken
Message-ID: <1996Mar15.213434.2338@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:34:34 GMT
A few days ago my black slab went down with memory error. Soon afterwards
I managed to repair the hardware. The system booted ok after a lenghty
fsck and correcting some minor faults in the filesystem (or not so :-(
Since then I noticed that the swapping mechanism is broken. The swapfile
on /private/vm stays exactly at the lowwater mark and swapfile.front is
always zero.
Any hints? I'd like to spare me a restore since it might break two weeks
of sysadmin work. But I'll have to go that way if you don't know where to
look for a fix...
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: NeXT Cube Power Supply
Message-ID: <1996Mar16.102934.2551@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4ib8n6$fi5@erinews.ericsson.se>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:29:34 GMT
In article <4ib8n6$fi5@erinews.ericsson.se> etlrdje@etlxd30.ericsson.se
(Richard Jerome x4745) writes:
> Hi!
>
> I've been given the chance to get my hands on a NextStation (the
> original black cube!) complete with colour monitor and laser
> printer. The only snag is this is a USA computer and i live in
> the UK. I'm planning to get it shipped back, but the difference
> in mains voltage is the only thing worrying me.
>
> The US is 110v 60Hz AC and the UK 240v 50Hz AC. I was wondering
> if anyone knows whether the NeXT has a switchable power supply,
> or whether a simply 240v->100v adapter would be fine? What sort
> of wattage does the cube need? is the 50Hz/60Hz difference going
> to cause problems?
>
All original black NeXT hardware is capable to operate both in the 110V
and 240V world. The computers, both cubes and slabs, have a universal,
self adjusting power supply. Color monitors and laser printer have a
switch.
BTW, this is to be covered in the FAQ on Peanuts
(ftp/www.peanuts.leo.org).
--
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Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and
D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked
GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Problems using an Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS
Date: 17 Mar 1996 00:54:38 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ifnse$k82@emerald.oz.net>
References: <4icb68$4cl@emerald.oz.net>
art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
> Our sales office is attempting to use an Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS
with
> NS 3.2 on a Canon object.station 41 with no success.
>
> Apple has provided the pin-outs so that a custom Intel serial port
> rectangle connector to Apple round connector could be made. I assume that
> this was done correctly, but this could be the problem.
>
> An Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS PDF isn't included with NS 3.2, but
> apparently Apple indicated that a Laserwriter II NT or NTX PDF should work.
>
> However, an attempt to print anything, including the test page in
> PrintManager produces an Alert panel stating that one or more of the pages
> could not be printed.
>
> Is anyone successfully using an Apple Laserwriter IV/600PS under NS and
> if so, are there any special setup requirements?
To clarify, the correct model is Apple Laserwriter 4/600 PS. And PDF
means "printer description file"; e.g., Apple_LaserWriter_4_600_PS.ppd.
How does one set the baud rate and flow control on this printer? A
NeXTanswer suggests sending PostScript commands to the printer to set these
parameters, but will this work if the printer is expecting AppleTalk's baud
rate and the serial port is set to only 9600?
Can someone suggest an easy way to test whether communication between the
serial port and printer is working? Because a custom cable was built, I'm
not 100% confident that it was built correctly.
--
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: cmsg cancel <4icb68$4cl@emerald.oz.net>
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Date: 17 Mar 1996 01:00:36 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
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From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting 3.3 on an Old Cube
Date: 17 Mar 1996 01:13:21 GMT
Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin
Message-ID: <4ifovh$fub@brazos.pe.utexas.edu>
References: <1996Mar11.225735.11079@media.mit.edu>
Cc:
In article <1996Mar11.225735.11079@media.mit.edu>,
Erik Trimble <trims@media.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>I have an _ORIGINAL_ 68030 Cube. Yeah, complete with OD. I'd like to use NS3.3
>on it
[ ... procedure deleted ...]
Yup, did the same for my 030 Cube
>
>
>The only way I can get out of this is to unplug the computer. Do I need an
>external floppy to start booting under 3.3 with an '030? Or what's up?
>
works fine for me, I'm using the original Maxtor 8380S harddisk,
it boots right up after I put the HD back into the 030 system.
(yes, it is slow running NS3.3 on an 030 system, but heck it cost almost
nothing to acquire this cube)
Paulus
--
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yono@parokinet.org
n5snn@mail.utexas.edu
paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail 8.7.4 on NEXTSTEP complains
Date: 12 Mar 1996 13:25:21 -0700
Organization: Computing Research Lab/New Mexico State University
Sender: zhao@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu
Message-ID: <yegohq2vz2m.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
I install sendmail 8.7.4 on NEXTSTEP 3.3 (binary from the internet)
and it works. However, it complains all the time and generates tons
of messages
Mar 12 14:35:09 venus sendmail[6158]: EAA05230: SYSERR(agent): Cannot
exec /usr/libexec/mail.local: No such file or directory
and about hundreds mqueue files.
Anyone knows where is the problem from?
Thanks in advance,
zhao
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.4 on NEXTSTEP complains
In-Reply-To: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu's message of 12 Mar 1996 13:25:21 -0700
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar17012327@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <yegohq2vz2m.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 06:23:27 GMT
Can you post or mail me your .mc file? Also, you should pickup the
latest distribution 8.7.5.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: naj@fraxinus.fast.net (M. `Naj' Najarian)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 3.3Patched lookups and NeXT's sendmail
Date: 17 Mar 1996 15:37:01 GMT
Organization: FASTNET(tm) PA/NJ/DE Internet
Message-ID: <4ihbit$rb7@nn.fast.net>
I thought I read about this some months back, but I couldn't find
it on the archives. Sorry for any repetition.
There's an annoying difference b/n NeXT's mail delivery system in
3.2 and 3.3Patched (I can't speak for 3.3 unpatched) for those of
us who connect to the net w/PPP. In 3.2, if your machine was not
connected and the lookup of the hostname failed, the mail got
chucked into the queue to be retried every hour (or whatever the
frequency specied at startup). The syslog for the mesg would read:
stat=Deferred: Host Name Lookup Failure
and if after 3 days (or whatever the default), the lookup never
succeeded, THEN the mail would be returned.
Under 3.3patched, the mesg is returned immediately upon a hostname
lookup failure with a:
stat=Host unknown
never mind the strange:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
421 mailhost (ether)... Deferred: No such file or directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server):
No such file or directory
Which means you can compose all ya want offline, just don't press
that <deliver> button. Kein spass.
Ah, thought Clever Hans, whipping out his Costales, we'll just add
the OItrue option to sendmail.cf to requeue a mesg upon hostname
lookup failure. No dice. It still bounces immediately back.
So what's the fix? Or should I FINALLY bite the bullet and switch
to sendmail 8.7.x?
Naj
--
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P.O. Box 65 fax/data: 610.756.6400
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From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: 3.3Patched lookups and NeXT's sendmail
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Message-ID: <960317101638.191AAFcI.magnus@koa>
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Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 16:16:38 GMT
>From: naj@fraxinus.fast.net (M. `Naj' Najarian)>Subject: 3.3Patched lookups and NeXT's sendmail
>Date: 17 Mar 1996 15:37:01 GMT
>
>Under 3.3patched, the mesg is returned immediately upon a hostname
>lookup failure with a:
> stat=Host unknown
>never mind the strange:
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 421 mailhost (ether)... Deferred: No such file or directory
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server):
> No such file or directory
>Which means you can compose all ya want offline, just don't press
>that <deliver> button. Kein spass.
Here is what might be a clue: I modified sendmail.cf according to the PPP
FAQ and everything works fine as long as I send mail *outside* my domain
(uchicago.edu). When I try to send mail to host.uchicago.edu, I get the
same error when sending mail offline.
Any further insights gratefully accepted.
---
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME)
+1.312.702-1093 phone (lab)
+1.312.667-5331 phone (home)
+1.312.702-9740 fax
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can I run TIS + PPP on my 'standalone' machine and have a working setup?
Date: 17 Mar 1996 19:12:46 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4iho7e$n7a@news.its.com>
References: <DoB2sy.GH5@AWT.NL>
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> I was wondering...
>
> I'd like to connect a NS machine to the internet, using PPP over ISDN. But I
> want a secure connection to the outside world. Therefore, I need firewall
> software. I have three options:
>
> 1. Take a 386, load a firewall kit, put it between a router (i.e. Ascend) and
> my NeXT. This would mean that the NeXT has to run IP address 192.168.x.x on
> the local net but NeXT and router would have to run some valid IP address to
> the outside world. This implies 2 IP addresses on the en0 interface of the
> NeXT computer.
Why would the NeXT have to run IP 192.168.x.y? Get your ISP to give you a class
C network address or a class C subnet. Then set up proxy servers on the firewall
and proxy clients on the NeXT and set up packet filtering on the Ascend to only
deliver external packets to the firewall. (If you're paranoid, filter all
packets below port 1024 in both directions.)
There's no need to make things more complicated than that.
[ ... ]
> The latter would the cheapest (only modem needed). 2 and 3 burden my CPU with
> PPP stuff. But then I need to install a firewall toolkit on my NS system,
> which is used also as main development and user system.
So options #2 and #3 are out. You can't use the NS machine as a firewall if it's
a "main development and user system". Firewall machines need to be secure and
they should have nothing of value on them in case someone manages to break in
that far. (You watch the firewall continuously when your network link is up to
make sure that no one does, and you pull the plug or at least monitor damn
closely if you ever see someone external connecting.)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: colin@snaefell (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: retrofitting netinfo
Date: 17 Mar 1996 19:02:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4ihnj8$2vr@news.tamu.edu>
References: <1996Mar14.205633.1908@nidat.sub.org> <1996Mar16.114035.29380@seer.demon.co.uk>
Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote:
>I prefer to rename the original local.nidb and network.nidb to new names,
>and leave them in /etc/netinfo. That was I can open them by tag, and drag
>folders about to rescue old settings.
Thanks for the tips. Is there an easy way doing this to turn my old
local accounts into new network accounts? I was thinking about doing
"nidump passwd . | niload passwd /" or something like that, but it
sounds like I can just drag the users folder across to the network
nidb. Is that right?
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: tralala@cam.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension
Date: 17 Mar 1996 23:47:00 GMT
Organization: Communications Accessibles Montreal, Quebec Canada
Message-ID: <4ii89k$8fc@tandem.CAM.ORG>
References: <Do5uIs.905@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <4i4lpf$2nt@news.nd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4i4lpf$2nt@news.nd.edu>
> On 03/12/96, >David Evans wrote:
> I've got a NextDimension summary article that was posted back
> in 1993 by Steven Weintz(?). I can repost or email as
> appropriate.
Please repost!
-Andr
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Memfree
Date: 18 Mar 1996 01:46:19 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4iif9b$a59@emerald.oz.net>
References: <+A2Pxcm0fRPc089yn@zeus.datashopper.dk> <Pine.NXT.3.91.960308131627.11468L-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4hummh$kso@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
yucheng@math.arizona.edu wrote:
> > On 8 Mar 1996, Soren Mathiasen wrote:
> > > Is there a command for NS3.3 such as free for linux. Free for linux
> displays
> > > amount of mem free on the system
> The Linux's free command is totally different with df or Workspace->Info.
If
> you type free in any Linux machine you'll see the following report.
> total used free shared buffers
> Mem: 31520 12072 19448 2928 8724
> -/+ buffers: 3348 28172
> Swap: 33132 0 33132
> IMO, Linux's free is very usefull. For instance, from this report you can
see
> this Linux machine has 32MB memory and one 32MB swap disk (Linux can
support
> mutiple swap disks), and currently there is no swap at all.
How 'bout vm_stat?
% vm_stat
Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes)
Pages free: 495.
Pages active: 2316.
Pages inactive: 1571.
Pages wired down: 576.
"Translation faults": 2050724.
Pages copy-on-write: 925547.
Pages zero filled: 65643.
Pages reactivated: 141758.
Pageins: 9822.
Pageouts: 5523.
Object cache: 32693 hits of 36178 lookups (90% hit rate)
For swapfile info (67108864 bytes reserved, 41984000 bytes used):
% ls -lc /private/vm/swapfile*
-rw------t 1 root 67108864 Mar 17 17:15 /private/vm/swapfile
-rw------t 1 root 41984000 Mar 17 17:15 /private/vm/swapfile.front
To find the total memory installed (and more):
% hostinfo
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:56:06 PDT 1995;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Kernel configured for a single processor only.
1 processor is physically available.
Processor type: MC680x0 (68040)
Processor speed: 25 MHz
Processor active: 0
System type: 2
Board revision: 0x0
Primary memory available: 40.00 megabytes.
Default processor set: 73 tasks, 119 threads, 1 processors
Load average: 0.05, Mach factor: 0.97
--
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From: juergenp@nuertingen.netsurf.de (Juergen Pfeiffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: copying bootdisk
Date: 15 Mar 1996 19:02:26 GMT
Organization: ISC Dr.-Ing. Nepustil
Message-ID: <4ices2$b8k@unaxp1.nepustil.net>
Hello
I have trouble with my bootdisk /dev/sd0a. When running about
one hour, then i get more and more write-errors (probably a problem
of getting warmer). Now i want to buy a new harddisk. Is it possible
to install the new harddisk as second harddisk, copy everything from
the old to the new harddisk, remove the old one, and then boot
from the new one.
I don't want to install from scratch on the new harddisk.
Thank You
--
________________________________________________________________
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 18 Mar 1996 05:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
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=============
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From: etlrdje@etlxd30.ericsson.se (Richard Jerome x4745)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Many Thanks!
Date: 18 Mar 1996 07:44:14 GMT
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: (Was: Memfree)
Date: 18 Mar 1996 09:30:26 GMT
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In <4iif9b$a59@emerald.oz.net> Art Isbell wrote:
> % hostinfo
[snip]
> Default processor set: 73 tasks, 119 threads, 1 processors
Is this configurable? The same line in my setup
Mach kernel version:
NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:56:06 PDT 1995;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
is:
Default processor set: 65 tasks, 111 threads, 1 processors
If it is configurable, would 73 tasks and 119 threads be 'better" than 65 and
111???
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reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3Patched lookups and NeXT's sendmail
Date: 18 Mar 1996 09:36:07 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-36.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ijaq7$k24@usc.edu>
References: <4ihbit$rb7@nn.fast.net>
In <4ihbit$rb7@nn.fast.net> M. `Naj' Najarian wrote:
> There's an annoying difference b/n NeXT's mail delivery system in
> 3.2 and 3.3Patched (I can't speak for 3.3 unpatched) for those of
> us who connect to the net w/PPP. In 3.2, if your machine was not
> connected and the lookup of the hostname failed, the mail got
> chucked into the queue to be retried every hour (or whatever the
> frequency specied at startup). The syslog for the mesg would read:
> stat=Deferred: Host Name Lookup Failure
> and if after 3 days (or whatever the default), the lookup never
> succeeded, THEN the mail would be returned.
>
> Under 3.3patched, the mesg is returned immediately upon a hostname
> lookup failure with a:
> stat=Host unknown
> never mind the strange:
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 421 mailhost (ether)... Deferred: No such file or directory
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server):
> No such file or directory
> Which means you can compose all ya want offline, just don't press
> that <deliver> button. Kein spass.
>
> Ah, thought Clever Hans, whipping out his Costales, we'll just add
> the OItrue option to sendmail.cf to requeue a mesg upon hostname
> lookup failure. No dice. It still bounces immediately back.
>
> So what's the fix? Or should I FINALLY bite the bullet and switch
> to sendmail 8.7.x?
Unless it poses considerable network complexity, I would suggest upgrading to
sendmail 8.7.5 which is on the archives as a fat pkg. I believe if you are
not a complex mail delivery system that the upgrade is painless.
I'm surprised that you are having said problem with sendmail 5*. If you had
sendmail 8.7* then the fix would certainly be to put in correct machine
entries for your machine and your mailhost, and add same information in
/etc/hosts. I.e. Fully Qualified Domain Names. Then mail queuing will be just
fine.
You might try this before upgrading to see if it helps. I would strongly
suggest the upgrade though.
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: copying bootdisk
Date: 18 Mar 1996 09:47:10 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-36.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ijbeu$k24@usc.edu>
References: <4ices2$b8k@unaxp1.nepustil.net>
In <4ices2$b8k@unaxp1.nepustil.net> Juergen Pfeiffer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have trouble with my bootdisk /dev/sd0a. When running about
> one hour, then i get more and more write-errors (probably a problem
> of getting warmer). Now i want to buy a new harddisk. Is it possible
> to install the new harddisk as second harddisk, copy everything from
> the old to the new harddisk, remove the old one, and then boot
> from the new one.
> I don't want to install from scratch on the new harddisk.
Two ways:
1) gnutar -clSf - / --exclude private/vm | ( cd /Backup ; gnutar -xpSf - )
2) Assumption: existing drive is /dev/sd0a
new drive is /dev/sd1a
newfs /dev/rsd1a
mount /dev/sd1a /mnt
dump 0f - /dev/rsd0a | (cd /mnt; restore xf -)
I'm not sure which one is "better".
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: Permission Problems with Taylor UUCP 1.06.1
Message-ID: <westesDoG7Aw.H9u@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 05:30:32 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom12.netcom.com
After installing Taylor UUCP 1.06.1 under NeXTSTEP 3.2 for Intel, I am getting
all kinds of permission problems when sending mail out. I receive mail
fine, but any mail I send out gets bounced with a line added from uux saying
it did not have permissions to create some temp file. Any ideas on what would
cause this?
UUX seems to be executing with the permissions of the user. Under Taylor 1.04
I was not having this problem.
After the default make install, I did the following:
- changed owner of all files in /usr/local/lib/uucp to uucp.wheel
- changed uucico and uuxqt to be setuid r-s. This matched the setting for
1.04, but maybe it is not needed anymore?
--
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FAX: 408-446-1013
From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DNS question
Date: 18 Mar 1996 14:35:21 GMT
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <4ijsb9$egi@park.interport.net>
Hi all,
I am connected to my ISP using an ISDN connection using Ascend p-50. The
problem is that the connection goes up even when no one is using the
network and this is because packets ( do not know what kind) are being
transferred from addresses like 85.0.0.0 and 77.66.37.0 to addresses like
0.0.0.24 etc. This happens couple of times every hour. Is this common
with having dns on our end of the isdn line? Is there a fix for this? I
have a couple of NeXT machines ( the master, dns and mail server is on
NeXT) couple of NTs and on sun solaris.
I would really appreciate your help.
--
________________________________________________________________________
Shourav Udas
Systems Administrator
NorthStar Technologies, Inc.
New York, NY-10038
From: stevemi@ix.netcom.com(Steve Michaels)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: USA-NJ: NeXT WORKSTATION SPECIALIST NEEDED
Date: 18 Mar 1996 18:46:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4ikb2v$3r0@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
TRECOM Business Systems, Inc. of Atlanta has a position immediately
available in NJ for a NeXT Workstation Specialist. MUST LIVE IN NJ.
SALARY: $45K to $52K, depending upon level of experience.
TRECOM IS NOT A HEADHUNTING FIRM OR PERSONNEL AGENCY!
TRECOM offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits to include
HMO, 401K (with rollover plan), 10 paid holidays, 6 paid personal/sick
days, 2 weeks paid vacation, tuition reimbursement assistance and more.
To apply for any of these positions, please FAX an in-depth,
chronological resume to ATTN: STEVE MICHAELS/NETCOM at 1-770-939-0310.
If you choose, you may E-mail your resume in an MS-Word format or a DOS
Text format to Steve at trecomsm@aol.com.
Should you have any questions please contact Steve Michaels at
1-800-621-0310.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jgloede@interpc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: NeXT Cube Power Supply
Message-ID: <DoH0Iu.HCL@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <1996Mar16.102934.2551@nidat.sub.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 16:01:41 GMT
Peter Nitezki writes
> etlrdje@etlxd30.ericsson.se
> (Richard Jerome x4745) writes:
> > The US is 110v 60Hz AC and the UK 240v 50Hz AC. I was wondering
> > if anyone knows whether the NeXT has a switchable power supply,
> > or whether a simply 240v->100v adapter would be fine? What sort
> > of wattage does the cube need? is the 50Hz/60Hz difference going
> > to cause problems?
> >
> All original black NeXT hardware is capable to operate both in the 110V
> and 240V world. The computers, both cubes and slabs, have a universal,
> self adjusting power supply. Color monitors and laser printer have a
> switch.
The power supply is indeed auto switching, but earlier power supplies
(Se. No. <25000) have problems handling the slightly higher voltage
we have in Europe due to the EU unification. We are really running at
about 239 V, means each glitch on the line could kill your Station's
power supply (we already do have many kaput power supplies).
so long,
jens
From: michael@fortress.cs.wwu.edu (Michael F. DeMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAX/Modem
Date: 18 Mar 1996 20:19:15 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University
Message-ID: <4ikgg3$mt9@ra.cc.wwu.edu>
Hello,
I've got a USRobotics on a Intel NS machine. I need a class 1 or
2.0 FAX driver for this board. I installed the 'JollyClass2.0FAX' I found
as shareware on the Peanuts archive but the board hangs up just when the
telephone is answered by the receiving FAX machine.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this problem or know
of another driver I could try?
Thanks,
Mike DeMan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: westes@netcom.com (Will Estes)
Subject: mach tty errors
Message-ID: <westesDoHD9H.1tK@netcom.com>
Organization: U.S. Computer
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:36:52 GMT
Sender: westes@netcom8.netcom.com
I recently started seeing the following message show up on my admin console:
mach: ttysccl: receive error 2 (-902)
mach: ttysccl: receive error 2 (-900)
These messages repeat many times.
First, what does it indicate? I recently switched from Taylor UUCP 1.04 to
1.06.1, and converted to hardware flow control on the modem. But this appears
to be a console problem.
Second, which file contains this message? I could not grep it out of:
/private/adm/messages
/usr/spool/mqueue/syslog
/usr/spool/uucp/DEBUGFILE
--
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Internet: westes@usc.com POB 3150
Saratoga, CA 95070
FAX: 408-446-1013
From: mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu (haZard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTStep Compress
Date: 18 Mar 1996 20:10:45 GMT
Organization: hero productions
Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3775]
Message-ID: <4ikg05$i7t@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name.
hi,
i compressed folders individually using the compress utility from the
NeXT Browser. now i would like to uncompress those files from a shell.
(i have to use a shell because i'm off-site.) using "uncompress
folder_name.compressed" fails and returns the message
"file_name.compressed.Z: No such file or directory".
does anyone know the secret recipe to uncompress files from the shell
which NeXTStep compressed? as you might guess, this is pretty
important for me, so i would really appreciate your help or your
suggestions.
thanks alot!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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physics dept can tell each other how it feels."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: liou@njmsa.UMDNJ.EDU (Lily W. Liou)
Subject: SLIP for NeXTstep3.2 on black hardware?
Message-ID: <DoHDxK.3EL@umdnj.edu>
Sender: news@umdnj.edu (<usenet account>)
Organization: Univ. of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 20:51:19 GMT
Does anyone know of where I could get a version of SLIP that would run
on black hardware under NS3.2? I'd appreciate any help / hints / etc.
thanks!
-Lily Liou
liou@umdnj.edu
From: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to change sendmail.cf from uucp to ppp ?
Date: 18 Mar 1996 14:47:02 GMT
Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association
Message-ID: <4ijt16$ckn@hock.apana.org.au>
Organisation: Sargood Manor
I am seeking guidance on changing my sendmail.cf.
I currently have outgoing mail spool until a uucp connection is made and
then it passes onout into the wider world. I am changing to a permanent PPP
link and would like to have my outbound mail head directly out the PPP link.
If the PPP link is down, then I want the mail to spool for a uucp transfer.
The machine is standalone and currently running 3.3 sendmail (patched). I
have Robert La Ferla's 8.7.5 package and will install it RSN along with a
POP3 server for a future client machine. In the meantime I need to update
the cf file.
Can you help me?
Here is the top part of my current sendmail.cf:
# local UUCP connections -- not forwarded to mailhost
# The local UUCP connections are output by the uuname program.
FV|/usr/bin/uuname
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
Dj$w.$m
# major relay mailer
DMuucp
# major relay host
DR core
CR core
Thanks.
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What opinions?
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Macintosh networking and NEXTSTEP
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 17:56:42 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <314DF83A.6EB3@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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It's still available folks! It's NEXTSTEP 3.3 compatible too.
Macintosh networking and NEXTSTEP
Q: I want to network a machine running NEXTSTEP to a Macintosh or Macintosh network.
What
software is available to do this?
A: Several third party products are available for doing NEXTSTEP to Appletalk or Mac to
TCP/IP
networking, including printer sharing.
Partner uShare
IPT (Information Presentation Technologies, Inc.)
(805) 541-3000
(805) 541-3037 (fax)
555 Chorro Street, Suite A
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
NFS/Share InterPrint Planet X
InterCon Systems Corporation
(703) 709-5500
(703) 709-5555
email: info@intercon.com
WWW: http://www.intercon.com/
950 Herndon Parkway, Suite 420
Herndon, VA 22070
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mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
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"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown ....
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Permission Problems with Taylor UUCP 1.06.1
In-Reply-To: westes@netcom.com's message of Mon, 18 Mar 1996 05:30:32 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar19003744@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <westesDoG7Aw.H9u@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 05:37:44 GMT
Make sure you have these permissions:
> ls -agl /usr/local/bin/uu*
-r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 73728 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uucp*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49152 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uulog*
-r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 32768 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uuname*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 57344 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uupick*
-r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 81920 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uustat*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 515 Oct 15 02:03 /usr/local/bin/uuto*
-r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 73728 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uux*
> ls -agl /usr/local/lib/uucp/
total 395
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Oct 15 16:47 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Mar 2 00:16 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 57344 Oct 15 16:47 uuchk*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 180224 Oct 15 16:47 uucico*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 73728 Oct 15 16:47 uuconv*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 325 Oct 15 02:03 uusched*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 81920 Oct 15 16:47 uuxqt*
Also, check /usr/spool/uucp!
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: retrofitting netinfo
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 07:55:03 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Mar19.075503.1447@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4ihnj8$2vr@news.tamu.edu>
In article <4ihnj8$2vr@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell (Colin Allen) writes:
> Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote:
> >I prefer to rename the original local.nidb and network.nidb to new
names,
> >and leave them in /etc/netinfo. That was I can open them by tag, and
drag
> >folders about to rescue old settings.
>
> Thanks for the tips. Is there an easy way doing this to turn my old
> local accounts into new network accounts? I was thinking about doing
> "nidump passwd . | niload passwd /" or something like that, but it
> sounds like I can just drag the users folder across to the network
> nidb. Is that right?
If you choose to use the nidump/niload appraoch, there are two catches:
- some accounts that you don't need in the network will be created;
- and niload doesn't do exactly the same as UserManager.
Hence I prefer dragging folders in NIM.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: haas@world-net.sct.fr (Bertrand HAAS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTStep Compress
Date: 19 Mar 1996 12:03:54 GMT
Organization: DASSAULT A.T.
Message-ID: <4im7ra$mu4@aldebaran.sct.fr>
References: <4ikg05$i7t@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
In article <4ikg05$i7t@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
mcdougal@jensen.cc.brandeis.edu says...
>
>hi,
>
>i compressed folders individually using the compress utility from the
>NeXT Browser. now i would like to uncompress those files from a shell.
> (i have to use a shell because i'm off-site.) using "uncompress
>folder_name.compressed" fails and returns the message
>"file_name.compressed.Z: No such file or directory".
>
You have to do :
uncompress -c < file_name.compressed | gnutar xvf -
or :
gnutar xvzf file_name.compressed
That's all.
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing NS 3.3 on Black hardware/picking SCSI id to boot from/etc... *HELP*
Date: 15 Mar 1996 11:06:46 -0500
Organization: x
Message-ID: <eg2babasp.fsf@justine.elastica.com>
References: <jray-0503962333030001@ts33-2.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
To: jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray)
word of advice don't clash with the internal drive id otherwise you'll
toast it's bootblock.
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: copying bootdisk
Date: 19 Mar 1996 17:10:08 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4imppg$822@news.its.com>
References: <4ices2$b8k@unaxp1.nepustil.net>
juergenp@nuertingen.netsurf.de (Juergen Pfeiffer) wrote:
> I have trouble with my bootdisk /dev/sd0a. When running about
> one hour, then i get more and more write-errors (probably a problem
> of getting warmer). Now i want to buy a new harddisk. Is it possible
> to install the new harddisk as second harddisk, copy everything from
> the old to the new harddisk, remove the old one, and then boot
> from the new one.
> I don't want to install from scratch on the new harddisk.
You might be able to get away with copying everything via gnutar, but I would
stringly recommend installing from scratch, especially since you are
encountering hard errors on your original drive.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <doug@thoughtful.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 09:56:57 -0700
From: doug@thoughtful.com (Douglas Simons)
Message-ID: <9603191656.AA00914@thoughtful.com>
Subject: Trouble initializing new hard drive
Help!
I just bought a new Seagate Hawk ST32430N 2.1GB drive for a cube
whose old 330MB drive finally died. The drive is recognized, and I
was able to reformat it to 1024-byte sectors using sdformat (booting
across the network to do this).
However, if I try to initialize the disk, I get the message:
"boot block extends beyond front porch"
I know this was discussed here a couple of months ago, but I don't
seem to have any of the relevant digests around any more. Someone,
please give me a clue!
Thanks, and please respond by email -- I read this group in digest
form and need an answer ASAP...
Doug Simons
doug@thoughtful.com
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ?? printing to non-PS printer on NT from NS
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 09:12:49 -0800
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <314EEB11.54B6@mpr.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have an Machine running Windows NT 4.0 beta and
a NeXTStation Color. Is it possible to print from
my NeXTStation to my Canon inkjet that is hooked
up to my NT Machine.
I would likely need some type of ghostscript
software if it exist form NT.
If anyone has done this then I would be very
pleased to hear from you.
--
Scott Mewett
MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C.
mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only
mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mirror root file system
Date: 19 Mar 1996 18:00:27 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4imsnr$mku@news.tamu.edu>
Keywords: mirror
Does anyone know of a way to mirror my root file system? Do I need to buy
a special hd setup or software or something?
Thanks in advance,
Stephen
srjohnson@tamu.edu
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup Q: Home icons missing.
Date: 19 Mar 1996 21:05:20 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4in7ih$1714@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi all,
I have added a large internal disk to ma cube. Then I have installed
NS 3.2 (black) from the CD on the new disk.
Then I made a link /home pointing to the /ExternalDisk/home
directory, where all the home directories were. I want the home directories
to remain there, that's why the link.
Lastly I have copied the directories /private/etc and private/adm
from the old external disk and rebooted.
Label:
Well, I got my machine back, execpt that if I log into my account, it
takes me to / rather than to /home/blazek. If I log off and immediately log
back on, everything is OK.
Also all the other user can log in wihout problem, it takes them to
their correct home directory, even at the first login.
The problem is, that only my directory has the house icon. All the
other users's home directories have the regular folder icon.
If I reboot the machine, then I am back at 'Label:' above, i.e. the
whole story repeats.
Would any kind soul be able to explain to me what the heck I did wrong? And
how to fix the problem?
Thanks a whole lot.
Have a nice day.
Rudy
blazek@stt.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Problems dumping NeXT incremental backup using gnutar
Message-ID: <1996Mar19.235014.22448@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 23:50:14 GMT
I am having a problem with listed incremental backups using
the level-0 script provided with gnutar. The problem has
occurred with gnutar versions 1.11.2 and 1.11.8 (I tried both).
It complains of a "memory fault" when trying to write the
listed-incremental information file. The tar tape itself
was written fine, but it didn't save the incremental information,
so there's no way I can do a level-1 backup without tarring
everything again.
This is running under NeXTstep 3.2. Here's the transcript.
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks
g.
-----
theorem# level-0
Backing up theorem:/ at Tue Mar 19 17:13:02 EST 1996
Full backup of / on theorem at Tue Mar 19 17:13:02 EST 1996 Volume 1
/usr/bin/gnutar: Directory ./lost+found is new
/usr/bin/gnutar: Directory ./NextAdmin is new
/usr/bin/gnutar: Directory ./NextApps is new
/usr/bin/gnutar: Directory ./NextDeveloper is new
...
...
./usr/ucb/xstr
./usr/ucb/yes
./usr/ucb/zcat
/usr/local/etc/level-0: 12842 Memory fault
Backup of theorem:/ failed.
No miscellaneous files specified
Sending the dump log to backup-reports
--
Go practise if you please / With men and women: leave a child alone /
For Christ's particular love's sake!---so I say. ---Robert Browning
Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf@math.rochester.edu> http://theorem.math.rochester.edu/
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh 6.06 for NS
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:25:59 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319132530.9470j-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <4i31kc$9ga@saturn.genoa.com>
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In-Reply-To: <4i31kc$9ga@saturn.genoa.com>
On 12 Mar 1996, Alex Blakemore wrote:
> In <4hqj08$1l9g@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> System Administrator wrote:
> > To date I've been unable to get this to compile. Any
> > one out there suceeded?
>
> I just placed an intel/motorola binary on the archives last night
> ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/tcsh-v6.06.NI.b.tar.gz
>
> If anyone needs the source mods to build for Sparc or HP, send me mail,
> and I'll pass them along.
it is also available on peanuts and its mirrors, like here:
ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/shell/tcsh.6.06.NIHS.b.gz
ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/shell/tcsh.6.06.s.tar.gz
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: copying bootdisk
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:30:08 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319132839.9470k-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4ices2$b8k@unaxp1.nepustil.net> <4imppg$822@news.its.com>
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In-Reply-To: <4imppg$822@news.its.com>
On 19 Mar 1996, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> juergenp@nuertingen.netsurf.de (Juergen Pfeiffer) wrote:
> > I have trouble with my bootdisk /dev/sd0a. When running about
> > one hour, then i get more and more write-errors (probably a problem
> > of getting warmer). Now i want to buy a new harddisk. Is it possible
> > to install the new harddisk as second harddisk, copy everything from
> > the old to the new harddisk, remove the old one, and then boot
> > from the new one.
> > I don't want to install from scratch on the new harddisk.
>
> You might be able to get away with copying everything via gnutar, but I would
> stringly recommend installing from scratch, especially since you are
> encountering hard errors on your original drive.
and one bad 'write' error will cause a lot of bad things to happen to
your .tar.gz.
Can you install on the new hard drive, hook up the old drive as part of
the scsi chain, and then copy over the files you need?
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP for NeXTstep3.2 on black hardware?
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:33:18 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960319133146.9470l-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <DoHDxK.3EL@umdnj.edu>
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On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Lily W. Liou wrote:
> Does anyone know of where I could get a version of SLIP that would run
> on black hardware under NS3.2? I'd appreciate any help / hints / etc.
>
check out this folder
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/demos/comm/
but you'd be better off with PPP, see:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
SLIp is no longer supported by the 3rd party who had created TransSys SLIP
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble initializing new hard drive
Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:01:58 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4insf6$cmh@news4.digex.net>
References: <9603191656.AA00914@thoughtful.com>
doug@thoughtful.com (Douglas Simons) wrote:
> Help!
> I just bought a new Seagate Hawk ST32430N 2.1GB drive for a cube whose
old 330MB drive finally died. The drive is recognized, and I was able to
reformat it to 1024-byte sectors using sdformat (booting across the
network to do this).
> However, if I try to initialize the disk, I get the message: "boot block
extends beyond front porch"
> I know this was discussed here a couple of months ago, but I don't seem
to have any of the relevant digests around any more. Someone, please give
me a clue!
> Thanks, and please respond by email -- I read this group in digest form
and need an answer ASAP...
I'm guessing you are using a version of NeXTSTEP earlier than 3.3? If so,
you will likely have to make a disktab that breaks up your hard drive b/c
NS cannot deal with partitions greater than 2gigs (God willing this will be
eliminated in 4.0!). NS 3.3 automatically makes multiple partitions but
3.2 and earlier, you must do so by hand.
The good news is that NeXT has a really good explanation on how to do so in
one of its NeXTanswers. The bad news is I don't remember what number :)
Good luck,
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME & NeXTmail OK--PPP | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 3.3Patched lookups and NeXT's sendmail
Date: 20 Mar 1996 10:23:49 GMT
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <4iombl$uc@gaea.titan.org>
References: <4ihbit$rb7@nn.fast.net> <4ijaq7$k24@usc.edu>
In article <4ihbit$rb7@nn.fast.net>, M. `Naj' Najarian wrote:
> Under 3.3patched, the mesg is returned immediately upon a hostname
> lookup failure with a:
> stat=Host unknown
[...]
> Which means you can compose all ya want offline, just don't press
> that <deliver> button. Kein spass.
For me, the fix was trivial - I just used HostManager to add a host entry for
my mail host. ("mailhost" or "mail-relay" normally, depending on what
sendmail file you're using.)
---
andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
I probably don't speak for Omni, but I'm going to keep you guessing.
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.4 on NEXTSTEP complains
Date: 17 Mar 1996 17:07:17 -0500
Organization: x
Message-ID: <e91gz8jca.fsf@justine.elastica.com>
References: <yegohq2vz2m.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
To: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
It isn't wise to install sendmail V8 on a machine with messages still
lying it's it's mail queueing directory. Do not do this... Make sure
you flush your queue before installing any other sendmail than
NeXT's.
You are expected to configure a .cf file from an .mc file with the m4
preprocessor before you can use sendmail on your system. Why did you
install sendmail v8 in the first place? You really should have some
administration skills and be more familiar with sendmail in general
before blindly replacing the version you have already.
--
"Under the circumstances I will sit down."
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: tuparev@asterix.geog.uni-heidelberg.de (Georg Tuparev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: SPARCprinter
Date: 20 Mar 1996 15:26:35 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4ip83b$hcd@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi, I have here NS3.3Us/Dev running on SPARC10. Now I installed a
SPARCprinter (connected to the serial port) ... but how can I access it?
It does not applier in the list of printers, and the serial port cannot be
chosen from the PrintManager? Anybody has an idea?
Thanks
-- georg --
From: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de (David A. Coyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SPARCprinter
Date: 20 Mar 1996 16:34:03 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4ipc1r$ioq@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
References: <4ip83b$hcd@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <4ip83b$hcd@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
tuparev@asterix.geog.uni-heidelberg.de (Georg Tuparev) writes:
> Hi, I have here NS3.3Us/Dev running on SPARC10. Now I installed a
> SPARCprinter (connected to the serial port) ... but how can I access it?
> It does not applier in the list of printers, and the serial port cannot
be
> chosen from the PrintManager? Anybody has an idea?
Well, first you have to install the serial port driver (using
/NextAdmin/Configure.app). It installs under the "other" category. (I
can't speak for SPARC, but this worked fine for HP). Then, since I
imagine it's a PostScript printer, try setting it to be the type
"unknown", which I would expect to work, most of the time. Or you could
see if JetPilot supports this printer. Or you could find out what kind of
a printer it "really" is (I can't imagine Sun makes more than the case for
the thing, but I may be wrong...).
> Thanks
>
> -- georg --
No problem,
Dave
From: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:03:58 GMT
Organization: Tandem Computers,Inc. (Austin, TX)
Message-ID: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Keywords: sendmail nextstep
Bonjour all,
I am a sendmail newcomer. I am directly connected to a LAN and I'm the
only NS3.3 FIP, I use sendmail 8.7.5 but I cannot email to the outside of my
domain anymore (no problem with 8.7.3). I can only send mail to the WAN
(tandem.com). I cannot send this email directly to you. I use Eloquent
where I set, under "Send" pop-up menu, I've selected "Local" button under
"Sending Mail" title meaning I'm the mailhost (a22459.cdn.tandem.com). I
have also set my Mailer to /usr/lib/sendmail.
Look for "a22459:" tag to find the commands I used to fetch the info!!!
To complete the picture, here is the content of netinfo sendmail info:
a22459:15# niutil -read / /locations/sendmail
name: sendmail
sendmail.cf: /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf
mailhost: a22459.cdn.tandem.com
Here the set up I've used for my mailhost config file:
a22459:16# more /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/nextmailhost.mc
...
VERSIONID(`@(#)nextmailhost.mc 8.4 (Berkeley) 8/6/95')
OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
DOMAIN(generic)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(cdn.tandem.com)
After sending email from Eloquent here is the result:
a22459:17# /usr/lib/sendmail -bp
Mail Queue (5 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
LAA00276 284 Thu Mar 14 11:32 pmt
(Deferred: Connection timed out during initial connection
wit)
tremblay@larc.info.uqam.ca
KAA01680 284 Wed Mar 13 10:17 pmt
(Deferred: Connection timed out during initial connection
wit)
<tremblay@larc.info.uqam.ca>
QAA00434 419 Mon Mar 11 16:05 pmt
(Deferred: Connection timed out during initial connection
wit)
akallos@stlaurent.sgi.com
PAA00362 694 Mon Mar 11 15:41 pmt
(Deferred: Connection timed out with deliverator.sgi.com.)
akallos@stlaurent.sgi.com
LAA00286 (no control file)
Here's an example of what is happening:
a22459:31# mail -v tremblay@larc.info.uqam.ca
Subject: Test de mail tout court 14 mars 12:50
akjdfkljadf
adklsjfas^D
EOT
tremblay@larc.info.uqam.ca... Connecting to saturne.info.uqam.ca. via
smtp...
tremblay@larc.info.uqam.ca... Connecting to cari.telecom.uqam.ca. via
smtp...
tremblay@larc.info.uqam.ca... Deferred: Connection timed out during initial
connection with cari.telecom.uqam.ca.
Here are some supplementary info:
a22459:32# /usr/lib/sendmail -d pmt </dev/null
Version 8.7.5
Compiled with: LOG MATCHGECOS MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINFO
NETUNIX NEWDB NIS SCANF USERDB XDEBUG
getauthinfo: root@localhost
setoption SevenBitInput (7).=False
setoption EightBitMode (8).=pass8
setoption AliasWait (a).=10
setoption AliasFile (A).=/etc/sendmail/aliases
setoption MinFreeBlocks (b).=100
setoption BlankSub (B).=.
setoption HoldExpensive (c).=False
setoption DeliveryMode (d).=background
setoption TempFileMode (F).=0600
setoption HelpFile (H).=/usr/lib/sendmail.hf
setoption SendMimeErrors (j).=True
setoption ForwardPath (J).=$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward
setoption ConnectionCacheSize (k).=2
setoption ConnectionCacheTimeout (K).=5m
setoption UseErrorsTo (l).=False
setoption LogLevel (L).=9
setoption CheckAliases (n).=False
setoption OldStyleHeaders (o).=True
setoption PrivacyOptions (p).=authwarnings
setoption QueueDirectory (Q).=/usr/spool/mqueue
setoption Timeout (r).queuereturn=5d
setoption Timeout (r).queuewarn=4h
setoption SuperSafe (s).=True
setoption StatusFile (S).=/etc/sendmail/sendmail.st
setoption DefaultUser (u).=1:1
setoption SmtpGreetingMessage (0x90).=$j Sendmail $v/$Z; $b
setoption UnixFromLine (0x91).=From $g $d
setoption OperatorChars (0x92).=.:%@!^/[]+
============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
(short domain name) $w = a22459
(canonical domain name) $j = a22459.cdn.tandem.com
(subdomain name) $m = cdn.tandem.com
(node name) $k = a22459.cdn.tandem.com
========================================================
map_rewrite(@), av = (nullv)
map_rewrite => @
queuename: assigned id NAA00386, env=4ace0
setsender()
--parseaddr(pmt)
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 96 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: pmt
map_lookup(dequote, pmt) => NOT FOUND (0)
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 4 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: pmt
parseaddr-->4acf4=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
flags=6000<QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
udbmatch(pmt, mailname)
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 96 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 1 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 4 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: pmt
sendto: pmt
ctladdr=[NULL]
--parseaddr(pmt)
rewrite: ruleset 3 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 96 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 0 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 98 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 98 returns: pmt
map_lookup(dequote, pmt) => NOT FOUND (0)
rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 2 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 2 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 20 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 20 returns: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 4 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: pmt
parseaddr-->52360=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
flags=6000<QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
recipient (0): 52360=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
flags=6008<QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
alias(pmt)
udbexpand(pmt)
maplocaluser: 52360=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 0, gid 0
flags=6008<QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="(none)", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
rewrite: ruleset 5 input: pmt
rewrite: ruleset 5 returns: pmt
forward(pmt)
----- collected header -----
Return-Path: ($g) pmt
Received: ($?sfrom $s $.$?_($?s$|from $.$_) $.by $j ($v/$Z)$?r with $r$. id
$i$?u for $u$.; $b) (from root@localhost) by a22459.cdn.tandem.com
(8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA00386 for pmt; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 13:17:58 -0500 (EST)
Resent-Date: ($a) Thu, 14 Mar 1996 13:17:58 -0500 (EST)
Date: ($a) Thu, 14 Mar 1996 13:17:58 -0500 (EST)
Resent-From: ($?x$x <$g>$|$g$.) crackaddr(Pierre-Michel Tremblay <pmt>)
crackaddr=>`Pierre-Michel Tremblay <g>'
Pierre-Michel Tremblay <pmt>
From: ($?x$x <$g>$|$g$.) crackaddr(Pierre-Michel Tremblay <pmt>)
crackaddr=>`Pierre-Michel Tremblay <g>'
Pierre-Michel Tremblay <pmt>
Full-Name: ($x) Pierre-Michel Tremblay
Subject: ()
Resent-Message-Id: (<$t.$i@$j>)
<199603141817.NAA00386@a22459.cdn.tandem.com>
Message-Id: (<$t.$i@$j>) <199603141817.NAA00386@a22459.cdn.tandem.com>
----------------------------
From person = "pmt"
===== SENDALL: mode b, id NAA00386, e_from 4acf4=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 100, gid 20
flags=6005<QDONTSEND,QGOODUID,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="/Users/pmt", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
e_flags = 201001<OLDSTYLE,GLOBALERRS,HAS_DF>
sendqueue:
52360=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `pmt'
next=0, alias 0, uid 100, gid 20
flags=600c<QGOODUID,QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="/Users/pmt", fullname="Pierre-Michel Tremblay"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
recipient (0): 4acf4=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `<null>'
next=0, alias 0, uid 100, gid 20
flags=600d<QDONTSEND,QGOODUID,QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="/Users/pmt", fullname="(none)"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
pmt in sendq: 52360=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `pmt'
next=0, alias 0, uid 100, gid 20
flags=600c<QGOODUID,QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="/Users/pmt", fullname="Pierre-Michel Tremblay"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
>>>>> queueing NAA00386 (new id) >>>>>
queueing 52360=pmt:
mailer 3 (local), host `'
user `pmt', ruser `pmt'
next=0, alias 0, uid 100, gid 20
flags=600c<QGOODUID,QPRIMARY,QPINGONFAILURE,QPINGONDELAY>
owner=(none), home="/Users/pmt", fullname="Pierre-Michel Tremblay"
orcpt="(none)", statmta=(none), rstatus=(none)
remotename(Pierre-Michel Tremblay <pmt>)
<<<<< done queueing NAA00386 <<<<<
disconnect: In 0 Out 1, e=4ace0
====finis: stat 0 e_id=NOQUEUE e_flags=1003<OLDSTYLE,INQUEUE,GLOBALERRS>
dropenvelope 4ace0: id=<null>, flags=1003<OLDSTYLE,INQUEUE,GLOBALERRS>
Here is the content of service.switch:
hosts netinfo files dns
aliases netinfo files
What do you think could be the problem?
I'm ready to try /usr/lib/sendmail -bt if it can be helpfull to you!!
I used to be able to with Sendmail 8.7.3.
Here's a telnet to the sendmail port:
a22459(/dev/ttyp1):[/Users/pmt]
telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 a22459.cdn.tandem.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/8.7.3; Wed, 20 Mar 1996
11:23:50 -0500 (EST)
Can you see something wrong with this?
Thanks.
Michel.
Pierre-Michel Tremblay | Email: tremblay_michel@tandem.com
Tandem Computers Canada Ltd | NS 3.3 FIP.
2000, ave du college McGill | NeXT and MIME mail ok.
Bureau 800 | Voice: 514/282-3123
Montreal, Quebec H3A 3H3 | Fax: 514/282-6349
From: djm@cyckam.nscl.msu.edu.nscl.msu.edu (DJMorrissey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: unstuffing Active.mbox
Date: 20 Mar 1996 21:34:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4iptlk$22jm@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hello all,
I have a user with lots of NextMail messages that would like to move
them onto another (unix) platform. Is there a way to `send' all the
messages in a *.mbox other than by hand? If not, is there a way
to retain the information about the original sender not just
the new information if the messages are just`forwarded' by hand?
Thanks,
Dave Morrissey
[ Prof. D.J. Morrissey.........web: http://www.cem.msu.edu/~djm ]
[ Department of Chemistry and.............voice: 1-517-333-6321 ]
[ National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab....FAX: 1-517-353-5967 ]
[ Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA..48824 ]
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What are these files doing in my /tmp dir?
Date: 20 Mar 1996 23:28:09 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-29.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4iq4a9$1td@usc.edu>
Just noticed that the following type of files are starting to show up in my
/tmp directory. Any explanation? I'm tempted to say they started with
upgrading to sendmail v. 8.7.4 or 8.7.5 but not sure.
The files are like the following:
1) .reichman.PopOver.1346
2) Mail-000245
The Mail* files are replicas of mail I sent out (I hope I sent out), and the
PopOver files seem to be empty.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: unstuffing Active.mbox
In-Reply-To: djm@cyckam.nscl.msu.edu.nscl.msu.edu's message of 20 Mar 1996 21:34:44 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar20224734@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4iptlk$22jm@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 03:47:34 GMT
If you look inside ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox (open this as a folder in the
Workspace Manager), you will see a mbox file. I believe it is 100%
compatible with the standard UNIX mbox format - although I haven't tried it.
So you don't need to forward the messages, just copy the file.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Cube giving "Error 84" messages? HELP - everything is crumbling...
Date: 21 Mar 1996 04:21:58 GMT
Organization: Zeus Enterprises
Message-ID: <jray-2003962320370001@ts28-7.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
2 Days ago I installed 4 4MB SIMMS in my '040 cube in the 12-15 slots.
I booted it once, everything was fine.
Today I started the machine for the first time, and within minutes, it
crashed, and my internal drive was corrupted. I tried to boot off of
an optical disk. Unfortunately, that didn't work quite how I wanted...
I tried to break out of the boot, and corrupted the optical disk. So...
now I go to try to boot from a floppy, since I'm pretty much up a
creek at this point. I apparently hooked the floppy cable wrong and it goes
poof, and makes a little bit of smoke.
Now, at this point (since the drive first got corrupted), the machine
has been running for about 4 hours, with the back off, and no fan.
I managed to get it to boot *once* from CD-ROM (don't know how I did
this... it was the only time I managed to do it). Restarted the
computer, and got an Error 84 during the self test. This seems
to come after "ECC" (whatever that is), and before "RTC" (also unknown).
This error just kept coming up. I ended up putting the back back
on the machine, and shut it down for a few minutes. Turned it
back on... no error... restarted serveral times, and only got the
error twice out of 15ish tries.
In fact, after typing that last sentence, I went back and powered
up the Cube (which has been off for 20 mins now) and went thru the
self test at least 10 times with no error. My main concern at this
point is that I screwed something up (other than the floppy) by
plugging the floppy cable in wrong. The Cube didn't really seem
to mind, tho' I doubt the floppy will function again.
Okay... now, does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my
machine back online? It goes to boot, and fails within one second
with a "Exception #2 at such-n-such address". I have no idea
how I got it to boot off the NS3.3 install CD... I've tried:
bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 w/ the CD set to the 2nd SCSI position,
and bsd(0,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd0 w/ it set to ID 0.
Could I do a SCSI copy of the CD to a harddrive, and boot from
there?
Also... I would really like to buy a floppy drive, with cables, etc
to hook up to by Cube... does anyone have one they'd like to sell?
I'm not sure if there is an external drive which will hook to the
SCSI port or the such, but if there is, thats the route I'd like to
take.
Thanks for any and all help,
John Ray
--
---------------------------------------------------------------------
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ray.30@osu.edu after that you're a self-delusional fool"
============================================================================
Network Specialist I The Ohio State University Extension
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 04:05:00 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I don't know enough about sendmail either- I cannot even get it to send ANY MAIL in
NEXTSTEP 3.3, (other TCP/IP services do work)....I get this 550 Host unknown
(Authoritative answer from name server):
error...
Can anyone help?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eric A. Dubiel; http://138.87.201.11 Instructional
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
PEACE LOVE Services
UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University
"Understanding is best learned via experience."
"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end." Unknown ....
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Intel NS3.3 station with two network adaptors?
Date: 21 Mar 1996 13:37:47 GMT
Organization: Daimler-Benz AG
Message-ID: <4irm3b$1o1@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
Hi all,
I was wondering if it is possible to install two network cards in an intel
NS3.3 system and use the machine as "simple router"...
Could anyone tell me, if this will work?
Thanks...
.Ralf
--
Ralf Specht
Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm
Department of Text Understanding Systems
P.O. Box 23 60
89013 Ulm, Germany
e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
phone: +49 731 505-2356
fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: Randall L Moss <rmoss>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to boot from external drive?
Date: 16 Mar 1996 22:21:22 GMT
Organization: New Mexico State University
Message-ID: <4ifet2$g49@bubba.NMSU.Edu>
References: <4hj322$nri@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4i13dm$acv@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: wgaboria@iut-lr.univ-lr.fr
If you are trying to boot a blackbox system you shouldn't have to change the
internal drive setting to a one. Making your external drive 0 the slab will not
look any further than the external drive, to boot from.
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: unstuffing Active.mbox
Date: 21 Mar 1996 14:49:52 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <4irqag$12fi@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <4iptlk$22jm@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
DJMorrissey (djm@cyckam.nscl.msu.edu.nscl.msu.edu) wrote:
> I have a user with lots of NextMail messages that would like to move
> them onto another (unix) platform. Is there a way to `send' all the
> messages in a *.mbox other than by hand? If not, is there a way
> to retain the information about the original sender not just
> the new information if the messages are just`forwarded' by hand?
Very simple. Just cd to Mailboxes/Active.mbox and copy the file
mbox to the other system - its already in the UNIX mailbox format.
You'll only need to treat attachments (see the subdirectories
in Mailboxes/Active.mbox) manually.
Best wishes,
Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.."
// neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
// http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/
// +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: 21 Mar 1996 18:42:33 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-40.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4is7up$pm5@usc.edu>
References: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459> <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
In <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote:
> I don't know enough about sendmail either- I cannot even get it to send ANY
MAIL in
> NEXTSTEP 3.3, (other TCP/IP services do work)....I get this 550 Host
unknown
> (Authoritative answer from name server):
> error...
I think this is a FAQ by now. First, what is the sendmail version you're
using? Second, the general solution (at least for v. 8.7.3 and up) is to add
separate machine names and aliases and ip addresses into netinfo for your
local machine and your mailhost, then repeat the information in your
/etc/hosts file. In addition, have you set up your /etc/resolv.conf file
correctly?
Maybe you could be more specific about your setup...
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si (Tomaz Sustar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 21 Mar 1996 18:05:28 GMT
Organization: Nil
Message-ID: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si>
Keywords: PPP,sendmail
Reply-To: tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si
I have an Intel box (NS 3.2). I want to exchange mail using "sendmail -q"
over PPP when the link is up. Problem is that I have to be logged as a
superuser to execute :
/usr/lib/sendmail -q
Is there any way to exchange mail not logged as a superuser ?
Thanks in advance
Tomaz
( Ljubljana / Slovenija )
---------------------------------------------------------
Work : tomsus@ntfmim.uni-lj.si
Private : tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si
Voice : +386 (0)61 345 565
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rebuilding bootblock on a NeXT Cube?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:05:19 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <jray-2103961405190001@fries.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Hello,
I've managed to toast my Cube running NeXTSTEP 3.3... The machine
fails *as soon* as it tries to boot. It either locks up, or generates
and "exception 2". I managed to get it to boot from CD once, and I
could use the "bad" disk as rootdev... so I would imagine that it is
just a bootblock problem. Is there something I can use to repair this,
*if* I can get it started again?
Thanks,
John
Also, does anyone know what a hardware error #84 is? and if it could be
caused by letting the machine overheat for 4 hours? (the error appeared,
and now has ceased to appear since I reconnected the NeXT's fan, and
let it cool down).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: SPARCprinter
In-Reply-To: dcoyle@goanna.mpi-hd.mpg.de's message of 20 Mar 1996 16:34:03 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar21144647@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4ip83b$hcd@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> <4ipc1r$ioq@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:46:46 GMT
I believe the SPARCPrinter is a dumb printer much like the NeXT 400 DPI
printer. One of my clients has one and we didn't install NEXTSTEP on that
SPARC because the printer was unsupported.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: allanmac@blueprint.com (Allan S. MacKinnon, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GateKeeper1.0a Problems....
Date: 21 Mar 1996 20:45:45 GMT
Organization: Channel 1 Communications
Message-ID: <4isf5p$o4@news1.channel1.com>
If I connect to my ISP using GK 1.0a as root everything works
fine.
But, if I connect as non-root the console window shows PopOver
being started (on the dock) then terminated, then started (not
on the dock).
I've stared at it for a while, but didn't see anything obvious...
Any idea why my ip-up would have this funny behavior under
my regular login account?
Thanks,
ASM
--
Allan MacKinnon Blueprint Design
allanmac@blueprint.com Boston, MA
NeXT / MIME Mail Welcome (617) 424-0615
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 22 Mar 1996 03:08:14 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4it5iu$1hf0@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> <4isr0q$lmg@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
>In <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> Tomaz Sustar wrote:
>
>What are you using to bring up and negotiate the ppp link?
>
>If you're using Stephen J. Perkins' PPP then you should have the following
>lines in your "ip-up" file:
>=========
>#
># Send any mail that has been queued while the link
># was down.
>if [ $2 = /dev/cufa ]; then
>/usr/lib/sendmail -q &
>fi
>=========
>
How would you do something like that if you were using GateKeeper.app? I
would like to not only send all mail, but also automatically dowload mail
from a pop server and adjust the time in my pure black pizza box using our
campus time server.
Thanks, Rudy.
blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What are these files doing in my /tmp dir?
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 10:56:25 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960321105252.12422M-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4iq4a9$1td@usc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4iq4a9$1td@usc.edu>
On 20 Mar 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> Just noticed that the following type of files are starting to show up in my
> /tmp directory. Any explanation? I'm tempted to say they started with
> upgrading to sendmail v. 8.7.4 or 8.7.5 but not sure.
>
> The files are like the following:
>
> 1) .reichman.PopOver.1346
> 2) Mail-000245
>
> The Mail* files are replicas of mail I sent out (I hope I sent out), and the
> PopOver files seem to be empty.
The Mail* files are not from a newer version of sendmail than the regular
release, because I have them too and I am not using a newer sendmail.
I believe the messages are successfully sent out, but I do not know why
the copies show up in /tmp (I'd love to find out).
the .reichman.PopOver.1346 is (I'm guessing) a lockfile, where 1346 is
the PID of PopOver. If PopOver is not PID 1346 then my guess is that
this is a stale lock file which was not removed properly upon mail retrieval.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info Available via email on: PPP under NeXTStep, swapfiles,
swapdisks, hidden dwrites, NeXTStep tricks and shortcuts, NeXTStep FAQ,
and more... For details, send message with subject 'send info'
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Calendar
Date: 22 Mar 1996 04:51:55 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4itblb$1kbu@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi all,
I was trying to use the program calendar under NS3.2 black. It works fine is
I run just 'calendar'. But if I try to run 'calendar anything' I get an error
message:
/usr/bin/calendar: syntax error at line 1: `^' unexpected
Would anybody have an idea what is going on?
Thanks, Rudy
blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 22 Mar 1996 00:07:54 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-57.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4isr0q$lmg@usc.edu>
References: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si>
In <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> Tomaz Sustar wrote:
> Keywords: PPP,sendmail
> Reply-To: tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si
>
> I have an Intel box (NS 3.2). I want to exchange mail using "sendmail -q"
> over PPP when the link is up. Problem is that I have to be logged as a
> superuser to execute :
> /usr/lib/sendmail -q
> Is there any way to exchange mail not logged as a superuser ?
What are you using to bring up and negotiate the ppp link?
If you're using Stephen J. Perkins' PPP then you should have the following
lines in your "ip-up" file:
=========
#
# Send any mail that has been queued while the link
# was down.
if [ $2 = /dev/cufa ]; then
/usr/lib/sendmail -q &
fi
=========
Which will send out all mail queued while the link was down.
If you are asking about mail in general, like sending mail while the ppp link
is up, then mail or mail.app should work just fine. What is you're
configuration and sendmail version?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: unstuffing Active.mbox
Date: 21 Mar 1996 16:38:49 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <4is0mp$g19@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4iptlk$22jm@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <RDL.96Mar20224734@world.std.com>
In <RDL.96Mar20224734@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> If you look inside ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox (open this as a folder in the
> Workspace Manager), you will see a mbox file. I believe it is 100%
> compatible with the standard UNIX mbox format - although I haven't tried
> it. So you don't need to forward the messages, just copy the file.
It is completely compatible, so that will work. All you will lose are the
contents of rich NeXTmail messages. I'll quickly write a script to extract
as much info as possible from those as well... Done and attached to the end
of this message
Carl Edman
mbox2bsd:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$ascii="";
while(<>) {
print $_;
if (/^Next-Reference: +([^ ]*),/o) {
$path=substr($ARGV,$[,rindex($ARGV,'/')+1);
$ascii=`rtf-ascii $path/$1/index.rtf`;
chop $ascii;
}
if (/^$/o && ($ascii ne "")) { print $ascii; print "\n"; $ascii=""; }
}
From: haas@studi.unizh.ch (Thomas Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstation schaltet nicht mehr ein
Date: 22 Mar 1996 08:08:29 GMT
Organization: University of Zurich, Switzerland
Message-ID: <4itn5t$42s@rzunews.unizh.ch>
Hallo
Nach einem Stromausfall kann ich meine NeXTstation nicht mehr einschalten.
Das Betaetigen des "Power"-Knopfes zeigt keinerlei Wirkung.
Hatte jemand schon ein aehnliches Problem?
Hat wer ne Ahnung, was da defekt sein koennte?
Wer repariert defekte Stations?
Vielen Dank fuer jeden Hinweis.
Thomas Haas
haas@studi.unizh.ch
From: far@ix.netcom.net(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 22 Mar 1996 10:10:52 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4itubc$8qj@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4it5iu$1hf0@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In article <4it5iu$1hf0@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
writes:
>reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
>>In <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> Tomaz Sustar wrote:
>>
>>What are you using to bring up and negotiate the ppp link?
>>
>>If you're using Stephen J. Perkins' PPP then you should have the following
>>lines in your "ip-up" file:
>>=========
>>#
>># Send any mail that has been queued while the link
>># was down.
>>if [ $2 = /dev/cufa ]; then
>>/usr/lib/sendmail -q &
>>fi
>>=========
>>
>
>How would you do something like that if you were using GateKeeper.app?
You'd do it exactly as above. It is actually pppd that runs the ip-up
script when the connection is made.
I
>would like to not only send all mail, but also automatically dowload mail
>from a pop server and adjust the time in my pure black pizza box using our
>campus time server.
>
>Thanks, Rudy.
>blazek@stt.msu.edu
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # ...it cannot be called ingenuity to
Agoura Hills, CA # kill one's fellow citizens, to betray
# friends, to be without faith, without
far@ix.netcom.com # mercy, without religion; by these means
(NeXTmail preferred) # one can acquire power but not glory.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: matthias@amg.de (Matthias Schuerhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTstation schaltet nicht mehr ein
Date: 22 Mar 1996 10:48:11 GMT
Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH
Message-ID: <4iu0hb$4sa@hagen.amg.de>
References: <4itn5t$42s@rzunews.unizh.ch>
haas@studi.unizh.ch (Thomas Haas) wrote:
> Hallo
>
> Nach einem Stromausfall kann ich meine NeXTstation nicht mehr einschalten.
> Das Betaetigen des "Power"-Knopfes zeigt keinerlei Wirkung.
>
> Hatte jemand schon ein aehnliches Problem?
> Hat wer ne Ahnung, was da defekt sein koennte?
> Wer repariert defekte Stations?
>
> Vielen Dank fuer jeden Hinweis.
>
> Thomas Haas
> haas@studi.unizh.ch
>
>
Hallo Thomas,
Nimm mal die Batterie auf dem Mainboard fuer ein paar Sekunden raus und setze
sie danach wieder ein. Wenn's kein technischer Defekt ist, sollte die Station
wieder starten. Dieses Problem tauchte eine Zeit lang haeufiger bei schwarzer
Hardware auf...
Matthias
=====================================
Matthias Schuerhoff
AMG Industrie Consulting GmbH
Joseph-von-Fraunhofer-Str. 27
44227 Dortmund / Germany
Telefon 231 / 97 53 54 - 0
Telefax 231 / 97 53 54 - 55
E-Mail matthias@amg.de (NeXTmail ok)
=====================================
From: powell@tropic.aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Canon BJC 4000 with a NeXTstation?
Date: 22 Mar 1996 15:16:28 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <4iug8c$68v@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
We have a Canon BJC 4000 that my wife uses on her 386 laptop but she would
like to be able to also use it when she uses SciPlot on our NeXTstation Color
at home. We could use JetPilot to drive it but the Canon only has a parallel
port and of course the NS only has the serial ports. Has anyone tried to use
an adaptor to go from serial to parallel? Does such a thing exist? Has
anyone used one of these with a NeXTstation?
--
Dr. Mark D. Powell powell@tropic.aoml.erl.gov
Research Meteorologist,
(Member, NOAA '96 Olympics Marine Forecast Team)
(Swimmer, IMCO Windsurfer, NEXTSTEP advocate)
NOAA Hurricane Research Division (appropriate disclaimers apply)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <rbowman@mercury.Bridgewater.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 10:54:13 -0500
From: "Richard L. Bowman" <rbowman@Bridgewater.EDU>
Message-ID: <9603221554.AA06689@mercury.Bridgewater.EDU>
Subject: Re: unstuffing Active.mbox
Just a note on different mail programs using different mailboxes.
This will not help with the question of getting *.mbox to another
machine, but it will help with two mail programs on the same
machine.
I use "pine" as a VT-100 compatible mailer so that I can access my
NeXT (black hardware) from home using a pentium machine. Pine
expects incoming mail to reside in /private/spool/mail/rbowman (put
your user name in place of rbowman). However running "Mail" at my
office, copies the mail from this file into
/users/rbowman/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox. To allow pine to access
these messages requires changing its configuration.
So in pine select S_etup C_onfig and then move the cursor to
"folder-collections" and select A_dd and enter the following one
entry at a time.
Mailboxes/Outgoing.mbox/[mbox]
Mailboxes/Active.mbox/[mbox]
mail/[]
Make sure the first line in this list is "mail/[]". Then exit and
restart pine using the command
pine -l (this expands the folders automatically).
Select F_olders and choose the folder you want to use.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Dr. Richard L. Bowman
Dept. of Physics e-mail: rbowman@bridgewater.edu
Bridgewater College phone: 540-828-5441
Bridgewater, VA 22812 FAX: 540-828-5479
"http://www.bridgewater.edu/departments/physics/physics.html"
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From: mpaque@pbinet.com (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Cube giving "Error 84" messages? HELP - everything is crumbling...
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 19:39:36 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
Message-ID: <4iuvrg$dfl@SNFC21_SRVR_WWW.PBI.net>
References: <jray-2003962320370001@ts28-7.homenet.ohio-state.edu>
jray@ag.ohio-state.edu (John E. Ray) wrote:
>2 Days ago I installed 4 4MB SIMMS in my '040 cube in the 12-15 slots.
>I booted it once, everything was fine.
>Today I started the machine for the first time, and within minutes, it
>crashed, and my internal drive was corrupted. I tried to boot off of
>an optical disk. Unfortunately, that didn't work quite how I wanted...
>I tried to break out of the boot, and corrupted the optical disk. So...
>now I go to try to boot from a floppy, since I'm pretty much up a
>creek at this point. I apparently hooked the floppy cable wrong and it goes
>poof, and makes a little bit of smoke.
And takes out the floppy controller chip... This can happen with
improperly connected ribbon cables, or with the wrong model of floppy
drive.
FYI, The Sony drive NeXT shipped isn't exactly the same as those
floppys down at Clones-R-Us. It gets power from the ribbon cable.
Many of the generic PC floppys tie the 'unused' power pins to ground.
Be careful out there.
>Now, at this point (since the drive first got corrupted), the machine
>has been running for about 4 hours, with the back off, and no fan.
It's overheated. I guarantee it. The OD will be unreliable until it
cools down.
>I managed to get it to boot *once* from CD-ROM (don't know how I did
>this... it was the only time I managed to do it). Restarted the
>computer, and got an Error 84 during the self test. This seems
>to come after "ECC" (whatever that is), and before "RTC" (also unknown).
>This error just kept coming up.
Error 84 indicates that the Error Correction Code (ECC) self-test is
failing. The OD will be unable to correctly read or write data from
the disk. This is the most common failure mode for the OD when it
overheats.
>I ended up putting the back back
>on the machine, and shut it down for a few minutes. Turned it
>back on... no error... restarted serveral times, and only got the
>error twice out of 15ish tries.
It can take an hour or two to cool down. There's a lot of thermal
mass between the OD, hard disk, and power supply. I suggest aiming a
desk fan into the back of the case (with the Cube powered off) to cool
things down.
>Okay... now, does anyone have any suggestions on how to get my
>machine back online? It goes to boot, and fails within one second
>with a "Exception #2 at such-n-such address".
It's possible for the boot ROM code to get it's internal state totally
goofed up, resulting in this error. A hard reset (Hold down both
command keys, and hit the * key on the keypad) will clear it, and
repeat the power-up sequence in the ROM.
> I have no idea
>how I got it to boot off the NS3.3 install CD... I've tried:
>bsd(1,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd1 w/ the CD set to the 2nd SCSI position,
>and bsd(0,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd0 w/ it set to ID 0.
These should work, if your ROM is capable of booting from a CD-ROM.
(It has to be able to understand 2048 byte block devices) Later model
68040 ROMs can do this. 68030 and early 68040 ROMs need the boot
floppy/OD trick.
The Boot Floppy/OD Trick:
Early model ROMs don't grok booting from 2048 bytes per block
devices like CD-ROMs. To work around this, NeXT supplies a boot
floppy which contains a special boot block. The ROM code loads the
boot block from the floppy, and then the loaded boot code (which DOES
grok 2048 byte per block devices) boots the CD-ROM up.
If you can get to a working machine, you can generate your own boot
floppy or OD by putting the boot block image
/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom into the boot block of a NeXT formatted
floppy or OD.
For floppies:
su root
disk -B /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rfd0b
For Optical Disks:
su root
disk -B /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rod0a
(As a last resort, I've even put the CD-ROM boot block on a SCSI hard
disk, and booted from that to start the CD-ROM based disk building
process. Not recommended if you need to recover data from the hard
disk first...)
>Could I do a SCSI copy of the CD to a harddrive, and boot from
>there?
Not recommended. The hard disk won't be bootable without applying
significant effort. It won't be clear to anyone other than the author
of BuildDisk.app as to what needs to be done to get things working.
:-)
Good Luck!
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pbinet.com Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: "David N. Willilams" <David.N.Williams@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login Problem with 3.3 NeXTstation
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 16:01:38 -0500
Organization: University of Michigan Physics Department
Message-ID: <31531532.1FC3@umich.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: David.N.Williams@umich.edu
We just upgraded one of our turbo NeXTstations from 3.0 to 3.3. Ever since,
we've had a problem with remote logins via dialin to a terminal server
elsewhere on our campus. After entering the user id and password, the
login hangs when return is pressed after the password. If we press ^D or
^J instead, the login is accepted. The daemon attached to the terminal at
that point is telnetd.
We still get the same behavior after installing the posix version of the
3.3 patch. The Foundation Kit patch was installed too, maybe before we
noticed the problem.
There is no problem if we telnet from another login, either elsewhere on
campus or within our NetInfo domain. It does occur with dialins to a couple
of different terminal servers.
Thanks for any suggestions, and my apologies if this is a faq. I searched
NeXTanswers and didn't succeed in finding anything...
-David
_ _________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Permission Problems with Taylor UUCP 1.06.1
Message-ID: <DoJsCo.4H4@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
References: <RDL.96Mar19003744@world.std.com>
Distribution: na,usa,world
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 03:58:00 GMT
In article <RDL.96Mar19003744@world.std.com> rdl@world.std.com (Robert La
Ferla) writes:
> Make sure you have these permissions:
>
> > ls -agl /usr/local/bin/uu*
> -r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 73728 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uucp*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 49152 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uulog*
> -r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 32768 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uuname*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 57344 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uupick*
> -r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 81920 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uustat*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 515 Oct 15 02:03 /usr/local/bin/uuto*
> -r-sr-x--- 1 uucp wheel 73728 Oct 15 16:45 /usr/local/bin/uux*
My permissions are a little bit different yet work just fine:
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 817068 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uucp*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 592776 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uulog*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 442192 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uuname*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 652140 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uupick*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 833696 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uustat*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 515 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uuto*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 801624 Sep 16 1995 /usr/local/bin/uux*
> > ls -agl /usr/local/lib/uucp/
> total 395
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Oct 15 16:47 ./
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Mar 2 00:16 ../
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 57344 Oct 15 16:47 uuchk*
> -r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 180224 Oct 15 16:47 uucico*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 73728 Oct 15 16:47 uuconv*
> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 325 Oct 15 02:03 uusched*
> -r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 81920 Oct 15 16:47 uuxqt*
total 3610
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1024 Sep 16 1995 ./
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1024 Jan 18 22:36 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 602360 Sep 16 1995 uuchk*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 1556188 Sep 16 1995 uucico*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 600812 Sep 16 1995 uuconv*
-r-sr-xr-x 1 uucp wheel 886796 Sep 16 1995 uuxqt*
-Alby
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Message-ID: <Doo6C9.26L@empire.org>
Sender: alby@empire.org (Albatross)
References: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si>
Distribution: na,usa,world
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 12:50:32 GMT
In article <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si (Tomaz Sustar)
writes:
> Keywords: PPP,sendmail
> Reply-To: tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si
>
> I have an Intel box (NS 3.2). I want to exchange mail using "sendmail -q"
> over PPP when the link is up. Problem is that I have to be logged as a
> superuser to execute :
> /usr/lib/sendmail -q
> Is there any way to exchange mail not logged as a superuser ?
chmod u+s /usr/lib/sendmail
Everything will be good after that..
From: bo@sdphu1.uucp (Bo Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP problem
Date: 22 Mar 1996 22:38:52 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, UCSD
Message-ID: <4iva5s$b6e@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
Hello. Last week I re-built my Nextstep Intel 3.3 system to a zip disk
and re-installed everything again. Now my ppp is working, but nameserver is
not working any more. I checked /etc/resolv.conf again and again, the severs
are running fine with other machines. I run HostManager again
following pp-2.2-0.1.3 instructions, still not working. Another thing is that
telnet 123.132.213.231 will work, but rsh 123.132.213.231 will freeze.
I tried to run "route add ahbei localhost 0" and it says "ahbei: bad value".
however "ahbei" is the name I gave to HostManager and it shows up in
/etc/hostconfig. any idea? thanks alot.
- Bo
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 23 Mar 1996 03:52:05 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ivsh5$rv0@news.its.com>
References: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> <Doo6C9.26L@empire.org>
alby@empire.org (Albatross) wrote:
> In article <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si
> (Tomaz Sustar) writes:
>> Keywords: PPP,sendmail
>> Reply-To: tomaz.sustar@net.zaslon.si
>>
>> I have an Intel box (NS 3.2). I want to exchange mail using "sendmail -q"
>> over PPP when the link is up. Problem is that I have to be logged as a
>> superuser to execute :
>> /usr/lib/sendmail -q
>> Is there any way to exchange mail not logged as a superuser ?
>
> chmod u+s /usr/lib/sendmail
That may well not work if sendmail is not owned by root. Try:
chown root.kmem /usr/lib/sendmail
chmod 6511 /usr/lib/sendmail
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de (Gerald Wildgruber)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: 23 Mar 1996 20:08:09 +0100
Organization: Apatheia Corp.
Sender: gewil@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <x768bv7hly.fsf@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459>
<315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
In-reply-to: "Eric A. Dubiel"'s message of Thu, 21 Mar 1996 04:05:00 -0600
In article <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes:
I don't know enough about sendmail either- I cannot even get it to send ANY MAIL in
NEXTSTEP 3.3, (other TCP/IP services do work)....I get this 550 Host unknown
(Authoritative answer from name server):
error...
Can anyone help?
I have exactly the same problem (same hardware, same version); every mail
bounces.
Gerald.
--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea
gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really
lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage
(NeXTMail and MIME
welcome)
From: zhao@crl.nmsu.edu (Z. Zhao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail 8.7.4 on NEXTSTEP complains
Date: 19 Mar 1996 08:12:33 -0700
Organization: Computing Research Lab/New Mexico State University
Sender: zhao@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu
Message-ID: <yegvik1p15q.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
References: <yegohq2vz2m.fsf@sparta.crl.nmsu.edu>
<RDL.96Mar17012327@world.std.com>
In-reply-to: rdl@world.std.com's message of Sun, 17 Mar 1996 06:23:27 GMT
> Can you post or mail me your .mc file? Also, you should pickup the
> latest distribution 8.7.5.
>
> Robert La Ferla
> Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
> Boston, MA
> Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
> Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
> E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
I got it. Using tcpproto.mc to generate nextstep.cf, sendmail 8.7.4/5
works perfectly on my system.
Thanks,
zhao
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ktwu@alw.nih.gov (Kuo-Tsung Wu)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to boot from Fujitsu DynaMo?
Message-ID: <1996Mar23.204542.18197@alw.nih.gov>
To: rworne@primenet.com
Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
Organization: NIDCD/ESDSB
References: <1996Mar21.205832.22457@alw.nih.gov> <4itnrh$mrj@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 20:38:39 GMT
In article <4itnrh$mrj@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>,
Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> wrote:
>ktwu@alw.nih.gov (Kuo-Tsung Wu) wrote:
>>When I tried to boot from DynaMo, I got "No SCSI disks found" from ROM
>>monitor. Has this been done before? I have a non-turbo mono NeXTstation
>>with 3.2 and an external HD as a regular boot device. I used the command
>> bsd(2,0,0)sdmach rootdev=sd2a rootrw=1
>>The DynaMo was the last device in the SCSI chain. I wonder if I need the
>>help from internal floppy drive to do it. Any help will be appreciated.
>
>You wouldn't happen to have a CD-ROM installed on an ID between the
>regular boot disk and the Fujitsu? I have heard that removable media
>drives on higher ID's than a CDROM won't function. Try setting it between
>the CDROM and your boot drive's ids.
>
No CD-ROM installed. The external and internal HDs at ID 0 and 1 and Mo at
ID 6. I also tried to boot from Mo with the help from floppy drive. I
followed the procedure for installing softwares from CD-ROM: I put the
boot cartridge in MO, insert the CD-ROM installation disk in internal
floppy drive and type bfd. Here is the response from ROM monitor:
next> bfd
boot fd(0,0,0)
blk0 boot: fd()fdmach
fdmach: not found
load failed
blk0 boot:
I did not know what to do except hitting command-~ and rebooted from
external HD. The Mo cartridge showed up on the shelf as a file folder
instead of the usual diamond icon and cannot be ejected from Mo. The
only way I know to fix it is inserting a floppy disk to force Workspace
Manager to recognize Mo. Anybody has any idea what's going on?
KT
--
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NIH/NIDCD/ESDSB voice: 301/402-1843
Rockville, MD fax: 301/402-0390
From: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OD as boot disc?
Date: 23 Mar 1996 23:47:09 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <4j22ht$e0s@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
I see all these poor souls with Cubes who desperately want the rare external
floppies to upgrade to 3.X.
I remember seeing a post long ago in which someone stated that an OD can be
configured to serve as a boot "kicker" to boot from CDROM, just like the
floppy drive. I even remember trying it, without success.
Has anyone ever done this successfully? What is the procedure?
Since many old Cubes have OD's, such a procedure could help many people,
especially those with '030's.
Those with '040's should just buy an internal floppy, of course.
--
Where diesel guitars from faraway bars, blast out the
best songs from our holy wars. Coyote carnival catches
on fire, all the cops in the world pick us up on radar.
Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: 24 Mar 1996 00:01:04 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-12.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4j23c0$hds@usc.edu>
References: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459> <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
<x768bv7hly.fsf@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de>
In <x768bv7hly.fsf@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Gerald Wildgruber
wrote:
> In article <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel"
<eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes:
>
> I don't know enough about sendmail either- I cannot even get it to send
ANY MAIL in
> NEXTSTEP 3.3, (other TCP/IP services do work)....I get this 550 Host
unknown
> (Authoritative answer from name server):
> error...
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> I have exactly the same problem (same hardware, same version); every mail
> bounces.
Please post more specific sendmail and system configuration details (i.e. how
are you connected to net, what version of sendmail, what cf file you're
using,etc.).
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
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From: Joe Freeman <Joe@FreemanSoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: samba printing to NeXT laser printer from NT
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 02:24:24 -0500
Organization: FreemanSoft Inc.
Message-ID: <3153A728.583@FreemanSoft.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am trying to print to a black next machine from
a windows NT box using SAMBA. My NT box can see
the next machine and can print to it except for
the fact that the second page printed always generates
a postscript error. The pages are printed in reverse
order so I actually get the last page only. It could
be that I've picked the wrong printer driver on the
NT side. Can anyone send me a description of their
configuration for samba and the NT printer driver
that works with the NeXT 400 DPI printer?
Thanks,
<joe>
--
FreemanSoft Inc. NEXTSTEP and WEBOBJECTS software in the DC
area.
Governer Glendenning of MD wants to spend $300M of the
people's money on a rent free pro football stadium which
is only used 10 times a year.
For whom is he really doing this deal?
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Canon BJC 4000 with a NeXTstation?
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 06:59:26 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Mar24.065926.3538@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4iug8c$68v@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
In article <4iug8c$68v@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> powell@tropic.aoml.noaa.gov
(Mark Powell) writes:
> We have a Canon BJC 4000 that my wife uses on her 386 laptop but she
would
> like to be able to also use it when she uses SciPlot on our NeXTstation
Color
> at home. We could use JetPilot to drive it but the Canon only has a
parallel
> port and of course the NS only has the serial ports. Has anyone tried
to use
> an adaptor to go from serial to parallel? Does such a thing exist? Has
> anyone used one of these with a NeXTstation?
These things do exist. One ofg our customers uses one in a similar
situation, to drive a Canon printer with one of the third party PS
drivers.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: getty or init hangs on login
Date: 23 Mar 1996 08:40:55 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <4j0den$3ok@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Keywords: getty,init,ppp
Hello all. I have been plugging away with SJ Perkins PPP but have
recently ran into a snag. I recently upgraded my modems to v34 and now
have a problem (a coincidence I think). I think the problem resides
somewhere after init or getty is going. I may have clobbered a file when
the system crashed due to dirty modem signals (had phone line trouble
too). In any case here is what is happening. When I try to come in over
the modem I get:
CARRIER 28800
PROTOCOL: LAP-M
CONNECT 38400
NeXT / NXFax (osci) (ttydfb)
osci login: alan
P8^w'dw
Where the password prompt becomes garbage and the login hangs at this
point. I have tried reinstalling PPP (0.4.6), the serial port drivers,
port server, and NXFax. I have also tried a different serial port card, I
even upgraded the system bios, all to no avail. So I guess the problem is
not with PPP, hardware, or drivers. It must be somewhere in the process
of opening a terminal. All tips are appreciated.
---
AB
______________________________________________________________
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From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OD as boot disc?
Date: 24 Mar 1996 19:08:49 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4j46k1$n1g@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
References: <4j22ht$e0s@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <4j22ht$e0s@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
On 03/23/96, James W. McKelvey wrote:
>I see all these poor souls with Cubes who desperately want the rare
external
>floppies to upgrade to 3.X.
>
>I remember seeing a post long ago in which someone stated that an OD
can be
>configured to serve as a boot "kicker" to boot from CDROM, just like
the
>floppy drive. I even remember trying it, without success.
>
>Has anyone ever done this successfully? What is the procedure?
>
>Since many old Cubes have OD's, such a procedure could help many
people,
>especially those with '030's.
>
>Those with '040's should just buy an internal floppy, of course.
>
>
Hi,
Why not boot directly from the OD. You do a BuildDisk on the OD and
then, do a reboot and in the ROM monitor (press command-~ at the beep
test to enter it) just enter "bod". Then start the Upgrader.app on the
cd-rom.
I never used a floppy drive to upgrade my OS. I am missing something
here?
Francois Magnan
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______________________________________________________
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Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: OD as boot disc?
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DosFxp.AF6@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:08:13 GMT
References: <4j22ht$e0s@argentina.it.earthlink.net> <4j46k1$n1g@epervier.cc.umontreal.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4j46k1$n1g@epervier.cc.umontreal.ca>,
Francois Magnan <magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>Why not boot directly from the OD. You do a BuildDisk on the OD and
>then, do a reboot and in the ROM monitor (press command-~ at the beep
>test to enter it) just enter "bod". Then start the Upgrader.app on the
>cd-rom.
>
But this doesn't help you get 3.x installed onto the OD if all you have is
the CD-ROM and your cube is from the vintage that doesn't know how to boot from
devices with 2k blocks.
Here's a skeleton of a plan which might work. It's untested, so proceed at
your own risk.
1) Boot your machine mount the 3.x CD, and stick an optical disk in the drive.
Format it if necessary.
2) Suppose your 3.x install CD is mounted at /NEXTSTEP_3.3. As root, say
disk -B /NEXTSTEP_3.3/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rod0a
3) Shut down the machine, stick the optical disk in the drive, stick the 3.x CD
in the drive, and say "bod" from the ROM monitor. With luck, the CD will
boot and you can install.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: msander@bnr.ca (Michael Sanderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ipforwarding with NS3.2?
Date: 24 Mar 1996 20:33:15 GMT
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4j4bib$njq@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
I just set up a new PC running Windows 95 on a small LAN (NeXT,
Sun, and now the PC) The NeXT currently runs the ppp to the Internet
Service Provider. I'd like to be able to have all the machines on the
LAN access the net, once the ppp link is setup. I setup the NeXT as
the gateway for the other machines, but it doesn't appear to forward
the packets.
I know I can build the kernel on the Sun to do ipforwarding, but I'd
really rather do this with the NeXTstation. The NeXTstation is running
NS3.2. Can somebody offer any insight? Thanks in advance
From: american@internetMCI.COM (Charles C. Hocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swapdisk Question
Date: 24 Mar 1996 22:23:38 GMT
Organization: InternetMCI
Message-ID: <4j4i1a$iju@news.internetmci.com>
Hello,
I recently purchased a new SCSI hard drive and I would like to
use the old one for a swapdisk and for storage. I have rftm, and I am
not sure what I need to do. If I rename the drive to "swapdisk", then
all it is good for is a swapdisk and I cannot store any other file on
it. So I guess my question is "How do I mount this drive so I can
swap to it AND use it to store backup files?"
Thanks,
Charles
--
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american@internetMCI.COM Freedom is Slavery
american@aztec.asu.edu Ignorance is Strength
ASCII, MIME & NeXTmail (preferred) George Orwell's 1984
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ipforwarding with NS3.2?
Date: 24 Mar 1996 22:40:49 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4j4j1h$9jd@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <4j4bib$njq@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
Michael Sanderson (msander@bnr.ca) wrote:
: I just set up a new PC running Windows 95 on a small LAN (NeXT,
: Sun, and now the PC) The NeXT currently runs the ppp to the Internet
: Service Provider. I'd like to be able to have all the machines on the
: LAN access the net, once the ppp link is setup. I setup the NeXT as
: the gateway for the other machines, but it doesn't appear to forward
: the packets.
Strange. My Pentium running 3.3 is acting as the gateway for several
machines in my house, and it forwards packets by default. I'm running
NeXTSTEP PPP-2.2-0.45.
The other machines here (Win3.1 Win95, NeXTSTEP, FreeBSD) all set their
default route to my machine, and my machine forwards packets through the
link. This was the default behaviour with a very plain install of PPP;
nothing fancy.
--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: mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OD as boot disc?
Date: 25 Mar 1996 02:03:49 GMT
Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4j4uu5$178@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
References: <4j22ht$e0s@argentina.it.earthlink.net> <4j46k1$n1g@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
In <4j46k1$n1g@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Francois Magnan wrote:
> On 03/23/96, James W. McKelvey wrote:
> >I see all these poor souls with Cubes who desperately want the rare
> external
> >floppies to upgrade to 3.X.
> >
> >I remember seeing a post long ago in which someone stated that an OD
> can be
> >configured to serve as a boot "kicker" to boot from CDROM, just like
> the
> >floppy drive. I even remember trying it, without success.
> >
> >Has anyone ever done this successfully? What is the procedure?
> >
> >Since many old Cubes have OD's, such a procedure could help many
> people,
> >especially those with '030's.
> >
> >Those with '040's should just buy an internal floppy, of course.
> >
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> Why not boot directly from the OD. You do a BuildDisk on the OD and
> then, do a reboot and in the ROM monitor (press command-~ at the beep
> test to enter it) just enter "bod". Then start the Upgrader.app on the
> cd-rom.
>
> I never used a floppy drive to upgrade my OS. I am missing something
> here?
>
> Francois Magnan
>
>
You can upgrade that way, but you can't install from scratch from the CD-ROM.
To do that it's necessary to boot from the CD-ROM, which older ROM's can't do
without help.
--
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best songs from our holy wars. Coyote carnival catches
on fire, all the cops in the world pick us up on radar.
Jim McKelvey mckelvey@fafnir.com
From: kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba printing to NeXT laser printer from NT
Date: 25 Mar 1996 05:34:22 GMT
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <4j5b8u$l5b@news.xmission.com>
References: <3153A728.583@FreemanSoft.com>
Grab the Group_6.exe package from www.adobe.com. It has the NeXT 400 DPI
printer driver. But I'm using the (unmodified) Apple LaserWriter NTX
driver, and it works flawlessly.
Here's my Samba configuration tuned up for NT 4.0. It should just bolt up
to a 3.5x installation.
[global]
autoservices = kris library printers web tmp
browseable = yes
case sensitive = yes
guest account = nobody
hosts allow = <your IP address here>
load printers = yes
lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
log file = /usr/local/samba/logs/log.%m
log level = 3
mangle case = yes
mangled names = yes
printing = bsd
protocol = LANMAN2
status = yes
valid users = kris
workgroup = planetary
[printers]
browseable = yes
comment = Attached to printer host
create mode = 0777
hosts allow = <your IP address here>
path = /tmp
printer = <your printer name from NetInfo here (aka Local_Printer)>
printable = yes
public = yes
valid users = kris
writable = no
[web]
browseable = yes
comment = /usr/local/etc/httpd (NCSA httpd 1.4)
create mode = 0750
hosts allow = <your IP address here>
path = /usr/local/etc/httpd
printable = no
public = no
read only = no
writable = yes
valid users = kris
[kris]
comment = /Users/kris
create mode = 0755
hosts allow = <your IP address here>
path = /Users/kris
printable = no
public = no
valid users = kris
writable = yes
[library]
comment = /LocalLibrary
create mode = 0755
hosts allow = <your IP address here>
path = /LocalLibrary
printable = no
public = no
valid users = kris
writable = yes
[tmp]
comment = Temporary file space
hosts allow = <your IP address here>
path = /tmp
public = yes
read only = no
.................................kris
Joe Freeman (Joe@FreemanSoft.com) wrote:
: I am trying to print to a black next machine from
: a windows NT box using SAMBA. My NT box can see
: the next machine and can print to it except for
: the fact that the second page printed always generates
: a postscript error. The pages are printed in reverse
: order so I actually get the last page only. It could
: be that I've picked the wrong printer driver on the
: NT side. Can anyone send me a description of their
: configuration for samba and the NT printer driver
: that works with the NeXT 400 DPI printer?
:
: Thanks,
: <joe>
:
: --
: FreemanSoft Inc. NEXTSTEP and WEBOBJECTS software in the DC
: area.
:
: Governer Glendenning of MD wants to spend $300M of the
: people's money on a rent free pro football stadium which
: is only used 10 times a year.
: For whom is he really doing this deal?
--
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From: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de (Gerald Wildgruber)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: 25 Mar 1996 11:27:45 +0100
Organization: Apatheia Corp.
Sender: gewil@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <x77mw91n8e.fsf@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459>
<315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
<x768bv7hly.fsf@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de>
<4j23c0$hds@usc.edu>
In-reply-to: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 24 Mar 1996 00:01:04 GMT
In article <4j23c0$hds@usc.edu> reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes:
> Please post more specific sendmail and system configuration details (i.e. how
> are you connected to net, what version of sendmail, what cf file you're
> using,etc.).
System configuration: I'm running NSfIP 3.3 , the problems occured only
after having applied the 3.3 patches (User and Developper)
Internet: This is a standalone machine connencted to the Internet via
serial line ppp; there is an ethernet adapter, yet now unused.
sendmail: I've never changed or upgraded sendmail (that is, I didn't
replace it with the new packages provided be R. La Ferla), so it is still
the version shipped with NS 3.3 which is running on my machine; there are
two files apparently in use for sendmail configuration,
sendmail.mailhost.cf the file linked to by "sendmail.cf", and
sendmail.subsidiary.cf
both residing in /etc/sendmail, version numbers DVNX3.0M and DVNX3.0S
respectively.
Gerald.
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(NeXTMail and MIME
welcome)
From: ceham@w3eax.umd.edu (Maurice De Vidts NE3S)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with corrupt disk ?
Date: 25 Mar 1996 13:06:02 GMT
Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
Message-ID: <4j65nq$f3v@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi,
While trying to backup my system to tape, I got a system panic
giving me an option to (c) continue or (r) reboot (Intel 3.3)
after this, the boot program could not read the configuration file
and gave an error message like
. /usr
. before directory is not a directory
and repeated for other directories.
which seemed to indicate a problem with the file system.
The question(s) are:
How do I go about booting the system, and I manage to boot,
what should I attempt to recover the filesystem ? will fsck
be able to reair this type of problem ?
tia,
Maurice De Vidts
ceham@scdh14.umd.edu
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapdisk Question
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:37:14 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960325103141.28201B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4j4i1a$iju@news.internetmci.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4j4i1a$iju@news.internetmci.com>
On 24 Mar 1996, Charles C. Hocker wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently purchased a new SCSI hard drive and I would like to
> use the old one for a swapdisk and for storage. I have rftm, and I am
> not sure what I need to do. If I rename the drive to "swapdisk", then
> all it is good for is a swapdisk and I cannot store any other file on
> it. So I guess my question is "How do I mount this drive so I can
> swap to it AND use it to store backup files?"
simple: call it 'swapdisk'
The statement 'I cannot store any other file on it' is incorrect. I am
doing this right now with my NeXTStation.
Calling the disk 'swapdisk' will get it mounted at '/private/swapdisk'.
Swapping will take place on /private/swapdisk/vm/swapfile. There is
nothing to stop you from creating a folder at /private/swapdisk/Backups
and store files there.
What you may want to do is partition the swapdisk so that the swapping
will not fill all the space on the swapdisk (or create a HIWAT setting for
it). Filling the space is never good, and should generally be avoided.
In a perfect world, swapdisks would only be for swapping. In the interim,
there is no reason not to do it. Preventing the swapping from filling all
the free space would still be a good idea.
TjL
ps -- I am not sure which 'FM' you read, but my friendly swapfile and
swapdisk FAQ is available via email. Send message with SUBJECT
send swapfaq
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swapdisk Question
Date: 25 Mar 1996 19:09:16 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4j6r0s$7rc@news.its.com>
References: <4j4i1a$iju@news.internetmci.com>
american@internetMCI.COM (Charles C. Hocker) wrote:
> Hello,
> I recently purchased a new SCSI hard drive and I would like to
> use the old one for a swapdisk and for storage. I have rftm, and I am
> not sure what I need to do. If I rename the drive to "swapdisk", then
> all it is good for is a swapdisk and I cannot store any other file on
> it.
That's not correct. Mach swaps to files stored on a normal filesystem. If
you name the disk "swapdisk", it will be mounted on /private/swapdisk and you
will be able to store additional files on it as you please.
Be sure to edit the mach_swapon invocation in /etc/rc.swap....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: Larry Luther <lluther>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SLIP for NeXTstep3.2 on black hardware?
Date: 25 Mar 1996 19:18:24 GMT
Organization: Walt Disney Company InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <4j6ri0$th@louie.disney.com>
References: <DoHDxK.3EL@umdnj.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Try the NeXT archive site
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/sources/comm/SLIP*
--
Larry Luther
lluther@disney.com
From: abid@solaria.com (Abid Khwaja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: uart overrun on NeXT Cube
Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:58:06 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4j71cu$e0b@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
Anyone know what to do with the following errors?
Mar 25 15:52:54 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
Mar 25 15:53:14 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
Mar 25 15:53:34 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
Mar 25 15:53:54 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
Mar 25 15:54:14 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
These errors eventually cause the machine to crash. I know there is a new
driver (3.33) that takes care of this problem on Intel boxes, but didn't see
anything referring to similar problems on a NeXT box in NeXTanswers.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: login_group serialization error
Message-ID: <4j75e5$ihs@newsreader.wustl.edu>
From: bapi@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bapi Gupta)
Date: 25 Mar 1996 22:07:01 GMT
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis, MO USA
What's this mean?
Mar 21 17:50:23 guava lookupd[194]: lookup_group serialization error
Mar 21 20:40:53 guava lookupd[194]: lookup_group serialization error
Mar 21 22:34:54 guava lookupd[194]: lookup_group serialization error
Mar 21 22:58:37 guava lookupd[194]: lookup_group serialization error
It killed my pentium on my vacation day last Friday and I don't have any more information about
what was happening.
Confusion.
Ashish (Bapi) Gupta
Arts & Sciences Network Manager
Washington University in Saint Louis
bapi@artsci.wustl.edu
From: babou@snow.drepou.peuf (Surfeur Celeste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba printing to NeXT laser printer from NT
Date: 26 Mar 1996 01:00:30 GMT
Organization: INT (Evry - France)
Message-ID: <4j7fje$721@babylone.int-evry.fr>
References: <3153A728.583@FreemanSoft.com> <4j5b8u$l5b@news.xmission.com>
kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson) wrote:
Are you share files on a scsi disk or on an ide disk ?
Because with my samba 1.9.15p6 i can't share any file on my scsi disk.
Have you an idea ?
Thanks for your help.
From: peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help?
Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:42:08 -0600
Organization: Communicating for America Network Services
Message-ID: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org>
Can you help me? I'm getting this message logged by syslog about a
second before the host locks up (no auto-reboot either) with:
... hostname mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty
The box is a 712/80 with 32MB primary and a Micropolis 1GB (HP's part)
internal. It typically sits at the loginwindow performing TCP services.
The same software is running on other 712's that I manage and can do so
for weeks on end. Any answers or reasonable guesses appreciated.
I haven't been around these parts much recently. Is it reasonable for
NeXT proffer an expert answer in an amazingly quick time if the price
were right? If so, what's the best method to approach them with?
peter
--
Always looking for a handy place to nap...
peisch@cans.com (Peter Eisch) peter@etude.com
From: peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 25 Mar 1996 20:50:20 -0600
Organization: Communicating for America Network Services
Message-ID: <4j7m1c$3tv@swifty.cfa.org>
References: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org>
Following up myself...sorry...but
I (peisch@news.cfa.org) wrote:
: Can you help me? I'm getting this message logged by syslog about a
: second before the host locks up (no auto-reboot either) with:
: ... hostname mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty
Here are the two events from today.
Mar 25 19:08:34 host mach: Expanding zone pmap
Mar 25 19:20:03 host mach: Expanding zone pmap
Mar 25 20:11:59 host mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Tue Jul 12 18:26:52 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-150.0.0.55.obj~2/RELEASE_HPPA
...
and then...
Mar 25 20:28:33 ny mach: Expanding zone pmap
Mar 25 21:11:12 ny mach: Expanding zone pmap
Mar 25 21:22:02 ny mach: Expanding zone kernel map entries
Mar 25 21:26:07 ny mach: zone "kernel map entries" rempty
Mar 25 21:37:18 ny mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Tue Jul 12 18:26:52 PDT 1994;
root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-150.0.0.55.obj~2/RELEASE_HPPA
Mar 25 21:37:18 ny mach: physical memory = 64.00 megabytes.
...
Does this help at all?
--
Always looking for a handy place to nap...
peisch@cans.com (Peter Eisch) peter@etude.com
From: mikecam@unixg.ubc.ca (Michael C. Cam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Has anyone installed NT in DOS partition on Canon 41
Date: 26 Mar 1996 09:05:09 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4j8c05$er4@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Hi,
I would like to replace my DOS/Windows with NT. DOS/Windows currently
resides in my DOS partition of a hard drive that also has NS.
Has someone tried to install NT in a DOS partition on a Canon
ObjectStation 41 ?
Where there a lot of problems (NT boot manager etc.) ?
Where can you find drivers for the CT graphics card ?
Thanks in advance, ...Mike.
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From: birdrock@well.sf.ca.us (Brian Dear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 16:08:06 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com>
Has anyone configured a machine running NEXTSTEP to serve as a firewall
on the Internet? Is it even possible? Is it ludicrous? Could some
public-domain GNU-style source be compiled and integrated into a NEXTSTEP
environment to give one the functionality of a firewall?
I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's thought about, or better yet,
actually implemented such a thing. Thanks.
-- brian
From: knoop@css.itd.umich.edu (Peter A. Knoop)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IBM 755CX and Serial Ports (Modems)
Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:03:59 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Message-ID: <4j981v$b2m@thighmaster.admin.lsa.umich.edu>
Summary: IBM 755CX and Serial Ports (Modems)
Keywords: IBM 755CX ThinkPad, serial port, modem
Hi,
I've got an IBM 755CX that I'd like to hook a modem up to (via its serial
port) and run PPP from. NextStep recognizes the serial port and appears to
set up the device driver correctly, however, when I use tip it can't
syncronize with the modem. In fact no signal appears to go out over
the serial port whatsoever.
Has anyone had any luck using the serial port on a ThinkPad?
Does anyone know if there's a NextStep driver out there for the built-in
IBM DSP modem?
Anyone had any luck w/ PCMCIA modems in a ThinkPad?
Thanks in advance...
______________________________________________________________________________
Peter Knoop University of Michigan knoop@umich.edu
ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support (FFive) phone: 313-936-3090
Consultant/System Administrator fax: 313-936-3168
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help?
Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:40:55 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4j9a77$7ml@news.its.com>
References: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org>
peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch) wrote:
[ ... ]
> I haven't been around these parts much recently. Is it reasonable for
> NeXT proffer an expert answer in an amazingly quick time if the price
> were right? If so, what's the best method to approach them with?
Yes. You can pay some $20-30K per year for "Premium Technical Support", or
you can pay by the question. Look on http://www.next.com for info about
technical support; email is ask-next@next.com.
Your mileage with their support may vary-- some people have said that they're
very happy with NeXT's support; others have done less well.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uart overrun on NeXT Cube
Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:55:07 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4j9b1s$7ml@news.its.com>
References: <4j71cu$e0b@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
abid@solaria.com (Abid Khwaja) wrote:
> Anyone know what to do with the following errors?
>
> Mar 25 15:52:54 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
> Mar 25 15:53:14 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
> Mar 25 15:53:34 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
> Mar 25 15:53:54 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
> Mar 25 15:54:14 demerzel mach: zs0: recv uart overrun
[ ... ]
From "man zs":
zs%d: recv buffer overrun. The software input silo over-
flowed before it could be serviced.
zs%d: recv uart overrun. The 8530 receiver silo overflowed
before it could be serviced.
If you're not using hardware flow control, use it. Try running the
serial port at a lower speed and see whether that helps. I had a
small program that would perform a ZIOCTSET ioctl on the /dev/cufa
device to alter the minimum silo process delay; using that ioctl to
set a lower delay might help as well.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: samba printing to NeXT laser printer from NT
Date: 26 Mar 1996 18:27:11 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4j9ctv$uau@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <3153A728.583@FreemanSoft.com> <4j5b8u$l5b@news.xmission.com>
In <4j5b8u$l5b@news.xmission.com> Kristopher Magnusson wrote:
> Grab the Group_6.exe package from www.adobe.com. It has the NeXT 400 DPI
> printer driver. But I'm using the (unmodified) Apple LaserWriter NTX
> driver, and it works flawlessly.
>
>
> Joe Freeman (Joe@FreemanSoft.com) wrote:
> : I am trying to print to a black next machine from
> : a windows NT box using SAMBA. My NT box can see
> : the next machine and can print to it except for
> : the fact that the second page printed always generates
> : a postscript error. The pages are printed in reverse
> : order so I actually get the last page only. It could
> : be that I've picked the wrong printer driver on the
> : NT side. Can anyone send me a description of their
> : configuration for samba and the NT printer driver
> : that works with the NeXT 400 DPI printer?
> :
I've used the HP III and IV postscript printers on my
windoze boxes to print successfully to my
Samba equipped NeXT printservers.
Eugene
--
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Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail)
Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little
Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother
University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/
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From: rthrford@Glue.umd.edu (Reginald Rutherford)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NeXT mh installation
Date: 26 Mar 1996 16:54:36 GMT
Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Message-ID: <4j97gc$2ts@mojo.eng.umd.edu>
Hiya
I'm trying to install mh 6.8.3 on a NeXT Cube running NeXTStep 3.2
and I'm running into trouble. Any help at all would be appreciated!
The makefile will make with no errors (but a bunch of warnings), but when
I try to run "inc" I get the error message:
inc: unable to lock and fopen /usr/spool/mail/rthrford
Here's the conf/MH file:
# NeXTStep 3.2
bin: /usr/local/src/mh/bin
chown: /etc
curses: -lcurses -ltermlib
editor: /usr/ucb/vi
etc: /usr/local/src/mh/lib/mh
ldoptions: -s
mail: /usr/spool/mail
mandir: /usr/local/src/mh/man
manuals: local
mts: sendmail
options ATTVIBUG BIND BSD42 BSD43 LOCKF
options NORUSERPASS NTOHLSWAP RENAME UNISTD VSPRINTF ZONEINFO
options MHRC MIME
ranlib: on
remove: mv -f
Note: I have tried using both the "LOCKF" and "FLOCK" options, both with
and without "UNISTD." I have used all four of these combinations with both
the "BDS42" option and with "BSD42 BDS43", and I always get the same error
with "inc".
Thank you very much!
--
Rick Rutherford rthrford@sirius.umd.edu The above opinions are mine.
"It seems to me that the nearer painting approaches sculpture the better
it is, and that sculpture is the worse the nearer it approaches painting."
-- Michelangelo
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 25 Mar 1996 05:15:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4j5a4t$cj0@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news:comp.sys.next.advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in
the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy
flame wars from .misc.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com
where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Archives are available by ftp at
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
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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
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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
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
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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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please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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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.
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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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT OS ...
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:41:57 -0500
Organization: worldbank
Message-ID: <315872B5.2A77@worldbank.org>
References: <4j9rck$f7a@fidelio.rutgers.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Aswin Majjiga wrote:
> Could someone tell me if NeXT has its own OS.
Yes. Called NeXTSTEP. Soon to mutate into a new version called OPENSTEP
for xxx (where xxx is Mach, WNT, Solaris, etc).
Stefano
From: amajjiga@fidelio.rutgers.edu (Aswin Majjiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT OS ...
Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:33:56 -0500
Organization: Rutgers University
Message-ID: <4j9rck$f7a@fidelio.rutgers.edu>
Hi,
Could someone tell me if NeXT has its own OS.
Thanks
-- aswin
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible?
Date: 27 Mar 1996 01:28:57 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4ja5kp$eoa@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com>
In <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> Brian Dear wrote about firewalls
> I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's thought about, or better yet,
> actually implemented such a thing. Thanks.
>
Well I have only though about it. The major problem, at least that I saw, was
that you couldn't dual-home a NeXT system. That would allow for a faster
speed through certain types of firewalls.
External ---> Ethernet IN ---> Filter/Bus Speed/CPU --->Ethernet
Out--->Internal
as opposed to
External ---> Ethernet IN ---> Filter/Bus Speed/CPU --->Ethernet
Out--->Internal Gateway ---> Filter/Bus Speed/CPU --->Ethernet
Out--->Internal
BUT perhaps the PPP loadable kernal module can fix that. I know it allows you
to dual-home a host but I don't know about the above. I should test it out.
Hmmmm..........
I do know that the PD firewall stuff, SOCKS, tcp wrappers etc., compile under
NEXTSTEP. I may be able to provide such tools after the 15th of April.
(Sooner if someone wants to do my taxes!)
The cool thing about a NeXT setup would be the ease to create management
apps. That would be cool indeed.
--
Torrey McMahon
From: peisch@news.cfa.org (Peter Eisch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 26 Mar 1996 20:47:54 -0600
Organization: Communicating for America Network Services
Message-ID: <4jaa8q$slm@swifty.cfa.org>
References: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> <4ja5kp$eoa@paladin.american.edu>
There are two quotes that come to mind:
"A rock makes a better firewall than a router."
"A dual-homed host can never be a firewall."
A router and a single-homed host running tcp_wrappers, quite a bit of
time to plan things out and set things up if you haven't done it before,
and someone committed to maintaining and modifying the whole config
according to the whims of company policies are about all you need.
I've set up a slab in such a config and it works fine. The only
situation that I've seen a black or ISA white hardware come up short is
in the ethernet thruput arena. Black hardware peaks around 400Kb/sec
(from memory -- have no numbers handy) and ISA numbers are about the
same.
HP workstations work swell and I would probably imagine as Sun would
too. These trinkets can swamp an ethernet pretty handily so all that's
left to consider would be what logging of sessions your i/o can support
while proxying or caching/forwarding.
Torrey McMahon (tm8025a@american.edu) wrote:
: In <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> Brian Dear wrote about firewalls
: > I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who's thought about, or better yet,
: > actually implemented such a thing. Thanks.
: >
: Well I have only though about it. The major problem, at least that I saw, was
: that you couldn't dual-home a NeXT system. That would allow for a faster
: speed through certain types of firewalls.
: BUT perhaps the PPP loadable kernal module can fix that. I know it allows you
: to dual-home a host but I don't know about the above. I should test it out.
: Hmmmm..........
: I do know that the PD firewall stuff, SOCKS, tcp wrappers etc., compile under
: NEXTSTEP. I may be able to provide such tools after the 15th of April.
: (Sooner if someone wants to do my taxes!)
The PPP interfaces come in handy for quite a few things like virt hosting
of ftp and http services -- which is something that you may want on your
bastion, but they really belong on a bastard server (one where the disk
space may disappear or where you want to create/manage different types of
logins). The bastion should have minimal/no logins.
I'm rambling...
peter
--
Always looking for a handy place to nap...
peisch@cans.com (Peter Eisch) peter@etude.com
From: cmboggess@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Return of Tribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELO error please help
Date: 26 Mar 96 20:16:08 -0500
Organization: Miami University
Message-ID: <1996Mar26.201608@miavx1>
I have recently taken the position of one of the next admins here at miami and
I am getting the following error regarding sending mail to the cube from
outside sources. any tips on what to do with this one? any help would be
appreciated.
-Clint
cmboggess@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu:
>>> HELO nextsrv
<<< 553 nextsrv config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <root@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu>... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <CMBOGGESS@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Received: from miavx1.acs.muohio.edu by nextsrv (NX5.67f2/NX3.0M)
id AA00291; Tue, 26 Mar 96 20:18:11 -0500
Received: from miavx1.acs.muohio.edu by miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
(PMDF V5.0-5 #14024) id <01I2T29L6AW093MBS9@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> for
root@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:13:10 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 20:13:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Return of Tribble <CMBOGGESS@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Subject: test
To: root@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu
Message-Id: <01I2T29X78JA93MBS9@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
--
-Clint
Admin for James.Bond.007 -> a very strange up and down mobile home on the net.
Co-admin for the Miami University NeXT network.
General techno-geek.
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
March 16th, 1996-
Woke up from a nap sometime between 6 and 7. Didn't know what day
it was or if it was morning or evening; didn't care.
Gotta love spring break. :)
From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up PPP for a network of machines
Date: 27 Mar 1996 05:33:24 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <4jajv4$ptt@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have been trying to get PPP working over a group of machines running NEXTSTEP
without much success. Here are the details:
4 machines, intel and motorola, that connect to the internet through one
machine (a NeXT cube - the server) over a modem connection to a local provider.
The cube server, which has the modem attached to it, works fine for internet
access. The machines all have fixed ip addresses, contiguous numbers ranging
from 234 to 237 as the last number of the ip address (for sake of argument, ip
numbers 222.222.222.234 - 222.222.222.237).
No problem, you say. Well, slight catch is that the provider's gateway is
ip address 222.222.222.1, so the computers get confused about which network
interface to use, ethernet or ppp. To correct for this, I tried changing the
netmask of the network from the default 255.255.255.0 to something like
255.255.255.248. Changing this on the server works fine. I am able to ping
machines on the internet as well as on the local network.
The problem is for the other machines on the network. I am using automatic
host configuration, and this hangs the machines on bootup when I change the
netmask to anything other than 255.255.255.0.
Has anybody encountered a similar problem? Will I have to manually give each
machine its ip address and hostname and skip automatic configuration, and will
that solve the problem? I'm sort of new to this sort of network
administration, and if anybody has any experience with a similar setup, please
send me some e-mail.
I have downloaded the excellent PPP FAQ which gives solutions to a lot of
networking issues.
Thanks in advance,
Varun
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Canon object.station 41 AUDIO & Windoze 95
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 05:11:56 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <3159227C.3E08@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <4ikgke$l0h@mimsy.cs.umd.edu> <1996Mar19.204945.2813@seer.demon.co.uk> <4inee0$207@digifix.digifix.com> <4iubfg$opc@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
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Oak Technologies has a new driver 2.6.5 released December 95 and WILL allow audio to
work with Windoze 95. httP://www.oaktech.com
The driver is called:
601f265.zip you MUST install this in MS-DOS mode, and it looks like 95 won't recognize it,
but it will work. Although now after installing it, my networking doesn't seem to
work...more later..
Here's the direct link to the file:
http://www.oaktech.com/zipfiles/601f265.zip
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mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
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From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Has anyone installed NT in DOS partition on Canon 41
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 05:16:13 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <3159237D.26DF@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <4j8c05$er4@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
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To: "Michael C. Cam" <mikecam@unixg.ubc.ca>
Michael C. Cam wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to replace my DOS/Windows with NT. DOS/Windows currently
> resides in my DOS partition of a hard drive that also has NS.
>
> Has someone tried to install NT in a DOS partition on a Canon
> ObjectStation 41 ?
>
> Where there a lot of problems (NT boot manager etc.) ?
>
> Where can you find drivers for the CT graphics card ?
>
> Thanks in advance, ...Mike.
I know Canon ATO used to advertise using the object station 41s with NT and OS/S also,
however I don't have the drivers, unless they're on the original OS 41 disks- I think they
are!
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mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
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From: Bill Huey <bill@burn.ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solaris 2.4 NFS mount problems... can't ls the directory
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:11:16 -0800
Organization: digigami
Message-ID: <31594C84.41C6@burn.ucsd.edu>
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CC: billh@noesis, jerry@cb.cshl.org
Hey, I'm having a problem with mounting an exported NeXT directory
to a Sun running 2.4 Solaris......
I know this sound stupid....considering it's probably been done
a million times....
It works fine going to an SGI.
I move into the newly mount and I can't "ls" the newly mounted file
system.... it just pauses until I hit a Control-C. Strange.....
What's up man ???
bill
bill@zone.org
From: Bill Huey <bill@burn.ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT to SUN NFS mount problems
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 06:55:22 -0800
Organization: digigami
Message-ID: <315956DA.167E@burn.ucsd.edu>
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CC: billh@noesis
Something happen to my post when I looked this at news group again...
So I'm gonna ask the same question....
I got this NFS mount.
It's coming from a NeXT.
It's going to a Solaris 2.4 box.
It mounts fine...
I move into the file systems directory, type "ls" on the Solaris box,
the damn thing freezes.
Anyone had this problem before ????
bill
billh@noesis.zone.org
From: mpaque@pbinet.com (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OD as boot disc?
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:08:32 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
Message-ID: <4jbpc9$fh4@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net>
References: <4j22ht$e0s@argentina.it.earthlink.net>
mckelvey@fafnir.com (James W. McKelvey) wrote:
>I remember seeing a post long ago in which someone stated that an OD can be
>configured to serve as a boot "kicker" to boot from CDROM, just like the
>floppy drive. I even remember trying it, without success.
>Has anyone ever done this successfully? What is the procedure?
Later model 68040 ROMs can nppt directly from the CD-ROM. 68030 and
early 68040 ROMs need the boot floppy/OD trick.
The Boot Floppy/OD Trick:
Early model ROMs don't grok booting from 2048 bytes per block
devices like CD-ROMs. To work around this, NeXT supplies a boot
floppy which contains a special boot block. The ROM code loads the
boot block from the floppy, and then the loaded boot code (which DOES
grok 2048 byte per block devices) boots the CD-ROM up.
If you can get to a working machine, you can generate your own boot
floppy or OD by putting the boot block image
/usr/standalone/boot.cdrom into the boot block of a NeXT formatted
floppy or OD.
For floppies:
su root
disk -B /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rfd0b
For Optical Disks:
su root
disk -B /usr/standalone/boot.cdrom /dev/rod0a
(As a last resort, I've even put the CD-ROM boot block on a SCSI hard
disk, and booted from that to start the CD-ROM based disk building
process. Not recommended if you need to recover data from the hard
disk first...)
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pbinet.com Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.4 NFS mount problems... can't ls the directory
Date: 27 Mar 1996 15:08:42 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4jbllq$39v@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <31594C84.41C6@burn.ucsd.edu>
In <31594C84.41C6@burn.ucsd.edu> Bill Huey wrote:
> Hey, I'm having a problem with mounting an exported NeXT directory
> to a Sun running 2.4 Solaris......
>
> I know this sound stupid....considering it's probably been done
> a million times....
>
> It works fine going to an SGI.
>
>
> I move into the newly mount and I can't "ls" the newly mounted file
> system.... it just pauses until I hit a Control-C. Strange.....
Did you set the rsize to 1024? There is an incompatability between
the two different versions of NFS that causes the problem you see.
There should be some crazy messages on the console as well.
Paul
--
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Ray Ryan <rjrjr@lighthouse.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Why can't NextStep PPP through my Sportster?
Date: 27 Mar 1996 17:59:44 GMT
Organization: Lighthouse Design, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4jbvmg$qgj@nntp1.best.com>
I have an internal Sportster 28.8 V.34 modem. It works beautifully for me
under Windows95 when I use it to establish PPP connections with my ISP or
with work. But when I try to use it for PPP under NextStep, I have no luck.
The biggest difference between these two situations is that my Windows system
knows that I have a Sportster, and presumably is doing some kind of
initialization magic to make everything work.
Under NextStep, I've of course had to write my own connect script. I
initialize my modem by sending it ATZ. From my end, it looks like my modem
and the answering modem successfully negotiate a protocol, usually at or near
28.8. The two hosts then try to negotiate a PPP connection, fail, and hang
up.
I've been able to debug this a bit at work. The modem answering there is an
external Sportster 28.8 V.34, and it is attached to a Portmaster. The debug
info on the Portmaster shows a series of CRC errors whenever I try to dial in
under NextStep.
One other interesting piece of information: I can make a successful
connection under NextStep via an eternal Intel 14.4 Faxmodem, with all other
variables held constant.
I've tried to contact USR for help. They've been...unresponsive. Does anyone
have any light to shed?
rjrjr
--
Ray Ryan, Lighthouse Design, Ltd. +1-415-570-7736 x14
rjrjr@lighthouse.com http://www.lighthouse.com/~rjrjr/
From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disabling Compression on a WangDat
Date: 27 Mar 1996 16:53:17 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Message-ID: <4jbrpt$3o0@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Does anyone know how to disable/enable hardware compression on a WangDAT 3200
connected to a NextStation TurboColor running NextStep 3.0? I use the
DAT mainly for backups so I would like to have compression enabled most
of the time, but occasionally I need to write DATs to be read at another
site which only understands uncompressed tapes.
Please reply by e-mail. Thank you very much for any help you can give me.
Tomaz Slivnik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mwang@jeanluc.dr.att.com (131A50000-WangM(DR3320)8)
Subject: test
Message-ID: <DoxvDF.9M9@bigtop.dr.att.com>
Sender: mwang@jeanluc (131A50000-WangM(DR3320)8)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 18:29:39 GMT
hello this is a test.
my real quiesion will be posted once this is verified.
Thanks
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty)
Subject: syslogd failing and halting boot
Message-ID: <cdoutyDoxpwq.AoK@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:31:38 GMT
Sender: cdouty@netcom13.netcom.com
Help!
I am having trouble getting my main home machine to boot. As it is
the NetInfo master and fileserver for my Intel machine I am out of the
NeXTstep business. I have a NDturbo running 3.3 patched; it worked
fine until the last time I shut down.
Prior to shutting down the last time I installed the "NDbootscreen"
program to change my console window to the BW MegaPixel while leaving
the ND as the primary WindowServer screen. I don't know if this has
anything to do with the problem, but it's the last change I remember
making. Now when I try to boot I get an error like:
syslog going down on signal 15: inappropriate ioctl for device
right after lookupd starts. (Or at least right after lookupd's startup
message appears on the console.) The system then dumps me to single
user mode.
If I try to start syslogd manually or exit the single user shell and
let /etc/rc run, then I get an error "service syslog/udp unknown".
However I can start from monitor, boot to single user mode, and then
run every command in /etc/rc IN ORDER wih no problems. NetInfo
doesn't _seem_ to be corrupted. /etc/services and the NetInfo
/services directory both list syslog at udp port 514.
Basically I can't see anything wrong, but I can't boot multi-user. I
have even replaced my local.nidb from the CD-ROM to no avail. (I was
worried that NetInfo was corrupt.) Anyone seen anything like this?
I have backups, but don't really want to reinstall the machine.
Thanks for any assistance,
Chris Douty
--
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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: cbrooks@futon.SFSU.EDU ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with Sybase on NS 3.3 (black)
Date: 27 Mar 1996 20:55:03 GMT
Organization: San Francisco State University
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4jc9v7$28d@nuke.csu.net>
Hi.
We're working on an online quiz program here at San Francisco State
using Sybase as the back-end DB. We're running this on a Black NeXTstation
running NS 3.3 with 32 MB of RAM.
Here's the problem - we're unable to open more than a few connections
to the SQL server at one time (we'd like to have about 15) - the docs say
that this can be changed by reconfiguring the database, but that the maximum
number of connections is bounded by the variable @@max_connections. All
they say about this is that it's OS dependent. On our system this is 8,
which is much lower than we'd like it to be. (The examples in the
documentation show @@max_connections = 30, and the SQL Server can
supposedly support 250 connections.)
So, my questions are, how can we raise this number, and/or, what
exactly is it dependent on? Is it file descriptors? Semaphores?
Available memory?
If anyone out there has any help or insight, it'd be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris Brooks
cbrooks@futon.sfsu.edu
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP & Firewalls: Possible?
Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:00:40 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4jcdq8$po5@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4j94p6$olf@nkosi.well.com> <4ja5kp$eoa@paladin.american.edu>
<4jaa8q$slm@swifty.cfa.org>
In <4jaa8q$slm@swifty.cfa.org> Peter Eisch wrote:
> "A dual-homed host can never be a firewall."
>
Well lets just say this. It is a really bad firewall. One I would never use
but one I have seen in operation. (I tried to tell them...they wouldn't
listen.)
--
Torrey McMahon
From: michael@fortress.cs.wwu.edu (Michael F. DeMan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAX on Intel
Date: 27 Mar 1996 21:37:26 GMT
Organization: Western Washington University
Message-ID: <4jccem$4vj@ra.cc.wwu.edu>
Does anyone out there know where I can get a driver to run a FAX/Modem
board on an intel machine? It emulates a class 2.0 FAX but I can't seem
to find any drivers that work. I got a shareware one but it has bugs.
Thanks,
Mike DeMan
From: cvanbus@tcs.tulane.edu (_chris_)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP as an http server....
Date: 27 Mar 1996 22:22:19 GMT
Organization: Tulane University
Message-ID: <cvanbus-2703961621500001@dialup28.tcs.tulane.edu>
I'm forming a small web publishing company, and I'm wondering if anyone has
used nextstep as a web server. I have been looking at many differing os's,
and like the look of nextstep and webobjects.
Can anyone shoot me the pros and cons.....
many thanks....
--
Chris Van Buskirk
Tulane University
http://studentweb.tulane.edu/~cvanbus
From: kykim@access5.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Virtual IP via PPP-2.2
Date: 27 Mar 1996 20:36:40 -0500
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
Message-ID: <kykim.827976894@access5>
Hi,
Has anyone out there been able to do this? I followed the
directions in the PPP FAQ, but it didn't work.
I feel really stupid, because the directions were so clear.
I can't believe I can't figure this out.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers people can offer.
Thanks,
-kevin
kykim@access.digex.net
From: "William J. Peterson" <peterson@media.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 on NS FIP cannot send out of my domain.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 01:38:05 -0500
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Services (617) 396-0491
Message-ID: <315A33CD.442@media.mit.edu>
References: <960320120358.352AAEYJ.pmt@a22459> <315129CC.36B2@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <4is7up$pm5@usc.edu>
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I also have a sendmail question.
I have a single Intel Machine on a lan with a T1,
there is both a normal mailhost machine and a
POP server how do I get mail to work?
Bill Peterson
From: kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FAQs for NeXT
Date: 28 Mar 1996 06:47:37 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4jdcm9$peu@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
I notice there are some FAQs on the net. Anyone know the location to get
it?
I am looking for infomation on 4mm DAT backup HOWTO.
--KAI--
--
Email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
NeXTMAIL & MIME Welcome
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi
From: kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 4mm DAT HOWTO
Date: 28 Mar 1996 06:50:55 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4jdcsf$peu@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
I saw there was a 4mm tape backup howto sometimes ago. Could someone repost
it?
I need help on how to backup my data on i386/NeXT to WangDAT 3200 4mm DAT.
BTW, I have the SCSITape driver install and it detect fine.
--KAI--
--
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you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: NeXT to SUN NFS mount problems
Message-ID: <1996Mar28.083240.25811@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
References: <315956DA.167E@burn.ucsd.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 08:32:40 GMT
In article <315956DA.167E@burn.ucsd.edu>,
Bill Huey <bill@burn.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>Something happen to my post when I looked this at news group again...
>
>So I'm gonna ask the same question....
>
>I got this NFS mount.
>It's coming from a NeXT.
>It's going to a Solaris 2.4 box.
>
>It mounts fine...
>
>I move into the file systems directory, type "ls" on the Solaris box,
>the damn thing freezes.
>
>Anyone had this problem before ????
The default buffer sizes of the two versions of NFS are incompatible.
Solution: include the options 'rsize=1024 wsize=1024' in your mount
command on the Solaris machine.
g.
--
His big tears, for he wept full well,/Turned to mill-stones as they fell./And
the little children, who/Round his feet played to and fro,/Thinking every tear
a gem,/Had their brains knocked out by them.--Percy Bysshe Shelley, `Of Fraud'
Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf@math.rochester.edu> http://theorem.math.rochester.edu/
From: Bill Huey <bill@burn.ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.4 NFS mount problems... can't ls the directory
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 03:17:44 -0800
Organization: digigami
Message-ID: <315A7558.167E@burn.ucsd.edu>
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CC: billh@noesis, jerry@cb.cshl.org
Paul Lynch wrote:
>
> In <31594C84.41C6@burn.ucsd.edu> Bill Huey wrote:
> > Hey, I'm having a problem with mounting an exported NeXT directory
...
> Did you set the rsize to 1024? There is an incompatability between
> the two different versions of NFS that causes the problem you see.
> There should be some crazy messages on the console as well.
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
> Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
> Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Ah, yes....thanks......Got some wacky "mem:0..." stuff on console
to like you stated...
It makes me wonder if NeXT should just release their source for the OS
in the public domain, considering NetBSD and family seem MUCH more
modern.
You know, since the 3.3 is old and cranky it might be a REAL
improvement.
bill
billh@noesis.zone.org
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT to SUN NFS mount problems
Date: 28 Mar 1996 14:16:17 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4je6vh$2uf@news.its.com>
References: <315956DA.167E@burn.ucsd.edu>
Bill Huey <bill@burn.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Something happen to my post when I looked this at news group again...
>
> So I'm gonna ask the same question....
>
> I got this NFS mount.
> It's coming from a NeXT.
> It's going to a Solaris 2.4 box.
>
> It mounts fine...
>
> I move into the file systems directory, type "ls" on the Solaris box,
> the damn thing freezes.
Yup. From the Solaris 2 FAQ:
5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs.
In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit
NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default.
This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations
(such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT)
There are two workarounds. The first one works and is:
mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024.
The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696 is:
Edit /etc/system and add:
set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1
and reboot.
------------
Of course, the best solution would be for NeXT to fix the bug in
their NFS implementation....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Suggestion: Upgrade from Black to B&W
Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:49:53 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4jecf1$k9a@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hi NeXTusers,
the following thought was sitting in my head for a while now. The story goes
like this:
I like NeXTstep, I like my black slab (the box, monitor, keyboard, mouse) and
I like the NeXT laser printer. I don't like the speed though.
So, I was dreaming about an upgrade.
1. Find a Pentium or P6 motherboard that fits the station box, has SCSI,
serial/parallel ports, sound and graphics on board.
2. The graphics should be compatible with the NeXT monitors. There are SVGA
card that can do that, but on the motherboard??
3. Make the keyboard talk to the motherboard. It might be necessary to use
only the mechanical part of the keyboard and put new electronics into the
keyboard. I just like the feel of the keys.
4. Connect the onboard sound to DSP connector, if the sound chip is
compatible. I.e. the chip ought to be compatible with some good standard, if
not with the old DSP.
5. Connect the serial ports to A and B connectors.
6. The most difficult part seems to be the laser printer. Somebody really
experienced could be able to handle it ... We'd need HW and SW work done
here.
Why am I posting it here? I was thinking that if we found a large group of
NeXT users that would like to get involved in this, we could maybe convince
some small company to help us with such a project.
Tell me what you think.
Thanks,
Rudy Blazek
blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: mih@karl.linguist.jussieu.fr (Michel Hebrard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: stupid question about printer
Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:49:30 +0100
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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I have a poor lonely NeXT 3.3 lost between some sparc
with sunos 4.1.[3,4] running C2secure. How do i tell
this poor thing that the printer is
managed by a sparc machine ?
updating /etc/printcap does not work ?
thanks for any help.
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Et entendu ce qu'on a entendu...
Faut pas s'etonner de penser ce que l'on pense !
From: eds@StarFire.com (Ed Sweeney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Performance monitoring sw
Date: 28 Mar 1996 16:14:14 GMT
Organization: SuperNet Inc. +1.303.296.8202 Denver Colorado
Message-ID: <4jedsm$4ll@news-2.csn.net>
Check out the free 30 day trial of Pulsar.
A systems and process monitoirng tool.
FTP through the web page
http://www.StarFire.com
From: allan@zen.ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: HP 3.2 Panics repeatedly, help?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 16:59:28 GMT
Organization: ALI
Message-ID: <4jeghg$c0f@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
References: <4j7li0$3i0@swifty.cfa.org> <4j7m1c$3tv@swifty.cfa.org>
In <4j7m1c$3tv@swifty.cfa.org> Peter Eisch wrote:
> Can you help me? I'm getting this message logged by syslog about a
> second before the host locks up (no auto-reboot either) with:
>...
> Mar 25 19:08:34 host mach: Expanding zone pmap
> Mar 25 19:20:03 host mach: Expanding zone pmap
> Mar 25 20:11:59 host mach: NeXT Mach 3.2: Tue Jul 12 18:26:52 PDT 1994;
> root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-150.0.0.55.obj~2/RELEASE_HPPA
I encountered similar entries and behaviour when I had
a bug in a program which called free() for some memory
which it got from a low-level mach message. It
should have been calling vm_deallocate(), and thus
was causing the kernel to slowly leak memory over
time.
Hope this helps.
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL
Subject: Re: NeXT OS ...
Message-ID: <Dozy47.5Lw@RnA.NL>
Sender: gerben@RnA.NL (Gerben Wierda)
Organization: R&A
References: <315872B5.2A77@worldbank.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 21:24:07 GMT
In article <315872B5.2A77@worldbank.org> Stefano Pagiola
<spagiola@worldbank.org> writes:
> Aswin Majjiga wrote:
> > Could someone tell me if NeXT has its own OS.
>
> Yes. Called NeXTSTEP. Soon to mutate into a new version called OPENSTEP
> for xxx (where xxx is Mach, WNT, Solaris, etc).
>
Let's not confuse things. NeXT has a combination of OS and OO environment. The
combination is called NEXTSTEP and is currently in it's 3.3+ release. It is
available for original NeXT 68040 based computers, intel 486 based PC's, HP
9000 PA-RISC computers and Sun SPARCStations.
The OS (which actually is a version of Mach with a BSD interface) and the OO
environment are to be separated. The OO environment will be called OpenStep and
it's an open standard jointly drafted by Sun and NeXT on the basis of NEXTSTEP.
OpenStep will initially be available for MachOS (the original OS part of
NEXTSTEP), Windows/NT and Sun Solaris. HP PA-RISC will no longer be supported
(no MachOS for HPPA and no OpenStep for HP-UX). MachOS for Sun hardware will
probably be dropped as soon as OpenStep/Solaris is out. There have been rumours
of an OSF port by DEC.
NeXT will probably support MachOS for intel hardware (though OpenStep/Solaris
and OpenStep/NT are substitutes here) and as long as there is demand. It is not
sure what this support means in terms of support for new hardware (drivers) and
how many energy NeXT will put into it.
--
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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: wu-ftpd 2.4 under NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Date: 25 Mar 1996 22:07:19 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com>
Has anyone had any success getting this to compile?
There is a binary only version on thoughtport, but the settings aren't
available, and I believe that the paths are different than what I'd
like.
It says it should compile under NEXTSTEP 3.x, but it doesn't.
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELO error please help
Date: 28 Mar 1996 21:51:21 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jf1kp$d9g@news.its.com>
References: <1996Mar26.201608@miavx1>
cmboggess@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Return of Tribble) wrote:
> I have recently taken the position of one of the next admins here at
> miami and I am getting the following error regarding sending mail to
> the cube from outside sources. any tips on what to do with this one?
> any help would be appreciated.
[ ... ]
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While connected to nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu:
> >>> HELO nextsrv
> <<< 553 nextsrv config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 <root@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu>... 554 Service unavailable
[ ... ]
That generally means that sendmail is not recognizing local addresses as
local, perhaps because you haven't given your machine a fully-qualified
domain name.
Add your machine's FQDN (and any other FQDN's that should be local) to Class
"w", ie the line in /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf that starts with "Cw".
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd 2.4 under NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Date: 28 Mar 1996 15:16:00 -0800
Organization: Aimnet Corporation
Message-ID: <4jf6jg$jlk@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com>
In article <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com>,
Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote:
>Has anyone had any success getting this to compile?
>
>There is a binary only version on thoughtport, but the settings aren't
>available, and I believe that the paths are different than what I'd
>like.
>
>It says it should compile under NEXTSTEP 3.x, but it doesn't.
I compiled it under 3.3 successfully just a couple of days ago.
I did have to compile it with -no-precomp, and there was one other
tiny problem I ran into. It couldn't have been very difficult, though,
since I was able to figure out how to fix it by myself ;-)
Lusty
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: strace in NeXTStep
Date: 28 Mar 1996 23:50:11 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4jf8jj$73o@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Is there an strace program for NeXTStep?
/ivo welch
--
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd 2.4 under NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Date: 29 Mar 1996 03:18:15 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-19.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4jfkpn$ov@usc.edu>
References: <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com> <4jf6jg$jlk@aimnet.aimnet.com>
In <4jf6jg$jlk@aimnet.aimnet.com> Lusty Wench wrote:
> In article <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com>,
> Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote:
> >Has anyone had any success getting this to compile?
> >
> > There is a binary only version on thoughtport, but the settings aren't
> > available, and I believe that the paths are different than what I'd like.
> >
> >It says it should compile under NEXTSTEP 3.x, but it doesn't.
>
> I compiled it under 3.3 successfully just a couple of days ago. I did have
> to compile it with -no-precomp, and there was one other tiny problem I ran
> into. It couldn't have been very difficult, though, since I was able to
> figure out how to fix it by myself ;-)
Is there a precompiled version for NS 3.3 m68k? I can't compile, yet I've
wanted wu-ftpd for a long time.
(Of course, a kind soul could NeXTMail me it w/ man page (if exist), hint
hint hint 8*)
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From: abid@solaria.com (Abid Khwaja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uart overrun on NeXT Cube
Date: 29 Mar 1996 04:03:12 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jfne0$d5v@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
References: <4j71cu$e0b@chinx4.thoughtport.net> <4j9b1s$7ml@news.its.com>
In <4j9b1s$7ml@news.its.com> Chuck Swiger wrote:
> From "man zs":
>
> zs%d: recv buffer overrun. The software input silo over-
> flowed before it could be serviced.
>
> zs%d: recv uart overrun. The 8530 receiver silo overflowed
> before it could be serviced.
>
> If you're not using hardware flow control, use it. Try running the
> serial port at a lower speed and see whether that helps. I had a
> small program that would perform a ZIOCTSET ioctl on the /dev/cufa
> device to alter the minimum silo process delay; using that ioctl to
> set a lower delay might help as well.
>
> -Chuck
>
> Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
> --------------------------------+---------------------------------------
> CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
>
From what I've been told so far, the NeXT serial port balks at speeds higher
than 38,400, thus the errors. And there is not much that can be done about
it. Lowering the speed does take care of the problem - not a very nice
solution.
Thanks for your reply and the pointer to modifying ioctl delay. I'll try
playing around with it.
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From: "William J. Peterson" <peterson@media.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SIS & NetInfo
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:13:41 -0500
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Services (617) 396-0491
Message-ID: <315BA9C5.106B@media.mit.edu>
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Having problems getting SIS (Simple InterNeXT
Starter) to work. Every time I try to configure
NetInfo it panics and reboots the system. What
might I be doing wrong?
Bill Peterson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: helmut@nexcom.hanse.de (Helmut Schoenborn)
Subject: Re: getty or init hangs on login
Message-ID: <1996Mar27.101009.1519@nexcom.hanse.de>
Keywords: getty,init,ppp
Organization: Nexcom
References: <4j0den$3ok@hydra.acs.ttu.edu>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 10:10:09 GMT
alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst) writes:
>Hello all. I have been plugging away with SJ Perkins PPP but have
>recently ran into a snag. I recently upgraded my modems to v34 and now
>have a problem (a coincidence I think). I think the problem resides
>somewhere after init or getty is going. I may have clobbered a file when
>the system crashed due to dirty modem signals (had phone line trouble
>too). In any case here is what is happening. When I try to come in over
>the modem I get:
>CARRIER 28800
>PROTOCOL: LAP-M
>CONNECT 38400
>NeXT / NXFax (osci) (ttydfb)
>osci login: alan
>P8^w'dw
>Where the password prompt becomes garbage and the login hangs at this
>point. I have tried reinstalling PPP (0.4.6), the serial port drivers,
>port server, and NXFax. I have also tried a different serial port card, I
>even upgraded the system bios, all to no avail. So I guess the problem is
>not with PPP, hardware, or drivers. It must be somewhere in the process
>of opening a terminal. All tips are appreciated.
Try to check the entry NXFax appends to /etc/gettytab.
Depending on your NXFax version (this is from 1.04) it should be like
NXFaxB::ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT / NXFax (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:p8:sp#38400:
^^ check especially for the double colons; my NXFaxInstaller only
put one colon there, thus producing garbage output.
The entry in the defaults database
NXFax MaxDTERate 38400
should contain the same baudrate.
--
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From: "William J. Peterson" <peterson@media.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting Intel on network
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:21:50 -0500
Organization: Cyber Access Internet Services (617) 396-0491
Message-ID: <315BABAE.5AA6@media.mit.edu>
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I found that my problem with getting a single Intel
machine on a network was caused by the fact that
the 3COMIII combo card will only work on IRQ 10. I
tried IRQ 15 as it would show OK on boot up,
but IRQ 10 could not be reserved. I made sure that
in the bios (ASUS 512k with p150) IRQ 10 was
reserved for isa. It turns out that the sound
blaster was set to IRQ 10, as soon as I removed it
and set 3COM to IRQ 10 it worked. Also I did not
know that if you have only one machine NeXT it must
be NetInfo server.
Are there any books on general set up for next? the
manual that came with the acedemic bundle it use
less.
Hope this saves someone the month long nightmare I
had.
Bill Peterson
From: kohler@lithnext (Vincent Kohler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup Q: Home icons missing.
Date: 29 Mar 1996 06:19:56 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Message-ID: <4jfvec$eva@disunms.epfl.ch>
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Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote:
Hi Rudolf,
You mounted your second driwe with an fstab entry, did you ?
Or you can't get any chance to let the Workspace recognize homes.
A typical /etc/fstab file contains:
#boot disk, here it's an IDE (Intel machine...)
/dev/hd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
#second disk, a SCSI one, here mounted at /Disk2
/dev/sd0a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
You said other users get their homes as regular folders, that means
the Workspace could not find them at time.
: Lastly I have copied the directories /private/etc and private/adm
: from the old external disk and rebooted.
I cannot see why you made this copy.
Hope that helps
Vincent
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From: kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to Create CBDF Font file?
Date: 29 Mar 1996 06:47:19 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4jg11n$ip@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
Hello,
I have downloaded a Garamond font which come with Garamond outline font and
AFM file. But without CBDF file. Anyone know how to create one?
--kai--
Email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca URL: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
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you do it." --Mahatma Gandhi
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Quantum or IBM - 2GB Drives
Date: 29 Mar 1996 06:59:28 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4jg1og$6ng@nuke.csu.net>
Has anyone had good experiences with the following drives on
Black Hardware - Running NS3.3:
Quantum Grand Prix XP32151 S (2 GB)
or
IBM - OEM Drives - Ultrastar ES 3.5-inch 2.16 GB Disk Drives
Any information about being able to use them as the boot disk
(i.e., disktab info , front porch problems, speed issueds)
would be appreciated... I am about to purchase on and would
like to get one that would give me the least amount of problems.
Thanks..
Victor Quevedo
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From: Alex Chan <chan@cs.unt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: '$LBL not found' at boot prompt and failed to boot
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 07:22:39 -0600
Organization: Computer Science, University of North Texas
Message-ID: <315BE41F.6202@cs.unt.edu>
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I have a bootup problem with my nextstep 3.3 on intel.
I was trying to setup my SB32 PnP at home last night and it crash
really hard when any sound play. (That's another problem :(
The last time it crash was when I tried to turn off my computer and
it seemed that the nextstp loader is damaged at that time.
Whenever nexstep boot, the boot prompt comes up and if I press
enter, '-v', '-s' or whatever, it will shown an error message of
'unable to find $LBL' and then the prompt was returned. It won't
even show the 'Loading Nextstep...' message or any further bootup
message of reading the /usr/devices/*.config files.
I boot from the NS3.3 installation floppy disk and I can mount
the root directory on my SCSI boot disk. It seems the file system
is fine except the boot loader on that SCSI disk is somehow damaged.
Anyone knows how to rebuild that nextstep boot loader?
I read the nextanswer and the faq but found no hints on doing that.
Any help will be greatly apprecipated
TIA
--
Alex Chan
Email: chan@cs.unt.edu
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 29 Mar 1996 10:59:29 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4jgfqh$via@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> <4isr0q$lmg@usc.edu> <4it5iu$1hf0@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote:
: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
: How would you do something like that if you were using GateKeeper.app? I
: would like to not only send all mail, but also automatically dowload mail
: from a pop server and adjust the time in my pure black pizza box using our
: campus time server.
To download mail from a pop server, use PopOver (from the Peanuts server)
and start it from ip-up, just like sendmail -q !
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Mail/apps/PopOver.1.4.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
: Thanks, Rudy.
: blazek@stt.msu.edu
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From: bbum@friday.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd 2.4 under NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Date: 29 Mar 1996 17:07:40 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jh5cs$dfg@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
References: <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com> <4jf6jg$jlk@aimnet.aimnet.com> <4jfkpn$ov@usc.edu>
# Is there a precompiled version for NS 3.3 m68k? I can't compile,
# yet I've wanted wu-ftpd for a long time.
#
# (Of course, a kind soul could NeXTMail me it w/ man page (if
# exist), hint hint hint 8*)
I have made the source for the ThoughtPort Authority modified version of
wu-ftp available at ftp.thoughtport.com. URLs follow:
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/tools
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/tools/wu-ftp-2_4.b.SHIN.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/tools/wu-ftp-tpa.2_4.s.SHIN.tar.gz
The only modifications were to the paths [configuration follows] and those
modifications necessary to build wu-ftp under NEXTSTEP as a quad-fat binary.
Now that the source is available, if these paths are unsuitable, simply
change them in src/pathnames.h and rebuild.
Note, this particular build of wu-ftp has active on TPA's ftp server for
about 2 months with no problems or downtime; since the server is the primary
host to Bolo (a Macintosh network game that has quite a following), to all of
Netsurfer's software and to the NeXT PPP software from Mr. Perkins, it has
incurred relatively heavy load at times (without a problem). Gotta love that
Black hardware!
