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From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.2 with PCI SCSI card Date: 1 Jan 97 11:30:13 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan1113013@howard.one.net> References: <32C0D3C5.15F0@erols.com> In-reply-to: gbh@erols.com's message of Wed, 25 Dec 1996 02:12:05 -0500 In article <32C0D3C5.15F0@erols.com> gbh@erols.com writes: I am trying to install NS3.2 to take a look at the OS. Unfortunately I have a NCR53c815 SCSI card which is not supported in release 3.2. Is there a work around to get the OS to recognize the card? There's an NCR 810 driver on NeXT's site, you need to poke around and figure out how to write it to a floppy to use during the boot process. I just wrote it using another NeXTSTEP machine - obviously not an option for many people :-). But I think there are instructions on the site about generating a floppy for this use. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: 1 Jan 1997 17:34:00 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5ae768$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> Cc: leonvs@occam.com In <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> Leon von Stauber wrote: > NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY,COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADMIN D'oh! c.s.n.*sysadmin* > Was your Christmas less than merry, Tim? You certainly seem in a > foul mood this holiday season. > > In <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> Tim wrote: > > In article <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net>, > > Leon von Stauber <leonvs@occam.com> wrote: > > >NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.ADVOCACY,COMP.SYS.NEXT.MISC > > > > > >In <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> Tim wrote: > > >> that being said, security becomes an issue with the power you > > >> get under all that GUI. Fortunatly NS is one of the more secure > > > > Damn, here I thought I all but avoided getting into areas that > > could provoke holy wars. Out of a monster post, you managed to > > yank out the very few sentances that had the least relivance > > to what I was posting about. Also, didn't I post in > > Sorry, I forgot about the Usenet law that requires me to address > your entire post. > > > comp.sys.next.sysadmin about this? If I didn't pardon me, > > that's where I THOUGHT the conversation was supposed to be, > > and it's where I THOUGHT I posted. I may have been totaly mistaken, > > but I don't think so. > > Well, no you didn't post in c.s.n.admin. I followed up in that > group, since it's the more appropriate place for this discussion. > I'm setting followups appropriately for this article as well, since > you neglected to post yours to c.s.n.admin again. > > > >Security is an issue anytime a system provides services over a > > >network, or is physically accessible by people who shouldn't touch > > >it. It's *less* of an issue with a UNIX (or even NT) system than > > >with something entirely lacking in multiuser support and basic > > >filesystem security, such as MacOS or DOS/Windows. > > > > There isn't a computer on the face of the earth that doesn't > > have security accesible by people who shouldn't touch it. Usualy > > I think I just said that. > > > we describe those people as "users". And don't _even_ bring > > NT into this discussion, as it's less stable than a crack junky > > on a pogo stick security wise. > > I agree it's got some work left. (I recently saw an advertisement > for a company that claimed it could "recover" lost Administrator > passwords in a matter of hours.) However, all I said was that it > is superior to single-user systems in that regard. > > > So other than pompusly mis-stating the obvious there, what's > > your point? > > I misstated nothing. > > > >As for NEXTSTEP, it's no more secure than any other UNIX. In > > >fact, it's arguably a little lacking in that area. No support for > > >ACLs, and a study of the stability of UNIX tools in various > > >environments rated NEXTSTEP the worst. (I might be able to hunt > > >down a URL if anyone's interested.) The naming service used > > >(NIS, NIS+, NetInfo) is a separate issue. > > > > Oh please, is this the equivocating argument of the month or what? > > NeXTSTEP has it's faults security wise, just like any other > > OS, but it's not bad, and it's better than allot of other > > unixes that are out there. > > Like which ones, and in which specific ways? > > > If you're going to cite studies, fucking > > cite them, don't refer to them in the '9 out of 10 dentists' bad TV > > mode. > > This is not baseless assumption. As I said, there was an independent > study done, and there is a URL for it. Unfortunately, I don't have it > with me, and couldn't locate it just now. I'm almost sure it's > referenced in _Practical UNIX & Internet Security_ by Garfinkel and > Spafford. I left my copy at work, so I'll have to check on it > tomorrow. > > The gist of the study was this: A tool was written which would throw > random input at UNIX utilities. Many of these utilities would break > (either crap out themselves or hang or crash the whole system) due > to problems with buffer overruns and the like, which are the types of > problems that crackers often like to exploit. Something like 8 versions > of UNIX were tested, including NEXTSTEP and Linux, and I believe SunOS > and Solaris. NEXTSTEP rated the absolute worst in the quality of its > tools, with something like 46% of them being vulnerable to bad input. > The least vulnerable? Linux. > > The study was done twice, a few years apart, and both times NEXTSTEP > did poorly. (The others really didn't fare very well, either, with > most posting only minor improvements over the years.) > > > >> Unix based OS's that you can find. Netinfo is -way- superior to > > >> NIS & NIS+ in that respect, and it's also a bit easier to secure > > > > > >NIS is a crock wrt security, so it's not saying much that NetInfo > > >beats it there. But NIS+ supports encryption of authentication and > > >information transfers, which NetInfo can't do. > > > > Last time I checked there was authentication mechanisims in Netinfo > > Read what I wrote. It's not encrypted. Passwords are sent in the > clear over the network. > > > that were pretty good. NIS+ does have encrypted info transfers, > > but that isn't exactly an ass saver in the security department. > > Better than it was granted, but if you are depending on that, > > well, you're probably owned. Telnet and rlogin and all the > > rest of the possible sniffable universe is a far easier target > > on the same wire. > > But if you've secured yourself against these problems (using ssh > and the like), and your network information service is still > vulnerable, then you haven't helped yourself all that much. In > this situation, something like NIS+ or Kerberos or DCE *is* an > ass-saver. > > > >NetInfo is also notoriously touchy. Futzing up a machine or even > > >an entire NetInfo network is easier than toasting bread. > > > > For who? I've never had any significant problems. Nor has anyone > > ever said that to me. I've seen Netinfo get hosed up bad, but > > usualy by stuff like the insertion of bad data. And I've got > > This is one way to do it. And recovery is a pain. > > > experience on some pretty huge Netinfo networks too. Other > > than that, the problems that I've had with it have been attributable > > to stupid things *I* have tried to do, usualy without checking > > docs, or similar stuff, and they've all been local experiments > > & the like. > > It's also vulnerable when the network isn't in the greatest of shape. > See c.s.n.admin for some specific examples I've posted. > > > >I do like the tools, though. If I had three wishes for NetInfo, > > >they would be: > > > > > >1) Make it more robust, easier to withstand small problems. > > > > > >2) Support encryption everywhere. > > > > > >3) Make licensing inexpensive. (Anyone have current prices?) > > > > > >I'd also like it supported on a few more platforms: IRIX, SCO, > > >even Linux. Maybe even NT? If NetInfo could do all this, I could > > >recommend it as an enterprise-wide solution for one of my current > > >employers, instead of just using it for our NEXTSTEP machines. As > > >it stands, I really can't. > > > > Erk, you're sort of ill-informed here. There's a company called > > Xedoc that makes it for all sorts of platforms. And was doing a > > survey about 7 months ago on wether people wanted it on NT. > > Er, no I'm not. IRIX support was only recently added by Xedoc, a > SCO version does not exist, nor does a Linux version (although > they're working on it). Nor does an NT version, regardless of > whether a survey was done. > > > As for your 3 points, I concur with them, but take exception > > to the first one. It needs some more warnings to prevent people > > from doing things that'll break it. But I wouldn't want to sacrifice > > the power it gives me either. > > I agree. > > ____________________________________________________________________ > Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ > Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> > PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> > MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> > "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:45:31 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> I've been reading a good bit lately about the Ping of Death problem, and I was wondering if anyone knows when NeXT might have it solved? I gather that it takes a 32K packet to crash a NeXT machine, but for now, when any luser with a windoze box can take a nextstep system down, I can't tell my customers to put a NeXTSTEP system live on the net. -jcr
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT boot sector changed with NT setup Date: 1 Jan 1997 23:34:00 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5aes98$8ht@bolivia.earthlink.net> Hello fellow users. I have recently installed a small 200 MB NT partition on my NSFIP 3.3 system. Surprisingly it did not erase the NeXT boot sector. However, when I boot up and get the option of which OS to run, n is for NeXT and d does not take me into NT. Instead it got placed in the 1 partition. I would like to have NT booted with the "d" option. If I use the nextanswers solution to the deleted boot sector, will that solve the issue? Its not that big of a deal, but would be nice to have that setup. Thanks for your replies. Please respond to the email address below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ Gerardo Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net quinonez@usa.net NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Painfully Slow Text Scrolling in ROM Monitor on ND Turbo Cube Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 2 Jan 1997 03:35:49 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5afvhl$bln@pesto.cs.utexas.edu> Ident-User: liuyi Summary: Slow Text Scrolling Prob. in ROM Monitor on ND Turbo Cube Keywords: Text Scrolling, ND, Cube, Turbo [ Crosspost: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,] [ comp.sys.next.sysadmin ] [ Followup: comp.sys.next.misc ] I recently got a ND Turbo Cube. It runs everything perfectly except for this problem: Problem: When booting in verbose mode, the text scrolls very slowly line-by-line from bottom to top, kind of like watching a terminal connected via 2400 baud modem, but felt a lot slower and a lot more annoying. HW + SW: 040 33MHz ND Cube, 32MB on ND, 32MB on 040, all simms non-parity 70ns, running NS3.3, 1 200MB boot + 1 3.2GB HDs. I'd never owned a ND Turbo Cube or any Color motorola hardware before. But compared to my 040 33MHz slab whose ROM monitor scrolls text fast and smoothly --- jump scroll (?), the ND Turbo Cube's text scroll is more like a snail scroll. I tried playing with "p" command in the ROM monitor, but short of switching off the "verbose" mode, nothing seems to affect this behavior. On top of this, everything else runs fine with visually comparable speed to the Turbo slab once the machine boots up. So my question: Is this a normal behavior in the ROM monitor on the ND Turbo Cube? Thanks! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@anet-dfw.com> | <liuyi@usa.net> Dallas, TX
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pop3D problem fixed, thanks Date: 2 Jan 1997 04:29:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5afdip$fog@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Pop3d problem fixed, thanks Thanks to all who sent the answer, niload fixed it. -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
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From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 09:12:51 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32CBD073.35D4@pswtech.com> References: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John C. Randolph wrote: > NeXTSTEP is just about to become the most widely-deployed UNIX in the world. > Thousands of WEB sites, etc. will be running on NeXT/Mach, and that means > that we're going to see these systems subjected to a very high level of > scrutiny. > > So, the security holes that we've been warned about (Window server, old version > of Sendmail, old FTP, etc. are now a *VERY* big problem. Distributing NEXTSTEP/MacStep with up-to-date stable versions of server software is a good first step. I'd also like to see as many security tools bundled as possible: tcp_wrappers, ssh, sudo, Tripwire, COPS, etc. These should probably be preinstalled and preconfigured in a reasonable manner, since the proportion of folks w/ sysadmin experience among the Mac community is much lower than among NEXTSTEPpers. I also wouldn't mind if most services were disabled by default (telnetd, ftpd, etc.), as long as Apple/NeXT provides a tool for easy administration (instead of making people learn about inetd.conf, for instance). > So, if anyone's interested, I think we should start talking about the holes we > know, so we can deploy our Macs with some degree of safety. Another good start would be to study the results of the University of Wisconsin study of the reliability of UNIX tools on various systems, in which NEXTSTEP fared quite poorly. The paper is available as ftp://grilled.cs.wisc.edu/technical_papers/fuzz-revisited.ps ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 2 Jan 1997 15:19:55 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> In article <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) writes: > I've been reading a good bit lately about the Ping of Death problem, and > I was wondering if anyone knows when NeXT might have it solved? My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the ping of death. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXTstation as net bridge? Message-ID: <E3Dtnz.ByL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <gomez-3112961251480001@dialup13.nmia.com> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 13:04:46 GMT In article <gomez-3112961251480001@dialup13.nmia.com> gomez@nick.chem.brown.edu (Maria A. Gomez) writes: > Hi, > > I would like to set up my NeXTstation running OpenStep 4.1 as a > net bridge for my small network at home through my PPP provider. > What you want is a router, not a bridge! > 1. Is this possible? Yes, of course. > 2. Do I need additional software/hardware? The PPP package (try Peak or Peanuts) > 3. Where do I get detailed information or the software? Get any Unix/Internet admin book that still has a section on BSD (they're aplenty) and read the OS/Mach man-pages/DL sysadmin manual sections on networking/routing. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 12:24:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0201971224480001@slip-32-8.ots.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the >ping of death. What platform? Also, note that crashing the operating system is not the only (merely the worst) symptom. I know that some NEXTSTEP Systems will kill their Network Interface in response to the Ping 'O Death. This is not as bad as having the System crash, but bringing the network back up requires a reboot just the same. JD
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 2 Jan 1997 19:29:55 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5ah2bj$6f4@huffalump.visi.com> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> <distler-0201971224480001@slip-32-8.ots.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: : >My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the : >ping of death. : : What platform? : : Also, note that crashing the operating system is not the only (merely the : worst) symptom. I know that some NEXTSTEP Systems will kill their Network : Interface in response to the Ping 'O Death. This is not as bad as having : the System crash, but bringing the network back up requires a reboot just : the same. The Ping o' Death home page claims that NS/FIP is susceptable, but Sparc and Motorola are not. I've been noticing odd behavior recently from my Intel box here at the office; the network interface will die for hours at a time, and come back seemingly spontaneously. This only happens when I'm away from the console. Lately, the machine has been locking hard rather than just losing ether. I'm suspicious... -- # david young: +oo developer # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com, dwy@ace.net (NeXTmail ok)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:29:53 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ah5s1$oo3@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5ah2bj$6f4@huffalump.visi.com> In article <5ah2bj$6f4@huffalump.visi.com> dwy@ace.net (David Young) writes: > Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: > : >My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to > : > the ping of death. > : > : What platform? m68k and i386 platforms were tested, pinging from a Win95 box. > The Ping o' Death home page claims that NS/FIP is susceptable, but Sparc > and Motorola are not. I know. I sent them the results of my testing a couple months ago. Apparently they didn't update their information. I bet the susceptibility has something to do with the particular networking hardware (and driver) used. I've tested Intel boxes with DEC24010 (?) based PCI cards, and SMC EtherElite ISA cards. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP/Career Position/Syst Admin Date: 2 Jan 1997 20:50:18 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <5ah72a$qut@tofu.alt.net> System Administrator NEXTSTEP-------------Commercial experience---1yr+ Career Position------Excellent working conditions & growt potential Area-----------------NY State-----not city Relocation-----------Company Assistance Must Be--------------US Citizen or Greencard To Be Considered-----Fax resume or mail a hard copy. -- ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax] Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice] 1310 Craig Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Adding a non-NeXT printer to black Message-ID: <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 20:48:09 GMT hi all... My SO and I are considering buying a laserprinter (NEC 5i) for the house, which would be connected to my mono black slab, which serves as a PPP network gateway/router/firewall/mailserver. I've checked everywhere, but the only discussion about adding non-NeXT printers to a slab has to do with rewiring a serial connector. Is it possible to add a non-NeXT printer to a black slab? What should I ask for in the way of accessories when I purchase this beastie? Do I need a parallel-serial converter, and the serial connector hack in the FAQ? Do I need something else? What do I have to do on the software side of things? We're both very excited, as this will be our first in-home laser printer, but I'm a bit concerned, since getting the thing connected to my slab is a big grey fog for me right now. Could someone clarify? Thanks, Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: Steve Hoffman <steveh@neog.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what the heck did I do?? Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 16:54:30 -0600 Organization: Neoglyphics Message-ID: <32CC3CA6.7DB7@neog.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Man do I feel stupid. OK, having trouble with my hard drive. Here's the setup. Got a NStation that I had a Fujitsu M2624SA 520MB drive in. Worked great for 5-6 years and like a dummy I went and swapped it for a 1gb disk I got from my brother. Well, I decided to take it out and put that drive in an external case instead and put the old 520 disk back inside. However, now I've messed something up because I'm getting this as it's searching for the disks during startup (I can only boot if a second disk is attached). With no second disk: sc: unexpected msg: 1 (keep repeating) With second disk: sc: unexpected msg: 1 (3 times) booting from blk0 (from second drive - you know what I mean) sc: unexpected msg: 1 sd: target 1 lun 0 opcode 18 sd: addr 0x43BBF10 bcount 66 rdflag 1 sd: sdstatus 0 sdstate 0 rdflag 1 sc: s5c state 7 status 0x87 sc: intrstatus 0x8 seqstep 0x4 sc: fifolevel=0 transfer count=0 sc: command 0x10 config 0x57 (This repeats 3 times and then it boots fine off the internal drive with no other problems that I can tell (internal drive is scsi id 1, external is 4 I think)). I could sure use some help with this one. I have NO IDEA what the heck I did. Perhaps I forgot a jumper or something but I don't see how. Also, I sysadmin friend suggested I try writing a new boot block on the internal drive (/usr/etc/disk -b /dev/rsd0a). I did, but still no luck. I would be SOOOOO grateful for any help. Steve -- Steve Hoffman (steveh@neog.com)
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.1 and PPP and MacOS Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 19:02:58 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E3EA8z.915@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <gomez-3112961257190001@dialup13.nmia.com> In article <gomez-3112961257190001@dialup13.nmia.com> gomez@nick.chem.brown.edu (Maria A. Gomez) writes: > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a small network at home. It will consist of two > Macintoshes and a NeXTstation running OpenStep 4.1. Currently the two > Macintoshes are talking to each other (as expected), but the NeXTstation > is not. > > All three computers are running PPP so the NeXTstation is set up as a > stand-alone machine but without the IP address set. > > How do I get all three of these talking to each other and be able to use > PPP with internet service provider? You don't make a couple of things clear - there are two issues here: 1) internal networking 2) linking to the outside world Address them one at a time. 1) Are you useing PPP as your exclusive network solution, or have you some other network installed (ether or appletalk?). If you're on ether than problem is solved - this is the best solution (even if it means buying some ether cards). If you're on appletalk you will need to bridge onto ether to connect the NeXT effectivly (possibly expensive, and fiddly). If you're entirly on PPP, then setup the NeXT as your main machine, and plug the Mac's into the NeXT serial ports, log in from each Mac, and run pppd [just use fixed ip addresses] (cheap, but slow, and you've just run out of serial ports on the NeXT - we haven't connected the modem yet) The Macs will talk to each other via the NeXT. 2) If you're using MacTCP, then only the NeXT will suppoort multiple IP interfaces. OpenTransport should be better but I've never used it. This means you need to connect outside via the NeXT. Setup PPP as per intructions, and connect out to you provider. Chances are that your IP provider DOES NOT support multiple addresses, so you can't connect DIRECTLY from the Macs to the rest of the world. The easy workaround is to get an http server (try the webobjects package), and make it do proxying, then point the Macs at the NeXT as a gateway in whatever browser tools you use. If you can get multiple IP addresses (at reasonable cost), then you need to setup a subnet (but thats more complex, and I don't really have much experience of that). OK that was a bit quick, but mail me if you want to talk more about this. Also if anyone has got an appletalk<->ether bridge, I'd be interested in finding out more as I really need to go this route. $an
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Toshiba laptop video driver? Date: 2 Jan 1997 15:19:37 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852247139@idiom.com> Summary: Which driver will work with a Toshiba Satellite 420CDT? Will this work with the default S3 driver? Anyone else gotten 3.3 going on this box? -jcr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701022356.PAA04232@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 97 18:56:38 -0500 Subject: another one of them interesting console messages Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary "Retry zone_gc" Anyone care to guess? I was running two gnutar/gzips at the time, and had PPP running That was the message "Retry zone_gc". It appeared only once so far. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Awaiting Apple's NeXTStep
From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network Printer Newbie Problem Date: 3 Jan 1997 10:21:21 GMT Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics Message-ID: <5aimj1$ll3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Setup: two Nexts connected in a network, one NextStation TurboColor running OS 4.0, one NextStation Turbo running NS3.2. The NS Turbo has a Next printer connected to it. The machines are happily networked together in a NetInfo network. Problem: when I try to make the Next printer Public in PrintManager, I cannot do it and I get the following error message: Printer cannot be exported to this same computer. What do I do?
From: ccdc@phish.nether.net (nicholas mohunta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP NEEDED!!! Date: 3 Jan 1997 10:45:15 GMT Organization: Nether.Net -- Public access Linux system Message-ID: <5ainvr$re5@news.cic.net> Subject: HELP NEEDED!!! Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Organization: Nether.Net -- Public access Linux system Summary: Keywo Subject: HELP NEEDED!!! Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.misc Organization: Nether.Net -- Public access Linux system Summary: Keywords: I dont know if this is the right newsgroup i am posting to. But what ever suggestions you give or advise for that matter will be greatly valued. Well here it goes. I want to start an ISP service giving out TCP/IP connections with all the regular services attached such as DNS, FTP, WWW, telnet, etc. I am looking to start with 750-100 customers with expansion for more. DEcided that i will have to have a T1 line. But here is my dilemma. !. What kind of a server will be needing to serve the above services? Initilall i was thinking of pro-pentiums with BSD OS. But now am thinking of SS20 with sunOS? Is this wise or should i stick with pro-pentiums and BSD.Some for and against arguments would be very much helpful.O are there any other systems which i can take into considerations regarding perofrmance/price 2) How many servers will i need? 3) What kind of modems will serve my purpose? 4) I intened to give shell acess too so what else do i need for the shell acess? I would really appreciate some detailed answers to my first question becuaase that is biggest dilemma i am facing. Thank You for your patience. Apoorva Mohunta
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to a NeXT Black printer from Windows NT Date: 3 Jan 1997 11:18:54 -0600 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5ajf1u$pnp@falcon.inetnebr.com> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis I need to be able to print to a NeXT printer from Windows NT, I have set up the printer as a LPR printer in Windows NT, and set the printer up as if it were a Apple Laserwriter, since there is no Generic Postscript option in Windows. BUT! I am getting numerous postscript errors when printing from windows apps, including Notepad. How can I install the NeXT.ppd file or make it go somehow? -Jeremy
From: tgraham@qualcomm.com (Tony Graham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk, Netware removed from OpenStep 4.0? Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 09:42:48 -0800 Organization: QUALCOMM, Inc. Message-ID: <tgraham-0301970942480001@agraham-mac.qualcomm.com> Hello all, I'm using the student version of OpenStep 4.0 for Intel and don't seem to find any AppleTalk or Novell Netware functionality. Some of the documents in the Sysadmin library reference them, but they're not on the machine. Were these only included with the NeXT hardware or NeXTStep 3.x? Thanks, -Tony Graham tgraham@qualcomm.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Adding a non-NeXT printer to black Message-ID: <E3FMs8.C7M@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 12:31:20 GMT In article <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu writes: > hi all... > > My SO and I are considering buying a laserprinter (NEC 5i) for > the house, which would be connected to my mono black slab, which > serves as a PPP network gateway/router/firewall/mailserver. I've > checked everywhere, but the only discussion about adding non-NeXT > printers to a slab has to do with rewiring a serial connector. > > Is it possible to add a non-NeXT printer to a black slab? What > should I ask for in the way of accessories when I purchase this > beastie? Do I need a parallel-serial converter, and the serial > connector hack in the FAQ? Do I need something else? What do > I have to do on the software side of things? > > We're both very excited, as this will be our first in-home laser > printer, but I'm a bit concerned, since getting the thing connected > to my slab is a big grey fog for me right now. Could someone > clarify? > Asking DigitalLibrarian about the occurences of "printer" in the SysAdmin manual shows ten hits. One of them is the chapter on "Peripherals" which includes a step by step account about the procedures to attach a new printer to a NEXTSTEP system. I think that should do in your case (at least for the starter). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: what the heck did I do?? Message-ID: <E3Fpt3.C8J@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <32CC3CA6.7DB7@neog.com> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 13:36:38 GMT In article <32CC3CA6.7DB7@neog.com> Steve Hoffman <steveh@neog.com> writes: Although I never owned a M2624SA (I have two M2694), I think I know what might be the cause of your trouble. Unfortunately, this will only be a hint. The actual doing is with you. The older Fujitsu had no integrated SCSI-1 mode, you had to switch manually from SCSI-2 to SCSI-1. And a Fujitsu in SCSI-2 mode isn't bootable from black hardware. You must make sure all drives are SCSI-1, asynch. Otherwise, a black machine won't boot correctly! Unfortunately, Fujitsu used to have a habit of switching controller assemblies almost every other week. So I can't help you with correct jumper settings. I used to get around by the help of a very customer friendly OEM distributor who used to fax me the actual data sheet after I phoned him with the full drive type and electronic assembly number at hand. I hope you can find some kind soul of that type ;-) > Man do I feel stupid. OK, having trouble with my hard drive. > Here's the setup. Got a NStation that I had a Fujitsu M2624SA > 520MB drive in. Worked great for 5-6 years and like a dummy I > went and swapped it for a 1gb disk I got from my brother. Well, > I decided to take it out and put that drive in an external case > instead and put the old 520 disk back inside. However, now I've > messed something up because I'm getting this as it's searching > for the disks during startup (I can only boot if a second disk > is attached). With no second disk: > > sc: unexpected msg: 1 (keep repeating) > > With second disk: > > sc: unexpected msg: 1 (3 times) > booting from blk0 (from second drive - you know what I mean) > sc: unexpected msg: 1 > sd: target 1 lun 0 opcode 18 > sd: addr 0x43BBF10 bcount 66 rdflag 1 > sd: sdstatus 0 sdstate 0 rdflag 1 > sc: s5c state 7 status 0x87 > sc: intrstatus 0x8 seqstep 0x4 > sc: fifolevel=0 transfer count=0 > sc: command 0x10 config 0x57 > (This repeats 3 times and then it boots fine off the internal > drive with no other problems that I can tell (internal drive is > scsi id 1, external is 4 I think)). > > I could sure use some help with this one. I have NO IDEA what > the heck I did. Perhaps I forgot a jumper or something but I > don't see how. > > Also, I sysadmin friend suggested I try writing a new boot block > on the internal drive (/usr/etc/disk -b /dev/rsd0a). I did, but > still no luck. > -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: dturren@dukebar.crml.uab.edu (Don Turrentine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: enrc: no network buffers Date: 3 Jan 1997 17:51:09 GMT Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Message-ID: <5ajgud$cls@maze.dpo.uab.edu> What does this messages mean "enrx: no network buffers? Please e-mail replies, I need an answer fast! Thanks, Don -- Don Turrentine, Network Specialist University of Alabama Health Services Foundation 301 South 20th Street LNB 201 Birmingham, AL 35233 (205) 731-9666 Direct (205) 731-9856 Fax dturren@hsf.uab.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Message-ID: <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 19:35:45 GMT Pohl Longsine wrote: > There's a similar "crashme" program that generates random executables > to test a kernel's stability, and Linux can also run this for hours > at a time on both Intel, SPARC, and Alpha versions. I don't know of > anybody running "crashme" on NeXTstep. Has anybody tried this? > [geek curiosity]. Yup. I have it running on my NS 3.3pl1/x86 box right now. Nothing happens, except that it eats some CPU time. I also played with the parameters, but still no crash in sight. Btw, I absolutely agree on the OS issues..Linux or a recent version of 4.4BSD with its kick-ass VM/buffer/cache system would *definitely* be a big plus. Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | OPENSTEP? Yes, It Will.
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ajp93$i8i@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Date: 3 Jan 1997 21:14:10 GMT Control: cancel <5ajp93$i8i@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5ajp93$i8i@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Sender: tccs@sprintmail.com Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: CDRMEDIA Original Subject: CD-R Media for Sale
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.1 and PPP and MacOS Message-ID: <137cd$e725.2af@nmb-news> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 97 14:10:45 PST To: Ian Stephenson <ians@cam-ani.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Thu, Jan 2, 1997,7:02 PM Ian Stephenson wrote: : Also if anyone has got an appletalk<->ether bridge, I'd be interested in : finding out more as I really need to go this route. : I picked up a couple of Shiva Fastpath's from my employer a year ago. These work pretty well, but require a Mac on localtalk to configure, the ethernet software is flakey. The hard part is getting them to pass TCP/IP. I was able to just plug them in and get Appletalk to the NeXT, but TCP/IP was a little more work. Now that I have it working I never touch it, but if you need more info I'd be glad to dig it out. I also found that the GatorBoxes work well. I just picked up the Fastpath's for nothing, so they seemed the best solution. Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E3GG02.1BH@flop.schwaben.de> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 23:02:26 GMT Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > Yup. I have it running on my NS 3.3pl1/x86 box right now. > Nothing happens, except that it eats some CPU time. > I also played with the parameters, but still no crash in sight. I spoke to soon.. I just learned The Hard Way that running crashme as root with some funny large number of processes (say, 100) WILL lock up NS 3.3pl1 pretty much instantly. Even the last-resort monitor is dead. With fewer processes, it just runs without end. Not sure how the UID affects the outcome. Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | OPENSTEP? Yes, It Will.
From: qvi@ix.netcom.com(Hergen Eilers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named daemon Date: 4 Jan 1997 01:03:51 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5aka9n$biv@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> I am trying to configure a computer running NeXT 3.3 to be a name server for non-NeXT computers on our small network that is NOT connected with the Internet. I have tried following the instructions in the NeXT Library and man pages to set up the named daemon, but I am having trouble setting up the named.boot and cache files. We only have six computers on our network. We are not connected to the Internet. Therefore, I have only set up a root domain. I don't think we need any secondary name servers. I tried the following: Added the following line to /etc/rc.local: /usr/etc/named In the file /etc/named.boot: directory /etc/DNS cache . root.cache In the file /etc/NDS/root.cache: 99999999 IN NS maxwell. maxwell. 99999999 IN A 192.72.142.1 When I entered "nslookup maxwell" in Terminal on the server (maxwell), I get the following response: Server: maxwell Address: 0.0.0.0 res_mkquery(0, maxwell., 1, 1) ____________ Got answer: HEADER: opcode = QUERY, id = 1, rcode = SERVFAIL header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail. questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, additional = 0 QUESTIONS: maxwell, type = A, class = IN _____________ *** maxwell can't find maxwell: Server failed I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Could you please send a copy of your responce to qvi@ix.netcom.com. Thanks. Brian Olmsted
From: Eric Davis <eld@dimensional.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tip'ing probs after re-install Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 22:47:25 -0700 Organization: Dimensional Communications Message-ID: <32CDEEED.33EE@dimensional.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had Openstep installed and tip worked perfectly. I had to repartition my harddrive to give Openstep more space. After re-installing Openstep, my ports, and tty server, tip won't work. It claims: 'unable to syncronize Hayes' Any ideas on this one? I am not getting modem lights or anything. All hardware configs are the same..com port 2 with a USR 288 on white hardware. ericd
From: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Incoming faxes won't connect Date: 4 Jan 1997 08:46:35 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5al5db$nl8@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> I've got a ZyXEL 2864 on black hardware, with NXFax. Worked fine for a long time, but now it will not recieve faxes. Modem answers and tries to handshake, but does not complete and times out with "Unspecified Phase B Error" reported to the calling modem/fax machine. This happens with several different fax machines that worked previously. Deleting and reInstalling NXFax, re-uploading firmware to the modem all have no affect. I can send faxes fine, and connect to my ISP without problem. ZyXEL has tried hard but unable to resolve the problem, ditto B&W (NXFax). Thanks for any help, JP -- Please respond as needed to: jpmeia@ix.netcom.com NeXTMail/MIME welcome
Message-ID: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 11:47:43 -0600 From: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Organization: ServiceNet, LLC. Andersen/BBN MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with L.sys Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure for this? Anyone else have problems with this? http://www.isd.net/eulmer
From: chrisf@chesapeake.net (CF Publishing) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: We Create Web Pages! Date: 4 Jan 1997 18:30:51 GMT Organization: CF Publishing Message-ID: <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Do you or your company want to be seen by millions of people via the Internet but not have the ability to accomplish this by yourself? A lot of people have this yearn, but do not have the means of achieving this. The solution to this problem is simple. I will publish your web page for you, and put it up on a web server of your choice. There, with proper advertising, it can be seen by millions! Your page will be complete with graphics, frames, and the text that you want. All you need to do is send me the ideas you have for your page, any text you would like to see there, and I will create it for a minimal fee. This is a great way of letting your friends and family worldwide keep in touch with you, or let your business be seen! Many businesses have pamphlets or brochures that they create to keep their customers informed. With your own web page, we can publish your pamphlets or brochures online so your customers can view them with ease. We can even set up forms to allow them to mail in their orders securely! We guarantee that our pages that we create will please you, and if they do not, there is no charge to you. Our guarantee can not be beat. We will publish your pages for you, and them show them to you for your approval. You may then suggest any changes that you wish to be made. If these changes do not make you absolutely happy, you will not be billed for our services. We do not want our customers to be unhappy with any of our services, so we will continue to make changes to keep the pages we create closest to the pages you originally showed us. Our prices for web publishing can not be beat. We will beat any other written estimate you may have. If you are interested in any of our services, simple email us at chrisf@chesapeake.net, or call us at (301) 855-9902. Thank you for your interest in our services.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys Date: 4 Jan 1997 20:30:41 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5amelh$skp@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> wrote: > I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working > for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are > working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However > the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure > for this? Anyone else have problems with this? Not sure by your problem description, but I had problems until I added the "P_ZERO" keywork to my L.sys script: scruz Any;1 DIR 38400 cufa \ ABORT BUSY \ ABORT NOCARRIER \ "" P_ZERO \ "" atdt5551212 \ CONNECT \r\r \ ogin:~10 aLogin \ ssword:~10 aPassword -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Bryan Wilson <wil-design@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Date: Sat, 04 Jan 1997 15:49:52 +0000 Organization: Wil-Design Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am running NeXTStep 3.3 on a Intel machine. I am trying to connect to an AppleTalk network. The machine connects fine to a NetWare 4 network. I have perused all available docs at NeXTanswers and it mentions the Apple icon that appears in the window brought up by the Preferences application ( display, mouse settings, etc. ). The problem is that the Apple icon does not appear at all. NeXT's docs state that the AppleTalk client is included with NS 3.3. Is there a special driver or installation option that need tobe loaded / selected in order to communicate with AppleTalk devices? I am using a Intel EtherExpress 16 network card and NS 3.3's driver for it. I have not been able to try another network card ( or another mfr's driver either ) yet... Please e-mail me at wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com if you have been successful in connecting NeXTStep to AppleTalk machines / printers via EtherNet. I will post a solution when it has been found to usenet. Thanks! Bryan wldesign@jax.janet.com
From: pjb@imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys Date: 4 Jan 1997 21:04:11 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5amgkb$pmg@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> In article <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> writes: > I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working > for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are > working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However > the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure > for this? Anyone else have problems with this? > > http://www.isd.net/eulmer You may embed a \20 or \40 or \32 (I think it should be hexa, but I'm not sure) to send a space. May be that enclosing the send string in quote would work too. Have a look at /etc/uucp/UUAIDS/L.sys.samples. __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: news@cmc.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: cmsg cancel <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Date: 4 Jan 1997 22:26:35 GMT Control: cancel <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> Sender: chrisf@chesapeake.net (CF Publishing) Spam cancelled by news@cmc.net
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: We Create Web Pages! Date: 4 Jan 1997 14:43:17 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852417619@idiom.com> References: <5am7kr$drl@tommy.chesapeake.net> chrisf@chesapeake.net (CF Publishing) writes: [most of the spammer's ad deleted] >estimate you may have. If you are interested in any of our services, simple >email us at chrisf@chesapeake.net, or call us at (301) 855-9902. Guys, this is a rare chance to slam a spammer but good. I just tried the number above, and it's live. It appears to be his home number. Call him up, and tell him why it's wrong to spam usenet newsgroups!!! >Thank you for your interest in our services. Yeah, good luck getting a clue, dipshit. -jcr
From: root@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Audio Probs with Intel Mb Date: 5 Jan 1997 03:05:21 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5an5ph$oti@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I purchased an Intel Atlantis motherboard (P133) a few months back and am running NS 3.3 on the machine with no problems except I can't get the onboard sound system to work (as I was told it would by the company that I purchased it from). The onboard sound is listed as a Crystal 4232 audio controller and Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesizer. Having looked at the 3.3 compatibility guide I came to the conclusion that it would not work. So I purchased a Sound Blaster 16 PNP. Once I installed the Sound Blaster, my machine will not boot giving me an error message stating that a PCI interrupt conflict exists. I looked in the BIOS to see if I could turn off the onboard audio figuring that was the conflict but I could not figure out how to do that. Also, looking in the mb reference manual I could not find any reference for disabling the onboard audio. Could that be the problem or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks for any insight. Darryl
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.psion.misc,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.text.tex,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix Subject: cmsg cancel <jcr.852417619@idiom.com> Control: cancel <jcr.852417619@idiom.com> Date: 5 Jan 1997 03:25:04 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <5an6ug$edt@engnews1.Eng.Sun.COM> This article canceled.