As always, as a way of saying thanks for TPA's sponsorship of the NeXT
community, please visit TPA's web site at...
http://www.thoughtport.com
..and see if TPA has any product/services that you might find interesting.
b.bum
#define _PATH_FTPUSERS "/etc/ftp/ftpusers"
#define _PATH_FTPACCESS "/etc/ftp/ftpaccess"
#define _PATH_EXECPATH "/bin/ftp-exec" /* relative to ~ftp */
#define _PATH_PIDNAMES "/etc/ftp/ftpd/ftp.pids-%s"
#define _PATH_CVT "/etc/ftp/ftpconversions"
#define _PATH_XFERLOG "/usr/adm/xferlog"
#define _PATH_PRIVATE "/etc/ftp/ftpgroups"
#define _PATH_UTMP "/etc/utmp"
#define _PATH_WTMP "/usr/adm/wtmp"
#define _PATH_LASTLOG "/usr/adm/lastlog"
#define _PATH_BSHELL "/bin/sh"
#define _PATH_DEVNULL "/dev/null"
#define _PATH_FTPHOSTS "/etc/ftp/ftphosts"
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: '$LBL not found' at boot prompt and failed to boot
Date: 29 Mar 1996 15:13:25 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4jguml$evi@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <315BE41F.6202@cs.unt.edu>
Alex Chan <chan@cs.unt.edu> wrote:
: I have a bootup problem with my nextstep 3.3 on intel.
: I was trying to setup my SB32 PnP at home last night and it crash
: really hard when any sound play. (That's another problem :(
: The last time it crash was when I tried to turn off my computer and
: it seemed that the nextstp loader is damaged at that time.
: Whenever nexstep boot, the boot prompt comes up and if I press
: enter, '-v', '-s' or whatever, it will shown an error message of
: 'unable to find $LBL' and then the prompt was returned. It won't
: even show the 'Loading Nextstep...' message or any further bootup
: message of reading the /usr/devices/*.config files.
: I boot from the NS3.3 installation floppy disk and I can mount
: the root directory on my SCSI boot disk. It seems the file system
: is fine except the boot loader on that SCSI disk is somehow damaged.
: Anyone knows how to rebuild that nextstep boot loader?
: I read the nextanswer and the faq but found no hints on doing that.
I doubt that this is a problem with the boot loader. We have experienced this
several times -- and it has _always_ been corrupted ".table" files in the
"/usr/Devices/i386/*.config" trees. Basically, we have seen it as simple as a
toasted "System.config" (both the "Default.table" and the "Instance0.table" had
a size of _0_!), and toasted _everything_ (all the "Instance0.tables" for _all_
configs were _0_ size files!). If you can boot from diskette, you should be
able to manually munge the Default.table and/or the Instance0.table for each
driver you need to load. If that's not it -- let us know what you discover (I'm
still learning new things, even after 5+ years of NEXTSTEP use...)
I'd like to know what is causing it -- it has happened too many times to be just
a 'strange occurance' that should be ignored.
--
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Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: wadeg@cadvision.com (George Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Deleting User Account
Date: 29 Mar 1996 16:11:26 GMT
Organization: CADVision
Message-ID: <4jh23e$135u@darkwing.cadvision.com>
I am currently attempting to remove a number of user accounts from
my NeXT server. However, the users are located on two separate drives
under different paths: (/Users/ and /NextDisk/home/). I am able to
access and remove the /User accounts, but when I try to delete the
/NextDisk/home/ users, the manager can not see them.
Question: am I doing something wrong when attempting to change the
domain from root "/" to "/NextDisk/home? If so, what should I be
doing to access and delete the user accounts on the other path?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Regards:
From: khan@ee.gatech.edu (Ubaid R. Khan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXT starts and hangs up on yp server search
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 17:37:45 GMT
Organization: MicroElectronics Research Center
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4jh73o$rap@mordred.gatech.edu>
Hi,
We have Next whose IP address was changed to move to a different subnet.
Since then we have not been able to get the Next to come up. It hangs on looking for
a yp domain. The message that come up on the console before it hangs up on
the yp lookup are :
netinfo ypbind lookupd .... (i guess it hangs up on this!)
micro netmsgserver[58]: network_init
Any clues? We tried unplugging the network cable but that didn't help either.
This is out LISTSERVER & we need to get it working ASAP.
I wonder if there is a way to startup the Next with network disabled then
we can either disable the NIS/yellow pages ot reconfigure the needed files.
Thanks
Ubaid
**********************************************************
Ubaid R. Khan ukhan@microelec.mirc.gatech.edu
Electrical & Computer Engineering (404)-853-9924/25
Georgia Institute of Technology (404)-892-5962 (H)
Atlanta, GA 30332
**********************************************************
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 29 Mar 1996 10:05:56 GMT
Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4jgcm4$vi@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
Hi,
on my NS Intel system the CDPlayer.app just gives "could not open the
CD-ROM drive" on startup. Data CD are working, the auto start of
CDPlayer.app on the insert of audio CD does not work.
What is wrong here?
Please help!!
Wolfgang
--
Dipl.-Wirtsch.Inf. Voice: +49 941 943 2998
Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 4986
Uni Regensburg E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de
Universitaetsstr. 31 Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de
D-93053 Regensburg (MIME and NeXTmail ok)
Germany WWW: http://www.whu-koblenz.de/~wolfgang/
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Why can't NextStep PPP through my Sportster?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:55:50 -0800
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <315C4046.5053@mpr.ca>
References: <4jbvmg$qgj@nntp1.best.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: Ray Ryan <rjrjr@lighthouse.com>
Ray Ryan wrote:
>
> I have an internal Sportster 28.8 V.34 modem. It works beautifully for me
> under Windows95 when I use it to establish PPP connections with my ISP or
> with work. But when I try to use it for PPP under NextStep, I have no luck.
> The biggest difference between these two situations is that my Windows system
> knows that I have a Sportster, and presumably is doing some kind of
> initialization magic to make everything work.
>
> Under NextStep, I've of course had to write my own connect script. I
> initialize my modem by sending it ATZ. From my end, it looks like my modem
> and the answering modem successfully negotiate a protocol, usually at or near
> 28.8. The two hosts then try to negotiate a PPP connection, fail, and hang
> up.
>
> I've been able to debug this a bit at work. The modem answering there is an
> external Sportster 28.8 V.34, and it is attached to a Portmaster. The debug
> info on the Portmaster shows a series of CRC errors whenever I try to dial in
> under NextStep.
>
> One other interesting piece of information: I can make a successful
> connection under NextStep via an eternal Intel 14.4 Faxmodem, with all other
> variables held constant.
>
> I've tried to contact USR for help. They've been...unresponsive. Does anyone
> have any light to shed?
>
> rjrjr
>
> --
> Ray Ryan, Lighthouse Design, Ltd. +1-415-570-7736 x14
> rjrjr@lighthouse.com http://www.lighthouse.com/~rjrjr/
I had a similar problem although the error messages that i got had
to do with no being able to get magic number.
Here is some background on my problem:
My system would have difficulty sycronizing the data (i think) and
wouldn't even get my IP properly. I used to use Microsoft Mail
Remote to connect my pc to work to check my mail. Now that my modem
was hooked up to my Nextstation things didn't always work right. I
was able to use tip to connect to our terminal server, so I new that
the modem was working properly. I found that since ATZ only resest
the modem there were alot of settings that MSMAIL had changed on me
and written them to the ROM.
Solution:
I was successful only once I reloaded the factory defaults with
"AT&F1".
I had to right these defaults to the ROM with AT&W1 because my
connect script did not like the & (I have no idea why)
Hope this helps.
--
Scott Mewett
MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C.
mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only
mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd 2.4 under NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Date: 29 Mar 1996 18:22:50 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-70.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4jh9pq$evh@usc.edu>
References: <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com> <4jf6jg$jlk@aimnet.aimnet.com>
<4jfkpn$ov@usc.edu> <4jh5cs$dfg@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
In <4jh5cs$dfg@chinx4.thoughtport.net> bbum@friday.com wrote:
> I have made the source for the ThoughtPort Authority modified version of
> wu-ftp available at ftp.thoughtport.com. URLs follow:
Thanks b.bum very much. (and ThoughtPort, as usual).
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
months!?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: bmuell@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bernie Mueller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tcsh as logon shell
Date: 29 Mar 1996 18:36:54 GMT
Organization: TRW, One Space Park MS O1/1061, Redondo Beach,CA 90278 (310) 813-0690
Message-ID: <4jhak6$ei@ns5.nba.TRW.COM>
I just did something dum. I replaced the shell /bin/csh with
/usr/local/bin/tcsh using the UserManager in both user accounts
(root, me). Upon the next bootup, I am not allowed past the
multi-user login ( something like 'tcsh is not a login shell').
If I boot in single user, I cannot access netinfo via nu, niutil,
etc. Question: How can I get back into multi-user mode short
of reinstalling from the CD ROM? dum -dumm
.
--
bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compuserve mail through NextMail.app
Date: 29 Mar 1996 20:50:44 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
How does one send mail through Mail.app to Compuserve? Those damn
number1,number2@compuserve.com addresses gets messed up. The number before
the comma tries to get to the local system and then compuserv gets only the
2nd number@compuserv.com.
Anyone have a fix?
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, and ASCII PGP and CyptorBundle
PGP Key available via finger and home page. Check the headers for both.
From: John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 29 Mar 1996 22:53:37 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4jhplh$scc@nuke.csu.net>
References: <4jgcm4$vi@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
In <4jgcm4$vi@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> Wolfgang Roeckelein wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on my NS Intel system the CDPlayer.app just gives "could not open the
> CD-ROM drive" on startup. Data CD are working, the auto start of
> CDPlayer.app on the insert of audio CD does not work.
>
> What is wrong here?
>
> Please help!!
>
> Wolfgang
>
I had the same problem under NS 3.2, and I have the same problem now
under NS 3.3. Under 3.2 I at least at one point had it so that I could
run CDPlayer if I was logged in to the console as root. But I couldn't
do it if I was logged in to the console as someone else and spawned the
CDPlayer app as root. So I'm not sure what causes it.
(I only tried running CDPlayer on console as root under 3.2.. I haven't
tried THAT since I upgraded to 3.3.. so I don't know if even that much
works)
--
John "Kzin" Rudd kzin@isc.sjsu.edu http://icb.sjsu.edu/~kzin
=========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============
When I hear people sigh 'life is hard', i am always tempted to ask,
'compared to what?'" -- sydney j harris
From: jschilli@nimitz.plato.sky.bdm.com (Jeff Schilling,,3346,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disable telnet?
Date: 29 Mar 1996 22:25:59 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jho1n$t6f@news.mcl.bdm.com>
I'm trying to disable telnet access to my 3.3 NeXT box. Is this
possible? If so, how do I do it? Any help will be greatly
appreciated.
Jeff
--
Jeff Schilling
Price Waterhouse LLP
jschilli@plato.sky.bdm.com (NeXT mail)
jeff_schilling@notes.pw.com (MIME)
jschill2@bdm.com (MIME)
d I mailed a couple of you directly on
this problem so please forgive the redundancy) is no matter if I add the
umask line to the smb.conf file, it still uses the default umask. This is
starting to become a real problem because I'm constantly having to correct
permission problems.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Scott Newton
Trilobyte
PS Has anyone installed FTP's NFS client for Win 95 or NT?
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Virtual IP via PPP-2.2
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 09:55:15 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960328095330.2064K-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <kykim.827976894@access5>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Kevin Yungsun Kim <kykim@access5.digex.net>
In-Reply-To: <kykim.827976894@access5>
On 27 Mar 1996, Kevin Yungsun Kim wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone out there been able to do this? I followed the
> directions in the PPP FAQ, but it didn't work.
>
> I feel really stupid, because the directions were so clear.
> I can't believe I can't figure this out.
>
> Anyway, I'd appreciate any pointers people can offer.
>
Well, one obvious pointer would be the PPP for NS Mailing List
<nextppp@chinx1.thoughtport.com>.
I haven't done this, so I can't offer any suggestions. However, I am sure
that someone on the list will know how to do it.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: Re: tcsh as logon shell
In-Reply-To: bmuell@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE's message of 29 Mar 1996 18:36:54 GMT
Message-ID: <7xvijno4bk.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
To: bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: hardly any...
References: <4jhak6$ei@ns5.nba.TRW.COM>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 23:41:20 GMT
>>>>> "BM" == Bernie Mueller <bmuell@odel.sp.trw.com> writes:
BM> I just did something dum. I replaced the shell /bin/csh with
BM> /usr/local/bin/tcsh using the UserManager in both user
BM> accounts (root, me). Upon the next bootup, I am not allowed
BM> past the multi-user login ( something like 'tcsh is not a
BM> login shell').
Add /usr/local/bin/tcsh to the list of shells in /etc/shells. tcsh
will be recognized then.
BM> Question: How can I get back into multi-user mode short of
BM> reinstalling from the CD ROM?
I can't help you with that but your problem should be solved with
echo "/usr/local/bin/tcsh" >> /etc/shells
hth,
markus g a/k/a the mole
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/ / / / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tm@burrow.muc.de
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: Re: Compuserve mail through NextMail.app
In-Reply-To: tm8025a@american.edu's message of 29 Mar 1996 20:50:44 GMT
Message-ID: <7xspero476.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
To: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: hardly any...
References: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 23:43:57 GMT
>>>>> "TM" == Torrey McMahon <tm8025a@american.edu> writes:
TM> How does one send mail through Mail.app to Compuserve? Those
TM> damn number1,number2@compuserve.com addresses gets messed
TM> up. The number before the comma tries to get to the local
TM> system and then compuserv gets only the 2nd
TM> number@compuserv.com.
TM> Anyone have a fix?
Replace the comma with a period (this has nothing to do with Mail.app,
it's how Compuserve addresses are entered outside of Compuserve).
markus g a/k/a the mole
--
/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
__ __/ __ __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the mole
/ / / / . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tm@burrow.muc.de
__/ __/ __/ __/ . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.muc.de/~mgloede/
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CC on NS3.3
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:34:17 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jia3p$rdk@news.its.com>
References: <315CC8BC.3BA5@harmonic.co.il>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> wrote:
> I am sysadmin in a small company, mainly deal with SunOS & windows
> platforms.
> We have 2 NeXT stations run NS3.3.
> I had tried to compile some GNU utilities, but - cant find cc.
> What can I do?
Option #1: Purchase NEXTSTEP/Developer at ~$5000 per license.
Option #2: Check out the NeXT FTP sites for precompiled software.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compuserve mail through NextMail.app
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:36:25 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jia7p$rdk@news.its.com>
References: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon) wrote:
> How does one send mail through Mail.app to Compuserve? Those damn
> number1,number2@compuserve.com addresses gets messed up.
Send email using the "canonical form", ie:
<number1,number2@compuserve.com>
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disable telnet?
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:38:57 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jiach$rdk@news.its.com>
References: <4jho1n$t6f@news.mcl.bdm.com>
jschilli@nimitz.plato.sky.bdm.com (Jeff Schilling,,3346,) wrote:
> I'm trying to disable telnet access to my 3.3 NeXT box. Is this
> possible? If so, how do I do it? Any help will be greatly
> appreciated.
Edit /etc/inetd.conf, comment out the telnet entry using a '#', and restart
inetd (or the computer).
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: strace in NeXTStep
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:41:42 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jiahm$rdk@news.its.com>
References: <4jf8jj$73o@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch) wrote:
> Is there an strace program for NeXTStep?
Not that I'm aware of (unfortunately).
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: tcsh as logon shell
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:45:18 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jiaoe$rdk@news.its.com>
References: <4jhak6$ei@ns5.nba.TRW.COM>
bmuell@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Bernie Mueller) wrote:
> I just did something dum. I replaced the shell /bin/csh with
> /usr/local/bin/tcsh using the UserManager in both user accounts
> (root, me). Upon the next bootup, I am not allowed past the
> multi-user login ( something like 'tcsh is not a login shell').
> If I boot in single user, I cannot access netinfo via nu, niutil,
> etc. Question: How can I get back into multi-user mode short
> of reinstalling from the CD ROM? dum -dumm
Boot single user; type 'exit' at the prompt to continue with multiuser
startup. You want to add tcsh to /etc/shells before doing so, of course.
If you still can't log in, run /etc/rc with /bin/sh from single user mode to
start NetInfo and use nidump and niload to manually edit the passwd file and
change root's login shell.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: uart overrun on NeXT Cube
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:45:58 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jiapm$rdk@news.its.com>
References: <4j71cu$e0b@chinx4.thoughtport.net> <4j9b1s$7ml@news.its.com> <4jfne0$d5v@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
abid@solaria.com (Abid Khwaja) wrote:
[ ... ]
> Thanks for your reply and the pointer to modifying ioctl delay. I'll try
> playing around with it.
You're welcome,
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compuserve mail through NextMail.app
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 06:28:37 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Mar30.062837.21954@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
In article <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu> tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey
McMahon) writes:
> How does one send mail through Mail.app to Compuserve? Those damn
> number1,number2@compuserve.com addresses gets messed up. The number
before
> the comma tries to get to the local system and then compuserv gets only
the
> 2nd number@compuserv.com.
You swap the comma for a period: so 100016,1464 becomes
100016.1464@compuserve.com.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: phinv@lux.latrobe.edu.au (phinv)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: hot to reinstall dual boot prompt in NS 3.3 for intel
Date: 30 Mar 1996 11:54:27 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
Message-ID: <4jj7dj$mr0@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
Hi
Re-installing win95 on the second partition of my hard disk is causing me a problem... as win 95 modifies the boot sector of the hard disk and in doing so removes the nextstep prompt that aks wether I would like to boot to dos or nextstep. Is there anyway to get this prompt back?
Any help would be appreciated...
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: wu-ftpd 2.4 under NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 15:03:01 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960329145424.14709E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4j75en$ivh@digifix.digifix.com> <4jf6jg$jlk@aimnet.aimnet.com> <4jfkpn$ov@usc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@scf.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4jfkpn$ov@usc.edu>
On 29 Mar 1996, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> Is there a precompiled version for NS 3.3 m68k? I can't compile, yet I've
> wanted wu-ftpd for a long time.
>
> (Of course, a kind soul could NeXTMail me it w/ man page (if exist), hint
> hint hint 8*)
ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/tools/wu-ftp-2_4.b.SHIN.tar.gz
I don't know if it has the man page with it.
Then again, I don't know what wu-ftp does in the first place ;-)
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compuserve mail through NextMail.app
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 18:22:23 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960329182128.18402D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Torrey McMahon <tm8025a@american.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
On 29 Mar 1996, Torrey McMahon wrote:
> How does one send mail through Mail.app to Compuserve? Those damn
> number1,number2@compuserve.com addresses gets messed up. The number before
> the comma tries to get to the local system and then compuserv gets only the
> 2nd number@compuserv.com.
>
> Anyone have a fix?
change 'number1,number2@compuserver.com' to
'number1.number2@compuserver.com'
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: tcpdump on black NeXT
Date: 30 Mar 1996 16:47:57 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4jjojt$cmp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
I have retrieved two versions of tcpdump 3.0 that purportedly work on
NEXTSTEP and I cannot make them work. libpcap compiles perfectly
(one of the packages has version "0.0.6" and one has "0.0"), and
tcpdump compiles perfectly.
I have bpf_NeXT-0.25-beta3 by Satoshi Adachi, and have installed it.
Therefore I have /dev/bpf* and the bpf LKS is loaded.
But when I run tcpdump, I cannot make it work with /dev/bpf0. What
is the syntax for tcpdump to make it use the bpf stuff?
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
From: chan@cs.unt.edu (Alex)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: '$LBL not found' at boot prompt and failed to boot
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 11:19:53 -0500
Organization: UNT
Message-ID: <chan-3003961119530001@labmacdesk.art.unt.edu>
References: <315BE41F.6202@cs.unt.edu> <4jguml$evi@digdug.pswtech.com>
In article <4jguml$evi@digdug.pswtech.com>, robin@pswtech.com wrote:
> I doubt that this is a problem with the boot loader. We have
experienced this
> several times -- and it has _always_ been corrupted ".table" files in the
> "/usr/Devices/i386/*.config" trees. Basically, we have seen it as
simple as a
> toasted "System.config" (both the "Default.table" and the
"Instance0.table" had
> a size of _0_!), and toasted _everything_ (all the "Instance0.tables"
for _all_
> configs were _0_ size files!). If you can boot from diskette, you should be
> able to manually munge the Default.table and/or the Instance0.table for each
> driver you need to load. If that's not it -- let us know what you
discover (I'm
> still learning new things, even after 5+ years of NEXTSTEP use...)
>
> I'd like to know what is causing it -- it has happened too many times to
be just
> a 'strange occurance' that should be ignored.
>
Thanks you very much for your info, Robin. The problem is solved :)
I looked at all the Instance0.table files of all my configured devices and
the system.config file. It is exactly as what you said, all the sizes are
ZERO. After quite some hassles and recover all the these files from their
Default.table, my system can boot up again.
Thanks a lot. :)
Alex Chan
chan@cs.unt.edu
From: me@thisplace.com (Name Here)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PD networking monitoring tools for NEXTSTEP for x86?
Date: 31 Mar 1996 06:50:54 GMT
Organization: My Organization
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4jla0e$4a3@dobie.loop.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
I'm in desperate need of network monitoring tools (packet capture,
network mapping, etc) for NEXTSTEP for x86. If anyone has
a lead, please email me at sos@loop.com
Thanks!
Derick
From: nextjet@ids.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: looking for new next color printer driver.
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 96 18:13:54 +500
Organization: IDS World Network Internet Access Service, (800)IDS-1680
Message-ID: <4jkf7l$37t@paperboy.ids.net>
does anyone remember were the site is that contains this driver.
From: colin@snaefell (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: Sending mail when PPP is up
Date: 31 Mar 1996 07:35:42 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4jlcke$8fs@news.tamu.edu>
References: <4is5p9$id@news.eunet.si> <4isr0q$lmg@usc.edu>
Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@scf.usc.edu> wrote:
># Send any mail that has been queued while the link
># was down.
>if [ $2 = /dev/cufa ]; then
>/usr/lib/sendmail -q &
>fi
>=========
>
>Which will send out all mail queued while the link was down.
This would work for me if the mail wasn't simply bounced when PPP is
down (network unreachable/unknown host). What do I have to do to make
the mail get queued up instead of returned?
Thanks!
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Laura Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Questions About NetManage ChameleonNFS
Date: 31 Mar 1996 16:03:51 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <4jmad7$1qj6@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Greetings!
We have a small (4-machine) mixed motorola/intel NeXTstep
network running 3.3 across all systems.
Im thinking of buying an NT server and wonder if any of you
have experience with NetManage ChameleonNFS, or any other
networking/connectivity solutions for getting our NS machines
to connect to the new server?
Since I am not really a sysadmin (I'm a librarian) I'm not
really sure of the types of issues/questions/concerns/problems
that might occur in doing this. What kinds of things do I need
to be worrying about? According to the NeXT Connectivity Solutions
Guide, it looks pretty straightforward--but I've learned that nothing
is as easy as it seems with NeXT.
We love NS but it seems that we will eventually be forced to
migrate to a MS environment for a variety of reasons (not the least
of which is finding someone on the campus to help us support our
NS machines).
Any help would be appreciated!
Laura Guy
Data and Program Library Service
University of Wisconsin-Madison
guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
From: "David N. Williams" <David.N.Williams@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login Problem with 3.3 NeXTstation
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 17:37:03 -0500
Organization: University of Michigan Physics Department
Message-ID: <315C660F.263B@umich.edu>
References: <31531532.1FC3@umich.edu>
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CC: David.N.Williams@umich.edu
This problem with our Motorola NeXTstation upgrade from 3.0 to 3.3
seems not to ring any bells!
Actually we're circling around the extproc switch in stty. We have
"stty -extproc" in our .cshrc files as a holdover from an early NeXT bug
that I never saw satisfactorily explained. On the machine with our 3.3
upgrade, we think that getty does not have the terminal settings in a
proper state when it calls login to do the password. We tried making
changes in gettytab for the default settings, to have ^M translated to
^J, but didn't succeed in solving the problem. Could be we didn't get
the "f2" flags right?
A workaround that seems to work is pretty ugly. Replace login by
a script that does "stty -extproc" then exec's login. We're still
testing this...
Is any of this starting to sound familiar to anybody?
-David
_ _________________________________________________________________
(_\(__
_|__) David N. Williams Phone: 1-(313)-764-5236
__|___ Physics Department Email: David.N.Williams@umich.edu
\ |:-) University of Michigan
\| Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120
From: jdevlin@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MST-PPP from rc.local
Date: 30 Mar 1996 03:38:50 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <4jiaca$mds@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Strange ...
I've been running MST-PPP and NEXTSTEP 3.3 (patch installed) on black
with TTYDSP. I can bring up the link manually without any problem --
Everything works great. But when I try to do it in rc.local, things
get odd.
The /usr/adm/pppd.log file shows that the link is established. Yet
ping gets a 100% packet loss in either direction. I have to kill the
pppd process (twice! -- won't die the first time) and go back to
launching it manually.
Any have an idea about what's going on? Hints and guesses welcome
too.
Many thanks.
--
John Devlin
Department of Philosophy
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: bbum@friday.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Netinfo support broken in Sendmail 8.7.x; patch enclosed
Date: 31 Mar 1996 21:02:27 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jmrt3$nqd@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
The Netinfo support in sendmail 8.7.5 was *extremely* broken;
- it *always* returned whatever value was found at the top-most domain. For
example, if one used the /locations/sendmail netinfo directory to define the
configuration file to be used by sendmail and one had a local-to-the-mailhost
entry that specified /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf AND one had a
generic, root-level entry that specified
/etc/sendmail/sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf, the code would return the value
encountered at the root level (as a result, there was no way to correctly
configure netinfo such that sendmail would grok the correct configuration
file from the machine's local domain).
- The code leaked memory like a sieve; anytime information was found in more
than one domain, the code would allocate seperate hunks of memory for the
values contained in each domain. But it returns the pointer to the memory
containing the value returned by the TOP most domain and would effectively
'forget' about all memory associated with the values found in the
sub-domains.
The enclosed patch fixes both problems; the value returned will always be
the first encountered. Since the ni_propval() function starts it's search at
the bottom-most (the local machine's) netinfo domain and searches up the
hierarchy, the search stops at the first value encountered (which is
returned), no memory is lost and the correct behaviour of being able to
override global netinfo information with local netinfo configuration is
preserved.
The patch has been submitted to UCB. I will be making a quad-fat build of
the patched sendmail available on ThoughtPort Authority's ftp site later
tonight.
The delay in posting to the ftp site is because I'm in the midst of adding a
really useful feature; the ability to define a class (sendmail class, not
object class) from the results of a netinfo lookup.
The main purpose is to define the 'w' class (all of the hostnames for which
the local machine is masquerading) from the contents of netinfo and/or the
contents of a file.
Be forewarned, the lookup semantics now supported by the ni_propval() class
are the result of my beliefs derived from the exhibited behaviour, applied
logic, and discussions with a NeXT employee. I honestly believe it is
correct-- if your mileage comes up short, let me know so we can come to
concensus, fix the problem, and make a new version available to the
community.
b.bum
<bbum@friday.com>
BTW: you should be able to apply this patch by uudecoding it and then 'patch
-p < patchfile' from within the sendmail/src directory. The latest version
of patch is available from ftp://ftp.thoughtport.net/pub/next/tools/. The
patched sendmail binary will show up there later tonight [i'll make a posting
here when it does; please be patient.
As always, thanks to ThoughtPort Authority for providing the space and
resources for my toolbox. :-) http://www.thoughtport.net/
---- patch enclosed ---
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Netinfo support broken in Sendmail 8.7.x; patch enclosed
In-Reply-To: bbum@friday.com's message of 31 Mar 1996 21:02:27 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar31215404@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4jmrt3$nqd@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 02:54:04 GMT
Before you go through all that trouble and create a second version, let
me say that my sendmail 8.7.5 distribution DOES NOT contain the first bug
that you mentioned. I have to check to see if there are memory leaks but
it's not as alarming as you've made it out to be.
I believe you are referring to the Berkeley source distribution which
does not contain the NetInfo fixes that my binary distribution has. Eric
Allman has been aware of it for some time but won't be fixing it until
sendmail 8.8.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 1 Apr 1996 05:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4jnoou$2or@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news:comp.sys.next.advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in
the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy
flame wars from .misc.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com
where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Archives are available by ftp at
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
news:comp.sys.next.bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material
e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for
the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This
newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post
stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense
to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual
reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well.
news:comp.sys.next.hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with
NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices
belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used
NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
news:comp.sys.next.marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to
misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups.
news:comp.sys.next.misc
For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here
by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no
crossposting!!!
news:comp.sys.next.programmer
Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is
primarily a forum for advanced technical material.
Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although
specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are
appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal"
newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach,
comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest.
news:comp.sys.next.software
This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run
on NEXTSTEP systems.
news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this
will spill over into .programmer or .software.
Related Newsgroups
==================
news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists
because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for
discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP.
news:comp.lang.objective-c
Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc.
news:comp.object
Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT
and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost
philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a
programmer/philosopher.
(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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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]
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From: jgoggan@sojourn1.sojourn.com (John Goggan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! NS/I 3.2 install with >1gig SCSI drive...
Date: 1 Apr 1996 04:26:00 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd.
Message-ID: <4jnlso$9l3@tkhut.sojourn.com>
Ok -- I'm trying to do a new install using the following:
- Pentium PCI System
- NS/Intel v3.2
- Adaptec 1542B (ISA) SCSI controller card
- Internal Conner CFP2105S (2.1 gig) SCSI-2 drive
- External SCSI-2 CD-ROM drive
- Properly terminated (before you ask :)
The Adaptec 1542B has the new BIOS (and it is enabled) so that I can use
>1gig SCSI drives. I have the "Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives
> 1 GByte" option enabled -- as instructed by NeXTanswers #1541. I have
a 1gig DOS partition that I use for Windows95. The rest of the drive
current has nothing on it - not partition or anything.
I am booting using my standard 3.2 install disk. I then load the new
Adaptec 1542B driver from another floppy -- as instructed by NA#1541 (if
I don't use the new driver, I get the "thread: waitforInterrupt: returns
-735" error. With the new driver, it appears to work -- in that it now
begins to boot and finds my SCSi devices. It properly finds my Conner
drive at 512 bytes/sector and 2040MB total during the boot.
It then informs me, as usual, that this is a full install and not an
upgrade and to press 1 to continue. I press 1 and it searches for a hard
drive to install to. I then get:
NEXTSTEP cannot be installed on any disks.
You must have a 512 bytes/sector disk with at least 120MB of free space.
The CD-ROM label could not be read.
And then it shuts down.
So -- can someone give me some hints on what to do here? I should be
able to put NS above the 1gig mark, right? Any/all suggestions would be
greatly appreciated -- especially as soon as possible! :)
Thanks!
- John...
jgoggan@dcg.com or jgoggan@sojourn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Netinfo support broken in Sendmail 8.7.x; patch enclosed
In-Reply-To: rdl@world.std.com's message of Mon, 1 Apr 1996 02:54:04 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Mar31231821@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4jmrt3$nqd@chinx4.thoughtport.net> <RDL.96Mar31215404@world.std.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 04:18:21 GMT
I think I've found another source of confusion. Berkeley sendmail 8.7.5
treats aliases with MULTIPLE members differently than NeXT's. With NeXT's
implementation, you can specify each name as a different value whereas
with Berkeley, it's one value which is a comma separated list. e.g.
NeXT:
key=name value=mygroup
key=members value=myself value=another value=athird
Berkeley:
key=name value=mygroup
key=members value=myself,another,athird
For compatibility, we should have both so that needs to be changed. I will
make a release this week that contains this change and patches to any
memory leaks. Bill, you should mail me your modifications and I'll incorporate
them (and credit you) for them. What I don't want to happen is to have
multiple versions maintained by multiple people. It's bad enough that
I have to have a version that is slightly different from Berkeleys.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools,comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc,comp.sys.mac.oop.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.software-eng,comp.programming,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.linux.development.system,isu.isunix
Subject: OpenDoc with Corba and OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP licensing...
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:29:23 -0600
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <315F77C3.4AC9@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Well now that OMG is integrating Corba with OpenDoc, wouldn't it make sense for NeXT to
integrate OpenDoc? Also Sun has OpenDoc as being the #1 most requested feature for
Java...
NeXT is supposed to be integrating Corba connectivity, so perhaps OpenDoc is inevitable.
Then all we need is OPENSTEP on MAC OS Power PC, but that will probably come from GNU
rather than NeXT. (It will probably be ported to PowerPC Linux too)
It seems the name of the game is cooperation and interoperability, not dominance with a
single OS or set of tools. Companies should realize this (NeXT are you listening?) The
more people can interoperate (make connections) with software they have, they will be
more prone to using those tools.
I'm trying to get my two object-oriented professors at my university
(Dr. Bee Lee Lim mailto:bllim@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu
and
Dr. Tibor Gyires mailto:tbgyires@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu)
to take a look at what OPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP can do for the software world, and I'm having a
dificult time convincing them that this is worthwhile as course curiculum. Dr. Gyires is
interested in SmallTalk (which I understand is VERY similar to Objective-C) and has
watched 2 NeXT videos (one on NS and another on WebObjects and D'OLE.), and I found that
Dr. Lim is only interested in OPENSTEP and its relation to Java after talking to him, his
concern is that much of the software industry and companies DON'T
USEOPENSTEP/NEXTSTEP.
I need assistance in getting this institution (Illinois State University) to adopt some
OPENSTEP curiculum because I feel these development tools are great, and they get me
excited about software.
If anyone has any valid arguments I can make, please email me or the two professors.
Thanks all
------------------------------------------------
Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
PEACE LOVE Services
UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University
"Understanding is best learned via experience."
"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end."
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kelman@ncifcrf.gov (David Kelman)
Subject: Changing order for scanning foreign file systems
Message-ID: <Dp6v2n.IvM@ncifcrf.gov>
Organization: Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:01:35 GMT
Is there a way to tell NEXTSTEP in what order to check a new drive
for what kind of file system it is? Presently, it goes something like DOS,
CD-ROM, cdaudio, mac, and if you have Executor, HFS_Xfer. I would like to
have my Mac CD-ROMs recognized as mac, rather than CD-ROM, so that Executor
can better access them.
Thanks in advance,
David Kelman
kelman@ncifcrf.gov
From: gtaylor@msn.fullfeed.com (Gregory Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: A Cry for Help [recovering OD stuff]
Date: 1 Apr 1996 10:33:35 -0600
Organization: FullFeed Communications (Internet +1.608.246.2701 info)
Message-ID: <4jp0gv$gk3@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com>
I've got a problem, and I'm hoping that someone out there can
either commiserate with me, or at least tell me who prints out
inexpensive funeral announcements for all my data [sound files,
actually].
I went to retrieve a piece of mine from an optical disc. When
inserted, the drive went "chunk....chunk...." a couple of times
and kicked the disc out. I tried all of my discs. The console
window showed me the exact same sequence each time:
[cut and paste....]
Software Version 3.2 (Lightning5S)
Mar 30 13:45:46 Workspace: Mounted floppy disk at /NEXTSTEP_Dev_3.1
Unknown device type (od0)
probing for DOS
Unknown device type (od0)
probing for CDROM
Unknown device type (od0)
probing for cdaudio
fs_util: Unknown device type (od0)
probing for mac
probing for HFS_XFer
It now appears that the optical drive itself was hosed. I replaced
it, and am having the same problem. It's the same problem that I
get when I try my optical on another machine which I know works
fine....the Unknown device type error, and the panel for eject or
initialize comes up..
I believe that my old drive has somehow creamed some portion of
my optical which is used to read the contents of the disc. If
this is so, is there some secret method or utility that I don't
know about which I can use to attempt to recover some of the
material on these discs. While one cannot necessarily tell from
reading, I'm a trifle desparate here.
I took a disc which I knew I didn't need and tried to re-initialize
it when it put up the panel telling me that I couldn't read the disk.
It erased the disc and re-initialized the disc just fine, with
a number of block numbers showing up in the console port. Does this
tell me anything else?
With regards,
Gregory
--
I would go to her, lay it all out, unedited. The plot was a simple one,
paraphrasable by the most ingenuous of nets. The life we lead is our only
maybe. The tale we tell is the must that we make by living it. [Richard
Powers, "Galatea 2.2"] Gregory Taylor/Host, RTQE/WORT-FM 89.9/Madison, WI
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jgloede@interpc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: Disable telnet?
Message-ID: <Dp6IrG.BzB@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <4jiach$rdk@news.its.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:35:40 GMT
Chuck Swiger writes
> jschilli@nimitz.plato.sky.bdm.com (Jeff Schilling,,3346,) wrote:
> > I'm trying to disable telnet access to my 3.3 NeXT box. Is this
> > possible? If so, how do I do it? Any help will be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
> Edit /etc/inetd.conf, comment out the telnet entry using a '#', and
restart
> inetd (or the computer).
And check the services entry in the NetInfo!
so long,
jens ch. gloede
From: waiming@cs.ust.hk (Chan Wai Ming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: mounting dos partitions
Date: 1 Apr 1996 17:37:35 GMT
Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Message-ID: <4jp48v$r3n@ustsu10.ust.hk>
Hello,
I have got a strange problem. It is related to mounting DOS partition.
I have a hard disk with the following partitions.
NeXT fdisk v1.02
Device: /dev/rhd0h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
OS/2 Boot Mgr 0 2 Active
DOS, 16 bit FAT 2 301 -
NEXTSTEP 303 734 -
I encounter the situation that when the NEXTSTEP partition is mounted
at boot time. (with an entry in fstab) I will not be able to use
"mount" to mount the DOS partition. However, if I don't mount the
NEXTSTEP partition at boot time (i.e. don't put an entry about that
partition in fstab), the dos and the NEXTSTEP partition will be
automatically mounted when I login.
Could someone tell me what is the magic behind ? I really want to
mount the DOS and the NEXTSTEP partition at fixed location during boot
time. Could anybody teach me how to do ?
Thank you very much for your help !
yours
waiming
P.S. 1. I have another hard disk for booting up the whole NS. The
above one is for data storage.
2. My machine is running NS 3.3 (patched) for Intel.
--
After working with DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, SunOS, NT, 95 ....
I find myself like NEXTSTEP most.
A Happy NS user
waiming@cs.ust.hk
From: jgoggan@sojourn1.sojourn.com (John Goggan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! NS/I 3.2 install with >1gig SCSI drive...
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 1 Apr 1996 18:28:17 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd.
Message-ID: <4jp781$nnk@tkhut.sojourn.com>
References: <4jnlso$9l3@tkhut.sojourn.com>
John Goggan (jgoggan@sojourn1.sojourn.com) wrote:
>Ok -- I'm trying to do a new install using the following:
> - Pentium PCI System
> - NS/Intel v3.2
> - Adaptec 1542B (ISA) SCSI controller card
> - Conner CFP2105S (2.1gig SCSI-2 drive)
[...]
>NEXTSTEP cannot be installed on any disks.
>You must have a 512 bytes/sector disk with at least 120MB of free space.
Well -- after posting this, I continued searching NeXTanswers and finally
stumbled upon NA#1666 -- which states that due to a bug in NS v3.2, it
CANNOT be installed on disks greater than 2 gigs! And, of course, my
Conner drive is 2.1gigs! Arg!
Anyone know of a solution to this problem (besides shelling out cash that
I don't have for 3.3)?
Any/all suggestions appreciated...
Thanks!
- John...
jgoggan@sojourn.com
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mixing NS3.3 and 3.0
Date: 1 Apr 1996 20:12:32 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4jpdbg$8jl@news.tamu.edu>
My department has several NS machines networked together. One of them is
acting as a file and mail server for the others. We plan to upgrade a few
machines and this server machine from NS3.0 to NS3.3. Would there be a
problem with having NS3.0 and NS3.3 machines hooked up like this? Can a
NS3.0 machine read the harddisk on a NS3.3 machine?
Please send comments to schaub@tamu.edu
many thanks in advance...
HP
--
Hanspeter Schaub
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub
schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY!
-Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: grosser@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (benjamin grosser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: black, 3.2, swapfiles grow over hiwater mark
Date: 1 Apr 1996 21:22:44 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4jphf4$1to@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Example:
rc.swap: /usr/etc/mach_swapon -v -o prefer,lowat=16777216,hiwat=31457280 \
cmp-nxt# ls -l /private/vm
total 144680
-rw------t 1 root 72228864 Apr 1 15:11 swapfile
-rw------t 1 root 75874304 Apr 1 15:11 swapfile.front
cmp-nxt#
I have at least confirmed that the things starts out at the size of the
lowater mark. Wassup?
Thanks,
Ben Grosser
grosser@uiuc.edu
From: Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Iomega Jaz /etc/disktab section?
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:05:24 +0100
Organization: CAPCAD AB
Message-ID: <315DBE34.6C3C@capcad.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-User: f45258d4455a755b73b27c9422f15d2b
Looking for a disktab section for the JAZ drive.
The default values for sectors and tracks are wrong.
I used 32 sectors and 64 tracks and managed to
initialize the drive, but is it correct?
Thank you?
Sten Kvamme
skvamme@capcad.se
From: kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: perl crypt and passwords on NeXT systems
Date: 1 Apr 1996 22:28:56 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
Message-ID: <4jplb8$j4g@news4.digex.net>
hi all,
I'm trying to use a perl script based on the password example in the
"Programming Perl"
to generate and change passwords on a NeXT System.
The problem seems to be in the "crypt" function in perl (maybe not). But
the encrypted
password generated doesn't seem to be what the NeXT crypt is looking for when
reading in passwords.
Has anyone gotten a perl-based password program to work on NeXT system?
Thanks,
-kevin
--
Kevin Kim
kykim@access.digex.net
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A Cry for Help [recovering OD stuff]
Date: 2 Apr 1996 00:39:25 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jpsvt$k6b@news4.digex.net>
References: <4jp0gv$gk3@fullfeed.msn.fullfeed.com>
gtaylor@msn.fullfeed.com (Gregory Taylor) wrote:
> I took a disc which I knew I didn't need and tried to re-initialize it
when it put up the panel telling me that I couldn't read the disk. It
erased the disc and re-initialized the disc just fine, with a number of
block numbers showing up in the console port. Does this tell me anything
else?
I can't be sure, somethings are tough to diagnose over the net. But sounds
like the old optical might have been mis-alligned or some such thing, and
wrote thing in a manner that is not readable by a properly functioning OD.
It might be possible to play with the alignment or some such thing to get
at the data... but that would be far from easy (and worst yet, might not
even be the problem...)
Anyway, sorry I cant be of more help. Good luck with it.
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: colin@snaefell (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo problem--where has my DNS domain gone?
Date: 2 Apr 1996 02:42:52 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4jq47c$kjn@news.tamu.edu>
Since installing a netinfo domain, two things that used to work
automatically on this machine no longer work.
The first is Pnews. It is no longer adding the tamu.edu domain name to
the From line in headers such as the one above (please check the
return address if you respond by email). This holds for both the
server and the machines it serves, which makes me suspect the problem
is with the NetInfo database. Is there a value for the DNS domain
that needs to be set?
The second is httpd. I must now explicitly provide ServerName in
httpd.conf or else the following warning message appears when httpd
attempts to start:
httpd: cannot determine local host name.
Use ServerName to set it manually.
Both hostname and domainname return the proper values and
/etc/resolv.conf specifies the correct domain, so what procedure are
these programs using to get the hostname that cause the failure?
I'm running NS 3.0 and would welcome any ideas about what needs to be
changed.
Thanks,
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: rseymour@rseymour.com (Robert J Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject: Re: perl crypt and passwords on NeXT systems
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 04:15:53 GMT
Organization: MCSNet Internet Services
Message-ID: <4jq9nq$hfk@Nntp1.mcs.net>
References: <4jplb8$j4g@news4.digex.net>
kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim) writes in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> I'm trying to use a perl script based on the password example in the
> "Programming Perl"
> to generate and change passwords on a NeXT System.
> The problem seems to be in the "crypt" function in perl (maybe not). But
> the encrypted password generated doesn't seem to be what the NeXT crypt is
> looking for when reading in passwords.
Well, crypt itself works fine on NeXT systems, but I suspect the
problem you are running into is that NeXT systems use a network
information database called NetInfo to store the actual password
values. If you want to grab the current password list in /etc/passwd
format, you can (shown for the root domain, which should work if you
haven't mucked about with NetInfo):
nidump passwd / > passwd.netinfo
And then play with passwd.netinfo as you would /etc/passwd on other
systems. If you want NetInfo to reflect the changes you make to this
file, you can use niload to have NetInfo parse the file and make
changes to the database based on the diffs.
If this doesn't address your problem, you might consider posting with
a concise code snippet that demonstrates what doesn't work on your
system and what you expect that it should do.
Regards, Robert
--
Robert J Seymour rseymour@rseymour.com
<URL:http://rseymour.com/>
From: Luke Howard <Luke_Howard@inter.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CERN httpd under Nextstep 3.3 (Intel)
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 07:50:38 +1000
Organization: schoolsNET Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <31604FAE.7D67@inter.net.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone had any problems with this? We run a number of
Nextstep machines as web and proxy servers, and have had various
problems with its stability (including some machines having
regular kernel panics; although we haven't traced it to httpd,
it appears related).
I'm trying the preforking patch for CERN under Nextstep, but
recvmsg() is complaining that the message is too long (errno=40)
in the code which passes the file descriptor from the parent to
the preforked server, causing the preforked server to abort.
-- Luke.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SoundBlaster Pro and NeXTStep 3.3
Message-ID: <1996Apr2.084043.22204@roper.uwyo.edu>
From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal)
Date: 2 Apr 96 08:40:43 MST
Distribution: world
Does anyone have a SoundBlaster Pro running under NeXTStep?
Mine seems to work (more or less...) but the sound level is a little low.
The problem is that it just won't play audio CD's (on an IDE CD ROM). The
CD-ROM applet starts the CD and plays it but the sound level is REALLY LOW...
Any help would be appreciated...
--
Norbert Pirzkal
http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal
P.O. Box 3905
Physics & Astronomy Department
University Station
Laramie, WY, 82071
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 2 Apr 1996 17:34:29 GMT
Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
References: <Dp2tnH.r4@nexus1.tng.oche.de>
In article <Dp2tnH.r4@nexus1.tng.oche.de> michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de
(Michael Pieper) writes:
> In article <4jgcm4$vi@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
> wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes:
> > on my NS Intel system the CDPlayer.app just gives "could not open
> > the CD-ROM drive" on startup. Data CD are working, the auto start
> > of CDPlayer.app on the insert of audio CD does not work.
>
> Check the execution rights of the executable in the app wrapper. I
> had a similar problem with NS 3.2 and solved it by changing the
> rights to:
> nexus1> ls -l /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app
> total 229
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 22 1993 CDDrive.nib/
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Aug 20 1993 CDPlayer*
I have the same permissions as you _and_ I get the error message:
pcrw04> ls -l /NextDeveloper/Demos/CDPlayer.app
total 227
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Oct 21 1994 CDPlayer*
Has anybody else some more clues?
Wolfgang
--
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Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 4986
Uni Regensburg E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de
Universitaetsstr. 31 Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de
D-93053 Regensburg (MIME and NeXTmail ok)
Germany WWW: http://www.whu-koblenz.de/~wolfgang/
From: rupert@blitzen.misha.net (Hans Rupert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compuserve mail through NextMail.app
Date: 2 Apr 1996 18:56:04 GMT
Organization: MISHA Group, Inc
Message-ID: <4jrt84$92b@delta.misha.net>
References: <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu>
In <4jhif4$or3@paladin.american.edu> Torrey McMahon wrote: How does one
send mail through Mail.app to Compuserve? Those damn
number1,number2@compuserve.com addresses gets messed up. The number before
the comma tries to get to the local system and then compuserv gets only
the 2nd number@compuserv.com. Anyone have a fix?
Well, we all have parents and such who have fallen off the earth into the
Compuserve hole, don't we...? Try simply replacing the "," with a "." - this
works for me at least. Hope it helps
--
Hans Rupert
<rupert@misha.net> / NeXTmail ~ MIME encouraged
Direktor
noir
From: clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x??
Date: 2 Apr 1996 19:18:15 GMT
Organization: University of Central Florida
Message-ID: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu>
I use an original 68040 Nextcube still running NeXTstep 2.0 for
mail and other net chores. Could see no reason to upgrade.
Lately, I've been wanting to put a web browser on it and I have
discovered that all the browsers need 3.x.
Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x
upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through
Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago
lost interest.
Thanks.
Tom Clarke
Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts.
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: Deleting User Account
Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:36:34 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4js6l2$2c2@news.mcl.bdm.com>
References: <4jh23e$135u@darkwing.cadvision.com>
In article <4jh23e$135u@darkwing.cadvision.com> wadeg@cadvision.com
(George Wade) writes:
> I am currently attempting to remove a number of user accounts from
> my NeXT server. However, the users are located on two separate drives
> under different paths: (/Users/ and /NextDisk/home/). I am able to
> access and remove the /User accounts, but when I try to delete the
> /NextDisk/home/ users, the manager can not see them.
>
> Question: am I doing something wrong when attempting to change the
> domain from root "/" to "/NextDisk/home? If so, what should I be
> doing to access and delete the user accounts on the other path?
>
Yes. "/" is your netinfo Domain and this is where your records for user
accounts are located. /NextDisk/home/ is an NFS mounted partition or
directory where the user's files are stored. /NextDisk/home/ is not a
valid netinfo domain.
I am assuming that you are using UserManager to remove the user accounts.
It sounds like the the user's home directories are in /Users/ and that
the /NextDisk/home/ is for additional space for the users. I would
reccomend using the user manager to get rid of the user account (in the
"/" netinfo domaim (This should also delete the users' directories in
/Users/), and then manually deleting the user directories under
/NextDisk/home/
--
Jim Sowers | You don't understand.
Engineer | I'm not locked up in here with you.
BDM Federal, Inc. | You're locked up in here with Me.
<jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | - Rorshach from "The Watchmen"
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXT starts and hangs up on yp server search
Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:51:58 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4js7hu$2h7@news.mcl.bdm.com>
References: <4jh73o$rap@mordred.gatech.edu>
In article <4jh73o$rap@mordred.gatech.edu> khan@ee.gatech.edu (Ubaid R.
Khan) writes:
> Hi,
>
> We have Next whose IP address was changed to move to a different subnet.
> Since then we have not been able to get the Next to come up. It hangs
on looking for
> a yp domain. The message that come up on the console before it hangs up
on
> the yp lookup are :
>
> netinfo ypbind lookupd .... (i guess it hangs up on this!)
> micro netmsgserver[58]: network_init
>
>
Boot up in single user mode. edit the /etc/hostconfig file.
Make sure the HOSTNAME, INETADDR are set to the correct name and ip
address, not automatic. Put the address of your router in ROUTER, or you
can try to set it to ROUTER=-ROUTED-. You may also have to change your
netmask from 255.255.255.0 to 255.255.0.0. I am assuming that you are on
a different subnet and that the subnet differs from the first in the third
octet.
I find leaving IPBROADCAST= blank works. Put the correct YP Domain in
the YPDOMAIN= or set it to -NO- if you are not using YP or NIS.
If you can get it up and running you may want to change the netmask of
your netmaster to 255.255.0.0. Then you should be able to set the
machines HOSTNAME and INETADDR back to -AUTOMATIC- (Assuming the machines
new name and ip_address are in the netinfo database)
I strongly encourage you to find an unused ip_address in your current
subnet for the machine. We have had problems integrating machines with
different subnets in our local network. While we could boot up the
machines, it caused other problems.
HTH
--
Jim Sowers | You don't understand.
Engineer | I'm not locked up in here with you.
BDM Federal, Inc. | You're locked up in here with Me.
<jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | - Rorshach from "The Watchmen"
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: black, 3.2, swapfiles grow over hiwater mark
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:12:33 -0500
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960402100934.12319K-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4jphf4$1to@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: benjamin grosser <grosser@uiuc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4jphf4$1to@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
[[ Ben -- you probably want to add a 'reply-to' header to whatever app
you are using to post, so people can 'reply' without having to
edit your email address -- TjL ]]
On 1 Apr 1996, benjamin grosser wrote:
> Example:
>
> rc.swap: /usr/etc/mach_swapon -v -o prefer,lowat=16777216,hiwat=31457280 \
>
> cmp-nxt# ls -l /private/vm
> total 144680
> -rw------t 1 root 72228864 Apr 1 15:11 swapfile
> -rw------t 1 root 75874304 Apr 1 15:11 swapfile.front
> cmp-nxt#
>
> I have at least confirmed that the things starts out at the size of the
> lowater mark. Wassup?
Have you edited /etc/swaptab's entry? By default there is no HIWAT set
there. Perhaps this is the problem.
TjL
ps -- please let me know what you find out, and I'll add it to the FAQ
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast.
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo problem--where has my DNS domain gone?
Date: 2 Apr 1996 22:24:26 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4js9eq$mhf@news.tamu.edu>
References: <4jq47c$kjn@news.tamu.edu>
Never mind! Both problems were fixed by putting the fully qualified
hostname into the name field of the /machines entry.
Cheers,
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: rousseau@infosphere.com (Mike Rousseau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SPARCprinter
Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:59:30 GMT
Organization: Aspen Smallworks
Message-ID: <4js802$9ks@www.infosphere.com>
The Sparc printer is (I beleive) identical to the Apple LaserWriter IINT(X). You can use a LaserWriter IINT serially on a Sparc. It is PostScript, has a CPU (an ARM unit?), and *should* work under 3.3 RISC.
Choose Aplle LaserWriter IINTX when installing the printer driver in Configure.app and keep your fingers crossed.
Mike Rousseau
Former NeXT SysAdmin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Netinfo support broken in Sendmail 8.7.x; patch enclosed
In-Reply-To: bbum@friday.com's message of 31 Mar 1996 21:02:27 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Apr2222247@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4jmrt3$nqd@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 03:22:47 GMT
Looks like my followup to this article didn't get crossposted here. Not
that I think this is the place for these discussions anyhow. But in a
nutshell, my binary distribution of sendmail does NOT contain these problems.
He is referring to the Berkeley source code distribution which does NOT
contain a critical NetInfo bug fix.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: jgoggan@sojourn1.sojourn.com (John Goggan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help! How to get things onto system??
Date: 3 Apr 1996 05:27:56 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd.
Message-ID: <4jt28s$cdt@tkhut.sojourn.com>
I need some help getting something (PPP, absically) transfer to a
system. Basically, I had a system connected via Ethernet and that was
how I previously put things onto it (it has no floppy drive). Recently,
I sold the system. I thought that I had left kermit on the system for
the new guy to be able to start transfering things (such as PPP) and get
it going -- and it looks like I was mistaken! Oops! So, kermit is not
there. So, basically -- it's a NeXTstation with no floppy drive and the
only external device he really has is a modem. Is there some way that he
could use something to establish a connection and transfer PPP onto the
system?
The system is running NS v3.1 (black, of course).
And/all suggestions are appreciated -- and it'd be great if I could get
those suggestions ASAP! Thanks! :)
- John...
jgoggan@sojourn.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x??
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dp9y0E.82@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 06:57:50 GMT
References: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu>,
Thomas Clarke <clarke@acme.ist.ucf.edu> wrote:
>Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x
>upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through
>Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago
>lost interest.
>
You'll have to buy it from NeXT, through, I believe, Object Technologies (or
whatever they now call themselves.) It's $299 Academic.
>Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts.
Smart thing to do. ;-)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! How to get things onto system??
Date: 3 Apr 1996 11:25:00 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4jtn6c$9sb@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4jt28s$cdt@tkhut.sojourn.com>
In <4jt28s$cdt@tkhut.sojourn.com> John Goggan wrote:
> I need some help getting something (PPP, absically) transfer to a
> system. Basically, I had a system connected via Ethernet and that was
> how I previously put things onto it (it has no floppy drive). Recently,
> I sold the system. I thought that I had left kermit on the system for
> the new guy to be able to start transfering things (such as PPP) and get
> it going -- and it looks like I was mistaken! Oops! So, kermit is not
> there. So, basically -- it's a NeXTstation with no floppy drive and the
> only external device he really has is a modem. Is there some way that he
> could use something to establish a connection and transfer PPP onto the
> system?
Let the user dial in to anything that has a uuencoded copy of kermit (there
is one on Compuserve, for example) for back hardware. Cat the file, and
uudecode. Then use the kermit to get PPP.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: Bug (ugly) in dump/restore
Message-ID: <kevincDp9MC0.CyL@netcom.com>
Keywords: dump restore bug problem does not work
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 02:45:35 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
I think I have found a problem with dump/restore on my Intel NS 3.3 machine.
This problem only affects backups that span more than 2 volumes.
I am using dump to back up my twin 800 MB IDE drives to a SyQuest EZDrive.
The problem when I restore is that I restore will not take the 3rd
cartridge. According to restore, dump volume 3 has a volume number of 2.
Therefore, restore refuses to accept volume 3 thinking that the wrong
cartridge was inserted.
This does not have anything to do with the j option on restore. The j
option only makes the drive eject after each volume and graphically
prompt for the next disk.
I am now playing with other options on restore. If you have any info or
suggestions, please help!
Song
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Questionable Librarian.app behavior...
Date: 3 Apr 1996 09:34:36 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-31.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4jtgnc$erf@usc.edu>
Here is the first problem:
I index my home directory (reichman.wheel) via the following crontab entry:
reichman /usr/bin/ixbuild -vcdsfglu /Users/reichman/
-T/Users/reichman/.index.itype
When I do a search (contents/word), I get in the list window the name of my
home directory "reichman" followed by a whole bunch of blank space before I
get any entries. The find is correct. The vast amount of blankness between
the directory name and the first find entry is very irritating.
When I do a search of the ManPages (contents/word), I get erratic large blank
spaces between some of the entries, say after one entry there is a LBS, then
two entries, then a LBS, etc. Also very irritating.
When I do a search (file name) this doesn't happen.
Any ideas?
------------------
My second problem:
I index another home directory on my machine (fey.other) via the following
crontab entry:
fey /usr/bin/ixbuild -vcdsfglu /Users/fey/ -T/Users/fey/.index.itype
Here, .index.itype is identical to the one I use for my home directory (as is
the .index.ftype).
The problem seems to be that, although I have set up my own home system to
correctly index frame documents in ascii form so that i can search their
contents, I am unable to do so in this, second home directory. A search gives
me nothing, though I know there are many entries there that should appear.
Any ideas?
TIA, ciao
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 3 Apr 1996 13:11:16 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
In article <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de
(Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes:
> In article <Dp2tnH.r4@nexus1.tng.oche.de> michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de
> (Michael Pieper) writes:
> > In article <4jgcm4$vi@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
> > wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes:
> > > on my NS Intel system the CDPlayer.app just gives "could not open
> > > the CD-ROM drive" on startup. Data CD are working, the auto start
> > > of CDPlayer.app on the insert of audio CD does not work.
I apologize if this has been mentioned already...
Besides permissions problems, I remember reading somewhere that the SCSI ID
for the CDROM MUST be 2 or higher, else CDPlayer.app will not function
properly. I have a few systems whose CDROM ID's are set to 1, and they do
not work, giving the error you mention above. I have yet to try this "fix",
however...
---
Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME)
Computer System Manager Voice: (402)472-9747
Mathematics and Statistics Dept. FAX: (402)472-8466
University of Nebraska - Lincoln http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/
From: George.wade@pipe.nova.ca (George Wade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Deleting User Accounts
Date: 3 Apr 1996 16:11:11 GMT
Organization: Nova Gas Transmission Limited
Message-ID: <4ju7uv$1fis@smu007sv.pipe.nova.ca>
I am currently administrating a server which has user accounts on two
separate drives and two separate paths: path 1 is /Users; path 2 is
/NeXTStep/home/. I am able to "see" and delete accounts on /Users, but can
not see those on /NeXTStep/home/. Is there anything I can be do in the
UserManager to allow me to
a) see all users which are located on path /NeXTStep/home/
b) delete those users.
Some details of my system are indicated below:
OS is NeXT
platform is Intel 486 66m
2X HD
Your help would be much appreciated.
Regards:
George Wade
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: latex2html
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:54:52 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4jue1c$fv4@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
Has someone put together a latex2html distribution for NeXT? I get it
basically working, but I do have some problems (such as missing gs [what
does one do here?], missing various graphics translators, and odd error
messages [Generating postscript images using dvips ...
This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.]
/ivo welch
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Questionable Librarian.app behavior...
Date: 3 Apr 1996 15:15:32 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4ju4mk$p26@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <4jtgnc$erf@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> My second problem:
>
> I index another home directory on my machine (fey.other) via the
> following crontab entry:
>
> fey /usr/bin/ixbuild -vcdsfglu /Users/fey/ -T/Users/fey/.index.itype
>
> Here, .index.itype is identical to the one I use for my home
> directory (as is the .index.ftype).
>
> The problem seems to be that, although I have set up my own home
> system to correctly index frame documents in ascii form so that
> i can search their contents, I am unable to do so in this, second
> home directory. A search gives me nothing, though I know there
> are many entries there that should appear.
Is it possible that you "set up" your home system to index .frame
as ASCII by de-installing Frame (or moving it out of the app path)
at the time you created your index? If so, that is what you would
have to do to make the index on the second machine.
If not, then apparently you know some other way to change the
default behavior of ixbuild with respect to a particular filetype.
I would dearly like to learn how to do this, as the default
behavior for .mbox is to _ignore_ it, and I would like to have
my cron-built indices treat its contents as RTF or ASCII or
almost anything more useful than this default. Moving Mail.app
out of the path works once, but you can't do that every time you
build an index. What did you do on the machine that works?
``There are no bad hair- |===================================================
cuts in cyberspace.'' | Joshua W Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu
-- Dave Barry |===================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: black, 3.2, swapfiles grow over hiwater mark
Message-ID: <1996Apr3.070720.2238@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4jphf4$1to@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 07:07:20 GMT
In article <4jphf4$1to@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> grosser@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu
(benjamin grosser) writes:
> Example:
>
> rc.swap: /usr/etc/mach_swapon -v -o
prefer,lowat=16777216,hiwat=31457280 \
>
> cmp-nxt# ls -l /private/vm
> total 144680
> -rw------t 1 root 72228864 Apr 1 15:11 swapfile
> -rw------t 1 root 75874304 Apr 1 15:11 swapfile.front
> cmp-nxt#
>
> I have at least confirmed that the things starts out at the size of the
> lowater mark. Wassup?
>
The above line in rc.swap is only executed if the system is equipped with
a plain vanilla swapDISK!
Swapfile administration is thought to be done by editing /etc/swaptab. In
all cases except the one stated above this file has the first hand and
normally states something different.
The online manual and man-pages are rather eloquent on this matter...
--
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: dthrash@Tac-One.Com (David R. Thrash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: turn ip forwarding on ?
Date: 4 Apr 1996 01:45:16 GMT
Organization: STARnet, L.L.C.
Message-ID: <4jv9jd$8qb@news.starnet.net>
How does one turn ip forwarding on for the en0 (ethernet) interface?
I have ppp2.2 up and would like to route the rest of my network
through my Next 3.2 intel.
TIA
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From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RAM for NeXTstation and NeXTstationTurbo
Date: 4 Apr 1996 03:20:47 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4jvf6f$8nh@nuke.csu.net>
What type of RAM (SIMMS) will work in NeXTstation Color and
NeXTstationColorTurbo... ?
Can you use RAM from a NeXTstation Color to a
NeXTstationColorTurbo?
many thanks..
-Victor Q.
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vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: brian@wintermute (RHS Linux User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! How to get things onto system??
Date: 4 Apr 1996 03:53:49 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4jvh4d$kb9@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4jt28s$cdt@tkhut.sojourn.com>
In article <4jt28s$cdt@tkhut.sojourn.com>, John Goggan wrote:
>I need some help getting something (PPP, absically) transfer to a
>system. Basically, I had a system connected via Ethernet and that was
>how I previously put things onto it (it has no floppy drive). Recently,
>I sold the system. I thought that I had left kermit on the system for
>the new guy to be able to start transfering things (such as PPP) and get
>it going -- and it looks like I was mistaken! Oops! So, kermit is not
>there. So, basically -- it's a NeXTstation with no floppy drive and the
>only external device he really has is a modem. Is there some way that he
>could use something to establish a connection and transfer PPP onto the
>system?
>
>The system is running NS v3.1 (black, of course).
>
>And/all suggestions are appreciated -- and it'd be great if I could get
>those suggestions ASAP! Thanks! :)
>
> - John...
> jgoggan@sojourn.com
>
On that same note, how does the User come from NEXT? On CD? If so, is there
any way to install it other than that? Or am I forced to buy a machine with a
CD so that I can upgrade it?
Any one have any experiences with this issue?
Thanks, Brian
From: "Gerard T. Curd" <gcurd@tricon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x??
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 22:58:29 -0800
Organization: Tri-Cities Connection
Message-ID: <31637315.5E93@tricon.net>
References: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Thomas Clarke wrote:
>
> I use an original 68040 Nextcube still running NeXTstep 2.0 for
> mail and other net chores. Could see no reason to upgrade.
> Lately, I've been wanting to put a web browser on it and I have
> discovered that all the browsers need 3.x.
>
> Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x
> upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through
> Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago
> lost interest.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Tom Clarke
> Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts.
Tom,
Lighthouse in California is selling 3.2 User for $25 and developer for $100. According to
lighthouse these are upgradable to 3.3 when you need to. Hope it helps.
GTC
From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins
Date: 4 Apr 1996 05:59:22 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Message-ID: <4jvofq$3bv@life.ai.mit.edu>
Keywords: beeper,unix,administration
Cc:
For a neat tool for Unix system admins, try viewing:
http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html
--Stuart
From: Paul R. Brown <pbrown@math.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: RAM for NeXTstation and NeXTstationTurbo
Date: 4 Apr 1996 06:43:08 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <4jvr1s$6c3@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <4jvf6f$8nh@nuke.csu.net>
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo) wrote:
>What type of RAM (SIMMS) will work in NeXTstation Color and
>NeXTstationColorTurbo... ?
>Can you use RAM from a NeXTstation Color to a
>NeXTstationColorTurbo?
I think you can, but... w h y w o u l d y o u?
You'll lose a lot of performance.
New RAM is dirt cheap. Reminds me of gasoline being dirt cheap back when I
was way to young to drive anything but HotWheels...
pb
From: kohler@lithnext (Vincent Kohler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: hot to reinstall dual boot prompt in NS 3.3 for intel
Date: 4 Apr 1996 07:58:24 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Message-ID: <4jvvf0$gd9@disunms.epfl.ch>
References: <4jj7dj$mr0@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi,
The lines below were posted some time ago...
Boot into NEXTSTEP, if you automatically go into DOS, do step one,
otherwise if you go directly into NEXTSTEP, start at step 2.
1) Type fdisk at the DOS prompt and set the active
partition to the non-dos partion/NEXTSTEP partion, then
reboot the computer.
2) Boot into NEXTSTEP and login as root.
3) Launch Terminal.app.
4) at the prompt, carefully type:
/usr/etc/disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a
replace rsd0a with the appropriate device.
(rsd0a if the first SCSI drive or rhd0a if IDE)
(Ian from NYRO Technix was the original poster)
Hope it helps...
Vincent
----------------
Vincent Kohler kohler@lithnext.epfl.ch
Laboratoire d'informatique theorique
EPFL
Lausanne
Switzerland
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 4 Apr 1996 09:54:17 GMT
Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4k0689$hit@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
References: <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu>
In article <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex
Dieter) writes:
> In article <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de
> (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes:
> > In article <Dp2tnH.r4@nexus1.tng.oche.de> michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de
> > (Michael Pieper) writes:
> > > In article <4jgcm4$vi@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
> > > wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes:
> > > > on my NS Intel system the CDPlayer.app just gives "could not open
> > > > the CD-ROM drive" on startup. Data CD are working, the auto start
> > > > of CDPlayer.app on the insert of audio CD does not work.
>
> I apologize if this has been mentioned already...
> Besides permissions problems, I remember reading somewhere that the SCSI
ID
> for the CDROM MUST be 2 or higher, else CDPlayer.app will not function
> properly. I have a few systems whose CDROM ID's are set to 1, and they
do
> not work, giving the error you mention above. I have yet to try this
"fix",
> however...
Well, according to my /usr/adm/messages
Mar 28 19:07:22 pcrw04 mach: sd2: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5301TA 1895
Mar 28 19:07:22 pcrw04 mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 2 LUN 0 at sc0
the CD-ROM is at id 2.
When running as root, the auto start of CD Player works, while starting it
manually givex the error. Under a user, nothing works...
Wolfgang
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Universitaetsstr. 31 Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de
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Germany WWW: http://www.whu-koblenz.de/~wolfgang/
From: ebaca@ICSI.Net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wrong headers in Mail
Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:06:44 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4k0oi4$fsc@monet.ICSI.Net>
As a test, I sent a message from my ICSI.Net account to my Delphi.com account. I got
the following headers:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: IN%"ebaca@ICSI.Net"
To: IN%"ebaca@delphi.com"
CC:
Subj: test
Return-path: <ernie@ICSI.Net>
Received: from ICSI.Net (root@ns2.ICSI.Net) by delphi.com (PMDF V5.0-7 #10880)
id <01I33XCP5FAO98AF8G@delphi.com> for ebaca@delphi.com; Wed,
03 Apr 1996 14:51:27 -0500 (EST)
Received: from icsi.net (ebaca.ICSI.Net) by ICSI.Net (5.x/SMI-SVR4)
id AA07779; Wed, 03 Apr 1996 13:51:01 -0600
Received: by icsi.net (NX5.67e/NX3.0S) id AA00632; Wed,
03 Apr 1996 13:45:31 -0600
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2.RR)
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 13:45:28 -0600
From: Ernesto Baca <ernie@ICSI.Net>
Subject: test
To: ebaca@delphi.com
Reply-to: ebaca@ICSI.Net
Message-id: <9604031945.AA00632@icsi.net>
X-Organization: BAC-GROUND
MIME-version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable
Check the headers to see what it says in the From: field. =
ernie@ICSI.Net?
-eb=
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The From: address should be "ebaca@ICSI.Net". This is true at the top of the headers
but not farther down where it shows up as "From: Ernesto Baca <ernie@ICSI.Net>".
Can someone tell me how to correct this problem? ebaca is my internet account name,
ernie is my login name, and bac-ground is my machine name.
Also, why are there "=" signs at the end of each of the lines in the message area?
I would prefer if you send your answers directly to ebaca@ICSI.Net, but I'll also check
this group for the next few days.
Thanks for any help any of you may provide.
Ernie
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From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! How to get things onto system??
Date: 4 Apr 1996 16:11:11 GMT
Organization: ALI
Message-ID: <4k0sav$r2r@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
References: <4jt28s$cdt@tkhut.sojourn.com> <4jvh4d$kb9@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware brian@wintermute wrote:
> On that same note, how does the User come from NEXT? On CD? If so, is
there
> any way to install it other than that? Or am I forced to buy a machine
with a
> CD so that I can upgrade it?
> Any one have any experiences with this issue?
I'm afraid you either have to buy or borrow a SCSI CD-ROM drive or have an
ethernet card and a friend who will let you do a network install.
PS: Brian you should fix the e-mail address posted by your newsreader.
brian@wintermute isn't a complete address. At least put a complete one
in your .signature file.
--
Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca
ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317
Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Erik Trimble <trims@media.mit.edu>
Subject: Problem accessing NeXT Printer
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <3163FA45.41C6@media.mit.edu>
Sender: news@media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: Perceptual Computing, MIT Media Lab
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:35:17 GMT
Hello!
I have an original NeXT Cube ('030 CPU) with the original B&W NeXT
400DPI Laser Printer attached to it via the (normal) printer port.
The cube is running NS 3.3.
I would like to use the printer (funny of me, eh?), but can't seem to
configure it. The /dev/np0 device is there, and I can use the
/usr/etc/nppower utility to turn on and off the printer, so I can
obviously talk to the printer successfully.
However, when I fire up the PrintManager.app and attempt to create a
printer called Local_Printer, the NeXT 400DPI Postscript Level II Laser
Pinter entry under the Type scrolling list is grayed out. How can I get
this thing to realize there is a printer attached to the printer port
and not try to configure it attached to a serial port?
-Erik
--
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--from the writings of Charles Babbage
From: Stephen Travis Pope <stp@ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Problem: SPARC/Solaris mounting of NeXT disks
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 08:55:32 -0800
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, Dept. of Music, U. C. Santa Barbara
Message-ID: <3163FF04.167E@ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
We have a mixed workstation environment, with Next HW, SunOS machines, and
SPARCs running Solaris. Our main home directory disk is on a NeXT cube, and
the Sun OS 4.1 machine mounts it AOK, but the new Solaris machine doesn't.
It mounts just fine, but whenever you try to access the mounted disk, it times
out before NFS replies. This looks like the following (where volta is a Sun
Ultra running Solaris 2.5, and foxtrot is a NeXT cube.)
[volta:/home/stp]_5: mount
[. . . stuff deleted--lots of NFS mounts . . .]
/net/fox on foxtrot:/ bg/read/write/soft/intr/rsize=2048/wsize=2048/remote
on Wed Apr 3 12:55:19 1996
(i.e., volta can nfs mount foxtrot's disk)
[volta:/home/stp]_6: ls -l /net/fox
NFS readdir failed for server foxtrot: error 5 (RPC: Timed out) <-- The problem!
total 1587
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 1024 Jul 26 1995 Library
drwxrwxr-x 102 root 4096 Jan 23 17:49 LocalApps
drwxrwxr-x 10 root 1024 Jul 12 1995 LocalDeveloper
[. . . stuff deleted . . .]
(i.e., foxtrot is there, but NFS is screwed up somehow.
The answer takes about a minute.)
Have any of you seen this before? Am I doing something obviously wrong?
Can someone point me to a place to rtfm?
...any reply appreciated...
stp
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___Research Director--CREATE, Dept. of Music, U. C. Santa Barbara
___stp@create.ucsb.edu http://www.create.ucsb.edu/~stp/
From: kswanson@thompson.BLaCKSMITH.com (Kevin Swanson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextstep Install on an HP PA-RISC System
Date: 3 Apr 1996 17:18:28 GMT
Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc.
Message-ID: <4jubt4$94s@BLaCKSMITH.com>
In NeXTanswer 1684, PA-RISC Frequently Asked Questions, there is a section
on CD-ROM compatability that states:
Q: What CD-ROM drives can be used to install NEXTSTEP?
A: Due to restrictions in the HP ROMs, only certain HP and Toshiba CD-ROM
drives can be used to install NEXTSTEP. The recommended CD-ROM drive is the
HP A2655A. The HP A1999A can be used with 7x5 systems but is incompatible
with 712 systems.
The HP A2655A uses the same mechanism as the Toshiba XM-3401TA, while the
HP A1999A uses the same mechanism as the Toshiba XM-3301TA. These drives
may be used instead of the equivalent HP drives, but NeXT recommends
contacting HP to be sure your firmware revision is compatible.
Is there any updated information on this? HP has discontinued the A2655A
and replaced it with a new model called C2944A (4x). Toshiba America Disk
Products Division says that the XM-3401TA has been discontinued and
replaced by the XM-3701 (6x).
Has anyone out there successfully installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 on an HP PA-RISC
system (specifically, an HP9000 712/60 workstation) with one of these or
any other CD-ROM drives? Ideally, I would like to purchase a non-HP drive,
because they are much more expensive. Also, any information on how to tell
whether or not your firmware revision is compatible would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Kevin Swanson
kswanson@BLaCKSMITH.com
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wrong headers in Mail
Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:54:36 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4k1ges$aie@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4k0oi4$fsc@monet.ICSI.Net>
In <4k0oi4$fsc@monet.ICSI.Net> ebaca@ICSI.Net wrote:
>
> The From: address should be "ebaca@ICSI.Net". This is true at the top of
the headers
> but not farther down where it shows up as "From: Ernesto Baca
<ernie@ICSI.Net>".
> Can someone tell me how to correct this problem? ebaca is my internet
account name,
> ernie is my login name, and bac-ground is my machine name.
> Also, why are there "=" signs at the end of each of the lines in the
message area?
> I would prefer if you send your answers directly to ebaca@ICSI.Net, but
I'll also check
> this group for the next few days.
> Thanks for any help any of you may provide.
> Ernie
Check the preferences in Mail.app under Compose--->Reply To: Change that
field if desired
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, and Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, and ASCII
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Problem: SPARC/Solaris mounting of NeXT disks
Date: 4 Apr 1996 23:41:41 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-09.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4k1mnl$jen@usc.edu>
References: <3163FF04.167E@ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
In <3163FF04.167E@ccmrc.ucsb.edu> Stephen Travis Pope wrote:
>
> /net/fox on foxtrot:/ bg/read/write/soft/intr/rsize=2048/wsize=2048/remote
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the problem. I believe NS uses 1024, so the Sun and NS have a
disparity that people fix by telling the Sun to use 1024.
I believe this is a FAQ and that's why I'd know it at all.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Questionable Librarian.app behavior...
Date: 5 Apr 1996 08:36:56 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-71.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4k2m38$c2s@usc.edu>
References: <4jtgnc$erf@usc.edu> <4ju4mk$p26@news.acns.nwu.edu>
In <4ju4mk$p26@news.acns.nwu.edu> Joshua W. Burton wrote:
> Is it possible that you "set up" your home system to index .frame
> as ASCII by de-installing Frame (or moving it out of the app path)
> at the time you created your index? If so, that is what you would
> have to do to make the index on the second machine.
Well, as far as my problem is concerned, I rebuilt .index.store and
everything seems ok. Who know what was the problem.
As for indexing Frame files with Librarian/ixbuild - a service called
"frame-ascii" with it's counterpart binary is what does the trick.
As for mail's .mbox, I'm really not sure but the main way to manipulate
ixbuild is with ".index.ftype", which describes each type of file, and
".index.itype", which determines which file types to ignore, (and one
other). See the man pages for "ixbuild".
I would highly recommend "MailSearch.app" for searching through .mboxes,
though EnhanceMail.bundles' new indexing feature is really good, but limits
your searches to single mailboxes at a time.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: hot to reinstall dual boot prompt in NS 3.3 for intel
Date: 03 Apr 1996 10:22:27 -0500
Organization: x
Message-ID: <eivfhmix8.fsf@justine.elastica.com>
References: <4jj7dj$mr0@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
To: phinv@lux.latrobe.edu.au (phinv)
Just boot dos's fdisk set the active partition to nextstep reboot and
disk -b /dev/rsd0h
--
"Under the circumstances I will sit down."
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: Brian Baker <bbaker@technom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP on HP Pavilion: HELP!
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 20:43:56 -0700
Organization: Technom Enterprises, Inc.
Message-ID: <316739FC.7451@technom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Greetings,
I've just installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 on the following system:
- HP Pavilion 7090 (133Mhz Pentium)
- Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card
- Cogent EM960 PCI Ethernet card
- Conner 2.0GB HD
It's up and running, with the following two problems:
Problem 1:
The Pavilion has SoundBlaster16-compatible sound hardware, but I'm
having no luck getting NS to recognize the sound card. The card is
actually known to Windoze as "Crystal CS4232 PnP Audio Hardware". Early
in the boot sequence, these messages appear:
Plug and Play support enabled
Plug and Play card: 0x0e634232 CSC4232 s/n 0x00000001
But later, during the "Configuring Device Drivers" phase, things start
to go wrong.
With the "Sound Blaster 16 (8 bit DMA PnP)(v3.33)" driver, I get:
PnP: could not find card for driver SoundBlaster16 instance 0
configureDriver: could not allocate resources for class SoundBlaster16
_IOProbeDriver: No Such Device, device SoundBlaster16 unit 0
With the "Sound Blaster 16 (8 bit DMA)(v3.33)" driver, I get:
SoundBlaster16: SoundBlaster not detected at address 0x220
SoundBlaster16: None or unsupported card.
_IOProbeDriver: No Such Device, device SoundBlaster16 unit 0
Has anyone gotten this to work on a Pavilion, or solved the problem on
a similar system? If so, please let me in on the secret.
Problem 2:
I've got an HP LaserJet 5L printer, and I don't see any appropriate
drivers for it. It's not a Postscript printer (but neither is a Next
printer, if I remember right).
Are there drivers for the 5L? Will any of the other HP printer drivers
work for it?
Thanks in advance,
Brian Baker
bbaker@technom.com
PS. Aside from these difficulties, the Pavilion is a joy to run
NEXTSTEP on. Very fast (well, compared to my 25Mhz Cube, at least), and
the video performance is exceptional.
From: skwong@mae.cuhk.hk (Wong Sai-kee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTMaill error on MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile
Date: 6 Apr 1996 23:56:24 GMT
Organization: Engineering Faculty CUHK
Message-ID: <4k70b8$ssk@eng_ser1.erg.cuhk.hk>
I got a dialog when NeXTMail try to get new mail:
File system error
Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error: No such file or directory.
And the console display:
MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile
I couldn't figure out how to handle it, I searched SysAdmin.bshlf but
nothing was found on MailFetch. So, I post here for help.
Thanks in advance.
Mr.Sai-Kee Wong
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Message-ID: <DpGvFn.Mo5@news2.new-york.net>
References: <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k0689$hit@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 00:45:23 GMT
wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) wrote:
> Well, according to my /usr/adm/messages
> ... pcrw04 mach: sd2: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5301TA 1895
> ... pcrw04 mach: Registering: sd2 at Target 2 LUN 0 at sc0
>
> the CD-ROM is at id 2.
>
> When running as root, the auto start of CD Player works, while
> starting it manually givex the error. Under a user, nothing
> works...
I'm not sure what's been said in this thread, or if my previous
attempt to answer this worked (I doubt it did...), but you also
want to change the permissions on the filesystem support code:
(14) pulse/gad # ls -lg /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs
total 41
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10 Feb 17 15:20 cdaudio.device
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 40960 Aug 20 1993 cdaudio.util*
note that cdaudio.util needs to be setuid root.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 7 Apr 1996 05:07:50 GMT
Organization: Omni Development, Inc.
Message-ID: <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu>
OmniCD has just entered public beta testing, for those who wish to try
another alternate CD player program. It should be emphasized that this
is a very early beta, so if you're only looking for a polished app, you
should probably pass this by for now, and as this is a low priority
project, don't expect a final version in the immediate future.
For more info and to download: http://www.omnigroup.com/Software/OmniCD/
OmniCD is lacking some features that CDPlayer has, but it has a few
advantages of it's own. The feature expected to be the most popular is
the ability to control playback from the application icon (sortof),
thus greatly reducing the screen space required, and keeping the
controls handy. Also of some interest is that this app allows recording
audio from many Toshiba drives (on all architectures), from many
Sony/Matshita/Apple drives on Motorola (not on Intel or HP, possibly on
SPARC, but that's untested), and possibly from some NEC drives.
(Special thanks to several people, especially Juergen Sell, Carl Edman,
and Garance A Drosehn.)
--
andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
I probably don't speak for Omni, but I'm going to keep you guessing.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: gtf@math.rochester.edu (Geoffrey T. Falk)
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Message-ID: <1996Apr7.133352.17553@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu
Organization: Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 96 13:33:52 GMT
In article <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>,
<andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com> wrote:
>
>OmniCD has just entered public beta testing, for those who wish to try
>another alternate CD player program. It should be emphasized that this
>is a very early beta, so if you're only looking for a polished app, you
>should probably pass this by for now, and as this is a low priority
>project, don't expect a final version in the immediate future.
This is off-topic, but...
Somebody should implement filesystem support for music CDs on NeXTstep.
When you pop the CD into the drive, it would come up as a directory
filled with .snd files called 'track01', 'track02', etc.
Why hasn't anybody done this? Would it upset the music publishers
too much? :-)
Have a great spring weekend, everybody.
g.
--
I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive
not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. ---Leo Tolstoy
Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf@math.rochester.edu> http://theorem.math.rochester.edu/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: cut / paste commands?
Message-ID: <kevincDpI1KC.1ry@netcom.com>
Keywords: cut paste shell commands where
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 15:55:24 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Does anyone know where I can get the regular UNIX cut / paste
from? I would like to be able to use this on my NSFIP 3.3
machine.
Many thanks in advance.
Song
From: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: User Manager crash
Date: 7 Apr 1996 23:28:08 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4k9j28$5c8@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
What might be a likely cause of UserManager crashes when opening
network accounts as root on the netinfo server (and other network
hosts as well)? Local accounts on the netinfo server can be opened
without a crash.
The crashes produce no messages in the Console window.
The network is running Release 3.3 pl1 with EOF.
Permissions and mount/NFS parameters on the network file systems
"appear" to be correct. The network is running fine otherwise. I can
modify account information with NetinfoManager.
Thanks for any suggestions and speculation.
... John
--
John Nicol
School of Audiology and Speech Sciences
University of British Columbia
Electronic mail: jsn@audiospeech.ubc.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 6 Apr 1996 13:58:02 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
Sender: root@primenet.com
Message-ID: <4k6lsq$93n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <Dp2tnH.r4@nexus1.tng.oche.de> <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de>
wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) wrote:
>
>
>Has anybody else some more clues?
>
Set the owner of the app to "wheel" not root.
--
Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS
Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve...
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From: cmh@spiff.carleton.ca (Colin Henein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mach64ATI drivers
Date: 8 Apr 1996 01:13:09 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <4k9p75$ome@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
Well, it seems NeXT blew it with the atiMach64 drivers for the 2MB
DRAM card.
I just downloaded the new non-beta driver expecting them to have fixed
a problem when running under 16bit 800x600 at 60Hz. (Everything is
really terribly washed out).
I upgraded to v3.37 beta several weeks ago, and stupidly blew away my
old beta v3.34 that worked fine... I'd hoped that now that the driver
was non-beta they'd have repaired this. Yes, I did BugNext about it.
Anyway the point of this is that I would really like a copy of the
Beta 3.34 driver. If anyone out there still has a copy of it I'd be
really appreciative...
Colin
--
=============================+=======================================
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cmh@ccs.carleton.ca | of its owner's sad, lamented, and
root@consecol.org | tax-deductible condition... -DA raeou
From: sdonovan@odin.cair.du.edu (Steven Donovan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Instalation Problem
Date: 8 Apr 1996 03:37:44 GMT
Organization: University of Denver
Message-ID: <4ka1m8$fsn@hermes.cair.du.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am attempting to install NeXTStep for Intel.
After the initial instalation, when rebooting to
configure, it hangs when trying to configure the EIDE driver.
I have tried the suggestions from NeXTAnswers in the "Overcoming
Instalation Hurdles," but with no success. The only thing that
stands out as an obvious possibility for the problem is that the
hard drive that I have is 850mb and NeXTStep thinks it is 812mb.
I read that it could cause problems if your bios doesn't know the
correct size of the drive, but it seems to know the size (and has
the correct cylinders, heads, sectors). I don't know why this
discrepency exists, or how to correct it.
Any info/suggestion are greatly appreciated.
--
A closed mouth gathers no foot. sdonovan@diana.cair.du.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 8 Apr 1996 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4ka3se$mta@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
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- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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
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- Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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===========================================
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=============
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(formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu)
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=====================================
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From: chanhong@igate.iohk.com (Chan Hong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo Error help!
Date: 8 Apr 1996 13:10:30 GMT
Organization: Internet OnLine HK Ltd.
Message-ID: <4kb386$934@ibridge.iohk.com>
Hello,
I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.3 user on a standalone intel machine. Right now I have
some problem after launching the PPP connection to my ISP.
The problem is: After making a PPP connection to my ISP by 'pppd', the
Netinfo Manager and OmniWeb cannot launch. Consol prompted me 'Time out
Netinfo connect to local domain, XXXX sleep.' - some sort like this. But
I can launch them without any problem before the PPP session.
Right now I'm using loopback IP address (127.0.0.1).
Can anyone help me to get it work?
B.R.
Chan Hong
From: stimpy@sojourn1.sojourn.com (gcl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: How to Upgrade NeXT Cube to 3.x??
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 8 Apr 1996 13:24:42 GMT
Organization: Sojourn Systems Ltd.
Message-ID: <4kb42q$9gp@tkhut.sojourn.com>
References: <4jruhn$5kg@news.cc.ucf.edu> <31637315.5E93@tricon.net>
Gerard T. Curd (gcurd@tricon.net) wrote:
: Thomas Clarke wrote:
: >
: > I use an original 68040 Nextcube still running NeXTstep 2.0 for
: > mail and other net chores. Could see no reason to upgrade.
: > Lately, I've been wanting to put a web browser on it and I have
: > discovered that all the browsers need 3.x.
: >
: > Can anyone point me to an ftp site or other source for a 3.x
: > upgrade for a 68040 cube? We used to have to go through
: > Florida State in Tallahassee for stuff, but they long ago
: > lost interest.
: >
: > Thanks.
: >
: > Tom Clarke
: > Hoarder of NeXT cube spare parts.
: Tom,
: Lighthouse in California is selling 3.2 User for $25 and developer for $100. According to
: lighthouse these are upgradable to 3.3 when you need to. Hope it helps.
: GTC
--
________________________________________________________________
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Owner: Network with a NeXT '040 Cube #4173 running NeXTstep v3.3
and a Intel i486dx2-66 running NeXTstep for Intel v3.3
_________________________________________________________________
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: black, 3.2, swapfiles grow over hiwater mark
Date: 5 Apr 1996 07:12:16 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4k2h4g$9j4@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4jphf4$1to@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.92.960402100934.12319K-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
On 1 Apr 1996, benjamin grosser wrote:
> Example:
>
> rc.swap: /usr/etc/mach_swapon -v -o
> prefer,lowat=16777216,hiwat=31457280 \
> I have at least confirmed that the things starts out at the
> size of the lowater mark. Wassup?
I think the thing to note here is that the parameters for
mach_swapon only effect swapfiles which are also listed as
parameters on the command.
They do not effect swapfile entries which are in /etc/swaptab.
The fact that you're quoting from /etc/rc.swap suggests that you
also have a swapdisk, and you are expecting the swapdisk to get
all the paging space instead of the /private/vm/swapfile. Unless
you also change things in either your /etc/rc.* files, or in
/etc/swaptab, the behavior you will get is not the behavior that
you are expecting.
Offhand I'd offer this as yet another example that the logic for
swapdisks is more confusing than helpful. I understand the
attraction of a "just hook up the disk and it works" feature,
but for most users it doesn't work the way they expect it to
work. If it's not doing what people expect, then it's not a
good idea -- no matter how attractive the theory is.
---
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,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Message-ID: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 16:25:18 GMT
I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar
PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware can do
115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is totally
unexpected.
Oh boy, do I hope I am wrong.
--
Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
From: xela@acm.org (Matt Bezark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Problem connecting to Oracle7 with EOF
Date: 8 Apr 1996 14:53:29 GMT
Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet Inc.
Message-ID: <4kb999$jp@natasha.rmii.com>
I have an Oracle7 server running on an HP 712
with HPUX 10. SQL*NET is running on the
server. When I try to connect with EOModeler,
I get a beep, and no message in the Console.
Do I need any Oracle or NeXT software on the
client besides the Oracle adaptor that is
Oracle specific? Do I need an entry in
/etc/services on the client?
Thanks,
Matt
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Netinfo Error help!
Date: 8 Apr 1996 16:10:58 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-03.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4kbdqi$kmt@usc.edu>
References: <4kb386$934@ibridge.iohk.com>
In <4kb386$934@ibridge.iohk.com> Chan Hong wrote:
[snip]
> Right now I'm using loopback IP address (127.0.0.1).
Uhm... what does this mean you are doing?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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===============================================================
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DpJvov.Hx9@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 15:43:43 GMT
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>,
<andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com> wrote:
>
>OmniCD has just entered public beta testing, for those who wish to try
>another alternate CD player program. It should be emphasized that this
>is a very early beta, so if you're only looking for a polished app, you
>should probably pass this by for now, and as this is a low priority
>project, don't expect a final version in the immediate future.
>
Nice app. However, what I want to know is, will the finished version look as
slick as CDPlayer? Hmmmmm....maybe some trips to Pixelsight and some IB
hacking would make good thesis procrastination... :-)
--
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: trims@media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble)
Subject: VT console on a Intel 3.3 machine
Message-ID: <1996Apr8.172531.27248@media.mit.edu>
Sender: trims@tottenhamcourt.media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble)
Organization: Perceptual Computing, M.I.T. Media Lab
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 17:25:31 GMT
I've got a 486 box with no video card or monitor.
I do have a VT320, though. I'd like to connect this to a serial port and use it
for the console for the machine.
I'd be running NeXTStep 3.3/Intel on the machine. Does anyone see problems with
this? Would I have to do the install with a video card in place first, then
switch to the serial port? And exactly what do I have to do?
Any pointers to information would be greatly appreciated, esp if this has been
covered elsewhere before.
Thanks!
-Erik
trims@media.mit.edu
--
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--from the writings of Charles Babbage
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Instalation Problem
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 10:19:41 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <316A9C2D.7EEF@mpr.ca>
References: <4ka1m8$fsn@hermes.cair.du.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Steven Donovan wrote:
> I read that it could cause problems if your bios doesn't know the
> correct size of the drive, but it seems to know the size (and has
> the correct cylinders, heads, sectors). I don't know why this
> discrepency exists, or how to correct it.
>
You will want to check that your motherboard supports LBA Mode. It must
support this if you want to use NS with an IDE drive over 504MB.
--
Scott Mewett
MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, B.C.
mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only
mewett@van.ark.com NeXTMail OK
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive"
Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:44:42 GMT
Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Message-ID: <4keena$lvg@news.tuwien.ac.at>
References: <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k0689$hit@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <DpGvFn.Mo5@news2.new-york.net>
There is one other weird thing:
If you set your Workspace umask to 077 (using Preferences, group and others
may neither read, write, nor execute), CDPlayer won't work: CD's will be
ejected after a short check. Only if you set the group to be allowed to read
(037 in umask notation), CDPlayer will work as expected.
Does anybody have a workaround, so that it's possible to use CDPlayer with a
Workspace umask of 077?
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Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at
Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
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From: John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 9 Apr 1996 22:04:15 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4kemsv$mdi@nuke.csu.net>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu>
<4kcccb$omv@nuke.csu.net> <4kclq4$r7l@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In <4kclq4$r7l@msunews.cl.msu.edu> RHS Linux User wrote:
> In article <4kcccb$omv@nuke.csu.net>, John Rudd wrote:
> >
> >I agree that this would be a cool/appropriate way to handle
> >CD's on probably _any_ platform. Wonder how hard it would be
> >to do this?
> >
> >
>
> Why? What does this give you? All it would do is stop it from barfing
> when putting it in there, right?
>
1) an easier interface for handling audio CD's.. the file system
abstracts the details of the medium, and you can build CD Player
apps that use this abstraction.. instead of having to learn low level
details of the hardware and protocols (ie. "good Abstract Data Type
programming"). In fact, you don't really even need a CD player
app for this.. you can just cat the file to /dev/audio. This makes a
very nice portable and abstract model. It also means you can use
a cron job to play a sound at a particular time, or if you're _want_ to,
you can manage your audio playing with a shell script that does
exactly the play order you want..
2) no more need for fancy "record audio off of this CD" type apps,
which aren't always flexible or really that useful.. or that come with
a shareware fee, or whatever. You just cp the file from the
/audiocd/track01.snd file to whatever file you want it at. No hoops,
proprietary apps, nothing. Just cp.
In other words, you get a truely flexible model for handling audio
cd's as files (the way all good unixes treat everything).
--
John "Kzin" Rudd kzin@isc.sjsu.edu http://icb.sjsu.edu/~kzin
=========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============
When I hear people sigh 'life is hard', i am always tempted to ask,
'compared to what?'" -- sydney j harris
From: Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems installing NS/hp
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 19:12:20 -0400
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960409183954.17073A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I am trying to install NS/hp 3.3 prerelease 1 on to
an hp 712/60. I have the CD loaded into an external
Toshiba CD drive. I intended to boot from the CD, and
use BuildDisk to install the system.
However after I entered the boot command (boot scsi.5.0)
the system checked the drive containing the CD, then
returned the message:
no bootable drive found on disk (or something like that).
Could someone tell me the correct way to install this.
Thanks,
--Greg
From: rencsok@web2000.net (Randy Rencsok)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: A Cry for Help [recovering OD stuff]
Date: 10 Apr 1996 03:02:27 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4kf8c3$900@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4jpsvt$k6b@news4.digex.net>
In article <4jpsvt$k6b@news4.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
writes:
> gtaylor@msn.fullfeed.com (Gregory Taylor) wrote:
> > I took a disc which I knew I didn't need and tried to re-initialize it
> when it put up the panel telling me that I couldn't read the disk. It
> erased the disc and re-initialized the disc just fine, with a number of
> block numbers showing up in the console port. Does this tell me anything
> else?
>
> I can't be sure, somethings are tough to diagnose over the net. But
sounds
> like the old optical might have been mis-alligned or some such thing,
and
> wrote thing in a manner that is not readable by a properly functioning
OD.
> It might be possible to play with the alignment or some such thing to
get
> at the data... but that would be far from easy (and worst yet, might not
> even be the problem...)
>
> Anyway, sorry I cant be of more help. Good luck with it.
I've had sucess with a number of OD's in the past, and none
with others. Recovery would depend on a large number of factors.
The first being whether the disk was reinitialized (mkfs) or not.
If not a fsck might work (but this could hose your disk more if
OD is acting up...) after a sucessful search for superblocks. If
you find no superblocks then your probably screwed, and will have to
resort to more brutal methods of recovery (disk - read etc.).
If anyone out there has spent any time writing (or could)
source code that reads and writes to raw devices (rod0a or od0a)
I'd be interested to see the code. Since it would be nice to be able
to save a good binary copy of the disk at the very least. I've used
disk and some scripts to recover really important files that arn't
fragmented (or the locatable fragments). But that's about as far as
I've gone. I've noticed that only disk gives consistent information
about what's really on a disk. dd on a screwed up disk has never given
me a correct binary image of the messed up filesystem (at least not off
an OD, or rod0a or od0a). disk - read always gave consistent results
unless the blocks are unreadable..
There are a number of serious data recovery places that will
also do the brutal recovery (and undertake estimate of amount of data
that is recoverable) for a substantal fee (estimates alone cost hundreds).
Best of luck,
Randy Rencsok
PS. I'd be interested in talking to someone who thought they could
write code to do such recovery (i.e. could lay out a bsd
filesystem in their sleep, and write the interface to the
raw device drivers. I just don't have time to mess with this..
but might toss some $$ to someone who would.)
rencsok@web2000.net or
rencsok@convex.cl.msu.edu
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Talk problems
Date: 8 Apr 1996 16:44:52 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4kbfq4$9f@turbocat.snafu.de>
Hi!
I have a problem with talk between my two NeXTs max (black) and turbocat
(i586) both running 3.3 PL 1.
when I am on the same box as the user I would like to talk to the talk works
fine.
Otherwise I cannot talk.
Any suggestions?
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP on HP Pavilion: HELP!
Date: 9 Apr 1996 07:24:24 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4kd3b8$8t@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <316739FC.7451@technom.com>
Brian Baker <bbaker@technom.com> wrote:
(...)
>
> Problem 2:
>
> I've got an HP LaserJet 5L printer, and I don't see any appropriate
> drivers for it. It's not a Postscript printer (but neither is a Next
> printer, if I remember right).
>
> Are there drivers for the 5L? Will any of the other HP printer drivers
> work for it?
The 5L will work with ghostscript or things like that. I would buy the
HP 5MP. (M=Mac=PS)
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: fa@emf.emf.net (Farhad Afrahi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DOS format has corrupted NEXTSTEP Disk (Help!!!)
Date: 10 Apr 1996 09:33:14 GMT
Organization: emf.net
Message-ID: <4kfv8q$4fi@emf.emf.net>
The DOS program "format" was accidentally let loose on a 1 GB EIDE
drive containing a NEXTSTEP 3.3 installation. The error was realized
when, according to "format," 3% of the formatting process was
complete and the procedure was halted by turning the computer off.
Is there any way to recover any of the data on this disk? Any ideas
would be greatly appreciated.
---
Farhad Afrahi
<fa@emf.net>
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DOS format has corrupted NEXTSTEP Disk (Help!!!)
Date: 10 Apr 1996 10:08:08 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <4kg1a8$hg6@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
References: <4kfv8q$4fi@emf.emf.net>
In-Reply-To: <4kfv8q$4fi@emf.emf.net>
On 04/09/96, Farhad Afrahi wrote:
>The DOS program "format" was accidentally let loose on a 1 GB EIDE
>drive containing a NEXTSTEP 3.3 installation. The error was realized
>when, according to "format," 3% of the formatting process was
>complete and the procedure was halted by turning the computer off.
>
>Is there any way to recover any of the data on this disk? Any ideas
>would be greatly appreciated.
>
>---
>Farhad Afrahi
><fa@emf.net>
>
Unfortunately, I believe the answer is NO. M$Dog 6.22 once bit both of
my NeXTSTEP and Linux partitions. I had no way to get those data back
except struggled with PCTOOLS to editing my hard disks for a whole day
to only recover some of my TeX works. What a tragedy!
Yuwen Cheng
yucheng@math.arizona.edu
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Compiling ANSI C + binaries on NS3.3
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:21:19 -0700
Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves
Message-ID: <316BFC1F.2CB2@harmonic.co.il>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: uri <uri@harmonic.co.il>
Hi,
We have 2 NeXT machines running NS3.3.
I want to compile some stuff on those machines (some of this must be
compile with gnu g++).
I have the gnu source, but I cannot install it because I cannot find the
OS basic CC compiler.
Somebody told me that I must buy "NeXT Developer", - ???
(Even if only to install the gnu compiler)
Or there is another option?
Thank
--
********************************************************
* Uri Shkolnik - System Administration * * *
* Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) * *
* E-mail: uri@harmonic.co.il Tel: 972-48550180/49 *
From: ta2321s@dunix.drake.edu (Terry Asher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: root password - jumper?
Date: 10 Apr 1996 14:08:04 GMT
Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
Message-ID: <4kgfc4$ndq@alpha2.drake.edu>
A friend of mine has a Next and the person that worked on it
before set the root password and has since left and didn't tell my
friend what the root password was. How do I find out how to change
this? Is there a jumper that I have to switch by opening up the Next?
Terry Asher
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From: tgo@phorcys.wscis.wsc.com (Thomas Kent Go)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ISDN Questions....
Date: 10 Apr 1996 14:26:09 GMT
Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kgge1$4sm@cerberus.wsc.com>
Hi,
Recently, I had purchased an Adtran ISDN modemn and having been
trying to find documentation to use it with NeXT. The manual sugestted
using a program called PhoneMnager, but it doesn't exist. I called the
tech. support ppl. but they don't seem to know what I am talking about.
Is there any documenation on this subject?
Please reply via e-mail and I will post a summary.
Thanks,
Thomas
tgo@wsc.com
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get "Fax sent..." Mail
Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:47:39 GMT
Organization: Daimler-Benz AG
Message-ID: <4k0qur$8k@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
Hi all,
some time ago, I always got a message like
Your fax to ... was successfully delivered...
after I sent a fax to someone. Now, I don't get that message any more.
Does anyone know what I have to do to get it again?
It would be a great help to I know that my fax has arrived correctky without
having to check the logfile every time...
.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: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bad block on harrdisk...
Date: 4 Apr 1996 15:58:16 GMT
Organization: Daimler-Benz AG
Message-ID: <4k0rio$8s@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
Hi all,
what do I have to do to mark a bad block of a harddisk as bad?
This block is occupied with a regular file which I tried to delete.
That action didn't help, because some time later, another file
(located on the same block) was unreadable.
I run fsck in single user mode several times, but this didn't help...
Do I have to reformat the whole disk? This wouldn't be nice at
all, because there's a lot of data on that disk...
.Ralf
--
Ralf Specht
Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm
Department of Text Understanding Systems
P.O. Box 23 60
89013 Ulm, Germany
e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
phone: +49 731 505-2356
fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: Haibo Chen <haiboc@bnr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: windows 95 to NeXTcube
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 12:42:00 -0400
Organization: Hi-Wave Research (HWR)
Message-ID: <316BE4D8.64CB@bnr.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: haiboc@bnr.ca
Hi! I would like to seek the help from all of you:
I'd like to build a LAN between WINDOWS 95 (PC) to NeXTCube
for sharing the NeXT printer. I am facing the workgroup configuration
problem in windows 95 network configuration, which workgroup
I should specify for NeXT?
Any more information and help would appreciated.
Thanks a lot.
Haibo Chen
haiboc@bnr.ca
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: passwd file
Date: 10 Apr 1996 18:11:26 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kgtke$pur@news.mcl.bdm.com>
References: <3169A6FB.4A02@ihc.com>
In article <3169A6FB.4A02@ihc.com> John Harris <pcjharri@ihc.com> writes:
> I'm new to NeXTStep. Going through the directory structure one day I
found a
> copy of the passwd file in the /LocalLibrary/Images/People directory
along with
> the aliases file. The copy was more recent than the /etc/passwd file.
> The system uses NetInfo, however I don't quite understand the
relationship with
> the passwd file.
> Can someone tell me if the passwd file under LocalLibrary/Images/People
should
> be there. I removed it once, but found it back in there several days
later.
> Another problem with this is that the file was readable by all.
Leave it alone. Sendmail uses it to see which users it has accounts for
and who it can generate mail spools for. Its OK if the file is globally
readable (but not OK if it is globally writable), because the passwords
are encrypted, and cannot be easily unencrypted.
--
Jim Sowers | You don't understand.
Engineer | I'm not locked up in here with you.
BDM Federal, Inc. | You're locked up in here with Me.
<jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | - Rorshach from "The Watchmen"
From: tobyl@stealth.tamu.edu (Toby Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: windows 95 to NeXTcube
Date: 10 Apr 1996 19:49:40 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University Networking Helpdesk
Message-ID: <4kh3ck$l3q@news.tamu.edu>
References: <316BE4D8.64CB@bnr.ca>
In article <316BE4D8.64CB@bnr.ca>, Haibo Chen <haiboc@bnr.ca> wrote:
> I'd like to build a LAN between WINDOWS 95 (PC) to NeXTCube
> for sharing the NeXT printer. I am facing the workgroup configuration
> problem in windows 95 network configuration, which workgroup
> I should specify for NeXT?
If you're already on a network using TCP/IP, and just want to share the
printer, download the Windows LPR Spooler. It's a shareware util that
creates a new port on your Win95 machine that you can attach a printer
to. Any output sent to this "printer" is then spooled to your NeXT's
printer. Just make sure you put the Win95 machine's machine name in the
/etc/hosts.lpd file. You can download it from the CICA Windows archive.
I believe 4.0 is the latest version.
Toby
--
[ Toby Leonard (tobyl@tamu.edu) | "Spare the rod and spoil the rm -rf" ]
[ CIS Networking Help Desk | -B.O.F.H. ]
[ Texas A&M University | The above is my opinion alone, and ]
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From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: passwd file
Date: 10 Apr 1996 20:13:48 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kh4ps$8nj@news.next.com>
References: <4kgtke$pur@news.mcl.bdm.com>
In article <4kgtke$pur@news.mcl.bdm.com> jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com
(James Sowers) writes:
#Leave it alone. Sendmail uses it to see which users it has accounts
#for and who it can generate mail spools for. Its OK if the file is
#globally readable (but not OK if it is globally writable), because the
#passwords are encrypted, and cannot be easily unencrypted.
Actually, no. Sendmail uses getpwent and it's ilk to verify local
users. The files in /LocalLibrary/Images/People are used by Mail.app
to generate the name and group lists in the Addresses browser.
joe
From: arrouye@marin.fdn.fr (Yves Arrouye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS and 3rd (4th) IDE disks on 2nd EIDE interface: HELP please!
Date: 10 Apr 1996 21:18:14 GMT
Organization: French Data Network - Association loi 1901 - Paris - France
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <ARROUYE.96Apr10231814@marin.fdn.fr>
Hello,
I'd like to know if someone know how to make NS (3.3) correctly use
3rd and 4th IDE disks in a PC: though the EIDE drivers correctly
recognize the drives, the system keeps telling (because my BIOS does
not handle 4 disks directly) that these disks are of 0 bytes size.
Is there a patch to NS 3.3 Intel that corrects this problem, making
NS bypass the bios when using fdisk or mounting disks?
Thanks in advance,
Yves.
P.S.: I'd greatly appreciate an email answer, as I do not have the
opportunity to read news often. Thanks in advance.
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From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bad block on harrdisk...
Date: 10 Apr 1996 21:36:33 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4kh9l1$2ab@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <4k0rio$8s@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
In-Reply-To: <4k0rio$8s@news.sns-felb.debis.de>
There is a utility called reasb in /usr/etc that does this.
/ivo welch
On 04/04/96, Ralf Specht wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>what do I have to do to mark a bad block of a harddisk as bad?
>This block is occupied with a regular file which I tried to delete.
>That action didn't help, because some time later, another file
>(located on the same block) was unreadable.
>
>I run fsck in single user mode several times, but this didn't help...
>Do I have to reformat the whole disk? This wouldn't be nice at
>all, because there's a lot of data on that disk...
>
>..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
>
>
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From: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Marc Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TaylorUUCP problem on NeXT
Date: 10 Apr 1996 22:52:27 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <4khe3b$1sj@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
Hi,
I'm running tayloruucp 1.06.1 on NeXT and get some strange errors with
protocol-i:
...
uucico tatooine yoda (1996-04-10 23:16:12.12 3821) Receiving rmail (459
bytes)
uucico tatooine yoda (1996-04-10 23:20:27.25 3821) ERROR: read: Connection
reset by peer
uucico tatooine - (1996-04-10 23:20:27.26 3821) ERROR: Got SIGPIPE signal
uucico tatooine - (1996-04-10 23:20:27.26 3821) ERROR: write: Broken pipe
uucico tatooine - (1996-04-10 23:20:27.26 3821) Call complete (364 seconds
22751
This happens on the server side, the polling site simply waits and
timeouts.
When I switch to protocol-g it works.
Is this a Nextstep problem, or an error in my configuration ? Has anyone
ever seen this ?
Thanks for any information,
Marc
---
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mdesai@netcom.com (Manish Desai)
Subject: Timeout for mail
Message-ID: <mdesaiDpnrp9.9Iq@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 18:07:57 GMT
Sender: mdesai@netcom.netcom.com
hi,
when i send mail without any attachments it is delivered without any problem.
but if i send mail with atachments to same host there is a timeout
where is my problem in sendmail.cf or in the routing
Bala
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NEXTSTEP Java Porting Issues-mailing list!
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:19:41 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <316C33FD.308C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
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From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: object.station 41 + OmniCD (Was Re:OmniCD")
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 17:39:16 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <316C3894.5BB3@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>
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To: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com
andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com wrote:
>
> OmniCD has just entered public beta testing, for those who wish to try
> another alternate CD player program. It should be emphasized that this
> is a very early beta, so if you're only looking for a polished app, you
> should probably pass this by for now, and as this is a low priority
> project, don't expect a final version in the immediate future.
My Canon object.station 41 will recognize the tracks on the disc, but won't play or record...
running NS 3.3
------------------------------------------------
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo, Procmail, or Sendmail solution?
Date: 10 Apr 1996 22:56:05 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-17.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4khea5$gkj@usc.edu>
NetInfo, Procmail, or Sendmail solution?
I have 2 addressses: reichman@usc.edu reichman@scf.usc.edu
They both get handled by my school's mailserver as identical addresses (as
the first is an alias for the second)
On my local machine, I would like to be able to interpret them as 2 separate
addresses and have the first one be delivered to one account and the other
delivered to a totally different account.
What is the best way to handle it? Do I need to learn all the sendmail
rulesets, MX and mailertables, or is there a simpler way (as I don't have
much time at the moment to study the O'Reilly book).
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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From: charlesa@hyperspace.mpn.com (Charles Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: recommended fax modems?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 00:43:32 GMT
Organization: MatriX Publishing Network
Message-ID: <4khkjk$v1@nebula.mpn.com>
Hi -
Can anyone recommend a 28.8 fax modem that works with NS/i 3.3? The fax
side is important, and I understand that some products work better than
others with NeXTSTEP...
Thanks in advance for any tips.
C.
=====================================================================
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=====================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kris@entigran.com (Kris Noland)
Subject: Location of list server software for NeXT
Message-ID: <1996Apr10.195051.11510@entigran.com>
Sender: kris@entigran.com
Organization: Entigran Enterprises
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:50:51 GMT
Hi All,
I'd like to be able to host a mailing list or two from my 'cube. Can anyone
point me to NeXT-compatible software that to do this? majordomo or
ListProcessor would be preferred, but I'll look at anything that works.
later,
kris
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From: Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Jaz drive
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 23:23:47 +0200
Organization: CAPCAD AB
Message-ID: <316C26E3.312A@capcad.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-User: f45258d4455a755b73b27c9422f15d2b
Hello,
I have initialized a jaz disk and with Build Disk
created the basic file system. Then I used tar to transfer
all the files from my old disk to the jaz drive.
Now I can boot from the jaz disk, but I can only log in
as root, other logins just returns to the login window.
In the file /usr/adm/messages there is something about
group and owner problems, but I cannot find it.
Does someone know?
Thank you,
Sten
skvamme@capcad.se
From: mandrews@bob.Wittenberg.EDU (Mike Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 10 Apr 96 17:24:27 GMT
Organization: Wittenberg University, Springfield OH
Message-ID: <mandrews.829157067@bob.wittenberg.edu>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org> <1996Apr7.133352.17553@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <4kcccb$omv@nuke.csu.net>
John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu> writes:
>In <1996Apr7.133352.17553@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Geoffrey T. Falk wrote:
>> In article <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>,
>> <andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >OmniCD has just entered public beta testing, for those who wish to try
>> >another alternate CD player program. It should be emphasized that this
>> >is a very early beta, so if you're only looking for a polished app, you
>> >should probably pass this by for now, and as this is a low priority
>> >project, don't expect a final version in the immediate future.
>>
>> This is off-topic, but...
>>
>> Somebody should implement filesystem support for music CDs on NeXTstep.
>>
>> When you pop the CD into the drive, it would come up as a directory
>> filled with .snd files called 'track01', 'track02', etc.
>>
>> Why hasn't anybody done this? Would it upset the music publishers
>> too much? :-)
Maybe because not all CD-ROM drives can read audio data over the SCSI bus...
Toshibas and some Sony and some NEC drives can, but it's not a universal
standard by any stretch.
--
-- Mike Andrews - mandrews@wittenberg.edu - mandrews@termfrost.org (NeXT)
-- Programmer/Analyst, webmaster/netnews guy, Wittenberg Univ, Springfield OH
-- http://www.termfrost.org/~mandrews/ "Don't get even, get odd..."
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: How can I have2 diff. accounts on same machine spit out 2 diff. defineable domains???
Date: 11 Apr 1996 03:52:00 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-08.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4khvl0$oa1@usc.edu>
How can I have2 diff. accounts on same machine spit out 2 diff. defineable
domains???
i.e.
My two valid ip addresses are : reichman@scf.usc.edu
reichman@usc.edu
My setup is:
local machine = midnight
account #1 = reichman
account #2 = fey
current sendmail 8.7.5 cf : Rewrites fey --> reichman
MASQUERADES (outgoing & envelope) as scf.usc.edu
So all outgoing mail from the two accounts
on midnight have as their address: reichman@scf.usc.edu
WHEREAS, I would like outgoing mail to have:
From: reichman@usc.edu
Reply to: reichman@usc.edu
I have looked at the virtual domain solution in the FAQ that examples a
sendmail database file for the example ART MATRIX - LIGHTLINK. But I think
the database file only deals with incoming mail, not rewriting outgoing
domains. If I am wrong about that then I will just follow the instructions in
the FAQ.
I'm also wondering if the sendmail database file, if it handles rewriting
outgoing domains, negates the need to masquerade.
I hope someone will take pity on me and tell me something other than "read
O'Reilly", which I will do in about two weeks when I get some more time free.
But for now I'm hardpressed.
TIA
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Is this correct rewriting of domains defined by particular user account?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 05:23:01 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-72.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ki4vl$s4u@usc.edu>
I have two local accounts:
fey@midnight
reichman@midnight
If I were to add the following rules:
R$=fey@$* $1@usc.edu
R$=reichman@$* $1@scf.usc.edu
Would the result be (which is what I'm hoping for):
fey@usc.edu
reichman@scf.usc.edu
This would, I gather, simply be the outgoing address, not the envelope. How
would I do this for the envelope?
If I follow through with the above, do I need to use the MASQUERADE,
masquerade_envelope, and/or allmasquerade? At first glance the first two seem
not to be needed, while the third I don't know.
Does a mailertable database have anything to do with this? (As mentioned in
the FAQ)
TIA
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Is this correct rewriting of domains defined by particular user account?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 06:13:33 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-46.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ki7ud$3p4@usc.edu>
References: <4ki4vl$s4u@usc.edu>
In <4ki4vl$s4u@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> I have two local accounts:
>
> fey@midnight
> reichman@midnight
>
> If I were to add the following rules:
>
> R$=fey@$* $1@usc.edu
> R$=reichman@$* $1@scf.usc.edu
>
> Would the result be (which is what I'm hoping for):
>
> fey@usc.edu
> reichman@scf.usc.edu
I also meant to ask where I would add these rules?
TIA
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail 8.7.5 - newdb or hash or dbm?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 06:24:37 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-46.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ki8j5$3p4@usc.edu>
Sendmail 8.7.5 - newdb or hash or dbm?
Which if any or all are supported in Sendmail 8.7.5?
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: gvandyk@icon.co.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 Network Cards
Date: 11 Apr 1996 12:32:41 GMT
Organization: No organisation supplied
Message-ID: <4kiu59$jen@hermes.is.co.za>
We have a 10MB Ethernet network setup. We have a few NeXT Intel
machines, a Sun Server and a HP4M Plus printer.
We are upgrading our network to a 100MB Ethernet network.
Our Sun Server and HP4M Plus unfortunately will have to stay 10Mb for
the time being.
The problem we think we are going to have is that the 100MB setup is
not going to work if we still have 10Mb cards installed on the same
network.
1) Is there a way of mixing the 100Mb machines with the Sun and
Printer directly or will we have to set up a router?
2) If we need to set up a Router, would it be possible to do this with
one of our NeXT Intel boxes. ie installing 2 cards, 1 10MB card and 1
100Mb card? If it is possible the how do We do it.
Any help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
--
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Gerrit van Dyk
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The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: bremner@CS.McGill.CA (David BREMNER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Slab as Xterminal
Date: 11 Apr 1996 14:17:46 GMT
Organization: Computational Geometry Laboratory, McGill University
Message-ID: <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca>
I realize this is heresy of the lowest order, but
I wondered if anyone had investigated using a NeXTStation as an
Xterminal; something like the Xkernel running on a sun 3/50.
david
--
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From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: networking my NeXT and my PC
Date: 11 Apr 1996 14:59:30 GMT
Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Message-ID: <4kj6oi$jfk@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>
Hi,
Well, I finally bought a PC for home. It is set up as a
dual-boot system, with NEXTSTEP and WindowsForWorkGroups.
Also, I have a NeXT cube and a NeXT laser printer.
While I'm an accomplished novice :) with respect to NS, I'm
completely naive about WFWG (and DOS and Win95). That is,
I've used NS for years, but I've only used WFWG for a few
hours. I'd like to network my NeXT and my PC. Can some
kind soul give me some step-by-step guidance?
I should be able to use NetInfoManager and NFSManager to
communicate between NS on the PC and NS on the NeXT. The
part I know nothing about is communicating between WFWG on
the PC and NS on the NeXT. The main thing I'd like to do
is to print from the PC to the NeXT printer. Sharing files
would be nice, but is secondary to the printing issue.
The PC has a Cogent EM960 combo card, so I guess I can run
either a "crossover" twisted pair wire or a coaxial cable
between the two systems. Is one better than the other?
What software do I need? I've heard people mention SAMBA,
but I don't know anything about it. What do I need and
where can I get it? Is it free?
We are in the process of ordering some PCs for work, which
also will be dual-boot systems. Again we will want to use
NeXT workstations as print servers for NeXT printers, so
this info will be useful at work as well.
Thank you in advance for any help. I really appreciate it.
Bye,
Gregg Dinse
919-541-4931
dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: domingod@cs.ucdavis.edu (Dennis Reyes Domingo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT boot up error
Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:26:28 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <4kjbrk$mie@mark.ucdavis.edu>
Hi all,
I am new to this kind of stuff. But my 040 NeXTstation
hung when it was
booting up ; it didn't bring up the login interface.
I couldn't even power down.
The only other option I thought of was to unplug the system.
So now the system opens a window ( probably in single user mode)
telling the I have
error with the disk.
It read something like this:
Target 0: MEDIA ERROR ....retry lun 7
.
..
repeats this message a couple of times.
I looked in the Next sys admin book but to no avail.
thank you.
Dennis R. DomingO
domingod@cs.ucdavis.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld)
Subject: Loginwindow error - bootstrap_register failed
Organization: CYANTIC Systems
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 16:48:52 GMT
Message-ID: <1996Apr11.164852.10674@cyantic.com>
We have been getting this error message on an Dell 466/66
machine running NS 3.3:
loginwindow[204]: bootstrap-register failed--102
The message occurs each time the user logs in to the system.
The login is successful, but we have been seeing an abnormal
number of system "freeze-ups" on this machine.
Has anyone seen this?
Please reply by email.
Thanks
--
--
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1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212
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From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 11 Apr 1996 12:29:00 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
Sender: root@primenet.com
Message-ID: <4kjmhs$gct@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org> <1996Apr7.133352.17553@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> <4kcccb$omv@nuke.csu.net>
John Rudd <kzin@isc.sjsu.edu> wrote:
>In <1996Apr7.133352.17553@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Geoffrey T. Falk wrote:
[snip]
>> Somebody should implement filesystem support for music CDs on NeXTstep.
>>
>> When you pop the CD into the drive, it would come up as a directory
>> filled with .snd files called 'track01', 'track02', etc.
>>
>> Why hasn't anybody done this? Would it upset the music publishers
>> too much? :-)
>>
>> Have a great spring weekend, everybody.
>>
>> g.
>>
>>
>
>I agree that this would be a cool/appropriate way to handle
>CD's on probably _any_ platform. Wonder how hard it would be
>to do this?
The Mac does this (under my daydream) using FWB CDRom toolkit,
so it CAN be done.
--
Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS
Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve...
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From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slab as Xterminal
Date: 11 Apr 1996 19:53:23 GMT
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Message-ID: <4kjnvj$gpi@news.sei.cmu.edu>
References: <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca>
In article <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca> bremner@CS.McGill.CA
(David BREMNER) writes:
>I realize this is heresy of the lowest order, but
>I wondered if anyone had investigated using a NeXTStation as an
>Xterminal; something like the Xkernel running on a sun 3/50.
What's wrong with simply running an X server under NeXTStep.
I do this using MouseX and Fvwm, with serial communication
using TipTop, term, sxpc, and a 28.8 modem to work. The
performance is competitive with Xterminals I'm familiar with
when using a modem, and I can get back to NeXTStep with a
keystroke.
Is there some other advantage of what you suggest?
--
Larry Howard
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Location of list server software for NeXT
Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:37:22 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc
Message-ID: <4kjcg2$fdp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <1996Apr10.195051.11510@entigran.com>
Kris Noland (kris@entigran.com) wrote:
: I'd like to be able to host a mailing list or two from my 'cube. Can anyone
: point me to NeXT-compatible software that to do this? majordomo or
: ListProcessor would be preferred, but I'll look at anything that works.
Both majordomo and listserv/listproc run on NeXTSTEP just fine.
I have majordomo running on at least 3 NeXT machines right now, and all
work quite well. Majordomo requires perl, which you can get in binary
.pkg form from the peak archives. You can get majordomo from
ftp.greatcircle.com:/pub/majordomo
I remember finding a program called ListserverHelper or something like
that once, which was a front-end to one of the listserv versions. I don't
recall where I found it...
--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: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slab as Xterminal
Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:41:09 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc
Message-ID: <4kjcn5$fdp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca>
David BREMNER (bremner@CS.McGill.CA) wrote:
: I wondered if anyone had investigated using a NeXTStation as an
: Xterminal; something like the Xkernel running on a sun 3/50.
Older versions of Cub'X on black hardware allowed you to run X in place
of DPS (ie you didn't log into the NeXT WM). I haven't heard of this
feature lately, so I don't know if it still does it.
--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: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support-Japan
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:27:39 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone seen the Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support web pages in Japan?
http://www.cnds.canon.co.jp/Japanese_EUC/WelcomeJ.html
I can't understand the attitude of American Canon VS. Japanese Canon. I wish the two
would truly work together and also fully translate the web pages to English and provide
object.station driver downloads/updates!
I am suprised that a company like Canon would drop a product that was so expensive and
leave users to fend for themselves...It's so hard to put faith in companies- people too for
that matter since they make up companies. Although, I have MUCH MORE RESPECT for the
Japanese divisions due to their greater attention to quality and support (my opinions).
side note: Has anyone also noticed that a lot of new activity/apps are coming out of
Germany lately? There seems to be a lot of interest there...
I would really appreciate feedback from NeXT users and Canon (although they've been
completely unresponsive)
------------------------------------------------
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mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
PEACE LOVE Services
UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University
"Understanding is best learned via experience."
"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end."
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: bremner@cs.mcgill.ca (David BREMNER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Slab as Xterminal
Date: 12 Apr 1996 01:43:11 GMT
Organization: Computational Geometry Laboratory, McGill University
Message-ID: <4kkcff$r54@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca>
References: <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca> <4kjnvj$gpi@news.sei.cmu.edu>
In article <4kjnvj$gpi@news.sei.cmu.edu>, Larry Howard <lph@sei.cmu.edu> wrote:
>In article <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca> bremner@CS.McGill.CA
>(David BREMNER) writes:
>
>>I realize this is heresy of the lowest order, but
>>I wondered if anyone had investigated using a NeXTStation as an
>>Xterminal; something like the Xkernel running on a sun 3/50.
>
>What's wrong with simply running an X server under NeXTStep.
[snip]
>performance is competitive with Xterminals I'm familiar with
>when using a modem, and I can get back to NeXTStep with a
>keystroke.
Nothing is wrong with that approach, it just has more overhead.
The slab has 8M and 100M of disc. This is a respectable Xterminal,
but an undernourished NeXT.
I'm not using a modem; performance of the slab is not really
competitive with a 4M 3/50 running Xkernel.
There are also some minor administrative advantages to running
it as a terminal, which is essentially all people are able to
use it for now.
--
bremner@cs.mcgill.ca
From: hanske@pobox.com (Hans Shimizu Karlsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q} Setting up a UUCP based WAN (long)
Date: 12 Apr 1996 00:13:13 GMT
Organization: Global OnLine Japan (+81-3-5330-9385)
Message-ID: <4kk76p$9s4@gol2.gol.com>
Keywords: UUCP, WAN, mail, remote
Hello
I am trying to set up a UUCP based WAN, and have a few questions.
My goal is to use the office machine as an Internet mail gateway, so that
we can exchange mail with the Net from our homes, via the office uucp
gateway.
The problem
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
I am not sure of how to name the two remote machines that the office
machine serves, with respect to local domain name, local host name,
and official SMTP hostname.
Also, I get funny error messages in the console, which I am not sure
how to interpret.
I have not been able to find any guidance regarding this in the O'Reilly
books.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The network consists of only three machines and looks like this:
gol.com
(Internet mail provider)
|
| <---dial-up uucp link
|
ROI
(mail server)
|
| <--dial-up uucp link
|
----------------|------------------
| |
RAVEN-----------------------------PEDRO
^
|
dial-up uucp link
All three machines are connecting to each other over the phone line.
ROI is swapping mail with the Internet, and dials up ROI and PEDRO to
forward this mail and pick up outgoing messages.
Our addresses at ROI look like this:
user_name@roi.gol.com
I set up ROI to automatically copy and forward all mail to the users of
ROI to their respective accounts on our home machines, RAVEN and PEDRO, by
using sendmail aliases like this:
<user name at ROI>:<user name at ROI,<RAVEN!corresponding user name>
<user name at ROI>:<user name at ROI,<PEDRO!corresponding user name>
For example, I am "hanske" at both ROI and RAVEN:
hanske:hanske,raven!hanske
I also use a virtual adress on the Net, provided by Pobox, so I set my
address like this in Mail.app: hanske@pobox.com
All mail to this address is forwarded by Pobox to hanske@roi.gol.com, and
from ROI onwards to raven!hanske.
I am now wondering how I should set up sendmail correctly on RAVEN and
PEDRO. At the moment, I have set up ROI like this:
-------------------------------------------------------
# local domain name (defined automatically)
Dmroi.gol.com
# local host name with domain (defined automatically)
Dwraven
# my official SMTP hostname
Djraven.roi.gol.com
# UUCP neighbor gateways
CU roi imasy pedro
# address which should be accepted
DAroi.gol.com
# default from-address (can be $j, $m or another generic address)
DSroi.gol.com
# default relay host
DRuucp:roi
------------------------------------------------------
I have found that this works, but I get funny error messages in the
console.
Yesturday I got something like "can't broadcast, network is down", and I
also get a lot of "empty command file" messages. For some reason the empty
command file error seem to occur when I use CheckUUCP.app.
I have also found that the serial port gets locked more than usal, and
there are a lot of failed log ins from ROI.
I suspect I got the RAVEN and PEDRO sendmail set up incorrectly.
Any advice would be deeply appreciated.
Hans Shimizu Karlsson
hanske@pobox.com
Internet Cafe Co., Ltd., Tokyo
---- on the Web ----
Japan from the View of a Frog
an Art Journey
http://www.japancrafts.com/cafe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 - newdb or hash or dbm?
In-Reply-To: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 11 Apr 1996 06:24:37 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Apr12020915@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4ki8j5$3p4@usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 06:09:15 GMT
My sendmail 8.7.5 distribution uses NEWDB, the new Berkeley DB 1.85.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NS VIDEO CONFERENCING SERVER
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 01:24:26 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <316DF71A.417D@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Use your NEXTSTEP box to serve as a videoconferencing server for MAC and WIN, two
options I know of are:
QuickTime Conferencing Internet Reflector http://www.devtools.apple.com/qtc/
The Reflector is a one-to-many program which distributes QTC audio and video streams
over the Internet. It is a temporary solution to the lack of wide MBone deployment. In
the absence of a multicast protocol, the Reflector is the best way to alleviate the
network load on a QTC media source.
Currently, qtcd runs on the following dialects of Unix: Solaris, SunOS 4.3, Irix, AIX, Linux,
FreeBSD, and NeXTStep. It is little-endian friendly. If you have a platform you'd like to
see the reflector run on, send mail.
Also:
White Pine CU-SEEME Video Conferencing Reflectors
http://goliath.wpine.com/reflectdemo.htm
and/or
http://cu-seeme.cornell.edu/#Reflector
Download a demo version of White Pine's Enhanced CU-SeeMe Reflector software. White
Pine's unique Reflector technology accepts multiple CU-SeeMe connections and reflects
the video, audio, and additional data to multiple participants concurrently -- providing
an environment for group videoconferencing, document sharing, large audience
broadcasts or just plain chat. Available soon for Windows NT.
* NEXT OS Version 3.2 (reflector-4.0-b3-next.tar.Z)
ftp://ftp.wpine.com/pub/product/demo/reflector/4.0B3/reflector-4.0-b3-next.tar.Z
or
ftp://gated.cornell.edu/pub/video/Reflector/4.00b3.dist/reflector-4.0-b3-next.tar.Z
------------------------------------------------
Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie Instructional
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu Technology
PEACE LOVE Services
UNITY RESPECT Illinois State University
"Understanding is best learned via experience."
"Follow our instinct, not a trend. Go against the grain until the end."
VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 11 Apr 1996 16:17:39 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4kjbb3$lr@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL>
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar
> PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware can do
> 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is totally
> unexpected.
You are not wrong. You can do 2 things:
1) Use an external router (or el-cheapo pc with free unix or router sw)
and ISDN card.
2) Use a spacial serial card that makes the serial speed *4
(You say 38400 to NEXTSTEP and get 153600 baud)
But this card and the ZyXEL are more expensive than the 1st solution.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: Re: Talk problems
In-Reply-To: dave@turbocat.snafu.de's message of 8 Apr 1996 16:44:52 GMT
Message-ID: <7xn34ibjb0.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
To: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: hardly any...
References: <4kbfq4$9f@turbocat.snafu.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:24:35 GMT
>>>>> "DW" == David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.snafu.de> writes:
DW> Hi! I have a problem with talk between my two NeXTs max
DW> (black) and turbocat (i586) both running 3.3 PL 1.
DW> when I am on the same box as the user I would like to talk to
DW> the talk works fine. Otherwise I cannot talk.
DW> Any suggestions?
Check you host setup (all the necessary files) sometimes there is
something wrong that only affects talk connections. (Usually I also
suggest gestting ytalk because it supports more variants of talk
protocols but since you talk NS <-> NS this wouldn't help.)
markus g
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From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: Re: NetInfo, Procmail, or Sendmail solution?
In-Reply-To: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 10 Apr 1996 22:56:05 GMT
Message-ID: <7xk9zmbin6.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
To: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: hardly any...
References: <4khea5$gkj@usc.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:38:54 GMT
>>>>> "MNR" == Matthew N Reichman <reichman@scf.usc.edu> writes:
MNR> NetInfo, Procmail, or Sendmail solution? I have 2
MNR> addressses: reichman@usc.edu reichman@scf.usc.edu
MNR> They both get handled by my school's mailserver as identical
MNR> addresses (as the first is an alias for the second)
MNR> On my local machine, I would like to be able to interpret
MNR> them as 2 separate addresses and have the first one be
MNR> delivered to one account and the other delivered to a totally
MNR> different account.
No problem with procmail:
:0
* TO.*reichman@usc
! one@address
:0
* TO.*reichman@scf
! another@address
This should do it. If you want those mails cc'ed to other folders or
other alterations mail me and I'll give you the specifics.
markus g
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Slab as Xterminal
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DpqFpH.503@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 04:41:41 GMT
References: <4kj4aa$q6p@lisa.cs.mcgill.ca> <4kjcn5$fdp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4kjcn5$fdp@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>,
Chris Saldanha <csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca> wrote:
>David BREMNER (bremner@CS.McGill.CA) wrote:
>: I wondered if anyone had investigated using a NeXTStation as an
>: Xterminal; something like the Xkernel running on a sun 3/50.
>
>Older versions of Cub'X on black hardware allowed you to run X in place
>of DPS (ie you didn't log into the NeXT WM). I haven't heard of this
>feature lately, so I don't know if it still does it.
>
You can do this with MouseX as well by modifying /etc/ttys to look like it's
going to accept a character-based console login and then running xdm. However
xdm seems to like to turn the screen brightness all the way down, which is a
pain.
This was on a cube, running 3.2.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: dirk@.object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 10 Apr 1996 05:50:55 GMT
Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany)
Message-ID: <4kfi7v$rts@isabella.object-factory.com>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL>
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G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar
> PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware can
do
> 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is totally
> unexpected.
>
> Oh boy, do I hope I am wrong.
Well, you are partially wrong :-)
The original NeXT Serial drivers don't seem to work at higher speed (I do not
know about the latest ones)
You have to get the MUX serial drivers from your favourite ftp archive. You
can configure these drivers to work at 115k. I never tried these high speeds
but the driverr worked for me with 56k for a long time without problems.
Hope it helps,
-dirk
---
_____________________________________________________________________
Dirk Olmes OBJECT FACTORY
Gesellschaft fr Informatik und Datenverarbeitung mbH
Lohbachstrae 12, 58239 Schwerte, Germany
Telephon +49 (0) 2304 945 220
Telefax +49 (0) 2304 945 226
dirk@object-factory.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: telnetd logging on NextStep
Message-ID: <kevincDpqLH8.AAs@netcom.com>
Keywords: telnetd logging security NextStep
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 06:46:20 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Is it possible to configure NextStep's telnetd to do logging of
the attempted login names?
I have tried the undocumented -l and -debug without luck.
:-( Anyone has any hints? I would really appreciate a short
note.
Regards,
Song
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 12 Apr 1996 17:27:33 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4km3q5$8a@news4.digex.net>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org> <DpJvov.Hx9@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote:
> In article <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org>,
> <andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com> wrote:
> >OmniCD has just entered public beta testing, for those who wish to try
> >another alternate CD player program. It should be emphasized that this
> >is a very early beta, so if you're only looking for a polished app, you
> >should probably pass this by for now, and as this is a low priority
> >project, don't expect a final version in the immediate future.
> Nice app. However, what I want to know is, will the finished version
look as slick as CDPlayer? Hmmmmm....maybe some trips to Pixelsight and
some IB hacking would make good thesis procrastination... :-)
I must go on record as saying (too keep up my consistent UI facist image :)
, and although Keith Olfs rules :) , and I'm not worthy to even lick his UI
boots, and although CDPlayer.app indeed does look cool ... nevertheless,
CDPlayer.app doesn't use a standard NS UI, and therefore is evil. That's
why I actually prefer Omni's version of it...it pretty much is the same
thing, without the purpley-dark-grey chrome...
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: jburne@nol.net (John Burnette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Silly me....
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:40:59 -0800
Organization: Networks On-Line
Message-ID: <jburne-1204961240590001@ip39-63.nol.net>
I have forgotten the routine to recover control of a Nextstation whose
root password has been forgotten. It doesn't seem to be in the Next FAQ
or NeXTAnswers.
Could some kind soul please email directions or a pointer?
Thanks.
From: chin@bznet.com (Bill Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP on HP Pavilion: HELP!
Date: 12 Apr 1996 14:40:56 GMT
Organization: BIZNET Internet Services
Message-ID: <4klq1o$amm@vger.bznet.com>
References: <316739FC.7451@technom.com>
Brian Baker <bbaker@technom.com> wrote:
>I've just installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 on the following system:
>- HP Pavilion 7090 (133Mhz Pentium)
>- Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI card
>- Cogent EM960 PCI Ethernet card
>- Conner 2.0GB HD
>
>It's up and running, with the following two problems:
>
>Problem 1:
>
>The Pavilion has SoundBlaster16-compatible sound hardware, but I'm
>having no luck getting NS to recognize the sound card. The card is
>actually known to Windoze as "Crystal CS4232 PnP Audio Hardware". Early
>in the boot sequence, these messages appear:
>
That appears to be a clone of the Microsoft Windows Sound System and may not
be hardware compatible with a SoundBlaster (of any sort). Similar, but not
enough to allow the SoundBlaster drivers to work (under DOS it probably has a
driver to initialize it so that DOS programs can access the software driver
like it was a SoundBlaster). Try the Microsoft Sound System driver with the
setting for that mode, _not_ the SoundBlaster mode. You may have to set the
chip with the DOS drivers to MSS mode. If that doesn't work, try the Canon
object.station 41 sound system driver (if I remember correctly, the
object.station had a Crystal sound chip). Also, the PnP may get in the
way... if you continue to have problems, you may want to try turning off PnP
on the sound card, via the newer ISA/EISA Bus Support (3.31) driver, or in
the system BIOS, trying in that order.
Also, I've seen boards with a Crystal sound chip that erroneously _always_
mucks with IRQ 7, interfering with printing under NEXTSTEP. If that is the
case, you'll have to get the new Par parallel port driver and try to drive
the printer in polled mode instead of the more efficient IRQ mode. Note that
DOS/Windows/NT and if I remember correctly, Linux all used the polled mode.
(Many systems probably have their IRQ 7 messed up but the problem isn't
noticed).
--
Bill Chin - chin@bznet.com - NeXTmail welcomed
From: Timo Janhunen <dc999a17@pandora.senecac.on.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Location of list server software for NeXT
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 10:35:03 -0400
Organization: Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960412103423.61352C-100000@pandora.senecac.on.ca>
References: <1996Apr10.195051.11510@entigran.com>
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On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Kris Noland wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to be able to host a mailing list or two from my 'cube. Can anyone
> point me to NeXT-compatible software that to do this? majordomo or
> ListProcessor would be preferred, but I'll look at anything that works.
>
Have a look at http://peanuts.leo.org or ftp://ftp.leo.org in
/pub/comp/platforms/next ... (if I remember right)..
Regards,
Timo Janhunen
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: repackaging with Receipts -- with gzip?
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 10:36:58 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960411103144.1393A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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1) Is there anything more to recreating a .pkg than double-clicking on the
receipt and then selecting 'compress' (or whatever the option is
from Installer.app)
2) has anyone used the new 'gzip-package'?
Basically I am looking to save some diskspace by re-packing some stuff I
don't use that often but want to keep around anyway.
Thanks
TjL
--
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>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: Timo Janhunen <dc999a17@pandora.senecac.on.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with Ethernet
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 12:45:32 -0400
Organization: Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.960412105030.61352E-100000@pandora.senecac.on.ca>
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I wonder if someone could help me out with this problem... concerning a
PC and Next slab '040 Ethernet'ed together.
I'm running a PC with a 16-bit SMC Ethernet board, and a NeXT '40...
connected by coax.
I set up the IP addresses, netmasks, broadcast addresses, etc, but I
can't get a ping to connect with either end. I tested with KA9Q NOS on
the PC side running under DOS, with the SMC_WD.COM packet driver. Traffic
is passing through the Ethernet, because I see activity on the TX/RX LED
on the SMC board...
Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Here is a sample of my configuration:
NeXT IP: 192.42.172.2
PC IP : 192.42.172.3
Netmask: 255.255.255.0 on both
Broadcast: 192.42.172.255 on both
ifconfig en0 shows that the interface is up and running, with the
BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS, and UP flags.
capture from ifconfig:
----------------------
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 204.50.237.241 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 204.50.237.255
I have seen some configurations where the flags show flags=8023, instead
of 63... what does that mean?
Is the NeXT using Ethernet_II, or 802.3?
If anyone can help, please email me at dc999a17@pandora.senecac.on,ca or
tpjanhun@learn.senecac.on.ca
Regards,
Timo Janhunen
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Location of list server software for NeXT
Date: 11 Apr 1996 07:29:14 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <4kicca$kv@digifix.digifix.com>
References: <1996Apr10.195051.11510@entigran.com>
In-Reply-To: <1996Apr10.195051.11510@entigran.com>
On 04/10/96, Kris Noland wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'd like to be able to host a mailing list or two from my 'cube. Can
anyone
>point me to NeXT-compatible software that to do this? majordomo or
>ListProcessor would be preferred, but I'll look at anything that
works.
>
By far the best email list software I've dealt with is
Smartmail... its a part of Procmail, which is another indispensible
mail tool (especially when combined with Carl Edman's mailtools..)
Smartmail works out of the box on the NeXT, and is very easy
to maintain.
Best of all, its free! There is usually a Next compiled
version available on ftp.thoughport.com courtesy bbum.
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu (James P. Klett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to mount SCSI tape drive?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 20:42:19 GMT
Organization: Emprise Consulting Services, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4kmf7b$m81@epx.cis.umn.edu>
I just got a SCSI DAT backup device, and I cant get it to mount so
that I can archive to it. Does anyone know what I don't?? And if so
could you tell me??
note: I've been trying rst01 for the device
Thanks, JIM
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From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 96 15:44:51 +0100
Subject: Quantum VP32210-512 / disktab entry - Anybody?
Hi there folks,
could some kind soul out there, anybody
feed me with (mail me) a working disktab entry (for NS 3.3 blk.)
for my Quantum VP32210-512 (2.2 Gig HD 3.5")???
I would like to use it as a System Disk in my TurboCube, I tryed
before to do it, but it never worked as a systemdisk, I could only
use it as an external disk so far. :-(
Pls. mail to: stefan@huelf.hamburg.com
Any help appreciated
Thanx in advance.
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From: denis@quartz.tucson.az.us (denis norton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NXFax-Slip
Date: 13 Apr 1996 16:46:51 GMT
Organization: The University of Arizona
Message-ID: <4kolpr$j9c@news.ccit.arizona.edu>
Keywords: fax , slip
Trying to configure NXFax and SLIP, on a 68040
NeXT Cube with 3.2. Cant seem to keep the
fax out of the way when using Slip Mamakos 920904.
NXFax wants the ttya.
thanks
--
denis norton denis@quartz.tucson.az.us
From: reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 - newdb or hash or dbm?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 21:54:52 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-53.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4kmjfc$n2h@usc.edu>
References: <4ki8j5$3p4@usc.edu> <RDL.96Apr12020915@world.std.com>
In <RDL.96Apr12020915@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> My sendmail 8.7.5 distribution uses NEWDB, the new Berkeley DB 1.85.
Robert -
Would that mean I would use the following line to make my db?
makemap newdb reichman.db <reichman
I tried this and got the message that newdb was an unkown db type.
I also have no idea what "makesend" is, which is mentioned in the sendmail
FAQ.
A few other questions if you have a moment:
1) does the use of a db file preclude using MASQUERADE and envelope
masquerading? I.e., does using a db file rewrite domains for outgoing mail?
In the sendmail FAQ example they showed a mc file and it had the
allmasquerade feature. I do need to rewrite outgoing mail domains but I'd
need the rewriting to be specific for each user directory.
As for rewriting outgoing domains per user I thought these rules should do
it:
R$=fey@$* $1@usc.edu
R$=reichman@$* $1@scf.usc.edu
Which I would hope would rewrite mail from the local accounts "fey" and
"reichman" to "fey@usc.edu" and "reichman@scf.usc.edu".
But I have no idea where to insert them.
2) if I use a db file, do I need to make my machine a nameserver or a
secondary nameserver? Do I need to have anything to do with BIND (I'd prefer
not to as I have no idea how to in the first place).
Your advice would be greatly appreciated.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@scf.usc.edu
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NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 20:02:22 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL>
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with Morningstar
> PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware. I know the hardware
> can do 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP cannot. Is this true? This is
> totally unexpected.
In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link directly
to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or
thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
This configuration is easily expandable and will offer better performance.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Connecting Sun Solaris machines with Next
Date: 12 Apr 1996 20:23:12 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kme3g$n9b@news.its.com>
References: <4k3t5g$e1h@merck.com> <4kbk4a$qe2@masala.cc.uh.edu>
bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu (Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy) wrote:
> The network here consists of Next Stations and Sun Solarises have
> been added. The system has the user accounts in Next stations and the
> Sun station are not used much. I would like to have a way of
> transferring the user database in the Netinfo network to be used by
> the Suns also. Is there a way to transfer these databeses from
> Netinfo to NIS?
Yes. You can use 'nidump passwd /' to get the user information into a
standard Unix flatfile format which you can then load into NIS.
If this information changes often, you might want to switch over to using NIS
for your primary network information system and set up the NeXTs as normal
NIS clients.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo, Procmail, or Sendmail solution?
Date: 12 Apr 1996 20:26:39 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kme9v$n9b@news.its.com>
References: <4khea5$gkj@usc.edu>
reichman@scf.usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> I have 2 addressses: reichman@usc.edu reichman@scf.usc.edu
>
> They both get handled by my school's mailserver as identical addresses (as
> the first is an alias for the second)
>
> On my local machine, I would like to be able to interpret them as 2
> separate addresses and have the first one be delivered to one account
> and the other delivered to a totally different account.
The easiest method would be to have whoever manages the aliases at your
school change the first alias to point to some other username on your
machine.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 10 Apr 1996 16:30:08 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4kgnmg$1te@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL>
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> I am getting worried. I was planning to use a ZyXEL 2864i with
> Morningstar PPP over ISDN via a serial port on intel hardware.
> I know the hardware can do 115kbps, but it looks like NEXTSTEP
> cannot. Is this true? This is totally unexpected.
>
> Oh boy, do I hope I am wrong.
There is a very simple solution to this problem:
Get yourself an additional serial card with *hardware speed multiplication*.
These cards sell in Germany at around 25 $ and multiply the software given
value for serial speed by factor 2 or 4. This way, 57600 bps (the highest
speed choosable under NEXTSTEP) become 230400 bps actually.
I run a ZyXEL 2864i with such a serial card and the free PPP port (2.2-0.4.6)
without any problems; throughput is about 5000-6000 cps over TCP/IP and
usually limited by internet speed. You'll need the new NEXTSTEP serial
drivers, and I don't know if Morningstar will work (ppp2.2-0.4.6 has
optimizations for ISDN throughput).
If you only need internet access, you might want to wake for the ZyXEL ISDN
router which is cheaper than the 2864i and connects via ethernet; but in case
you also need Fax and BBS support, the 2864i is a good choice.
Bye
Uli
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Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
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From: fred@univ-lr.fr (Frederic Bret)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AMD for NeXT
Date: 11 Apr 1996 14:30:43 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <4kj52j$gmt@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
I would try to have redondant network filesystems on my NeXT network. I have
found AMD that seems to do this sort of things, but doesn't want to work with
direct mounts (like /LocalApps).
Did someone have an experience with AMD (NFS Automounter) on NeXTStep ?
Is there another program that could do such things ?
Thanks in advance
______________________________________________________
Frederic BRET
Centre de Ressources Informatiques
Faculte des Sciences - Avenue Marillac Tel : 46458214
17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1 - France Fax : 46458245
______________________________________________________
From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support-Japan
Date: 13 Apr 1996 13:00:03 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
Sender: root@primenet.com
Message-ID: <4kp143$dfv@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
"Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:
>Has anyone seen the Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support web pages in Japan?
>
>http://www.cnds.canon.co.jp/Japanese_EUC/WelcomeJ.html
>
>I can't understand the attitude of American Canon VS. Japanese Canon. I
wish the two
>would truly work together and also fully translate the web pages to English
and provide
>object.station driver downloads/updates!
That's nothing... did you see they supply drivers for the Canon
Laser/Bubblejets for the Japanese version of NS? For free? These drivers
supposedly are for the Japanese versions of these printers, and probably will
not work with the American/European versions, but the mind boggles.
>I am suprised that a company like Canon would drop a product that was so
expensive and
>leave users to fend for themselves...It's so hard to put faith in companies-
people too for
>that matter since they make up companies. Although, I have MUCH MORE
RESPECT for the
>Japanese divisions due to their greater attention to quality and support (my
opinions).
The Japanese seem quite fond of computers/OS's that support their native
language. OS/2 does quite well over there, for instance.
--
Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS
Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve...
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From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 13 Apr 1996 13:14:02 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
Sender: root@primenet.com
Message-ID: <4kp1ua$eh5@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org> <DpJvov.Hx9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <4kcn1b$eh4@news.tamu.edu> <4kcq0f$2ia@nntp1.best.com>
john@nextdoor.com (John McCracken) wrote:
>In <4kcn1b$eh4@news.tamu.edu> Hanspeter Schaub wrote:
>
>> Is is it possible to record sound of a CD with the Next CD-Rom drive on a
>> Nextstation with OmniCD? I tried pressing the left "round" button and got
>a
>> save panel, but nothing actually got saved in the *.snd file.
>
>I observed the same behavior. The README file with OmniCD says that it
>supports recording sounds from some Sony CDROM drives (the NeXT CDROM is a
>Sony CDU-541). Does OmniCD support recording from NeXT CDROM drives?
My manual for FWB CDROM Toolkit contains a list of CDROMS that support this
feature, and it claims the NeXT CDROM does not support this. Virtually all
Sony's from model 56 & up (mine's a 76) support it.
Sony models supporting digital audio extraction:
CDU-8003, CDU-8003A (Apple 300, 300i)
CDU-55S, firmware 1.0f or higher
CDU-561
CDU-561SUNCD
CDU-76S (Apple 600)
I have a whole slew of other manufacturer model numbers, I would be happy to
confirm whether your CDROM supports this feature. I cannot confirm that it
doesn't or whether it will work with OmniCD (I just use it) all I know is
that my Sony CDU-76S works just great.
--
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Starving CS Undergrad...Sorry, I don't *do* Windows! I'd rather starve...
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From: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive
Date: 13 Apr 1996 20:56:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4kp4dv$57i@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <316C26E3.312A@capcad.se>
In article <316C26E3.312A@capcad.se> Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se> writes:
> Hello,
> I have initialized a jaz disk and with Build Disk
> created the basic file system. Then I used tar to transfer
> all the files from my old disk to the jaz drive.
Could you post instructions describing anything special you had to do
to mount an initialize the Jax drive. Inquiring minds want to know.
--
Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980
SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814
University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive
Date: 12 Apr 1996 22:06:23 GMT
Organization: ALI
Message-ID: <4kmk4v$69j@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
References: <316C26E3.312A@capcad.se>
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sten Kvamme wrote:
> ... I used tar to transfer all the files from my old
> disk to the jaz drive.... but I can only log in as root,
> other logins just returns to the login window. In the
> file /usr/adm/messages there is something about
> group and owner problems....
If you want to preserve ownership of files you should use the cpio not tar.
Check the cpio man page
for an example of how to use it to replicate a directory hierarchy.
My guess is that you replaced some system files that had special permission
attributes (eg. suid) and that these got nuked by tar.
Remember also that you will need to put the Jaz disk in /etc/fstab during the
BuildDisk and cpio operations or the file permission attributesr will be
ignored (since all files on removable media not in the fstab default to being
owned by the mounting user).
Hope this helps.
--
Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca
ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317
Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.7.5 - newdb or hash or dbm?
In-Reply-To: reichman@scf.usc.edu's message of 12 Apr 1996 21:54:52 GMT
Message-ID: <RDL.96Apr13001630@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4ki8j5$3p4@usc.edu> <RDL.96Apr12020915@world.std.com> <4kmjfc$n2h@usc.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 04:16:30 GMT
Berkeley DB 1.85 is a database library. In order for sendmail to compile
against it, I needed to pass "NEWDB" to the compiler in the Makefile.
supports various storage types: btree, hash, etc... In your case, you
should use "btree"
Also, when you run makemap, you're just converting an ASCII file into a
more managable format - especially useful on large datasets. I use it for
creating a user database so I can have Robert_La_Ferla appear as my e-mail
address which is different from my real username. Here's the template
that I use. You need to substitute USER_NAME and FULL_NAME with real
values...
USER_NAME:mailname FULL_NAME
FULL_NAME:maildrop USER_NAME
I haven't used it for domain remapping so I can't help you there...
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins
Date: 13 Apr 1996 04:59:18 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Message-ID: <4kncb6$fnn@life.ai.mit.edu>
Keywords: beeper,unix,administration
Cc:
For a neat tool for Unix system admins, try viewing:
http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html
--Stuart
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 13 Apr 1996 18:54:12 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4kot8k$12d@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com>
chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
> In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN
> link directly to your computer.
Don't you need to fax and access BBS's via ISDN?
> This configuration is easily expandable and will offer better
> performance.
My TCP/IP throughput always gets limited by internet speed, not by my serial
port...
Bye
Uli
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Germany
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From: statman@stat.ufl.edu (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help requested: re ppp+sendmail 8.7.5
Date: 14 Apr 1996 01:44:12 GMT
Organization: Voyager Information Networks, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4kpl9c$kpq@vixc.voyager.net>
Keywords: ppp sendmail
Hello,
NOTE: my e-mail address is statman@net-link.net.
I am on a standalone NS3.2 mono-non-turbo slab at home. I'm using
ppp to connect to an ISP. My problem (or maybe it's obvious) is that my
old sendmail configuration does not have my correct return address. I
downloaded sendmail 8.7.5 and m4 v1.4 and can create new config files, but
I can't seem to get the right configuration.
Here is my .mc file
OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl
MASQUERADE_AS(net-link.net)
define(`SMART_HOST', relay:serv01.net-link.net)dnl
MAILER(local)dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
(I've tried some different configurations. None that change anything.)
and here are the errors that I get....
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 57: unknown control line "V6/Berkeley"
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 104: unknown control line "Kdequote dequote"
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 446: bad ruleset 96 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 509: bad ruleset 97 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 616: bad ruleset 95 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 626: bad ruleset 93 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 640: bad ruleset 94 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 648: bad ruleset 98 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 704: bad ruleset 50 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 725: invalid rewrite set, 50 max
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 763: bad ruleset 51 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 784: bad ruleset 61 (50 max)
/etc/sendmail.cf: line 793: bad ruleset 71 (50 max)
cannot chdir((null pointer)): Bad address
Can anyone help me set this up, please? Would someone in a similar
situation mind e-mailing me their .mc file?
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
From: David Green <david@legion.apana.org.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems compiling wu-ftpd
Date: 14 Apr 1996 11:20:46 GMT
Organization: Australian Public Access Network Association
Message-ID: <4kqn2e$plj@hock.apana.org.au>
Organisation: Sargood Manor
I'm having problems compiling wu-ftpd. I get the following messages:
---Start Messages---
Making ftpd.
cc -O2 -I.. -L../support -c extensions.c
config.h:37: warning: could not use precompiled header
'/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/libc.p', because:
config.h:37: warning: macro 'NULL' redefined, locations of the conflict are:
config.h:37: warning: config.h:34
config.h:37: warning: /NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/i386/stdtypes.h:7
(within the precompiled header)
config.h:37: warning: macro 'shutdown' defined by config.h conflicts with
precomp
extensions.c:88: conflicting types for `re_comp'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/regex.h:12: previous declaration of `re_comp'
*** Exit 1
Stop.
---End Messages---
Any ideas on fixing this?
--
David Green | Tel: +61 3 9827-6283 | david@legion.apana.org.au
Melbourne, Australia| Fax: +61 3 9827-5876 | (NeXTMail & MIME accepted)
PGP key from: pgp-public-keys@sw.oz.au
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What opinions?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com>
Message-ID: <9604141529.AA00224@huelf.hamburg.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 16:29:58 +0100
Subject: How to?: Printing from DOS/Win3.1 in SoftPC to NeXTLaser on a NS 3.3
NetInfoNetwork
I wondered if anybody could possibly help me.
Here's the prob.:
We've got SoftPC 4.0 running under NS on a P90 in an NeXTnetwork,
where a 1990 cube (040 with 64MB) is the NetInfo-Server.
Now we need to have Printouts on the NeXTLaser (connected to the
NeXTcube) coming from SoftPC (e.g. a Win 3.1-app and a older DOS-App
(both running under SoftPC). The Win3.1-app supports all the
standard 3.1-Printers and the (more important) AVA-DOS-App only
supports the following printers:
Corodata, HP-DeskJet / HP DJ500 / Triumph-Adler 124, Epson LQ 2550,
400, 800, 850, FX, FX 85 IBM 5202, IBM 6750, IBM Proprinter,
Kyocera 1100 Kyocera 1010, NEC P2200, NEC P2/P3, NEC P6(+)/P7(+),
Olivetti PR17
Am I right when I am basicly looking for a PostScript Driver for
DOS & Windows and do a /etc/hosts.lpd file-entry on the
NetInfo-Server-machine??? (how do I get to know the name of the
machine under SoftPC to do this entry anyway??? - the NEXTSTEP
hostname is P90 (for Pentium 90)
Thanx in advance for any help --- We puzzled for over a year now -
and we tried to run our Canon BJC-820 and Canon BJC-600 on the P90
through SoftPC, talked to Insignia a lot during the past, but did
not turn up with any suitable soloution :-(
Pls. email, I will summarize when a solution is found.. hopefully..
---
Thanx, Later +
Greetings from
.. Stefan .. 8^)
Life spans many different colors, but ---- REAL Computing is black!
*** So: Vote for OPENSTEP 4.1 for 68K ***
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=
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voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64
New e-mail adress is : stefan@huelf.hamburg.com
( NeXTmail favorized / MIME o.k.! )
Do not use: stefan@a-gain.hanse.de (It is gone!)
Exceeding the netiquette - 4 - line - footer rule
for quite a while now!
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From: Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 18:53:17 +0200
Organization: CAPCAD AB
Message-ID: <31712D7D.7E22@capcad.se>
References: <316C26E3.312A@capcad.se> <4kp4dv$57i@agate.berkeley.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-User: f45258d4455a755b73b27c9422f15d2b
To: hal@sims.berkeley.edu
hal@sims.berkeley.edu wrote:
>
> In article <316C26E3.312A@capcad.se> Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> > I have initialized a jaz disk and with Build Disk
> > created the basic file system. Then I used tar to transfer
> > all the files from my old disk to the jaz drive.
>
> Could you post instructions describing anything special you had to do
> to mount an initialize the Jax drive. Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> --
> Hal Varian, Dean voice: 510-642-9980
> SIMS, 102 South Hall fax: 510-642-5814
> University of California hal@sims.berkeley.edu
> Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~hal
Just add the following section to your /etc/disktab
# SCSI drives
#
iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.5512/1:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5394:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\
:pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
Please note that the values are the result of a couple of hours
experimenting and are probably all wrong.
Anyway, both Initialize and Build Disk works with it.
/Sten
From: statman@net-link.net (Charles D. Kincaid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help requested: re ppp+sendmail 8.7.5
Date: 14 Apr 1996 16:59:04 GMT
Organization: Voyager Information Networks, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4kraso$or2@vixc.voyager.net>
References: <4kpl9c$kpq@vixc.voyager.net>
In article <4kpl9c$kpq@vixc.voyager.net> statman@net-link.net (Charles D.
Kincaid) writes:
[Bunch of stuff deleted]
Please ignore my previous post and I'm sorry for the bandwidth of this
one. I don't have inews and could not cancel the article. I figured out
what my problem was after Matthew N. Reichman sent me his .mc file. Thank
you Matthew. I'm too embarrassed to say what it is, but if someone is
having the same problem, then e-mail me and I'll help out.
--
Sincerely,
charles d. kincaid
statman@net-link.net
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Selecting preview app in print
Date: 14 Apr 1996 17:30:12 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4krcn4$rkq@dropit.pgh.net>
When one user goes to preview something before printing, another app
than Preview.app is selected. I have been unbable to figure out how
to change this back to Preview.app and would appreciate any
suggestions.
-----
Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE]
From: joe@decoy.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Increasing buffer space on a black next under 3.2?
Date: 14 Apr 1996 18:58:59 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Eugene
Message-ID: <4krhtj$51e@pith.uoregon.edu>
In using a black next as a news feed box (inn1.4unoff4), I am apparently
running out of buffer or queue space (see error 55 ENOBUFS in man 2 intro)
Is anyone familiar with how I can increase the number of buffers or queues
available for inn's use on this machine?
Thanks,
Joe St Sauver (joe@oregon.uoregon.edu)
University of Oregon Computing Center
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: The 3.3 patch and libposix.a
Date: 14 Apr 1996 20:03:38 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4krlmq$9f9@dropit.pgh.net>
I upgraded to 3.3 over the weekend and installed Patch 1 from the
NeXT server. However, I am unable to download the libposix.a
library. EVERY time I try to get it, something in the file clobbers
my connection. Can anybody suggest how I might be able to get this
library?
-----
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: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Selecting preview app in print
Date: 14 Apr 1996 20:01:04 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4krli0$9f9@dropit.pgh.net>
References: <4krcn4$rkq@dropit.pgh.net>
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us wrote:
> When one user goes to preview something before printing, another app
> than Preview.app is selected. I have been unbable to figure out how
> to change this back to Preview.app and would appreciate any
> suggestions.
> -----
> Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883
> me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE]
Sorry folks. I figured out how to do it. Selecting a .ps file and using
tools fixed me up.
-----
Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.alt.binaries.next
From: martin@jeramy.westfalen.de
Subject: this "interleaced-mode" is nearly killing me !!!
Message-ID: <DpuE49.1K7@jeramy.westfalen.de>
Sender: news@jeramy.westfalen.de (news)
Organization: JerySoft
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 07:57:45 GMT
Hi you out there,
well I have a Hercules Dynamite VL Pro VGA-grphic card installed in my PC ...
I am using NSi 3.3 and the only driver Ive got by now is that on, that gives
you exactly 1024 x 768 RGB by
45 Hz INTERLEACED !!!
I think its revision b by a modified NS 3.2 driver (from Ricardo J .Parada
and John Ruggentaler)
So, pleas, tell me that there is a newer on without this interleace in a high
color standard !!!
Where can I get it from ?!?
--
... M.Roggon (martin@jeramy.westfalen.de)
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: registering new extension for existing app
Date: 15 Apr 1996 14:15:20 +1000
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Unix Sydney, +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis
Message-ID: <4ksigo$i2r@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
Keywords: app extension
Hi all,
I have found that Sound.app knows how to decode .au files but it does not
have them as file extensions that it will open. This means that I must
open them by hand. It would be nicer if Workspace would see Sound.app as
a default app for .au files. Some of the files are on CD-ROM and the net
so I cannot change their names to something that would fool Sound.app
into loading automatically.
This has come up before for other applications so it is not specific to
Sound.app. Does anyone have a generic solution to informing an
application, or WorkSpace for that matter, about a new file extension
that it should open? I have tried all the inspectors for the application
and the file without success. I also do not have access to the source so
the NeXTAnswers solution of changing the attributes in ProjectBuilder is
not an option.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, Greg Shaw.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 15 Apr 1996 04:15:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4ksigg$hur@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
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- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
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=============
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From: stefan.oesterman@si.upnet.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Automount CD-ROM drives in different path
Date: 15 Apr 1996 06:44:18 GMT
Organization: Taide Net
Message-ID: <4ksr82$nm8@parabol.taide.net>
How do change the path where the CD-ROM drive mounts?
I want to have it mounted in /CD (usually /).fstab???
Can anybody suggest how to do this?
____________________________________________________
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Upnet Systemintegration AB.
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Distributor of NEXTSTEP in the Nordic and Baltic countries
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk
Subject: Re:Printing from SoftPC4.0
Message-ID: <DpwJ2M.5F4@isltd.insignia.com>
Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com
Organization: Insignia Solutions plc
References: <9604141529.AA00224@huelf.hamburg.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:39:57 GMT
In article <9604141529.AA00224@huelf.hamburg.com> writes:
>
> I wondered if anybody could possibly help me.
>
> Here's the prob.:
>
> We've got SoftPC 4.0 running under NS on a P90 in an NeXTnetwork,
> where a 1990 cube (040 with 64MB) is the NetInfo-Server.
>
> Now we need to have Printouts on the NeXTLaser
> Am I right when I am basicly looking for a PostScript Driver
yes..
step 1) Get the printer working from NeXTStep
step 2) Select the PS option on the SoftPC preferences panel.
this basically pipes to lpr, but does some preprocessing to
fix the braindead Windows PS driver
step 3) Configure Windows to use a postscript printer, on the port
you used in step 2
Should just work
> AVA-DOS-App only
> supports the following printers:
>
> Corodata, HP-DeskJet / HP DJ500 / Triumph-Adler 124, Epson LQ 2550,
> 400, 800, 850, FX, FX 85 IBM 5202, IBM 6750, IBM Proprinter,
> Kyocera 1100 Kyocera 1010, NEC P2200, NEC P2/P3, NEC P6(+)/P7(+),
> Olivetti PR17
This is more of a problem...
You want to print to a PS printer, and you don't appear to have a PS
driver.
There is a LaserJet to PS converter - select the Laserjet option on the
SoftPC printer panel. Unfortunatly its accuracy is limited.
Ian
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: registering new extension for existing app
Date: 15 Apr 1996 14:07:18 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4ktl6m$l54@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <4ksigo$i2r@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have found that Sound.app knows how to decode .au files but it does not
> have them as file extensions that it will open. This means that I must
> open them by hand. It would be nicer if Workspace would see Sound.app as
> a default app for .au files. Some of the files are on CD-ROM and the net
> so I cannot change their names to something that would fool Sound.app
> into loading automatically.
>
> This has come up before for other applications so it is not specific to
> Sound.app. Does anyone have a generic solution to informing an
> application, or WorkSpace for that matter, about a new file extension
> that it should open? I have tried all the inspectors for the application
> and the file without success. I also do not have access to the source so
> the NeXTAnswers solution of changing the attributes in ProjectBuilder is
> not an option.
>
> Any suggestions?
Get Opener.app.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: DAT drive problem
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Keywords: DAT, WangDAT, SCSI, tape
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Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 14:27:46 GMT
Hi,
I have a WangDAT 3100 that has suddenly started to act up. The
primary symptom is that I get
gnutar: read error on /dev/rst0 : I/O error
whenever I try to read a tape. I seem to be able to write short files
(since I can't read I have no way of knowing), but longer files result give
the same I/O error. The drive also sometimes seems to be confused about
what constitutes a cleaning cartridge, i.e. sometimes when I insert a normal
tape, the led flashes for a while, and then the tape is ejected.
Does anyone know what could be causing this?
---
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME)
+1.312.702-1093 phone (lab)
+1.312.667-5331 phone (home)
+1.312.702-9740 fax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ian.stephenson@insignia.co.uk
Subject: Re: registering new extension for existing app
Message-ID: <Dpwt3B.B6v@isltd.insignia.com>
Sender: news@isltd.insignia.com
Organization: Insignia Solutions plc
References: <4ktl6m$l54@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 15:16:22 GMT
> gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have found that Sound.app knows how to decode .au files but it
does not
> > have them as file extensions that it will open. This means that I
must
> > open them by hand. It would be nicer if Workspace would see
Sound.app as
> > a default app for .au files. Some of the files are on CD-ROM and
the net
> > so I cannot change their names to something that would fool
Sound.app
> > into loading automatically.
They can be hacked in by 'segedit'ing out the appropriate segement,
editing the text by hand, and segediting it back in. The segement you
need to edit is the icon header.
Ian
From: sappenz@pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Soeren Appenzeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Network-Backup on Black NeXT ?
Date: 15 Apr 1996 15:35:20 GMT
Organization: Rechenzentrum Uni Mannheim
Message-ID: <4ktqbo$oio@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>
Hello everybody,
does anybody knows about a good shell-script or an application for
the following task:
I've a NeXT-network of 12 Black NeXT's.
I want to backup all files on a tape streamer.
I want to backup filesystems, that are NOT MOUNTED on the computer with
the tape streamer.
I want to run the back-up software on an other computer than the tape-streamer
is connected to.
I used to back up my network with a shell-script on a Sun. Because of
a restructure I now have to back-up on NeXT, so the Sun-Script won't work
anymore.
The only commercial solution I know is "Savety-Net". But Savety-Net can't
backup remote Filesystems (they have to be mounted on the Back-up-Machine...).
So if anybody has written a shellscript for those needs jet, or knows of an
application, please write me.
Many thanks,
Soeren.
--
Soeren Appenzeller, Mail: sappenz@pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de
WWW: <http://pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/HomePages/sappenz.html>
SNAIL: Universitaet Mannheim,PI 1,Seminargebaeude A5,D-68131 Mannheim,Germany
Office: Seminargebaeude A5,C008, Tel: 0049 621 292 196, Fax: 0049 621 292 5297
From: petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch (Marc Petitmermet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: defaults database, CSLIP
Date: 15 Apr 1996 15:27:56 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[7380]
Message-ID: <4ktpts$28j@elna.ethz.ch>
Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name.
The defaults database on my root account seems to be missing. How can I
install/generate a new one?
Is there still a public domain/shareware/cheap CSLIP package available
somewhere?
Thanks.
Marc
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-
M. Petitmermet
petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 15 Apr 1996 15:47:54 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4ktr3a$cf@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu>
<4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org> <DpJvov.Hx9@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
<4km3q5$8a@news4.digex.net>
In <4km3q5$8a@news4.digex.net> John Kheit wrote:
> I must go on record as saying (too keep up my consistent UI facist image :)
> , and although Keith Olfs rules :) , and I'm not worthy to even lick his UI
> boots, and although CDPlayer.app indeed does look cool ... nevertheless,
> CDPlayer.app doesn't use a standard NS UI, and therefore is evil. That's
> why I actually prefer Omni's version of it...it pretty much is the same
> thing, without the purpley-dark-grey chrome...
There were some noises made by NeXT a long time ago that the then plans for
4.0 would include a UI that looked a lot more like CDPlayer and NEXTIME.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: registering new extension for existing app
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 12:21:08 -0400
Organization: worldbank
Message-ID: <31727774.5D01@worldbank.org>
References: <4ksigo$i2r@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Greg Shaw wrote:
> ... Does anyone have a generic solution to informing an
> application, or WorkSpace for that matter, about a new file extension
> that it should open? I have tried all the inspectors for the application
> and the file without success. I also do not have access to the source so
> the NeXTAnswers solution of changing the attributes in ProjectBuilder is
> not an option.
>
> Any suggestions?
I vaguely remember a little utility that someone submitted to the archives that did this. But I
don't seem to have it on my HD and can't remember even the name. Perhaps a hunt through the
archives might turn something up.
Conceptually, it doesn't sound very difficult: write an app that will recognize whatever
extensions you specify as its own, and then simply passes them on to the appropriate app. I'm
sure that its more complicated in practice, though.
Stefano
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: telnetd logging on NextStep
Date: 15 Apr 1996 16:44:36 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4ktudk$pvc@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <kevincDpqLH8.AAs@netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <kevincDpqLH8.AAs@netcom.com>
On 04/11/96, kevinc wrote:
>Is it possible to configure NextStep's telnetd to do logging of
>the attempted login names?
This sounds like a case for Venema's tcp-wrappers. They let you
do logging and access control for TELNET, FTP, RSH etc. If you can't
find the package via archie, I can send you mine (probably not the
latest), or you can ask the author at (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl)
--
----------------------------------------------
Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta
Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: drbob@milquetoast (Robert E Beaty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Problem connecting to Oracle7 with EOF
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Date: 15 Apr 1996 18:03:59 GMT
Organization: First Chicago NBD Corporation, Chicago IL, USA
Message-ID: <4ku32f$ail@news.fnbc.com>
References: <4kb999$jp@natasha.rmii.com>
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Matt Bezark (xela@acm.org) wrote:
: I have an Oracle7 server running on an HP 712
...
: Do I need any Oracle or NeXT software on the
: client besides the Oracle adaptor that is
: Oracle specific?
Nope.
: Do I need an entry in
: /etc/services on the client?
I believe so. When I installed my Oracle Enterprise Server for NT, I needed
to give the listener a tcp port - 1525 I believe. In any case, I could
connect to it from my NT box, but not from a NeXTStep 3.3 or OPENSTEP/Mach
4.0 PR2 box until I put the line for:
orasrv 1525 tcp
in the services. Acutally, I did it via nidump/niload, but it's the same
thing.
: Thanks,
: Matt
No problem! Let me know if I can help more... We're trying EOF 2.0 to Sybase
and Oracle, and it looks very interesting.
--
Cheers,
Bob (drbob@cmg.fcnbd.com)
Architecture Nazi
"No tools for You! Come back - One Year!"
Seinfeld
First Chicago - NBD - Technical Architecture Group
Capital Markets Systems - (312)732-3087
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Upgrade to 3.3 clobbered sendmail -- HELP!!
Date: 15 Apr 1996 23:49:50 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kunau$ofn@dropit.pgh.net>
I just upgraded to 3.3, including Patch1 with Fix #2 (remove all
comments from etc/hosts), from 3.2. Formerly, if my Inet connection
was down, outgoing mail would queue in /usr/spool/mqueue. Now, it
bounces. Something has changed but I don't know what. I recall
seeing notes about this months ago but I didn't save them. Now I
have to start the thread all over again. Please help if you have any
idea what has happened and how to fix it.
Outgong mail now bounces with the following message:
421 site-name (ddn)... Deferred: No such file or directory
554 user@site-name... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from
name server): No such file or directory
It is pretty clear that something got changed on me. I need to
change it back!
-----
Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE]
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Doug Harris <dough@bou.shl.com>
Subject: format dumps core
Sender: news@docws001.shl.com
Message-ID: <3172D549.7D56@bou.shl.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:01:29 GMT
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Mime-Version: 1.0
Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc.
Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris
Here's the situation... we've got a nice sparc 20 with two ~1GB scsi
drives. The previous owner had NEXTSTEP installed on one of them and
had the other allocated to swap space.
Now we're trying to install Solaris 2.4 onto the disk previously
allocated to swap space.
I boot from the cdrom and answer all the questions on all the panels
until I get to the one where it asks me to choose which disk to install
solaris onto. Both of the disks are listed but both show ZERO free
capacity!!
Sometime not too long before this panel appears, the console window also
shows "Arithmetic Error (core dumped)". With a little help from the
(red) Nemeth, et al. sysadmin book, I tried to format the disk manual --
producing this SAME MESSAGE!
Anybody seen format dump core like this before? Any good fixes to this
problem?
email responses are preferred.
thanks,
doug
Doug Harris
de-facto sysadmin
dough@bou.shl.com
From: robert@justine.elastica.com (Robert Nicholson)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup
Subject: Booting >1024 cylinders with a TP4N?
Date: 14 Apr 1996 20:02:15 -0400
Organization: x
Message-ID: <en34e5p88.fsf@justine.elastica.com>
Hi, my quest was to get on my internal 4GIG drive (SCSI II Quantum Atlas)
DOS
NeXTSTEP
FreeBSD
>1024 here.
Win-95/DOS
Windows NT
Now this is how it currently looks
DOS
NeXTSTEP
FreeBSD
>1024 here
DOS FAT 16
Now, having performed the steps the System Commander manual
suggests. ie. make the first primary DOS partition hidden from the
newer one. When I try to boot the second DOS paritition I get
Non system disk or Disk Error
I'm jumping to conclusions here but this might be down to the DOS
partition residing >1024 cyclinders. Now, this is a BIOS dependant
issue right? (Does the device need to support TRANSLATE mode? If so
how does one enable it?)
Anybody know if the bios AWARD 114 on my TP4N should be able to
boot >1024 cylinders?
--
"Under the circumstances I will sit down."
(PGP key: send email with Subject: request pgp key)
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 3.3 clobbered sendmail -- HELP!!
Date: 16 Apr 1996 01:02:04 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-39.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4kuric$q4g@usc.edu>
References: <4kunau$ofn@dropit.pgh.net>
This problem is that you now need to make sure you have correct Fully
Qualified Domain Names for your local machine and your mailserver. Once this
is defined your problem should go away.
QUESTION: which version of sendmail are you using? You should considering
upgrading to 8.7.5 - the pkg is on the usual sites c/o Robert La Ferla.
If you have any questions Maybe I can answer them.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: OmniCD (Was Re: CDPlayer just gives "could not open the CD-ROM drive")
Date: 16 Apr 1996 01:24:49 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kust2$ghk@news4.digex.net>
References: <4jrof5$2hn@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> <4jttdk$5hr@crcnis3.unl.edu> <4k7ij6$4s4@gaea.titan.org> <DpJvov.Hx9@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <4km3q5$8a@news4.digex.net> <4ktr3a$cf@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) wrote:
> In <4km3q5$8a@news4.digex.net> John Kheit wrote:
> There were some noises made by NeXT a long time ago that the then plans
for
> 4.0 would include a UI that looked a lot more like CDPlayer and NEXTIME.
Again, I don't have anything against the CDPlayer.app UI...or NEXTIME's 1.0
UI... They are both rather nice... What I do not want (as if I had a say
in the matter :) is to have different UI's on the same platform. Let's
pick one, either the current one, or 4.0's, or NEXTIME 1.0 or 2.0, or
CDPlayer.app, and make the entire OS's UI the same way...
Other wise we get in the warehouse outlet UI syndrome that has it other
systems...I think the danger of having many outside-world UI's come in to
the NEXT UI is too great. There are a million nice outside-world
interfaces (e.g. My blender has a series of buttons for speed
control-rather than a slider, my stereo has a turn knob-rather than a fly
wheel, my turntable [Bang and Olfsen] has no visible buttons whatsoever, it
auto senses the album-while my friends turntable has all kinds of buttons
and dials, my microwave has a flat panel keypad-while my other microwave
has up and down buttonns for increasing/decreasing the duration of
cooking.) All of these interfaces are fine. The problem is, if every
developer adopts their personal appliance-of-choice-UI into the NeXT UI,
then the NeXT UI gets compromised...
I've seen it happen on other systems... If a tradeoff must be made (and
I'm not sure one must...) then I think it's better to err on the side of UI
consistency... Again, I think CDPlayer.app is cool too... But, you have
enough apps looking differnt, and then the desktop starts to look like an
appliance wharehouse :)
Take care,
P.S. Keith Ohlfs is the UI God :)
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP3.3Patch1/libposix.a
Date: 16 Apr 1996 01:51:14 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kuuei$1ae@dropit.pgh.net>
Does anybody know if there is a compressed copy of this file on one
of the archives? I have tried without success to download it from
NeXT. The first four times, my server dropped my line after about
200K. Tonight I had 2.4Mb and NeXT dropped the connection! I
suppose I could try again tomorrow, but this is getting a little
tiresome.
-----
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: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfoManager.app "Can't contact Netinfo server for local domain"
Date: 16 Apr 1996 02:54:26 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4kv252$40k@dropit.pgh.net>
That's the message I get when I try to start NetInfoManager.app. I
just upgraded to 3.3 and I remember seeing that the upgrade log or
plan mentioned something about the netinfo directories. Apparently,
it did not do something it was supposed to do and now I don't even
know if netinfo is actually running or what to do about it.
I have been having a problem that outgoing mail no longer queues in
mqueue since the upgrade. Could this have something to do with that?
Are the 3.2 files not compatible with 3.3? Or is there some other
problem I need to fix.
-----
Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE]
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to send email to a "network" user?
Date: 16 Apr 1996 02:15:30 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4kuvs2$2sj@news.tamu.edu>
I got thrust into the position of instaling some new Nextstep hardware for
my professor. I am trying to make the user account network wide, so that
the secretary etc. can log in from any computer. All computers were added
under the root domain. I have fingured out all the parts of
exporting/importing the home directories etc.
But when a network user has a home directory under
/Net/computer1/Users/user1
then they don't seem to actually be a user of computer1? At least the
NetInfoManager didn't think so. User1 never showed up. Sending email to
user1@computer1.tamu.edu always gets returned as user unknown at computer1.
Logging in for user1 at computer 1 is no problem however?!
Do I need to add an entry somewhere to make network users email work? Or
what should the proper email address be for them since they aren't really on
computer1 only, but on the entire root domain?
Would these computers have to be put collectively under a subdomain in
NetInfo?
I would be very glad for any pointers or suggestions....
Blue Skies,
HP
--
Hanspeter Schaub
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub
schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY!
-Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: jmosher@think.com (Jessica Mosher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: memory error on black cube
Date: 15 Apr 1996 23:01:40 -0400
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
Sender: root@bone.think.com
Message-ID: <9604160301.AA21551@gandalf.think.com>
Upon powerup tonight, my 040 cube complained:
"Memory configuration test failed."
then he suggested I look at sockets 12-15.
I don't have any memory in that bank.
He said it passed a value 7000000 and received 7000004 (I think).
He recognizes my two banks of 1 MB SIMMs and bank of 4, and
I was able to get a monitor prompt and boot up, but this
concerns me.
another strange message:
Apr 15 19:36:39 wombat mach: WARNING: clock lost 2 days -- CHECK AND RESET
THE DATE!
but the time/date is correct.
I've never seen this--even when I installed some bad memory once.
Ring any bells with any of you? I'd appreciate
any advice. FWIW, it has been two days since I last booted
him up.
I'm running 3.2 and my ROM is 2.5 v66.
Please send non-NeXT email.
Thanks in advance!! Hopefully it isn't my motherboard...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Jessica L. Mosher Thinking Machines Corporation
Systems Support Engineer c/o American Express
"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."
--John Lennon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: lin@lorien.umd.edu (Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2.x -> 3.0
Date: 16 Apr 1996 05:07:47 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <4kv9v3$9q9@hecate.umd.edu>
We got a NeXTCube running 2.x NeXTStep without floppy drive but with an
internal MO. It will only boot into single user mode and claim / not found.
After return /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo/local.nidb to its initial
status, it still won't work. We decide to try to put 3.1 on it to get a
fresh start. But when a CD-ROM reader is connected to the scsi chain, the
boot process show messages like this :
Block size in label (2048) != Block size on disk (1024)
and we got I/O error when we tried to mount the CD-ROM. Anyone got any idea
what went wrong here ? CD-ROM works fine on two other NeXTbox running 3.2.
Without floppy drive and unable to mount or boot from a CD-ROM, is there
any other way to upgrade this machine without a network ? We are
considering backup a 3.2 system to a DAT tape with tar and then untar it to
this Cube overwritting everything. Will this work ?
Selecting preview app in print
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 08:54:54 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
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Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.960415085332.6400G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4krcn4$rkq@dropit.pgh.net>
Reply-To: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: cedman.remote.princeton.edu
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To: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
In-Reply-To: <4krcn4$rkq@dropit.pgh.net>
On 14 Apr 1996 me@venetia.pgh.pa.us wrote:
> When one user goes to preview something before printing, another app
> than Preview.app is selected. I have been unbable to figure out how
> to change this back to Preview.app and would appreciate any
> suggestions.
Just a guess...
They have selected some other app, other than Preview.app, to show them
.ps files.
To test this, select a .ps file from the WM File Viewer, and do either
command-2 or command-3 (one of those shows which apps can open that
file... I just can't remember if it is 2 or 3)
TjL
--
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USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast.
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From: emma@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (Emma Erin Beckett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Jetpilot settings for BJC600 with A4 paper?
Date: 16 Apr 1996 10:01:18 GMT
Organization: Swinburne University of Technology
Message-ID: <4kvr5e$sr9@lucy.swin.edu.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Hi everyone,
I would like to be able to use Jetpilot with a BJC600 printer on
A4 paper... but with the demo version at least I am having trouble
setting up Jetpilot so as the pages print correctly (i.e in the
right position on the paper and not using exta sheets to fit
what should be on page one onto them).
Does anyone use Jetpilot with a BJC600? Could you please tell me
what settings you have in Jetpilot in order to print correctly?
Thank you
Emma
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: Re: telnetd logging on NextStep
Message-ID: <kevincDpxLB7.3qw@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <kevincDpqLH8.AAs@netcom.com> <4ktudk$pvc@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 01:25:54 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom10.netcom.com
Gary Finley (gfin@psych.ualberta.ca) wrote:
: On 04/11/96, kevinc wrote:
: >Is it possible to configure NextStep's telnetd to do logging of
: >the attempted login names?
: This sounds like a case for Venema's tcp-wrappers. They let you
: do logging and access control for TELNET, FTP, RSH etc. If you can't
: find the package via archie, I can send you mine (probably not the
: latest), or you can ask the author at (wietse@wzv.win.tue.nl)
Gary,
I do have tcp wrappers installed. I even compiled it with identd support.
However, I would like to log what external users type in response
to the login: challenge. I am currently unable to do this. :-(
I understand that there is a package by the name of logdaemon that is
able to do this, but I have not compiled it on NextStep...
Regards,
Song
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: format dumps core
Date: 16 Apr 1996 07:22:34 -0700
Organization: Aimnet Corporation
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4l0afa$df8@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <3172D549.7D56@bou.shl.com>
In article <3172D549.7D56@bou.shl.com>, Doug Harris <dough@bou.shl.com> wrote:
>Here's the situation... we've got a nice sparc 20 with two ~1GB scsi
>drives. The previous owner had NEXTSTEP installed on one of them and
>had the other allocated to swap space.
>
>Now we're trying to install Solaris 2.4 onto the disk previously
>allocated to swap space.
This is a known problem with Solaris 2.4. The problem is only with drives
that have a Nextstep disk label. There are two solutions:
1) Get and install Solaris 2.5 instead.
2) Format/label the drive on some machine other than a Next before attempting
to install Solaris 2.4 on it. It doesn't really matter what you put on it
here, as long as it's not labeled by a machine running Nextstep.
Lusty
From: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Hard drive errors (bad blocks?)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 16:08:52 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4l0gmk$qj7@viper.shadow.net>
Keywords: Hard drive errors
I've been having a problem with my hard drive lately. I've reformatted (low
level) it and initialized it a couple of times to no avail. I've ran fsck,
but it finds no problems.
I keep getting the following error over and over on the console however:
Target 2: HARDWARE ERROR; block 0H retry 1
I'm afraid it's going to eventually crash. I read a post not long ago about
being able to reassign bad blocks using the /usr/etc/reasb utility, but I
don't know hot to convert the hex value in question (0H) to a decimal value
(reasb only takes decimal values!).
Any ideas? Please email any thoughts or hints, as I don't regularly check the
newsgroups.
Thanks.
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@hyper.shadow.net'
tem. After loading the driver
for the Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller for both the CD-ROM and the
hard-disk, the installation procedure fails and I get the following
message :
PCI Ver=2.10 BusCount=1 Features=[BIOS16 CM2]
PCI bus
DriverKit version 330
Registering : PS2Controller
Registering : PCKeyboard0
Registering : EISA0
PCI bus support enabled
Registering : PCI0
Adaptec2940 : Can't get configSpace ; ABORTING
Registering : event0
Registering : kmDevice0
No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found
I'm using the following SCSI id's :
0 Quantum external hard disk
2 internal Sony CD-ROM drive (2x)
7 Adaptec 2940
All these devices are found when booting by the SCSI controller.
I know that my Adaptec controller is properly operating since I have no
troubles with my DOS/Windows configuration (installed on another SCSI hard
disk - it is unplugged for the NextStep installation).
Do you have any ideas to help me (Adaptec configuration, notes on the SCSI
chain...) ?
Thanks for your help
__________________________________________________________
___
/\__\ Christophe Bruley
\/__/ Phone : 76.63.58.81
NEXTSTEP! Fax : 76.63.84.23
E-Mail: Christophe.Bruley@imag.fr
Team VIS - France
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From: doyle@zeke.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can one use tcp_wrappers under NEXTSTEP?
Date: 16 Apr 1996 18:15:36 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <4l0o49$lo6@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <DpyJrG.BAF@RnA.NL>
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.NL wrote:
> As the sdubject suggest. Has anyone done this?
>
Yes, tcp_wrappers works great under NeXTSTEP. We have been running them for
years. Just follow the directions (I prefer using inetd.conf to call tcpd).
Cheers,
Mark
From: doyle@zeke.lanl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: telnetd logging on NextStep
Date: 16 Apr 1996 18:17:09 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Message-ID: <4l0o75$lo6@newshost.lanl.gov>
References: <kevincDpqLH8.AAs@netcom.com> <4ktudk$pvc@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <kevincDpxLB7.3qw@netcom.com>
kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc) wrote:
> I understand that there is a package by the name of logdaemon that is
> able to do this, but I have not compiled it on NextStep...
I was never able to get the logdaemon package to compile under NeXTSTEP. If
any has done this, I would appreciate the source code changes you had to
make.
Cheers,
Mark
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: defaults database, CSLIP
Date: 16 Apr 1996 18:59:51 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc
Message-ID: <4l0qn7$kmk@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <4ktpts$28j@elna.ethz.ch>
Marc Petitmermet (petitmermet@biocomp.mat.ethz.ch) wrote:
: The defaults database on my root account seems to be missing. How can I
: install/generate a new one?
The user template is stored in /usr/template/user. This is the directory that is
copied to make home directories for new users, and should contain an empty
defaults database.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by |
chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad |
http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
####################################################################
From: bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu (Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problem with mail and ftp. Please help
Date: 16 Apr 1996 18:37:49 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <4l0pdt$rvg@masala.cc.uh.edu>
hi,
I have problems sending large files vi a mail or ftp.
if the file size is vey small i am able to send mail or do ftp from my system.
but if the file size is greater that 2 k or so i am not able to send
mail or ftp
from out of my system. however there is no problem in receiving files
by mail or ftp what ever their size is (both small and large).
please can some one tell what my problem is??
Bala
bkrishna@sf.psca.com
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Update to 3.3 has clobbered NetInfoManager.app
Date: 16 Apr 1996 23:34:37 GMT
Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc.
Message-ID: <4l1aqd$pao@dropit.pgh.net>
When I try to load NetInfoManager.app I get the following panerl:
ERROR
Can't contact Netinfo server for local domain.
The various ni commands, like nidump, seem to work, but not NetInfo
Manager.app. Can anybody tell me how to get it going?
-----
Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883
me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE]
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: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 17 Apr 1996 03:23:10 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4l1o6u$1hg@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <4kot8k$12d@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
Hi,
some Matthias Weber mailed me in reaction to my posting here, but his mail
got corrupted and I couldn't identify neither address nor content.
Please mail again!
Bye
Uli
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_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
PGP: public key on request
Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: Problems with Novell server on Tokenring network
Message-ID: <Dpzxu9.2ov@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <4gk0lu$qro@portal.gmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 07:51:45 GMT
In article <4gk0lu$qro@portal.gmu.edu> tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu (
Tim) writes:
>
> No easy solution on this, BUT, if you look in /usr/netware,
> and specificly in bin & etc there, you will find in addtion
> to the components of netware that normaly run, some
> debugging tools as well. Also, some of the programs have
> non-obvious options etc, so look at them with strings &
> the like.
>
> Hope that helps. NS deals with novell fairly well, considering
> that it's a really gross way to network things in many respects.
> The problem you're having is damned odd to say the least.
>
Found the solution....
NS 3.3 has bug in the packet size handling, it seems it appears only in
some cases..., the fix is the 3.3 Patch.pkg from NeXTanswers!
======================================================================
Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH
Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11
Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg
(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: v_white@ece.wisc.edu (Victor White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple OS's on white hardware: Booting into LINUX
Date: 19 Apr 1996 19:30:16 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Message-ID: <4l8pk8$23b2@news.doit.wisc.edu>
NextHeads,
I set up my machine so I could boot into NextStep and Linux
(Red Hat).
I have both OS's successfully onto my hard drive, but I would like
to get away from what I do now, which is to use a boot floppy to
launch into LINUX. Presently, I have to manually set root to it and
mount the partition. Drag.
On the next boot up sequence, it asks you which partition you'de
like to boot into. Fine. But this does not seem to allow you to
define the name of the kernal image you want to use, which LINUX seems
to demand. It chokes when I use the next boot partition selector and
try to go into LINUX
Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Victor White
v_white@janus.ece.wisc.edu
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound works fine except from audio CDs
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:18:32 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
Sender: rjacobs@elaine48.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960419171810.6514C-100000@elaine48.Stanford.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I am running NS 3.3 on a P100. My motherboard has the Vibra 16 built-in.
I can get normal system sounds through my speakers and some applications,
but when audio-CD's run I can only get sound through headphones. If
anyone knows a fix I'd appreciate it. Post to the newsgroup and/or email
to:
rjacobs@stokes.stanford.edu
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Changing Names of Machines in Netinfo
Date: 20 Apr 1996 05:00:30 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <4l9r1e$u5j@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
Keywords: names, change, netinfo
Hello,
I am faced with the task of changing the names of machines on my
network, the Master Netinfo server too, to get then into the specification
given by my campus network admin. I have experimented and read what I
could find at NextAnswers and in Librarian. It appears that I will have
to go in and redo all the NFS, etc by hand. Does somebody have a better
way. Is there a way to edit the Netinfo database and do a global replace.
Any help for a full-time neophyte and a part time system administrator
will be greatly appreciated.
--
AB
______________________________________________________________
Alan A. Barhorst | alan@osci.me.ttu.edu
Mechanical Engineering | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/
Texas Tech University | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail.
______________________________________________________________
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple OS's on white hardware: Booting into LINUX
Date: 20 Apr 1996 08:42:04 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4la80s$j8j@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4l8pk8$23b2@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Victor White (v_white@ece.wisc.edu) wrote:
[...]
: On the next boot up sequence, it asks you which partition you'de
: like to boot into. Fine. But this does not seem to allow you to
: define the name of the kernal image you want to use, which LINUX seems
: to demand. It chokes when I use the next boot partition selector and
: try to go into LINUX
Install lilo onto the partition bootsector of the linux partition.
(Don't install it onto the master boot record!
When given the partition number, the NeXSTEP booter will start lilo
which will in turn boot linux with the right kernel image.
--
Axel Habermann
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296
Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist,
haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 20 Apr 1996 16:15:26 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4lb2iu$mt3@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> <4l5qt0$csh@usc.edu>
reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
: In <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> M Carling wrote:
: > chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
: > >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link
: > directly
: > >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50
: (or
: > >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
: >
: > I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted
: > it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
: What were the problems? And do you have any recommendations?
We've got 6 of them. They seem to work great. What have you experienced? We
also got terrific support from Ascend on helping us set them up (even dialed-in
and checked the config for us! -- and that was when we only had 2 of them...)
I've got two people dialing in from New Jersey, one guy from Virginia, and a
couple of people about to start connecting locally (from thier homes). The
biggest problems we've had have been with the phone companies killing the lines
(Bell Atlantic has been pretty bad, SWBell has been 'mediocre'...)
I'd recommend the Ascends quite strongly.
(Your milage may vary...)
--
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701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: vbragin@uranus.calstatela.edu (Victoria Bragin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Reboot hangs at "EATA controller at irq 15"
Date: 20 Apr 1996 19:07:19 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4lbcl7$952@nuke.csu.net>
The subject really says it all. Upon rebooting in verbose mode
(i.e., boot: -v) the system hangs at
....
Resetting SCSI bus ...
EATA controller at irq 15
I tried to reboot using the NEXTSTEP floppy disk, i.e.,
"boot: fd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a" in the hope that I could at least
access the hard drive. The system hangs at exactly the same place.
The controller has always been set at irq 15. Also, the computer uses a
DPT 2x22 Series EISA SCSI Adapter.
Any help, hints, ... will be appreciated.
Vicki Bragin
From: sean@ugcs.caltech.edu (M. Sean Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: UAR on Nextstep
Date: 18 Apr 1996 09:27:22 GMT
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA
Message-ID: <4l51tq$8ke@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Dear All,
Has anyone goten Uar to compile on Nextstep?
(and work) -> I have tried installing the Berkley Packet Filters from the tcpdump/ppp
distribution.. but some header files are still missing..
Any suggestions will be used ;-)
thanks, Sean
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with talk
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 16:15:31 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960420161339.1378C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4l7mh4$e50@lucy.swin.edu.au>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Nicole Vincent <nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <4l7mh4$e50@lucy.swin.edu.au>
ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/network/ytalk.3.0.NI.bs.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.eunet.ch/pub/next/Unix/network/ytalk.3.0.README
'ytalk' is the best way to solve this, usually. It is more widely
compatible across systems than regular 'talk' in my experience.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast.
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gery@ares.fdn.org(Gery_Divry)
Subject: Re: DAT 4mm drives
Message-ID: <1996Apr20.172703.14282@ares.fdn.org>
Sender: news@ares.fdn.org
Organization: ARES - Lyon, France.
References: <4l8c2j$erk@mercury.wright.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 17:27:03 GMT
In article <4l8c2j$erk@mercury.wright.edu> richard@seuss.math.wright.edu
(Richard Mercer) writes:
> If anyone is successfully using a SCSI 4mm DAT drive for backup via
> dump/restore under NS3.x,
> please contact me at richard@seuss.math.wright.edu.
>
> My experience with both an old drive and a brand new one is generally
that
> you can dump, but you can't restore, getting tape i/o errors. I have in
the
> past on rare occasions restored successfully, but recently I get 100%
> failure. I believe it has something to do with fixed block size.
>
> I use
> dump 0unfs /dev/rst0 120000 /
>
> Richard Mercer
> Wright State University
Thats why I use 'tar' with my DAT
Gery
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: m@ml.com (M Carling)
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Message-ID: <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com>
Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account)
Organization: ml.com
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 17:42:03 GMT
chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
>In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link
directly
>to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or
>thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted
it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
M Carling
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 18 Apr 1996 16:33:36 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-41.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4l5qt0$csh@usc.edu>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com>
<Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com>
In <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> M Carling wrote:
> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
> >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link
> directly
> >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50
(or
> >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
>
> I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted
> it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
What were the problems? And do you have any recommendations?
--
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reichman@usc.edu
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From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DAT 4mm drives
Date: 20 Apr 1996 23:17:48 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4lbras$i8i@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <4l8c2j$erk@mercury.wright.edu> <1996Apr20.172703.14282@ares.fdn.org>
In-Reply-To: <1996Apr20.172703.14282@ares.fdn.org>
For the fifth (?) time I am posting this:
Subject: Re: State of art in the NeXT dump/restore question ?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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At your own risk, use 'mtset -i' to disable all this block stuff on
the tape device. Always worked for me.
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
/*
* mtset - set SCSI tape driver characteristics
*
* setmtd - set SCSI tape driver to a fixed block size
* by John L. Chmielewski
* Tue Feb 19, 1991
*
* Modified to take drive name argument and default to non-rewinding mode:
* by David D. Johnson (ddj@gradient.com)
* Sun Feb 24, 1991
*
* Modified to use switches to change tape device name and characteristics:
* mtset [-d name] [-f size] [-i]
* -d tape device name (default /dev/nrst0)
* -f Sets the driver to fixed block mode, uses
* argument of block size in bytes (default 512 bytes),
* Variable block mode is default.
* -i Inhibit illegal length (default is to allow illegal length)
*/
/*
USE AT YOUR OUR RISK.
I NOT NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROBLEM CAUSED BY THIS PROGRAM.
*/
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <nextdev/scsireg.h>
#define RSTDEVICE "/dev/nrst0"
#define BLOCKSIZE 512
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
extern int optind;
extern char *optarg;
int fd;
int defsize = BLOCKSIZE;
int size = BLOCKSIZE;
char *deffile = RSTDEVICE;
char *file = RSTDEVICE;
u_int mode = MTIOCVARBLK;
u_int inhibit = MTIOCALILL;
char c;
while ((c = getopt(argc, argv, "d:f:i")) != EOF) {
switch (c) {
case 'd':
file = optarg;
break;
case 'f':
mode = MTIOCFIXBLK;
size = atoi(optarg);
break;
case 'i':
inhibit = MTIOCINILL;
break;
default:
fprintf(stderr,
"usage: %s [-d device] [-f block-size] [-i]\n",
argv[0]);
fprintf(stderr,
" -d tape device name (default %s)\n",
deffile);
fprintf(stderr,
" -f set fix block mode with size (default
size %d)\n",
defsize);
fprintf(stderr,
" -i Inhibit illegal length\n");
fprintf(stderr,
" default: variable block mode, allow
illegal length\n");
exit(1);
}
}
if ((fd = open(file, O_RDWR)) < 0) {
perror(file);
exit(1);
}
if (ioctl(fd, mode, &size) < 0) {
perror("ioctl");
exit(1);
}
if (ioctl(fd, inhibit) < 0) {
perror("ioctl");
exit(1);
}
(void) close(fd);
return 0;
}
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Are there specific net sites for printer definition files? (+)
Date: 21 Apr 1996 02:44:48 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-29.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu>
I'm specifically looking for an Indigo E-Print 1000 pppd.
I was wondering if ppd's have to be specifically compiled per architecture?
And if there are known sites for ppds, esp. for the NeXT platform.
TIA
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From: kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 18 Apr 1996 21:14:58 GMT
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <4l6bci$1m3@news.xmission.com>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com>
Hi, M--how's it going?
There's a new product called WebRamp that was designed as a combination
ISDN adapter, router, and 10Base-T hub. It costs $695 for five 10Base-T
connections, and $995 for (I believe) ten connections.
WebRamp is high on my list of products to try out.
............................kris
M Carling (m@ml.com) wrote:
: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
: >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link
: directly
: >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or
: >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
:
: I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted
: it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
:
: M Carling
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From: Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (Pete Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 19 Apr 1996 00:05:07 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4l6lbj$9la@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM>
References: <4l6bci$1m3@news.xmission.com>
In article <4l6bci$1m3@news.xmission.com> kris@xmission.com (Kristopher Magnusson)
writes:
> There's a new product called WebRamp that was designed as a combination
> ISDN adapter, router, and 10Base-T hub. It costs $695 for five 10Base-T
> connections, and $995 for (I believe) ten connections.
Hi Kris:
Who's the manufacturer?
> M Carling (m@ml.com) wrote:
> : I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted
> : it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
Just to add a positive data point, I've had an Ascend P50 at home (hooked to a '040
cube) for almost a year, and I love it dearly. I've had no problems with it
whatsoever.
Best,
Pete
--
***************************************************************************
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SunSoft Enterprise Dist. Objects | sees a comedy. The feeling man looks
Peter.D.Clark@eng.sun.com (NeXTMail) | at the world and sees a tragedy.
***************************************************************************
From: rdl@cais2.cais.com ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Notebooks
Date: 21 Apr 1996 01:56:36 -0400
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <vrp4tqeglwr.fsf@cais2.cais.com>
References: <4l8g7j$f9f@cerberus.wsc.com>
In-reply-to: asoto@wsc.com's message of 19 Apr 1996 16:49:55 GMT
There is a developer working on a driver for the new Toshiba 720CDT. It is
currently the best notebook on the planet. It is a 133MHz Pentium with
SDRAM (synchronous DRAM), PCI, and a 1024x768 active matrix display option!
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Are there specific net sites for printer definition files? (+)
In-Reply-To: reichman@usc.edu's message of 21 Apr 1996 02:44:48 GMT
Message-ID: <u41lojqgjth.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 06:41:46 GMT
PPDs are ASCII files. They don't need to be compiled. ftp.adobe.com and
the FTP site of the printer's manufacturer (HP, Lexmark, etc...) are
good sources for PPDs.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Time-outs on Apache Web Server
Date: 19 Apr 1996 02:19:43 -0400
Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Message-ID: <4l7b9v$fop@news.duke.edu>
I have the Apache Web Server provided by NEXT working on my PC under
NS3.3/Intel, and I am getting a lot of "send timed out" error
messages for people trying to download large files from outside of
the U.S., just because the bandwidth is probably so small. Is there
a way I can configure my Web server so that it doesn't do the "send
timed out"s?
Any clues 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), -5018 (fax), (808) 875-0745 (home)
E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <NeXTMail and MIME: altenber@pueo.mhpcc.edu>
Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/
=======================================================================
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support-Japan
Date: 21 Apr 1996 13:26:28 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4ldd24$e3f@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <316D875B.6E2C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
On 04/12/96, "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote:
> Has anyone seen the Canon NEXTSTEP Developer Support web pages in Japan?
>
> http://www.cnds.canon.co.jp/Japanese_EUC/WelcomeJ.html
>
> I can't understand the attitude of American Canon VS. Japanese
> Canon. I wish the two would truly work together and also fully
> translate the web pages to English and provide object.station driver
> downloads/updates!
>
Just as the pages was loading, I thought to myself, I wonder if this is
Toru-san's work...
... and sure enough:
WWW Server Maintained by Toru Sato
I suspect that Toru-san is putting in bit more effort on this than his
employers pay for. He's an excellent chap, and totally dedicated. If Canon
ATO had had him in charge, I'm sure the Oregon shop would still be open, and
would be making big profits.
If you're listening, Toru, it was a pleasure to meet you (heavens, 18 months
ago now), and I hope maybe I will again one day. Maybe you could come over
for the NeXT Expo Europe?! ;-)
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Are there specific net sites for printer definition files? (+)
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:36:31 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Apr21.143631.4330@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu>
In article <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> I was wondering if ppd's have to be specifically compiled per
architecture?
> And if there are known sites for ppds, esp. for the NeXT platform.
ftp://ftp.adobe.com has a collection of PPDs. These are just ascii
Postscript language files, so apply to any arcgitecture, and should be
common between any implementation.
However, I have noticed that the trend seems to be now for suppliers not
to release PPDs for new printers. Hence there aren't any specific PPDs
for HP LaserJet 5, at least not that I can find. HP just provide "driver
software packages" for Windows and Mac, which do not include a PPD.
Paul
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http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: BLACK HARDWARE ACCELERATION
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 15:34:27 -0400
Organization: The Ohio State University
Message-ID: <317A8DC3.2C61@osu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have read about the Pyro which is intended to accelerate a 25Mhz
black machine to 50 Mhz by way of an overclocked 40 Mhz 68040 running as
a clock doubler. It just plugs into the '040 socket on the motherboard.
BUT it costs about $800. So, there is NO way I am going to afford one.
My question is this: there is a similar board available for Macintosh
that is Produced by Sonnet Technologies. They also make one for the
Amiga. This board costs $350. So, what I am wondering is whether
anyone knows if this board works with black hardware. It does exactly
the same thing as Pyro, only it costs less than half as much, and
doesn't look really any different. It, too plugs into the '040 socket.
If anyone knows anything about this I would really appreciate any info.
Also, anyone who knows anything about NeXT hardware from an electrical
engineering standpoint would be nice. Thanks
Karl
From: dguthrie@iisys.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: su access priviliges
Date: 21 Apr 1996 19:32:18 GMT
Organization: insanely interactive systems inc (http://www.iisys.com)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4le2g2$e2@gypsy.iisys.com>
Keywords: su login
What file(s) do I need to modify to allow other users to execute and issue the 'su' command.
I've been looking through the documentation and can't find this info.
Please email replies.
Don Guthrie
dguthrie@iisys.com
From: Douglas Slotta <slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sound works fine except from audio CDs
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 00:13:43 -0400
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Message-ID: <317B0777.2841@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960419171810.6514C-100000@elaine48.Stanford.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote:
>
> I am running NS 3.3 on a P100. My motherboard has the Vibra 16 built-in.
> I can get normal system sounds through my speakers and some applications,
> but when audio-CD's run I can only get sound through headphones. If
> anyone knows a fix I'd appreciate it. Post to the newsgroup and/or email
> to:
>
> rjacobs@stokes.stanford.edu
This sounds like a hardware problem. You need a sound cable to run from
the back of your CD-ROM to your soundcard, or in your case, from the CD
to the motherboard.
Douglas Slotta
slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: su access priviliges
In-Reply-To: dguthrie@iisys.com's message of 21 Apr 1996 19:32:18 GMT
Message-ID: <u41d9519mic.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4le2g2$e2@gypsy.iisys.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:37:47 GMT
You need to add them to the "wheel" group using UserManager.app.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4le2g2$e2@gypsy.iisys.com> dguthrie@iisys.com writes:
What file(s) do I need to modify to allow other users to execute and issue the 'su' command.
I've been looking through the documentation and can't find this info.
Please email replies.
Don Guthrie
dguthrie@iisys.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: mross@antigone.com
Subject: getty not timing out with NXFax incoming data call
Message-ID: <1996Apr21.234017.14776@antigone.com>
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:40:17 GMT
Greetings,
I have NXFax 1.04a installed on a NeXT cube (040) running NS3.1.
I have just been made aware that the getty process that NXFax launches when it
recognizes a data call does not time out. It specifically ignores the to=60 in the
default gettytab and ignores it if it's reiterated in the NXFax gettytab:
# NXFax dialup on port B
NXFaxB:to=60:ap:p8:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT / NXFax (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400:
This is a serious problem for us, as people tend to dial up and forget about it.
Also, is it possible to set an idle timeout _after_ a user has logged in? (My
understanding is that the getty timeout is only for the "login:" prompt... perhaps
I'm wrong?) I would only want this to apply to a given terminal (i.e. ttydfb)
Thanks for your help,
Michael
--
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e-mail: mross@antigone.com
FAX: +1 415 550 1957
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I upgraded to Apache 1.0.5 AND now I can't start htppd up anymore!
Date: 22 Apr 1996 00:26:24 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-09.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4lejng$bh0@usc.edu>
I upgraded to Apache 1.0.5 AND now I can't start htppd up anymore!
The way I upgraded was manually replace everything that was in the new
release over the old directories, directory by directory.
Now I get the following error message. So I gather I upgraded wrong, but I
don't know how to fix it.
/NextLibrary/WebServer/httpd -d /NextLibrary/WebServer > /dev/console
Syntax error on line 64 of /NextLibrary/WebServer/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command LoadModule
Line 64 is first line of all the madules to be loaded.
Any help would be much appreciated.
--
Be well,
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reichman@usc.edu
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From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What to do if no more ppd support ? (Re: Are there specific net sites for printer definition files? (+))
Date: 22 Apr 1996 02:17:39 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-b-70.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4leq83$f20@usc.edu>
References: <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu> <u41lojqgjth.fsf@world.std.com>
In <u41lojqgjth.fsf@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> PPDs are ASCII files. They don't need to be compiled. ftp.adobe.com and
> the FTP site of the printer's manufacturer (HP, Lexmark, etc...) are
> good sources for PPDs.
ftp.adobe.com Did the trick. Thanks.
Regarding what Paul Lynch followed up with:
> However, I have noticed that the trend seems to be now for suppliers not to
> release PPDs for new printers. Hence there aren't any specific PPDs for HP
> LaserJet 5, at least not that I can find. HP just provide "driver software
> packages" for Windows and Mac, which do not include a PPD.
Then how will non-mac or windows users be able to support newer printers? Is
it still possible to get all the necessary specs from the manufacturers?
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Be well,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: abolen@linex.com (Andre Bolen)
Subject: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Message-ID: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com>
Sender: news@linex1.linex.com
Organization: LineX Communications (415) 455-1650
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 01:57:19 GMT
Hi all--
I've got a shell account on a NeXT server running NetInfo and was
wondering how to go about permanantly changing my login shell without going
and asking the sysadmin to do it. It just seems like something I should be
able to do myself.
Thanks for the reply (in advance)...
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 22 Apr 1996 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4lf14e$mva@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
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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
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
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answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being.
NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests.
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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.
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(ignoring capitalization)
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three files:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
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address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
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If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
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server at URL http://www.next.com.
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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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: What to do if no more ppd support ? (Re: Are there specific net sites for printer definition files? (+))
In-Reply-To: reichman@usc.edu's message of 22 Apr 1996 02:17:39 GMT
Message-ID: <u41g29wanxp.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu> <u41lojqgjth.fsf@world.std.com>
<4leq83$f20@usc.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 04:21:38 GMT
I don't know about HP but Lexmark ships up-to-date PPDs with their
PostScript printers.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Dominik Moser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Time-outs on Apache Web Server
Date: 22 Apr 1996 07:08:22 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <4lfb96$f4f@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <4l7b9v$fop@news.duke.edu>
Organisation: IFOR - Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) wrote:
>I have the Apache Web Server provided by NEXT working on my PC under
> NS3.3/Intel, and I am getting a lot of "send timed out" error
>messages for people trying to download large files from outside of
>the U.S., just because the bandwidth is probably so small. Is there
>a way I can configure my Web server so that it doesn't do the "send
>timed out"s?
Change the following line in httpd.conf:
# Timeout: The number of seconds before receives and sends time out
# n.b. the compiled default is 1200 (20 minutes !)
Timeout 400
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dominik Moser Phone: +41 1 632 4019
Institute for Operations Research Fax: +41 1 632 1025
Dept. of Mathematics
ETH Zentrum, CLV A4 E-mail: moser@ifor.math.ethz.ch
CH - 8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
From: Dominik Moser
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I upgraded to Apache 1.0.5 AND now I can't start htppd up anymore!
Date: 22 Apr 1996 07:23:07 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <4lfc4r$f4f@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <4lejng$bh0@usc.edu>
Organisation: IFOR - Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
>I upgraded to Apache 1.0.5 AND now I can't start htppd up anymore!
>...
>/NextLibrary/WebServer/httpd -d /NextLibrary/WebServer > /dev/console
>Syntax error on line 64 of /NextLibrary/WebServer/conf/httpd.conf:
>Invalid command LoadModule
>Line 64 is first line of all the madules to be loaded.
From the Apache online documentation:
Module mod_dld
This module is contained in the mod_dld.c file, and is not compiled in by default. It provides for loading of
executable code and modules into the server at start-up time, using the GNU dld library.
LoadModule
Syntax: LoadModule module filename
Context: server config
Status: Experimental
Module: mod_dld
The LoadModule directive links in the object file or library filename and adds the module structure named
module to the list of active modules. Module is the name of the external variable of type module in the file.
Example:
LoadModule ai_backcompat_module modules/mod_ai_backcompat.o
LoadFile /lib/libc.a
loads the module in the modules subdirectory of the ServerRoot.
You don't need the LoadModule directive to load the standard modules - they are "loaded" at link
time. Remove all lines in the LoadModule section an restart httpd. This will help until you want
to load some "fancy" modules.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Dominik Moser Phone: +41 1 632 4019
Institute for Operations Research Fax: +41 1 632 1025
Dept. of Mathematics
ETH Zentrum, CLV A4 E-mail: moser@ifor.math.ethz.ch
CH - 8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Apache 1.0.5 runs from /etc/local/httpd/ but now WO can't find its files!
Date: 22 Apr 1996 09:39:35 GMT
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-39.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4lfk4n$l1t@usc.edu>
References: <4lejng$bh0@usc.edu> <4lfc4r$f4f@elna.ethz.ch>
In <4lfc4r$f4f@elna.ethz.ch> Dominik Moser wrote:
[snip all great info]
Thanks very much!
I think there's a mailing list for webobjects questions but I don't know it
and here's my question:
I've now got Apache 1.0.5 running, and it seemed from the samples that one
would be able to move all the webserver files to someplace maybe more
appropriate (say /etc/local/httpd/). Which I did. So now, apache's up and
running but when I get into the WebObjects examples they don't find the right
files. So my question is, should I move everything back to
/NextLibrary/WebServer/ or is there a way to write in to WO something that
will let it access the proper directories (which I gather has something to do
with where apache is.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
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From: Christian.Colin@emn.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I install new font ?
Date: 22 Apr 1996 10:18:48 GMT
Organization: Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Message-ID: <4lfme8$quq@wfn.emn.fr>
Hi,
I work on a Sun sparc 5 with Nextstep 3.3. I load fonts on the net. I try to
install them but without success. How can I install them ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Christian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com>
Message-ID: <9604221717.AA01990@huelf.hamburg.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2)
From: Stefan Huelf <stefan@huelf.hamburg.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 96 18:17:43 +0100
Subject: Q: BLACK HARDWARE ACCELERATION
Cc: matthias.3@osu.edu
On the 21st of April "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> wrote:
> I have read about the Pyro which is intended to accelerate a 25Mhz
> black machine to 50 Mhz by way of an overclocked 40 Mhz 68040
running as
> a clock doubler. It just plugs into the '040 socket on the
motherboard.
> BUT it costs about $800. So, there is NO way I am going to afford one.
> My question is this: there is a similar board available
for Macintosh
> that is Produced by Sonnet Technologies. They also make one for the
> Amiga. This board costs $350. So, what I am wondering is whether
> anyone knows if this board works with black hardware. It does exactly
> the same thing as Pyro, only it costs less than half as much, and
> doesn't look really any different. It, too plugs into the '040 socket.
> If anyone knows anything about this I would really appreciate any info.
> Also, anyone who knows anything about NeXT hardware from an electrical
> engineering standpoint would be nice. Thanks
>
> Karl
>
Well, this is a though one!
NeXT Hardware's life extension is only possible through 3 things
1. Keeping Software up-to-date
2. Being able to switch to newer Printers / Monitors (when they fail)
3. CPU-Speedup
IMHO the 3rd is the thoughest one.
Either one gets to manage to buy a Nitro, or buy a Pyro.
The man behind the Pyro, f.e. had to face a lot of inconsistencies
making a Acceleration-board work with the NeXT.
So the price tag is a measurement for the amount of that mans work
frozen into that particular product.
You might have too much time, or too much money (to make that other
Acc. work on the NeXT) .....
I guess you will need both to do so ;-)
Claiming your resources on that project, maybe you should tackle
the 060-acc.;-)
But you are right in one thing:
REAL Computing IS black!
Have fun
---
Thanx, Later +
Greetings from
.. Stefan .. 8^)
Life spans many different colors, but ---- REAL Computing is black!
*** So: Vote for OPENSTEP 4.1 for 68K ***
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=
Stefan Huelf
voice + 49 - 40 - 40 43 64
New e-mail adress is : stefan@huelf.hamburg.com
( NeXTmail favorized / MIME o.k.! )
Do not use: stefan@a-gain.hanse.de (It is gone!)
Exceeding the netiquette - 4 - line - footer rule
for quite a while now!
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=
From: bkeller@galaxy.galstar.com (Martha Keller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: need help with standalone mail
Date: 22 Apr 1996 16:55:11 GMT
Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
Message-ID: <4lgdlf$2uj@mercury.galstar.com>
Help! I have 3.3 running on intel. I am hooked up through the net via
PPP2.2. I can recieve mail with PopOver.app. But when I try to send
anything, Mail.app hangs on exit, and nothing gets sent. I'm not sure if
the problem is with sendmail or the way that I have my network (of one)
setup. As a curious side-note, I haven't been able to get any news apps
to post news, in much the same manner as mail. I can read news just
fine, but can't post any. This leads me to think that its a network
problem instead of sendmail. If anyone is using a standalone set, I
would be very interested in seeing how you set up your network.
Thank you thank you thank you
Bill
bkeller@galstar.com
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Apache 1.0.5 runs from /etc/local/httpd/ but now WO can't find its files!
Date: 22 Apr 1996 19:55:58 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4lgo8e$1rm@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4lejng$bh0@usc.edu> <4lfc4r$f4f@elna.ethz.ch>
<4lfk4n$l1t@usc.edu>
In <4lfk4n$l1t@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> In <4lfc4r$f4f@elna.ethz.ch> Dominik Moser wrote:
> I think there's a mailing list for webobjects questions but I don't know it
> and here's my question:
webobjects@omnigroup.com But I think your questions are not related. (More
below)
> I've now got Apache 1.0.5 running, and it seemed from the samples that one
> would be able to move all the webserver files to someplace maybe more
> appropriate (say /etc/local/httpd/). Which I did. So now, apache's up and
> running but when I get into the WebObjects examples they don't find the
right
> files. So my question is, should I move everything back to
> /NextLibrary/WebServer/ or is there a way to write in to WO something that
> will let it access the proper directories (which I gather has something to
do
> with where apache is.
>
>
Make sure your aliases point to the correct place in the *.conf files.
Personally I leave all of my docs in /NextLibrary/WebServer/htdocs and then
link that to /htdocs so I don't have to traverse the entire file system to
replace HTML docs. The reason I run the web server, Apache 1.0.5, there is
so I can easily upgrade/install new WebObjects packages. It also looks a
little "cleaner".
Look for Apache 1.1 soon. I'll compile it Quad when it comes out. Many cool,
new features.
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, SUN, and ASCII --- PGP Key available via finger and home page.
GCM d- s:- a-- C++ UX++++ P+ L+ E---- W+++ N+++ K- w-- !O M V-- PS+ PE- Y+
PGP+ t+ 5++ X+ !R tv- b+ DI++ D++ G e++ h* r++ y+
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: color laser printer for nextstep
Date: 22 Apr 1996 19:51:22 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu>
What would be a reasonably prized color laster system (~600 dpi) that could
be used on a intel workstation running Nextstep. What drivers would be
needed to run this, if any?
Thanks for any info...
HP
--
Hanspeter Schaub
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub
schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY!
-Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:47:28 -0500
Organization: University of New Orleans
Message-ID: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: aharriso@math.uno.edu
I am trying to incorporate NIS password files into our NeXT environment.
So far I have performed the following steps on the NeXT machine
1. Using NetManager I entered the domainname of our NIS server
2. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/passwd file
3. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/group file
4. Included the name and IP address of the NIS server in the /etc/hosts
file.
After rebooting the NeXT machine the ROM monitor window disappears but
no login window appears.
If I manually crank-up up NIS by starting ypbind and setting the
domainname then I can use things like ypcat and ypwhich but still can't
log in. I get the impression that the + in the /etc/passwd file is not
being seen but don't know how to fix this. If anyone can help then I'd
be most appreciative.
Thanks in advance
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
From: john@getafix.demon.co.uk (John Shirlaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP JetDirect units and Bootp
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 21:35:37 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <830208937.26662@getafix.demon.co.uk>
Keywords: JetDirect Bootp
Hi,
Two Questions...
1) has anyone configured a Next (Black) system to work with a HP JetDirect
unit (EX in this case), and if so any suggetions on how to do this...where to
find info on how to do this etc.
2) Does the NextStep run the bootpd daemon on startup automatically or do I
have to go into Netinfo and configure it to do so?
Thanks in advance for any help...I would prefer responses via email if
posible.
Regards
John Shirlaw
(john@getafix.demon.co.uk)
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LDAP server ?
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:46:15 -0600
Organization: DigiSys Incorporated
Message-ID: <317C0C37.6906@digisys.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
Has anyone compiled U. Mich's LDAP distribution under NS3.3 ?? (slapd, slarpd, etc..) I would love to hear
from you if you have!!
--
James Pooton
<james@digisys.net>
DigiSys Incorporated
From: nick@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sound works fine except from audio CDs
Date: 23 Apr 1996 00:23:35 GMT
Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <4lh7u7$q3g@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960419171810.6514C-100000@elaine48.Stanford.EDU> <317B0777.2841@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
In <317B0777.2841@bgnet.bgsu.edu> Douglas Slotta wrote:
> Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote:
> >
> > I am running NS 3.3 on a P100. My motherboard has the Vibra 16 built-in.
> > I can get normal system sounds through my speakers and some applications,
> > but when audio-CD's run I can only get sound through headphones. If
> > anyone knows a fix I'd appreciate it. Post to the newsgroup and/or email
> > to:
> >
> > rjacobs@stokes.stanford.edu
>
> This sounds like a hardware problem. You need a sound cable to run from
> the back of your CD-ROM to your soundcard, or in your case, from the CD
> to the motherboard.
>
> Douglas Slotta
> slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu
>
check out www.omnigroup.com or FAQ's.....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: color laser printer for nextstep
In-Reply-To: schaub@tamu.edu's message of 22 Apr 1996 19:51:22 GMT
Message-ID: <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:16:50 GMT
You have three options: Lexmark Optra C, HP Color LaserJet 5, and the
Tektronix Phaser 550. The Phaser is probably the best, followed by Lexmark
and then HP. However, I haven't carefully looked at these so check the
magazine reviews.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: vbragin@uranus.calstatela.edu (Victoria Bragin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk quotas
Date: 23 Apr 1996 01:26:14 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4lhbjm$bua@nuke.csu.net>
Is it still not possible to set disk quotas for users in NEXTSTEP?
If it is possible, will you kindly direct me as to how this is done?
Thanks.
Vicki Bragin
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SAMBA/NEXTSTEP: correcting twice for daylight savings time
Date: 22 Apr 1996 22:12:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Message-ID: <4lh084$dc4@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
[Samba-1.9.15p8, NEXTSTEP 3.3/m68k]
Samba seems to be correcting twice for daylight savings time. My
configuration sets timediff (in TimeInit, util.c) using the tm_gmtoff field of
the tm struct which on my system already corrects for DST (it gives the
difference between PDT and GMT, not PST and GMT). The TimeDiff function then
corrects a second time when it returns timediff-DSTDiff(t).
My fix (util.c, line 422):
#ifdef NEXT3_0
/* timediff is the offset of local STANDARD time, not DAYLIGHT time */
timediff = -tm_local.tm_gmtoff;
if( tm_local.tm_isdst ){
timediff += 60*60; /* set back to STANDARD time */
}
#elif HAVE_GMTOFF
timediff = -tm_local.tm_gmtoff;
#else
timediff = mktime(&tm_utc) - mktime(&tm_local);
#endif
I dunno how gmtoff works on other systems, but the isdst check may want to be
moved inside the HAVE_GMTOFF bit.
Another minor change (for logging, mainly): NeXT's strftime does not have %D
and %T. Use asctime instead. Fix: add -DNO_STRFTIME in Makefile or #define
NO_STRFTIME in includes.h
--
Chris Roehrig (croehrig@House.ORG or croehrig@sns.cs.ubc.ca)
Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
In-Reply-To: Adam Harrison's message of Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:47:28 -0500
Message-ID: <u41pw8zsi0b.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:04:36 GMT
You needed to add "+:" to the /etc/{passwd,group} files not just "+". Also,
verify that YPDOMAIN is set correctly in /etc/hostconfig.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu> writes:
From: Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
CC: aharriso@math.uno.edu
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 16:47:28 -0500
Organization: University of New Orleans
I am trying to incorporate NIS password files into our NeXT environment.
So far I have performed the following steps on the NeXT machine
1. Using NetManager I entered the domainname of our NIS server
2. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/passwd file
3. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/group file
4. Included the name and IP address of the NIS server in the /etc/hosts
file.
After rebooting the NeXT machine the ROM monitor window disappears but
no login window appears.
If I manually crank-up up NIS by starting ypbind and setting the
domainname then I can use things like ypcat and ypwhich but still can't
log in. I get the impression that the + in the /etc/passwd file is not
being seen but don't know how to fix this. If anyone can help then I'd
be most appreciative.
Thanks in advance
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: How can I install new font ?
In-Reply-To: Christian.Colin@emn.fr's message of 22 Apr 1996 10:18:48 GMT
Message-ID: <u41iversgsl.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <4lfme8$quq@wfn.emn.fr>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 04:30:50 GMT
You need to install them in /LocalLibrary/Fonts using the same format that
/NextLibrary/Fonts uses. i.e. .font folders, AFM file in afm directory,
etc... You then need to run buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts. If it's
only for your account, you can install them in ~/Library/Fonts.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to install fax modem
Date: 22 Apr 1996 22:59:29 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <sams.830238489@shellx>
I have a generic modem on my intel machine and it
sends faxes from windows fine. I decided to try
to fax from NextStep on the slim chance that it
conforms enough to some standard to work.
However, I don't have any modem types to choose
from in software. I went back to the 3.3 cd-rom
but don't see any obvious packages I failed to
install.
How do I get NS to show me types of fax modems
that I can select amongst? What have I missed?
Oh yes, almost forgot. It's quite possible that I did
not choose to install fax stuff on my initial install.
If so, where does the required stuff come from and go to?
thanx all!
-sam
ps For now I am only interested in sending faxes out.
From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <sams.830238489@shellx>
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Date: 22 Apr 1996 23:31:29 -0700
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From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Good inexpensive faxmodems for nextstep?
Date: 22 Apr 1996 23:41:32 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <sams.830241180@shellx>
I tried to get my generic 14.4 faxmodem to send faxes
from nextstep/intel but it doesn't work with either the
HSD or Interfax choices. Is there a list of inexpensive
28.8 modems that work with nextstep/intel's fax capability?
I prefer external but internal is ok.
Personal experiences or pointers to a FAQ are welcomed.
cheers,
-sam
ps my current modem works fine for nextstep PPP and
sending faxes from windows so my problem seems to be
that it is unsupported or misconfigured for NS faxing.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What to do if no more ppd support ? (Re: Are there specific net sites for printer definition files? (+))
Date: 22 Apr 1996 19:43:30 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4lgnh3$aa1@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4lc7f0$47a@usc.edu> <u41lojqgjth.fsf@world.std.com> <4leq83$f20@usc.edu>
reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
> Regarding what Paul Lynch followed up with:
>
> > However, I have noticed that the trend seems to be now for
> > suppliers not to release PPDs for new printers. Hence there
> > aren't any specific PPDs for HP LaserJet 5, at least not that
> > I can find. HP just provide "driver software packages" for
> > Windows and Mac, which do not include a PPD.
>
>
> Then how will non-mac or windows users be able to support newer
> printers? Is it still possible to get all the necessary specs
> from the manufacturers?
More to the point, how will Mac users get support for the
printers. LaserWriter 8 requires a PPD file, unless something
weird happened with the LaserWriter 8 that comes on Update 2.0
to system 7.5.
Not only that, but Adobe sells drivers for the Windows platforms,
and they also work off PPD files.
And to make things complete, the Adobe sells transcript for the
Unix world, and that package requires PPD files.
My guess is that for some printers you will have to find (say) a
Mac, and do the installation of the Mac drivers. Then go into
the right folder (System Folder:Extensions:Printer Descriptions)
to find the PPD file that it installed. That's what I did for
our new HP Design Jet 755CM Plotter (which is a very nice device,
btw..). I'm not convinced that the PPD file it has is completely
*correct*, but it is there.
I very much doubt that PPD files will be disappearing, although
it does seem to be that they aren't being made as readily
available as they once were.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: color laser printer for nextstep
Date: 23 Apr 1996 10:02:47 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4li9s7$lbo@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu> <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com>
In <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> You have three options: Lexmark Optra C, HP Color LaserJet 5, and the
> Tektronix Phaser 550. The Phaser is probably the best, followed by Lexmark
> and then HP. However, I haven't carefully looked at these so check the
> magazine reviews.
I've used the Phaser (and earlier models), and it is a really excellent
printer; I don't have experience of the others. The price is about $6,000+.
Paul
--
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: david@pfi.ibk.baum.ethz.ch (David C. EKCHIAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: 23 Apr 1996 12:45:09 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <4lijcl$qel@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu>
In <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> Adam Harrison wrote:
> I am trying to incorporate NIS password files into our NeXT environment.
> So far I have performed the following steps on the NeXT machine
> 1. Using NetManager I entered the domainname of our NIS server
> 2. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/passwd file
I followed the NeXT Answers and it works fine. But I added
"+::0:0:::" to the passwd file and "+:" to the group file.
I hope this helps,
David.
--
o
_ /-;c
___ David C. EKCHIAN ______________________________________(@)#\(@)___
From: aharriso@satchmo.math.uno.edu (Adam J. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using NIS from a NeXT
Date: 23 Apr 1996 13:27:32 GMT
Organization: University of New Orleans
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lils4$73g@www.uno.edu>
Keywords: NIS, NeXT, yp
I have been trying to incorporate our NIS database into our NeXT machines.
So far I have performed the following tasks on the NeXT machine
1. Appended a + to the end of /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
2. Added the NIS host to /etc/hosts
3. Using NetManager I set the NIS domain
The NeXT seems to reboot fine but after the ROM monitor window disappears
no login window appears. If I fire up ypbind by hand and set the
domainname then things like ypcat work fine but I still can't log into
accounts held in the NIS database. I suspect that the + signs are not
being recongnized but don't understand why. If you have any advice I'd be
most greatful.
Thanks in advance.
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
From: Richard Englebert <rengle@bme.ri.ccf.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su access priviliges
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:15:04 -0400
Organization: Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Message-ID: <317D5668.41C6@bme.ri.ccf.org>
References: <4le2g2$e2@gypsy.iisys.com>
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To: dguthrie@iisys.com
dguthrie@iisys.com wrote:
>
> What file(s) do I need to modify to allow other users to execute and issue the 'su' command.
>
> I've been looking through the documentation and can't find this info.
>
> Please email replies.
>
> Don Guthrie
> dguthrie@iisys.com
In the /NextAdmin/UserMangager tool specify that the use be included in
the group wheel
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Beeper: (216)-464-8410 (25182)
Home: (216)-892-0940
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From: Richard Englebert <rengle@bme.ri.ccf.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 18:17:37 -0400
Organization: Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Message-ID: <317D5701.167E@bme.ri.ccf.org>
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu>
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To: Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu>
Adam Harrison wrote:
>
> I am trying to incorporate NIS password files into our NeXT environment.
> So far I have performed the following steps on the NeXT machine
>
> 1. Using NetManager I entered the domainname of our NIS server
>
> 2. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/passwd file
>
> 3. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/group file
>
While this may be correctm try appending the following to the end of the
two files passwd and group
+:
the semicolon could make a difference
Richard J. Englebert Voice: (216)-445-3411
Beeper: (216)-464-8410 (25182)
Home: (216)-892-0940
http://www.ccf.org/ri/bme/people/rengle email: rengle@bme.ri.ccf.org
From: Markus Pilzecker <markus.pilzecker@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: installing custom printer filters [ghostscript] via netinfo?
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:49:31 +0000
Organization: GNI -- Internet fuer Odenwald, Rhein-Neckar, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Heilbronn und Pfaffenhofen
Message-ID: <317D6C8B.1E3BCEE3@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I just compiled aladdin ghostscript under NSI and it works really fine,
except that I am not [yet] able to integrate it as printer filter
into netinfo. It looks as if it should be possible to do it
in an analogous way to the existing filters.
Any advice to run 'lpr' in an 1:1 mode would help for the meantime.
Is there anybody out there, who knows a solution?
Thanks, Markus
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From: richard@seuss.math.wright.edu (Richard Mercer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DAT 4mm drives
Date: 23 Apr 1996 18:42:59 GMT
Organization: Wright State University
Message-ID: <4lj8bj$mv6@mercury.wright.edu>
References: <4l8c2j$erk@mercury.wright.edu> <1996Apr20.172703.14282@ares.fdn.org>
> If anyone is successfully using a SCSI 4mm DAT drive for backup via
> dump/restore under NS3.x,
> please contact me at richard@seuss.math.wright.edu.
>
> My experience with both an old drive and a brand new one is generally
> that you can dump, but you can't restore, getting tape i/o errors. I have
in
> pthe ast on rare occasions restored successfully, but recently I get 100%
> failure. I believe it has something to do with fixed block size.
>
> I use
> dump 0unfs /dev/rst0 120000 /
To follow up on my original posting, thanks to all who responded, you were a
great help.
I have it working now, but there is still something unresolved.
First to clarify, I am not using Intel hardware but original NeXTstation
(color turbo).
I am using a consumer-grade Sony DAT mechanism marketed by APS.
The solution was to use
restore ibf 10 /dev/rst0
to restore rather than just
restore if /dev/rst0
I had of course noticed the b option in the man page but had no idea what
value to use.
The strange thing is that someone suggested using 1200000 for the tape size
parameter.
I tried that first, and it works too! BOTH 120000 and 1200000 work, and can
be recovered from
with the same restore command!
My question is: isn't 1200000 writing the data onto the tape at a density of
10 times that of 120000? If so,
both of them can't possibly be the right thing to do. Which is it really?!?
Using 120000 causes dump to report tape usage that corresponds to reality,
but since we are lying to dump in saying the tape is that long, there's no
good reason to trust what it tells us.
Richard Mercer
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon Michel von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help with standalone mail
Date: 24 Apr 1996 01:34:01 GMT
Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc.
Message-ID: <4lk0e9$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net>
References: <4lgdlf$2uj@mercury.galstar.com>
In <4lgdlf$2uj@mercury.galstar.com> Martha Keller wrote:
> Help! I have 3.3 running on intel. I am hooked up through the net via
> PPP2.2. I can recieve mail with PopOver.app. But when I try to send
> anything, Mail.app hangs on exit, and nothing gets sent. I'm not sure if
Hangs on exiting what?
> the problem is with sendmail or the way that I have my network (of one)
> setup. As a curious side-note, I haven't been able to get any news apps
> to post news, in much the same manner as mail. I can read news just
> fine, but can't post any. This leads me to think that its a network
Exactly what happens when you try to post?
> problem instead of sendmail. If anyone is using a standalone set, I
> would be very interested in seeing how you set up your network.
One thing to check is to make sure that you have a modem cable capable of
handling hardware flow control. (Sometimes this is referred to as a
"high-speed" modem cable.) Check to see that RTS/CTS flow control is set
in /etc/ppp/options (with crtscts). And check which device you're using in
your chat.script. (It should be /dev/cufa or /dev/cufb.)
____________________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com>
Zilker Internet Park, System Admin <leonvs@zilker.net>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon Michel von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: 24 Apr 1996 01:38:18 GMT
Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc.
Message-ID: <4lk0ma$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com>
In <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> Andre Bolen wrote:
> I've got a shell account on a NeXT server running NetInfo and was
> wondering how to go about permanantly changing my login shell without going
> and asking the sysadmin to do it. It just seems like something I should be
> able to do myself.
Try using "chsh", or "passwd -s username" if that's not available.
____________________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com>
Zilker Internet Park, System Admin <leonvs@zilker.net>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Good inexpensive faxmodems for nextstep?
In-Reply-To: sams@shellx.best.com's message of 22 Apr 1996 23:41:32 -0700
Message-ID: <u41d94ydya5.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <sams.830241180@shellx>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:46:42 GMT
If $289 is in your price range, I wholeheartedly recommend the new
Supra Sonic 288V+ faxmodem (http://www.supra.com) It is truly a superb
faxmodem that works great for data (high speed), fax (NXFax) and voice.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
In-Reply-To: leonvs@occam.com's message of 24 Apr 1996 01:38:18 GMT
Message-ID: <u41bukidy69.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <4lk0ma$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:49:02 GMT
Unfortunately, neither of those are available under NEXTSTEP. He'll need
to use UserManager.app to change it.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
In article <4lk0ma$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net> leonvs@occam.com (Leon Michel von Stauber) writes:
Try using "chsh", or "passwd -s username" if that's not available.
From: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Date: 24 Apr 1996 05:07:10 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4lkctu$qge@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com>
m@ml.com (M Carling) writes:
>chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
>>In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link
>directly
>>to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50 (or
>>thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
>I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has regretted
>it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
We use Ascend Pipeline 50's in our campus ISDN-at-home service and
are very happy with them. The only problem we have encountered is
that the internal NT1's tend to blow out. We have stopped buying
Pipeline 50's with internal NT1's - we now buy Northern Telecom
external NT1's and plug them in before the Pipeline. I have had the
service for about 2 years and mine has never blown out, so I still
have an internal NT1. We use the 128K 2B capability and it seems to
work fine. We have a Pipeline MAX HX on the head end with several
PRI's. I believe we have around 60-80 customers with Pipeline 50's.
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help with standalone mail
Date: 24 Apr 1996 06:19:03 GMT
Organization: No organisation supplied
Message-ID: <4lkh4n$5eb@hermes.is.co.za>
References: <4lgdlf$2uj@mercury.galstar.com>
In-Reply-To: <4lgdlf$2uj@mercury.galstar.com>
On 04/22/96, Martha Keller wrote:
>Help! I have 3.3 running on intel. I am hooked up through the net
via
>PPP2.2. I can recieve mail with PopOver.app. But when I try to send
>anything, Mail.app hangs on exit, and nothing gets sent. I'm not
sure if
>the problem is with sendmail or the way that I have my network (of
one)
>setup. As a curious side-note, I haven't been able to get any news
apps
>to post news, in much the same manner as mail. I can read news just
>fine, but can't post any. This leads me to think that its a network
>problem instead of sendmail. If anyone is using a standalone set, I
>would be very interested in seeing how you set up your network.
>
>Thank you thank you thank you
>
>Bill
>bkeller@galstar.com
>
I have been using this type of configuration for quite a while. The
first thing you need to do is to changge the "Reply to" entry in
Mail.app's preferences to your mail address. This is so that people
can reply to your messages to the right address.
The second thing you need to do is modify your sendmail.cf file. It is
located in your /etc/sendmail direcatory. I made a copy of
sendmail.mailhost.cf and called it sendmail.custom.cf. I then linked
the sendmail.cf file to this new file. I made the following changes to
this new file of mine:
# major relay host
DRmail.icon.co.za
CRmail.icon.co.za
The mail.icon.co.za is my mail host.
The reason you need to do this is so that sendmail knows where to send
outgoing messages.
Hope this helps
--
Regards,
Gerrit van Dyk
email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome)
E.S. Systems cc
The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: installing custom printer filters [ghostscript] via netinfo?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Date: 24 Apr 1996 12:52:23 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4ll867$qui@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <317D6C8B.1E3BCEE3@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
Markus Pilzecker (markus.pilzecker@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de) wrote:
: I just compiled aladdin ghostscript under NSI and it works really fine,
: except that I am not [yet] able to integrate it as printer filter
: into netinfo. It looks as if it should be possible to do it
: in an analogous way to the existing filters.
Hallo,
Ich poste das hier auf deutsch, da die Gruppe mit de. beginnt:
Ich wuerde empfehlen,
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/printer/ghostHPDJ.0.2.I.bs.tar.gz
zu ziehen und in die RTF-Files reinzusehen.
--
==========================================================================
Winfried Bergmann |
Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper
i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page
bergmann@rz-ppp-12.fh-wuerzburg.de|
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't locate parent domain?
Date: 24 Apr 1996 12:53:54 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ll892$91e@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I had a SCSI problem the other day and lost everything in /etc. Did not have a
recent backup of /etc/netinfo so am rebuilding it. The system is still a bit
crippled (lost the drive will all the users on it, but it was recently backed
up 8-), so I'm have to proceed somewhat slowly.
I copied the /etc directory from the CDROM with 3.2 on it. I've edited the
hostconfig back to what it was, resolv.conf, services, inetd.conf, and a few
others while in single user mode. In my /etc/hostconfig I specify that the
machine is the NETMASTER=-YES-
When I boot up, I get the message that it's looking for the parent domain and
can't find it.. Continue 'c' ? I hit 'c' , of course and we continue. I
keep getting the message Can't locate parent domain on the console.
I've tried creating a new domain in netinfo that is the parent domain of this
computer, but I still keep getting the message.
Bottom line,
This is the head honcho, the chief banana, the netinfo master for a room full
of next machines. I want it to be the one THEY look to for comfort, etc. I
don't want it looking ANYWHERE for someone else. What is the simplese way to
obtain this? If I try SimpleNetworkStartup(?), it complains about disk space,
memory, ad nauseum and then quits.
My /etc/hostconfig is correct already. My files to export to others is correct
and I can load into netinfo later. If I duplicate the /etc/netinfo/local.nidb
and rename it /etc/netinfo/network.nidb, then edit it within netinfo, what do I
have to change to get it (network.nidb) to be the root (/) level domain, and to
get the local.nidb to be the machine level domain under it?
thanks,
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sound works fine except from audio CDs
Date: 24 Apr 1996 13:13:06 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4ll9d2$ga6@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960419171810.6514C-100000@elaine48.Stanford.EDU> <317B0777.2841@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Douglas Slotta (slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu) wrote:
: Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote:
: This sounds like a hardware problem. You need a sound cable to run from
: the back of your CD-ROM to your soundcard, or in your case, from the CD
: to the motherboard.
You could also try
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/cdrom1/CD_evil*
if you have a toshiba or nec cdrom drive. It can read the audio cd and play it
through the soundkit.
: Douglas Slotta
: slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu
--
==========================================================================
Winfried Bergmann |
Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper
i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page
bergmann@rz-ppp-12.fh-wuerzburg.de|
From: rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: 23 Apr 1996 18:39:25 GMT
Organization: Corporation for National Research Initiatives
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <RMASSE.96Apr23143925@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us>
Appologies if this is a second post, but our upsteam propagation was broken for awhile...
NextAnswers says that the 8 MG Matrox cards will not be supported until Q3 96 when they
release support for dual displays... Anyone know of a driver that will work with a single
8 MG card?
Regards,
Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
--
Regards,
Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
From: ivo.welch@agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: DAT 4mm drives
Date: 24 Apr 1996 17:07:55 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4lln5b$onh@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <4l8c2j$erk@mercury.wright.edu> <1996Apr20.172703.14282@ares.fdn.org> <4lj8bj$mv6@mercury.wright.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4lj8bj$mv6@mercury.wright.edu>
> dump 0unfs /dev/rst0 120000 /
1200000 is not the density, but the number of blocks on a tape. If you
specify too many, you will get write errors at the end. It is your task to
make sure that you specify a low enough number to fit enough onto a tape.
Now, this is a real problem when writing to a compressing tape drive,
because one cannot figure out how many blocks fit onto the tape. So, what
I do is to use a very large number, and hope that it does not run over (and
it usually does not on my 2GB partitions).
Good luck.
/ivo welch
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:02:23 -0500
Organization: University of New Orleans
Message-ID: <317E7ABF.67DB@math.uno.edu>
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> <317D5701.167E@bme.ri.ccf.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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To: Richard Englebert <rengle@bme.ri.ccf.org>
Richard Englebert wrote:
>
> Adam Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to incorporate NIS password files into our NeXT environment.
> > So far I have performed the following steps on the NeXT machine
> >
> > 1. Using NetManager I entered the domainname of our NIS server
> >
> > 2. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/passwd file
> >
> > 3. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/group file
> >
>
> While this may be correctm try appending the following to the end of the
> two files passwd and group
>
> +:
>
> the semicolon could make a difference
>
Thanks for your response but things still don't seem to work. I tried
adding +: to each of /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I even tried adding
+::0:0::: to no avail. Also I tried removing the + entries from these
files and leaving the YPDOMAIN=math.uno.edu in the /etc/hostconfig file
but still, after the ROM monitor window disappears, no login window
appears.
Do you have any other clues to help me?
Thanks again
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Subject: Multiple ip-addresses on interface en0 on NS 3.3 on black HW?
Message-ID: <DqDtBw.80@RnA.NL>
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Organization: R&A
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:40:43 GMT
I'd like to have my interface en0 configured for 2 IP-addresses. I recall
having seen a discussion on this a short while ago. can somebody repost the
answer?
--
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: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: need help with standalone mail
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:21:19 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <317E8D3F.77A@mpr.ca>
References: <4lgdlf$2uj@mercury.galstar.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Martha Keller wrote:
>
> Help! I have 3.3 running on intel. I am hooked up through the net via
> PPP2.2. I can recieve mail with PopOver.app. But when I try to send
> anything, Mail.app hangs on exit, and nothing gets sent. I'm not sure if
> the problem is with sendmail or the way that I have my network (of one)
> setup. As a curious side-note, I haven't been able to get any news apps
> to post news, in much the same manner as mail. I can read news just
> fine, but can't post any. This leads me to think that its a network
> problem instead of sendmail. If anyone is using a standalone set, I
> would be very interested in seeing how you set up your network.
>
> Thank you thank you thank you
>
> Bill
> bkeller@galstar.com
Did you tell you system what the name of your ISP
mail server is. This is done in netinfo.
You will have to also change you sendmail.cf to
attach your ISP domain name to your email address
so that if people reply to your mail it won't
bounce.
for example if your hostname is myhost then
nextmail would send out on your mail messages that
your email address is username@myhost. with a
change to your sendmail.cf file you can attach
your ISP domain name to your email address so that
it would look like this username@your.isp.com
I don't have these changes infront of me right now
but i can dig them up if you like. Or you could
try looking in the PPP FAQ.
Hope this helps with your Mail problem
Scott
From: "Tony C." <greenboy@ucla.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 19:23:55 -0700
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <317EE23B.5790@ucla.edu>
References: <RMASSE.96Apr23143925@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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To: "Roger E. Masse" <rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us>
A beta driver is out that does support this configuration. Check out
their web site
Roger E. Masse wrote:
>
> Appologies if this is a second post, but our upsteam propagation was broken for awhile...
>
> NextAnswers says that the 8 MG Matrox cards will not be supported until Q3 96 when they
> release support for dual displays... Anyone know of a driver that will work with a single
> 8 MG card?
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
> 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
> Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
> Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
> 1895 Preston White Drive, Suite 100
> Reston, Virginia, USA 22091
> Internet: rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US (MIME/NeXTmail OK)
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't locate parent domain?
Date: 25 Apr 1996 02:27:14 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lmnu2$eb9@paladin.american.edu>
References: <4ll892$91e@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
>
> When I boot up, I get the message that it's looking for the parent domain
and
> can't find it.. Continue 'c' ? I hit 'c' , of course and we continue. I
> keep getting the message Can't locate parent domain on the console.
>
Make sure the netinfo domain has no serves properties looking for a parent.
In other words no domains that say ../ in them. This will cause, as I just
learned today, the problem you have.
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, SUN, and ASCII --- PGP Key available via finger and home page.
From: tm8025a@american.edu (Torrey McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple ip-addresses on interface en0 on NS 3.3 on black HW?
Date: 25 Apr 1996 02:29:09 GMT
Organization: American University, Washington DC
Message-ID: <4lmo1l$eb9@paladin.american.edu>
References: <DqDtBw.80@RnA.NL>
In <DqDtBw.80@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote:
> I'd like to have my interface en0 configured for 2 IP-addresses. I recall
> having seen a discussion on this a short while ago. can somebody repost the
> answer?
>
>
You need to get the Loadable Kernal Module from the PPP distribution. Then
you can configure more then one IP address for a NS3.3 machine. I know there
are instructions for just the effect you want somewhere but I can't remember
where.
--
Torrey McMahon
American University School of Communication
System Administrator, WebMaster, Security Consultant
NeXT, MIME, SUN, and ASCII --- PGP Key available via finger and home page.
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ***HELP: NeXTstation not booting**
Date: 25 Apr 1996 02:15:32 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4lmn84$i2b@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Howdy,
I made a mistake deleting a user, who was assigned root as home directory.
I figured out what I was doing before it could kill too much but I guess
it was enough. Now when it tries booting, at the init step it says "cannot
load file" and error 83 (corrupted binary). I can boot from a CD-ROM and
mount the HDD and I only found one file missing (odmach). I restored that
but the error is still there. I cannot see any other file missing. I guess
something from the Netinfo is missing but I can't find a way to restore it.
Can anybody help me out? Thanks!
Kamen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
In-Reply-To: Adam Harrison's message of Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:02:23 -0500
Message-ID: <u41pw8xngh9.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> <317D5701.167E@bme.ri.ccf.org>
<317E7ABF.67DB@math.uno.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 03:13:22 GMT
You need BOTH. You need to add the +: to the flat files AND set the
YPDOMAIN in /etc/hostconfig.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Vivien <vivilim@frmail.frco.com>
Subject: Multi OS boot up
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <1996Apr25.032658.15785@rosevax.rosemount.com>
To: henkbal@frmail.frco.com
Sender: news@rosevax.rosemount.com (Rosevax USENET News auto-admin account)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: Fisher-Rosemount, Rosemount Inc.
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 03:26:58 GMT
I had installed both Windows 3.11 and Window 95 on my PC. May install
OS/2 as well in future. I understand that there is software from
NextStep that enables multi boot. Can somebody tell me what is
the name of the software, its cost and where I can purchase a copy.
Please send your reply to vivilim@frmail.frco.com
Thank you.
Vivien
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: scott@ee.ucla.edu (Ryan Scott)
Subject: NS 3.3 Install error on Intel (weird)
Sender: news@seas.ucla.edu (News Daemon)
Message-ID: <DqEGpr.Dou@seas.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 04:05:51 GMT
Organization: UCLA Electrical Engineering Dept.
Hi all,
The following error occurs when I try to install NS 3.3 onto my intel system.
I start my computer with the Boot floppy in drive a: and the NS CD in the CDROM drive.
The boot and install program seems to work fine until it requests the Drivers floppy.
When I put the Drivers floppy in it reports this:
Error occurred while linking driver PS2Keyboard:
rld(): PS2Keyboard bad magic number (not a Mach-O file)
. before Instance0.table not a dir
. before Default.table not a dir
. before Default.table not a dir
. before English.lproj not a dir
. before English.lproj not a dir
. before Instance0.table not a dir
. before Default.table not a dir
. before Default.table not a dir
. before English.lproj not a dir
. before English.lproj not a dir
and then the machine hangs.
My hardware is:
Intel Advanced/ZP (Zappa) motherboard (24MB RAM) (PCI, ISA)
BIOS - ver. 1.00.04.BS0
Western Digital EIDE 850MB HD.
Creative Labs MD-4000M 4X ATAPI CDROM
Stealth 64 2MB DRAM
SoundBlaster 16 (IRQ 5)
MAG 15" monitor
I am completely stumped on this one. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
--Ryan
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multi OS boot up
Date: 25 Apr 1996 05:19:35 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4ln217$brj@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <1996Apr25.032658.15785@rosevax.rosemount.com>
Vivien <vivilim@frmail.frco.com> wrote:
: I had installed both Windows 3.11 and Window 95 on my PC. May install
: OS/2 as well in future. I understand that there is software from
: NextStep that enables multi boot. Can somebody tell me what is
: the name of the software, its cost and where I can purchase a copy.
: Please send your reply to vivilim@frmail.frco.com
: Thank you.
: Vivien
NEXTSTEP allows you to install a modified Master Boot Record that will allow you
to choose between as many as 4 bootable partitions. They all have to be on one
disk though.
OS/2 has a "Boot Manager" that boots you from a separate 'boot' partition (2MB
in size). You can have _many_ OSes installed in the Boot Manager -- and you can
select them from a menu.
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies
701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: 25 Apr 1996 05:24:14 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4ln29u$brj@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> <317D5701.167E@bme.ri.ccf.org> <317E7ABF.67DB@math.uno.edu>
Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu> wrote:
: Thanks for your response but things still don't seem to work. I tried
: adding +: to each of /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I even tried adding
: +::0:0::: to no avail. Also I tried removing the + entries from these
: files and leaving the YPDOMAIN=math.uno.edu in the /etc/hostconfig file
: but still, after the ROM monitor window disappears, no login window
: appears.
: Do you have any other clues to help me?
Let's make sure NIS is working... Are you running ypbind? Do you get a
response when you run 'ypwhich' (I should note that running it may require you
to run it twice... the first time you run it, it might say: 'domain <xxx> not
bound'. The second time you run it, it should return the name of your NIS
server (the one you're bound to).).
Next try running 'ypcat passwd'. See if that does anything. You should get a
list of passwords from the NIS server's passwd map. If that works, then the
problem lies with NEXTSTEP. We have had some strange trouble getting NEXTSTEP
to recognize our NIS 'group' map -- so we simply load it into NetInfo.
Try that with your NIS passwd map...
--
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** These are my opinions... Mine! All Mine! Minemineminemineminemine! ***
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robin D. Wilson robin@pswtech.com PSW Technologies
701 Canyon Bend Dr. 9050 Capital of Texas Hwy
Pflugerville, TX 78660 Austin, TX 78759
(512) 251-1737 (512) 343-6666
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: 25 Apr 1996 07:02:50 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ln82q$6t4@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <RMASSE.96Apr23143925@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us>
In article <RMASSE.96Apr23143925@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us>
rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse) writes:
!>
!> Appologies if this is a second post, but our upsteam propagation was broken
!> for awhile...
!>
!> NextAnswers says that the 8 MG Matrox cards will not be supported until Q3
!> 96 when they
!> release support for dual displays... Anyone know of a driver that will work
!> with a single
!> 8 MG card?
BTW. Have someone else problems with the old driver 3.30? My Matrox is often
not proper initialized. Once the task is done everything seems fine. Booting
and displaying under BIOS/DOS never fails! -> It must be the driver under
NS3.3. I am sure it is the initialization process of the driver. (I can measure
200 frames/s by 1600 x 1200... after coming up with the login panel, which I
can't see)
Henry
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: Standalone-Executables
Date: 25 Apr 1996 07:05:07 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ln873$6ta@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Hi!
I have problems producing "executables" which need the share-libs.
How can I make standalone-executables of fsck, dump etc????
I know this is possible because I can retrieve old boot-floppy's with
standalone-executables on it. I found no solution yet. Maybe someone in the net
is able to do.
Any help is very much appreciated.
Please send the reply as email. (email: koplien@tu-harburg.d400.de)
Henry
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:49:21 +0200
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <317F2071.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> <317D5701.167E@bme.ri.ccf.org> <317E7ABF.67DB@math.uno.edu>
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Adam Harrison wrote:
>
> Richard Englebert wrote:
> >
> > Adam Harrison wrote:
> > >
> > > I am trying to incorporate NIS password files into our NeXT environment.
> > > So far I have performed the following steps on the NeXT machine
> > >
> > > 1. Using NetManager I entered the domainname of our NIS server
> > >
> > > 2. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/passwd file
> > >
> > > 3. Appended a + to the end of the /etc/group file
> > >
> >
> > While this may be correctm try appending the following to the end of the
> > two files passwd and group
> >
> > +:
> >
> > the semicolon could make a difference
> >
>
> Thanks for your response but things still don't seem to work. I tried
> adding +: to each of /etc/passwd and /etc/group, I even tried adding
> +::0:0::: to no avail. Also I tried removing the + entries from these
> files and leaving the YPDOMAIN=math.uno.edu in the /etc/hostconfig file
> but still, after the ROM monitor window disappears, no login window
> appears.
>
> Do you have any other clues to help me?
>
> Thanks again
Our NeXTs are running NIS (as netinfo isn't available for SGIs)
cat /etc/hostconfig
#
# /etc/hostconfig
#
# This file sets up shell variables used by the various rc scripts to
# configure the host. Edit this file instead of rc.boot.
#
# Warning: This is sourced by /bin/sh. Make sure there are no spaces
# on either side of the "=".
#
# There are some special keywords used by rc.boot and the programs it
# calls:
#
# -AUTOMATIC- Configure automatically
# -YES- Turn a feature on
# -NO- Leave a feature off or do not configure
#
HOSTNAME= *** not important
INETADDR= *** not important
ROUTER= *** not important
IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC-
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=theoriepool
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
--------------------------------------------
be sure only to write the sort name of the nis domaen !
cat /etc/passwd
#
# You probably do NOT want to edit this file, because it is only read
# during bootstrap or if YP is enabled. Please use either UserManager or nu
# instead.
#
root::0:1:Operator:/:/bin/csh
nobody:*:-2:-2::/private:
agent:*:1:1::/private:
daemon:*:1:1::/private:
uucp:*:4:4::/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico
news:*:6:6::/usr/spool/news:/bin/csh
sybase:*:8:8:Sybase Administrator:/usr/sybase:/bin/csh
me::20:20:My Account:/me:/bin/csh
+::
cat /etc/group
#
# You probably do NOT want to edit this file, because it is only read
# during bootstrap or if YP is enabled. Please use either UserManager or nu
# instead.
#
wheel:*:0:root,me
nogroup:*:-2:
daemon:*:1:daemon
sys:*:2:
bin:*:3:
uucp:*:4:
kmem:*:5:
news:*:6:
ingres:*:7:
tty:*:8:
operator:*:9:
staff:*:10:root,me
other:*:20:
+:
be sure nothing conflicting with nis accouts is in `nidump passwd .` and `nidump group .`
Check out the boot messages. Is ypbind startet correctly ?
What's the last message before the system hangs ?
good luck
stef
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From: gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Network-Backup on Black NeXT ?
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:14:59 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Oldenburg
Message-ID: <4lncaf$p0p@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
References: <4ktqbo$oio@trumpet.uni-mannheim.de>
sappenz@pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Soeren Appenzeller) wrote:
[...]
>The only commercial solution I know is "Savety-Net". But Savety-Net can't
>backup remote Filesystems (they have to be mounted on the Back-up-Machine...).
[...]
SafetyNet Pro can back up NFS mounted file systems.
Gerhard.
Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de NeXTmail & MIME
Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
"Wanna make your old 386 as fast as a Pentium???
Try running Win95 (on the Pentium...)" -- Arash
From: david@pfi.ibk.baum.ethz.ch (David C. EKCHIAN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from NeXTStep
Date: 25 Apr 1996 12:51:32 GMT
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ)
Message-ID: <4lnsgk$47l@elna.ethz.ch>
References: <317BFE70.3B2@math.uno.edu> <317D5701.167E@bme.ri.ccf.org>
<317E7ABF.67DB@math.uno.edu> <4ln29u$brj@digdug.pswtech.com>
In <4ln29u$brj@digdug.pswtech.com> robin@pswtech.com wrote:
> Adam Harrison <aharriso@math.uno.edu> wrote:
> : Thanks for your response but things still don't seem to work.
> : [...]
> : Do you have any other clues to help me?
>
> Let's make sure NIS is working... Are you running ypbind?
> [...]
> Next try running 'ypcat passwd'.
> [...]
Right. I get the same comportment if my station can't start ypbind or can't
reach
the NIS server: a blue screen with a mouse but no login window. What does the
report say at the end of the configuration in Simple Network Starter?
David.
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o
_ /-;c
___ David C. EKCHIAN ______________________________________(@)#\(@)___
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: slattach for NS 3.3 ?
Date: 25 Apr 1996 15:51:28 GMT
Organization: Petroleum and Geosystem Engineering, U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lo720$s0b@brazos.pe.utexas.edu>
is there a utility like slattach on nextstep ?
I need to attach a pseudo-terminal.
thanks
Paulus
From: Bill Faust <faust@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Firewall and socks clients
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:33:26 -0700
Organization: FaustHouse
Message-ID: <317FB766.1D4746F2@pobox.com>
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CC: faust@pobox.com
Are there any "scokified" NEXTSTEP clients out there?
I have some NEXTSTEP 3.3 machines behind a firewall. The bastion host
is running socks 4.2 (its a Linux machine running 1.2.13, if that
matters). The problem is that I could not get the suite of client
programs (rtelnet, rftp, rfinger) to compile under NEXTSTEP. Has anyone
had better success? Perhaps I'd have better luck with socks5 and its
client programs. I tried socks5 but had trouble configuring it -- the
documentaion is, well, not so good. Perhaps I should try TIS?
What about Web Browsers? OmniWeb supports proxy servers but apparently
not socks. Right now I'm running the CERN httpd as a proxy server for
OmniWeb, however, I would prefer to use socks alone. The Linux machines
do much better behind the firewall -- the client programs distributed
with socks compile and run nicely and NetScape supports socks for web
browsing.
I'd be interested in hearing from anyone using NEXTSTEP machines behind
a firewall. What server and client software are you using?
--
Bill Faust
faust@pobox.com
Newbury Park, California, USA
From: brian@orc-ny.com (Brian Hobbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to make a NetWare printer a network printer?
Date: 25 Apr 1996 18:55:39 GMT
Organization: The ThoughtPort Authority, Inc.
Message-ID: <4lohrb$mqg@chinx4.thoughtport.net>
Greetings;
I'm trying to make a NetWare printer (accessed through NetWareManager)
accessible to the entire network. NetWareManager.app only allows one to
create local entries in NetInfo for NetWare printers.
I tried to set up an entry in NetInfo for the NetWare printer, with the rm
property set to the machine that knows of the printer, and the rp property
the queue name of the local entry. However, when I try to print something
via this mechanism, I get the following as a status:
"Waiting for queue to be enabled on (the local machine)"
Anyone got any ideas?
thanks in advance...
Brian Hobbs
brian@orc-ny.com
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: color laser printer for nextstep
Date: 25 Apr 1996 19:30:10 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4lojs2$1k1@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <4lgnvq$mvl@news.tamu.edu> <u41n343zqm5.fsf@world.std.com>
rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote:
> You have three options: Lexmark Optra C, HP Color LaserJet 5, and the
> Tektronix Phaser 550. The Phaser is probably the best, followed by Lexmark
> and then HP. However, I haven't carefully looked at these so check the
> magazine reviews.
I checked color lasers carefully at the CeBIT and came to a different result.
The Tektronix by far has the worst printing quality of the printers
mentioned, since it's not a continuous tone laser. Lexmark right now seems
the best choice (I haven't got a print from the HP but heard very bad things
about its construction), but you might want to wait for the Canon and Dec
printers which build on the same Canon printing engine that Lexmark uses but
incorporate an EFI (!) PS RIP. Printing quality of these is simply fantastic.
Tschau
Uli
_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
PGP: public key on request
Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Good inexpensive faxmodems for nextstep?
Date: 25 Apr 1996 19:38:18 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4lokba$1k1@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <sams.830241180@shellx> <u41d94ydya5.fsf@world.std.com>
rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla) wrote:
> If $289 is in your price range, I wholeheartedly recommend the new
> Supra Sonic 288V+ faxmodem (http://www.supra.com) It is truly a superb
> faxmodem that works great for data (high speed), fax (NXFax) and voice.
Which software do you use for voice?
Bye
Uli
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_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
PGP: public key on request
Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: POPPASSD compilation
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 16:25:43 -0600
Organization: DigiSys Incorporated
Message-ID: <317FFBE7.6980@digisys.net>
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Hello,
If anyone has gotten POPPASSD to compile under NS could you please drop me a line. If you'd like to give it
a shot I can send you the source (only one source file). It's a password changing daemon for use with POP
clients like Eudora.
-James Pooton
james@digisys.net
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <4lpdhe$sc5@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Control: cancel <4lpdhe$sc5@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 1996 02:56:20 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4lpe0k$scd@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Good inexpensive faxmodems for nextstep?
In-Reply-To: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de's message of 25 Apr 1996
19:38:18 GMT
Message-ID: <u4168anbpu5.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <sams.830241180@shellx> <u41d94ydya5.fsf@world.std.com>
<4lokba$1k1@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 03:56:34 GMT
Supra ships Windows and MacOS voice software with the modem. Unfortunately,
there's no NEXTSTEP software but you could always write it... :-(
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP / NEXTSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
Tel: + 1 (617) 252-0088
Fax: + 1 (617) 252-0004
E-mail: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com
From: Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Notebooks
Date: 26 Apr 1996 10:23:23 +0200
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <78afzzqtqc.fsf@cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <4l8g7j$f9f@cerberus.wsc.com> <vrp4tqeglwr.fsf@cais2.cais.com>
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rdl@cais2.cais.com () writes:
> There is a developer working on a driver for the new Toshiba 720CDT. It is
> currently the best notebook on the planet. It is a 133MHz Pentium with
> SDRAM (synchronous DRAM), PCI, and a 1024x768 active matrix display option!
Do you know, if this driver is compatible with the SVGA display of the
Toshiba 700CT ? Could you post the developer's name or company?
Thanks, Matthias
(I tried to contact you by email, but got no response (rdl@cais2.cais.com and
Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com)
From: hsandhu@stockex.co.uk (Harpreet Sandhu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Network-Backup on Black NeXT ?
Date: 26 Apr 1996 10:19:33 GMT
Organization: London Stock Exchange
Message-ID: <4lq7vl$ep1@london.stockex.co.uk>
References: <4lncaf$p0p@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
In article <4lncaf$p0p@news.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes:
> sappenz@pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de (Soeren Appenzeller) wrote:
> [...]
> >The only commercial solution I know is "Savety-Net". But
Savety-Net can't
> >backup remote Filesystems (they have to be mounted on the
Back-up-Machine...).
> [...]
>
> SafetyNet Pro can back up NFS mounted file systems.
>
> Gerhard.
> Private: gemoe@proximus.north.de NeXTmail &
MIME
> Uni: Gerhard.Moeller@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
>
> "Wanna make your old 386 as fast as a Pentium???
> Try running Win95 (on the Pentium...)" -- Arash
It certainly can.
--
Harpreet Sandhu
Regulatory Systems
London Stock Exchange
London EC2N 1HP
hsandhu@stockex.co.uk
+44-171-7971314
+44-171-7971581 (fax)
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From: cmk@joest-saunders.de (Claus Koch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ifconfig does not understand alias
Date: 26 Apr 1996 10:39:14 GMT
Organization: Unlimited Surprise Systems, Berlin
Message-ID: <4lq94i$455@unlisys.unlisys.net>
for the installation of some virtual web sites
on a single nextstep system (intel) the machine
has to accept more than one ip-numbers.
many bsd-like system have an ifcongig with the
option alias to create an virtual interface.
next's ifconfig does not know about this.
has anyone any information, patches, workarounds ???
as soon as i get this to work, i will post a complete
description of the installation process for web-serving
with virtual hosts.
tia,
claus
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From: Douglas Slotta <slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 15:11:19 -0400
Organization: Bowling Green State University
Message-ID: <31811FD7.7C98@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
References: <RMASSE.96Apr23143925@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us> <4ln82q$6t4@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
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Henry Koplien wrote:
>
> In article <RMASSE.96Apr23143925@knowbot.cnri.reston.va.us>
> rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us (Roger E. Masse) writes:
> !>
> !> Appologies if this is a second post, but our upsteam propagation was broken
> !> for awhile...
> !>
> !> NextAnswers says that the 8 MG Matrox cards will not be supported until Q3
> !> 96 when they
> !> release support for dual displays... Anyone know of a driver that will work
> !> with a single
> !> 8 MG card?
>
> BTW. Have someone else problems with the old driver 3.30? My Matrox is often
> not proper initialized. Once the task is done everything seems fine. Booting
> and displaying under BIOS/DOS never fails! -> It must be the driver under
> NS3.3. I am sure it is the initialization process of the driver. (I can measure
> 200 frames/s by 1600 x 1200... after coming up with the login panel, which I
> can't see)
>
> Henry
I have the same problem with both the old driver and the beta driver with my
4MB Matrox Millenium card. It seems to occur every third or so time that I boot.
Anyone have a solution?
Douglas Slotta
slotta@bgnet.bgsu.edu
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 09:34:12 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960425093122.2873F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com>
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To: Andre Bolen <abolen@linex.com>
In-Reply-To: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com>
On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Andre Bolen wrote:
> Hi all--
>
> I've got a shell account on a NeXT server running NetInfo and was
> wondering how to go about permanantly changing my login shell without going
> and asking the sysadmin to do it. It just seems like something I should be
> able to do myself.
>
You'd think so, wouldn't you?
But, what I had to do when I was in this situation (where my login shell
was csh, and who wants that? ;-) was add a line to my .cshrc which would
simply execute another shell, such as:
exec zsh -l
or,
exec tcsh -l
for the not-yet-enlightened ;-)
You'll probably want to put that after the
if ( $prompt )
line, or whatever CSH does to test for interactivity.
TjL
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>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: File Viewer not using resolv?
Date: 26 Apr 1996 14:32:01 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <4lqmp1$dpl@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
My File Viewer seems to have stopped using resolv to display symbolic links
that are automounted directories (I run amd under NS/I 3.3). I thought
this happened automatically, but now that it has stopped doing it, how do I
switch it back on again? I only rebooted yesterday. The fault is local; I
can happily cd to the remote directories using a shell, but that's no fun.
From: aharriso@satchmo.math.uno.edu (Adam J. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NIS from NeXTStep (The story so far)
Date: 26 Apr 1996 15:29:07 GMT
Organization: University of New Orleans
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lqq43$4nj@www.uno.edu>
Keywords: nis nextstep yp
I'm running NeXTStep 2.1 and trying to get it to communicate with our
SPARC1000 NIS master server.
Here's what I've tried so far:
Boot as normal (no NIS support), login as root, use "domainname
math.uno.edu" to set the doaminname, start ypbind with "ypbind", check the
binding with "ypwhich" (this has to be done twice but that's normal) which
responds with math, check access with "ypcat passwd" which spits out the
NIS password file.
Using snoop to look at the NeXT machine while it executes "ypwhich" gives
the following report.
mathpart2 -> math NIS C NULL
math -> mathpart2 NIS R NULL
mathpart2 -> matcomlab RPC C XID=830477638 PROG=200100000 (?) VERS=2
PROC=28
matcomlab -> mathpart2 RPC R (#26) XID=830477638 Success
mathpart2 -> matcomlab TCP D=669 S=672 Ack=765691306 Seq=3655802
Len=0 Win=4096
Then I edited /etc/passwd to include +::0:0::: at the end, /etc/group to
include +: and /etc/hostconfig to include YPDOMAINM=math.uno.edu
Reboot and everything in the rom monitor looks perfect but when the rom
monitor disappears no login window appears.
Next I booted up in single user mode, ran "sh /etc/rc" to start system
services, this returns me to my single user shell before the rom monitor
disappears. At this point "domainname" reports back with math.uno.edu but
"ypwhich" hangs! Strangely enough I can see the NIS passwd file using
"ypcat passwd" and "ypwhich -m" spits out the maps and the master server.
Using snoop to look at the NeXT machine while it executes "ypwhich" gives
the following report.
mathpart2 -> math NIS C NULL
math -> mathpart2 NIS R NULL
At no point in any of these stages have I been able to su into an NIS
account.
I've tried making the NeXT a slave server but this doesn't help any.
One other thing, for months now the lookupd on each of our NeXT machines
has been producing a periodic error "lookupd[68]: serialization error",
I've no idea what this is about.
Please help if you can
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: 26 Apr 1996 19:21:39 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lr7o3$cm@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <31811FD7.7C98@bgnet.bgsu.edu>
Hi,
>> NextAnswers says that the 8 MG Matrox cards will not be supported
>> until Q3 96 when they release support for dual displays... Anyone
>> know of a driver that will work with a single 8 MG card?
Someone from NeXT once said the code for the 8MB board IS available in
the 3.30 driver but not documented. All you had to do to activate it
was add the extra resolutions to the Display.modes file.
> I have the same problem with both the old driver and the beta
> driver with my 4MB Matrox Millenium card. It seems to occur every
> third or so time that I boot.
I have the 4MB Millennium too since August and have used the 3.30
driver and now the 3.31 beta without any problem.
Filip
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Subject: FREE ESSAYS!!! ESSAY EXCHANGE!!!
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:47:17 GMT
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From: bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu (Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextsystem crashes help
Date: 26 Apr 1996 21:40:09 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <4lrfrp$l7h@masala.cc.uh.edu>
hi,
i am new to nextstep systems.One of the machines here crashes
with a panic message. where should i look for the reason.
i can see that there is no core dump and there is no process multiplying etc.
Also if the meachine is left on without any body logged on there is
noproblem. Only if some body uses the terminal application or grab
application from /NextDevelopper the system crashes.
thanks
Bala
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: 27 Apr 1996 06:52:51 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lsg83$f14@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <4lr7o3$cm@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be>
In article <4lr7o3$cm@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> filip@filtronix.eunet.be
(Filip Lingier) writes:
!> Hi,
!>
!> >> NextAnswers says that the 8 MG Matrox cards will not be supported
!> >> until Q3 96 when they release support for dual displays... Anyone
!> >> know of a driver that will work with a single 8 MG card?
!>
!> Someone from NeXT once said the code for the 8MB board IS available in
!> the 3.30 driver but not documented. All you had to do to activate it
!> was add the extra resolutions to the Display.modes file.
!>
!> > I have the same problem with both the old driver and the beta
!> > driver with my 4MB Matrox Millenium card. It seems to occur every
!> > third or so time that I boot.
!>
!> I have the 4MB Millennium too since August and have used the 3.30
!> driver and now the 3.31 beta without any problem.
!>
!> Filip
Yes, that may be. I now use the beta driver with no difference. The machine
will not run with the first boot. What I found out till now is, if the machine
is switched on and off, wait 1 minute and switch it on again, everything is OK!
The conclusion is the different currents come up at different times, and the
wrong one first if all the cap's are empty. After the first procedure some
cap's have still some current which is enough to make a successful second try.
Maybe someone else has a work around for this problem!
Henry
From: house@direct.ca (HOUSE)
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Subject: FREE ESSAYS!!!!! EVIL HOUSE OF CHEAT!!!!
Date: 27 Apr 1996 07:25:52 GMT
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From: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Strange inetd problem
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:00:16 GMT
Organization: NOW GmbH, Baar, Switzerland
Sender: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Message-ID: <DqGrsG.Cz.0.astra@now.ch>
Folks,
this is driving me insane...
I want to write a little daemon which should be called by inetd.
This is what my /etc/inetd.conf entry looks like:
mptn stream tcp nowait root /Users/headi/Apps/MPTN.app/MPTN
/Users/headi/Apps/MPTN.app/MPTN
As you may notice, it is a real .app which should act as a daemon. The
service mptn is correctly registered in netinfo. If I do a 'telnet
localhost mptn', the app gets started, but crashes when it tries to load
it's nib, at the following statement in main():
if ([NXApp loadNibSection:"MPTN.nib" owner:NXApp withNames:NO]) [NXApp run];
However, if I manually kill inetd and restart it (as root of course, and a
simple kill -HUP does not work) and try again, it works!. Why do I have to
kill the inetd strated in etc/rc and start a new one first?? I have to do
this everytime I reboot my machine (which is really not often, but I don't
like this behaviour anyway...)
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Daniel
--
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Software Engineer, System Administrator
NOW GmbH, Zugerstrasse 11a, CH-6340 Baar
++41-1-2208223 / dscheide@now.ch
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon Michel von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: 27 Apr 1996 12:21:24 GMT
Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc.
Message-ID: <4lt3g4$jo@hackberry.zilker.net>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <4lk0ma$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net>
<u41bukidy69.fsf@world.std.com>
In <u41bukidy69.fsf@world.std.com> Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Unfortunately, neither of those are available under NEXTSTEP. He'll need
> to use UserManager.app to change it.
>
>> Try using "chsh", or "passwd -s username" if that's not available.
passwd -s works on my 3.3 system. This *may* have been added by the previous
owner,
so I checked on my 2.1 system which only I have owned, and it works there
too. Besides,
every user needs to be able to change his or her own password, and only root
can run
UserManager.
____________________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com>
Zilker Internet Park, System Admin <leonvs@zilker.net>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: 27 Apr 1996 11:47:11 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4lt1fv$dd@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <4lsg83$f14@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
In article <4lsg83$f14@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien) writes:
> Yes, that may be. I now use the beta driver with no difference.
> The machine will not run with the first boot. What I found out
> till now is, if the machine is switched on and off, wait 1 minute
> and switch it on again, everything is OK! The conclusion is the
> different currents come up at different times, and the wrong one
> first if all the cap's are empty. After the first procedure some
> cap's have still some current which is enough to make a successful
> second try. Maybe someone else has a work around for this problem!
If this is what causing your problems, why don't you talk to you dealer
and ask him to replace it (within warranty) because obviously you have a
board that is not functioning properly.
Filip
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From: dct@katie.vnet.net (DAVID TEELING)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Nextsystem crashes help
Date: 27 Apr 1996 12:23:01 -0400
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779
Message-ID: <4lthl5$nh6@katie.vnet.net>
References: <4lrfrp$l7h@masala.cc.uh.edu>
In article <4lrfrp$l7h@masala.cc.uh.edu>,
Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy <bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu> wrote:
>hi,
>i am new to nextstep systems.One of the machines here crashes
>with a panic message. where should i look for the reason.
>i can see that there is no core dump and there is no process multiplying etc.
>Also if the meachine is left on without any body logged on there is
>noproblem. Only if some body uses the terminal application or grab
>application from /NextDevelopper the system crashes.
>thanks
>Bala
>
Check /usr/adm/messages
Good Luck.
David
dct@vnet.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
In-Reply-To: leonvs@occam.com's message of 27 Apr 1996 12:21:24 GMT
Message-ID: <u41enp9sjqu.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <4lk0ma$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net>
<u41bukidy69.fsf@world.std.com> <4lt3g4$jo@hackberry.zilker.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 16:40:41 GMT
Turns out that passwd has the -s option but it's not referenced in the man
page. chsh is referenced in the man page but is not available.
Robert
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon Michel von Stauber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: 27 Apr 1996 17:53:26 GMT
Organization: Zilker Internet Park, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ltmum$a21@hackberry.zilker.net>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <4lk0ma$dgm@hackberry.zilker.net>
<u41bukidy69.fsf@world.std.com> <4lt3g4$jo@hackberry.zilker.net>
In <4lt3g4$jo@hackberry.zilker.net> Leon Michel von Stauber wrote:
> passwd -s works on my 3.3 system. This *may* have been added by the
previous
> owner,
> so I checked on my 2.1 system which only I have owned, and it works there
> too. Besides,
> every user needs to be able to change his or her own password, and only
root
Um, I meant shell.
> can run
> UserManager.
____________________________________________________________________
Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/
Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com>
Zilker Internet Park, System Admin <leonvs@zilker.net>
"We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
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Control: cancel <4lsi60$ki5@spark.law.vill.edu>
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Date: 27 Apr 1996 20:18:41 GMT
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From: Stephen Shiboski <steve@biostat.ucsf.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: Strange Workspace Manager errors
Date: 27 Apr 1996 21:12:31 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Message-ID: <4lu2jv$jau@agate.berkeley.edu>
Originator: stephen@stat.Berkeley.EDU
I have been experiencing WorkSpace errors with increasing frequency
and was wondering if anyone had a clue as to their source.
For the past couple of months, I can see errors like the following in
/private/adm/messages:
Feb 28 20:04:09 wolf OmniWeb[637]: NXStringTable: parse error before '
Mar 8 20:05:56 wolf syslog: NXStringTable: parse error before '
Mar 8 20:05:56 wolf last message repeated 3 times
Mar 8 20:24:10 wolf WM[869]: Typed streams library error: NXReadObject: inconsistency between written data and read:
Apr 27 13:52:36 wolf Diagram[294]: Typed streams library error: NXReadObject: inconsistency between written data and read:
Apr 27 14:00:08 wolf Edit[310]: NXStringTable: parse error before '
As a result, I often get a WS Manager warning panel popping up
warning me to log out or continue at my own risk.
Beginning today, many programs I use routinely are generating
errors in the console. Some refuse to run. I am running NS 3.2
on a NeXTstation 68040/25 MHZ. I have a Pyro accelerator installed,
and it has been funtioning well for at least 1 year.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-Steve
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Division of Biostatistics
University of California, San Francisco
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: A question (re popOver-procmail-formail-appnmail) of error messages and lockfiles???
Date: 27 Apr 1996 23:06:44 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-03.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4lu9a4$qqa@usc.edu>
A question (re popOver-procmail-formail-appnmail) of error messages and
lockfiles???
The following is a sample of error messages I've been getting. I don't think
I am actually losing any mail, but I am gaining duplicate mail in my /tmp
directory. I would be grateful for some pointers where to look for problems.
TOC of my situation:
* I use a csh script to call popOver to get mail off POP3 server and route
it into procmailrc (#1 below)
* I have an /etc/procmailrc which is linked to my ~/.procmailrc (#2 below)
* A representative sample of the error messages I receive in my "from" file
(#3 below)
* Mail filenames that I'm finding a lot of in /tmp (#4 below)
Thanks very much in advance, tho not too much in advance 8-)
#1) Begin csh script to run popOver and then process through procmail
=================
#!/bin/csh -f
/bin/rm -rf /tmp/mail/* && /bin/rm -rf /tmp/mail
mkdirs /tmp/mail/
popOver
if (( -f /tmp/mail/reichman )) then
chmod 755 /tmp/mail
formail -s procmail -m /Users/reichman/.procmailrc < /tmp/mail/reichman
endif
========End csh script
=========================================================
#2) Begin procmailrc
============================================================
# A sample small $HOME/.procmailrc:
# need to add a script to clean up the LOGFILE
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mailboxes
DEFAULT=/usr/spool/mail/reichman
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from
# prevent duplicate messages
:0 Wh: msgid.lock
|formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
#:0:
#* ^To:.*reichman@scf.usc.edu*
#|appnmail /Users/fey/Mailboxes/fey
:0:
* ^Subject:.Fey-*
|appnmail /Users/fey/Mailboxes/Fey
:0:
* ^To:.*procmail@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail
:0:
* ^Resent-From:.procmail@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender:.procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail
:0:
* ^Resent-Sender:.*procmail-request@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail
:0:
* ^Resent-From:.*procmail@Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail
:0:
* ^To:.*nextppp@chinx1.thoughtport.com*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/PPP
:0:
* ^To:.*stamper-support@itconsult.co.uk*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Stamper
:0:
* ^To:.*skey-users*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/S-Key
:0:
* ^Cc:.*skey-users*
|appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/S-Key
:0
*
(^Subject:.request_PGP*|^Subject:.request_pgp*|^Subject:.REQUEST_PGP*|^Subject:.Request_pgp*|^Subject:.Request_PGP*)
{
:0 c
| (cd /mailback/Apps/MAILBACK.app; ./MBServer )
:0
|appnmail PGPrequest
}
========End procmailrc
========================================================
#3) Begin example errors reported in my /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/from
===============
formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from
"appnmail"
From PopOver Fri Apr 26 14:09:08 1996
Subject: Re: Need Help with Message Body Filtering using AND/OR, Nested If
con
Folder: appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail 2427
formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from
"appnmail"
From PopOver Fri Apr 26 13:51:23 1996
Subject: Re: How do you "unsubscribe?"
Folder: appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail 1690
formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from
"appnmail"
From PopOver Fri Apr 26 13:53:42 1996
Subject: Re: Need Help with Message Body Filtering using AND/OR, Nested If
con
Folder: appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail 4491
formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from
"appnmail"
From PopOver Fri Apr 26 14:04:38 1996
Subject: Script problem - "skipped" and store/forward problems
Folder: appnmail /Users/reichman/Mailboxes/Procmail 11530
formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from
"appnmail"
formail: Couldn't openformail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine
implicit lockfile from "appnmail"
formail: formail: Couldn't open
=======End example errors ===========================================
#4) Mail filenames that I'm finding a lot of in /tmp ===============
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:07 .reichman.PopOver.1095
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:10 .reichman.PopOver.1107
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:13 .reichman.PopOver.1117
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:16 .reichman.PopOver.1174
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:20 .reichman.PopOver.1206
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:23 .reichman.PopOver.1228
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:26 .reichman.PopOver.1255
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:29 .reichman.PopOver.1277
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:33 .reichman.PopOver.1296
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:36 .reichman.PopOver.1318
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:47 .reichman.PopOver.1378
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:50 .reichman.PopOver.1405
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:54 .reichman.PopOver.1413
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 20:57 .reichman.PopOver.1424
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 21:00 .reichman.PopOver.1433
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 21:04 .reichman.PopOver.1440
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 21:07 .reichman.PopOver.1458
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 0 Apr 26 16:28 .reichman.PopOver.700
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 1686 Apr 26 14:49 Mail-000276
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 1702 Apr 26 20:12 Mail-000806
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 3177 Apr 26 16:12 Mail-a00276
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 13697 Apr 26 21:07 Mail-a00806
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 12953 Apr 27 00:40 Mail-b00806
-rw------- 1 reichman wheel 12991 Apr 27 13:19 Mail-c00806
=======End example errors ===========================================
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: u-magpie@mcl.ucsb.edu (Mark Dadgar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: 27 Apr 1996 23:45:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Message-ID: <4lubi7$gk4@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960425093122.2873F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In <Pine.NXT.3.93.960425093122.2873F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
>On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Andre Bolen wrote:
>> Hi all--
>>
>> I've got a shell account on a NeXT server running NetInfo and was
>> wondering how to go about permanantly changing my login shell without going
>> and asking the sysadmin to do it. It just seems like something I should be
>> able to do myself.
>>
>You'd think so, wouldn't you?
>But, what I had to do when I was in this situation (where my login shell
>was csh, and who wants that? ;-) was add a line to my .cshrc which would
>simply execute another shell, such as:
As it turns out, this is a better solution anyway.
What happens if you change your shell in NetInfo, and then log into a machine
that does not have your custom shell installed on it?
You're hosed.
If you exec the new shell out of .cshrc, you'll just get an error if the
binary does not exist. And you'll save your sysadmin a "Dude, I can't
log in!" call. :)
- Mark
ex-SysAdmin
--
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u-magpie@mcl.ucsb.edu | An avenue of eternal peace
UCSB Alumnus, Class of 1992 | But he said "What is here can soon burn down...
Bill & Opus - '96 | I'm the King of Sunset Town"
From: rob@ebon.trin.cam.ac.uk (Rob Kinninmont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple OS's on white hardware: Booting into LINUX
Date: 28 Apr 1996 01:01:04 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <4lug0g$8cs@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
References: <4la80s$j8j@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
In article <4la80s$j8j@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) writes:
> Victor White (v_white@ece.wisc.edu) wrote:
> Install lilo onto the partition bootsector of the linux partition.
> (Don't install it onto the master boot record!
Alternatively, you can use LILO in the Master Boot Record, to boot into
Linux and also to boot NeXTstep.
(You can backup the existing master boot record with
dd if=/dev/hda of=/root/backup.mbr bs=446 count=1
, or use "bs=512" if you want to back up the partition table as well)
You'll need to set a /etc/lilo.conf file to install lilo into the mbr, and
to declare your linux, nextstep and dos partitions.
eg. assuming linux, dos, nextstep on partitions 1,2,3 of the first drive
--8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----cut here
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/hda
prompt # prompt for a boot option
#delay=10 # use this instead of prompt to default to the first o/s
# # listed below
vga = normal # force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
# Made linux first to default
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = linux
read-only
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda2
label = dos
table = /dev/hda
other = /dev/hda3
loader = /boot/chain.b
label = next
table = /dev/hda
--8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----8<----cut here
Hope that helps,
rob
rak1002@cam.ac.uk
From: gkh@shore.net (Guy K. Hillyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ethertalk printer from nextstation
Date: 28 Apr 1996 01:59:42 GMT
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Message-ID: <4lujee$12q@shore.shore.net>
Hi, I have a laserwriter on an ethernet with a NeXT box. Is it possible
to get the NeXT to speak appletalk to? I'd appreciate replies by mail.
Guy Hillyer
gkh@shore.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: m@ml.com (M Carling)
Subject: Re: Can NEXTSTEP do 115200 bps on a serial port on a PC?
Message-ID: <Dq4134.BJ7@tigadmin.ml.com>
Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account)
Organization: ml.com
References: <DpG8AA.4vq@AWT.NL> <4kmcse$n9b@news.its.com> <4l5qt0$csh@usc.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 12:52:15 GMT
reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) wrote:
>In <Dpwzu4.FH1@tigadmin.ml.com> M Carling wrote:
>> chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger) wrote:
>> >In my opinion, you really don't want to try and connect an ISDN link
>> directly
>> >to your computer. I'd strongly recommend getting an Ascend Pipeline 50
>(or
>> >thereabouts) instead, and using it as a router for a local ethernet LAN.