From: student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syslogd not working? Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 00:34:17 -0800 Organization: California State University Sacramento Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103001816.966A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone I doubled checked my rc and syslog.conf files to see why my syslogd is not running . Even with the "ps au" command. My other daemons seem to work. I did "kill -HUP syslogd " 1 time because I added some lines to my syslog.conf but I am not sure if that is the cause. As I understand that process ends but will start again. I also typed "syslogd" at the command line and looked at the syslog.pid file each time and the pid did change. So I was not sure why the pid changes but the process did not show up in "ps au" . Inetd, named,others work. Now the /usr/adm/messages and /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog stopped getting updated. Any solution? What should I do to restart syslogd whenever I modify syslog.conf besides killing with HUP (from the man page), rebooting and typing syslogd by hand at the command line? I also uncommented accounting "accton" near the end of the rc file. That did not create a acct file for accounting. I have rebooted the machine several times to get syslogd and accounting running again but there was still no results. Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "John Stiening" <jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Help:Nextstation boot problems Message-ID: <01bbfa5e$3bb7ed40$9a128780@starlock.Uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:01:33 GMT I have come across a NextStation Turbo, which I would like to pick up. Unfortunately, the machine fails to complete the boot process. Initially I start the machine booting by using the command "b sd". All works fine until the machine attempts to find the network. The computer then continuously attempts to find some phantom server on the network. Is there a way I can disable the network functions, or maybe to get the machine to boot without initializing any of the network parameters? I need the next to ignore all network functions durning boot. If you could reply by email I would appreciate it. thanks, john "jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: HELP: Find ljf? Message-ID: <ukv9168nnyr.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:25:32 GMT Hi... I'm trying to find either Bert Lindgren, <gt8855a@prism.gatech.edu>, or a copy of ljf, whichever comes first. Looks as though Bert has left GA Tech. Does anyone know where to find him, or his HP LaserJet program, jlf? Thanks! -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reenabling syslogd? Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 22:00:49 -0800 Organization: California State University Sacramento Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103215704.23327A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone I doubled checked my rc and syslog.conf files to see why my syslogd is not running . Even with the "ps au" command. My other daemons seem to work. I did "kill -HUP syslogd " 1 time because I added some lines to my syslog.conf but I am not sure if that is the cause. As I understand that process ends but will start again. I also typed "syslogd" at the command line and looked at the syslog.pid file each time and the pid did change. So I was not sure why the pid changes but the process did not show up in "ps au" . Inetd, named,others work. Now the /usr/adm/messages and /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog stopped getting updated. Any solution? What should I do to restart syslogd whenever I modify syslog.conf besides killing with HUP (from the man page), rebooting and typing syslogd by hand at the command line? I also uncommented accounting "accton" near the end of the rc file. That did not create a acct file for accounting. I have rebooted the machine several times to get syslogd and accounting running again but there was still no results. Al
Message-ID: <32D006DC.260E@ebs.ac.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 13:54:04 -0600 From: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Organization: ServiceNet, LLC. Andersen/BBN MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> <5amelh$skp@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Art Isbell wrote: > > Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> wrote: > > I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working > > ...... Sure enough your solution below worked like a charm. Parity was messed up. I added your solution to my NeXT WWW page at http://www.isd.net/eulmer Thanks! > the "P_ZERO" keywork to my L.sys script: > > Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com > Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 > CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 > managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Eric Davis <eld@dimensional.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: Sun, 05 Jan 1997 13:56:37 -0700 Organization: Dimensional Communications Message-ID: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is fine until I re-enter OpenStep. /eld
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Message-ID: <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> Distribution: inet Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 13:35:02 GMT In article <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> Bryan Wilson <wil-design@worldnet.att.net> writes: > I am running NeXTStep 3.3 on a Intel machine. I am trying to connect > to an AppleTalk network. The machine connects fine to a NetWare 4 > network. I have perused all available docs at NeXTanswers and it > mentions the Apple icon that appears in the window brought up by the > Preferences application ( display, mouse settings, etc. ). The > problem is that the Apple icon does not appear at all. NeXT's docs > state that the AppleTalk client is included with NS 3.3. Is there a > special driver or installation option that need tobe loaded / selected > in order to communicate with AppleTalk devices? > > I am using a Intel EtherExpress 16 network card and NS 3.3's driver > for it. I have not been able to try another network card ( or another > mfr's driver either ) yet... > I don't know where in the docs you read about AppleTalk client support in NS 3.3, but you definitely got something wrong. AppleTalk client support was only included up to NS 3.0! And as NS 3.0 was Motorola only, there never was any AppleTalk client support from NeXT for any other architecture but Motorola. If you got a black NeXT machine, AppleTalk client support software can be installed from the NS 3.0 User CD using the Intaller.app on the same CD (later versions can't handle the older containers correctly). You then get a rather buggy but usable AppleTalk(EtherTalk) client on a NEXTSTEP system. The technology was discontinued at NeXT and sold off to IPT. If you got lots of money you can try to ask them if they'd be willing to sell you something for later versions and/or other architectures of NEXTSTEP machines. Their address might be in the FAQ on Peanuts. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: 5 Jan 1997 23:14:19 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5apckb$i1j@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <5ah5s1$oo3@crcnis3.unl.edu> Just to add a datapoint, NEXTSTEP 3.2 hppa is also not susceptible. (Tested on an HP712/60). I've also checked out m68k (cube and slab), and i586 with Intel EtherExpress 16 adapter. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: 6 Jan 1997 01:46:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? : : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is : fine until I re-enter OpenStep. : This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to Greenwich, the clock will be correct again:)
From: John Hornkvist Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with L.sys Date: 5 Jan 1997 21:56:12 GMT Organization: Chalmers Tekniska Högskola Message-ID: <5ap81s$mnu@nyheter.chalmers.se> References: <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Cc: ulmerer@ebs.ac.com In <32CE97BF.1122@ebs.ac.com> Eric Ulmer wrote: >I've been trying for the longest time to get chat scripts working >for UUCP mail under NS 3.0. It seems* like the chat scripts are >working, but only if I end trailing /n's on the send strings. However >the send strings seem* to be sending leading spaces. Is there a cure >for this? Anyone else have problems with this? > I recommend using Taylor UUCP, if that works on 3.0. I've been running it for two years with few problems. I believe there is a nice installer package for it at ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl/pub/next --- Sorry for not leaving my address in the header, but I get too many spam mails already... If you want to reach me, try nhoj at cd dot chalmers dot se John Hornkvist Working on MSc in Computer Engineering, and MSc in Industrial Engineering and Management of Technology Does anyone need a NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP savvy programmer for the summer of '97?
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 02:18:53 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Distribution: inet Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580000601970218530001@news.tiac.net> References: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org>, Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de wrote: > I don't know where in the docs you read about AppleTalk client support in > NS 3.3, but you definitely got something wrong. There's all sorts of stuff about AppleTalk support still in the NeXT manuals/NeXTAnswers. You can try to buy a commercial package, port CAP, or just use FTP. i'd recommend the latter approach. Try Yftp from Mac to NeXT. Forget the NeXT as a Mac fileserver. Barney
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: 6 Jan 1997 06:52:54 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5aq7g6$bfu@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin) wrote: > Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: > : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is > : fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to Greenwich, > the clock will be correct again:) Just to clarify, no OPENSTEP/Mach bug is involved. All UNIX systems set their internal clocks to Greenwich Mean Time and offset this time in software to the correct time zone. Windows sets the internal clock to the local time. Some consider this to be an inferior design. As a result, the displayed time on NT and OPENSTEP/Mach will differ by the offset of the local time zone from Greenwich Mean Time. A nice little $10 shareware utility is available for OPENSTEP/Mach that automatically resets the clock to avoid this discrepancy. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: Isaac <isaac@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 17:51:01 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970104174920.26261C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> On 2 Jan 1997, Rex Dieter wrote: > In article <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) writes: > > I've been reading a good bit lately about the Ping of Death problem, and > > I was wondering if anyone knows when NeXT might have it solved? > > My initial testing has shown that NEXTSTEP-3.3pl1 is NOT susceptable to the > ping of death. For what it's worth, NEXTSTEP 3.0/motorola is susceptible to the ping of death. It causes an immediate reboot. -Isaac
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@vuur (Hans Mulder) Subject: Re: Unnoficial Apple/Next FAQ - improving admin Message-ID: <E3L99s.453@icgned.nl> Sender: news@icgned.nl Organization: IC Group References: <32BD0901.48ED@sfbayrun.com> <59kdkl$ohd@news4.digex.net> <david_rehring-ya023580002212961732340001@news.aurora.net> <32BDE31D.50A6@exnext.com> <59le1d$oiq@duke.squonk.net> <59ncfr$p@duke.squonk.net> <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:25:04 GMT In <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> Luke Howard (lukeh@xedoc.com.au) wrote: >> The fstab issue is a little trickier. Technically you could >> just let automounter handle it, but then the userid's don't >> get saved away. Again, it shouldn't be hard to put a nice >> front-end on that, but it is something that is important on >> a NeXT and does not really match anything in the world of >> Macintosh. >Under NEXTSTEP currently, you do this with NetInfo -- and there are a >number of tools (HostManager, UserManager, etc) which provide an >additional "dummy" layer of abstraction on top of it. How would I do that? Currently, I have in /etc/fstab on my server: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd2a /Disk3 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 /dev/sd3a /Disk4 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 I'd prefer to put that stuff in NetInfo, provided it works. Note that the disks must be mounted *before* /etc/rc runs exports, otehrwise those disks won't get exported. Can I do that with NetInfo? -- HansM
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslogd not working? Date: 6 Jan 1997 15:02:42 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ar46i$268@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103001816.966A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.970103001816.966A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> writes: > What should I do to restart syslogd whenever I modify syslog.conf? Yes. kill -HUP `cat /etc/syslogd.pid` > I also uncommented accounting "accton" near the end > of the rc file. That did not create a acct file for accounting. If you read the man page, it tells you accounting is ONLY enabled AFTER the acct accounting file is created. touch /usr/adm/acct, then /usr/etc/accton... and viola, accouning is on. You'll want to summarize/compact the accounting data periodically, via the command: /usr/etc/sa -s Here's what I put in /usr/adm/daily for this purpose: # condense command accounting if [ -f /usr/adm/acct ]; then echo -n "Condensing command accounting (sa -s)..." /usr/etc/sa -s > /dev/null echo "Done." fi -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network printer with NeXTStep 3.2 Date: 6 Jan 1997 15:14:50 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5ar4ta$4k8@news3.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Anybody know how I can get my NeXTStation running NeXTStep 3.2 to print to a HP LaserJet III (with Postscript cartridge) running on our network? The HP is connected to a NT box that runs lpd; all of our other UNIX boxes can print to it fine but I cannot figure out how to add a network printer with NextStep. PrintManager only gives me a "serial" option for how printers are connected... -- Bill Bradford (BB2623) Systems Admin, UNIX geek, BOFH mrbill@texas.net * mrbill@mrbill.net Texas Networking, Inc. "I'ts hard to beleive that the entire fate of 823 Congress, Suite 440 the world lies in the hands of the Phone Austin, TX 78701 Company" - War of the Worlds http://www.texas.net
From: ramdrive@ee.snu.ac.kr (Seongbae Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unnoficial Apple/Next FAQ - improving admin Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 6 Jan 1997 15:33:38 GMT Organization: School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea Message-ID: <5ar60i$ds0$1@usenet.seri.re.kr> References: <32BD0901.48ED@sfbayrun.com> <59kdkl$ohd@news4.digex.net> <david_rehring-ya023580002212961732340001@news.aurora.net> <32BDE31D.50A6@exnext.com> <59le1d$oiq@duke.squonk.net> <59ncfr$p@duke.squonk.net> <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> <E3L99s.453@icgned.nl> Hans Mulder (hans@vuur) wrote: > >Under NEXTSTEP currently, you do this with NetInfo -- and there are a > >number of tools (HostManager, UserManager, etc) which provide an > >additional "dummy" layer of abstraction on top of it. > How would I do that? > Currently, I have in /etc/fstab on my server: > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > /dev/sd2a /Disk3 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 > /dev/sd3a /Disk4 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 > I'd prefer to put that stuff in NetInfo, provided it works. > Note that the disks must be mounted *before* /etc/rc runs > exports, otehrwise those disks won't get exported. > Can I do that with NetInfo? Use NFSManager.app. Everthing will be clear with just double-clicking. > -- HansM -- Seongbae Park (¹Ú¼º¹è) http://ee.snu.ac.kr/~ramdrive ASCII,MIME,NeXT Mail To: ramdrive@thor.snu.ac.kr School of Electrical Engineering, Seoul National University
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Laser Printer problems Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 11:28:19 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <32D12823.7A23@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Some time back I posted about a problem I was having with my NeXT Laser Printer: it seems to think the paper its printing on is taller than it is. If I print a line 1 inch from the bottom edge in a draw program, for example, the line will appear about 0.5 inches from the bottom edge. If I use the PrinterManager test function, the test picture runs flush to the bottom edge of the paper rather than having a white border (as on the top and sides). This problem still occurs. Some suggested checking that the toggle on the paper tray is set to Letter (rather than A4). It is. The Page Format panels all show Letter, 8.5x11 inches, as the chosen size. I would be grateful for any suggestions. -- Stefano Pagiola 850 N Randolph Str No.817, Arlington VA 22203, USA All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Diamond Stealth on NS 3.2 Date: 6 Jan 1997 17:07:09 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5arbft$dmq@news.tamu.edu> Does anyone have experience with getting a Diamond Stealth 2mb card working under 3.2? I downloaded and installed the 3.2 driver but at boot it says it doesn't find the Diamond Stealth card, so does default VGA. Stephen
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: 6 Jan 1997 17:45:09 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5ardn5$jds@news.next.com> References: <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In article <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> smlin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Sz-Ming Lin) writes: > Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: > : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > : > : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all > : is fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > : > > This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to > Greenwich, the clock will be correct again:) Not really a bug. NT expects the hardware clock to be in local time, OpenStep expects it to be in GMT. Just a basical incompatability. There's a program called TimeShift that fixes this problem when going back and forth. Check the usual archive servers. joe
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help!!! Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 21:18:18 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <32D14FF9.6BBB@harmonic.co.il> References: <32C6710A.26F1@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------9D873D41BC10" To: Rayehrlich@sprintmail.com ------------9D873D41BC10 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii /usr/etc/reboot sd -- Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc. Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122) Fax: 972-4-8550180 Email: uri@harmonic.co.il ------------9D873D41BC10 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>/usr/etc/reboot sd<BR> -- <BR> Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator<BR> Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc.<BR> Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122)<BR> Fax: 972-4-8550180<BR> Email: uri@harmonic.co.il<BR> </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------9D873D41BC10--
From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP - can't boot to multiuser. Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 21:26:23 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Message-ID: <32D151DF.2903@harmonic.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------7B5874A634111" ------------7B5874A634111 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I have 3 NS3.3 (Black) in my site. I had to reinstall the netinfo on one of them (Not the netinfo master domain). That computer doesn't open a 'Login' window, but enter us "Me" every time. I tried the /usr/etc/reboot sd without results. P.S. the computer run everything fine (network, samba, http deamon...) Do you have an idea ? Regards -- Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc. Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122) Fax: 972-4-8550180 Email: uri@harmonic.co.il ------------7B5874A634111 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Hi,</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>I have 3 NS3.3 (Black) in my site. I had to reinstall the netinfo on one of them (Not the netinfo master domain). That computer doesn't open a 'Login' window, but enter us "Me" every time. I tried the /usr/etc/reboot sd without results.</DT> <DT>P.S. the computer run everything fine (network, samba, http deamon...)</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Do you have an idea ?</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Regards</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>-- <BR> Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator<BR> Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc.<BR> Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122)<BR> Fax: 972-4-8550180<BR> Email: uri@harmonic.co.il<BR> </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------7B5874A634111--
From: falk@born. (Adam Falk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: modem and data calls Date: 6 Jan 1997 14:50:23 GMT Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> I would like to set up my NS 3.3 Intel box as a PPP server (so that I can dial in from home). The problem I am having is getting the modem to accept incoming data calls. I know that the modem itself works fine, because I can use NXFax to send and receive faxes without problem. However, due to a bug in NXFax which I don't understand (does Black and White Software still exist?) -- I think that NXFax is locking the modem port -- I can't get it to process data calls through NXFax. What I want to do now is to TURN OFF NXFax, and set up the modem to receive data calls by hand, and send them on to PPP. What EXACTLY do I need to do to configure the modem and the system correctly? I have had lots of help from well-meaning people who tell me "more or less" what I should do, and I thank them, but it's not getting me anywhere. I stress that my problems are not with PPP itself, but earlier in the connection process. As it stands, the modem simply hangs up on incoming data calls before any connection is established. Thanks to anyone for their help. Adam -- Adam F. Falk Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 falk@jhu.edu, (410) 516-7817 (phone), (410) 516-7239 (fax) http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/personnel/falk/falk.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Erik Walter <ejw@netmanage.com> Subject: Re: Help:Nextstation boot problems Message-ID: <167cd$f2a22.3e@nmb-news> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 97 15:48:48 PST To: John Stiening <jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT On Sun, Jan 5, 1997,5:01 AM John Stiening wrote: : I have come across a NextStation Turbo, which I would like to pick up. : Unfortunately, the machine fails to complete the boot process. Initially : I start the machine booting by using the command "b sd". All works fine : until the machine attempts to find the network. The computer then : continuously attempts to find some phantom server on the network. Is : there a way I can disable the network functions, or maybe to get the : machine to boot without initializing any of the network parameters? I need : the next to ignore all network functions durning boot. : I would boot into single user mode and then edit the /etc/rc scripts to avoid the net or point to a better address. Erik
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Still can't talk with 4.0 Date: 6 Jan 97 16:19:47 EST Organization: Univ of Miami IR Message-ID: <1997Jan6.161947@umiami> This is a repeat post - Still, after some months with a new 4.0 Openstep Intel machine, talk does not work. If I try to use talk that came with the 4.0 system or talk or ytalk compiled for 3.2, I get a message that the proper control socket cannot be opened: [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] I've looked at everything I can think of and can't get anywhere. Any ideas on what is going on? Does anyone else have talk working on 4.0? This might help me decide if something is screwed up on my system or if talkd is not working in 4.0. (I also have problems "talking" from another system so I am beginning to suspect talkd, not talk.) Thomas J. Herbert reply please to: tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu
From: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unnoficial Apple/Next FAQ - improving admin Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 17:34:54 -0600 Organization: PSW Technologies Message-ID: <32D18C1E.7320@pswtech.com> References: <32BD0901.48ED@sfbayrun.com> <59kdkl$ohd@news4.digex.net> <david_rehring-ya023580002212961732340001@news.aurora.net> <32BDE31D.50A6@exnext.com> <59le1d$oiq@duke.squonk.net> <59ncfr$p@duke.squonk.net> <32C00061.41C6@xedoc.com.au> <E3L99s.453@icgned.nl> <5ar60i$ds0$1@usenet.seri.re.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Seongbae Park wrote: > Hans Mulder (hans@vuur) wrote: > > Currently, I have in /etc/fstab on my server: > > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > > /dev/sd1a /Disk2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > > > I'd prefer to put that stuff in NetInfo, provided it works. > > Note that the disks must be mounted *before* /etc/rc runs > > exports, otehrwise those disks won't get exported. > > > Can I do that with NetInfo? > > Use NFSManager.app. Everthing will be clear with just double-clicking. Not for local volumes, though. There is no simple tool for this yet. I'd like to see a DiskManager.app (or p/h VolumeManager.app) in MacStep, which could do this and subsume the functionality of BuildDisk.app as well. ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: Ones-And-Zeros@prodigy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ! MASS POST Was Here! (amMNpB) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 97 00:40:54 GMT Organization: Mass Post Message-ID: <5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> MASS POST--the program by Ones and Zeros--has been used to send this message to thousands of newsgroups. (amMNpB)
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Date: 7 Jan 1997 02:19:09 GMT Control: cancel <5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5as63o$34e0@usenet1y.prodigy.net> Sender: Ones-And-Zeros@prodigy.net Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: ONESZEROS Original Subject: ! MASS POST Was Here! (amMNpB)
From: Bryan <wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 AppleTalk options !appear Preferences app Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 22:43:21 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <32D1C659.3240@jax.jaxnet.com> References: <32CE7C20.45BA@worldnet.att.net> <E3JF2E.CtM@nidat.sub.org> <jbf-ya023580000601970218530001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com Guys, Thanks for the responses so soon. Wow I really thought I could connect out-of-the-box to AppleTalk. More work ahead. BTW, I called IPT at (805) 541-3000 and talked to Steve Yates. He was helpful but he did confirm that the product "Partner" worked as a full AppleTalk client ( Filesharing to and from ) for NS 3.0 only and will not work for NS > 3.0. I did not ask about OpenStep... The web site for IPT is http://www.iptech.com ( only one "t" ). I wonder how much it would take for Apple to decide fill this hole in connectivity-- Apple & Jobs really did keep their distance up until recently. It sure would be great to point to old '89 '030 cubes talking with Apple computers when people consider the other ( WinTel ) side with alternatives like NetWare! At least now Apple has someone like Jobs who knows about OS's steering Apple toward the right product focus-- beat NT at their own game and on their own turf, mid-size to large size businesses / corporate America! Too bad these same people often only see one perspective on computing and think that all other choices are for MacHeads, NeXTHeads, etc. Go Jacksonville Jaguars! Bryan Wilson wldesign@jax.jaxnet.com
From: tralala@mlink.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 -> TimeShift Date: 7 Jan 1997 03:36:43 GMT Organization: Mlink Internet, Montreal, Canada Message-ID: <5asgcb$9m6@neon.Mlink.NET> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> In-Reply-To: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> On 01/05/97, Eric Davis wrote: > In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > > My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is > fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > > /eld --------------------------------- James E. Quick has solved this problem. It works flawlessly on NS3.3 and probably will on OS4.x ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too ls/hack/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz (22kb) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too ls/hack/TimeShift.README Cheers, -André
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Greg Lindholm <gsl@netcom.com> Subject: Netscape plug-in for Nextmail? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <32D1CA12.50D4@netcom.com> Sender: gsl@netcom7.netcom.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 03:59:14 GMT Has anyone heard of a Netscape Mail plug-in for Nextmail? If so can you tell me where I can get it? TIA
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Toshiba laptop video driver? Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 02:33:57 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32d1b588.7354302@netnews.hinet.net> References: <jcr.852247139@idiom.com> On 2 Jan 1997 15:19:37 -0800, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >Will this work with the default S3 driver? Anyone else gotten 3.3 going on this >box? > >-jcr > Check ou NeXTAnswer, I beleive one of the company has the driver for toshiba 720 video driver which can display upto 1024*768. Other than that, I think Toshiba 650 can only display default VGA. Use the keyword "toshiba" to do the search. Batmon ·¨©s¾Ë¡]batmon¡^ ¨Î¯à¥ø·~ªÑ¥÷¦³¤½¥q ¥x¥_¥«´_¿³¥_¸ô147¸¹ ¹q¸Ü¡G02-716-8266 ¤À¾÷ 245 ¶Ç¯u¡G02-716-5780
From: "Kevin P. Hannan" <khannan@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 01:51:15 -0500 Organization: AutoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <32D1F263.4FF6@ibm.net> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> <5aplho$74u@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sz-Ming Lin wrote: > > Eric Davis (eld@dimensional.com) wrote: > : In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any ideas? > : > : My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the clock, all is > : fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > : > > This is a bug in OpenStep 4.0. You should change the time zone to Greenwich, > the clock will be correct again:) I thought this was due to the fact that OpenStep sets the system clock to GMT then adjusts the displayed time to your timezone.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701070224.SAA13246@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 97 21:24:25 -0500 Subject: booting off SyQuest removable drive Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Because I know I should, I'm trying to build a 2nd bootable disk. Actually, it's built. It boots fine... verbose booting reports no errors at all, but then when the grey screen comes up before the login panel.... NOTHING. I am wondering if I have some sort of NetInfo problem? last time this happened it was /etc/ttys and I've checked that. Thanks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Awaiting Apple's NeXTStep
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MIDI player for NeXTSte/68k ? Date: 7 Jan 1997 17:27:11 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5au11f$mtt@news3.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm looking for a MIDI file player for black hardware. thanks. -- Bill Bradford (BB2623) Systems Admin, UNIX geek, BOFH mrbill@texas.net * mrbill@mrbill.net Texas Networking, Inc. "I'ts hard to beleive that the entire fate of 823 Congress, Suite 440 the world lies in the hands of the Phone Austin, TX 78701 Company" - War of the Worlds http://www.texas.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bz@nolspop.nols.edu Subject: appletalk Message-ID: <E3nJ38.GMx@nols.edu> Sender: usenet@nols.edu Organization: National Outdoor Leadership School Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:52:19 GMT Hi - My next is connected to a network that has Macs. I would like to see the appletalk zones from my Next. I know that there existed an appletalk stack for NeXTStep 3.0. I am running 3.3 and have no idea how to find an appletalk stack. Any help would be appreciated. bill -- Bill Zell bz@nols.edu 307-332-1279
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: automatic boot floppy Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 16:21:48 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32D2BE6C.699F@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a way to create a boot floppy that will automatically boot the first partition of the first SCSI drive (sd0a)? I would like it to boot directly, without stopping at the boot prompt, and without having to type 'sd()mach_kernel'. --Greg
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: 7 Jan 1997 21:42:47 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Hi All, I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical way in which data is moved around the net? For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... Anyway, maybe I have the above all wrong...and I'd like to find out what is right, authoritatively. If anyone knows of a good source, or any experts would be willing to talk to me (I'll spring for the call); it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes for what I need to know... I'd appreciate it very much. -- Thanks, later, John Kheit monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... | http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: hpterm entry for termcap Date: 7 Jan 1997 23:45:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5aun6f$sgc$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, I have had trouble logging into my NeXTstation from hpterm windows on HP700 machines which run HPUX9.X. When I telnet or rlogin using the 'hp' or 'xterm' termcap entry, I lose many capabilities (backspace, etc.) and I also get uninterpreted characters. I was wondering if anyone had a termcap entry for hpterm or some other work around. Thanks, Ryan
From: Kok Fock Seng <fskok@silicon.net.my> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:22:06 -0800 Organization: Silicon Navigator Sdn Bhd Message-ID: <32D3F3DE.3D01@silicon.net.my> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? > > For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and > down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I > send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets > with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that > info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it > some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... The way you think is right. At lease at the conceptually level. But to understand all of it, it depends up to what level you want to know. In the data communication area, people always mention about OSI 7 layers. These 7 layers of course divid the whole data communications field into 7 levels of funtionalities. And from there comes different level of profesional in this field: Applications programmers, Network programmers,Network Engineers, People who write TCP/IP stack, People who build NEtwork card, router, hub, switch..... But, basically, In internet, computers communicate thro TCP/IP, every computer will have an IP address assgned by a Internet body called InterNic. When you dial up your computer to your Internet Service Provider, 1 IP address will be assigned to you. Then, you are consider on line. When you send a packet of data to another computer, A TCP/IP header will be used to envelope your packet of data. In this TCP/IP header, it will contents your IP address known as sender and the other party's IP address as receiver. In the middle of the network, (Of course not all the time the 2 computers are side by side) router will play his roles. The router(basically is a computer loaded with routing information) will based on the receiver IP address, deliver the packeet to the receiver computer. Huh, still quite a long way to actually tell you all. Hope you understand this. > > Anyway, maybe I have the above all wrong...and I'd like to find > out what is right, authoritatively. If anyone knows of a good > source, or any experts would be willing to talk to me (I'll spring > for the call); it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes for what I > need to know... I'd appreciate it very much. > > -- > Thanks, later, John Kheit > > monoChrome, Inc. | ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NEXTmail OK > NEXT/OPENSTEP Developer | mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net > Telepathy, It's coming... | http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit > New York Law School | Opinions expressed represent me only
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 05:23:09 GMT We're hooking up the place I work to a 56k framerelay connection to the internet, low usage, mostly for email and occasional ftp as wel as giving IP access to the First Class BBS. I'm looking at this as an opportunity to get a NeXT machine into the office especially since Color Turbos are available so cheap. Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with relatively light Internet use. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: cevans@gis.net (Claudia Evans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 23:28:37 -0500 Organization: Zip News Message-ID: <cevans-ya023580000701972328370001@news.gis.net> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit There is a big 3 volumn set on TCP/IP networking, but I expect you'd like something more to the point. The place to look is http://www.internic.net/std/ where you will find std-index.txt with a list of all IETF standards. The following are likely to tell you more than you wanted to know: 0005 Internet Protocol. J. Postel. September 1981. (Format: TXT=241903 bytes) (Also RFC0791, RFC0950, RFC0919, RFC0922, RFC792, RFC1112) 0006 User Datagram Protocol. J. Postel. August 1980. (Format: TXT=5896 bytes) (Also RFC0768) 0007 Transmission Control Protocol. J. Postel. September 1981. (Format: TXT=172710 bytes) (Also RFC0793) 0008 Telnet Protocol. J. Postel, J. Reynolds. May 1983. (Format: TXT=44639 bytes) (Also RFC0854, RFC0855) 0009 File Transfer Protocol. J. Postel, J. Reynolds. October 1985. (Format: TXT=148316 bytes) (Also RFC0959) 0013 Domain Name System. P. Mockapetris. November 1987. (Format: TXT=248726 bytes) (Also RFC1034, RFC1035) 0018 Exterior Gateway Protocol. D. Mills. April 1984. (Format: TXT=63836 bytes) (Also RFC0904) 0034 Routing Information Protocol. C. Hedrick. June 1988. (Format: TXT=91435 bytes) (Also RFC1058) 0037 An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol. David C. Plummer. November 1982. (Format: TXT=21556 bytes) (Also RFC0826) 0038 A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol. Ross Finlayson, Timothy Mann, Jeffrey Mogul, Marvin Theimer. June 1984. (Format: TXT=9345 bytes) (Also RFC0903) 0043 Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams over IEEE 802 networks. J. Postel, J.K. Reynolds. August 1993. (Format: TXT=34359 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0948) (Also RFC1042) 0051 The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP). W. Simpson, Editor. July 1994. (Format: TXT=151158 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC1549) (Also RFC1661, RFC1662) Nte that http, nntp and smtp are missing, and many of those above may have been modified by the noted RFCs. So you also need to check http://www.internic.net/rfc/ where you will find another index. The RFCs are concise, to the point, and give a precise step by step description of the information exchange. (I never knew the STDs existed till tonight, but I expect they are equally good.) Barney (posting from a friend's account)
From: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: root password protection in single user mode. Date: 8 Jan 97 08:09:19 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <scratch.852710959@sunset.sce.carleton.ca> References: <59lq07$97b@Vir.com> <E2xDJr.8ws@nidat.sub.org> <59tu02$ptq@ultron.rnb.com> yufeng@rnb-bankinv.com writes: >Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >> In article <59lq07$97b@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) writes: >> >> > Hello all, >> > >> > I would be interested in a program (source) which would ask a >> > user to enter the correct root password before allowing someone to >> > access the harddisk in single user mode. There is such a program. It is called pw_check, and you call it from /.profile Search NextAnswers for pw_check, perhaps. It is there somewhere. Let me know if you can't find the program and installation instructions. Note that on an Intel Box like mine, at least, you can't stop someone from plugging in an external SCSI drive and making it the root device, and then they can do what they want. I had suggested years ago to NeXT that they allow a password to be required if someone wants to change the boot options. This has never been done though, as far as I know. >> No good idea, INHO. The standalone mode is the last resort of the >> sysadmin and for the knowing only. Like University student types. >> It can only be used from the console >> and, as a measure of desaster relief, is meant to put as few roadblocks in >> your way as possible. My sysadmin likes a few roadblocks to protect our network. > Therefore, no checks and automatisms are included >> in the singleuser boot process. And that's the way it's meant to be! -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 520-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 520-5727 (Dept.)