>>
>> I agree, except that everyone I know who has bought an Ascend has
regretted
>> it. I would recommend looking at other brands.
>
>What were the problems? And do you have any recommendations?
The common complaint I hear is that the presence of (particular, by user
definition) packet types will not bring up the link. To bring up the link,
one must log in to the router via its serial port and bring it up by
navigating through windows. It should raise a connection automatically when
packets that need to go over the net are present.
M Carling
From: me@thisplace.com (Name Here)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Etherfind or TCPDUMP for nextstep
Date: 28 Apr 1996 07:27:15 GMT
Organization: My Organization
Message-ID: <4lv6kj$bun@jerry.loop.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
Could someone please give me a hint on how to compile
etherfind or tcpdump for NeXTSTEP? Or better yet, are
there re-compiled binaries out there that I could download?
Thanks,
Derick
PS: please send replies to dtortore@wbfa.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: Re: A question (re popOver-procmail-formail-appnmail) of error messages and lockfiles???
In-Reply-To: reichman@usc.edu's message of 27 Apr 1996 23:06:44 GMT
Message-ID: <7xg29okn52.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
To: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: hardly any...
References: <4lu9a4$qqa@usc.edu>
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 22:19:06 GMT
>>>>> "MNR" == Matthew N Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> writes:
MNR> A question (re popOver-procmail-formail-appnmail) of error
MNR> messages and lockfiles???
MNR> The following is a sample of error messages I've been
MNR> getting. I don't think I am actually losing any mail, but I
MNR> am gaining duplicate mail in my /tmp directory. I would be
MNR> grateful for some pointers where to look for problems.
[deletia]
MNR> formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit
MNR> lockfile from "appnmail"
Remove the trailing : from the openening zero of your procmail
recipies. appnmail does its own locking. (Carl Edman (the author of
appnmail) pointed this out to me when I ran into similar problems.)
hth,
markus g a/k/a the mole
--
/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
__ __/ __ __ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the mole
/ / / / . . . . . . . . . . . . . tm@burrow.muc.de
__/ __/ __/ __/ . . . . . . . . http://www.muc.de/~mgloede/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg)
Subject: Re: multiple tape files using dump?
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Message-ID: <960428215737.188AAFcF.magnus@koa>
Keywords: dump
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <leigh.830702769@parma>
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 02:57:37 GMT
>From: leigh@cs.uwa.oz.au (Leigh SMITH)>Subject: multiple tape files using dump?
>Date: 28 Apr 96 14:46:09 GMT
>
>How do I record two or more tape files one after another
>on a tape using dump?
>It seems to be possible according to the restore man page:
>
> s The next argument to restore is a number which selects
> the file on a multi-file dump tape. File numbering
> starts at 1.
>
>Whenever dump is invoked, it automatically rewinds after finishing.
>Trying
>
>mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1
Use /dev/nrst0 instead (nr = no rewind). You may have to manually set an
EOF after completing the first dump ("man mt" for more on this).
>to move past the first tape file before invoking dump again doesn't seem
>to work, the new dump seems to overwrite the first dumped tape file.
>Why have two dumps? Two different partitions, and dump
>doesn't accept multiple file system specifications on the command line.
>
>I currently use:
>
>dump 0ufs /dev/rst0 1200000 /dev/rhd0a
>
>for saving the IDE drive partion to a DAT.
>The mt command above follows it before the next dump
>command for a SCSI drive.
>
>Perhaps I should just revert to tar? Any reason to stay with dump?
>I guess it avoids dumping the swapfile....
I don't see any reason: tar allows several partitions; "gnutar" lets you do
incremental backups, *and* allows the specification of a list of files (like
"swapfile" and "/tmp/*") to ignore.
---
Magnus Nordborg
Department of Ecology & Evolution
The University of Chicago
1101 E. 57th St.
Chicago, IL 60637-1573
USA
magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (NeXT Mail, MIME)
+1.312.702-1093 phone (lab)
+1.312.667-5331 phone (home)
+1.312.702-9740 fax
From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SAMBA/NEXTSTEP: correcting twice for daylight savings time
Date: 28 Apr 1996 19:46:53 -0700
Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA
Message-ID: <4m1ait$3ei@bird.twinsun.com>
References: <4lh084$dc4@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca>
croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes:
>I dunno how gmtoff works on other systems, but the isdst check may want to be
>moved inside the HAVE_GMTOFF bit.
gmtoff basically works the same on all systems where it exists,
so you're right, the isdst check should be moved inside.
But there's a better way to fix Samba's problem: don't use is_dst or
gmtoff at all, and calculate the GMT offset the same way that Emacs does.
This is a lot more portable.
I'll try to write up a proposed patch along these lines.
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: multiple tape files using dump?
Date: 29 Apr 1996 03:44:28 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4m1dus$ksb@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <leigh.830702769@parma> <960428215737.188AAFcF.magnus@koa>
magnus@darwin.uchicago.edu (Magnus Nordborg) wrote:
> >From: leigh@cs.uwa.oz.au (Leigh SMITH)
> >Subject: multiple tape files using dump?
> >
> >Perhaps I should just revert to tar? Any reason to stay with
> >dump? I guess it avoids dumping the swapfile....
>
> I don't see any reason: tar allows several partitions; "gnutar"
> lets you do incremental backups, *and* allows the specification
> of a list of files (like "swapfile" and "/tmp/*") to ignore.
Also, gnutar is infinitely more portable; you can save your tapes
for twenty years in fair confidence that your Fujitsu Deathstar IV
will be able to recover the files if you can still physically read
the data. On the other hand, dump is a lot faster.
`Boy, you don't have to follow in my footsteps.' |===========================
`Don't worry, dad; I don't even like to use the | Joshua Burton 847/677-3902
bathroom after you.' | jburton@nwu.edu
-- Homer and Bart, on nepotism |===========================
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 29 Apr 1996 04:15:12 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4m1fog$kcg@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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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
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===========================================
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
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Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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
=====================================
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From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TCP/IP kernal for SoftPC?
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 06:11:42 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Apr29.061142.11787@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <3183E601.4DF6@mpn.com>
In article <3183E601.4DF6@mpn.com> Charles Ashley <charlesa@mpn.com>
writes:
> Does anyone know if a public winsock TCP/IP kernal exists for SoftPC 4.1
> for NeXTSTEP 3.3? Anything other than LAN Workplace for DOS?
You mean other than the winsock that comes with SoftPC?
SoftPC supports TCP/IP from DOS or Windows programs that use specific LAN
Workplace for DOS calls; it also supports winsock, which talks to the
native NeXT TCP/IP stack.
For example, I can run Netscape and WinCIM directly from inside SoftPC
using winsock.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?-Never ending story
Date: 29 Apr 1996 06:29:53 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4m1nl1$o55@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <4lt1fv$dd@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be>
In article <4lt1fv$dd@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> filip@filtronix.eunet.be
(Filip Lingier) writes:
..
> If this is what causing your problems, why don't you talk to you dealer
> and ask him to replace it (within warranty) because obviously you have a
> board that is not functioning properly.
>
..
If this would be the reason, I will do. But I have waited 3 month for the
card...
After this weekend things get different. Now it is definitely clear. It is the
driver under NeXT-Step who causes the problems.
(Good, forgive me..) I have installed Windows from Mr. Hates and installed the
MATROX drivers for the card. What should I say... I tried it many times and
every time the same behavior. After a long period of time I switched the
computer on and booted Windows, with the same resolution etc. I run under NS.
No problem with the card!!! Everything proper initialized. I was really
astonished. And now it is clear. The NS-driver makes assumptions about how
register look like after rebooting. This is never a good idea for later use of
the driver code and is not the intention of software engineering. It is always
better to initialize all the registers at boot time, for documentation and for
proper initialization. MATROX must have done this in their drivers. After this
short out fall off the Window and crashing on the floor I make a warm start and
boot NS. Now NS also works fine....
Q: Who can prevent me with source code of the MATROX driver?
Henry
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to extend HD partition
Date: 29 Apr 1996 05:35:48 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4m1kfk$b1k@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to extend my NeXT fs
partition to a Dos fs partiton on the same disk without a needing to
reinstall my NeXT? Thanks!!
--KAI--
--
email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot-Disks
Date: 29 Apr 1996 07:24:55 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4m1qs8$p02@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
I have posted this before, but I am not sure if it was here.
I try to make floppy boot disks under NS3.3. For this task I *must* produce an
executable code for "fsck" for instance. Therefore I need a link step with the
/usr/shlib/libsys_s.B.shlib. You can find it when You look in the file with
Edit.app or try "otool -l /usr/etc/fsck". I don't want to put she shlib on a
floppy which only have 1.19MB! (The lib is ~1MB, so no room for fsck or other
things.).
This task has done someone else before! In the net exists a collection of boot
disks (NS3.1) which have fsck, mount, and tset on it. The code for the commands
expand dramatically in size, but fit on the disk! I like to do so with
different commands like dump, gnutar etc.
I have now reached a stage with a 3-disk collection, booting NS3.3 with a file
system on the floppy disk. Now I use the old executables from NS3.1.
How can I solve my problem? Maybe some stuff written around rld_load will help,
I don't know. Any hints?? (Things could be so easy if I would have a 2.88MB
floppy)
Henry
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Manipulating NIs /users directory ?
Date: 29 Apr 1996 12:35:57 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Message-ID: <4m2d3d$pf7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Summary: n.a.
Keywords: NetInfo,user
I want to peruse NetInfo's /users directory as `yellow pages' database
of our department's members. Adding fields like `phone', `room'
etc. to the /users/USERNAME/info directory should be valid, but I'm
not sure about the following:
There are some members of the department that have no account on our
network (perhaps sitting in another building), but still should have
an entry in these phone book. What happens now if I create a NI
subdirectory, e.g. /users/johndoe, enter name, realname, phone etc
fields, but don't create uid, gid, home and shell fields ?
May this crash or disturb getpwent ?
What if I add this users to several groups (in NI, this doesn't depend
on the uid, only the name) ?
Gregor
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From: Carl Edman <cedman@princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: A question (re popOver-procmail-formail-appnmail) of error messages and lockfiles???
Date: 28 Apr 1996 13:19:10 GMT
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <4lvr8e$es2@cnn.Princeton.EDU>
References: <4lu9a4$qqa@usc.edu>
Cc: reichman@usc.edu
In <4lu9a4$qqa@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> Thanks very much in advance, tho not too much in advance 8-)
I can't solve all of your problems, but there is one repeated error in your
~/.procmailrc file.
This error:
> formail: Couldn't openprocmail: Couldn't determine implicit lockfile from
> "appnmail"
is caused by these lines:
> :0:
The final ':' causes procmail to do locking which it shouldn't as appnmail
already does the right kind of locking. You should introduce your recipes
with either ':0' only. Add a 'w' or a 'W' flag based on taste and
inclination.
Carl Edman
PS to all Mail 4.0 users: The stopgap fix for the NeXTmail Mail 4.0/appnmail
incompatibility is to create a link from /usr/bin/gnutar to
/NextApps/Mail.app/safetar.
Date: 29 Apr 1996 10:35:29 EST
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From: madler@alumni.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo cannot connect to local domain
Date: 29 Apr 1996 18:27:21 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA
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I run NetInfoManager, and it is complaining about not being able to connect.
Any one out there happen to know what might cause this? Thanks.
mark
From: chaims <chaims@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: mkisofs
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 13:21:35 -0500
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Has somebody succesfully compiled on nextstep a version of mkisofs?
From: robin@pswtech.com (Robin Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TCP/IP kernal for SoftPC?
Date: 29 Apr 1996 22:44:10 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4m3gnq$gmi@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <3183E601.4DF6@mpn.com>
Cc: charlesa@mpn.com
In <3183E601.4DF6@mpn.com> Charles Ashley wrote:
> Hi -
>
> Does anyone know if a public winsock TCP/IP kernal exists for SoftPC 4.1
> for NeXTSTEP 3.3? Anything other than LAN Workplace for DOS?
>
> Thanks for any leads...
Why would you want to replace the one that ships with SoftPC? It seems to work
great for me (I run NetScape from it just fine)... I do wish there were some
decent 'PD' versions of 'telnet', 'ftp' and 'nfs' for Windows though...
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From: bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu (Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Nextsystem crashes. Help...
Date: 29 Apr 1996 23:12:02 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <4m3ic2$im8@masala.cc.uh.edu>
hi,
my Nextstep system crashes with panic message.
when i look into the usr/adm/messages file
i got this message.
Apr 29 13:07:26 amazon mach: audio kernel server unloaded
Apr 29 13:07:27 amazon mach: audio kernel server initialized
Apr 29 13:07:28 amazon loginwindow[875]: loginwindow: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Apr 29 13:07:29 amazon Workspace[875]: logged in
Apr 29 13:12:19 amazon mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
Apr 29 13:12:19 amazon mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x0
Apr 29 13:12:19 amazon mach: trap: pc 0x405a310 sp 0x3fff60 sr 0x2004
Apr 29 13:12:19 amazon mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x101c5b60 proc 0x0 pid 8 pcb 0x101c5d60
what should i do ????
Bala
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: mkisofs
Date: 29 Apr 1996 23:06:55 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4m3i2f$rjm@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
References: <318508AF.1A84@ix.netcom.com>
chaims <chaims@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>Has somebody succesfully compiled on nextstep a version of mkisofs?
Yes...
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From: dicosmo@dahlia.ens.fr (Roberto DiCosmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HPPA PANICS after 3.3pl1 upgrade
Date: 30 Apr 1996 00:04:35 GMT
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <DICOSMO.96Apr30020435@dahlia.ens.fr>
After upgrading my HP 712/60 from 3.2 to 3.3 user and installing the user patch,
while retaining 3.2 developer and all the old EOF packages with Foundation Patch
and the like, the machine has become extremely instable: I keep getting kernel
panics under the most unrelated conditions, and the only bit of information
in the mini monitor is the message
trap_hpmc
Anybody has experienced something similar ? any idea of the origin or possible
solutions?
Any kind soul from NEXT willing to say what the message means? Is it a hardware
failure or some subtle kernel problem?
Thanx in advance you for your attention and help!
P.S.: please send a copy of your answer/message to me by mail too... if possible
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From: phy070@spo9.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Matrox Milenium 8 MG support?
Date: 30 Apr 1996 09:43:20 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4m4nbo$12c@sun3.uni-essen.de>
References: <4lr7o3$cm@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be> <4lsg83$f14@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Henry Koplien (ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de) wrote:
: [...]
: Yes, that may be. I now use the beta driver with no difference. The machine
: will not run with the first boot. What I found out till now is, if the machine
:is switched on and off, wait 1 minute and switch it on again, everything is OK!
: The conclusion is the different currents come up at different times, and the
: wrong one first if all the cap's are empty. After the first procedure some
: cap's have still some current which is enough to make a successful second try.
: Maybe someone else has a work around for this problem!
: Henry
Just to inform you: I'm using a Matrox Millenium with 4MB and MGA-BIOS 1.8
(so not very new) with an ASUS-board and never had a problem as described,
neither with the first Matrox-driver nor (until now) with the beta one.
(An aside: It does allow to select an 8MB mode!).
Thus I think it's not the problem of the driver.
After going back to VGA-mode (config=Default), because the new Soundblaster
PnP-Driver(-description) doesn't work for my AWE32 PnP, I really heard my
monitor switching to the new MGA-Mode (higher frequency) at startup. It
actually blanked the screen for a moment. This is before going to the
final resolution (I use the odd one above 1024x768 and below 1280x1024
in true-colour) for the loginwindow, immediately after acknowledging the
Matrox-driver on screen. So the driver seems to do the initialization just
fine.
My suggestion is to look up the hardware and maybe faulty interrupts and
the like - although I can't imagine how this could disturbe a PCI-card.
The (beta-)SoundBlaster-driver really needs a workout in my opinion (for
PnP). It only allows an 8bit DMA-selection, has unusual interrupt (9)
settings for that and certainly doesn't run with an AWE32 PnP, which
doesn't use CTL0028 but CTL0042 (if I remember it correctly) in its
id line. But its actual PnP-id is still another one, at least for me.
I managed to re-adjust it, like I did with version 3.32 and now 3.33
runs (again), but I can't see any improvement in the driver itself up
to now - although the size is a few bytes smaller than before.
But maybe I should post that with another subject :-).
Greetings,
Ruediger Oberhage
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 10:11:44 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960429100549.5066D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960425093122.2873F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4lubi7$gk4@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>
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On 27 Apr 1996, Mark Dadgar wrote:
> Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
> >But, what I had to do when I was in this situation (where my login shell
> >was csh, and who wants that? ;-) was add a line to my .cshrc which would
> >simply execute another shell, such as:
> As it turns out, this is a better solution anyway.
Well thank you.
> What happens if you change your shell in NetInfo, and then log into a
> machine that does not have your custom shell installed on it?
>
> You're hosed.
True enough. However, I put a copy of the shell I wanted in my own
account, so anywhere I logged on it would obviously be there.
> If you exec the new shell out of .cshrc, you'll just get an error if the
> binary does not exist. And you'll save your sysadmin a "Dude, I can't
> log in!" call. :)
Why would anyone call their sysadmin? Do some use the phone? I thought
the only thing a sysadmin used a phoneline for was a modem.... Anyway,
that's a very good point. If this happens often enough one might consider
getting a personal copy of their desired shell and putting it in their own
account (or email their sysadmin and nicely ask them to put it on the
computer). In my limited experience there's nothing worse than trying to
go back and forth between two shells, especially if one of them is a
brain-dead shell and the other is the amazingly wonderful ZSH....
Oops... I had tried not to plug zsh this whole message.... really I did...
TjL
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From: bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu (Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to change netinfo server
Date: 30 Apr 1996 16:46:16 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
Message-ID: <4m5g4o$5hb@masala.cc.uh.edu>
hi,
i would like to change netinfo server from one machine to another.
can i set up a backup server or secondary server.
how do i do this.?
Bala
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Dan York <dyork@lodestar.mv.com>
Subject: Booting single-user on a NeXT cube
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Folks,
I have an old NeXT cube at my house and was doing some system admin
on it. I stupidly mucked around with the host tables and now find
myself unable to log onto the system as root - either directly from
the login screen... or trying to "su" from my regular account.
From working on other UNIX workstations I am familiar with the
ability to boot into "single-user" mode to bypass the regular
login sequence and go directly in as root. Is there any way to
do an equivalent thing on the NeXT? Any keys I press during
boot? Anything? I just need to get in as root so I can put things
back to the way they were before.
Any help you can provide will be appreciated. Please reply directly
back to me e-mail account - dyork@lodestar.mv.com
Thank you,
Dan
From: steen@x1.us.ohio-state.edu (Steen Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to change default pitch on old NeXT printer?
Date: 30 Apr 1996 19:16:49 GMT
Organization: University Technology Services
Message-ID: <4m5ov1$l4p@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have a number of old black hardware and printers. We print to some of the
NeXT printers from a non-next Unix system using "lpd".
I have noticed on ONE of the printers, the output comes out in 10 pitch,
while the rest prints out in 12 pitch, when receiving data via "lpd".
How can I change the default pitch for a black NeXT printer? Is there
some postscripot file I can send to it or such, I can't find any setup
where the default font is set.
Thanks
Steen Hansen
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From: jm040795@fhda.edu (Raven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3
Date: 30 Apr 1996 23:41:31 GMT
Organization: TheSharewareCollector
Message-ID: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com>
Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running
multiple OSes (9 of them).
I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install
it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI
card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this
possible?
Here are my questions:
- Can NS indeed be installed on a second drive?
- Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders?
This are my two questions thus far. I hope I won't have install
qeuestions in the future.
Hasta,
Joaquin
From: jburne@nol.net (John Burnette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting single-user on a NeXT cube
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 22:34:40 -0800
Organization: Networks On-Line
Message-ID: <jburne-2904962234400001@ip40-19.nol.net>
References: <31865722.86F@lodestar.mv.com>
Please forward any hints you get regarding this.
In article <31865722.86F@lodestar.mv.com>, Dan York
<dyork@lodestar.mv.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have an old NeXT cube at my house and was doing some system admin
> on it. I stupidly mucked around with the host tables and now find
> myself unable to log onto the system as root - either directly from
> the login screen... or trying to "su" from my regular account.
>
> From working on other UNIX workstations I am familiar with the
> ability to boot into "single-user" mode to bypass the regular
> login sequence and go directly in as root. Is there any way to
> do an equivalent thing on the NeXT? Any keys I press during
> boot? Anything? I just need to get in as root so I can put things
> back to the way they were before.
>
> Any help you can provide will be appreciated. Please reply directly
> back to me e-mail account - dyork@lodestar.mv.com
>
> Thank you,
> Dan
From: colinj@math.math.unm.edu (Colin Eric Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HELP: PB170 & NeXTcube PPP connection
Date: 1 May 1996 04:01:32 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Math & Stat, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4m6nms$evt@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <4l6umm$f74@netnews.hinet.net>
Keywords: PPP, PB170, NeXTcube
In article <4l6umm$f74@netnews.hinet.net>, <james@young-ray.hinet.net> wrote:
>NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
>
>
>Hi everyone,
>
> I have a NeXTcube and a PB170 and like to make a PPP connection between
>them.
>
> The NeXTcube is PPP connected to my ISP via a dedicate line. I like to set
>it up so that my PB170 can connect to it via another PPP through the serial
>ports. I know that I need to set up my NeXTcube as a server and PB170 as a
>client but do not know what files to edit. The set up on the Mac side is
>trivial but NeXT confuses me a lot.
>
> Is there a place to get me started?
Off the top of my head I would think that some kind of cable between
the mac and NeXT would the place to start re: the physical connection.
I'm almost positive that the pin-outs don't match from the printer
port on the mac and the serial ports on the NeXT (if I'm wrong I would
like to know) so you'll probably have to make this yourself. The
Digital Librarian should have modem documentation in it that explain
the pin-outs on the NeXT side.
Once there you should be able to just run a second pppd process that
listens on the correct serial port for the Mac. You'll need to do some
creative networking wrt to getting TCP/IP to route properly.
I'd love to hear the final solution. I might do this myself.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Subject: Does a noncommercial Xmodem for NEXTSTEP exist?
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Well, the subject line says it all, so why waste bandwidth by repeating the
question here? After all we should all be careful about wasting bandwidth,
shouldn't we? ;-)
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From: gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Date: 1 May 1996 14:30:07 GMT
Organization: Alpha.net -- Milwaukee, WI
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Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote:
| Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running
| multiple OSes (9 of them).
Sounds like me. :)
| I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install
| it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI
| card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this
| possible?
Yeah, I did. Bit of a hassle, but it can be done. The only bad part is
that I ad to create a 10MB partition on my first 1.6G drive to boot the NS
partition of the second 1G drive. So, it doesn't really "autoboot"; I
always have to do the old sd()mach_kernel thing. I'm sure there's a way
around it, but I haven't found it. BTW, I'm using OS/2's boot manager.
| - Can NS indeed be installed on a second drive?
Yup. Like I said, bit of a hassle. Read your 3.3 install manual.
| - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders?
Dunno about over 1G, I think the limit is a 2G, but yeah, over 500 is fine.
| This are my two questions thus far. I hope I won't have install
| qeuestions in the future.
Well, we can *all* hope that we don't have to ask questions in the future,
but hell, how likely is that? :)
Greg
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From: Douglas Joshua Behnke <behnkedj@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3
Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 09:46:05 -0700
Organization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.
Message-ID: <3187954D.41C67EA6@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
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Raven wrote:
>
> Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running
> multiple OSes (9 of them).
>
Sounds like a perfect application for a Jazz drive. Has anybody tried
using a Jazz drive this way? It seems to me that dedicating a cartridge
per OS would make things easier than dealing with the partitioning
issues. If only there were a filesystem that they all could read that
could be used for fixed drives...
Cheers,
-Josh Behnke
behnkedj@cs.rose-hulman.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3
Message-ID: <DqqK2J.LIM@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
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Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 16:49:31 GMT
In article <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net> gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg
Block) writes:
> Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote:
<munch!>
> | - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders?
>
> Dunno about over 1G, I think the limit is a 2G, but yeah, over 500 is
fine.
>
<munch!>
NS 3.2,3.3 have 2Gig partition limitations. Is this a limitation
in the kernel and will it go away in 4.0?
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From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Manipulating NIs /users directory ?
Date: 1 May 1996 22:29:06 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4m8oji$jct@news.next.com>
References: <4m2d3d$pf7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
In article <4m2d3d$pf7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) asks about putting
"extra" usere in NetInfo, but oly for managing "address book" functions -
not for login.
You can add this kind of user entry to NetInfo, but for security you
should add a bogus passwd property and a uid like -2. For example:
name: zippy
passwd: *nologin*
uid: -2
> May this crash or disturb getpwent ?
It won't bother getpwent().
> What if I add this users to several groups (in NI, this doesn't depend
> on the uid, only the name) ?
You can add a bogus user to a group. It doesn't do anything bad.
--
Marc Majka
From: KTS@telesource.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Makefile
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 02:32:49 GMT
Organization: scruz-net
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I've downloaded and application that doesn't have the nice ".app" extension.
Instead, I got a folder with a bunch of files with .c and .1 extensions, and
a Makefile. How do I transform these files into a useable application???
Many Thanks in Advance!
Kevin T. Smith
ksmith@telesource.com
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From: dirk@.object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3
Date: 2 May 1996 10:31:02 GMT
Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany)
Message-ID: <4ma2t6$i6m@isabella.object-factory.com>
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gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block) wrote:
> Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote:
> | I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install
> | it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI
> | card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this
> | possible?
>
> Yeah, I did. Bit of a hassle, but it can be done. The only bad part is
> that I ad to create a 10MB partition on my first 1.6G drive to boot the NS
> partition of the second 1G drive. So, it doesn't really "autoboot"; I
> always have to do the old sd()mach_kernel thing. I'm sure there's a way
> around it, but I haven't found it. BTW, I'm using OS/2's boot manager.
You can even spare the 10MB partition if you don't mind booting NS off a
floppy disk. I did this for almost 2 Years now and it works fine. Just follow
NextAnswer #1487 ("Booting from Hard Drive Disk). These steps work fine for a
boot floppy.
-dirk
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From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Changing login shell under NetInfo
Date: 1 May 1996 20:33:15 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4m8hqb$j5u@news.its.com>
References: <Dq8qrK.2FD@linex1.linex.com> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960425093122.2873F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4lubi7$gk4@ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960429100549.5066D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
>> What happens if you change your shell in NetInfo, and then log into a
>> machine that does not have your custom shell installed on it?
>>
>> You're hosed.
>
> True enough. However, I put a copy of the shell I wanted in my own
> account, so anywhere I logged on it would obviously be there.
That's won't always be reliable. What happens if the NFS space that your
home directory exists in is not available or is not mounted on that
particular machine?
> > If you exec the new shell out of .cshrc, you'll just get an error if the
> > binary does not exist. And you'll save your sysadmin a "Dude, I can't
> > log in!" call. :)
>
> Why would anyone call their sysadmin? Do some use the phone? I thought
> the only thing a sysadmin used a phoneline for was a modem....
Sysadmins end up having to deal with the phone when someone screws their
account up so badly that they can't even log in to send mail about it. :-)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: robin@pswtech.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: [Q] On limitations of partitioning with 3.3
Date: 2 May 1996 14:21:14 GMT
Organization: PSW Technologies
Message-ID: <4magcq$m4b@digdug.pswtech.com>
References: <jm040795-3004961641310001@mencju.apple.com> <4m7shf$36n@homer.alpha.net>
gblock@homer.alpha.net (Greg Block) wrote:
: Raven (jm040795@fhda.edu) wrote:
: | Hi, I had a few questions about paritition. I'm planning on running
: | multiple OSes (9 of them).
: Sounds like me. :)
: | I want to use NeXTStep and was trying to figure out how I should install
: | it. I have two 2gig SCSI drives (Seagate drives on Adaptec 2940PCI
: | card). I wish to install NeXTStep onto my second drive. Is this
: | possible?
: Yeah, I did. Bit of a hassle, but it can be done. The only bad part is
: that I ad to create a 10MB partition on my first 1.6G drive to boot the NS
: partition of the second 1G drive. So, it doesn't really "autoboot"; I
: always have to do the old sd()mach_kernel thing. I'm sure there's a way
: around it, but I haven't found it. BTW, I'm using OS/2's boot manager.
There is a way around this, but it isn't for the faint of heart... Go to the:
/private/Drivers/i386/System.config/Instance0.table
(This is a file within a 'config' bundle -- you will need to select the
"System.config" file first from the file-browser, and then hit COMMAND-O (note
that is a _shifted_ letter -O- (oh)).)
This will open another file-view with the bundle in it. You should see the
Instance0.table file within it. Edit this file with Edit.app (or, use a shell
to get to it and edit it with 'vi' or 'emacs' or "whatever").
Change the line:
"Kernel Flags" = "";
To:
"Kernel Flags" = "sd(1)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a";
(Note that the _actual_ number will really depend on which drive/partition you
use for NEXTSTEP... This should be the same as the command line option you
currently supply to the boot prompt though...)
Save the files.
Now, (here's the really tricky part)... If you boot from a "boot partition",
this file will be the one on that partition. However, you will need to make
sure that the list of device drivers you load (as defined by the "Active
Drivers" and the "Boot Drivers" stanzas in this file) are the same in this file
from the 'root' partition. That is to say, this file exists on _both_ the
'boot' partition, and the 'root' partition (same path to the file).
: | - Can NS indeed be installed on a second drive?
: Yup. Like I said, bit of a hassle. Read your 3.3 install manual.
: | - Can NS be installed over 500megs? Over 1gig or 1024cylinders?
: Dunno about over 1G, I think the limit is a 2G, but yeah, over 500 is fine.
The only limitation is how the BIOS reports your drive. I have NEXTSTEP
installed in a 2.5GB Conner drive (EIDE), and it works fine. It took a little
trickery to get it initialized, but after that it works.
: | This are my two questions thus far. I hope I won't have install
: | qeuestions in the future.
: Well, we can *all* hope that we don't have to ask questions in the future,
: but hell, how likely is that? :)
Good luck...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rdl@world.std.com (Robert La Ferla)
Subject: Re: Makefile
In-Reply-To: KTS@telesource.com's message of Thu, 2 May 1996 02:32:49 GMT
Message-ID: <u4120l2wi3t.fsf@world.std.com>
Sender: rdl@world.std.com
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <960501183249.210AAC7P.freedom@ksmith>
Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 03:28:22 GMT
If you have NEXTSTEP developer installed, you can launch a Terminal shell
window, "cd" to that directory and type "make" This will compile the
program.
Robert
From: Christian.Colin@emn.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I change hardware password when I forgot it !
Date: 3 May 1996 07:55:39 GMT
Organization: Ecole des Mines de Nantes
Message-ID: <4mce5r$jqp@wfn.emn.fr>
Hi everybody,
I've a black cube with NextStep 3.0. A long time ago, I defined a hardware password to protect
the computer. Yesterday, I had some problems with the cube and it ask me the hardware
password. But I don't remember the magic word. How can I do to boot as a single user without
password ? How can I change the password without know the old one ?
The documentation says "if you have forgot the password, there is a complex method to...." but
I can't see anywhere this method. Does somebody know this method ?
As it's a security question, I think it's better to send your reply by mail
(Christian.Colin@emn.fr).
Thanks in advance.
Christian
_______________________________
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Ecole des Mines de Nantes
4, rue ALFRED KASTLER
La Chantrerie
F-44070 NANTES cedex 03
FRANCE
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Web : http://www.emn.fr/dept_info
E-mail : Christian.Colin@emn.fr
From: birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenSource? What happened to 'em?
Date: 2 May 1996 18:08:18 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com>
Did OpenSource go out of business? Their 800 number and area-code 303
number both seem to be disconnected. Their website just times out with
no data.
Anybody know?
While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four
Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3
onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies
before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the
list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have
BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list
seems to work!).
.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: lorgb@netcom.com (LOR/Geske Bock Associates)
Subject: Help to boot NeXTStep from 2nd SCSI on PC
Message-ID: <lorgbDqsq3H.KIC@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 20:54:53 GMT
Sender: lorgb@netcom12.netcom.com
How can I boot NeXTStep from 2nd SCSI on the PC?
I installed Win NT on the 1st SCSI and NeXTStep
on the 2nd SCSI. Now I can not boot NeXTStep.
Can anyone know about this?
Thanks.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Makefile
Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 09:53:25 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960502094924.2638B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <960501183249.210AAC7P.freedom@ksmith>
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To: KTS@telesource.com
In-Reply-To: <960501183249.210AAC7P.freedom@ksmith>
On Thu, 2 May 1996 KTS@telesource.com wrote:
> I've downloaded and application that doesn't have the nice ".app" extension.
> Instead, I got a folder with a bunch of files with .c and .1 extensions, and
> a Makefile. How do I transform these files into a useable application???
>
> ksmith@telesource.com
You downloaded the source, it sounds like.
If you have the dev tools required to compile, and the app was made
properly ;-) then you should be able to:
1) Launch /NextApps/Terminal.app
2) 'cd' to the proper directory and do 'make'
ie: if the folder with all the files you mentioned is
in your home directory and called 'SomeDirectory', then
in the Terminal.app window type this:
cd ~/SomeDirectory
and then type:
make
My guess is that if you don't know how to do this you either:
1) just got your system (if it has the dev tools)
or
2) don't have the dev tools
Just I could be wrong about that.
TjL
--
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USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast.
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Which driver for on-board Vibra-16?
Date: 3 May 1996 10:53:46 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <4mcojq$abo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Which driver (if any is available) should I use for the Vibra-16 based
sound facility which is integrated on the Intel Endeavor board? Thanks.
William Clocksin
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em?
Date: 3 May 1996 11:22:43 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4mcqa3$j1t@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com>
Cc: birdrock@well.com
In <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com> Brian Dear wrote:
> While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four
> Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3
> onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies
> before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the
> list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have
> BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list
> seems to work!).
NeXT changed the default port address for BusLogic cards. You should
probably rejumper the card to move the port from 0x334 to 0x330.
Paul
--
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
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From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Which driver for on-board Vibra-16?
Date: 3 May 1996 12:51:41 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
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References: <4mcojq$abo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
In article <4mcojq$abo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
writes:
> Which driver (if any is available) should I use for the Vibra-16 based
> sound facility which is integrated on the Intel Endeavor board? Thanks.
>
..
Hmm. I don't know if this helps but the SB16 driver works fine with the
VIBRA-16 card.
Henry
From: Jochen Klinke <jklinke@ucsd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz
Date: 3 May 1996 14:49:41 GMT
Organization: The University of California at San Diego
Message-ID: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu>
I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup
a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive.
iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\
:pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
:ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console:
BuildDisk: Starting build at Thu May 2 12:15:35 1996...
disk name: iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1
disk type: removable_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot
Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1045365 6534 2 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t
Warning: insufficient space in super block for
rotational layout tables with nsect 6534 and ntrak 2.
File system performance may be impaired.
cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 4 cylinders per group
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1)
What's wrong with the disktab entry? Any pointers appreciated.
Jochen Klinke
PORD 0230 email: <jklinke@ucsd.edu>
Scripps Institution of Oceanography phone: 619-534-8029
La Jolla, CA 92093-0230 fax: 619-534-8509
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From: birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 3 May 1996 18:18:01 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <4mdikp$54r@nkosi.well.com>
References: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com>
I've gotten some email from folks telling me
OpenSource has gone out of business. Sigh.
I think it's time to stop using NEXTSTEP.
Nearly every NEXTSTEP-related vendor I've
dealt with has disappeared. I'm typing this
from a snazzy Canon object.station running
NS3.3, but have reached the point that it's
too dangerous to create so many documents
in a NS environment. Time to consider
alternatives... sigh
Brian Dear (birdrock@well.com) wrote:
: Did OpenSource go out of business? Their 800 number and area-code 303
: number both seem to be disconnected. Their website just times out with
: no data.
: Anybody know?
: While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four
: Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3
: onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies
: before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the
: list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have
: BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list
: seems to work!).
: .
Date: 3 May 1996 17:22:04 GMT
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple Internet Personalities
Date: 3 May 1996 20:06:14 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4mdovm$p3k@news.tamu.edu>
We have a laptop for classroom use that needs to be booted up with
different hostconfig files depending on which building the machine
is being used. Sometimes the machine also needs to be booted as
a standalone.
The trouble is that things hang if the wrong hostconfig file is in
place during booting.
Does anyone have a suggestion about a slick way to do this? I'm
thinking along the lines of a prompt during the boot process that then
installs the correct hostconfig file depending on the response, but
I'm not sure how to implement it.
Thanks.
--
Colin Allen
colin.allen@tamu.edu
-Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!-
From: asr@itsq8.com (Ahmad Al-rasheedan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: su to root
Date: 3 May 1996 19:15:59 GMT
Organization: International Turnkey Systems
Message-ID: <4mdm1f$3ng@info.itsq8.com>
Users added to NS3.3 can't su to root. 'me' can. How to enable
other users to su to root?
Thanx.
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su to root
Date: 3 May 1996 23:29:58 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-d-11.usc.edu
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References: <4mdm1f$3ng@info.itsq8.com>
Cc: asr@itsq8.com
In <4mdm1f$3ng@info.itsq8.com> Ahmad Al-rasheedan wrote:
> Users added to NS3.3 can't su to root. 'me' can. How to enable
> other users to su to root?
They need to be members in the "wheel" group, which can be accomplished
through UserManager.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
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From: diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net (NextOneWorld)
Subject: IBM disk corrupts the SCSI-bus?
Message-ID: <DqvBGA.E6t@inter.NL.net>
Org: NextOneWorld
Sender: news@inter.NL.net (News at newsutr)
Organization: NLnet
Date: Sat, 4 May 1996 06:31:22 GMT
--
Hello there,
My IBM SCSI disk type dsas-3540 548 Mb gives the following message in the
console of my NeXTstation (8/548 Mb):
> bsd sd(0,0,0)
> SCCI unexpected msg:1
> SC: Unexpected msg
> ... (after a while)
> No SCSI disk
After re-building the disk with NS 3.3 it launches the OS well, but the
second time it can't find the bootable SCSI disk. Connecting an external disk
is still possible and shows the IBM disk in the fileviewer.
Can someone tell me what's going on here?
BTW: I've already exchanged disk for a new one and tried switching
jumpersettings to other addresses and SCSI terminated on/off.
Personal regards \!/,
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From: "Jeff W. Storey" <jstorey@ablecom.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to change netinfo server
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 00:42:37 -0700
Organization: Able Technical Services
Message-ID: <318B0A6D.55E89479@ablecom.net>
References: <4m5g4o$5hb@masala.cc.uh.edu>
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To: Balasubramanian Krishnamurthy <bala@Bau.seas.ucla.edu>
Use the nidomain utility to create a clone of the master server, then
after a reasonable amount of time (to allow the clone to gain it's copy
of the masters database) change the master property to point to the
clone. When all is updated, the clone will think he is the master. Of
course, you have to make the entries in the serves properties of the
clone so that netinfo knows of it, and the clone's local netinfo must
also have a serves property added so that it knows he is a clone server.
I believe it is best to reboot the clone once all of the binding entries
have been, but before you switch the master property to point to the
clone.
Check out the man pages for nidomain and niutil.
Hope I helped.
PS. I have had weird problems with databases created by nidomain. For
no reason that I know of, rebooting after setting up the clone seems to
cause a smoother operation.
From: "Jeff W. Storey" <jstorey@ablecom.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Booting single-user on a NeXT cube
Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 00:46:30 -0700
Organization: Able Technical Services
Message-ID: <318B0B56.60C36B6F@ablecom.net>
References: <31865722.86F@lodestar.mv.com>
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To: Dan York <dyork@lodestar.mv.com>
To go to single user mode on the NeXT Cube, from the NeXT monitor
prompt, type bsd -s.
This will ask you for a hardware password, so I hope you know it. If
you don't, I have heard of opening the cube and shorting the cmos so
that the password is lost. I have never tried that myself, but I know
someone who has if you need a procedure.
From: moellney@michi.bota.uni-bonn.de (Michael Moellney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with Lexmark Optra and Print Panel
Date: 4 May 1996 13:53:23 GMT
Organization: University of Bonn, Germany
Message-ID: <4mfngj$fcp@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Hi there!
I downloaded the lexmark_optra.ppd file from www.lexmark.com and
installed it in the correct place.
Since the Optra R+ is installed as a Netware printer I configured it
in NetwareManager the usual way.
Printing works like charme, but there's one problem.
In PrintPanel you can choose different printer-specific things like
Resolution (300dpi,600dpi,1200dpi) or many different Papertrays
(manual,default,.....)
When choosing p.e. 300dpi and manual paper tray and then pressing
print the printer doesn't react on the choosen settings.
When saving from the printpanel and choosing printer specific output
and then sending this to the printer from console by
"lpr -PLexmark1 filename.ps" the printer reacts on the setting,
prints in 300dpi and first wants you to insert a sheet of paper in
the manual tray.
I caught the data, that are send to the printer by pressing print and
saved it to the file m300.ps.
(BTW, this can be done by using lpc: stop Lexmark1 (in lpc), then
print, then have a look in /usr/spool/NeXT/Lexmark1/df......, copy
the df-file, start Lexmark1 (in lpc -> the file is printed))
Then I created a file with the same setting (300dpi,manual) and
chossing save in the printpanel under m300lex.ps .
the difference between these to file is shown by:
michi:16# diff m300.ps m300lex.ps
4c4
< %%CreationDate: Sat May 4 15:17:06 1996
---
> %%CreationDate: Sat May 4 15:12:04 1996
211,213c211,220
< %%Feature: *Resolution 300dpi
< %%Feature: *ManualFeed True
< %%Feature: *PageRegion A4
---
> %%BeginFeature: *Resolution 300dpi
> 1 dict dup /HWResolution [300 300] put setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
> %%BeginFeature: *ManualFeed True
> 1 dict dup /ManualFeed true put setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
> %%BeginFeature: *PageRegion A4
>
> 2 dict dup /PageSize [595 842] put dup /ImagingBBox null put
setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
220,221c227,233
< %%Feature: *ManualFeed True
< %%Feature: *PageRegion A4
---
> %%BeginFeature: *ManualFeed True
> 1 dict dup /ManualFeed true put setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
> %%BeginFeature: *PageRegion A4
>
> 2 dict dup /PageSize [595 842] put dup /ImagingBBox null put
setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
As you can see in m300.ps (cought by lpc....) there the choosen
settings are recogniced:
< %%Feature: *Resolution 300dpi
< %%Feature: *ManualFeed True
< %%Feature: *PageRegion A4
but aren't checked by the printer.
in m300lex (with save in Printpanel) it sounds :
> %%BeginFeature: *Resolution 300dpi
> 1 dict dup /HWResolution [300 300] put setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
> %%BeginFeature: *ManualFeed True
> 1 dict dup /ManualFeed true put setpagedevice
> %%EndFeature
> %%BeginFeature: *PageRegion A4
>
> 2 dict dup /PageSize [595 842] put dup /ImagingBBox null put
setpagedevice
and is handled by the printer in the way it should.
So my Question is: Is it a Problem of the .ppd file from Lexmark or
is there a way to make the printpanel react the same way, like under
the save-button when choosing "printer specific" (perhaps there's a
dwrite ????)
I would like you to send me e-mail, so I can summerize you anwsers.
Thank you alot, Michael
From: kkwan@cs.hku.hk (Kelvin Kwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 4 May 1996 07:16:00 GMT
Organization: University of Hong Kong
Message-ID: <4mf07g$m8a@hkusuc.hku.hk>
References: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu>
Jochen Klinke (jklinke@ucsd.edu) wrote:
: I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup
: a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive.
:
: iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\
: :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\
: :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
: :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\
: :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
: :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
:
: However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console:
From: kkwan@cs.hku.hk (Kelvin Kwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Disktab entry for Iomega jaz
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 4 May 1996 07:18:56 GMT
Organization: University of Hong Kong
Message-ID: <4mf0d0$m8a@hkusuc.hku.hk>
References: <4md6e6$p8k@news1.ucsd.edu>
Jochen Klinke (jklinke@ucsd.edu) wrote:
: I've been trying to use the following distab entry (was posted in a newsgroup
: a couple of weeks ago) for the Iomega jaz 1GB drive.
:
: iomega jaz|iomega jaz 1GB|iomega jaz 1GB G.6002/1:\
: :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1021:nt#64:ns#32:ss#512:rm#5400:\
: :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
: :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:\
: :pa#0:sa#2045952:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
: :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
:
: However, initializing fails and reports these errors in the console:
From: lusty@shell.aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su to root
Date: 4 May 1996 08:33:09 -0700
Organization: Aimnet Corporation
Message-ID: <4mftbl$l77@shell1.aimnet.com>
References: <4mdm1f$3ng@info.itsq8.com>
In article <4mdm1f$3ng@info.itsq8.com>,
Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr@itsq8.com> wrote:
>Users added to NS3.3 can't su to root. 'me' can. How to enable
>other users to su to root?
Only members of the "wheel" group can su. Add people to the wheel
group (it doesn't have to be their default group) if you want them to su.
Lusty
From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please explain what happened
Date: 4 May 1996 18:42:18 GMT
Organization: Sense Networking Seattle (www.oz.net)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mg8ea$dlc@emerald.oz.net>
Yesterday while my Cube was doing nothing but running BackSpace, I heard
lots of disk activity and went to investigate. I found that the window
server had crashed and I was left with a console login prompt that followed
hundreds of lines of repeating error messages. Here are a few of them:
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein (bread)
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein: error = 5.
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein: error = 5.
[Mail: Caught signal #10; terminating safely]
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein: error = 5.
[Mail: Recaught signal #10; quitting cleanly]
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pagein: error = 5.
[Mail: Recaught signal #10; exiting fast]
sd0 is a 6-month-old Conner drive, so it shouldn't be failing. I've been
able to reboot successfully and fsck didn't find any problems.
Do these messages suggest a hardware or SCSI driver problem? I had
booted OS 4.0 PR2 when this happened, but I've been running OS 4.0 for more
than a month without this problem occurring.
If it's a hardware problem, I want to arrange to have the drive replaced
ASAP.
Thanks for your assistance.
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: jlincoln@mailhost.onramp.net (Jason Lincoln)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP2.2 Problem
Date: 5 May 1996 16:00:10 GMT
Organization: Foresight Systems, Inc.
Message-ID: <4mijaa$j9@nntp.onramp.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
I have recently upgraded to NeXTSTEP 3.3 and now am unable to connect
using PPP2.2. I connect, pass my userid, password and PPP command but
after that pppd tries to send LCD info and then disconnects. Here is the
the debug info from /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug;
Connected...
May 4 17:08:27 jlincoln pppd[328]: Using interface ppp0
May 4 17:08:27 jlincoln pppd[328]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb
May 4 17:08:27 jlincoln pppd[328]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x31877e8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
May 4 17:08:45 jlincoln last message
repeated 6 times
May 4 17:08:48 jlincoln pppd[328]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
<magic 0x31877e8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
May 4 17:08:54 jlincoln last message repeated 2 times
May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: Connection terminated.
May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: Serial link is not 8-bit clean:
May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: All received characters had bit 7 set
to 0
And here is the script I use to connect;
#!/bin/sh -f
exec /usr/local/bin/pppd netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 296 debug defaultroute
modem connect '/usr/local/bin/chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT
"NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATZ0 "OK" ATDT3321139 CONNECT "" sername:
##### assword: ##### nnex: PPP.' \
/dev/cufb 9600 lock
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Jason
From: nick@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can I change hardware password when I forgot it !
Date: 5 May 1996 19:04:18 GMT
Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <4miu3i$5or@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
References: <4mce5r$jqp@wfn.emn.fr>
Cc: Christian.Colin@emn.fr
In <4mce5r$jqp@wfn.emn.fr> Christian.Colin@emn.fr wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've a black cube with NextStep 3.0. A long time ago, I defined a hardware
password to protect
> the computer. Yesterday, I had some problems with the cube and it ask me
the hardware
> password. But I don't remember the magic word. How can I do to boot as a
single user without
> password ? How can I change the password without know the old one ?
>
> The documentation says "if you have forgot the password, there is a complex
method to...." but
> I can't see anywhere this method. Does somebody know this method ?
>
> As it's a security question, I think it's better to send your reply by mail
> (Christian.Colin@emn.fr).
there was some neat little .app made for this purpose a while ago... check
the ftp.sites.... Also you can do the old remove the battery and rom forgets
all !
Nick
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IBM disk corrupts the SCSI-bus?
Date: 4 May 1996 14:11:37 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4mfoip$mb@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <DqvBGA.E6t@inter.NL.net>
diederic.vlamings@inter.nl.net (NextOneWorld) wrote:
> My IBM SCSI disk type dsas-3540 548 Mb gives the following message in the
> console of my NeXTstation (8/548 Mb):
>
> > bsd sd(0,0,0)
> > SCCI unexpected msg:1
> > SC: Unexpected msg
> > ... (after a while)
> > No SCSI disk
My brother's IBM also did not work on our slab. It worked as "data" disk but
not as boot drive.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
Date: 6 May 1996 00:32:07 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-47.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4mjha7$o66@usc.edu>
How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
I tried
mput -i *.jpg
But that only gave me an additional action to okay:
mput -i
As though -i was a file.
I would like to ftp upload multiple files without having to okay each one as
it goes by.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 6 May 1996 04:15:13 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4mjuch$6k8@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
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- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
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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
================
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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
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From: mario@galileo.uwaterloo.ca (Mario Stargard)
Subject: /tmp
Message-ID: <DqzHyB.CqH@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca>
Sender: news@watserv3.uwaterloo.ca
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 12:42:10 GMT
I see that /tmp is linked to /private/tmp. Can I physically move
/private/tmp to another disk and just make sure that /tmp is linked to it,
or will bad things happen?
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From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.os2.utilities,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc
Subject: How: booting NT on 2nd SCSI from OS/2 boot manager on 1st SCSI?
Date: 6 May 1996 14:13:50 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <4ml1eu$q2k@news.service.uci.edu>
Intel Pentium using only two scsi drives.
I have OS/2 boot manager installed on first scsi drive along with
nextstep. On the second drive, I used to have DOS/WIN3.11, which the OS/2
boot manager on the first drive would happily boot. I disabled the first
scsi drive to install NT3.51 on the second drive in order to be safe not
to corrupt any thing on my first drive. After installing NT, I could boot
into either DOS or NT with the second drive. But when I re-enable the
first drive, and tell OS/2 boot manager to boot from the second drive,
the system hangs at the message:
NT v1.0 testing hardware.
Any help on this is appreciated. Maybe there is a FAQ somewhere.
Thank you.
--
Feng Liu, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717-3975
phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department)
Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: Ian.Hargreaves@ibm.net (Ian Hargreaves)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.os2.utilities,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc
Subject: Re: How: booting NT on 2nd SCSI from OS/2 boot manager on 1st SCSI?
Date: 6 May 1996 15:48:12 GMT
Organization: Dun & Bradstreet
Message-ID: <4ml6vs$3eoe@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
References: <4ml1eu$q2k@news.service.uci.edu>
I installed NT 4.0 and OS/2 on the same drive as follows:
Primary FAT 400mb NT and DOS6
Primary HPFS 600mb OS/2 Warp
Bootable 2mb BOOT MANAGER
This way I can boot OS/2 NT or DOS (from NT Boot Menu).
NT install will disable Boot Manager, but this can be re-enabled after
installation is complete.
Try re-running the Disk Manager from NT (boot using emergency repair disk)
Regards,
Ian.Hargreaves@ibm.net
In message <4ml1eu$q2k@news.service.uci.edu> - fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes:
:>
:>Intel Pentium using only two scsi drives.
:>I have OS/2 boot manager installed on first scsi drive along with
:>nextstep. On the second drive, I used to have DOS/WIN3.11, which the OS/2
:>boot manager on the first drive would happily boot. I disabled the first
:>scsi drive to install NT3.51 on the second drive in order to be safe not
:>to corrupt any thing on my first drive. After installing NT, I could boot
:>into either DOS or NT with the second drive. But when I re-enable the
:>first drive, and tell OS/2 boot manager to boot from the second drive,
:>the system hangs at the message:
:>NT v1.0 testing hardware.
:>
:>Any help on this is appreciated. Maybe there is a FAQ somewhere.
:>Thank you.
:>
:>
:>--
:>Feng Liu, Assistant Professor
:>Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
:>University of California, Irvine
:>Irvine, CA 92717-3975
:>phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department)
:>Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: lin@lorien.umd.edu (Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP2.2 Problem
Date: 6 May 1996 05:38:58 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Message-ID: <4mk39i$g5j@hecate.umd.edu>
References: <4mijaa$j9@nntp.onramp.net>
Jason Lincoln (jlincoln@mailhost.onramp.net) wrote:
: I have recently upgraded to NeXTSTEP 3.3 and now am unable to connect
: using PPP2.2. I connect, pass my userid, password and PPP command but
: after that pppd tries to send LCD info and then disconnects. Here is the
: the debug info from /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug;
: Connected...
: May 4 17:08:27 jlincoln pppd[328]: Using interface ppp0
: May 4 17:08:27 jlincoln pppd[328]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb
: May 4 17:08:27 jlincoln pppd[328]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
: <magic 0x31877e8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
: May 4 17:08:45 jlincoln last message
: repeated 6 times
: May 4 17:08:48 jlincoln pppd[328]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500>
: <magic 0x31877e8e> <pcomp> <accomp>]
: May 4 17:08:54 jlincoln last message repeated 2 times
: May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
: May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: Connection terminated.
: May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: Serial link is not 8-bit clean:
: May 4 17:08:57 jlincoln pppd[328]: All received characters had bit 7 set
: to 0
: And here is the script I use to connect;
: #!/bin/sh -f
: exec /usr/local/bin/pppd netmask 255.255.255.0 mtu 296 debug defaultroute
: modem connect '/usr/local/bin/chat -v ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT
: "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATZ0 "OK" ATDT3321139 CONNECT "" sername:
: ##### assword: ##### nnex: PPP.' \
: /dev/cufb 9600 lock
This is very similar to the case I just experienced. It turned out that
remote ppp didn't start even though your got that " Connect: ppp0 <-->
/dev/cufb" message. There are two thing you might want to check into :
1. Use a tip or pcomm to dial in as a terminal, enter login and passwd and
at annex prompt, type ppp ( lower case ) and see if ppp session starts.
2. If you have confirmed you should type PPP instead of ppp, try to recall
why you leave that period after PPP.
Our problem was the second case. I didn't understand why the example script
has that period there so I left it there. Once I remove that period,
everything went fine.
Another thing I am not sure at this point is when I try another PPP server
using portmaster with that period left in the passwd entry. I will get the
connection and be able to run everything for 30 min and the NeXT box go
system panic. After I remove the period, it has survived over an hour and
going now.
Can anyone else explain what's that period doing there ?
From: tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (Georg Tuparev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Please explain what happened
Date: 6 May 1996 16:22:33 GMT
Organization: EMBL Heidelberg
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ml909$j2a@lion.embl-heidelberg.de>
References: <4mg8ea$dlc@emerald.oz.net>
In article <4mg8ea$dlc@emerald.oz.net> aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
writes:
> Yesterday while my Cube was doing nothing but running BackSpace, I heard
> lots of disk activity and went to investigate. I found that the window
> server had crashed and I was left with a console login prompt that followed
> hundreds of lines of repeating error messages. Here are a few of them:
>
> sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
I had the same problem twice (Sun-SPARC10). After reboot everything seamed to
be OK. Have no idea what it was ...
--
Georg Tuparev
EMBL / Protein Design Phone: +49 - 6221 - 387305
Meyerhofstr. 1 FAX: +49 - 6221 - 387517
D-69117 Heidelberg
Germany
Tuparev@EMBL-Heidelberg.de (NeXT-mail)
From: cej@hal.cac.stratus.com (Carl Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
Date: 6 May 1996 17:21:05 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <4mlce1$75l@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <4mjha7$o66@usc.edu>
Matthew N. Reichman writes:
> How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
Try typing "prompt" at the ftp> prompt. This should
toggle prompting and get you to non-interactive mode.
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: slow system with Preference.app running
Date: 6 May 1996 18:50:44 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4mlhm4$sa6@news.tamu.edu>
We have an intel system running NS3.3 with Patch1. The user left himself
logged in and left town for a week. When he returned, he found the screen
frozen and nothing responded. After turning the power off and rebooting
everything seemed to run fine except for one thing.
The system is a lot slower. The harddisk seems to get constantly accessed,
even though now apparent processes are running. I tried checking with the
ps command too. I remembered some discussion a while back about
Preference.app having some bugs in NS3.3. After quiting the Preference.app
the system immediately became more responsive. The cursor didn't change to
a spinning disk for a few seconds every time something got clicked.
anybody have any idea what is happing here? He said he tried rebooting and
starting it up fresh, but that didn't help either. I'm tempted to do that
again. Is Preference.app fixed with the Patch1 for NS3.3?
Any suggestions welcome....
HP
--
Hanspeter Schaub
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub
schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
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-Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
Date: 6 May 1996 19:26:52 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-70.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4mljps$8ua@usc.edu>
References: <4mjha7$o66@usc.edu> <4mlce1$75l@transfer.stratus.com>
Cc: cej@hal.cac.stratus.com
In <4mlce1$75l@transfer.stratus.com> Carl Johnson wrote:
> Matthew N. Reichman writes:
> > How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
>
> Try typing "prompt" at the ftp> prompt. This should
> toggle prompting and get you to non-interactive mode.
Well, can't be the first time I ignorantly scanned to quickly the man page!
Thanks for all the responses. (And the lack of reprobation!)
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What are the base files required for booting?
Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 12:56:47 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960507125436.540A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
If I wanted to build a disk with just the most necessary files for
booting, what would I put on it?
This would be used in emergencies, like when and if my HD dies on me.
TjL
--
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>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
From: ymn@renaissoft.com (Mike Nakamura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trouble with Unix Command: mesg
Date: 8 May 1996 03:11:20 GMT
Organization: Canada Internet Direct, Inc.
Distribution: World
Message-ID: <4mp3co$icp@grid.direct.ca>
Recently, I've noticed that the following happens when I use "mesg"
command:
localhost> mesg
is y
localhost> mesg n
mesg: cannot change mode
localhost> mesg y
mesg: cannot change mode
localhost>
Anyone else had this problem before?
Mike
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From: tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adaptec 2940 and command queueing
Date: 7 May 1996 12:04:45 GMT
Organization: Italia Online
Message-ID: <4mne8t$nf6@mikasa.iol.it>
Is there a way to enable the "command queueing" feature when one or more
scsi devices can t handle it?
Antonio Flores
tony@gestel.it
From: tec@alumnae.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sybase support needed -- telecommute OK
Date: 8 May 1996 04:47:38 GMT
Organization: Caltech Alumni Association
Message-ID: <4mp91a$9pq@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
Help duplicating a database and converting it for a fresh year is
needed (for Sybase on vintage NeXTstations running 3.2).
Contact Tim Winningham (tim@tsxpress.com) if you're interested. He
is located in the City of Orange (So. Calif.), but a telecommute
job is fine. Or, try calling him at 800-529-6720x16.
I believe he also needs some other stray sysadmin support, so if
you can do that also you might mention it.
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot flags
Date: 8 May 1996 07:09:28 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mphb8$dlc@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <4mn8qs$i1@news.tuwien.ac.at>
In article <4mn8qs$i1@news.tuwien.ac.at> wilkie@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Alexander
Wilkie) writes:
!> In <4mmqjg$noc@news.tuwien.ac.at> I wrote:
!> > Sorry if this a RTFM question, but ...
!>
!> Well, it sort of is...
!>
!> > Setting BOOT GRAPHICS to OFF had no effect.
!>
!> Nor should it have. You have to enter "NO".
!>
!> Many thanks to those who responded via e-mail!
..
BTW, I have no problems running boot graphics with an ASUS main board!
Henry
From: kiwi@buran (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot flags
Date: 8 May 1996 10:04:29 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mprjd$rqj@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4mn8qs$i1@news.tuwien.ac.at> <4mphb8$dlc@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
Henry Koplien (ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de) wrote:
[...]
: BTW, I have no problems running boot graphics with an ASUS main board!
Triton / S3 is the problem, not ASUS.
--
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: gnorr@gnorr.candle.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.os2.utilities,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc
Subject: Re: How: booting NT on 2nd SCSI from OS/2 boot manager on 1st SCSI?
Date: 7 May 1996 17:29:48 GMT
Organization: Candle Corporation
Message-ID: <4mo1ad$1g1@phobos.Candle.Com>
References: <4mlv63$clu@phobos.Candle.Com> <4mmkfu$rrr@news.service.uci.edu>
In <4mmkfu$rrr@news.service.uci.edu>, fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) writes:
>But apparently, NT has to be on the first drive.
>I guess, I will have to either get an NT partition on my first drive or
>get a different boot manager. What is V-sytems? Can it be used to boot
>linux too?
Let me correct a misconception here, and a common one it seems. NT does not
have to be *installed* on the first drive, it can be on any FAT, HPFS or NTFS
partition on any BIOS-addressable drive. What it does require on the first
primary partition is a few K of files which start NT's boot process, including
its boot manager. Once you select your NT system from NT's boot manager the
NT boot will proceed using NT installed wherever you choose to put it.
V-Systems is a company. Amongst other products they sell is System Commander
which claims the ability to boot up to about 100 PC-based operating systems on
a single PC, including Linux. I have no personal experience of it, but I know folks
who swear by it.
====== Graham C. Norris ========= Graham_Norris@candle.com =======
====== Opinions expressed here are not those of my employer ======
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS and multiple servers
Date: 8 May 1996 12:25:10 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mq3r6$ict@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu>
Hi,
UW - La Crosse has a three tier Netinfo heirarchy. Occasionally a departmental
server will go down or become disconnected from the the rest of the network
and we experience an almost total lockup on the remaining machines; spinning
cursors etc. We keep almost all user accounts at the root of Netinfo and the
root has imports(mounts) for all of the servers that host User accounts. The
majority of students' accounts are kept on two servers that have excellent
availablity. The purpose of all this is to allow students to be able to access
their own accounts in a faculty member's office and for a faculty member to
have access from a student lab. I have looked at the default values in the NFS
manager's options and everything there seems reasonable. All are defaults
except to do the mounts in the background and to retry interruptibly.
What can I do to keep stations running that aren't accessing a server that has
gone down or become disconnected from the rest of the network? e.g. It would
be great if in hte event that the Physics Dept. server dies then only that
department would be affected, even though all the rest of the stations are
importing its user space through the root of netinfo.
Please, someone tell me I'm doing something stupid and that there's a
straightforward solution to this problem.
TIA,
Milo
--
Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu>
Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030
Information Technology, Operations and Networking
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q: NeXTSTEP CD Format
Date: 8 May 1996 13:12:22 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <4mq6jm$ceg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <318FBBE7.5970@osu.edu>
Karl N. Matthias (matthias.3@osu.edu) wrote:
: I was wondering if anyone could tell me in what format the NeXTstep CDs
: are written. I was kind of hoping to be able to read them from Win95
: and Solaris... Apparently this is either not possible, or I have done
: something wrong. I can read ISO-9660 format discs, but I don't know
: about Rock Ridge or High Sierra... Any info appreciated. Thanks
: Karl
The cd's are written in bsd4.3 filesystem-format. You won't have any chance
to read them on Windows. I don't know for Solaris, but i think it supports
only the bsd4.2 filesystem-format.
There are drivers available for Linux. If you are an experienced system
programmer on Solaris, you could try to port it to.
--
==========================================================================
Winfried Bergmann |
Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper
i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page
bergmann@rz-ppp-12.fh-wuerzburg.de|
From: "Steven R. Staton" <sstaton@dazel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: pppd 2.2 hangs
Date: Tue, 07 May 1996 15:27:59 -0500
Organization: DAZEL Corporation
Message-ID: <318FB24F.1FED54AA@dazel.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I'm running NeXT-ppp-2.2_1.9 as a full-time router on an '040 cube.
After about 24-48 hours, the pppd stops sending packets (but still
appears to receive them), and absolutely refuses to go down on a kill(1)
-9. The only thing that gets it's attention is a hard hangup on the
modem (the carrier is going strong when the pppd hangs) or a hard reset
on the cube.
I wrote a Perl script to detect the outtage, but the fact that
kill(1)ing the daemon doesn't terminate it makes the script worthless.
Is there some other way to kill the daemon? Is this a known problem
with a known fix?
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No CDROM Drive on VERSA, want to go to 3.3
Date: 8 May 1996 14:12:17 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mqa41$3q8@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I have the CDROMs (and receipts, etc.) for 3.3, but have no way to connect a
CDROM drive to my NEC-Versa. I have Black machines with CDROM connected. Is
there a way to copy the 3.3 User install onto a black machine then write it
back out to several floppy disks that I could install from on the Versa?
We don't have a docking station, and I need to upgrade to get ethernet and
modem services.
--
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail problem?
Date: 8 May 1996 15:27:48 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <4mqehk$5ph@news3.digex.net>
I'm having a problem sending from my PPP setup to the following location
only...
dmeyer@interport.net
I get the following error in the syslog:
May 8 11:18:39 cjc08018 sendmail[300]: AA00300:
message-id=<9605081518.AA00300@cjc08018.slip.digex.net>
May 8 11:18:39 cjc08018 sendmail[300]: AA00300: from=jkheit, size=48,
class=0, received from local
May 8 11:18:40 cjc08018 sendmail[304]: dmeyer@interport.net... Connecting
to broadway.interport.net (ddn)...
May 8 11:18:40 cjc08018 sendmail[304]: AA00300: to=dmeyer@interport.net,
delay=00:00:01, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by peer during greeting
wait with broadway.interport.net
If I send the mail to another account at rutgers, I can then successfully
forward it, but it won't work directly from my PPP account???
traceroute shows that things are fine between me and interport:
cjc08018:3# traceroute interport.net
traceroute to interport.net (199.184.165.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 pm1.plfd.digex.net (199.125.190.63) 277 ms 267 ms 270 ms
2 gateway.cnj.digex.net (204.91.196.2) 421 ms 307 ms 490 ms
3 ewr1-cpe7-e0.atlas.digex.net (204.192.61.7) 330 ms 218 ms 400 ms
4 ewr1-core1-e0.atlas.digex.net (204.192.61.10) 640 ms 298 ms 370 ms
5 jfk2-core1-s3-0.atlas.digex.net (206.181.207.1) 450 ms 404 ms 310 ms
6 phl1-core2-h1-0.atlas.digex.net (198.187.34.9) 350 ms 267 ms 230 ms
7 dca3-core1-h1-0.atlas.digex.net (198.187.34.5) 320 ms 673 ms 364 ms
8 iad1-core1-h0-0.atlas.digex.net (206.205.246.2) 590 ms 377 ms 600 ms
9 mae-east-plusplus.washington.mci.net (192.41.177.181) 400 ms 247 ms
480 ms
10 core2-hssi2-0.washington.mci.net (204.70.74.101) 381 ms 267 ms 220
ms
11 * core1.washington.mci.net (204.70.4.129) 652 ms 247 ms
12 core1-hssi-3.newyork.mci.net (204.70.1.6) 250 ms 388 ms 238 ms
13 * core-hssi-3.boston.mci.net (204.70.1.2) 325 ms 247 ms
14 border2-fddi-0.boston.mci.net (204.70.3.34) 240 ms 347 ms 310 ms
15 interport.boston.mci.net (204.70.21.34) 320 ms 318 ms 259 ms
16 interport.net (199.184.165.1) 324 ms 327 ms 330 ms
cjc08018:4#
Any ideas on what the problem is???
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From: jens@mail.pop-frankfurt.com (Jens Kleemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System does not recognize 8mm exabyte drive
Date: 8 May 1996 16:10:29 GMT
Organization: IPf.net - Frankfurt, Germany
Message-ID: <4mqh1l$jtk@main.ipf.net>
References: <4mojln$rrb@ncar.ucar.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4mojln$rrb@ncar.ucar.edu>
On 05/08/96, David O. Blanchard,,, wrote:
>
>I need to install an Exabyte 8505 8-mm tape drive on NeXTStep 3.3
running
>on a SPARCstation 5.
>
>When I reboot (with -v), I see the drive names /dev/nrst0 and
/dev/nrst1
>flash by. Trying to access the drive with either tar or dump and
using
>that device name gives me the error "no such device."
>
>I'm pretty new to this sysadmin line of work and could use a bit of
>guidance from those more knowledgable than I so that I can get this
>tape drive up and running.
Try installing the SCSITape Driver !!!!
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David O. Blanchard,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System does not recognize 8mm exabyte drive
Date: 8 May 1996 17:24:38 GMT
Organization: NOAA/NSSL
Message-ID: <4mqlcm$2gs@ncar.ucar.edu>
References: <4mojln$rrb@ncar.ucar.edu> <4mqh1l$jtk@main.ipf.net>
In article <4mqh1l$jtk@main.ipf.net>,
Jens Kleemann <jens@mail.pop-frankfurt.com> wrote:
>On 05/08/96, David O. Blanchard,,, wrote:
>>I need to install an Exabyte 8505 8-mm tape drive on NeXTStep 3.3 running
>>on a SPARCstation 5.
>>
>>When I reboot (with -v), I see the drive names /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst1
>>flash by. Trying to access the drive with either tar or dump and using
>>that device name gives me the error "no such device."
>
>Try installing the SCSITape Driver !!!!
>
[I tried replying by email, but the reply address failed]
The SCSITape driver is installed. Reinstalling it doesn't help.
Is there a particular SCSI ID# (it is currently set to 2) required?
-db-
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From: dhawkins@moran.Mines.EDU (Dale K. Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't get the hardware to boot!
Date: 8 May 1996 17:19:31 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Message-ID: <4mql33$s1i@magma.Mines.EDU>
Forgive me for a rather stupid question, but I couldn't
find the FAQ, and I'm not a NeXT guru by any means. Anyway here is
my situation.
I am trying to boot a NeXT in order to get some old files off of it.
The problem is that it won't boot. I turn it on, it dongs, does the
system check, etc. There is a point in which it is looking for the
netinfo parent but can't find it (probably because it's not there ;-) ).
It asks if I'd like to continue without the network accounts and I press
'c' to continue. It then makes it to the 'Checking System Files...'
dialog and never goes any further.
I'm not completely ignorant of how UN*X works, nor am I incapable of
mucking with the hardware. However, when it comes to NeXT's, I will
be the first to admit that I am a complete newbie. I've used them and
done simple, sort of standard administration tasks, but overall, I don't
have a tramedous amount of experience with them. Any responces would be
much appreciated.
Thanks.
-Dale "I don't get it" Hawkins
P.S. It is a nifty operating system, I'm just not a fan of the hardware.
Go LINUX! ;-)
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From: hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr (SungJin Kang (kornet))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: su to root
Date: 8 May 1996 17:49:59 GMT
Organization: KORNET (Korea Telecom)
Message-ID: <4mqms7$sp8@usenet.kornet.nm.kr>
References: <4mdm1f$3ng@info.itsq8.com>
Ahmad Al-rasheedan (asr@itsq8.com) wrote:
: Users added to NS3.3 can't su to root. 'me' can. How to enable
: other users to su to root?
: Thanx.
In NS, the user in "wheel" group can su to root.
So you must make the user belonged to "wheel" group.
You can this by excecuting User Manager in /NextAdmin
and opening the user whom you want, and selecting "Groups"
and click "wheel" group.
Hayan Nalgae
hnalgae@soback.kornet.nm.kr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Joe Connorton <jmc@cc.rochester.edu>
Subject: Newbie Sys Admin Question
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Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 13:19:49 -0400
Hello all...
Pardon the newbieness of this question, but I'm not experienced with
NeXT machines. I primarily work with Suns and SGIs, so this may be
phrased in Sun-ese. Anyway, I have a remote site that has changed the
name of a machine on its network (i.e. same IP address, different name,
different machine). The machine that was changed is NOT a NeXT. The NeXT
in question still thinks of the machine as having the old name. I ran
nidump, and that seems to be the case. I'd like to update the
"/etc/hosts" table (I know there really isn't one, but that's how I
think of it. It looks like the only real way for me to update this
information is through NetInfoManager. It also looks like I would need
to delete the old record, and create a new one; I couldn't find a
reference to "update" in the documentation that I do have. Also, I'm
guessing that I have to update the database manually, because I'm
guessing that the automatic network update option is not enabled (I
couldn't see where I could check that short of running NetInfoManager
either). Please pardon my ignorance in this area, and TIA. Please email
to me, as I'm guessing this is not of general interest.
--
joe connorton "Life is what happens to you
UCC UNIX Group while you're busy making other plans"
Taylor Hall
-John Lennon
jmc@cc.rochester.edu
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From: cby@svartur.initiera.upnet.se (Christer Byman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS)
Date: 7 May 1996 12:31:50 GMT
Organization: Taide Net
Message-ID: <4mnfrm$37h@parabol.taide.net>
Hello!
I would like to have a suggestion for a uninterruptable
power supply system for a NS 3.3 Intel-based server.
Requirements:
Software: for soft takedowns, saveing files correct ...
Hardware: ?
Regards
Christer
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Distributor of NEXTSTEP in the Nordic and Baltic countries
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phone: +46 8 635 30 80
Mobile: 0708 8 35 30 85
fax: +46 8 98 70 67
email: cby@si.upnet.se (NeXTmail & MIME supported)
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From: bmwcsh@tesla.visgen.com (Bruce Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Buslogic setting for install (Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em?)
Date: 8 May 1996 17:37:11 -0400
Organization: Visible Genetics Inc.
Message-ID: <4mr467$71o@tesla.visgen.com>
References: <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com>
In article <4matmi$3nr@nkosi.well.com>, Brian Dear <birdrock@well.com> wrote:
>
> While I'm at it, the reason I need to reach OpenSource is I bought four
> Canon object.station's from them, and I am trying to re-install NS3.3
> onto two of them, and I cannot even get past the installation floppies
> before I run into problems (what SCSI driver should I pick out of the
> list that's on the NS 3.3 Drivers Diskette? The Canons have
> BusLogic SCSI cards, but none of the BusLogic selections in the list
> seems to work!).
I bet this'll work: open up the Canon and look for the 8-position DIP
switch on the Buslogic (BT445C) card. If SW1 is set to OFF, turn it
ON. It should match whatever all the others (except SW8) is set to.
Switch 8 defeats the floppy i/f that's built-in to the BT445C.
This will reset the IO address of the card to 330h, which is what
the stock 3.3 Buslogic driver is looking for. For some unfathomable
reason, the Canon comes with the Buslogic set to 334h, ie the 2nd
SCSI controller.
-bmw
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From: mpatel@cubert.valverde.edu (Mac Patel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NT Server on NeXT
Date: 8 May 1996 22:14:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Riverside
Message-ID: <4mr6cv$h0u@galaxy.ucr.edu>
Keywords: NT Server
Hello...
Is there a utility (similar to NetWareManager.app) that would enable a
NeXT client machine to see a NT Server?
Thanks in advance. If you would like to respond directly, please write to
mpatel@valverde.edu.
Thank-you
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newbie Sys Admin Question
Date: 9 May 1996 00:24:52 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <4mre0k$p1f@news.cais.com>
References: <3190D7B5.41C6@cc.rochester.edu>
It's easy. Open the root domain in NetInfoManager.app and select the
/machines directory. Find the entry for that host. Double-click on it.
Double-click on the name. Type the new name over it. Save it. Done.
Robert La Ferla
Registered NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Joe Connorton <jmc@cc.rochester.edu> wrote:
> I have a remote site that has changed the
> name of a machine on its network (i.e. same IP address, different name,
> different machine). The machine that was changed is NOT a NeXT. The NeXT
> in question still thinks of the machine as having the old name. I ran
> nidump, and that seems to be the case. I'd like to update the
> "/etc/hosts" table (I know there really isn't one, but that's how I
> think of it. It looks like the only real way for me to update this
> information is through NetInfoManager.
From: jda@jda.rust.net (John David Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail troubles
Date: 9 May 1996 01:58:03 GMT
Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276
Message-ID: <4mrjfb$37o@oxy.rust.net>
Keywords: mail
I have been trying to figure out this mail problem off and on for the last
few months. When I try to send mail to another person that uses my
internet provider, I get either unknown user or mail loop back errors.
I'm using PPP2.2. I'm sure I got some simple thing mis-configured, but
not being a unix admin heavy, just can't crack this problem.
John
jda@jda.rust.net
From: jda@jda.rust.net (John David Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: network question (NeXT and Mac do they like each other?)
Date: 9 May 1996 02:07:39 GMT
Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276
Message-ID: <4mrk1b$3dh@oxy.rust.net>
Keywords: network config mac
It looks like I will be getting a Mac shortly to be a Photoshop machine
and would like to create a small network with my NeXTStation, to share
printers. Since I'm not a big Unix admin heavy, and know less about Macs,
I got a question or two.
My NeXT will be the primary machine with the Mac just a dumb Photoshop
machine.
Using ethernet connections can I connect my NeXTStation, laser printer,
new Mac and New color printer. I know in theory I can, but does the Mac
use a different network software that NeXT can't handle? Can I NFS mount
the Mac HD on my NeXT or vis versa?
John
jda@rust.net
From: rob@bedazzled.com (Robert A. Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with POP mail on NEXTSTEP
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 00:39:58 -0500
Organization: Bedazzled Records
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <rob-0905960039590001@ppp4.visuallink.com>
Hello! We've got a small NEXTSTEP network (six machines). We currently
have a UUCP connection for email. However, I've recently decided to
upgrade to a PPP connection so that we can get on the web, etc. Although
we plan to migrate from NEXTSTEP to WinBlows NT within the next six months
to a year, I thought I'd go ahead and get PPP set up under NEXTSTEP rather
than wait for the switch. So, here's my question:
We don't plan to put the entire network on the net. We just want one
machine to have web/news/gopher/etc. access. However, we'd still like for
each of the client machines to have email capabilities. If our ISP can
wildcard our POP mail, is there any software available for NEXTSTEP to
handle the aliases and distribute the POP mail once it's been downloaded
to our machine? Or, will each user need his or her own POP account? Or
will our entire LAN have to be on the net?
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
-Rob Wyatt
Diversified Educational Systems, Inc.
rob@bedazzled.com
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Newbie Sys Admin Question
Date: 8 May 1996 23:03:22 -0700
Organization: Aimnet Corporation
Message-ID: <4ms1ra$f49@aimnet.aimnet.com>
References: <3190D7B5.41C6@cc.rochester.edu> <4mre0k$p1f@news.cais.com>
In article <4mre0k$p1f@news.cais.com>,
Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> wrote:
>
>It's easy. Open the root domain in NetInfoManager.app and select the
>/machines directory. Find the entry for that host. Double-click on it.
>Double-click on the name. Type the new name over it. Save it. Done.
This might not be quite so simple. He did say it's a new machine as well
as a new name, which means it will have a new ethernet address, most likely.
If the particular record has an ethernet address, he might want to remove
it. Of course, I can't imagine that this part would really matter unless
the machine in question was going to be running Nextstep and get its name
and IP address from NetInfo.
Lusty
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: network question (NeXT and Mac do they like each other?)
Date: 9 May 1996 07:09:48 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-71.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ms5ns$sq5@usc.edu>
References: <4mrk1b$3dh@oxy.rust.net>
Cc: jda@jda.rust.net
In <4mrk1b$3dh@oxy.rust.net> John David Adamski wrote:
> It looks like I will be getting a Mac shortly to be a Photoshop machine
> and would like to create a small network with my NeXTStation, to share
> printers. Since I'm not a big Unix admin heavy, and know less about Macs,
> I got a question or two.
My humble question to you is --> Why are you getting a Mac and Photoshop when
you have TIFFanyII on NeXTSTEP? (An app which is multitudes superior to
Photoshop, btw).
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
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From: kiwi@buran (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System does not recognize 8mm exabyte drive
Date: 9 May 1996 07:55:42 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4ms8du$a44@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4mojln$rrb@ncar.ucar.edu> <4mqh1l$jtk@main.ipf.net> <4mqlcm$2gs@ncar.ucar.edu>
David O. Blanchard,,, (dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu) wrote:
: In article <4mqh1l$jtk@main.ipf.net>,
: Jens Kleemann <jens@mail.pop-frankfurt.com> wrote:
: >On 05/08/96, David O. Blanchard,,, wrote:
: >>I need to install an Exabyte 8505 8-mm tape drive on NeXTStep 3.3 running
: >>on a SPARCstation 5.
: >>
: >>When I reboot (with -v), I see the drive names /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst1
: >>flash by. Trying to access the drive with either tar or dump and using
: >>that device name gives me the error "no such device."
: >
: >Try installing the SCSITape Driver !!!!
: >
: [I tried replying by email, but the reply address failed]
: The SCSITape driver is installed. Reinstalling it doesn't help.
: Is there a particular SCSI ID# (it is currently set to 2) required?
: -db-
RTFM
belly kiwi 2 (~): man st
ST(4) UNIX Programmer's Manual ST(4)
NAME
st - SCSI Tape Device Driver
SYNOPSIS
device_name as st0/1 at sc0 target ? lun ?
DESCRIPTION
This driver allows access to a number of tape drives with
standard SCSI interfaces. Four different devices in /dev
access this driver:
/dev/rst? Generic SCSI tape, rewind on close
/dev/nrst? Generic SCSI tape, no rewind on close
/dev/rxt? Exabyte SCSI tape, rewind on close
/dev/nrxt? Exabyte SCSI tape, no rewind on close
[...]
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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: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble with Unix Command: mesg
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 16:47:11 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960508164506.485C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4mp3co$icp@grid.direct.ca>
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Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Mike Nakamura <ymn@renaissoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <4mp3co$icp@grid.direct.ca>
On 8 May 1996, Mike Nakamura wrote:
> Recently, I've noticed that the following happens when I use "mesg"
> command:
>
> localhost> mesg
> is y
> localhost> mesg n
> mesg: cannot change mode
> localhost> mesg y
> mesg: cannot change mode
> localhost>
Hmm... It almost sounds as if you don't have ownership of the shell.
Try
localhost> ls -l `tty`
To see if your username appears. Don't know what else it might be.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> No NeXTmail!
USENET: Please CC this address on replies, things vanish fast.
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
If above address fails, use: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CERT Advisory CA-96.09 - Vulnerability in rpc.statd
Date: 9 May 1996 13:50:40 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mst7g$sc@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu>
Has anyone created a patch/workaround to address the issues raised in advisory
CA-96-09? I believe I have all the analogous steps for a NEXTSTEP system,
exxcept for identifying the equivalent directory for /var/statmon
Thanks,
Milo
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Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030
Information Technology, Operations and Networking
University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon)
Subject: Re: How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
Message-ID: <Dr0CDy.1rE@burgond.remcomp.fr>
Sender: pascal@burgond.remcomp.fr (Pascal Bourguignon)
Organization: P. Bourguignon Informatique
References: <4mjha7$o66@usc.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 23:39:34 GMT
In article <4mjha7$o66@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) writes:
> How can one do mput without having to monitor it?
Send the 'prompt' commande before the 'mput' one.
__Pascal Bourguignon__
From: kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Flakey Mail.app behavior
Date: 9 May 1996 16:05:53 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, USA
Message-ID: <4mt551$ek0@news4.digex.net>
HI all,
I'm experiencing some flakey Mail.app behavior. I am using Mail.app 3.3,
sendmail 8.7.3, procmail 3.10 and PopOver 1.3.
I am able to download my mail and then sort it using PopMail, but the
messages I specifed to stay in my mail spool directory can't be read. I
launch the Mail.app and my new mail message sound goes off, the Mail.app icon
shows the number of new messages. But when I click "Get Mail", nothing
happens. Then a day or two later, I might get the message.
I tar'd up my mail directories, moved it to another NeXT box, and had no
problems reading my mail. I tried deleting my table_of_contents file, but
that didn't seem to help.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
-kevin
--
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kykim@access.digex.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <476TJL@ptsmail.ptsem.edu>
From: 476TJL@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (LUOMA,TIMOTHY)
Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com
Subject: Re: Can't get the hardware to boot!
Message-ID: <7AB7793101A23A0C@-SMF->
Date: 09 May 96 11:46:00 EDT
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
At bare minimum you should be able to boot into single user mode.
press down both the "command" keys and the little ~ over the 7 on the
_keypad_
enter: m
enter: bsd-s
(Boot Scsi Device -Singleusermode)
You should be able to plug in a floppy disk and 'cp' away.
If the drive doesn't automount, then you can try mounting it my hand (see
the mount man page, or
http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2049.htmld/2049.html which is the
same thing) or grab my disk scripts from:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/util/The-Disk-Scripts.tar.gz
which _should_ allow even an idiot to mount a disk by hand (it works for
me, and, as anyone will tell you, well... nevermind that)
Someone else will probably tell you how to get the system to actually boot.
>> P.S. It is a nifty operating system, I'm just not a fan of the
hardware.
You can sell it cheaply on csn.hardware when you're done and make someone's
day
>> Go LINUX! ;-)
I'm tempted to make my "Isn't Linux as stable as a one-legged man on a
pogo-stick in a minefield?" comment, but I won't, because then we'd have to
do 'Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocasy' and I just really don't feel like
it ;-)
Now had you said:
>> Leave DOS and all it's evil incantations!
I would have replied:
YES! You are absolutely correct!
But this is getting silly now....
TjL
[Note: this address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ]
--
Timothy J. Luoma SBN 476
Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton, NJ
476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu MIME OK / No NeXTMail please
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Buslogic setting for install (Re: OpenSource? What happened to 'em?)
Date: 9 May 1996 18:09:13 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4mtcc9$jsk@news.next.com>
References: <4mr467$71o@tesla.visgen.com>
Bruce Walker writes
> This will reset the IO address of the card to 330h, which is what
> the stock 3.3 Buslogic driver is looking for. For some unfathomable
> reason, the Canon comes with the Buslogic set to 334h, ie the 2nd
> SCSI controller.
>
> -bmw
It's not actually unfathomable...Would you believe it's due to a bug in
the Adaptec1542 driver in NEXTSTEP 3.2?
Back in the "bad old days", certain drivers were always loaded at boot
time during installation - including the Adaptec 1542. That driver would
detect the BusLogic (since it's kind-of Adaptec compatible), and then fail
to work properly. Since it *did* load though, you couldn't load the
Buslogic driver after that (same default I/O address). Rather than require
people to make custom install disks for Systems using the Buslogic, it was
decided to change the driver's default I/O address...
Once the Adaptec driver was fixed (in NS 3.3), the default I/O address on
the BusLogic driver was changed back to the actual default adress. Of
course, that change has created it's own set of problems...
--
Mark Bessey
NeXT Software, Inc
Software Quality Assurance
-->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Uninterruptable Power Supplies (UPS)
Date: Thu, 9 May 1996 19:14:24 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996May9.191424.12848@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4mnfrm$37h@parabol.taide.net>
In article <4mnfrm$37h@parabol.taide.net> cby@svartur.initiera.upnet.se
(Christer Byman) writes:
> I would like to have a suggestion for a uninterruptable
> power supply system for a NS 3.3 Intel-based server.
>
> Requirements:
> Software: for soft takedowns, saveing files correct ...
> Hardware: ?
BenaTong had some software for this. Might require a specific UPS,
though.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.utilities,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How: booting NT on 2nd SCSI from OS/2 boot manager on 1st SCSI?
Date: 9 May 1996 22:15:37 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <4mtqq9$29b@news.service.uci.edu>
References: <68SFgKgcCIB@sp44.fishtwn2.han.de>
In article <68SFgKgcCIB@sp44.fishtwn2.han.de> SP@FISHTWN2.han.de (Sven
Palm) writes:
> Liebe Leserin, lieber Leser,
>
> fliu@uci.edu meinte am 06.05.96
> zum Thema "How: booting NT on 2nd SCSI from OS/2 boot manager on 1st
SCSI?":
>
> > Intel Pentium using only two scsi drives.
> > I have OS/2 boot manager installed on first scsi drive along with
>
> :
> .
>
> What kind of partitions do you have on the 1st & 2nd hd? Please describe
> your partion table.
>
>
> mfg S. Palm
1st drive: SCSI ID=1, 2.1 GB Seagate
0-1MB OS/2 boot manager
1-the rest Nextstep
2nd drive: SCSI ID=3, 520 MB Fujitsu
on partition: 16 FAT, DOS and NT.
I'd hesitate to add a FAT or NTFS, or HPFS partition, even if it is just a
few K, on the first drive
since it means I have to reinstall nextstep.
I am not sure if Nextstep would like to be on the second drive.
I can reinstall NT and OS/2 boot manager on the 520MB drive and make it
the first one.
Another choice would be trying to boot NT from floppy, and then transfer
control the hard drive.
--
Feng Liu, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717-3975
phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department)
Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Flakey Mail.app behavior
Date: 10 May 1996 01:03:08 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-12.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4mu4kc$2im@usc.edu>
References: <4mt551$ek0@news4.digex.net>
Cc: kykim@tenteus.com
In <4mt551$ek0@news4.digex.net> Kevin Kim wrote:
> HI all,
>
> I'm experiencing some flakey Mail.app behavior. I am using Mail.app 3.3,
> sendmail 8.7.3, procmail 3.10 and PopOver 1.3.
>
> I am able to download my mail and then sort it using PopMail, but the
> messages I specifed to stay in my mail spool directory can't be read. I
> launch the Mail.app and my new mail message sound goes off, the Mail.app
icon
> shows the number of new messages. But when I click "Get Mail", nothing
> happens. Then a day or two later, I might get the message.
>
> I tar'd up my mail directories, moved it to another NeXT box, and had no
> problems reading my mail. I tried deleting my table_of_contents file, but
> that didn't seem to help.
First of all, did you check the console for any messages? That'd be helpful.
Secondly, it sounds like a permissions problem, probably procmail. I'm not
familiar with PopMail, but that's another area to check for permission.
ALSO - if you are using procmail (and formail, and appnmail for NeXTMAIL), to
deliver mail to your Active.mbox, then that's the problem, as when you are
running Mail.app, Active.mbox is locked, and the procmail -> appnmail routine
cannot acess that mbox and will queue for later those messages that are to
delivered there until that mbox is unlocked, i.e. Mail.app is quit.
So, if that is the case that you are using a procmail recipe to deliver mail
to your Active.mbox, then you should retool your procmail recipes so that the
mail for Active.mbox are what is remaining after all recipes have taken their
hits, and then the remaining mail will go to /usr/spool/mqueue as normal...
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Free or ShareWare Document management system?
Date: 10 May 1996 01:21:10 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-i-12.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4mu5m6$2im@usc.edu>
Free or ShareWare Document management system?
I'm looking for something that can handle versions well.
Any suggestions?
I would also like it to run reasonably fast on a Turbo slab.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with sendmail.cf file...
Date: 10 May 1996 02:14:37 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4mu8qd$ftm@news.tamu.edu>
Howdy,
Still trying to get the new nextstep system for my prof up and running. Our
domain name here is tamu.edu
the mailserver machine is atlantis.tamu.edu
All mail to email gets sent properly except for this. The university allows
university wide aliases to be set up for tamu.edu. My email would be simply
schaub@tamu.edu, no computer name added. The tamu.edu mailer then would
forward the mail to my actual email machine. If I use schaub@tamu.edu on
atlantis or one of its client machines, the sendmail.cf file interprets the
name as being a local name schaub and the mail doesn't get sent. The only
way I can send from atlantis right now is to type in the complete address
schaub@pop.tamu.edu to send email to tamu aliases.
I assume something has to be changed within the sendmail.cf file. I am not
a sendmail or unix expert and would appreciate any pointers as to what this
might be! I couldn't make heads and tail out of the online instructions and
examples.
For further info, the atlantis server and clients are running NS3.3.
Thanks for any help.
HP
--
Hanspeter Schaub
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub
schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY!
-Jonathon Livingston Seagull
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ADB monitor on non-Turbo NeXT-HW
Date: 10 May 1996 10:24:21 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <4mv5gl$lbt@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
There seems to be some trickery involved when trying to connect a NeXT ADB
moni to non-Turbo, i.e. 25MHz, motherboards. As the statement in the FAQ is
rather odd, has anybody got this combination to work? What parts were
involved (CPU-ROM version, cable, & keyboard).
Thanks,
-- Torsten
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Torsten Belschner
ZKM | Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie
Institut fuer Musik und Akustik
Ritterstrasse 42 T: +49 721 9340 300
D-76137 Karlsruhe F: +49 721 9340 39
Germany e: tb@zkm.de
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble with Unix Command: mesg
Date: 10 May 1996 13:02:53 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <4mvepu$ete@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960508164506.485C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
> On 8 May 1996, Mike Nakamura wrote:
>
> > Recently, I've noticed that the following happens when I use "mesg"
> > command:
> >
> > localhost> mesg
> > is y
> > localhost> mesg n
This happens to me too when I'm using Stuart. Terminal.app behavies properly
for me. Just my $0.02.
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Manager
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
From: Alan Drown <adrown@radiomail.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: use alternate console on ttya
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:33:27 -0700
Organization: RadioMail Corporation
Message-ID: <319361C7.FDE@radiomail.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
CC: comp.sys.next.hardware, comp.sys.net.programmer
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi all,
On the next slabs you could setup to use the tty port as console from
the rom monitor.
I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish the same end result on an
intel based machine. We're setting up a console server for a rack of
machines and need console to come off the tty port.
Any ideas? Anyone out there done this before?
Any help would be appreciated
TIA
alan
adrown@radiomail.net
From: Alan Drown <adrown@radiomail.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: use alternate console on ttya
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:35:03 -0700
Organization: RadioMail Corporation
Message-ID: <31936227.4F8B@radiomail.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
CC: comp.sys.next.hardware, comp.sys.net.programmer
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi all,
On the next slabs you could setup to use the tty port as console from
the rom monitor.
I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish the same end result on an
intel based machine. We're setting up a console server for a rack of
machines and need console to come off the tty port.
Any ideas? Anyone out there done this before?
Any help would be appreciated
TIA
alan
adrown@radiomail.net
From: Alan Drown <adrown@radiomail.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: console off tty port on intel
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 08:38:13 -0700
Organization: RadioMail Corporation
Message-ID: <319362E5.468F@radiomail.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi all,
On the next slabs you could setup to use the tty port as console from
the rom monitor.
I'm trying to figure out how to accomplish the same end result on an
intel based machine. We're setting up a console server for a rack of
machines and need console to come off the tty port.
Any ideas? Anyone out there done this before?
Any help would be appreciated
TIA
alan
adrown@radiomail.net
From: buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE (Bastian Schlueter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: rarpd for NS
Date: 10 May 1996 15:09:34 GMT
Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe
Message-ID: <4mvm7e$c61@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Hello,
does anybody know of a rarpd (source or binary) for
Nextstep (i386 or m68k)?
thanks
Bastian
--
Bastian Schlueter Tel. : +49 30 / 44 34 01 35 (priv)
Fehrbellinerstr. 39 e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de
D-10119 Berlin buzz@marvin.isdn.cs.TU-Berlin.DE
http://www.first.gmd.de/persons/Schlueter.Bastian.html RRR100R
From: agm@dataphone.se (Axel G. Merk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Digital HiNote Ultra II Display Driver
Date: 10 May 1996 14:41:33 GMT
Organization: Dataphone Communication Networks
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mvkit$j3@nic.dataphone.se>
Keywords: notebook, display driver
The fairly new Ultra II notebook by Digital seems like one of the first useful
notebooks on the market with few compromises, with the following available:
* 133 MHz Pentium
* 3.9lbs
* 10.4" SVGA TFT Active Matrix color
* 1.35GB HD
* 40MB RAM
* the usual extras possible (incl 'multi-media', various types of docks)
* price is competitive (call Digital at 800.642 4532)
(among the few compromises: no PCI bus to keep the size/weight low)
I'm not affiliated with DEC and don't really want to have many others order
the notebook as I don't want to increase its lead time.
To run NS on the system, one will need a display driver. My question is
whether anyone is currently developing a driver for the notebook or knows of
someone who is interested in developing that driver?
I would appreciate direct email as reply. I will summarize if there is an
interest.
Thank you and best regards,
axel
Axel Merk
agm@cubiclum.com
agm@doc.ic.ac.uk
agm@daphone.se
From: jsickel@charm.net (Jeffrey Sickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing to a TCP/IP printer
Date: 10 May 1996 17:34:30 GMT
Organization: Charm.Net : Baltimore Local Internet Access, Hon
Message-ID: <4mvun6$d62@canton.charm.net>
References: <4mok0l$s65@ncar.ucar.edu>
David O. Blanchard,,, (dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu) wrote:
: We have been [unsuccessfully] trying to print from NeXTStep 3.3 running
: on a SPARCstation 5 to a network TCP/IP printer. Our sources of information
: include a "Tips & Techniques" for "Adding a TCP/IP Printer to a NeXTStep
: computer" from the NextAnswers web page. Still, we cannot get it to print.
: The printer spool status file always reports that it is waiting for the
: printer to be ready. The printer IS ready because we print to it from
: just about every machine around here -- except our two NeXTStep systems.
: The printer is a QMS and typically we run "qpr" instead of "lpr" to print
: to it. It also requires a "qfilter" file in the spool directory. Might
: these features be contributing to the problem?
Are you NEXTSTEP machines using NetInfo? If so, make an entry for the
printer:
/machines
name: printer
ip_address: 123.456.789.012
en_address: 08:00:00:00:00:00
it doesn't need anything more than the above, and the en_address is optional.
Then add the printer from one of the two machines.
This won't spool the same as your other machines, but the QMS printers
should handle it rather well.
jas
From: Ron Wood <ron@cert.ucr.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: network question (NeXT and Mac do they like each other?)
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:39:57 -0700
Organization: CE-CERT
Message-ID: <31937F6D.31DFF4F5@cert.ucr.edu>
References: <4mrk1b$3dh@oxy.rust.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: John David Adamski <jda@jda.rust.net>
jda@jda.rust.net (John David Adamski) writes:
> Using ethernet connections can I connect my NeXTStation, laser printer,
> new Mac and New color printer. I know in theory I can, but does the Mac
> use a different network software that NeXT can't handle? Can I NFS mount
> the Mac HD on my NeXT or vis versa?
Yes, you can use either 10Base2 (thin-wire coax) or 10BaseT (Unshielded twisted
pair) to connect them; 10BaseT requires a concentrator (hub), so 10Base2 would be
the cheaper route. The Mac should run MacTCP or some sort of TCP interface (built
in in most later Macs), and the NeXT should (required!) run DNS with appropriate
entries. Currently, I have a Mac Quadra internetted with a NeXT in just that
fashion. The only thing to be aware of is that the Mac can't see the NetInfo
Nameserver, so you must run DNS (named) on the NeXT. Information for setting up
DNS is available from O'Reilly press, among other places.
NFS is another story -- you must run some sore of NFS client on the Mac, or some
sort of appleshare server on the NeXT. The former can be done with a program
called NFS/Share from InterCon software -- phone: 703.709.5500. The latter can be
managed by using uShare (I can't remember the company name) which runs on NS 3.n
only (not 2.n); I know there are 2 copies of it available at the UC Riverside
bookstore for about $80 (normally it's over $300). Or you can use Columbia Apple
Talk which is shareware, available from Columbia University. The last two programs
make the NeXT an AppleShare server, allowing you to mount the unix filesystem as a
Mac disk. This is more appropriate if you intend to just use the NeXT primarily as
a disk server.
--
Ron Wood, Systems Administrator CE-CERT, UCR
Ink n.:
A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron, gum-arabic, and water,
chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote
intellectual crime. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
From: rogers@colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with Zip Drive
Date: 10 May 1996 16:14:48 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mvq1o$nep@lace.colorado.edu>
Keywords: zip,dos,initialize
I need to have my NeXT 3.2/68K write to a dos formatted and initialized
disk in a SCSI Zip drive.
NEXTSTEP 3.2/68K does not recognize a dos formatted Zip disk. Nor will the
Workspace Manger initialize a Zip disk to dos.
The Zip drive works fine as long as the disk is initialized to the NeXT
filesystem.
Is there a work around?
Thanks much.
Wayne Rogers
University of Colorado
From: rogers@togo.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with Zip Drive
Date: 10 May 1996 16:15:39 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mvq3b$neu@lace.colorado.edu>
Keywords: zip,dos,initialize
I need to have my NeXT 3.2/68K write to a dos formatted and initialized
disk in a SCSI Zip drive.
NEXTSTEP 3.2/68K does not recognize a dos formatted Zip disk. Nor will the
Workspace Manger initialize a Zip disk to dos.
The Zip drive works fine as long as the disk is initialized to the NeXT
filesystem.
Is there a work around?
Thanks much.
Wayne Rogers
University of Colorado
From: rogers@togo.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with zip drive
Date: 10 May 1996 16:16:23 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4mvq4n$nf3@lace.colorado.edu>
I need to have my NeXT 3.2/68K write to a dos formatted and initialized
disk in a SCSI Zip drive.
NEXTSTEP 3.2/68K does not recognize a dos formatted Zip disk. Nor will the
Workspace Manger initialize a Zip disk to dos.
The Zip drive works fine as long as the disk is initialized to the NeXT
filesystem.
Is there a work around?
Thanks much.
Wayne Rogers
University of Colorado
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sam@darth (Sam M. Daniel)
Subject: PPP and Local Network
Organization: MOTOROLA
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 18:48:57 GMT
Message-ID: <1996May10.184857.10964@schbbs.mot.com>
Keywords: PPP
Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (SCHBBS News Account)
I have successfully connected my NeXTstation to my ISP via PPP.
Having done so, I then attempted to establish a local network at home
with a second NeXTstation in order to share file systems and
eventually try to link through the second machine.
Thinking that the first task (establishing a local network) was
rather easy was a mistake. I was able to ping my ppp client machine
from the second but not the other way around. Needless to say, there
cannot be any progress beyond this point unless I do the right thing.
Surely, this is a reasonable goal. Would you point me in the right
direction or give me any helpful advice on this. I understand that
there may be security issues and other concerns that need to be
alleviated. I did notice that my ppp client machine complained that
the network was down. It appears that it is a matter of proper
configuration...but what could it be.
Thank you,
Sam M. Daniel
Motorola Inc.
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Flakey Mail.app behavior
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 10 May 1996 15:38:35 GMT
Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Message-ID: <4mvntr$i9b@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <4mt551$ek0@news4.digex.net>
Kevin Kim (kykim@tenteus.com) wrote:
: I'm experiencing some flakey Mail.app behavior. I am using Mail.app 3.3,
: sendmail 8.7.3, procmail 3.10 and PopOver 1.3.
: I am able to download my mail and then sort it using PopMail, but the
: messages I specifed to stay in my mail spool directory can't be read. I
: launch the Mail.app and my new mail message sound goes off, the Mail.app icon
: shows the number of new messages. But when I click "Get Mail", nothing
: happens. Then a day or two later, I might get the message.
Well, I haven't seen this specific problem, but I understand that there
were a couple of weird rare-occurence bugs in PopOver. PopOver is now at
version 1.5, and you should consider upgrading.
--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: birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail problem in NEXTSTEP...
Date: 10 May 1996 23:00:20 GMT
Organization: The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Message-ID: <4n0hq4$n1g@nkosi.well.com>
Sendmail question.
I'm using NEXTSTEP v3.3 for Intel platforms.
Dunno what version of sendmail it is (whatever
version of sendmail that comes with NS3.3, I suppose).
(Is there a command line way I can ask /usr/lib/sendmail
what version it is?)
Anyways the question is: my email is coming out as
From: brian@myhost
instead of
From: brian@myhost.mydomain.com
which is the way I want it to come out. (My outgoing
mail runs into a firewall which is looking for
myhost.mydomain.com which it cleans up to be
just mydomain.com).
Anyone know what modifications I have to
make to the .cf file to get it to work right?
From: Lasse Johansson <postmaster@oxbacksskolan.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cgi-bin
Date: Thu, 09 May 1996 12:10:49 -0700
Organization: Oxbacksskolan
Message-ID: <31924339.8D6@oxbacksskolan.se>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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I wonder if someone out there could enlighten me a little on this subject:
I am trying to learn how to play with a guestbook.
I found an example script and source on the net, and I have installed it in=
=
http://193.45.189.36/addguest.html
For some reason, it doesn=B4t work!
The owner of the file guestbook.pl is ME
Anybody, any suggestions?????
//Regards:
Lasse Johansson
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail problem in NEXTSTEP...
Date: 11 May 1996 04:53:06 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <4n16fi$jtd@news.cais.com>
References: <4n0hq4$n1g@nkosi.well.com>
Here's how to determine which version of sendmail you are running. Although, I can tell
you it's 5.67 which is NeXT's very old, unsecure, slow, hard to configure version. I
recommend upgrading to 8.7.5 which is available from
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/binaries/mail/sendmail_latest.tar.gz
% telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 myhost.mydomain.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.7.5/8.7.5; Sat, 11 May 1996 00:47:18 -0400 (EDT)
quit
221 myhost.mydomain.com closing connection
Connection closed by foreign host.
I forget exactly what nonsense you need to do tweak for 5.67 but it's one of the first
lines in /etc/sendmail.cf
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
#Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
Try removing the "#" comment:
# my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally
Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
birdrock@well.com (Brian Dear) wrote:
> Sendmail question.
>
> I'm using NEXTSTEP v3.3 for Intel platforms.
> Dunno what version of sendmail it is (whatever
> version of sendmail that comes with NS3.3, I suppose).
> (Is there a command line way I can ask /usr/lib/sendmail
> what version it is?)
From: alkhater@msn.com (Abdulaziz Al-Khater)
Subject: How do I get NeXTSTEP to recognise my dos partition?
Date: 11 May 96 07:14:25 -0700
Message-ID: <00001c44+000012d5@msn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: The Microsoft Network (msn.com)
Hi,
I installed NeXTSTEP after installing Windows 95 and I'm having
trouble getting NeXTSTEP to recognise the FAT partition. Any
suggestions will be appreciated.
Thanks.
Abdulaziz Al-Khater
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trouble with Unix Command: mesg
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 14:27:40 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960510142619.337C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960508164506.485C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4mvepu$ete@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4mvepu$ete@crcnis3.unl.edu>
On 10 May 1996, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> > On 8 May 1996, Mike Nakamura wrote:
> >
> > > Recently, I've noticed that the following happens when I use "mesg"
> > > command:
> > >
> > > localhost> mesg
> > > is y
> > > localhost> mesg n
>
> This happens to me too when I'm using Stuart. Terminal.app behavies properly
> for me. Just my $0.02.
This confirms my belief that this can be/should be fixed by Stuart.app's
preference for 'fix tty ownership'.
Note that Stuart must be properly installed for this to work.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> No NeXTmail!
USENET: Please CC this address on replies, things vanish fast.
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
If above address fails, use: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: RE: PPP and Local Network
Date: 11 May 1996 20:57:19 GMT
Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <4n2uvf$953@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
sam@darth (Sam M. Daniel) wrote:
>Thinking that the first task (establishing a local network) was rather
>easy was a mistake. I was able to ping my ppp client machine from the
>second but not the other way around. Needless to say, there cannot be any
>progress beyond this point unless I do the right thing.
I had the same problem. My white NS machine could not ping the black NS
machine. After I ping from the black to white, the white can now ping
the black. I don't have a clue why this is needed but for now it seems
to be the only way for the white machine to see the black one. Once
you've proven the ping works, you can cancel them.
I now have the white machine seeing and using directories on the black
machine and I can also use the Next printer from the white hardware.
Now if only I could get the white hardware to not require an initial ping.
Good luck,
Darren
P.S. Your return e-mail address didn't work.
From: camaro@net-link.net (Phil Finkler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printer sharing and Win95 Networks
Date: Sun, 12 May 96 07:25:46 GMT
Organization: NetLink Systems, LLC.
Message-ID: <4n4vu7$9f0@leol.net-link.net>
Can anyone tell me....
a) Can a Next station share a printer that is on a machine that is running
win95? This is our print server on the network in the office.
b) Can my Next machine use a win95 network? This would require netbui, if
I'm not mistaken. If anyone has any docs on how to do this, if it's possible,
please email me.
Thanks!
Phil
From: moellney@michi.bota.uni-bonn.de (Michael Moellney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SUMMARY: Problems with Lexmark Optra and Print Panel
Date: 12 May 1996 19:31:07 GMT
Organization: University of Bonn, Germany
Message-ID: <4n5e9r$3c2@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
References: <4mfngj$fcp@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
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Thanks for your answers. There were two hints on my request:
Both were in German:
1.)
Viele Sachen ausgelassen...
Es gibt da fr jeden Druckeintrag einen Netinfowert namens
"_nxfinalform" wenn ein Drucker diesen zugewiesen bekommt, dann wird
beim drucken das gleiche gemacht wie beim Sichern Ausgewhlter
Drucker /Einschlielich Fonts"
Hans
--
=====================================================================
=
Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH
Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse
11
Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg
(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
Translation(sth like): For every printer Entry in NetInfo there is a
value "_nxfinalform" that send a ps-file to the printer that would be
created by Print-Panel -> Save -> Choosen Printer / incl. Fonts
I didn't try this.
2.)
Hallo,
obwohl mein Problem nicht das gleiche, sondern ein meiner
Meinung nach nur verwandtes Problem ist, moechte ich es
hier trotzdem anfuegen, da ich (ebenfalls) an ein Problem
mit der ppd-Datei glaube.
Wir haben einen Lexmark Optra Lx+ mit Doppelseiteneinzug.
Wenn dort der zweiseitige Druck gewaehlt wird, aendert sich
zwar das Verhalten: Das Papier nimmt den Weg, der fuer doppel-
seitigen Druck vorgesehen und etwa doppelt so lang wie normal
ist, die Rueckseite wird aber nicht bedruckt, sondern statt
dessen die naechste Vorderseite - so wie bei einseitigem
Druck nur mit laengerm Papierweg.
Ich habe mir die Datei ebenfalls als Datei angesehen und
kann die Optionswahl erkennen und auch keinen Fehler darin;
ein Fehlverhalten des Druckers, das vielleicht auf der
gleichen Ursache beruht: Fehlerhafte ppd-Datei oder fehler-
hafte Interpretation der Datei im Drucker.
Vielleicht koennen wir uns ueber weitere Beobachtungen, oder
gar eine Fehlerbehebung austauschen, sollte letzter zustande-
kommen.
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,
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
Not translated, because it's an description of an additional problem.
The solution for me was to use the loptrap.ppd file from lexmarks ftp
server, not the lexoptra.ppd.
There seems to be an significant difference between these two.
Thanks for your interest.
Bye, Michael
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Subject: Domain name weirdness with ncftp 2.3.0
Message-ID: <DrB62I.7Fz@RnA.NL>
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Organization: R&A
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 19:56:42 GMT
I manage 2 systems, one black, one white at different sites. When I start
ncftp 2.3.0 on both, they behave differently.
System A:
NS 3.3 patched on white
Runs BIND
Runs Morningstar PPP and connects to the outside world that way, acts
as gateway
System B
NS 3.3 patched on black
Runs BIND
Uses router to get to the outside world
Now the funny thing is, these machines are almost identical in their setup.
Both run a local named. Both have 'domainname' empty. Both have a comparable
named.boot and resolv.conf and zone files (just the names and numbers
differ). Both have only a machine name in /etc/hostconfig and netinfo.
But on te black system, when I start ncftp 2.3.0, I get:
WARNING: could not determine full host name (have: 'Spike').
The program should be re-compiled with DOMAINNAME defined to be the
domain name, i.e. -DDOMAINNAME=\"unl.edu\"
When I enter a domain name with the domainname command, this warning is gone.
And on the white system, where domainname returns nothing (empty), it seems a
domain name *is* found, though I don't understand from where.
So, where is that domain name coming from? Where can it be coming from?
--
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)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yves@yves.fdn.fr (Yves Akakpo)
Subject: Taylor UUCP for NeXTStation turbo
Message-ID: <1996May12.223712.2752@yves.fdn.fr>
Keywords: Taylor UUCP
Sender: news@yves.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual
Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 22:37:12 GMT
Hi all
I ve heard , there is somewhere an Taylor_UUCP who works fine whith
NeXTSTEP3.3 on NeXTstation Turbo.
Is anyone can help to locate this.
I would appreciate direct email as reply. I will summarize if there
is an interest.
Thank you and best regards,
Yves.
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Why is Panasonic PD slower than 4mm tape?
Date: 13 May 1996 00:16:13 GMT
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <4n5v0d$cdp@news.service.uci.edu>
We just got a Panasonic PD/CD-ROM dual drive.
According to the specs and reviews, it should be able to have around
0.8Mbyte/second data write rate. However, I had it attached to an intel
box running nextstep. It takes longer to write than my old 4mm dat drive.
A 500Mb directory copy(gnutar) took more than a whole morning, while I
could backup almost 2G disks with a DAT drive within the same amount of
time. Did I do anything wrong?
Reading is a bit faster, but still of the same order.
Are all optical drives like that. Isn't the PD supposed to be a bit faster
than ordinary magneto-optical drives?
How should we set the LUN jumper, the MAC mode or the PC mode.
I had it left as PC mode, and I can access the drive as either CD or PD.
The system assigns a different SCSI ID to them.
By the way, there are two versions of disktab file availabe, one from
Next Answers as:
# here is the one from nextanswers
#pd-1|PD-1|MATSHITA PD-1 LF-1000 A:\
# :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#1632:nt#15:ns#53:ss#1024:rm#2026:\
# :fp#256:bp#256:ng#154:gs#1600:ga#16:ao#784:\
# :os=mach_kernel:z0#80:z1#168:ro=a:\
# :pa#0:sa#618510:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#8:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\
# :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa:
the other was posted here sometime ago by
SHIROYAMA-Takayuki : Taisho Osaka, Japan.
Psi@fortune.nest.or.jp
as
#Here is disktab for Matushita's PD. I got this from fj.sys.next.
# Original written by kiura@narc.affrc.go.jp
#
# pd634: 5.25" SCSI PD disk for NEXTSTEP
#
pd634|PD634|MATSHITA PD-1 LF-1000 A:\
:ty=removable_rw_scsi:ns#64:nt#64:nc#634:ss#512:\
:fp#256:bp#256\
:os=sdmach:z0#80:z1#168:ro=a:\
:pa#0:sa#1298176:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#3:da#4096:ra#5:oa=space:\
:ta=4.3BSD:ia:aa:
The second one seems to give more space: 627870MB
compared to 598108MB as given by the Next Answer version.
I do not quite understand the difference, and decided to use the second
one any way. There does not seem to be any speed difference.
Thank you.
--
Feng Liu, Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717-3975
phone: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department)
Fax: 714-824-3105, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: console.log: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME
Date: 10 May 1996 20:39:51 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4n09in$3go@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960506134714.3187S-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
In article <Pine.NXT.3.93.960506134714.3187S-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
|>
|>Sometime over the weekend this message showed up in my console.log:
|>
|>
|> "optimization changed from SPACE to TIME"
|>
|>(or maybe it was TIME to SPACE.... but I think it was SPACE to TIME)
|>
|>Anyone know why this would happen? Is this something I want to change
|>back (using tunefs, I guess)?
|>
|>Thanks
|>TjL
|>
|>--
|>Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
|>USENET: Please CC this address on replies to my posts, things vanish fast.
|>NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
|>>>>> Please: No NeXTMail, use MIME for attachments <<<<
|>
The most likely is TIME TO SPACE, which would indicate that you
are getting close to having used all your space on your harddrive.
The system will itself during initializing a disk set it for
TIME optimisation, as long as the disk is large enough, TIME meaning
that it will save faster, but sloppier, so to speak...... but
once your system starts filling up, the system itself will
change to SPACE optimisation, meaning slower saves, but making the
files a compact as possible.
This also means that it will use every pithole of free space on your
drive, even if it means splitting the file and saving the bits in
several different locations, a phenomenon known as fragmenting on
most other platforms!
This will slow down your acces to your files, so I guess you could
change it back to TIME optimisation with TUNEFS, but your system will
eventually change it back again, since you obviously are running low on
diskspace....
I don t know the limit exactly, but since the manpage for TUNEFS talks
about 10%, I take it that less than 10% free diskspace will make your
system change it to SPACE optimisation....
Hope it helps.... if not, feel free to email me...!
Best regards
Michael
--
___________________________________________________________
Michael Hallin Copenhagen, Denmark
Editor in chief of DANNUG NEWS & DANNUG HOT!
ColorProduct Manager Rank Xerox Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: System does not recognize 8mm exabyte drive
Date: 10 May 1996 20:44:56 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4n09s8$3gp@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <4mojln$rrb@ncar.ucar.edu>
In article <4mojln$rrb@ncar.ucar.edu> dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David O.
Blanchard,,,) writes:
|>
|>I need to install an Exabyte 8505 8-mm tape drive on NeXTStep 3.3 running
|>on a SPARCstation 5.
|>
|>When I reboot (with -v), I see the drive names /dev/nrst0 and /dev/nrst1
|>flash by. Trying to access the drive with either tar or dump and using
|>that device name gives me the error "no such device."
|>
|>I'm pretty new to this sysadmin line of work and could use a bit of
|>guidance from those more knowledgable than I so that I can get this
|>tape drive up and running.
|>
|>(I've spent too much time on Macs and simply assume that plug and play
|>is universal ;-)
|>
|>Thanks.
|>
|>-db-
|>--
|>
|>+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|>| David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL Boulder, Colorado blanch@ncar.ucar.edu |
|>+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
As I remember it (I used to have an 8505 Exabyte on my black NeXT),
you must specify /dev/rst0, not /dev/nrst0.
Here is an example of one of the lines I used before when backing
up to my Exabyte:
tar -ctvf /dev/rst0 *
and that worked on black hardware... dunno about Intel....
Best regards
Michael
--
___________________________________________________________
Michael Hallin Copenhagen, Denmark
Editor in chief of DANNUG NEWS & DANNUG HOT!
ColorProduct Manager Rank Xerox Denmark
NeXTMail: work@dannug.dk
NonNeXTMail: mh.xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com
From: Andreas Obst <obst@ccm.udel.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Use NeXT printer from Mac
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:32:14 +0000
Organization: University of Delaware
Message-ID: <319739DE.543@ccm.udel.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have a NeXTstation and a PowerMac. How can I connect the two
so that I can use the NeXT printer from the Mac. Neither is
on a network.
Thanks, Andreas
From: nick@bcog.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins
Date: 13 May 1996 18:54:28 GMT
Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc.
Message-ID: <4n80h4$60o@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
References: <4n6fir$du5@life.ai.mit.edu>
Cc: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu
> http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html
>
> --Stuart
>
Benatong has something similiar but not just for sysadmins
There is another package floating around too
nick@bcog.org
From: cpayne@optical.fiber.net (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3, Solaris 2.5 and DOS ???
Date: 13 May 1996 17:05:25 GMT
Organization: Fibernet! Satisfy the need for speed
Message-ID: <4n7q4l$mnp@optical.fiber.net>
This is goofy.
OK, so I smoked the toad and sold my only copy of System Commander,
so now that I'm trying to put Solaris 2.5 on my Pentium it BARFS.
I read the NA, I read the manual, I did everything like normal,
but I CANNOT get all 3 OSes to install (and boot). Here's what
happens:
Assuming NS is the first partition, I can install DOS, but only
if I let DOS partition its own partition. Using the NS fdisk
makes a partition that Novell DOS 7 can't see and MS DOS 6.22
can't boot from.
Under that scenario, Solaris won't install, because the entire
root partition (c0t0d060x0d0s03040gf05 whateverthehell) must
exist inside the 1st 1023 cylinders, and that won't work.
Hmm.
OK, so I install Solaris in the first partition, NS in the second.
The bad thing about this is that NS thinks the entire drive is
MUCH smaller than what's left, even, so obviously it fails the
install. DOS stays boxed.
OK, now I install DOS first, no other partitions, only a 50MB
partition, NS next, solaris last. They all install. NS' boot
mangler won't let DOS or Solaris boot. Change active partition,
and Solaris will let DOS boot and itself, but NS pukes with,
"invalid boot sector information."
So close, too. <grumble grumble>
OK, last try. NS first, 50MB of DOS 2cd, Solaris last. It all
installs. NS boots. Solaris boots. Dos...what's DOS? Try DOS
fdisk, can't use the rest of the disk. Try formatting the DOS
aprtition, which works but sys doesn't. No bootie.
At this point, I defer to my close personal friends on c.s.n.s. to
share their pearls of wisdom.
--
Carl Payne
cpayne@fiber.net <--NeXTMAIL, MIME, ASCII all OK
Cogito Ergo Amicrosoft
From: buster@stripe.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Win95 is six hours ahead of NS/I
Date: 13 May 1996 20:56:57 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Message-ID: <4n87mp$j0n@peabody.colorado.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: buster
When switching back and forth from NS and Win95, the
system clock is six hours behind in NS ? the PeeCee
firmware seems to match what Win95 is displaying.
any hints ?? does NS think the firmware reflects GMT ?
thanks for any help...
-paul
buster@colorado.edu
From: dhawkins@moran.Mines.EDU (Dale K. Hawkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't get the hardware to boot!
Date: 13 May 1996 21:00:58 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
Message-ID: <4n87ua$nri@magma.Mines.EDU>
References: <4mql33$s1i@magma.Mines.EDU>
Dale K. Hawkins (dhawkins@moran.Mines.EDU) wrote:
Thanks for all the replies. Once I was able to boot single user and turn
on the status window, I was able to determine that the problem was with
networking stuff and didn't really have anything to do with the file system
at all. Again thanks for the help.
-Dale
--
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++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printing black pages on NeXT prn
Date: 13 May 1996 21:45:20 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4n8ahg$pvr@news.tamu.edu>
I have a printer on the network that the user says it occasionally prints
all the pages of a particular print job all black. Resend the job and it
prints fine. I'm sending this here because I originally thought it would
be something corrupted in the OS but I guess it could be the printer.
Any pointers anyone?
Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net
Computer Consulting Int'l, LTD
PO Box 1046
College Station, TX 77841
409-696-9463
From: erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: can't get elm to compile
Date: 13 May 1996 21:49:11 GMT
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Message-ID: <4n8aon$j95@dragonfly.wolfram.com>
I have been trying to compile nn for NeXT Step 3.3 but it continually fails when compiling mcprt.c. Does anyone have a config.sh and Makefile I can look at to see what I am doing wrong?
Thanks in advance
Erik Wolf
erikw@soltec.com
UNIX System Administrator
Wolfram Research
--
Erik
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: REQ: Testimonial recommendations for providers in So. Cal. area.
Date: 13 May 1996 22:49:38 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-14.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4n8ea2$1dh@usc.edu>
REQ: Testimonial recommendations for providers in So. Cal. area.
I've heard bad things about Earthlink. How's places like Netcom, Direct Link,
The Loop? Any others?
Advice much appreciated.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gsl@netcom.com (Greg Lindholm)
Subject: Re: Win95 is six hours ahead of NS/I
Message-ID: <gslDrDM1A.7pB@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <4n87mp$j0n@peabody.colorado.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 03:36:45 GMT
Sender: gsl@netcom21.netcom.com
I've got the same problem, NEXTSTEP does use GMT. I thought there was
a workaround for this. Does anyone know how to make NEXTSTEP use
the local time on intel?
Paul Buster (buster@stripe.Colorado.EDU) wrote:
: When switching back and forth from NS and Win95, the
: system clock is six hours behind in NS ? the PeeCee
: firmware seems to match what Win95 is displaying.
: any hints ?? does NS think the firmware reflects GMT ?
: thanks for any help...
: -paul
: buster@colorado.edu
Please email me any respone, TIA.
--
Greg Lindholm
BlueSky Software
gsl@netcom.com (NeXTMail & MIME happily accepted!)
PGP 2.6 key available via finger.
Fax: (805) 296-5928
From: leslie@abasin.starr.com (Leslie DeAnn Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to change local users to network-wide users ?
Date: 14 May 1996 07:51:12 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4n9e1g$j7p@news1.ucsd.edu>
References: <4fo1s9$6ck@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
In article <4fo1s9$6ck@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
ry23@rznext.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Stephan Jaeger) writes:
> Hello people out there in NeXTland,
>
> I tried to install a mini-network of two NeXTSTEP-Computers, one
Motorola
> Cube and one Intel-PC. After installing NS for Intel-PC, I tried to
install a
> Netinfo-Network. So, I started SNS on my Cube to provide data
network-wide.
> After finishing configuration, I rebooted the two machines and I could
access
> the cube's data and programs from the Intel-PC. After that, I tried to
change
> the local user-accounts to network-wide accounts. So, I started
UserManager,
> opened a local user, changed the home directory from /user/foo to
> /Net/bar/user/foo and saved (oh sorry: tried to save :-/) this
configuration
> to the root domain (I wanted to install a two-level-netinfo-hierarchy).
But
> instead of saving the data, I got an alert: "This user account already
exists
> in this domain. Replace it ?" When I click "Replace", a panel shows me
all
> the data belonging to this user. After clicking "OK", I got an error
"Netinfo
> write failed! (No such directory)". What to do ? I don't know it. I
tried
> everything, but I didn't get it :-(
> But, there is no entry in the root domain's netinfo database regarding
to
> this user.
>
> By the way: I don't have any problems creating a new network-wide user.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
Forget about UserManager. Start NetInfoManager. Open the local domain and
the / domain. Select the users in the local domain thtat you want to make
network users and drag the into the users directory of the / domain.
After copying them, change the Users home directories. For this to work,
you have to export the /Users directory from you server machine first. And
don't forget to create a import entry into the / domain. NFSManager is
pretty good at that.
Cheers.
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 07:27:09 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996May14.072709.25546@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4n80h4$60o@scipio.cyberstore.ca>
In article <4n80h4$60o@scipio.cyberstore.ca> nick@bcog.org writes:
>
> > http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html
> >
> Benatong has something similiar but not just for sysadmins
> There is another package floating around too
Probably ours. I hadn't heard of the BenaTong one :-). Ours is described
on our Web pages, http://www.plsys.co.uk/.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.text.tex
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
Subject: LATeX2e install problem
Message-ID: <DrDxx7.Cwo@RnA.NL>
Sender: news@RnA.NL
Organization: R&A
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 07:53:31 GMT
Hello,
I downloaded the current LATeX2e yesterday.
My LATeX2e installation almost work (using the initex/virtex executables from
NEXTSTEP 3.3). I have two problems:
1) ltxchek compilation fails, because the file article.cls can be opened from
one of the standard directories, even if it is opened as ./article.cls (the
./ is the result of the currdir macro). I am of course running latex ltxcheck
in a directory where article.cls cannot be found. The rest works fine.
2) Compilation of ntgclass.dtx (one of th packages) fails with:
(/ntgclass.dtx
***************************
* Character table correct *
***************************
! Argument of \changes@ has an extra }.
<inserted text>
\par
l.53 ...994/06/01}{Added the 'v' to \cs{\changes}}
The file looks fine however. Does anyone out there how to solve these?
--
Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there"
Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud.
Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: How does Mail.app find new mail? Need to change it.
Date: 14 May 1996 10:03:51 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Message-ID: <4n9lq7$bg1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
I am the only NeXTStep user on a large mixed network of mainly various
other kinds of Unix. The manager of the network has lots of neat new ways
for users' MUA's to pick up mail. Unfortunately, he wishes to phase out
the old Unix method that Mail.app assumes (i.e. everything in a file called
mbox). Does anybody have any ideas of what I can do about this? I would
prefer to cooperate with the regime. Nobody here is keen on the use of
POP, so PopOver is not an alternative. Please help me keep the NeXTStep
flag flying. Thank you.
William Clocksin
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
From: John_A_Adams@vos.stratus.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Win95 is six hours ahead of NS/I
Date: 14 May 1996 13:03:26 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <4na0av$2t3@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <4n87mp$j0n@peabody.colorado.edu>
buster@stripe.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) wrote:
>When switching back and forth from NS and Win95, the
>system clock is six hours behind in NS ? the PeeCee
>firmware seems to match what Win95 is displaying.
>
>any hints ?? does NS think the firmware reflects GMT ?
I just set my preferences to say I was in GMT. Now when I boot windows
or NeXTStep I get the same time.
--
John_A_Adams@vos.stratus.com
From: tlabs@mucc.mahidol.ac.th (Jay Busari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: HELP--Boot NS on hd1b?
Date: 14 May 1996 17:19:03 GMT
Organization: Mahidol University, Thailand
Message-ID: <4nafa7$acq@mars.mahidol.ac.th>
Hi All,
I've NS 3.3 on the 2nd partition of the 2nd IDE HDD.
When I boot NS, it gets booted, but is unable to mount the
root filesystem. It keeps looking for rootfs on hd0, while I've
all of NS on hd1b. hd1a is a dos partition, hd0 is a LINUX HDD.
I've tried to enter different boot parameters at the boot prompt..
eg. boot: hd(1,b)mach_kernel
boot: hd(1)mach_kernel
I even put..
boot: hd(1,b)mach_kernel rootdev=hd1b
NS still can't find the root fs.
Thanks in advance...
Jay Busari
tlabs@mucc.mahidol.ac.th
bluejay@health.moph.go.th
==================================================================
Probably one of the few(if not the 1st) NeXTStep users in Thailand.
==================================================================
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Intel "bootfloppy"
Date: 14 May 1996 16:23:46 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4nac2i$q81@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
Is there such a thing as a "bootfloppy" (image) for NS/Intel, so that a
possibly corrupted disk can be fsck-ed etc?
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: dana@MCS.COM (Dana Shadrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How do you Multi-Home NS 3.3
Date: 14 May 1996 11:24:59 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4nac4r$hpi@Mercury.mcs.com>
I know this has been discussed here before, can someone point
me to a description of how to set up NEXTSTEP 3.3 as a Multi-Homed
host. It is very easy to do with Solaris, but its my understanding
that NEXTSTEP requires the use of PPP.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Dana Shadrick
dana@sgsnet.com
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Microphone & Lip Service question
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 09:17:57 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
Sender: rjacobs@elaine48.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960514091050.3666A-100000@elaine48.Stanford.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I am running NS3.3 on a PC with a Vibra 16. I am using the
Sound Blaster 16 (8 and 16 bit DMA) (v3.33) driver with DMA's 1 and 5,
port 0x220, and IRQ 5.
I have a microphone plugged into the machine but can't get it to record
anything using Lip Service. When I boot up NS I can hear feedback if the
microphone is too close to the speakers. Other than that the microphone
doesn't want to record anything. It does work in Windows.
Any suggestions would be appeciated.
Robert
rob@rjacobs.stanford.edu
From: tobyl@stealth.tamu.edu (Toby Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab
Date: 14 May 1996 17:21:46 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University Networking Helpdesk
Message-ID: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
I've got a Black Slab running NS 3.2, and we want to move it out to the
front of the help desk. Problem is, we don't want Joe User being able to
hit the Power button and shut the machine off whenever he feels like.
It'd also be nice to disable the Power Off button that shows up when
someone logs off. This has been done on our cube, but the sysadmin
before me can't remember how he did it. I had heard somewhere that this
could be done with dread and dwrite, but maybe I'm thinking of something
else. Anyone know how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
Toby
--
[ Toby Leonard (tobyl@tamu.edu) | "Spare the rod and spoil the rm -rf" ]
[ CIS Networking Help Desk | -B.O.F.H. ]
[ Texas A&M University | The above is my opinion alone, and ]
[ http://genesis.tamu.edu/~tobyl | not that of any part of Texas A&M. ]
From: nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT laserprinter prints blanks
Date: 14 May 1996 20:58:46 GMT
Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
Message-ID: <4nas66$74m@core.bard.edu>
I have just connected a NeXT laserprinter to an 040 NeXTstation running
NS3.2. The printer is not working properly: When I print a document from
any application, or send a test PostScript file to the printer, or use
PrintManager.app's test page function, the printer feeds a sheet but does
not printer anything on it. The previous owner says that the printer was
printing properly just a week ago.
I have examined /usr/adm/lpd-errs, and found nothing suspicious. The
on-line docs do not help beyond that. I cannot find a NeXTanswer related
to this subject.
Has anyone encountered this problem, and/or does anybody have any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Noel Bush
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Free or ShareWare Document management system?
Date: 14 May 1996 21:18:52 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4natbs$3kd@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4mu5m6$2im@usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4mu5m6$2im@usc.edu>
On 05/10/96, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> Free or ShareWare Document management system?
> I'm looking for something that can handle versions well.
> Any suggestions?
> I would also like it to run reasonably fast on a Turbo slab.
>
I don't suppose any military bods have ported the TIPSTER document manager to
NEXTSTEP?! If so, I'd love a copy. :-)
(I provocatively wore my NeXTstep sweatshirt after I'd given "my"
presentation on the last day of the TIPSTER 24-month workshop in Washington
last week, and had a couple of interested looks, and one chap came up to say
hello, but not much more than that... quiet types, though, these NSA chaps!
:-)
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: David Carlisle <carlisle@ma.man.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: LATeX2e install problem
Date: 14 May 1996 23:43:48 +0100
Organization: Manchester University Mathematics Department
Sender: carlisle@top1.ma.man.ac.uk
Message-ID: <udrasmooyk.fsf@top1.ma.man.ac.uk>
References: <DrDxx7.Cwo@RnA.NL>
In-reply-to: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl's message of Tue, 14 May 1996 07:53:31 GMT
To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl
1) ltxchek compilation fails, because the file article.cls can be opened from
one of the standard directories, even if it is opened as ./article.cls (the
./ is the result of the currdir macro). I am of course running latex ltxcheck
in a directory where article.cls cannot be found. The rest works fine
Er yess sorry about that. Someone before reported that Next TeX has
this behaviour. I don't think I can trap for that in ltxcheck, so if
that is the only thing that fails, just ignore it. Well you could
remake the format with a texsys.cfg that sets \@currdir to \@empty
which would tell LaTeX that this was disabled, and so ltxcheck would
omit the test, but yu dont have to bother:-)
David
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: broken PostScript icon
Date: 14 May 1996 23:25:34 GMT
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4nb4pe$p7q@news1.ucsd.edu>
Somehow, on two of my machines, the icon which represents a PostScript file
has grown a question mark. It now looks like the red line and arc that one
sees in the Preview.app icon, with a blue PS? superimposed on it.
Two part question: where do the icons come from that the File Viewer uses,
and how did this one manage to get changed?
This happened at about the same time that I installed PageChain.app, but
deleting PageChain does not seem to change the PostScript icon back to its
normal form (without the question mark).
--
carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego
clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: Rakesh Dubey <rakesh@arp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EIDE CD Use
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 17:40:23 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <319927F7.57B9C1E5@arp.com>
References: <4n6hdd$l3n@news-e2b.gnn.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
JimObject@gnn.com wrote:
>
> I just installed 3.3 onto a Dell XPS system with an EIDE CDrom. After
> mucking around in the case and getting everything the way the installer
> wanted it (grrrr!) I managed to get it to complete its install and then put
> everything back the way it's supposed to be (HD on IDE-1, CD on IDE-2.)
> Everything boots and seems happy.
>
> However, when I attempt to remove the CD or don't put a CD in the drive,
> Nextstep gives me a system panic and forces me to reset everything. I
> obviously can't tell my users that they can never remove the CD from the
> drive (well I could, but that would be a bad idea. :)
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and do you know what I might be seeing here?
>
This is pretty bizarre. Some more information from you might help in
narrowing this. Did you change CD to be a single master on second
controller? Also please post the contents of your
System.config/Instance0.table and EIDE.config/Instance[01].table.
What is printed on the console (by the EIDE driver) when your machine
panics?
-Rakesh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rm@califhistsoc.org (Robert MacKimmie)
Subject: Hooking up MS-Windoze Intel Boxes for ISDN web access via NS 3.2 driven hum
Message-ID: <DrEtn9.8q7@califhistsoc.org>
Sender: rm@califhistsoc.org (Robert MacKimmie)
Organization: California Historical Society, San Francisco 415-567-1848
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 19:18:44 GMT
I am trying to plug in a MS-Windoze Intel Box for ISDN web access via NS
3.2 driven network. I have never tried to hook up white hardware running
foreign operating systems in an attempt to provide Netscape access.
Anyone have any clues?
If you could hit me directly at RM@calhist.org I would very much
appreciate it.
Thanks,
Robert
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: broken PostScript icon
Date: 15 May 1996 01:41:07 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <4nbcnj$7c4@news.cais.com>
References: <4nb4pe$p7q@news1.ucsd.edu>
The fix is simple. Select any PostScript file in the Workspace Manager.
Bring up the Tools inspector. Select the icon for Preview.app. Click on
"Set Default" The icon will change back. The deal is that each
application that can handle a specific document can associate an icon with
that particular document. If you install a new app (like PageChain), that
handles PS documents, it will use that new icon.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
From: privacy@interlink-bbs.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New Anonymous Remailer
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 07:05:19 GMT
Message-ID: <9605141436.D7955eN@interlink-bbs.com>
You may be familiar with anon.penet.fi, which give you an
anonymous account.
Our service allows YOU to choose what the return address will be!
Please write for more info.
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: broken PostScript icon
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 06:20:45 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996May15.062045.28809@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4nbcnj$7c4@news.cais.com>
In article <4nbcnj$7c4@news.cais.com> Robert La Ferla
<Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> writes:
> The fix is simple. Select any PostScript file in the Workspace Manager.
> Bring up the Tools inspector. Select the icon for Preview.app. Click
on
> "Set Default" The icon will change back. The deal is that each
> application that can handle a specific document can associate an icon
with
> that particular document. If you install a new app (like PageChain),
that
> handles PS documents, it will use that new icon.
I hate to tell you, but changing default tools has no effect on the icon.
It will change the tool used.
The only way that I know of to change the icon back is to remove the
offending app from the search path (i.e. /LocalApps, ~/Apps, etc).
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: phy070@spo9.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Win95 is six hours ahead of NS/I
Date: 15 May 1996 07:38:14 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany
Message-ID: <4nc1l6$92j@sun3.uni-essen.de>
References: <4n87mp$j0n@peabody.colorado.edu> <4na0av$2t3@transfer.stratus.com>
Hello,
there is a cute little software (shareware ($10)) from James E. Quick
called TimeShift, that might take care of you Problems. It should be
found on any of the better known NS archives (e.g. peanuts,
ftp.cs.TU-Berlin.DE, csorst etc.), but I'm not quite shure of that.
If you really can't find it and need it, and if you can accept NeXT-
or MIME-mail, I can dig it out here.
I'll append the README-file to this posting.
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
-------
TimeShift.README
-------
A number of people have complained on the net about how much of a
pain it is to keep resetting the date and time when alternately
booting between NS and toy operating systems.
My preferred advice (only partly facetious) is:
"Then stop booting the toy OS."
I realize that this is not a workable solution for some people.
So I'm providing this software to ease the pain of those who
chronically suffer from Windows.
This software works by intercepting calls to reboot and halt. When
/usr/etc/reboot or /usr/etc/halt are executed, a copy of timeshift
is run instead. The fake reboot and halt code first determines
how many seconds separate the local timezone from GMT, then the
system clock is adjusted by adding that many seconds to the clock.
Upon making this time adjustment, the file (/usr/etc/shifted.time)
is created so that this change can be undone the next time that NS
is booted. After setting the time and creating the stamp file, the
real copy of reboot or halt is called to bring down the system as
requested.
Upon bootup (in either /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc) the script
'/etc/rc.timeshift' is run. This script checks for '/usr/etc/shifted.time'
and if present, runs '/usr/etc/timeshift' to reverse the process.
timeshift reads the stamp file, and adjusts the system clock by
subtracting the stored time difference from the clock. It then
removes the stamp file.
Because /usr/etc/reboot, and /usr/etc/halt are such critical OS
components, care has been taken to prevent timeshift from modifying
anything if the real halt or reboot will not be syncing the filesystem
on the way down. When reboot -q, reboot -n, or halt -n are called
the real versions are executed directly without modifying the clock.
If this were not done, then rebooting the system from single user
mode after fixing corrupt file systems would not be possible.
An installer package in binary form is provided. During installation
it will offer to add a login hook to /etc/rc. If you select
'Do Nothing' in the attentioan panel, then no change will be made,
and you will have to manually add an hook to call /etc/rc.timeshift
to either rc or rc.local. Though timeshift will work from either
location, the call from rc is recommeded. When placed in the rc
file the time will be shifted before syslogd and other system
daemons are run. This means that messages they write to
/usr/adm/messages will show the correct time. If called from
rc.local, most daemons will be started while the clock is still in
DOS time.
I have included the source code to the timeshift executable as part
of the distribution. I do not recommend making changes to this
code. I provided the source, because I believe that people should
have access to any critical pieces of code that are installed and
run as root on their systems. I, myself, would be leery of this
package if sources were not made available. So, if you modify the
source and you encounter problems with it, then you are on your
own. I will respond to feedback and suggestions for improving the
package. I will not support modified copies of this code!
If something heinous happens to your system and the timeshift
executable becomes corrupted, then reboot and halt will no longer
operate normally.
In this situation you should do the following:
1. boot into single user mode.
2. fsck -p to preen your drives.
3. cd /usr/etc
4. rm timeshift
5. mv halt.real halt
6. mv reboot.real reboot
The changes to your rc.timeshift will only try to run at boot when
/usr/etc/shifted.time and /usr/etc/timeshift both exist. You can
then reinstall timeshift from the installer package.
Deleting timshift via the Installer.app will remove timeshift, and
rename halt.real and reboot.real. It will also remove /etc/rc.timeshift.
It will not modify /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local but since that code
will now no longer try to run rc.timeshift you will still be able
to boot normally until you decide to remove
timeshift will reset the clock for all normal reboot and shutdown
vectors:
shutdown called from the shell.
halt or reboot called from the shell.
'Turn it off' button in the Power off panel.
'Power off' button in the logout panel.
'Reboot' or 'Power' buttons on the login panel.
Note that the time will not be shifted after a crash, or by any
other ungraceful shutdown vecter (like restart via the Cmd-NumLock
monitor). This means that if you boot MS/Windows before rebooting
to repair filesystems, etc, then time will be off in DOS.
This code is provided as shareware but is not in the public domain.
It can be distributed, unmodified, in both source and binary form.
If you find this software useful, and use it, please send a payment
of $10. My current address is:
James E. Quick
13 Nonantum Place #2
Newton, MA 02158
If you are on the net, you can always verify my current address
via 'whois quick.com'
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Intel "bootfloppy"
Date: 15 May 1996 09:54:03 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nc9jr$gop@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <4nac2i$q81@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
In article <4nac2i$q81@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford
<m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> writes:
> Is there such a thing as a "bootfloppy" (image) for NS/Intel, so that a
> possibly corrupted disk can be fsck-ed etc?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> mmalc.
>
> --
Look for a site with the dir. 486BootFloopy. One file is called BootDisk1.dd
the other FsckDisk2.dd. On the second disk resides tset, mount, and fsck.
Maybe it's time to ask a second time...
Is somebody able to produce executables linked with the shlib, or is someone
able to give me a pointer to the guy who produced these three codes????
Henry
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab
Date: 15 May 1996 09:36:20 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nc8ik$dsd@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
In article <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu> tobyl@stealth.tamu.edu (Toby Leonard)
writes:
> I've got a Black Slab running NS 3.2, and we want to move it out to the
> front of the help desk. Problem is, we don't want Joe User being able to
> hit the Power button and shut the machine off whenever he feels like.
> It'd also be nice to disable the Power Off button that shows up when
> someone logs off. This has been done on our cube, but the sysadmin
> before me can't remember how he did it. I had heard somewhere that this
> could be done with dread and dwrite, but maybe I'm thinking of something
> else. Anyone know how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
To disable power off login _as root_ and in a shell window type
dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled Yes
(in 3.3 you can do this in Preferences.app as well).
To monitor login/out you can set
dwrite loginwindow LoginHook /some/executable_or_script
dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /some/other/executable
These programs are then started upon login and logout resp..
Warning: they run with root permission, so be careful.
They get the current login name as parameter.
(In 3.3, these too can be set with Preferences.app)
Detlev
--
Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Email:droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.text.tex
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Latest TeX binaries for NEXTSTEP 3.3?
Message-ID: <DrG13B.3Eu@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <DrDxx7.Cwo@RnA.NL> <udrasmooyk.fsf@top1.ma.man.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:57:11 GMT
Well, since NeXTTeX seems to do path things wrong (LATeX2e currdir doesn't
work properly) (and since it is 3.141), it seems at least I need a newer
version of the tex binaries.
Does someone know if these are available somewhere (next-ftp.peak.org?), or
do I have to make them myself from the TeX sources?
The binaries for NEXTSTEP on CTAN are antiquities from 1991 and probably were
only put there because the first NeXTTeXs has so little space for things that
the Germans couldn't fit their hyphenation in. I think that version could be
removed from CTAN nowadays.
Maybe it is a good idea to have a 'latest-TeX-NIHS.tar.gz somewhere' if it
doesn't aready exists? If it doesn't exist, I volunteer to try to create it.
--
Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can
question."
From: nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (Nicole Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting up a getty on serial port for PPP
Date: 15 May 1996 12:40:59 GMT
Organization: Swinburne University of Technology
Message-ID: <4ncjcr$9qv@lucy.swin.edu.au>
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Hi
I'm running ppp on a machine connected to the net (this machine,... pedder) and
I have a machine at home (number_one) which dials in to pedder and is supposed
to make a ppp connection.
To do so, I run a getty process on port b with the following entries
in /etc/ttys and /etc/gettytab.
ttydfb "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on
D19200:ap:p8:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200:
I also set the modem to auto-answer with at&s0=1.
For some reason, the getty process starts up OK at first on port B, but then turns into a login process,... see below process status:
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
801 ? RW 0:10 - D19200 ttydfb (getty)
The process starts out as below,...
801 ? S 0:11 login -p r login:
And then becomes the login process above.
This seems to totally stuff up the serial ports for logins.
I have tried to use different /etc/ttys and different /etc/gettytab entries, but none have worked.
If you have a system working with PPP as a ppp server over serial lines (and in particular over a modem) then I'd greatly appreciated it if you could send me the relevant entries from ttys and gettytab as well as your modem's settings,... in particular the &q and &d settings.