From: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting devices after booting single-user off of the CD-ROM. Date: 8 Jan 97 07:38:45 GMT Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Message-ID: <scratch.852709125@sunset.sce.carleton.ca> Summary: How do I mount a device after booting single-user from the CD-ROM? Keywords: Mount Singe-user CD-ROM Hi. I need some help. Between installing parts of OpenStep Developer 4.0 on my Intel machine, I realized that I needed more space on my root disk, and so I moved a few directories to an external scsi drive. Unfortunately, one of these directories included the Frameworks subdirectory. This was unfortunate for a number of reasons, one of them including the fact that many of the standard unix commands, like mount, need to access the System Framework. Anyways, my computer became inoperable before I could remedy the problem. What I need to do is copy the Frameworks subdirectory back to the root disk. No problem, I thought, I will just boot single-user from the CD-ROM and then fix things up. When I do this, a message from the bottom of /etc/rc.boot appears on the screen suggesting that I mount a read/write device over the /tmp directory, as the CD-ROM is mounted read-only. A suggested command is /etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp (we are told that the -n option stops mount from writing to the /etc/mtab file, which it can't becase you can't write very easily to a CD-ROM) Well, I tried this command, but was given an error message to the effect that mount is giving up trying to mount on /private/tmp and mentioning a read-only filesystem. Is there something that I should know that /etc/rc.boot is not telling me? How can I correct my problem? Thanks for any advice. Craig -- W. Craig Scratchley | internet: scratch@sce.carleton.ca Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering | phone: (613) 520-5740 (Dept.) Carleton University | (613) 241-6952 (Home) Ottawa, ON, CANADA K1S 5B6 | fax: (613) 520-5727 (Dept.)
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hpterm entry for termcap Date: 8 Jan 1997 01:32:40 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.852715622@idiom.com> References: <5aun6f$sgc$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Ryan, Don't use HPTERM. It has a very dangerous security hole, due to its all-too-complete emulation of HP terminals. The danger is that escape sequences can program the function keys of your virtual terminal, and (here's the dangerours part) execute them! So, if I know that you're reading mail with HPTERM, for example, I can include up to 256 characters of a shell commands, which will be stored in one of the function keys, and then I can exectue that function key, and the upshot is that as far as your HP host knows, you typed those characters yourself. If you're reading mail in elm, I could send you <escape sequence to program an fkey> !csh <cr> rm * <cr> <escape sequence to invoke the fkey> If you must run HPUX, for safety sake, use xterm when you connect to other hosts. -jcr scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) writes: >Hi all, >I have had trouble logging into my NeXTstation from hpterm windows on >HP700 machines which run HPUX9.X. When I telnet or rlogin using the >'hp' or 'xterm' termcap entry, I lose many capabilities (backspace, >etc.) and I also get uninterpreted characters. I was wondering if >anyone had a termcap entry for hpterm or some other work around. >Thanks, >Ryan
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and Security. What needs fixing? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 22:11:58 +1000 Organization: Xedoc Software Development Australia Pty Ltd Message-ID: <32D38F0E.2277@xedoc.com.au> References: <jcr.851456629@idiom.com> <32CBD073.35D4@pswtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Leon von Stauber <leonvs@pswtech.com> > > So, the security holes that we've been warned about (Window server, old version > > of Sendmail, old FTP, etc. are now a *VERY* big problem. > > Distributing NEXTSTEP/MacStep with up-to-date stable versions of server > software is a good first step. I'd also like to see as many security > tools > bundled as possible: tcp_wrappers, ssh, sudo, Tripwire, COPS, etc. These > should probably be preinstalled and preconfigured in a reasonable > manner, Even something like NT's services control panel that reconfigured inetd (which would be made easier by inetd looking in NetInfo) and sent it a SIGHUP would be useful. > since the proportion of folks w/ sysadmin experience among the Mac > community > is much lower than among NEXTSTEPpers. [begin wishlist] I'd really like to see some decent authentication (eg. Kerberos) built into DO, and maybe even Kerberised versions of /bin/login, loginwindow, etc. Of course, support for pluggable authentication modules (as in Solaris and Linux, perhaps done with Objective-C bundles) would be great. DO in 4.x is probably extensible enough to let you do this, and you can replace a lot of the existing Unix utilities, but OS-level support would be cool. (I guess it does depend on who the expected customer is...) What else? Support for LDAP clients (like web browsers). Support for using NT directories alongside NetInfo (for OPENSTEP/NT sites). BSD 4.4 and/or a working POSIX library. I wonder whether they'll offer separate server editions of the OS, a la NT... -- Luke [speaking for myself, not anyone else]
From: cjones@wellesley.edu (Carl Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Instlalling Linux on NEXTSTEP PC Date: 7 Jan 1997 23:56:55 GMT Organization: Wellesley College Distribution: world Message-ID: <5auns7$4ic@cokie.wellesley.edu> I want to install Linux on an unused DOS partition of a PC running NEXTSTEP 3.3. Will the NEXTSTEP boot manager allow me too choose which OS to run at boot time or do I need to use something else? Carl -- cjones@wellesley.edu (NeXTMail/MIME OK)
From: Brian Wolfe <bwolfe@obs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 17:19:06 -0600 Organization: Open Business Systems Inc., Addison, IL USA Message-ID: <32D2D9EA.4AF1@obs.net> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? > > For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and > down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I > send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets > with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that > info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it > some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... If you really want to know how "data moves" check out "TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1" by Richard Stevens, it shows lots of detail for actual applications, it's probably going to be a bit much for anyone who's not already fairly familiar with TCP/IP. If you are new to TCP/IP you probably want to get an introductory book on TCP/IP too, there's lots of them out there, Douglas Comer has a good series on principles of TCP/IP as well as programming. Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brian Wolfe Voice: 630-916-7570 Open Business Systems Inc. FAX: 630-916-7630 2121 Army Trail Rd Suite 106 bwolfe@obs.net Addison, IL 60101 http://www.obs.net Sun Microsystems Expert Level 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INN on NeXTSTEP 3.3 Date: 8 Jan 1997 09:34:56 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5b0bag$ccf@Vir.com> Hello, I'm trying to get INN to work. This is the first time I'm setting it up. I complied it ok and then installed it. It was working OK, but I switched my news feed provider and now I get the following output in the console. nnrpd[3469]: ? cant gethostbyaddr 207.107.55.5 No such file or directory What does it mean? How can I fix this? Any help would be appreciated. stef
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem and data calls Date: 8 Jan 1997 09:52:15 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5b0cav$mdn@Vir.com> References: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> Adam here are the steps you need to do to get this to work 1) Set up your modem for hardware flow control and to pick up the line after a few rings. 2) Modify the /etc/ttys file so that the ttydfa line looks like ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on 3) Add the following to gettytab D19200:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200: 4) Reboot or kill -HUP 1 Dial in to test the connection. Then increase the speed if you like. stef
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:36:51 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E3p1xG.Fp@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> In article <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? It's all about layers (seven of them to be precise). Physical, DataLink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application. (Hope that's right - It's a long time scince I did this). Each layer uses the layer below to gradually add functionality. Each layer can be swapped out for a differnt implementaion (in princlple), so you can run ether over three different cabling types. I can run TCP over PPP etc... Physical is the piece of cable, the electrical spec. DataLink sends a packed from one machine to the next (ethernet packets). ???? suports forwarding across machines, so you dont have to directly connected (datagram packets) Transport turns these packes into a reliable stream (a tcp/ip socket). This is the layer that unix presents. Session turns this connection into a transaction - if the connection is dropped it will be restarted, and rollback is added so things stay nicely in sync. Presentation handles different data formats so that things like endianness, and float formats are hidden. Application turns communication into an action - say a function call which represents something meaningfull to the app. (so I can say "mount disk" do an NFS client, and all the lower stuff is handled transparaently). These top three layes are far less tightly defined/understood, as they're implemented by apps or libraries, rather than being part of the standard OS which is known and documented. Standards do exist for certain operations though. ASome deatils might be a bit iffy, as I don't do this stuff much any more. However this is the basic outline. For more deails two books which spring to mind are Fred Halsall - networks and datacoms (or some such) Andrew Tanenbaum - computer networks (or some such) (the authors are correct even if the names are iffy, $an
From: Sven & Jennifer Crouse <svenifer@snet.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reading local non-next partitions? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:04:43 +0000 Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <32D3B78B.264F0FFB@snet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to mount a linux (ext2) partition in OPENSTEP 4 from the same drive as OPENSTEP boots. I have tried vmount, "vmount -i /dev/sd0a" returned "mounting read only" with no further info as directions state it should. but am uncertain if it can mount local drives. It seems to require NFS which I know little about. Can vmount do what I need? If so, any suggestions. If not any other ways mount local partition? Much thanks, Sven
From: Ed Vanwieren <vanwiere@cadvision.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo 3.3 and 4.1 compatability... is there any? Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:54:57 -0700 Organization: Zokero Inc. Message-ID: <32D3D160.738D@cadvision.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Good day.... We are attempting to upgrade one of our systems to use OpenStep 4.0 while keeping another system at NeXTStep 3.3. The OpenStep 4.0 box is the NetInfo master and is configured to allow new networked computers to be automatically recognized upon startup. After upgrading the box to 4.0, the 3.3 box will check for a NetInfo server.... At this point, one of two things happens: A. The netinfo server is NOT detected, and I can continue startup without networking. B. The netinfo server is detected, I am prompted for both the hostname and the network password... After entering both, I get the same response as A! So... Has anyone managed to get this configuration working? If any difficulties were encountered along the way, what were they and how can i resolve them? NOTE: Please respond via e-mail in addition to posting an answer. My service provider does not maintain many messages in comp.sys.... Ed Vanwieren vanwiere@cadvision.com Nexar Research Inc.
From: i455@stio1 (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Instlalling Linux on NEXTSTEP PC Date: 8 Jan 1997 16:59:16 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b0jp4$9mg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5auns7$4ic@cokie.wellesley.edu> Carl Jones (cjones@wellesley.edu) wrote: : I want to install Linux on an unused DOS partition of a PC running : NEXTSTEP 3.3. Will the NEXTSTEP boot manager allow me too choose which OS : to run at boot time or do I need to use something else? : Carl You could use Linux' lilo to boot both OS's. Look which parition NS is on with fdisk (it has a tag of 0xa7), and add it to lilo.conf. Of course you have to install lilo in the master boot record (mbr). : -- : cjones@wellesley.edu (NeXTMail/MIME OK) -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page ==========================================================================
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: 8 Jan 1997 17:50:38 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5b0mpe$pg0$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: > > We're hooking up the place I work to a 56k framerelay connection to the >internet, low usage, mostly for email and occasional ftp as wel as giving >IP access to the First Class BBS. I'm looking at this as an opportunity >to get a NeXT machine into the office especially since Color Turbos are >available so cheap. > > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like >I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with >relatively light Internet use. > I use a color NeXTstation for the same applications. Get the latest sendmail and POP servers. I haven't set up DNS, but it doesn't look to difficult. I believe many others have done it before. --RS
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: NeXTSTEP and the Ping Of Death. Message-ID: <1997Jan8.115024.665@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: isaac@lab.housing.fsu.edu Organization: Disorganization References: <jcr.852190978@idiom.com> <5agjmr$nsq@crcnis3.unl.edu> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970104174920.26261C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:50:24 GMT In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970104174920.26261C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac wrote: > For what it's worth, NEXTSTEP 3.0/motorola is susceptible to the ping of > death. It causes an immediate reboot. > I pinged a Motorola 3.2 and it completely brought down the network, still the OS was running fine. -- C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 8 Jan 1997 18:33:31 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b0p9r$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> More and more frequently, various processes running under OS/Mach/m68k 4.1 become uninterruptible (their "ps" state is "U"). When this happens, the processes hang and cannot be killed (at least, kill -9 from root doesn't work). Yesterday, the WM process became uninterruptible causing Workspace to hang. Terminal was still running fine, so I was able to kill WorkspaceManager, thus causing a logout. But logging in again didn't get rid of the uninterruptible WM process, so Workspace was still hosed. A clean shutdown wasn't possible, probably because of this unkillable process. Several other apps like OmniWeb and Alexandra have become uninterruptible as well. Does anyone know why this happens and how it might be avoided? If it's unavoidable, how might one return a process to its runnable state? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem and data calls Date: 8 Jan 1997 18:45:27 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b0q07$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> References: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> <5b0cav$mdn@Vir.com> stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) wrote: > Adam here are the steps you need to do to get this to work > > 1) Set up your modem for hardware flow control and to pick up the > line after a few rings. > > 2) Modify the /etc/ttys file so that the ttydfa line looks like > > ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on > > 3) Add the following to gettytab > > D19200:\ > :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200: > > 4) Reboot or kill -HUP 1 > > Dial in to test the connection. Then increase the speed if you like. The above steps are valid if NXFax isn't being used, but Adam uses NXFax. The above setup won't work because NXFax, not getty, needs to monitor the port device. So ttys should not be modified as you suggest in step 2. NXFax also automatically configures the modem to use hardware flow control and to autoanswer if NXFaxMonitor's preferences are set to accept incoming calls. So step 1 isn't required. The installation of NXFax adds a gettytab entry as well, so step 3 isn't required. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Questions about turbocolor Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 13:56:26 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <yblock-0801971356270001@10.phoenix-001.az.dial-access.att.net> Hi, I just got my Turbo Color. It is beatiful!!!. I have some questions for you guys: * It came without hard disk. I am thinking to buy an *internal* hard disk between 1.6 and 2.0 g. Does anyone can give an advise with this?? (Where to get it, price, speed, etc). * What kind of modem I can use with my turbo?? - I have a SupraExpress 288 Pnp for PC, a USRobotic 14.4 for Mac and a ISDN Motorola BitSURFER PRO for Mac.( I have an ISDN line ) Well those are my questions for now, but I am sure I will be asking more. ;-) Thank you for your advises!!! York P. Block ps. NeXT UI is better than Mac UI. However, a good combination of both would be even better!!! ;-)
From: deh@atype.com (David E. Hollingsworth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: 08 Jan 1997 14:41:58 -0500 Organization: Archetype, Inc. Sender: deh@beth.atype.com Message-ID: <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> In-reply-to: fmlazar@interactive.net's message of Wed, 8 Jan 1997 05:23:09 GMT In article <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) writes: > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like > I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with > relatively light Internet use. Here at Archetype, we've used black hardware NeXTs in this manner for years. Here are some of the things that we've used: o sendmail (both stock NeXT version and IDA) o qpopper (POP3) '<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper>' o bind (DNS) '<ftp://ftp.vix.com:/pub/bind/release>' o Apache (web) '<http://www.apache.org>' o wu-ftpd (ftp) '<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd>' You'll almost certainly want to upgrade (or replace! <http://www.qmail.org>) your sendmail, unless you'll willing to live with all of the security holes that have cropped up since your version was released. One issue with replacing the stock software that sometimes crops up is NetInfo. For example, when we installed IDA sendmail, we switched to using an aliases file instead of the NetInfo entries. Presumably some software can be told to use NetInfo, but that's not always the case. You should probably also turn *off* all of the daemons that you don't need, remove any extra accounts, etc. --David Hollingsworth deh@atype.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701082102.QAA03245@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 6cb3a5ef46ad06dd99e9e8ba66fb7974 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:02:14 -0500 Subject: Re: Mounting devices after booting single-user off of the CD-ROM. Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 6cb3a5ef46ad06dd99e9e8ba66fb7974 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: scratch@sunset.sce.carleton.ca (Craig Scratchley) Original Date: 8 Jan 97 07:38:45 GMT > /etc/mount -n /dev/fd0a /tmp > > (we are told that the -n option stops mount from writing to the > /etc/mtab file, which it can't becase you can't write very easily > to a CD-ROM) > > Well, I tried this command, but was given an error message to the > effect that mount is giving up trying to mount on /private/tmp > and mentioning a read-only filesystem. Try this mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / or mount -on remount /dev/sd0a / before trying to do anything else. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Apple + NeXT = Rhapsody (in black? ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701082107.QAA05022@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 928e0692669285e0ccfbbbc0a67a8459 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:07:40 -0500 Subject: Re: ED Floppy question Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 928e0692669285e0ccfbbbc0a67a8459 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Original Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 21:29:05 -0600 > When I insert them into the floppy drive nothing happens. > I'm assuming the NeXT would detect the new media and ask me what I > wanted to do with it, but no luck. I perused the FAQ but found > nothing related to floppy drives on NeXT hardware. Is the FD a SCSI > device? Any clues on how to format them from the shell? Hmm. It should have recognized it. You might try this (as root) if your FD is /dev/rfd0a, which I assume it is. change "MyHost" to your hostname and "DiskLabel" to what you want the disk to be called /usr/etc/disk -i -h "MyHost" -l "DiskLabel" /dev/rfd0a TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Apple + NeXT = Rhapsody (in black? ;-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 04:30:36 GMT In article <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com>, deh@atype.com (David E. Hollingsworth) wrote: > In article <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) writes: > > > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like > > I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with > > relatively light Internet use. > > Here at Archetype, we've used black hardware NeXTs in this manner for years. > Here are some of the things that we've used: > > o sendmail (both stock NeXT version and IDA) > o qpopper (POP3) '<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper>' > o bind (DNS) '<ftp://ftp.vix.com:/pub/bind/release>' > o Apache (web) '<http://www.apache.org>' > o wu-ftpd (ftp) '<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd>' > > You'll almost certainly want to upgrade (or replace! <http://www.qmail.org>) > your sendmail, unless you'll willing to live with all of the security holes > that have cropped up since your version was released. > > One issue with replacing the stock software that sometimes crops up is > NetInfo. For example, when we installed IDA sendmail, we switched to using an > aliases file instead of the NetInfo entries. Presumably some software can be > told to use NetInfo, but that's not always the case. > > You should probably also turn *off* all of the daemons that you don't need, > remove any extra accounts, etc. > At the moment, I'm starting literally from zero, as althoug I've done some unix stuff, I'll be literally doing this on my first NeXT machine. I've decided to get one of those $600 dollar Color Turbos being offered in one of the posts in next.marketplace and outfitting it with drives and OS and other neccessary stuff. Your post will be a BIG help. Save for the web stuff, virtually all of these functions will be run on the same machine. It's a relatively low usage environment, being used mainly for DNS and email for about 20 users total, a mixture of Macs and a few salespeople using terminals to another unix box (SCO), both connected via ethernet. Even most of the ftp will be run out through one of various Macs, the NeXT being mainly for DNS in that usage. The machine is supposed to come with a "right to use" for the OS and a friend of mine in the city will help me with that part. I'd appreciate knowing of any particular books or other support materials that would be recommended for a first-time NeXT user. Those who might have such for sale are encouraged to email me back. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Uri Raz <uraz@iil.intel.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: 9 Jan 1997 09:52:41 GMT Organization: Intel Corp. Message-ID: <5b2f59$1bi0@www.iil.intel.com> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: jkheit@cnj.digex.net John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? > > For example, the way I understand it...when I FTP to a site, and > down load something... The ftp site is just sitting there... I > send some packets to get its attention, then it sends some packets > with the login prompts...then I send some packets with that > info...then I'm logged on... When I start a down load I send it > some packets that have my address and it starts sending back... > A correct, though simplified, view of how things work. > > Anyway, maybe I have the above all wrong...and I'd like to find > out what is right, authoritatively. If anyone knows of a good > source, or any experts would be willing to talk to me (I'll spring > for the call); it shouldn't take more than 10 minutes for what I > need to know... I'd appreciate it very much. > Check the following online resources : 1. gopher://gopher-chem.ucdavis.edu/11/Index/Internet_aw/ 2. http://pclt.cis.yale.edu/pclt/comm/tcpip.htm 3. http://oac3.hsc.uth.tmc.edu/staff/snewton/tcp-tutorial/ 4. http://web.cnam.fr/Network/TCP-IP/tcp-ip.html 5. http://www.psp.demon.co.uk/tfl/techlinks.htm 6. http://www.sangoma.com/fguide.htm Phil Scott's Home Page contains links to his lecture notes for various courses, including networking courses. http://ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au/staff/pscott/pscott.home.html The following people's home-pages might include further info : 1. Richard stevens' home page is at http://www.noao.edu/~rstevens/ 2. Douglas Comer's home page is at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/comer 3. Andrew Tanenbaum's home page is at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/ 4. William Stallings's home page is at http://www.shore.net/~ws Uri Raz. +---------+---------------------------+-------+-----+-----+ | Uri Raz | mailto:uraz@iil.intel.com | Noire | :-) | :-( | | All opinions are mine. Others may share them. | +---------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Subject: hard drive failure Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp> Sender: news@postman.riken.go.jp (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sidney Organization: RIKEN Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:57:21 GMT I'm running NS 3.3 on a Pentium, 4 GB Quantum Atlas partioned 3 ways with Linux, NS, and NT. The NS partion generates hard drive error messages during bootup and stops to ask for a manual fsck, which does not fix the problem: sd0: Media error; FATAL target:0 lun:0 op:Read block: 3075802 Cannot read: BLK 280160 The following sectors cannot be read: 280172,280173,280174,280175 The error messages can be overridden by a Command Q, the boot up continues normally, and the system looks normal upon login except for a few corrupted data files. The question is how can I repair this abnormal boot sequence so I don't have to intervene manually. Is there something less drastic than reformatting to lock out bad sectors? -- Sidney Lehky Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
From: "Kristin Ziel" <kaziel@students.wisc.edu> Subject: Seeking Information Source Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <01bbfe2d$0d16c4c0$9f0478cc@sprout.inxpress.net> Date: 9 Jan 97 13:00:24 GMT I'm a student who is learning/working as a sysadmin at the local university, and I got the opportunity to work on a nextstation. I've been having some difficulties getting my next box set up as i'd like it, and the sysadmin handbooks don't seem to clarify much for me, ie...when i try to add a user manually, why can't i do a chown on the directory? I only have one netinfo domain (root), and the add user util won't allow me to add anyone to anything BUT root...which seems wrong to me, since that should cover everything. Anyway, maybe I'm just not used to sysadmin lingo yet, but I'd appreciate it if anyone could give me a good source (ie, book on next administration) that might clarify some things for me. Thanks. K. Ziel
From: chris@computerActive.on.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP Tape drive woes Date: 9 Jan 1997 16:00:48 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5b34ng$9vl@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> I've got a P5-133 machine running NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 and an HP C1533A 8GB DAT drive (internal, connected to a Symbios Logic SCSI card). My problem is that none of the command-line tools like mt, tar, gnutar are unable to write to the tape. mt works for "rewind" and "offline", but not for "eof". Each time I attempt a write operation I get something in the messages file like: -------- st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 -------- or -------- st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write data (10 byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 -------- and all the commands say is "I/O error" on /dev/rst0. Is there a place where I can find out what the codes mean? Has anyone seen this problem with this tape drive? I'm also running the same tape drive (external, on a black turbo slab, NeXTSTEP 3.2) and it works A-OK. --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst | 15 Capella Ct. Suite 128 computerActive Inc. | Nepean, ON, Canada K2E 7X1 chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Voice: (613)225-4824 Entrust and PGP keys on request | FAX: (613)225-1670 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The telephone was not invented by Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad
From: mparent@unix-mikesparc.mcgh.org (Mike Parent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can I ..... attach multiple Fax Modems to a single queue? Date: 9 Jan 1997 16:10:42 GMT Organization: Mount Clemens General Hospital Message-ID: <5b35a2$cc1@misgate.mcgh.org> We are automatically faxing a large number (1000+/day) of documents from our application through two modems.... we can arbitrarily queue them on the seperate modems but it would be a lot nicer if we could put both modems on the same queue and have them sent to the next available modem rather than using seperate queues...... Anyone have any clues how this can be accomplished on black boxes running 3.3? I know you can have multiple printers on a queue, can you do the same with modems? Thanks for any help! Mike
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding a non-NeXT printer to black Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:43:28 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5b3ao0$10c0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <ukvd8vnpzw6.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Hooking it up is easy. HOwever you will be disappointed with the speed with any file that contains embedded bit map graphics. The next serial port can't be driven any faster than 38,800 baud, which works out to aoubt 3.5 K /sec. So a file that includes a 500K tiff file (Not difficult to do... I had one file that ran 10 MB/page) that page will take several minutes to print. A better solution is to get a printer that is 'network ready'. HP printers can have a jetdirect card added. Lexmark sells either a native card, or a cute box that has one ethernet port, and 2 parallel ports on it. The latter solution is more expensive, a little slower, but more general in that you can use it with any parallel printer. Adding the printer is trivial. If it's a network printer, you give it a name, and an IP number, and add that information to machines in netinfo. If it's a serial printer you can add it using printer manager. Then add it to netinfo under printers as a remote printer. If the printer doesn't have a ppd file you can get one usually from ftp.adobe.com. They collect them. Walt|W|walt|Walt: \ :rm=arafel:rp=WLP:lp=:ty=QMS ColorScript 100 Model 10: \ :note=! VERY EXPENSIVE TO RUN !:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/Walt:lo=lock: The above is a printcap entry for walt, a remote printer on arafel. For a network pritner the rm=printer that is, the machine name and the printer name are the same. The ty field is the same as the PPD file, with all the _ turned to spaces. The ppd file goes in /Library/Printers/something or other. Find out where the other ones live by doing a "find / -name "*.ppd" -print" You can write a file similar to this, then load it with the command niload printcap / < filename. I find this easier than using NetInfoManager. You may have to reboot for the new printer to be recognized. BSD derived lpd daemons are a tad flakey about recognizeing changes in configuration. fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu wrote: : hi all... : My SO and I are considering buying a laserprinter (NEC 5i) for the house, : which would be connected to my mono black slab, which serves as a PPP network : gateway/router/firewall/mailserver. I've checked everywhere, but the only : discussion about adding non-NeXT printers to a slab has to do with rewiring : a serial connector. : Is it possible to add a non-NeXT printer to a black slab? What should I : ask for in the way of accessories when I purchase this beastie? Do I need : a parallel-serial converter, and the serial connector hack in the FAQ? Do : I need something else? What do I have to do on the software side of things? : We're both very excited, as this will be our first in-home laser printer, : but I'm a bit concerned, since getting the thing connected to my slab is a : big grey fog for me right now. Could someone clarify? : Thanks, : Mark : -- : fugue : "The police used to watch over the people. : Now they're watching the people." -- Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed. Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead. U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led. Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said, T6G 2J1 | "Go to father." New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:34:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5b3a7l$9rh$3@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: >In article <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com>, deh@atype.com (David E. >Hollingsworth) wrote: > >> In article <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> >fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) writes: >> >> > Can the NeXT do basic Internet functions? mainly SMTP pop and DNS? Like >> > I said it's mostly internal, a few users over an Ethernet network with >> > relatively light Internet use. >> >> Here at Archetype, we've used black hardware NeXTs in this manner for years. >> Here are some of the things that we've used: >> >> o sendmail (both stock NeXT version and IDA) >> o qpopper (POP3) '<ftp://ftp.qualcomm.com/quest/unix/servers/popper>' >> o bind (DNS) '<ftp://ftp.vix.com:/pub/bind/release>' >> o Apache (web) '<http://www.apache.org>' >> o wu-ftpd (ftp) '<ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/packages/wuarchive-ftpd>' >> >> You'll almost certainly want to upgrade (or replace! <http://www.qmail.org>) >> your sendmail, unless you'll willing to live with all of the security holes >> that have cropped up since your version was released. >> >> One issue with replacing the stock software that sometimes crops up is >> NetInfo. For example, when we installed IDA sendmail, we switched to using an >> aliases file instead of the NetInfo entries. Presumably some software can be >> told to use NetInfo, but that's not always the case. >> >> You should probably also turn *off* all of the daemons that you don't need, >> remove any extra accounts, etc. >> > > > >At the moment, I'm starting literally from zero, as althoug I've done some >unix stuff, I'll be literally doing this on my first NeXT machine. I've >decided to get one of those $600 dollar Color Turbos being offered in one >of the posts in next.marketplace and outfitting it with drives and OS and >other neccessary stuff. Your post will be a BIG help. Save for the web >stuff, virtually all of these functions will be run on the same machine. >It's a relatively low usage environment, being used mainly for DNS and >email for about 20 users total, a mixture of Macs and a few salespeople >using terminals to another unix box (SCO), both connected via ethernet. >Even most of the ftp will be run out through one of various Macs, the NeXT >being mainly for DNS in that usage. > > The machine is supposed to come with a "right to use" for the OS and a >friend of mine in the city will help me with that part. I'd appreciate >knowing of any particular books or other support materials that would be >recommended for a first-time NeXT user. Those who might have such for >sale are encouraged to email me back. > Make sure you try to get at least NS 3.3 for this setup. It will save you a lot of headaches in the future. --Ryan
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hard drive failure Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:47:35 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5b3avn$10c0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp> Bensonglorioskin! Go buy a new disk. Disks are cheap! Use the old disk for overflow space. An Atlas should be under warranty. Call up Quantum. See if you can arrange a hot swap -- they send you a disk, you send the old one back. Generally I figure that after the initial scan for bad blocks, the disk should never show another bad block until it's ready to be a paperweight. Sidney Lehky (sidney@postman.riken.go.jp) wrote: : I'm running NS 3.3 on a Pentium, 4 GB Quantum Atlas partioned 3 ways : with Linux, NS, and NT. : The NS partion generates hard drive error messages during bootup : and stops to ask for a manual fsck, which does not fix the problem: : sd0: Media error; FATAL : target:0 lun:0 op:Read block: 3075802 : Cannot read: BLK 280160 : The following sectors cannot be read: 280172,280173,280174,280175 : : The error messages can be overridden by a Command Q, the boot : up continues normally, and the system looks normal upon login : except for a few corrupted data files. : The question is how can I repair this abnormal boot sequence : so I don't have to intervene manually. Is there something less : drastic than reformatting to lock out bad sectors? : -- : Sidney Lehky : Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) : Saitama, Japan -- Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed. Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead. U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led. Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said, T6G 2J1 | "Go to father." New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: sherwood@mars.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Nextstation boot problems Date: 9 Jan 1997 17:52:24 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5b3b8o$10c0@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <01bbfa5e$3bb7ed40$9a128780@starlock.Uchicago.edu> John Stiening (jmstieni@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote: : I have come across a NextStation Turbo, which I would like to pick up. : Unfortunately, the machine fails to complete the boot process. Initially : I start the machine booting by using the command "b sd". All works fine : until the machine attempts to find the network. The computer then : continuously attempts to find some phantom server on the network. Is : there a way I can disable the network functions, or maybe to get the : machine to boot without initializing any of the network parameters? I need : the next to ignore all network functions durning boot. There are a couple possibilities: If it's looking for a netinfo server, hit control-C, and it will carry on. If it's hanging on mounts, then boot single user and edit /etc/fstab and put a # in front of any non local file systems. If netinfo is the problem, then start up NetInfoManager, click on machines, click on broadcast host, then double click on it. It will bring up another window, with the property serves. See if there is an value for the serves property of ../network. If there is select it then delete it. (Under Edit/delete I think in the menu) If this doesn't work, email me with more specific details. -- Sherwood Botsford | "Go to father, she said, when I asked her to wed. Physics Dept | She knew that I knew that her father was dead. U of Alberta | She knew that I knew what a life he had led. Edmonton, AB, | She knew that I knew what she meant when she said, T6G 2J1 | "Go to father." New address: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Looking for information on how data moves on internet... Date: 9 Jan 97 11:05:57 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan9110557@slave.one.net> References: <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net> <E3p1xG.Fp@cam-ani.co.uk> In-reply-to: ians@cam-ani.co.uk's message of Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:36:51 GMT In article <E3p1xG.Fp@cam-ani.co.uk>, ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) writes: In article <5aug0n$l71@news3.digex.net>, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> writes: > Hi All, > > I'm trying to get an idea on the 'physics' or even the technical > way in which data is moved around the net? <...> For more deails two books which spring to mind are Fred Halsall - networks and datacoms (or some such) Andrew Tanenbaum - computer networks (or some such) (the authors are correct even if the names are iffy, Also "Internetworking with TCP/IP" by Comer. Easy to find (I _always_ have to prevent myself from purchasing a newer edition when I'm in a bookstore). Specific to TCP/IP, but ... well, these days, who cares? As with any other book that really tells you how things work, expect to read it at least twice. First time through, ignore all of the specific numeric stuff - very few people _really_ need to know which order the IP headers are in. Second time through, you'll see all the nice little subtleties that you missed the first time through ... the second time through is also a good time to do the excercises at the ends of the chapters. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] 3.3 on Versa 6030X Date: 9 Jan 1997 18:21:01 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <5b3cud$rgp@news.xs4all.nl> Has anyone tried installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 across the network onto a NEC Versa 6030X laptop? We had to because it cannot handle both a floppy and a CD-ROM drive at the same time. With NetInstallHelper I set up a netinstall server, declared the portable as a client, and made the two special boot diskettes. I am using the 3COM EtherLink3 PCMCIA 3.33 driver and the EIDE 3.34 driver, but the boot sequence fails after it says: ... root on en0 rootdev 0, howto 0 initrootnet: autoaddr failed panic: (Cpu 0) whoami: initrootnet failed Can anyone give me a clue as to what might be wrong here? Thanks in advance, Jan-Willem jwdb@fygir.nl -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Date: 9 Jan 1997 20:22:59 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <5b3k33$oee@listserv.rice.edu> Hi, I am having trouble getting an Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN adapter working on an Intel box running NeXTStep 3.3. I have the driver installed (version 3.31) and I have it configured exactly as I set it up using the software (for DOS) that comes with it. During bootup using the -v option, there is a complaint that there is a non-Intel ethernet address found in the EEPROM. The bootup proceeds with no network installed. Has anyone seen this message before and have any idea what all of the whining is about? Any help would be appreciated. William Heller wtheller@ion.rice.edu
Message-ID: <32D31481.44D3@ebs.ac.com> Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 21:29:05 -0600 From: Eric Ulmer <ulmerer@ebs.ac.com> Organization: ServiceNet, LLC. Andersen Consulting and BBN Internet MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ED Floppy question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just recently picked up a few packages of ED disks for $3.00 a pack (They're on clearance at BestBuy if you're interested). Anyhoo, When I insert them into the floppy drive nothing happens. I'm assuming the NeXT would detect the new media and ask me what I wanted to do with it, but no luck. I perused the FAQ but found nothing related to floppy drives on NeXT hardware. Is the FD a SCSI device? Any clues on how to format them from the shell? -- Eric Ulmer Networking Consultant, ServiceNet, LLC. eulmer@isd.net ulmerer@ebs.ac.com http://www.isd.net/eulmer http://www.ac.com/topstories/currnews/ts_dfr96-0618.html
From: Eric Davis <eld@dimensional.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: clock in OpenStep 4 -> TimeShift Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 20:40:15 -0700 Organization: Dimensional Communications Message-ID: <32D3171F.3BDD@dimensional.com> References: <32D01585.2BCD@dimensional.com> <5asgcb$9m6@neon.Mlink.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit tralala@mlink.net wrote: > > On 01/05/97, Eric Davis wrote: > > In Openstep 4.0, my clock is changing time/date on me. Any > ideas? > > > > My battery is fine. When I dual boot to NT4 and reset the > clock, all is > > fine until I re-enter OpenStep. > > > > /eld > --------------------------------- > > James E. Quick has solved this problem. It works flawlessly on > NS3.3 and probably will on OS4.x > > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too > ls/hack/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz (22kb) > > ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Too > ls/hack/TimeShift.README > > Cheers, > -André I'll go on record saying that timeshift is a great app. problem solved /eld
From: student <eunos@thecity.sfsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:42:01 -0800 Organization: California State University Sacramento Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970109183658.29338A-100000@thecity.sfsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone Has anyone used a Iomega ,1 of those zip drives, as a 2nd external hard drive? Is it even possible? I think there might be some compatiblity problems with cabling and ports? I heard some devices like cdroms (Non NeXT brands) have problems connecting to NeXTs. Al
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E3rxMD.5q0@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:56:37 GMT I've been pulling my hair out on this one. Here's the situation: System: NextStep 3.3, 25mhz colorstation Software: Taylor-UUCP, sendmail 8.8.3. Connection: UUCP via TCP/IP on a part-time dialup line. Symptoms: Received mail works fine. That is, I can email from outside and it will make it in on the next dialup. Mail inside the machine works fine. If mail is sent while the SLIP line is up, it makes it out just fine. However, mail to the outside world gets queued up in the /usr/spool/mqueue directory and never sees the light of day if the machine is not connected at the time the mail is sent. For example, my /usr/spool/mqueue directory looks like this: (truncated) -rw------- 1 hocker 298 Jan 9 21:31 dfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 hocker 297 Jan 9 21:32 dfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 296 Jan 9 22:35 dfWAA03913 -rw------- 1 root 593 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 root 592 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 591 Jan 9 22:35 qfWAA03913 -rw-r----- 1 root 35113 Jan 9 22:35 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root 29753 Jan 8 07:01 syslog.old Suspicion: I suspect that sendmail doesn't know how to make rmail work. But I can't figure out why not. Here's my .mc file: define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:egate) divert(0)dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)samizdat.mc 8.6 (Berkeley) 3/23/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(waldo.com)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(uucp)dnl In addition, I believe that even though I say nodns, it is trying to look the address up via NetInfo. So...: How do I resolve this? I have scoured books, made pleas on the Net, and looked everywhere for help that I can. My appreciation would be HUGE for help in this area. PLEASE help! Thanks for any assistance. Honest! Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: modem and data calls Date: 9 Jan 1997 22:59:31 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5b4er3$tq@Vir.com> References: <5ar3ff$2mq@news.jhu.edu> <5b0cav$mdn@Vir.com> <5b0q07$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : The above steps are valid if NXFax isn't being used, but Adam uses NXFax. : The above setup won't work because NXFax, not getty, needs to monitor the : port device. So ttys should not be modified as you suggest in step 2. According to Adam he wanted to turn of NXFax, from which it seemed to me, he no longer wanted to use NXFax. stef ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefanos Kiakas stefanos@uniscape.com http://www.uniscape.com/ e-Scape Information Systems Inc. (514) 729-9643
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:50:59 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580001001970250590001@news.tiac.net> References: <fmlazar-0801970023090001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> <x2ybe4rm2h.fsf@beth.atype.com> <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <fmlazar-0801972330360001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net>, fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: >I've > decided to get one of those $600 dollar Color Turbos being offered in one > of the posts in next.marketplace and outfitting it with drives and OS and > other neccessary stuff. Good for you! You'll love the overall design, even if its a bit slow by current standards. > The machine is supposed to come with a "right to use" for the OS and a > friend of mine in the city will help me with that part. I'd appreciate > knowing of any particular books or other support materials that would be > recommended for a first-time NeXT user. Those who might have such for > sale are encouraged to email me back. There are books for the developer, but they aren't relevant. The on-line sysadmin doc (in /NextLibrary) will get you started. There is a User Manual that isn't on-line, but I've never seen that it added that much. You might be able to borrow a copy locally. Most of the config issues have been discussed on Usenet, but I'm not sure there is a well-indexed archive anywhere. Posting in this group usually gets sensible answers. Barney
From: jbf@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: hard drive failure Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:12:54 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf-ya023580001001970312540001@news.tiac.net> References: <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <32D4CF11.29134F08@postman.riken.go.jp>, Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> wrote: >> The error messages can be overridden by a Command Q, the boot > up continues normally, and the system looks normal upon login > except for a few corrupted data files. > > The question is how can I repair this abnormal boot sequence > so I don't have to intervene manually. Is there something less > drastic than reformatting to lock out bad sectors? I believe there is software that allows you to replace the bad block with spares (which all SCSI disks I've ever looked at have). Sorry, my archives don't seem to have a reference to it. Perhaps someone else could help? The command is Reassign Blocks (07h). I would certainly try for a return on the disk. Longer term, any decent SCSI has automatic reallocation on read/write, which should be enabled. Of course, you need to heed any such reallocations, and consider return/increased backups. You might also enable parity error detection, which often seems to be jumpered off. Barney
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to do the backup with EXABYTE Model 8500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:24:56 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32d60acb.25319718@netnews.hinet.net> Hi all, We have just find a EXABYTE Model 8500 SCSI Backup device in our office, and would like to use it to backup NeXT Server. I buy a new 2GB 8mm DAT tape which will insert to the EXABYTE backup system, and would like to use it for backup. Can anybody tell me how to write out the "dump" command on the NeXT to do the full backup? In addition, if I would like to continue use the same tape (don't rewind after the full backup) and make another backup just backup users' information, users home directories' data, and directories' sturcture, then how should I write the "dump" command? And how to write the command to restore the data? If there is any good very easily understand refence about how to do the backup, please let me know too. Thank you. Best Regards, ·¨©s¾Ë¡]batmon¡^ batmon@abico.com.tw Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. Part of ABiCO Group
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Date: 10 Jan 1997 08:35:30 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5b4v0i$5lc$2@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5b3k33$oee@listserv.rice.edu> wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) wrote: > Hi, > I am having trouble getting an Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN adapter > working on an Intel box running NeXTStep 3.3. I have the driver > installed (version 3.31) and I have it configured exactly as I set it > [...] This is correct. Driver version 3.31 only works with the EtherExpress PRO/10, but not with the PRO/10+. Just get NeXTAnswers document #2164, which contains the Intel 82595 driver version 3.35. This should work fine with your PRO/10+ card. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701091859.KAA07403@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 5e991bece0efa5414bd049bc4abfbd1a - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 97 13:58:57 -0500 Subject: Re: NeXT as a mailserver, can do? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 5e991bece0efa5414bd049bc4abfbd1a - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Original Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 04:30:36 GMT Message-ID: 5e991bece0efa5414bd049bc4abfbd1a - > I'd appreciate knowing of any particular books or other support > materials that would be recommended for a first-time NeXT user. > Those who might have such for sale are encouraged to email me > back. I don't know of any resource that would be anywhere near as helpful as these groups have been to me over the past 5 years. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Apple + NeXT = Rhapsody (in black? ;-)
From: dozer@netwizards.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: would you be my friend? Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:03:33 Message-ID: <5b50kj$kmr@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Hello, I'm 14 years old and I think I may be a gay. I'm looking for some support and friendship with a older male age 18-40. Please email if you can help.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dozer@netwizards.net Subject: cmsg cancel <5b50kj$kmr@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Control: cancel <5b50kj$kmr@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5b50kj$kmr@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Followup-to: junk References: <5b50kj$kmr@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 01:03:33 Spam-cancel: "would you be my friend?"
From: Horst_Dries@stratus.com (Horst Dries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Upgrade Next 3.3 -> 4.1 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:38:03 GMT Organization: stratus.com Message-ID: <32d644d5.20965243@news> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi , i am just on the way to upgrade a NEC Versa 4080H from Next 3.3 to Openstep 4.1 und facing the problem: that the Upgrader.app writes : Cant,t open //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom BUT //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom is there !!!! any idea whats going wrong ?? Thanks & regards Horst
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <587851299369@digifix.com> Date: 10 Jan 1997 16:42:13 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <475852914532@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Upgrade Next 3.3 -> 4.1 Date: 10 Jan 1997 14:19:19 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5b64nn$san@papoose.quick.com> References: <32d644d5.20965243@news> In article <32d644d5.20965243@news>, Horst Dries <Horst_Dries@stratus.com> wrote: >Hi , >i am just on the way to upgrade a NEC Versa 4080H from Next 3.3 to >Openstep 4.1 und facing the problem: that the Upgrader.app writes : > >Cant,t open //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom > >BUT //usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom is there !!!! >any idea whats going wrong ?? Make sure that you log in as root before running Upgrader.app. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to replace /bin/sh Date: 14 Jan 1997 14:03:58 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and didn't see it. I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me this should work and would provide all the command line niceties (e.g, command-completion) that the distribution shell lacks. ( I have replaced the distribution csh with tcsh with no obvious ill effects.) Unfortunately, if I do: mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old; cp /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/sh; chown root.wheel /bin/sh; chmod 755 /bin/sh then the system fails to boot fully. It gets to "faking root mount entries..." and then leaves me at the single user bash prompt. If I try to use UserManager to change root's login shell to anything but the "genuine" /bin/sh, LoginWindow refuses to allow root to login and displays a message saying that the imposter shell will be run and its output ignored. Do init and/or LoginWindow.app do some kind of internal test to detect the "real" /bin/sh? If so, is there any way around it? -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Installation FAQ? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:02:05 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware? Thanks, Jason
From: matthias@amg.de (Matthias Schuerhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ Date: 10 Jan 1997 08:41:03 GMT Organization: AMG Industrieconsulting GmbH Message-ID: <5b4vav$go1@hagen.amg.de> References: <5b3k33$oee@listserv.rice.edu> wtheller@hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller) wrote: > Hi, > I am having trouble getting an Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ LAN adapter > working on an Intel box running NeXTStep 3.3. I have the driver > installed (version 3.31) and I have it configured exactly as I set it > up using the software (for DOS) that comes with it. During bootup > using the -v option, there is a complaint that there is a non-Intel > ethernet address found in the EEPROM. The bootup proceeds with no > network installed. > Has anyone seen this message before and have any idea what all of the > whining is about? > > Any help would be appreciated. I also have trouble with this card. My system shows the message that it can't find the card at the address 0x300. This address is set in Confiure.app and on the card with softset2.exe. The testmode of softset2.exe recognizes the card correctly. Any ideas? Greetings Matthias ================================================ Matthias Schuerhoff E-Mail: matthias@amg.de (NeXT & MIME mail ok) ================================================
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NS Install on new HD? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:58:42 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4AC2.6987@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTstation mono with a 100MB internal hard drive that I would like to replace with a 1GB Seagate ST31230N. The new SCSI hard drive mounts fine but I do not know how to install NeXTSTEP onto it. I have NS 3.0 on cdrom and I have a NEC 6x SCSI cdrom connected to the NeXTstation and it works with the 100MB drive with NS loaded. When I boot with the new hard drive I get to a ROM monitor and I type b to boot. It examines the SCSI devices and then tries to load off of the cdrom and then craps out. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: HP Tape drive woes Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <E408CA.JxJ@bri.hp.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:28:58 GMT References: <5b34ng$9vl@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Chris Saldanha (chris@computerActive.on.ca) wrote: : I've got a P5-133 machine running NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 and an HP C1533A 8GB DAT drive : (internal, connected to a Symbios Logic SCSI card). : My problem is that none of the command-line tools like mt, tar, gnutar are unable : to write to the tape. mt works for "rewind" and "offline", but not for "eof". : Each time I attempt a write operation I get something in the messages file like: : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- Which means ... it reckons it's write protected. Sense code 30h, IFF it is the ASC (really it would be nice to have the ASCQ as well) could be: incompatible medium can't read media, unknown format cannot read media, incompatible media cleaning cartridge installed. none of which tie up with the inital sense key. : or : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write data (10 byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- : and all the commands say is "I/O error" on /dev/rst0. Is there a #################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.apfel.de!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-xfer.netaxs.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!mr.net!news.mid.net!crcnews.unl.edu!manager From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: 14 Jan 1997 15:50:22 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5bg9vu$fma@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Reply-To: Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mathlab58.unl.edu In article <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me Do not replace sh! Bad idea... might (most likely will) break things. /bin/sh must be statically linked, at least. Better idea, have /bin/sh and /bin/bash side-by-side use the one most appropriate for each job/user/shell. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: "D. Scott" <dscott@netuser.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStation Need Help Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:15:11 +0000 Organization: M+ Message-ID: <32D6BF6D.598C@netuser.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just purchased a NextStation that I have been able to boot, but unable to get into the system since I bought it used from a broker. I have read most of the newsgroup messages listed in these two forums and tried www.next.com to get answer with no luck. Can someone help in these areas? How do I get around the Graphical USER and PASSWORD to reset it for my own use and delete all other users. Where would I find software for this system, maybe CD or floppies? Does it cost?? Where would I find the System Admin manuals, I only have the User Guides. Any suggestions for software available? I am just using it to explore the Next Station. Any help is appreciated. Dale Scott dscott@netuser.com
From: stefan.boehringer@rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Stefan Boehringer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Non updating man files with Librarian Date: 11 Jan 1997 21:22:04 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5b909s$18v@sun168.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi all, after installing perl5.003 I expected the new man pages to come up in Librarian. However this did not happen. By examining the contents of the man dir I noticed that the man pages were in place but the respective cat directory contained the nroffed files with old contents. After deleting the contents of the cat diretory I had proper Librarian access again. Has somebody experienced similar? Any clues for a workaround? How are the contents of the Librarian config files like .index.iname ... to be set? TIA. Stefan Boehringer
From: "Mike" <mdeman@next.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named daemon Date: 12 Jan 1997 20:22:22 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc00f2$387e05c0$0b071281@windchaser> References: <5aka9n$biv@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> Hergen Eilers <qvi@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <5aka9n$biv@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com>... > I am trying to configure a computer running NeXT 3.3 to be a name > server for non-NeXT computers on our small network that is NOT > connected with the Internet. I have tried following the instructions in > the NeXT Library and man pages to set up the named daemon, but I am > having trouble setting up the named.boot and cache files. > > We only have six computers on our network. We are not connected to the > Internet. Therefore, I have only set up a root domain. I don't think we > need any secondary name servers. > > I tried the following: > > Added the following line to /etc/rc.local: > /usr/etc/named > > In the file /etc/named.boot: > directory /etc/DNS > cache . root.cache > > In the file /etc/NDS/root.cache: > 99999999 IN NS maxwell. > maxwell. 99999999 IN A 192.72.142.1 > > When I entered "nslookup maxwell" in Terminal on the server (maxwell), > I get the following response: > > Server: maxwell > Address: 0.0.0.0 > res_mkquery(0, maxwell., 1, 1) > ____________ > Got answer: > HEADER: > opcode = QUERY, id = 1, rcode = SERVFAIL > header flags: response, want recursion, recursion avail. > questions = 1, answers = 0, authority records = 0, additional = > 0 > > QUESTIONS: > maxwell, type = A, class = IN > > _____________ > *** maxwell can't find maxwell: Server failed > > I would appreciate any assistance you can offer. Could you please send > a copy of your responce to qvi@ix.netcom.com. Thanks. > > Brian Olmsted > > > > Did you setup the inverse-lookup and loopback address? Sometimes wierd things will happen if DNS doesn't have an entry for the loopback - 127.0.0.1. (michael@rum.cs.wwu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701111600.LAA14656@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fa4261a7aa5b5df8f85fa6f732d4d90f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 97 10:59:59 -0500 Subject: Re: NextStation Need Help Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fa4261a7aa5b5df8f85fa6f732d4d90f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "D. Scott" <dscott@netuser.com> Original Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 22:15:11 +0000 > I just purchased a NextStation that I have been able to boot, but > unable to get into the system since I bought it used from a broker. > I have read most of the newsgroup messages listed in these two > forums and tried www.next.com to get answer with no luck. Can > someone help in these areas? > > How do I get around the Graphical USER and PASSWORD to reset it for > my own use and delete all other users. Be fast: 1)power it on. 2)hold down BOTH "command" buttons" 3)Right after you see the lights flash on the caps lock, press the ~ key (over the 7 on the keypa#################################################################### Path: news.informatik.uni-muenchen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!uni-regensburg.de!uni-erlangen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!newscaster-1.mcast.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-penn.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.NetVision.net.il!news From: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mounting Win95 filesystem Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 18:54:35 +0200 Organization: Harmonic Lightwaves Lines: 48 Message-ID: <32DBBA4A.ABD@harmonic.co.il> References: <32D9B480.6A9D@erols.com> Reply-To: uri@harmonic.co.il NNTP-Posting-Host: uri.harmonic.co.il Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------4D04184A649F1" X-Sender: Uri Shkolnik <uri@harmonic.co.il> (Unverified) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b1 (Win95; I) To: gbh@erols.com X-Priority: Normal ------------4D04184A649F1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, One of the two - Run a PC NFS software on the win95 (~500 $) Run Samba on the NeXT (~0 $ .....) -- Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc. Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122) Fax: 972-4-8550180 Email: uri@harmonic.co.il ------------4D04184A649F1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Hi,</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>One of the two -</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Run a PC NFS software on the win95 (~500 $)</DT> <DT>Run Samba on the NeXT (~0 $ .....)<BR> -- <BR> Uri Shkolnik - System Administrator<BR> Harmonic Lightwaves (Israel) Inc.<BR> Tel: 972-4-8550180 (Ext.122)<BR> Fax: 972-4-8550180<BR> Email: uri@harmonic.co.il<BR> </DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------4D04184A649F1--
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:57:55 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DBBB13.658F@ibp.de> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Terry R. McConnell wrote: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me > this should work and would provide all the command line niceties (e.g, > command-completion) that the distribution shell lacks. ( I have replaced > the distribution csh with tcsh with no obvious ill effects.) > > Unfortunately, if I do: [snip] I know you didn't ask, but... Why do you want to replace /bin/sh? If you want to have bash as your default shell, you might simply set it in UserManager.app (after having it added to /etc/shells) I might be missing the point completely - then I'm sorry... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Strange mach message Message-ID: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:36:33 GMT After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get a lot of messages Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine.
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:45:48 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DB8E0C.4809@ibp.de> References: <E3yrAB.1MG@mediahaus.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Piers Uso Walter wrote: > > Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS > > I'm using an ethernet based Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to print from > NEXTSTEP. I think I've got everything set up correctly in Netinfo since > I can print without any problem and can set the printer options > (resolution, paper feed, fine print etc.) as well. > > I cannot, however, correctly print documents containing non-standard > fonts (e.g. Stone Serif Medium). Since the LaserWriter does not know > these fonts, they come out as Courier. Is there anything I can do so > that the fonts not known by the printer are automatically downloaded to > the printer with the PostScript job? > > Currently I have to resort to the "Save" option in PrintPanel, > specifying "Chosen printer, include fonts" and then print the resulting > PS file. Surely there must be an easier way (what would all the Mac > guys say if this is how they'd have to print in the future ;-). > > Does anybody have any idea? > > Piers Uso Walter > ilink GmbH > Piers_Walter@ilink.de Maybe fontloader(1) can help you. It's got a man page... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: system hangs while booting Date: 14 Jan 1997 19:13:28 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Message-ID: <5bglso$4vp@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: hang, freeze, DEC, Celebris, NEXTSTEP Hi, I have a NEXTSTEP for Intel system that often freezes while booting or logging in. This seems to happen, on average, about once out of every 3 or 4 times I power on. Also, the failures seem to be related to powering off and on, rather than simply restarting without powering off. I don't know what is causing this. Does anyone have any suggestions? SETUP: I bought the system from a company that specializes in configuring NEXTSTEP for Intel systems. The basic system is a bare DEC Celebris XL 6200. The Pentium Pro 200 MHz CPU, the motherboard, the power supply, and the case came from DEC. Also, DEC provides an onboard NCR 53C810 SCSI adapter. All of the drives are SCSI. The hard drive is a 4-gb Seagate Barracuda and the CD-ROM drive is a Plextor 6Plex. There is also a Conner DAT drive on the SCSI chain. The video card is an ELSA Winner 2000 Pro/X with 4-mb of VRAM, the sound card is a SoundBlaster-16, and the network card is a Cogent EM110. I bought some extra memory from the system vendor and some more extra memory from another third party. I am running OPENSTEP 4.0. SYMPTOMS: The system freezes completely. This has occurred at various points along the boot and/or login sequence. Once I am logged into OPENSTEP, the system usually (but not always) runs for days (or even weeks). Sometimes the system freezes within seconds after I power on (i.e. when doing the first memory count). Other times it freezes after starting to load OPENSTEP, and yet other times it hangs while the login panel is displayed (either before or after I type in my account name and password). A few times it has hung shortly after logging in. WHAT I'VE TRIED: I removed the sound card and the network card early on and I have left them out. I tried various memory combinations, always filling the 4 slots required for interleaving with identical SIMMs. I tried only DEC memory, only memory from the NEXTSTEP integrator, and only memory I bought from TechWorks (aka First Tech). The system failed in all three cases. I swapped out the video card with another identical card. DEC has come out a dozen times and has swapped out the CPU, the daughter card, and the motherboard. I sent the system back to the NEXTSTEP integator, but he said he was unable to replicate my problem. DEC took the system to their shop and WAS able to replicate the problem. DEC is now going to replace the power supply, but the technician did not expect that to help. COMMENTS: I'm not an expert on hardware or software, but the fact that the system sometimes fails almost immediately after powering on suggests to me that the problem does not involve NEXTSTEP. In fact, it often fails before even getting to the SCSI adapter and/or devices. To me, the most likely suspects are the CPU, the daughter card, the motherboard, the RAM, the video card, or the power supply. We have swapped out all but the last item. Actually, we have 5 of these systems, all configured the same, and several others are having the same problem. We are using 2 of them, as they "appear" to work fine after the user successfully logins in. But I'm very worried that if we powered these systems off and on many times, then they would fail as well. I'm afraid to depend on a system that hangs so often for unknown reasons. It's quite plausible to me that there are other problems that are present, but not so apparent. Does anyone else have this same configuration? If so, I'd be interested in whether you have noticed this problem. Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks, Gregg =========================== Gregg Dinse dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov 919-541-4931
From: schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu (Martha W. Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI errors Date: 14 Jan 1997 15:09:55 GMT Organization: Yale University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5bg7k3$ei7@news.ycc.yale.edu> I have an HP712 that has always claimed to have SCSI errors. Basically, when doing a boot and looking at the messages, I would get messages of the sort: Jan 14 09:42:11 syrtis mach: SCSI: id: 00715a, lbolt: 0, bp: 37e788, dev: 630, dev_type: (00) Direct Access, ansi: 2, rdf: 2, tag: 7c, Jan 14 09:42:11 syrtis mach: cdb: 28 00 00 07 a6 70 00 00 10 00 Jan 14 09:42:11 syrtis mach: opcode: (28) bcount: 2000, addr: 66c8000, residual: 1, This never seemed to affect anything, and I have never used another HP with Nextstep before, so I assumed that it was either normal, or at least harmless. I believe that these messages occur only with the internal drive - they are vastly more frequent during a fsck of that drive, and almost nonexistent during a fsck of the external drives. But I think they may be occurring more frequently as time goes on, possibly affecting the performance of the machine (I seem to have to reboot a lot these days, and this sort of message is the only suspicious thing on the console) and I would like to fix the problem. My question is this: if I replace the drive, is this likely to fix it? Or is this likely to be a deeper problem with the SCSI bus? Thanks in advance, Martha Schaefer schaefer@syrtis.geology.yale.edu
From: Charles W Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:34:29 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4mqxz5W00iWp07cfk0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> In-Reply-To: <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 3-Jan-97 Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and .. by Holger Hoffstaette@schwa >> There's a similar "crashme" program that generates random executables >> to test a kernel's stability, and Linux can also run this for hours >> at a time on both Intel, SPARC, and Alpha versions. I don't know of >> anybody running "crashme" on NeXTstep. Has anybody tried this? >> [geek curiosity]. Crashme will kill (ie, lock up so that you have to do a hard reset, since even the NMI monitor is wedged) m68k systems. Supposedly this is because there is an m68k opcode that will cause a trap that the system doesn't handle. Crashme seems to run correctly on non-m68k NEXTSTEP systems. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: 13 Jan 1997 19:27:15 GMT Message-ID: <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> References: 82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2 - <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. : I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. : Is there a disktab for the zip drive? Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega makes both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI devices, that since one requires a disktab entry the other would, too. I guess I spoke too soon! Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How#################################################################### From: mingming@mwu.phys.oxy.edu (mingming wu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any recommendations for a good tape drive for NEXT 3.2 on pentium? Date: 13 Jan 1997 22:52:06 GMT Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA Message-ID: <5beeam$qam@sophri.cc.oxy.edu> I desperately need a tape drive for a P5-90, with Symbios Logic SCSI card. I use NEXTStep 3.2.. Any suggestions out there? Thanks mingming
From: Charles W Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:48:21 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EmqyA5_00iWp07chg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: 123366084d1135d7d130fca20a84295d - <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> In-Reply-To: <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Jan-97 Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail qu.. by Timothy J Luoma@peak.org > /usr/lib/sendmail -q > > to flush the mailq. Actually I've got a script that runs sendmail > -q until the Q is empty (up to 50 times). Drop me a note if you'd > like a copy No need for that. Run the queue once with 'sendmail -q', and then run sendmail as a daemon with whatever retry interval you wish (eq, 'sendmail -bd -q15m') until you bring your dialup line down. Sendmail will do a smarter, better job of flushing the queue running in daemon mode than it would by repeatedly running it until the queue is empty. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Anyone compile Kerberos 5? Message-ID: <cdoutyE40LDy.1qv@netcom.com> Keywords: port security kerberos Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 20:10:46 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom8.netcom.com Has anyone ported Kerberos 5 (of any beta) to NeXTstep? I started in on Beta 7 on NS3.3p1 but ran into some serious problems. I figured that rather re-invent the wheel, I'd ask the Net. If you've ported Kerberos I would really appreciate a set of patches/diffs to the source tree. Binaries would be OK too, but I'd rather not get you in trouble with the State Department. Plus source is just sorta required for a security product. :-) On a related note, did NeXT ever publish the API for loginwindow? I can't seem to find any reference to it on NextAnswers. Thanks, Chris Douty -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: gperrow@comnetix.com (Graeme Perrow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: NS 3.3 on IBM PC-350 P166 Date: 14 Jan 1997 21:06:02 GMT Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5bgsfq$c5t$1@loki.tor.hookup.net> Does anyone know if NeXTStep v3.3 will run on an IBM PC-350 166MHz Pentium? We have been having problems with some P166's (Digital, HP), so I'd like to know if this machine will work before I go and buy it. Thanks --- Graeme Perrow, Software Engineer Comnetix Computer Systems, Inc. 1440 Hurontario St. Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5G 3H4 Voice: (905) 274-4060 Fax: (905) 271-7776 Email: gperrow@comnetix.com (NeXTMail or MIME welcome)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: pwalter@mediahaus.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Message-ID: <E3yrAB.1MG@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 20:22:59 GMT Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS I'm using an ethernet based Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to print from NEXTSTEP. I think I've got everything set up correctly in Netinfo since I can print without any problem and can set the printer options (resolution, paper feed, fine print etc.) as well. I cannot, however, correctly print documents containing non-standard fonts (e.g. Stone Serif Medium). Since the LaserWriter does not know these fonts, they come out as Courier. Is there anything I can do so that the fonts not known by the printer are automatically downloaded to the printer with the PostScript job? Currently I have to resort to the "Save" option in PrintPanel, specifying "Chosen printer, include fonts" and then print the resulting PS file. Surely there must be an easier way (what would all the Mac guys say if this is how they'd have to print in the future ;-). Does anybody have any idea? Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH Piers_Walter@ilink.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus G <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Strange mach message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xvi90ndef.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:40:56 GMT >>>>> "TF" == Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> writes: TF> After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get TF> a lot of messages TF> Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun TF> Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times TF> As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what TF> happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine. I get the same messages and I never discovered the source (mouse movement, a particular app, port speed?). I just ignore it. Markus G
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changing hostname Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 16:33:53 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970114163036.430A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I need to change the hostname of a machine that runs alternately using ethernet and a modem connection. Other than in the HostMananger.app, what else do I have to change? Thanks. Robert
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@xedoc.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Anyone compile Kerberos 5? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:29:13 +1000 Organization: Xedoc Software Development Australia Pty Ltd Message-ID: <32DC32E9.77EA@xedoc.com.au> References: <cdoutyE40LDy.1qv@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Chris Douty <cdouty@netcom.com> Chris Douty wrote: > > Has anyone ported Kerberos 5 (of any beta) to NeXTstep? I started in on > Beta 7 on NS3.3p1 but ran into some serious problems. I figured that > rather re-invent the wheel, I'd ask the Net. I got it ported, although I had some problems (related to the DBM library, I think) which meant that the server failed to work. Unfortunately, I'm about to go overseas, and I'm not likely to be able to get you any diffs any time soon. :-( > On a related note, did NeXT ever publish the API for loginwindow? I can't > seem to find any reference to it on NextAnswers. No, they didn't. You might want to use class-dump to figure out the API. You can then cut and paste the code from a Kerberised /bin/login into a KerberosAuthenticator delegate. (My idea was to use NT 5.0 as a security server, with a KerberosAuthneticator, and a directrory server, with an LDAP lookupd agent, for OPENSTEP/Mach clients. Unfortunately, with NT 5.0 unreleased, there was a limited amount of work that could be done.) -- Luke