In fact, if you have any suggestions which may help, then I'd love to hear from you.
Looking forward to some help :-)
Cheers
Nicole
From: mpaque@pbinet.com (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ADB monitor on non-Turbo NeXT-HW
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 15:08:39 GMT
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
Message-ID: <4ncs8m$k2j@nntp.snfc21.pbi.net>
References: <4mv5gl$lbt@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner) wrote:
>There seems to be some trickery involved when trying to connect a NeXT ADB
>moni to non-Turbo, i.e. 25MHz, motherboards. As the statement in the FAQ is
>rather odd, has anybody got this combination to work? What parts were
>involved (CPU-ROM version, cable, & keyboard).
Machines with the non-Turbo chipset don't support ADB. The hardware
just isn't there. The specialized shift registers, timing widgetry,
and bus drivers were added with the Turbo board products.
In other words, the 'trickery' involves getting a turbo motherboard.
Sorry
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pbinet.com Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (Gary Finley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab
Date: 15 May 1996 15:31:39 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4nctcr$1k18@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
On 05/14/96, Toby Leonard wrote:
>I've got a Black Slab running NS 3.2... want to .. disable the Power
> Off button...
Hi: It's a dwrite as you guessed, to the owner loginwindow. Do this
as root:
dwrite loginwindow PowerOffDisabled YES
--
----------------------------------------------
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Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster.
gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome)
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
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From: Babou
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting Dos partitions....
Date: 15 May 1996 15:56:46 GMT
Organization: INT (Evry - France)
Message-ID: <4ncuru$2gs@babylone.int-evry.fr>
I have several partitions dos on my second disk scsi and Nexstep mount only
the first one. Is there a way to mount automatically all my dos partitions ?
)|(
(o o)
---------------------------ooO-(_)-Ooo-------------------------
BOURRY Sebastien
Tel : 60.76.68.61
Email (NeXTMail, MIME) :
bourry@babounet.minet.net
From: Jim Armes <armes@tds.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EIDE CD Use
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:19:59 -0400
Organization: Trident Data Systems
Message-ID: <319A042F.3A72@tds.com>
References: <4n6hdd$l3n@news-e2b.gnn.com> <319927F7.57B9C1E5@arp.com>
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Folks:
<<< More information >>>
The first situation that occurs is when you remove the CD (or Nextstep
does) and then try to get Nextstep to recognize a new CD (or the same
one.)
The panic occurs with the following messages:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Kernel Trap
frame 1f68f34 called by 1f9662 args 11232ac 111b3eb 1176a30 1
frame 1f68f70 called by 1fa0f3 args 11232ac 111af8c 1f61e04 1176a30
frame 1f68f94 called by 1fa211 args 1124194 111af69 1176c50 1123cbc
frame 1f68fc0 called by 191d1a args 1124194 1 112253c 1
memory access exception (1,1,c1180000)
waiting for debugger...
-------------------------------------------------------------------
A slightly different panic occurs at boot time when there is no CD in
the drive:
-------------------------------------------------------------------
frame 1f61e9c called by 1f3e83 args f00000fd 0 800 11232ac
frame 1f61f34 called by 1fa662 args 11232ac 111b3eb 0 0
frame 1f61f70 called by 1fa0f3 args 11232ac 111af8c 1f6ae94 0
frame 1f61f94 called by 1fa211 args 1124194 111af69 111adec 1123cbc
failed instruction exception (2,d,0)
waiting for debugger...
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Here's my system config:
Kernel Flags = ""
Boot Graphics = "No"
Version = "3.30"
Active Drivers = "PS2Mouse ParallelPort Number9Motion771DisplayDriver
PortServer SoundBlaster16"
Instance = "0"
Install Mode = "No"
kernel = "mach_kernel"
Language = "English"
APM = "Yes"
Boot Drivers = "EIDE Floppy PS2Keyboard PCIBus EISABus Intel824X0
ISASerialPort"
Here's my EIDE[1] config:
Post-Load=PostLoad
Multiple Sector="Yes"
Instance="1"
LOCHRDY Support = "No"
Character Major = "15"
Driver Name = "EIDE"
Valid IRQ Levels = "14 15"
Disk Geometry = "Yes"
Location = ""
Version = "3.31"
I/O Ports = "0x170-0x177"
Class Names = "IdeDisk IdeController AtapiController"
ValidDMAChannels = ""
Server Name = "EIDE"
Block Major = "3"
Title = "EIDE"
DMA Channels = ""
Driver Version = "... ideDriver-109 ..."
IRA Levels = "15"
Address Mode = "LBA"
Family = "Disk"
Boot Driver = "Boot Driver"
EIDESupport = "Yes"
Memory Maps = ""
-----------------------
That's it, let me know if there is any other information that may be
useful in trying to fix this.
Jim
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: HELP! - NEXT cube setup
From: MMower@Novell.com (Mathew Mower)
Organization: Your Organization
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Date: 15 May 96 21:33:26 GMT
OK, OK, I admit that I have no idea what's going on. I'm a newbie.
But . . .
At work, I have inherited a NEXT cube, model N1000A.
I also have a Dimension AV board and a MegaPixel color display.
Could some one please offer me some advice on how to do the following:
1- I would like to change the password on this system. I'm locked out
currently.If this is not possible, what do I need to reconfigure and
set up this unit?
2- I would like to install the Dimension AV card and use the color display.
I have tried installing the card and connecting the monitor. All I get
is a blank screen on the B&W, nothing on the color monitor. Do I need
to have the B&W monitor connected as well? If not, how would I connect
the keyboard and mouse?
3- Are there any web sites that would have shareware for this unit?
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
MMower@Novell.com
PS I also have a N1000 (I think) pizza box NEXT. I have the password as the
previous user gave it to me before he left. How do I change the name and
account?
Thanks again.
MM
From: steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (Steven Trainoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Rebuilding a disk with MEDIA ERRORS
Date: 15 May 1996 20:17:43 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
Message-ID: <4nde57$8n9@yuggoth.ucsb.edu>
Hi all,
I have a CUBE with a disk failing with MEDIA ERRORS. I have a complete
backup and I want to do a reformat and restore. This machine has only a
single disk so the logistics are a little complicated. I would prefer to use
restore -r since I am guaranteed that I won't miss anything, however, I can't
do that over a mounted root partition which is what would happen if I
re-install off of the CD-ROM first. I would like to boot off of a floppy so
that I will have / mounted on /dev/fd0a. Then I can do the restore -r on
top of /dev/rsd0a. On the archives there is a bootFloppy which appears to
to what I want, but it fails to build properly on NS3.3.
Barring that I will do the install from the CD-ROM and then restore
everything but /dev and /private/vm on top of the root partition using
restore -i.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
--
...STeve
------------------------------------
Insert pithy maxim here...
steve@tweedledee.ucsb.edu (NeXT mail, MIME mail welcome)
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI - SCSI Controller
Date: 15 May 1996 21:55:03 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ndjrn$p8p@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Keywords: Controller,Adaptec
Can anyone tell me if the Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI will work under NeXTSTep 3.3? If so what driver pkg do I use?
Thank's in advance,
David A. Johnson
Research Engineer,
Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
Northwestern University
From: Rakesh Dubey <rakesh@arp.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EIDE CD Use
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 17:32:00 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <319A7780.153BA0DB@arp.com>
References: <4n6hdd$l3n@news-e2b.gnn.com> <319927F7.57B9C1E5@arp.com> <319A042F.3A72@tds.com>
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Jim Armes wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> <<< More information >>>
>
> The first situation that occurs is when you remove the CD (or Nextstep
> does) and then try to get Nextstep to recognize a new CD (or the same
> one.)
> The panic occurs with the following messages:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> Kernel Trap
> frame 1f68f34 called by 1f9662 args 11232ac 111b3eb 1176a30 1
> frame 1f68f70 called by 1fa0f3 args 11232ac 111af8c 1f61e04 1176a30
> frame 1f68f94 called by 1fa211 args 1124194 111af69 1176c50 1123cbc
> frame 1f68fc0 called by 191d1a args 1124194 1 112253c 1
> memory access exception (1,1,c1180000)
> waiting for debugger...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> A slightly different panic occurs at boot time when there is no CD in
> the drive:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> frame 1f61e9c called by 1f3e83 args f00000fd 0 800 11232ac
> frame 1f61f34 called by 1fa662 args 11232ac 111b3eb 0 0
> frame 1f61f70 called by 1fa0f3 args 11232ac 111af8c 1f6ae94 0
> frame 1f61f94 called by 1fa211 args 1124194 111af69 111adec 1123cbc
> failed instruction exception (2,d,0)
> waiting for debugger...
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Here's my system config:
> Kernel Flags = ""
> Boot Graphics = "No"
> Version = "3.30"
> Active Drivers = "PS2Mouse ParallelPort Number9Motion771DisplayDriver
> PortServer SoundBlaster16"
> Instance = "0"
> Install Mode = "No"
> kernel = "mach_kernel"
> Language = "English"
> APM = "Yes"
> Boot Drivers = "EIDE Floppy PS2Keyboard PCIBus EISABus Intel824X0
> ISASerialPort"
>
> Here's my EIDE[1] config:
> Post-Load=PostLoad
> Multiple Sector="Yes"
> Instance="1"
> LOCHRDY Support = "No"
> Character Major = "15"
> Driver Name = "EIDE"
> Valid IRQ Levels = "14 15"
> Disk Geometry = "Yes"
> Location = ""
> Version = "3.31"
> I/O Ports = "0x170-0x177"
> Class Names = "IdeDisk IdeController AtapiController"
> ValidDMAChannels = ""
> Server Name = "EIDE"
> Block Major = "3"
> Title = "EIDE"
> DMA Channels = ""
> Driver Version = "... ideDriver-109 ..."
> IRA Levels = "15"
> Address Mode = "LBA"
> Family = "Disk"
> Boot Driver = "Boot Driver"
> EIDESupport = "Yes"
> Memory Maps = ""
> -----------------------
>
> That's it, let me know if there is any other information that may be
> useful in trying to fix this.
>
> Jim
Your EIDE(1) (??) config doesn't look right so let's make sure. The
exerpt above should be the content of Instance1.table in
/usr/Devices/EIDE.config.
There should also be an Instance0.table file in the same directoty:
that will look identical except [I/O Ports: 0x1f0-0x1f7, IRQ=15 and
Instance=0].
The panics look like memory corruption. If you still can't get this
right you could leave the CD driver on primary controller unless you
use the CD drive a lot.
-Rakesh
From: mfriedel@alta.starr.com (Michael Friedel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: It can be done.
Date: 16 May 1996 04:25:22 GMT
Organization: CERFnet
Message-ID: <4neani$anb@news.cerf.net>
To install NS onto an IDE hard disk connected to the primary IDE contreoller
using a CDROM drive connected to the secondary IDE Controller.
I have a wonderful, and what I consider the first usable unde NS, Notebook. A
TECRA 720CDT. What makes it so usable is teh 1024x768 crisp color display.
Anyway. So I have this wonderful machine, and the first thing I did was to
nuke Win95. Had to do it. Great statisfaction 8-).
No I had a small problem, a 6 Speed CDROM and a 1GIG HD, but both are IDE,
and no PCMCIA SCSI Controller handy.
So here is what I did.
1. I copied the EIDE.config directory and named it ATAPI_CDROM.config.
2. I changed the IRQ and Port address to the values of the secondary
controller. (and the name, see attached Default.table)
3. I changed the family from Disk to SCSI.
4. I booted from the boot floppy.
5. I inserted the Driver Disk.
6. When asked for the SCSI driver I put in the disk with ATAPI_CDROM and the
EIDE Driver.
7. It went through the first phase of installing the base operating system.
Here comes the real trick.
8. Don't boot from the HD, boot from the boot floppy again.
9. Specify -s at the mach: prompt.
10. Load the drivers again (ATAPI_CDROM & EIDE)
11. Load the floppy driver !!!!!!!!!!!!
11. When in single user mode, mount the hd
mount -n /dev/hd0a /disk
12. Edit the install hints and take the ATAPI_CDROM Driver out of it.
13. Mount the Driver floppy
mount -n /dev/fd0a /floppy
14. Copy the EIDE.config into the /usr/Devices directory
15. Copy the Default.table to the Instance0.table
16. Copy the Default.table to the Instance1.table
17. Use pico to change the values in the Instance1.table to that of the
secondary controller.
18. unmount the floppy
umount /floppy
19. Reboot
Voila.
Here is the Default.table for the ATAPI_CDROM.config
---
"Title" = "ATAPI_CDROM";
"Family" = "SCSI";
"Version" = "3.31";
"Location" = "";
"Instance" = "0";
"Driver Name" = "EIDE";
"Class Names" = "IdeDisk IdeController AtapiController";
"DMA Channels" = "";
"IRQ Levels" = "15";
"I/O Ports" = "0x170-0x177";
"Memory Maps" = "";
"Boot Driver";
"Valid DMA Channels" = "";
"Valid IRQ Levels" = "14 15";
"Block Major" = "3";
"Character Major" = "15";
"Disk Geometry" = "No";
"Address Mode" = "CHS";
"Multiple Sectors" = "Yes";
"IOCHRDY Support" = "No";
"EIDE Support" = "No";
"Server Name" = "EIDE";
"Post-Load" = "PostLoad";
"Server Name" = "EIDE";
"Driver Version" = "PROGRAM:EIDE PROJECT:ideDriver-109 DEVELOPER:root
BUILT:NO DATE SET (-B used)";
----
The Values for the secondary IDE controller.
"IRQ Levels" = "15";
"I/O Ports" = "0x170-0x177";
----
Contents of the Additional driver Disk
ATAPI_CDROM.config
EIDE.config
Floppy.config
Cheers
Michael
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab
Date: 16 May 1996 04:30:19 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4neb0r$p3d@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
In article <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu> tobyl@stealth.tamu.edu (Toby Leonard)
writes:
> I've got a Black Slab running NS 3.2, and we want to move it out to the
> front of the help desk. Problem is, we don't want Joe User being able to
> hit the Power button and shut the machine off whenever he feels like.
> It'd also be nice to disable the Power Off button that shows up when
> someone logs off. This has been done on our cube, but the sysadmin
> before me can't remember how he did it. I had heard somewhere that this
> could be done with dread and dwrite, but maybe I'm thinking of something
> else. Anyone know how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
>
> Toby
> --
> [ Toby Leonard (tobyl@tamu.edu) | "Spare the rod and spoil the rm -rf" ]
> [ CIS Networking Help Desk | -B.O.F.H. ]
> [ Texas A&M University | The above is my opinion alone, and ]
> [ http://genesis.tamu.edu/~tobyl | not that of any part of Texas A&M. ]
As root, paste the following three lines into a Terminal window. Then
logout, login again as user "exit", and then try the power button. It
should not work.
dwrite <<EOF
loginwindow PowerOffDisabled Yes
EOF
Roland
--
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Flakey Mail.app behavior
Date: 16 May 1996 04:31:14 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4neb2i$p4q@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <4mt551$ek0@news4.digex.net>
In article <4mt551$ek0@news4.digex.net> kykim@tenteus.com (Kevin Kim)
writes:
> HI all,
>
> I'm experiencing some flakey Mail.app behavior. I am using Mail.app 3.3,
> sendmail 8.7.3, procmail 3.10 and PopOver 1.3.
>
> I am able to download my mail and then sort it using PopMail, but the
> messages I specifed to stay in my mail spool directory can't be read. I
> launch the Mail.app and my new mail message sound goes off, the Mail.app
icon
> shows the number of new messages. But when I click "Get Mail", nothing
> happens. Then a day or two later, I might get the message.
>
> I tar'd up my mail directories, moved it to another NeXT box, and had no
> problems reading my mail. I tried deleting my table_of_contents file,
but
> that didn't seem to help.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
> Thanks,
> -kevin
> --
> Kevin Kim
> kykim@access.digex.net
Get PopOver 1.5. It's great.
--
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: vador@sheroom.minet.net (Eric Taieb aka Sheroom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting another NextStep Partition on another drive
Date: 16 May 1996 07:03:50 GMT
Organization: INT (Evry - France)
Message-ID: <4nek0m$816@babylone.int-evry.fr>
I have to EIDE disks connected each one to a controller EIDE
On the first disk 2 partitions:
NeXTStep
WinShit95
On the second disk 3 partitions:
Dos Principal
NeXTStep
Dos extended
At boot time when NextStep boots i recognizes the second hard drive:
WD Caviar etc....
then it does:
Regsiterinf hd1:
Not Valid Disk Label
And it doesn't only mounts on this second disk The dos principal partition
.
What should i do to mount the other NextStep partition?
This in an extract from fdisk of /dev/rhd1h
NeXT fdisk v1.02
Device: /dev/rhd1h
Type Start Size Status
--------------------------------------------
DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 646 -
NEXTSTEP 750 471 Active
Unused Blocks Start Size
-------------------------------
Free Space 646 104
My Dos extended partition is not even shown!!!!!
I've try swapping from NEXSTEP and DOS, 16 bit FAT the active partition
and when NextSTep is active partition no partition at all is mounted.
Please HELP ME OUT I NEED TO MOUNT THIS SECOND NEXTSTEP PARTITION TO GET MORE
SPACE FOR NEXTSTEP!!!!
THNXXX
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:37:09 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960515103523.4389N-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Toby Leonard <tobyl@stealth.tamu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4naffa$opp@news.tamu.edu>
It should be worth noting that when a user is logged on and presses the
power button, a confirmation panel will popup. If the user selects 'yes'
then the user will be logged out but the machine will not power down.
command-~ will still give the option of powering down the NeXT, as will
entering into the min-monitor and pressing the power button.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> No NeXTmail!
USENET: Please CC this address on replies, things vanish fast.
NeXT Info available via email! Send message with SUBJECT 'send info'
If above address fails, use: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wacom tablet driver
Date: 15 May 1996 11:35:02 GMT
Organization: Italia Online
Message-ID: <4ncfh6$qnp@mikasa.iol.it>
Is there a Wacom tablet driver available?
Thanks for help.
--------------
Antonio Flores
tony@gestel.it
From: siren@pangea.ca (Betty Siren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Emulation exception, EMT trap, flakey WindowServer & Workspace Manager
Date: 16 May 1996 04:06:32 -0500
Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ner6o$7bc@surf.pangea.ca>
A NextCube running 3.3 won't get better after some sysadmin changes.
One time it worked fine for a day.
More often most things work, but doing, say, "Open" in "Edit"
puts up an empty browser panel and then:
Program generated(4): Emulation exception.
0x6097904 in -[NXBrowserCell drawInside:inView:] ()
(gdb)
Even worse, "Workspace Manager" starts up, starts 0 to 2 Apps,
then puts up the "Try to save changes ... before logging out"
dialogue. Trying to start an app from csh gives "EMT trap"
And worstest of all, often, at end of the boot sequence,
the WindowServer keeps trying and failing to start up.
I think the problem has its roots here since the Workspace Manager
problem produces lots of "dps_err_write" messages.
I had a problem with DPS a few years back that was caused by
/LocalLibrary/Fonts being temporarily unavailable. Not this
time. I returned them to the root disk just to be sure.
I have run "diagnostics". The only test that fails is the
middle of the 3 ethernet tests that is "off" by default anyway.
The root "dread" stuff looks fine.
I have gone over my Netinfo stuff since I had made changes there.
I had been getting "Rogue netinfo server" messages for localhost/local.
I changed broadcasthost from 255.255.255.255 to 192.245.51.255 since
the former seemed to go to the slip0 port instead of en0.
I also put IPBROADCAST=192.245.51.255 in "hostconfig"
I recently added 12 4meg 9bit simms.
I put the previous 4 4meg 8bit simms in last and have parity
turned off.
There is an 030 board in the cube with 12 1meg 8bit simms.
It boots diskless and serves an OD for stuff like /*Library/Documentation
I upgraded to 3.3 a few weeks ago.
Anyone able to point me in the rite direction?
Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Subject: mach related limits?
Message-ID: <DrGuA8.8ss@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@solair1.inter.NL.net (News at news)
Organization: NLnet
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 21:28:45 GMT
I am experiencing some problems i can not explain.
To be able to compose some theories i would like
to know if there are limits in the NEXT Mach-kernel like
- max number of processes
- max number of threads
- etc.
I have not been able to find such info on Mach,
so any pointer is helpfull.
Pleace Email to: pemmerik@solair1.inter.nl.net
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
Phone: +31 74 2558 688 The Netherlands
--
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: 16 May 1996 17:39:30 GMT
Organization: No organisation supplied
Message-ID: <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za>
Hi,
I have PPP installed and are connecting to my service provider via a
dialup connection.
My problem is however not PPP but Mail.app or sendmail which I don't
know how to configure correctly.
In Mail.app's preferences I have my reply-to address set as
gvandyk@icon.co.za which is my address. When a message goes out the
reply-to bit is properly set but the sender is gerrit@fdv2. This
sometimes causes problems but is not too serious.
The problem I am having is that when I send a mail message to
next-prog@omnigroup.com which is a mailing list, my reply-to address
and from address is formatted as gerrit@fdv2.omnigroup.com when the
message gets back to me.
Is there a way I can fix this, or will I have to live with it?
--
Regards,
Gerrit van Dyk
email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome)
E.S. Systems cc
The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: willdave@access5.digex.net (William Davenant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from a NeXT ... yes, HOW!?
Date: 16 May 1996 14:53:55 -0400
Organization: arcadian plain
Message-ID: <4nftk3$bfd@access5.digex.net>
References: <4lils4$73g@www.uno.edu>
Keywords: NIS, NeXT, yp
Adam J. Harrison <aharriso@satchmo.math.uno.edu> wrote:
>I have been trying to incorporate our NIS database into our NeXT machines.
>So far I have performed the following tasks on the NeXT machine
>
>1. Appended a + to the end of /etc/passwd and /etc/group.
>2. Added the NIS host to /etc/hosts
>3. Using NetManager I set the NIS domain
>
>The NeXT seems to reboot fine but after the ROM monitor window disappears
>no login window appears. If I fire up ypbind by hand and set the
>domainname then things like ypcat work fine
I'm interesting in NISing a NeXT machine I've got ... I don't know
who set it up originally etc., but currently it's basically standalone
altho you can telnet from it etc. (it's got a huge host file.)
Anyway, it's running 3.0. I also note ypbind is ypbind.NOT. Anyway,
what I did was cp ypbind.NOT ypbind, set the domain name, didn't
change the passwd or group file (cuz I wanted to see what would
happen.) Then I started the ypbind by hand, and all seemed well ...
so I rebooted. Then the machine got stuck in "checking filesystems"
... what it was doing I have no idea ... I actually add to get the
monitor window and boot it single user and rm the ypbind and cp
the original hostinfo stuff back to get it to boot. What the
hell is the big deal with this damn thing? Thanks.
Email and I'll summarize if response warrants same.
wd
--
<'D / C /
()-^ --+-\\ L'epigramme est un jeu d'escrime.
/ > | \ Antoine Louis Le Brun
From: gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de (Gerald Wildgruber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Latest TeX binaries for NEXTSTEP 3.3?
Date: 16 May 1996 23:08:03 +0200
Organization: Apatheia Corp.
Sender: gewil@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <x7hgtg9vil.fsf@ue801be.ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <DrDxx7.Cwo@RnA.NL> <udrasmooyk.fsf@top1.ma.man.ac.uk>
<DrG13B.3Eu@AWT.NL>
In-reply-to: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl's message of Wed, 15 May 1996 10:57:11 GMT
To: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
In article <DrG13B.3Eu@AWT.NL> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) writes:
Maybe it is a good idea to have a 'latest-TeX-NIHS.tar.gz somewhere' if it
doesn't aready exists? If it doesn't exist, I volunteer to try to create it.
Gregor Hoffleit has made a complete port of the unix standard TeX
Distribution teTeX. It is compiled quad fat so installation is very
easy. The only thing to do is to get accustomed to the new but standard TeX
Directory Structure (TDS); yet it is way more logic and easier to maintain
than was the forest of links NeXTTeX presented. This distribution is just
great !
Here it is:
ftp://zarquon.mathi.uni-heidelberg.de/pub/NeXT/TeX/teTeX/
Gerald
--
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea
gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really
lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage
(NeXTMail and MIME
welcome)
From: sam@ali.bc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 access timeouts
Date: 16 May 1996 20:13:25 GMT
Organization: ALI
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ng295$6rh@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
References: <4ng1dj$6nj@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
In article <4ng1dj$6nj@cetus.ali.bc.ca> root@cod.ali.bc.ca (Operator)
writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed an Adaptec 2940 (not 2940W) on a PCI machine. I am
also
> using the latest driver, version 3.37. I have a Barracuda drive
connected
> to it internally.
>
> When I connect an external device (terminated) there are problems with
> access to the hard drive and I get a whole bunch of "timeout" messages.
I
> have the cards termination set to automatic and I have also set it to
> disabled (because both ends are already terminated) but it doesn't seem
to
> make any difference.
>
> Please reply to sam@ali.bc.ca
>
> ..Mike.
Hi,
I just seemed to have solved my own problem. I turned of synchronous
transfers using Configure.app and did the same with the SCSI select
utility by turning of Sync Negotiation for the hard drive (ID=0) and now
it works.
I would rather leave synchronous on to get better throughput rates.
Does anyone have any other ideas?
..Mike.
From: John Watts <jw7m+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk problem from unusual powerdown ... help ?
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 15:45:55 -0400
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Message-ID: <glasLna00YWm01yVkD@andrew.cmu.edu>
I have a slab running NS 2.2 (a pain to upgrade a standalone system w/o a
CDROM) ...
This system has an internal 105 MB HD, which holds only the core OS (i.e.,
w/o the developer elements) and certain user file backups. Normally,
the system was booted and run primarily from an external Fujitsu ~ 500 MB
HD.
A while ago, a problem occured with unusual powerdown. The sequence was
this: the system was up and running, boted from the external drive,
with root mounted on that drive. The internal drive was running, acting as
a second drive. Then, power was interrupted
to the external drive for a minute or so, then returned.
My recollection is that when power returned to the Fujitsu (external,
boot) drive, there was no control over the system. In any event, I am
pretty sure the system was shut down by switching off power to all
components by, figuratively, "pulling the plug."
Things like this have happened before, and usually there is a disk sync problem
which is fixable by using fsck. This time, though, fsck does not seem
to be able to fix whatever inconsistencies exist.
Currently, the system does not want to boot from the Fujitsu drive. The
system will boot just fine from the OS on the internal HD, however. If the
system is booted from the internal HD, when it tries to mount the Fujitsu
as a second drive, fsck fails.
However, if I have booted from the internal HD, and chosen ignore on the
"fsck fail" panel, I can proceed, as one would expect. Once logged in
as root,
I can mount the Fujitsu drive as /dev/sd1a. Once the drive is
mounted, I can use fsck from a terminal window, and I find that the error
message is "block 8 unreadable." Interestingly enough (to me, anyway, but
i'm decidely subnovice at sys administration), once the Fujitsu disk is
mounted manually, I can see it in the viewer, and it appears that no
data is corrupted,
at east on the user partitions ... all the programs there seem to execute,
all the files seem to be available, etc.
Any ideas ?
Is block 8 likely to be truly corrupted, or is there some raeaon that the
system just can't see it ? If it's likely to be truly corrupted, is
there any way that this problem (which appears to me to affect just the
boot portion, not data files) can be corrected without rebuilding the disk ?
*Any* ideas appreciated. Thanks.
John Watts
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: 17 May 1996 01:20:29 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-27.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4ngk8t$qv2@usc.edu>
References: <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za>
Cc: gvandyk@icon.co.za
In <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za> gvandyk@icon.co.za wrote:
> I have PPP installed and are connecting to my service provider via a
> dialup connection.
[snip]
> In Mail.app's preferences I have my reply-to address set as
> gvandyk@icon.co.za which is my address. When a message goes out the
> reply-to bit is properly set but the sender is gerrit@fdv2.
This is a FAQ sendmail problem. You are probably using the orig. NS sendmail.
If you want to change the behavior you're experiencing, it's advisable to
upgrade to the latest sendmail 8.7.5 which Robert La Ferla has so kindly made
into a pkg and left on the popular ftp sites. The upgrade process is both
complex and simple, and not too hard to set up through e-mail correspondence
if you so choose. And then I'd be happy to help you.
If there's a solution for the orig. NS sendmail, I don't know it.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab
Date: 17 May 1996 01:16:37 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ngk1l$cu8@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <4nc8ik$dsd@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
Detlev Droege writes:
> To monitor login/out you can set
> dwrite loginwindow LoginHook /some/executable_or_script
> dwrite loginwindow LogoutHook /some/other/executable
> These programs are then started upon login and logout resp..
> Warning: they run with root permission, so be careful.
> They get the current login name as parameter.
You can also use these login and logout hooks for more powerful things than
just monitoring login/out.
To simply monitor logins and logouts, you don't need to write any scripts,
just use the commands ac and last. Note: the default /usr/adm/monthly
cleans out the logs monthly, which you can change if desired.
--
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: Roland Telfeyan <roland@telf.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk problem from unusual powerdown ... help ?
Date: 17 May 1996 01:19:43 GMT
Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Charlotte, NC - info@char.vnet.net
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ngk7f$cvn@ralph.vnet.net>
References: <glasLna00YWm01yVkD@andrew.cmu.edu>
John Watts <jw7m+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
> Interestingly enough (to me, anyway, but i'm decidely subnovice at
> sys administration), once the Fujitsu disk is mounted manually, I
> can see it in the viewer, and it appears that no data is corrupted,
> at east on the user partitions ... all the programs there seem to
> execute, all the files seem to be available, etc.
>
> Any ideas ?
From the sound of your story, if I were you, I'd immediately copy the files
to another disk, reformat the Fujitsu, and restore the files to the
Fujitsu.
--
Roland Telfeyan
roland@telf.com
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 05:44:15 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996May17.054415.5601@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4ngk8t$qv2@usc.edu>
In article <4ngk8t$qv2@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> In <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za> gvandyk@icon.co.za wrote:
> > I have PPP installed and are connecting to my service provider via a
> > dialup connection.
> [snip]
> > In Mail.app's preferences I have my reply-to address set as
> > gvandyk@icon.co.za which is my address. When a message goes out the
> > reply-to bit is properly set but the sender is gerrit@fdv2.
>
> This is a FAQ sendmail problem. You are probably using the orig. NS
sendmail.
> If you want to change the behavior you're experiencing, it's advisable
to
> upgrade to the latest sendmail 8.7.5 which Robert La Ferla has so kindly
made
> into a pkg and left on the popular ftp sites. The upgrade process is
both
> complex and simple, and not too hard to set up through e-mail
correspondence
> if you so choose. And then I'd be happy to help you.
>
> If there's a solution for the orig. NS sendmail, I don't know it.
I agree that this is a common problem. I also agree that there are
reasons to upgrade to a more modern version of sendmail, but I don't think
that this is one of them.
The solution is, assuming that you have correctly set up your replacement
hostname in the Dj macro, to comment out the "canonical hostname" line in
ruleset S6. This solution was emailed to Gerrit a while ago.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: 17 May 1996 08:02:21 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-49.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu>
Cc: roland@telf.com
In <4ngk1l$cu8@ralph.vnet.net> Roland Telfeyan wrote:
[snip]
> You can also use these login and logout hooks for more powerful things than
> just monitoring login/out.
[snip]
I know this is question shows just how "unlearned" I am, but...
What are some of the "more powerful things" one can do with login/logout
hooks?
Just some examples would be good to start my imagination of what I'm missing
out on and could implement...
TIA
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 14:51:28 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960516144849.519B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: gvandyk@icon.co.za
In-Reply-To: <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za>
The best solution to this is to get the new sendmail 8.7.5 (or abouts) and
configure it to masquerade as the host you want your mail to appear to be
coming from.
This has been made much easier by Robert LaFerla (did I spell that right?
I hope so) who made it all into one nice neat .pkg for us, but it still
requires some installation tweaking and setting some parameters. So far I
haven't gotten around to using it, since my PPP went down on Sept 14th for
"two weeks" (or at least that's what I was told at the time).
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: 17 May 1996 09:59:44 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nhimg$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu>
Cc: reichman@usc.edu
In <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu> Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> In <4ngk1l$cu8@ralph.vnet.net> Roland Telfeyan wrote:
> [snip]
> > You can also use these login and logout hooks for more powerful things
than
>
> > just monitoring login/out.
> [snip]
>
> I know this is question shows just how "unlearned" I am, but...
>
> What are some of the "more powerful things" one can do with login/logout
> hooks?
> Just some examples would be good to start my imagination of what I'm
missing
> out on and could implement...
At one place we used a loginHook to check for the CEO to see if he was still
logged in somewhere else, so as to ensure that only one instance of Mail.app
was running. If you run more than one, it will lose incoming mail (at least
this was true under 2.2; I haven't checked to confirm this with later
releases).
We have also written a product to do enhanced security checking, which uses
loginHook to enforce password ageing. It works quite well.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: 17 May 1996 10:24:44 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu> <4nhimg$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4nhimg$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
On 05/17/96, Paul Lynch wrote:
> We have also written a product to do enhanced security checking, which uses
> loginHook to enforce password ageing. It works quite well.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ah, British reserve... :-)
The American translation:
"It's a totally kick-ass product that you should be willing to sell your
house for just for the privilige of licensing for a single day!"
;-)
Best wishes,
mmalc-in-a-whimsical-mood-'cos-it-looks-like-he's-going-to-sell-his-house-
NeXT-week :-)
--
From: Carsten Isert <isert@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to access Linux partition from NS?
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:58:10 +0200
Organization: Munich University of Technology
Distribution: world
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Hi all,
can I access my Linux partition (ext2fs) from NS?
I checked the FAQ and NeXTanswers but found nothing about it.
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From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: How does Mail.app find new mail? Need to change it.
Message-ID: <DrGnHv.Iy0@nidat.sub.org>
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Cc: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4n9lq7$bg1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 19:01:07 GMT
In <4n9lq7$bg1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I am the only NeXTStep user on a large mixed network of mainly various
> other kinds of Unix. The manager of the network has lots of neat new ways
> for users' MUA's to pick up mail. Unfortunately, he wishes to phase out
> the old Unix method that Mail.app assumes (i.e. everything in a file called
> mbox). Does anybody have any ideas of what I can do about this? I would
> prefer to cooperate with the regime. Nobody here is keen on the use of
> POP, so PopOver is not an alternative. Please help me keep the NeXTStep
> flag flying. Thank you.
>
The only way I see ist to support your own BSD style mailhost on one of the
NeXTs, for instance. NeXTmail is heavily relying on the BSD style of mail
delivery. No way to change it to some other mechanism!
From: teledia@bundoran.teledia.fr (Teledia)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Install Solaris 2.4 after OpenStep
Date: 17 May 1996 10:51:55 GMT
Organization: FNET - EUnet France
Message-ID: <4nhlob$1ei@ns.fnet.fr>
I have installed OpenStep 4.0 with success on a sparc station 20 with 64MB
of RAM. Now I want to install solaris 2.4 back on the machine, but the
format utility core dumps during the installation procedure (Arithmetic
Exception).
The probe-scsi monitor command shows that the disk is regognized (SUN1.05)
but when I boot from the Solaris 2.4 CDROM (even in single user) the
format command core dumps and for other commands (fmthard, prtvtoc) I get
"No such device or address" errors even though the device files appear in
the /dev and /devices directory (I use /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0).
HELP!
Any suggestion welcome by email to teledia@teledia.fr. Many thanks,
JC Dhellemmes
teledia@teledia.fr
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Install Solaris 2.4 after OpenStep
Date: 17 May 1996 12:43:40 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4nhs9s$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4nhlob$1ei@ns.fnet.fr>
Cc: teledia@bundoran.teledia.fr
In <4nhlob$1ei@ns.fnet.fr> Teledia wrote:
>
> I have installed OpenStep 4.0 with success on a sparc station 20 with 64MB
> of RAM. Now I want to install solaris 2.4 back on the machine, but the
> format utility core dumps during the installation procedure (Arithmetic
> Exception).
There is a known problem about this, although the description doesn't exactly
match what you have found. From NeXTanswers:
Q: Solaris 2.x can't format a disk on which NEXTSTEP was installed. Solaris
complains about a trashed label.
A: Solaris expects the hard disk to be labeled a certain way. If you drop
back a few versions of Solaris, it will work using an old version of Sun's
formatter/installer. A work around is to use SunOS 4.1.x to reformat and then
install Solaris 2.x. Another solution is to boot single user with NEXTSTEP
from a CD, run sdform /dev/rsd0a, boot off the Solaris CD with boot cdrom
/kernel/unix, abort the install and run format. Then run suninstall.
Paul
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From: Bil Manderson <bilm@nelvana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 access timeouts
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 03:54:32 -0400
Organization: Nelvana.com
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Operator wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed an Adaptec 2940 (not 2940W) on a PCI machine. I am also
> using the latest driver, version 3.37. I have a Barracuda drive connected
> to it internally.
>
> When I connect an external device (terminated) there are problems with
> access to the hard drive and I get a whole bunch of "timeout" messages. I
> have the cards termination set to automatic and I have also set it to
> disabled (because both ends are already terminated) but it doesn't seem to
> make any difference.
>
> Please reply to sam@ali.bc.ca
>
> ..Mike.
What is the external device, a CD-rom, or a tpe unit???
Have you tried the older 3.33 SCSI driver, or the 3.32 one for that
matter. Do you get the same results.
What's the BIOS version of the Adaptec Card ?.
At our location we have numerous systems with the ADaptec Card, and
the Barracuda drive. Also we use numerous external devices from
Scanners to MO's to DAT's.
The only problem we have experienced, is the NEw Adaptec cards, which
the 3.37 drivers solves. And if we have a external CD-rom, we have to
remove the system cache to install NextStep, as it seem to hangup
during the install only.
Try the older drivers first and see what happens. Let the rest of us
know the outcome also.
Thanks....Bil Manderson
From: dennis.glatting@plaintalk.bellevue.wa.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does xntp for NEXTSTEP exist?
Date: 17 May 1996 15:26:45 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4ni5rl$4a7@news.accessone.com>
References: <Dr16L6.Irz@AWT.NL>
Cc: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl
In <Dr16L6.Irz@AWT.NL> Drs G. C. Th. Wierda wrote:
> I understand that there exists an extended ntp protocol. My provider is
> installing this. Does this software exist for NEXTSTEP (i.e. sources
> somewhere?).
>
I've compiled and installed xntp from louie.udel.edu
under NeXT black.
-dpg
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: 17 May 1996 16:44:57 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-h-21.usc.edu
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References: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu> <4nhimg$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
<4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
Cc: m.crawford@shef.ac.uk
In <4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> mmalc-in-a-whimsical-mood-'cos-it-looks-like-he's-going-to-sell-his-house-
> NeXT-week :-)
Congratulations. But, now where will you live???
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
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From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: 17 May 1996 16:46:40 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
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References: <4ngk8t$qv2@usc.edu> <1996May17.054415.5601@seer.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk
In <1996May17.054415.5601@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch wrote:
[snippety-snippety-snip]
> I agree that this is a common problem. I also agree that there are
> reasons to upgrade to a more modern version of sendmail, but I don't think
> that this is one of them.
[snip-snap]
I guess I'm just an upgrade freak (using NeXT (OMoN)).
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From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: 17 May 1996 16:47:39 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
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References: <4nfp8i$3m7@hermes.is.co.za> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960516144849.519B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Cc: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
In <Pine.NXT.3.93.960516144849.519B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy
J. Luoma" wrote:
>
> The best solution to this is to get the new sendmail 8.7.5 (or abouts) and
> configure it to masquerade as the host you want your mail to appear to be
> coming from.
Tim -
You are about to be properly chastised by Paul, if not yet!
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reichman@usc.edu
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NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
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From: willdave@access5.digex.net (William Davenant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Using NIS from a NeXT ... yes, HOW!?
Date: 17 May 1996 11:21:48 -0400
Organization: arcadian plain
Message-ID: <4ni5ic$bl2@access5.digex.net>
References: <4lils4$73g@www.uno.edu> <4nftk3$bfd@access5.digex.net>
Keywords: NIS, NeXT, yp
William Davenant <willdave@access5.digex.net> wrote:
>Adam J. Harrison <aharriso@satchmo.math.uno.edu> wrote:
>>I have been trying to incorporate our NIS database into our NeXT machines.
>
>I'm interested in NISing a NeXT machine I've got ... I don't know
>who set it up originally etc., but currently it's basically standalone
>altho you can telnet from it etc. (it's got a huge host file.)
>
>Anyway, it's running 3.0. I also note ypbind is ypbind.NOT. Anyway,
>what I did was cp ypbind.NOT ypbind, set the domain name, didn't
>change the passwd or group file (cuz I wanted to see what would
>happen.) Then I started the ypbind by hand, and all seemed well ...
>so I rebooted. Then the machine got stuck in "checking filesystems"
Oh, some kind soul suggested I read the fucking NeXTSTEP ... book,
I guess. Well, it just so happens I saw that worthless piece of
crap at a used book sale, and made the mistake of buying it because
I thought it might be useful, and I read the info (brief) on NISing
a client etc. And I followed the directions ... and did it work ...
why NO it didn't ... when booting ... it claimed it couldn't
find a server or some such etc. Like I said, I don't really know
the history of this machine (what was done to it or no) and I was
hoping something might ring a bell with someone ... it's no big deal ...
I was just trying to make it something less of a boat anchor. ;-)
wd
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From: trims@media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble)
Subject: Internal Fax/Modem Setup
Message-ID: <1996May14.220012.26120@media.mit.edu>
Sender: trims@upney.media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble)
Organization: Perceptual Computing, M.I.T. Media Lab
Date: Tue, 14 May 1996 22:00:12 GMT
Hi!
I've looked in most of the places I thought of, and can't figure this out.
How do you set up an internal fax/modem on an Intel/NeXTStep box?
This sounds completely brain-dead, so please forgive me. The version I have is
just a generic ISA 14.4 modem with a 16550 UART. I'm assuming I should configure
it as another COM port, but exactly how do I get the OS to use it?
Pointers and instructions gladly accepted.
-Erik Trimble
trims@media.mit.edu
--
"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
--from the writings of Charles Babbage
From: rcw@vt.edu (R.Craig Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Watchdog Reset
Date: 17 May 1996 17:39:50 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Message-ID: <4nidl6$rvq@solaris.cc.vt.edu>
I've got a few SPARC 5's and a SPARC 20
all running NEXTSTEP 3.3. The 5's are
running fine.
The SPARC 20 has gone down a couple times
with the message
Watchdog Reset, Rebooting
Can anyone tell me what that means? and
what causes it?
---Craig Woods
rcw@vt.edu
Virginia Tech Computing Center
From: ptanner@sw.stratus.com (Philip Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NFS performance problems after netmask change
Date: 17 May 1996 19:12:35 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nij33$s2s@transfer.stratus.com>
Our network was recently upgraded and we were required
to change the netmasks we used from 0xffffff00 to 0xfffffe00 on
all our Unix machines.
When that happened one of our Next's running NS3.3 slowed
way down when doing NFS tasks.
Is this a known problem and are there any workarounds?
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Phil
ptanner@sw.stratus.com
From: lusty@aimnet.com (Lusty Wench)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Install Solaris 2.4 after OpenStep
Date: 17 May 1996 13:53:54 -0700
Organization: Aimnet Corporation
Message-ID: <4nip12$754@shell1.aimnet.com>
References: <4nhlob$1ei@ns.fnet.fr>
In article <4nhlob$1ei@ns.fnet.fr>, Teledia <teledia@teledia.fr> wrote:
>
>I have installed OpenStep 4.0 with success on a sparc station 20 with 64MB
>of RAM. Now I want to install solaris 2.4 back on the machine, but the
>format utility core dumps during the installation procedure (Arithmetic
>Exception).
>
>The probe-scsi monitor command shows that the disk is regognized (SUN1.05)
>but when I boot from the Solaris 2.4 CDROM (even in single user) the
>format command core dumps and for other commands (fmthard, prtvtoc) I get
>"No such device or address" errors even though the device files appear in
>the /dev and /devices directory (I use /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0).
This is a known bug in Solaris 2.4. The problem is that format core
dumps whenever it encounters a drive with a Nextstep disk label. There
are two options:
1) Boot Nextstep from CD-ROM and reformat the drive, but _don't_label_it_.
This may actually require installing the drive somewhere else where you can
initialize it with some OS other than Nextstep (the command to initialize
the drive under Nextstep automatically writes the label as well).
Whenever you've "fixed" the drive, do the Solaris install normally.
2) Get Solaris 2.5.
Lusty
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mail Reply-To wrong
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:33:29 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
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References: <4niajb$37j@usc.edu>
In article <4niajb$37j@usc.edu> reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
writes:
> In <Pine.NXT.3.93.960516144849.519B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy
> J. Luoma" wrote:
> >
> > The best solution to this is to get the new sendmail 8.7.5 (or abouts)
and
> > configure it to masquerade as the host you want your mail to appear to
be
> > coming from.
>
> Tim -
> You are about to be properly chastised by Paul, if not yet!
No, I like upgrading, too :-). But it seems silly to upgrade when you
admit to not understanding sendmail config files, when a one line change
is all that is required.
Paul
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From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 23:31:34 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
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References: <4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
In article <4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford
<m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> writes:
> On 05/17/96, Paul Lynch wrote:
> > We have also written a product to do enhanced security checking, which
uses
> > loginHook to enforce password ageing. It works quite well.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Ah, British reserve... :-)
>
> The American translation:
>
> "It's a totally kick-ass product that you should be willing to sell your
> house for just for the privilige of licensing for a single day!"
So you've seen it, then? :-)
Paul
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 09:52:10 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
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To: "Matthew N. Reichman" <reichman@usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu>
One of the things I like very much is a little script I wrote for the
LogoutHook. It uses the Alert panel, pops up a panel asking me if I want
to run the LogoutHook. 'Yes' is the default, but 'no' can be selected in
case your logout when you don't want to (like when you crash WM ;-).
The LogoutHook will then clean my recycler, reset some dwrites, back a
backup copy of my current dwrites (have you ever lost all your dwrites?
Do you have any idea how many dwrites you have? Try 'dread -l | wc -l',
you might be surprised) and backs up some critical files if they have
changed (/etc/hostconfig, and others). It resets the sound and brightness
levels, and some other stuff I don't remember.
I'm not sure this is a 'powerful' use, but it is a nicely convenient one.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: siren@pangea.ca (Betty Siren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Emulation exception, EMT trap, flakey WindowServer & Workspace Manager
Date: 18 May 1996 05:18:01 -0500
Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc.
Message-ID: <4nk84p$819@surf.pangea.ca>
References: <4ner6o$7bc@surf.pangea.ca>
Removing the 030 board has fixed the prolem.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I hadn't tried it since the configuration had worked fine
for three weeks. I made the mistake of making too many
changes at one time.
The Window server may be mistaking the 030 for a
NeXTdimension. Until I renamed NeXTdimension.psdrvr the kern-loader
sometimes kept trying to load it and grew to up to 90 megabytes.
Anyone have both an 030 and an 040 in a cube running NS3.3 ?????????
Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Internal Fax/Modem Setup
Date: 18 May 1996 22:54:55 GMT
Organization: HTI
Message-ID: <4nlkfv$lie@news.cais.com>
References: <1996May14.220012.26120@media.mit.edu>
trims@media.mit.edu (Erik Trimble) wrote:
> How do you set up an internal fax/modem on an Intel/NeXTStep box?
You need to install the ISASerialPort and PortServer drivers plus you need
to purchase a copy of NXFax from Black and White Software (info@bandw.com)
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP Consultant
Boston, MA
+ 1 (617) 252-0088
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: mach related limits?
Message-ID: <DrnG62.B2w@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <DrGuA8.8ss@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 11:06:02 GMT
In <DrGuA8.8ss@solair1.inter.NL.net> P.J.L.van Emmerik wrote:
> I am experiencing some problems i can not explain.
>
> To be able to compose some theories i would like
> to know if there are limits in the NEXT Mach-kernel like
> - max number of processes
> - max number of threads
> - etc.
>
NeXT has kept most of the OS features their private matter, so we can't make
no changes. And why knowing about anything you can't change ;-)
A small glimpse can be done during a verbose boot. And most dynamic features
can be sampled while running Informer.app (PD, of course. Search the usual
archives). Perhaps this might be most of what you've asked for?
--
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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: local@isis.epita.fr (Local Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 access timeouts
Date: 20 May 1996 01:18:26 GMT
Organization: Epita (French engineering school)
Distribution: world
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References: <4ng295$6rh@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
In article <4ng295$6rh@cetus.ali.bc.ca> sam@ali.bc.ca writes:
> I just seemed to have solved my own problem. I turned of synchronous
> transfers using Configure.app and did the same with the SCSI select
> utility by turning of Sync Negotiation for the hard drive (ID=0) and now
> it works.
>
> I would rather leave synchronous on to get better throughput rates.
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> ..Mike.
Hi,
I had the same problem under NS3.2 with an Adaptec 1542 (hard drive ID=0).
I turned off the sunchronous transfer (under Adaptec setup at boot), and
everything mysteriously got fine. I still don't know why this happened.
May be NeXT's Adaptec drivers don't handle synchronous transfers ?
FE
From: darrin@research.canon.com.au (Darrin Smart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Max serial port speed for 040 Cube
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 20 May 1996 00:58:42 GMT
Organization: Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Message-ID: <4nog42$t3e@mama.research.canon.com.au>
Hi All,
Does anyone know how fast you can push the serial ports on a NeXT cube? I
am running PPP-2.2 under NS3.3 and am having trouble getting it to work at
speeds over 38400. It seems to cause System Panics. The machine is a 25Mhz
model.
On a related note, has anyone built the leafnode nntp software on a NeXT?
Thanks.
--
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Canon Information Systems Research Australia | Phone +61-2-805-2942
PO Box 313 NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 | Fax +61-2-805-2929
From: rameri@bart.cs.uwa.oz.au (Rameri Salama)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: AppleTalk and AppleShare
Date: 20 May 1996 08:02:33 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia, Department of Computer Science
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au>
I have had 3.3 running for quite some time now on a few Intel machines, and
I am wondering whether it is at all possible to connect to the local
AppleShare network?
Just by looking at /etc/rc.standard, you can see all the stuff for
AppleTalk and AppleShare, but they require two files called "atalkd" and
"ashared". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these two files. They
are not in /usr/etc which is where rc.standard looks for them.
Also, when I looked at the documentation, I found that there is supposed to
be a preferences panel for connecting AppleShare. This requires the two
files I mentioned before.
If anyone could shed some light on this problem, I would be grateful.
Rameri
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From: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How does Mail.app find new mail? Need to change it.
Date: 20 May 1996 14:42:26 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <4nq0cj$7ja@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <4n9lq7$bg1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk
In <4n9lq7$bg1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote:
> I am the only NeXTStep user on a large mixed network of mainly various
> other kinds of Unix. The manager of the network has lots of neat new ways
> for users' MUA's to pick up mail. Unfortunately, he wishes to phase out
> the old Unix method that Mail.app assumes (i.e. everything in a file called
> mbox). Does anybody have any ideas of what I can do about this? I would
> prefer to cooperate with the regime. Nobody here is keen on the use of
> POP, so PopOver is not an alternative. Please help me keep the NeXTStep
> flag flying. Thank you.
Mail.app uses the binary MailFetch (located in /NextApps/Mail.app/MailFetch)
to remove
mail from /usr/spool/username and package it into ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox. I
have
had some success in replacing MailFetch with a script (which, in my case
calls
popOver to retrieve the mail from a remote host and then calls the orginal
MailFetch to
process it).
HOWEVER, when you hit the Retrieve Mail button or under timed retrieval,
Mail.app doesn't evoke MailFetch unless it detects /usr/spool/username
to be a non-zero length file. For this reason, I've not yet eradicated
PopOVer.app from
my dock. :-(
Robert
--
Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
From: mike@starburst.cbl.cees.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ?SPARC 4 (and/or any) NeXTstep experience
Date: 20 May 1996 17:20:02 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Lab.
Message-ID: <4nq9k2$g9@gamera.cbl.cees.edu>
Keywords: SPARC 4, NeXTstep
Shortly I may be taking posession of a SUN SPARC 4 Model 110... I looked
on the NeXT Web page to verify compatability with the "4" model, they
only officially list the SPARC 4 Model 85 (85Mhz MicroSPARC II)... Anyone
run it on the 110? Any experience in general as to how well NeXTstep
runs on SPARCstations, and especially the MicroSPARC II systems?
Any info appreciated, thanks!
--
-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
Mike F. Santangelo, Dept. Head-Computer & Network Systems, UMCEES/CBL Solomons
From: me@blackbox.mmm.ucar.edu (Erik Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to salvage SCSI HD with corrupted label
Date: 20 May 1996 17:58:27 GMT
Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research/Boulder, CO
Message-ID: <4nqbs3$84r@ncar.ucar.edu>
I have an external SCSI HD that has (at least) an unreadable label. I've
looked in the NS sysadmin documentation, and the man pages for "disk", but
haven't gotten far. Is there any way to repair the label so I can at least
proceed with fsck, or is it time to initialize it?
Here is some output from /usr/etc/disk:
/usr/etc/disk /dev/rsd1a
disk name: QUANTUM EMPIRE_2100S 12
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
Disk utility
disk> scan
Backup superblocks at:
disk> label
label information: print, write? print
get label: Invalid argument
disk>
Thanks for any help...
Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: m@ml.com (M Carling)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 access timeouts
Message-ID: <DrIuFx.79v@tigadmin.ml.com>
Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account)
Organization: ml.com
References: <4ng1dj$6nj@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 23:26:21 GMT
root@cod.ali.bc.ca (Operator) wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I just installed an Adaptec 2940 (not 2940W) on a PCI machine. I am also
>using the latest driver, version 3.37. I have a Barracuda drive connected
>to it internally.
>
>When I connect an external device (terminated) there are problems with
>access to the hard drive and I get a whole bunch of "timeout" messages. I
>have the cards termination set to automatic and I have also set it to
>disabled (because both ends are already terminated) but it doesn't seem to
>make any difference.
Set "send start unit" command to YES for the external drive (don't do this
with a removable medium drive e.g. CD-ROM) in the SCSI select utility.
M Carling
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS PPP server
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 19:16:40 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <31A10B68.535F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does anyone know of software for NS to create a PPP server?
Thanks.
------------------------------------------
Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail
Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University
Understanding is best learned via experience
ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: JanUlrich.Hasecke@Leverkusen.Netsurf.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with MAC CD-ROM using SoftPC
Date: 20 May 1996 20:26:04 GMT
Organization: PIRONET GmbH
Distribution: default
Message-ID: <4nqkgs$4qi@sail.leverkusen.netsurf.de>
Summary: How can I use a MAC CD-ROM with SoftPC
Keywords: SoftPC CD-ROM
Hello I have a problem. I have a CD-ROM (Phonebook of Germany) with a MAC-Filesystem. I can see the contents in the NEXTSTEP-Browser, but I cannot use the CD-ROM with SoftPC. (There is a Windows-Application on the CD-ROM to use the Phonebook database )
When I type the command use_cd in the DOS-Window of SoftPC to mount the CD-ROM I get the following message:
So I type:
C:\>use_cd
and get the message:
General failure reading device CDROM$$$
Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
When I say FAIL, I get the following message:
MSCDEX Version 2.21
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990. All rights reserved.
Drive F: = Driver CDROM$$$ unit 0
Then I tried to make a dir and get the following:
C:\>dir f:
CDR101: Not ready reading drive F
Abort, Retry, Fail? f
Volume in drive F has no label
CDR101: Not ready reading drive F
Abort, Retry, Fail? f
Fail on INT 24
Can anybody help me?
Thank You
From: edx@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Scanners across local network?
Message-ID: <1996May19.141316.80476@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 19 May 96 14:13:16 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
Is there a way to make a SCSI page scanner (eg
an Epson ES800C) available across the network?
I have a scanner connected to a black cube, and
I'd like to access it from the PCs running NS
across the network.
Can this be done?
- HRC -
hcole@spanky.idec.sdl.usu.edu
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Oppy on its deathbed....
Date: 21 May 1996 04:44:51 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4nrho3$n2j@news.acns.nwu.edu>
After six years of faithful service, my NeXTcube's magneto-optical
drive is rapidly heading south. That awful <scree> as it finds a
new bad sector seems to occur about a hundred times a day, so that
even disks I _know_ are OK wind up running out of sectors for remap
after a couple of weeks of use. (Reformatting them reveals the
sectors to be fine, but who has the time?) Now I've started to
get `tracking servo failed' errors in the console, and mounting a
new disk almost always requires three or four spin-up-spin-down
sequences. I've cleaned the lens a number of times, but I think
the time to pull the plug may be approaching.
My question: what do people recommend for a stable, reliable,
durable backup solution for the original NeXT hardware? I don't
really like the idea of magnetic tape (no random access, serious
vulnerability to stray fields, and visions of our 2-year-old
pulling yards and yards of DAT out of the cartridge!) and was
surprised to learn that DAT drives are still up near $1k. I
also need a CD-ROM drive, and was thinking about one of these
dual-format gizmos that will read/write 650 MB oppies and read
CD-ROMs in the same drive. Are the MO cartidges reasonably
standard and available? (I was the guy who organized the Last
Great Disk Deal on the NeXT-Canon MO's in early 1994, and I
don't want to be orphaned again.) Are any of these drives
plug-and-play with the NeXT SCSI port? Do the MO disks show
up in the browser as oppies, or as hard disks, or what? How
does the speed compare with the old NeXT-Canon MO? What are
the going prices on these things? Might it make sense to get
a CD-ROM and a backup solution separately, and if so what do
you recommend? Finally (most important!) are any of them
available in BLACK? :)
Right now I'm vulnerable to catastrophic data loss, as my
only backups are on NeXT MO's and I no longer trust my drive
for data integrity. I need to make a decision pretty fast;
I lost a hard drive suddenly two years ago, and don't want to
risk a bad outcome if the same thing happens again! What would
you buy in my place? Thanks for any advice.
Incidentally, if anyone has a NeXT MO drive in good working
condition that they're willing to unload cheap (~ $100), that
would certainly work for me. Please let me know....
BOSNIAN CEASEFIRE: Proposed SI unit +------------------------------------+
of subjective time, to be defined as | Joshua W. Burton (847)677-3902 |
the approximate interval required to | jburton@nwu.edu |
strip, wipe, oil, and reload a rifle. +------------------------------------+
From: Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Modem Flash RAM Upgrading
Date: 21 May 1996 07:09:19 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4nrq6v$jsf@news.accessone.com>
I'd like to upload a hex ascii file to my modem in order to update its
controller and data pump. TipTop appears to support xyz-modem only. tip man
page appears not to cover ascii file transfers. I looked at cat and cp, but
saw nothing hopeful there. Is there a command I can use with cufa?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | ><
>< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: 21 May 1996 09:25:43 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4ns26n$lo@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu> <4nhimg$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4niae9$37j@usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4niae9$37j@usc.edu>
On 05/17/96, Matthew N. Reichman wrote:
> In <4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> >
mmalc-in-a-whimsical-mood-'cos-it-looks-like-he's-going-to-sell-his-house-
> > NeXT-week :-)
>
> Congratulations. But, now where will you live???
>
Oh, I don't care -- the sheer joy of using Paul's enhanced security checking
will more than make up for not having a roof over my head! :-)
Actually at the moment I own two houses, so getting shot of the first one
will be something of a relief...
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk and AppleShare
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 07:47:54 -0400
Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <jbf-2105960747540001@frazer.com>
References: <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au>
In article <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au>, rameri@bart.cs.uwa.oz.au (Rameri Salama) wrote:
> I have had 3.3 running for quite some time now on a few Intel machines, and
> I am wondering whether it is at all possible to connect to the local
> AppleShare network?
>
> Just by looking at /etc/rc.standard, you can see all the stuff for
> AppleTalk and AppleShare, but they require two files called "atalkd" and
> "ashared". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these two files. They
> are not in /usr/etc which is where rc.standard looks for them.
>
> Also, when I looked at the documentation, I found that there is supposed to
> be a preferences panel for connecting AppleShare. This requires the two
> files I mentioned before.
The necessary files are in the AppleTalk package last provided as part of
NeXTStep 3.0. They are Motorola only, and must be installed with the 3.0
version of Installer (the 3.3 version ignores the executable files for
some reason). Unmounting and remounting is problematic.
The file sharing works, under 3.3, if you log in to the Mac with a (Mac)
assigned user name and password. It doesn't seem to work if you log in as
guest, even though the latter works for Mac to Mac sharing.
Printing to a LocalTalk printer via a bridge doesn't seem to work. This
could be a bridge problem - I haven't checked this path out with an EtherTalk Mac yet.
I expect it may be necessary to check out old c.s.n.h and c.s.n.sysadm
posts to unravel this. But, I repeat, the AppleTalk package from 3.0 is
at least partially functional under 3.3 M.
Barney
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Oppy on its deathbed....
Date: 21 May 1996 11:57:17 GMT
Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany
Message-ID: <4nsb2t$7th@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>
References: <4nrho3$n2j@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Cc: jburton@nwu.edu
In <4nrho3$n2j@news.acns.nwu.edu> Joshua W. Burton wrote:
> After six years of faithful service, my NeXTcube's magneto-optical
> drive is rapidly heading south. That awful <scree> as it finds a
> new bad sector seems to occur about a hundred times a day, so that
> even disks I _know_ are OK wind up running out of sectors for remap
> after a couple of weeks of use. (Reformatting them reveals the
> sectors to be fine, but who has the time?) Now I've started to
> get `tracking servo failed' errors in the console, and mounting a
> new disk almost always requires three or four spin-up-spin-down
> sequences. I've cleaned the lens a number of times, but I think
> the time to pull the plug may be approaching.
In most cases it is not the lense or the laser. The metal positioning band in
the drive is contaminated (so the positioning optics cannot provide tracking
information and the laser keeps reading and writing between the data tracks).
Get some pressurized air (clean and dry) and carefully clean this band but do
not touch it... you have to disassemble the drive to get there. This method
worked here and resurrected my once dead MOD.
> My question: what do people recommend for a stable, reliable,
> durable backup solution for the original NeXT hardware? I don't
> really like the idea of magnetic tape (no random access, serious
> vulnerability to stray fields, and visions of our 2-year-old
> pulling yards and yards of DAT out of the cartridge!) and was
> surprised to learn that DAT drives are still up near $1k. I
> also need a CD-ROM drive, and was thinking about one of these
> dual-format gizmos that will read/write 650 MB oppies and read
> CD-ROMs in the same drive. Are the MO cartidges reasonably
> standard and available? (I was the guy who organized the Last
> Great Disk Deal on the NeXT-Canon MO's in early 1994, and I
> don't want to be orphaned again.) Are any of these drives
> plug-and-play with the NeXT SCSI port? Do the MO disks show
> up in the browser as oppies, or as hard disks, or what? How
> does the speed compare with the old NeXT-Canon MO? What are
> the going prices on these things? Might it make sense to get
> a CD-ROM and a backup solution separately, and if so what do
> you recommend? Finally (most important!) are any of them
> available in BLACK? :)
Syquest 270er work fine, but the media is not so stable as a MO. But these
drives provide approximately the same size as the old MO. You can paint them
if the color does not suit you 8-).
--
Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page
http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank
NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C
ga ga"
From: 3wolff@rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Eberhard Wolff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI - SCSI Controller
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 21 May 1996 14:43:45 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nskr1$jus@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <4ndjrn$p8p@news.acns.nwu.edu>
dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote:
: Can anyone tell me if the Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI will work under NeXTSTep 3.3? If so what driver pkg do I use?
: Thank's in advance,
: David A. Johnson
: Research Engineer,
: Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
: Northwestern University
As far as I know it is not supported. I just had a look at the NeXT Answers
Hardware compatibilty guide and it is not listed there. The 2940 driver
doesn't support the 2920. Probably you want to have a look at the Symbios/
NCR 538xx series. They are cheaper than the 2940 and have the same performance
but lack the nice configuration features of the 2940.
Eberhard
From: tony@gst1.gestel.it (Antonio Flores)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Memory problem with MICRON MILLENIA PLUS P133
Date: 21 May 1996 15:53:01 GMT
Organization: Italia Online
Message-ID: <4nsost$das@mikasa.iol.it>
I have a problem upgrading the system ftom 32MB to 64MB of ram:
with 32MB the system works well with nextstep 3.3 but when i add other
32MB (purchased from MICRON and identical to the others simms) the system
completes the boot process but the screen becomes black.
At this point the system is not blocked, in fact, if I type "power" the
turn off procedure comes back on the screen.
If I use "config=Default" at the boot time or set "Default VGA" in the
Configure.app the system hangs with a "System Panic" message.
The system works well with Dos , Windows , Windows 95 and Windows NT.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks .
------------
Antonio Flores
tony@gestel.it
From: stjames@plato.sky.bdm.com (St. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up NS installation Server
Date: 21 May 1996 16:10:08 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4nspt0$qqp@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
I am having a problem with the netinfo master machine that is also being
used as a NS netinstall server. I used this machine to install NS on five
other Intel machines, and everything worked fine. I ran into problems
when I had to restore network.nidb from a somewhat dated backup copy.
While I have managed to repair most of the damage from this fiasco, My
machine will not work as an installation server
The current configuration is
The netinstall root directory is /NEXT_INSTALL
The netinstall private directory /NEXT_INSTALL/private
Both directories have been exported from the local domain.
/NEXT_INSTALL is a duplicate of the NS User Installation CD, duplicated
after the netinfo problem, when the one I had been using was removed when
I was making changes to the network netinfo database.
(Licenses are not a problem, we have enough to cover all our users)
The Netinstall Helper has the correct names for the clients and points to
the correct directories for the installation.
The clients are using the /NI and /NI/private directories for net boot (at
least that's what it says in netinfo and hostmanager).
The problem I have is that after the data has been read from the
installation floppies and the system boots into mach and tries to mount
the netboot directories is that the new system either cannot find the
netboot directories or reports an NFS read/write error. I've been working
on this on and off for a few days, and I cannot track down the problem.
Any ideas?
--
<stjames@plato.sky.bdm.com> | You don't understand.
St. James, | I'm not locked up in here with you.
System Administrator and | You're locked up in here with Me.
Patron Saint of Lost Causes | - Rorshach from "The Watchmen"
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: [WANTED] SCSI controller recommendation
Date: 21 May 1996 15:14:55 GMT
Organization: CARNet, CROATIA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nsmlf$f3t@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi.
I'm upgrading my PC with RAM, CD-ROM and disk. I currently
have a 1GB Quantum Fireball on the onboard EIDE controller.
As I understand PCI systems, I can expect a performance
increase by buying a SCSI card to controll the new disk
and possibly CD-ROM. I will probably buy an ATAPI CD-ROM
(Mitsumi 6x) and either a Caviar or Barracuda SCSI disk.
It seems from NeXTAnswers that Adaptec is widely used but
has many compatibility problems and configuration conflicts,
DPT seems very stable but may be too high-end, and BusLogic
also looks like a good choice that supports many different
devices. AMD also looks like a good choice but I don't know
much about the company.
I would like to know the advice and experience of the net
as to which SCSI card is stable and offers good performance
and compatibility with NeXTSTEP. Linux/Windows/OS/2
compatibilty is a plus but not neccessary, I currently
run only NeXTSTEP but plan on playing a bit with Linux
in the near future.
In case it matters, here's my current configuration:
NS3.3 (User+developer) + 3.3 patch & MiscKit
Intel Endeavor (Advanced/EV) PCI/Triton mainboard
Pentium 90MHz
16MB RAM
Vibra16 (SoundBlaster) onboard sound
On board EIDE controller (2)
Quantum Fireball (1GB), one partition NeXTSTEP disk
Matrox Mill. 2MB graphic card (I know - no Linux support)
Regards,
Thor
presently in exile in Croatia
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Multiple OS's?
Date: 21 May 1996 15:16:49 GMT
Organization: CARNet, CROATIA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nsmp1$f8j@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi.
I've looked in NeXTAnswers and wanted to get some advice
on installing multiple OS's _after_ NS is installed, if
it's possible. I'm presently away from home, my manuals,
and my NeXTSTEP CD's, and don't want to render my system
unbootable just to play a bit with Linux or Windows...
I currently have a 1GB EIDE disk formatted 512 sector
size, 1 partition solely for NeXTStep. I'll be getting
a new disk soon about 1.2-2.2GB size and would like
to set up Linux, Dos/Windows, OS/2 (and maybe Solaris).
I don't know if I can format the new drive 1024
sector size 1 or 2 NeXTStep partitions, use builddisk
and/or ditto to move the entire system to the new disk,
and then reformat/partition the old drive for the other OSs.
Alternatively I could partition/format the new drive for
multiple OSs but then how could I boot them when the boot
sector on the primary disk contains only NeXTStep?
Any tips, advice etc appreciated.
Regards,
Thor
presently in exile in Croatia
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: [WANTED] SCSI controller recommendation
Date: 21 May 1996 17:21:30 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <4nsu2q$7ji@news4.digex.net>
References: <4nsmlf$f3t@bagan.srce.hr>
thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote:
> It seems from NeXTAnswers that Adaptec is widely used but has many
compatibility problems and configuration conflicts, DPT seems very stable
but may be too high-end, and BusLogic also looks like a good choice that
supports many different devices. AMD also looks like a good choice but I
don't know much about the company.
Check out the DPT prices... They are the same as comparable Adaptecs. I
have a new Adapted 2940UW, and an older DPT2024. The DPT is better, and
it's not even a Wide controller! DPT just puts more thought into their
controllers so you wont have to... I highly recommend it.
> I would like to know the advice and experience of the net as to which
SCSI card is stable and offers good performance and compatibility with
NeXTSTEP. Linux/Windows/OS/2 compatibilty is a plus but not neccessary, I
currently run only NeXTSTEP but plan on playing a bit with Linux in the
near future.
If your not going Wide, then a DPT 2024 is a nice cheap bet.
> In case it matters, here's my current configuration: NS3.3
(User+developer) + 3.3 patch & MiscKit
> Intel Endeavor (Advanced/EV) PCI/Triton mainboard Pentium 90MHz
> 16MB RAM
You really should spend some money on memory. It is the number 1 system
bottle neck for NS... After you get enough RAM, the drive subsytem is
next.
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
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From: mike@ali.bc.ca (Michael Cam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 access timeouts
Date: 21 May 1996 14:52:23 GMT
Organization: ALI
Distribution: world
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References: <4noh92$pe6@boson.epita.fr>
In article <4noh92$pe6@boson.epita.fr> local@isis.epita.fr (Local Manager)
writes:
> I had the same problem under NS3.2 with an Adaptec 1542 (hard drive
ID=0).
> I turned off the sunchronous transfer (under Adaptec setup at boot), and
> everything mysteriously got fine. I still don't know why this happened.
> May be NeXT's Adaptec drivers don't handle synchronous transfers ?
>
> FE
Hi,
It does handle synchronous transfers. Apparently 10MB/s may be a bit too
fast though. I have bumped my max sync tranfer rates to 5 MB/s (leaving
sync transfers on) and everything works fine. Try setting yours lower and
see what happens. Note that you don't have to turn on/off sync transfers
using the Config.app. You can do it one by one for all SCSI devices (8)
from the SCSI select utility. That way you don't have to keep going into
root to make changes.
Below are some email replies I got concerning this problem:
> > I have the same config and ran into the same problem when I
> > hooked up two or more external devices. I think the problem is is
> > that SCSI II has much more rigid timings and a long SCSI chain
> > screws that up. The workaround is to set the transfer rate for
> > the internal barracuda drive to something lower than 10M/s (you
> > have to experiment). You can changed it in the Adaptec BIOS (hit
> > control-A during boot when it tells you to). I hear that getting
> > higher quality cables and/or getting active terminators also
> > alleviates the problems but I haven't tried it (but let me know
> > if it works for you).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > paul kim
> > trout@rahul.net
> > trout@denizen.com
>
> You might try going back to sync mode and limiting the transfer rate to
5
> MHz. You do this in the AutoSCSI utility - the one you run at boot time
from
> the 2940's BIOS. Running 10 MHz sync generally doesn't work with
external
> drives.
>
> --dpm
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From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next kicking users out
Date: 21 May 1996 18:30:52 GMT
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <4nt24s$p96@park.interport.net>
Hi all,
For some reason one of my Next machines is kicking users out once in a
while at random. After that all login attempts fail until it is rebooted.
Then the machine runs file for a couple of days (about a week). Has
anyone seen this behaviour before, is there anyone who can help me out? I
would really appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Shourav
udas@northstar.com
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From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Login/Logout Hooks (Was: Disabling Power Off Button on Black Slab)
Date: 21 May 1996 19:38:38 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
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References: <4nhbqd$70k@usc.edu> <4nhimg$b4c@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
<4nhk5c$hsg@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4niae9$37j@usc.edu>
<4ns26n$lo@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
Cc: m.crawford@shef.ac.uk
In <4ns26n$lo@bignews.shef.ac.uk> mmalcolm crawford wrote:
[snip]
> Oh, I don't care -- the sheer joy of using Paul's enhanced security
checking
> will more than make up for not having a roof over my head! :-)
>
> Actually at the moment I own two houses, so getting shot of the first one
> will be something of a relief...
Well, that explains your hyperpresence, indeed!
And I heard that Pauls "ESC" can do both the dishes and the bathroom at the
same time as well as warding up sneaks, spooks, spikes, and sparks!
--
Be well,
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From: nb562@bard.edu (Noel Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SLIP configuration on NeXTstation
Date: 21 May 1996 21:06:52 GMT
Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
Message-ID: <4ntb9c$phh@core.bard.edu>
I am attempting to configure a NeXTstation to be able to use a SLIP
interface so that I can dial up a remote server. I have downloaded the
DialupIP package, and configured the setup files correctly, so that
typing "connect" will dial the server and apparently establish a SLIP
connection. But this does not seem to be enough, because none of the
apps (OmniWeb, NewsGrazer, Ping, etc.) or shell commands (finger, telnet,
etc.) will work.
Can someone tell me what I am missing in my configuration, or point me to
some online documentation about setting this up? I have been unable to
locate any help via various search engines.
Thanks in advance,
Noel Bush
From: Luis Arias <luis@club-internet.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does Jazz Drive Work With NS3.3 Intel ?
Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 15:29:17 +0200
Organization: Elysia, SARL
Message-ID: <31A1C52D.6716@club-internet.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am interested in the 1G Jazz drive for backup purposes. Has anyone
configured this type of drive correctly on NS ? Does it work ?
Thanks,
--
Luis Arias
Elysia, SARL
13, avenue Morane Saulnier
78140 VELIZY
FRANCE
[33] (1) 30 70 63 42
[33] (1) 34 65 36 79 fax
info@elysia.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: Printing from Win95 on black NeXT ?
Message-ID: <DrI193.2pB@fritz.snafu.de>
Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de
Organization: dasburo Berlin
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 12:55:51 GMT
Has anybody already figured out which W95-printer driver works best with a
black NeXT and original NeXT printer ?
At the moment I am using the W95-driver for one of the newer Apple
Laserwriter models (which are PS-Level-2 capable). Most of the time this
setup works fine, but if I try to print from Win95-Help the output is messed
up : words print over each other on a line sometimes and the font Arial is
translated to Courier instead of Helvetica.
Does anybody know which W95 printer driver works best and how to set it up ?
Thanks for any info, Ernst.
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Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
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From: rak1002@cam.ac.uk (Rob Kinninmont)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple OS's?
Date: 22 May 1996 12:49:20 GMT
Organization: University of Cambridge, England
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4nv2gg$n0p@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
References: <4nsmp1$f8j@bagan.srce.hr>
In article <4nsmp1$f8j@bagan.srce.hr> thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
writes:
> I've looked in NeXTAnswers and wanted to get some advice
> on installing multiple OS's _after_ NS is installed, if
> it's possible. I'm presently away from home, my manuals,
> and my NeXTSTEP CD's, and don't want to render my system
> unbootable just to play a bit with Linux or Windows...
Yes it is possible. If you get hold of linux, (i use slackware at the
moment) you can use LILO (the linux boot utility) installed in the master
boot record to boot NeXT from the first drive (don't know about second
drives) and also to boot both linux and dos from the second drive.
This should let you get everything new installed on the second drive
without touching the existing NeXTstep partition. :)
Linux is perfectly happy running from the second drive, though for dos
you'll need to play around with the bootloader which logically swaps the
two disks over. It might be worth backing up your existing Master Boot
Record (eg `dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr_backup bs=446 count=1' or swap 512 in
place of 446 to back up the partition table as well.)
It does work. If you need any gritty details then give me a shout and i
can send you a lilo.conf file to sort it out.
Good luck.
rob
rak1002@cam.ac.uk
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From: yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida)
Subject: Re: AppleTalk and AppleShare
Message-ID: <DrtG9o.J48@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Cc: jbf@frazer.com
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
References: <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au> <jbf-2105960747540001@frazer.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 16:53:48 GMT
In <jbf-2105960747540001@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote:
> The necessary files are in the AppleTalk package last provided as part of
> NeXTStep 3.0.
> Printing to a LocalTalk printer via a bridge doesn't seem to work. This
> could be a bridge problem - I haven't checked this path out with an
EtherTalk Mac yet.
Did you try this on NS3.2? In other words, I'd like to know if the NS3.0
AppleTalk package can print to a LocalTalk printer. It it can, is there any
special configuration needed?
____________________________________________________________
Hiro Yoshida
Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, MC2026
5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60637
Phone: 312-702-1350, FAX 312-702-0371
yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk and AppleShare
Date: 22 May 1996 19:29:28 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4nvpuo$dpt@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au> <jbf-2105960747540001@frazer.com> <DrtG9o.J48@midway.uchicago.edu>
Any experience with getting the NeXT to share its files for other Macs?
I know about Columbia Appletalk package but how about anything else?
Kamen
From: beaucham@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: corrupted OD recovery?
Date: 22 May 1996 20:49:28 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4nvuko$9th@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
A particular optical disk was inserted in my black NeXT (NS 3.2) when the
power suddenly went down. Later upon reinserting it, the system gives me
three choices: eject, initialize, or repair. When I select repair, the console
message says
/usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rod0a
od0a: read recover (ECC) block 44160 phys block 44866 (6953:0:2)
...
od0a: read failed (ECC) block 44160 phys block 44866 (6953:0:2)
/dev/rod0a: CANNOT READ: BLK 44160
/dev/rod0a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
Doing it manually allowed me to remove certain files but I can't get rid of
the block 44160 problem. Is there any hope that I can recover any of my
files?
Jim Beauchamp
j-beauch@uiuc.edu
From: root@snoopy (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup script
Date: 22 May 1996 18:10:16 GMT
Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link
Message-ID: <4nvla8$ejd@client3.news.psi.net>
Hi,
I am looking for a backup script for out daily backup and cannot seem to find one. Is there any way that I can locate a file the could backup my whole system daily.
Thanks in advance.
Jay
jay@datus-usa.com
From: ivo@next.agsm.ucla.edu (Ivo Welch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does Jazz Drive Work With NS3.3 Intel ?
Date: 22 May 1996 21:31:05 GMT
Organization: The Anderson School at UCLA
Message-ID: <4o012p$55b@risc.agsm.ucla.edu>
References: <31A1C52D.6716@club-internet.fr>
Cc: luis@club-internet.fr
In <31A1C52D.6716@club-internet.fr> Luis Arias wrote:
> I am interested in the 1G Jazz drive for backup purposes. Has anyone
> configured this type of drive correctly on NS ? Does it work ?
>
> Thanks,
>
The Jaz cartridges mount as DOS partitions on my OS4.0 system by themselves.
This is convenient especially if you are planning to use tar for backup and
to transfer the tar files to other computers. Now, if NS could only
understand Win/95 file systems, so that we could use real file names in
transfers...
--
Ivo Welch ivo.welch@anderson.ucla.edu
Assoc Prof of Finance Anderson GSM at UCLA
110 Westwood Plaza, Box 951481, LA CA 90095-1481
UCLA AGSM Finance Faculty Homepage: HTTP://next.agsm.ucla.edu/
From: root@maverick.jboller.dialup.access.net (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone know Samba Binaries and Setup for NeXT Black and WinNT?
Date: 22 May 1996 23:11:30 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC
Message-ID: <4o06v2$67v@news1.panix.com>
Anyone know Samba Binaries and Setup for NeXT Black and WinNT?
I only can find source.... :(
Any help would be appreciated, as I am trying to put a Win NT Intel as a
client
to a NeXTStation Motorola server.
Thanks!
John Boller
jboller@panix.com
From: work@dannug.dk (Michael Hallin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to salvage SCSI HD with corrupted label
Date: 21 May 1996 20:14:45 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4nt87l$50e@machthenext.dannug.dk>
References: <4nqbs3$84r@ncar.ucar.edu>
In article <4nqbs3$84r@ncar.ucar.edu> me@blackbox.mmm.ucar.edu (Erik Rasmussen)
writes:
|>I have an external SCSI HD that has (at least) an unreadable label. I've
|>looked in the NS sysadmin documentation, and the man pages for "disk", but
|>haven't gotten far. Is there any way to repair the label so I can at least
|>proceed with fsck, or is it time to initialize it?
|>
|>
|>Thanks for any help...
|>Erik
Hi,
As far as I know, there is no other way to recover from
that error than initializing the disk again, bad as that
may be....
Best regards
Michael
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From: Guest <guest@mel.dbce.csiro.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: startup panic: cannot mount root
Date: 23 May 1996 00:57:43 GMT
Organization: C.S.I.R.O Australia
Message-ID: <4o0d67$643@hercules.its.csiro.au>
Pls help. After a
while using my DOS/Win partition I rebooted (and forgot to take out
my floppy disk from the drive), everytime the boot manager comes out
it reboots again (into a loop like this). When I noticed this, I
took out the floppy and rebooted, typed 'n'. Everything looked
normal until I got a monitor with the ffg:
---
sd0a: Read attempt with no valid label
vfs_mountroot: error=5
panic: (Cpu0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
panic:...
System panic:
vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
(Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor)_
---
Of course, I could not get past this everytime I reboot.
I have not had an error like this before and I don't know what went
wrong. Worse, I don't know how to fix it; I am just a lowly NS
user 8-(. The only thing that is not like what I normally do is
what I described above.
I would appreciate any help. Please e-mail me...
Greg
greg.foliente@dbce.csiro.au
From: Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Does NS 3.2 recognize .tar.gz files?
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 21:47:31 -0400
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522214420.23581A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
How can I uncompress a .tar.gz file with NS 3.2?
Thanks,
--Greg
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Largest Partition Bootable for HP ( Green ) NS3.3
Date: 24 May 1996 03:20:01 GMT
Organization: Information Resources and Technology
Message-ID: <4o39t1$ao5@nuke.csu.net>
Has anyone been able to partition ( on HP - Green ) a hard disk
to be 2.0GB or > and make that drive be the boot drive on the
HP?
We can partition and format the drives to be 2-1GB partitions,
but we would like to make it larger...
Any help/suggestions would be appreciated..
Victor Quevedo.
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
Longer Description below:
I have a unit that has 2 ( 2.4 GB ) drives and have been able
to:
Install the Boot/Install from the CDROM on drive 6 ... ( HP uses
reverse order on the SCSI ids) the drive is partitioned in
2-(1GB) partitions.. The Second drive is also partitioned the
same way..
I then by creating my own /etc/disktab entry... I partitioned
and formatted the second drive to be 1-(2GB) drive.. I then ran
the Build-Disk app to install the min install on that drive..
I also copied the /etc/disktab entry and changed the /etc/fstab
entry also..
But I am unable to boot from the second drive.. It looks like
the disks boot ( I don't know what to call it, but it must the
portion of code that allows the boot-parm to come up.) tries to
boot it says that /etc/private/... cannot be found...
-Victor Q.
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Victor R. Quevedo
vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu
NeXTMail Welcome
From: tobyl@plague.tamu.edu (Toby Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from Win95 on black NeXT ?
Date: 23 May 1996 03:53:39 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University Networking Helpdesk
Message-ID: <4o0ng3$vl@news.tamu.edu>
References: <DrI193.2pB@fritz.snafu.de>
In article <DrI193.2pB@fritz.snafu.de>,
Ernst Kloecker <ernst@fritz.snafu.de> wrote:
>
>Has anybody already figured out which W95-printer driver works best with a
>black NeXT and original NeXT printer ?
At the moment, we're using an Apple Laserwriter II NTX. Although...
1)I've never printed something from help before, 2)I'm not sure about the
font conversion, and 3)We're using an LPR spooler to print across the
network, which may affect it differently than your setup. Other than
that, we've got not probs. It's only used when we don't feel like
waiting for the lab queue anyway.
Toby
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From: dirk@kalium.physik.TU-Berlin.DE (Dirk Schwarzhans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from Win95 on black NeXT ?
Date: 23 May 1996 09:22:09 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4o1ao1$k4g@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <DrI193.2pB@fritz.snafu.de>
In-Reply-To: <DrI193.2pB@fritz.snafu.de>
On 05/16/96, Ernst Kloecker wrote:
>
>Has anybody already figured out which W95-printer driver works best
>with a black NeXT and original NeXT printer ?
>
>At the moment I am using the W95-driver for one of the newer Apple
>Laserwriter models (which are PS-Level-2 capable). Most of the time
>this setup works fine, but if I try to print from Win95-Help the
>output is messed up : words print over each other on a line sometimes
>and the font Arial is translated to Courier instead of Helvetica.
>
>Does anybody know which W95 printer driver works best and how to
>set it up ?
It is possible to replace the ".ppd" or ".spd" file (in
\WINDOWS\[SYSTEM]) of your current printer with the file
NeXT_400_dpi_Level_II_Printer.ppd from
/NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/German.lproj/.
Then windows knows all about your NeXT printer.
I also have created a ".inf" file to install the correct files
automatically, but this is not tested heavily. Mail me if you are
interested.
Dirk Schwarzhans
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: tcpdump on en0?
Message-ID: <kevincDrtAuG.A44@netcom.com>
Keywords: tcpdump bpf berkeley packet filter en0 next help
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 14:56:39 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom20.netcom.com
Have any of you been able to use tcpdump on the en0
interface? When I use tcpdump -i en0, it complains that
there is no such device. I guess it is expecting the PPP
stuff to be there... :-(
I would appreciate any tips, and will happily summarize
the responses.
Regards,
Song
From: Frederic Stark <Frederic.Stark@SmartCode.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: driver for 3com3C590 PCI ethernetcard .
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 12:38:04 +0200
Organization: SmatrCode Technologie
Message-ID: <31A4400C.3BB9@SmartCode.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
"Driver for 3com3C590 PCI network card"
As the subject says, I'll be glad to hear about any information
about an eventual driver for the 3com 3C590 ethernet card
for NEXTSTEP.
Thanx in advance
-- fred
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From: philipp@cybertron.at (Philipp Ott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DNS reverse mapping
Date: Thu, 23 May 96 09:27:23 GMT
Message-ID: <4o1b52$1b8@atlantis.atnet.at>
Hi!
I got my old black next cube with NS 3.3 to serve as a DNS server, the
cube itself and two Windows NT workstations find about everything out
there on the planet.
However, I cannot get the reverse mapping working. Most notably, when
I telnet into my old emergency ping.at account, I get the message,
that they do not allow connections with hosts, which address they
cannot resolve. Same for example with ftp.uu.net, when I ftp there, I
get "Sorry, we are unable to map your IP address to a hostname in the
DNS".
I followed the "man named" instructions, compared them to "The Linux
bible", read the FreeBSD 2.1 named manual pages and read the chapter
about bind in O'Reilly&Associates "TCPIP Network Administration" book
and luckily, they all more or less state the same procedures and
parameters for DNS server setup. So I went through all possibilites of
interpretation and still had no luck.
Are there any to me unknown netinfo changes nesseccary for the DNS
server? Does NS 3.3 named support reverse mapping at all?
With kind Regards
Philipp Ott
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Swap partition with NeXT?
Date: 23 May 1996 12:03:04 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
I wanted to install a swap partition on a second drive. The online manual
says that the disk builder will automatically detect disks which are to
small for a system and therefore use them as swap disks. So far so good
but what if i have a huge second disk and want to use a fixed pat of it
for swapping?
---
Konstantin Wiesel
Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de (Konstantin Wiesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS Net Speed
Date: 23 May 1996 12:08:54 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <4o1kgm$ve6@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
I just did some ftp speed testing in our LAN and found that transfers from
and to our NS box are much slower that transfers to other outside ftp
servers, that are probably not run on NS. We use a token ring based LAN
and i wuld like to know if NS is responsible for the slow speeds.
---
Konstantin Wiesel
Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: teTeX and TeXView.app
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 12:16:40 +0200
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Germany
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Hi folks,
I'm using the teTeX distribution as it's very easy to have exactly the same
tex in a hetergeneous network of nexts and other unix machines.
latex, tex, dvips, metafont all is working well on the next.
Consequently I removed the latex.pkg from the next to be sure to have
only teTex files.
Unfortuantely the Next application TeXView.app isn't able to find tfm files.
Should I make a link from anywhere under /NeXTLibrary to the place where teTeX
is located ?
(font generation by TeXView.app should be on the same directory as the teTeX dvips
use, this should be no problem as the only mf in /usr/bin is linked to the one
of the teTeX)
Any hint ?
I've heard of some gays using teTeX with next. They should still use TeXView.app ?
stefan
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From: steen@x1.us.ohio-state.edu (Steen Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HP 5000 DAT tape on black hardware
Date: 23 May 1996 17:58:57 GMT
Organization: University Technology Services
Message-ID: <4o2911$qhe@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have a stack of old black hardware running NeXTstep 3.0 .
I am trying to attach an HP SureStore 5000 DAT drive on the SCSI port, but
I can't make it work. It works fine with an HP model 2000, but the vendor
we bought it from don't sell those, and won't give us one instead.
I can eject the tape fine with:
mt -t /dev/rst0 off
But if I try to write to it with these commands:
find . -cpio /dev/rst0
find . -print | cpio -oBv > /dev/rst0
I get:
find: errno: 5, find: can't write output
Or with tar:
tar cf /dev/rst0 /
tar: tape write error: I/O error
I get the same result if I try using /dev/rxt0 as device file.
Two different machines give me the same response.
Here are the device files:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 34, 0 Apr 30 15:44 rst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 34, 2 Jul 30 1992 rxt0
Hewlett Packard were nice to send me another drive, same problem, but they
can't help me further, as they do not support NeXTstep.
Any suggestions?
Does anyone know how to create an appropriate device file for this tape
unit?
Thanks
Steen Hansen
--
Steen Hansen (Hviid)
Computer Specialist, The Ohio State University
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the earth as if it was
a business in liquidation. -- Herman Daly, quoted in "Earth in the Balance"
From: steen@x1.us.ohio-state.edu (Steen Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP 5000 DAT tape on black hardware
Date: 23 May 1996 18:07:15 GMT
Organization: University Technology Services
Message-ID: <4o29gj$qlv@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have a stack of old black hardware running NeXTstep 3.0 .
I am trying to attach an HP SureStore 5000 DAT drive on the SCSI port, but
I can't make it work. It works fine with an HP model 2000, but the vendor
we bought it from don't sell those, and won't give us one instead.
I can eject the tape fine with:
mt -t /dev/rst0 off
But if I try to write to it with these commands:
find . -cpio /dev/rst0
find . -print | cpio -oBv > /dev/rst0
I get:
find: errno: 5, find: can't write output
Or with tar:
tar cf /dev/rst0 /
tar: tape write error: I/O error
I get the same result if I try using /dev/rxt0 as device file.
Two different machines give me the same response.
Here are the device files:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 34, 0 Apr 30 15:44 rst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 34, 2 Jul 30 1992 rxt0
Hewlett Packard were nice to send me another drive, same problem, but they
can't help me further, as they do not support NeXTstep.
Any suggestions?
Does anyone know how to create an appropriate device file for this tape
unit?
Thanks
Steen Hansen
--
Steen Hansen (Hviid)
Computer Specialist, The Ohio State University
There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the earth as if it was
a business in liquidation. -- Herman Daly, quoted in "Earth in the Balance"
From: pbrown@palms.berkeley.edu (Paul Robert Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: teTeX and TeXView.app
Date: 23 May 1996 20:56:09 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Message-ID: <4o2jd9$kvg@agate.berkeley.edu>
References: <31A43B08.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
In article <31A43B08.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>,
Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> wrote:
>Unfortuantely the Next application TeXView.app isn't able to find tfm files.
>Should I make a link from anywhere under /NeXTLibrary to the place where teTeX
>is located ?
>(font generation by TeXView.app should be on the same directory as the teTeX dvips
>use, this should be no problem as the only mf in /usr/bin is linked to the one
>of the teTeX)
>I've heard of some gays using teTeX with next. They should still use TeXView.app ?
There is a newer version of TeXview on the same site as teTeX, and that
employs the kpathsearch routines for finding files. It should work with
teTeX without any tinkering. I modified the old TeXview to work with
teTeX by changing the directories where TeXview looks for font and
metrics; just look for paths.h or something like that, make the
appropriate changes and recompile.
As for gays using TeXview, NeXT has always been an equal-opportunity
platform... :)
pb
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NS 3.2 recognize .tar.gz files?
Date: 23 May 1996 17:51:23 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4o28ir$ee7@news.next.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522214420.23581A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net> writes
> How can I uncompress a .tar.gz file with NS 3.2?
>
> Thanks,
> --Greg
>
I'd recommend the excellent Opener.app, available on better NEXTSTEP FTP
sites worldwide...
--
Mark Bessey
NeXT Software, Inc
Software Quality Assurance
-->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: schaub@tamu.edu (Hanspeter Schaub)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Clock.app for NS3.3Intel
Date: 23 May 1996 17:49:31 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4o28fb$hgs@news.tamu.edu>
I'm looking for a small Clock.app to replace the preference.app in NS3.3.
The only ones I found were moto binary only, or the source was preNS3.x days
and wouldn't compile on NS3.3 developer.
thanks
HP
--
Hanspeter Schaub
Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistant
Aerospace Engineering Department
Texas A&M University
http://http.tamu.edu:8000/~schaub
schaub@tamu.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! WE CAN LEARN TO FLY!
-Jonathon Livingston Seagull
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: m@ml.com (M Carling)
Subject: Re: [WANTED] SCSI controller recommendation
Message-ID: <Drt7x8.2Et@tigadmin.ml.com>
Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account)
Organization: ml.com
References: <4nsmlf$f3t@bagan.srce.hr>
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 13:53:32 GMT
I recommend the Adaptec 2940 or 2940W.
M Carling
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Now Opening: Web Archive of Disktab Entries
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DrvrB5.HBG@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 22:47:29 GMT
Organization: University of Waterloo
I'd like to start a collection of disktab entries, arranged by disk
manufacturer. If you have one, email it to me with the subject "Disktab: xxx"
where xxx is the manufacturer/model of disk that it is for. Be sure to include
any special information, such as to which ROM revision the entry applies.
The archive will live at http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ns-disktab/
Any other suggestions? Let me know.
--
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
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:12:49 -0500
From: kpc@mcs.com (Kevin Coffee)
Subject: re: AppleTalk pkg
After reading this exchange, I decided to give it a whirl (installing the
AT package from 3.0 on top of NS 3.3). But when I tried to configure AT
with the Preferences app, I got a message that the AT preferences could not
be loaded.
Is there more to this than installing off the 3.0 disk?
-Kevin
>Subject: Re: AppleTalk and AppleShare
>Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 07:47:54 -0400
>
>In article <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au>, rameri@bart.cs.uwa.oz.au
>(Rameri Salama) wrote:
>
>> I have had 3.3 running for quite some time now on a few Intel machines, and
>> I am wondering whether it is at all possible to connect to the local
>> AppleShare network?
>>
>> Just by looking at /etc/rc.standard, you can see all the stuff for
>> AppleTalk and AppleShare, but they require two files called "atalkd" and
>> "ashared". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these two files. They
>> are not in /usr/etc which is where rc.standard looks for them.
>>
>> Also, when I looked at the documentation, I found that there is supposed to
>> be a preferences panel for connecting AppleShare. This requires the two
>> files I mentioned before.
>
>The necessary files are in the AppleTalk package last provided as part of
>NeXTStep 3.0. They are Motorola only, and must be installed with the 3.0
>version of Installer (the 3.3 version ignores the executable files for
>some reason). Unmounting and remounting is problematic.
>
>The file sharing works, under 3.3, if you log in to the Mac with a (Mac)
>assigned user name and password. It doesn't seem to work if you log in as
>guest, even though the latter works for Mac to Mac sharing.
>
>Printing to a LocalTalk printer via a bridge doesn't seem to work. This
>could be a bridge problem - I haven't checked this path out with an
>EtherTalk Mac yet.
>
>I expect it may be necessary to check out old c.s.n.h and c.s.n.sysadm
>posts to unravel this. But, I repeat, the AppleTalk package from 3.0 is
>at least partially functional under 3.3 M.
>
>Barney
From: a-prince@ix.netcom.com(Frank Bellino)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.isdn,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need info on Hayes Extender for NeXT
Date: 24 May 1996 01:31:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4o33hf$2s4@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4o3281$e1k@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com>
Just acquired Hayes ISDN extender, it has both RJ45 for 4 wire and RJ11
for 2 wire pots. Anybody know what's going on? Package supplies both
cables(!) and illustrates simultaneous connection.
I am an ISDN newbie, can some of the mentors help on this?
Frank
prisoner@dataset.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup script
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 09:58:03 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960523094713.2335C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4nvla8$ejd@client3.news.psi.net>
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To: jay@datus-usa.com
In-Reply-To: <4nvla8$ejd@client3.news.psi.net>
On 22 May 1996, Operator wrote:
> I am looking for a backup script for out daily backup and cannot
> seem to find one. Is there any way that I can locate a file the could
> backup my whole system daily.
find / -mount -exec cp {} /BackupDirectory \;
if /BackupDirectory is not on the same mount point as /
I get the feeling this might not be what you are looking for.
Why backup the whole system? /NextApps /NextLibrary /usr /bin /etc don't
change.
At most it would seem that you would want to backup /LocalApps
/LocalLibrary /usr/local and /Users (or wherever accounts are stored).
Otherwise you are backing up stuff which is on your distribution CD.
Just one man's opinion....
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NS 3.2 recognize .tar.gz files?
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 10:06:19 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960523095912.2335D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522214420.23581A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
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To: Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522214420.23581A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
> How can I uncompress a .tar.gz file with NS 3.2?
Opener.app would be one good way. It will open .tar.gz files and many
other archive types...
Or you could do it by hand:
gunzip -c FILE.tar.gz | gnutar -xvf -
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Largest Partition Bootable for HP ( Green ) NS3.3
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 10:09:13 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960523100808.2335E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4o39t1$ao5@nuke.csu.net>
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To: Victor Quevedo <vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4o39t1$ao5@nuke.csu.net>
It is my understanding that NeXTStep cannot handle any partition larger
than 2 gigs.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
From: dirk@.object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Does NS 3.2 recognize .tar.gz files?
Date: 24 May 1996 08:57:48 GMT
Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany)
Message-ID: <4o3tmd$cl@isabella.object-factory.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522214420.23581A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
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Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net> wrote:
> How can I uncompress a .tar.gz file with NS 3.2?
Hi,
try
/usr/bin/gnutar xvzf <filename>
from a terminal shell or get Opener.app from your favorite ftp archive. This
reduces unpacking files to a double-click.
Hope it helps,
-dirk
---
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Subject: Re: Does NS 3.2 recognize .tar.gz files?
Message-ID: <DrwBuq.3G7@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@solair1.inter.NL.net (News at news)
Organization: NLnet
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960522214420.23581A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 06:12:25 GMT
Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net> wrote:
>How can I uncompress a .tar.gz file with NS 3.2?
> Thanks,
>--Greg
On the command line use gzip, you already have it on your system.
gzip -d file.tar.gz
will do the job.
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
Phone: +31 74 2558 688 The Netherlands
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yves (Yves Akakpo)
Subject: /NextLibrary/Documentation/ManPages is empty
Message-ID: <1996May24.130446.640@yves.fdn.fr>
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
Keywords: ManPages UNIX
Sender: news@yves.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:04:46 GMT
Hi
Does anyone know how to copy UNIX MAN PAGES from the CDROM to my slab
with a good links to make it accessible or usable by both
NextDeveloper.bshlf and by the Terminal commands "man"?
NS 3.3 user + developer
NeXT Station turbo
thanks much for info!
Yves
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: yves (Yves Akakpo)
Subject: Taylor_UUCP config
Message-ID: <1996May24.140357.1000@yves.fdn.fr>
Keywords: Taylor UUCP, Sitename different Hostname
Sender: news@yves.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 14:03:57 GMT
Hello
Has anyone out there had trouble with a slab wich have sitename
different of hostname in the way to config Taylor_UUCP?
-NeXTStation Turbo with NS3.3 User + Developer
-Taylor_UUCP_1.05
-Sitename: alpha
-Hostname: beta
-Loginname: Ualpha
-Domain(s): alpha.machin.fr
I think that an modification of my SENDMAIL in their rulesetes can
solve the conflict, the disharmonize.
But I don t know how?
Any and all comments welcome. Thanks in advance!
Yves.
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Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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Message-ID: <199605240816.BAA19208@isp.net>
Date: Fri, 24 May 96 10:15:00 ISS
From: ZANITTI@ISS.IT
Subject: Compile problems
I have two users (root and me)
USER GROUP
root wheel
me hother
(NeXTDeveloper is installed by root)
Can the me user compiles an application?
If the me user compiles an application it obtains an Error message on
directory tmp
I don't want develop an application as super user (root) because this
can crash the system and the security (Program errors and so)
Thanks
Zanitti Leo
From: "Robert D. Nielsen" <robert.nielsen@everest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Question: syslogd sources so we can fix a feature/bug
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 13:59:26 -0700
Organization: Everest Technology, Inc.
Message-ID: <31A6232E.5AF7@everest.com>
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Greetings,
We have a metered ($0.02/minute) connection to the
Internet. The router/NT1 (Ascend P50) has a
syslog feature; just point it at a host and tell
it what local (local0 - local7) and it logs every
time the link goes up and down.
Problem is that syslogd makes a call to
gethostbyaddr() which causes a DNS lookup. Since
our DNS server is our ISP, it brings the link up.
See the problem? When the link goes down it uses
syslogd to log the date/time/etc. This causes the
link to come back up!! Not the best feature!!
Does anyone have any recommendations? We do not
want to set up DNS if we do not have to. We
really do want logging. One thought is to get the
sources for a syslogd (most similiar to NeXTs) and
recompile after removing the gethostbyaddr().
Any other ideas?
Cheers,
Robert D. Nielsen
From: mih@karl.linguist.jussieu.fr (Michel Hebrard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 486/mouse
Date: 24 May 1996 14:49:26 +0200
Organization: TALANA
Sender: mih@karl.linguist.jussieu.fr
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Does somebody know which NeXt patch need to be applied for the mouse
problem on 486 box (the mouse is dead after a reboot and you need to
reboot, reboot, ... ) ? Thank you !
--
Apres avoir vu ce qu'on a vu
Et entendu ce qu'on a entendu...
Faut pas s'etonner de penser ce que l'on pense !
From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup script
Date: 24 May 1996 15:10:33 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4o4jh9$64b@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4nvla8$ejd@client3.news.psi.net> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960523094713.2335C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Why backup the whole system? /NextApps /NextLibrary /usr /bin /etc don't
> change.
Careful. /etc contains the NetInfo database, sendmail configuration, and
many other files that capture the current configuration. /etc is important
to back up regularly.
And most locally-installed files are under /usr in the local directory,
so /usr/local should be backed up.
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Compile problems
Date: 24 May 1996 14:46:00 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-b-62.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4o4i38$bkh@usc.edu>
References: <199605240816.BAA19208@isp.net>
Cc: ZANITTI@ISS.IT
In <199605240816.BAA19208@isp.net> ZANITTI@ISS.IT wrote:
> I have two users (root and me)
>
> USER GROUP
> root wheel
> me hother
Don't know the answer to your question. BUT, I always thought it was a good
idea to create a NEW personal account and delete the "me" account for
security reasons, or for reasons that you can destroy a lot of data
unintentionally from the "me" account because of the groups its members with.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: essmann@igd.fhg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mailalias
Date: 23 May 1996 14:23:10 GMT
Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4o1sce$jcm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Hi!
We have got a mailserver with the address line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de
The university has set up a mailalias for this server called
aiesec.th-darmstadt.de
But when mail is sent to a user, e.g. me@aiesec.th-darmstadt.de
we get the following error mail.
Does anyone know what we are doing wrong or if we have to add the
mailalias to any of the configuration files?
Thanks for any help.
Cheers.
Adeep
AIESEC Darmstadt, Germany
Error mail follows:
Date: Thu, 23 May 96 16:08:33 +0200
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent@line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de>
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
To: root@elin.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de:
>>> HELO line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de
<<< 553 line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de config error: mail loops back to
myself
554 <root@aiesec.th-darmstadt.de>... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <root@elin.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de>
Received: from elin by line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de (NX5.67c/NX3.0M)
id AA00411; Thu, 23 May 96 16:08:33 +0200
Received: by elin.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de (NX5.67c/NX3.0M)
id AA00365; Mon, 22 Apr 96 15:54:48 +0200
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 96 15:54:48 +0200
From: Operator <root@elin.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de>
Message-Id: <9604221354.AA00365@elin.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de>
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1)
Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1)
To: root@aiesec.th-darmstadt.de
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
Begin forwarded message:
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 96 15:48:38 +0200
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
To: root
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 de.aiesec.org (ddn)... 550 Host unknown
554 flieger@de.aiesec.org... 550 Host unknown (Valid name but no A or MX
record)
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: POP email server on the NeXT (Black)
Date: 24 May 1996 15:23:01 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4o4k8l$n74@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: POP,NeXT
I would like to be able to download email from my NeXT (black) to my Macintosh
running the Eudora Pro email program so that I can handle Microsoft Word,
Powerpoint and Excel documents. Is there a way to do this with the NeXT as it
comes or is it necessary to implement a POP server. If the latter is the
answer please tell me where I can find a NeXT compatible version of POP and
whether having such a server would conflict with the NeXT email software.
Thanks in advance!
Jim Luby
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98105
From: "Robert D. Nielsen" <robert.nielsen@everest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Answer: syslogd sources so we can fix a feature/bug
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 17:17:54 -0700
Organization: Everest Technology, Inc.
Message-ID: <31A651B2.BE2@everest.com>
References: <31A6232E.5AF7@everest.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Greetings,
The answer turned out to be quite easy. We simply
needed to make an entry for the router in our
/etc/hosts (well, actually netinfo).
Cheers,
Robert
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with mail (help)
Date: 24 May 1996 15:40:48 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4o4la0$1812@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Hello,
Sometime ago I messed up with the system (Black TurboColor) and lost some
files but then restored everything (?) and now the system works fine again.
However a funny situation happens when I try to mail (out of the system).
The message bounces back and the error is "host unknown".
Here's a grab of the screen:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
<37 centacor:~ >mail
Mail version 5.3 2/18/88. Type ? for help.
"/usr/spool/mail/guentche": 1 message 1 new
>N 1 Mailer-Agent Fri May 24 11:33 27/837 "Returned mail: Host unknown"
&
Message 1:
From agent Fri May 24 11:33:08 1996
Return-Path: <Mailer-Agent>
Received: by centacor.chm.msu.edu (NX5.67c/NX3.0S)
id AA00723; Fri, 24 May 96 11:33:07 -0500
Date: Fri, 24 May 96 11:33:07 -0500
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Host unknown
Message-Id: <9605241633.AA00723@centacor.chm.msu.edu>
To: guentche
Status: R
----- Transcript of session follows -----
550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown
554 guentche@cps.msu.edu... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server)
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <guentche>
Received: by centacor.chm.msu.edu (NX5.67c/NX3.0S)
id AA00745; Fri, 24 May 96 11:34:58 -0500
Date: Fri, 24 May 96 11:34:58 -0500
From: Kamen Guentchev <guentche>
Message-Id: <9605241634.AA00745@centacor.chm.msu.edu>
To: guentche@cps.msu.edu
Subject: Test
TEST!!!
&
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
The host is otherwise resolved: I can ping it or telnet to it without a problem.
It seems as 'sendmail' is having this problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
Kamen
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk pkg
Date: 24 May 1996 15:47:21 GMT
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Message-ID: <4o4lm9$n53@news.sei.cmu.edu>
References: <v01530500adcac9aafaa8@[205.164.39.152]>
In article <v01530500adcac9aafaa8@[205.164.39.152]> kpc@mcs.com (Kevin Coffee)
writes:
>After reading this exchange, I decided to give it a whirl (installing the
>AT package from 3.0 on top of NS 3.3). But when I tried to configure AT
>with the Preferences app, I got a message that the AT preferences could not
>be loaded.
>
>Is there more to this than installing off the 3.0 disk?
>
>-Kevin
I'll repeat that I'm using the NS AppleTalk package with 3.3 and am
experiencing no problems. I can even access NeXT-to-Mac as Guest.
My method of getting AppleTalk on to 3.3 was perhaps different from
what others are doing. Before I installed 3.3, I made a tape backup
of my 3.2 system. Once 3.3 was installed, I restored all files
concerning AppleTalk from the backup. (I observed one or more
additional files above those found in the 3.0 CD AppleTalk package,
but I can't say if this is significant to the problems encountered by
others.) Afterwards, everything worked just as it did under 3.2.
--
Larry Howard
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: psgentle@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help with getting CAP compiled on 3.3
Date: 24 May 96 14:09:14 -0500
Organization: Miami University
Message-ID: <1996May24.140914@miavx1>
Has anyone succesfully complied CAP on a NS 3.3 machine? I am having trouble
getting the aufs to complie. The machine is an NeXT 030 Computer, with gcc
2.7.2 compiled and installed. My users would very much like to have this
working, for the simple reason that most of them are MAC lovers and they
devlope a lot of web pages.
Send any help or hints, all will be greatly appriciated.
Paul
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From: sams@shellx.best.com (Samuel G. Streeper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: [WANTED] SCSI controller recommendation
Date: 24 May 1996 11:00:39 -0700
Organization: Best Internet Communications
Message-ID: <sams.832960423@shellx>
References: <4nsmlf$f3t@bagan.srce.hr> <Drt7x8.2Et@tigadmin.ml.com>
Since I didn't hear it mentioned, I can recommend a card
based on the NCR810 chip, such as the Asus SC200 card.
It's inexpensive, has good performance, and is very
solid under nextstep, dos, windows, and linux (at least).
The only mild warnings: this card requires motherboard
bios support, which is somewhat common but not ubiquitous,
and I've heard that the DOS driver requires slightly more
memory than some other cards. I have no complaints at
all with mine.
-sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fuguen@paris.fdn.fr (Francois UGUEN)
Subject: CraftMan Engine+ ETI Birds of Europe
Message-ID: <DrvsE9.8Bx@paris.fdn.fr>
Sender: news@paris.fdn.fr
Organization: Individual - PARIS - Francois UGUEN
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 23:10:57 GMT
Hello
Birds of Europe for NEXTSTEP, a Multimedia Software I purchased in
1994, failed to function when I recently switched to NEXTSTEP 3.3
Martine van der Eerden, from ETI Biodiversity Center told me that the
problem is due to the fact that the CraftMan Engine they used to build
their software is failing to properly open color windows under NS 3.3
As this is very inconvenient and make Birds of Europe almost
unusable, I'd like to know when a bug-fix release of the CraftMan
Engine is planned to be released.
Best regards,
Francois UGUEN
fuguen@paris.fdn.fr
--
MM*:?P8$
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: POP email server on the NeXT (Black)
Date: 24 May 1996 15:47:07 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4o4llr$1812@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4o4k8l$n74@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
James C. Luby (jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu) wrote:
: I would like to be able to download email from my NeXT (black) to my Macintosh
: running the Eudora Pro email program so that I can handle Microsoft Word,
: Powerpoint and Excel documents. Is there a way to do this with the NeXT as it
: comes or is it necessary to implement a POP server. If the latter is the
: answer please tell me where I can find a NeXT compatible version of POP and
: whether having such a server would conflict with the NeXT email software.
Just last night I installed this package and it works just fine:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/mail/pop3d.NIHS.bs.gnutar.gz
Don't forget to put the required 'services' entry in NetInfo, not just in the file
/etc/services. You should be all set (m68k machine, right?).
Kamen
From: waiming@cs.ust.hk (Yuen Cheuk Mun Ada)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Help! my NS3.3 don't boot
Date: 24 May 1996 16:28:53 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, HKUST
Message-ID: <4o4o45$q0f@ustsu10.ust.hk>
Hello,
I got a problem on booting up NEXTSTEP 3.3 on my Intel (pentium) machines.
When the boot process reach the stage of checking disks, the "fsck"
report errors on not able to read some blocks on the disk and then the boot
process stop and give me a prompt.
From the prompt, I find myself can still access the files in the boot disk.
It seems that my hard disk is still working but only having problem on some
disk blocks. I would like to ask how can I make the NEXTSTEP boot as normal
again.
Thank you !
waiming
P.S. My hard disk is Quantum 730M (SCSI) and my SCSI interface is NCR53c810.
--
After working with DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, SunOS, NT, 95 ....
/ / / I find myself like NEXTSTEP most.
\ \ \
------ It is tea, not Java :) A Happy NS user
\____/> waiming@cs.ust.hk
From: waldek@bg.univ.gda.pl (Waldemar Chrzan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: HP DeskJet 1600CM (suplement)
Date: 24 May 1996 15:11:03 GMT
Organization: Politechnika Gdanska
Message-ID: <4o4ji7$l29@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>
Hi !
I send 3 weeks above mail with question about drivers for HP DeskJet 1600
printer for NeXt Step 3.3 (intel). I send error in my question. My printer is
a DeskJet 1600CM. (This is a PostScript network printer)
I want to use high quality color printing mode.
Where I found drivers form my printer or haw to resolve my problem ?
Help mi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: joerd@mail.wsu.edu
Subject: HTTP server question
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
Message-ID: <960524112553.205AAFgG.wayne@keizai2>
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 18:25:53 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Organization: Washington State University
Help:
I'm using the Apache server downloaded from NeXT. I have changed the
srm.conf file so that DocumentRoot equals /WebStuff. I also changed the
<Directory> directive to act on /WebStuff. Things seem to work OK so far
but I can't solve one problem. If I use an html command like
<IMG SRC="/Images/picture.gif">
the picture can't be found. But
<IMG SRC="/icons/picture.gif">
works. Evidently, Apache is still using the default directory
"/NextLibrary/WebServer/" (in which the director icon/ is located) instead
of /WebStuff.
(By the way, <IMG SRC="picture.gif"> also works even if picture.gif is not
in /NextLibrary/WebServer/.)
Can anybody tell me what is wrong?
Thanks in adbvance. Please reply directly to me.
Wayne Joerding
Professor of Economics Ofc: 509-335-6468
Washington State University email: joerd@mail.wsu.edu
Pullman WA 99164 Powered by NeXTStep
"Stupidity always has the chance of being a capital offense."
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: FLICKER 1152 x 864 @ ?? Hz Help!
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 09:10:07 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
Sender: rjacobs@elaine16.Stanford.EDU
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960524090336.22801A-100000@elaine16.Stanford.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I have a CTX 1765GMe monitor which supports 1024x768 @ 75 Hz and
1280x1024 @ 60 Hz. In NS 3.3 I have choices of 1152 x 864 at either 60,
72 or 75 Hz. 60 Hz seems to flicker too much so I'd like to try something
higher. Can I safely run it at 1152x864 @ 72 Hz? I have a Matrox
Millenium with 2 MB RAM. Should I run it at 444/16 colors?
Thanks.
Robert
Post to newsgroup or email
rob@rjacobs.stanford.edu
From: wwalton@ee.umr.edu (William Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: serial port
Date: 24 May 1996 20:09:09 GMT
Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University
Message-ID: <4o5515$6vk@hptemp1.cc.umr.edu>
How do I set serial port configuration in NextSteop
Does anyone know?????
I wish to set my port # 2 to the following:
9600 baud
7 data bits
even parity
2 stop bits
Any info. on this would be greatly appreciated.
wwalton
From: Markus Pilzecker <markus.pilzecker@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
Newsgroups: de.comp.os.linux,de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NextStep booten mit Lilo
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 19:32:22 +0000
Organization: GNI -- Internet fuer Odenwald, Rhein-Neckar, Karlsruhe, Kaiserslautern, Heilbronn und Pfaffenhofen
Message-ID: <31A60EC6.3D84B48E@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
References: <qq1bujg6bv0.fsf@habakuk.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
CC: mp
Joachim Baumann wrote:
>
> Hallo,
> hat irgendjemand Erfahrung, NextStep mit Lilo zu booten?
> Ich habe 2 SCSI-Platten, auf der ersten Linux, auf der zweiten Nextstep.
> Ich habe keine Probleme, Nextstep von Diskette zu booten, aber das ist
> irgendwie nicht vollkommen.
> Gruss, Joachim
>
No problem:
First install NS, as if there were no Linux. You will have then only the bootmanager
of NS, which offers the one and only possibility to boot NS.
Then You install (running Linux of course) LILO to the mbr i.e. `boot = /dev/sda'.
This overwrites the NS bootmanager, so that LILO will come up the next time booting.
Be inspired by my lilo.conf:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
delay = 50
vga = 5 # force sane state
ramdisk = 0 # paranoia setting
# End LILO global section
#
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage-1.3.86_new
root = /dev/sda3
label = linux1386
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage-1.3.98
root = /dev/sda3
label = linux1398
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage-1.3.86
root = /dev/sda3
label = linux1386old
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage-1.2.13-slackelf
root = /dev/sda3
label = linux
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /zImage-1.3.96
root = /dev/sda3
label = linux1396
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
#
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda4
label = dos
table = /dev/sda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
#
# NeXT bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda1
label = next
# table = /dev/sda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
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From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup script
Date: 25 May 1996 03:51:33 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
Message-ID: <4o6045$a0f@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <4nvla8$ejd@client3.news.psi.net> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960523094713.2335C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu) wrote:
: On 22 May 1996, Operator wrote:
: > I am looking for a backup script for out daily backup and cannot
: > seem to find one. Is there any way that I can locate a file the could
: > backup my whole system daily.
: find / -mount -exec cp {} /BackupDirectory \;
Shouldn't you at least use "cp -p" to preserve the original
timestamps of the files ????? !!!!!
^ ^
just a question ---+ +--- seems me to be important :-)
willem
From: greg.foliente@dbce.csiro.au (Greg C. Foliente)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: startup panic: cannot mount root
Date: Sat, 25 May 96 05:25:02 GMT
Organization: CSIRO
Message-ID: <4o65je$nd4_001@mel.dbce.csiro.au>
References: <4o0d67$643@hercules.its.csiro.au>
In article <4o0d67$643@hercules.its.csiro.au>,
Guest <guest@mel.dbce.csiro.au> wrote:
>Pls help. After a
>while using my DOS/Win partition I rebooted (and forgot to take out
>my floppy disk from the drive), everytime the boot manager comes out
>it reboots again (into a loop like this). When I noticed this, I
>took out the floppy and rebooted, typed 'n'. Everything looked
>normal until I got a monitor with the ffg:
>---
>sd0a: Read attempt with no valid label
>vfs_mountroot: error=5
>panic: (Cpu0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
>panic:...
>
>System panic:
>vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
>(Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor)_
>---
>
>Of course, I could not get past this everytime I reboot.
>I have not had an error like this before and I don't know what went
>wrong. Worse, I don't know how to fix it; I am just a lowly NS
>user 8-(. The only thing that is not like what I normally do is
>what I described above.
>
>I would appreciate any help. Please e-mail me...
>
>Greg
>greg.foliente@dbce.csiro.au
Following up my earlier post, I forgot to say that I'm using NS 3.3. I
need to work on some files and am started to get desperate. I would
_really_ appreciate any help...
Greg
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From: cbliek@iiia.csic.es (Christian Bliek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: TimeStamps -> FAQ?
Date: 25 May 1996 09:07:56 GMT
Organization: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4o6ilc$stq@lilith.uab.es>
Howdy,
I ran into the following problem on NS3.3 black
> date ; touch foo ; ls -l foo
Sat May 25 10:28:37 MET DST 1996
-rw-r--r-- 1 cbliek 0 May 25 10:32 foo
which obviously confuses make!
Although I recall that other people reported similar behavior a couple of
months ago, I didn't find it in the FAQ ...
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Christian.
From: louis@cia.cc.emory.edu (Louis Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next kicking users out
Date: 25 May 1996 13:57:59 GMT
Organization: Emory University
Message-ID: <4o73l7$etl@moe.cc.emory.edu>
References: <4nt24s$p96@park.interport.net>
Cc: udas@northstar.com
In <4nt24s$p96@park.interport.net> Shourav Udas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some reason one of my Next machines is kicking users out once in a
> while at random. After that all login attempts fail until it is rebooted.
> Then the machine runs file for a couple of days (about a week). Has
> anyone seen this behaviour before, is there anyone who can help me out? I
> would really appreciate your help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shourav
> udas@northstar.com
>
I have not seen this behavior on a Next machine, but I have seen it on
Solaris. Check your / (ie. root) filesystem. Your /usr/adm files may be
growing until it fills your / filesystem.
Louis
--
"Both science and art map experience to symbols. Science symbols reveal the
structure of the world. Art symbols add structure to the world. Music is the
the sound of math."
Bart Kosko
Author, futurist, leading expert in the combined
area of neural networks and fuzzy systems
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Next kicking users out
Message-ID: <DryJ5s.Fxs@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: udas@northstar.com
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4nt24s$p96@park.interport.net>
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 10:44:16 GMT
In <4nt24s$p96@park.interport.net> Shourav Udas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For some reason one of my Next machines is kicking users out once in a
> while at random. After that all login attempts fail until it is rebooted.
> Then the machine runs file for a couple of days (about a week). Has
> anyone seen this behaviour before, is there anyone who can help me out? I
> would really appreciate your help.
>
Whithout knowing how this "kicking out" actually looks like:
Most likely running out of swap space. Remotely monitor the machine trough a
plain terminal window. I'd guess you'll see a spent swap partition or some
telling console messages as a hint.
--
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: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Problems with mail (help)
Date: 25 May 1996 18:08:44 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-j-22.usc.edu
Message-ID: <4o7ibc$7ku@usc.edu>
References: <4o4la0$1812@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Cc: guentche@cps.msu.edu
In <4o4la0$1812@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Kamen Yankov Guentchev wrote:
> Hello,
> Sometime ago I messed up with the system (Black TurboColor) and lost some
> files but then restored everything (?) and now the system works fine again.
> However a funny situation happens when I try to mail (out of the system).
> The message bounces back and the error is "host unknown".
[snip screen "grab"]
> The host is otherwise resolved: I can ping it or telnet to it without a
problem.
> It seems as 'sendmail' is having this problem.
What version of sendmail are you using?
If you are using 8.7* then check that you've got your machine and your
mailhost entered as FQDN.
If earlier versions....
*******
On the other hand, your screen grab shows:
> Date: Fri, 24 May 96 11:34:58 -0500
> From: Kamen Guentchev <guentche>
> Message-Id: <9605241634.AA00745@centacor.chm.msu.edu>
> To: guentche@cps.msu.edu
> Subject: Test
That your "From" is not being rewritten to your proper address.
I.E. Kamen Guentchev <guentche> doesn't = Kamen Guentchev
<guentche@cps.msu.edu>
And this can be the problem that you aren't being recognized, in which case
you need to properly rewrite your From line.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
From: "G. Hussain Chinoy" <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 100mb IntelEtherExpress Pro & NSI 3.3
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 17:28:48 -0500
Organization: WU Internet Information Systems, Arts & Sciences
Message-ID: <31A789A0.2048@artsci.wustl.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi, all,
Has anyone had any experience with getting NEXTSTEP 3.3 for
Intel to work w/ this card at 100mb/s?
What's everyone's recommendation on a fast transfer ethernet
card? (10 or 100mb/s?)
Hussain
--
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From: svail@regression.next.com (Scott Vail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI - SCSI Controller
Date: 26 May 1996 02:01:50 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4o8e2e$sj3@news.next.com>
References: <4nskr1$jus@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
In article <4nskr1$jus@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
3wolff@rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Eberhard Wolff) writes:
> dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote:
> : Can anyone tell me if the Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI will work under
NeXTSTep 3.3? If so what driver pkg do I use?
>
> : Thank's in advance,
>
> : David A. Johnson
> : Research Engineer,
> : Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
> : Northwestern University
> As far as I know it is not supported. I just had a look at the NeXT
Answers
> Hardware compatibilty guide and it is not listed there. The 2940 driver
> doesn't support the 2920. Probably you want to have a look at the
Symbios/
> NCR 538xx series. They are cheaper than the 2940 and have the same
performance
> but lack the nice configuration features of the 2940.
>
> Eberhard
>
The Adaptec 2920 is based on the Future Domain chip-set, and since we
don't support any Future Domain adapters, we do not support the Adaptec
2920.
--
This is not official NeXT stuff, so ignore me if you want.
http://www.next.com/~svail/
From: Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: [WANTED] SCSI controller recommendation
Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 22:19:41 -0400
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960525220955.11270H-100000@northshore.shore.net>
References: <4nsmlf$f3t@bagan.srce.hr> <Drt7x8.2Et@tigadmin.ml.com> <sams.832960423@shellx>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: "Samuel G. Streeper" <sams@shellx.best.com>
In-Reply-To: <sams.832960423@shellx>
Since I didn't hear it mentioned, I can recommend a card
based on the NCR810 chip, such as the Asus SC200 card.
It's inexpensive, has good performance, and is very
solid under nextstep, dos, windows, and linux (at least).
The only mild warnings: this card requires motherboard
bios support, which is somewhat common but not ubiquitous,
and I've heard that the DOS driver requires slightly more
memory than some other cards. I have no complaints at
all with mine.
-sam
I think the NCR815 can be used without bios support
from the motherboard since it is on the card. The
810 can be bought for around $70, the 815 can be
bought for around $100.
One place that sells them is CanTek who can be
found at http://www.cantek.com/cantek/ or
you can email them at info@cantek.com. You
may find other places that sell them cheaper
if you shop around.
--Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: NextStep 3.3 Patch 1 Problem With cc?
Message-ID: <kevincDs0rqJ.HMn@netcom.com>
Keywords: NextStep 3.3 Patch 1 Problem CC cc
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 15:44:43 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom20.netcom.com
Hi everyone,
Ever since I applied Patch 1 to my system, cc has been different.
When I recently tried to recompile tripwire and tcp wrappers,
this is what I got:
bla bla bla
cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
*** Exit 1
Stop.
*** Exit 1
Stop.
#
Have any of you seen this? I'll appreciate any info you may have
and will summarize.
Kevin
From: gblock@oubliette.noc.demon.net (Gregory R. Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Messed up NetInfo...
Date: Sun, 26 May 1996 23:30:42 GMT
Message-ID: <833153442.4337.0@oubliette.noc.demon.net>
'kay, not sure what I did. Everything *appears* to work fine; I have no
system problems.
However.
No matter what I do, I always get this message:
May 27 00:24:30 oubliette syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
And lots of 'em. Now, I'm sure something simple is messed up, but I can't
find the inpropriety in the NetInfo database. Anyone have any ideas?
Greg
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Demon Internet Ltd. #include<stddisclaim.h>
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From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: CraftMan Engine+ ETI Birds of Europe
Date: 26 May 1996 17:51:31 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4oa5n3$roq@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <DrvsE9.8Bx@paris.fdn.fr>
In-Reply-To: <DrvsE9.8Bx@paris.fdn.fr>
On 05/24/96, Francois UGUEN wrote:
> As this is very inconvenient and make Birds of Europe almost
> unusable, I'd like to know when a bug-fix release of the CraftMan
> Engine is planned to be released.
>
Umm, sorry -- CraftMan was developed by Xanthus, who sadly went out of
business a while back. Most of their applications were taken over by
Lighthouse, but I've seen no indication that a re-release is in the offing.
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: Re: NextStep 3.3 Patch 1 Problem With cc?
Message-ID: <kevincDs1JA3.2rp@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <kevincDs0rqJ.HMn@netcom.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 01:39:39 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom20.netcom.com
I checked further. cc1obj is in /lib/i386 for my Intel NextStep.
These files are all replaced by the Dev Patch in NS 3.3 Patch 1. Can someone
please confirm if their patched system has the same problem? I am going
to revert to the older versions soon.
Kevin
kevinc (kevinc@netcom.com) wrote:
: Hi everyone,
: Ever since I applied Patch 1 to my system, cc has been different.
: When I recently tried to recompile tripwire and tcp wrappers,
: this is what I got:
: bla bla bla
: cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
: *** Exit 1
: Stop.
: *** Exit 1
: Stop.
: #
: Have any of you seen this? I'll appreciate any info you may have
: and will summarize.
: Kevin
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 27 May 1996 04:15:13 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4oba8h$g04@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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===========================================
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
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The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
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The ftp sites
=============
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=====================================
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From: emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric Marshall (Faculty))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I lost my Terminal services!
Date: 27 May 1996 13:34:22 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <4ocb0u$fcb@portal.gmu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
All of a sudden my Terminal services are gone (those exported
from Terminal.app). Any help in getting them back will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: HP 5000 DAT tape on black hardware
Message-ID: <Ds29ny.9qM@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: steen@x1.us.ohio-state.edu
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4o2911$qhe@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:09:33 GMT
In <4o2911$qhe@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Steen Hansen wrote:
> I have a stack of old black hardware running NeXTstep 3.0 .
>
> I am trying to attach an HP SureStore 5000 DAT drive on the SCSI port, but
> I can't make it work. It works fine with an HP model 2000, but the vendor
> we bought it from don't sell those, and won't give us one instead.
>
...munch...
>
> Or with tar:
> tar cf /dev/rst0 /
> tar: tape write error: I/O error
>
THE tape drive FAQ!
Prior to NS 3.3 all SCSI tape drives except EXABYTE need the SCSI driver set
to fixed block length of 512 bytes. There is PD software (even sources I
think) on the archives on this behalf.
>
> I get the same result if I try using /dev/rxt0 as device file.
>
That's exactly what is to be expected (rxt is EXABYTE only!). The man-page
on 'st' is very explicit on this matter.
--
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: beaucham@cmp-rs.music.uiuc.edu (james beauchamp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: corrupted OD recovery?
Date: 27 May 1996 20:21:21 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4od2s1$nvn@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <4nvuko$9th@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
j-beauch@uiuc.edu (james beauchamp) writes:
>A particular optical disk was inserted in my black NeXT (NS 3.2) when the
>power suddenly went down. Later upon reinserting it, the system gives me
>three choices: eject, initialize, or repair. When I select repair, the console
>message says
>/usr/etc/fsck -p /dev/rod0a
>od0a: read recover (ECC) block 44160 phys block 44866 (6953:0:2)
This is to report that I was able to recover the optical disk almost 100%.
I did it with a combination of the disk and fsck commands, as per
recommendation from Art Isbell.
Jim Beauchamp
j-beauch@uiuc
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk and AppleShare
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:43:25 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <31AA05DD.15C6@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au> <jbf-2105960747540001@frazer.com> <DrtG9o.J48@midway.uchicago.edu> <4nvpuo$dpt@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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To: Kamen Yankov Guentchev <guentche@cps.msu.edu>
Kamen Yankov Guentchev wrote:
>
> Any experience with getting the NeXT to share its files for other Macs?
> I know about Columbia Appletalk package but how about anything else?
>
> Kamen
I've posted this many times. http://www.iptech.com
sells Partner for NEXTSTEP 3.2 which is the continuation of AppleTalk
services on NS.
There's also Netatalk (like CAP) although, to date it has not been
ported to NS.
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Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail
Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University
Understanding is best learned via experience
ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: kevinc@netcom.com (kevinc)
Subject: OT incompatible with NextStep telnetd?
Message-ID: <kevincDs1zK9.F7n@netcom.com>
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: incompatibility OT Open Transport Mac NeXT telnetd
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 07:31:21 GMT
Sender: kevinc@netcom20.netcom.com
I recently upgraded a Mac to System 7.5.3 with the System Update.
The Mac's NCSA Telnet refused to connect to my Intel NextStep box.
Telnets to other hosts was ok. One was a SunOS 4.1.x box.
On the Next, a ttloop error was found in the log files.
The Mac's TCP Watcher showed that no TCP connections were
established.
This problem is fixed by setting the Mac's Network
Software Switch to use classic MacTCP instead of the new Open
Transport.
Quite sad...
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk pkg
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:53:47 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <31AA084B.5810@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <v01530500adcac9aafaa8@[205.164.39.152]> <4o4lm9$n53@news.sei.cmu.edu>
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Larry Howard wrote:
> I'll repeat that I'm using the NS AppleTalk package with 3.3 and am
> experiencing no problems. I can even access NeXT-to-Mac as Guest
So what's happening when you try with a password?
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Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail
Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University
Understanding is best learned via experience
ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mailalias
Date: 27 May 1996 21:10:05 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-g-04.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4od5nd$lk4@usc.edu>
References: <4o1sce$jcm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Cc: essmann@igd.fhg.de
In <4o1sce$jcm@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> essmann@igd.fhg.de wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We have got a mailserver with the address line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de
> The university has set up a mailalias for this server called
> aiesec.th-darmstadt.de
>
> But when mail is sent to a user, e.g. me@aiesec.th-darmstadt.de
> we get the following error mail.
[snip]
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While connected to line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de:
> >>> HELO line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de
> <<< 553 line.mechanik.th-darmstadt.de config error: mail loops back to
> myself
> 554 <root@aiesec.th-darmstadt.de>... 554 Service unavailable
From the FAQ:
* I'm getting "Local configuration error" messages, such as:
553 relay.domain.net config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <user@domain.net>... Local configuration error
How can I solve this problem?
You have asked mail to the domain (e.g., domain.net) to be
forwarded to a specific host (in this case, relay.domain.net)
by using an MX record, but the relay machine doesn't
recognize itself as domain.net. Add domain.net to
/etc/sendmail.cw (if you are using FEATURE(use_cw_file)) or
add "Cw domain.net" to your configuration file.
IMPORTANT: Be sure you kill and restart the sendmail daemon
after you change the configuration file (for ANY change in
the configuration, not just this one):
kill `head -1 /etc/sendmail.pid`
sh -c "`tail -1 /etc/sendmail.pid`"
NOTA BENE: kill -1 does not work with version 8.6.x!
With version 8.7.y sendmail, if the daemon was started up
with a full pathname (i.e., "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q13m"),
then you should be able to send it a HUP signal and get
it to reload itself.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
USC-CNTV
NeXTStep v.3.3 m68k
NeXTMAIL & MIME welcome
===============================================================
PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
---------------------------------------------------------------
Computer Privacy Information --> http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: gosman@netcom.com (www.servsol.com)
Subject: http://www.servsol.com
Message-ID: <gosmanDs2y3E.Es4@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 19:57:13 GMT
Sender: gosman@netcom11.netcom.com
Please evaluate our home page
www.servsol.com
Thanks
From: ckay@pixel.wnp.ac.nz (Cameron Kay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dialing into a NeXTstation running PPP
Date: 28 May 1996 05:47:24 GMT
Organization: Surf Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <4oe41c$132@p3.net>
I've got a NeXTstation at home and one at work. I'd like to be able to
link the two using 28k modems and PPP. How hard is this to do. Also,
would it be possible to have both machines share the same NetInfo
domain so I can log onto the one a home with my userid from the one at
work and read mail and news from either site without having different
accounts and avoiding having my saved mail message half at home and
half at work?
Thanks
- Cameron
--
Cameron Kay
mailto:Cameron.Kay@WNP.AC.NZ
(NeXTMail & MIME Accepted)
From: mschwett@vmprofs.estec.esa.nl (ms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help I can't control the ownership on a 2nd HD
Date: 28 May 1996 07:26:24 GMT
Organization: European Space Agency
Message-ID: <4oe9r0$f6k@info.estec.esa.nl>
Hi,
Since I recently upgrade my intel system to NS3.3, I can't control the ow
nership of the files on my second hard disk, in other word, the overall c
ontents belong to the logged user/nogroup. In addition to this problem I
lost twice the icon of this hard disk and each time the system had to per
form correction at reboot.
Has anyone already seen those problems, what could be the solution to fix
it ?
Thanks in advance.
Marc Schwetterle.
From: <6bgomes@neptune.univ-lr.fr (Bruno Gomes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,fr.comp.sys.next
Subject: Problem with gettytab configuration
Date: 28 May 1996 09:22:55 GMT
Organization: Universite de La Rochelle
Message-ID: <4oeglf$ou6@hpuniv.univ-lr.fr>
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Hello,
I try to connect a Next station and a PC, using the Next system, on
dialin. But when Im connecting to the remote device, the stream format isnt
good.
I think, its a gettytab file configuration problem. I had the same
problem with an hp station using Next system. Trouble was resolved by
gettytab file modification.
Anybody knows gettytab configuration for Next station and PC using
NextStep ?
Thanks for help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: rik@parsec.nl (Rik Zandvoort)
Subject: Re: 100mb IntelEtherExpress Pro & NSI 3.3
Message-ID: <Ds3tsJ.BpD@parsec.nl>
Sender: news@parsec.nl
Organization: Parsec Developments
References: <31A789A0.2048@artsci.wustl.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 07:21:55 GMT
"G. Hussain Chinoy" <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> writes
> Hi, all,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with getting NEXTSTEP 3.3 for
> Intel to work w/ this card at 100mb/s?
>
There is a difference between the PRO100 (4 leds, no duplex) and the PRO100B
(3 leds, duplex). For some reason NeXT only supports the latter.
I experienced that the PRO100 works under other OS's but not with NS 3.3 on
the same hardware.
Succes
Rik
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <gosmanDs2y3E.Es4@netcom.com>
Control: cancel <gosmanDs2y3E.Es4@netcom.com>
Date: 28 May 1996 08:51:29 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4oeeqh$cd@turbocat.snafu.de>
cancel
From: JCW1208@chollian.dacom.co.kr (õ NEWS GROUP ̿)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI - SCSI Controller
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 28 May 1996 10:25:19 GMT
Organization: DACOM Internet
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4oekaf$avm@nis.dacom.co.kr>
References: <4nskr1$jus@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <4o8e2e$sj3@news.next.com>
Scott Vail (svail@regression.next.com) wrote:
: In article <4nskr1$jus@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
: 3wolff@rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Eberhard Wolff) writes:
: > dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote:
: > : Can anyone tell me if the Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI will work under
: NeXTSTep 3.3? If so what driver pkg do I use?
: >
: > : Thank's in advance,
: >
: > : David A. Johnson
: > : Research Engineer,
: > : Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute
: > : Northwestern University
: > As far as I know it is not supported. I just had a look at the NeXT
: Answers
: > Hardware compatibilty guide and it is not listed there. The 2940 driver
: > doesn't support the 2920. Probably you want to have a look at the
: Symbios/
: > NCR 538xx series. They are cheaper than the 2940 and have the same
: performance
: > but lack the nice configuration features of the 2940.
: >
: > Eberhard
: >
: The Adaptec 2920 is based on the Future Domain chip-set, and since we
: don't support any Future Domain adapters, we do not support the Adaptec
: 2920.
: --
: This is not official NeXT stuff, so ignore me if you want.
: http://www.next.com/~svail/
From: gerdes@ucla.edu (Geoffrey Richard Gerdes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disktab entry for DEC DSP3210D
Date: 28 May 1996 10:28:14 GMT
Organization: UCLA, Social Sciences Computing
Message-ID: <4oekfu$p85@hegel>
Does anyone have a disktab entry for a DEC DSP3210D 2.14 GB hard drive that
they are happy with and would be willing to share? I would be grateful for
any advice on optimizing the drive setup for NS3.3 on black. I want to use
it for a boot disk. Thanks in advance!
--
Geoffrey Gerdes gerdes@ucla.edu
Department of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
From: jens@mail.pop-frankfurt.com (Jens Kleemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep 3.3 Patch 1 Problem With cc?
Date: 28 May 1996 10:47:23 GMT
Organization: IPf.net - Frankfurt, Germany
Message-ID: <4oeljr$2pb@main.ipf.net>
References: <kevincDs1JA3.2rp@netcom.com> <kevincDs0rqJ.HMn@netcom.com>?cD
In-Reply-To: <kevincDs1JA3.2rp@netcom.com>
On 05/27/96, kevinc wrote:
>I checked further. cc1obj is in /lib/i386 for my Intel NextStep.
>
>These files are all replaced by the Dev Patch in NS 3.3 Patch 1. Can
someone
>please confirm if their patched system has the same problem? I am
going
>to revert to the older versions soon.
>
>Kevin
>
>kevinc (kevinc@netcom.com) wrote:
>
>: Hi everyone,
>
>: Ever since I applied Patch 1 to my system, cc has been different.
>: When I recently tried to recompile tripwire and tcp wrappers,
>: this is what I got:
>
>: bla bla bla
>: cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1obj got fatal signal 11
>: *** Exit 1
>: Stop.
>: *** Exit 1
>: Stop.
>: #
>
>: Have any of you seen this? I'll appreciate any info you may have
>: and will summarize.
>
>
>: Kevin
>
Are you sure you installed NS Developer 3.3 beforehand. I used a 3.3
system with 3.2 Developer and installed the patch. After patching the
compiler won't work. You have to install 3.3 Developer before
patching.
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: TimeStamps -> FAQ?
Date: 28 May 1996 12:42:25 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4oesbh$604@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <4o6ilc$stq@lilith.uab.es>
In article <4o6ilc$stq@lilith.uab.es> cbliek@iiia.csic.es (Christian Bliek)
writes:
> I ran into the following problem on NS3.3 black
>
> > date ; touch foo ; ls -l foo
> Sat May 25 10:28:37 MET DST 1996
> -rw-r--r-- 1 cbliek 0 May 25 10:32 foo
>
> which obviously confuses make!
Is foo residing on another host, mounted via NFS ? "touch" will
set the time of the NFS server, while your machine might have a
clock stating a time quite different. Check the time of all
machines involved. You should consider to synchronize the times
of all machines with NTP (built in in NEXTSTEP, available for other
systems as "xntp" from all major archives).
Detlev
--
Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Email:droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: patrick.donker@tip.nl (Patrick Donker)
Subject: YOU SHOULD READ THIS
Message-ID: <Ds1GE3.Gu7@tip.nl>
Sender: news@tip.nl (The News User)
Organization: The Internet Plaza
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 00:37:34 GMT
Hello!
First off all, please read this carefully and seriously.
This is not some kind of scam like there have been numerously!!!
I've got some awesome news that I think you need to take
two minutes to read if you have ever thought "How could I make
some serious cash in a hurry???" , or been in serious debt, ready
to do almost anything to get the money needed to pay off those
bill collectors. So grab a snack, a warm cup of coffee, or a glass
of your favorite beverage, get comfortable and listen to this
interesting, exciting find!
Let me start by saying that I FINALLY FOUND IT! That's right!
I found it! And I HATE GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES!! I hate those
schemes like multi-level marketing, mail-order schemes, envelope
stuffing scams, telephone number scams... the list goes on forever. I
have tried every darn get rich quick scheme out there over the
past 12 years. I somehow got on mailing lists for people looking
to make money. Well, when I was a teenager, these
claims to 'get me rich quick' sounded irresistible! I would shell
out $14.95 here, $29.95 there, $24.95 here, and another $49.95
there. I had maxed out my new Circuit City Card AND my Visa...I
was desperate for money!! So, I gave them all a chance but
failed at every one of them! Maybe they worked for some people,
but not for me. Eventually, I just tossed that JUNK MAIL in the
trash when I got the mail. I recognized it right away. I can
smell a money scam from a mile away these days, SO I THOUGHT....
I thought I could sniff out a scam easily. WAS I WRONG!!
...I LOVE THE INTERNET!!!
I was scanning thru a NEWSGROUP and saw an article stating to
GET CASH FAST!! I thought..."Here on the Internet?? Well, I'll
just have to see what schemes could possibly be on the internet."
The article described a way to MAIL A ONE DOLLAR BILL TO ONLY
FIVE PEOPLE AND MAKE $50,000 IN CASH WITHIN 4 WEEKS! Well,
the more I thought about it, the more I became very curious. Why?
Because of the way it worked AND BECAUSE IT WOULD ONLY COST ME
FIVE DOLLARS (AND FIVE STAMPS), THAT'S ALL I EVER PAY....EVER!!
Ok, so the $50,000 in cash was maybe an tough amount to reach,
but it was possible. I knew that I could at least get a return
of $1,000 or so. So I did it!! As per the instructions in the
article, I mailed out ('snail mail' for you e-mail fanatics) a
single dollar bill to each of the five people on the list that
was contained in the article. I included a small note, with the
dollar, that stated "Please Add Me To Your List." I then removed
the first position name of the five names listed and moved
everyone up one position, and I put my name in position five of
the list. This is how the money starts rolling in! I then took
this revised article now with my name on the list and REPOSTED IT
ON AS MANY NEWSGROUPS AND LOCAL BULLETIN BOARD
MESSAGE AREAS THAT I KNEW. I then waited to watch the money
come in...prepared to maybe receive about $1000 to $1500 in cash or
so....
But what a welcome surprise when those envelopes kept coming in!!! I
knew what they were as soon as I saw the return addresses from people
all over the world-Most from the U.S., but some from Canada, even
some from Australia! I tell you, THAT WAS EXCITING!! So how
much did I get in total return? $1000? $5000? Not even!!! I
received a total of $23,343!!! I couldn't believe it!!
I now have a brand new black sports-car to speak for, due to all of
this!! Now,after almost 8 months, I am ready to do it again!!!
So maybe it was possible to get $50,000 in cash, I don't know,
but IT COMPLETELY DEPENDS ON YOU, THE INDIVIDUAL! You must
follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think
of! The more postings you achieve will determine how much cash
will arrive in your very own mailbox!! It's just too easy to
pass up!!!