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Toshiba Tecra -- new hard drive Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:57:50 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970115145720.1116B-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have a single partition now on my Tecra with NS 3.3 on it. I need to run some Win95 programs and am weighing my options. If I don't want to reinstall NS then I can't use the current internal hard drive, right? Another option is to buy a second internal hard drive, install Win95 on it, and swap when I want to run Win95. Any problems with that? The last option I've thought of is to buy an external hard drive and do the same. First, can I get one for the Tecra and second, can I fairly simply configure the machine to boot off the external hard drive? Any other options? Thanks for any help. Robert
Message-ID: <32DCED3D.432E@lhep.unibe.ch> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:44:13 +0100 From: Juerg Beringer <beringer@lhep.unibe.ch> Organization: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Access to NS/Intel boot time options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Is it possible to access within the rc startup scripts the options entered at the NeXTStep (V3.3) boot prompt of an Intel machine? I am using e.g. config=SCSI at the boot prompt to load the device drivers according to a table SCSI.table (in /usr/Devices/System.config) instead of the standard Instance0 table. For different reasons I'd like to know in the startup scripts which options (if any) were selected. Thanks for any hints! Juerg. ****************************************************************************** Juerg Beringer Phone: +41 (31) 631 40 62 University of Bern FAX: +41 (31) 631 44 87 Laboratory for High Energy Physics Sidlerstrasse 5 E-mail: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch CH-3012 Bern HEPNET/SPAN: 20579::49202::BERINGER SWITZERLAND DECNET (Switzerland): 49202::BERINGER ******************************************************************************
From: sugee@imap2.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cost of a NeXT Web Site? Date: 15 Jan 1997 23:00:32 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <5bjnig$bcr@news.asu.edu> I doubt that many advocates and customers like Chylser, CyberSlice, Nissan, and etc. as the list goes on, will argue about the merits of using NeXT's Web technologies for deploying their Web sites. We have all heard plenty and are proud of what is being accomplished. However, what I haven't heard anything about, something which curiously dawned on me recently and after reviewing what some of these folks are doing, is the cost of implementing and deploying these Web Sites. Can anybody provide approximate costs or actual figures of sites like these? I do respect people's anonymity. Cheers, Sue
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing hostname Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:32:35 -0700 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970115142921.12070A-100000@beernut> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970114163036.430A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970114163036.430A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Robert G. Jacobs wrote: > I need to change the hostname of a machine that runs alternately using > ethernet and a modem connection. Other than in the HostMananger.app, what > else do I have to change? > If the system looks to a NetInfo server (other than itself) for the info than you need to change it in the servers database. If not then you can change it will SimpleNetworkStarter or by editing /etc/hostconfig. As expected you must be root to do this... Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt "You're not me, therefore you're irrelevant." -- Dogbert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E42Cpo.Kr5@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:58:36 GMT References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu>, Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> wrote: >Java is interpretted p-code There are CPUs that run the Java Virtual Machine in solicon. >It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > There's a lot of this, true. ObNeXTSysadmin: It's not safe to change root's login shell, right? -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
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You know that, you've seen the stories in the paper. So, my friend, read and follow the simple instructions and play fair. Thats the key, and thats all there is to it. Print this out right now so you can refer back to this article easily. Try to keep an eye on all the postings you made to make sure everyone is playing fairly. You know where your name sould be. If you're really not sure or still think this can't be for real, then don't do it. But please print this article and pass it along to someone you know who really needs the bucks, and see what happens. REMEMBER...HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE THE BUCKS! GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOU WILL WIN AND MAKE SOME REAL INSTANT FREE CASH! *** By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending th bucks to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and that's after two months). Then he sent the 5 bills, people added him to their lists and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10.000! TRY IT AND YOU'LL BE HAPPY!!!! :))))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.transputer,comp.sys.unisys,comp.sys.xerox,comp.sys.zenith.z100,comp.terminals,comp.terminals.bitgraph,control From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.5bkehu$fah@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> Control: cancel <5bkehu$fah@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <5bkehu$fah@nr1.ottawa.istar.net> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Chain Letter Remover Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 05:35:38 GMT Sender: martin.boucher@cgocable.ca ($$$ EASY MONEY $$$) ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by news@news.msfc.nasa.gov. Make Money Fast has been posted thousands of times, enough to qualify as cancel-on-sight spam. The chain letter scheme it describes is illegal in many countries. For example, see: http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm J. Porter Clark, d/b/a The Unknown News Administrator
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Scripted access to isql - help me remember the arguments! Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:00:35 GMT Message-ID: <32dfec9a.1794878@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have Quickbase 4.1 and a number of apps on Next that use it. I also need a 'quick and dirty' way to do some queries from Windows 95. A year ago someone told me that there was an argument to isql so I could write a script to process any query, without having to type it in interactively. However, Quickbase isql comes with no documentation on the command line options. Can anyone help me to do this? (ultimately, the idea is to write a DOS batch file that uses telnet and isql to connect to the database, run a query, and close the conection, without knowing the query in advance. Of course Microsoft helped a lot as usual by making telnet graphical....) For the record, we are well withint our number of licences as the next machines are just not getting used at the moment. Many thanks, Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@hc.ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:25:35 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <32DE486F.1BD@hc.ti.com> References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bill Keller wrote: > > I'm not sure if I missed something Java-related. It seems that most > people are awfully gung-ho about Java, and I'm not sure why. My > understanding is: > > Java is a portable language > Java is an open language > Java is object-oriented > Java is interpretted p-code > Java can be embedded into webpages > > Did I miss anything significant? > Other than embedding into webpages, which I doubt is going to be it's > primary use, I'm not sure there is much benefit to the rest. There have > been portable, open languages for decades now. And interpretted p-code is > BAD. > > It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > > Can someone set me straight? (gently) :) Well... netbased interpreted P-code allows me to be truely HW independent. Sarrus Software (the makers of the PencilMeIn, one of the most usefull NS apps IMHO) have a Java version that runs through marimba. I can run it on a PC, my HP Unix workstation at work, Sun, whatever... When it is finally released, I expect to have a calendar manager that operates wherever I go on whatever hardware and it is the EXACT same program, not a port of code to various machines. I'll be able to use the same calendar file so I don't have to worry about synchronization. I think this will be a fantastic application of JAVA to solve a problem many of us face (synchronization). Just my thoughts... - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PopOver + procmail ? Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:16:53 +0900 Organization: 3WEB corp. Message-ID: <x6pvz6g34q.fsf@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Hi. Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or other pop client) to procmail ? -=-=-=-=-=-=-= Toshinao Ishii email: ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (NeXTMAIL/MIME Welcome)
From: Carlene Ewalt <ewalt001@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Nextstation Turbo Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:34:28 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota School of Public Health Message-ID: <32DE66A4.1997@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have inherited an Nextstation Turbo (black box) which has never been turned off until today. Today, we turned it off to move the ethernet jack...keeping the same IP...but moving the computer and jack down the hallway and now when I turn it on. I get almost immediately......... Next Rom Manager 3.3 (v74) Exception #3 (0xc) at pc 0x1000646 sp 0xc03f600 I tried typing in ec and received error code 74. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Carlene -- Carlene Ewalt Telephone: 612-626-5443 University of Minnesota School of Public Health Fax: 612-626-6931 Box 197 Mayo, 420 Delaware St SE Email:ewalt001@maroon.tc.umn.edu Minneapolis MN 55455
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: NS3.3: compile/install Perl5 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:25 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32de9ede.6814010@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev. I followed the instructions, and got to: AutoSplitting perl library Making DynaLoader (static) sh: 5303 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. vm_stat provides: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 1833. Pages active: 1405. Pages inactive: 297. Pages wired down: 409. "Translation faults": 467758. Pages copy-on-write: 81313. Pages zero filled: 65599. Pages reactivated: 190004. Pageins: 11408. Pageouts: 164. Object cache: 47016 hits of 52878 lookups (88% hit rate) I'd guess it's running out of memory. (the machine has 32 megs ram) Any advice would be appreciated. -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: vgrind help? Date: 16 Jan 1997 18:52:36 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: # vgrind area.cc pscat: trouble reading .ct file lpr: stdin: empty input file # What do I need to do to so that vgrind works? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax locking modem port? Date: 16 Jan 1997 20:26:28 GMT Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Message-ID: <5bm2tk$cfo@news.jhu.edu> I am trying to get NXFax to work with a MultiTech modem. Everything with faxing is fine; I can send and receive. However, NXFax hangs up on incoming data calls (yes, I've checked the appropriate box in preferences). It gets halfway into the handshaking process, then quits. In trying to explore the problem, I've also found that I cannot use tip to communicate with the modem port; when I try, I get /dev/cub: Device busy link down If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's no problem with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems are related, but if either of them rings any kind of bell with anyone, please let me know. Also, does anyone know if Black and White Software, the makers of NXFax, still exist? (Note that there's another Black and White Software, located in California, which does not make NXFax!) Thanks for your help. Adam -- Adam F. Falk Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 falk@jhu.edu, (410) 516-7817 (phone), (410) 516-7239 (fax) http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/personnel/falk/falk.html
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org Subject: Re: Help!!! Tcl7.6/Tk4.2 compile errors on Openstep4.0 black (LONG) Message-ID: <E44E15.86p@free.fdn.fr> Sender: news@free.fdn.fr Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant. References: <32dd6305.171085267@ceco> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:22:17 GMT In article <32dd6305.171085267@ceco>, you wrote: > Hi Tcl/Tk & Next community! > > Subject says it all. I am encountering compile errors while trying to > install Tcl7.6 on a NextStation (32Mb) Mono running Openstep 4.0 > developer. > > Here is the output... > [....] > tclUnixFCmd.c: In function `TclpCreateDirectory': > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: `S_IRUSR' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: for each function it appears in.) > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: `S_IWUSR' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:430: `S_IXUSR' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c: In function `CopyFileAtts': > tclUnixFCmd.c:826: storage size of `tval' isn't known > tclUnixFCmd.c:829: `S_IRWXU' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:829: `S_IRWXG' undeclared (first use this function) > tclUnixFCmd.c:829: `S_IRWXO' undeclared (first use this function) > *** Exit 1 > Stop. Make sure you have the included header <bsd/sys/stat.h> tclUnixFCmd.c #include <bsd/sys/stat.h> > > > Help me please. I am a lowly sysadmin trying to write scripts in > Tcl/Tk, expect, and Perl. All of these have compiled fine at work > under NT3.51 and Solaris2.x (sparc). I'd really like to get to use > this lovely unix environment at home. > > TIA > > eric chu > echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com Hope that helps. Fabien --- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: vazquezr@physics.ucla.edu (Rick Vazquez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help!! Netinfo Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:17:06 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Message-ID: <5bm9d2$145i@uni.library.ucla.edu> Can someone please help. I have a probelm with my netinfo sever. I get mesages that my printer for example is read only. I can't delete or add any new users. Can some one please help Rick
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax locking modem port? Date: 16 Jan 1997 22:25:20 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5bm9sg$kve@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <5bm2tk$cfo@news.jhu.edu> In article <5bm2tk$cfo@news.jhu.edu> falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) writes: >I am trying to get NXFax to work with a MultiTech modem. Everything with >faxing is fine; I can send and receive. However, NXFax hangs up on incoming >data calls (yes, I've checked the appropriate box in preferences). It gets >halfway into the handshaking process, then quits. In trying to explore the >problem, I've also found that I cannot use tip to communicate with the modem >port; when I try, I get > >/dev/cub: Device busy >link down > Try using a tip host (in /etc/remote) that uses /dev/cufb, tip will then create a UUCP style lock for that port which should be the setting for NXFax in your case. Unfortunately, I don't know whether Black and White is still around or what your other problem might be. >If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's no problem >with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems are related, but if >either of them rings any kind of bell with anyone, please let me know. > >Also, does anyone know if Black and White Software, the makers of NXFax, >still exist? (Note that there's another Black and White Software, located in >California, which does not make NXFax!) > >Thanks for your help. > >Adam > >-- >Adam F. Falk >Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy >The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore MD 21218 >falk@jhu.edu, (410) 516-7817 (phone), (410) 516-7239 (fax) >http://fermi.pha.jhu.edu/personnel/falk/falk.html -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: notmy@address.org (Collin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mac <-> NeXTCube Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:12:51 -0500 Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <notmy-1601972112520001@cu-dialup-1724.cit.cornell.edu> Hi, I need some help connecting my Mac to my NeXTCube via Ethernet. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.2 and System 7.5.5 w/ OpenTransport. Supposedly there is an AppleTalk Client that came with the NeXT, but I can't find it. It's not in my preferences app where the manuals say it should be. I only have the OS that's installed so I can't reinstall it if it's missing. Soooo.... What does it take to build a TCP/IP network between the Mac and NeXT? How about if I wanted one machine to connect to the internet via modem and have both machines share the connection? Thanks...Collin ------- Sorry, I'm tired of junk email, so my reply address is invalid. clp5@cornell.edu
From: Isaac <isaac@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: NEXTSTEP Security, and NetInfo Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 13:30:55 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970115133002.22215A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <ericu-2212962230560001@crappie.execpc.com> <59thpe$1t6@portal.gmu.edu> <5a3c0a$726@hackberry.zilker.net> <5a58o4$l4q@portal.gmu.edu> <5ae66q$4j4@hackberry.zilker.net> <32CC439A.6458A6D3@screaming.org> <E3G6FL.2In@flop.schwaben.de> <4mqxz5W00iWp07cfk0@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4mqxz5W00iWp07cfk0@andrew.cmu.edu> On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Charles W Swiger wrote: > Crashme will kill (ie, lock up so that you have to do a hard reset, > since even the NMI monitor is wedged) m68k systems. Supposedly this is > because there is an m68k opcode that will cause a trap that the system > doesn't handle. Must be the famed HCF (Halt and Catch Fire) opcode. :) -Isaac
From: Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TOP Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 22:14:57 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970116221404.20650A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know were I can get TOP source code that will run on a NeXT server.
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Thanks for relocating home dirs help. Date: 17 Jan 1997 04:52:23 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5bn0i7$ei@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Thanks for the help with relocating my home dirs. Thanks for the help with the automount stuff, that fixed my problem. Once again, Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <exel@lag.ensieg.fr> Message-ID: <199701161645.IAA11080@isp.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 17:53:07 +0100 From: exel@lag.ensieg.fr (Matija Exel) Posted-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 17:53:07 +0100 Subject: HELP!!!: booted onto READ-only file system hello, I have a BIG problem with my NS 3.3 Intel station: the normal boot sequence cannot complete - it hangs somewhere trying to connect to my Sun NIS server: messages just before it stalls: ... setting NIS domainname to <NIS servername> ... starting RPC and network services:portmapadd ... netinfo ypbind lookupd >> hangs here! when I try to boot single user, however, I find myself on a READ-ONLY file system (/dev/sd0a on /)!!!??? There seems to be a problem with the rc.boot script which should give me the RW access. I can't see anything wrong otherwise (the NIS server is running and can PING me...). My last changes before this problem was to change the network configuration (ip addr, mask, gate) and it seemed to work -- until the reboot, that is!!! ANY help to get me to boot onto a RW filesystem will be immensely appreciated! M.Exel exel@lag.ensieg.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701162312.PAA18669@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 18:11:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Original Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:14:04 GMT > I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following > to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". man did that cause a panic fast (on 3.3) and about 12 unreferenced files when 'fsck' ran.... TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Search and Replace ascii text in multiple files from the commandline? Date: 17 Jan 1997 09:46:50 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-g-11.usc.edu Message-ID: <5bnhqa$pun@usc.edu> Is there a way to replace a character pattern throughout a series of ascii text files from the commandline? When I have to make the same change throughout a series of html docs, it'd be nice if I didn't have to open up multiple edit windows and do multiple search/replace. I'd rather be able to do it in some form of batch mode. Possible? -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mark@cyantic.com (Mark T. Dornfeld) Subject: MS NT printing to NextStep lpr Organization: CYANTIC Systems Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:05:57 GMT Message-ID: <1997Jan17.150557.1293@cyantic.com> We have MS NT/OpenStep Clients and are not able to print reliably to a NeXT print server with NeXT Laser Printer. We can only print one page at a time usually and sometimes the jobs don't print at all. Most of the print jobs are coming from MS-Office. Has anyone gotten this to work? Please reply by email if possible. -- -- Mark T. Dornfeld, Cyantic Systems Corporation Voice: (416) 621-6166 1 Eva Road Suite 301 Facsimile: (416) 621-6212 Etobicoke, Ontario, M9C 4Z5 CANADA Email: mark@cyantic.com
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Search and Replace ascii text in multiple files from the commandline? Date: 17 Jan 1997 10:04:51 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5bo7v3$8d7@pesto.cs.utexas.edu> References: <5bnhqa$pun@usc.edu> Ident-User: liuyi [Posted and Mailed] In article <5bnhqa$pun@usc.edu>, Matthew N. Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> wrote: > Is there a way to replace a character pattern throughout a series of > ascii text files from the commandline? > ... > Possible? Certainly! sed -- best bet for your quick & dirty script awk -- if the pattern is not too complicated perl -- swiss army knife liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@anet-dfw.com> | <liuyi@usa.net> Dallas, TX
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 14:00:04 GMT References: <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <-> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Responding To: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) >Original Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:14:04 GMT > > >> I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following >> to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". > >man did that cause a panic fast (on 3.3) and about 12 unreferenced >files when 'fsck' ran.... > Just as an update (Timothy and I have had email about this too) both he and I have used "Kill" successfully under 3.2. I don't have a 3.3 system to test it on, so I doubt I'll be able to do much fixing of it. I didn't write it anyway. :) -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: glenn@nowsoft.com (Tod L. Glenn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NeXTstep 3.3 Intel Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:32:15 -0800 Organization: Europa Communications Inc. [Portland, OR] Message-ID: <glenn-ya02408000R1701971032150001@news.europa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings, I recently aquired a copy of NeXTOS 3.3 for NeXT and Intel machines. The set includes a boot disk and CD. The boot disk appears to be for NeXT hardware only, and the CD does not seem to be in any common format (like ISO 9660) that allows it to be mounted on a PC. Is there some trick I'm missing to install, or do I need an Intel boot disk. And if so, where can I get one. -Thanks ---- Tod L. Glenn Internet Services Administrator Now Software ITG webmaster@nowsoft.com ---- http://www.nowsoft.com ftp://ftp.nowsoft.com listserv@nowsoft.com
From: amando@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXT Forum Digest Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:50:17 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <32DFADC9.1659@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anybody please tell me how to get the news mailed daily by email. I think this service is named "digest". TIA Amando Blasco
From: amando@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 18:53:41 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <32DFAE95.12F4@gcomm.com> References: 82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2 - <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> <SHESS.97Jan13214529@slave.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Scott Hess wrote: > > In article <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com>, > deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) writes: > Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > > : My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. > > : I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. > > : Is there a disktab for the zip drive? > > Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega > makes both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI > devices, that since one requires a disktab entry the other would, > too. > > It could be some sort of semi-standard implementation of SCSI. I have > an EZFlyer (230M, by Syquest), and it was _completely_ plug&play, but > . well, there are a number of minor nits. It sometimes pauses oddly > during the boot process, where experience with certain other devices > had lead me to believe it wouldn't pause. My suspicion is that it > reports something questionable in response to certain SCSI queries, > and then the system has to timeout before continuing. [For instance, > if it reports something about what type of device it is, but doesn't > correctly handle the requests for that device.] > > I'd bet the drive would have _zero_ nits on a Mac. :-). > > Later, > > -- > scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ > <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code> I have instaled a ZIP drive into my black hardware and I haven't got any problems, and I din't change the disktab. Amando Blasco
From: Frank Knobloch <Frank_K@inis.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 20:25:30 +0100 Organization: InIS * Individueller Informatik Service Message-ID: <32DFD22A.9F6@inis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: Frank_K@inis.de Hi there! Are there any known problems with appletalk under Next3.3? Next reads the CD, Next reads the FD formatted by a Mac, but we don't get an Apple as described in the adminbooks. We are using Next 3.3 on Intel Platforms and we woul like to connect ro an ethertalk Server (an original Mac or Windows NT running as Appleshare Server). Does anybody has some experiences?? Frank -- //--------------- InIS * Individueller Informatik Service------------ [ calling ++49-561-93598-0 andFax ++49-561-93598-46]; [ deliver mailto:info@inis.de ]; [ connect http://www.inis.de ];
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vgrind help? Message-ID: <1997Jan17.173654.92166@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 17 Jan 97 17:36:54 MDT References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Cc: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu In <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Randy Jackson wrote: > When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > > # vgrind area.cc > pscat: trouble reading .ct file > lpr: stdin: empty input file In the directory /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font, you will find a "map" file for each of your fonts. You must build corresponding "ct" files by running the shell script addtroff.sh (also found in the troff.font directory) on each of the map files as follows: ./addtroff.sh FONTNAME FONTNAME.map where FONTNAME is replaced by the font that you're building. This creates a directory FONTNAME with the ct file, and other needed files inside it. Now you need to copy the "font.head" file from the Helvetica directory to each of the font directories you just created. Then, vgrind should work. Good luck.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vgrind help? Message-ID: <1997Jan17.174454.92167@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 17 Jan 97 17:44:54 MDT References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Cc: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu In <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Randy Jackson wrote: > When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > > # vgrind area.cc > pscat: trouble reading .ct file > lpr: stdin: empty input file And you'll have to make one change to the config file in /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font BEFORE you run the addtroff.sh script. You need to change this line: usr/lib/transcript to this: PSLIBDIR=/usr/lib/transcript
From: longsine@platinum.com (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TOP Date: 18 Jan 1997 01:33:08 GMT Organization: PLATINUM technology, inc. (though i speak for myself only) Message-ID: <5bp98k$nj1@news.platinum.com> References: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970116221404.20650A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Cc: bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu In <Pine.SGI.3.94.970116221404.20650A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Brian Ward wrote: > Does anyone know were I can get TOP source code that will run on a NeXT > server. > http://www.peak.org/ftp/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/topv0.3.NIHS.bs.tar.gz -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| PLATINUM Technologies, Inc. | \ o.O| "The meek shall longsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= inherit nothin'." (612) 688-3033 x7814 & MIME) |. U - Frank Zappa
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vgrind help? Message-ID: <1997Jan17.180407.92169@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 17 Jan 97 18:04:06 MDT References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1997Jan17.174454.92167@cc.usu.edu> In <1997Jan17.174454.92167@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu wrote: > In <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Randy Jackson wrote: > > When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > > > > # vgrind area.cc > > pscat: trouble reading .ct file > > lpr: stdin: empty input file > > And you'll have to make one change to the config file in > /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font BEFORE you run the addtroff.sh > script. > > You need to change this line: > > > usr/lib/transcript > > to this: > > PSLIBDIR=/usr/lib/transcript Well, my newsreader cut out one of the lines above because apparently because it was too long. You need to change this line: < PSLIBDIR=/Net/delux/BinCache3/transcript/Roots/transcript-14.root~21/RC_m68k/usr/lib/transcript to this: PSLIBDIR=/usr/lib/transcript
From: TheCopyCatShop@noisp.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 03:30:38 +1 Organization: The Copy Cat Shop Message-ID: <cancel.5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> References: <5bp5gf$drj@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "TheCopyCatShop" or "summary of auto-cancels" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: CD Recordable Media.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171430.GAA10274@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f769ba6b795bfbc860252932174bc89c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:29:51 -0500 Subject: Re: PopOver + procmail ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f769ba6b795bfbc860252932174bc89c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Followup-To: : poster Responding To: Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Original Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:16:53 +0900 > Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or other > pop client) to procmail ? [ this is a software question ] yes, if you read the online docs to PopOver, you will see that you can use this dwrite PopOver MailDirectory "|/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail" (you can set "|/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail" as the Mail Directory from the Preferences panel TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171504.HAA14752@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 3edc735d7f57cfbca3c23eccbacf670b - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 10:03:59 -0500 Subject: Re: Search and Replace ascii text in multiple files from the commandline? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 3edc735d7f57cfbca3c23eccbacf670b - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Original Date: 17 Jan 1997 09:46:50 GMT > Is there a way to replace a character pattern throughout a series > of ascii text files from the commandline? I wrote a /bin/sh script to do this, you can use/test at your own risk. (it works for me). It would be good to test it on backups first. I've built some error checking into it, but not much either goto my mailserver web page http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/sra or send me an email message with the SUBJECT send-mime sra (sra, of course, stands for "search/replace all") It is used pretty simply. sra file1 file2 file3 file4 and it will ask you what you want to search for, and what you want to replace, and then it will go through those files and do it. Note: it is a sed script, basically, so if you are replacing HTML tags and whatnot, you might have to escape stuff (&*%*#^#/\) but for just text it works fine, which is why I wrote it (for dealing with plain text) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171433.GAA10631@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 8edc67b0eb1aa88d9f9c4d216649341c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:32:52 -0500 Subject: Re: Nextstation Turbo Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 8edc67b0eb1aa88d9f9c4d216649341c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Carlene Ewalt <ewalt001@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Original Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:34:28 -0600 > Today, we turned it off to move the ethernet jack...keeping the > same IP...but moving the computer and jack down the hallway and now > when I turn it on. I get almost immediately......... > > Next Rom Manager 3.3 (v74) > Exception #3 (0xc) at pc 0x1000646 sp 0xc03f600 > > I tried typing in ec and received error code 74. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. this is a non-fatal error message in my experience My slab does this if it has been off for a long time, and it has always (*knock on head*) come back on. I usually do hard-resets a few times in a row (left-command left-alternate and * from the keypad) or turn it off and back on several times and then it works fine. NOTE: this is also a good reason to get a UPS, so small power outages don't screw with your hardware TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171434.GAA10852@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 051d5d73af82be742a681ed67f4eb0ea - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:34:35 -0500 Subject: Re: help: entering hypertext in newsgroup posting? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 051d5d73af82be742a681ed67f4eb0ea - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "bernieb" <bernieb@ilx.com> Original Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:03:45 GMT > Can someone please let me know how to enter a hypertext link (like > a url address or e-mail address) into a usenet posting? you can't, and if you can, you shouldn't. you can use the ascii test of HTML in your post, but you shouldn't because people reading the post won't like having to read HTML TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171437.GAA11208@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 80c90363775f65728a01dace8f1002ac - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:36:55 -0500 Subject: Re: HELP!!!: booted onto READ-only file system Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 80c90363775f65728a01dace8f1002ac - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: exel@lag.ensieg.fr (Matija Exel) Original Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 17:53:07 +0100 Message-ID: 80c90363775f65728a01dace8f1002ac - > ANY help to get me to boot onto a RW filesystem will be immensely > appreciated! mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199701171438.GAA11379@PEAK.ORG> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 2d3f6e2fc0700a3349b89420a6f10983 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 17 Jan 97 09:38:28 -0500 Subject: Re: NXFax locking modem port? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 2d3f6e2fc0700a3349b89420a6f10983 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) Original Date: 16 Jan 1997 20:26:28 GMT > /dev/cub: Device busy > link down > > If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's > no problem with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems > are related, but if either of them rings any kind of bell with > anyone, please let me know. sounds like you might have a stale lock at /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cub > Also, does anyone know if Black and White Software, the makers of > NXFax, still exist? (Note that there's another Black and White > Software, located in California, which does not make NXFax!) last I knew they were, checkout 'sales@bandw.com' TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat Unix regular expression: (.*[^-a-zA-Z0-9_.])?) Windows regular expression: "Damn.... it crashed again" [If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp From: Matthew Hocker <hocker@interactive.net> Subject: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: IBS Interactive, Inc. Message-ID: <E3rxMD.5q0@news.interactive.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 03:56:37 GMT I've been pulling my hair out on this one. Here's the situation: System: NextStep 3.3, 25mhz colorstation Software: Taylor-UUCP, sendmail 8.8.3. Connection: UUCP via TCP/IP on a part-time dialup line. Symptoms: Received mail works fine. That is, I can email from outside and it will make it in on the next dialup. Mail inside the machine works fine. If mail is sent while the SLIP line is up, it makes it out just fine. However, mail to the outside world gets queued up in the /usr/spool/mqueue directory and never sees the light of day if the machine is not connected at the time the mail is sent. For example, my /usr/spool/mqueue directory looks like this: (truncated) -rw------- 1 hocker 298 Jan 9 21:31 dfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 hocker 297 Jan 9 21:32 dfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 296 Jan 9 22:35 dfWAA03913 -rw------- 1 root 593 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02699 -rw------- 1 root 592 Jan 9 22:15 qfVAA02710 -rw------- 1 hocker 591 Jan 9 22:35 qfWAA03913 -rw-r----- 1 root 35113 Jan 9 22:35 syslog -rw-r----- 1 root 29753 Jan 8 07:01 syslog.old Suspicion: I suspect that sendmail doesn't know how to make rmail work. But I can't figure out why not. Here's my .mc file: define(`SMART_HOST', uucp-dom:egate) divert(0)dnl VERSIONID(`@(#)samizdat.mc 8.6 (Berkeley) 3/23/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(waldo.com)dnl FEATURE(nodns)dnl FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl MAILER(uucp)dnl In addition, I believe that even though I say nodns, it is trying to look the address up via NetInfo. So...: How do I resolve this? I have scoured books, made pleas on the Net, and looked everywhere for help that I can. My appreciation would be HUGE for help in this area. PLEASE help! Thanks for any assistance. Honest! Matt -- __ Matthew Hocker, B.Eng (McGill) | Voice your concern about /\_\ "Believer in all things well-engineered" | Internet censorship! Write \/_/ hocker@onyx.interactive.net | to Senator-Gorton@ NeXTSTEP! NeXTmail and MIME welcomed here! | gorton.senate.gov !
From: rr@xs4all.nl (rr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 2.1 and UUCP/mail Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:55:17 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <rr-1801971155170001@ztm07-28.dial.xs4all.nl> Hi, I'm trying to configure uucp so I can fetch my email I'm having trouble with this. I'm using an ancient version of NS (2.1) I have a, also ancient, HSD InterFax 24/96 NX modem, I could really use some help, Rodney
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E46sxJ.5ns@flop.schwaben.de> References: <199701162312.PAA18669@PEAK.ORG> Cc: luomat@peak.org Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 04:39:19 GMT Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following > > to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". > > man did that cause a panic fast (on 3.3) and about 12 unreferenced > files when 'fsck' ran.... Yow! Same here, and I still wondered what managed to bring my otherwise rock-solid 3.3pl1 x86 system to a freezing halt. Not just your average panic with the NMI window, no - the whole machine just froze dead in its tracks a couple of seconds after I terminated Edit.app for fun. Big fun indeed! Can anybody explain this? The documentation to task_terminate() doesn't indicate any inherent evilness.. Holger -- Object web weaver | @work: hhoff@media-group.de Media group | @home: hhoff@schwaben.de (NeXTmail & PGP ok) Stuttgart, Germany | OPENSTEP. Resistance is futile.
From: Jesse.Tayler@OEinc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help creating router to get to PPP server from client Date: 18 Jan 1997 07:40:07 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5bpuon$ic8@q.seanet.com> Hello, I need some help creating router to get to my PPP server from my client machine. Situation: NEXTSTEP based server connects to internet via PPP. Client NEXTSTEP box works fine, but does not know how to get to outside the LAN. Solution?: Create a route for the client to see through the server? I seem to remember doing this with routing tables, but alas, I don't seem to remember exactly what and I'm tired of NXHosting OmniWeb and stuff. Please send me mail, or post a reply if you have fixed this problem... Thanks all! Jester -- Jesse Tayler Object Enterprises Incorporated 2608 Second Avenue Suite 119 Seattle WA 98121-1276 USA 206-217-0891 - PHONE 206-954-3284 - CELL Jesse.Tayler@OEinc.com http://www.oeinc.com
From: Ronald Pomeroy <rpomeroy@dallas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Image of 4.0 Driver Disk #2 needed Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:10:37 -0600 Organization: D'A Message-ID: <32E1667D.3413@dallas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi NeXTHeads, My second driver disk has spouted legs! Could someone kindly e-mail (MIME format) a copy of the drivers on disk 2 ? I searched NextAnswers for an image to no avail. Compress'ed tar.Z'ed gzip'ed Doesn't matter. Thanks in Advance, Ron (desperate) Pomeroy rpomeroy@dallas.net
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <475852914532@digifix.com> Date: 19 Jan 1997 04:57:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <413853649874@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: MIDI player for NeXTSte/68k ? Message-ID: <E3uLrt.E6H@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5au11f$mtt@news3.texas.net> Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 14:33:28 GMT In article <5au11f$mtt@news3.texas.net> Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> writes: > I'm looking for a MIDI file player for black hardware. thanks. > Get the SoundKit from Peak or Peanuts. Then look for Ensemble.app. Or download NoteAbility or Calliope if you want more than just recording and replaying MIDI files. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: batmon@abico.com.tw (Mon-Sen Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to do the backup with EXABYTE Model 8500 Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:24:56 GMT Organization: DCI HiNet Message-ID: <32d60acb.25319718@netnews.hinet.net> Hi all, We have just find a EXABYTE Model 8500 SCSI Backup device in our office, and would like to use it to backup NeXT Server. I buy a new 2GB 8mm DAT tape which will insert to the EXABYTE backup system, and would like to use it for backup. Can anybody tell me how to write out the "dump" command on the NeXT to do the full backup? In addition, if I would like to continue use the same tape (don't rewind after the full backup) and make another backup just backup users' information, users home directories' data, and directories' sturcture, then how should I write the "dump" command? And how to write the command to restore the data? If there is any good very easily understand refence about how to do the backup, please let me know too. Thank you. Best Regards, ·¨©s¾Ë¡]batmon¡^ batmon@abico.com.tw Ability Enterprise Co., Ltd. Part of ABiCO Group
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Kernel panic with PPP on cube Message-ID: <1997Jan11.174217.238@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 17:42:17 GMT I used to run ppp-2.2-0.4.6 under NS3.2 (m68k) successfully for some months. Since I recently changed my Provider, I sometimes have kernel panics when establishing the PPP connection. It happens short after the chatscript has finished. I don't get the panic every time, if I succed I have a stable PPP link running without panics. Any ideas ?
From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disappearing disk space Date: 19 Jan 1997 07:30:29 GMT Organization: University of Calgary CPSC Message-ID: <5bsiil$gcm@linux.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Summary: After defragging DOS SCSI disk, NSFIP saw 117 MB instead of 650MB Keywords: missing disk space, defragging, NSFIP Wishing to copy a large file from a NeXT formatted SCSI disk to a DOS SCSI disk, while running NSFIP, I decided to go back into DOS, defrag the disk, and then go back into NeXTSTEP and do the transfer. When I did this, the free space had dropped from 650 MB to 117 MB on the DOS disk. DOS was convinced there was still 650 MB on the disk. NSFIP saw the 117 MB and refused to transfer the file. I remember vaguely similar problems being posted a year or more ago. I checked NeXT Answers, but can find no mention of the problem. Anyone out there know of this problem and have a solution. I'd greatly appreciate hearing from you. Please send email and I'll summarise for the newsgroups. Many thanks. david -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 19 Jan 1997 07:14:27 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> References: <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <-> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > I didn't write it anyway. :) Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach Tasks. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue General Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014 USA Open/Intelligent Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.7200
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (Coffee) Subject: How to get mail to work? Message-ID: <E3v0vn.3I3@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 19:59:47 GMT Help. DNS on my machine, and NetInfo, for that matter, don't work. I've done everything I've been told to no avail at all. I can live without DNS, however. And certainly without NetInfo, being as I don't even personally know another NeXTStep user. However, I occasionally would like to recieve mail on my machine. Sendmail is actually running and I can send and recieve mail from/to people that have accounts on my machine. But I can't send or recieve mail from/to accounts off my machine. I can telnet to my machine, I can ftp, etc. I can also telnet and ftp out of my machine. Obviously sending mail is more complicated because I would have to send to a host listed in /etc/hosts, but that doesn't matter to me. What matters really is to be able to forward my NeXTmail to my machine from my e-mail account at school. Any ideas or advice? confused and lost, most ignorant me. -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:18:32 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32E38CC8.2307@ibp.de> References: <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Johnson wrote: > > It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in crontab > to automatically turn off the NeXT prn and I thought I saved the info > but can't find it now that I ready to try to do it. > Can anyone refresh my 'database', please? > > Stephen nppower on | off Fun, Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: mpaque@next.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 20 Jan 1997 20:19:59 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5c0k1f$r5t@news.next.com> References: <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> In article <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) writes: > In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, > David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > > I didn't write it anyway. :) > > Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach > Tasks. That might be a less than good idea. Those things with PID of -1 named <mach-task> correspond to Mach address spaces and threads within the kernel used for assorted housekeeping purposes. Killing them may result in what we highly technical types refer to as a 'suprise', e.g., kernel panic. Mike Paquette -- I don't speak for my employer, and they don't speak for me. "May you live in interesting times." - Old Chinese curse
From: nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au (Nicole Vincent) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS4.0, PPP and NetInfo Sleeping problems Date: 19 Jan 1997 12:02:19 GMT Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Message-ID: <5bt2gb$o57$1@lucy.swin.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hi I recently upgraded my machine from NS 3.3 to 4.0. Having run Steve Perkins' PPP under 3.3, I just presumed that everything would run as usual,... unfortunately I've experienced some problems with the following message and I'd appreciate some enlightenment on its cause, and hopefully a remedy: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping It seems that whenever I try to bring up the Print panel, or even start up OmniWeb, if my computer is connected to the rest of the network, it will almost certainly go into spinnyland, for at least some time, if not for good. This does not happed when my machine is not connected to the rest of the world, but just when I connect up. I presume that there are problems with the routing, so here's my routing information: number_one:/private/adm # netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 468 lo0 136.186.6.61 136.186.6.62 UH 2 1407 ppp0 136.186.6.221 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 default 136.186.6.61 UG 1 152 ppp0 192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 2 1721 en0 number_one:/private/adm # netstat -r Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface number_one number_one UH 4 468 lo0 pedder.csse.swin number_one.csse.sw UH 2 1415 ppp0 ivanova 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 default pedder.csse.swin.e UG 1 154 ppp0 next-default 192.42.172.1 U 2 1750 en0 (Please note, ivanova or 136.186.6.221 is just a computer sitting on the local ethernet cable,... I've put in an additional route to make sure that all IP packets are just put onto the local ethernet rather than through the default route) If anyone can help me in any manner then I'd appreciate it very much. And if someone else needs info on a similar problem then I can post a summary if needed. Cheers Nicole -- ---------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted ---------------------- Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
From: stuart@redwood.northcoast.com (Stuart Staniford-Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: US Robotics modem and Gatekeeper Date: 20 Jan 1997 19:25:30 GMT Organization: Northcoast Internet Message-ID: <5c0gra$5fc@alder.northcoast.com> I'm trying to set up Gatekeeper (v2.0) /PPP with a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster modem and I'm not getting through to my provider (the modems negotiate but I never get a carrier). I *can* get through to a shell account with kermit. I suspect my problem is with the entry in /etc/remote or with the modem initialization. Can anyone who has done this help me out with their setup? Thanks, Stuart Staniford-Chen Computer Security Group UC Davis.
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one ?? Date: 20 Jan 97 19:56:41 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.97Jan20195641@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Hi! I received this message during a system panic the other day. Can anyone clue me in on what my 040 NS3.3 machine is trying to tell me? :-) mach: panic: (Cpu 0) fp not one Jason Asbahr 808 Sul Ross Suite 7 Reactive Systems Houston, Texas 77006 jason@reactive.com (713) 942-7937 voice
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Compiling Perl5 - Help! Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 02:04:46 GMT Organization: Ohio State University Message-ID: <32e623b4.39404906@nntp.service.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev, 32 megs ram. I followed the config/install instructions, and got to: AutoSplitting perl library Making DynaLoader (static) sh: 5303 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. vm_stat provides: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 1833. Pages active: 1405. Pages inactive: 297. Pages wired down: 409. "Translation faults": 467758. Pages copy-on-write: 81313. Pages zero filled: 65599. Pages reactivated: 190004. Pageins: 11408. Pageouts: 164. Object cache: 47016 hits of 52878 lookups (88% hit rate) I'd guess it's running out of memory. (the machine has 32 megs ram) Any advice would be appreciated. -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: i455@baracke.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS4.0, PPP and NetInfo Sleeping problems Date: 21 Jan 1997 08:49:06 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5c1vu2$us0@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5bt2gb$o57$1@lucy.swin.edu.au> Nicole Vincent (nicolev@pedder.csse.swin.edu.au) wrote: : hi : : I recently upgraded my machine from NS 3.3 to 4.0. Having run Steve Perkins' : PPP under 3.3, I just presumed that everything would run as usual,... : unfortunately I've experienced some problems with the following message and : I'd appreciate some enlightenment on its cause, and hopefully a remedy: : : NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping : : It seems that whenever I try to bring up the Print panel, or even start up : OmniWeb, if my computer is connected to the rest of the network, it will almost : certainly go into spinnyland, for at least some time, if not for good. This : does not happed when my machine is not connected to the rest of the world, : but just when I connect up. : : I presume that there are problems with the routing, so here's my routing : information: : : number_one:/private/adm # netstat -rn : Routing tables : Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface : 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 468 lo0 : 136.186.6.61 136.186.6.62 UH 2 1407 ppp0 : 136.186.6.221 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 : default 136.186.6.61 UG 1 152 ppp0 : 192.42.172 192.42.172.1 U 2 1721 en0 : number_one:/private/adm # netstat -r : Routing tables : Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface : number_one number_one UH 4 468 lo0 : pedder.csse.swin number_one.csse.sw UH 2 1415 ppp0 : ivanova 192.42.172.1 UH 0 4 en0 : default pedder.csse.swin.e UG 1 154 ppp0 : next-default 192.42.172.1 U 2 1750 en0 : : (Please note, ivanova or 136.186.6.221 is just a computer sitting on the local : ethernet cable,... I've put in an additional route to make sure that all : IP packets are just put onto the local ethernet rather than through the : default route) : : If anyone can help me in any manner then I'd appreciate it very much. And : if someone else needs info on a similar problem then I can post a summary if : needed. : : Cheers : : Nicole : -- : ---------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted ---------------------- : : Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au : MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA : : The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. : -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8 Add the following to your /etc/ppp/ip-up: ------------------------------------------------------- # # Add a route to localhost so netinfo won't sleep. # /usr/etc/route add $4 127.0.0.1 0 ------------------------------------------------------- (from ip-up.example of the ppp_2_2.0.4.6-distribution) -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page ==========================================================================
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Date: 13 Jan 97 21:45:29 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan13214529@slave.one.net> References: 82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2 - <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> In-reply-to: deniseh@nntp.best.com's message of 13 Jan 1997 19:27:15 GMT In article <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com>, deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) writes: Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. : I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. : Is there a disktab for the zip drive? Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega makes both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI devices, that since one requires a disktab entry the other would, too. It could be some sort of semi-standard implementation of SCSI. I have an EZFlyer (230M, by Syquest), and it was _completely_ plug&play, but . well, there are a number of minor nits. It sometimes pauses oddly during the boot process, where experience with certain other devices had lead me to believe it wouldn't pause. My suspicion is that it reports something questionable in response to certain SCSI queries, and then the system has to timeout before continuing. [For instance, if it reports something about what type of device it is, but doesn't correctly handle the requests for that device.] I'd bet the drive would have _zero_ nits on a Mac. :-). Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <I plan to become so famous that people buy tapes of me reading source code>
From: grindrod@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT equivalent for IPMaskerading Date: 21 Jan 1997 08:27:01 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c1ukl$61q@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> Is there equivalent software for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP to the linux IPMaskerading. I want to connect local LAN networks to the internet through my NeXTSTEP PC server and a modem. Has anyone started looking into the NAT protocol yet for NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: grindrod@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE (David Grindrod) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multi Processor machines Date: 21 Jan 1997 08:31:36 GMT Organization: EMBL Heidelberg Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c1ut8$61q@lion.embl-heidelberg.de> I am looking to upgrade my home machine (and buy some machines for work) toa multi processor pentium pro processors. I know that NeXT does not support multi processors but does anyone have any suggestions on the best multi processor board to buy which works well with NeXT software. The machine/machines will also run Windows NT or Solaris 2.5. All my components before upgrading are fairly standard - Adaptec SCSI, Matrox millenium graphics cards, Soundblaster sound card. Thanks Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connect up a dumb terminal (or a Psion) to Next serial Port? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 12:52:18 GMT Message-ID: <32e59139.681904@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'd like to plug in a very stupid PC (or perhaps a moderately intelligent Psion series 3 :-) handheld ) running a terminal package to a serial port on my Next (Color NextStation running NS3.3). This is (a) so I can type from another room sometimes, (b) to let someone else at home do word processing, and (c) to learn a bit more about Unix. All the advice in the manuals is for modems. Can anyone give me a step-by-step description of what to do? I'm quite new to Unix system administration. I've changed /etc/ttys In particular, does it have to be plugged in, switched on and running when the Next wakes up? If not, what is it that tells the Next there is activity on the port? In the long-term I'm also interested in an 'old-fashioned' Unix system at work where we have a number of dumb terminals around the building actually, old PCs I can pick up for next to nothing running comms packages, or handhelds). What options are there for hooking up more than two terminals at once to a Next box? and how did Unix systems do it in the old days? P.S. about a year ago I saw references to a package for connecting Psion Series 3 to a Next. Altavista came up blank. Does anyone know about this? Many thanks, Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
From: Petr Novak <novak@microcomp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo and lookupd problem Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:32:46 +0100 Organization: Microcomp GmbH , Cologne, Germany Message-ID: <32E4B76E.2C3B@microcomp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo, after changing IP adresses in the network (3.2, 3.3) the server is O.K but during boot clients get the right new IPs, names and then client hangs repeating message: lookupd[105] NetInfo connection failed for server ... Netmask on client is 0.0.0.0 (!?) , ping from server works Thanks for any hints. Petr
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Installation FAQ? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 09:02:05 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is there a NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware? Thanks, Jason
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NS Install on new HD? Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 08:58:42 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <32DB4AC2.6987@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTstation mono with a 100MB internal hard drive that I would like to replace with a 1GB Seagate ST31230N. The new SCSI hard drive mounts fine but I do not know how to install NeXTSTEP onto it. I have NS 3.0 on cdrom and I have a NEC 6x SCSI cdrom connected to the NeXTstation and it works with the 100MB drive with NS loaded. When I boot with the new hard drive I get to a ROM monitor and I type b to boot. It examines the SCSI devices and then tries to load off of the cdrom and then craps out. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E3zD3G.KLv@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:14:04 GMT References: <5b0p9r$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5b0p9r$89r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com>, Art Isbell <aisbell@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > More and more frequently, various processes running under OS/Mach/m68k >4.1 become uninterruptible (their "ps" state is "U"). When this happens, the >processes hang and cannot be killed (at least, kill -9 from root doesn't >work). > I don't know why it happens, but you can always use the following to get rid of them. I call it "Kill". #include <stdio.h> #include <mach.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]){ if(argc != 2){ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s pid\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } else { task_t task; task_by_unix_pid(task_self(), atoi(argv[1]), &task); task_terminate(task); exit(0); } } -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Iomega drive as a external HD? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E3zD88.AKD@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 04:16:56 GMT References: <82111ca86615b7a44a775274a4298ce2> <-> <199701121306.FAA22959@PEAK.ORG> <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5be2aj$f9q@nntp1.best.com>, Denise Howard <deniseh@nntp.best.com> wrote: >Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > >: My SyQuest drive didn't need a disktab. > >: I haven't heard that Zip drives do either, only Jaz drives. > >: Is there a disktab for the zip drive? > >Hm, maybe not! I presumed--perhaps incorrectly--that since Iomega makes >both Jaz and Zip drives and they're both external SCSI devices, that since >one requires a disktab entry the other would, too. > The Jaz drive wants one (disk complains about the front porch being too small), but Zip drives *don't*. Plug in and go. I've also successfully read Mac-formmated Zip and Jaz disks. This is on 3.2 Motorola. I seem to recall that removable DOS filesystems didn't relly work properly until 3.3, so I haven't tried those. And, BTW, in case anyone cares, I finally (after almose four months) got my free goodies from Iomega's Zip promotion. No rebate cheque yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday! -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: aslater@jocko.bri.hp.com (Al Slater) Subject: Re: HP Tape drive woes Sender: news@bri.hp.com (News User) Message-ID: <E408CA.JxJ@bri.hp.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 15:28:58 GMT References: <5b34ng$9vl@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Chris Saldanha (chris@computerActive.on.ca) wrote: : I've got a P5-133 machine running NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 and an HP C1533A 8GB DAT drive : (internal, connected to a Symbios Logic SCSI card). : My problem is that none of the command-line tools like mt, tar, gnutar are unable : to write to the tape. mt works for "rewind" and "offline", but not for "eof". : Each time I attempt a write operation I get something in the messages file like: : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write filemarks returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- Which means ... it reckons it's write protected. Sense code 30h, IFF it is the ASC (really it would be nice to have the ASCQ as well) could be: incompatible medium can't read media, unknown format cannot read media, incompatible media cleaning cartridge installed. none of which tie up with the inital sense key. : or : -------- : st0, target 3, LUN 0: op Write data (10 byte) returned Check Status, Sense Valid : Sense key = 0x7 Sense Code = 0x30 : -------- : and all the commands say is "I/O error" on /dev/rst0. Is there a place where I : can find out what the codes mean? ditto as above error. Generally, this is published in the OEM technical ref. set, in the SCSI interface volume. User type manuals don't have this in. : Has anyone seen this problem with this tape drive? I'm also running the same tape : drive (external, on a black turbo slab, NeXTSTEP 3.2) and it works A-OK. Doesn't ring a bell. What have you got the dips on the underneath set to? (nor does it look even vaguely like the write filemarks specific sense data returned on EOP/M encountered/early warning (EW) encountered). cheers, al (not speaking for HP..)
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:45:48 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DB8E0C.4809@ibp.de> References: <E3yrAB.1MG@mediahaus.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Piers Uso Walter wrote: > > Problems with printing fonts on Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS > > I'm using an ethernet based Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS to print from > NEXTSTEP. I think I've got everything set up correctly in Netinfo since > I can print without any problem and can set the printer options > (resolution, paper feed, fine print etc.) as well. > > I cannot, however, correctly print documents containing non-standard > fonts (e.g. Stone Serif Medium). Since the LaserWriter does not know > these fonts, they come out as Courier. Is there anything I can do so > that the fonts not known by the printer are automatically downloaded to > the printer with the PostScript job? > > Currently I have to resort to the "Save" option in PrintPanel, > specifying "Chosen printer, include fonts" and then print the resulting > PS file. Surely there must be an easier way (what would all the Mac > guys say if this is how they'd have to print in the future ;-). > > Does anybody have any idea? > > Piers Uso Walter > ilink GmbH > Piers_Walter@ilink.de Maybe fontloader(1) can help you. It's got a man page... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (Thomas Funke) Subject: Strange mach message Message-ID: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Organization: Disorganization Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 11:36:33 GMT After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get a lot of messages Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine.
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:57:55 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32DBBB13.658F@ibp.de> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Terry R. McConnell wrote: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me > this should work and would provide all the command line niceties (e.g, > command-completion) that the distribution shell lacks. ( I have replaced > the distribution csh with tcsh with no obvious ill effects.) > > Unfortunately, if I do: [snip] I know you didn't ask, but... Why do you want to replace /bin/sh? If you want to have bash as your default shell, you might simply set it in UserManager.app (after having it added to /etc/shells) I might be missing the point completely - then I'm sorry... Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus G <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Strange mach message Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xvi90ndef.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <1997Jan14.113633.701@gamelan.shnet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 21:40:56 GMT >>>>> "TF" == Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org> writes: TF> After I installed a new version (1.06.1) of Taylor uucp, I get TF> a lot of messages TF> Jan 14 12:29:19 gamelan mach: tty3041: canon input overrun TF> Jan 14 12:30:03 gamelan last message repeated 13579 times TF> As I have never seen those before, I have no clue what TF> happened. The uucp-poll seems to work fine. I get the same messages and I never discovered the source (mouse movement, a particular app, port speed?). I just ignore it. Markus G
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: TurboColor slab won't boot Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 14:55:27 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32E51F2F.3162@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently sold my venerable slab in favor of a TurboColor slab, and the same drive which was in my old machine (known good OS and drive) won't boot in the new machine. It gives me the followin error after telling me that it is attempting to boot sd(0,0,0): Exception #4 (0x10) at pc 0x438001a sp 0xa7ff106. ec reports error code 65. Does anyone know what this might be? I know it isn't anything wrong with the drive. Also, extended SCSI diagnostics check out okay when I boot the machine. Thanks! Karl
From: esteban gutierrez <esteban@CERF.NET> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem booting NetInfo server with a hanging import. Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 11:46:05 -0800 Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon Message-ID: <32E51CFD.58BC@CERF.NET> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings- A client of mine had their Next network setup so taht this problem is occuring: NI server is booted but hangs when it hits an error trying to import a directory to a machine B. Machine B netboots off of the NI server. When I "bsd -s" on the NI server I can't find the file that tells it to do the import to machine B. I can't run the GUI because I am in single user. Can any one lend a hand? -- esteban ___________________________________________________________ esteban@cerf.net ___________________________________________________________
From: bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Creating 2nd Swapfile Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:16:17 GMT Organization: New York University Message-ID: <5c3io1$b7d$1@news.nyu.edu> How does one build a second swapfile? I know that one can add an additional line to /etc/swaptab to specify lowat and hiwat marks, but (I think) that assumes that a swap disk has been appropriately built. The Next sysadmin manual simply describes how BuildDIsk will create an additional swap disk when you add a disk that is too small to be a bootable disk. I want to create an additional swapfile on a 2nd SCSI disk (/dev/sd2a). Only a small portion of this 2 GB disk will be used for a 2nd swapfile. Any thoughts/suggestions? Brian -- Brian McElree Experimental Psychology New York University 6 Washington Place, 8th Floor NY, NY, 10003 <bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu> NeXT Mail <bdm@vayu.psych.nyu.edu>
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Re: NS 3.3 on IBM PC-350 P166 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 23:57:15 -0600 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <32DC71BB.55A1D8B9@screaming.org> References: <5bgsfq$c5t$1@loki.tor.hookup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Graeme Perrow wrote: > Does anyone know if NeXTStep v3.3 will run on an IBM PC-350 > 166MHz Pentium? We have been having problems with some P166's > (Digital, HP), so I'd like to know if this machine will work > before I go and buy it. Some information about the hardware (other than the CPU) would be helpful. (disk controller, video card, sound card, network card...) -- pohl@screaming.org |"Reality is that which when you stop believing http://screaming.org/ | in it doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- OpenStep Inferno Java | Making the world safe for platform diversity.
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Woes Date: 22 Jan 1997 03:17:52 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5c40t1$nbd@boursy.news.erols.com> I am using nexstep 3.3 on an intel box and was sending mail regularly to the internet world by way of Mail.app. My service provider EROL's cahnged machines on me an my mail does not get sent anymore with the message in /usr/spool/mqueue reading : AA00242: to=vision@1stsight.com, delay=00:00:01, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mailhost I have tried changing IP number in host manager to the new one provided by the ISP, but it still does not work. Any suggestions. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc., www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Woes Date: 22 Jan 1997 04:03:05 GMT Organization: FirstSight Inc. Message-ID: <5c43hp$nbd@boursy.news.erols.com> I have been able to send mail using mail.app till the other day when my ISP changed machine IP addresses on me. They gave me a new number but the system still won't send mail my /usr/spooll/mqueue reads: Jan 21 22:56:47 localhost sendmail[285]: AA00242: to=vision@1stsight.com, delay=00:56:44, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by mailhost I have changed the IP number in Host Manager and stiill nothing happens. My ISP say they have rotating servers that handle the mail. But the host name for the mail is smtp.erols.com. Any suggestions? Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: SCSITape and NS4.1 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 22 Jan 1997 04:15:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5c4494$psd@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hello, for the last 3 days I have been trying to install a driver for my DAT drive on my new 4.1 Intel setup. Rumor has it that the 4.X tape driver is broken, but somehow I hope there is a workaround for such an essential feature. If you have info how to make a tape work on 4.X, please let me know. Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: smb3u@kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu (Steven M. Boker) Subject: Suggestions for PPP for NeXT LAN? Message-ID: <E4DIK9.My@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Notre Dame, Department of Psychology Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 19:38:32 GMT Hi all- I have a small LAN at home where I do consulting (2 cubes, 1 Intel all running 3.3) and I'd like to connect to the internet through the University. They've given me the go-ahead with a small block of fixed IPs to set up a PPP link from my LAN. I'm wondering what sort of suggestions people have for the easiest and most effect way to go about this. I'd like to have a minimum maintenence solution if possible. One possible solution may be a separate box sitting on the LAN doing the routing and taking care of the POTS line. Another possibility may be a software solution sitting in one of the NeXT boxes. Does anyone have suggestions? Recommendations? Warnings? Beer? Steve --- Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 -- Steven M. Boker (219) 631-4941 (office) (219) 631-8883 (fax) boker@virginia.edu http://kiptron.psyc.virginia.edu/steve_boker/ Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: Leon Farfel <Leon.Farfel@ToolCASE.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printing from Windows95 to NeXT. Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 00:08:39 -0700 Organization: ToolCASE Computing Inc Message-ID: <32E5BCF7.116E@ToolCASE.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I print from Windows95 via Samba to NeXT laser printer? Or how do I set up Windows95 to print via Samba on NeXT laser printer. Thank you. Leon Farfel. Please CC your answer to leon.farfel@toolcase.com
From: sschuang@singapore.sun.com (Shyne-Song Chuang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Security! sendmail upgrade... Date: 22 Jan 1997 07:01:32 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c4e0c$d5j@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> Keywords: sendmail security bug 8.8.4 8.8.5 eric allman Hi folks, Since many NeXT Internet systems use an upgraded sendmail (probably at 8.8.4), this may be quite important (see F=9 delivery agent config below). I've compiled it over lunch but I need to test it tonight... Rgds, Song In article 4vb@mserv1.dl.ac.uk, Eric Allman <eric@Sendmail.ORG> writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > FTP://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.tar.gz > FTP://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/ucb/src/sendmail/sendmail.8.8.5.tar.gz > > This release fixes a nasty security bug that allows an external > attacker to get root privileges. This problem appeared in 8.8.3. > It is essential that you upgrade ASAP if you are running 8.8.3 or > 8.8.4. If you cannot upgrade immediately, turn off the F=9 flag > on the local and prog mailers. You can do this by editing the > /etc/sendmail.cf file and look for the lines beginning Mlocal and > Mprog. Find the field beginning "F=" and delete the digit "9" > from the following string. Then restart the sendmail daemon. > If your configuration file does not include the F=9 flag, then > you are not vulnerable. A CERT Advisory on this vulnerability > will be released soon. > > I believe this to be the problem claimed by bob2@seanet.com in a > posting to comp.security.unix on January 9. However, despite the > claim in the posting that an exploit script was sent to me and to > CERT, neither of us received any such message. The delay between > that posting and this release is a direct cause of time spent trying > to find the problem and verify whether this is the vulnerability > that poster had in mind. Since he declined to answer any e-mail, > we spent a considerable amount of time trying to assure ourselves > that there wasn't another problem. > > I've had people tell me that there is a perception that I don't > care about security. That isn't true -- in fact, security is one > of my top concerns. However, I can't do it alone. Sendmail has > always been a part time project for me, something done in my > so-called free time. I need the help of you out there to improve > the security of sendmail. Finding a hole and then not passing it > on to someone who can fix it doesn't help improve the net. We're > all in this together -- please, let's start working as a team. > > It has been suggested to me that I try to organize "tiger teams" > of hackers to do critical security-related code reviews. I haven't > had time to organize such a thing myself, and I haven't been able > to find someone else who was willing to organize the process. > However, my time commitments have recently changed enough that I > would be willing to attempt this if members of the hacker community > were willing to volunteer their time. Please let me know if you > have energy to help out. > > eric > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: 2.6.2 > > iQCVAwUBMuUWiyPkYtS/e6QhAQFtLgQAjl2HW4velzs4I5POCZaJY/QbTbYW/fLC > oIxlRRyjeEcfNYCqqSN1kX2QkwNmlDya6uhXdK5DXvysEu5DebPmWniDkeDu+T+y > e3ON0Mmv3cVwccpYoq7bak3+e6EEg9sf586inPbD002OzZDYgKGfs/CUg6k0X+Gi > LfemAMJwHGs= > =EjSW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
From: Charles W Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail question and problem... Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 14:48:21 -0500 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EmqyA5_00iWp07chg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: 123366084d1135d7d130fca20a84295d - <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> In-Reply-To: <199701101516.HAA25462@PEAK.ORG> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Jan-97 Re: Taylor UUCP/sendmail qu.. by Timothy J Luoma@peak.org > /usr/lib/sendmail -q > > to flush the mailq. Actually I've got a script that runs sendmail > -q until the Q is empty (up to 50 times). Drop me a note if you'd > like a copy No need for that. Run the queue once with 'sendmail -q', and then run sendmail as a daemon with whatever retry interval you wish (eq, 'sendmail -bd -q15m') until you bring your dialup line down. Sendmail will do a smarter, better job of flushing the queue running in daemon mode than it would by repeatedly running it until the queue is empty. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to find the right CD for a given package name Date: 15 Jan 1997 12:18:09 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5bihu1$5na@stern.fokus.gmd.de> Hi, several times when I was looking for a package (4Dgifts.src.full e.g.) I have to play disc jockey and scan through the distributions. Is there an elegant way to find the right CD? Thanks in advance, Robert -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: snyers@yosemite.enst-bretagne.fr (Dominique SNYERS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem installing 4.1 Date: 22 Jan 1997 09:57:53 GMT Organization: ENST de Bretagne, Brest FRANCE Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c4ob1$nu5@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> I tried to install 4.1 from a 3.3 yesterday. I ended up with a corrupted disk. /privite/dev seems to be corrupted and I cannot boot anymore. Any advice to deal with the problem? How could I boot and replace /private/dev without having to reinstall everything by reformatting the disk? There is a few thing on the disk I would like to keep. Thank for any hint Dom Snyers -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Laboratoire d'Intelligence Artificielle et Sciences Cognitives (LIASC) Telecom Bretagne BP 832 29285 BREST CEDEX FRANCE Tel: (33) 2 98 00 14 31
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Why is 83Hz refresh the limit for my ELSA WINNER? Message-ID: <E4B5Lr.Hwv@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organisation: AWT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 13:03:27 GMT Under Windows NT I can run my screen at 1152*864 @90Hz or even 100Hz (I forget if 100Hz was only for 1024*768). Under NEXTSTEP however, if I hack around to tell the ELSE driver to do 90Hz, the monitor (IIYama Visionmaster Pro-17) starts to complain about too high frequencies. It looks like the driver assumes at 90Hz that also the horizontal refresh rate has to go up and thus gets over the bandwidth the IIYama monitor can handle. Does anybody know the details? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.nospam (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Message-ID: <1997Jan15.093531.744@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu Organization: Disorganization References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 09:35:31 GMT In <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> Terry R. McConnell wrote: > > Sorry if this is an FAQ. I checked the only faq list I could find and > didn't see it. > > I have a black station running 3.2 and would like to replace /bin/sh with > bash 2.0. Bash is supposedly Bourne shell compatible, so it seemed to me /bin/sh is one of the hearts of a unix system. Never replace the original one with some "supposed compatible" shell. NEVER !!!! (The same is true - to a smaller degree - with /bin/csh) If you want bash for you login shell, just make a change with usermanager. Add bash to /etc/shells.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Interesting console message Date: 15 Jan 1997 17:33:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5bj4dc$s7a$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> While doing a routine scan of my /usr/adm/messages file I found the following: Jan 14 09:20:28 vader netmsgserver[24]: crypt_decrypt_packet.km_get_dkey fails, host id = cf690602. Can anyone interpret this one? Even speculation would be useful. Also, there doesn't seem to be any other corresponding symptoms. --Ryan
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jetpilot problem, in all apps Date: 13 Jan 1997 21:39:42 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5bea2u$7qu@uruguay.earthlink.net> Hello everyone. I have been using the latest version of Jetpilot to do my printing in NSFIP3.3 for over a year now without any problems. However recently, today, I have been getting the following message... "General License Problem" This happens in any app that can print, regardless if I am logged in as root or user account. Has anyone seen this before and can suggest a fix or workaround? Thank you. Please respond to one of the addresses below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Bill Bradford <mrbill@texas.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Audio CDs and NeXTStep 3.2/Moto Date: 22 Jan 1997 17:11:05 GMT Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Message-ID: <5c5hn9$ctc@news3.texas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Can't get Audio CDs to mount at all on my 3.2/Moto system (Foundation Kit installed). Regular data CDs (the NS3.2 and 3.0 CD-ROMs) work fine; the cd-rom drive is a Toshiba 3301. Whenever I put in an audio disc, it chews on it for a few seconds, then spits it out. According to the console, it has a bad block 0, or whatever. Never tries to mount it as an audio CD. Have tried *all* the various audio CD player programs, none work (because the system wont properly mount the audio disc). It's almost as if the system won't recognize/mount audio CDs.. did I forget to add a filesystem type somewhere?..... Please email responses to mrbill@texas.net if possible; I've got all these nifty CDs here that I want to listen to . . . . -- Bill Bradford (BB2623) Systems Admin, UNIX geek, BOFH mrbill@texas.net * mrbill@mrbill.net Texas Networking, Inc. "Its hard to beleive that the entire fate of 823 Congress, Suite 440 the world lies in the hands of the Phone Austin, TX 78701 Company" - War of the Worlds http://www.texas.net
Message-ID: <32DCED3D.432E@lhep.unibe.ch> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 15:44:13 +0100 From: Juerg Beringer <beringer@lhep.unibe.ch> Organization: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Access to NS/Intel boot time options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Is it possible to access within the rc startup scripts the options entered at the NeXTStep (V3.3) boot prompt of an Intel machine? I am using e.g. config=SCSI at the boot prompt to load the device drivers according to a table SCSI.table (in /usr/Devices/System.config) instead of the standard Instance0 table. For different reasons I'd like to know in the startup scripts which options (if any) were selected. Thanks for any hints! Juerg. ****************************************************************************** Juerg Beringer Phone: +41 (31) 631 40 62 University of Bern FAX: +41 (31) 631 44 87 Laboratory for High Energy Physics Sidlerstrasse 5 E-mail: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch CH-3012 Bern HEPNET/SPAN: 20579::49202::BERINGER SWITZERLAND DECNET (Switzerland): 49202::BERINGER ******************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu (Coffee) Subject: sendmail config mystery Message-ID: <E4FA57.4E9@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: The University of Chicago Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 18:31:55 GMT In my slow but pleasant advancement through the world of configuring my computer, I have decided to see how its e-mail works. And it does send mail to other computers... significant improvement over last time. I'm on ethernet, on a standalone machine that has no NetInfo hosts to which it can connect. I am using the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf config file as the sendmail config file. I use NS 3.2 on a NextStation mono. I currently pop mail from my other accounts to this machine, but I'd also like to be able to send and recieve mail on this machine independent of the popper. When I first recieved the machine I was able to do this. I replaced /etc/sendmail with /usr/template/client/etc/sendmail, but to no avail. Does anyone have any ideas? what follows is the error message: When I try to send a message to anyone on the machine from any host, I receive the following message: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:23:08 -0600 From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent> Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable To: bryce ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While connected to bj2-88.rh: >>> HELO bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu <<< 553 bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu config error: mail loops back to myself 554 bryce@bj2-88.rh... 554 Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <bryce> Received: by bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu (NX5.67d/NX3.0S) id AA00290; Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:23:08 -0600 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 12:23:08 -0600 From: Bryce Sady <bryce> Message-Id: <9701221823.AA00290@bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.100.RR) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.100.RR) To: bryce@bj2-88.rh.uchicago.edu Subject: test Reply-To: bbsady@midway.uchicago.edu test -- ()-() Bryce B. Sady NeXT mail Welcome (o o) http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/bbsady /\o/\