Let's review the reasons why you should do this: The only
cost factors are for the five stamps, the 5 envelopes and the 5
one dollar bills that you send out to the listed names by snail
mail (Postal Service Mail). Then just simply repost the
article (WITH YOUR NAME ADDED) to all the newsgroups and local
BBS's you can. Then sit back and, (ironically), enjoy walking
(you can run if you like! :o ) down your driveway to your
mailbox and scoop up your rewards!! We all have five dollars to
put into such an easy effortless investment with SPECTACULAR
REALISTIC RETURNS OF $15,000 to $25,000 in about 3-5 weeks! So
HOLD OFF ON THOSE LOTTERY NUMBERS FOR TODAY,EAT AT
HOME TONIGHT INSTEAD OF TAKEOUT FROM McDONALDS AND
INVEST FIVE DOLLARS IN THIS AMAZING MONEY MAKING SYSTEM
NOW!!! YOU CAN'T LOSE!!
Remember: it's only FIVE dollars! Didn't you ever made the
mistake to help someone with 5 dollars, never got it back and
thought "What's 5 bucks anyway?" In this case it's a ticket to
a LOT of money!
So how do you do it exactly, you ask? I have carefully
provided the most detailed, yet straightforward instructions on
how to easily get this underway and get your cash on its way.
SO, ARE YOU READY TO MAKE SOME CASH!!!?? HERE WE GO!!!
*** THE LIST OF NAMES IS AT THE END OF THIS ARTICLE. ***
OK, Read this carefully. Get a printout of this information,
if you like, so you can easily refer to it as often as needed.
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Take a sheet of paper and write on it the following:
"Please add my name to your list". This creates a service out of this
money making system and thus making it completely legal, anywhere in
the world. ANYWHERE? Yes, all the postal services are a member of the
UPU, a worldwide postal organisation. They all have the same rules
about sending money. You are not just randomly sending a dollar to
someone, you are paying one dollar for a legitimate service.
2. Make sure you include your name and address. I assure you that,
again, this is completely legal! You can inclose a little note to
just
say 'hi' as the new member of this 'money-family'! For a neat little
twist, also write what slot their name was in: "You were in slot 3",
Just to add a little fun! This is all about having fun and making
money
at the same time!
3. Now fold this sheet of paper around a dollar bill (no checks or
money-orders, or all the money will go to cashing them), and put them
into an envelope and send it on its way to the five people listed.
The folding of the paper around the bill will insure its arrival to
its
recipient. THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT!! You don't want your money to
go
to greedy postal-workers, do you?
4. Now listen carefully, here's where you get YOUR MONEY COMING
TO YOUR MAILBOX. Look at the list of five people; remove the
first name from position one and move everyone on the list up
slot one on the list. Position 2 name will now move to the
position 1 slot , position 3 will now become position 2, 4 will
be 3, 5 wil be 4. Now put your name, address, zipcode AND
COUNTRY in position 5, the bottom position on the list.
5. Now upload this updated file to as many newsgroups and local
bulletin boards' message areas & file section as possible. Give
a catchy description of the file so it gets noticed!! Such as:
"NEED FAST CASH?, HERE IT IS!" or "NEED CASH TO PAY OFF
YOUR DEBTS??", etc. And the more uploads, the more money you
will make, and of course, the more money the others on the list will
make too.
LET'S ALL TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER BY BEING HONEST AND BY PUTTING
FORTH 120 PERCENT INTO THIS PROFITABLE & AMAZING SYSTEM!!!
You'll reap the benefits, believe me!!! Set a goal for the number of
total uploads you'll post, such as 15-20 postings or even more! There
are really no limits, since there are far more newsgroups worldwide
then you ever can post to! Always have a goal in mind!!! If you can
UUE-encode the file when uploading, that will make it easier for
the people to receive it and have it downloaded to their hard drive.
That way they get a copy of the article right on their computer
without hassles of viewing and then saving the article from the
File menu. Don't alter the file type, leave it as an MS-DOS Text
file. The best test is to be able to view this file using
Notepad for Windows 3.x or WordPad for Windows '95. If the margins
look right without making the screen slide left or right when at
the ends of the sentences, you're in business!
6. If you need help uploading, simply ask the sysop of the BBS,
or "POST" a message on a newsgroup asking how to post a file,
tell them who your Internet provider is and PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE
GLAD TO HELP. I would try to describe how to do it but there are
simply too many internet software packages with slightly different
yet relatively simple ways to post or upload a file. Just ask for
help or look in the help section for 'posting'. I do know that for
GNN, you simply select 'POST' then enter a catchy description
under the subject box, choose 'ATTACH', selecting 'UUE' and NOT
'TXT', then choose 'Browse' to go look for the file. Find your
text file CASH.TXT and click on it and choose 'OK'. Place a one
line statement in the main body section of the message post
screen. Something like "Download this to read how to get cash
arriving in your mailbox with no paybacks!" or whatever. Just make
sure it represents its true feasibility, NOT something like...
"Get one million dollars flooding in your mailbox in two days!"
You'll never get ANY responses!
7. And this is the step I like. JUST SIT BACK AND ENJOY LIFE
BECAUSE CASH IS ON ITS THE WAY!! Expect to see a little money
start to trickle in around 2 weeks, but AT ABOUT WEEKS 3 & 4, THE
MONEY STORM WILL HIT YOUR MAILBOX!! All you have to do is take it
out of the mailbox and try not to scream too loud (outside anyway)
when you realize YOU HIT THE BIG TIME AT LAST!!
8. So go PAY OFF YOUR BILLS AND DEBTS and then get that something
special you always wanted or buy that special person in your life
(or the one you want in your life) a gift they'll never forget.
ENJOY LIFE!
9. Now when you get low on this money supply, simply re-activate
this file again; Reposting it in the old places where you
originally posted and possibly some new places you now know of.
Don't ever lose this file, always keep a copy at your reach for
when you ever need cash. THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE TOOL THAT YOU
CAN ALWAYS RE-USE TIME AND TIME AGAIN WHEN CASH IS
NEEDED!
HAVE FUN WITH IT!!!
*******************************************************************
THE NAMES LIST THE NAMES LIST THE NAME LIST
*******************************************************************
* HONESTY IS WHAT MAKES THIS PROGRAM SUCCESSFUL!!!
**
*
* 1. Todd Winn =
* R.R. #16 Box 581
* Bloomington, Il. 61704 =
* USA
*
* 2. David Maxwell
* 1747 Stonybrook Ln.
* Brunswick, OH 44212 =
USA
*
*
* 3. John F. Bourgeois
* 3043 New Oak Lane
* Bowie, MD 20716
* USA
*
*
* 4. Lawrence Brown
* 4310 Sheldon Ave.
* Temple Hills, MD 20748
* USA
* =
* 5. Patrick Donker
* van Cittersstraat 41a
* NL 3022 LG ROTTERDAM
* THE NETHERLANDS
*
***************************************************************
The list will become more valuable as it grows in size. This is a
service. IT IS PERFECTLY LEGAL! If you have any doubts as to the
legality of this service, please refer to Title 18,Sections 1302
and 1341 of the US Postal Lottery Laws.
NOTE: Make sure that you retain EVERY name and address sent to
you, either on computer or hard copy, but do not discard the names
and notes that people send to you. This is PROOF that you are
truly providing a service, and should the I.R.S. (=US Tax Agency)
or some other government agency question you, you can provide them
with this proof!
AGAIN, HONESTY IS THE BEST THING WE HAVE GOING FOR
US ON THIS PLAN.
Good Luck!
From: jbf@mitre.org (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk pkg
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 10:41:41 -0400
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <jbf-2805961041410001@mbppp8.mitre.org>
References: <v01530500adcac9aafaa8@[205.164.39.152]> <4o4lm9$n53@news.sei.cmu.edu> <31AA084B.5810@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
In article <31AA084B.5810@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu wrote:
> Larry Howard wrote:
>
> > I'll repeat that I'm using the NS AppleTalk package with 3.3 and am
> > experiencing no problems. I can even access NeXT-to-Mac as Guest
>
> So what's happening when you try with a password?
Well, for me at least, it works just like it should. Mounts the
full shared directory in /Net/MacHostName. Its the guest login that
caused me a problem.
Barney
From: noel@tivoli.bard.edu (Noel Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to send processes to background?
Date: 28 May 1996 15:14:23 GMT
Organization: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504
Message-ID: <4of58f$26me@core.bard.edu>
Forgive me if this is an elementary question...
Say I've started an app, and I want to leave it running but log out? If
it had been a command started at a shell prompt, I would simply put it
into the background and go on my merry way. But I can't figure out how to
do the same thing with apps. It seems evident that the "Background
Processes" listed by the Processes panel in WM are not the same as
background jobs in UNIX.
From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Clock.app for NS3.3Intel
Date: 28 May 1996 15:53:13 GMT
Organization: ALI
Message-ID: <4of7h9$3gb@cetus.ali.bc.ca>
References: <4o28fb$hgs@news.tamu.edu>
Cc: schaub@tamu.edu
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Hanspeter Schaub wrote:
> I'm looking for a small Clock.app to replace the preference.app in NS3.3.
> The only ones I found were moto binary only, or the source was preNS3.x
days
> and wouldn't compile on NS3.3 developer.
Try Cassandra.app (originally by Karen J. Nakamura but now maintained by
Garance Drosehn at RPI). It can be downloaded from:
ftp://eclipse.its.rpi.edu/NeXT/apps/Cassandra_f/
--
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 *
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help I can't control the ownership on a 2nd HD
Date: 28 May 1996 18:28:31 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4ofgkf$lj5@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4oe9r0$f6k@info.estec.esa.nl>
ms (mschwett@vmprofs.estec.esa.nl) wrote:
: Hi,
: Since I recently upgrade my intel system to NS3.3, I can't control the ow
: nership of the files on my second hard disk, in other word, the overall c
: ontents belong to the logged user/nogroup. In addition to this problem I
: lost twice the icon of this hard disk and each time the system had to per
: form correction at reboot.
: Has anyone already seen those problems, what could be the solution to fix
: it ?
: Thanks in advance.
Make an entry in /etc/fstab for the disk. Don't use noauto (as it is
used for /, because it is only appropriate for /)
--
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: cdodson@vortex.cac.stratus.com (R. Craig Dodson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I lost my Terminal services!
Date: 28 May 1996 18:50:34 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
Message-ID: <4ofhtq$l98@transfer.stratus.com>
References: <4ocb0u$fcb@portal.gmu.edu>
In article <4ocb0u$fcb@portal.gmu.edu> emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric Marshall (Faculty))
writes:
> All of a sudden my Terminal services are gone (those exported
> from Terminal.app). Any help in getting them back will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
I've only just recently figured this litle gem of a "NeXT-ism" out. You have
to run Terminal.app and select (from the Terminal.app manu) Info->Terminal Services
to get them back.
Good Luck,
Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer)
cdodson@cac.stratus.com
Date: 28 May 1996 12:22:24 EST
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From: pait@ece.rutgers.edu (Felipe Pait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Canon object.station - need installation disk
Date: 28 May 1996 16:13:54 -0400
Organization: Rutgers University
Message-ID: <4ofmq2$ee5@ece.rutgers.edu>
I need to reinstall NEXTSTEP in my Canon 486 machine. The problem is that
my installation disk is corrupted - that's the disk that came with the
machine and has drivers which are needed for the installation. I have
the NS installation floppy, no problem with that.
Canon's help desk will not help: they just refer me to NeXT or to hardware.
I also tried to reconstruct the disk using the drivers in NeXTanswers,
but I must be missing something.
Could someone out there who has an object.station make a copy of the disk and
send it to me some way, or give me a pointer to what I should do? I'd
appreciate immensely.
Felipe M Pait
pait@ece.rutgers.edu
:wq
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Messed up NetInfo...
Date: 28 May 1996 21:24:00 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ofqtg$ppm@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
References: <833153442.4337.0@oubliette.noc.demon.net>
In article <833153442.4337.0@oubliette.noc.demon.net>
gblock@oubliette.noc.demon.net (Gregory R. Block) writes:
> 'kay, not sure what I did. Everything *appears* to work fine; I have no
> system problems.
>
> However.
>
> No matter what I do, I always get this message:
> May 27 00:24:30 oubliette syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
>
> And lots of 'em. Now, I'm sure something simple is messed up, but I
can't
> find the inpropriety in the NetInfo database. Anyone have any ideas?
>
Several things could be the problem. Your network connection may be bad.
Is you cableing/card/connection good? Did you change the broadcast
address in the /etc/hostconfig file? Does your netinfo master have a
record of your machine in its machines directory? Have you put in a new
ethernet card? If so you need to change the ethernet address for you
machine in the machines directory of the network (/) netinfo database, to
match the new address.
HTH
--
Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not
Systems Administrator | worth chewing through the
<jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FLICKER 1152 x 864 @ ?? Hz Help!
Date: 28 May 1996 21:16:28 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4ofqfc$pk0@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960524090336.22801A-100000@elaine16.Stanford.EDU>
In article
<Pine.SUN.3.93.960524090336.22801A-100000@elaine16.Stanford.EDU> Robert
Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> I have a CTX 1765GMe monitor which supports 1024x768 @ 75 Hz and
> 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz. In NS 3.3 I have choices of 1152 x 864 at either 60,
> 72 or 75 Hz. 60 Hz seems to flicker too much so I'd like to try
something
> higher. Can I safely run it at 1152x864 @ 72 Hz? I have a Matrox
> Millenium with 2 MB RAM. Should I run it at 444/16 colors?
I recommend changing it to something other than 60 Hz, even if it means
lowering the resolution. You can try the high resolutions. My ATImach64s
do well at 1024X780 @ 75 Hz, but do ok at the 1152x894 @ 70 Hz. Any
higher and I get an "OUT OF SCAN RANGE" error. You may need to
experiment. If you the OUT OF SCAN RANGE (or other type of indication
that your video card is being driven too hard) message, reboot and type
config=Default at the boot> prompt. This boots you up in the default
configuration (VGA graphics) but at least you can fix the problem. I run
my machines at 256/8 color. You can try for more, but I doubt you'll get
it at the higher rezes and refresh rates
HTH
--
Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not
Systems Administrator | worth chewing through the
<jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: tony@wildfire.com (Tony Lovell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo -- how to nix search for parent admin server?
Date: 28 May 1996 18:32:48 GMT
Organization: Wildfire Communications, Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ofgsg$il9@gnus.wildfire.com>
NetInfo is not as simple as I am...
I have a NeXT cube running 3.0.
I misconfigured it a long while back, and now during boot it attempts to
find a NetInfo admin server. There is no such animal, so I get the
"still searching for parent network administration (NetInfo) server.
press c to get on with your life" message.
Since there is no machine playing that role (a situation I guess I'm
content with, not knowing what it would mean), I always must be there to
press c, and progress is not possible until I press it.
Q: How do I get that nugget to go away without breaking something else?
tony
From: Greg Howland <gregory@shore.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Diamond Stealth 64 driver
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 18:19:46 -0400
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960528180555.4278A-100000@northshore.shore.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: ask_next@next.com
NeXTanswers #1941 states that one of the Known Problems
is that Diamond changed the PCI deviceID on their newer
Stealth adapters, causing autodetection to fail. It also
gives a workaround for NS3.3:
...click Expert... while inspecting the driver in
Configure.app, then modify the value of the Auto
Detect setting to read 0x88d05333 0x88d15333
0x88f05333.
Is there a workaround for NS3.2? I did not find an Expert
mode to select or an Auto Detect setting in the Configure.app.
--Greg
From: nocera@haven.ios.com (Dave Nocera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: OpenStep NextStep Questions
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:52:02 GMT
Organization: Internet Online Services
Message-ID: <4og3dj$hi3@news.ios.com>
Currently my organization has an application running on Next hardware
using dedicated Next workstations for each user and many other
applications running on X terminals. We would like to consolidate
onto a single desktop, so that our users do not need to have two
displays on their desks. We are very much opened to suggestions
from Next experts who understand the subtil issues of achieving this
consolidation.
Our current thinking is that we could port our Next application onto a
SUN running OpenStep, and consolidate many workstations onto a large
SPARC 2000 platform. We would then use X terminals to access the
applications, just the same way as we access many of our applications
today, by setting the DISPLAY variable and launching the application
from the SUN.
Is anyone using OpenStep on SUN?
If so, does OpenStep (or NextStep for that matter) support multiple
users on a single box?
We are concerned that OpenStep was written specifically for
workstations and is geared more towards 1 user 1 workstation with no
ability to consolidate multiple users onto a single box. We would
like to use X terminals to display the Next (OpenStep or NextStep)
application on.
Any and All help greatly appreciated
Please email nocera@haven.ios.com
Dave
From: nocera@haven.ios.com (Dave Nocera)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: X Terminal Support
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 22:36:53 GMT
Organization: Internet Online Services
Message-ID: <4og2h6$hi3@news.ios.com>
Does anyone know how if and how to bring up a nextstep application on
an X terminal?
Please email response
Thanks
Dave
From: rwgk@laplace.csb.yale.edu (Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q: netinfo 3.2 -> netinfo 4.0
Date: 28 May 1996 21:42:45 -0400
Organization: MB&B & HHMI
Sender: rwgk@dirac.csb.yale.edu
Message-ID: <5tohn89rvu.fsf@dirac.csb.yale.edu>
Hi!
In a few weeks I've to upgrade a whole bunch of NeXT's running NS 3.2 to
OS 4.0. I don't want to run an upgrade, but would like to install the new
OS from scratch. Is there an easy way to dump/restore the netinfo database
for the root domain?
Furthermore, are NS 3.2 executables supposed to run also with OS 4.0
(black hw)?
Thanks!
Ralf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Subject: How to find netifo and time server?
Message-ID: <Ds5Lz1.H0F@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@solair1.inter.NL.net (News at news)
Organization: NLnet
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 06:29:28 GMT
How can i find out which machine is the netinfo or time server?
Can there be more than one netinfo or time servers on a network?
If so, what kind of problems can it couse and how can it be detected?
Please E-mail: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
Phone: +31 74 2558 688 The Netherlands
--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Re: teTeX and TeXView.app
Message-ID: <Ds5sMr.KJJ@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <31A43B08.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 08:52:03 GMT
Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> wrote:
>I've heard of some gays using teTeX with next. They should still use TeXView.app ?
Only with a condom.
--
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en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question."
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap partition with NeXT?
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 11:01:53 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960528105849.2615E-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de>
In-Reply-To: <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Well, the easiest thing might be to create a large swapfile with 'mkfile'
The next-most-difficult thing would be to create a partition on the 'huge
second disk' and define that as swapspace.
'man fstab' would be more help than me saying how to do this, because
honestly, I don't know how.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu)
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
*** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
On 23 May 1996, Konstantin Wiesel wrote:
> I wanted to install a swap partition on a second drive. The online manual
> says that the disk builder will automatically detect disks which are to
> small for a system and therefore use them as swap disks. So far so good
> but what if i have a huge second disk and want to use a fixed pat of it
> for swapping?
>
>
> ---
> Konstantin Wiesel
> Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
>
>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Backup script
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 11:04:13 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960528110301.2615F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4nvla8$ejd@client3.news.psi.net> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960523094713.2335C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> <4o6045$a0f@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan <GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg>
In-Reply-To: <4o6045$a0f@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
On 25 May 1996, Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan wrote:
> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu) wrote:
>
> : On 22 May 1996, Operator wrote:
> : > I am looking for a backup script for out daily backup and cannot
> : > seem to find one. Is there any way that I can locate a file the could
> : > backup my whole system daily.
>
> : find / -mount -exec cp {} /BackupDirectory \;
>
> Shouldn't you at least use "cp -p" to preserve the original
> timestamps of the files ????? !!!!!
I suppose you could do that if the timestamp was important to you for some
reason.
I'm not sure why it would be important, but it might be for some...
TjL
--
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From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Canon object.station - need installation disk
Date: 29 May 1996 09:15:15 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4oh4j3$lri@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4ofmq2$ee5@ece.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4ofmq2$ee5@ece.rutgers.edu>
On 05/28/96, Felipe Pait wrote:
> I need to reinstall NEXTSTEP in my Canon 486 machine. The problem is that
> my installation disk is corrupted - that's the disk that came with the
> machine and has drivers which are needed for the installation. I have
> the NS installation floppy, no problem with that.
>
> Canon's help desk will not help: they just refer me to NeXT or to hardware.
> I also tried to reconstruct the disk using the drivers in NeXTanswers,
> but I must be missing something.
>
Which version of NEXTSTEP are you using? 3.3 should "just work".
> Could someone out there who has an object.station make a copy of the disk
> and send it to me some way, or give me a pointer to what I should do? I'd
> appreciate immensely.
>
I can put the disk contents on an ftp site if that would help, (or the image,
if someone could let me know the appropriate arguments to dd to ensure it's
copied correctly?)...
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: CD-ROM blues (ATAPI)
Date: 29 May 1996 09:52:26 GMT
Organization: RITEH
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4oh6oq$jo7@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mitsumi FX600 CD-ROM rev. 1B P01 (March 96)
Isn't recognized by BIOS or NeXTSTEP as Master on controller 2,
system is very slow to start. When configured as Slave on primary
controller everything works as expected:
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0... Detected
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: hc0: Device 1: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ,
REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12)
...
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: Registering: sc0
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: sd0: MITSUMI CD-ROM FX600S !B P01
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 1 LUN 0 at sc0
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: Registering: sd0a
May 27 20:44:21 valhall mach: sd0: Waiting for drive to come
ready..............
NeXTSTEP User + Developer 3.3
Intel Endeavor (Advanced/EV) PCI Triton, AMI BIOS, 586/90, 16MB core
Quantum Fireball 1GB EIDE (ATA) disk on primary controller.
Matrox Millenium graphics (BTW - the graphics is affected by the
connection of disks/CDs, when cold started the graphics are
scrambled and always must be reset before continuing...)
Any ideas how to get this working as a Master device on
controller 2?
Regards,
Thor
Presently in exile in Croatia
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: More SCSI questions (I'm confused...)
Date: 29 May 1996 09:54:50 GMT
Organization: RITEH
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I've read the comp.peripherals.scsi FAQ, but still am uncertain
as to which SCSI controller and disk is appropriate for my
system. I'm running an Endeavor (Triton, PCI) mainboard with
2xEIDE controller and EIDE (ATA) disk and ATAPI CD-ROM, and
would like to get a SCSI controller and disk to increase
capacity and speed things up (PCI bus) as well as increase
my expansion options later. I'm currently running NeXTSTEP
but plan to install Linux, OS/2 and maybe Windows and Solaris.
The differences between SCSI-2, Wide, fast, sync, fast sync
and differential aren't clear to me. I understand I need
a controller and disk that support these features, but don't
understand what will interface with what (f.x. if I get a
Fast + Wide controller can I hook a scanner to it later?
Or a disk that only supports one of the options? etc...)
The FAQ states one place that "At this time the fast parameters
cannot be met by the Single Ended electrical class, and is only
suitable for Differential." Differential states that two cables
are needed, while the definition for Fast goes on to state that
it is acheived over a single A cable... I'm a bit confused.
Should I get a high end card that supporst everything and then
get whatever disk I can find, or get a simple basic SCSI-2
controller and a high-end disk? Any advice, thoughts, tips or
(especially) clarifications on the standards would be
appreciated, especially via e-mail. Seems it was much simpler
in the SCSI (1) days... :-)
Regards,
Thor
Presently in exile in Croatia.
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Firewalls
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 09:05:59 -0400
Organization: The Internet Access Company
Message-ID: <jbf-2905960905590001@frazer.com>
Anyone gotten a firewall system running on the NeXT?
Barney
From: blape@utk.edu (Bryon Lape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: None booting system
Date: 29 May 1996 14:21:31 GMT
Organization: UTK Hodges Library
Message-ID: <4ohmhb$70e@gaia.ns.utk.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII
Recently we did a full restore off of a tape archive and now the
system (NeXtStap 3.1) will not boot from the internal drive (the machine is a
Next Station). While booting it complains about not being able to find the
mach kernel. Anyone have any idea what to try? Please e-mail.
bryon
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the next century.
Bryon Lape
email: blape@utk.edu WWW:http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/~bryon
From: guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu (Laura Guy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NT/NeXT connectivity problem: What is PCNFSD?
Date: 29 May 1996 14:05:32 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <4ohljc$1du8@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Hello.
I've installed ChameleonNFS on our WinNT
machine and am trying to NFS mount
directories from our NeXT server.
I've installed SAMBA on the NeXT
box and outside of Chameleon using
File Manager/Disk/Connect Network Drive
I have no problem logging into my
Next directory.
But in Chameleon I get the following:
Error 22 Could not contact PCNFSD on
Specified Server Authenticator.
I fear that there's something in either
NetInfoManager or NFSManager that is amiss
(I'm not a SYSADMIN so those two things
scare me).
We ARE running NetINFO.
Can anyone out there explain maybe what is happening
and/or give me a clue how I might fix it?
Thanks much
Laura Guy
DPLS
guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk pkg
Date: 29 May 1996 15:38:28 GMT
Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
Message-ID: <4ohr1k$21j@goodnews.voicenet.com>
References: <v01530500adcac9aafaa8@[205.164.39.152]>
Kevin Coffee (kpc@mcs.com) wrote:
: After reading this exchange, I decided to give it a whirl (installing the
: AT package from 3.0 on top of NS 3.3). But when I tried to configure AT
: with the Preferences app, I got a message that the AT preferences could not
: be loaded.
: Is there more to this than installing off the 3.0 disk?
: -Kevin
: >Subject: Re: AppleTalk and AppleShare
: >Date: Tue, 21 May 1996 07:47:54 -0400
: >
: >In article <4np8up$l9v@bilby.cs.uwa.oz.au>, rameri@bart.cs.uwa.oz.au
: >(Rameri Salama) wrote:
: >
: >> I have had 3.3 running for quite some time now on a few Intel machines, and
: >> I am wondering whether it is at all possible to connect to the local
: >> AppleShare network?
: >>
: >> Just by looking at /etc/rc.standard, you can see all the stuff for
: >> AppleTalk and AppleShare, but they require two files called "atalkd" and
: >> "ashared". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find these two files. They
: >> are not in /usr/etc which is where rc.standard looks for them.
: >>
: >> Also, when I looked at the documentation, I found that there is supposed to
: >> be a preferences panel for connecting AppleShare. This requires the two
: >> files I mentioned before.
: >
: >The necessary files are in the AppleTalk package last provided as part of
: >NeXTStep 3.0. They are Motorola only, and must be installed with the 3.0
: >version of Installer (the 3.3 version ignores the executable files for
: >some reason). Unmounting and remounting is problematic.
: >
: >The file sharing works, under 3.3, if you log in to the Mac with a (Mac)
: >assigned user name and password. It doesn't seem to work if you log in as
: >guest, even though the latter works for Mac to Mac sharing.
: >
: >Printing to a LocalTalk printer via a bridge doesn't seem to work. This
: >could be a bridge problem - I haven't checked this path out with an
: >EtherTalk Mac yet.
: >
: >I expect it may be necessary to check out old c.s.n.h and c.s.n.sysadm
: >posts to unravel this. But, I repeat, the AppleTalk package from 3.0 is
: >at least partially functional under 3.3 M.
: >
: >Barney
Great!
Can anyone post a package of these files to one of the archives, or do
I have to go find an old 3.0 copy?
Thanks!
-Darren
From: eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (Eugene Mah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: NS 3.3 Intel and Logitech Bus Mice
Date: 29 May 1996 15:41:36 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <4ohr7g$724@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I look after a number of NS Intel boxes running 3.3 and was wondering
if anybody was having problems with NS finding the Logitech
bus mouse at start up. This problem always seems to happen from
a cold boot; either power up or reset button, but never from a soft
boot (restart or ctrl-alt-del from DOS).
I don't have the console messages in front of me at the moment,
but NS complains about not being able to find a mouse at
IRQ 5. Doing a 'restart' from the login window to reboot NS seems
to resolve the problem. I have v3.30 of the BusMouse driver
installed on these systems.
Can anybody provide any hints/suggestions?
Thanks
Eugene Mah
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail)
Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little
Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother
University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/
PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O-
----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: AppleTalk pkg
Date: 29 May 1996 16:45:21 GMT
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Message-ID: <4ohuv1$67r@news.sei.cmu.edu>
References: <4o4lm9$n53@news.sei.cmu.edu> <31AA084B.5810@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <jbf-2805961041410001@mbppp8.mitre.org>
In article <jbf-2805961041410001@mbppp8.mitre.org> jbf@mitre.org
(James B. Frazer) writes:
>In article <31AA084B.5810@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>,
eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu wrote:
>
>> Larry Howard wrote:
>>
>> > I'll repeat that I'm using the NS AppleTalk package with 3.3 and am
>> > experiencing no problems. I can even access NeXT-to-Mac as Guest
>>
>> So what's happening when you try with a password?
>
>Well, for me at least, it works just like it should. Mounts the
>full shared directory in /Net/MacHostName. Its the guest login that
>caused me a problem.
I hadn't actually tried it until last night. And just as the above
writer reported, it worked correctly...with one exception. When I
went to disconnect in Preferences, the connection didn't appear when
I connected as a named user. It does appear when I connect as Guest.
Go figure.
From the Macintosh side, using the "File Sharing Monitor" control panel,
either way of connecting can be observed and controlled.
--
Larry Howard
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni)
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Intel and Logitech Bus Mice
Message-ID: <Ds6EJA.43F@prosoft.com>
Sender: usenet@prosoft.com
Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc.
References: <4ohr7g$724@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:45:10 GMT
Eugene Mah writes
> I look after a number of NS Intel boxes running 3.3 and was wondering
> if anybody was having problems with NS finding the Logitech
> bus mouse at start up. This problem always seems to happen from
> a cold boot; either power up or reset button, but never from a soft
> boot (restart or ctrl-alt-del from DOS).
>
> I don't have the console messages in front of me at the moment,
> but NS complains about not being able to find a mouse at
> IRQ 5. Doing a 'restart' from the login window to reboot NS seems
> to resolve the problem. I have v3.30 of the BusMouse driver
> installed on these systems.
>
> Can anybody provide any hints/suggestions?
>
> Thanks
> Eugene Mah
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eugene Mah eugene@raddi.uah.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail)
> Systems Administrator "For I am a Bear of Very Little
> Department of Radiology Brain, and long words Bother
> University of Alberta Hospitals me." Winnie the Pooh
> Edmonton, Alberta, Canada http://raddi.uah.ualberta.ca/~eugene/
> PGP KeyID = 0x1F9779FD or 0xE37A1591 O-
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
I have this problem as well. My experience, though, is with warm reboots.
(Because of other problems, I can't cold boot into NS.) Eugene's cold boot
experience blows the theory that I had worked up to explain the problem.
The only work around I have found is to have a serial mouse available to
use when the bus mouse initialization fails (or to keep rebooting until
things work). I have changed around the order in which the hardware is
initialized (in the .config files). This 'seems' to affect the frequency
of occurrence, but I haven't been able to solve the problem this way.
Very infrequently, I have this same problem with my display driver, as
well.
--
Glen Biagioni
ProSoft Solutions Inc.
glen@prosoft.com (NeXTmail Welcome)
Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)324-9431
From: drmac19@mail.idt.net (Dylan Blankenship)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTstation For sale
Date: 29 May 1996 19:13:42 GMT
Organization: ViViD
Message-ID: <drmac19-0805961521040001@pmdyn73.vivid.net>
Here we go!!!!!!!!!
--------------------------------------------------------------
|NeXT Color Workstation =) |
|-----------------------------|
|megabytes of RAM |***32
|megabyte hard disk |***420
|monitor size(inches) |17"
|monitor(b&w or color) |color
|Sound box |yes
|printer |laser
|Keyboard |Full NeXT black keys in good condition
|mouse |Black NeXT
|Case |Black Slab NeXT pizza box
|Disk Drive |1.44 DDHD 3.5"
|OS |NextSTEP 3.0
----------------------------------------------------------------
This configuration is for a NeXT color Workstation . I'm willing to trade
for a macintosh powerbook or make an offer.
******TRADE OR FOR SALE**********
_/\/\/\/-Visit Static Realm-/\/\/\/\/_
--
drmac19@mail.idt.net
_/\/\/-Static_Realm_/\/\/\-
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: More SCSI questions (I'm confused...)
Date: 29 May 1996 23:26:05 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - La Crosse
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4oimed$rpi@alfred.acs.uwlax.edu>
References: <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr>
In article <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr> thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) writes:
I have some experience in figuring out all these SCSI items that are
confusing. I make no claims to be an expert but am only going on my experience
with several vendors offerings.
In comp.sys.next.sysadmin article <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr> you wrote:
> I've read the comp.peripherals.scsi FAQ, but still am uncertain
> as to which SCSI controller and disk is appropriate for my
> system. I'm running an Endeavor (Triton, PCI) mainboard with
> 2xEIDE controller and EIDE (ATA) disk and ATAPI CD-ROM, and
> would like to get a SCSI controller and disk to increase
> capacity and speed things up (PCI bus) as well as increase
> my expansion options later. I'm currently running NeXTSTEP
> but plan to install Linux, OS/2 and maybe Windows and Solaris.
>
> The differences between SCSI-2, Wide, fast, sync, fast sync
> and differential aren't clear to me. I understand I need
> a controller and disk that support these features, but don't
> understand what will interface with what (f.x. if I get a
> Fast + Wide controller can I hook a scanner to it later?
> Or a disk that only supports one of the options? etc...)
SCSI-1 SCSI-2 etc. are designations for standards that descibe the operations
of controllers and other devices connected to a SCSI bus.
SCSI Wide vs. Narrow refers to the size of data transfers that the SCSI bus
does and to the actual cable that connects the devices. Narrow uses a 50
conductor cable and does eight bit transfers; Wide uses a 68(?) conductor
cable and can do either eight or sixteen bit operations.
Synchronous vs. Asynchronous transfers refer to the timing mechanism used to
control the transfers. FAQ may have more details about this -- synchronous
transfers should be faster.
Differential vs. Single-ended refers to the electronic circuitry that connects
to the wires that make up the bus. Differential should have better noise
immunity and provide higher speed operation. Single-ended works fine for most
of my applications and NEXTSTEP never seems to push SCSI any where near what
it is supposed to be capable of.
>
> The FAQ states one place that "At this time the fast parameters
> cannot be met by the Single Ended electrical class, and is only
> suitable for Differential." Differential states that two cables
> are needed, while the definition for Fast goes on to state that
> it is acheived over a single A cable... I'm a bit confused.
>
> Should I get a high end card that supporst everything and then
> get whatever disk I can find, or get a simple basic SCSI-2
> controller and a high-end disk? Any advice, thoughts, tips or
> (especially) clarifications on the standards would be
> appreciated, especially via e-mail. Seems it was much simpler
> in the SCSI (1) days... :-)
>
If you're running NS3.3 (<asbestos-suit> almost mandatory for decent operation
with a PCI bus computer. </asbestos-suit>:)
Get an Adaptec 2940W. It has connectors for both Wide and Narrow SCSI devices
and is nicely configurable from a BIOS utility on the controller.
Download the latest NS3.3 driver from NextAnswers and you'll be all set. All
of your "old" SCSI-1 devices can be connected to the 2940 with an appropriate
cable:
|========|======|======|======|======|======|======D
The | in the above (crude) drawing are the 50-pin connectors on the cable, the
D is an external connector for your scanner or whatever.
> Regards,
> Thor
> Presently in exile in Croatia.
(Thor: The e-mail address you sent this from bounces and the sysadmin there
hasn't heard of you.... :(
--
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: klaus@chemlab.unm.edu (Dr. Klaus Kunze)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dialing into a NeXTstation running PPP
Date: 29 May 1996 23:55:15 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <4oio53$4pb@lynx.unm.edu>
References: <4oe41c$132@p3.net>
ckay@pixel.wnp.ac.nz (Cameron Kay) wrote:
> I've got a NeXTstation at home and one at work. I'd like to be able to
link the two using 28k modems and PPP. How hard is this to do. Also, would
it be possible to have both machines share the same NetInfo domain so I can
log onto the one a home with my userid from the one at work and read mail
and news from either site without having different accounts and avoiding
having my saved mail message half at home and half at work?
> Thanks
> - Cameron
I would like to do the same thing but using a 28k modem for my NeXT at home
and dialing into the University network accessing my NeXT at work which is
connected to that network by ethernet. Can I use PPP ? How ? Is it then
possible to conveniently use - for example - Alexandra.app from home to
read the news that actually arrive on my NeXT at work ?
Many thanks
Klaus
*********************************************************
Klaus Kunze, University of New Mexico, Dept. of Chemistry
Albuquerque NM 87131, Phone: (505) 277-3246
E-mail (NeXTmail): klaus@chemlab.unm.edu
E-mail: kkunze@pictor.unm.edu
*********************************************************
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Firewalls
Date: 29 May 1996 21:54:29 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4oih2l$uln@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <jbf-2905960905590001@frazer.com>
Cc: jbf@frazer.com
In <jbf-2905960905590001@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote:
> Anyone gotten a firewall system running on the NeXT?
I recently found this tidbit:
------------------------------------------
Compiling TIS on Nextstep with fixed syslog
===========================================
A. Get
ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/NeXT/fwtk-nextstep-patched-i486-bins.tar.gz
if you have Nextstep on i486. Type "make install".
B. Get ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/NeXT/fwtk-nextstep-patched.tar.gz.
Type "make" and "make install".
C. Get a vanilla TIS from ftp://ftp.tis.com/pub/firewalls/toolkit and follow
the instructions below.
lukeh@auswired.net [sept 95]
***************
1. in firewall.h make sure HAVE_SETSID isn't defined
2. Don't define USE_UDPSYSLOG, although that's what we do use.
3. Flags in Makefile.config
ARCH= i486
COPT= -g -O -arch $(ARCH)
AUXLIB= ../newlog/libnewlog.a
LDFL= -g -arch $(ARCH) -Xlinker -m
or multiple -arch flags to build fat.
4. Unpack newlog-1.0 into firewall source directory (or into newlog-1.0n)
5. Make sure SYSLOG in lib/Makefile is commented out.
6. You may want to apply the diffs at the end of this doc to
smap.c. Not strictly necessary, but a good idea if sendmail logs
your headers. If you do, make sure you define SYSLOG_CEILING in
smap.c or firewall.h.
7. In auth/Makefile and lib/Makefile replace
ar rcv $@ $(OBJ)
$(RANLIB) $@
with
libtool -o $@ $(OBJ)
8. go into newlog-1.0 (symlink it to newlog)
9. Add #define STDERR_FILENO 2 to syslog.c; comment out declaration
of *__const sys_errlist[] in stdio.h (in newlog, not /usr/include!)
10. Get sys/cdefs.h from FreeBSD or other BSD sources.
11. Get ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/syslog/newlog-Makefile.next
12. Compile newlog to build libnewlog.a.
13. Return to TIS dir
14. Make sure dirs is like following
DIRS= smap smapd netacl plug-gw ftp-gw tn-gw rlogin-gw
(x-gw won't compile obviously; http-gw hasn't been ported and doesn't
compile out of box)
15. Build TIS. Follow rest of TIS instructions.
---- smap patches ---- cut ----
28,29d27
< /*
< smap - syslog patches
31,49d28
< Author: Luke Howard, lukeh@auswired.net, Sept 95.
<
< Define SYSLOG_CEILING as where your syslog() buffer overflows, as per
< [8lgm]-Advisory-22.UNIX.syslog.2-Aug-1995.
<
< Use Damon Atkins <datkins@citri.edu.au> test for the bug to locate this
< point.
<
< The patches will make smap terminate if it detects a To/From header
< longer than the specified ceiling. This prevents not only smap but
sendmail
< from exploiting the syslog hole (assuming that sendmail only logs the
< headers - if it logs the message body, you will need to patch sendmail).
<
< The patches aren't relavent to smap anymore because it uses newlog,
< but they are included because the headers may be logged by sendmail.
< */
<
< /* SYSLOG_CEILING should now be defined in firewall.h */
<
51,66d29
< #define SYSLOG_CEILING 1024
< */
<
<
< /* The alternative is to define BUF_COEFF as x where the buffer size is
1024x
< bytes. Should not exceed the ceiling.
<
< The difference here is that the message body as well as the headers are
< affected. You may not want this, as the message body isn't logged by
< smap or sendmail (as far as I know). */
<
< /*
< #define BUF_COEFF 4
< */
<
< /*
136,138d98
< #ifdef BUF_COEFF
< char buf[BUFSIZ * BUF_COEFF];
< #else
140d99
< #endif
159a119
>
284,293d243
< #ifdef SYSLOG_CEILING
< /* syslog patch */
< if((strlen(q) >= SYSLOG_CEILING)) {
< printf("410 out of memory\r\n"); /* fool client */
< fflush(stdout);
< syslog(LLEV,"exiting - hit syslogceiling");
< unlink(tempfile);
< exit(1);
< }
< #endif
347,355c297
< #ifdef SYSLOG_CEILING
< if((strlen(q) >= SYSLOG_CEILING)) {
< printf("410 out of memory\r\n"); /* fool
client */
< fflush(stdout);
< syslog(LLEV,"exiting - hit syslogceiling");
< unlink(tempfile);
< exit(1);
< }
< #endif
---
>
407a350
>
------------------------------------------
- Steve
---
==============================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: None booting system
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:16:57 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960529161456.6335F-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4ohmhb$70e@gaia.ns.utk.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Bryon Lape <blape@utk.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4ohmhb$70e@gaia.ns.utk.edu>
On 29 May 1996, Bryon Lape wrote:
> Recently we did a full restore off of a tape archive and now the
> system (NeXtStap 3.1) will not boot from the internal drive (the machine is a
> Next Station). While booting it complains about not being able to find the
> mach kernel. Anyone have any idea what to try? Please e-mail.
are these files present (check from single-user-mode, if you can)?
-r--r--r-- 2 root wheel 1019556 Jan 26 07:52 /mach_kernel
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 9 May 21 15:34 /mach -> $BOOTFILE
(the sizes and dates are unimportant)
<useless>
> It is still amazing how many people think that the year 2000 is the start of
> the next century.
or how many care to discuss it at all...
> Bryon Lape
> email: blape@utk.edu WWW:http://aztec.lib.utk.edu/~bryon
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu)
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
*** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Intel and Logitech Bus Mice
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:18:57 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960529161757.6335G-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4ohr7g$724@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <Ds6EJA.43F@prosoft.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <Ds6EJA.43F@prosoft.com>
Not that I have anything useful to say here (sorry) but it's stuff like
this that makes me hope my NeXTStation lasts a long, long time.
Best wishes on solving this problem...
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu)
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
*** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
From: Philipp Ott <philipp@cybertron.at>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mux 1.7 and Digi Boards...
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 12:54:31 +0100
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960530124937.1069A-100000@cybert1.cybertron.at>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi!
Is the Mux 1.7 driver at next-ftp.peak.org the latest release and does
anybody have first-hand experience, how it works together with a Digi
Board with 8 serial connectors?
mfg Philipp Ott
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to send processes to background?
Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 10:17:09 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960529101428.2359A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4of58f$26me@core.bard.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: nb562@bard.edu
In-Reply-To: <4of58f$26me@core.bard.edu>
I don't think it is possible. I'd be happy to find out I'm wrong, but I
don't think there is any way to accomplish this.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu)
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
*** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
On 28 May 1996, Noel Bush wrote:
> Forgive me if this is an elementary question...
>
> Say I've started an app, and I want to leave it running but log out? If
> it had been a command started at a shell prompt, I would simply put it
> into the background and go on my merry way. But I can't figure out how to
> do the same thing with apps. It seems evident that the "Background
> Processes" listed by the Processes panel in WM are not the same as
> background jobs in UNIX.
>
>
From: Roberta Eklund <roberta@nbn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help-ppp dial up
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:46:33 -0700
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <31ADD0E9.75D@nbn.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
I need a sysadmin expert to help me configure a NeXT for ppp2.2.
Currently, things are debugged to the point where I access my
server, yet the NeXT does not receive the login prompt and
terminates the session.
I am using a Supra 28.8 faxmodem with the NeXT modem cable.
Roberta Eklund
415-663-1888
From: Roberta Eklund <roberta@nbn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help ppp configuration woes
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 09:51:26 -0700
Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content
Message-ID: <31ADD20E.623D@nbn.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am trying to configure the NeXT to access my server account
with ppp2.2. I have a supra modem with a NeXT modem cable.
Currently, the ppp-on-dialer script terminates when trying to
receive the login prompt from the server. Thanks.
From: bmont@rconnect.com (Bruce Montegani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to connecting Win95 client to Nextstep server
Date: 30 May 1996 16:10:37 GMT
Organization: Minnesota Regional Network (MRNet)
Message-ID: <4okh9t$l5c@news.mr.net>
I currently have two intel machines. One machine (A) has Win95 and Nextstep
3.3 while the other machine (B) has WinNT,Win95 and Nextstep 3.3.
The two machines are networked via 10Base2 connection.
I am running WebObjects under NexStep 3.3 on my B machine which is the
master.
I would like to connect my A machine running the Netscape browser under Win95
to my B machine running WebObjects under NextStep.
Thw reason I am trying to do this is so I can test Java applets on my
Netscape browser using WebObjects.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Bruce Montegani
From: edwintam@webhk.com (Edwin TAM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: Monitor refresh rate differ from Config.app setting ?
Date: 29 May 1996 06:38:24 GMT
Message-ID: <4ogrd0$f9d@hkt001.hkt.net>
I am using a 2MB S3-868 video card, and had set to 1024x768 75Hz 16bit color
using the Generic S3 driver in Config.app, however, my monitor report the
video is 48KHz/60Hz instead of the desired 60KHz/75Hz. Win95 has no problem
with this resolution, and I can't see the 60Hz flicker, too; so the hardware
is capable, only NEXTSTEP is not (yet).
Anybody got any clue on how one might solve this problem ?
Many thanks,
--
Edwinb TAM
From: steen@x1.us.ohio-state.edu (Steen Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to build device file for HP5000 DAT
Date: 30 May 1996 18:23:57 GMT
Organization: University Technology Services
Message-ID: <4okp3t$b54@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have a stack of old black hardware running NeXTstep 3.0 .
I am trying to attach an HP SureStore 5000 DAT drive on the SCSI port, but
I can't make it work. It works fine with an HP model 2000, but the vendor
we bought it from don't sell those, and won't give us one instead.
I have been told that I need a device file that uses fixed block lengths of
512 bytes. How do I make one? Is there software available? And where?
Thanks
Steen
Here is additional info:
------
I can eject the tape fine with:
mt -t /dev/rst0 off
But if I try to write to it with these commands:
find . -cpio /dev/rst0
find . -print | cpio -oBv > /dev/rst0
I get:
find: errno: 5, find: can't write output
Or with tar:
tar cf /dev/rst0 /
tar: tape write error: I/O error
I get the same result if I try using /dev/rxt0 as device file.
Two different machines give me the same response.
Here are the device files:
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 34, 0 Apr 30 15:44 rst0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 34, 2 Jul 30 1992 rxt0
Hewlett Packard were nice to send me another drive, same problem, but they
can't help me further, as they do not support NeXTstep.
Any suggestions?
Does anyone know how to create an appropriate device file for this tape
unit?
Thanks
Steen Hansen
--
Steen Hansen (Hviid), Computer Specialist, The Ohio State University
Watching TV and drinking beer has a lot in common: Too much makes you
stupid.
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dialing into a NeXTstation running PPP
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:11:03 -0500
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <jbf-3005961011030001@djatwood.mitre.org>
References: <4oe41c$132@p3.net> <4oio53$4pb@lynx.unm.edu>
In article <4oio53$4pb@lynx.unm.edu>, klaus@chemlab.unm.edu (Dr. Klaus
Kunze) wrote:
> I would like to do the same thing but using a 28k modem for my NeXT at home
> and dialing into the University network accessing my NeXT at work which is
> connected to that network by ethernet. Can I use PPP ? How ?
Download and install GateKeeper, PopOver and PPP. Then set up GateKeeper
to log you into the university - you'll probably need a little help there
from the sys admin. You might disconnect the work machine from the net
and get the dial-in working on it, if the telephone system will support
it. Setup PopOver to retrieve your mail (if you have a Pop mail server).
> Is it then
> possible to conveniently use - for example - Alexandra.app from home to
> read the news that actually arrive on my NeXT at work ?
No. Alexandra is too slow in downloading. Something is wrong in it's
design. One of the others - which costs about $50 - is much faster.
I don't remember which one. But get all of them and try them in demo
mode.
Barney
From: yu@cauchy.math.duke.edu (Yunliang Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 040 black box boot problem
Date: 30 May 1996 20:43:12 GMT
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Message-ID: <4ol190$csv@newsgate.duke.edu>
We have this old 040 black box which has been running fine for many years,
until one day the user decided to press "cmd+cmd+~" to reboot it. Now it
refuses to boot up: When it's powered up, the disk spins, the screen becomes
completely white and the machine doesn't response to any keyboard events.
Please let us know if you have any idea about this.
Thanks.
-yu
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Canon object.station - need installation disk
Date: 30 May 1996 04:48:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <4oj9a0$i36@digifix.digifix.com>
References: <4ofmq2$ee5@ece.rutgers.edu> <4oh4j3$lri@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4oh4j3$lri@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
On 05/29/96, mmalcolm crawford wrote:
>On 05/28/96, Felipe Pait wrote:
>> I need to reinstall NEXTSTEP in my Canon 486 machine. The problem
is that
>> my installation disk is corrupted - that's the disk that came with
the
>> machine and has drivers which are needed for the installation. I
have
>> the NS installation floppy, no problem with that.
>>
>> Canon's help desk will not help: they just refer me to NeXT or to
hardware.
>> I also tried to reconstruct the disk using the drivers in
NeXTanswers,
>> but I must be missing something.
>>
>Which version of NEXTSTEP are you using? 3.3 should "just work".
>
No, the problem is that you need to open the machine up and
change the jump settings on the BUSLOGIC card... I can't recall what
they details are as far as the IRQ, but when you try to install it
says looking for card at blah blah... the card needs to be set to blah
blah and then after you do the initial install, you need to open it up
again and set the jumpers back...
it was a pain...
Canon REALLY hosed us all on this one.
Correction, Canon CCSI hosed us..
All the install drivers you need are also available on
ftp.next.com... there are three disk images as I recall.
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: sbeckett@apstech.com (Sean Beckett)
Subject: Re: More SCSI questions (I'm confused...)
Message-ID: <199605301648561381951@[10.217.151.180]>
Sender: nobody@gateway.apstech.com
Organization: APS Technologies
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:48:56 GMT
References: <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr>
Thor Legvold <thor@zems.fer.hr> wrote:
> I've read the comp.peripherals.scsi FAQ, but still am uncertain
> as to which SCSI controller and disk is appropriate for my
> system. I'm running an Endeavor (Triton, PCI) mainboard with
> 2xEIDE controller and EIDE (ATA) disk and ATAPI CD-ROM, and
> would like to get a SCSI controller and disk to increase
> capacity and speed things up (PCI bus) as well as increase
> my expansion options later. I'm currently running NeXTSTEP
> but plan to install Linux, OS/2 and maybe Windows and Solaris.
>
> The differences between SCSI-2, Wide, fast, sync, fast sync
> and differential aren't clear to me. I understand I need
> a controller and disk that support these features, but don't
> understand what will interface with what (f.x. if I get a
> Fast + Wide controller can I hook a scanner to it later?
> Or a disk that only supports one of the options? etc...)
>
> The FAQ states one place that "At this time the fast parameters
> cannot be met by the Single Ended electrical class, and is only
> suitable for Differential." Differential states that two cables
> are needed, while the definition for Fast goes on to state that
> it is acheived over a single A cable... I'm a bit confused.
>
> Should I get a high end card that supporst everything and then
> get whatever disk I can find, or get a simple basic SCSI-2
> controller and a high-end disk? Any advice, thoughts, tips or
> (especially) clarifications on the standards would be
> appreciated, especially via e-mail. Seems it was much simpler
> in the SCSI (1) days... :-)
>
> Regards,
> Thor
> Presently in exile in Croatia.
The short answer is that any SCSI device will work on any adapter.
Any SCSI enhancements will be determined by the weakest link in the
system. A wide drive on a narrow adapter will work the same as a narrow
drive on the same adapter. A wide adapter with a narrow device will
work the same as a narrow adapter with the same device. (Note: Fast,
Fast-20, or synchronous may be inserted in the place of Wide in the
previous two sentences with slow, non-ultra, or asynchronous replacing
narrow, respectively.)
I should point out that the arbitration occurs for every device.
Therefore a narrow slow drive on an Ultra/Wide adapter will transfer in
slow narrow mode, the Fast/Wide drive will transfer in Fast/Wide mode,
and the narrow Ultra drive will transfer in narrow Ultra mode. All
three devices are on the same adapter simultaneously, but they use three
different speed/width combinations. The adapter knows who it's talking
to and adjusts the signal accordingly. (See posts about mixing wide and
narrow devices on the same bus for more info)
Single-ended and differential cannot be mixed. Converters exist, but
why ask for trouble? Differential gives greater bus lengths and
somewhat less frequent errors, but at a greater expense. Fast and
Fast-20 (Ultra) SCSI work just fine on a single-ended bus. There are
cabling limitations, but no performance problems. (Fast busses must use
high quality cables, Ultra busses must not exceed 3 meters.)
I hope this clears up some of the confusion. If not, come up with some
specific questions and drop me an e-mail.
Sean Beckett
APS Technologies
<sbeckett@apstech.com>
"I've frequently not been on boats." - Rosencrantz or Guildenstern
From: pascal@galileo.slip.u-bordeaux.fr (Pascal Thibaudeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,fr.comp.sys.next
Subject: Help: Preferences -> Bus error
Date: 31 May 1996 07:49:08 GMT
Organization: CRIBX1 , Universite de Bordeaux I , France
Message-ID: <4om89k$g0h@news.u-bordeaux.fr>
Hello
When I lauch Preferences.app or Configure.app I have a Bus error and as
Root, the dread -l returns:
#dread -l
dread: Can't open defaults database
#./Preferences.app/Preferences
Bus error
#./Configure.app/Configure
Bus error
#
How can I do now ?
Thanks.
--
-Pascal Thibaudeau
**********************************************************************
E-Mail:
pthibaud@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr ( NO NEXTMAIL )
pascal@galileo.slip.u-bordeaux.fr ( Small NEXTMAIL OK )
From: rragner@panther.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Forwarding mail
Date: 31 May 1996 16:55:00 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <4on894$atf@news.iastate.edu>
I am sure this is elementary to the experienced NeXT Sys Admin, but...
How do I forward a users e-mail?
I person has left our employ, but is being retained as a consultant.
Therefore, we want to retain his user account until such time that he no
longer is needed as a consultant.
I created a .forward file in his home folder with his e-mail address at
his new employer, but he is not getting it and it is still being placed in
his /usr/spool/mail file.
I created a new bogus account and created a .forward file for it
instructing that mail be sent to my account, but it is also not being
forwarded.
Does .forward work in NEXTSTEP 3.[23]???
What else should I do?
Would it be possible to create an alias with the same name as the use
account using NetInfoManager and have the mail forwarded that way?
--
Rod Ragner, UNIX Systems Administrator/NEXTSTEP Application Developer
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University, 2630 Vet. Med. Bldg., Ames, Iowa 50011
Voice: (515) 294-4751, FAX: (515) 294-6961 or 3564, (NeXT Mail accepted)
Email: rragner@stallion.vm.iastate.edu or stryder@iastate.edu
From: bmw@tesla.visgen.com (Bruce Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo -- how to nix search for parent admin server?
Date: 31 May 1996 14:33:33 -0400
Organization: Visible Genetics Inc.
Sender: bmw@visgen.com
Message-ID: <4one1t$32s@tesla.visgen.com>
References: <4ofgsg$il9@gnus.wildfire.com>
In article <4ofgsg$il9@gnus.wildfire.com>,
Tony Lovell <tony@wildfire.com> wrote:
>
>I misconfigured it a long while back, and now during boot it attempts to
>find a NetInfo admin server. There is no such animal, so I get the
>"still searching for parent network administration (NetInfo) server.
>press c to get on with your life" message.
>
>Q: How do I get that nugget to go away without breaking something else?
Try this (in a root shell) ...
niutil -destroyprop . /machines/broadcasthost serves
(You can get the equivalent from browsing in /NextAdmin/NetInfoManager
but I do the above line in a shell script that I run to "create"
new well-behaved network clients.)
-bmw
--
Bruce M. Walker | Visible Genetics Inc. | bmw@visgen.com
| Suite 1000, Box 333 | Phone: 416-813-3240
| 700 Bay Street | FAX: 416-813-3250
| Toronto M5G 1Z6 | Pager: 416-609-6941
From: aholiday@dudley (Austin Holiday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Boot NextStep OS from floppy?
Date: 31 May 1996 16:38:48 GMT
Organization: AT&T Wireless Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4on7ao$s60@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>
Anybody know where I can download a kernel that can be booted from a floppy (if such a
thing exists) that will boot a NextStep OS running on a Pentium?
I can't use Single User mode and would like to avoid a complete install. My goal is to be
able to access the fs on the harddrive.
Thanks in advance!
---
Austin Holiday
email: austin.holiday@attws.com
From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dialing into a NeXTstation running PPP
Date: 31 May 1996 18:58:55 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4onfhf$lsr@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4oe41c$132@p3.net> <4oio53$4pb@lynx.unm.edu> <jbf-3005961011030001@djatwood.mitre.org>
jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote:
> > Is it then
> > possible to conveniently use - for example - Alexandra.app from home to
> > read the news that actually arrive on my NeXT at work ?
>
> No. Alexandra is too slow in downloading. Something is wrong in it's
> design. One of the others - which costs about $50 - is much faster.
> I don't remember which one. But get all of them and try them in demo
> mode.
I use Alexandra a couple of times each day over a 14.4 kbps line with no
downloading speed problems. Have you set up the news server entry to be a
"slow link"? If not, Alexandra will download the names of all newsgroups
whenever it starts up which can take 5 minutes.
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Forwarding mail
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 21:01:34 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996May31.210134.2064@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4on894$atf@news.iastate.edu>
In article <4on894$atf@news.iastate.edu> rragner@panther.vm.iastate.edu
(Rod Ragner) writes:
> I created a .forward file in his home folder with his e-mail address at
> his new employer, but he is not getting it and it is still being placed
in
> his /usr/spool/mail file.
The .forward file must be accessible on the mail server in the users home
path; this is often forgotten.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
il)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Dialing into a NeXTstation running PPP
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 16:41:36 -0500
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <jbf-3105961641360001@djatwood.mitre.org>
References: <4oe41c$132@p3.net> <4oio53$4pb@lynx.unm.edu> <jbf-3005961011030001@djatwood.mitre.org> <4onfhf$lsr@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
In article <4onfhf$lsr@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>, aisbell@cubicsol.com
(Art Isbell) wrote:
> jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote:
(snip)
> > No. Alexandra is too slow in downloading. Something is wrong in it's
> > design. One of the others - which costs about $50 - is much faster.
(snip)
> I use Alexandra a couple of times each day over a 14.4 kbps line with no
> downloading speed problems. Have you set up the news server entry to be a
> "slow link"? If not, Alexandra will download the names of all newsgroups
> whenever it starts up which can take 5 minutes.
Maybe so - it was a month or more ago. But even the fastest NeXT newsreader
is MUCH slower than the Mac's "NewsWatcher", so I have given up news reading
on my NeXT. Sigh :-(.
Barney
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How To Gateway A LAN To The Internet Via PPP?
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 16:43:24 -0500
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <jbf-3105961643240001@djatwood.mitre.org>
I have a small ethernet LAN - a NeXT and several Macs,
as well as a PPP connection to an ISP.
I have given all the machines unique IPs, and listed them
in "Hosts" files on the Macs and the "machines" directory of
the NeXT. All the machines can ping each other properly.
I have my domain name and the ISP's nameservers in the
Mac's TCP-IP Control Panel and the NeXT's /etc/resolv.conf.
I use a switch box to connect either the NeXT or a Mac
to a 28.8 modem, and it "all just works". For the one
machine attached to the modem.
Unfortunately, I really need access for several machines,
without fiddling with switchboxes (and reconfiguring the
Macs, which have only one TCP-IP port, switchable between
AppleTalk, EtherTalk and MacPPP).
Steve Perkins tells me that PPP 2.2 enables IP forwarding
and that some users have their NeXTs set up as PPP gateways.
And there is an _ipforwarding flag in the Mach kernel, which
the PPP package enables.
I naively tried running a TCP-IP application from a Mac with
the NeXT designated as a gateway, and of course it didn't work.
But I had my LAN set up with "private" network IPs (192.42.172.X),
and there was no reason to expect my ISP's router to recognize
any responses, if it didn't just trash the packets because of
the bogus IP address.
There is an ISP who will provide a suitable block of static
IP addresses at no extra cost. The question is how he and I
set up the various configuration files. I assume all my
machines are to be assigned IP addresses from my subnet, with
the NeXT at subnet address 1. Presumably the NeXT will configure
its en0 port as subnet address 0. It would also seem that the
ISP should be proxyarping my PPP port on his router for my subnet
address 0. (Sorry if I've got the terms wrong, but I'm new to
this routing stuff.)
This would seem to indicate the ISP should assign subnet address
0 to my ppp0 port, which sounds like it would conflict with
en0 and prevent proper gateway operation. So how is a PPP gateway
set up?
Barney
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida)
Subject: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac?
Message-ID: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 14:27:32 GMT
To NeXTStep and Mac Users:
Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a
Machintosh?
More precisely, I have a bunch of flies made by Concurrence2, which is a
slide making program. Because I cannot directly print the Concurrence2 files
to the slide maker (Montage) in our lab, I am trying to save all the pages,
copy them to a Machintosh connected to the slide maker, and print them out on
a film. However, I cannot display nor print the NS PS files by either
PhotoShop 2.5 or GraphicsConverter. Actually, when I tried to read in the NS
PS files by these applications, they said: Unknown format or incompatible
format. ( I send the NS PS files by ASCII and Binary using Fetch, but both
failed.) I am sticking on the PS format because of its high quality; if I
use TIFF, yes I can make slides, but the quality of fonts are bad,
unfortunately...
If anyone succeed to convert/read/print NS PS files on a Mac, please let me
know. I would appreciate it if you would e-mail me your message when you
post a reply, so that I do not miss it.
____________________________________________________________
Hiro Yoshida, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Kurt Rossmann Laboratories
Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago, MC2026
5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago Illinois 60637
Phone: 312-702-1350, FAX 312-702-0371
yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu
,,, If the only tool you have is a hammer,
(* o) then you tend to see everything as a nail.
__.oOO--(_)--OOo.___________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: How to connecting Win95 client to Nextstep server
Message-ID: <DsBpps.Cpt@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <4om2va$5ae@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 13:34:40 GMT
Marcel Bresink writes
> bmont@rconnect.com (Bruce Montegani) wrote:
> > I would like to connect my A machine running the Netscape browser
under
> > Win95 to my B machine running WebObjects under NextStep.
>
> Just enter the correct TCP/IP data of your network in the Win 95
> Configuration / Network folder, and it should work out of the box.
The only
> problem is the name service: Win 95 doesn't understand NeXT's
NetInfo system,
> but only DNS or WINS servers for name resolution. To connect to
your B
> machine via Netscape you have to use URLs of the form
>
> http://192.42.1.2/... instead of http://myBmachine/...
>
> To solve this problem too, you can set up an LMHOSTS file on your A
machine
> (works like the /etc/hosts file in a classical UNIX network), but
I'm not
> sure at the moment in which directory this file has to be placed on
Win95.
A HOSTS file would do it also. Both are placed in the top level of
the windows directory.
Be careful with the fileextensions. Inside Win95 they are not
displayed, though there might be one.
Both files should have no extension!
so long,
jens ch. gloede
--
____________________________________________________________
interpersonal-computing Imagination. Made in Europe.
NeXT Center Munich Jens Ch. Gloede - CEO ipc -
Oettingenstrasse 2 http://www.ipc.de/
80538 Munich Tel.: ++49 (0)89 219975-0
GERMANY / Bavaria Fax.: ++49 (0)89 223376
E-Mail: jens@interpc.de NeXT & MIME Mail ok (int.< 1 MB)
From: Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Intel and Logitech Bus Mice
Date: 1 Jun 1996 01:08:25 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4oo569$a2p@news.accessone.com>
References: <4ohr7g$724@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <Ds6EJA.43F@prosoft.com>
Cc: glen@prosoft.com
In <Ds6EJA.43F@prosoft.com> Glen Biagioni wrote:
> Eugene Mah writes
> > I don't have the console messages in front of me at the moment,
> > but NS complains about not being able to find a mouse at
> > IRQ 5. Doing a 'restart' from the login window to reboot NS seems
> > to resolve the problem. I have v3.30 of the BusMouse driver
> > installed on these systems.
> I have this problem as well. My experience, though, is with warm reboots.
> (Because of other problems, I can't cold boot into NS.) Eugene's cold boot
> experience blows the theory that I had worked up to explain the problem.
I presume you experience the same symptoms under a different IRQ?
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | ><
>< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: How to send processes to background?
Message-ID: <DsBIDD.C90@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: noel@tivoli.bard.edu
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4of58f$26me@core.bard.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 10:56:00 GMT
In <4of58f$26me@core.bard.edu> Noel Bush wrote:
> Forgive me if this is an elementary question...
>
> Say I've started an app, and I want to leave it running but log out? If
> it had been a command started at a shell prompt, I would simply put it
> into the background and go on my merry way. But I can't figure out how to
> do the same thing with apps. It seems evident that the "Background
> Processes" listed by the Processes panel in WM are not the same as
> background jobs in UNIX.
>
I might be a little stupid, but what would be the point of this?
There is no such thing as "running in background" for a GUI app, IMHO. You
can always open another window for the next app (until you run our of
ressources, of course). And if you want to reclaim the display area for the
app windows you can always iconize 'em.
The "Background Processes" are a feature of the File-Viewer in WM and of no
general value. They're just a special way to do Unix housekeeping tasks
without having to have a separate window for 'em. Any app designer could
chose to do thelike (TIFFanyII for instance).
But again, I might not have cought the original question at all. Sorry!
--
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
directories
in the available Netinfo domains, and the settings in the /etc/hostconfig
files on the network.
The easy way would be to copy /usr/templates/client/etc/hostconfig and
/usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc and reboot. Then run
SimpleNetworkStarter and HostManager and UserManager to redo the local conf.
Alternatively you could rename the NetInfo databases in advance and reload
the directories of interest by applying 'nidump'/'niload'. But this would
require some NetInfo knowlege, beforehand.
--
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: NT/NeXT connectivity problem: What is PCNFSD?
Message-ID: <DsBK2L.CDy@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: guy@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4ohljc$1du8@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 11:32:45 GMT
In <4ohljc$1du8@news.doit.wisc.edu> Laura Guy wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've installed ChameleonNFS on our WinNT
> machine and am trying to NFS mount
> directories from our NeXT server.
>
> I've installed SAMBA on the NeXT
> box and outside of Chameleon using
> File Manager/Disk/Connect Network Drive
> I have no problem logging into my
> Next directory.
>
> But in Chameleon I get the following:
>
> Error 22 Could not contact PCNFSD on
> Specified Server Authenticator.
>
There is special server for NFS requests from PCs. That's the said 'pcnfsd'!
This special NFS deamon was constructed to among others address the problem
of clients without hard authentication for users, so no way to determine and
restrict access.
The NeXT in question isn't running such a server deamon. Either it's never
been installed (most likely) or not started (no entry in /etc/services). In
the first case you need to get a copy (SUN made the source code publicly
available long time ago) and get it compiled/installed. In the second, you'd
have to add the apropriate entry.
Or you could get a better NFS package for NT since I don't see the point why
NT should still be relegated to PCNFS only.
--
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: jpmeia@netcom.com
Subject: System Panics
Message-ID: <nntpuserDs9EI0.H1L@netcom.com>
Sender: netnews@mork.netcom.com
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 07:37:12 GMT
Hi.
After upgrading RAM on a TurboColorStation, I've been getting many system
panics/shutdowns.
I thought this was related to a combination of parity and non-parity SIMMS
(the SIMMS are properly paired as per the Owner's Guide Installation but one
pair is pairty and the other non-parity). However, I have finally managed to
track down some messageing, and here is an excerpt:
May 30 22:24:44 jpmeia Pastry[230]: %%[ Error: syntaxerror; OffendingCommand:
bin obj seq, type=131, elements=0, size=65535, bin obj seq length too long
]%%
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: unexpected kernel page fault failure
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr
0x5dff9e0f
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: trap: pc 0x4058c3c sp 0x3fff0b0 sr 0x2000
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: trap: cpu 0 th 0x1011ffe8 proc 0x0 pid 8 pcb
0x110c0010
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: traceback: fp 0x110c0ec8
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: called from pc 0x04055f0e fp 0x110c0ef0 4-args
1011fbb4 000002f4 000002f0 00000000
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: called from pc 0x04067ec6 fp 0x110c0f1c 4-args
1011fbb4 000002f4 00000006 00000001
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: called from pc 0x040647d6 fp 0x110c0f40 4-args
00000004 000002f4 1015aad0 00000001
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: called from pc 0x0406486a fp 0x110c0f54 4-args
110c0f7c 110c0fd4 110c0f7c 110c0ffc
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: called from pc 0x04067e00 fp 0x110c0ffc 4-args
110c0f7c 110c0fd4 00000000 00000000
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: called from pc 0x040a8958 fp 0x00000000 4-args
040a8958 00000002 00000000 80002304
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: last fp 0x0
May 30 22:24:49 jpmeia mach: panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during
table walk
Can anyone shed some light on this or point me to a source to explain all
this?
Thanks, please respond to:
jpmeia@netcom.com
NeXTMail/MIME welcome
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Canon object.station - need installation disk
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 15:36:45 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <31B0A9DD.6C4@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <4ofmq2$ee5@ece.rutgers.edu> <4oh4j3$lri@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <4oj9a0$i36@digifix.digifix.com>
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> No, the problem is that you need to open the machine up and
> change the jump settings on the BUSLOGIC card...
Call NeXT, they can tell you. I once spent over 5 hours on the phone
with NeXT before they finally figured out the above...
_Eric Dubiel
From: l.pioricopiorgo@agora.stm.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ISDN questions
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1996 22:47:28 -0700
Organization: Agora' Telematica - Italian BBS and Internet Provider
Message-ID: <31B12AF0.6B4A@agora.stm.it>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am an italian electronic engineer. At this moment I am working with a
company that sells telephone systems. I would like to know which
differences exist between american ISDN and european ISDN. Is there
anybody who can help me?
Thanks in advance!
---
Luca Piorico from Perugia, Italy
email : l.pioricopiorgo@agora.stm.it
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,msu.misc
Subject: Strange problem with mail
Date: 1 Jun 1996 23:43:14 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4oqkii$l8t@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
A couple of days ago I created a synonim for my NeXT machine in our
main DNS. The host name is centacor.chm.msu.edu and the synonim:
pie.msu.edu. When I send mail @ the original host name everything
goes just fine, But when I try sending mail @pie.msu.edu the mail
bounces back with the following funny message:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to pie.msu.edu:
>>> HELO centacor.chm.msu.edu
<<< 553 centacor.chm.msu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <guentche@pie.msu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable
----- Unsent message follows -----
I have no idea what is going on. Do you? Thanks.
Kamen
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot NextStep OS from floppy?
Date: 1 Jun 1996 09:42:10 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4op39i$1b6f@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4on7ao$s60@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com>
Austin Holiday (aholiday@dudley) wrote:
: Anybody know where I can download a kernel that can be booted from a floppy (if such a
: thing exists) that will boot a NextStep OS running on a Pentium?
: I can't use Single User mode and would like to avoid a complete install. My goal is to be
: able to access the fs on the harddrive.
It is not very clear what exactly your problem is. However I recently had a
problem where I lost important data on the HDD but couldn't sacrifice the
rest of it. So I booted from the CD-ROM, copied the missing system files
from it and everything was fine. You'll have to specify that you want booting
in single-user mode from the CD - there's no other way, you can only boot in
mutliuser mode from a working HDD. Hope that helps.
Kamen
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac?
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 10:04:20 -0400
Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc.
Message-ID: <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com>
References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>
In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote:
> Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a
> Machintosh?
I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac.
There probably is one but ... As for downloading, there are several tools
for downloading the file - for example, the HP Utility supplied with the
4MP, or "LaserStatus" from the archives. If the Mac is on ethernet with the
NeXT, you can use lpDaemon from the archives to create a Unix style print
server and just send the file over from the NeXT print panel. There's a
NeXT Answer on this, and it's also discussed in the SysAdmin manual (I
think). Works for me!
Barney
From: jbf@mitre.org (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Selection of Ethernet Framing (802.3)?
Date: Sun, 02 Jun 1996 10:30:26 -0400
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Message-ID: <jbf-0206961030260001@mbppp3.mitre.org>
While there is a NeXTAnswer explaining how NS selects Ethernet
framing when dealing with a Novell Netware net, there doesn't
seem to be any explanation of how things work in the absence of
a Netware server.
I have Macs and a NeXT on a LAN, and the Mac OpenTransport wants
to know whether it should use 802.3 (SNAP) framing. Seems to work
without checking this box but I don't really want to experiment
with boot order etc. to make sure.
So, does anyone know how this works?
Barney
From: rragner@panther.vm.iastate.edu (Rod Ragner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Forwarding mail
Date: 2 Jun 1996 18:23:09 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Message-ID: <4osm6d$si4@news.iastate.edu>
References: <1996May31.210134.2064@seer.demon.co.uk>
In article <1996May31.210134.2064@seer.demon.co.uk> Paul Lynch
<Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes:
> In article <4on894$atf@news.iastate.edu> rragner@panther.vm.iastate.edu
> (Rod Ragner) writes:
> > I created a .forward file in his home folder with his e-mail address
at
> > his new employer, but he is not getting it and it is still being
placed
> in
> > his /usr/spool/mail file.
>
> The .forward file must be accessible on the mail server in the users
home
> path; this is often forgotten.
>
> Paul
> --
> Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
> http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Yes, the problem is now solved.
The problem arose when the user incorrectly set the READ permissions for
the file. It appears that READ permission must be permitted for the owner
of the .forward file, the group (which I set to wheel for no particular
reason) and everybody else. Now it works.
Thanks to Paul Lynch, James Monroe and Richard Bisbey II for giving me the
information.
--
Rod Ragner, UNIX Systems Administrator/NEXTSTEP Application Developer
Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, College of Veterinary Medicine,
Iowa State University, 2630 Vet. Med. Bldg., Ames, Iowa 50011
Voice: (515) 294-4751, FAX: (515) 294-6961 or 3564, (NeXT Mail accepted)
Email: rragner@stallion.vm.iastate.edu or stryder@iastate.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn)
Subject: Re: How To Gateway A LAN To The Internet Via PPP?
Message-ID: <DsDxs9.C7C@nvc.cc.ca.us>
Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us
Organization: Napa Valley College
References: <jbf-3105961643240001@djatwood.mitre.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 18:24:09 GMT
In article <jbf-3105961643240001@djatwood.mitre.org>,
James B. Frazer <jbf@frazer.com> wrote:
>Steve Perkins tells me that PPP 2.2 enables IP forwarding
>and that some users have their NeXTs set up as PPP gateways.
>And there is an _ipforwarding flag in the Mach kernel, which
>the PPP package enables.
Yes, I'm doing it.
>There is an ISP who will provide a suitable block of static
>IP addresses at no extra cost. The question is how he and I
>set up the various configuration files. I assume all my
>machines are to be assigned IP addresses from my subnet, with
>the NeXT at subnet address 1. Presumably the NeXT will configure
>its en0 port as subnet address 0. It would also seem that the
>ISP should be proxyarping my PPP port on his router for my subnet
>address 0. (Sorry if I've got the terms wrong, but I'm new to
>this routing stuff.)
Yes, you are going to need static addresses for each of the hosts on
your LAN, including the NeXT. The addresses you get will be for the
Ethernet interface only, not the PPP interface.
When the PPP link is brought up, you'd continue to use whatever IP was
assigned to the PPP, you don't need to much with it.
But for the routing to work, *both* sides of the PPP connection will
need to be configured for routing. You can't use proxyarp if want to
route for your subnet.
I'm using gated to handle routing for me. When the PPP link is brought
up, gated is restarted and it installs default routes into my kernel,
as well as advertising to the remote PPP server the route it should
take to reach my LAN. Since I get dynamic IP addresses from my PPP
server, it was necessary to use gated to deal with routing.
Also see my followup in comp.sys.next.misc to "Can NeXTs do IP
Forwading?".
--
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: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac?
Date: 2 Jun 1996 18:22:07 GMT
Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA
Message-ID: <4osm4f$los@news4.digex.net>
References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com>
jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote:
> In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>,
yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote:
> > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on
a
> > Machintosh?
> I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac.
There probably is one but ... As for downloading, there are several tools
for downloading the file - for example, the HP Utility supplied with the
Tailor will now let you view any postscript file on the Macintosh, as it
will on a NEXTSTEP system. I think the printing part is in the bag as well
:)
--
Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit )^> %^) =^)
monoChrome, Inc. | New York Law School
NEXTSTEP Developer | Opinions expressed represent me only
MIME, SUN, & NeXTmail OK | http://cnj.digex.net/~jkheit
mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net | Telepathy...It's coming...
From: guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,msu.misc
Subject: Re: Strange problem with mail
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,msu.misc
Date: 2 Jun 1996 19:55:15 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4osrj3$1hos@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <4oqkii$l8t@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Kamen Yankov Guentchev (guentche@cps.msu.edu) wrote:
: A couple of days ago I created a synonim for my NeXT machine in our
: main DNS. The host name is centacor.chm.msu.edu and the synonim:
Thanks to all who replied. The NeXT sendmail.cf is a total mess. I tried
adding the necessary Cw and Cx lines but it wouldn't take them (ignores
them). Finally I had to download the recommended MSU sendmail.cf and
UNIX mail seems to work fine so far (I don't know about NeXTmail but I
don't really need that). Hope that will do it. Thanks again.
Kamen
From: Marc@AccessOne.com(Marc Salvatori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: More SCSI questions (I'm confused...)
Date: 3 Jun 1996 02:12:09 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4othlp$fs9@news.accessone.com>
References: <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr>
Cc: thor@zems.fer.hr
In <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr> Thor Legvold wrote:
> The differences between SCSI-2, Wide, fast, sync, fast sync
> and differential aren't clear to me. I understand I need
> a controller and disk that support these features, but don't
> understand what will interface with what (f.x. if I get a
> Fast + Wide controller can I hook a scanner to it later?
> Or a disk that only supports one of the options? etc...)
When I last researched SCSI-2 two years ago, I concluded that only file
servers could make good use of wide buses. Differential is needed for
exceptionally long cable; and thus is not needed by traditional workstations.
I can't recall what 'sync' is all about. Definitely go for fast burst, and
aim for devices that support command queing.
--
>< Marc J. Salvatori | ><
>< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Replacing a netinfo server boot disk.
Message-ID: <DsEM8D.JFp@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 03:12:13 GMT
I spent some time today attempting to replace a 5 year old boot disk
now that the MTBF ratio is against me. I attempted to make a copy
of the boot disk (a 3.2 system) by formatting the new disk, mounting
it on /newdisk from a single user boot and using
dump 0sdf 100000 100000 - | (cd /newdisk; restore rvf -)
to copy the old boot disk onto the new boot disk. I then wrote a boot
block to the new disk and then swapped it into the NeXTstation. Everything
seemed normal on bootup to the new disk, but no one except root can
login. The netinfo database is intact and all the files seem to be
there, but in poking around I notice that there are a number of s-bits
missing where I'd expect them to be set.
I'm hoping someone will come to my aid and tell me the one thing I
forgot to do here so that I can slap myself on the forehead and say
"What a fool I was!"
Thanks,
Steve
--
Steven M. Boker 804-982-5062 (voice/fax) 804-295-0009 (home)
boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/
Dept. of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903
----------- After August 1, 1996 I will be relocating to -------------
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 3 Jun 1996 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4otose$9p@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
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INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
Subject: 2101 2234 1109
A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,msu.misc
Subject: Re: Strange problem with mail
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 07:21:10 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun3.072110.8774@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4osrj3$1hos@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
In article <4osrj3$1hos@msunews.cl.msu.edu> guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen
Yankov Guentchev) writes:
> Kamen Yankov Guentchev (guentche@cps.msu.edu) wrote:
> : A couple of days ago I created a synonim for my NeXT machine in our
> : main DNS. The host name is centacor.chm.msu.edu and the synonim:
>
>
> Thanks to all who replied. The NeXT sendmail.cf is a total mess. I tried
> adding the necessary Cw and Cx lines but it wouldn't take them (ignores
> them). Finally I had to download the recommended MSU sendmail.cf and
> UNIX mail seems to work fine so far (I don't know about NeXTmail but I
> don't really need that). Hope that will do it. Thanks again.
It is out of date, not a mess. Most likely you updated the wrong version
of sendmail.cf. This is selected either from /locations/sendmail in
netinfo, or by a soft link from /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Tony.Curtis@vcpc.univie.ac.at (Tony Curtis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem installing CUBX software
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software
Date: 03 Jun 1996 15:36:07 +0200
Organization: European Centre for Parallel computing, Vienna, Austria
Sender: tc@aloisius.vcpc.univie.ac.at
Message-ID: <7xennx2ens.fsf@aloisius.vcpc.univie.ac.at>
Hi, I've been trying to install the CUBX X11 software on a
NEXT machine but with no luck. Intuisys gave a few pointers
such as not mounting the CD via NFS, but I've tried just
about everything and got nowhere.
The problem is this: after entering the serial and license,
I'm supposed to click on "install" to start the
installation.
But when I click there, the entire installer application
just exits immediately.
Anyone know what's going on?
thanks in advance
tony
--
Tony Curtis, Systems Manager, European Centre for Parallel
Computing, Vienna
http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/%7Etc/
From: emarshal@site.gmu.edu (Eric Marshall (Faculty))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Intel and Logitech Bus Mice
Date: 3 Jun 1996 15:04:41 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Message-ID: <4ouuu9$qk9@portal.gmu.edu>
References: <4ohr7g$724@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <Ds6EJA.43F@prosoft.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Glen Biagioni (glen@prosoft.com) wrote:
: Eugene Mah writes
: > I look after a number of NS Intel boxes running 3.3 and was wondering
: > if anybody was having problems with NS finding the Logitech
: > bus mouse at start up. This problem always seems to happen from
: > a cold boot; either power up or reset button, but never from a soft
: > boot (restart or ctrl-alt-del from DOS).
I have the same problem with my Logitech PS/2 mouse, NEXTSTEP
can't find the mouse at (any) start up. Here is the error message
from /usr/adm/messages:
PS2Mouse: couldn't find a mouse!
PCPointer probe: mouseInit failure
My work around has been to plug in a bargain-basement PS/2 mouse
at start up and to switch it with my Logitech after boot. Hokey,
but it works.
From: Benhur.Stein@imag.fr (Benhur Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] how to always have -v at boot?
Date: 3 Jun 1996 17:22:41 GMT
Organization: IMAG, Grenoble, France
Message-ID: <4ov711$h3@imag.imag.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Hi,
I have NS3.3 intel, and it doesn't boot if i don't
give the -v option at boot time.
Does anybody know if there is a way of always setting
this option so that i dont have to manually type it
every time I boot?
Thanks,
benhur
From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with ASUS T2P4 Board
Date: 3 Jun 1996 18:52:46 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4ovc9u$ig7@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi everybody,
I had no success installing NeXTStep on a machine
with the new ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 board . Installation starts
smoothly and the files are copied from CD-ROM. Just before
the promt to reboot a message like:
"/private/etc/rc.cdrom 89 memory fault" (or similar to that)
sometimes:
"/private/etc/rc.cdrom 78 bus error"
appears and thats it. What do these numbers mean ?
I tried with other RAM,VGA and SCSI controller, but without success.
So I think I removed nearly everything from the list of suspects exept the
board. Does anybody has this board running and knows some magic BIOS
settings or is it just that I got a defect one ?
The exact configuration of the machine is:
P166 CPU
Asus T2P4 board (256k PB) Rev. 2.0
32M RAM (no EDO)
2.5G EIDI Harddrive
Adaptec 2940 SCSI Controller
SCSI CD-ROM Drive
Many thanx in advance 4 any help
Peter
=================================================
Peter Geissler
Heidelberg University
Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
NeXT and MIME mail welcome
==================================================
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 3 Jun 1996 21:11:17 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu>
I have heard that NEXTSTEP 4.0 is coming out soon.
I have also heard that it won't be supported, and that the main
difference in the upgrade is that this release will be fully OpenStep
complient.
Does anyone know if there are any changes to the user interface that
might be beneficial?
I have looked on the web page, but could find nothing. Perhaps I was
looking in the wrong place.
Also, I was wondering if the NeXTTeX package on the 4.0 release would
have LaTeX 2e on there?
thanks,
Jeromy
From: "David N. Richards" <odyseus@aaron.music.qc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: fbshow
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 19:16:37 -0400
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960603191432.226A-100000@igor>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
I've been reading through some of the boot scripts and
have come across references to fbshow which lives in
/usr/etc/fbshow. It is a binary but there are no ManPages
on it. Can Someone give me a pointer??
Much appreciated!!
Dave
***********************************
David Richards
The Aaron Copland School of Music
at Queens College
Voice: (718) 997-3874
***********************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: NT/NeXT connectivity problem: What is PCNFSD?
Message-ID: <DsF92J.1Ft@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <DsBK2L.CDy@nidat.sub.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 11:25:31 GMT
In article <DsBK2L.CDy@nidat.sub.org> nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter
Nitezki) writes:
> In <4ohljc$1du8@news.doit.wisc.edu> Laura Guy wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
.. Problems with missing (PC)NFS daemon
> There is special server for NFS requests from PCs. That's the said
'pcnfsd'!
> This special NFS deamon was constructed to among others address the
problem
> of clients without hard authentication for users, so no way to
determine and
> restrict access.
>
> The NeXT in question isn't running such a server deamon. Either it's
never
> been installed (most likely) or not started (no entry in
/etc/services). In
> the first case you need to get a copy (SUN made the source code
publicly
> available long time ago) and get it compiled/installed. In the
second, you'd
> have to add the apropriate entry.
>
>
Correct so far, THERE IS a PCNFS daemon included in NEXTSTEP, only it
speaks only version one of the protocol, almost any NFS client package
requires version two...
from Nextanswers:
Running the PCNFS Daemon
Q: Where can I get a new version of pcnfsd?
A: You can download the source and makefile for a NEXTSTEP
version of rpc.pcnfsd from
ftp://ftp.york.ac.uk/pub/pc-nfs/RPC.pcnfsd/pcnfsd.tar
This should do the job, it should be also available on peanuts!
> Or you could get a better NFS package for NT since I don't see the
point why
> NT should still be relegated to PCNFS only.
> --
This has nothing to do with "better". This daemons work accoring to a
protocol. There is another deamon available, the bwnfs daemon.
======================================================================
Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH
Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11
Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg
(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NT/NeXT connectivity problem: What is PCNFSD?
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 06:50:56 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun4.065056.12923@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <DsF92J.1Ft@onevision.de>
In article <DsF92J.1Ft@onevision.de> hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
writes:
> Correct so far, THERE IS a PCNFS daemon included in NEXTSTEP, only it
> speaks only version one of the protocol, almost any NFS client package
> requires version two...
Any PC NFS package will work correctly for NFS using NeXT's supplied
pcnfsd. Version two is required to support printing via pcnfsd; there may
be some better authentication offered as well.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] how to always have -v at boot?
Date: 4 Jun 1996 07:20:58 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Message-ID: <4p0o4q$9n7@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <4ov711$h3@imag.imag.fr>
Just change the value of "Boot Graphics" from "Yes" to "No" in the file
/usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table
You can also use the Expert mode in Configure.app to do that.
Marcel
---
Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz,
Computer Graphics Lab, Institute for Computer Science
Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
From: dirk@.object-factory.com (Dirk Olmes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] how to always have -v at boot?
Date: 4 Jun 1996 07:45:03 GMT
Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany)
Message-ID: <4p0phv$1qd@isabella.object-factory.com>
References: <4ov711$h3@imag.imag.fr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Benhur.Stein@imag.fr (Benhur Stein) wrote:
> Hi,
> I have NS3.3 intel, and it doesn't boot if i don't
> give the -v option at boot time.
> Does anybody know if there is a way of always setting
> this option so that i dont have to manually type it
> every time I boot?
Hi,
this is no big problem :-)
Fire up Configure.app, push the expert Button. Edit the setting "Boot
Graphics" to "No", save and reboot.
Here we go ...
-dirk
---
_____________________________________________________________________
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Gesellschaft fr Informatik und Datenverarbeitung mbH
Lohbachstrae 12, 58239 Schwerte, Germany
Telephon +49 (0) 2304 945 220
Telefax +49 (0) 2304 945 226
dirk@object-factory.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
From: sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois)
Subject: Re: More SCSI questions (I'm confused...)
Message-ID: <DsH1G0.5pF@rivm.nl>
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Cc: Marc@AccessOne.com
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, Bilthoven, NL
References: <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr> <4othlp$fs9@news.accessone.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:36:00 GMT
In <4othlp$fs9@news.accessone.com> Marc Salvatori wrote:
> In <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr> Thor Legvold wrote:
> > The differences between SCSI-2, Wide, fast, sync, fast sync
> > and differential aren't clear to me. I understand I need
> ........
> When I last researched SCSI-2 two years ago, I concluded that only
file
> servers could make good use of wide buses. Differential is needed
for
> exceptionally long cable; and thus is not needed by traditional
workstations.
> I can't recall what 'sync' is all about. Definitely go for fast
burst, and
> aim for devices that support command queing.
For SCSI information you may want to check
http://www.paranoia.com/~filipg/HTML/LINK/F_SCSI.html
--
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Risk Assessment Division | NeXTmail & MIME is OK
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From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Setting up elm+metamail for NEXTSTEP ?
Date: 4 Jun 1996 13:21:02 GMT
Organization: Mathematisches Institut, Uni Heidelberg
Message-ID: <4p1d7u$449@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I'm trying to build robust versions of elm with MIME support for
NEXTSTEP. Building elm-2.4.25 is quite easy, but since the
instructions on NEXTSTEP are outdated, I'm not sure if I did choose
the right options.
1.) I'm especially in doubt about the locking scheme used. I didn't
change anything after running Configure. This happens to enabled .lock
style locking, and says something about placing locks in
/usr/spool/uucp.
When elm is already running, I'm not able to start up a second copy of
elm. But, when Mail.app is running, elm will still start up. It's even
possible to use something like "elm -f Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox"
when Mail.app is running. Isn't this one thing that locks should make
impossible ? But then, this also happens with Pine!
Also strange: If both of elm and Mail.app are running, elm crashes as
soon a new mail arrives! This doesn't happen if Mail.app is not
running. The error message is about not being able to reopen
/tmp/mbox.flight ?!, I don't know what this has to do with Mail.app!
2.) Has anybody tried to make up a reasonable elm+MIME installation
for NEXTSTEP ? I ran into several problems:
- NEXTSTEP's Terminal doesn't display ISO-8859 by default. Since only
ISO-8859 is actively supported my Metamail and MIME, one has to
implement a filter on its own to work with NEXTSTEP.
- One IMHO interesting but unsolved problem with UNIX: Even if an
application is able to display NEXTSTEP encoding as well as ISO-8859,
how can I tell which one to use ??? I install elm on our NEXTSTEP
machines for use mainly in telnet sessions. Telnet sessions tend to
run on non-NEXTSTEP terminals, and most of them support ISO-8859. On
the other hand, elm should also display NEXTSTEP encoding when the
output really goes to a NEXTSTEP Terminal.app.
This is IMHO a very general problem. isn't this just what the TERM
variable ans all this mess really should be about ? Then, NEXTSTEP's
Terminal.app should issue something like vt100-next, not ? But
currently, it seems to be impossible to tell a Terminal.app session
from an real VT100 term. Please give me a hint if I miss something!
3.) Has anybody tried to set up elm in order to smoothly work with
Mail.app's mboxes ? Just the same thing that Timothy Luoma did with
its mbox2pine script. In fact, patching elm might be more nice.
Gregor
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From: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] how to always have -v at boot?
Date: 4 Jun 1996 13:21:54 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <4p1d9j$mg0@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
References: <4ov711$h3@imag.imag.fr>
Cc: Benhur.Stein@imag.fr
In <4ov711$h3@imag.imag.fr> Benhur Stein wrote:
> I have NS3.3 intel, and it doesn't boot if i don't
> give the -v option at boot time.
That's probably interesting in and of itself
> Does anybody know if there is a way of always setting
> this option so that i dont have to manually type it
> every time I boot?
Add the line:
"Boot Graphics" = "No";
to /NextLibrary/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table
Robert
--
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MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
From: tpg@zaphod.fv.com (Terry Gliedt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Powering-up Black Hardware Without a Monitor
Date: 4 Jun 1996 17:26:22 GMT
Organization: Internet Service Providers Network
Message-ID: <4p1rjv$gjf@news.isl.net>
Yes, it *is* possible to run your Black hardware without a monitor. The
trick is just to get the NeXT to power on, and boot correctly. This is a
rewrite of an older FAQ item attributed to "The Onyx Kitten"
<onyxcat@pictor.unm.edu> who no longer is at this mail address. The only
reason for redoing this is to make clearer what exactly needs doing and
report my personal experiences in this process. My thanks to Justin
Sowers <jsowers@lehman.com> for his insight and assistance.
HARDWARE SETUP
The task is to build a DB-19 male plug to replace the DB-19 cable coming
from your Black monitor. You can also use the more common DB-25 male
plug as a replacement, but you will need to crimp (or remove) the pins
on the right-hand side of the DB-25 so they are not in the way.
An easily obtainable parts list is as follows:
Radio Shack
SKU# Qty. Description Price (as of 03/96)
------------------------------------------------------------------
275-1556 1 2 pack Push-button switches $1.99
271-1317 1 5 pack 470 Ohm, .25 Watt resistors 0.49
276-1549 1 Grey housing for DB-25 connector 1.19
276-1429 1 25 pin male D-sub connector 1.99
Total: $5.66 + tax
If you are a stickler for exact parts then you can order DB-19 connectors
from:
Gateway Electronics of St. Louis, San Diego, and Denver
1-800-669-5810
314-427-6116 VOX
314-427-3147 FAX
http://www.gatewayelex.com
for $1.50/ea. (as of 3/96). Minimum order for mailing: $10. Many thanks
to Carl Lowenstein <cdl@helium.ucsd.edu> for the pointer to this one.
NeXT MegaPixel DB-19 female inside DB-25 male
(Connector screwmounts shown for positioning)
________________________________________________
\ _ ................................. / _
\(_) : 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 :/ (_)
\ : 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 :/
\ ............................./
----------------------------------------
DB-19 Pinout:
1= +12 V 7= NC
2= -12 V 8= VSYNC
3= MON CLK 9= HSYNC
4= MON DATA OUT 10= VIDEO
5= MON DATA IN 11= +12V
6= MON PWR SWITCH 12= -12V
13-19= GND
THE DONGLE
Build the following simple circuit with a momentary push button soldered
to the 470 ohm resistor. This assembly should then be wired across pins
6 and 19 of the DB-25 shell.
If you have an older cube (030 motherboard) then you will need to
be sure that the box draws more power than just for the motherboard
in order for the machine to stay on. This can happen in ONE of two
ways- 1) You have a disk drive, or other power-drawing internal
peripheral connected and in use (not that uncommon), -or- 2) You
connect a POWER resistor (20 Ohm, at least 20 Watt) across pins 12
and 13 (as labeled for the DB-19 diagram). I do not recommend
the power resitor approach, as the resistor gets _very_ hot and
remains an active circuit for the time the machine is on.
NeXTStation and 040 cube owners do not have to worry about the
idiosyncrasies of the older NeXT power supplies.
Here's the circuit:
\ Momentary push
__ \__
| |
| |
470 Ohm $ |
| |
| |
v v
To DB-25 pins: 6 19
The soldering involved (resistor to switch terminal & connector pin, and
wire to switch terminal & connector pin) takes maybe 10 minutes and is
not very technical as the pins are individual so you can attach them to
your assembly before you put them into the plastic framework the holds
them together as a DB-25 (if you are using the RadioShack parts list
above).
The power resistor mentioned in the FAQ turns out to be unnecessary if
you have anything else in the cube that draws power (a disk, etc.).
All of this fits nicely into a plastic DB-25 housing with the pushbutton
sticking out where the cable would normally exit. NeXT Cube owners will
need to shave down the left (as drawn in illustration) side of the
housing inorder to get the "dongle" to fit (the monitor port is at the
very bottom of the motherboard and doesn't afford much clearance past
the securing screwmount).
SOFTWARE SETUP
You'll need to be sure your NeXT ROM Monitor settings are correct and
that your O/S is ready to run without a monitor. To start, go into the
NeXT ROM Monitor (press Command-Command-~) and set the current
configuration settings (from "p" in the boot monitor) like this:
boot command: whatever
DRAM tests: yes
perform power-on system test: yes
sound out tests: no
SCSI tests: no
loop until keypress: no
verbose test mode: no
boot extended diagnostics: no
serial port A is alternate console: yes <- recommentation
allow any ROM command even if password protected: whatever
allow boot from any device even if password protected: whatever
allow optical drive #0 eject even if password protected: whatever
A few people report they needed to do nothing more on a Cube (level of
OS unknown). In my experience on a NeXTstation (NS 3.2), it was
necessary to make these changes in /etc/ttys:
console "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" NeXT on secure
#console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure
window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"
ttya "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown on secure
ttyb "/usr/etc/getty std.9600" unknown on secure
A WORD TO THE WISE
I would recommend that before you do anything, you make sure you get
serial port A working as an alternate console. You can do this with a
simple null-modem serial cable connection to a DOS machine running
kermit (or other simple-minded terminal emulator). If your black box
gets a kernel panic (like mine) and you have disabled the console in
/etc/ttys, you might be left in a state where you must re-install to get
your machine back up. It seems prudent to always have a serial console
solution in case something serious happens and you need to be able to
see what is going on.
Don't forget that you should remove any printer that is configured for
serial port A if you are also using serial port A as an alternate
console or serial tty.
BOOTING WITHOUT A MONITOR
Once the DB plug is built, the ROM Monitor settings are correct, your
serial A port console works, and /etc/ttys is correct, then simply power
down the NeXT, remove the DB-19 monitor cable, attach your new DB plug
and press the momentary switch/button. The box should power on and go
through its normal boot sequence. You'll see ROM Monitor messages on the
console on serial port A (you are using one, aren't you?).
CAVEAT EMPTOR
I've tried to be very careful about these instructions, but maybe I
missed something, or maybe your situation is somehow different from
mine. I might be able to say something that will be helpful, but maybe
not. All in all, you are on your own, so be careful. In any case I am
not responsible for what you do to your own hardware.
--
===================================================================
Terry Gliedt tpg@fv.com MIME OK 507/356-4512
First Virtual Holdings http://www.fv.com/ http://www.hps.com/~tpg/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: fbshow
Message-ID: <DsHLMM.29D@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960603191432.226A-100000@igor>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 17:51:58 GMT
"David N. Richards" <odyseus@aaron.music.qc.edu> writes
> I've been reading through some of the boot scripts and
> have come across references to fbshow which lives in
> /usr/etc/fbshow. It is a binary but there are no ManPages
> on it. Can Someone give me a pointer??
Just to display messages during the bootup (when there is
no window server).
so long,
jens ch. gloede
__ _________________________________________________________
interpersonal-computing Imagination. Made in Europe.
NeXT Center Munich http://www.ipc.de/
E-Mail: jens@ipc.de NeXT & MIME Mail ok (int.< 1 MB)
From: jessica@swamp.chem.wisc.edu (Jessica Severin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can't NFS mount from Next server to Solaris2.5 client
Date: 4 Jun 1996 19:08:37 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <4p21jl$u50@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Help,
We have a mixed network of Nextstep 3.3 machines and SPARCStation5's running
Solaris 2.5. We have successfully setup NFS with the Solaris2.5 machines as
NFS servers and the Nexts as clients, but we can't get it working the other
way.
The suns will correctly mount the Next NFS disk, but when one tries to access
the filesystem (with an ls) the sun spins and responds with
NFS server swamp not responding still trying
I have added the Suns to the next's export list. Every now and then after
several retries the directory will list, but this can take several minutes. I
even tried setting the mount options on the sun the same as on the Nexts:
# mount -F nfs -o
fg,intr,nosuid,noquota,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=6,retrans=3,vers=2,proto=u
dp swamp:/HUGEdisk4 /HUGEdisk4
This didn't help.
The sun man page on mount_nfs refer to NFS version 2 and 3. Which version of
NFS is the next nfsd?
Thanks for any help
---
Jessica Severin jessica@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu (608)
262-0296
Programmer / Analyst Dr. Lloyd Smith's Lab
Dept Chemistry University of Wisconsin - Madison
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't NFS mount from Next server to Solaris2.5 client
Date: 4 Jun 1996 19:48:34 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4p23ui$sq7@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4p21jl$u50@news.doit.wisc.edu>
Jessica Severin (jessica@swamp.chem.wisc.edu) wrote:
: Help,
rsize=1024 on the sun should do the trick
--
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: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: bootptab and bootfile for network printer
Date: 04 Jun 1996 14:14:29 GMT
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <J.M.FIGUEROA.96Jun4151430@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi,
I am confused about the syntax of the bootptab entries in NextStep.
We want to connect an HP printer to our network of nexts and we want
it to get its IP number (and other relevant configuration parameters)
from one of our machines using bootp/tftp. In other flavours of Un*x
the syntax of the bootptab file is very similar to that of the
printcap file, but in NS it seems that all you can specify is a line
with the hostname, hosttype, ethernet address, IP address and an
optional bootfile. My guess is that the rest of the configuration
parameters must be contained in the bootfile, but I have tried this in
several ways and I can't manage to get it to work. The printer gets
its IP address but nothing else. What am I doing wrong?
Does someone out there perhaps have a bootfile for an HP laserjet
that I could look at? I can't find any documentation on the syntax of
this file.
Many thanks in advance,
Jose
PS: please reply by email and I will post a summary.
--
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Dr Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill | Vox: +44.171.975-5055 |
| Department of Physics (Rm. 227) | Fax: +44.181.981-7465 |
| Queen Mary and Westfield College | mailto:J.M.Figueroa@qmw.ac.uk |
| Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | |
| and |
| http://stringswww.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~jmf/jmf.html |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
From: bennett@filbert.cso.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How To Gateway A LAN To The Internet Via PPP?
Date: 4 Jun 1996 18:27:42 -0500
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Message-ID: <4p2gpe$iqj@filbert.cso.niu.edu>
References: <jbf-3105961643240001@djatwood.mitre.org> <DsDxs9.C7C@nvc.cc.ca.us> <jbf-0206962303500001@frazer.com>
In article <jbf-0206962303500001@frazer.com>,
James B. Frazer <jbf@frazer.com> wrote:
>Thanks for the detailed answer. I expect the ISP
>will provide a static address - it's the usual practice
>here. I assume that might eliminate the need for gated,
>since the LAN addresses are in netinfo.
>
Not entirely. routed is a bad choice for a system whose interfaces
may go up and down during operation because it only checks them when it
starts up. gated checks the interfaces periodically and adds/deletes
routes accordingly. Further, routed only supports RIP, whereas gated
supports multiple protocols.
Don't get me started on the inappropriate use of NetInfo (or NIS
or NIS+) for the control of Internet functions. I don't know what evil
ever possessed first Sun, then NeXT, to bollix things up like that. Grrr...
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
Systems Programming
Computer Center
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois 60115
**********************************************************************
* Internet: bennett@netmgr.cso.niu.edu bennett@cs.niu.edu *
*--------------------------------------------------------------------*
* "The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the fact in *
* controversy."--John Jay, First Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court *
* in Georgia vs. Brailsford, 1794 *
**********************************************************************
From: nagendra@cs.bu.edu (nagendra mishr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SNS fails... help!
Date: 4 Jun 1996 21:14:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Message-ID: <4p28ve$4jp@news.bu.edu>
I goofed up my machine some time ago and I don't remember what it was.
But, now I'm trying to learn about all this netinfo stuff and in the
process trying to correct the the problems....
My basic problem is that when I try to add a user, I get an error
which says that the database is read-only.
So I remembered that I have to fix my setup first...
I tried to run SNS and change my machine name and to change the
192.42.172 ipaddress it thinks is current. I forced it by manually
editing hostconfig. The name changed after reboot, but the ip address
is still screwed up. The SNS.log file has some very interesting info
below.
I'm a little confused here because I know for a fact that the machine
has an IP address of 199.103.241.90, however SNS thinks that ip addr
is wrong. Are the detabases somehow skewed...?
The machine also timeouts with LOOKUPD at boot time... I think that
it thinks is both a clone and a master.
Shall I blow away my databases and redo the setup?
Any help is appreciated...
Thanks in advance.
Nagendra
nagendra@csa.bu.edu
----------------
anyways.. Here are a few observations:
hostconfig=
HOSTNAME=killington
INETADDR=199.103.241.90
ROUTER=199.103.241.91
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
NETMASTER=-YES-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
nidump network / says:
killington: 3:35am local.nidb >nidump networks /
loopback 127 loopback-net software-loopback-net
next-default 192.42.172 NeXTether ethernet localnet
arpanet 10 arpa
ucb-ether 46 ucbether
the SNS log says:
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=killington
INETADDR=199.103.241.90
ROUTER=199.103.241.91
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
NETMASTER=-YES-
Host name: killington
Internet address: 127.0.0.1 <---------- why is this 127.0.0.1 ???
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast:
Network:
Primary interface: en0
Checking NetInfo domain: /
Domain: /
master: killington address: 140.244.189.122 tag: local <---- ???
clone: xerwicker address: 140.244.189.122 tag: local <---- ???
*************** 140.244.189.122 was my old address about 3 months ago
*************** xewricker was my hostname before I edited hostconfig
Local NetInfo domain has no parent
Checking for stand-alone NetInfo configuration.
Local NetInfo domain is stand-alone.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
No NetInfo server for second-level domain.
Beginning Configuration
Updating configuration file: /etc/hostconfig
HOSTNAME=killington
INETADDR=199.103.241.90
ROUTER=199.103.241.91
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
NETMASTER=-YES-
Configuring network interface: en0
Internet address: 199.103.241.90
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 199.103.241.255
Adding default router: 199.103.241.91
Configuring local NetInfo to bind to a network NetInfo domain.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/killington
Status: Not found
NetInfo merge values into property.
domain: /
directory: /machines/broadcasthost
ip_address: 255.255.255.255
Error: Status: No writes allowed: all objects are read-only
Recovering from fatal error
Restoring saved system configuration.
/etc/hosts is=
199.103.241.90 myhost
199.103.241.91 everest
#
# This is the reserved address for the loopback interface. Don't muck
# with it.
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
199.103.241.90 killington
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 5 Jun 1996 05:12:39 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p3507$20i@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
I have written down the steps I did to configure sendmail 8.7.5 for a
standalone machine using a dial up PPP connection to link to the
internet. It uses the user database to set From and Reply to fields
correctly to each user of the system own's Pop account (in all
outgoing mail). Is there a need for this? Should I post it? Could an
expert verify it before an unexperienced user try this???
Thank you,
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: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 5 Jun 1996 05:15:55 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p356b$211@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
I have written down the steps I did to configure sendmail 8.7.5 for a
standalone machine using a dial up PPP connection to link to the
internet. It uses the user database to set From and Reply to fields
correctly to each user of the system own's Pop account (in all
outgoing mail). Is there a need for this? Should I post it? Could an
expert verify it before an unexperienced user try this???
Thank you,
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: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 5 Jun 1996 05:38:06 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p36fu$283@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
I have written down the steps I did to configure sendmail 8.7.5 for a
standalone machine using a dial up PPP connection to link to the
internet. It uses the user database to set From and Reply to fields
correctly to each user of the system own's Pop account (in all
outgoing mail). Is there a need for this? Should I post it? Could an
expert verify it before an unexperienced user try this???
Thank you,
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: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 5 Jun 1996 05:19:10 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p35ce$220@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
I have written down the steps I did to configure sendmail 8.7.5 for a
standalone machine using a dial up PPP connection to link to the
internet. It uses the user database to set From and Reply to fields
correctly to each user of the system own's Pop account (in all
outgoing mail). Is there a need for this? Should I post it? Could an
expert verify it before an unexperienced user try this???
Thank you,
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with 2.5 G EIDE Harddisk
Date: 5 Jun 1996 08:26:05 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p3gat$b9u@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I have a 2.5 G EIDI harddrive (Western Digital Caviar Series)
which I couldnt get to run with NeXTStep. I used the onboard
EIDI controller of an Ausus XE Pentium board. Even with the
newest bios update which now recognizes the size of the harddisk
correctly I couldnt install NS 3.3 on the drive. Nextstep fdisk
is running correctly, and the drive is formatted without even
a single warning. During copying files from CD to harddisk,
errors occurs and after several retries of resetting the EIDI
drivers installation is giving up.
Does anybody knows whats going on there ? I read that
Western Digital is using EIDE while Quantum and Seagate
are using Fast-ATA. Is there difference or has the Next
EIDI driver to be configured differently ?
Peter
=================================================
Peter Geissler
Heidelberg University
Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: What does bootstrap_register failed mean?
Date: 5 Jun 1996 02:12:18 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <4p38g2$7p1@Vir.com>
Hello,
What do the following messages mean? Would it affect network
communications?
stefanos
Jun 5 02:51:12 ringworld reboot: Reboot complete
Jun 5 02:51:19 ringworld loginwindow[224]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 5 02:51:19 ringworld loginwindow[224]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 5 02:51:23 ringworld loginwindow[224]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk
Jun 5 02:51:29 ringworld loginwindow[224]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 5 02:51:29 ringworld loginwindow[224]: register_port_with_nmserver,
netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 5 02:51:29 ringworld loginwindow[224]: bootstrap_register failed - -102
Jun 5 02:51:29 ringworld loginwindow[224]: register_port_with_nmserver,
netname_check_in failed - -102
Jun 5 02:51:29 ringworld loginwindow[229]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.
app/Workspace
Jun 5 02:51:29 ringworld Workspace[229]: logged in
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: What does bootstrap_register failed mean?
Date: 5 Jun 1996 08:44:55 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4p3he7$1um@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4p38g2$7p1@Vir.com>
Cc: stefanos@Vir.com
In <4p38g2$7p1@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas wrote:
> What do the following messages mean? Would it affect network
> communications?
>
> Jun 5 02:51:19 ringworld loginwindow[224]: bootstrap_register failed -
-102
I think this means that you don't have a sound driver loaded. Not a
problem.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Shadow password for NS?
Date: 5 Jun 1996 04:02:18 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4p30sa$ahh@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
Netter,
I would like to know shadow password available in NS/i386 v3.3?
or OPENSTEP 4.0?
--kai--
--
email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 5 Jun 1996 08:42:40 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4p3ha0$b9@turbocat.snafu.de>
References: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu>
jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) wrote:
(...)
> Also, I was wondering if the NeXTTeX package on the 4.0 release would
> have LaTeX 2e on there?
It will not have a new TeXView.app from Tomas Rokicki. It's possible, that
somone else writes a new one. Gregor?
Look for teTeX on peanuts. It gives you LaTeX2e now.
_ _
_(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: jacques.garbi@colombus.ch (Jacques Garbi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How can I change the date format when sending a fax ?
Date: 5 Jun 1996 14:17:39 GMT
Organization: Colombus Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p44u3$aor@news.petrel.ch>
Hi,
This is probably a silly question, but how can I change the date
format on the cover page of a fax ?
It prints something like : Wed Jun 05 15:49:58 GMT+0100 1996
And I'd like it to be : Wednesday, June 5 1996, 15:49
Can anyone help ?
Thanks
--
Jacques GARBI
Colombus Inc.
Av. de France 33
1004 Lausanne
Switzerland
Phone : 011 41 21 661 16 76
Fax : 011 41 21 661 16 73
NeXTMail or MIME : jacques.garbi@colombus.ch
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 5 Jun 1996 16:45:18 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p4diu$92s@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
References: <4p35ce$220@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
In-Reply-To: <4p35ce$220@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
On 06/04/96, Francois Magnan wrote:
>
>I have written down the steps I did to configure sendmail 8.7.5 for a
>standalone machine using a dial up PPP connection to link to the
>internet. It uses the user database to set From and Reply to fields
>correctly to each user of the system own's Pop account (in all
>outgoing mail). Is there a need for this? Should I post it? Could an
>expert verify it before an unexperienced user try this???
>
>Thank you,
>Francois Magnan
>
>--
>______________________________________________________
>Francois Magnan
>Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
>Universite de Montreal
>email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
>
>
Sorry for this.... My news server was always telling me it could not
send the post.
Francois
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Setting up elm+metamail for NEXTSTEP ?
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 10:47:30 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960605103939.3258B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4p1d7u$449@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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To: Gregor Hoffleit <flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4p1d7u$449@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
I won't ask why you just don't use PINE which can do MIME quite nicely and
works with NeXTStep pretty much flawlessly (excepting the locking problem
you mentioned).
> 3.) Has anybody tried to set up elm in order to smoothly work with
> Mail.app's mboxes ? Just the same thing that Timothy Luoma did with
> its mbox2pine script. In fact, patching elm might be more nice.
I'm sure you meant "his" rather than "its" ;-)
The script is very basic, and could be pretty easily adapted for ELM, I'd
guess. There is a variable defined as ~/mail, which is where PINE stores
its mailboxes. Change that variable to be ~/elm or whatever you want the
ELM mailboxes to be. The script will even make the folder if it doesn't
exist (how's that for robustness!)
All the script does it check the ~/Mailboxes folder for folders which end
in .mbox, and then links the "mbox" file within that folder.mbox to ~/mail
(or whatever you define that variable as). Since you can't have 2 files
with the same name, it renames the LINK to what the folder.mbox name is
(ie the "mbox" within "Active.mbox" would be linked as "~/mail/Active".
I do not know how ELM sets up its mail folders, but as long as it doesn't
mess with headers of files it opens, then it should work with Mail.app as
well.
Make backups before you try anything.
Use at your own risk.
Take with plenty of liquids.
Consult your doctor before beginning any rigorous exercise.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu)
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
*** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
From: vanhoose@lalaland.cl.msu.edu (Todd E Van Hoosear)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Netinfo: alias children problem
Date: 5 Jun 1996 22:55:24 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4p538s$lv0@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Summary: All these lost children! What am I to do with them?!
Keywords: netinfo database niload -d cannot lookup child sendmail
In an attempt to clean things up in my netinfo aliases database, I
did an niload -d aliases with my latest sendmail alias file. As usual
I got a message concerning children (which I have traditionally overcome
with the niutils--why doesn't this work properly?), but now in addition
my console is getting flooded with the following message:
Jun 5 18:35:45 lalaland netinfod[95]: cannot lookup child
It doesn't seem to be affecting mail delivery, which is reassuring, but
it is still a bit of an annoyance. Any suggestions on cleaning this
little mess up? Thanks!
- Todd
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From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Accessing a machine on a "private" network from a "public" network...
Date: 6 Jun 1996 04:32:28 GMT
Organization: Sirius Connections
Message-ID: <4p5n0s$esr@sun.sirius.com>
Hello Nice Usenet People:
I've been struggling for days now with a tricky networking problem, and I'm
about ready to head for the Golden Gate Bridge...
We're getting ready to test one of our WebObjects apps, but have a real
hurdle to clear. The WO app needs to access a database server that's on a
separate TCP/IP subnet which is connected on the the same "wire." In other
words, the site has two Class C subnets, one public (where the NeXT PC lives)
and the other private one, where the SCO UNIX machine that we need to talk to
lives. It's all one ethernet network going through the same hubs.
I've gotten invaluable assistance from Bill Bumgarner who sent me a patched
PPP kernel which has allowed me to add a second IP address to the NeXT PC
(corresponding to the private net). The second IP address lives on one of the
8 PPP interfaces. The problem is that I can't figure out how to make a route
from the NeXT PC to the private network. Traceroute from the NeXT PC to the
DB server's IP address on the private network shows that packets go to the
Cisco router on the public net (the default route for going to and from the
Internet) then get lost.
Can anyone help me? I hope I've explained myself clearly. Surely someone must
have some experience with this problem. Any assistance will not only be
forever appreciated, but will surely land the contributor box seats in Heaven
as well.
Best regards,
John
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 00:52:48 -0500
Organization: Illinois State University, Instructional Technology Services
Message-ID: <31B67230.6D47@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>
References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com>
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To: "James B. Frazer" <jbf@frazer.com>
James B. Frazer wrote:
>
> In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote:
>
> > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a
> > Machintosh?
>
> I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac.
Well check out GhostScript 1.0, it's now PowerPC code!
------------------------------------------
Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie
mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ASCII, MIME or NeXT Mail
Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University
Understanding is best learned via experience
ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: Jacob Nielsen <jacob@dannug.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help I can't control the ownership on a 2nd HD
Date: 3 Jun 1996 21:07:52 GMT
Organization: Danish NeXT User Group
Message-ID: <4ovk78$bm@jnext.dannug.dk>
References: <4oe9r0$f6k@info.estec.esa.nl>
mschwett@vmprofs.estec.esa.nl (ms) wrote:
> Hi,
> Since I recently upgrade my intel system to NS3.3, I can't control the ow
> nership of the files on my second hard disk,
Edit /etc/fstab so it says something like:
# Format: 'Device name' 'Mount point' bla bla bla
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /DiskInt 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/dev/sd2a /DiskExt 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
Notice that only the root device can have the 'noauto' option!
You can get the fstab man page from NeXTAnswers.
Regards,
Jacob
--
Jacob Nielsen
Email: jacob@dannug.dk
URL: http://www.dannug.dk/~jacob/
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: [Q]: source for low price DPT smartcache controller?
Date: 6 Jun 1996 11:48:34 GMT
Organization: CARNet, CROATIA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p6gii$ohv@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
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Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to
know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia...
So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the
lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers.
Regards,
Thor Legvold
currently in exile in Croatia
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: automounter interpretating a nis map
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 15:44:35 +0200
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitt Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <31B6E0C3.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
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Hi folks,
the nfs automounter on other systems like dec alpha and sgi irix 5.x does handle
mounts with very apstract entries like:
alpha> ypcat -k auto.master
/people auto.people -rw,soft,intr
alpha> ypcat -k auto.people
* &:/usr/people
this has the effect that an access of /people/machinename directly mounts the
/usr/people from that maschine to the local /people/machinename !
The line "* &:/usr/people" is just ignored by next's autonfsmount. So I have to
include every new machine in the nis map like
next> ypcat -k auto.people
th01 th01:/usr/people
th02 th02:/usr/people
th03 th03:/usr/people
th04 th04:/usr/people
th05 th05:/usr/people
th06 th06:/usr/people
th07 th07:/usr/people
th08 th08:/usr/people
th09 th09:/usr/people
th10 th10:/usr/people
And I have to reboot all the nextstations if a new line is added in the nis map.
Any hints ?
Thanks
stef
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From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: shutdown without graphics needed because VGA hangs up
Date: 6 Jun 1996 14:01:12 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p6ob8$8bh@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Hi erverybody,
The combination of my VGA (ELSA Winner 2000AVI, using
S3 968 chip) and ASUS T2P4 board has the problem that it
is necessary to boot using the -v option and to skip Configure.app
while installing Nextstep. NeXTAnswers is telling that this
behaviour is only seen with asus board and S3 cards and can be
solved by specifying "BootGraphics = No" with Configure. Unfortunately,
my system shows the same problem during power off, the screen just
turns completely black and everything hangs up. Does anybody knows
how to specifiy not to use this graphics mode not only during
startup, but also during shutdown ? BTW, does anybody know the
reason for this strange behaviour of S3/ASUS systems ?
Thanx in advance
Peter
Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck)
Subject: Floppy drive problems
Message-ID: <DsKzMt.472@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>
Sender: news@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com
Organization: Rockwell Avionics - Collins
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 13:47:16 GMT
We have hundreds of Gateway pentiums of various configs here.
All of the work well, except three. The three bad machines
are uniquely and identically configured with 2 Gig EIDE drives
and ATAPI CD-ROMs.
For some reason, the Floppy drives have stopped working on these
three machines. If you try to write to a floppy, the entire machine
locks up and must be reset.
- Any help appreciated
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,msu.misc
Subject: Re: Strange problem with mail
Date: 4 Jun 1996 22:14:53 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4p2cgt$gvg@news.its.com>
References: <4oqkii$l8t@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
guentche@cps.msu.edu (Kamen Yankov Guentchev) wrote:
> A couple of days ago I created a synonim for my NeXT machine in our
> main DNS. The host name is centacor.chm.msu.edu and the synonim:
> pie.msu.edu. When I send mail @ the original host name everything
> goes just fine, But when I try sending mail @pie.msu.edu the mail
> bounces back with the following funny message:
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> While connected to pie.msu.edu:
> >>> HELO centacor.chm.msu.edu
> <<< 553 centacor.chm.msu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself
> 554 <guentche@pie.msu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
You need to add 'pie.msu.edu' to class w (look for a line starting with 'Cw')
so that sendmail knows that the new name is an alias for the local machine
and therefore should be handled by local mailers instead of being resnt to
some other machine.
Your machine tried to resend the message because it wasn't recognized as
local, and had DNS tell the machine that it actually was the destination,
which generates the "loops back to myself" error.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: jcl@yonext.apl.washington.edu (James C. Luby)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: email comsat problems
Date: 6 Jun 1996 15:53:17 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
Distribution: na
Message-ID: <4p6utd$du@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
Keywords: email, problems, comsat
I have a NeXT (Motorola) system that operates in a heterogeneous environment (i.e., a local
area net consisting of lots of different types of computers). I have accounts on several other
systems in our network (Sun and Silicon Graphics systems) and use one of our laboratory's
central servers for email, name service and so forth. After upgrading from NeXTStep 3.2 to
NS 3.3 I started getting calls from the owners of the other systems that I have accounts on
indicating that their systems were logging messages of the following sort:
Jun 5 12:44:09 sun1 in.comsat[5740]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 14:16:21 sun1 in.comsat[5767]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 14:55:24 sun1 in.comsat[5777]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 15:12:23 sun1 in.comsat[5778]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 15:31:27 sun1 in.comsat[5779]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 15:55:35 sun1 in.comsat[5781]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 16:24:10 sun1 in.comsat[5787]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 16:46:16 sun1 in.comsat[5788]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
Jun 5 18:24:25 sun1 in.comsat[5801]: refused connect from mynext.apl.washington.edu
It appears that whenever email arrives at our main server, which in turn sends the mail to my
NeXT where I read it using Next Mail version 3.3, this happens. My best guess is that the
email system on my NeXT is trying to inform the other computers that new email has arrived
for me.
If anyone knows how I can turn this "feature" off I would be most appreciative if you could
post a solution or fire me an email (jcl@apl.washington.edu). The messages are not causing
any problems on the other computers but are a form of junk mail to the system
administrators on those systems.
Thanks in advance!
--
Jim Luby
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98105
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Replacing a netinfo server boot disk.
Message-ID: <DsKrFH.Erq@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <DsEM8D.JFp@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 10:50:05 GMT
In <DsEM8D.JFp@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Steven M. Boker wrote:
> I spent some time today attempting to replace a 5 year old boot disk
> now that the MTBF ratio is against me. I attempted to make a copy
> of the boot disk (a 3.2 system) by formatting the new disk, mounting
> it on /newdisk from a single user boot and using
>
> dump 0sdf 100000 100000 - | (cd /newdisk; restore rvf -)
>
> to copy the old boot disk onto the new boot disk. I then wrote a boot
> block to the new disk and then swapped it into the NeXTstation. Everything
> seemed normal on bootup to the new disk, but no one except root can
> login. The netinfo database is intact and all the files seem to be
> there, but in poking around I notice that there are a number of s-bits
> missing where I'd expect them to be set.
>
As far as I remember, you stepped onto a odious 'restore' bug in NS 3.2 where
files were not correctly restored to their modes with respect to s-bits. In
hindsight it might have been better to use gnutar for that task.
--
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: jmonroe@ravensoft.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: eCeSys machines wont auto start.
Date: 6 Jun 1996 18:57:36 GMT
Organization: Mid-Plains Internet, Inc.
Message-ID: <4p79n0$2s7@unix.midplains.net>
of all our machines, two eCeSys machines will not auto start at the "will boot in 10 sec" prompt on 3.3
it never times out, and i have to actually hit enter to start them.
any ideas on this and how to correct it?
thanks,
james
jmonroe@ravensoft.com
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need advice about Cube internal drive
Date: 6 Jun 1996 15:53:23 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p6utj$2tj@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
My old original Cube internal drive is on its last legs. But it will
come up successfully most of the time, so I'd like to keep it around for
emergency use. Therefore, in my attempt to maintain internal termination of
the SCSI bus, I merely unplugged the power lead to the internal drive last
fall.
This worked fine until my external Conner drive failed and was replaced
by a Micropolis. Now, I experience SCSI parity errors whenever I use the
system which makes the system unusable causing serious data corruption on the
Micropolis. If I power on the internal drive, the parity errors don't occur,
but the internal drive won't always power on without making very nasty noises
which sound like the thing is self destructing, something I want to avoid.
I use a passive terminator on the external end of the SCSI bus. The
Micropolis drive vendor has suggested replacing the passive terminator with
an active one which I have ordered, but not yet received. Does this sound
like a reasonable solution? Is there a better way to shut down the internal
drive? When the drive fails, do I need to do something to terminate the
internal end of the SCSI bus?
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: r32622@email.sps.mot.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo vs. Printcap
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 12:07:54 +0000
Organization: Semiconductor Products Sector
Message-ID: <31B6CA1A.36D8@email.sps.mot.com>
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I am not sure if this is covered in a faq, if so, flame away I
suppose.
I am trying to set up my local printer which is a NeXT 400 dpi Level
II PS printer so it is available to others on our network via lpr. I
have the default Local_Host that is set up upon detection of the
connected printer. In addition, I am trying to name this printer,
lets say foo so lpr -Pfoo will send to my printer. All books point to
the printcap file. As far as I can tell, I have the necessary
information in the printcap file. My entry is as below:
foo: \
:lp=/dev/np0:ty=NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer: \
:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/foo:lf:/tmp/print.elog:rs=false:
This sets it up on the printer device, states the type, specifies a
log file, and states that the remote user does not need an account on
my machine to print. In addition, I can include the filters including
banner pages if necessary, but what am I missing.
The PrintManager won't let me modify the printer entry, nor will it
let me create another NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer. I find this
stranger. Anyway, these two entities seem to be fighting each other
rather than working together.
My OS is NeXTStep 3.2 with PrintManager version 3.0... Any
suggestions?
TIA!
Jeff
jefft@marooned.sps.mot.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there a Sendmail FAQ
Date: 6 Jun 1996 20:47:27 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <4p7g4v$7hf@digifix.digifix.com>
References: <4olqvq$fuh@news15.erols.com> <4oup18$2ft@news.its.com>
In-Reply-To: <4oup18$2ft@news.its.com>
On 06/03/96, Chuck Swiger wrote:
>Scott@localhost.erols.com wrote:
>> [ ... ]
>
>I don't know whether there's a FAQ, but sendmail comes with extensive
>documentation, and there's a huge (~500 page) O'Reilly book on
sendmail, too.
>For that matter, the single chapter on sendmail in "TCP/IP Network
>Administration", also by O'Reilly, has a pretty high information
content.
>
>Between all of these sources, you shouldn't have any problems getting
>adequate documentation.
Chuck
The problem with Sendmail is that you get more than adequate
documentation! Its just trying to document the most convoluted stuff
in the world, sendmail config files!
What there needs to be is a simple FAQ type set of documents.
I'm not sure if the O'Reilly book would cover that or not (they are
usually an excellent buy.
--
- Scott Anguish -
sanguish@digifix.com (NextMail)
next-announce@digifix.com (comp.sys.next.announce submissions)
http://www.stepwise.com/ (Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information Server)
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 6 Jun 1996 21:30:24 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p7ilg$sv4@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
References: <4p35ce$220@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
In-Reply-To: <4p35ce$220@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
On 06/04/96, Francois Magnan wrote:
>
>I have written down the steps I did to configure sendmail 8.7.5 for a
>standalone machine using a dial up PPP connection to link to the
>internet. It uses the user database to set From and Reply to fields
>correctly to each user of the system own's Pop account (in all
>outgoing mail). Is there a need for this? Should I post it? Could an
>expert verify it before an unexperienced user try this???
>
>Thank you,
>Francois Magnan
>
>--
>______________________________________________________
>Francois Magnan
>Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
>Universite de Montreal
>email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
>
>
Since it seems that there is a need for this...
You can get a version of my instructions at:
http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Backup Hardware and Software
Date: 6 Jun 1996 17:06:10 GMT
Organization: Californi State University, Fresno
Message-ID: <4p7362$sme@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU>
Hi Folks,
Do anyone know any backup hardware and software which can backup NeXT, SUN,
Mac and Window machine?
I would like to use Solistice Backup 4.2 on Sparc Server. However, it
doesn't support NeXT platform. Is it anyway we can backup NeXT using
Solistice 4.2?
Thanks in advance!!
--Kin
From: evan@mult.evolution.com (Evan D. Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Performance questions: NeXTStep on Intel
Date: 7 Jun 1996 01:03:28 GMT
Organization: Phantom Access Technologies, Inc. / MindVox
Message-ID: <4p7v50$adp@news.phantom.com>
I've just finished installing a few pentiums in the office with
NeXTStep, and noticed that the performance seems to be very tied
in with the system BIOS setting for some reason. For instance, on
one box here there were two bios settings, one for "fail safe" bios configs
and one for "optimal performance". With fail safe, it would perform slow
as a bitch. With optimal, it would perform much faster but crash more often.
Is this normal? I was under the impression that pc-unixes don't even read
information from the BIOS.
If anyone can shed some insight my way, i'd be most appreciative.
Thanks,
Evan
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there a Sendmail FAQ
Date: 3 Jun 1996 13:23:52 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4oup18$2ft@news.its.com>
References: <4olqvq$fuh@news15.erols.com>
Scott@localhost.erols.com wrote:
> [ ... ]
I don't know whether there's a FAQ, but sendmail comes with extensive
documentation, and there's a huge (~500 page) O'Reilly book on sendmail, too.
For that matter, the single chapter on sendmail in "TCP/IP Network
Administration", also by O'Reilly, has a pretty high information content.
Between all of these sources, you shouldn't have any problems getting
adequate documentation.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: Lawrence Cragg <Cragg@inforamp.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: More SCSI questions (I'm confused...)
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 22:00:01 +0000
Organization: Information & Control Systems
Message-ID: <31B754E1.22B4@inforamp.net>
References: <4oh6ta$jo7@bagan.srce.hr> <4othlp$fs9@news.accessone.com> <DsH1G0.5pF@rivm.nl>
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As someone who has experienced confusion from time to time about SCSI I
recommend "The Book of SCSI" ISBN 1-886411-02-6
Before you ask: I didn't write it, I don't sell it, and I don't know the
authors! It's just one helluva useful book on the subject.
Cheers.
From: kwoolsey@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: [Q]: source for low price DPT smartcache controller?
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 00:35:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4p7j27$7ak@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4p6gii$ohv@bagan.srce.hr>
thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote:
>Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to
>know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia...
>So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the
>lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers.
>Regards,
>Thor Legvold
>currently in exile in Croatia
The two international inside sales reps at DPT are:
rivera@dpt.com
stander@dpt.com
One of them should be able to help you!!
Visit DPT on the WWW at www.dpt.com.
Kristofer Woolsey
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP + Solaris 2.5 questions
Date: 2 Jun 1996 14:43:48 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4os9b4$kbo@news.its.com>
References: <31AE9F68.2BA6@artsci.wustl.edu>
"G. Hussain Chinoy" <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Do Solaris 2.5 and NEXTSTEP 3.3 peacefully NFS mount (export and
> import) from/to each other?
No. There are bugs in old versions of NFS, like NeXT's, that causes problems
interacting with modern releases of NFS, like Solaris 2.4 and up.
From the Solaris 2 FAQ:
"5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs.
In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit
NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default.
This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations
(such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT)
There are two workarounds. The first one works and is:
mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024.
The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696 is:
Edit /etc/system and add:
set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1
and reboot."
> We're intending to keep our NEXTSTEP NetInfo server as the main
> server, so is there a way to share NetInfo user database info between
> Solaris and NEXTSTEP?
An adequate substitute is to use nidump to create flat-file databases which
you load into YP/NIS on the Sun. Automate the process from cron to happen a
couple of times a day....
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo sleeping
Date: 7 Jun 1996 07:59:28 GMT
Organization: ServNet Internet Services
Message-ID: <4p8nh1$f9p@brockman.serv.net>
I know this has been asked before, but I couldn't find it. :(
I just purchased a PPro and installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 and PPP-2.2.
I followed the README file and since I had PPP running on my black
hardware; it wasn't that difficult to do again. It worked until I
tried OmniWeb 2 and I received the following error
thrall OmniWeb[212]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain,
sleeping
I added the route command to my rc.local file and rebooted, but that
did nothing. I ran the route command by hand and it gave me hostname
(thrall) as bad argument.
I should add that it only seems to sleep when ppp is running. If the
link is down all works ok.
Any help/ideas are much appreciated.
Thanks,
dean johnson
P.S. the PPro's really moves. I highly recommend them :)
--
NeXTmail Please | More computer stuff!
|
thrall@serv.net | - My wife
|
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo sleeping
Date: 7 Jun 1996 14:30:57 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <4p9ef1$jg2@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <4p8nh1$f9p@brockman.serv.net>
Dean Johnson (thrall@serv.net) wrote:
> I just purchased a PPro and installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 and PPP-2.2.
> I followed the README file and since I had PPP running on my black
> hardware; it wasn't that difficult to do again. It worked until I
> tried OmniWeb 2 and I received the following error
> thrall OmniWeb[212]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain,
> sleeping
A routing problem caused by Netinfo and PPP. A fix can be found
in the PPP FAQ:
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html
It basically consists of adding a route from the PPP address
to the loopback address.
I've heard but can't confirm the 3.3 patch partly fixes this.
Best wishes, Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.."
// http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/
// +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Using Seagate CTT8000 on NeXTCube?
Date: 7 Jun 1996 18:55:29 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4p9tv1$kaj@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I have access to a Seagate CTT8000 external scsi minicartridge drive. I've
been able to use it a bit using the mt and dump commands. Does anyone have an
application that manages such devices better? It's hard to tell what's on the
tape, locate a particular file etc. A generic dump and restore from scsi tape
drive would be nice.
Thanks,
--
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Performance questions: NeXTStep on Intel
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 19:56:19 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <4pa1it$fcm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <4p7v50$adp@news.phantom.com>
evan@mult.evolution.com (Evan D. Baer) wrote:
>I've just finished installing a few pentiums in the office with
>NeXTStep, and noticed that the performance seems to be very tied
>in with the system BIOS setting for some reason. For instance, on
>one box here there were two bios settings, one for "fail safe" bios configs
>and one for "optimal performance". With fail safe, it would perform slow
>as a bitch. With optimal, it would perform much faster but crash more often.
>Is this normal? I was under the impression that pc-unixes don't even read
>information from the BIOS.
While it is true that most Unix variants for PCs don't rely on the
BIOS for normal operation, they do (as do all operating systems for
PCs to some extent) rely on the BIOS to initialize the hardware to a
sane state.
There are a large number of properties specific to a particular
motherboard, chip set, memory, and on-board peripheral configuration
that only the BIOS code knows how to configure. These properties may
include secondary cache and memory controller configuration, memory
timing, disk controller configuration (including IDE timing or 'speed'
setting), and enabling or disabling on-board peripherals.
The 'fail safe' configuration in most BIOS setups picks the most
conservative values possible, and may (depending on the vendor) be
doing such things as disabling secondary cache, selecting worst case
memory timing, running busses at a slow clock (e.g, clocking ISA at
5.77 MHz PC-XT rates), disabling PCI burst support, and so on. This
mode is intended for recovery from BIOS configuration errors and is
not typically used in normal operation.
The operating system typically looks at the configuration presented by
the BIOS at boot time, assumes that it is correct for the platform,
and runs. (NeXT's boot code also checks for a few things that are
outside the capability of BIOS code to represent, such as more than 64
Mb of main memory.)
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: "Robert D. Nielsen" <robert.nielsen@everest.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: faxing text files from command line
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 16:59:00 -0700
Organization: Everest Technology, Inc.
Message-ID: <31B8C244.493C@everest.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Greetings,
I have seen this posted here before, but could not
locate it in the FAQ (on rtfm.mit.edu).
How can I fax a text file from the command line?
I have a fax modem and NXFax driver (faxing from
the PrintPanel works great).
Cheers,
Robert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck)
Subject: Re: Performance questions: NeXTStep on Intel
Message-ID: <Dsn122.G04@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com>
Sender: news@lazrus.cca.rockwell.com
Cc: evan@mult.evolution.com
Organization: Rockwell Avionics - Collins
References: <4p7v50$adp@news.phantom.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:13:13 GMT
In <4p7v50$adp@news.phantom.com> Evan D. Baer wrote:
> I've just finished installing a few pentiums in the office with
> NeXTStep, and noticed that the performance seems to be very tied
> in with the system BIOS setting for some reason. For instance, on
> one box here there were two bios settings, one for "fail safe" bios configs
> and one for "optimal performance". With fail safe, it would perform slow
> as a bitch. With optimal, it would perform much faster but crash more
often.
>
> Is this normal? I was under the impression that pc-unixes don't even read
> information from the BIOS.
>
> If anyone can shed some insight my way, i'd be most appreciative.
>
> Thanks,
> Evan
>
If you have PCI machines, the "optimal performance" setting is probably
enabling
PCI write posting (an unsafe optimization) in the hardware.
This optimization corrupts data under DOS and Windows also. For some reason,
many DOS/Windows users just expect their data to become corrupted
occasionally.
I joke that windows users need a foot pedal connected to the reset button.
Anyway, we have many many Gateway pentiums and some work great and some work
poorly with Nextstep. We even have some supposedly identical machines that
exhibit
different problems.
- Erik M. Buck
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi
From: Anonymous
Subject: Re: [Q]: source for low price DPT smartcache controller?
Message-ID: <DsnGIH.2o2@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM>
Sender: news@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.ATTGIS.COM (news)
Organization: AT&T Global Information Solutions, Columbia SC
References: <4p7j27$7ak@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:47:05 GMT
==========kwoolsey@ix.netcom.com, 6/6/96==========
thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote:
>Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to
>know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia...
>So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the
>lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers.
>Regards,
>Thor Legvold
>currently in exile in Croatia
The two international inside sales reps at DPT are:
rivera@dpt.com
stander@dpt.com
One of them should be able to help you!!
Visit DPT on the WWW at www.dpt.com.
Kristofer Woolsey
==========kwoolsey@ix.netcom.com, 6/6/96==========
thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold) wrote:
>Now that I've found what controller I'd like to buy, I need to
>know where I can buy it - it's not available in Croatia...
>So, please e-mail any tips about mailorder/nett order for the
>lowest price and best service/support of DPT SCSI controllers.
>Regards,
>Thor Legvold
>currently in exile in Croatia
The two international inside sales reps at DPT are:
rivera@dpt.com
stander@dpt.com
One of them should be able to help you!!
Visit DPT on the WWW at www.dpt.com.
Kristofer Woolsey
For your next computer product purchase, checkout Computer Consultants of
Columbia's online catalog at: http://www.netside.com/~ccofcola/products.html
go back one and checkout the entire web site
(http://www.netside.com/~ccofcola).
They stock over 25,000 different computer products from over 10,000 different
manufacturers.
There e-mail address is: ccofcola@netside.com
The most fantastic thing I've found out about this company is they spend 5
days building
a system tailored to your needs, with a 72 hour burn in and then still offer a
5 year warranty
on the CPU and memory, and also a 100% 3 year warranty, which covers all parts
and labor.
The only thing you pay is shipping. I've found that to be the best warranty
offered on the Internet. Theres even talk of a buy back plan for your system
after 3 years.
Remember you heard it from me first.
From: "Chad E. Wilcox" <cewilcox@inav.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Any books for NS system administration?
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 21:15:50 -0500
Organization: Internet Navigator, Inc.
Message-ID: <31B8E256.34228BD1@inav.net>
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Does anyone know of any good books for NS on system administration?
Thanks for any info!
Chad Wilcox
cewilcox@inav.net
From: gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: offline sendmail over ppp
Date: 8 Jun 1996 03:21:07 GMT
Organization: Kralizec Dialup Internet Sydney, +61-2-837-1183 V.32bis
Message-ID: <4parj3$h20@gidora.kralizec.net.au>
Keywords: sendmail ppp
I have installed ppp2.2 and it works a treat as evidenced by this posting.
I have also read and followed Next_PPP_FAQ.html which is a compilation of
wisdom garnered from the net (Thanks whoever put that together ).
The problem is that whenever I use the sendmail.cf modified as described
in the above document I get mail returned with host unknown if I am
offline. Online all works fine. What I want is a method that will
poiltely queue mail messages if there is no ppp and then when I get online
I will issue a sendmail -q to send it on its way.
In my experimentation it appears that Mail.app is issuing a sendmail -q
after it sends the message and becuase the ppp link is not up the message
fails. Of course, I could be causing the sendmail -q when I check for new
mail <g>. This occured when I used a modified sendmail.subsidiary.cf
which turned queueing on. I will probably try turning on queueing with
the modified sendmail.mailhost.cf.
Any pointers on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Greg Shaw.
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need SCSI drive recommendation for Cube
Date: 8 Jun 1996 04:44:36 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4pb0fk$gjk@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
The original Maxtor internal drive on my Cube is failing. Occasionally,
it starts up making terrible clunking noises and the system won't boot. I
have used a DEC and Conner external drives with the system for at least 3
years, so I don't have to depend on the Maxtor. I unplugged its power last
fall when it began failing and ran without problems using an external Conner.
Last week, the Conner failed :-( Seagate has bought Conner and is
"servicing" Conner's 5-year warranty. Seagate's idea of service requires
returning the drive to Seagate for repair or replacement, a process that the
distributor says is taking up to a month these days. This is why I've
avoided Seagate drives in the past.
I have work to do, so I bought a replacement drive, a Micropolis 4221.
However, I cannot use it with the Maxtor powered off because of SCSI parity
errors that seriously corrupt data on the Micropolis. Nothing on my SCSI bus
has changed except the external drive and I never experienced parity errors
with either the DEC or Conner drives. The distributor enabled termination
power on the Micropolis today, but this didn't help. I've spent far more
time dealing with this problem than the drive is worth, so I'm looking for a
new SCSI disk source, someone who will supply a drive that will work with my
setup.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a SCSI disk distributor and a 2.1
GB SCSI disk that works with black hardware in which the internal drive is
powered off?
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 8 Jun 1996 11:30:06 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
Hi,
I've just added DRAM to my ZyXEL 2864 thereby enabling it to receive faxes
while the computer is turned off. Unfortunately, it only does so if issued
two special commands (at+fclass=z and then at+fzf=3).
Of course it would be a drag to issue these commands manually each time you
turn off the computer so I'm looking for a way to do that automatically. This
arises two problems for me:
1. How do I issue these two commands over the serial port not using tip or
the like but a little script or C program? This may be an easy one for a
professional programmer, but I'm none :-(
2. (I'm afraid that makes much more problems): How do I execute this little
script/program automatically when the computer is turned off? It must be
started AFTER all apps have already been terminated to make sure no other
program locks the serial device. Basically, I'm looking for something like
/etc/rc to make an entry in, but for the other way round; but I couldn't find
anything :-(
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!
Bye
Uli
--
_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
PGP: public key on request
Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
From: jda@jda.rust.net (John David Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDROM config (can't read PhotoCDs)
Date: 8 Jun 1996 12:13:15 GMT
Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276
Message-ID: <4pbqor$jgd@oxy.rust.net>
Keywords: CDROM config PhotoCD
I have a black slab, with a PLI CD-ROM (Toshiba inners) and after recoving
from a head crash on my hard drive, an old problem is back. I can't read
PhotoCDs. I changed the security on the CDROM.util file so it would have
the 's' option, but that didn't seem to help. I looked through all my old
mail and files and could not find how I fixed this the last time. Anyone
got any suggestions?
Here what the files access looks like:
jda:2# cd /usr/filesystems
jda:3# ls -l
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jun 7 23:03 CDROM.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jun 7 15:46 DOS.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jan 20 08:37 HFS_XFer.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 27 1995 cdaudio.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jun 8 06:53 mac.fs/
jda:4# cd CDROM.fs
jda:5# ls -l
total 617
-r--r--r-- 1 root 3546 Mar 25 1992 CDROM.fs.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 16 May 8 20:55 CDROM.name
-r--r--r-- 1 root 3546 Mar 25 1992 CDROM.openfs.tiff
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Oct 20 1994 CDROM.util*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 551440 Oct 20 1994 CDROM_reloc
Here is what the Console says:
Disk is Write Protected
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
probing for HFS_XFer
Seems to just skip over CDROM
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Natural Figure Photography
URL: http://www.rust.net/~jda
email: jda@jda.rust.net
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
John David Adamski
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 22:21:20 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun8.222120.27585@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
In article <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes:
> 1. How do I issue these two commands over the serial port not using tip
or
> the like but a little script or C program? This may be an easy one for a
> professional programmer, but I'm none :-(
This is the easy part; install kermit, and run a script from that.
> 2. (I'm afraid that makes much more problems): How do I execute this
little
> script/program automatically when the computer is turned off? It must be
> started AFTER all apps have already been terminated to make sure no
other
> program locks the serial device. Basically, I'm looking for something
like
> /etc/rc to make an entry in, but for the other way round; but I couldn't
find
> anything :-(
Tricky. I'd consider executing it in a logouthook, which would be easy to
arrange. You'd then have to make sure that you always logged out before
powering down.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Don Turrentine <dturren@hsf.uab.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating new netinfo server - Urgent!
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 18:45:38 -0500
Organization: University of Alabama Health Services Foundation
Message-ID: <31BA10A2.6561@hsf.uab.edu>
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CC: dturren
I am trying to bring up an additional subnet (net). I have a range of
networks of a class B network. Currently I am using two of them. I am
need of more IP addresses so I am looking to add another. Right now I
have two midlevel NetInfo domains /one /two off from the root /. The tag
for the root level is root. Subnet a is netinfo domain /one and subnet b
is domain /two. Since I will be getting to the third subnet via a router
I must set up a Netinfo server and configuration server on that subnet.
I am running a mixture of 2.2 and 3.0. The master server for / is
running 2.2 and so is the machine that I want to make server subnet c
with domain name /three.
Here is what I tried which failed.
Removed all instances of threeserver from the Netinfo databases in all
domains. Removed threeserver from network. Booted it up as localhost
went thru NetManager and setup as Master Netinfo and Conf server, gave
it its new IP and hostname - threeserver. Rebooted and it worked fine.
Next I tried to add to the existing root level domain. Here is what I
did:
On root server
niutil -create / /machines/threeserver
niutil -createprop / /machines/threeserver ip_address newip (subnet c)
(so far so good)
niutil -createprop / /machines/threeserver serves three/network
Question here: Do I have to tell threeserver anything about it serving
netinfo domain three???
On threeserver:
niutil -create .. /machines/rootserver
niutil -creatprop .. /machines/rootserver ip_address its_ip (rootserver)
niutil -createprop .. /machines/rootserver serves ../root
Then I rebooted threeserver. Threeserver just sits and spins. Any ideas?
I desperately need to get this working. I did not set up the original
ones and although netinfo is similar to NIS and NIS+ (which I am very
familar with) I am lost.
Please e-mail suggestions. 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.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
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From: Eric Tremblay <eric@who.cdrom.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 96 23:40:02 -0700
Subject: Can't print to a NetWare Printer...
Hello,
I have access to a printer on Novell, and that printer worked just
last we with my NEXTSTEP box, but now I only get an alert box
telling me.
"NetWare print job failed: no queue rights. Please make sure you
are authenticated on the NetWare server."
I'm properly logged into NetWare. I have access to the hard disk
etc... Anyone have a clue to what is the problem??
Eric "E.T." Tremblay
eric@cdrom.com
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: offline sendmail over ppp
Date: 9 Jun 1996 16:15:32 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4petb4$ai4@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
References: <4parj3$h20@gidora.kralizec.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <4parj3$h20@gidora.kralizec.net.au>
On 06/07/96, Greg Shaw wrote:
>I have installed ppp2.2 and it works a treat as evidenced by this
posting.
>I have also read and followed Next_PPP_FAQ.html which is a
compilation of
>wisdom garnered from the net (Thanks whoever put that together ).
>
>The problem is that whenever I use the sendmail.cf modified as
described
>in the above document I get mail returned with host unknown if I am
>offline. Online all works fine. What I want is a method that will
>poiltely queue mail messages if there is no ppp and then when I get
online
>I will issue a sendmail -q to send it on its way.
>
>In my experimentation it appears that Mail.app is issuing a sendmail
-q
>after it sends the message and becuase the ppp link is not up the
message
>fails. Of course, I could be causing the sendmail -q when I check
for new
>mail <g>. This occured when I used a modified sendmail.subsidiary.cf
>which turned queueing on. I will probably try turning on queueing
with
>the modified sendmail.mailhost.cf.
>
>Any pointers on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers, Greg Shaw.
>
I address this question in my notes "Sendmail 8.7.5 configuration for
a simple PPP link". You can find this at
http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/
Basically you need to have two sendmail.cf files: one when you are
online and one when you are offline. You switch between these in
/etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts. You also need to modify
Mail.app because Mail.app sends mail using "sendmail -oi -odb" and
this overides the "Odq" that you can put in your sendmail.cf file to
queue the mail. Everything is explained in the file above...
Francois Magnan
--
______________________________________________________
Francois Magnan
Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques
Universite de Montreal
email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Peter Geissler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to get a S3-968 VGA running
Date: 9 Jun 1996 17:58:21 GMT
Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4pf3bt$eqq@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Does anybody knows how to get a VGA with an S3-968
running ? I have an ELSA Winner 2000-AVI with is
unfortunately not supported by the WINNER 1000/2000
driver. The VGA shows some strange behaviour:
- booting without -v option never works, but
booting wiht -v option does not work everytime.
sometimes the screen just turns black.
- switching to the desired display modes does
now work, all i get is a black screen.
(8 bit color at 60 hz seems to work)
- shutdown does not work, because the system
hangs up before the "please wait until .."
panel appears (shows blank screen instead).
I tried to manually shut down by "shutdown
-hp now" by had no sucess.
I am using S3 Generic Display Driver V. 3.32 and
I did correct for the right memory address
by hand. BTW, its an ASUS T2P4 board using
AWARD BIOS 1.104
Does anybody has an idea whats going on with the
machine and what can I do to get it running ?
Thanks,
Peter
Peter.Geissler@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: caliban@internext.com (Caliban Tiresias Darklock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT and Windows NT
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 02:24:00 GMT
Organization: Darklock Communications
Message-ID: <31bb85b1.183733002@news.internext.com>
Does anyone have any personal experiences, sources of information, or
recommendations with respect to running a network on Windows NT and black NeXT
slab/cube hardware? Is it pretty much the same sort of thing you would go
through with *any* UNIX box, or are there special concerns for NeXT?
The general idea here is mainly to fill the holes in NT - like telnet, DNS,
etc. - without needing to add *too* much recurring maintenance to the network.
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 10 Jun 1996 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4pg7ge$nms@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news:comp.sys.next.advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in
the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy
flame wars from .misc.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com
where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Archives are available by ftp at
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
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These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
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(ignoring capitalization)
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three files:
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sent as ASCII text files:
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This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
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SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NetInfo sleeping
Date: 10 Jun 1996 06:54:21 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique
Message-ID: <4pggqt$nov@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr>
References: <4p8nh1$f9p@brockman.serv.net>
In article <4p8nh1$f9p@brockman.serv.net> thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson)
writes:
> I just purchased a PPro and installed NEXTSTEP 3.3 and PPP-2.2.
> I followed the README file and since I had PPP running on my black
> hardware; it wasn't that difficult to do again. It worked until I
> tried OmniWeb 2 and I received the following error
>
> thrall OmniWeb[212]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain,
> sleeping
>
> I added the route command to my rc.local file and rebooted, but that
> did nothing. I ran the route command by hand and it gave me hostname
> (thrall) as bad argument.
>
Is your workstation standalone ?
'Cause, a standalone has no real local domain.
To resolve your problem, just use 'HostManager.app'
and enable the option 'Use only local domain'.
--
Xavier NICOLAY
Architecte Systeme UNIX
Ecole Polytechnique
Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX)
91128 PALAISEAU Cedex
E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD
Date: 7 Jun 1996 17:54:33 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com>
Hello,
I have two Kodak PhotoCD's to which I had transfered 1 roll of
film. I recently added another roll of film to each. NeXTSTEP mounts the
Kodak PhotoCD and I can view the first 36 frames from the first film on
the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll.
I assume this works like a partitioned hard disk, the first
partition is mounted automaticallyi, the next one must be mounted manually.
How do I mount the second part of the Kodak Photo CD to see the pictures
from the second film? What device device should I use?
Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film
written on the Kodak PhotoCD?
Any help would be appreciated,
stef
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Stefanos Kiakas Travel guide for Montreal, QC,
e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Canada --> http://www.uniscape.com
stefanos@uniscape.com (NeXTMail OK) NeXTStep Driver Info
+1 (514) 729 9643 NeXTStep Driver Information URL
http://www.uniscape.com/NSDrivers
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT and Windows NT
Date: 10 Jun 1996 08:22:19 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4pglvr$13t@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <31bb85b1.183733002@news.internext.com>
Cc: caliban@internext.com
In <31bb85b1.183733002@news.internext.com> Caliban Tiresias Darklock
wrote:
> Does anyone have any personal experiences, sources of information, or
> recommendations with respect to running a network on Windows NT and
black NeXT
> slab/cube hardware? Is it pretty much the same sort of thing you would
go
> through with *any* UNIX box, or are there special concerns for NeXT?
It's Unix, and much the same considerations apply.
> The general idea here is mainly to fill the holes in NT - like telnet,
DNS,
> etc. - without needing to add *too* much recurring maintenance to the
network.
The bottom line is that you need to install Samba on the NeXT, and
configure NT to use TCP/IP. The NeXT has to be the file server, it can't
read from NT, but everything else is OK.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to get a S3-968 VGA running
Date: 10 Jun 1996 09:10:37 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4pgoqd$739@fu-berlin.de>
References: <4pf3bt$eqq@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Cc: pgeiss@cezanne.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
In <4pf3bt$eqq@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> Peter Geissler wrote:
>
>
> Does anybody knows how to get a VGA with an S3-968
> running ? I have an ELSA Winner 2000-AVI with is
I have an ELSA Winner 2000PRO (S3-968)
ASUS t2P4, Adaptec 2940
> unfortunately not supported by the WINNER 1000/2000
> driver. The VGA shows some strange behaviour:
>
> - booting without -v option never works, but
> booting wiht -v option does not work everytime.
> sometimes the screen just turns black.
Same behavior in my case. Changing the SCSI-adaptor-Card
to ISA 1542C minimized the problems( only 1 black screen
per 3 reboots :-(
Switching to ATI 4MB - Card brought no problems
(Now I have an ATI GFX Board :-)
>
> - switching to the desired display modes does
> now work, all i get is a black screen.
> (8 bit color at 60 hz seems to work)
This is a driver-problem ...
>
> - shutdown does not work, because the system
> hangs up before the "please wait until .."
> panel appears (shows blank screen instead).
> I tried to manually shut down by "shutdown
> -hp now" by had no sucess.
This behavior has destroyed my Boot disk :-(
(fsck could not restore filesystem- so I decided to reinstall
- 6 hours to rebuild my system on a sunday :-( )
>
> I am using S3 Generic Display Driver V. 3.32 and
> I did correct for the right memory address
> by hand. BTW, its an ASUS T2P4 board using
> AWARD BIOS 1.104
>
> Does anybody has an idea whats going on with the
> machine and what can I do to get it running ?
It seems that the new Post-Triton Boards (eg. ASUST2P4)
do have problems with S3-Chips (or S3-Chips have
problems with Post-Triton Boards :-) under NextStep.
I have changed the gfx-card to Trio Chipset - same Problems.
Possible solutions:
Do use another board (TPXE) or do change the gfx-card
to non S3-chipset.
BTW: WindowsNT ran on *ALL* configurations above
without any problems ...
Greetings,
Thomas
--
|| Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel Meteorologisches Institut
|| EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE an der Freien Universitaet Berlin
|| Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13
|| FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 12165 Berlin - Germany
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 10 Jun 1996 11:32:13 GMT
Organization: greenHAUS
Message-ID: <4ph13t$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
References: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu>
Cc: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
In <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu> Jeromy Hollenshead wrote:
> Does anyone know if there are any changes to the user
interface that
> might be beneficial?
As far as I understood workspace manager in NS 4.0 will allow
you to
control NS completely by keybord (the only thing I really
liked in all the
windows stuff, apart from millions af apps being available).
And the dock has gone and is now replaced by something that
looks like
the xyz-startbar under W95. Well, at least this is a change
:-/
Christian
---
Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de
Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/
52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ISDN questions
Date: 10 Jun 1996 12:00:59 GMT
Organization: greenHAUS
Message-ID: <4ph2pr$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
References: <31B12AF0.6B4A@agora.stm.it>
Cc: l.pioricopiorgo@agora.stm.it
In <31B12AF0.6B4A@agora.stm.it> l.pioricopiorgo@agora.stm.it
wrote:
> I am an italian electronic engineer. At this moment I am
working with a
> company that sells telephone systems. I would like to know
which
> differences exist between american ISDN and european ISDN.
Is there
> anybody who can help me?
> Thanks in advance!
> ---
>
> Luca Piorico from Perugia, Italy
> email : l.pioricopiorgo@agora.stm.it
This is the wrong newsgroup, try comp.dcom.isdn.
This is from the FAQ, you'll find the answers there:
1.02) comp.dcom.isdn Frequently Asked Questions -
Introduction
...
This FAQ is posted biweekly to the comp.dcom.isdn news group
with an
expiration period of two weeks. This FAQ is available via
anonymous ftp
to host rtfm.mit.edu, in the directory
/pub/usenet/news.answers/isdn-faq.
It's also accessible via the e-mail server -- send the
command
"send usenet/news.answers/isdn-faq/*" (without the quotes) in
the body
of a e-mail message to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu. It is also
available
via any other site that shadows news.answers. Some of these
sites
are:
North America: ftp.uu.net
/usenet/news.answers
Europe: ftp.uni-paderborn.de /pub/FAQ
ftp.Germany.EU.net
/pub/newsarchive/news.answers
grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr /pub/faq
ftp.win.tue.nl
/pub/usenet/news.answers
ftp.sunet.se /pub/usenet
Asia: nctuccca.edu.tw /USENET/FAQ
hwarang.postech.ac.kr
/pub/usenet/news.answers
If you have Web access, I recommend you access Dan Kegel's
ISDN Web
page at http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/, which has even
more ISDN
information and a pointer to a Web-accessible copy of this
ISDN FAQ.
Christian
--
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Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/
52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap partition with NeXT?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 12:38:12 GMT
Organization: greenHAUS
Message-ID: <4ph4vk$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
References: <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
Cc: kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
In <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote:
> I wanted to install a swap partition on a second drive. The online
manual
> says that the disk builder will automatically detect disks which are
to
> small for a system and therefore use them as swap disks. So far so
good
> but what if i have a huge second disk and want to use a fixed pat of
it
> for swapping?
>
>
> ---
> Konstantin Wiesel
> Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
You'll need to make some entries in /etc/fstab. This works for me:
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /additional 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
/additional/private/virtmem/swapfile
/additional/private/virtmem/swapfile.front swapfs rw,noquota 0 3
sd0a: my boot disk
sd1a: my emergency system with 200MB free
The swapfile is mounted on the swapfile of the emergency system,
therefore the strange path. And I didn't really know what to do, I just
"figured it out".
You have to mount the drive you want to put your swapfile on before you
mount the swapfile. It doesn't work with Nextstep's automount!
Christian
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Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de
Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/
52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: FLICKER 1152 x 864 @ ?? Hz Help!
Date: 10 Jun 1996 12:55:45 GMT
Organization: greenHAUS
Message-ID: <4ph60h$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960524090336.22801A-100000@elaine16.Stanford.EDU>
Cc: rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU
In <Pine.SUN.3.93.960524090336.22801A-100000@elaine16.Stanford.EDU> Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote:
> I have a CTX 1765GMe monitor which supports 1024x768 @ 75 Hz and
> 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz. In NS 3.3 I have choices of 1152 x 864 at either 60,
> 72 or 75 Hz. 60 Hz seems to flicker too much so I'd like to try something
> higher. Can I safely run it at 1152x864 @ 72 Hz? I have a Matrox
> Millenium with 2 MB RAM.
To run 1152*864 @ 72 Hz you'll need a monitor with a
horizontal frequency of 64 KHz. If your monitor can display
1280*1024 @60 Hz it will work, because this resolution
requires exactly 64 KHz.
> Should I run it at 444/16 colors?
Yes, it's much faster than 555/16.
Christian
--
Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de
Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/
52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: [Q] How to display/print an NS PostScript file on a Mac?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 13:20:49 GMT
Organization: greenHAUS
Message-ID: <4ph7fh$smk@fuchur.rmi.de>
References: <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu> <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com>
Cc: jbf@frazer.com
In <jbf-0206961004200001@frazer.com> James B. Frazer wrote:
> In article <DsBs5x.991@midway.uchicago.edu>, yoshida@fermi.bsd.uchicago.edu (Hiro Yoshida) wrote:
>
> > Could anyone know how to display and print a NeXT's PostScript file on a
> > Machintosh?
>
> I don't know of any "free" (ot commercial) tool for viewing PS on a Mac.
> There probably is one but ... As for downloading, there are several tools
> for downloading the file - for example, the HP Utility supplied with the
> 4MP, or "LaserStatus" from the archives. If the Mac is on ethernet with the
> NeXT, you can use lpDaemon from the archives to create a Unix style print
> server and just send the file over from the NeXT print panel. There's a
> NeXT Answer on this, and it's also discussed in the SysAdmin manual (I
> think). Works for me!
>
> Barney
I didn't see the initial posting, so maybe I'm missing something here (for example,
whether your printer is postscript compatible (4MP) or not).
Ghostscript is available (for free) for MacOS (the last version I've seen was 2.58) and
I guess ghostView too.You should be able to view and print with these.
Christian
--
Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de
Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/
52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can't NFS mount from Next server to Solaris2.5 client
Date: 7 Jun 1996 21:39:02 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4pa7hm$ad7@news.its.com>
References: <4p21jl$u50@news.doit.wisc.edu>
jessica@swamp.chem.wisc.edu (Jessica Severin) wrote:
> We have a mixed network of Nextstep 3.3 machines and SPARCStation5's
> running Solaris 2.5. We have successfully setup NFS with the Solaris2.5
> machines as NFS servers and the Nexts as clients, but we can't get it
> working the other way.
>
> The suns will correctly mount the Next NFS disk, but when one tries to
> access the filesystem (with an ls) the sun spins and responds with
> NFS server swamp not responding still trying
It's a bug with the antique version of NFS that is used under NEXTSTEP.
From the Solaris 2 FAQ:
"5.11) After upgrade to 2.4, ls on NFS mounted directories hangs.
In starting with Solaris 2.4, a kernel workaround to limit
NFS readdir requests to 1024 bytes was disabled by default.
This breaks interoperability with buggy old NFS implementations
(such as SunOS 3.2, Ultrix and possibly NeXT)
There are two workarounds. The first one works and is:
mount all filesystems from such servers with rsize=1024.
The second one, which requires a patch for bugid #1193696 is:
Edit /etc/system and add:
set nfs:nfs_shrinkreaddir = 1
and reboot."
[ ... ]
> The sun man page on mount_nfs refer to NFS version 2 and 3. Which version
> of NFS is the next nfsd?
Version 1-- which is the problem.
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 16:21:14 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4phi1q$nc@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <1996Jun8.222120.27585@seer.demon.co.uk>
Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
> uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes:
> > 2. (I'm afraid that makes much more problems): How do I execute
> > this little script/program automatically when the computer is
> > turned off? It must be started AFTER all apps have already been
> > terminated to make sure no other program locks the serial
> > device. Basically, I'm looking for something like /etc/rc to
> > make an entry in, but for the other way round; but I couldn't
> > find anything :-(
>
> Tricky. I'd consider executing it in a logouthook, which would be easy to
> arrange. You'd then have to make sure that you always logged out before
> powering down.
Doesn't work unfortunately because during logout NXFax still has (and needs
to have) control over the modem. The commands must really not be executed
before actual shutdown of the machine.
Bye
Uli
--
_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
PGP: public key on request
Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 10 Jun 1996 16:56:23 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4phk3n$ii4@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu> <4ph13t$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
In-Reply-To: <4ph13t$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
On 06/10/96, Christian Schildwaechter wrote:
> As far as I understood workspace manager in NS 4.0 will allow you
> to control NS completely by keybord (the only thing I really liked
> in all the windows stuff, apart from millions af apps being
> available). And the dock has gone and is now replaced by something
> that looks like the xyz-startbar under W95. Well, at least this is
> a change :-/
>
Hmm, I thought this had been shelved (so to speak! ;-) ?
But was still going to be made available a demo (in /nextDeveloper/Demos).
Not surprising after the uproar on csna when the change was first
announced... as well as for other more mundane reasons! :-)
I hope we'll find out soon exactly what's in 4.0
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: offline sendmail over ppp
Date: 10 Jun 1996 20:21:15 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4pi03r$rq@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <4parj3$h20@gidora.kralizec.net.au>
gshaw@zeta.org.au (Greg Shaw) wrote:
> I have installed ppp2.2 and it works a treat
>
> The problem is that whenever I use the sendmail.cf modified as described
> in the above document I get mail returned with host unknown if I am
> offline. Online all works fine. What I want is a method that will
> poiltely queue mail messages if there is no ppp and then when I get online
> I will issue a sendmail -q to send it on its way.
Which sendmail do you use? The sendmail provided by NeXT, without any changes
made, just shows the behaviour you desire.
Bye
Uli
--
_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
PGP: public key on request
Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
From: Dino Bagdadi <dino@ex-nihilo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD
Date: 10 Jun 1996 23:38:37 GMT
Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4piblt$qku@viper.shadow.net>
References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com>
Cc: stefanos@Vir.com
In <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> Stefanos Kiakas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have two Kodak PhotoCD's to which I had transfered 1 roll of
> film. I recently added another roll of film to each. NeXTSTEP mounts the
> Kodak PhotoCD and I can view the first 36 frames from the first film on
> the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll.
>
> I assume this works like a partitioned hard disk, the first
> partition is mounted automaticallyi, the next one must be mounted manually.
> How do I mount the second part of the Kodak Photo CD to see the pictures
> from the second film? What device device should I use?
Multi-Session CD's are not supported by NEXTSTEP (of any flavor). There used
to be a company (forgot the name) that made the necessary driver as part of
their document processing (scanning/OCR/storing) solution, but you'd also
have to use a CD-ROM player that supported Multi-Session CD-ROMs. BTW, NeXT's
CD-ROM player doesn't support Multi-Session CD-ROMs.
> Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film
> written on the Kodak PhotoCD?
TIFFany's can't read Multi-Session CD-ROMs. But it can handle Photo CD Pro
CD-ROMs.
> Any help would be appreciated,
Tell NeXT to support this!
--
Dino Bagdadi
ex nihilo, inc.
dino@ex-nihilo.com (ASCII, NeXTmail and MIME)
Public PGP key available via `finger -l dbagdadi@hyper.shadow.net'
From: john@gscorp.com (John C. Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD
Date: 11 Jun 1996 03:18:03 GMT
Organization: Sirius Connections
Message-ID: <4piohb$ef8@sun.sirius.com>
References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com>
Cc: stefanos@Vir.com
> Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film
> written on the Kodak PhotoCD?
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated,
>
> stef
>
Hi There:
Unless someone knows otherwise, I think you're out of luck here. There is no
operating system level support in NEXTSTEP for mulitisession CD ROMS, which
is is what you need.
Sorry,
John
john@gscorp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: m@ml.com (M Carling)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP + Solaris 2.5 questions
Message-ID: <DsGD3C.2zD@tigadmin.ml.com>
Sender: usenet@tigadmin.ml.com (News Account)
Organization: ml.com
References: <31AE9F68.2BA6@artsci.wustl.edu>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 01:49:59 GMT
"G. Hussain Chinoy" <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Do Solaris 2.5 and NEXTSTEP 3.3 peacefully NFS mount (export and
>import) from/to each other?
Yes. At least NS will mount NFS exported by Solaris. I haven't tried the
other way round.
> We're intending to keep our NEXTSTEP NetInfo server as the main
>server, so is there a way to share NetInfo user database info between
>Solaris and NEXTSTEP?
Given that you have just one Solaris machine, the easiest way would be to
nidump the information into flat files on the Solaris machine. See the nidump
man page.
M Carling
From: steen@x1.us.ohio-state.edu (Steen Hansen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: terminal on serial port, problem with "getty"
Date: 11 Jun 1996 14:42:30 GMT
Organization: University Technology Services
Message-ID: <4pk0km$9ch@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
I have some old black hardware, running NS 3.0.
For a special need, I'd like to place a dumb terminal on a serial port, and
allow it to login and use the NeXT as a terminal server.
I have made up a cable, using a Macintosh cable. It works fine if I do:
echo "hello world" > /dev/cua
And "tip" also works, both ways:
tip a9600
But I can't get "getty" to work, I don't ever see any login prompt, when
I do:
/usr/etc/getty default /dev/cua
I have tried the other setups in /etc/gettytab, and also tried /dev/ttya,
etc, to no avail. What's missing?
Thanks
Steen
--
Steen Hansen (Hviid), Computer Specialist, The Ohio State University
Watching TV and drinking beer has a lot in common: Too much makes you
stupid.
From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInstall Helper and floppy disk problem
Date: 11 Jun 1996 14:51:15 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4pk153$9sm@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I'm trying to use NetInstallHelper to build a custom install disk for a NEC
Versa. I managed to follow the instructions to get the NET_INSTALL directory
with everything in it on my large Intel box. I've checked several disks to be
sure they will format correctly. When I start NetInstallHelper I then select
"custom install" and select the ethercard driver and the disk driver and it
tells me to insert a disk. It then proceeds to initialize the disk correctly
as shown in the console messages.
I then get a message from NetInstallHelper. "Cannot mount /tmp/_net_install"
and all I can do is quit. (Then the floppy drive is locked up and I have to
reboot). What is happening here and what do I do? the permissions seem to be
fine, I'm running as root, etc.
Thanks,
--
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: EIDE and Intel Professional GX workstations???
Date: 8 Jun 1996 07:16:28 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <4pb9cc$dq8@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
Hello,
I seem to recall reading on NeXTanswers some time ago that the new
EIDE driver supported the Pro/GX, but now I cannot find the document. The
new EIDE driver does have a GX entry that can be selected, however big
drives are still not recognized with the BIOS setting set for the geometry
of the drive (HP surestore 1.6 Gig). I have downloaded and installed what
appears to be the latest BIOS code (1.00.08.y2) for this motherboard to no
avail. Does anybody know of a later bios, or something that I am
neglecting to do, that will allow me to get full use of a 1.6gig IDE
drive. Thanks in advance!!
--
AB
______________________________________________________________
Alan A. Barhorst | alan@osci.me.ttu.edu
Mechanical Engineering | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/
Texas Tech University | NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail.
______________________________________________________________
From: sapkowsk@stream.csis.gvsu.edu (J.K. Sapkowski - Faculty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help - HP's noding off
Date: 11 Jun 1996 17:34:15 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University
Message-ID: <4pkamn$r56@news.gvsu.edu>
Recently, I've taken over the responsibility for a computer Lab
here at Grand Valley State University. We migrated the lab from
the student email machine to our own file server, an HP 817S
running HP-UX 10.01. The workstations consist of HP 712/60's
and NeXTstation Turbo's running NeXTstep 3.3. Soon after the move,
I began to notice that some of the HP's would became inaccessible
via telnet. In actuality, you couldn't even ping 'em. They are okay
for a short while after reboot, or if soneone logins into them in the lab.
The DNS seems to work okay, I've tried loading the ethernet addess
manually into the arp table with arp -s, but this doesn't help ... it's
like something has gone to sleep on the target machine.
As an experiment, I reinstalled the OS on carp and put it on a different
subnet. All I told carp was it's hostname (carp), ip address (148.61.31.228),
and router (148.61.31.254 ). After a while, it started failing the same way.
This indicated that the problem was not my file server, the install script
for the workstations, a hardware problem on the subnet, NIS, or NFS.
The black hardware NEVER has this problem, nor could the problem
have gone unnoticed for very long during the term last winter. We've been
on NS 3.3 since last summer and installed the patches last January.
When a workstation is in it's hosed state, if a user at that workstation
tries to login as root, they get a "Workspace Manager Error", and are
forced to logout. They could however then login with a non-root
username and everything would appear to be alright ... they would,
in effect, wake the machine up.
When one of these aborted root logins takes place, the following
message appears in "/private/adm/messages" :
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jun 6 16:44:21 lamprey reboot: Reboot complete
Jun 6 16:48:41 lamprey loginwindow[226]: Problems may be encountered, pbs not in bootstrap(Netnameserver: name not checked in)
Jun 6 16:48:41 lamprey loginwindow[226]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
Jun 6 16:48:41 lamprey Workspace[226]: logged in
Jun 6 16:48:48 lamprey WM[227]: DPS client library error: PostScript program error, DPSContext dd0e8
Jun 6 16:48:48 lamprey WM[227]: %%[ Error: invalidid; OffendingCommand: windowdeviceround ]%%
Jun 6 16:49:13 lamprey loginwindow[218]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0).
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have noticed that if I give the machines something to do every 5 minutes,
that 11 of the 18 won't fail , the other 7 wakeup when tickled, but then
fail within the 5 minute period between tickles.
Here is some additional information about how we're using NeXTstep:
In HostManager / Local :
NetInfo Binding - use local domain only
HostName - carp
NIS Domain Name - fish
Internet Addr. - 148.61.162.5
Netmask - 255.255.255.0
Broadcast Address - default
Router - 148.61.162.254
Time Standard - Use Network Time
Think you can help? At first glance it might not appear to be an OS problem,
but the fact that the "black: hardware is not affected and I can generate the same problem
on another subnet makes me think that I had better check with you guys at NeXT to
see if you've encountered this before.
Thanks,
Ken Sapkowski
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI 49401
stream@csis.gvsu.edu
From: wjabi@umich.edu (Wassim M. Jabi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD
Date: 11 Jun 1996 20:39:52 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
Message-ID: <4pklio$2s2@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>
References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com>
In-Reply-To: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com>
URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
On 06/07/96, Stefanos Kiakas wrote:
> I can view the first 36 frames from the first film on
> the CD, but I can't see the 2nd roll.
This is a problem with NEXTSTEP OS 3.x. It can only
handle "single-session" PhotoCD. To resolve this
problem, you need to buy a driver
called CDXA. I included the address below. Make sure
your CD-ROM is included in their support list, but
mine (Apple/MATSHITA) was not and still worked.
Here is the contact info:
CDXA Driver
Price DM 48,- (Deutschmarks)
Uwe Tilemann
Tools GmbH
Adolfstr. 5
D-53111 Bonn
GERMANY
Phone: +49 0228 98580-0
Fax: +49 0228 98580-17
Email: ut@Tools.DE (NeXTmail/MIME)
WWW: http://www.Tools.DE/
--
Wassim M. Jabi
Doctoral Program in Architecture
University of Michigan
2000 Bonisteel Blvd
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2069
wjabi@umich.edu (Text/MIME/NeXTMail)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~wjabi/
From: "C. Turchin" <turchinc@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: anonymous ftp on next
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 18:31:40 -0700
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.92a.960611182700.30393A-100000@saul6.u.washington.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
NNTP-Posting-User: turchinc
I am trying to set up anonymous ftp and having endless difficulties. The
only thing I have to go by is the section in O'Reilley and Assoc.'s "Basic
Unix Security" and it is apparently not relevant to mach/next os... anyone
who could send me a breif outline of how to get this up and runnning would
save my day. Maybe there is a url w/ info.??? thanks!
Sincerely,
Chris Turchin
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http://weber.u.washington.edu/~turchinc/
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From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: offline sendmail over ppp
Date: 12 Jun 1996 02:38:09 GMT
Organization: Como me Gusta productions
Sender: reichman@comserv-f-55.usc.edu
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4plaih$7cp@usc.edu>
References: <4parj3$h20@gidora.kralizec.net.au> <4petb4$ai4@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca
In <4petb4$ai4@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> Francois Magnan wrote:
> Basically you need to have two sendmail.cf files: one when you are
> online and one when you are offline. You switch between these in
> /etc/ppp/ip-up and /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts. You also need to modify
> Mail.app because Mail.app sends mail using "sendmail -oi -odb" and
> this overides the "Odq" that you can put in your sendmail.cf file to
> queue the mail. Everything is explained in the file above...
Although I see no harm in the Mail.app modification, I don't think I'm in
agreement on the 2 sendmail.cf files. I do not think this is necessary and
have been working off of one cf file very successfully. If you are using
8.7.5 and have properly defined your mailhost as a fully qualified domain
name in Netinfo machines, then you should have no problem whatsoever with
queueing mail until your ppp link is up.
I did notice, Francois, that you did not instruct people to create a machine
name for their mail servers in NetInfo.... hm...
I have only one problem with my mail setup - that locally generated mail to
local accounts is not delivered locally, but is mailed out to the mailserver,
returned and then is properly delivered to the specific account. Since I
noticed when I tried out your configuration suggestions that I still had this
problem, with the only exception if I mailed to myself, and I looked over
your cf file, I'm wondering what rules you are using to distinguish local
mail to be delivered locally.
I think I mailed you a half coherent version of this half coherent reply.
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP: strange PPP 2.2 behavior
Date: 12 Jun 1996 14:20:37 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station
Message-ID: <4pmjnl$321@news.tamu.edu>
Can anyone think why PPP would behave differently for different users?
I have 4 user accounts on my machine at home (besides root). 3 were
created under NS3.2 and all can use a shell script to dial the modem
and bring up PPP. The 4th was created since I upgraded to NS3.3 and
it dials, negotiates an ip address, but then something goes wrong.
The symptom is netinfo sleeping, and I know the FAQs say that this is
caused by not adding a route from the assigned ip to localhost, but
doing so manually fails to fix the problem. Also, I don't understand
why this would work for the old accounts, but not for a new one. (I
tried creating a 5th account---same problem.)
Suggestions please!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: TIFFANY and Kodak PhotoCD
Message-ID: <DsvB7n.G1v@nidat.sub.org>
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References: <4pa8ep$4po@Vir.com> <4piohb$ef8@sun.sirius.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 03:33:23 GMT
In <4piohb$ef8@sun.sirius.com> John C. Fox wrote:
> > Or how do I get TIFFanyII to read the second roll of film
> > written on the Kodak PhotoCD?
> >
>
> Unless someone knows otherwise, I think you're out of luck here. There is
no
> operating system level support in NEXTSTEP for mulitisession CD ROMS, which
> is is what you need.
>
Single session only. Thats positively clear. You must either get all films
recorded in a single session or...
I've heard a rumor about CDROM drives that could map multisession into single
session. I never ran into such a thing, though.
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From: camaro@net-link.net (Phil Finkler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep Books
Date: 12 Jun 1996 18:36:14 GMT
Organization: NetLink Systems, LLC.
Message-ID: <4pn2mu$4oq@leol.net-link.net>
Does anyone know of any good books on Nextstep? I went to my local
bookstores and could find nothing. I am looking for a book that deals with
NextStep sysadmining and a "power user" type book. Any ideas???
camaro@net-link.net
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Is there a need for a Sendmail 8.7.5 standalone configuration manual
Date: 12 Jun 1996 19:46:40 GMT
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Cc: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca
Francois
I've tried mailing you at "magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca" and can't get through.
I can't even ping or whois mathcn.umontreal.ca or umontreal.ca. I don't know
why I'm having this trouble because I thought I'd already mailed you before
at that address.
Please mail me because I have a couple of specific questions for you. Thanks.
--
Be well,
Matthew Reichman
reichman@usc.edu
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From: cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wireless Beeper System for Unix SysAdmins
Date: 13 Jun 1996 05:00:06 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
Message-ID: <4po78m$gf5@life.ai.mit.edu>
Keywords: beeper,unix,administration
Cc:
For a neat tool for Unix system admins, try viewing:
http://www.win.net/~msm/index.html
--Stuart
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: (Douglas Kent)
Subject: Win95 and my NEXT printer
Message-ID: <1996Jun13.060604.3568@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com>
Sender: slugg@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com
Organization: Mouthing Flowers
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 06:06:04 GMT
I would like to enable my Win95 computer to print to my NEXT printer which is
connected to my NeXT computer. The NeXT and Win95 computers are connected via
ethernet cards and TCP/IP.
Anybody know what software is available for Win95 to give it this capability?
I would like to have 32-bit software if possible.
Thanks very much.
Doug Kent
Mouthing Flowers, Inc.
slugg@mouthers.wa.com
--
Doug Kent
Mouthing Flowers, Inc.
slugg@mouthers.wa.com
From: sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: de.comp.sys.next,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problem with scsi controller NCR 53c8
Date: 13 Jun 1996 07:16:51 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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hello
I just bought a pc with a NCR 53c810 scsi controller
Looking around at next.com I thought, the symbios package would do the job.
That is not so.
Who can tell me, where to find a driver for this scsi device.
Is there one out there?
please reply via email
thanx in advance
later
SfR
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is your computer being bugged???
Date: 13 Jun 1996 09:28:46 GMT
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From: GWILLEM@alpha.ntu.ac.sg (Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 13 Jun 1996 09:21:30 GMT
Organization: Nanyang Technological University
Message-ID: <4pomiq$jrs@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
References: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <1996Jun8.222120.27585@seer.demon.co.uk> <4phi1q$nc@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
Uli Zappe (uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de) wrote:
: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote:
: > In article <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
: > uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes:
: > > 2. (I'm afraid that makes much more problems): How do I execute
: > > this little script/program automatically when the computer is
: > > turned off? It must be started AFTER all apps have already been
: > > terminated to make sure no other program locks the serial
: > > device. Basically, I'm looking for something like /etc/rc to
: > > make an entry in, but for the other way round; but I couldn't
: > > find anything :-(
: >
: > Tricky. I'd consider executing it in a logouthook, which would be easy to
: > arrange. You'd then have to make sure that you always logged out before
: > powering down.
: Doesn't work unfortunately because during logout NXFax still has (and needs
: to have) control over the modem. The commands must really not be executed
: before actual shutdown of the machine.
For what it's worth, I managed to do this in Linux. If I remember right,
I used something like the rc.6 or so. That way I was even able to ftp
a file to another system at shutdown. So, keep looking, but no guarantee
if it also works with NeXT's version of Unix.
Willem
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From: jdevlin@umich.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kernal can't see some scsi devices
Date: 13 Jun 1996 11:07:35 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan
Message-ID: <4pospn$lu2@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>
I thought the internal hard drive on my NeXTStation had finally died
-- had a system panic, and when I rebooted the kernel couldn't even
see the drive at boot time. But now I notice that it can't see the
external CDRom drive either.
If I reboot and get lucky, sometimes it can see both. Most times it
sees neither. Any thoughts as to the cause? Or the solution?
Most grateful. Order of scsi devices follows, in case that's
relevant.
Logical:
External boot drive (0)
Internal hard drive (1)
NeXT CD Rom (4)
Physical (Daisy chain):
Slab -> CDRom -> External hard drive
--
John Devlin
Department of Philosophy
The University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 09:08:16 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960612090238.2125A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu> <4ph13t$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de> <4phk3n$ii4@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
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On 10 Jun 1996, mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> On 06/10/96, Christian Schildwaechter wrote:
> > As far as I understood workspace manager in NS 4.0 will allow you
> > to control NS completely by keybord (the only thing I really liked
> > in all the windows stuff, apart from millions af apps being
> > available). And the dock has gone and is now replaced by something
> > that looks like the xyz-startbar under W95. Well, at least this is
> > a change :-/
> >
> Hmm, I thought this had been shelved (so to speak! ;-) ?
> But was still going to be made available a demo (in /nextDeveloper/Demos).
>
> Not surprising after the uproar on csna when the change was first
> announced... as well as for other more mundane reasons! :-)
like the fact that it's just a stupid idea (IMnot-so-HO)??
The dock is one of the best parts of NeXTStep, as it allows easy access to
applications, rather than having to go through all sorts of hoops and crap
like that as in some other crappy systems, Win95 especially. Why don't
they just do away with the 'hide' menu item too? That's not like anything
else MS does, which means they should do away with it.... And the services
menu item too. Much too distinctive. And the defaults database, that's
just a terrible idea. I'd much rather have .ini files everywhere like
bird droppings.
If they really want it to look like MS, they'll have to find some way to
pop up 'Appname.app caused a General Protection Fault' panels at frequent
intervals.
Anyway.... rant over...
TjL
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:44:48 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960610095154.2381B-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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To: Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
In-Reply-To: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
> 2. (I'm afraid that makes much more problems): How do I execute this little
> script/program automatically when the computer is turned off? It must be
> started AFTER all apps have already been terminated to make sure no other
> program locks the serial device. Basically, I'm looking for something like
> /etc/rc to make an entry in, but for the other way round; but I couldn't find
> anything :-(
Well, if you are willing to give up a little GUI-nicetie....
What I'd try is making a little script, called 'powerdown'
something like this:
---cut here---
#!/bin/sh
echo "Powering down `hostname`"
# put your commands here
# this must be the last line:
/usr/etc/shutdown -h -p +5
# which tells the NeXT to 'halt' (-h) and then 'power down' (-p) in 5
# minutes (+5)
exit 0
The 5 minutes is so you can quit/save anything you still might be working
on. You could change it to '+1' or 'now' if you preferred.
Good luck
TjL
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From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: tobyl@plague.tamu.edu (Toby Leonard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Win95 and my NEXT printer
Date: 13 Jun 1996 14:39:51 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University Networking Helpdesk
Message-ID: <4pp97n$9tm@news.tamu.edu>
References: <1996Jun13.060604.3568@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com>
In article <1996Jun13.060604.3568@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com>,
Douglas Kent <slugg@mouthers.wa.com> wrote:
>I would like to enable my Win95 computer to print to my NEXT printer which is
>connected to my NeXT computer. The NeXT and Win95 computers are connected via
>ethernet cards and TCP/IP.
>
>Anybody know what software is available for Win95 to give it this capability?
>I would like to have 32-bit software if possible.
I'm not sure if it's 32-bit, but try the Windows LPR Spooler. 4.0 is the
version we're using her for that exact purpose. It's available from the
tucows archive, but the URL slips my mind right now...
Toby
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From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Win95 and my NEXT printer
Date: 13 Jun 1996 17:28:10 GMT
Organization: Disorganized Bits
Message-ID: <4ppj3a$gng@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <1996Jun13.060604.3568@mouthers.nwnexus.wa.com>
Douglas Kent () wrote:
: I would like to enable my Win95 computer to print to my NEXT printer which is
: connected to my NeXT computer. The NeXT and Win95 computers are connected via
: ethernet cards and TCP/IP.
:
: Anybody know what software is available for Win95 to give it this capability?
Your '95 already came with a software which provides this capability
(SMB protocol). You only have to make your NeXT to understand it.
Get Samba on your NeXT and you are set (do NOT compile with -posix flag
or you will be sorry). It will provide printing and more.
http://samba.canberra/edu.au/pub/samba/ for more info.
--mj
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 12 Jun 1996 15:24:10 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4pmneq$dv@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <1996Jun8.222120.27585@seer.demon.co.uk>
Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
> uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes:
> > 1. How do I issue these two commands over the serial port not
> > using tip or the like but a little script or C program? This
> > may be an easy one for a professional programmer, but I'm none
> > :-(
>
> This is the easy part; install kermit, and run a script from that.
Hmmm, maybe I'm a bit stupid but...
HOW do I issue a command to a modem via the commandline using kermit? I've
read the kermit manual but couldn't find out.
To clarify this by a simple example:
With which command (in a script or a terminal window) do I issue a, let's
say, "ATZ" to a modem on /dev/cufa using kermit?
There MUST be some UNIX utility for such a task, doesn't it?
Bye
Uli
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_____________________________________________________________________
From: Tim Triemstra <empath@a.crl.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT into NT RAS via PPP
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 15:37:30 -0400
Organization: Alpha Star International
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I have a NeXT machine offsite that used to dial into my NT
server (this was here before it became my responsibility) via
PPP software that is installed. In fact, there used to be an
entire network that was connectable into my NT machine remotely,
that required some routing statements that aren't necessary now
that it is only one computer dialing in.
Anyhow, the NT server has died. The account it dialed into is
gone and I had to re-install Windows NT server all together
(there were backups of files but not the configuration for RAS
or users.) So, I now am having the problem that the RAS dialin
is not able to login. The dial from the NeXT machine goes fine
but the login negotiation lasts only a second or two before it
disconnects.
The problems could be protocol related or simply that the user
name that the remote machine is trying to log in using isn't
properly setup (I'm not possitive of the password unfortunately,
and I don't know which files to find it in on the NeXT machine
that is dialing in.)
The NeXT machine hasn't changed so I don't want to change it to
make this work. I simply want to make the NT machine work. Any
ideas? The machine is now a domain controller (it wasn't
before) so the accounts are domain accounts despite the fact
that the computer dialing in belongs to a different domain,
could that be a problem?
Any help would be appreciated. This is just so the remote
computer can access a database.
--
Tim Triemstra
empath@a.crl.com
From: jda@jda.rust.net (John David Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: CDROM config (can't read PhotoCDs)
Date: 13 Jun 1996 23:51:31 GMT
Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276
Message-ID: <4pq9i3$q6c@oxy.rust.net>
Keywords: PhotoCD config troubles
I have a black slab, with a PLI CD-ROM (Toshiba inners) and after
recovering from a head crash on my hard drive, an old problem is back. I
can't read PhotoCDs. I changed the security on the CDROM.util file so it
would have the 's', but that didn't seem to help. I looked through all my
old mail and files and could not find how I fixed this the last time.
Anyone got any suggestions?
Here what the files access looks like:
jda:2# cd /usr/filesystems
jda:3# ls -l
total 5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jun 7 23:03 CDROM.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jun 7 15:46 DOS.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jan 20 08:37 HFS_XFer.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Oct 27 1995 cdaudio.fs/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jun 8 06:53 mac.fs/
jda:4# cd CDROM.fs
jda:5# ls -l
total 617
-r--r--r-- 1 root 3546 Mar 25 1992 CDROM.fs.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 16 May 8 20:55 CDROM.name
-r--r--r-- 1 root 3546 Mar 25 1992 CDROM.openfs.tiff
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 57344 Oct 20 1994 CDROM.util*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 551440 Oct 20 1994 CDROM_reloc
Here is what the Console says:
Disk is Write Protected
probing for DOS
probing for CDROM
probing for mac
probing for cdaudio
probing for HFS_XFer
Seems to just skip over CDROM
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Natural Figure Photography
URL: http://www.rust.net/~jda
email: jda@jda.rust.net
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
John David Adamski
jda@jda.rust.net
NeXTMail, MIME and plain old text mail is fine by me
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
From: cpayne@optical.fiber.net (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Procmail, NS3.3, etc
Date: 11 Jun 1996 21:49:56 GMT
Organization: Fibernet! Satisfy the need for speed
Message-ID: <4pkpm4$sj6@optical.fiber.net>
I'm sure this has been asked a billion times...
Any tips on getting procmail to actually work with NeXT's sendmail? I
followed the destructions in the procmail readme, and did a Lycos
search on procmail/NeXT and came up with some kind of MailWeirdness
package that I can't find because that URL is Deadsville.
I tried piping my typical Sun recipes around the bend, but not only
does it not update the TOC, but it doesn't go to the Name.mbox/mbox
Before I go posting this question in a mail group, I thought I would
ask here first (due mostly to my reluctance to be looked at like
a space alien for asking about NeXT stuff).
--
Carl Payne
cpayne@fiber.net <--NeXTMAIL, MIME, ASCII all OK
Cogito Ergo Amicrosoft
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 13 Jun 1996 22:00:48 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4pq32g$7f6@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu> <4ph13t$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de> <4phk3n$ii4@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960612090238.2125A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> wrote:
>
> On 10 Jun 1996, mmalcolm crawford wrote:
> > Hmm, I thought this had been shelved (so to speak! ;-) ?
> > But was still going to be made available a demo (in
> > /nextDeveloper/Demos).
> >
> > Not surprising after the uproar on csna when the change was
> > first announced... as well as for other more mundane reasons!
> > :-)
>
> like the fact that it's just a stupid idea (IMnot-so-HO)??
I thought it was a great idea, and I bet my opinion is even
less humble than yours... :-)
> The dock is one of the best parts of NeXTStep, as it allows easy
> access to applications, rather than having to go through all
> sorts of hoops and crap like that as in some other crappy systems,
> Win95 especially.
The dock was fine when there were only a half-dozen things that
a user would want to have easy access too. As people did more
with NeXTSTEP, it was quite obvious that the implementation of
a dock that came with NeXTSTEP was too limiting. This is shown
by how many dock-extenders have been written.
NeXT came up with an interesting idea which was not as limiting as
the current dock, and called it a shelf. Lots of people who have
lots of experience with the current dock and no experience with
using this shelf idea got all bent out of shape about it. Speaking
as a person who has used a test-implementation of a shelf (although
*not* the one done by NeXT), I can say that it is not a bad idea.
I might have some alternate implementations I would like to try
out, but the basic idea is reasonable enough.
I used a shelf idea, and thought it was interesting. Of the people
who complained loudly about it, I don't remember hearing from anyone
who had actually used it. Since NeXTSTEP 4.0 is supposed to include
the shelf as a demo, maybe people can try the idea and then revisit
the question of how good or bad it was.
> Why don't they just do away with the 'hide' menu item too? That's
> not like anything else MS does, which means they should do away
> with it.... And the services menu item too. Much too distinctive.
> And the defaults database, that's just a terrible idea. I'd much
> rather have .ini files everywhere like bird droppings.
>
> If they really want it to look like MS, they'll have to find some
> way to pop up 'Appname.app caused a General Protection Fault'
> panels at frequent intervals.
This is all utter crap, and you ought to know it. The shelf idea
was attempting to improve a well-known limitation of the current
NeXTSTEP user interface. It has nothing to do with reducing the
functionality or ease of the user interface. It had nothing much
to do with following some Microsoft idea. It is not about dropping
the defaults database or editing any init files. It can be just
as easy to put something on the shelf as it is to put it on the
dock (at least it is on the thing I'm using).
Every implication in the above two paragraphs is nonsense when it
comes to discussing the idea of the shelf. Now, there are other
ways to extend the dock, as can be witnessed by all the people who
wrote dock extenders, but it's obnoxious to imply that there was
no reasonable basis for changing the dock.
It is utterly facinating to see people who had nothing to do with
the current design get so worked up about defending it, and act as
if the *designers* of the current design don't have any clue about
user-interfaces if they dare to consider improvements. If the
original designers are so clueless when it comes to user-interface
design issues, then how did they manage to come up with the original
design that you're so busy defending?
Now, there were some other changes which *did* seem to be an attempt
to look more like Windows95. I didn't know that I would have minded
those changes, but I don't think I'd defend all of them either. I
don't think the proposed color scheme was necessarily worse than
the current one, for example, but I didn't think it was
significantly better either.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: levitin@cogsci.uoregon.edu (Daniel Levitin)
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:49:08 -0700
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From: levitin@cogsci.uoregon.edu (Daniel Levitin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Eudora and NeXT - need advice
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 00:49:58 -0700
Organization: University of Oregon
Message-ID: <levitin-1406960049580001@cisco-ts2-line34.uoregon.edu>
I am using Eudora 1.5.3 on my Mac to grab my mail off a Unix machine (Sun)
and I like it. I would like to be able to use it to get mail off my NeXT
machine as well (especially when I am not physically at the NeXT machine
to use the NeXT mailer) but I can't seem to connect. I always get this
message from Eudora:
Unable to connect to server
Server came halfway up then failed.
Any suggestions?
Daniel Levitin
levitin@cogsci.uoregon.edu
"My other NeXT machine has a broken floptical."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: zollingj@ripley (John Zollinger)
Subject: Re: Eudora and NeXT - need advice
Sender: news@docws001.shl.com
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 14:47:31 GMT
References: <levitin-1406960049580001@cisco-ts2-line34.uoregon.edu>
Organization: SHL Systemhouse Inc.
Daniel Levitin (levitin@cogsci.uoregon.edu) wrote:
: I am using Eudora 1.5.3 on my Mac to grab my mail off a Unix machine (Sun)
: and I like it. I would like to be able to use it to get mail off my NeXT
: machine as well (especially when I am not physically at the NeXT machine
: to use the NeXT mailer) but I can't seem to connect. I always get this
: message from Eudora:
: Unable to connect to server
: Server came halfway up then failed.
In order to get your mail from the NeXT you need to have some sort of POP
server process running on the NeXT for Eudora to "connect" to. There are
a couple of POP servers on the various NeXT archives.
Good luck,
John Zollinger
johnz@usa.net
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adaptec 2940 vs Buslogic BT-930 [PLEASE COMMENT]
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 12:42:35 -0700
Organization: Stanford University
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I'm about to purchase a Pentium Pro 200 from Micron and am wondering which
controller I should get. The Buslogic driver is only in beta, but heard
about problems with the Adaptec. What should I get?
While you're at it, what do you think about the Micron PPro 200 (if you
have one)? Any other recommendations on parts I should/shouldn't get?
Robert Jacobs
rob@rjacobs.stanford.edu
From: root@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Eren Kotan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: EIDE and Intel Professional GX workstations???
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 14 Jun 1996 20:58:53 GMT
Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here.
Message-ID: <4psjqd$a80@wapping.ecs.soton.ac.uk>
References: <4pb9cc$dq8@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
Alan A. Barhorst (alan@osci.me.ttu.edu) wrote:
: I seem to recall reading on NeXTanswers some time ago that the new
: EIDE driver supported the Pro/GX, but now I cannot find the document.
Hi, I have put in a Seagate 2.1GB EIDE disk into my GX/Pro, which is working
fine with NEXTSTEP 3.3, Linux, Win95 and WinNT 3.51 all in separate partitions.
I also have the latest BIOS revision, but the trick is to install the special
Drive Manager bootblock which allows the BIOS to handle large partitions. My
hard disk came with an OEM copy of this software, but I believe you can also
buy it stand-alone as a package from On-track Software.
Note that you need to use LILO in Linux to select the OS you wish to boot into
at system startup, as the disk's bootblock is used by Disk Manager.
The NEXTSTEP EIDE driver works OK, but the specific GX/Pro driver fails, as
there does not seem to be a way to enable DMA to the IDE controller, at
least on my machine's ECU.
Please reply to eren@darkside.aladdin.co.uk
Regards,
Eren
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 14 Jun 1996 07:31:00 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <4pr4fk$9i@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
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<4phk3n$ii4@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <Pine.NXT.3.93.960612090238.2125A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
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In <Pine.NXT.3.93.960612090238.2125A-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu> "Timothy J.
Luoma" wrote:
>
> If they really want it to look like MS, they'll have to find some way to
> pop up 'Appname.app caused a General Protection Fault' panels at frequent
> intervals.
On the other hand, I'd really like to see those frequent
"Jun 13 16:37:58 marsu mach: SoundBlaster16: reset hardware."
disappear. Any OS works great with my SB AWE 32, except Nextstep.
I hope they finally get it going in 4.0.
--
Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de
IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 14 Jun 1996 07:35:36 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <4pr4o8$9i@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
References: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <1996Jun8.222120.27585@seer.demon.co.uk>
<4phi1q$nc@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <4pomiq$jrs@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
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In <4pomiq$jrs@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Van Schaik Willem Anthon Johan wrote:
>
> For what it's worth, I managed to do this in Linux. If I remember right,
> I used something like the rc.6 or so. That way I was even able to ftp
> a file to another system at shutdown. So, keep looking, but no guarantee
> if it also works with NeXT's version of Unix.
There's no rc.6 and no System V stuff in Nextstep (thank God! :-)
Try to hook on /usr/etc/halt.
--
Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de
IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: geosh@erinet.com (Geosh Fathauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Installing Nextstep 3.1 on Intel problems
Date: 14 Jun 1996 18:06:44 -0400
Organization: EriNet Online 513 436-1700 (Voice)
Message-ID: <4psnpk$gbd@eri.erinet.com>
I'm installing Nextstep 3.1 for intel onto a pc with an
Adaptec 1520a scsi card. I have a sun-4 compatible CD-ROM
that I am currently using. No matter what ID I set the scsi drive
at, the Next installation can not find any cd-roms. Does 3.1
support the adaptec, and would the 512k sector cd-rom be a problem?
Cheers
Geosh
From: Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing Nextstep 3.1 on Intel problems
Date: 15 Jun 1996 00:14:40 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4psv9h$mrl@news.next.com>
References: <4psnpk$gbd@eri.erinet.com>
Geosh Fathauer writes
> I'm installing Nextstep 3.1 for intel onto a pc with an
> Adaptec 1520a scsi card. I have a sun-4 compatible CD-ROM
> that I am currently using. No matter what ID I set the scsi drive
> at, the Next installation can not find any cd-roms. Does 3.1
> support the adaptec, and would the 512k sector cd-rom be a problem?
NEXTSTEP 3.1 doesn't support the 1520. I think that 3.3 and 4.0 do,
though. You really ought to try to get a newer version - 3.1 is really
buggy, and only supports a tiny fraction of Intel hardware...In fact, I'd
be amazed if it ran on any currently shipping PC.
Hope this helps,
-Mark
--
Mark Bessey
NeXT Software, Inc
Software Quality Assurance
-->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
From: rob@bedazzled.com (Robert A. Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.hp.misc
Subject: Need help finding version 4.0 PPD file for HP Printer
Date: 15 Jun 1996 02:32:53 GMT
Organization: Bedazzled Records
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <rob-1406962137210001@pool062.max6.ffx1.va.dynip.alter.net>
I'm hoping someone can help me located a PPD file for an HP LaserJet 5si
printer. Here's my problem. We have several machines running NEXTSTEP
3.2. This version of NEXTSTEP requires version 4.0 Adobe PPD files.
Unfortunately, the PPD file currently available on Adobe's server is
version 4.2, as is the file included with the printer drivers for Mac
and Windows.
Does anyone know where I can get a version 4.0 file? Or, is there a
way to convert the 4.2 file to 4.0 format? Finally, for the
NEXTSTEP-literate among you, does NEXTSTEP 3.3 support version 4.2
files? What about NEXTSTEP 4.0? Will it support newer PPD files?
Thanks in advance for your help! All thoughts and suggestions are
appreciated!
-Rob Wyatt
rob@bedazzled.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: murao@kobe-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: EIDE and Intel Professional GX workstations???
Sender: news@icluna.kobe-u.ac.jp (news-admin)
Message-ID: <murao.96Jun14224657@methuss.in.kobe-u.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 13:46:57 GMT
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Hi,
I'm also wanting to know if I can get a latest version of BIOS code
for GX/Professional, and if so, from where? Please let me know related
information on the news.
Thanx in advance.
---
Hajime MURAO <murao@kobe-u.ac.jp> NeXT/MIME mail bienvenu!
A professional? No, I am not professional. I am an amateur.
"Amateur" comes from the latin "amare":to love. If you do
not love what you do, you do not deserve to do it.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: viorel <viorel@pathcom.com>
Subject: Printing from NT3.51 to NeXT
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 19:53:23 GMT
I have a NeXTStation with a NeXT Laser Printer and
I intend to connect a PC to the NeXTStation, using
an Ethernet card.
Anyone knows what I should do to be able to print
from WindowsNT to the NeXT Printer ?
You can reply to:
Viorel Chita (viorel@pathcom.com)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Eudora and NeXT - need advice
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 1996 10:07:10 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960614100559.2754D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <levitin-1406960049580001@cisco-ts2-line34.uoregon.edu>
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To: Daniel Levitin <levitin@cogsci.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <levitin-1406960049580001@cisco-ts2-line34.uoregon.edu>
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Daniel Levitin wrote:
> I am using Eudora 1.5.3 on my Mac to grab my mail off a Unix machine (Sun)
> and I like it. I would like to be able to use it to get mail off my NeXT
> machine as well (especially when I am not physically at the NeXT machine
> to use the NeXT mailer) but I can't seem to connect. I always get this
> message from Eudora:
> Unable to connect to server
> Server came halfway up then failed.
>
> Any suggestions?
I know nothing about Eudora -- is it a POP thing? If not, then I'd
suggest setting up your NeXT to have a POP daemon running, which worked
fine for me back in the days when I had a PPP running successfully....
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma (Formerly known as: luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu)
New email address: 476tjl@ptsmail.ptsem.edu (No NeXTmail)
*** Please note: the new address cannot read the 'reply-to' line ***
From: David Theroff <dtheroff@ix.netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP + Solaris 2.5 questions
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 07:26:13 -0800
Organization: Chinese Shao-lin Center Graphics
Message-ID: <31C2D614.390D@ix.netcom.com>
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> Given that you have just one Solaris machine, the easiest way would be to
> nidump the information into flat files on the Solaris machine. See the nidump
> man page.
>
> M Carling
Since the password file in the "NeXT world" does not use C2 security, (which means the password is
actually kept in the password file rather than a shadow file) nidump from the NeXT world to the Solaris
world is not a simple as this.
dst
"G. Hussain Chinoy" <hussain@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> Do Solaris 2.5 and NEXTSTEP 3.3 peacefully NFS mount (export and
>import) from/to each other?
Yes. At least NS will mount NFS exported by Solaris. I haven't tried the
other way round.
> We're intending to keep our NEXTSTEP NetInfo server as the main
>server, so is there a way to share NetInfo user database info between
>Solaris and NEXTSTEP?
Given that you have just one Solaris machine, the easiest way would be to
nidump the information into flat files on the Solaris machine. See the nidump
man page.
M Carling
From: chuck@its.com (Chuck Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap partition with NeXT?
Date: 13 Jun 1996 00:17:25 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
Message-ID: <4pnmml$lk4@news.its.com>
References: <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4ph4vk$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter) wrote:
> In <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote:
>> I wanted to install a swap partition on a second drive. The online
>> manual says that the disk builder will automatically detect disks which
>> are to small for a system and therefore use them as swap disks. So far so
>> good but what if i have a huge second disk and want to use a fixed pat
>> of it for swapping?
The correct way of doing this is to add the drive to /etc/fstab so that it is
correctly mounted when the system starts. You then should create a swapfile
of whatever size you wish via mkfile somewhere on your second disk, and add
an entry in the /etc/swaptab file that refers to your newly-created swapfile.
If you really want the swapfile to occupy a fixed size, set the high and low
water marks to the same size (which should be the size you gave to mkfile).
Then reboot and check the verbose messages to make sure that the new swapfile
is being mounted correctly via mach_swapon.
Read 'man fstab', 'man swabtab', and 'man mkfile'.
> You'll need to make some entries in /etc/fstab. This works for me:
>
> /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> /dev/sd1a /additional 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
> /additional/private/virtmem/swapfile
> /additional/private/virtmem/swapfile.front swapfs rw,noquota 0 3
I would not recommend trying to mount swapfiles via /etc/fstab. (I didn't
even know that worked; learn something new every day....)
-Chuck
Charles Swiger -- chuck@its.com | Information Technology Solutions, Inc.
--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
CrashCatcher Development, Systems and Networking Administrator
From: sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: still problems with NCR_SCSi Driver
Date: 15 Jun 1996 21:53:37 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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hello
I have this NCR 53 C810 SCSI adapter
some people told me, a Symbios driver would work
it didn't
now I found this commercial NCR_SCSIDriver.config at next.com
this driver only works with one (1!, scsi id 0) device
imagine to install from your cd rom
what these guys forgot was there name, addressm email, fon
so, you have a commercial producct and dont know where to buy
who knows??
or, how I make this symbios work.
thanx
later
SfR
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: still problems with NCR_SCSi Driver
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 13:43:36 GMT
Organization: UBC
Message-ID: <31c40dd7.810458@news.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <4pvbd1$8rj@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
On 15 Jun 1996 21:53:37 GMT, sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
wrote:
>
>hello
>
>I have this NCR 53 C810 SCSI adapter
>
>some people told me, a Symbios driver would work
>it didn't
>now I found this commercial NCR_SCSIDriver.config at next.com
>
>this driver only works with one (1!, scsi id 0) device
>imagine to install from your cd rom
>
>what these guys forgot was there name, addressm email, fon
>so, you have a commercial producct and dont know where to buy
>
Could this be Steve Talus III? driver??
What version are you using? try to get 3.3.....
Godwin
PS seems Steven Talus has finally left the next newsgroups..
From: Habib-Shaloanq Shaaneschi <habib@jinx.net-link.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep Books
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 21:36:05 -0400
Organization: "Mongo Like Candy!!!!"
Message-ID: <31C36505.4DE9DB5A@jinx.net-link.net>
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Phil Finkler wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of any good books on Nextstep? I went to my local
> bookstores and could find nothing. I am looking for a book that deals with
> NextStep sysadmining and a "power user" type book. Any ideas???
>
> camaro@net-link.net
There are several books that are available on using and Administrating
the NeXT machines. Unfortunately, many of them are now out of print or
are only available from NeXT directly. You might try some of the larger
on-line book stores, them seem to stock books in large numbers and may
still have some left over.
Habib
From: grio@next.com (Dan Grillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Date: 16 Jun 1996 04:06:51 GMT
Organization: Information Services, NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4q018r$md@news.next.com>
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In article <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu>,
Jeromy Hollenshead <jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu> wrote:
>I have heard that NEXTSTEP 4.0 is coming out soon.
>
>I have also heard that it won't be supported, and that the main
>difference in the upgrade is that this release will be fully OpenStep
>complient.
NEXTSTEP 4.0 is a supported NeXT product. It's major feature
is OpenStep compliance. Using OpenStep, you can build applications
that will run on NEXTSTEP 4.0 and Windows NT.
--Dan
--
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From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS 3.3 User patch
Date: 16 Jun 1996 05:23:10 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q05nu$hj3@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>
One of our customers running a Token Ring network of 20+ NS 3.3 machines,
a HP database server, and a bevy of PC's is experiencing lots of spin cursors
and really poor response times on the NS machines much of the time. This
sounds similar to what we were experiencing before installing the NS 3.3 User
patch on our NetInfo server.
It seems to me that most (all?) of the lookupd problems would be solved
by installing the patch on only the NetInfo master and clone rather than on
clients. Is this true? Is there much to be gained by spending the time
upgrading all machines?
--
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From: tec@alumnae.caltech.edu (Timothy E. Cushing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help--"Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL"
Date: 16 Jun 1996 05:19:28 GMT
Organization: Caltech Alumni Association
Message-ID: <4q05h0$hq4@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
When I powered-up my NeXT this evening (vintage color station), the internal Quantum
drive failed to respond. I got the following messages:
Quantun LP105S 910109405 Rev as sd1 at sc0 target 1 lun 0
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x1c40, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x1c40, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x1c40, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer; bytes moved = 0x0, resid = 0x1c40, retry 1
sd1: Incomplete disk transfer - FATAL
DISK UNFORMATTED
The disk has been no trouble until now, so I'm wondering if this is just
symptomatic of something fixable? I commented out the /dev/sd1a line from
my fstab file to get the machine to boot, and when I log in it pops up a
panel about SCSI device being unreadable "Ignore, or Initialize". I've
ignored it so far in case recovery is an option.
Any help or things to try would be appreciated.
Thanks-
Tim Cushing
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 06:54:10 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun16.065410.19559@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4pmneq$dv@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
In article <4pmneq$dv@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes:
> Hmmm, maybe I'm a bit stupid but...
>
> HOW do I issue a command to a modem via the commandline using kermit?
> I've read the kermit manual but couldn't find out.
>
> To clarify this by a simple example:
>
> With which command (in a script or a terminal window) do I issue a,
let's
> say, "ATZ" to a modem on /dev/cufa using kermit?
Create the following script:
set line /dev/cufa
set speed 19200
set input timeout-action proceed
set input echo off
output atz\13
input 5 OK
if success !logger Kermit Sucess
else !logger Kermit Failure
You execute it by: kermit <scriptfile>
Paul
--
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http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: xtodd@rumblefish. (Todd Anthony Nathan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bouncing Mail with PPP running
Date: 17 Jun 96 04:31:09 GMT
Organization: sf.net
Message-ID: <31c4df8d.0@news1.montrose.net>
Do I have to specify in a config file somewhere
for sendmail (Mail.app) to work (not bouncing
mail back to me that is addressed outside my local
net)?
TIA,
\t
<todd@montrose.net>
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 17 Jun 1996 04:15:10 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4q2m4e$bv4@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
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==========================
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Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed
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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.
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Getting the Newsgroups without getting News
===========================================
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(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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
=====================================
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: sb6fb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois)
Subject: CD-ROM on NS made accessible for DOS PC
Message-ID: <Dt4uMG.JLy@rivm.nl>
Sender: news@rivm.nl
Organization: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene, Bilthoven, NL
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 07:11:04 GMT
I want a CD-ROM, mounted on a NS 3.3 (Intel) system, made accessible
for a DOS PC through a NFS link. What I tried is this:
I loaded the CD-ROM; NS mounted the CD-ROM automatically and the mount
command showed me:
/dev/rsd1h on /UPPERCASELABEL type cfs
(ro,removable,filesystem=CDROM)
At that moment no nfs deamon was running yet.
Then I exported the directory /UPPERCASELABEL with NFSManager with the
option "default access for hosts not listed below is" "read/write". I
saw that after that some nfsd processes were started by NFSManager.
On the PC I use NFS Client for LAN Workplace v3.0c (a Novell product).
I can link the exported dir to the PC with:
net link E: \\hortname\/UPPERCASELABEL username password
The I can do a "dir" on the E: drive; see all the filenames on the
CDROM and walk through the directory hierarchy, but ... I cannot access
(read) the files themselves !
Next I tried various other configurations:
1. In NFSManager I varied the "default access for hosts not listed
below is" choice to "Read only" and "None" (the latter with the PC
hostname specifies in the Read Only Access resp. Read/Write Access
lists in NFSMananager).
2. Because I thought that the problem could have something to do with
uppercase/lowercase labels, I exported a normal directory in root (with
an uppercase name and the same access permissions as the CD-ROM dir).
Then access from the PC is without problems so the problem seems to be
related to CD-ROM issues.
3. I also tried to mount the CD-ROM manually (after unmounting it
first); with and without the "removable" option: no file access from PC
possible
4. I even tried mounting the CD-ROM with "-t dos" (DOS filesystem), but
I shouldn't have done this because that crashed the system ;-)
Who can help?
I remember to have seen something in recent posts about pcnfsd and that
the NEXT supplied pcnfsd is sufficient but I found no pcnfsd file on my
system. And besides: can this be the problem because I can see al the
filenames on the CD.
--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP 4.0
Message-ID: <Dt51qL.92I@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu> <4q018r$md@news.next.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 09:44:44 GMT
grio@next.com (Dan Grillo) wrote:
>In article <4ovkdl$j7e@news.tamu.edu>,
>Jeromy Hollenshead <jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu> wrote:
>>I have heard that NEXTSTEP 4.0 is coming out soon.
>>
>>I have also heard that it won't be supported, and that the main
>>difference in the upgrade is that this release will be fully OpenStep
>>complient.
>
>NEXTSTEP 4.0 is a supported NeXT product. It's major feature
>is OpenStep compliance. Using OpenStep, you can build applications
>that will run on NEXTSTEP 4.0 and Windows NT.
>
> --Dan
>--
> Dan Grillo dan@next.com 415 780-2963 new office - Blg1 Rm163
Can you build applications that run on OpenStep/NT or OpenStep/Solaris on a
OpenStep/MachOS system? I gathered it is a recompile-thing and that you need
access to all OS's to support all OS's.
--
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and
Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can
question."
From: y0000922@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Thorsten Petri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q:NeXT and Fujitsu 2513 MO
Date: 17 Jun 1996 10:52:16 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
Hallo!
I'v brought a Fujitsu 2513 MO and want to use a Medium with blocksize of 2048
Byte!
1.:
If I want to use the Medium, the Console output is:
"Note: This device's
block size (2048) is too big to coerce to DEV_BSIZE (1024). You won't be
able to use it with software versions earlier then Release 3.0"
2.:
If I want to formatted a Medium with 512 Byte blocksize the Output is:
"Device Init Panel - Cannout select the default (choosing NeXT instead)
->can't write label -- diskunusable !: I/O error"
Can anybody help me with that Problems and can someone tell me whitch
Program must be updated!
I'm use Next Release 3.3 on an Intel Prozessor!
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 17 Jun 1996 12:22:59 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4q3in3$1jd@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <4pmneq$dv@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <1996Jun16.065410.19559@seer.demon.co.uk>
Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) wrote:
> In article <4pmneq$dv@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
> uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) writes:
> > With which command (in a script or a terminal window) do I
> > issue a, let's say, "ATZ" to a modem on /dev/cufa using kermit?
>
> Create the following script:
> [...]
> You execute it by: kermit <scriptfile>
That's what I need! :-) I didn't realize I have to use a script and tried to
do it only by using kermit via commandline, so it didn't work.
Thanks a lot to all who responded!
Bye
Uli
--
_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
Lorscher Strasse 5
D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
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Member of WiNG (Wiesbaden NEXTSTEP Group)
_____________________________________________________________________
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: how to issue a modem command at computer shutdown?
Date: 17 Jun 1996 12:26:47 GMT
Organization: J. W. Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt/Main
Message-ID: <4q3iu7$1jd@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <4pbo7u$hk@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <1996Jun8.222120.27585@seer.demon.co.uk> <4phi1q$nc@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <4pomiq$jrs@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <4pr4o8$9i@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) wrote:
> Try to hook on /usr/etc/halt.
That's the way it works! :-)
I renamed /usr/etc/halt to /usr/etc/halt.original and start this from a
script named /usr/etc/halt which executes the desired commands before. (You
have to execute it with -P to still have the shutdown graphics)
Thanks a lot to all who responded!
Bye
Uli
--
_____________________________________________________________________
Uli Zappe
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D-60489 Frankfurt
Germany
Phone: +49 (69) 9784 0007
E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail - Mime - ASCII)
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_____________________________________________________________________
From: sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing Nextstep 3.1 on Intel problems
Date: 17 Jun 1996 12:42:28 GMT
Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
Message-ID: <4q3jrk$b6k@news.rwth-aachen.de>
References: <4psnpk$gbd@eri.erinet.com> <4psv9h$mrl@news.next.com>
Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) wrote:
>You really ought to try to get a newer version - 3.1 is really buggy
>...
>Mark Bessey
>NeXT Software, Inc
>Software Quality Assurance
>-->I DON'T SPEAK FOR NeXT <--
Hmm, being old makes an official NEXTSTEP release buggy?
:-))
Interesting point.
Stefan
-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Vince: No, it's just what I heard; just what I heard. (pf)
From: gorgon@crl.com (Zach Copley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IP forwarding
Date: 17 Jun 1996 06:37:11 -0700
Organization: Zach's House
Message-ID: <4q3n27$1kk@crl13.crl.com>
Summary: How do you enable IP forwarding under NS/FIP
Howdy,
I there anyway to enable IP forwarding under NS 3.3 FIP? I want to use
it as a gateway machine.
Zach
.^....^.
snatcher@arlington.com ! .\/. !
Pigdog: gorgon@crl.com (. oo .)
RoR-Alucard `{""}'
--
.^....^.
snatcher@arlington.com ! .\/. !
Pigdog: gorgon@crl.com (. oo .)
RoR-Alucard `{""}'
From: hkraus@raveneagle.com (Harold Kraus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Info on installing to IDE/SCSI drives on Intel
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 15:57:03 GMT
Organization: AccessOne
Message-ID: <4q3vfu$b57@news.accessone.com>
I am looking for information about the following issues for release
3.2 of NS/I (info on the latest release would also be helpful):
For IDE drives > 504 MB:
- LBA turned off:
- Can NS/I recognize space over 504 MB (during installation) under
this conditions?
- LBA turned on:
- Can NS/I even be installed under this condition?
- Can NS/I be installed starting past the 504 MB point under any
conditions?
For SCSI drives > 1 GB:
- "Enable DOS drives > 1 GB" turned on (with an Adaptec HBA):
- Can NS/I be installed under this condition?
- "Enable DOS drives > 1 GB" turned off:
- Can NS/I recognize space above 1 GB (during installation) under this
conditions?
- Can NS/I be installed starting past the 1 GB point under any
conditions?
Finally:
- Can I install part of the OS to an IDE drive (for booting), and
assign more space to a SCSI drive (again, during installation)?
My experience has been the answer is no to all of the above questions,
making a multiple OS install a major pain. To make matters much
worse, this OS requires that it be booted from drive 0.
Just checking to see if I'm missing something or the new release is
different.
Boy I love PC's...
Thanks,
Harold
hkraus@accessone.com
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help tracking down some problems
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 16:56:38 +0100
Organization: Wirehub! Internet
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.960617165537.1955A-100000@koncon>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi there, maybe someone with more experience than me knows the
answer to these questions.
We are running NEXTSTEP 3.3 with the latest patches on a pentium
with 32MB ram and 1GB ide and 1GB scsi disks. This is a multi
user system, there are 30 Mac's connected via ethernet.
System message for info:
koncon mach: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:34:35 PDT 1995;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
I get the following 2 strange errors in the "messages" file:
The first is just before reboot has finished -
Jun 15 06:33:12 koncon Inform[207]: DPS client library error: Could not form
connection, host local host
Jun 15 06:33:14 koncon reboot: Reboot complete
This one happens a random times:
Jun 15 14:16:47 koncon mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-900)
Jun 15 14:16:47 koncon mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-900)
Jun 15 14:16:47 koncon mach: ttyscc1: receive error 2 (-902)
Does anyone have a clue why these occure? I can not find the cause
of them. There is no device /dev/ttyscc1.
I suspect one of these errors to be the cause of some random crashes
we're having.
Thanks a lot for any clues,
Paul
Paul Doornbusch
Sonology Dept.
Royal Conservatory
Den Haag
The Netherlands
From: dwhosken@students.wisc.edu (Daniel W. Hosken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SCSI controller problems
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 13:05:00 +0100
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <dwhosken-1706961305000001@144.92.21.167>
Hi all,
Our intel machine running NS 3.2 recently started hanging frequently (the
machine would run fine for between 6 hours and three days and then crash
when nobody was logged in). This only occurred when the external SCSI
CD-ROM drive was on. With the CD-ROM drive off but still attached, the
machine was fine. I believe that the SCSI chain is properly terminated.
The people who sold us the system had us send in the SCSI controller to
install an updated SCSI ROM BIOS (the card is a JC Eagle 1160 PCI card).
The machine now fails to boot with an error message of:
NCR53c825: ERROR-BIOS32 entry point not found
panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root
panic: NeXT Mach 3.2: Mon Oct 18 22:08:07 PDT1993;
root(rc builder): mk-149.30.15.obj~2/RC_i386/RELEASE_I386
kernel panic exception (6,3,1)
waiting for remote debugger connection
(type 'c' to continue or 'r' to reboot)
1) Any ideas about what could have caused the original problem?
2) Could this current failure to boot be caused by a driver
incompatibility (the
manufacturer tells us we need the new symbios driver)?
3) If so, is there any way to install the new driver during boot?
As you can tell, I'm somewhat new to this, any help will be greatly appreciated!
Dan Hosken
dwhosken@students.wisc.edu
Computer Music Studio
School of Music
University of Wisconsin-Madison
--
Dan Hosken
dwhosken@students.wisc.edu
From: rfell@fell.shore.net (Richard Noel Fell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Next printer from WIndows Nt
Date: 17 Jun 1996 18:36:44 GMT
Organization: Shore.Net/Eco Software, Inc; (info@shore.net)
Message-ID: <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net>
I have an intel machine running NT which will be connected via ethernet
with my Next turbo. Is it possible to configure the intel so that it has
access to the Next printer?
Thanks for any help,
Dick Fell
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q:NeXT and Fujitsu 2513 MO
Date: 17 Jun 1996 18:23:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q47qm$97r@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>
In article <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> y0000922@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Thorsten Petri)
writes:
>
>Hallo!
>I'v brought a Fujitsu 2513 MO and want to use a Medium with blocksize of 2048
>Byte!
>1.:
>If I want to use the Medium, the Console output is:
>"Note: This device's
>block size (2048) is too big to coerce to DEV_BSIZE (1024). You won't be
>able to use it with software versions earlier then Release 3.0"
>2.:
>If I want to formatted a Medium with 512 Byte blocksize the Output is:
>"Device Init Panel - Cannout select the default (choosing NeXT instead)
>->can't write label -- diskunusable !: I/O error"
>
>Can anybody help me with that Problems and can someone tell me whitch
>Program must be updated!
>
>I'm use Next Release 3.3 on an Intel Prozessor!
Where did you get a 2513? Are they available in Germany?
For those wondering a Fujitsu 2513 is a 640mb 3.5" MO drive.
--
Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from
Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was
# armed; his successors, since they avoided
far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private
(NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes.
(MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next printer from WIndows Nt
Date: 17 Jun 1996 22:25:09 GMT
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Message-ID: <4q4m05$pb7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
References: <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net>
rfell@fell.shore.net (Richard Noel Fell) writes:
>I have an intel machine running NT which will be connected via ethernet
>with my Next turbo. Is it possible to configure the intel so that it has
>access to the Next printer?
>Thanks for any help,
>Dick Fell
Dick,
Get samba and your NT should be able to browse it as a printer
if you configured properly.
--kai--
--
email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca
url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/
From: Winston <clayton@pacbell.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Diplay driver for Nec Versa 4050H
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 00:01:43 -0700
Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services
Message-ID: <31C65457.5EBD@pacbell.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does anyone know where I can get a NeXT display driver for my Nec Versa
4050H? NeXTAnswers says the Versa is a compatible system but they don't
have a display driver for it other than the standard vga driver.
While I'm here, who else has a Versa and runs NeXT on it? We could
share ideas like getting the VersaGlide to work and other stuff. I was
able to get NeXT booting from an external scsi drive using a 7MB
partition on the internal drive if anyone needs help with that.
thanks mucho,
--winston
From: charlesa@netventures.co.uk (Charles Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 115200 serial driver?
Date: 18 Jun 1996 08:23:46 GMT
Organization: MatriX Publishing Network
Message-ID: <4q5p2i$pd6@nebula.mpn.com>
Hi -
Does anyone know of a serial driver that will support 115.2k on an Intel
box running NS3.3? I've got MuX 1.7, but this seems not to go beyond 57.6
Thx,
C.
(please reply via email)
=========================================================================
Charles Ashley charlesa@netventures.co.uk tel.+44.171.603.1267
=========================================================================
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q:NeXT and Fujitsu 2513 MO
Date: 18 Jun 1996 04:32:47 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4q5bhf$acc@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <4q47qm$97r@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) wrote:
> y0000922@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Thorsten Petri) writes:
> > I've brought a Fujitsu 2513 MO and want to use a Medium with
> > blocksize of 2048 Byte!
>
> Where did you get a 2513? Are they available in Germany?
>
> For those wondering a Fujitsu 2513 is a 640mb 3.5" MO drive.
I think we're finally going to start seeing the 640-meg
formats. One of the Mac mail-order places had an ad for
them last week. I called them but they said the drives
hadn't arrived. They were expecting them in two or three
weeks though.
Price quoted for the drive was $599, price for the
cartridges was $49.
---
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: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Subject: Help: Are distributed objects usable on multple (sub)networks??
Message-ID: <Dt6tIC.KIz@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@solair1.inter.NL.net (News at news)
Organization: NLnet
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 08:43:41 GMT
The subject says it: can i use distributed objects on multiple
(sub)networks connected by routers.
In the situation i have now it doesn't work.
+------+ 145.79.73 +-------+ 145.79.72 +-------+ 145.79.71 +------+
|dbe_s |-----+-----|Router1|-----------|Router2|-----------|dbe_c2|
+------+ | +-------+ +-------+ +------+
| 160 160
+------+ |
|dbe_c1|-----+
+------+
The routers have the following adresses:
Router1: 145.79.73.160 & 145.79.72.160
Router2: 145.79.72.160 & 145.79.71.160
Details for the NEXT-stations (HP/712 workstations with NS3.3) are
below.
Another problem was to get the station dbe_c2 configured as a client
of
dbe_s, the host with the master NetInfo database. I could get that
working
only by defining a clone NetInfo data base on dbe_c2 using
SimpleNetworkStarter.app
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/hostconfig
HOSTNAME=dbe_s
INETADDR=145.79.73.155
ROUTER=145.79.73.160
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=145.79.73.255
NETMASTER=-YES-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
dbe_s> /usr/etc/ifconfig -a
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 145.79.73.155 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 145.79.73.255
lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
dbe_s> netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 7 4183 lo0
default 145.79.73.160 UG 1 71943 en0
145.79.73 dbe_s U 25 444668 en0
SimpleNetworkStarter.app => log
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=dbe_s
INETADDR=145.79.73.155
ROUTER=145.79.73.160
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=145.79.73.255
NETMASTER=-YES-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
Host name: dbe_s
Internet address: 145.79.73.155
Network is up:
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 145.79.73.255
Network: 145.79.73.0
Primary interface: en0
Checking NetInfo domain: /
Domain: /
master: dbe_s address: 145.79.73.155 tag: network
clone: dbe_c2 address: 145.79.71.150 tag: network
Checking NetInfo domain: /dbe_s
Domain: /dbe_s
master: dbe_s address: 127.0.0.1 tag: local
Checking for stand-alone NetInfo configuration.
Local NetInfo is not stand-alone.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
Found a second-level NetInfo domain.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking network services.
Checking automatic host addition.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines
Status: Found
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: promiscuous Found
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: assignable_ipaddr
Status: OK
Assignable IP address range: 145.79.73.1 145.79.73.252
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: configuration_ipaddr
Status: OK
Configuration IP address: 145.79.73.253
Automatic host addition is enabled.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: net_passwd Found
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: net_passwd
Status: OK
A password is required for host addition.
Checking time server configuration.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
property: server
value: dbe_s No such property
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
property: host
value: dbe_s Found
This computer is a clone time server.
Checking e-mail server configuration.
Checking directory: /LocalLibrary/Images/People
Checking directory: /usr/spool/mail
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /exports/\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_s:\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/dbe_s
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /machines/dbe_s
property: name
value: mailhost No such name
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /exports/\/LocalLibrary\/Images\/People
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_s:\/LocalLibrary\/Images\/People
Status: Not found
This computer is not an e-mail server.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dir=\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/mailhost
Status: Not found
There is no network e-mail server.
Checking SNMP configuration.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/snmp
Status: Not found
SNMP is not enabled on the local network.
Checking file server for home directories.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/homes/dbe_s
Status: Found
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/homes/dbe_s
property: partition Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/homes/dbe_s
property: partition
value: /Users Found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /exports/\/Users
Status: Found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_s:\/Users
Status: Found
This computer is a server for the shared directory: /Users
Checking file server for shared applications.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
property: server
value: dbe_s Found
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
property: dir Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
property: dir
value: /LocalApps Found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /exports/\/LocalApps
Status: Found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_s:\/LocalApps
Status: Found
This computer is a server for the shared directory: /LocalApps
Checking general-purpose file server.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/generalpurpose/dbe_s
Status: Found
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/generalpurpose/dbe_s
property: dir Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/generalpurpose/dbe_s
property: dir
value: /General Found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_s
directory: /exports/\/General
Status: Found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_s:\/General
Status: Found
This computer is a server for the shared directory: /General
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/hostconfig
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC-
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
dbe_c1> /usr/etc/ifconfig -a
en0: flags=8063<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 145.79.73.156 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 145.79.73.255
lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
dbe_c1> netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 1 3178 lo0
145.79.72 145.79.73.160 UG 0 0 en0
145.79.73 dbe_c1 U 14 226955 en0
145.79.71 145.79.73.160 UG 0 0 en0
SimpleNetworkStarter.app => log
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-
INETADDR=-AUTOMATIC-
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=-AUTOMATIC-
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
Host name: dbe_c1
Internet address: 145.79.73.156
Network is up:
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 145.79.73.255
Network: 145.79.73.0
Primary interface: en0
Checking NetInfo domain: /
Domain: /
master: dbe_s address: 145.79.73.155 tag: network
clone: dbe_c2 address: 145.79.71.150 tag: network
Checking NetInfo domain: /dbe_c1
Domain: /dbe_c1
master: dbe_c1 address: 127.0.0.1 tag: local
Checking for stand-alone NetInfo configuration.
Local NetInfo is not stand-alone.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /dbe_c1
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
Found a second-level NetInfo domain.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking network services.
Checking automatic host addition.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines
Status: Found
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: promiscuous Found
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: assignable_ipaddr
Status: OK
Assignable IP address range: 145.79.73.1 145.79.73.252
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: configuration_ipaddr
Status: OK
Configuration IP address: 145.79.73.253
Automatic host addition is enabled.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: net_passwd Found
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: net_passwd
Status: OK
A password is required for host addition.
Checking time server configuration.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
property: server
value: dbe_c1 No such property
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
property: host
value: dbe_c1 No such name
This computer is not a time server.
Checking e-mail server configuration.
Checking directory: /LocalLibrary/Images/People
Creating directory: /LocalLibrary/Images/People
Checking directory: /usr/spool/mail
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_c1
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_c1
directory: /exports/\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_c1:\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/dbe_c1
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /machines/dbe_c1
property: name
value: mailhost No such name
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_c1
directory: /exports/\/LocalLibrary\/Images\/People
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_c1:\/LocalLibrary\/Images\/People
Status: Not found
This computer is not an e-mail server.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dir=\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/mailhost
Status: Not found
There is no network e-mail server.
Checking SNMP configuration.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/snmp
Status: Not found
SNMP is not enabled on the local network.
Checking file server for home directories.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/homes/dbe_c1
Status: Not found
No shared directory: /Users
Checking file server for shared applications.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
property: server
value: dbe_c1 No such name
Another computer is a server for the shared directory: /LocalApps
Checking general-purpose file server.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/generalpurpose/dbe_c1
Status: Not found
No shared directory: /General
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
# /etc/hostconfig
HOSTNAME=dbe_c2
INETADDR=145.79.71.150
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=145.79.71.255
NETMASTER=-YES-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
dbe_c2> /usr/etc/ifconfig -a
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 145.79.71.150 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 145.79.71.255
lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
dbe_c2> netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
localhost localhost UH 4 1178 lo0
145.79.72 145.79.71.160 UG 0 0 en0
145.79.73 145.79.71.160 UG 6 69039 en0
145.79.71 dbe_c2 U 10 2001 en0
SimpleNetworkStarter.app => log
Saving current system configuration.
Checking system configuration.
HOSTNAME=dbe_c2
INETADDR=145.79.71.150
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPBROADCAST=145.79.71.255
NETMASTER=-YES-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
Host name: dbe_c2
Internet address: 145.79.71.150
Network is up:
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 145.79.71.255
Network: 145.79.71.0
Primary interface: en0
Checking NetInfo domain: /
Domain: /
master: dbe_s address: 145.79.73.155 tag: network
clone: dbe_c2 address: 145.79.71.150 tag: network
Checking NetInfo domain: /dbe_c2
Domain: /dbe_c2
master: dbe_c2 address: 127.0.0.1 tag: local
Checking for stand-alone NetInfo configuration.
Local NetInfo is not stand-alone.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /dbe_c2
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking for second-level NetInfo servers.
Found a second-level NetInfo domain.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /
property: trusted_networks No such property
Access is not restriced to hosts on trusted networks.
Checking network services.
Checking automatic host addition.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines
Status: Found
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: promiscuous Found
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: assignable_ipaddr
Status: OK
Assignable IP address range: 145.79.73.1 145.79.73.252
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: configuration_ipaddr
Status: OK
Configuration IP address: 145.79.73.253
Automatic host addition is enabled.
NetInfo check for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: net_passwd Found
NetInfo lookup value for property.
domain: /
directory: /machines
property: net_passwd
Status: OK
A password is required for host addition.
Checking time server configuration.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
property: server
value: dbe_c2 No such property
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/ntp
property: host
value: dbe_c2 No such name
This computer is not a time server.
Checking e-mail server configuration.
Checking directory: /LocalLibrary/Images/People
Checking directory: /usr/spool/mail
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_c2
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_c2
directory: /exports/\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_c2:\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/dbe_c2
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /machines/dbe_c2
property: name
value: mailhost No such name
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /dbe_c2
directory: /exports/\/LocalLibrary\/Images\/People
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dbe_c2:\/LocalLibrary\/Images\/People
Status: Not found
This computer is not an e-mail server.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/sendmail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /mounts/dir=\/usr\/spool\/mail
Status: Not found
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /machines/mailhost
Status: Not found
There is no network e-mail server.
Checking SNMP configuration.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/snmp
Status: Not found
SNMP is not enabled on the local network.
Checking file server for home directories.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/homes/dbe_c2
Status: Not found
No shared directory: /Users
Checking file server for shared applications.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
Status: Found
NetInfo check for value(s) in property.
domain: /
directory: /locations/localapps
property: server
value: dbe_c2 No such name
Another computer is a server for the shared directory: /LocalApps
Checking general-purpose file server.
NetInfo check for directory.
domain: /
directory: /locations/generalpurpose/dbe_c2
Status: Not found
No shared directory: /General
Please Email to pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
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Email: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
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From: martin@cstone.net (Chris Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next printer from WIndows Nt
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 96 08:10:15 GMT
Organization: None, whatsoever
Message-ID: <4q669f$gdh@dot.cstone.net>
References: <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net> <4q4m05$pb7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
In article <4q4m05$pb7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>,
kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) wrote:
>rfell@fell.shore.net (Richard Noel Fell) writes:
>
>>I have an intel machine running NT which will be connected via ethernet
>>with my Next turbo. Is it possible to configure the intel so that it has
>>access to the Next printer?
>>Thanks for any help,
>>Dick Fell
>
>Dick,
> Get samba and your NT should be able to browse it as a printer
>if you configured properly.
NT 3.51 supports LPR/LPD type printing. Just install the TCP/IP printing
panels (Control Panels, Networking, Add Software...) if it's not installed.
You can also download LPR/LPD util's from windows NT archives
(ftp.winsite.com, etc.) if you have an older version of NT. Also, you can
download the NEXT 400 DPI printer drivers from www.adobe.com the filename is
group6.exe They are for win95, but you can edit the .INF files and get the
PPD files and such to copy. Oh, they work with DEC alpha's too.
Later.
Chris
>
>--kai--
From: "Jeff W. Storey" <jstorey@eskimo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bouncing Mail with PPP running
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 05:30:49 -0700
Organization: Able Technical Services
Message-ID: <31C6A179.42865940@eskimo.com>
References: <31c4df8d.0@news1.montrose.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In your sendmail.cf file you must specify a relay host. In
/etc/sendmail, just edit sendmail.cf, and fill in the macro definition
for relay host. I think it is DR or DS, but the sendmail.cf is pretty
well documented, so you should be able to figure it out.
--
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
-- General Omar N. Bradley
From: peter.krauss@e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Peter Krauss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: start disk > 1GB How?
Date: 18 Jun 1996 14:06:20 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q6d4s$6l5@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
NS3.3 recognizes only the first 1 GB of my SCSI-disk HP C3725S (mach: sd0: Device Capacity: 2047 MB) for installing NEXTSTEP. During installation there is a message saying 2 GB, but for BIOS only 1 GB.
Any help or things to try would be appreciated.
Thanks-
Peter
From: dkramer@onramp.net (Daniel L. Kramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: still problems with NCR_SCSi Driver
Date: 18 Jun 1996 14:13:53 GMT
Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
Message-ID: <4q6dj1$iti@news.onramp.net>
References: <31c40dd7.810458@news.ucs.ubc.ca>
Godwin writes
>On 15 Jun 1996 21:53:37 GMT, sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf)
>wrote:
>>I have this NCR 53 C810 SCSI adapter
>>some people told me, a Symbios driver would work
>>it didn't
>>now I found this commercial NCR_SCSIDriver.config at next.com
>>this driver only works with one (1!, scsi id 0) device
>>imagine to install from your cd rom
>>
>>what these guys forgot was there name, addressm email, fon
>>so, you have a commercial producct and dont know where to buy
>>
This sounds like the REC (Russian Electronics Co. - several ex-Talus
folks) driver. It worked fine, and I hope the writers are doing OK, but I
have no idea where they went or what they are up to. The SYM53C8 driver
should work, though.
>Could this be Steve Talus III? driver??
>What version are you using? try to get 3.3.....
>Godwin
>
>PS seems Steven Talus has finally left the next newsgroups..
One never knows... beware lurkers. Let's see....
"Ia! IA! CTHULHU SARICH FHTAGN!"
Just a check :-).
Dan
dkramer@onramp.net
From: perkins@cps.msu.edu (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bouncing Mail with PPP running
Date: 18 Jun 1996 14:27:44 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <4q6ed0$gk4@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <31c4df8d.0@news1.montrose.net> <31C6A179.42865940@eskimo.com>
Cc: jstorey@eskimo.com
In <31C6A179.42865940@eskimo.com> "Jeff W. Storey" wrote:
> In your sendmail.cf file you must specify a relay host. In
> /etc/sendmail, just edit sendmail.cf, and fill in the macro definition
> for relay host. I think it is DR or DS, but the sendmail.cf is pretty
> well documented, so you should be able to figure it out.
Francois Magnan has compiled an excellent set of instructions for configuring
the latest sendmail for use with PPP. The instructions are out to a beta
group for testing before inclusion into the PPP FAQ. However, if you want to
try them, see:
http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/
Hope this helps.
- Steve
---
==============================================================
Stephen J. Perkins | mailto:perkins@cps.msu.edu
Dept. of Comp. Science | NeXT, MIME, finger for PGP
Michigan State University | NeXT OS 3.3 using PPP-2.2
NeXT PPP-2.2 info at http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q:NeXT and Fujitsu 2513 MO
Date: 18 Jun 1996 14:21:38 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q6e1i$f1c@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <4q47qm$97r@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Felipe A. Rodriguez (far@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Where did you get a 2513? Are they available in Germany?
: For those wondering a Fujitsu 2513 is a 640mb 3.5" MO drive.
Yes they are, I think they're around USD 460. I have one of
the 230 MB drives and am very happy, and I'm sure this year
I'll buy one of the bigger drives, too.
Reasonably fast, inexpensive, and _very_ reliable. The ideal
backup and transport solution IMHO.
Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.."
// http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/
// +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: "James P. Klett" <klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: reading .tar.attach
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:33:54 -0500
Organization: Emprise Consulting Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <31C6DA72.41AD@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Can anyone remind me of the steps to take an email message from
another system in a .tar.attach format and get it into NeXTMail??
The reason I need to know is that I only have email through Win/95
yet I still get NeXT mails. I can FTP them to my NeXT machine but
still cannot read them.
Thanks,
JIM
P.S. Please no NeXTMail at this time
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From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: System finds 2 CDROMs on booting
Date: 18 Jun 1996 16:47:42 GMT
Organization: CARNet, CROATIA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q6mje$o3h@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
O.K.
I got the CD-ROM up and running succesfully on the secondary
controller thanks to several replies that pointed out I
needed _two_ examples of the EIDE/ATAPI driver in Configure.app,
one for each controller.
However, on start up (-v) it finds _two_ ATAPI drives, one as
device 0 and one as device 1, although only one is there, and
the jumper is correctly set as "MASTER" device. The system
functions normally, just gives startup errors on the console.
Is this normal or did I do something wrong? There are no
conflicts, the DMA is 14/15 for primary/secondary, port
0x1f0/0x170 as per the Help file that came with the new (3.34)
driver.
Here's the info from boot -v:
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: PCI bus
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: DriverKit version 330
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0... Detected
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1...
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
....
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: device detected at port 0x170 irq 15
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Resetting drives..
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Device 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ,
REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12)
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: FATAL: Device 1: ATAPI Identify Device.
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: hc1: ATAPI device 1 is not present.
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: Registering: hc1
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: Registering: sc0
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: sd0: MITSUMI CD-ROM FX600S !B P01
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: Registering: sd0a
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: sd0: Waiting for drive to come ready.......
Jun 17 22:52:17 valhall mach: sd0: Disk Not Ready
I would also like to mention that the CDROM makes the system
take about 20 seconds extra, after the BIOS registers the
hard disk and before it finds the floppy. Maybe it's talking
to the CDROM but it never shows up in the BIOS or on the
console (before NeXTStep starts, I mean). Just for the curious.
Regards,
Thor Legvold
Presently in exile in Croatia
From: schildw@infoac.rmi.de (Christian Schildwaechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Boot NextStep OS from floppy?
Date: 10 Jun 1996 12:18:32 GMT
Organization: greenHAUS
Message-ID: <4ph3qo$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de>
References: <4on7ao$s60@nwestmail.nwest.mccaw.com> <4op39i$1b6f@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
Cc: guentche@cps.msu.edu
In <4op39i$1b6f@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Kamen Yankov Guentchev wrote:
> Austin Holiday (aholiday@dudley) wrote:
> : Anybody know where I can download a kernel that can be booted from
a floppy (if such a
> : thing exists) that will boot a NextStep OS running on a Pentium?
>
> : I can't use Single User mode and would like to avoid a complete
install. My goal is to be
> : able to access the fs on the harddrive.
>
> It is not very clear what exactly your problem is. However I recently
had a
> problem where I lost important data on the HDD but couldn't sacrifice
the
> rest of it. So I booted from the CD-ROM, copied the missing system
files
> from it and everything was fine. You'll have to specify that you want
booting
> in single-user mode from the CD - there's no other way, you can only
boot in
> mutliuser mode from a working HDD. Hope that helps.
>
> Kamen
What about booting with the option -s at the boot prompt? Until right
now I was pretty sure this always took me to singleuser (and I used it
often during the last weeks - one should never run beta software
(Radical News) :-(
Christian
--
Christian Schildwaechter schildw@infoac.rmi.de
Rosstr. 38-40 http://greenHAUS.ros.AC-Net.de/
52064 Aachen/Germany (+49)241-2800- 2(voice/am)/3(fax)
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multi-boot NeXTStep 3.3, DOS, Windows NT
Date: 18 Jun 1996 14:58:56 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4q71q0$3q0@Venus.mcs.com>
I know that this must get covered here often, but I couldn't find the
information in the faq.
I need to set up a machine that boots DOS, Windows NT, and NeXTStep 3.3.
I have fully supported hardware, I have just heard that there are problems
if you don't install them in the right order.
The FAQ talks about using the OS/2 boot loader which I don't have.
Any help would be appriciated
Peter Richardson
par@mcs.net
From: Todd Stedl <trstedl@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing from NT3.51 to NeXT
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 12:27:44 -0700
Organization: University of Washington
Message-ID: <31C70330.2EF0@u.washington.edu>
References: <31C1C333.3FF1@pathcom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: viorel <viorel@pathcom.com>
viorel wrote:
>
> I have a NeXTStation with a NeXT Laser Printer and
> I intend to connect a PC to the NeXTStation, using
> an Ethernet card.
>
> Anyone knows what I should do to be able to print
> from WindowsNT to the NeXT Printer ?
>
> You can reply to:
> Viorel Chita (viorel@pathcom.com)
I use Windows LPR spooler, which I have found to be easier than
installing Samba on the NeXT station (which will also work). I don't
remember where I got it, but you can email the writers at
th.heil@kfa-juelich.de I think they are on vacation thru July 7,
though.
You can get the postscript definition file for the Next printer from
either the Next computer itself (the .ppd file is platform independent)
or from adobe at
http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/1e6.htm
Once you get the .ppd file you'll have to edit the printer.inf file in
your windows/system32 directory to include the next printer. It's pretty
straitforward to add it.
Email me if you have questions or problems. I'm pretty much an expert at
this particular problem since I've spent a month trying to get the exact
same thing to work properly. In my case, though, I finally figured out
that the Next Station to which the printer is connected is running a
version of NextStep that is too old! I can print fine from my PC running
NT 3.51, as long as the printer is connected to a Next computer running
3.0 or higher. Unfortunately, this particular Next computer is running
2.1 and I'm having problems printing multiple pages. And I'm having
problems upgrading it since it won't recognize the CD-ROM drive. <sigh>
-Todd Stedl
trstedl@u.washington.edu
From: "Scott Mewett" <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next printer from WIndows Nt
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:03:25 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <01bb5d51.75546560$9a835786@mewett>
References: <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net>
Add LPR support for NT. It comes with NT.. you just have to install it and
then when connecting your printer choose other instead of LPT1 and then
choose LPR port. Type in the name of your NeXT machine and the name of the
printer. It should work.
--
Scott Mewett
MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, BC
mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only
mewett@planeteer.com NeXTMail Welcome
> rfell@fell.shore.net (Richard Noel Fell) wrote in article
<4q48js$830@shore.shore.net>...
> I have an intel machine running NT which will be connected via ethernet
> with my Next turbo. Is it possible to configure the intel so that it has
> access to the Next printer?
> Thanks for any help,
> Dick Fell
>
From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help interpreting SCSI error messages
Date: 18 Jun 1996 19:27:21 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q6vup$9p8@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>
I have been running various SCSI hard disks with an old NeXTcube since
1990 with no problems until a couple of months ago. I bought a new Conner
CFP2107S last fall and my first SCSI incident occurred in April. While the
screen saver was running and no one was using the system, I heard a lot of
disk activity and returned to witness the window server crash. The console
produced a series of repeated SCSI error messages similar to this (this
series of messages was just produced when my current HP drive was being
used):
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
sd0 (0,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:2 scsi status:0x0
IO error on pageout (bread)
vnode_pageout: failed!
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 2
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 3
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 4
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 5
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 6
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 7
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 8
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 9
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 10
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 11
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 12
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 13
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 14
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 15
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 16
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 17
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 18
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 19
sd0 (0,0): sense key:0x2 additional sense code:0x4
SCSI Block in error = 131136; Partition a F.S. sector 65408
IO error on pagein (breadDirect)
Target 0: NOT READY; retry 1
followed by more repeated retries until it finally comes back to life.
When bootin to single-user mode and running fsck on both partitions, I
have found either no or only minor (inaccurate block counts) file system
problems.
No more incidents occurred until the end of May when the Conner suddenly
spun down for no apparent reason. It tried to spin up, but then spun down
again. This cycling occurred repeatedly until I shut down the system.
Afterwards, I was never able to access the disk again. It would spin up fine
upon applying power and would stay up until a mount attempt was made which
would start the spin down/spin up cycling.
I returned the drive for warranty replacement. The dealer found a few
media errors when reformatting the drive. After reformatting, no more spin
down/spin up have occurred, but I refused to accept the drive because I
consider it flakey. So the dealer returned it to Seagate (Seagate bought
Conner) who has said to expect a 4-week replacement delay :-(
In the interim, I purchased an HP C3725S. It has worked fine for about 2
weeks, but today it suddenly started the spin down/spin up cycles, but has
managed to stay up after several cycles. This behavior just repeated while
composing this posting :-(
This seems like too much of a coincidence. What causes a drive to spin
down? The system and SCSI devices (4 external, 1 internal) are all on a UPS.
No apparent power glitches occur when the spin downs occur. The drive
cooling fans continue to work and the drive enclosures haven't felt hot. I'm
at a loss to explain these problems, and my disk dealer is beginning to
wonder whether something other than the drives are to blame.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!!
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: "Scott Mewett" <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next printer from WIndows Nt
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 13:10:07 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <01bb5d52.6a064d80$9a835786@mewett>
References: <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net> <4q4m05$pb7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4q669f$gdh@dot.cstone.net>
i couldn't find the driver on adobe's site. Do you know where exactly it
is.
thanks.
--
Scott Mewett
MPR Teltech Ltd. Burnaby, BC
mewett@mpr.ca ASCII Only
mewett@planeteer.com NeXTMail Welcome
Also, you can
> download the NEXT 400 DPI printer drivers from www.adobe.com the
filename is
> group6.exe They are for win95, but you can edit the .INF files and get
the
> PPD files and such to copy. Oh, they work with DEC alpha's too.
>
> Later.
>
> Chris
>
> >
> >--kai--
>
From: evan@evolution.com (Evan D. Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solaris NFS server for NeXT network
Date: 18 Jun 1996 20:30:07 GMT
Organization: Evolution Online Systems
Message-ID: <4q73kf$67g@news.phantom.com>
Hello -
We have a Sparc10 with 128MB of memory serving /LocalApps
and /LocalDeveloper to about 8 NeXT boxes on a small LAN.
We are having some really poor performance problems lately, such as
the NFS server timing out and then immediatly reconnecting, etc.
The server is running Solaris 2.5. All the clients are NeXTStep release
3.3, on a mix of black and white hardware.
Has anyone else dealt with this sort of problem before?
Regards,
Evan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 96 21:21:28 +0200
From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Message-ID: <9606181921.AA02038@flexus>
Subject: Why can't I read ECMA-201 compatible rewritable optical disk
Dear experts,
When I insert an ECMA-201 compatible rewritable optical disk (that's what it
says on the box), a panel NXRunPanel("Workspace","The scsi disk is
unreadable.","Initialize...","Eject",NULL) pops up, with choices of NeXT or
Macintosh file format (repeated on two separate disks). If I do that on an
empty disk (to NeXT), all is well and I can use the disk normally. However, I
want to work with the DOS file system currently on the disk, to process some
data and return the disk with the results on them.
Could someone explain this to me, on my e-mail address (I don't subscribe to
digests from this newsgroup): why can't I use the DOS file system on this disk
as I can on a floppy disk? Or can I, somehow? (Running NEXTSTEP_3.2 on a
NeXTstation.)
Thanks,
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium
If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think
*** The year 2000 will be the last year of the 20th century. ***
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! Dead HD
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 17:56:36 -0400
Organization: worldbank
Message-ID: <31C72614.26E4@worldbank.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I hope someone can help me
I have a 1GB DEC DSP3105S external attached to my slab;
it mounts on /dev/sd1a. Today, with no warning, the system reported
problems writing to it, then had a system panic. I restarted, everything
seemed to be doing fine, but when I logged on, half the files seemed to be
missing and as soon as I tried to open some that seemed to be there, the
whole thing crashed again. Since then, I've been unable to get onto that
disk. The system is on an internal HD, so I can still get into NeXTSTEP.
I've tried running fsck; after going through reams of "the following
sectors can't be read " it eventually hangs after the message
"bad inode number 0 to ginode"
Questions:
Is the HD salvageable? What should I try?
And if not,
Is there any way to get some of the data off of it?
Many many many thanks in advance for any help
Stefano
From: Rob Blessin <rob@optimal-object.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: RE: Diplay driver for Nec Versa 4050H
Date: 18 Jun 1996 19:06:40 GMT
Organization: Optimal Object, Inc.
Message-ID: <01bb5d84.7c8e7e00$376df326@void.object-tech.com>
References: <31C65457.5EBD@pacbell.net>
Hello Winston:
Try Shannon Edwards at Deep Space Technologies, 301-663-3033
sedwards@fred.net
Best regards Rob Blessin
rob@optimal-object.com
On Tuesday, June 18, 1996, Winston wrote...
> Does anyone know where I can get a NeXT display driver for my Nec Versa
> 4050H? NeXTAnswers says the Versa is a compatible system but they don't
> have a display driver for it other than the standard vga driver.
>
> While I'm here, who else has a Versa and runs NeXT on it? We could
> share ideas like getting the VersaGlide to work and other stuff. I was
> able to get NeXT booting from an external scsi drive using a 7MB
> partition on the internal drive if anyone needs help with that.
>
> thanks mucho,
> --winston
>
From: Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New sendmail doesn't want to flush the queue
Date: 19 Jun 1996 01:10:03 GMT
Organization: home
Message-ID: <4q7k1b$dr5@gate.seicom.net>
I installed Robert LaFerla's sendmail pkg, set up everything, and it
works just fine (thanks Robert!). However, my PPP setup contains a
"/usr/lib/sendmail -q"at the end of the ip-up script, which worked fine
before the upgrade: whenever I sent mail offline, it was queued and then
flushed out when I brought up the connection. This doesn't work any
longer - and I really don't know why. The program is there, ip-up is
run as root (other commands in the script are run), but the sendmail -q
call is stubbornly ignored. The funny thing: when I call it manually
immediately after the connection has been brought up, it flushes the
queue just like it's supposed to.
I also tried to insert a few sleeps & mail host pings in order to
wake up NetInfo before flushing, but to no avail.
Has anybody experienced something like this? Any ideas?
Holger
--
Holger Hoffsttte // Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de (MIME/NeXT/Sun/PGP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: hans@onevision.de(Hans Stoeger)
Subject: Re: Installing Nextstep 3.1 on Intel problems
Message-ID: <Dt71oA.2rz@onevision.de>
Sender: news@onevision.de
Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany
References: <4psv9h$mrl@news.next.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1996 11:38:33 GMT
In article <4psv9h$mrl@news.next.com> Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark
Bessey) writes:
> Geosh Fathauer writes
> > I'm installing Nextstep 3.1 for intel onto a pc with an
> > Adaptec 1520a scsi card. I have a sun-4 compatible CD-ROM
> > that I am currently using. No matter what ID I set the scsi drive
> > at, the Next installation can not find any cd-roms. Does 3.1
> > support the adaptec, and would the 512k sector cd-rom be a problem?
>
> NEXTSTEP 3.1 doesn't support the 1520. I think that 3.3 and 4.0 do,
> though. You really ought to try to get a newer version - 3.1 is
really
> buggy, and only supports a tiny fraction of Intel hardware...In fact,
I'd
> be amazed if it ran on any currently shipping PC.
>
AND as far as I remember the SUN CD makes problems!
Try to get a "normal" PC CD-Rom
--
======================================================================
Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH
Support Florian-Seidl-Strasse 11
Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg
(NeXTMail and MIME welcome) Germany
From: aitken@coho.halcyon.com (William E. Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help debbugging network. Please.
Date: 19 Jun 1996 05:29:39 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
Message-ID: <4q8383$iml@news2.halcyon.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help debugging network problems.
Summary:
Followup-To:
Distribution:
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
Keywords:
Cc:
I am trying to get my 68040 NeXT, running Nextstep 3.0 to
connect to my new PC running Windows NT 3.51 Workstation over a 10-BaseT
Ethernet, and am running into difficulties.
Here are the symptoms:
Pinging the PC from the NeXT yields 100% packet loss. Likewise
pinging the NeXT from the PC yields 100% packet loss. In each case pinging
the IP address of the ethernet interface on the local machine works just fine.
Running arp -a on the NeXT suggests that the NeXT knows how to map the
PC's internet address to an ethernet address. Running arp -a on the PC
suggests that the PC does NOT know how to map the NeXT's internet address
into an ethernet address. Using arp -s on the PC to make the mapping
explicit doesn't seem to help.
Running netstat -i 10 while the next is pinging the PC, suggests
that the next is sending 1 packet per second as expected, and receiving
nothing back. Note that this is true regardless of whether arp has been
run on the PC to make the IP/Ether association. Running the analogous
command on the PC suggests that there is no ethernet activity.
Running netstat -i on the Next while the PC is pinging it
suggests that the Next both sends and receives packets at the expected
rate. Again this is regardless of whether arp has been run on the PC.
Running the analogous command on the PC shows that the PC
behaves differently depending on whether arp has been run or not.
If it hasn't ben run, the PC broadcasts a packet per interval,
and receives a broadcast packet each interval [this might well be the
packet it sent]. If it has been run, then the PC unicasts 1 packet per
interval and receives nothing back.
Note that when I run ifconfig on the NeXT en0 appears twice. once in
a sensible state (the first time) and once in a bogus state. The
bogus state seems to be getting activity too, and has a LOT of
collisions.
Anyone got any idea what might be wrong. Please respond by email,
and I will summarize any clever ideas, or debugging tricks I might learn.
Bill.
--
William E. Aitken | Formal verification is the
email: aitken@halcyon.com | future of computer science ---
Snail: 8500 148th Ave NE #H1026 Redmond WA | Always has been, always will be.
===============================================================================
From: peter.krauss@e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Peter Krauss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: start disk > 1GB How? - solved!
Date: 19 Jun 1996 08:35:16 GMT
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q8e44$3it@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
References: <4q6d4s$6l5@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de>
Thanks to all who mailed me!!
I have an Adaptec 2940 Host Adapter. In the SCSI BIOS Setup under "Advanced Configuration Options" the "Extended BIOS Translation for DOS Drives > 1 GByte" has to be enabled.
I'll repeat the installation hoping that will work ;-)
Peter
From: filip@filtronix.eunet.be (Filip Lingier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Next printer from WIndows Nt
Date: 18 Jun 1996 21:29:55 GMT
Organization: Filtronix Inc.
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q774j$c1@andromeda.filtronix.eunet.be>
References: <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net>
In article <4q48js$830@shore.shore.net> rfell@fell.shore.net (Richard Noel
Fell) writes:
> I have an intel machine running NT which will be connected via ethernet
> with my Next turbo. Is it possible to configure the intel so that it
> has access to the Next printer?
Just install the TCP/IP Printing service and it should work fine.
Filip
--
---------------------------- FILTRONIX -----------------------------
|-- --- \ / Software Development - OpenStep|Windows|X11
|- | X Web Design & Development - HTML|CGI|JAVA|WebObjects
| | / \ ---> info@filtronix.eunet.be
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Re: Printing from NT3.51 to NeXT
Message-ID: <Dt8pL2.H5B@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
References: <31C1C333.3FF1@pathcom.com> <31C70330.2EF0@u.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 09:12:38 GMT
Todd Stedl <trstedl@u.washington.edu> wrote:
>Email me if you have questions or problems. I'm pretty much an expert at
>this particular problem since I've spent a month trying to get the exact
>same thing to work properly. In my case, though, I finally figured out
>that the Next Station to which the printer is connected is running a
>version of NextStep that is too old! I can print fine from my PC running
>NT 3.51, as long as the printer is connected to a Next computer running
>3.0 or higher. Unfortunately, this particular Next computer is running
>2.1 and I'm having problems printing multiple pages. And I'm having
>problems upgrading it since it won't recognize the CD-ROM drive. <sigh>
The fact that you only get one page is the result of the illegal PS that
Windows generates. Stripping all comments from the PS will work (though your
pages will not come out in reverse order as you would like). You can make a
separate queue in printcap to do this filtering.
--
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and
Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can
question."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Message-ID: <Dt8oEw.H17@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 08:47:19 GMT
I want to replace my hard disk. Therefore I want to build a new one. I cannot
use dd because the new file system will be bigger than the old one. But I do
want to boot from the new disk.
This is what I thought to do:
format the disk, including writing a boot block
gnutar (with 'p') the contents of the old disk to the new one
Then reboot from the new disk.
Am i forgetting something?
--
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and
Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can
question."
From: stephan@punkt.de (Stephan Jaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: wu-ftpd-compilation under NS3.3. Howto?
Date: 19 Jun 1996 10:25:02 GMT
Organization: WEB Internet Services
Message-ID: <4q8khu$rtt@www.punkt.de>
Hi, people out there in NeXTland!
Did someone compile wu-ftpd.2.4 successfully under NS3.3 ?
If yes, how?
I tried it, but I didn't have any success :-/
Thanks in advance,
Stephan Jaeger
From: stephan@punkt.de (Stephan Jaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Virtual IP-addresses under NS ?
Date: 19 Jun 1996 10:35:18 GMT
Organization: WEB Internet Services
Message-ID: <4q8l56$rtt@www.punkt.de>
Hi, Network wizards!
Do you have any ideas how to realize multiple (virtual) IP-addresses under
NS3.3 with the same machine (like under Solaris2.5 or Linux)?
Here is a Solaris2.5 example:
/usr/sbin/ifconfig le0:1 192.0.2.1 up
/usr/sbin/ifconfig le0:2 192.0.2.2 up
...
So, I can configure 255 virtual IP-addresses on le0.
How to realize that under NS3.3 ?
Thanks in advance,
Stephan Jaeger
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dwrite prob: Couldn't write into database
Date: 19 Jun 1996 12:44:00 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <4q8smg$f82@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
When giving this dwrite as root in NS3.3, the following error occurs:
/# dwrite appname whatever value
dwrite: Couldn't write into database
A side effect of this is that root's defaults don't seem to be used when
logging out. This has been observed with NS for black HW and NS for Intel.
What might be the cure?
--Torsten
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Torsten Belschner
ZKM | Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie
Institut fuer Musik und Akustik
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: dwrite prob: Couldn't write into database
Date: 19 Jun 1996 13:07:27 GMT
Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4q8u2f$pri@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
References: <4q8smg$f82@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Torsten Belschner (tb@zkm.de) wrote:
: When giving this dwrite as root in NS3.3, the following error occurs:
: /# dwrite appname whatever value
: dwrite: Couldn't write into database
: A side effect of this is that root's defaults don't seem to be used when
: logging out. This has been observed with NS for black HW and NS for Intel.
: What might be the cure?
This sounds like the famous UserManager bug which likes to
set the home of root to /root instead of /
Use NetInfoManager to reset it or move everything belonging
to the root-account 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: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: What NeXT archives do email ftp?
Date: 19 Jun 1996 09:53:01 GMT
Organization: CARNet, CROATIA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4q8ilt$bhm@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi.
I've left my cosy existance with Megabit lines and millisecund
turnaround times in Norway for the sunny beaches but almost
non-existant network of Croatia, and am having really a
difficult time getting _any_ new software from the net.
The only reliable protocoll is e-mail; ftp, www, gopher,
etc out of the country all drop connection because of
timeouts and overload. The national lines out are
all gatewayed through one single machine and as I've
been told it's quite a limited line (not even a T1
link as I understand...)
So, I know I really should just go to the beach, but
there are many things I would like to get up and
running on my NeXT (like the new PopOver, OmniWeb,
DataPhile which I've paid for but haven't been
able to download, etc etc) and am not able to because
ftp/www aren't reliable. Several kind soles have
been nice enough to email me new versions of their
programs, other informed me that the package was
too large to be emailed.
What I would like to know is where/how I can access
next-ftp.peak.org, peanuts, and the new MusicKit
home from ftp-by-email. I would really appreciate
any help anyone could give.
Regards,
Thor Legvold
Former NeXT sysadmin, user group leader and musician
Currently in exile in Croatia
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Installing Nextstep 3.1 on Intel problems
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:33:36 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <4q96o4$9ot@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <4psnpk$gbd@eri.erinet.com> <4psv9h$mrl@news.next.com> <4q3jrk$b6k@news.rwth-aachen.de>
sl@skynet.oph.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Leuker) wrote:
>Mark_Bessey@next.com (Mark Bessey) wrote:
>>You really ought to try to get a newer version - 3.1 is really buggy
>Hmm, being old makes an official NEXTSTEP release buggy?
Well, let's put it this way. It was the first release on Intel. NeXT
engineers have learned a lot since then. The state of the hardware
art has changed since then, with the introduction of PCI bus, EIDE
disks, ATAPI CD-ROMs, 16550 UARTs becoming standard, etc.
Updating to something newer than 3.1 (like say... 3.3 or 4.0) might be
a good idea.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Virtual IP-addresses under NS ?
Date: 19 Jun 1996 15:40:19 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4q9713$13t@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <4q8l56$rtt@www.punkt.de>
Cc: stephan@punkt.de
In <4q8l56$rtt@www.punkt.de> Stephan Jaeger wrote:
> Hi, Network wizards!
>
> Do you have any ideas how to realize multiple (virtual) IP-addresses
under
> NS3.3 with the same machine (like under Solaris2.5 or Linux)?
>
> Here is a Solaris2.5 example:
> /usr/sbin/ifconfig le0:1 192.0.2.1 up
> /usr/sbin/ifconfig le0:2 192.0.2.2 up
There are two answers to this:
1) You can't :-). Not in the same way, at least;
2) Install the PPP2.2 kernel module, which lets you define additonal
interfaces, up to ten, each with an IP address. See the PPP FAQ at
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: reading .tar.attach
Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:22:25 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <4q99g8$1aag@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <31C6DA72.41AD@maroon.tc.umn.edu>
James P. Klett (klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
: Can anyone remind me of the steps to take an email message from
: another system in a .tar.attach format and get it into NeXTMail??
: The reason I need to know is that I only have email through Win/95
: yet I still get NeXT mails. I can FTP them to my NeXT machine but
: still cannot read them.
Piece of cake.
a) Quit Mail.app, and make sure no other app is accessing
/usr/spool/mail (like procmail, Pop.app etc)
b) cat mail-file-obtained-from-pc >> /usr/spool/mail
c) restart Mail.app
The NeXTmail format that looks like uuencode (and in fact is)
is compliant with the mbox format. You just need to get Mail.app
to process it, so put the files in /usr/spool/mail.
Hope this helps, Chris
--
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// http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/
// +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: joerd@mail.wsu.edu
Subject: PCNFSD deamon
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
Message-ID: <960619083915.206AAFgE.wayne@keizai2>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:39:15 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Organization: Washington State University
I am trying to use MacNFS to mount a file exported by my NeXTStation.
MacNFS needs a deamon called PCNFSD, which it can't find.
Can someone tell me about this deamon?
Is it running on NeXTStep 3.3?
Do I need to start it somehow?
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Wayne Joerding
Professor of Economics Ofc: 509-335-6468
Washington State University email: joerd@mail.wsu.edu
Pullman WA 99164 Powered by NeXTStep
"Stupidity always has the chance of being a capital offense."
From: jens@mail.pop-frankfurt.com (Jens Kleemann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Dead HD II
Date: 19 Jun 1996 17:44:59 GMT
Organization: IPf.net - Frankfurt, Germany
Message-ID: <4q9ear$3hf@main.ipf.net>
Hi,
my HD an old quantum died two days ago:
" cannot read label ". Thats not the problem - Data wasn`t that
valuable. I repartitioned the drive and tried to install a new
filesystem
1.) with Build Disk
it started - then aborts "cant initialize disk"
after that the disk wasn`t even visible to the scsi
controller.
2.) with newfs/makefs
it starts - reports a write error and guess what ...
the disk wasn`t even visible to the scsi controller.
any suggestions?
Jens Kleemann
From: herding@cs.tu-berlin.de (Bernd Herding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD deamon
Date: 19 Jun 1996 17:55:47 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4q9ev3$2q4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <960619083915.206AAFgE.wayne@keizai2>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
joerd@mail.wsu.edu writes:
>I am trying to use MacNFS to mount a file exported by my NeXTStation.
>MacNFS needs a deamon called PCNFSD, which it can't find.
Try /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd.
Good luck.
Bernd
From: sapkowsk@stream.csis.gvsu.edu (J.K. Sapkowski - Faculty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: dual boot help
Date: 19 Jun 1996 19:03:48 GMT
Organization: Grand Valley State University
Message-ID: <4q9iuk$dpv@news.gvsu.edu>
I'm going to try to make an HP 712/60 dual boot to either
NeXTstep 3.3 or HP-UX 9.05
I am aware that: " HP-UX & NeXTstep use incompatible partitioning
schemes and cannot be installed on the same disk ... " (NeXTanswers)
So, given that one drive will be external, does anybody have any
suggestions as to how to proceed? Which OS should be installed
first, what to watch out for, etc.
Thanks,
Ken Sapkowski
sapkowsk@gvsu.edu
From: Mark.A.Tarbell@jpl.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Date: 19 Jun 1996 18:24:34 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena CA
Message-ID: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
The NeXTdimensions we're using are just too slow in 32-bit color mode. I seem
to recall that someone once posted a way to run the NeXTdimension board in
16-bit color mode.
Is this possible? Does anyone know how to do this?
Thanks!
Mark
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 20:22:02 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov>
Mark.A.Tarbell@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
>The NeXTdimensions we're using are just too slow in 32-bit color mode. I seem
>to recall that someone once posted a way to run the NeXTdimension board in
>16-bit color mode.
>Is this possible? Does anyone know how to do this?
Not without a soldering iron, but there's something almost as good...
You can depth-limit NextStep applications using a dwrite command. By
limiting the depth on apps that don't require precise color, you can
substantially reduce backing store usage. For NS 3.3 the command
looks like:
dwrite owner NXWindowDepthLimit depth
where 'owner' is the name of the app, and depth is one of
TwoBitGray
TwelveBitRGB
TwentyFourBitRGB
EightBitGray
For example, I don't want Digital Librarian running at a 24 bit depth
just because of those little yellow 'Indexed' markers, so I've done
dwrite Librarian NXWindowDepthLimit TwoBitGray
The depth limit can be set globally (although I don't think it's a
good idea) using
dwrite -g NXWindowDepthLimit depth
The i860 handles the depth conversion very efficiently, so you won't
see a slowdown when bitmaps are flushed to the (still 32 bit) display.
You will save on backing stores, which cuts down on paging.
There's something even better built into 4.0, that requires no action
on your part...
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: William Briesemaster <wbriesem@parker.bio.uci.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DESPERATE
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 11:32:29 -0700
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960619112911.9927A-100000@parker.bio.uci.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Desperately needed, an account on Next 3.2 platform (with BLACK
hardware) to de-compile my database (for eventual re-compile on linux).
IF you have Next 3.2, with BLACK hardware, please help!
Send reply's to
wbriesem@parker.bio.uci.edu
Thank you!
William J Briesemaster
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ATAPI CD & SCSI disk
Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:08:49 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4q9q91$7v@Mercury.mcs.com>
Is there a way to use an ATAPI CD without using an IDE disk?
For some wierd reason the system that I got has a SCSI disk and an
EIDE ATAPI CD. I stole a SCSI CD from another machine to do the
install. I could not get the NeXTStep to recognize the ATAPI CD
to do the install. But I can't keep the SCSI CD so I need to get
the ATAPI CD recognized.
Thanks
Peter Richardson
From: jda@jda.rust.net (John David Adamski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mac PC compatable card and OpenStep/NextStep
Date: 19 Jun 1996 22:20:43 GMT
Organization: Rust Net - High Speed Internet in Detroit 810-642-2276
Message-ID: <4q9ufr$iu2@oxy.rust.net>
Keywords: Mac OpenStep NextStep
Does anyone know if you can use the Mac PC Compatable card for PowerMacs
with PCI bus? I'm guessing not, thought I would ask.
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From: james@coquitlam.instep.bc.ca (James Ford)
Subject: Netinfo Problem with "config=Default"
Message-ID: <1996Jun19.230044.3588@instep.bc.ca>
Sender: usenet@instep.bc.ca
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 23:00:44 GMT
When I boot with no options, I boot with no problem and get a correct
login panel. If I specify config=Default netinfo seems to crash and the
console last shows "Starting file service daemons" and the system hangs.
My machine is configured as a netinfo servers with exports and NFS mounts.
I don't understand how netinfo has anything to do with config=Default, as
I understood it this meant to load the default device drivers and that is
it. 99% of the time I won't need to use config=Default but I still need
that option.
Thanks,
--
James Ford <james@instep.bc.ca> <604-872-7116>
System Support, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From: kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu (Kin Hung Au)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Please help: Don't know hardware password
Date: 19 Jun 1996 16:14:52 GMT
Organization: Californi State University, Fresno
Message-ID: <4q991s$se6@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU>
Hi Folks,
Our NeXT server has problem. It won't boot up. And, we can't boot
machine to single user mode because we don't know hardware password. The
person in-charge is on vacation.
Could someone tell me how to reset hardware password? I guess I can only
case and remove battery. Is it right?
I think the problem is the external hard drive. Can I move the external
hard drive to other machine and run fsck on the external hard drive?
Please help... we need the server for next weeks.... =(
Please email me at kinau@csufresno.edu
Thanks in advance!
--Kin
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From: paul@pth.com (Paul Tognato-Haddad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exporting DOS partition
Date: 20 Jun 1996 02:26:58 GMT
Organization: FishNet
Message-ID: <4qacti$ebp@fish.phl.pond.com>
Hi,
I'd like to be able to export a DOS partition from my NeXT. Trying the
obvious and just exporting from NFS manager gives me a "Too many users"
error message. Any ideas?
See ya,
--
Paul (NeXTmail preferred)
# Paul R. Tognato-Haddad (paul@pth.com)
(Home) 610-265-3025 (Fax) 610-265-3026
From: saga@cs.otago.ac.nz (Dave Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LaTeX 2e
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:19:27 +1200
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ
Message-ID: <saga-2006961519270001@ou226038.otago.ac.nz>
Hi All,
I want to upgrade LaTeX on out NeXTStep 3.3 systems to LaTeX 2e.
Is there a distribution of 2e for NeXT systems or do I have to adapt
one of the standard LaTeX distributions? I've looked on the NeXT ftp
sites and the CTAN servers but the only NeXT distributions I can find
are circa 1991.
Thanks for any pointers,
-Dave.
Dave Robertson
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Otago, New Zealand.
saga@cs.otago.ac.nz
From: dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /private/vm/swapfile.front?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 06:41:06 GMT
Organization: Turbocat's Development, Germany
Message-ID: <4qarq2$9v@turbocat.snafu.de>
Hello!
On Intel and NeXT, there is
turbocat:4# ls -l /private/vm/sw*
-rw------t 1 root 16777216 Jun 20 08:35 /private/vm/swapfile
-rw------t 1 root 1318912 Jun 20 08:35 /private/vm/swapfile.front
but on HPPA there is NO swapfile.front. Why?
_ _
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(_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
_/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
(______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
From: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Pregler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Help: Setting the default paper-size in NeXTStep 3.0
Date: 20 Jun 1996 08:30:49 GMT
Organization: Johannes Kepler University Linz
Sender: ppregler@tiger5.risc.uni-linz.ac.at (Peter Pregler)
Message-ID: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
Hi all,
I would like to configure the default paper-size setup for all accounts
on the NeXTStep 3.0 system. Currently, it is set to letter-size but we
here in Austria use A4 as the default size. One can change the
page-layout in certain applications (under format->page-layout) but
there are two problems with this:
1) One has to set it in all user-applications.
2) It is not saved over sessions.
I had a look at what defaults are set via 'dwrite' and I cannot find any
setting that is related to paper-size. Has anyone done this before?
Thanx, Peter.
-------------------------------
Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
WWW: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/ppregler
From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 03:33:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qagq8$9gt@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
References: <Dt8oEw.H17@AWT.NL>
G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> I want to replace my hard disk. Therefore I want to build a new one. I
cannot
> use dd because the new file system will be bigger than the old one. But I
do
> want to boot from the new disk.
> This is what I thought to do:
> format the disk, including writing a boot block
> gnutar (with 'p') the contents of the old disk to the new one
> Am i forgetting something?
/usr/etc/ditto oldDiskRoot newDiskRoot
--
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Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
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From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Date: 20 Jun 1996 13:08:57 GMT
Organization: University of Sheffield, UK
Message-ID: <4qbih9$l8b@bignews.shef.ac.uk>
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
On 06/19/96, Mike Paquette wrote:
> The i860 handles the depth conversion very efficiently, so you won't
> see a slowdown when bitmaps are flushed to the (still 32 bit) display.
> You will save on backing stores, which cuts down on paging.
>
> There's something even better built into 4.0, that requires no action
> on your part...
>
Namely... :-)
Best wishes,
mmalc.
--
From: asr@itsq8.com (Ahmad Al-rasheedan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 vs Buslogic BT-930 [PLEASE COMMENT]
Date: 20 Jun 1996 11:02:18 GMT
Organization: International Turnkey Systems
Message-ID: <4qbb3q$1pe@info.itsq8.com>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960614124127.7293A-100000@elaine15.Stanford.EDU>
In article <Pine.SUN.3.93.960614124127.7293A-100000@elaine15.Stanford.EDU>
Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> writes:
> I'm about to purchase a Pentium Pro 200 from Micron and am wondering
which
> controller I should get. The Buslogic driver is only in beta, but heard
> about problems with the Adaptec. What should I get?
>
> While you're at it, what do you think about the Micron PPro 200 (if you
> have one)? Any other recommendations on parts I should/shouldn't get?
>
> Robert Jacobs
> rob@rjacobs.stanford.edu
2940 works fine here; you have to get the updated 2940 driver. Stock NS3.3
driver did not work.
From: tb@zkm.de (Torsten Belschner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: error: grabbing ptys for subprocess
Date: 20 Jun 1996 13:03:12 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Message-ID: <4qbi6g$8ip@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
With NS3.3 for Intel the following message appears with different
applications (Opener.app, RT.app), eventually leading to their crash:
error: grabbing ptys for subprocess
How is this to be avoided?
--Torsten
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Torsten Belschner
ZKM | Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie
Institut fuer Musik und Akustik
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 13:44:54 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4qbkkm$2b1@news.acns.nwu.edu>
References: <Dt8oEw.H17@AWT.NL> <4qagq8$9gt@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com>
art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
>
> > Am i forgetting something?
>
> /usr/etc/ditto oldDiskRoot newDiskRoot
Will that really get the device and special files? What about putting
the swapfile in one contiguous place? It sounds like a great solution
to a recurring problem, if it works...but color me skeptical.
Never trust a computer you |=================================================
can't heave out a window. | Joshua W Burton (847)677-3902 jburton@nwu.edu
-- Steve Wozniak |=================================================
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ViewSonic 21PS monitor and Matrox
Date: 20 Jun 1996 09:45:31 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4qbo6b$s97@Venus.mcs.com>
Has anybody been able to use this combination?
I can get them to sync at 640x480 but not at any higher resolution.
I have calls in at ViewSonic and Matrox.
Thanks for any info.
Peter Richardson
From: Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New sendmail doesn't want to flush the queue (solved)
Date: 20 Jun 1996 13:28:59 GMT
Organization: home
Message-ID: <4qbjmt$b8t@gate.seicom.net>
References: <4q7k1b$dr5@gate.seicom.net>
Cc: Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de
I wrote:
> ..
> .. /usr/lib/sendmail -q doesn't work in PPP's ip-up..
> ..
I made both the ip-up and the ip-down scripts run in tcsh instead
of just /bin/sh, and everything works fine now.
Another person had the same problem and traced it down to the
fact that sendmail barfed with signal #10 (bus error) when ip-up was
run as sh, csh or perl script.
What could be the reason for this? I'm curious.
Holger
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From: art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 14:32:09 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qbnd9$3j9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <Dt8oEw.H17@AWT.NL> <4qagq8$9gt@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <4qbkkm$2b1@news.acns.nwu.edu>
jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) wrote:
> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
> > /usr/etc/ditto oldDiskRoot newDiskRoot
>
> Will that really get the device and special files? What about putting
> the swapfile in one contiguous place? It sounds like a great solution
> to a recurring problem, if it works...but color me skeptical.
Works for me. Unfortunately, I've had 2 SCSI disk failures within the
past 3 weeks, so I've been using ditto a lot :-(
Does gnutar place a swapfile in one contiguous place? Unlikely. I
prefer creating a large swapfile using mkfile before using ditto. Name it
whatever and replace the swapfile ditto copies.
Some prefer dump and restore, but bugs in the past have made me leery of
this solution.
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From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Opener.app and permissions?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 11:56:10 -0400
Organization: Communications Vir, Internet Access Montreal.
Message-ID: <4qbsaq$8v2@Vir.com>
Hello,
I recently installed Opener.app on a machine and I am having
trouble getting it to work for users other than root.
I checked the permissions, and everyone (ugo) has read execute
permission for the executables and read permission for other files, but I
can't run Opener.app as an other user than root.
What else should I do to get Opener.app to work correctly?
stef
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+1 (514) 729 9643 http://www.uniscape.com/NSDrivers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: PCNFSD deamon
Message-ID: <DtBBLE.EoJ@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: herding@cs.tu-berlin.de
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <960619083915.206AAFgE.wayne@keizai2> <4q9ev3$2q4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:03:14 GMT
In <4q9ev3$2q4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Bernd Herding wrote:
> joerd@mail.wsu.edu writes:
>
> >I am trying to use MacNFS to mount a file exported by my NeXTStation.
> >MacNFS needs a deamon called PCNFSD, which it can't find.
>
> Try /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd.
>
Either enter the deamon in rc.local to get a permanent server at boot time or
into /etc/services for dynamic loading.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: joerd@mail.wsu.edu
Subject: PCNFSD version 2
Sender: news@serval.net.wsu.edu (News)
Message-ID: <960620144826.205AAFgH.wayne@keizai2>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 21:48:26 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent)
Organization: Washington State University
Hello:
I want to use an NFS client on my Macintosh (MacNFS). The MacNFS program I
am using needs version 2 of rpc.pcnfsd but NeXTStep 3.3 seems to be running
version 1.
Does someone know if a version 2 is available for NeXTStep?
Where?
Thank you in advance,
Wayne Joerding
Professor of Economics Ofc: 509-335-6468
Washington State University email: joerd@mail.wsu.edu
Pullman WA 99164 Powered by NeXTStep
"Stupidity always has the chance of being a capital offense."
From: Paul Heffernan <phef@cedar.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Help: Setting the default paper-size in NeXTStep 3.0
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 22:41:21 +0100
Organization: Cedar Systems
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <IC9sGDABWcyxEwsU@cedar.co.uk>
References: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
MIME-Version: 1.0
In article <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>, Peter Pregler
<Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> writes
>
>Hi all,
>
>I would like to configure the default paper-size setup for all accounts
>on the NeXTStep 3.0 system. Currently, it is set to letter-size but we
>here in Austria use A4 as the default size. One can change the
>page-layout in certain applications (under format->page-layout) but
>there are two problems with this:
>
>1) One has to set it in all user-applications.
>2) It is not saved over sessions.
>
>I had a look at what defaults are set via 'dwrite' and I cannot find any
>setting that is related to paper-size. Has anyone done this before?
Try dwrite -g NXPaperType A4
Paul.
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From: "David N. Williams" <David.N.Williams@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: LaTeX 2e
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:32:08 -0400
Organization: UM Physics Dept.
Message-ID: <31C9D168.39A@umich.edu>
References: <saga-2006961519270001@ou226038.otago.ac.nz>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Dave Robertson wrote:
> I want to upgrade LaTeX on out NeXTStep 3.3 systems to LaTeX 2e.
> Is there a distribution of 2e for NeXT systems or do I have to adapt
> one of the standard LaTeX distributions? I've looked on the NeXT ftp
> sites and the CTAN servers but the only NeXT distributions I can find
> are circa 1991.
I haven't heard of any NeXT only distribution, and I'm not sure what
that would entail. The main system-dependent step in installing LaTeX2e
is producing the .fmt file with initex, not a big deal. You do have
to put the appropriate files where your Tex can find them, but that's
going to depend on your particular setup.
I've done it at least twice on our NeXT's, and the installation process
has evolved a bit in the direction of more simplicity. But I'm still
not tempted to do it every 6 months!
--David
_ _________________________________________________________________
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: Please help: Don't know hardware password
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DtBDMz.166@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:47:23 GMT
References: <4q991s$se6@zimmer.csufresno.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4q991s$se6@zimmer.csufresno.edu>,
Kin Hung Au <kinau@lennon.csufresno.edu> wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>Our NeXT server has problem. It won't boot up. And, we can't boot
>machine to single user mode because we don't know hardware password. The
>person in-charge is on vacation.
>
>Could someone tell me how to reset hardware password? I guess I can only
>case and remove battery. Is it right?
>
That works. Take battery out, go home, come back next day.
There's a programme somewhere that will display the hardware password, but I
don't know where.
>I think the problem is the external hard drive. Can I move the external
>hard drive to other machine and run fsck on the external hard drive?
>
If it's another NeXTSTEP machine then yes, this works fine.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: aitken@coho.halcyon.com (William E. Aitken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: HELP: trying to connect Black NeXT to network
Date: 21 Jun 1996 01:05:49 GMT
Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services
Message-ID: <4qcshd$mm9@news2.halcyon.com>
I am trying to get a black 68040 NeXT cube running Nextstep 3.0
to communicate on a 10Base-T Ethernet. I have hooked up a packet sniffer to
the network. As long as no other machine on the network is sending out
packets, all is well, but the second even one packet is sent out by a remote
machine, the NeXT stops sending packets onto the Network. According to
ifconfig, the NeXT is still sending packets to the ethernet interface,
and still receiving packets as expected. Does anyone have any sort of a
clue what might be going on, or what I should try next.
--- Bill.
--
William E. Aitken | Formal verification is the
email: aitken@halcyon.com | future of computer science ---
Snail: 8500 148th Ave NE #H1026 Redmond WA | Always has been, always will be.
===============================================================================
From: "Elwood K.F. Chu" <c3801721@comp.polyu.edu.hk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenGL support for NEXTSTEP?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 10:34:20 +0800
Organization: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Message-ID: <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander>
I would like to know whether OpenGL support as well as development kit for
NEXTSTEP?
---------------
Elwood K.F. Chu
BA (Hons) Computing Year 3
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: benst@stuyts.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Message-ID: <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl>
Summary: Mike is a naughty boy
Organization: Stuyts Engineering Haarlem BV
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 23:59:34 GMT
In article <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
> There's something even better built into 4.0, that requires no action
> on your part...
I can't stand this! B-)
I have this 2-headed cube (25 MHz 040 with 36 MB, 32 MB on the ND) that I'm
extremely fond of, but it is getting too slow for me nowadays. Also, the
video part of the ND is quite prone to crash. And now you come, and tell me
there is hope?
Please tell me more, and I will name my firstborne after you.
Best regards,
Ben
--
Ben Stuyts
Stuyts Engineering BV Haarlem, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)23 5324609 Email: ben@stuyts.nl
Fax: +31 (0)23 5421988 (NeXT/MIME Mail OK)
From: ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 21 Jun 1996 06:10:27 GMT
Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qdecj$ib8@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
References: <4qbnd9$3j9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
In article <4qbnd9$3j9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
writes:
..
> I prefer creating a large swapfile using mkfile before using ditto. Name it
> whatever and replace the swapfile ditto copies.
..
Nevertheless the swapfile is unnecessary. If You doesn't have one it is created
at the first boot time and the second boot should run with no problems.
Henry
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /private/vm/swapfile.front?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 20:26:53 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4qcc6d$h9m@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4qarq2$9v@turbocat.snafu.de>
dave@turbocat.snafu.de (David Wetzel) wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Intel and NeXT, there is
> turbocat:4# ls -l /private/vm/sw*
> -rw------t 16777216 Jun 20 08:35 /private/vm/swapfile
> -rw------t 1318912 Jun 20 08:35 /private/vm/swapfile.front
>
> but on HPPA there is NO swapfile.front. Why?
It's a matter of whether the "compress" option is on for the swapfile
in question. Perhaps it defaults to off for the HP (that seems
odd), or perhaps you're running an older version of NeXTSTEP on
the HP (the default did change from "nocompress" to "compress",
but I don't remember when that changed). You can explicitly
set whether you want "compress" or "nocompress" in the entries
in /etc/swaptab.
In any case, when you have both files then "swapfile" is
the compressed version. The size of this is the amount
of disk that is actually being used up on your hard drive.
"swapfile.front" is an uncompressed version of the same
information. It's size is how much disk space *would* be
used up if it wasn't for the "compress" option being on.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 20:32:49 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4qcchh$h9m@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <Dt8oEw.H17@AWT.NL> <4qagq8$9gt@dfw-ixnews9.ix.netcom.com> <4qbkkm$2b1@news.acns.nwu.edu>
jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) wrote:
> art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
> > G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) wrote:
> >
> > > Am i forgetting something?