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Creating 2nd Swapfile Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:49:04 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <AmtZAEu00iV_86I3U=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5c3io1$b7d$1@news.nyu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5c3io1$b7d$1@news.nyu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Jan-97 Creating 2nd Swapfile by bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu > How does one build a second swapfile? I know that one can > add an additional line to /etc/swaptab to specify lowat and > hiwat marks, but (I think) that assumes that a swap disk has > been appropriately built. Use 'mkfile' to create a swap file of size equal to the low water mark. You could just 'touch' the file to create an empty one, but it's better not to fragment the swap file or incrementally increase it's size below the low water mark size. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Chris Raven <craven@planete.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Single user boot Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 20:16:26 +0100 Organization: Pressicom/Planete.net, France Message-ID: <32E6678A.3387@planete.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----------358D33D94B380" ------------358D33D94B380 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello there, I am on charge of a NeXT Cube administration. Halas ! My network configuration is so bad, that I can not boot anymore : my station stops on file system mounting, I believe it is trying to mount some remote fs...well if I depress ctrl/c, I reach the services launch screen, but my poor NeXT keeps waiting...waiting... I believe the best question is : how the hell do I boot in single user mode ???! Thank you !!! ------------358D33D94B380 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <HTML><BODY> <DT>Hello there,</DT> <DT>I am on charge of a NeXT Cube administration.</DT> <DT>Halas ! My network configuration is so bad, that I can not boot anymore :</DT> <DT>my station stops on file system mounting, I believe it is trying to mount some</DT> <DT>remote fs...well if I depress ctrl/c, I reach the services launch screen, but</DT> <DT>my poor NeXT keeps waiting...waiting...</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>I believe the best question is : how the hell do I boot in single user mode ???!</DT> <DT> </DT> <DT>Thank you !!!</DT> </BODY> </HTML> ------------358D33D94B380--
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E4F1qH.9zs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 15:30:17 GMT References: <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com>, Ken Lui <klui@cup.hp.com> wrote: >In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, >David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >> I didn't write it anyway. :) > >Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach Tasks. > I have no idea who wrote it. I grabbed it from a posting here years and years ago (and, as I recall, the poster said, "I didn't write this--I grabbed it from a posting a while ago".) -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu (Sharad Shanbhag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to Next Laser Printer from NT 4.0 Date: 22 Jan 1997 19:36:00 GMT Organization: Dept. of Neurosurgery, U of MN Message-ID: <5c5q70$g48@epx.cis.umn.edu> I am able to print to my Nextstation (NS 3.2) from my PC running Windows NT 4.0 using lpr/lpd over my home ethernet network. However, I have two problems: 1) I cannot load the .ppd file for the Next Laser Printer (obtained from Adobe) into Windows NT using the instructions from Microsoft (for NT 3.51). Instead, I am currently using the driver for the Apple Laserwriter NT printer. 2) When printing from Word for Windows 95, only the Times-Roman font works. Other fonts (such as Times-Italic) come out as courier. I know there are people using this setup and was wondering if there others who have experienced and resolved these problems. TIA, Sharad ============================================================== Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu University of Minnesota (NeXTmail) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu ==============================================================
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reloacate home directorys? Date: 15 Jan 1997 21:37:31 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5bjimr$ooe@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: Problems moving home directories to another drive. Hi, I have been trying to move my home directories from SD0A to SD1A from /home/userx to /apps/home/userx. The problem has been encountered as follows, use user editor to change home dir, move files and reassign ownership to the original owner and test. Shortly after reassigning the ownership the files return to my ownership. Key, I login as myself and su to root to do the moves. I have tried loging in as root, same results. Please help. Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 22 Jan 1997 22:52:19 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> [Sorry for the English x-posting to a german newsgroup, but maybe this is of some interest] Howdy! I am proud to annouce the public availability of the easy-install binary CAP (Columbia Appletalk Package) for NeXTStep 3.3/OpenStep 4.x on Intel processors. It contains everything to turn your NeXTStep system into a AppleShare (Appletalk native Phase II) file and print server. Additional it enables you to mount remote AppleShare volumes on your NeXTStep machine and to print to remote LaserWriters. It contains an administration program called 'CAPer.app' that does most of the installation work and provides you with an interface to control the CAP processes quite painlessly. The installation was tested by various beta testers and for most of them it seems to work. Some parts still requires some sysadmin knowledge but exporting filesystems, mounting filesystems and providing printer spool services should be quite easy to work with. The distribution contains the full source code for BPF0.25b3 and CAPpl198, so you can rebuild the major parts of the package if you want to include some special features in CAP. At the moment you can fetch the package from http://www.this.net/~frank/CAPer.app.V1.I.b.tar.gz http://www.this.net/~frank/README.rtfd.tar.gz You may want to fetch the readme file before downloading the full 2.5 MByte package. It contains information if CAPer will work on your system, see below. ***** On what systems does the package work: It was tested on NeXTSTEP 3.3/Intel and OpenStep 4.0/Intel where it seems to work quite well. It does not work on NeXTSTEP 3.2/Intel due to some missing features in the kernel. ***** Anything to consider before installing: Appletalk Phase II needs multicasting capabilities. Some ethernet drivers don't support this, so read the CAPer documentation if your driver is supported. The kernel server (BPF) needs a lot of kernel memory, you may want to give your system more buffers. Again look in the CAPer documentation on how to do this. It is not tested in all environments, so bugs may still lurk inside. As usually you are working at your own risk. ***** What's the price of this package Zero. Null. Nichts. Nada. CAPer/CAPpl198/BPF/afpmount are distributed free of charge for any purpose abeit various copyrights apply. Look in the CAPer documentation for more information. You may not sell it, but you can give it away. ***** Shall I put it on the ftp archives Please do not at the moment. As soon I received reports that the package really works in most environments I will do this myself. Conside this release a public beta :-) ***** Will it run on m68k, Sparc, HPPA m68k - yes, definitely. sparc & hppa, most likely - we have to check if the kernel symbols support the BPF but otherwise I see no reason for problems. :-) Please provide feedback, thanks! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E42Cpo.Kr5@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:58:36 GMT References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu>, Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> wrote: >Java is interpretted p-code There are CPUs that run the Java Virtual Machine in solicon. >It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > There's a lot of this, true. ObNeXTSysadmin: It's not safe to change root's login shell, right? -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: glenn@nowsoft.com (Tod L. Glenn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting dns Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:16:43 -0800 Organization: Europa Communications Inc. [Portland, OR] Message-ID: <glenn-ya02408000R2201971616430001@news.europa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Greetings, I am trying to determine how to set the dns address on NeXTstep 3.3. I found where to configure IP address and router. Any help is appreciated. This is a lone NeXT box in a mac and PC shop. ---- Tod L. Glenn Internet Services Administrator Now Software ITG webmaster@nowsoft.com ---- http://www.nowsoft.com ftp://ftp.nowsoft.com listserv@nowsoft.com
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 23 Jan 1997 01:52:25 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c6g8p$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net In <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > [Sorry for the English x-posting to a german newsgroup, but maybe this is of > some interest] > > Howdy! > > I am proud to annouce the public availability of the easy-install binary CAP > (Columbia Appletalk Package) for NeXTStep 3.3/OpenStep 4.x on Intel > processors. It contains everything to turn your NeXTStep system into a > AppleShare (Appletalk native Phase II) file and print server. Additional it > enables you to mount remote AppleShare volumes on your NeXTStep machine and > to print to remote LaserWriters. > Sorry to followup my own posting but due to the overwheming run on the www.this.net site to download this package even in the first few hours I decided to put it up on ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CAPer.app.V1.I.b.tar.gz and ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/submissions/CAPer_V1_README.rtfd.tar.gz Hopefully it will not contain bugs and will work as advertized :). Please use this site for downloading, thanks! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac <-> NeXTCube Date: 22 Jan 97 19:09:32 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF0C167A-2369A4@207.147.50.42> References: <notmy-1601972112520001@cu-dialup-1724.cit.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Jan 16, 1997 9:12 PM, Collin <mailto:notmy@address.org> wrote: > I need some help connecting my Mac to my NeXTCube via Ethernet. I'm > running NEXTSTEP 3.2 and System 7.5.5 w/ OpenTransport. Supposedly > there > is an AppleTalk Client that came with the NeXT, but I can't find it. It's > not in my preferences app where the manuals say it should be. I only have > the OS that's installed so I can't reinstall it if it's missing. > > Soooo.... > > What does it take to build a TCP/IP network between the Mac and NeXT? > How about if I wanted one machine to connect to the internet via modem > and > have both machines share the connection? I'm having the same problem. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 and System 7.5.5 w/ OT 1.1.1. Did you ever solve this problem? Can the NeXT even be connected to an ethernet network that is not AppleShare but simply system 7 file sharing? Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701221505.KAA04997@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 4c54082fa804878fbe0aaf6a8c58c798 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 10:04:58 -0500 Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? References: 4c54082fa804878fbe0aaf6a8c58c798 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary > It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in > crontab to automatically turn off the NeXT prn and I thought I > saved the info but can't find it now that I ready to try to do > it. Can anyone refresh my 'database', please? you can use 'nppower' of course, but you can also use the 'npoffd' command. You can get it at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/npoffd.gz http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/npoffd.README if you don't have web access you can get it via email by sending me an email with the SUBJECT send-mime npoffd.gz if you'd like the readme send me a message with the SUBJECT send-ascii npoffd.README (you can use 'send-mime' if you prefer) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701221459.JAA04898@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 272abb50136d3d275445cf01d74a111b - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 97 09:59:47 -0500 Subject: Re: Creating 2nd Swapfile Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 272abb50136d3d275445cf01d74a111b - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: bdm@xp.psych.nyu.edu Original Date: 21 Jan 1997 23:16:17 GMT Short Answer: Simply put, use '/usr/etc/mkfile' More elaborate answer: The best way to do this is to use 'mkfile' to make a "swapfile" that is the size you want the swapfile to be at the LOWAT setting. Simply setting the LOWAT will not create a file that size, but controls only how small the file will be _reduced_ to if it has grown over the LOWAT setting. It should then be a simple matter of adding the appropriate entry to /etc/swaptab (I'd suggest reading 'man swaptab' especially the "prefer" option). Personal Answer: I'm not sure why you would want to do this. Personally I would greatly prefer one large swapfile to two smaller ones. I have an 80 meg swapfile (which is no longer considered large) on the 105 drive in my slab, and it only spills over to /private/vm/swapfile if it completely fills up. PLUS, you can only compress one swapfile at a time. Anyway, see my swapfaq for more info. Send me an email message with the SUBJECT send-mime swapfaq.ps or goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/swapfaq.ps (they're the same file) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Scripted access to isql - help me remember the arguments! Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:00:35 GMT Message-ID: <32dfec9a.1794878@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have Quickbase 4.1 and a number of apps on Next that use it. I also need a 'quick and dirty' way to do some queries from Windows 95. A year ago someone told me that there was an argument to isql so I could write a script to process any query, without having to type it in interactively. However, Quickbase isql comes with no documentation on the command line options. Can anyone help me to do this? (ultimately, the idea is to write a DOS batch file that uses telnet and isql to connect to the database, run a query, and close the conection, without knowing the query in advance. Of course Microsoft helped a lot as usual by making telnet graphical....) For the record, we are well withint our number of licences as the next machines are just not getting used at the moment. Many thanks, Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E4Ftzq.GoB@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 01:40:37 GMT References: <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu>, Stephen Johnson <stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu> wrote: >It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in crontab >to automatically turn off the NeXT prn nppower -off (or maybe just off--check the man page). -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Re: NS Installation FAQ? Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-2201972250480001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> References: <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> <E49BFw.HCB@nidat.sub.org> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:50:47 GMT In article <E49BFw.HCB@nidat.sub.org>, Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de wrote: > In article <32DB4B8D.5BDA@us.oracle.com> Jason Lincoln > <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> writes: > > Is there a NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware? > > > NeXTSTEP installation FAQ for Black hardware!? > > That would be the most useless piece of information on the whole Internet, > IMHO! > > For Black hardware that is as simple as inserting the NS User CD, powering > up and let it go! > > And if there are other topics that need an FAQ refer to Peanuts > <peanuts.leo.org> > -- Not at my stage, where I've just bought my first NeXT (A Color Turbo without OS or HD, or CD!) A good faq would be about recommended CD drives, HD's and correct SIMM types to get the machine up to the "Insert User CD" point especially to newtimers who are starting up because of the interest engendered in the NeXT OS by the Apple deal, and all the folks who've raved about this particular UNIX variant over the last ten years. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701220000.TAA07176@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 97 19:00:11 -0500 Subject: Important Followup -- Re: NextStation Need Help Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary I wrote this previously as a way to get rid of old users: 1) power it on. 2) hold down BOTH "command" buttons" 3) Right after you see the lights flash on the caps lock, press the ~ key (over the 7 on the keypad) [do this while keeping both "command" keys] 4) that will drop you to the ROM monitor 5) type "bsd -s" a) if it asks you for a password, open the slab and take out the battery for a few moments. [ I originally left out step "5.5" which is ] 5.5) at the # do sh /etc/rc & which will start the NetInfo stuff 6) when you get the "#" prompt, use "nu -m" to modify the password for the "root" account. 7) reboot 8) login as root 9) open /NextAdmin/UserManager.app and delete old users. Drop me a note if you have more questions TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) / http://www.next.peak.org/~luomat For info on my email auto-responder and searching the PEAK FTP site via email, send me an email with the SUBJECT "send-help" (without the " marks, of course ;-) ^^^^^^^
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@hc.ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Whats the point of Java? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 09:25:35 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <32DE486F.1BD@hc.ti.com> References: <5biu7a$lri@news.cis.okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bill Keller wrote: > > I'm not sure if I missed something Java-related. It seems that most > people are awfully gung-ho about Java, and I'm not sure why. My > understanding is: > > Java is a portable language > Java is an open language > Java is object-oriented > Java is interpretted p-code > Java can be embedded into webpages > > Did I miss anything significant? > Other than embedding into webpages, which I doubt is going to be it's > primary use, I'm not sure there is much benefit to the rest. There have > been portable, open languages for decades now. And interpretted p-code is > BAD. > > It seems to me that Java is a fad, its the New Thing. > > Can someone set me straight? (gently) :) Well... netbased interpreted P-code allows me to be truely HW independent. Sarrus Software (the makers of the PencilMeIn, one of the most usefull NS apps IMHO) have a Java version that runs through marimba. I can run it on a PC, my HP Unix workstation at work, Sun, whatever... When it is finally released, I expect to have a calendar manager that operates wherever I go on whatever hardware and it is the EXACT same program, not a port of code to various machines. I'll be able to use the same calendar file so I don't have to worry about synchronization. I think this will be a fantastic application of JAVA to solve a problem many of us face (synchronization). Just my thoughts... - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PopOver + procmail ? Date: 16 Jan 1997 04:16:53 +0900 Organization: 3WEB corp. Message-ID: <x6pvz6g34q.fsf@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Hi. Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or other pop client) to procmail ? -=-=-=-=-=-=-= Toshinao Ishii email: ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp (NeXTMAIL/MIME Welcome)
From: Carlene Ewalt <ewalt001@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Nextstation Turbo Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:34:28 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota School of Public Health Message-ID: <32DE66A4.1997@ewalt001.email.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have inherited an Nextstation Turbo (black box) which has never been turned off until today. Today, we turned it off to move the ethernet jack...keeping the same IP...but moving the computer and jack down the hallway and now when I turn it on. I get almost immediately......... Next Rom Manager 3.3 (v74) Exception #3 (0xc) at pc 0x1000646 sp 0xc03f600 I tried typing in ec and received error code 74. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, Carlene -- Carlene Ewalt Telephone: 612-626-5443 University of Minnesota School of Public Health Fax: 612-626-6931 Box 197 Mayo, 420 Delaware St SE Email:ewalt001@maroon.tc.umn.edu Minneapolis MN 55455
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail Woes-Danny Stevenson Please Help Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:34:17 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5c80dp$7va@boursy.news.erols.com> I have to post publicly because the mail still won't go out. Can you e-mail me the IP number you have for the Erols Internet smtp.erols.com machine. Also how do i create a fqdn when my machine is named localhost. Also I have an entry name mailhost in the netinfo database that i used to set up the previuos sendmail that came with 3.3. Is there anymore use for this entry. Error from /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: Jan 23 10:35:54 localhost sendmail[245]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry Jan 23 09:42:28 localhost sendmail[258]: JAA00256: to=vision@1stsight.com, ctladdr=bomb (102/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=smtp.erols.com [205.252.116.61], stat=Deferred: Connection refused by smtp.erols.com Thanks. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@NO.SPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax locking modem port? Date: 23 Jan 1997 16:45:18 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5c84iu$1m6u@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: 2d3f6e2fc0700a3349b89420a6f10983 - <199701171438.GAA11379@PEAK.ORG> (Sorry to follow-up on Tim, the original posting is unavailable for me at this time) Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Responding To: falk@jhu.edu (Adam Falk) >> /dev/cub: Device busy >> link down >> >> If NXFax is not running (reboot without exec_faxes), then there's >> no problem with tip. Of course, I have no idea if these problems >> are related, but if either of them rings any kind of bell with >> anyone, please let me know. My solution is to run the Fax software on port ttyfa, and the terminal program on port cufa, which has precedence over ttyfa. The two coexist nicely! You may have to chmod a+w the device /dev/cufa depending on how you access it. Tim of course is correct in a possible stale lock, but to my knowledge a reboot would have gotten rid of it. Kind regards, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: NS3.3: compile/install Perl5 Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 21:41:25 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32de9ede.6814010@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev. I followed the instructions, and got to: AutoSplitting perl library Making DynaLoader (static) sh: 5303 Memory fault *** Exit 139 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. vm_stat provides: Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 8192 bytes) Pages free: 1833. Pages active: 1405. Pages inactive: 297. Pages wired down: 409. "Translation faults": 467758. Pages copy-on-write: 81313. Pages zero filled: 65599. Pages reactivated: 190004. Pageins: 11408. Pageouts: 164. Object cache: 47016 hits of 52878 lookups (88% hit rate) I'd guess it's running out of memory. (the machine has 32 megs ram) Any advice would be appreciated. -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Update: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 23 Jan 1997 16:39:10 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c847e$j8n@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5c6g8p$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net As usually some little quirks has entered the first public release. 1. If you startup CAP NetInfoManager stops working (it can't be started anymore and hangs). This is caused by the download of the bpf kernel server. Netinfo itself continue to work as far as I can tell and the NetInfo command line tools (nidump, niload, niutil), NFSManager and PrintManager works too. I am about to investigate this strange behaviour. Maybe anyone from NeXT has an idea what could be the problem? As a quick fix you should use the NetInfoManager only when CAP is switched off AND the bpf is unloaded. To unload the bpf manually just issue a /usr/local/etc/bpf_unload in a shell after stopping the cap processes or add the following lines to the /usr/local/cap/kill-cap-server script sleep 5; /usr/local/etc/bpf_unload (the 'sleep 5' is to give the cap processes some time to die gracefully) 2. The documentation how to increase your kernel buffers is in the bpf source package in the app wrapper. 3. The information about the 'cap.printer' file format is in the papif manpage. Sorry for any inconvenience, hopefully the problems are resolved in the next release. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: walton@emc.com (John Walton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: test Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:23:51 -0500 Organization: EMC Corporation Message-ID: <1997Jan23.142332@emc.com> References: <5c8ag8$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> In article <5c8ag8$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw>, 22 Jan 1997 22:22:36 GMT writes: |> test for immediate delete didn't work well.
From: 22 Jan 1997 22:22:36 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: test Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:26:16 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c8ag8$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> test for immediate delete
From: ericc@metrowerks.com (Eric Cloninger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Can't install OpenStep 4.1 on P6/200 Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 17:21:41 -0500 Organization: Metrowerks, Corp. Message-ID: <ericc-ya023180002201971721410001@news.metrowerks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I can't get OpenStep 4.1 to install on my P6/200 and I've tried various combinations and permutations for 4 hours and my forehead is hurting from me pounding my head on the disk. Could someone give me a pointer or two? Hardware: Premio P6/200 64 MB Ram (60NS) Adaptec 2940 SCSI Card (Nothing attached) IDE Controller 1: Quantum 2GB Hard Drive (Master) Mitsumi 8x CD-ROM (Slave) IDE Controller 2 (Empty) Procedure: Insert boot floppy and follow directions to drivers selection. The HD is the master on IDE Controller 1 and the CD-ROM is the slave. I select EIDE/ATAPI for both the source and destination (I've also selected the 294x SCSI Adapter and the 154x Adapter as the source to no avail). So, it loads the kernel shell, locates both the hard disk AND the CD-ROM and itentifies their contents and geometry correctly. The installer prompts me for the identifier of the drive to use and I type '1', indicating the one and only drive in the machine. Then, the installation goes BOOM! /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 30 Memory fault /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 31 Memory fault And then all the processes are stopped. Solutions: I've tried all of the following... 1. Different install CD-ROM 2. Different install floppies 3. Removed SCSI card 4. Used 154x SCSI driver (per document #1933 from NextAnswers) Others here have been successful getting OpenStep to install on their P5/133 and P5/166 machines. Any ideas? Please, I'll email you a nice cold Sam Adams. -E -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Eric Cloninger, Windows Warrior | ericc@metrowerks.com |
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing 3.3 Intel drivers Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:59:23 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8ceb$2cco@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5bu35b$8d0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Cc: stanj@cs.stanford.edu In <5bu35b$8d0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Stan Jirman wrote: > I found these drivers on the 4.0 and 4.1 floppies / CDs. So I went and copied > them on a floppy, which I gave "it" to eat when it asked for them. I get the > OS to install from CD onto the disk, but then when it boots from disk it asks > me for the drivers again, and when I insert the floppy it crashes with either > a "rld()" or "unknown symbol" errors. > From my experience, 4.x drivers from NeXT won't work with the 3.3 kernel, and vice versa. This is a bit strange considering that you have to use 3.3 to develop 4.x drivers, but nonetheless it seems to be true. I've seen exactly what you describe above when I tried to do this. You should instead go to nextanswers and download the appropriate 3.3 drivers you need onto a floppy and try those. That has always worked for me. > Any ideas? I am absolutely new to the NeXT-PC thing, where I come from I > somehow expect things to work... > Those were great days, weren't they? I hope things come full circle with Apple and we have nicely integrated hardware again someday! > Thanks! > - Stan > -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: ehutch@hypnos.norden1.com (E. Hutchinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,misc.jobs.offered,us.jobs.offered Subject: AS/400-Perm-N.Car Date: 23 Jan 1997 20:59:26 GMT Organization: Norden 1 Communications Message-ID: <5c8jfe$cqg@tofu.alt.net> Programmer/analyst AS/400 RPG400 2yrs+ commercial experience North Carolina Career Position To Be Considered------Fax or mail a resume. -- ehutch@norden1.com (419) 893-6367 [fax] Omni Search (419) 893-6334 [voice] 1310 Craig Maumee, Ohio 43537
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Help! Can't install OpenStep 4.1 on P6/200 Message-ID: <E4HAMz.z8@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: ericc@metrowerks.com Organization: A.L.I. Technologies, Inc. Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:37:47 GMT References: <ericc-ya023180002201971721410001@news.metrowerks.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Eric Cloninger wrote: > I can't get OpenStep 4.1 to install on my P6/200 and I've tried various > combinations and permutations for 4 hours and my forehead is hurting from > me pounding my head on the disk. Could someone give me a pointer or two? > > Hardware: > Premio P6/200 > 64 MB Ram (60NS) > Adaptec 2940 SCSI Card (Nothing attached) > IDE Controller 1: > Quantum 2GB Hard Drive (Master) > Mitsumi 8x CD-ROM (Slave) > IDE Controller 2 (Empty) > > ... > > Then, the installation goes BOOM! > /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 30 Memory fault > /private/etc/rc/cdrom: 31 Memory fault > > And then all the processes are stopped. > > Solutions: > I've tried all of the following... > 1. Different install CD-ROM > 2. Different install floppies > 3. Removed SCSI card > 4. Used 154x SCSI driver (per document #1933 from NextAnswers) > > Others here have been successful getting OpenStep to install on their > P5/133 and P5/166 machines. Since the error is reported as a "Memory Fault" I would try swapping in some known good RAM. There is also the possibility of problems with the addressing lines on th motherboard itself -- most manufacturers only test their boards with a small quantity of RAM (eg. 8 or 16) before declaring them good. To test for this possibility you might want to get a copy of a good hardware diagnostic program which will test for bit errors transfering data into and out of the full range of RAM addresses. Or you could boot into DOS, play Civilization, and see if your phalanxes turn into tanks sometimes :-) That's what tipped me off when this happened to me. > Any ideas? Please, I'll email you a nice cold Sam Adams. Cheers. Good thing the Internet is so fast nowadays, otherwise it might be warm when it got here :-) -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: "bernieb" <bernieb@ilx.com> Subject: help: entering hypertext in newsgroup posting? Sender: news@ilx.com (Super Uzi) Organization: ILX Systems Inc. Message-ID: <01bc03e8$9673d1c0$392877c7@bernieb.ILX.COM> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 20:03:45 GMT Can someone please let me know how to enter a hypertext link (like a url address or e-mail address) into a usenet posting? thanks bernieb@ilx.com
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Update: Appletalk on NeXTStep/OpenStep is here Date: 23 Jan 1997 19:09:44 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c8d1o$jks@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5c65n3$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5c6g8p$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net I have now resolved the problem of the NetInfoManager start hangs. It looks like NetInfoManager makes a 'gethostbyaddr' on startup to set the hostname in the window title. ('local @ hostname') As soon as the BerkleyPacketFilter LKS is loaded NetInfoManager calls 'gethostbyaddr' not with the real IP address of the host but with the IP 0.0.0.0. This triggers a nameserver lookup and the machine hangs. As a quick fix I am thinking about entering a 'dummy' host with the 0.0.0.0 IP in the local host database using HostManager or nidump/niload. I hope NetInfoManager only needs the hostname for its window title, so it would not matter much if the name comes up wrong (Can someone at NeXT please confirm this?). Can anyone tell me if this workaround may have any negative side effects? As far my debugging shows NetInfo itself is not affected by BPF only NetInfoManager is. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus G <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: PopOver + procmail ? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7x4tghtcys.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Toshinao Ishii <ici@osk.threewebnet.or.jp> Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <x6pvz6g34q.fsf@giocoso.ici.net.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 23:30:35 GMT >>>>> "TI" == Toshinao Ishii <ici@giocoso.ici.net.jp> writes: TI> Is there any way to pass emails received by using PopOver (or TI> other pop client) to procmail ? PopOver puts mail in your regular mail queue (if I'm not mistaken) that's the same place where "regular" procmail gets its mail. Shouldn't be a problem. General remark: to use procmail with NeXT Mailboxes you need the appnmail utility by Carl Edman and Tom Hageman. Markus G
From: Florence <100124.610@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I need help Date: 23 Jan 1997 21:50:46 GMT Organization: inserm U317 toulouse france Message-ID: <5c8mfm$g5b$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Hello everibody I buy a next "pizza box" with 17" monochrome monitor and a laser printer in a bank for only 1000 F (200 $ aprox.) the material work fine but i have a big big big problem, the system administrator does not remember what the name of the user and the administrator password is, what can i do ?, it's only for fun and my personal museum but i shearch a next computer for a long time and i can't use it My museum is all apple computers before 1977 except the apple 1 all commodores computers except a PET and all sinclair computers (do you know Mazog and scuba dive ?) except ZX 80 and few Oric 1, atmos, amstrad, TI99/4A (Do you know parsec ?) Precision : I am mad and i have a computer shop repair in france Thanks
From: "Ryan Thompson" <rthompson@zenentertainment.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: JOBS FOR NEXT ADMINS IN LA, CA Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:28:01 -0700 Organization: Z Message-ID: <01bc0974$1b3c6350$a13bd4cc@ryserver> ZEN Entertainment of Santa Monica, California is now interviewing for Windows NT and Open Step 4.0 system administrators. All inquiries to: c/o Ryan Thompson, Producer ZEN Entertainment 1620 26th Street Santa Monica, CA 310/315-4166 V 310/315-4171 Fax a resume Thanks, Ryan
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Date: 23 Jan 1997 22:07:40 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> I am looking for information on how to adapt a NeXT MegaPixel color display to use on PC hardware. I saw mention once of an adapter that will do this but can find zero info on it. I would greatly appreciate information on how to do this. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://www.barbarian.com
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Second partition with Win95 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 13:01:03 -0800 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970123125515.316A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm running NS 3.3 on my pc, but need to run Win95 for a couple of things. Is there anyway I can do this without buying new hardware or reinstalling NeXTStep? In DOS/Win I could use Partition Magic to add a partition, etc. Is there a utility for NS that will allow me to do this? Thanks. Rob
Message-ID: <32E796ED.65CB@lhep.unibe.ch> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:50:53 +0100 From: Juerg Beringer <beringer@lhep.unibe.ch> Organization: Laboratory for High Energy Physics, University of Bern MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software CC: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch Subject: Access to NS/Intel boot time options Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Is it possible to access within the rc startup scripts the options entered at the NeXTStep (V3.3) boot prompt of an Intel machine? I am using e.g. config=SCSI at the boot prompt to load the device drivers according to a table SCSI.table (in /usr/Devices/System.config) instead of the standard Instance0 table. For different reasons I'd like to know in the startup scripts which options (if any) were selected. Thanks for any hints! Juerg Beringer E-mail: beringer@lhep.unibe.ch
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Suggestions for PPP for NeXT LAN? Date: 24 Jan 1997 00:12:17 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8up1$so8@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <E4DIK9.My@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <E4DIK9.My@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> On 01/21/97, Steven M. Boker wrote: >Hi all- > >I have a small LAN at home where I do consulting (2 cubes, 1 Intel >all running 3.3) and I'd like to connect to the internet through >the University. They've given me the go-ahead with a small block >of fixed IPs to set up a PPP link from my LAN. I'm wondering what >sort of suggestions people have for the easiest and most effect >way to go about this. > >I'd like to have a minimum maintenence solution if possible. One >possible solution may be a separate box sitting on the LAN doing >the routing and taking care of the POTS line. Another possibility >may be a software solution sitting in one of the NeXT boxes. > >Does anyone have suggestions? Recommendations? Warnings? Beer? > >Steve >--- > Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) > sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) > http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) > Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 > I would suggest you pick one of the cubes to be a router and on it run SimpleNetworkStarter.app (you may need to restore the default netinfo database if you played with NetInfo). Put the right IP address and select a hostname for the server. You should choose automatic host addition. Then plug all the ethernet cables and start each other machine (while the router is running). If everything goes well you will be asked for a hostname on each host during the boot sequence (I also suppose that the machines have a virgin netinfo database and hostconfig file). Then go into Hostmanager.app on the server to set the right IP addresses for each machine. After that you can create network accounts, setup NFS file sharing, share printers,... everything you need locally. Then install PPP on the server. Don't play with HostManager.app like the instructions tell you to do. You can also set the router property on each client so it points to your server (you do not really need this I think but I did this). Hope this helps, Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: printing from Windows95 to NeXT. Date: 24 Jan 1997 00:20:58 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5c8v9a$svs@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <32E5BCF7.116E@ToolCASE.com> In-Reply-To: <32E5BCF7.116E@ToolCASE.com> On 01/21/97, Leon Farfel wrote: >How do I print from Windows95 via Samba to NeXT laser printer? >Or how do I set up Windows95 to print via Samba on NeXT laser printer. > > >Thank you. > >Leon Farfel. > >Please CC your answer to > >leon.farfel@toolcase.com > You need to install a driver for the NeXTPrinter on the windows side (it's free, you can get it at www.adobe.com). On the NeXT side you put a samba.conf file of the type: [global] printing = bsd printcap name = /usr/local/samba/lib/printcap load printers = yes guest account = pcguest [printers] print command = lpr -r %s lpq command = lpq lprm command = lprm %j comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes public = yes path= /tmp writable = no create mode = 0700 Francois Magnan -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ipforwarding Kernel Flag? Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 13:09:13 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970117130737.6677C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII How do i have to set the Kernel Flags in Configure.app in order to turn ip forwarding on? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 10:38:49 -0500 Subject: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, comp-sys-next-programmer@antigone.com References: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary [ Sorry for the crosspost to csn.programmer, I've set followups to csn.sysadmin, but I think we may need a programmer's input ] Summary of discussion so far: the code (which you will see below) works just fine on a 3.2 machine for killing processes which refuse to die by 'kill -9'. However, on NSFIP and m68k machines running 3.3, it has caused an immediate panic. This is the code: #include <stdio.h> #include <mach.h> main(int argc, char *argv[]){ if(argc != 2){ fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s pid\n", argv[0]); exit(1); } else{ task_t task; task_by_unix_pid(task_self(), atoi(argv[1]), &task); task_terminate(task); exit(0); } } Now I don't know about anyone else, but I dislike the idea that someone could panic my machine any time by running a single program. The question is: - why does this panic a 3.3 machine and not a 3.2 machine ? [ Both the m68k machine and the NSFIP machine are running patchlevel 1.] The bonus question is: - is there a safer way to kill processes that won't die? The super-bonus question that was originally asked to start this thread: - why do processes become uniterruptible in the first place? Thanks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: slyang@nnano.ep.nctu.edu.tw (Su-Lin Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help solving CDROM Failure problem Date: 24 Jan 1997 12:20:31 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5ca9ef$oha@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> Hi, My old PC worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with AIC7880 chip on-board, the SCSI CDROM became failure to mount on to the system. By checking with Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/FSChime: (not a valid program). The CDROM model is NEC501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter (v3.37) driver, same with the old config. When system started up, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up to Nextstep, inquired with SCSI_Inspector, the CDROM can be identified for target id-4, but fail to pass diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can any one help to solve this problem? Or should I provide more information about the computer setting or else to figure out the problem resulted from? Thanks in advance. Su-Lin Yang slyang@cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: sneal@ichips.intel.com (Scott M. Neal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP Problems after OS upgrade Date: 24 Jan 1997 07:15:33 GMT Organization: Intel Development Labs, INTeL Corporation Message-ID: <5c9nil$8l1@news.jf.intel.com> Hello NeXT Sysadmins, I'm having some trouble re-configuring my uucp after upgrading my '030 cube from 2.1 to 3.2. The mail and network server has a hostname of green, and the domain is supposed to be eggs.com. My uucp connection to my Internet provider appears to mostly work, until it actually starts trying to transfer real data: green:114# /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x0 -suutele root uutele (1/23-22:54-491) DEBUG (Local Enabled) root uutele (1/23-22:54-491) SUCCEEDED (call to uutele ) root uutele (1/23-22:54-491) FAILED HANDSHAKE (You are unknown to me) green:115#: Outgoing mail doesn't even get the modem activated-- Here's an example failed attempt to use sendmail directly to test outgoing mail: green:118# /usr/lib/sendmail -v -t To: homer@simpson.com From: scott Subject: It's about Marge... We need to talk, Homer... Scott <ctrl-D> homer@simpson.com... Connecting to simpson.com (ddn)... homer@simpson.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) Saving message in //dead.letter //dead.letter... Sent green:119# Any ideas why my ddn mailer is barfing on me? Host green works fine as a network server (only one client, easter), but I can't get uucp to work. It used to work fine before I upgraded to 3.2 and networked another Cube to it... And no, I'd rather not run NIS/yp if I can help it (I only have two computers to network!) Scott M. Neal sneal@ichips.intel.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] make_services : someone else is making services??? Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 15:46:24 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmuFyUu00iV203UvlR@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> In-Reply-To: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jan-97 [Q] make_services : someone.. by Eduardo F. Vieira@laeff. > I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 Intel Version (HP Vectra 486), and every time one > logins in I got the message: > > syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services. > > Is it dangerous?? Could I avoid it in some way ? It's not dangerous. What's happening is the WorkSpace normally rebuilds its database of information like what file extensions correspond to what app, and what services various apps provide, etc when you log in. If, for whatever reason, this process is already going on or if something else tries to rebuild the services while the WorkSpace is already doing so, you'll get that message. Don't worry about it. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Eduardo Fernandes Vieira <efv@laeff.esa.es> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] make_services : someone else is making services??? Date: 24 Jan 1997 17:52:55 +0100 Organization: LAEFF - INTA Message-ID: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> Hi net. I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 Intel Version (HP Vectra 486), and every time one logins in I got the message: syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services. Is it dangerous?? Could I avoid it in some way ? Many thanks for any help, -- Eduardo --- / o o \ ------------------------vvv----v----vvv---------------------------------- Eduardo Fernandes Vieira | FAX : +34 1 813 1160 System Administrator - LAEFF - INTA | Phone : +34 1 813 1263 Lab. de Astrof. Espac. y Fis. Fund. | email : efv@laeff.esa.es (int) VillaFranca del Castillo - Spain | evieira@vilspa (bitnet) http://www.laeff.esa.es/bin/connect/efv/mainpage | vilspa::efv (span) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 24 Jan 97 15:22:07 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan24152207@howard.one.net> References: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> In-reply-to: Timothy J Luoma's message of Thu, 23 Jan 97 10:38:49 -0500 In article <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com>, Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> writes: The question is: - why does this panic a 3.3 machine and not a 3.2 machine ? [ Both the m68k machine and the NSFIP machine are running patchlevel 1.] The bonus question is: - is there a safer way to kill processes that won't die? The super-bonus question that was originally asked to start this thread: - why do processes become uniterruptible in the first place? These are all pretty much related. Processes get into an uninterruptable state because at the kernel level the process goes through something like interrupt levels. In certain areas, signals are disabled so that the kernel can get something done that can't be interrupted. For the _most_ part, that something gets done, the process goes back to an interruptable state, and all is well. If something wedges things in the middle, though, there's trouble. For instance, NFS problems can put processes into such a state until the NFS server comes back. If the server doesn't come back, it can be timed out - unless you've set things up so it never times out :-). Regarding whether there's a safer way to kill processes that won't die, well, it depends on what the problem is that's hanging things up. Since we already know that there's something wrong (ie, the process got hung up in an uninterruptable state), you have to be optimistic to assume that "normal" operations will be safely applicable anymore. They _might_ work, but they might not. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org._NO_SPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become Message-ID: <1997Jan24.113401.525@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: luomat@nerc.com Organization: Disorganization References: <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:34:01 GMT In <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Now I don't know about anyone else, but I dislike the idea that > someone could panic my machine any time by running a single program. Check out the unix program 'crashme' which crashes all kinds of NeXTs in a few milliseconds. It is run as a user program. You can kill a NeXt remotely also by pinging with a buffersize of 64K. Not that robust as marketing says .....