> >
> > /usr/etc/ditto oldDiskRoot newDiskRoot
>
> Will that really get the device and special files?
Yes.
> What about putting the swapfile in one contiguous place?
I don't know, but I'd rather start with ditto and then worry
about the swapfile. Ditto seems to work quite nicely from
my experience (which isn't a lot, but it's always worked
fine).
Note that when I do this I boot up off the NS-3.3 install
CD in single-user mode, and then mount both the old disk
and the new disk. That way I know that nothing is using
the old disk as files are being copied.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Opener.app and permissions?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 20:36:27 GMT
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA
Message-ID: <4qccob$h9m@usenet.rpi.edu>
References: <4qbsaq$8v2@Vir.com>
stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed Opener.app on a machine and I am
> having trouble getting it to work for users other than root.
>
> I checked the permissions, and everyone (ugo) has read
> execute permission for the executables and read permission for
> other files, but I can't run Opener.app as an other user than
> root.
>
> What else should I do to get Opener.app to work correctly?
Is it that they can't run Opener when they double-click on it,
or is it that Opener does not start up when they double-click
on some other file (such as a tar.gz file)?
If it's the second one, then check where you installed it. Did
you install it in /LocalApps, or did you install it in /Apps?
/LocalApps is for things that will be available to everyone on
the machine, while /Apps is just ~/Apps for userid = root (and
thus it will work fine for root, but not for others).
That's just a guess.
---
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Someday I'm going to modify my .sig to say "Please bear with
me, the RPI usenet hub is probably screwed up and I'm probably
only seeing 1/3 of the conversation"...
From: aisbell@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 21 Jun 1996 07:35:34 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qdjc6$rer@sjx-ixn2.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4qbnd9$3j9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4qdecj$ib8@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>
ti6hk@trick.ti6.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien) wrote:
> In article <4qbnd9$3j9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> art@cubicsol.com (Art
Isbell)
> writes:
> > I prefer creating a large swapfile using mkfile before using ditto. Name
it
> > whatever and replace the swapfile ditto copies.
>
> Nevertheless the swapfile is unnecessary. If You doesn't have one it is
created
> at the first boot time and the second boot should run with no problems.
True, but if your disk is fairly full and you have a fairly large lowat
value (minimum swapfile size) as I do - 64 MB, the swapfile will likely not
be created in contiguous blocks on the disk.
However, if you create the swapfile using mkfile when the disk is empty,
it will likely be in contiguous blocks on the disk resulting in somewhat
better paging performance. Probably not enough improvement to notice, but
running on black hardware, I need all the help I can get :-)
--
Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@cubicsol.com
Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515
CaseServ: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154
managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD version 2
Date: 21 Jun 1996 08:49:20 GMT
Organization: University Koblenz / Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qdnmg$59k@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>
References: <960620144826.205AAFgH.wayne@keizai2>
In article <960620144826.205AAFgH.wayne@keizai2> joerd@mail.wsu.edu writes:
> I want to use an NFS client on my Macintosh (MacNFS). The MacNFS program I
> am using needs version 2 of rpc.pcnfsd but NeXTStep 3.3 seems to be running
> version 1.
>
> Does someone know if a version 2 is available for NeXTStep?
> Where?
You can find a version with source on the PEANUTS archive as
ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next/Unix/network/system/pcnfsd.2.N.bs.tar.gz
(or its mirrors). Its compiled for black hardware but you should
be able to compile it for other architectures as well.
Detlev
--
Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany
Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Email:droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de
C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GateKeeper 1.0 Problem.
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 05:23:05 -0500
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Message-ID: <31CA7809.145@students.wisc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
I tried to use GateKeeper together with ppp2.2.0.1.9. My problem was
when I set up the ppd path in the GateKeeper preference menu as
"/usr/local/ppp/bin" I got a message "error execu'ing pppd:Permission
denied" right after connected to my ISP and clicking the pppd button on
the GateKeeper dial-up menu. Does anyone know what is the solution to
fix this problem? The thing I don't understand is I checked every
related directories and link-directories content ppp files, and they
were all group, others, user executable, but why the GateKeeper said
that permission to execute pppd was denied?
I really appreciate if anyone can help me to solve this problem.
Thanks.
Andrew.
From: U.Moser@t-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with Printer Setup
Date: 19 Jun 1996 12:10:54 GMT
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation
Message-ID: <4q8qoe$m7j@gatekeeper.iis.ch.swissbank.com>
I have a IBM 4029 connected to my machine running NeXTStep. I set it up to be
public to shared to my root domain. All the stations of our workgroup are
included in /etc/hosts/equiv. Still the others cannot print. Can anybody help
me get the printer setup running.
Thanks in advance
--
____________________________________________________________________
UM - Consulting Roseneggweg 2
Client/Server Computing D-78244 Gottmadingen
Distributed Databases E-Mail: U.Moser@t-online.de
Ulrich Moser Office: Moser.Ulrich@ch.swissbank.com
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenGL support for NEXTSTEP?
Date: 21 Jun 1996 12:10:05 GMT
Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC.
Message-ID: <4qe3et$bec@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>
References: <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander>
Cc: c3801721@comp.polyu.edu.hk
In <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander> "Elwood K.F. Chu" wrote:
> I would like to know whether OpenGL support as well as development kit for
> NEXTSTEP?
>
> ---------------
> Elwood K.F. Chu
> BA (Hons) Computing Year 3
> Hong Kong Polytechnic University
>
Mesa (the OpenGL library, not the spreadsheet 8-)) has some support for
NeXTSTEP:
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html
--
Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] -- Home Page
http://hades.tue.schwaben.de/~frank
NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy "In cantonese C++ is called C
ga ga"
From: jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com (James Sowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD & SCSI disk
Date: 21 Jun 1996 13:50:15 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.
Message-ID: <4qe9an$ror@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
References: <4q9q91$7v@Mercury.mcs.com>
In article <4q9q91$7v@Mercury.mcs.com> par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
writes:
> Is there a way to use an ATAPI CD without using an IDE disk?
>
> For some wierd reason the system that I got has a SCSI disk and an
> EIDE ATAPI CD. I stole a SCSI CD from another machine to do the
> install. I could not get the NeXTStep to recognize the ATAPI CD
> to do the install. But I can't keep the SCSI CD so I need to get
> the ATAPI CD recognized.
>
We have a similar setup on some of our machines. We have given up on
trying to make NS recoginize the ATAPI/IDE CD drives. If an atapi machine
needs some software off of a CD try to NFS mount it from a machine with a
SCSI CD drive. It beats having to beg for more hardware, and lugging it
from machine to machine.
--
Jim Sowers | Some mornings, it's just not
System Administrator | worth chewing through the
<jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com> | leather straps - Emo Phillips
From: par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD & SCSI disk
Date: 21 Jun 1996 10:01:25 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
Message-ID: <4qedg5$i3f@Venus.mcs.com>
References: <4q9q91$7v@Mercury.mcs.com> <4qe9an$ror@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
James Sowers (jsowers@plato.sky.bdm.com) wrote:
: In article <4q9q91$7v@Mercury.mcs.com> par@MCS.COM (Peter Richardson)
: writes:
: > Is there a way to use an ATAPI CD without using an IDE disk?
: >
: > For some wierd reason the system that I got has a SCSI disk and an
: > EIDE ATAPI CD. I stole a SCSI CD from another machine to do the
: > install. I could not get the NeXTStep to recognize the ATAPI CD
: > to do the install. But I can't keep the SCSI CD so I need to get
: > the ATAPI CD recognized.
: >
: We have a similar setup on some of our machines. We have given up on
: trying to make NS recoginize the ATAPI/IDE CD drives. If an atapi machine
: needs some software off of a CD try to NFS mount it from a machine with a
: SCSI CD drive. It beats having to beg for more hardware, and lugging it
: from machine to machine.
With the EIDE 3.34 driver correctly installed, the ATAPI CD works fine. My
problem turned out to be that I installed the EIDE 3.34 from the pkg I
downloaded, but did not run configure to remove the old one and install the
new one.
Peter Richardson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:12:26 GMT
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl>, Ben Stuyts <benst@stuyts.nl> wrote:
>In article <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
>Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>> There's something even better built into 4.0, that requires no action
>> on your part...
>
>I can't stand this! B-)
>
>I have this 2-headed cube (25 MHz 040 with 36 MB, 32 MB on the ND) that I'm
>extremely fond of, but it is getting too slow for me nowadays. Also, the
>video part of the ND is quite prone to crash. And now you come, and tell me
>there is hope?
>
My video is rock-solid. My cube isn't normally two-headed but I ran it that
way for a mighty weekend of image capturing (like 400 images over two days)
and it was fine.
>Please tell me more, and I will name my firstborne after you.
>
We only have a week to wait now. Unless they're going to release it on the
weekend...
--
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: chane@ln1d274nwk (Eddie Chan)
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD & SCSI disk
Message-ID: <1996Jun21.152427.5783@il.us.swissbank.com>
Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator)
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division
References: <4qe9an$ror@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 15:24:27 GMT
You need the latest EIDE Driver from nextanswer, and make sure the EIDE
CD-Rom drive is connected to the primary ide controller (a lot of machine
connects the cd-rom drive to the secondary which is not supported by the
next driver). I does work.
best of luck,
eddie
--
Edward C.P Chan
Work: eddie_chan@swissbank.com
Home: eddie@boston.demon.co.uk
From: asoto@wsc.com (Andre L. Soto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bad block on SCSI Disk
Date: 21 Jun 1996 18:29:57 GMT
Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc.
Message-ID: <4qepn5$ni5@cerberus.wsc.com>
I encountered a bad block on my second SCSI disk that fsck reported to me. I
want to "remove" the bad block in order to allow NeXTstep to boot
automatically. I tried to reassign the bad block using reasb but that did
not work. I used the logical block number that fsck reported to me with
reasb. I think this might not be the correct number to use. Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Andre L. Soto
asoto@wsc.com
From: Amit Aggarwal <amit@arci.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No more process
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 14:08:39 -0400
Organization: Association of Racing Commissioner's International
Message-ID: <31CAE527.2702@arci.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
I have 3.3 running on a 68K box. Users from all different states can
log into this machine to run an aplication. Nearly every week I get a
message from one or the other users saying that they are getting a
message 'NO MORE PROCESSES'. I do not get that message because I always
work on a differnet machine on the Network.
I know that usually this could be taken care by increasing the value of
'nproc'. But I am not able to find this in any of the configuration
files.
Any help would be appreciated.
amit
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: Dead HD II
Message-ID: <DtD42z.JDw@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <4q9ear$3hf@main.ipf.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 18:16:10 GMT
Jens Kleemann writes
> my HD an old quantum died two days ago:
> " cannot read label ". Thats not the problem - Data wasn`t that
> [...]
> it started - then aborts "cant initialize disk"
> 2.) with newfs/makefs
> it starts - reports a write error and guess what ...
> the disk wasn`t even visible to the scsi controller.
> any suggestions?
>
Some old Q's had problems on the power side.
Adding another device or using another power supply fixed
the problem.
so long,
jens ch. gloede
From: trevor@teltrust.com (Trevor Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT newbie
Date: 21 Jun 1996 20:04:07 GMT
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qev7n$8ok@news.xmission.com>
I just got a NeXT cube, and I was wondering about some things.
1) Is there a version of bind/named that I can compile for NeXT? (The version
included with the box maxes out at 128 zones, and I have >400 domain names to
manage)
2) Is there a way I can use this NeXT cube as an X terminal? (ie. I have a
Sparc with X on it and I would like to run some X apps on it and have them
display on my NeXT)
3) I've setup a resolv.conf, with a domain mydomain.com line, and a nameserver
x.x.x.x line, but for some reason, the machine can't find its own name, but it
can find other machines in my domain.
For instance, I can ping othermachine, and it correctly pings
othermachine.mydomain.com. However, from the NeXT, I can't ping nextmachine.
It says unknown host. (the NeXT cube is in my DNS tables... I can ping
nextmachine.mydomain.com and it works, or I can ping nextmachine from another
unix box in my domain and it works, its just when I leave off the domain name)
4) Does NeXT still make updates for a NeXT cube system?
TIA,
Trevor
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD & SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:02:17 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun21.200217.8224@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <1996Jun21.152427.5783@il.us.swissbank.com>
In article <1996Jun21.152427.5783@il.us.swissbank.com> chane@ln1d274nwk
(Eddie Chan) writes:
> You need the latest EIDE Driver from nextanswer, and make sure the EIDE
> CD-Rom drive is connected to the primary ide controller (a lot of
machine
> connects the cd-rom drive to the secondary which is not supported by the
> next driver). I does work.
You only need to attach to the primary controller as a slave for
installation. After installation, you are best advised to switch back to
the secondary as master, and installing an extra instance of the EIDE
driver, for performance reasons.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: "Scott Mewett" <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD deamon
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 02:23:38 -0700
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd.
Message-ID: <01bb601c.cde41bd0$9a835786@mewett>
References: <960619083915.206AAFgE.wayne@keizai2> <4q9ev3$2q4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <DtBBLE.EoJ@nidat.sub.org>
I am in the same position. Do I have to have NIS running in order for the
mac to authenticate of the nextstation. If so where can I get a version of
NIS for mach.
Thanks
Scott
> nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote in article
<DtBBLE.EoJ@nidat.sub.org>...
> In <4q9ev3$2q4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Bernd Herding wrote:
> > joerd@mail.wsu.edu writes:
> >
> > >I am trying to use MacNFS to mount a file exported by my NeXTStation.
> > >MacNFS needs a deamon called PCNFSD, which it can't find.
> >
> > Try /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd.
> >
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Help: Setting the default paper-size in NeXTStep 3.0
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 08:57:27 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960620085533.3287A-100000@charisma>
References: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
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To: Peter Pregler <Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
I +think+ that the dwrite you are looking for is:
dwrite GLOBAL NXPaperType Letter|Ledger|Tabloid|Legal|Executive|A3|A4|A5|B4|B5
where you choose ONE of the last set of values
--
Timothy J. Luoma luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
On 20 Jun 1996, Peter Pregler wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to configure the default paper-size setup for all accounts
> on the NeXTStep 3.0 system. Currently, it is set to letter-size but we
> here in Austria use A4 as the default size. One can change the
> page-layout in certain applications (under format->page-layout) but
> there are two problems with this:
>
> 1) One has to set it in all user-applications.
> 2) It is not saved over sessions.
>
> I had a look at what defaults are set via 'dwrite' and I cannot find any
> setting that is related to paper-size. Has anyone done this before?
>
> Thanx, Peter.
>
> -------------------------------
> Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> WWW: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/ppregler
>
>
>
>
>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Swap partition with NeXT?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 02:26:23 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.93.960620022451.2651C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4o1k5o$1b64@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> <4ph4vk$qtd@fuchur.rmi.de> <4pnmml$lk4@news.its.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <4pnmml$lk4@news.its.com>
>
> > You'll need to make some entries in /etc/fstab. This works for me:
> >
> > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
> > /dev/sd1a /additional 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2
> > /additional/private/virtmem/swapfile
> > /additional/private/virtmem/swapfile.front swapfs rw,noquota 0 3
>
> I would not recommend trying to mount swapfiles via /etc/fstab. (I didn't
> even know that worked; learn something new every day....)
Yes, I would agree, there's no need to do that, although I had my system
setup that way and didn't see any harm to it... might get another error
message on startup, but that's all _I_ saw....
TjL
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /private/vm/swapfile.front?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:04:27 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960620085934.3287C-100000@charisma>
References: <4qarq2$9v@turbocat.snafu.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.snafu.de>
In-Reply-To: <4qarq2$9v@turbocat.snafu.de>
the 'hppa' one has the 'nocompress' option (man swaptab) turned on.
Note: the file (/private/vm/swapfile.front) is not actually a file, just a
mount-point.... you can learn more about this and other swapfile info at
the Swapdisk and Swapfile FAQ:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/documents/Swapfile_and_Swapdisk_FAQ_Version_1.0.tar.gz
by yours truly....
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu
luomat@nerc.com <<--preferred address
On 20 Jun 1996, David Wetzel wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Intel and NeXT, there is
> turbocat:4# ls -l /private/vm/sw*
> -rw------t 1 root 16777216 Jun 20 08:35 /private/vm/swapfile
> -rw------t 1 root 1318912 Jun 20 08:35 /private/vm/swapfile.front
>
> but on HPPA there is NO swapfile.front. Why?
> _ _
> _(_)(_)_ David Wetzel, Turbocat's Development,
> (_) __ (_) Buchhorster Strasse, D-16567 Muehlenbeck/Berlin, FRG,
> _/ \_ Phone +49 33056 82151, Fax +49 33056 82152
> (______) dave@turbocat.snafu.de (NeXTMail)
>
>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tien@ampere.nsc.com (Tien P. Tran)
Subject: Need gzip and gcc binary for NextStep on Sun SPARC
Message-ID: <DtDBnF.CIw@nsc.nsc.com>
Sender: news@nsc.nsc.com (netnews maintenance)
Organization: National Semiconductor Corp.
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 20:59:39 GMT
I am looking for gzip and gcc binary for NextStep on Sun SPARC.
Can anyone tell me where I can find them?
I have only User version of NextStep for Sun SPARC
Thanks,
-tien-
--
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National Semiconductor Research Laboratory
National Semiconductor Corp. Voice: (408)-721-6486
2900 Semiconductor Drive Fax: (408)-721-6454
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From: Dean_Reece@NeXT.com (Dean Reece)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD & SCSI disk
Date: 21 Jun 1996 22:20:18 GMT
Organization: NeXT Software, Inc.
Message-ID: <4qf772$877@news.next.com>
References: <1996Jun21.152427.5783@il.us.swissbank.com>
Actually, an ATAPI CD-ROM on the secondary controller can be supported
by adding a 2nd instance of the EIDE driver. The problem is that you can't
install from an ATAPI CD-ROM on a secondary controller. Once you get
the machine up, though, you can move the CD to the second controller for
performance reasons.
Cheers,
- Dean
Eddie Chan writes
| You need the latest EIDE Driver from nextanswer, and make sure the EIDE
| CD-Rom drive is connected to the primary ide controller (a lot of machine
| connects the cd-rom drive to the secondary which is not supported by the
| next driver). I does work.
|
| best of luck,
|
| eddie
|
| --
|
| Edward C.P Chan
|
| Work: eddie_chan@swissbank.com
| Home: eddie@boston.demon.co.uk
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD deamon
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 22:40:35 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun21.224035.8738@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <01bb601c.cde41bd0$9a835786@mewett>
In article <01bb601c.cde41bd0$9a835786@mewett> "Scott Mewett"
<mewett@mpr.ca> writes:
> I am in the same position. Do I have to have NIS running in order for
the
> mac to authenticate of the nextstation. If so where can I get a version
of
> NIS for mach.
No. Just start /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd from your /etc/rc.local. This only
does verison 1 authentication, which doesn't permit printing. For that
you need a version 2 pcnfsd. I think I put a quad fat v2 pcnfsd on our
ftp site, which would be in: ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Misc/Shareware.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: root@bluesky-syd.bluesky.net.au (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Any proxy server support NeXTSTEP????
Date: 22 Jun 1996 06:49:55 GMT
Organization: Microplex Pty Ltd
Message-ID: <4qg52j$p8k@inferno.mpx.com.au>
we have tried the apache 1.1b4.. when i tried to compile the source with proxy
module, it seems doesn't work under nextstep environment. :(
is there any other proxy server or web server supported the proxy module under
NeXTSTEP/Intel environment out there at the moment??? we don't want to spend
another few thousand dollars just want to buy another machine to run the Proxy
server..
please re-pely this to sonny@bluesky.net.au, NeXT mail welcome...
thank you very very much....
From: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Sendmail problem with NS3.3p1
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 21 Jun 1996 14:35:09 +0100
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Sender: root@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk
Message-ID: <afxxxotu.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi,
I have just upgraded an Intel machine running NS3.2 to NS3.3 and
applied the latest patches. (I ran the ImprovedDNS post_install, by
the way!) Everything seems to work fine except for a problem with
sendmail: it didn't even connect with the mailhost. The patch
replaced /usr/lib/sendmail with a new executable, and left a
/usr/lib/sendmail.old around. I tried using the old sendmail instead
and it still didn't work: it connected with the mailhost, but the HELO
command had no argument -- that is, sendmail wasn't getting its
hostname ($j). So I put htis by hand in the sendmail configuration
file and things work now... but this is kludgy to say the least.
Can anyone tell me what's going on? I looked in NeXTanswers, but
there is no mention of any problems.
Thanks in advance, Jose
From: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: lpd problems with HP LaserJet 5M and NS3.3
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 21 Jun 1996 14:47:06 +0100
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Sender: root@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk
Message-ID: <91dhxo9x.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
Hi,
I have recently upgraded an Intel machine from NS3.2 to NS3.3 and am
experiencing a new problem with a printer. This machine acts is the
spooler for a HP Laserjet 5M printer with which it talks via HP
JetDirect. It prints fine from this machine, but it doesn't accept
print requests from any other machine:
/usr/lib/lpd: hp: Your host does not have line printer access
even though the /etc/hosts.lpd file has the names of these other
machines.
Does anyone have a clue as to what's going on?
Thanks in advance, Jose
From: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: lpd problems with HP LaserJet 5M and NS3.3
Date: 21 Jun 1996 19:45:11 +0100
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Sender: root@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk
Message-ID: <zq5xdmiv.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
References: <91dhxo9x.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk's message of 21 Jun 1996 14:47:06 +0100
>>>>> "jmf" == Operator <J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk> writes:
jmf> /usr/lib/lpd: hp: Your host does not have line printer access
jmf> even though the /etc/hosts.lpd file has the names of these
jmf> other machines.
Following up to my previous post, in case anyone is interested, it
turns out that the /etc/hosts.lpd file expects hostnames and *not*
FQDNs. Maybe this is the way things were always meant to be, but
NS3.2 and lower worked with FQDNs. Why aren't things like that never
mentioned in the Release Notes???
Cheers, Jose
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: What NeXT archives do email ftp?
Date: 22 Jun 1996 10:19:49 -0400
Organization: PHCS
Message-ID: <4qgve5$f1l@papoose.quick.com>
References: <4q8ilt$bhm@bagan.srce.hr>
In article <4q8ilt$bhm@bagan.srce.hr>, Thor Legvold <thor@zems.fer.hr> wrote:
>What I would like to know is where/how I can access
>next-ftp.peak.org, peanuts, and the new MusicKit
>home from ftp-by-email. I would really appreciate
>any help anyone could give.
There are several sites that provide ftpmail functionality. I used the
service several years ago when I only had a uucp feed. The service
was sometimes unreliable, but it's better than nothing.
qouted from an ftpmail information page on the web.
Several sites_ on the Internet offer an ftpmail service, and anyone
with access to e-mail can use them. Users are requested not to make
use of ftpmail services at sites remote from them. In France, there
is a service at ftpmail@grasp.insa-lyon.fr and in the United Kingdom
there is a service at ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk. There is an ftpmail
service in the U.S.A at ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com.
The ftpmail package is based on perl scripts, which are available from:
src.doc.ic.ac.uk: /packages/ftpmail
grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr: /pub/unix/mail/tools/ftpmail
ftp.sterling.com: /mail/ftpmail
Ftpmail was written by Paul Vixie.
--
___ ___ | 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: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PCNFSD deamon
Date: 22 Jun 1996 16:09:06 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Message-ID: <4qh5r2$33m@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
References: <960619083915.206AAFgE.wayne@keizai2> <4q9ev3$2q4@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <DtBBLE.EoJ@nidat.sub.org> <01bb601c.cde41bd0$9a835786@mewett>
"Scott Mewett" <mewett@mpr.ca> writes:
>I am in the same position. Do I have to have NIS running in order for the
>mac to authenticate of the nextstation. If so where can I get a version of
>NIS for mach.
>
I'm not sure about MacNFS but intercon's NFS/Share for Machintosh
also uses PCNFSDv2 for authentication and it uses the system passwords;
no NIS required.
You might also need to run rpc.lockd. Some NFS clients need lockd
running as well.
--
Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu)
CCSO NeXT System Administrator, CCSO Sites Technical Support
"Are they as successful as who,Microsoft? Only drug lords from South America are
as successful as Microsoft." -Tim Byars, on the success of NeXT Computer, Inc.
From: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IMAPD which supports Mail.app-style .mboxes ?
Date: 22 Jun 1996 20:54:07 GMT
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
Message-ID: <4qhmhf$eeo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Hi.
I'm trying to remotely access my Mail.app mailboxes via the IMAP protocol.
I've installed Mark Crispin's imapd from the U. of Washington archive site.
Unfortunately, this daemon fails on Mail.app style .mbox directories (it
returns some sort of "invalid format" error).
Is there an IMAP server that correctly interprets Mail.app .mbox directories
?
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
MIT Atomic Resonance and Spectroscopy Laboratory
---> NeXTmail always welcome <---
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: GateKeeper Connection
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 20:34:55 -0500
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Message-ID: <31CC9F3F.41AA@students.wisc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
I am trying to use GateKeeper-0.9.NI and PPP-2.2.0.4.6 for my NeXTStep
Intel machine. Unfortunately, I have encountered problems with the
"link" in GateKeeper menu. I created my scripts according to the exam-
ples given by the GateKeeper. My modem dialed up to my ISP properly
and obtained the local and remote IPs as well. However, after it ob-
tained the local and remotes IPs, the connection disconnected. Here is
the part of the messages I checked from the PPP-2.2.log file:
.
.
.
.
.
##########################
#### local IP address is: 204.120.5.128
##########################
#### remote IP address is: 204.120.4.7
##########################
June 22 18:41:31 silicon pppd[1504]: Setting interface mask to
255.255.255.0
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: rcvd[IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <compress
VJ 0f 00><addr 204.120.4.7>]
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:down
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: sent[IPCP ConfReq id=0x3 <addr
0.0.0.0><compress VJ 0f 01>]
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:received COMPRESSTYPE
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (45)
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (ACK)
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:received ADDR
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (204.120.4.7)
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: (ACK)
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: ipcp:returning Configure-ACK
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: sent [IPCP confAck id=0x3 <compress
VJ 0f 00> <addr 204.120.4.7>]
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: Terminating on signal 2.
June 22 18:41:33 silicon pppd[1504]: sent [LCP TermReq id=0x2]
June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: rcvd [IPCP ConfNak id=0x3 <addr
204.120.5.128>]
June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: rcvd [LCP TermAck id=0x4]
June 22 18:41:34 silicon pppd[1504]: Connection terminated.
June 22 18:41:35 silicon pppd[1504]: Exit.
Does anyone have any pointers, why after pppd sucessfully negotiated
the local and remote IPs, it went to "ipcp:down" and eventually
terminated the connection of my modem to my ISP? By the way I am using
inexpress.net as my ISP, if anyone knows about this ISP, what kinds of
scripts (pppup, options, ipup, ipdown, etc) do I need to write or
modify? And also I would be real appreciate if anyone could give me
some scripts that will sustain the connection between my modem and my
ISP. Until now, I don't even have enough time to execute the OMNIWEB,
the connection has already timed out.
Once again, I want to thank you in advance for your helps. I hope, I
will hear the answers soon from you.
Andrew.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com>
Message-ID: <199606230145.VAA07284@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, 22 Jun 96 21:45:16 -0400
Subject: What the heck happened to my EZ drive?
I was sitting here minding my own business when all of a sudden
this appeared in the console.log:
sd2: UNIT ATTENTION
sd2 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd2 (2,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29
SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
sd2 is my EZ drive.
Any idea what happened and how I can fix it (short of a reboot)?
I tried (as root):
> fsck /dev/sd2a
and was told
"Can't read label on /dev/rsd2a."
Thanks!
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sendmail problem with NS3.3p1
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:47:51 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622224125.7757C-100000@charisma>
References: <afxxxotu.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Operator <J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <afxxxotu.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
You should get the newest sendmail, all ready for NS:
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/mail/sendmail/sendmail.8.7.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/mail/sendmail/sendmail.8.7.5.README
or
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/mail/sendmail-8.7.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/mail/sendmail-8.7.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz.README
Thanks to Robert La Ferla for putting that together for us...
And then get the wonderful
http://brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA:80/~magnan/smc.tar.gz which is a How-To
install it, written so well that even I could do it (and did!)
Thanks to Francois Magnan for writing that for us...
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IMAPD which supports Mail.app-style .mboxes ?
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 22:56:26 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960622224847.7757D-100000@charisma>
References: <4qhmhf$eeo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Robert Lutwak <robert@amo.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4qhmhf$eeo@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU>
I'm not 100% sure, but I think it would be a lot easier to do this if the
files were in PINE-compatible mailboxes rather than Mail.app 'mbox'
folders.
The easiest way I know to do that would be to use my script ;-)
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/mail/mbox2pine.1.0.tar.gz
to link your Mail.app .mbox directories to ~/pine/* mail folders (it works
great except for NeXTMail messages)
I'd be willing to bet you could access them via IMAPD a lot easier that
way, as it is more standard than the NeXT way (which is never the
standard, it seems)
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Resolving Problem.
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 04:02:31 -0500
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Message-ID: <31CD0827.290F@students.wisc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
Does anyone know the solution how to resolve nameserver? My problem was
after connection through PPP-2.2 I could not telnet or use browser by
just typing the machine names, instead I had to type full IP addresses.
I have my resolv.conf as follows:
domain wisc.edu
# WISC name servers
#
nameserver x.x.x.x
where x.x.x.x is the DNS number.
Could anyone tell me what was wrong with my resolv.conf file?
Andrew.
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Best way to duplicate boot hard disk?
Date: 22 Jun 1996 21:19:48 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qho1k$c2@marsu.navigator.schwaben.com>
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In <4qbnd9$3j9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell wrote:
> jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton) wrote:
> > art@cubicsol.com (Art Isbell) wrote:
> > > /usr/etc/ditto oldDiskRoot newDiskRoot
>
> Some prefer dump and restore, but bugs in the past have made me leery of
> this solution.
The only bug I know of was the loss of suid-bits in the early dump/restore of
3.2.
After the patch, and of course with 3.3, I cannot report problems duplicating
any filesystem with the following sequence:
disk -l newdisk -i /dev/rsd?a
mount /dev/rsd?a /newdisk
dump 0f - / | (cd /newdisk; restore xf -)
It takes some time, but who cares if it works!
--
Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de
IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.neworbit.de/navigator/
From: Luke Howard <Luke_Howard@inter.net.au>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: reading .tar.attach
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:37:25 +1100
Organization: Internet Australia, Melbourne.
Message-ID: <31CD0245.3348@inter.net.au>
References: <31C6DA72.41AD@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <4q99g8$1aag@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
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To: Christian Neuss <neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM>
Christian Neuss wrote:
>
> James P. Klett (klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
> : Can anyone remind me of the steps to take an email message from
> : another system in a .tar.attach format and get it into NeXTMail??
>
> : The reason I need to know is that I only have email through Win/95
> : yet I still get NeXT mails. I can FTP them to my NeXT machine but
> : still cannot read them.
>
> Piece of cake.
You can do it from the command line, too.
Save the message separately (ELM lets you do this), uudecode it,
un-gzip it, and untar it, and you'll have an .rtfd directory.
(Can't vouch for this. But I think this is how I did it once
when I was Mail.app-less.)
-- Luke
From: waiming@cs.ust.hk (Chan Wai Ming)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GateKeeper 1.0 Problem.
Date: 23 Jun 1996 12:40:36 GMT
Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Message-ID: <4qje04$70m@ustsu10.ust.hk>
References: <31CA7809.145@students.wisc.edu>
Andrew M. Priasmoro (ampriasm@students.wisc.edu) wrote:
: Hi,
: I tried to use GateKeeper together with ppp2.2.0.1.9. My problem was
: when I set up the ppd path in the GateKeeper preference menu as
: "/usr/local/ppp/bin" I got a message "error execu'ing pppd:Permission
: denied" right after connected to my ISP and clicking the pppd button on
: the GateKeeper dial-up menu. Does anyone know what is the solution to
: fix this problem? The thing I don't understand is I checked every
: related directories and link-directories content ppp files, and they
: were all group, others, user executable, but why the GateKeeper said
: that permission to execute pppd was denied?
: I really appreciate if anyone can help me to solve this problem.
: Thanks.
: Andrew.
Hello,
I had the above problem with GateKeeper 1.0a also but my pppd works
well with GateKeeper ver. 0.9. Can anyone tell me how to solve this
problem also ???
Thank you very much !!!
yours
waiming
--
After working with DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, SunOS, NT, 95 ....
/ / / I find myself like NEXTSTEP most.
\ \ \
------ It is tea, not Java :) A Happy NS user
\____/> waiming@cs.ust.hk
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Date: 23 Jun 1996 13:31:40 GMT
Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290
Message-ID: <4qjgvs$e8g@goodnews.voicenet.com>
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl> <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
David Evans (dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
: In article <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl>, Ben Stuyts <benst@stuyts.nl> wrote:
: >In article <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
: >Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
: >
: >> There's something even better built into 4.0, that requires no action
: >> on your part...
: >
: >I can't stand this! B-)
: >
: >I have this 2-headed cube (25 MHz 040 with 36 MB, 32 MB on the ND) that I'm
: >extremely fond of, but it is getting too slow for me nowadays. Also, the
: >video part of the ND is quite prone to crash. And now you come, and tell me
: >there is hope?
: >
: My video is rock-solid. My cube isn't normally two-headed but I ran it that
: way for a mighty weekend of image capturing (like 400 images over two days)
: and it was fine.
: >Please tell me more, and I will name my firstborne after you.
: >
: We only have a week to wait now. Unless they're going to release it on the
: weekend...
: --
: David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
: Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
: University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
: Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
I've had a dual-headed ND running for over a year now without a crash...
NS 3.2, blah blah blah
Works like a charm, albiet a little slow for my taste now.
-Darren
From: gj@rulgm4.LeidenUniv.nl (Geert Jan van Oldenborgh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Any proxy server support NeXTSTEP????
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Date: 23 Jun 1996 15:21:18 GMT
Organization: Leiden University, The Netherlands
Message-ID: <4qjnde$qgg@highway.leidenuniv.nl>
References: <4qg52j$p8k@inferno.mpx.com.au>
Operator (root@bluesky-syd.bluesky.net.au) wrote:
> we have tried the apache 1.1b4..
It ain't the newest fastest greatest, but the CERN httpd with proxy runs just
fine for me. Available from www.w3.org I think, it used to have precompiled
version for black & intel h/w, but it seems these have disppeared...
--
G.J. van Oldenborgh
Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leiden University
email: gj@lorentz.LeidenUniv.nl
web: http://www-lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/gj/gj.html
From: shultzb@pa.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help!! Mach OS
Date: 22 Jun 1996 16:59:55 -0700
Organization: Zippo
Message-ID: <4qi1dr$4fs@clark.zippo.com>
How do you declare variables for use in shell scripts
while in the shell?
I have declared variables thus on Intel and Sperry systems:
var=value
This does not work on the NeXT. I can read
variables that are already declared, as follows:
echo $HOME
echo $PATH
but I can not declare any.
I get the message "undeclared variable"
after typing
echo $var.
Kernigan and Pike are of no use here.
Can anyone help, maybe give me an example?
Many thanks,
B Shultz
shultzb@pa.net
From: levenez@worldnet.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help!! Mach OS
Date: 23 Jun 1996 21:09:47 GMT
Organization: SCT / Worldnet - Internet Provider & Information Exchange - Paris, France
Message-ID: <4qkbqs$1eo@news.sct.fr>
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shultzb@pa.net wrote:
>How do you declare variables for use in shell scripts
>while in the shell?
>
>I have declared variables thus on Intel and Sperry systems:
>var=value
>
>This does not work on the NeXT. I can read
>variables that are already declared, as follows:
>echo $HOME
>echo $PATH
>but I can not declare any.
>I get the message "undeclared variable"
>after typing
>echo $var.
You are using csh not sh !!!!
The syntax is different. RTFM !
>Kernigan and Pike are of no use here.
>Can anyone help, maybe give me an example?
Just for an example try : "set var = value"
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From: "Frederic SAVOIR" <fred@masterd.fdn.fr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Do I need to convert my Sendmail.cf from NeXT original to Sendmail 8.7.5 ?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:44:10 +0200
Organization: AMAZING STUDIO
Message-ID: <01bb6155.7e8aca40$9c0437c1@masterd>
Hello,
I would like to know if I need to convert my old Sendmail Script (.cf)
from the original version from NeXT (V3.3p1) to Sendmail 8.7.5 (Robert La
Ferla packages ?).
Thank you very much for your help.
Frederic SAVOIR <fred@masterd.fdn.fr>
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.soft-sys.nextstep
Subject: NEXTSTEP Resources on the Internet
Date: 24 Jun 1996 04:15:09 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4ql4od$a16@digifix.digifix.com>
Topics include:
Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site
eduSTEP WWW site
NeXT Software, 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
- 150+ ISV company pages
- 350+ ISV product descriptions
- NEXTSTEP Developer Directory
- NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages
- NEXTSTEP User Group Directory
- comp.sys.next archives
- User Group information
- 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 Software, Inc. WWW site
============================
http://www.next.com
comp.sys.next.* newsgroups
==========================
news:comp.sys.next.advocacy
This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in
the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy
flame wars from .misc.
news:comp.sys.next.announce
Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products,
FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.)
This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it
directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com
where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability.
Archives are available by ftp at
ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives
Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
to any other comp.sys.next groups.
news:comp.sys.next.bugs
A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material
e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for
the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This
newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post
stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense
to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual
reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well.
news:comp.sys.next.hardware
Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with
NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better
asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices
belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used
NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
news:comp.sys.next.marketplace
NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to
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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-d
next-advocacy-d
next-announce-d
next-bugs-d
next-hardware-d
next-marketplace-d
next-misc-d
next-programmer-d
next-software-d
next-sysadmin-d
(For a full description, send mail saying LISTS to
<digestif@antigone.com>).
The subscription syntax is essentially the same as LISTSERV's.
To subscribe, send a message to <digestif@antigone.com> saying:
SUB Listname YourName
Example: SUB next-hardware-d John Doe
The ftp sites
=============
ftp://next-ftp.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) and
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.
These commands affect the way that files you request are sent:
ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text
SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME
Message/Partial specification
REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses
These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system:
HELP returns this help file
INDEX returns the list of all available files
INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest
SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list
(ignoring capitalization)
For example, a message with the following Subject line requests
three files:
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A message with this body requests the same three files be
sent as ASCII text files:
2101 2234 1109 ascii
This message requests two lists of files, one for each search:
Subject:
SEARCH Dell SCSI
SEARCH NetInfo domain
NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different
address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command
REPLY-TO <your-address>
If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement,
please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX
To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and
follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to
identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID
numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available
files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the
files will be faxed to you.
If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support
at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada.
USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB
To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web
server at URL http://www.next.com.
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. Scott (mailto:eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU) and
Scott Anguish (mailto:sanguish@digifix.com)
Additions from:
Greg Anderson (mailto:Greg_Anderson@afs.com)
Michael Pizolato (mailto:alf@epix.net)
Dan Grillo (mailto:dan_grillo@next.com)
From: pascal@localhost (Pascal Thibaudeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OpenGL support for NEXTSTEP?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 24 Jun 1996 05:18:22 GMT
Organization: CRIBX1 , Universite de Bordeaux I , France
Message-ID: <4ql8eu$l7b@news.u-bordeaux.fr>
References: <01bb5e50.fc5f01a0$0e0a40ca@alexander>
Elwood K.F. Chu (c3801721@comp.polyu.edu.hk) wrote:
: I would like to know whether OpenGL support as well as development kit for
: NEXTSTEP?
: ---------------
: Elwood K.F. Chu
: BA (Hons) Computing Year 3
: Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Try Mesa-OpenGL for NeXTSTEP
Getting the software
====================
The primary Mesa ftp site is iris.ssec.wisc.edu in the pub/Mesa directory.
Mesa is also mirrored on sunsite in the directory pub/packages/development
/graphics/mesa.
The archive file Mesa-1.2.8.tar.Z can be unpacked with:
zcat Mesa-1.2.8.tar.Z | tar xf -
The archive file Mesa-1.2.8.tar.gz can be unpacked with:
gzcat Mesa-1.2.8.tar.gz | tar xf -
After you unpacking you should have the following files in the Mesa-1.2.8
directory:
README - this file
README.AMIWIN - instructions for using Mesa on Amigas with AmiWin (X11)
LICENSE - the GNU library license
IAFA-PACKAGE - description file
Makefile - top-level Makefile
Make-config - system configurations used by the Makefiles
mklib.* - scripts for making shared libraries for some systems
include/ - application include files
lib/ - application libraries, created during installation
src/ - source code for core library
src-glu/ - source code for utility library
src-tk/ - source code for tk library
src-aux/ - source code for aux library
demos/ - demo programs
samples/ - sample OpenGL programs from SGI
book/ - example programs from the OpenGL Programming Guide
widgets/ - the Mesa widgets
windows/ - Microsoft Windows driver stuff
NeXT/ - NeXT demo programs
mondello/ - Cirrus Logic Mondello 3-D accelerator code
--
-Pascal Thibaudeau
**********************************************************************
E-Mail:
pthibaud@frbdx11.cribx1.u-bordeaux.fr ( NO NEXTMAIL )
pascal@galileo.slip.u-bordeaux.fr ( Small NEXTMAIL OK )
Powered by NEXTSTEP
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: What the heck happened to my EZ drive?
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 13:59:42 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960623135838.1469A-100000@charisma>
References: <199606230145.VAA07284@nerc.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
In-Reply-To: <199606230145.VAA07284@nerc.com>
On Sat, 22 Jun 1996, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>
> I was sitting here minding my own business when all of a sudden
> this appeared in the console.log:
>
>
> sd2: UNIT ATTENTION
> sd2 (2,0): ERROR op:0x28 sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
> sd2 (2,0): sense key:0x6 additional sense code:0x29
> SCSI Block in error = 0 (no valid label)
>
>
> sd2 is my EZ drive.
>
>
> Any idea what happened and how I can fix it (short of a reboot)?
>
> I tried (as root):
> > fsck /dev/sd2a
> and was told
> "Can't read label on /dev/rsd2a."
Just a short followup note: it was fine on reboot.... some frag, but
easily fixed by the rebooting process....
How do I fix that by hand if/when it happens again?
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: GateKeeper 1.0 Problem.
Date: 24 Jun 1996 10:27:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4qlqi6$irc@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
References: <4qje04$70m@ustsu10.ust.hk>
In article <4qje04$70m@ustsu10.ust.hk> waiming@cs.ust.hk (Chan Wai Ming) writes:
>Andrew M. Priasmoro (ampriasm@students.wisc.edu) wrote:
>: Hi,
>
>: I tried to use GateKeeper together with ppp2.2.0.1.9. My problem was
>: when I set up the ppd path in the GateKeeper preference menu as
>: "/usr/local/ppp/bin" I got a message "error execu'ing pppd:Permission
>: denied" right after connected to my ISP and clicking the pppd button on
>: the GateKeeper dial-up menu. Does anyone know what is the solution to
>: fix this problem? The thing I don't understand is I checked every
>: related directories and link-directories content ppp files, and they
>: were all group, others, user executable, but why the GateKeeper said
>: that permission to execute pppd was denied?
>
>: I really appreciate if anyone can help me to solve this problem.
>: Thanks.
>
>
>: Andrew.
>
>Hello,
>
>I had the above problem with GateKeeper 1.0a also but my pppd works
>well with GateKeeper ver. 0.9. Can anyone tell me how to solve this
>problem also ???
>
>Thank you very much !!!
>
>yours
>waiming
>
First off, I recommend that you use 1.0a. Significant improvements
were made between versions 0.9 and 1.0a.
The path to pppd should be "/usr/local/ppp/bin/pppd"
not "/usr/local/ppp/bin". The default of "/usr/local/bin/pppd"
should work with a default installation of ppp. Also make sure
GateKeeper is SUID root.
The other common problem with the Manual Dial feature occurs when
you leave a "connect" command in /etc/ppp/options which calls the
chat program.
--
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: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: printer accounting and filters (lpd)
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:57:03 +0100
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Sender: jmf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk
Message-ID: <boc20j5s9dc.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
I am experiencing some bizarre behaviour in printer administration.
(I'm using NS3.3 patch 1 on Intel.)
I have two print queues on the same printer. The queues correspond to
the same physical printer, the main difference being that one of the
queues has an "if" filter which converts the Postscript to a
double-column, landscape format before sending it to the prserver.
Both queues print fine, as expected, and both keep statistics through
their "af" files. However the queue with the funny filter doesn't
count the number of pages correctly: it claims that every print job
consists of 0 pages!!!
What am I doing wrong? Please help!
Thanks in advance, Jose
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+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
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| Department of Physics (Rm. 227) | Fax: +44.181.981-7465 |
| Queen Mary and Westfield College | mailto:J.M.Figueroa@qmw.ac.uk |
| Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | |
| and |
| http://stringswww.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~jmf/jmf.html |
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From: woo@woonext.cmo.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configuring Xircom PCMCIA card for Versa
Date: 24 Jun 1996 13:22:21 GMT
Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qm4qd$nmm@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov>
I've installed a Xircom PCMCIA card on my NEC Versa which has NextStep 3.3
installed. During the bootup, I see that NextStep recognizes the card, listing
a Interrupt and an address. Do I have to set these same addresses and
interrupt when I configure the device? The address and interrupt I read in the
boot up are not what I set in the configuration app. Also is the Xircom using
serial port 0 or 1? I tried tip in various ways, but always get the message
that "Can't communicate with Hayes", when trying to use the modem.
The link level of the Ethernet part is established, (at least the lights light
up on the concentrator).
Any hints here?
--
- - - - - - - - -
J. W. Wooten
From: aharriso@matcomfac (Adam J. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NIS on NEXTSTEP 2.1
Date: 24 Jun 1996 14:04:43 GMT
Organization: University of New Orleans
Message-ID: <4qm79r$8ls@www.uno.edu>
Keywords: NIS
I have been trying to get my next machine running NeXTStep 2.1 to
communicate with our NIS server (a SPARC 1000 running Solaris 2.4). I've
done all that seems to be necessary i.e. edited the /etc/hostconfig file
to define the YPDOMAIN variable, added the +'s to the /etc/passwd and
/etc/group files. Startup seems fine, ypbind and lookupd start alright
but the ROM Monitor window disappears and the Login Window doesn't appear.
Can any suggested a reason or let me know what happens between the time
the ROM Monitor disappears and the Login Window appears.
Thanks in advance.
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
From: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk (Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printer accounting and filters (lpd)
Date: 24 Jun 1996 15:07:00 +0100
Organization: Theory Group, Physics, QMW College
Sender: jmf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk
Message-ID: <boczq5tqosb.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
References: <boc20j5s9dc.fsf@strings7.ph.qmw.ac.uk>
In-reply-to: J.M.Figueroa@QMW.ac.uk's message of 24 Jun 1996 12:57:03 +0100
Hi again,
Following up to my previous post, there is some more bizarre behaviour
(specific to Nextstep apps this time) associated with the queue with
the filter. Text files refuse to print from NS apps like Edit or
Mail. I thought that this might happen, but I hoped that NS would
translate these files to PS somehow... obviously it doesn't. It now
seems clear to me that my naive filter doesn't quite work.
Has anyone reading this ever written an "if" filter that I could look
at? Maybe I have beeter luck at modifying one than at writing one
myself. (Actually I modified /usr/lib/NextPrinter/Server/lpd.comm :-)
Cheers, Jose
--
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| Dr Jose M Figueroa-O'Farrill | Vox: +44.171.975-5055 |
| Department of Physics (Rm. 227) | Fax: +44.181.981-7465 |
| Queen Mary and Westfield College | mailto:J.M.Figueroa@qmw.ac.uk |
| Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK | |
| and |
| http://stringswww.ph.qmw.ac.uk/~jmf/jmf.html |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+
From: aharriso@math.uno.edu (Adam J. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS on NEXTSTEP 2.1 (more info)
Date: 24 Jun 1996 16:17:02 GMT
Organization: University of New Orleans
Message-ID: <4qmf1u$kua@www.uno.edu>
References: <4qm79r$8ls@www.uno.edu>
Without the YPDOAMIN variable set in /etc/hostconfig, the last line of
the ROM Monitor is one about launching the loginwindow.
With the YPDOMAIN variable set in /etc/hostconfig, this last line is not
longer there. So the loginwindow is not starting, but why? The me
account does have a password so this would not explain the answer.
============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: ATAPI CD-ROM strangeness
Date: 24 Jun 1996 18:08:23 GMT
Organization: RITEH
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qmlin$7eq@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Why does my system find _two_ ATAPI CD-ROMs at boot
when (I'm sure) there is only one installed and
configured...?
From the log:
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: PCI bus
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: DriverKit version 330
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0... Detected
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1...
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
...
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: device detected at port 0x170 irq 15
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Resetting drives..
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Device 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ,
REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12)
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: Atapi Identify: error=0x0 secCnt=0x3
secNum=0x1 cyl=0xeb14 drhd=0xf0 status=0x0
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: FATAL: Device 1: ATAPI Identify Device.
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: hc1: ATAPI device 1 is not present.
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: Registering: hc1
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: Registering: sc0
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: sd0: MITSUMI CD-ROM FX600S !B P01
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: Registering: sd0 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: Registering: sd0a
Jun 24 10:00:18 valhall mach: sd0: Waiting for drive to come
ready..............
I'm using th e3.34 EIDE driver and have two instances installed,
one for ewach controller. Both devices are jumpered as
Master, CD on controller 1 Disk on Controller 0.
Everything workds, but it doesn't look too pretty...
Regards,
Thor Legvold
presently in exile in Croatia
From: thor@zems.fer.hr (Thor Legvold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: GateKeeper problems
Date: 24 Jun 1996 18:19:05 GMT
Organization: RITEH
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qmm6p$7eq@bagan.srce.hr>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I tried emailing the author but my message bounced.
Maybe someone here has seen this and knows how to fix it?
NS 3.3, new drivers (3.33, 3.34, etc)
GK v.0.9, PPP v. 2.2-0.4.5:
May 28 23:03:29 valhall mach: PPP version 2.2b3 for NS 3.2 and 3.3
May 28 23:03:29 valhall mach: LKS: $Revision: 4.9 $ ($Date:
1995/07/27 16:01:45 $)
Every time I try to "Dial" I get a:
Error opening script file.: Permission denied
connected
[Process was terminated by signal 10]
even if run as Root (it already is setuid)
Running "pppd -detach file /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/options"
from a shell works (well, it doesn't complain at least).
I've checked the permissions, /etc/ppp is a symlink to
/usr/local/ppp/etc, everything is readable to everyone,
owned by root; /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/GateKeeper is
setuid and readable/executable globally, the config and
options files are readable globally. The FIFO syslog
attaches correctly. I don't know what else to look for -
ppp works when started manually from Kermit 5A.
valhall% ls -l /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/
total 3817
drwxr-xr-x 8 root 1024 Jul 17 1995 English.lproj
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jul 10 1995 Examples
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root 2562228 Jul 17 1995 GateKeeper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 460316 Jul 17 1995 MODEM
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9410 May 27 1995 g1.tiff
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 829414 Mar 25 1995 majestic.snd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 153 May 28 22:46 modemInit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3592 May 28 22:34 options
valhall% ls -l /dev/cu*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 7,128 May 28 23:03 /dev/cua
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 7,129 May 28 23:03 /dev/cub
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 7,224 May 28 23:03 /dev/cudfa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 7,225 May 28 23:03 /dev/cudfb
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 7,160 May 28 23:03 /dev/cufa
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 7,161 May 28 23:20 /dev/cufb
valhall% ls -l /usr/local/ppp/etc
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 26 Nov 2 1994 courier.oppsett
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root 712 Nov 2 1994 ip-down
-rwxr-xr-- 1 root 1150 Nov 2 1994 ip-up
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3610 May 28 22:36 options
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3555 Nov 30 1995 options~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3554 Nov 2 1994 options~~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 676 Jul 3 1995 pppdown
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 53208 Nov 2 1994 pppkill
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 177 May 28 23:38 pppup
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 301 Nov 2 1994 pppup.courier
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 832 Nov 2 1994 tips.txt
On a side note, I can't get GateKeeper (or tip) to work
with a 28.8/57.6 baud entry (in remotes and also in
gettytab for terminals), only with 38.4...
Ideas?
Regards,
Thor Legvold
presently in exile in Croatia
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: benst@stuyts.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Message-ID: <DtIoyz.8AK@stuyts.nl>
Organization: Stuyts Engineering Haarlem BV
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl> <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:35:22 GMT
In article <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>,
David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> In article <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl>, Ben Stuyts <benst@stuyts.nl> wrote:
> >
> >I have this 2-headed cube (25 MHz 040 with 36 MB, 32 MB on the ND) that I'm
> >extremely fond of, but it is getting too slow for me nowadays. Also, the
> >video part of the ND is quite prone to crash. And now you come, and tell me
> >there is hope?
> >
>
> My video is rock-solid. My cube isn't normally two-headed but I ran it that
> way for a mighty weekend of image capturing (like 400 images over two days)
> and it was fine.
During frame grabbing I get these messages in the console:
ipl5: spurious interrupt
and:
ND video i/o: dma grab timeout
Sometimes I can continue grabbing, sometimes the WM crashes, sometimes a few
frames in a row go bad... It is currently quite unusable. I'd like to use
someting like NDCamera.app with it's automatic timed frame grabbing, but it
is useless now.
If anybody has any tips on how to improve my setup, I would appreciate it. I
am running NS3.3p1, the ND screen is on the left, Mono screen to the right.
The ND is the default screen. Here is some more info about my machine:
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: NeXT ROM Monitor 2.5 v66
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: NeXT Mach 3.3: Mon May 22 17:56:06 PDT 1995;
root(rcbuilder):mk-171.12.obj~11/RC_m68k/RELEASE_M68K
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: FPU version 0x40
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: physical memory = 36.00 megabytes.
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: available memory = 32.85 megabytes.
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: using 230 buffers containing 1.79 megabytes of
memory
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: NBIC present
...
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1,
i860 step C.1
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: 32 Mbytes of DRAM installed, PAL video
configured
Jun 12 11:15:33 daneel mach: NeXTdimension server running (7936)
I used to have 16 MB in my ND, and people told me that things might improve
if I upgraded that. So now I have 32 MB, but it is still crash-prone. (And
not particularly fast.) I also have a separate swapdisk. (A Quantum 850 MB
trailblazer, not particularly fast, but it should do.)
Thanks,
Ben
--
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Stuyts Engineering BV Haarlem, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)23 5324609 Email: ben@stuyts.nl
Fax: +31 (0)23 5421988 (NeXT/MIME Mail OK)
From: gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to logout from NetWare Server
Date: 24 Jun 1996 18:34:00 GMT
Organization: Private NEXTSTEP site, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de>
Hello!
Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an NetWare
Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto /Net/<servername>
and wait for login-panel but logout?
Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple (my
opinion) and second it doesn't work every time.
I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this.
Hope someone could help me,
Gerald
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From: cpayne@optical.fiber.net (Carl Payne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Auto-format to 80 columns?
Date: 20 Jun 1996 18:10:17 GMT
Organization: Fibernet! Satisfy the need for speed
Message-ID: <4qc469$qfu@optical.fiber.net>
I'm really tired of whiners crying that they can't read my
mail because it doesn't wrap to 80 columns like Elm does.
Boo hoo.
I realize I can just <cmd> - ] but is there a way to tell
NeXTmail that it should default to this behaviour on any
non-NeXT outbound mail?
--
Carl Payne
cpayne@fiber.net <--NeXTMAIL, MIME, ASCII all OK
Cogito Ergo Amicrosoft
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco
Return-Path: <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 96 18:47:03 +0200
From: Raf Schietekat <flexus!rfschtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be>
Message-ID: <9606241647.AA04510@flexus>
Subject: Re: Why can't I read ECMA-201 compatible rewritable optical disk
Dear experts,
It appears that my assumption about a DOS file system on that disk might be
wrong, so please forget about this. Still, it's strange that I couldn't
initialize to DOS.
Raf Schietekat, RfSchtkt@maze.ruca.ua.ac.be (NeXTmail), Flanders, Belgium
If I don't answer: my mail relay can't handle !, % or .uucp, I think
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DtIyA9.7Jn@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 21:56:32 GMT
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl> <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <DtIoyz.8AK@stuyts.nl>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <DtIoyz.8AK@stuyts.nl>, Ben Stuyts <benst@stuyts.nl> wrote:
>In article <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca>,
>
>During frame grabbing I get these messages in the console:
>
>ipl5: spurious interrupt
>
>and:
>
>ND video i/o: dma grab timeout
>
Ack. Doesn't sound good at all.
>If anybody has any tips on how to improve my setup, I would appreciate it. I
>am running NS3.3p1, the ND screen is on the left, Mono screen to the right.
>The ND is the default screen. Here is some more info about my machine:
>
Ahh--there's a difference. I am running 3.2. My ND output at bootup is:
Jun 24 13:57:13 gallifrey mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2:
Jun 24 13:57:13 gallifrey mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1
Jun 24 13:57:13 gallifrey mach: 36 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured
>I used to have 16 MB in my ND, and people told me that things might improve
>if I upgraded that. So now I have 32 MB, but it is still crash-prone. (And
>not particularly fast.) I also have a separate swapdisk. (A Quantum 850 MB
>trailblazer, not particularly fast, but it should do.)
>
I upgraded my ND ram from 8 to 36. Man, was I a happier camper. :-)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: esky@cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Cannot Play Audio CD anymore! (Samsung ATAPI CD-ROM SCR-630 & 631)
Date: 25 Jun 1996 00:19:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <4qnbbb$q08@uni.library.ucla.edu>
Hello,
I used to be able to play audio CD's, but then things started going
wrong. I have a Samsung SCR-631 ATAPI CD-ROM (replaced my SCR-630,
which supposedly had a bug in its audio firmware).
The CD-ROM is connected to the primary controller as a MASTER. My
hard disk is SCSI, using the AHA-2940W and latest driver. I tried
both EIDE driver versions 3.31 and 3.34 (the latter is still beta).
Below is a summary of my problems. Please e-mail me if possible,
because reading news is painfully slow by modem.
Thanks!
- Eskandar
(1) BEFORE REPLACEMENT OF SCR-630 WITH SCR-631
Mounting audio CDs takes a long time if the CD is very short. It
can take up to 15 seconds before CDPlayer.app launches if only a
few tracks are present or if the total recording time is short.
All other (i.e., longer) CDs cause CDPlayer.app to launch in one
or two seconds.
Playing audio CDs used to work until recently, when I experienced
static and a gradual loss of volume after a few seconds of normal
playback. The problem eventually became worse, with very low volume
and lots of static from the very beginning of each playback.
Samsung claimed that some drives with certain serial numbers had
audio playback problems, and mine was one of the defective ones,
so they shipped me a replacement.
Messages when booting:
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1...
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI CD-ROM device 0 (DRQ interrupt)
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: Registering: hc0
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: Registering: sc1
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: sd1: SAMSUNG SCR-630 1.04
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc1
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come
ready..............
Jun 18 10:43:34 satan mach: sd1: Disk Not Ready
(2) AFTER REPLACEMENT OF SCR-630 WITH SCR-631
Mounting audio CDs is fast regardless of the amount of recordings
contained on the CD. CDPlayer.app always launches within one or
two seconds of closing the CD-ROM drive door.
Trying to play an audio CD did not work. The "Play" button in
CDPlayer.app would highlight and then immediately turn itself off.
The CD-ROM light did not blink (only briefly when I hit the "Play"
button) and the time counter in CDPlayer.app did not update (if it
managed to get up to 00:00:01, it would reset to 00:00:00); that
is, the drive would physically stop playing! Samsung had nothing
to say, and NeXT was no help at all.
Another funny thing is that 2 ATAPI devices are now detected! Just
compare the boot messages from above to the following:
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI CD-ROM device 0 (DRQ interrupt)
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI Identify Device command failed
for device 1.
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI device 1 not detected.
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: hc0
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sc1
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: SAMSUNG SCR-631 1.13
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc1
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come
ready..............
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: Disk Not Ready
(3) BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER REPLACEMENT
a) When unmounting certain CDs (e.g., the Fatted Calf CD):
Jun 24 12:49:16 satan mach: cfs: cannot unmount; refcnt=1
b) When mounting audio CDs:
Jun 24 12:50:10 satan mach: sd1: Disk Unformatted
Jun 24 12:50:14 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:50:14 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Mode Select
c) When playing audio CDs:
Jun 24 12:50:46 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:50:46 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Mode Select
Jun 24 12:50:48 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:50:48 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Mode Select
Jun 24 12:50:48 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:50:48 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Mode Select
Jun 24 12:51:18 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:18 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:Mode Select
.
.
.
Jun 24 12:51:43 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:43 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Jun 24 12:51:45 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:45 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Jun 24 12:51:47 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:47 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
From: : t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server
Date: 25 Jun 1996 01:19:32 GMT
Organization: home, sweet home...
Message-ID: <4qner4$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de>
References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de>
gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an
NetWare
> Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto /Net/<servername>
> and wait for login-panel but logout?
>
> Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple
(my
> opinion) and second it doesn't work every time.
>
> I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this.
>
> Hope someone could help me,
>
> Gerald
>
> --
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> | GERALD ERDMANN
> | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome)
> | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin)
> | crypt: pgp2 public key available
> |
>
Just check /usr/bin/netware/nwlogout !
Torsten
From: Stefano Amoroso <fiamberti@abanet.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextStep and U.S. Robotics Sportster 28800
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:25:07 +0200
Organization: Italia Com - Il Primo Consorzio di Internet Providers italiani
Message-ID: <31CF31E3.1DD@abanet.it>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
Anybody can help me to configure NextStep for dial whit my faxmodem U.S.
Robotics Sportster 28800?
Thank you!
Stefano Amoroso (Italy)
From: Stefano Amoroso <fiamberti@abanet.it>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NextStep and U.S. Robotics Sportster 28800
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 02:26:02 +0200
Organization: Italia Com - Il Primo Consorzio di Internet Providers italiani
Message-ID: <31CF321A.1FB5@abanet.it>
References: <31CF31E3.1DD@abanet.it>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Stefano Amoroso wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Anybody can help me to configure NextStep for dial whit my faxmodem U.S.
> Robotics Sportster 28800?
>
> Thank you!
>
> Stefano Amoroso (Italy)
gh
From: witte@habanero.cul.columbia.edu (breck witte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server
Date: 25 Jun 1996 01:20:45 GMT
Organization: The Banzai Institute
Message-ID: <4qnetd$rjl@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>
References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> <4qner4$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de>
and be sure to get out of the Netware directory (in any shells as well
as in the Workspace app) or as soon as you log out you'll be prompted
immediately to log back in again.
/breck
From: : t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to logout from NetWare Server
Date: 25 Jun 1996 01:22:13 GMT
Organization: home, sweet home...
Message-ID: <4qnf05$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de>
References: <4qmn2o$3ef@mimi.in-berlin.de> <4qner4$8v@gandalf.uni-bonn.de>
: t.joerg@uni-bonn.de (Torsten Joerg) wrote:
> gerald@kurt.in-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann) wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Is there a simple way (like "logout" under MS-DOS) to logout from an
> NetWare
> > Server connected via NEXTSTEP? Login is simple just goto
/Net/<servername>
> > and wait for login-panel but logout?
> >
> > Ok, with NetWareManager you should do this but first it's not very simple
> (my
> > opinion) and second it doesn't work every time.
> >
> > I would prefer a simple logout-program to do this.
> >
> > Hope someone could help me,
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> > --
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > | GERALD ERDMANN
> > | email: gerald @ kurt.in-berlin.de (NeXTmail welcome)
> > | voice: +49 30 397 31 400 (Germany - Berlin)
> > | crypt: pgp2 public key available
> > |
> >
>
>
> Just check /usr/bin/netware/nwlogout !
>
> Torsten
OOPS - of course I meant /usr/netware/bin/nwlogout .... ;-)
Torsten, once more
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Auto-format to 80 columns?
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 06:59:10 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk
Message-ID: <1996Jun25.065910.18742@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <4qc469$qfu@optical.fiber.net>
In article <4qc469$qfu@optical.fiber.net> cpayne@optical.fiber.net (Carl
Payne) writes:
> I realize I can just <cmd> - ] but is there a way to tell
> NeXTmail that it should default to this behaviour on any
> non-NeXT outbound mail?
There is a line length setting in Expert Preferences. It might be there
from EnhanceMail, but I think it is in the base Mail.app.
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail)
http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: ypwang@chmbp2.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Need help to re-configure Next's network -- Thanks a lot
Date: 25 Jun 1996 12:54:41 GMT
Organization: Chemistry Dept. Texas A&M Univ.
Message-ID: <4qonih$pcr@news.tamu.edu>
Hi :
Need your kind help to configure a Next on the network.
Recently we got a next from another place. To place it on our
network, I changed hostconfig file(hostname, ipaddress and etc). I
also found the hardcoded route add line and changed it. When
it was rebooting, it looked ok (new ip, new hostname, new gateway).
But, when I tried to telnet, or ping to machine outside the subnet,
it just sit there. I can ping, telnet to the machine sitting next to
it with ip address (not name). I did check the resolv.conf and it was
correct. The other sympton is under the NextAdmin, SimpleNEtwork,
the screen comes with correct name but always wrong ip address. I
changed it several times but it still reboot with the old ip. Could
anybody give me a help on this one ? Where do this STRANGE IP number
come from ?
Thanks a lot for your help. Please e-mail me if possible.
Y. Wang
ypwang@chemvx.tamu.edu
From: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NS3.3 patch, lookupd and sendmail again
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:33:54 GMT
Organization: NOW GmbH, Zuerich, Switzerland
Sender: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Message-ID: <DtK2wI.HpJ.0.astra@now.ch>
Hi all,
I know that this has been discussed long before, but please once again, just
for me :-)... I have a mailhost which is not connected to the Internet, so all
mails get queued in /usr/spool/mqueue because of the Host Name Lookup Failure
(obviously..) until I let them out by a handmade script. Works perfectly for
me in our situation. But after installing the patch, all mails get immediatly
returned by the Mail-Agent instead of landing in the queue. If I start
lookupd in /etc/rc with the -R option, the problem is 'solved'. But now, I
think that I could solve some of my NFS problems by enabling the new lookupd.
Any hints?
And please, one of the last things I want to do is installing a new sendmail
or so, never touch a running system. So I would like to touch it as less as
possible :-))
Thanks,
Daniel
--
Daniel Scheidegger
Software Engineer, System Administrator
NOW GmbH, Scheideggstr. 73, CH-8038 Zuerich
++41-1-2898025 / dscheide@now.ch
From: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange NFS problem
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 12:10:11 GMT
Organization: NOW GmbH, Zuerich, Switzerland
Sender: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Message-ID: <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch>
Hi all,
maybe somebody can help me track down this strange problem: I have several
directories exported to the root domain (LocalApps, General and a few others).
One, and only one of them (called NOW) shows the following behaviour: If
somebody on the clients loggs in as root and double clicks the icon of the
directory, he gets immediatly logged out with a panel saying 'WorkSpace
Application Error' and in /usr/adm/messages there is an entry 'NFS read
error 13 on pagein'. The directory has exactly the same NFS-flags like the
others which don't show this behavior. The only difference is that it has
an own .dir.tiff instead of the standard icon. Anybody?
Thank in advance,
Daniel
---
Daniel Scheidegger
Software Engineer, System Administrator
NOW GmbH, Scheideggstr. 73, CH-8038 Zuerich
++41-1-2898025 / dscheide@now.ch
From: jzinn@math.tamu.edu (Joel Zinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: busy device
Date: 25 Jun 1996 16:00:16 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4qp2eg$rmv@news.tamu.edu>
Keywords: device
Hello,
I have a NeXT Turbo slab running 3.0. After changing to a new hard drive when
booting I get the message that /dev/dialup0 can't be accessed, because it is
busy. This may be causing a problem getting slip to run. Any ideas?
Thanks for any help,
Joel
--
Joel Zinn
Department of Mathematics
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843
e-mail: jzinn@math.tamu.edu, jzinn@plevy.tamu.edu
Tel: 409-845-3724
From: info@thoughtinc.com (Thought Inc. Information Account)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networks,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.syys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.os.os2.networking.server,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Java tools for Great for Perl users
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 15:54:33 GMT
Organization: THOUGHT Inc.
Message-ID: <4qp24p$11b@surf.com>
A new Java based pattern matching search class derived from Perl like/Unix-grep
like syntax
Java Language programmers have not been able to easily imbed powerful wildcard
searching in their software and would have to spend enormous amounts of time
creating their own Java specific search class or use non Java search classes,
Until Now. Vanilla Search is Thought Inc.s new off-the-shelf Perl
like/Unix-grep Like search class. Vanilla Search is the industrys first search
class to provide extremely powerful unicode pattern-matching search
capabilities, using industry standard regular expression syntax.
Vanilla Search can be used with standard English or programmer defined foreign
language META characters. With Vanilla Search, adding powerful wildcard
searching to any Java application is easy.
Thought Inc.s Vanilla Search (www.thoughtinc.com) offers the following benefits
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Add Powerful Wildcard Searching to JAVA Applications.
Supports Boolean Logic
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Understands JAVA Data-Types, such as String and char[].
Patterns and Searchable Data of ANY LENGTH!!
Industry-Standard Regular-Expression Syntax derived from Grep & Perl
Full Unicode Support
Like all of Thought Inc.s (www.thoughtinc.com) products, Vanilla Search
seamlessly integrates with Nutmeg and CinnaMoney for ease in Java development
continuity.
A new Java based pattern matching search class derived from Perl like/Unix-grep
like syntax
Java Language programmers have not been able to easily imbed powerful wildcard
searching
in their software and would have to spend enormous amounts of time creating
their own
Java specific search class or use non Java search classes, Until Now.
Vanilla Search is Thought Inc.s new off-the-shelf Perl like/Unix-grep Like
search class.
Vanilla Search is the industrys first search class to provide extremely
powerful unicode
pattern-matching search capabilities, using industry standard regular
expression syntax.
Vanilla Search can be used with standard English or programmer defined foreign
language
META characters. With Vanilla Search, adding powerful wildcard searching to any
Java
application is easy.
Thought Inc.s Vanilla Search (www.thoughtinc.com) offers the following benefits
to the Java programmer:
Programmer configurable META characters
Add Powerful Wildcard Searching to JAVA Applications.
Supports Boolean Logic
Absolute Reliability of Operation.
Understands JAVA Data-Types, such as String and char[].
Patterns and Searchable Data of ANY LENGTH!!
Industry-Standard Regular-Expression Syntax derived from Grep & Perl
Full Unicode Support
Like all of Thought Inc.s (www.thoughtinc.com) products, Vanilla Search
seamlessly integrates
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This product is available today at http://www.thoughtinc.com.
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS on NEXTSTEP 2.1
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:18:20 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960624111605.18934D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <4qm79r$8ls@www.uno.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: aharriso@math.uno.edu
In-Reply-To: <4qm79r$8ls@www.uno.edu>
[note to original poster: please set a 'reply-to' line, your address came
up as: "Adam J. Harrison" <aharriso@matcomfac>]
After the ROM monitor exits and before the Login window appears the
windowserver has to start.
I've seen corrupt /etc/ttys cause the login window to fail to appear. You
might want to check that out and see if it is as it should be.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
luomat@nerc.com
NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted)
Watch this space for my Webpage (Soon!)
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Do I need to convert my Sendmail.cf from NeXT original to Sendmail 8.7.5 ?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 11:14:49 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960624110351.18934C-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
References: <01bb6155.7e8aca40$9c0437c1@masterd>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Frederic SAVOIR <fred@masterd.fdn.fr>
In-Reply-To: <01bb6155.7e8aca40$9c0437c1@masterd>
On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Frederic SAVOIR wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if I need to convert my old Sendmail Script (.cf)
> from the original version from NeXT (V3.3p1) to Sendmail 8.7.5 (Robert La
> Ferla packages ?).
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Frederic SAVOIR <fred@masterd.fdn.fr>
Well, that really depends on your usage, level of paranoia, and how much
you want to have the latest of everything.
IF you are using PPP to and ISP for a connection which will not be
registered in a domain (ie you connect for a few hours, but don't
get your mail delivered directly to your home machine) then YES
you should get the newest sendmail which you referred to.
IF you are a paranoid-like person and want the security of a newer, less
hole-filled sendmail, then YES you should get the newest sendmail.
IF you like having the newest of everything, the choice is obvious.
Generally speaking I think it is a good idea, because as things change it
is always good to have a new version which hopefully will deal better with
a wider variety of connections.
There's also a great, fantastic, super set of instructions (imH?o) at:
http://brise.ERE.UMontreal.CA:80/~magnan/smc.tar.gz
which make installation for PPP a snap.
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma
luomat@nerc.com
NeXTMail adored! (MIME/SUN also accepted)
Watch this space for my Webpage (Soon!)
From: udas@northstar.com (Shourav Udas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sendmail problem: host name configuration error
Date: 25 Jun 1996 16:24:50 GMT
Organization: Interport Communications Corp.
Message-ID: <4qp3si$8h4@park.interport.net>
Hi. I am having some problems with my Next mail. I have no problems
receiving mail, but when I send an e-mail out I get a response back saying
"host name configuration error". I used the mail -v option got the
following sort of error:
Trying 199.98.56.1... connected.
220 Sendmail NeXT-1.0 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NX3.0S ready at Wed, 24 Jun 96
09:13:11 EST
>>>HELO
553 host name configuration error
>>>QUIT
221 closing connection
..............Service unavailable.
Does anybody have any ideas? I would really appreciate any help I can
get.
Shourav
udas@northstar.com
From: paul@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange NFS problem
Date: 25 Jun 1996 15:51:21 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd.
Message-ID: <4qp1tp$eqc@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch>
Cc: headi@now.ch
In <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch> Daniel Scheidegger wrote:
> maybe somebody can help me track down this strange problem: I have
several
> directories exported to the root domain (LocalApps, General and a few
others).
> One, and only one of them (called NOW) shows the following behaviour: If
> somebody on the clients loggs in as root and double clicks the icon of
the
> directory, he gets immediatly logged out with a panel saying 'WorkSpace
> Application Error' and in /usr/adm/messages there is an entry 'NFS read
> error 13 on pagein'. The directory has exactly the same NFS-flags like
the
> others which don't show this behavior. The only difference is that it
has
> an own .dir.tiff instead of the standard icon. Anybody?
You will get this error from root accounts, if the NFS directory is
mounted with root as nobody (the default condition), and some
file/directory has read permissions turned off for nobody (i.e. world).
Paul
--
Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) paul@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: gcasa@wam.umd.edu (Gregory John Casamento)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NEED: Driver for Crystal Sound CS4232
Date: 25 Jun 1996 16:17:26 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland College Park
Message-ID: <4qp3em$226@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
Hi, I am in need of a driver capable of handle the Crystal Sound
CS4232 Sound Card under NSFIP3.3. If anyone knows which driver to
use, or has gotten this working themselves, please let me know.
Thanks very much...
--
Gregory John Casamento -- gcasa@wam.umd.edu
(c) G. Casamento -- Permission to distribute on MS network denied!!
From: cortesr@alleg.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Printing Problems
Date: 25 Jun 1996 17:55:26 GMT
Organization: Allegheny College
Message-ID: <4qp96e$m12@speering.alleg.edu>
Hello:
Recently I have discoverd problems printing on 4 Intel machines. The machines are 90Mhz Pentiums running NS 3.3. When I choose my HP
LaserJet 4M Printer (networked) to print to, nothing gets queued in the print queue (no spool created at all) and nothing comes out of the
printer.
This is the message in /usr/adm/messages that I get when trying to print.
May 2 11:19:12 arte4 npd[200]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of Active.mbox exited status = 1
May 2 11:19:13 arte4 npd[200]: /NextLibrary/Services/PrintFilters.service/psprepare of Comm_Arts_Secretary terminated signal = 13
May 2 11:19:24 arte4 npd[200]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of Active.mbox exited status = 1
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Ricardo
--
Ricardo Cortes
Allegheny College
cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK)
From: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu (Eskandar Ensafi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: ATAPI CD-ROM Problems: (1) boot errors, (2) no audio
Date: 25 Jun 1996 18:14:54 GMT
Organization: University of California, Los Angeles
Message-ID: <4qpaau$ebp@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>
Hello,
I am having problems with my Samsung SCR-631 ATAPI CD-ROM drive,
tested with versions 3.31 and 3.34 of the EIDE driver. Data CDs
are OK, but I get errors in /usr/adm/messages and audio CDs DON'T
WORK AT ALL!
Problems:
(1)
Trying to play an audio CD did not work. The "Play" button in
CDPlayer.app would highlight and then immediately turn itself off.
The CD-ROM light did not blink (only briefly when I hit the "Play"
button) and the time counter in CDPlayer.app did not update (if it
managed to get up to 00:00:01, it would reset to 00:00:00 on track
#1); that is, the drive would physically stop playing! Samsung did
not knwo what to say because they do not support NEXTSTEP.
(2)
Another funny thing is that 2 ATAPI devices are detected during
boot time! Here are the messages:
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI CD-ROM device 0 (DRQ interrupt)
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI Identify Device command failed for
device 1.
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI device 1 not detected.
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: hc0
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sc1
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: SAMSUNG SCR-631 1.13
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc1
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come ready..............
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: Disk Not Ready
(3)
With version 3.34 of the EIDE driver, I get even more errors:
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Device 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ, REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12)
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: FATAL: Device 1: ATAPI Identify Device.
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI device 1 is not present.
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: Registering: hc0
(4)
I get errors when trying to unmount certain data CDs, but the
in spite of these errors, everything is unmounted properly; the
following error occurred when unmounting my Fatted Calf CD:
Jun 24 16:01:54 satan mach: cfs: cannot unmount; refcnt=1
(5)
Sometimes, even though audio CDs fail to play, these errors
can be found in /usr/adm/messages:
Jun 24 12:51:43 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:43 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Jun 24 12:51:45 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:45 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Jun 24 12:51:47 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:47 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Any ideas what could be causing this?
Thank you, (please reply by e-mail if possible)
Eskandar
--
Eskandar Ensafi
Object-Oriented Software Engineer
University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Biomathematics, School of Medicine
From: rakesh@fountainhead.granite.com (Rakesh Dubey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Problems: (1) boot errors, (2) no audio
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware
Date: 25 Jun 1996 12:04:44 -0700
Organization: Granite System, Inc.
Sender: rakesh@fountainhead.granite.com
Message-ID: <wuwx0v1z8z.fsf@fountainhead.granite.com>
References: <4qpaau$ebp@delphi.cs.ucla.edu>
In-reply-to: esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu's message of 25 Jun 1996 18:14:54 GMT
In article <4qpaau$ebp@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> esky@marathon.cs.ucla.edu
(Eskandar Ensafi) writes:
Trying to play an audio CD did not work. The "Play" button in
CDPlayer.app would highlight and then immediately turn itself off.
The CD-ROM light did not blink (only briefly when I hit the "Play"
button) and the time counter in CDPlayer.app did not update (if it
managed to get up to 00:00:01, it would reset to 00:00:00 on track
#1); that is, the drive would physically stop playing! Samsung did
not knwo what to say because they do not support NEXTSTEP.
The CD Player just sends the SCSI Play CD command to the device. This
has nothing to do with the driver and (probably) everything to do with
the firmware.
(2)
Another funny thing is that 2 ATAPI devices are detected during
boot time! Here are the messages:
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI CD-ROM device 0 (DRQ interrupt)
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI Identify Device command failed for
device 1.
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI device 1 not detected.
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: hc0
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sc1
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: SAMSUNG SCR-631 1.13
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc1
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: Registering: sd1a
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: Waiting for drive to come ready..............
Jun 24 15:52:53 satan mach: sd1: Disk Not Ready
Yep. But the notice that the driver finally figures it out. This is
again a firmware bogosity. I guess the driver could mask the
error.
(3)
With version 3.34 of the EIDE driver, I get even more errors:
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0...
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 0... Detected
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1...
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... Detected
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Resetting drives..
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Device 0: ATAPI CD-ROM (INTR DRQ, REMOVABLE, CMD PKT LEN=12)
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: interrupt timeout, cmd: 0xa1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: Atapi Identify: error=0x4 secCnt=0x2 secNum=0x1 cyl=0x8e drhd=0xf0 status=0x1
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: FATAL: Device 1: ATAPI Identify Device.
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: hc0: ATAPI device 1 is not present.
Jun 25 08:30:13 satan mach: Registering: hc0
It is the same thing, only the driver is more explicit now. Progress
:-)
(4)
I get errors when trying to unmount certain data CDs, but the
in spite of these errors, everything is unmounted properly; the
following error occurred when unmounting my Fatted Calf CD:
Jun 24 16:01:54 satan mach: cfs: cannot unmount; refcnt=1
(5)
Sometimes, even though audio CDs fail to play, these errors
can be found in /usr/adm/messages:
Jun 24 12:51:43 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:43 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Jun 24 12:51:45 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:45 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
Jun 24 12:51:47 satan mach: sd1: Illegal request; FATAL.
Jun 24 12:51:47 satan mach: target:0 lun:0 op:72(d) (UNDEFINED)
The ATAPI device driver does not support Mode Sense/Select command
because there are differences in SCSI and ATAPI implementation
of these commands. (A mapping is required.)
-Rakesh
--
Rakesh Dubey
rakesh@arp.com
From: rdieter@mathlab44.unl.edu (Rex Dieter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange NFS problem
Date: 25 Jun 1996 19:03:56 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <4qpd6s$apo@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch>
In article <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch> headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
writes:
> maybe somebody can help me track down this strange problem: I have
> several directories exported to the root domain (LocalApps, General and a
> few others). One, and only one of them (called NOW)
(clip...clip)
> The only difference is that it has an own .dir.tiff instead of the
> standard icon. Anybody?
Is the .dirr.tiff readable by all? I'd check it's permissions first. If all
is in order in regard to permissions, I don't know what's wrong either... (-;
--
Rex Dieter
Computer System Manager
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Nebraska Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: benst@stuyts.nl (Ben Stuyts)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Message-ID: <DtKH3A.4v0@stuyts.nl>
Organization: Stuyts Engineering Haarlem BV
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <DtCssr.7vE@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <DtIoyz.8AK@stuyts.nl> <DtIyA9.7Jn@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 17:40:21 GMT
In article <DtIyA9.7Jn@novice.uwaterloo.ca>,
David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> I upgraded my ND ram from 8 to 36. Man, was I a happier camper. :-)
Definitely agree, I also had a very noticable speed difference when I went
from 16 to 32 MB.
So, what can of apps do you use for frame grabbing? I'm mostly using the
NeXT supplied NeXTtv and NDCamera 0.21 by Thomas & Wolfgang Engel.
The funny thing is that I just tried a bit of frame grabbing with NDCamera,
and it went perfect. Slow, but without trouble. Must be the demo effect...
Best regards,
Ben
--
Ben Stuyts
Stuyts Engineering BV Haarlem, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 (0)23 5324609 Email: ben@stuyts.nl
Fax: +31 (0)23 5421988 (NeXT/MIME Mail OK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel)
Subject: Re: Q:NeXT and Fujitsu 2513 MO
Message-ID: <DtKv7B.G2@shinto.nbg.sub.org>
Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org
Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member)
References: <4q3dd0$qam@ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <4q47qm$97r@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4q6e1i$f1c@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 22:45:10 GMT
> : Where did you get a 2513? Are they available in Germany?
> : For those wondering a Fujitsu 2513 is a 640mb 3.5" MO drive.
>
> Yes they are, I think they're around USD 460. I have one of the 230 MB
drives and am very happy, and I'm sure this year I'll buy one of the bigger
drives, too.
>
> Reasonably fast, inexpensive, and _very_ reliable. The ideal backup and
transport solution IMHO.
>
I second all these arguments for the 2513. It's my next drive on the shopping
list.
But there is one little thing you might try to find out first.
There is a feature called LIMDOW which Fujitsu has developed for MO drives.
It enables them to write a sector in 2 instead of 3 disc rotations. (thus
increasing write speed)
Now I am not sure if this feauter is available to all 2513 dirves and the
only thing missing are proper MO-discs; or if we have to wait for a 2513B to
show up in late summer '96 (I seems to remember such a comment form some
Fujitsu guy...but I might be wrong)
The web pages say nothing about that...but I know that there is a special
240MB version which is LIMDOW able.
Maybe you know someone who is able to get more inforamtion then the web pages
have to offer.
Aloha
Tomi
P.S: And post a solution to the formating problem...please..
From: alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: LLEventQueue overflow?
Date: 26 Jun 1996 00:57:27 GMT
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Message-ID: <4qq1tn$n9h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
Hello!
What do these messages mean? Is it just a fluke or is something
going bad with the machine here?...
Jun 25 17:24:29 sdt1 mach: event0: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
Jun 25 17:25:38 sdt1 last message repeated 7 times
Jun 25 17:28:30 sdt1 mach: event0: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
Jun 25 17:28:57 sdt1 last message repeated 65 times
This happened when I was running an app of mine. It seemed like all
the swap was getting eaten up--lot's of disk activity, no response
from the GUI (mouse pointer moved, though.) Ended up giving the
machine the nerve pinch and resetting the thing.
This is NS3.3p1 running on an Intel 486 machine with 32M ram. The
disk has ~200M free, if that matters.
Thanks!
--
--
Alvin Jee
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
NeXTMail gleefully accepted!
From: anderson@sapir.ling.yale.edu (Stephen Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Strange Configure.app problem
Date: 26 Jun 1996 01:55:29 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Linguistics, Yale University
Message-ID: <ANDERSON.96Jun25215529@sapir.ling.yale.edu>
I've been trying to get my Journey (Twinhead) notebook to work with
its PCMCIA modem card and Xircom ethernet card. After a great deal of
trouble and help from others, I got it to the point where it
recognized both cards at boot and appeared to cofigure itself
properly.
So I set to work on the next problem: setting up two possible instance
tables for booting, with and without SCSI support. I went to
/private/Drivers/i386/System.config and copied Instance0.table in
preparation for setting up another configuration with SCSI support.
When I opened Configure.app, though, I discovered that the drivers it
displayed bore no relation to those that had actually been installed
at boot time. Instead, Configure.app appears to display the drivers
that would have been installed if I had booted with config=Default
(i.e., those of ../System.config/Default.table).
This state persists through several cold boots: Configure.app displays
an entirely incorrect set of drivers (and thus doesn't let me modify
the set of drivers that are actually used at boot time) although the
boot sequence proceeds normally.
What's up? And more importantly (who wants knowledge for its own
sake?), how can I fix it?
--Steve Anderson
Dept. of Linguistics
Yale University
From: Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New sendmail doesn't want to flush the queue (REALLY solved!)
Date: 26 Jun 1996 02:20:01 GMT
Organization: home
Message-ID: <4qq6oh$gnq@gate.seicom.net>
Some days ago I found out that newer sendmails won't properly flush
queued mails when called from PPP's ip-up script. The solution
is to make sure that the USER environment variable is set - sendmail
seems to depend on it.
Here's what Laurent Amon <amon@ariana.polytechnique.fr> found out:
Adding the following to my perl ip-up script made it work:
$ENV{'USER'}=(getpwuid($<))[0];
Or in /bin/sh, simply add:
USER='root'; export USER
and presto, it works.
The easiest solution is to make ip-up a tcsh script.
Hope this helps someone out there..
Holger
--
Holger Hoffsttte // Holger.Hoffstaette@schwaben.de (MIME/NeXT/Sun/PGP)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Oliver Nissen <olli@nxcube.augusta.de>
Subject: Accessing the Internet through a gateway
Message-ID: <DtItHz.DF@nxcube.augusta.de>
Sender: news@nxcube.augusta.de
Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 20:13:11 GMT
I've got two NeXTs here at my home, which are connected to each other by
ethernet. One of them (let's consider it as A) is also connected to the
Internet through a PPP link, and on this machine every Internet service works
as it is supposed to be working. On the other one (B) all attempts to get
access to the Internet are in vain. I don't use dynamic routing, so I added a
default route to the routing table of host B (using: "route add net default
IP_address_of_A 1"), which tells it that A should be its default gateway. A
traceroute shows that all packets sent out from B to any host on the Internet
arrive at but do not leave A anymore.
I would appreciate any hints on what the problem might be.
Oliver Nissen
--- 8< --------------------------------------------------------------
Dipl.-Inform. Oliver Nissen Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen
olli@nxcube.augusta.de -> NeXT-Mail/MIME welcome
O.Nissen@rz.unibw-muenchen.de -> Plain text only!
_____________________________________________________________________
>>> "...but, why is it black?" - "It should have been perfect..." <<<
From: David.Hinz@mci.com (David Hinz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Strange sendmail problem
Date: 26 Jun 1996 04:31:50 GMT
Organization: InternetMCI
Message-ID: <4qqefm$it1@news.internetmci.com>
I'm encountering a strange problem with the "Reply-to" field on mail sent
from my home system connected through PPP to a POP mail server. I used the
beta SendMail configuration scripts from Francois Magnan to set up sendmail
8.7.5 and everything works fine except the "Reply-to" field.
If I send mail from Mail.app the "Reply-to" field is set to
dbhinz@dna.mci.com. This is the username from my home system with the domain
name from where I work. But if I send mail from the command line using "mail"
then the "Reply-to" field is set to David.Hinz@mci.com. I can override the
reply-to in Mail.app with the preferences option, but it seems like I
shouldn't need to. The David.Hinz@mci.com is what I need the reply-to field
set to, there isn't anyway for mail to get back to me through
dbhinz@dna.mci.com.
Has anyone else seen this difference between mail being sent from Mail.app
and "mail"?
Thanks,
David Hinz
David.Hinz@mci.com
From: marcel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Marcel Weiher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Printing Problems
Date: 26 Jun 1996 06:36:26 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Message-ID: <4qqlpa$l3b@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <4qp96e$m12@speering.alleg.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
cortesr@alleg.edu writes:
[..]
>This is the message in /usr/adm/messages that I get when trying to print.
>May 2 11:19:13 arte4 npd[200]: /NextLibrary/Services/PrintFilters.service/psprepare of Comm_Arts_Secretary terminated signal = 13
Since psprepare is a filter for the PS file, I would guess that something
is wrong with the file. Or, since psprepare resolves DSC comments to
printer PS, maybe some problems with the PPD file.
Marcel
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: busy device
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 19:08:25 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960625190728.10257A-100000@charisma>
References: <4qp2eg$rmv@news.tamu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
To: Joel Zinn <jzinn@math.tamu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4qp2eg$rmv@news.tamu.edu>
might check the permissions, this is what it looks like in 3.2:
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Oct 21 1993 /dev/dialup0
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address
NeXTMail adored (SUN/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
On 25 Jun 1996, Joel Zinn wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a NeXT Turbo slab running 3.0. After changing to a new hard drive when
> booting I get the message that /dev/dialup0 can't be accessed, because it is
> busy. This may be causing a problem getting slip to run. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Joel
>
> --
> Joel Zinn
> Department of Mathematics
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77843
> e-mail: jzinn@math.tamu.edu, jzinn@plevy.tamu.edu
> Tel: 409-845-3724
>
>
From: headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Strange NFS problem
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 06:21:11 GMT
Organization: NOW GmbH, Baar, Switzerland
Message-ID: <DtLGBB.Lx4.0.astra@now.ch>
References: <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch> <4qpd6s$apo@crcnis3.unl.edu>
In article <4qpd6s$apo@crcnis3.unl.edu>,
Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote:
>In article <DtK1sz.HMD.0.astra@now.ch> headi@now.ch (Daniel Scheidegger)
>writes:
>
>> maybe somebody can help me track down this strange problem: I have
>> several directories exported to the root domain (LocalApps, General and a
>> few others). One, and only one of them (called NOW)
> (clip...clip)
>> The only difference is that it has an own .dir.tiff instead of the
>> standard icon. Anybody?
>
>Is the .dirr.tiff readable by all? I'd check it's permissions first. If all
>is in order in regard to permissions, I don't know what's wrong either... (-;
>
Thanks to everyone responded. It was .places3_0.wmd which was not
readable by all. Oh well...
Thanks again,
Daniel
--
Daniel Scheidegger
Software Engineer, System Administrator
NOW GmbH, Scheideggstr. 73, CH-8038 Zuerich
++41-1-2898025 / dscheide@now.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: PostScript encoding for e dieresis?
Message-ID: <DtLtor.JqI@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 11:09:59 GMT
ISO Latin-1 encoding?
I have a PS document that uses \337 for the encoding of e dieresis (e with
two points above). But on the postscript printer either nothing comes out and
on another the fl ligature comes out. \337 is NEXTSTEP encoding, it seems.
But what coding do I have to use for e dieresis to get it out in the rest of
the world?
--
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and
Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can
question."
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: process table full
Date: 26 Jun 1996 11:42:13 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique
Message-ID: <4qr7ml$fj9@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr>
Because rlogin use 2 entries in the process table,
i obtain a full table (and i have a lot of rlogin!).
How can i extend the table of process ?
--
Xavier NICOLAY
Architecte Systeme UNIX
Ecole Polytechnique
Service Informatique et Telematique (SITX)
91128 PALAISEAU Cedex
E-mail: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda)
Subject: Do you own a socalled `refurbished' B&W Megapixel monitor?
Message-ID: <DtLzGB.K7E@AWT.NL>
Sender: news@AWT.NL
Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 13:14:35 GMT
If you do, please contact me. I'd like to know your experiences.
--
Gerben Wierda,
Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps-
en Technologiebeleid. Javastraat 42, 's-Gravenhage
Staff member Advisory Council for Science and
Technology Policy, The Hague, The Netherlands
Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992
"One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can
question."
n a thousand wise fools can
question."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni)
Subject: login error 'setgroups: Not owner'
Message-ID: <DtM5JD.Gn@prosoft.com>
Keywords: login setgroups
Sender: usenet@prosoft.com
Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 15:26:00 GMT
Does anyone know the cause of the 'setgroups' error in the following? It
happens even before the .cshrc and .login scripts get executed.
% login
login: glen
Password:
setgroups: Not owner
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From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Help: Setting the default paper-size in NeXTStep 3.0
Date: 26 Jun 1996 16:28:30 GMT
Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qrofe$leq@sinfo.ll.iac.es>
References: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> <IC9sGDABWcyxEwsU@cedar.co.uk>
Cc: phef@cedar.co.uk
In <IC9sGDABWcyxEwsU@cedar.co.uk> Paul Heffernan wrote:
> In article <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>, Peter Pregler
> <Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at> writes
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I would like to configure the default paper-size setup for all accounts
> >on the NeXTStep 3.0 system. Currently, it is set to letter-size but we
> >here in Austria use A4 as the default size. One can change the
> >page-layout in certain applications (under format->page-layout) but
> >there are two problems with this:
> >
> >1) One has to set it in all user-applications.
> >2) It is not saved over sessions.
> >
> >I had a look at what defaults are set via 'dwrite' and I cannot find any
> >setting that is related to paper-size. Has anyone done this before?
> Try dwrite -g NXPaperType A4
I tried this but it does not work for WordPerfect. I still have to reset the
paper type to A4 every time. Boy is that boring !
Rafa
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From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <DtM3ny.Mn6@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:45:34 GMT
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <DtIoyz.8AK@stuyts.nl> <DtIyA9.7Jn@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <DtKH3A.4v0@stuyts.nl>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <DtKH3A.4v0@stuyts.nl>, Ben Stuyts <benst@stuyts.nl> wrote:
>
>So, what can of apps do you use for frame grabbing? I'm mostly using the
>NeXT supplied NeXTtv and NDCamera 0.21 by Thomas & Wolfgang Engel.
>
I use NeXTtv. It's quick, simple, and the TV-like controls are nice.
For the past few years I've used an ND cube to take pictures of visitors at
the University of Guelph's open-house. You take their picture, stick some text
on it, and print it out. Makes the 10 year-olds very happy. Anyway, this last
year I managed to snag an extra mono display, so I had NeXTtv running on the ND
screen and Create sitting on the other monitor. Just grab the image, select a
sub-region, cut it, paste it into your nicely-drawn Create template, and print.
Truly a slick demo.
It's amazing how impressed people can be by five-year-old hardware. Of
course, four years ago a guy commented that his 386 could do better than the
SGI 4D/440-VGXT we had...
--
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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: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: g77 for black NS3.0 User&Dev.
Date: 26 Jun 1996 16:47:58 GMT
Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA
Message-ID: <4qrpju$leq@sinfo.ll.iac.es>
Hello!,
Could anybody provide me with the binaries for g77 that would work on black
NS3.0 User&Dev.
Thanks,
Rafa
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| INSTITUTO CANARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS - ICIA |
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From: det@dukebar.crml.uab.edu (Don Turrentine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Migrating from NS to Win95
Date: 26 Jun 1996 18:04:19 GMT
Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Message-ID: <4qru33$tg8@maze.dpo.uab.edu>
Sad but true. It has been decided to replace our aging black boxes with
Compaq PCs running Win 95 with MS Office. I am faced with the daunting task
of converting from several NeXT apps to the Office apps. To be specific here
are the apps on the NeXT that I currently use:
WordPerfect
Diagram
Create
Parabase
Lotus/Improv
Has anyone been through this agonizing situation? Suggestions for easier
conversions? As far as I can tell WordPerfect docs can be taken into Word
with loss of some formating and any embedded stuff like letterheads (which
were done in Diagram or Create). Diagram and Create no conversions possible???
Parabase hopefully will go to Access. Lotus/Improv will go to Excel but I will
probably loose formulas.
Don
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From: james@coquitlam.instep.bc.ca (James Ford)
Subject: Clone with NFS mounts
Message-ID: <1996Jun26.184626.712@instep.bc.ca>
Sender: usenet@instep.bc.ca
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:46:26 GMT
I am setting up a clone netinfo server and doing some testing with it to
see how it works. What I ultimately would like is if my master netinfo
server goes down that the clone completely takes over. What I mean is
that it also takes over with it's own NFS mounts. My question is if I
have my both my master netinfo server with /LocalApps and my clone netinfo
server with /LocalApps (both mounted), is it possible that when the master
is running that it overrides the clones mounts and when it goes down the
clones mounts will take over ? I know this may sound outrageous but I
want to see if there is a way that I can support a complete master netinfo
server failure.
Thank you,
--
James Ford <james@instep.bc.ca> <604-872-7116>
System Support, InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Loadable device driver for Virtual IP hosting (Multi-homing)
Date: 26 Jun 1996 20:22:05 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4qs65d$kke@agate.berkeley.edu>
For those of you who do not pay attention to fj.sys.next (that
probably means most of you), I just want to point out that you might
find a piece sofware announced in that group useful.
Hideo Morishita <manmos@stellar.co.jp > has written a NeXT Mach
loadable device driver for virtual hosting multiple IP addresses
on a single NEXTSTEP host.
The driver allows you to use Web server software such as NCSA httpd 1.5
(and later), and Apache httpd with the virtual hosting enabled.
While this has been possible by using a loadable driver for PPP, the
new driver has been written specifically for this purpose without the code
for PPP, and therefore is very small (less potential for bugs).
The source and binary (quad-fat) have been posted in fj.sources.
Here's the posting data for the article:
Newsgroups: fj.sources
From: manmos@stellar.co.jp (Hideo "Sir MaNMOS" Morishita)
Subject: Pseudo network interface driver(1/1)
Supersede: <MANMOS.96Jun25170440@antares.stellar.co.jp>
Message-ID: <MANMOS.96Jun25174855@antares.stellar.co.jp>
Organization: Stellar Craft Inc., Osaka, Japan
Distribution: fj
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 08:48:55 GMT
Lines: 428
It is also available as:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/ps_if.NIHS.bs.tar.gz
I have no idea how well this driver works.
Izumi
From: akwong@MCS.COM (ANDREW KWONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: DISKTAB for JAZ drive
Date: 26 Jun 1996 14:48:03 -0500
Organization: Another MCSNet Subscriber, Chicago's First Public-Access Internet!
Distribution: usa
Message-ID: <4qs45j$kav@Mercury.mcs.com>
hi,
I have seen some discussion about the disktab for IOMEGA JAZ drive.
Would anyone forward a summary on how to get it format for NeXT, please?
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Wanted: CERN httpd with proxy
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 01:35:40 -0700
Organization: Scott Mewett
Message-ID: <31D247DC.1A1F@mpr.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Does anyone have the CERN httpd that is a proxy server compiled for m68k
I can't seem to find it anywhare.
thanks
Scott
From: Amit Aggarwal <amit@arci.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: maximum user process
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 14:28:09 -0400
Organization: Association of Racing Commissioner's International
Message-ID: <31D18139.4788@arci.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi,
An interesting situation.
I have Next 3.3 running on a Motorola 68k box. There are few users who
can log into this machine. I noticed that out of 2 users, both having
exactly
same .login and .cshrc files, one gets a message saying 'No more
processes' while
the other could still logon and work. Even I could logon and work. Is
there any
parameter for that particular user I can change to get him on. He is the
only one who gets that message every week because of which I have to
reboot my machine.
Thanks.
amit
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT newbie
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 1996 00:01:19 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960621235202.1757B-100000@charisma>
References: <4qev7n$8ok@news.xmission.com>
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To: Trevor Harrison <trevor@teltrust.com>
In-Reply-To: <4qev7n$8ok@news.xmission.com>
On 21 Jun 1996, Trevor Harrison wrote:
> I just got a NeXT cube, and I was wondering about some things.
>
> 1) Is there a version of bind/named that I can compile for NeXT? (The version
> included with the box maxes out at 128 zones, and I have >400 domain names to
> manage)
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/tools/bind-4.9.3pl1.NIHS.bd.README
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/tools/bind-4.9.3pl1.NIHS.bd.gnutar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/tools/bind-4.9_3-REL.NIHS.bs.gnutar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/tools/bind-4.9_3-REL.NIHS.bs.readme
I believe that bind 4.9.3 comes with:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/binaries/comm/GateKeeper.1.0a.NI.b.tar.gz
> 2) Is there a way I can use this NeXT cube as an X terminal? (ie. I have a
> Sparc with X on it and I would like to run some X apps on it and have them
> display on my NeXT)
I dunno much about it, but this might help
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/CubXWindow.Demo-hppa.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/CubXWindow.Demo-i386.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/CubXWindow.Demo-m68k.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/CubXWindow.Demo-quad.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/CubXWindow.Demo-sparc.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/CubXWindow.Demo.README.rtf
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT/Mosaic2.2_CubX.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CubXWindow.Demo-MoreFonts.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CubXWindow.Demo-i386ANDm68k.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CubXWindow.Demo-quad.tar.gz
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CubXWindow.Demo.README.rtf
> 3) I've setup a resolv.conf, with a domain mydomain.com line, and a nameserver
> x.x.x.x line, but for some reason, the machine can't find its own name, but it
> can find other machines in my domain.
Is there a hostname defined in /etc/hostconfig? What comes back when you
do 'hostname'? There's a way to do this with NetInfoManager, but its been
quite some time since I did it...
> 4) Does NeXT still make updates for a NeXT cube system?
do you mean OS 'updates'? If so, then yes. Currently the version is 3.3.
Openstep for Mach (aka NeXTStep 4.0) is due out soon, but there's some
question as to how well it will run and how much of an improvement it will
be over 3.3..... for now I'd stick with 3.3 (or even 3.2)
TjL
--
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luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address (NeXT/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBSITE, coming soon!
From: 6jim@acb2.cgs.edu (Jim Kieley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Virtualhost
Date: 26 Jun 1996 23:41:27 GMT
Organization: Office of Information Technologies, Pomona College
Message-ID: <4qshr7$fmn@epcot.pomona.edu>
Am I correct in assuming that with NS 3.3 it is not possible to assign more
than one ipaddress to the single interface on black hardware? Some OS's
support this. I am interested in virtual hosting in conjunction with an
httpd server I've set up.
Jim Kieley
jim@cgs.edu
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: LLEventQueue overflow?
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 01:35:45 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <4qsom8$rgg@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <4qq1tn$n9h@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu (Alvin Jee) wrote:
> What do these messages mean? Is it just a fluke or is something
>going bad with the machine here?...
>Jun 25 17:24:29 sdt1 mach: event0: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
>Jun 25 17:25:38 sdt1 last message repeated 7 times
>Jun 25 17:28:30 sdt1 mach: event0: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
>Jun 25 17:28:57 sdt1 last message repeated 65 times
> This happened when I was running an app of mine. It seemed like all
>the swap was getting eaten up--lot's of disk activity, no response
>from the GUI (mouse pointer moved, though.) Ended up giving the
>machine the nerve pinch and resetting the thing.
This can occur when events are being generated by the kernel faster
than the Window Server can pick them up and dispatch them to the
appropriate apps. It's an unusual failure mode that can occur when a
machine is thrashing so badly that it can't make the Window Server
runnable in time to prevent the event queue from overflowing. This
sounds like what may be happening in your case.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: mpaque@pacbell.net (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 01:35:42 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service, Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <4qsom5$rgg@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl>
benst@stuyts.nl (Ben Stuyts) wrote:
>In article <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
>Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
>> There's something even better built into 4.0, that requires no action
>> on your part...
>I can't stand this! B-)
>I have this 2-headed cube (25 MHz 040 with 36 MB, 32 MB on the ND) that I'm
>extremely fond of, but it is getting too slow for me nowadays. Also, the
>video part of the ND is quite prone to crash. And now you come, and tell me
>there is hope?
I don't know just what's causing your video crash. I've seen this
happen occasionally when feeding noisy/dirty composite video into the
digitizer. You might try using the SVHS inputs if that format is
available from your equipment.
In OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 the Window Server has been reworked to
compress backing stores in the background. Backing stores are
selected for compression using an LRU algorithm. The compression
format is designed to permit any arbitrary rectangle in a backing
store to be decompressed directly to the display framebuffer without
using an intermediate buffer. The effect is to reduce physical memory
use and lower the number of memory reads and pages touched when
repairing display damage (as when an obscured window is revealed).
The improvement is... significant.
On NeXTdimension displays, the i860 is used to perform this
compression, so there is no impact on the main CPU. Those 32 bit
backing stores compress very well in almost all cases.
Mike Paquette
I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me.
mpaque@pacbell.net Personal E-mail
mpaque@next.com NeXT business mail only, please
From: hamel@messiaen.ubc.ca (Keith Hamel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems building Bitmaps of fonts
Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:54:55 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4qst5v$8bo@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
Keywords: next, fonts, bitmaps
I have been building fonts on a Macintosh with Fontographer and converting
them to the NeXT. There is no problem with the outline and afm files, but
when I run prebuild on the BDF bitmap files (generated by Fontographer) I
get garbage (Seqmentation Fault error is generated). Is prebuild broken
in NS3.3 or am I doing something wrong. Since this font is to be used fo
music notation the bitmaps are essential.
From: hamel@messiaen.ubc.ca (Keith Hamel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: problems generating font bitmaps
Date: 27 Jun 1996 02:55:51 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <4qst7n$8bs@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
I have been building fonts on a Macintosh with Fontographer and converting
them to the NeXT. There is no problem with the outline and afm files, but
when I run prebuild on the BDF bitmap files (generated by Fontographer) I
get garbage (Seqmentation Fault error is generated). Is prebuild broken
in NS3.3 or am I doing something wrong. Since this font is to be used fo
music notation the bitmaps are essential.
From: rodprice@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: disk replacement in black 3.2 system
Date: 27 Jun 1996 05:36:30 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <4qt6ku$1n@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
Cc: rprice
I have a black slab running NS 3.2, with the original 200 MB disk internal
and
another 200 MB disk external. I would like to replace both disks with a
Seagate
ST51080N drive by pulling out the old internal drive and putting the Seagate
in
its place. This seems like a straightforward process except for copying the
bits from the old disks to the new one. Since my system will boot with only
the
internal disk running, I thought I might do this:
(1) replace the old external disk with the new disk.
(2) copy the internal disk to the new external disk.
(3) replace the old internal disk with the new Seagate.
(4) put the old external disk back.
(5) copy the old external disk's file system onto the new Seagate.
One problem: I'm not sure how to copy the old internal disk to the new
Seagate
without corrupting something like permissions on some files -- which will
cause
the system to fail to boot. Using "cp -r" seems like a bad bet. How do you
do it
right?
Otherwise, are there any other snags in this plan?
Thanks,
-Rod Price
rodprice@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Subject: Hanging HP-workstation !!
Message-ID: <DtnCnu.BuE@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@solair1.inter.NL.net (News at news)
Organization: NLnet
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 06:59:09 GMT
We have problems with our HP-712/60 Workstations.
For some time it was much better, but lately the hang every now and
than.
The sympthom: the machine freezes up, is does not respond to any
external input (not even <alt><alt><numlock>, a hard reset).
The only way to solve the problem seems to be to disconnect
the power cord.
Some time ago (in februari) i have seen some postings concerning
this problem.
Has anyone who posted then solved the problem ?
If so i would be much obliged to hear from you, becouse we are stuck.
Our hardware supplier claims there is nothing wrong with the hardware,
and our NEXT supplier claims NEXT is not to blame and want us to prove
that the problem is OS related and not a result from our own software.
Pleace Email to: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
Phone: +31 74 2558 688 The Netherlands
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From: markm@winternet.com (Mark Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to Configure an Anonymous FTP Account?
Date: 27 Jun 1996 07:03:29 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
Message-ID: <4qtbo1$h39@blackice.winternet.com>
I am trying to set up an anonymous ftp account on my NeXTstation
(with NS 3.3 installed) and would appreciate any advice and
suggestions as to how I can do this.
Thanks in advance.
--
Mark Miller | "The things that pass for knowledge I just
markm@winternet.com | can't understand." - Steely Dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Subject: Hnging HP only 712 or also 715??
Message-ID: <DtnD4E.CD0@solair1.inter.NL.net>
Sender: news@solair1.inter.NL.net (News at news)
Organization: NLnet
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 07:09:06 GMT
Some time ago there were posting about hangin HP-712 systems.
I wondere if this also happens on HP-715 station?
Pleace Email to: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net
P.J.L. van Emmerik Holec Projects B.V.
Email: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net PO.BOX 565, 7550 AN Hengelo
Phone: +31 74 2558 688 The Netherlands
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Migrating from NS to Win95
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:34:04 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960626183223.24946F-100000@charisma>
References: <4qru33$tg8@maze.dpo.uab.edu>
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To: Don Turrentine <det@dukebar.crml.uab.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4qru33$tg8@maze.dpo.uab.edu>
Yuck. Make backups a lot when you're working with Win95.
WordPerfect will do to Word/WP for Windows pretty easily... some
formatting will be lost....
I doubt much will go from the other apps, but I'd live to find out I'm
wrong.
TjL
--
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luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address
NeXTMail adored (SUN/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
On 26 Jun 1996, Don Turrentine wrote:
> Sad but true. It has been decided to replace our aging black boxes with
> Compaq PCs running Win 95 with MS Office. I am faced with the daunting task
> of converting from several NeXT apps to the Office apps. To be specific here
> are the apps on the NeXT that I currently use:
>
> WordPerfect
> Diagram
> Create
> Parabase
> Lotus/Improv
>
> Has anyone been through this agonizing situation? Suggestions for easier
> conversions? As far as I can tell WordPerfect docs can be taken into Word
> with loss of some formating and any embedded stuff like letterheads (which
> were done in Diagram or Create). Diagram and Create no conversions possible???
> Parabase hopefully will go to Access. Lotus/Improv will go to Excel but I will
> probably loose formulas.
>
> Don
>
> --
> Don Turrentine, Information Systems Specialist
> UAB - Cardiac Rhythm Management Laboratory
> Volker Hall G78A
> 1670 University Blvd
> Birmingham, AL 35294-0019
> 205-975-4710 Voice
> 205-975-4720 Fax
> det@crml.uab.edu
>
>
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: login error 'setgroups: Not owner'
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 18:31:22 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960626182951.24946E-100000@charisma>
References: <DtM5JD.Gn@prosoft.com>
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To: Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <DtM5JD.Gn@prosoft.com>
I think it is just telling you that you don't have full permissions to the
tty because whoever you are 'login'-ing from has it.
try 'su - glen' instead of 'login'
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address
NeXTMail adored (SUN/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
On Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Glen Biagioni wrote:
> Does anyone know the cause of the 'setgroups' error in the following? It
> happens even before the .cshrc and .login scripts get executed.
>
>
> % login
> login: glen
> Password:
>
> setgroups: Not owner
>
> %
>
> --
> Glen Biagioni
> ProSoft Solutions Inc.
> glen@prosoft.com (NeXTmail Welcome)
> Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)324-9431
>
>
From: neuss@isa.informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM (Christian Neuss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: PostScript encoding for e dieresis?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc
Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:59:36 GMT
Organization: Fachbereich Informatik, TH Darmstadt, Deutschland
Message-ID: <4qu448$hse@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
References: <DtLtor.JqI@AWT.NL>
Drs G. C. Th. Wierda (G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl) wrote:
> I have a PS document that uses \337 for the encoding of e dieresis (e with
> two points above). But on the postscript printer either nothing comes out and
> on another the fl ligature comes out. \337 is NEXTSTEP encoding, it seems.
> But what coding do I have to use for e dieresis to get it out in the rest of
> the world?
I think you need to explicitely set the encoding vector. Here's what works
for me:
/reencodeISO {
dup dup findfont dup length dict begin
{ 1 index /FID ne { def }{ pop pop } ifelse } forall
/Encoding ISOLatin1Encoding def
currentdict end definefont
} def
/ISOLatin1Encoding [
...
/Egrave/Eacute/Ecircumflex/Edieresis/Igrave/Iacute/Icircumflex
...
] def
and then for instance:
/Helvetica reencodeISO def
/Helvetica-Bold reencodeISO def
Helvetica 9 scalefont setfont
10 20 moveto
(hi g\310rben) show
Drop me a line if you need the complete encoding vector, I didn't
want to post it here in complete length.
Best wishes, Chris
--
// Christian Neuss "I ride tandem with a random.."
// http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/
// +49 6151 16-3414 fax: -5472
From: jorice@cs.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: reading .tar.attach
Date: 27 Jun 1996 13:26:56 GMT
Organization: TCD, Computer Science
Message-ID: <4qu270$ork@news.cs.tcd.ie>
References: <31C6DA72.41AD@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <4q99g8$1aag@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> <31CD0245.3348@inter.net.au>
Luke Howard <Luke_Howard@inter.net.au> writes:
>Christian Neuss wrote:
>>
>> James P. Klett (klett002@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
>> : Can anyone remind me of the steps to take an email message from
>> : another system in a .tar.attach format and get it into NeXTMail??
>>
>> : The reason I need to know is that I only have email through Win/95
>> : yet I still get NeXT mails. I can FTP them to my NeXT machine but
>> : still cannot read them.
>>
>> Piece of cake.
>You can do it from the command line, too.
>Save the message separately (ELM lets you do this), uudecode it,
>un-gzip it, and untar it, and you'll have an .rtfd directory.
>(Can't vouch for this. But I think this is how I did it once
>when I was Mail.app-less.)
Just did this 5 mins ago. To confirm, yes, uudecode the message, which
will create a file with a name like .tar.364.Re__Importing_into_C.attach
This is a compressed tar file ("compress" format - .Z). Might be easier,
therefore, to edit that original uuencoded text so that it saves out
a file with a more sensible name, like "msg.tar.Z" or something.
Then uncompress/gunzip and un-tar the file. End file called index.rtf
But I do like the other poster's suggestion to process the files into
/usr/spool/mail. Cool.
-- Jonathan
--
From: aharriso@math.uno.edu (Adam J. Harrison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS on NEXTSTEP 2.1
Date: 27 Jun 1996 14:23:12 GMT
Organization: University of New Orleans
Message-ID: <4qu5gg$1h4@www.uno.edu>
References: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960624111605.18934D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Keywords: NIS
In article
<Pine.NXT.3.94.960624111605.18934D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
"Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@capitalist.princeton.edu> writes:
> I've seen corrupt /etc/ttys cause the login window to fail to appear.
You
> might want to check that out and see if it is as it should be.
Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to be the problem.
I ran a snoop on the NeXT NIS client as it boots with and without NIS and
have noticed that the final line
943 44.95999 riemann -> matcomlab TCP D=673 S=671
Ack=3295992138 Seq=2945762 Len=0 Win=4096
is missing from the boot with NIS. (riemann is the NeXT client and
matcomlab is the NeXT netinfo server)
In addition, I was able to boot the NeXT client using the same netinfo
server but with a different NIS server and a final line in the snoop
similar to the above is reported. I guess then that this packet gives the
go ahead for the login window to appear.
Two questions arise,
1) What to ports 673 and 671 refer to, they are not listed in
/etc/services nor in the services subdirectory of netinfo.
2) Why is this packet not being sent?
=============================================================
Adam Harrison | Phone: (504) 286-5463
Department of Mathematics | Fax: (504) 286-5516
University of New Orleans | email: aharriso@math.uno.edu
New Orleans, LA, 70148, USA |
=============================================================
From: Tomaz Sustar <tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Re: Help: Setting the default paper-size in NeXTStep 3.0
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:03:58 +0200
Organization: Komunikacijsko Informacijski Servis SOU - KISS
Message-ID: <31C93E2E.26D7@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si>
References: <4qb27p$16nq@alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at>
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Peter Pregler wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to configure the default paper-size setup for all accounts
> on the NeXTStep 3.0 system. Currently, it is set to letter-size but we
> here in Austria use A4 as the default size. One can change the
> page-layout in certain applications (under format->page-layout) but
> there are two problems with this:
>
> 1) One has to set it in all user-applications.
> 2) It is not saved over sessions.
>
> I had a look at what defaults are set via 'dwrite' and I cannot find any
> setting that is related to paper-size. Has anyone done this before?
>
> Thanx, Peter.
>
> -------------------------------
> Email: Peter.Pregler@risc.uni-linz.ac.at
> WWW: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/people/ppregler
I think there is an Preference bundle on Penuts archive site which
handles your problem. Sorry but I don't remeber the name :(((
Hope it helps
--
Tomaz
===============================================
Tomaz Sustar (Ljubljana / Slovenija)
Private : Tomaz.Sustar@net.zaslon.si
Work : tomaz.sustar@jupiter.ntfmim.uni-lj.si
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: markus g <tm@burrow.muc.de>
Subject: Re: Auto-format to 80 columns?
In-Reply-To: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk's message of Tue, 25 Jun 1996 06:59:10 GMT
Message-ID: <7xpw6m3sxj.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
To: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk
Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de
Organization: caring for little Tigers
References: <4qc469$qfu@optical.fiber.net>
<1996Jun25.065910.18742@seer.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 02:02:49 GMT
In article <4qc469$qfu@optical.fiber.net> cpayne@optical.fiber.net
(Carl Payne) writes:
>> I realize I can just <cmd> - ] but is there a way to tell
>> NeXTmail that it should default to this behaviour on any
>> non-NeXT outbound mail?
>>>>> "PL" == Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk> writes:
PL> There is a line length setting in Expert Preferences. It
PL> might be there from EnhanceMail, but I think it is in the base
PL> Mail.app.
The length setting influences only the appearance on screen. It
doesn't lead to an actual hard word-wrap. (With Emacs key bindings
enabled C-e takes you to the end of the paragraph not to the end of
the line.) Thus every paragraph is send as one line. Certain mail
readers that don't do the word wrap themselves quote these paragraphs
like one line.
[Sorry if this is out of context - the original post hasn't reached my
newsfeed yet.]
markus g
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: NeXTdimension Color Depth Change
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <Dto2GJ.M7H@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:14:43 GMT
References: <4q9gl2$lf4@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4q9nkv$opm@news.snfc21.pacbell.net> <DtBpBB.9A2@stuyts.nl> <4qsom5$rgg@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <4qsom5$rgg@news.snfc21.pacbell.net>,
Mike Paquette <mpaque@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
>In OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 the Window Server has been reworked to
>compress backing stores in the background. Backing stores are
>selected for compression using an LRU algorithm. The compression
>format is designed to permit any arbitrary rectangle in a backing
>store to be decompressed directly to the display framebuffer without
>using an intermediate buffer. The effect is to reduce physical memory
>use and lower the number of memory reads and pages touched when
>repairing display damage (as when an obscured window is revealed).
>The improvement is... significant.
>
>On NeXTdimension displays, the i860 is used to perform this
>compression, so there is no impact on the main CPU. Those 32 bit
>backing stores compress very well in almost all cases.
>
Hooray! So there's someone left there who knows how to write code
for the ND. I never cease to be amazed (or maybe it's just the low
morale of the NeXT community making me easy to impress...)
--
David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adding a Hard Drive to Black Hardware
Date: 27 Jun 1996 20:02:47 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Message-ID: <4qupd7$kh0@news.tamu.edu>
I need to replace our 660 meg system disk. I remember seeing
something about nextstep not being able to see large drives.
Can anyone offer suggestions for a 1.0 - 2.0 gig drive that they have
used with no problem. Also, I am looking at FAST SCSI-II drives. Is
this correct?
Thanks,
Jeromy
jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu
From: Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: strange output on next printer from win95
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 02:08:10 -0700
Organization: Scott Mewett
Message-ID: <31D3A0FA.1104@mpr.ca>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I recently go my next laser printing from my win95 machine over the
network. Most jobs print fine except that on some jobs the fonts are
replaced with what looks like courier. And at times some characters will
be incorrectly spaced. Either to close together or to far appart.
Has anyone had a similar experience and been able to fix it.
Thanks.
Scott
From: "Andrew M. Priasmoro" <ampriasm@students.wisc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Sound Blaster 16 Problem.
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 15:48:28 -0500
Organization: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Message-ID: <31D2F39C.7BAF@students.wisc.edu>
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Hello,
I have a sound blaster 16 (not plug and play), it did not give problems
when I played my CD ROM music. But, when it played sound files (au,
snd, etc) sometimes it played the sound and sometimes it did not.
Does anyone have any pointers or solutions to fix this problem? Is this
a bug from the sound blaster 16 driver? I use the driver I obtained
from NeXT Answer and I believe it's the recent driver released by NeXT.
Andrew.
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Anyone built perl5.003 for NeXT Yet?
Date: 27 Jun 1996 17:13:20 -0700
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <jcr.835920753@idiom.com>
I'm wondering if anyone's gotten aruond to this yet. I just read a CERT
advisory on suidperl, that said to get 5.003 to fix the problem.
-jcr
From: Robert La Ferla <rdl@cais.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 16 Problem.
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:52:42 -0400
Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960627225216.26346C-100000@cais2.cais.com>
References: <31D2F39C.7BAF@students.wisc.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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In-Reply-To: <31D2F39C.7BAF@students.wisc.edu>
Try using a single DMA channel.
Robert La Ferla
Registered OPENSTEP Consultant
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: viorel <viorel@pathcom.com>
Subject: Q: How do you add a new EIDE drive to a NeXSTEP filesystem ?
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Cc: viorel@pathcom.com
Organization: Xerox
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:19:00 GMT
Hi all,
I recently bougth a 2.1 GB EIDE drive from Seagate
(ST-32140A); since I have installed the disk to my
Pentium, I can only access it from DOS and
WindowsNT (sic !), but I was't able to create a
partition for NeXTSTEP.
I have tried:
fdisk /dev/rhd1..
with all the raw devices for hard-drive I have on
my system.
Can anyone point me to what has to be done to see
the disk and create a partition and a filesystem on
this second drive ?
All I can see now with fdisk is /dev/rhd0h, all the
other /dev/rhdxx don't work.
Is there anything I'm missing ? (maybe I have to
"mknod, mkdev")
I have my first drive installed as master on IDE-0
and the second drive installed also as master on
IDE-1.
Thanks, and I appreciate ANY information (pointers,
maybe MANUALS ?!?) that might relate to my problem
Please, reply me at:
viorel@pathcom.com
Viorel Chita
(as viorel@pathcom.com)
From: "Stefan Scheffler" <s.scheffler@steinberg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Wanted: CERN httpd with proxy
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 21:22:52 +0200
Organization: Unbekannte Organisation
Message-ID: <01bb645e.5819a640$42f0e9c2@opencover.steinberg.de>
References: <31D247DC.1A1F@mpr.ca>
> Scott Mewett <mewett@mpr.ca> wrote in article <31D247DC.1A1F@mpr.ca>...
> Does anyone have the CERN httpd that is a proxy server compiled for m68k
>
> I can't seem to find it anywhare.
>
> thanks
>
> Scott
You find it somewhere at http://www.cern.org, I cannot recall the exact
name or location. Maybe you should go through Yahoo to find the CERN Web
and ftp addresses.
Stefan.
From: jburton@nwu.edu (Joshua W. Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: autonfsmount: can't get my address?
Date: 28 Jun 1996 07:08:44 GMT
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <4r00ds$kdr@news.acns.nwu.edu>
Our department had an old NeXTstation sitting in a corner, going
completely to waste, and I managed to talk the department into
shelling out for NS 3.3, another 12 MB of RAM, and a 2 GB drive,
to turn the thing into a preprint server, general-purpose web
browser, and physics simulation toy. Now that they've spent the
money, it will be embarrassing for me if I can't get the thing up
and running.
For the first cut, I plugged the disk into one of my home NeXTen,
built a system on it, and then just loaded up a full copy of my
/local partition, which contains EVERY change I have ever made
to the vanilla system installation. My /Local* and /Users and
/usr/local are all links, and if I ever have to change some file
(say, /etc/foo) elsewhere, I religiously copy it to /etc/foo.orig,
link the modified /etc/foo in from /local/patches, and add a line
to a shell script called /local/buildlinks. I mention this anal
self-discipline first of all because I highly recommend it as
insurance against upgrade grief, but also because I'm hoping it
will help someone help me find my problem.
I now had a system that was functionally equivalent to my home
one, which is not quite what I wanted. The home system uses
Mamakos DialupIP with a dynamic IP number, while the work system
is ethernet-linked to the campus backbone with a fixed address.
So I pulled out all the DialupIP stuff from rc.local, stopped
running named as well, and fixed /etc/hostconfig to be exactly
like what it was when the work machine was running on its little
disk and NS 2.1. If it worked for 2.1, thought I, it should
work for 3.3.
Result: the machine gets as far as autonfsmount in the boot
process, hangs there for about 20 seconds, and then gives back
this cryptic message (autonfsmount: can't get my address) and
continues. The domain name configured in the boot process is
nwu.edu (as on my home machine) instead of phys.nwu.edu, which
is what I fixed it to be in resolv.conf; I don't know where
else I need to fix it, but I think this is a secondary problem.
The system comes the rest of the way up, and can use the Internet
just fine by IP number. Also, nslookup generates names very
quickly and easily from the campus nameserver I selected in
resolv.conf. But if I try to ping a machine by name, it hangs
for a while and then returns 'unknown host'. Restarting lookupd
doesn't correct this problem. Also, rlogin seems to hang even
when I use IP numbers, although outgoing telnet works fine.
Finally, if I telnet out to a remote account and then come back
in by rlogin, the password prompt seems to take forever (20 or
30 seconds) to come up. Does all this add up to anything that
makes sense to anybody?
Remember, it's a perfect image of a system that works through
the modem, with the DialupIP stuff it no longer needs disabled
from being launched at boot. Anything that is _not_ related to
the fact that the system at work is ether-linked instead of
modem-linked can't be the problem...unless it's some subtle
permissions screwup, or something I haven't though of, or....
Any ideas? Many thanks!
Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in |=============================
the universe, and he'll believe you. Tell him | Joshua Burton (847)677-3902
that the bench over there has wet paint on it, | jburton@nwu.edu
and he'll touch it to make sure, every time. |=============================
From: greg.foliente@dbce.csiro.au (Greg C. Foliente)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: booting from a DOS floppy- help!
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 07:12:00 GMT
Organization: CSIRO
Message-ID: <4r00k0$ji0_001@mel.dbce.csiro.au>
I am using NS 3.3/Intel.
I scanned my DOS/Win partition for viruses and found a "Monkey" on the memory.
Recommended solution is to boot from a DOS system floppy first and then clean
the C: drive.
When I try to boot from A:, the computer boots DOS all right except that it
does not see C: in the HD. Why is this so? Is it correct to say that I can
only access C: in DOS after I tell NEXTSTEP's boot manager to boot in DOS? So
how can I boot from a DOS floppy and be able to see the DOS HD partition?
Thanks for any help,
Greg
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| Dr. Greg C. Foliente greg.foliente@dbce.csiro.au |
| CSIRO Div of Building, Construction & Engrg Ph +6-13-9252-6000 |
| PO Box 56, Highett, Victoria, Australia 3190 Fax +6-13-9252-6246 |
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@nerc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: disk replacement in black 3.2 system
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:04:06 -0400
Organization: Princeton University
Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.94.960627195603.6405A-100000@charisma>
References: <4qt6ku$1n@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
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To: rodprice@ix.netcom.com
In-Reply-To: <4qt6ku$1n@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>
Why not copy the files to the new disk first, then put in the new disk
where the old disk is, and see if it boots properly.
Do you have the installation CDs? If so, what _I_ would do is re-install
NS directly onto the new disk, and then make whatever changes are
necessary. This "guarantees" that at least you will have a bootable
system, and you can work from there.
Instead of '/bin/cp -r' you might want to try "gcp --preserve" (GNU cp) or
"gnutar --preserve" ?
Don't know if I can be of any help, but feel free to ask via email if so
desired....
TjL
--
Timothy J. Luoma, currently with nothing witty to put in his .sig
luomat@nerc.com <<--NEW address
NeXTMail adored (SUN/MIME OK!)
Watch this space for my WEBPAGE, coming soon!
On 27 Jun 1996 rodprice@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I have a black slab running NS 3.2, with the original 200 MB disk internal
> and
> another 200 MB disk external. I would like to replace both disks with a
> Seagate
> ST51080N drive by pulling out the old internal drive and putting the Seagate
> in
> its place. This seems like a straightforward process except for copying the
> bits from the old disks to the new one. Since my system will boot with only
> the
> internal disk running, I thought I might do this:
>
> (1) replace the old external disk with the new disk.
> (2) copy the internal disk to the new external disk.
> (3) replace the old internal disk with the new Seagate.
> (4) put the old external disk back.
> (5) copy the old external disk's file system onto the new Seagate.
>
> One problem: I'm not sure how to copy the old internal disk to the new
> Seagate
> without corrupting something like permissions on some files -- which will
> cause
> the system to fail to boot. Using "cp -r" seems like a bad bet. How do you
> do it
> right?
>
> Otherwise, are there any other snags in this plan?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Rod Price
> rodprice@ix.netcom.com
>
>
>
From: U.Moser@t-online.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help on printer setup urgently needed
Date: 26 Jun 1996 09:52:15 GMT
Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation
Message-ID: <4qr18f$kdm@gatekeeper.iis.ch.swissbank.com>
ReplyTo: Moser.Ulrich@ch.swissbank.com
Hello you NeXT Sys-Admins,
I need help with the printer configuration.
I have the following configuration
1 NeXTstation Turbo Color as NetInfo domain server running NeXTStep 3.2
1 NeXTstation Turbo Color as workstation running NeXTStep 3.2
2 Canon object.station 41 as workstations running NeXTStep 3.3
1 IBM Lexmark 4029 030 connected to one of the object.stations
The printer is declared it as public, so others can print on this printer.
The printer is correctly shown in the avalaible printers list on all
workstations and prints are accepted. Whenever a print is issued from the
Turbo Color the printer prints an error message saying
ERROR: rangecheck
OFFENDING COMMAND: lettertray
STACK:
Prints from the second object.station disappear somewhere in outer space.
Testprints from the NetInfo server are printed correctly.
Who can help?
Thanks in advance
____________________________________________________________________
UM - Consulting Roseneggweg 2
Client/Server Computing D-78244 Gottmadingen
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From: Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at (Thomas Hoellerer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.bugs
Subject: Help: Sun SS20 + Next 3.3 + FaxModem
Date: 28 Jun 1996 14:21:32 GMT
Organization: Vienna University, Austria
Message-ID: <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at>
Knows anybody how to install a Faxmodem (Zyxel 1496) on a Sparc SS20.
I can send Faxes, bur if I receive some, there are only lines and
nothing readable.
thanks
Thomas Hoellerer
Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at
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Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com>
Message-ID: <199606281633.MAA15588@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, 28 Jun 96 12:33:21 -0400
Subject: Fun new console messages!
Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary
Return-Receipt-To: luomat@nerc.com
Anyone have any idea what these mean:
[note: charisma=localhost]
Jun 28 08:31:14 charisma netmsgserver[23]:
datagram_main.netipc_receive fails, kr = -1.
Jun 28 09:20:08 charisma netmsgserver[23]:
datagram_main.netipc_receive fails, kr = -1.
Jun 28 10:58:39 charisma netmsgserver[23]: srr_main.netipc_receive
fails, kr = -1.
Jun 28 11:12:06 charisma netmsgserver[23]: srr_main.netipc_receive
fails, kr = -1.
Info: These messages appeared while PPP was running, and while I
was connected INto my NeXT (telnet and ftp) from another computer.
Clues appreciated.
TjL
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From: Keith Jones <joneskr@cig.mot.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software
Subject: Looking for Informix Adapter
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:47:25 -0500
Organization: Motorola
Message-ID: <31D428BD.2781@cig.mot.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I want to connect a NeXT 3.2 app to a Informix SQL server via the
network.
Does an Informix DB Adapter exists from ftp sites, third-party
organizations, or even Informix Inc?
=========================================================
Keith Jones, Cellular Infrastructure Group, Motorola, Inc.
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From: Mac Patel <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 13:54:34 -0700
Subject: UserManager - Home Directory
Hello....
Recently we upgrade our servers to 3.3 OS. Now whenever I start
UserManger, User Home Directory does not show up as it did with 3.1.
It only show the default directory (/Users). Can anyone help us
or instruct us how we can get paths of all our servers?
Thank you in advance....
Mac Patel
From: Paul Lynch <Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Home Directories
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 07:08:47 GMT
Organization: P & L Systems
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Message-ID: <1996Jun29.070847.3480@seer.demon.co.uk>
References: <9606282054.AA01855@mail.valverde.edu>
In article <9606282054.AA01855@mail.valverde.edu> writes:
> Recently we upgrade our servers to 3.3 OS. Now whenever I start
> UserManger, User Home Directory does not show up as it did with 3.1.
> It only show the default directory (/Users). Can anyone help us
> or instruct us how we can get paths of all our servers?
This is a good one, and I'd quite like a full answer as well.
SimpleNetwork starter will create netinfo entries for the home directory
server. These appear on the popup in UserManager. As far as I can tell,
this informastion is all help in /locations/homes. Each server will have
a subdirectory of this, names with the name of the server. These
subdirectories should have an appitional proerty called partition, which
gives the location of the home on that server. You can probably create
multiple values for this property.
As far as I can tell, this isn't described anywhere. My description also
doesn't quite work, and I'd like to know what is wrong with it :-).
Paul
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From: glen@prosoft.com (Glen Biagioni)
Subject: Win95 printing on Next
Message-ID: <Dtr7Mt.pE@prosoft.com>
Sender: usenet@prosoft.com
Organization: ProSoft Solutions, Inc.
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 08:59:17 GMT
OK, following the kind advice posted here I have installed Samba, made the
Next a print server for Win95, and installed the Next printer's .ppd in
Win95. And printing is great (so far) except for... page ordering.
Is there anything I can do to get the Win95 print job pages to print in
reverse order, just like Next print jobs do?
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From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Exporting mounted volumes via NFS
Date: 29 Jun 1996 02:53:00 -0700
Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
Message-ID: <4r2uds$j5p@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>
Strange situation here, I have an Hp bootdisk with all the NeXT stuff on it,
and an additional HD with /Local* and /usr/local and /Users on it linked to
the appropriate areas of the Boot disk. This is set via fstab on bootup.
My problem is I cannot export /private/Disk1 nor any of the directories that
show up on it. The links in my NFS directory show the "?" and attempting to
mount that partition results in "permission denied"
Any pointers?
(I know it's probably me, and I checked the docs, and came up with nothing...
NFS is not my specialty.)
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From: jhills@unix.infoserve.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS on NEXTSTEP 2.1
Date: 29 Jun 1996 15:45:38 GMT
Message-ID: <4r3j32$drm@news.infoserve.net>
References: <4qm79r$8ls@www.uno.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.94.960624111605.18934D-100000@capitalist.princeton.edu>
Sorry to butt in on this thread, but my own 2.0 OD is futzed and I would
really like to get hold of 2.0/2.1. If able to help please reply by email to
jhills@unix.infoserve.net. Thanks.
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fun new console messages!
Date: 29 Jun 1996 16:25:32 GMT
Organization: frazer.com
Message-ID: <jbf-2906961225420001@news.tiac.net>
References: <199606281633.MAA15588@nerc.com>
They didn't show up in the ppp sources, so I expect they're
kernel warning messages. Doesn't look like they affected your
link, so why worry?
Barney
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From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Help: Sun SS20 + Next 3.3 + FaxModem
Message-ID: <DtrGLw.AC9@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:13:07 GMT
In <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at> Thomas Hoellerer wrote:
> Knows anybody how to install a Faxmodem (Zyxel 1496) on a Sparc SS20.
>
> I can send Faxes, bur if I receive some, there are only lines and
> nothing readable.
>
Zyxel (matter of factly, all common modems) need a third party driver for
FAXing. Use either Jolly's fax driver ot B&W's NXFax (the first is in PD)
for this purpose. Both are on Peanuts.
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From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Clone with NFS mounts
Message-ID: <DtrHGD.AEr@nidat.sub.org>
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Cc: james@coquitlam.instep.bc.ca
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References: <1996Jun26.184626.712@instep.bc.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:31:25 GMT
In <1996Jun26.184626.712@instep.bc.ca> James Ford wrote:
> I am setting up a clone netinfo server and doing some testing with it to
> see how it works. What I ultimately would like is if my master netinfo
> server goes down that the clone completely takes over. What I mean is
> that it also takes over with it's own NFS mounts. My question is if I
> have my both my master netinfo server with /LocalApps and my clone netinfo
> server with /LocalApps (both mounted), is it possible that when the master
> is running that it overrides the clones mounts and when it goes down the
> clones mounts will take over ? I know this may sound outrageous but I
> want to see if there is a way that I can support a complete master netinfo
> server failure.
>
What you want is not a NI failover (this already works, as you admit
yourself) but NFS fileserver failover support. Unfortunately, this is a much
more critical demand.
In general, there is nothing like failover support in NFS (blame SUN, not
NeXT ;-) In case of read only file service you could double all files on a
separate server, and export both filesystems to different mount points on the
clients. In case of failure you could just switch symlinks from the failed
server's mount points to the backup's. But there is nothing like hot standby
and failover in the NFS protocol (unless you hack the code to do so),
therefore, there is no way to do so for read/write access. That is why SUN
sells servers with RAID5 and the like ;-)
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From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: disk replacement in black 3.2 system
Message-ID: <DtrL8M.D5I@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: news@nidat.sub.org
Cc: rodprice@ix.netcom.com
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 13:53:10 GMT
In <4qt6ku$1n@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> rodprice@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> I have a black slab running NS 3.2, with the original 200 MB disk
> internal and another 200 MB disk external. I would like to
> replace both disks with a Seagate ST51080N drive by pulling out
> the old internal drive and putting the Seagate in its place.
> This seems like a straightforward process except for copying the
> bits from the old disks to the new one. Since my system will
> boot with only the internal disk running, I thought I might do
> this:
>
> (1) replace the old external disk with the new disk.
> (2) copy the internal disk to the new external disk.
> (3) replace the old internal disk with the new Seagate.
> (4) put the old external disk back.
> (5) copy the old external disk's file system onto the new Seagate.
>
> One problem: I'm not sure how to copy the old internal disk to
> the new Seagate without corrupting something like permissions on
> some files -- which will cause the system to fail to boot. Using
> "cp -r" seems like a bad bet. How do you do it right?
>
Dependin how much customization has been done on the internal disk, there are
several options:
1. Relatively fail safe (but laborious) is to install NS from CD, customize
by means of admin tools, and then copy over all known user files.
2. Rather convenient is using BuildDisk and then follow the above steps.
This is more flexible if modifications to the OS have been made and should be
preserved.
3. Most flexible and powerful (thus error prone) is to genereate filesystems
and boot blocks by means of a customized run of 'disk' (create appropriate
'disktab' entry). Then copy the filesystems by means of 'ditto' (or
gnutar|gnutar, or dump|restore, just as you prefer).
My choice would be #3, but...
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From: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: process table full
Message-ID: <DtrLIJ.D6E@nidat.sub.org>
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Cc: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr
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Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 13:59:07 GMT
In <4qr7ml$fj9@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> Xavier NICOLAY wrote:
> Because rlogin use 2 entries in the process table,
> i obtain a full table (and i have a lot of rlogin!).
> How can i extend the table of process ?
>
>
This is a internal build parameter of the kernel. And since NeXT exclusively
owns the source to the kernel...
Sorry, but NEXTSTEP is rather poor as a time sharing OS. Fortunately there
is a number of alternatives in the PD.
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From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: Re: Win95 printing on Next
Message-ID: <Dts1wI.H6n@fritz.snafu.de>
Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de
Organization: Software Engineering
References: <Dtr7Mt.pE@prosoft.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:53:01 GMT
In article <Dtr7Mt.pE@prosoft.com>, glen@prosoft.com wrote:
>OK, following the kind advice posted here I have installed Samba, made the
>Next a print server for Win95, and installed the Next printer's .ppd in
>Win95. And printing is great (so far) except for... page ordering.
>
>Is there anything I can do to get the Win95 print job pages to print in
>reverse order, just like Next print jobs do?
Not that I know of.
At least in MS Word for Win95 there is an option for printing in reverse
order.
BTW, does anybody know how to select the manual paper feed
from Win95 ?
I installed the NeXT_400_dpi_Level_II_Printer.ppd file as Win95 printer
driver. Everything works fine except that even if I choose manual paper feed
in Win95 the NeXT printer pulls in the paper from the cassette.
Cheers, Ernst.
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From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker)
Subject: Re: Win95 printing on Next
Message-ID: <Dts586.L28@fritz.snafu.de>
Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de
Organization: Software Engineering
References: <Dtr7Mt.pE@prosoft.com> <Dts1wI.H6n@fritz.snafu.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 21:04:51 GMT
In article <Dts1wI.H6n@fritz.snafu.de>, ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) wrote:
>BTW, does anybody know how to select the manual paper feed
>from Win95 ?
>
>I installed the NeXT_400_dpi_Level_II_Printer.ppd file as Win95 printer
>driver. Everything works fine except that even if I choose manual paper feed
>in Win95 the NeXT printer pulls in the paper from the cassette.
Sorry to follow up my own post, but I just found out that manual feed does
indeed work from Win95. The thing to do is stick in the envelope or sheet
before issuing the print command on Win95.
So I would like to rephrase my question :
Does anybody have an idea how to make the printing behave like it does when
you print from a NEXTSTEP app, i.e. make the printer wait for the paper to be
put in manually ?
Cheers, Ernst.
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From: jmeacham@mv.mv.com (James Meacham)
Subject: What sendmail for SLIP/uucp?
Message-ID: <DtsI50.9r@mv.mv.com>
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 01:43:47 GMT
I have both SLIP and uucp running on my machine. I'd like to use SLIP
for outgoing mail and incoming mail, yet maintain my incoming UUCP mail
feed for posterity. How would one set up his sendmail.cf file to do
this. I give many thanks in advacne for anyone who might help me with
this. Peace,
James
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From: smb3u@delton.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker)
Subject: Re: Help: Sun SS20 + Next 3.3 + FaxModem
Message-ID: <DttExG.2qy@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
Organization: University of Virginia, Department of Psychology
References: <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 13:32:04 GMT
In article <4r0ppc$1tpo@www.univie.ac.at> Th.H@bwl.univie.ac.at (Thomas Hoellerer) writes:
>Knows anybody how to install a Faxmodem (Zyxel 1496) on a Sparc SS20.
>
>I can send Faxes, bur if I receive some, there are only lines and
>nothing readable.
>
Well, since you can send faxes, I assume you have already installed
something like NXfax or Jolly's fax package. The symptom you describe
sounds like what I saw when I had a cable that didn't connect the
hardware flow control between the serial port and the Zyxel. Out
faxes worked fine since the computer was polite in the way that it
sent data, but the Zyxel will push data back at the computer faster
than can be processed if you don't have the RTS/CTS flow control lines
connected.
Good luck!
Steve
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From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: Any proxy server support NeXTSTEP????
Message-ID: <Dtt5KK.5I4@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <4qjnde$qgg@highway.leidenuniv.nl>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:09:55 GMT
Geert Jan van Oldenborgh writes
> Operator (root@bluesky-syd.bluesky.net.au) wrote:
>
> > we have tried the apache 1.1b4..
> It ain't the newest fastest greatest, but the CERN httpd with proxy
runs just
> fine for me. Available from www.w3.org I think, it used to have
precompiled
> version for black & intel h/w, but it seems these have disppeared..
Our CERN Proxy just spent 2.400 DM (1600 US$) of IP volume within one
hour.
We were 10 s on a page with a image server push and though we left it
and quit the browser and powerd down the client our PROXY seems to
have pulled for another hour.
so long,
jens ch. gloede
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From: jens@ipc.de (Jens Ch. Gloede)
Subject: Re: Bad block on SCSI Disk
Message-ID: <Dtt67s.5KD@interpc.de>
Sender: usenet@interpc.de
Organization: interpersonal-computing GmbH
References: <4qepn5$ni5@cerberus.wsc.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 10:23:52 GMT
Andre L. Soto writes
> I encountered a bad block on my second SCSI disk that fsck reported
to me. I
> want to "remove" the bad block in order to allow NeXTstep to boot
> automatically. I tried to reassign the bad block using reasb but
that did
> not work. I used the logical block number that fsck reported to me
with
> reasb. I think this might not be the correct number to use.
Please help.
>
Be aware that rasb an fsck use the block no. in different number
systems: one hex, the other decimal.
Check man pages again!
so long,
jens ch. gloede
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