From: ericc@metrowerks.com (Eric Cloninger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Can't install OpenStep 4.1 on P6/200 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 17:54:30 -0500 Organization: Metrowerks, Corp. Message-ID: <ericc-ya023180002401971754300001@news.metrowerks.com> References: <ericc-ya023180002201971721410001@news.metrowerks.com> <E4HAMz.z8@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Then, the installation goes BOOM! > > /private/etc/rc.cdrom: 30 Memory fault > > /private/etc/rc.cdrom: 31 Memory fault > > > Since the error is reported as a "Memory Fault" I would try swapping > in some known good RAM. Unfortunately this didn't help. I tried two other pairs of 16MB SIMMs that work with my NT partition on another machine. Grr. Further, I took the install disks home where I have an IBM machine (P5/133). The same CDs installed on that machine, but they're still flaky. I got it all installed and after setting everything up, now I get panics. I reinstalled twice. This is getting frustrating. Surely OS is not _that_ unstable. > > Any ideas? Please, I'll email you a nice cold Sam Adams. > > Cheers. Good thing the Internet is so fast nowadays, otherwise > it might be warm when it got here :-) OK, maybe I'll send a Newcastle. It's better warm than cold. -------------------------------------------------------------------- | Eric Cloninger, Windows Warrior | ericc@metrowerks.com |
From: "Ryan Thompson" <rthompson@zenentertainment.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Win NT & Open Step Networking Help! Date: 23 Jan 1997 14:25:02 -0700 Organization: Z Message-ID: <01bc0973$9d68a060$a13bd4cc@ryserver> Any reccomendations on how to integrate Open Step boxes into an NT network. So far it's been suggested that we get PC-NFS.... some kind of protocol for sharing. Right now we're just using FTP to transfer files. Any suggestions will help. Thanks, Ryan Thompson Producer ZEN Entertainment
From: gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham Cochrane (CO)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Viglen genie ATX Date: 24 Jan 1997 15:59:14 GMT Organization: Computing Science and Mathematics, Stirling University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cam8i$305@lorne.stir.ac.uk> Keywords: NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel Viglen Hi Folks, We have just bought a Viglen genie ATX Intel PC and we thought that we'd have a go at trying to get NEXTSTEP 3.3 up and running on it, as an experiment. Unfortunately, we haven't got too far with this as yet! We ordered an Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI adapter for the machine, as this is mentioned on the hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com AND the driver for it is on the Device Drivers Disk that we have. However, we received an Adaptec `AHA2940 Ultra' SCSI adapter instead. This is also on the hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com, but I had to go to NeXTAnswers to get the driver for it. Anyway, when I try to install 3.3 on the PC, I get to the bit where it asks me to select the relevant driver for the CD-ROM and the Hard Disk, then after selecting the correct driver, the machine can't see any SCSI or CD devices, with the message:- . . . Registering: PCIO Adaptec: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING Registering: event0 Registering: kmDevice0 No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found Any ideas? By the way, this is the same symptoms when I install the plain AHA2940 driver from the release floppy. Any suggesttions as to what to do now would be welcomed. I'd appreciate email replies, thanks, as my news reading has been intermittent of late. Thanks in advance of any help, Graham. -- Graham Cochrane, Dept of Comp Science and Maths, Stirling University Stirling FK9 4LA SCOTLAND Tel: +44 1786 467442 Fax: +44 1786 464551 graham.cochrane@cs.stir.ac.uk http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~gco/
From: Ben Konjkav <ben@photonweb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 16:24:18 -0800 Organization: PCG Message-ID: <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com> References: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: giddings@whitewater.chem.wisc.edu Michael Giddings wrote: > > I am looking for information on how to adapt a NeXT MegaPixel color display > to use on PC hardware. I saw mention once of an adapter that will do this > but can find zero info on it. > > I would greatly appreciate information on how to do this. > > -- > Michael Giddings > giddings@chem.wisc.edu > giddings@barbarian.com > (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 > http://www.barbarian.com Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & the cable that are designed to run your monitor on a PC Ben
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701231556.KAA10494@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 2dbdfd4ece75d8890d469f6da8883980 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 97 10:55:59 -0500 Subject: Re: NS Installation FAQ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 2dbdfd4ece75d8890d469f6da8883980 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Original Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 03:50:47 GMT > Not at my stage, where I've just bought my first NeXT (A Color > Turbo without OS or HD, or CD!) A good faq would be about > recommended CD drives, HD's and correct SIMM types to get the > machine up to the "Insert User CD" point especially to newtimers > who are starting up because of the interest engendered in the NeXT > OS by the Apple deal, and all the folks who've raved about this > particular UNIX variant over the last ten years. here's the CD-ROM setup I am using. Internal Sony 4x CD-ROM (# CDU76) (pay no more than $100) AND External case for above CD-ROM (#CS-EXTDR1) ($48) Call 1-800-REAL-PCS (ASA Computers). I'm using this CD-ROM and case, and so is someone else I met here, and no problem whatsoever. For hard drives, anyone that can do "asynchronous bus transfers" should be OK with the proper settings. SCSI-1 is what black hardware was designed for. I think you can use SCSI-2 for the most part also, but I'm not sure about that. here are some do's and don't from an old posting: Harddisks NOT compatible with black NeXT hardware ------------------------------------------------ FUJITSU 2684SAU (I have had two and on both the drives displayed media errors immediately after re-sectoring to 1024-byte sectors and performing a BuildDisk) SEAGATE ST51080N (I tried two of them, none could be initialized properly (/etc/disk) in a NeXT cube. The message was that the boot sector couldn't be found. Low level reformatting didn't help (sdformat - see below). Sector size change to 1024 bytes failed (sdformat). Not even a disktab entry helped.) IBM IB06H8891 (Fast SCSI-2, 512 Cache, 10ms, 1GB) (I had a lot of problems with this drive on black hardware. I.e. don't buy it! According to IBM tech support, all new IBM drives only support synchronous bus transfers.) Compatible Harddisks -------------------- (not sure if what works with a cube works also in a slab and vice versa) Cube (040): ----------- FUJITSU M1606SAU Fujitsu part # : CA01310-B161 FUJITSU M1606S-1024 Rev 6234 FUJITSU M2684S-1024 Rev 2039 QUANTUM FIREBALL 1080S NeXT station (040) ------------------ SEAGATE ST32430N-1024 (2.1GB, Hawk 2LP) (NS 3.2 needs a disktab entry - available from blazek@stt.msu.edu) QUANTUM FIREBALL 1080S Unspecified black NeXT hardware ------------------------------- (not sure if cube or station) FUJITSU M1603S-1024 FUJITSU M2624F-1024 FUJITSU M2694ES-1024 FUJITSU M2909S-1024 FUJITSU M2263S-1024 CD-ROM and removable disks compatible with black NeXT HW -------------------------------------------------------- SONY CD-ROM CDU-76S Rev 1.1c IOMEGA ZIP 100 Rev C.19 SYQUEST EZ135 SyQuest's EZFlyer also works, as does the SyJet I believe (1.5gig/cart). The Jaz drive will work but not without a disktab, so that isn't the one you want for installation purposes, besides the SyJet is faster. If you have more questions, drop me a line TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 From: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Subject: find dead symbolic links ? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Hi, How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. Thanks, - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP *** -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Sten Kvamme <skvamme@capcad.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DNS file missing Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 19:08:58 +0100 Organization: - Message-ID: <32E8FABA.5DDC@capcad.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-User: s-30650 I am setting up a primary DNS but cannot find a good example of a root.cache file. Someone? /Sten Kvamme Akademiforlaget Publishing Co
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241510.KAA10687@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 10:10:25 -0500 Subject: A New FAQ page for new owners of NeXT hardware Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Greetings all! Just FYI, there's a new FAQ page available to answer all those questions that new owners of NeXT hardware might have, such as How do I get to the ROM monitor ? (for ADB and non ADB systems) How do I boot into Single User mode? How do I get rid of the Hardware Password? How do I boot from a CD-ROM? What do I do with a system with no known password? (I'll gladly take suggestions as to some other topics for brand-newbie information). There's also a hotlink to the official FAQ page at peanuts Frames-enhanced: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html No Frames: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq-noframe.html TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241625.LAA11970@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 75ac92bea5d6b94ec9a45183641d6cb9 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 11:25:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Sendmail Woes-Danny Stevenson Please Help Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 75ac92bea5d6b94ec9a45183641d6cb9 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Original Date: 23 Jan 1997 15:34:17 GMT > I have to post publicly because the mail still won't go out. Can > you e-mail me the IP number you have for the Erols Internet > smtp.erols.com machine. When I checked I got it as "205.252.116.114" It is possible they have several machines under that hostname and they all have the same hostname. > Also how do i create a fqdn when my machine > is named localhost. Don't you have another name for the machine? Ie my machine is "charisma" so my FQDN is "charisma.nerc.com" although that is only useful for config sendmail and it is not a real internet address. You might try "localhost.erols.com" There are sendmail installation instructions linked to my web page. checkout http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next and then goto "other sites" TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:23:50 -0500 Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <32E8E216.1C23@p3.net> References: 783a5dc82d7ddbbc2769eebc7496c34d - <199701231538.KAA10363@nerc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J Luoma wrote: [cut] > The question is: > - why does this panic a 3.3 machine and not a 3.2 machine ? > [ Both the m68k machine and the NSFIP machine are running > patchlevel 1.] My guess is because there are specific reasons why a process becomes unkillable (see below) > The bonus question is: > - is there a safer way to kill processes that won't die? Not as far as I know. > The super-bonus question that was originally asked to start this thread: > - why do processes become uniterruptible in the first place? The most common reasons that a process becomes unkillable is because the process is either waiting in an uninterruptible state (waiting for disk I/O, kernel routine completion, etc), or the parent process doing the same and is unable to clear out the child. My guess is that the reason NS 3.3 panics when you kill a process that just won't die is that the kernel or I/O routine is trying to return to a pointer within a process in memory that is no longer available. From the kernels point of view, this is a Bad Thing(tm) since the kernel assumes that this pointer is valid. If the pointer is not valid, it assumes that a major catastrophy had occured and panics. (at least, this is my guess) :) Melody
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS file missing Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:57:13 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gmuWpNe00iV_81IOMJ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <32E8FABA.5DDC@capcad.se> In-Reply-To: <32E8FABA.5DDC@capcad.se> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jan-97 DNS file missing by Sten Kvamme@capcad.se > I am setting up a primary DNS but cannot find > a good example of a root.cache file. > Someone? You can get one yourself via 'dig . ns', or by ftping to InterNIC. db.cache (or whatever name you like) is thus: ; ; Initial cache data for root domain servers. ; . 331129 NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. . 331129 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. ; ; Prep the cache (hotwire the addresses). Order does not matter ; A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 198.41.0.4 B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 128.9.0.107 C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.33.4.12 D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 128.8.10.90 E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.203.230.10 F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 39.13.229.241 G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.112.36.4 H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 128.63.2.53 I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 331129 A 192.36.148.17 -------------------- -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Message-ID: <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) References: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:38:32 GMT In article <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE writes: > Hi, > > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. If you can use Perl, that's easy. Take a look at the File::Find.pm module. Excerpt: Here's another interesting wanted function. It will find all symlinks that don't resolve: sub wanted { -l && !-e && print "bogus link: $name\n"; } -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I can't understand why Apple wouldn't want to pick up BeOS. Who wouldn't want to watch six movies on a rotating cube, while listening to bad music?" -= Al Franken =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de
From: Brian Sutherland <bcs@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking NeXTs Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 10:58:45 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <32EA3BC5.7858@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXT Turbo Dimension and NeXT Turbo Color Station. One has a NeXT Color Printer and one has a CDROM drive. I want to be able to share these devices between the two computers. I only have the Academic version of NeXTSTEP 3.3 and no real good manuals. I do not know how to set up a Netinfo or any type of NeXT server. Can anyone help me via email or phone? Or if you have any lead to where I can find NeXT networking information it would be helpful. Please reply to both email and newsgroup so I do not miss your answer. Thanx -Brian bcs@onramp.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Re: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-2501971358220001@host052.jerseycity.interactive.net> References: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:58:22 GMT In article <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com>, Ben Konjkav <ben@photonweb.com> wrote: > > > Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & > the cable that are designed to run your monitor on a PC > > Ben The EGS Spectrum graphics card I use with one of my Amigas has settings for using a NeXT monitor. I'm going to have to try it out one of these days. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241503.KAA10609@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 11407f71f5e329368bab773b9ad15129 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 10:03:07 -0500 Subject: Re: I need help Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 11407f71f5e329368bab773b9ad15129 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Florence <100124.610@CompuServe.COM> Original Date: 23 Jan 1997 21:50:46 GMT > I buy a next "pizza box" with 17" monochrome monitor and a laser > printer in a bank for only 1000 F (200 $ aprox.) the material work > fine but i have a big big big problem, the system administrator > does not remember what the name of the user and the administrator > password is, what can i do ?, it's only for fun and my personal > museum but i shearch a next computer for a long time and i can't > use it You need to get to the ROM monitor, boot into single user (bsd -s), start NetInfo, and use 'nu -m' to modify the root password. Then you can logout and log back in as root and set things up the way you would like them. If you have any questions, checkout my FAQ for new owners of NeXT hardware, which can be found at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html I have designed this page especially for people like yourself who are new owners of NeXT hardware but don't know anything about it. If you don't have a frames-capable browser, use this URL instead: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq-noframe.html TjL PS - if you have any questions that FAQ doesn't answer, email me so I can improve it for the future! -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting dns Date: 23 Jan 1997 17:42:24 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5c87u0$sai$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <glenn-ya02408000R2201971616430001@news.europa.com> glenn@nowsoft.com (Tod L. Glenn) wrote: >Greetings, > >I am trying to determine how to set the dns address on NeXTstep 3.3. I >found where to configure IP address and router. Any help is appreciated. >This is a lone NeXT box in a mac and PC shop. > >---- >Tod L. Glenn >Internet Services Administrator >Now Software ITG >webmaster@nowsoft.com >---- >http://www.nowsoft.com >ftp://ftp.nowsoft.com >listserv@nowsoft.com If, by dns address, you mean what the address of your dns server is, then set up a file called /etc/resolv.conf with the following lines domain domain.name # This is your domain nameserver ip.address # The first dns nameserver nameserver ip.address # Another dns nameserver See man 5 resolver for more info. --Ryan
From: slyang@nnano.ep.nctu.edu.tw (Su-Lin Yang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! problem with CD-ROM Date: 23 Jan 1997 17:52:34 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c88h2$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> My pc system worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with 7880 on-board chip, I found that the CD-ROM drive could not mount on to the system correctly. By checking Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/FSChime: (not a valid program). The CD-ROM model is NEC-501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter driver. When system started, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up on NS 3.3, by inquiring with SCSI_Inspector, it can be identified for target ID#4 as set. However, it fails to pass the diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can anyone help me to figure out and solve the problem? Or should I provide more informations on the status of this computer? Thanks in advance, Su-Lin Yang slyang@cc.nctu.edu.tw
From: H€ Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! CDROM failure Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:16:02 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c89t2$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> My old PC worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with AIC7880 chip on-board, the SCSI CDROM became failure to mount on to the system. By checking with Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/FSChime: (not a valid program). The CDROM model is NEC501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter (v3.37) driver, same with the old config. When system started up, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up to Nextstep, inquired with SCSI_Inspector, the CDROM can be identified for target id-4, but fail to pass diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can any one help to solve this problem? Or should I provide more information about the computer setting or else to figure out the problem resulted from? Thanks in advance. Su-Lin Yang slyang@epibm2.ep.nctu.edu.tw
From: 22 Jan 1997 22:22:36 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! CDROM Failure Date: 23 Jan 1997 18:20:32 GMT Organization: Dept. of Computer & Information Science, NCTU, Taiwan Message-ID: <5c8a5g$lks@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> My old PC worked well with NS 3.3 before. Someday after it was replaced with new mainboard with AIC7880 chip on-board, the SCSI CDROM became failure to mount on to the system. By checking with Workspace->Tools->Console, it shows Workspace: Cannot exec /CDROM/Modules/Preferences/FSAlarmClock/FSAlarmClock.preferences/F SChime: (not a valid program). The CDROM model is NEC501 configured with Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI adapter (v3.37) driver, same with the old config. When system started up, the BIOS can be successfully installed. After booting-up to Nextstep, inquired with SCSI_Inspector, the CDROM can be identified for target id-4, but fail to pass diagnostics for the unit not ready. Can any one help to solve this problem? Or should I provide more information about the computer setting or else to figure out the problem resulted from? Thanks in advance. Su-Lin Yang slyang@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 7211a814fe4db89191c12be88cbcf642 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 97 09:55:21 -0500 Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 7211a814fe4db89191c12be88cbcf642 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. here's a little script I wrote to do just that. Note: this uses 'find / -type l -print' which will start at the root directory and work its way through your entire filesystem (you may want to change that "/" to something else, or add an -xdev flag or whatever. If it finds a dead link, you will be asked if you want to remove it. To change this to just report the "dead links" comment out the line /bin/rm -i $i note/bug: this doesn't always work right with links which are made like this: ln -s ../../somefile ../a_new_file [save the script as "testlink" and do "chmod 755 testlink" ] #!/bin/sh # # AUTHOR: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> # # VERSION: 1.0.0 # # DATE: 26 April 1996 # # WARNING: USE ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK # # PURPOSE: # # TESTED UNDER: NeXTStep 3.2 on my NeXTStation # # USAGE NOTES: name=`basename $0` for i in `find / -type l -print` do if [ -h $i ] then real=`ls -l $i | awk '{print $NF}'` if [ -r $i ] then # uncomment the next line to see # it report each GOOD link # echo "$name[$$]: $real link is real." : else echo "$name[$$]: (Dead link name: $i) \ Reference: $real" /bin/rm -i $i fi fi done exit 0 # that's all folks TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: hosed fstab Date: 25 Jan 1997 12:06:18 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5ccsvq$cp@rumah.pc.my> I have been trying, unsuccessfully to connect a 2nd headless slab to my original via ethernet -- the original can't ping, telnet, etc. the 2nd. In the process of investigating, I noticed that the 2nd slab has lots of old network related files left over from the previous owner. So, I decided to make a backup of /etc and replace it all with /usr/templates/etc. Bad move, since the template doesn't have fstab, so now it won't boot up. I don't have a cd drive, so am I screwed? How can I mount the hd as r/w so I can put fstab back where it belongs? TIA. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael Olan Email: michael@rumah.pc.my (NeXT Mail OK) Senior Lecturer - Computer Science michael@ppp.itm.my American Degree Program Fax: 6-03-5482329 Institut Teknologi MARA Section 17, Shah Alam, Malaysia ---------------------------------------------------------------------
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Date: 26 Jan 1997 10:38:06 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5cfc6e$j73@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Responding To: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE > Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 > > > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. > > here's a little script I wrote to do just that. > This could be a nice addition to the NEXTSTEP GUI : when you move a file or directory, all the symbolic links that point to it get automatically updated. I supposed there would have to be a database of links because the target doesn't tell you what's linked to it. It could get a little involved, because you wouldn't want to muck with the CLI behavior. But then CLI would be different from GUI in handling links. Ah well... -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Message-ID: <E4M8nn.904@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) References: <5cfc6e$j73@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 12:42:59 GMT In article <5cfc6e$j73@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) writes: > In <199701251455.JAA03501@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > Responding To: Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE > > Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 23:49:33 -0600 > > > > > How can I find dead symbolic links in the filesystem ? > > > I can't find the correct options for 'find' to do this. > > > > here's a little script I wrote to do just that. > > > > This could be a nice addition to the NEXTSTEP GUI : when you move > a file or directory, all the symbolic links that point to it get > automatically updated. I supposed there would have to be a database > of links because the target doesn't tell you what's linked to it. > It could get a little involved, because you wouldn't want to muck > with the CLI behavior. But then CLI would be different from GUI > in handling links. Ah well... > It seems to be very very hard to find a general solution to deal with your suggestion. The "obvious" way would be to let the system know about all links and about all file move operations (you might even go so far to add this to the unix tools like "mv" and to the relevant unix system calls). Then the system could use these informations in order to update links accordingly. But if you think about this a little bit longer, a plethora of problems come to mind: - What about file move operations done on a remote system (e.g. on a remote Novell, NFS, AppleShare or other file system)? It is hard to imagine how the local system should be able to find out about the new location of moved files, even if it would detect the fact that the original file is "missing" by periodically checking its link database. - What about file deletions? Should the system automatically remove all links? This would be a very bad idea. Because the file might just have been temporarily deleted and will be recreated shortly afterwards. Or should the system ask the user what to do with every link? *Very* annoying at the very least. Why bother the user if the deleted file will be recreated shortly afterwards. What will happen if the file is deleted by a background process when nobody is logged in? How should user A be able to know what to do with a link that's been created by user B but that becomes invalid while user A is logged in? - What about links to removable media (floppy disks, ZIP drives etc.)? Sometimes the targets are present, sometimes not. - How do you prevent existing unix programs from breaking if they rely on the behavior that moving files invalidates all symbolic links to the file? Having said all this, I want to point out two implementations that address at least some of your ideas: 1. Object links, as introduced by NEXTSTEP 3.0 (/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/ObjectLinks.rtfd). Object links use special database files to store the information about the document a link points to. It seems that not only the pathname is recorded here, but the "inode" (unix directory entry information) as well. If you either rename the original file (inode stays the same) or remove and recreate the file under the same name (name stays the same), the link still will be found. This does not work, however, if you move the file to a different directory (name and inode change) or change name and inode within the original directory (e.g. by copying the file and removing the original one). 2. Hard links (standard unix stuff). Hard links are automagically updated if you rename or move the target file. But: - Hard links do not work across file systems (making them pretty useless for anything in todays world of networked systems). - If you delete the target file, the hard link surprisingly still contains all data. To get rid of it, you'll have to delete the original file and all links to it. This behavior might not be what you'd expect. - If you delete the target file to recreate it shortly afterwards (many programs do this when updating data files), the link is broken. You end up with the target file containing the new data and with the link file containing the old data. -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I can't understand why Apple wouldn't want to pick up BeOS. Who wouldn't want to watch six movies on a rotating cube, while listening to bad music?" -= Al Franken =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: vgrind help? Date: 26 Jan 1997 11:00:27 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5cfv2r$lf6@papoose.quick.com> References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: > ># vgrind area.cc >pscat: trouble reading .ct file >lpr: stdin: empty input file ># > > >What do I need to do to so that vgrind works? Ahah . . . You did not mention what architecture or version you are using but it sounds to me like you are on an intel box. The transcript font files are endian dependant, and I think that they are compiled bigendian on the CD. What you need to do is rebuild these fonts. This is complicated somewhat by the fact that the script used for rebuilding includes a configuration script which hardcodes a path specific to the original source environment, not the installation environment. Try this: cd /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font Modify the script fragment ./config so that: PSLIBDIR=$REALPSLIBDIR Now move the current font directories out of the way since the build script will not build a new font directory if the old one is in place. mkdir old for map in *.map do $dir=`basename $map .map` mv $dir old/ done Now that you have moved the old font directories out of the way, build new ones. for map in *.map do $dir=`basename $map .map` ./addtroff.sh $dir $map done Now if you are satified, you can now delete the old dir. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished. in one of the NeXT boxes. > >Does anyone have suggestions? Recommendations? Warnings? Beer? Use your Intel box as the primary. This is key, because the old moto systems do not have serial port speeds fast enough to keep up with a good modem. Run PPP on this host. Install routes to your two black boxes via your ethernet card. To handle the routing either start routed with no arguments (to enable dynamic RIP) at boot time on all 3 hosts, or, alternatively run routed -q and add entries to the /etc/gateways files on all 3 hosts. In the gateways file for the intel host, add host level routes for each of the black machines, and make sure that the default route is the PPP line. For the black boxes route 255.255.255.0 to the white box ethernet card IP address. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701241637.LAA12908@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: afe6c96c26e5d3d935dfb97fe5df6f80 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 97 11:37:41 -0500 Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: afe6c96c26e5d3d935dfb97fe5df6f80 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak) Original Date: 24 Jan 1997 01:39:08 GMT > Unfortunately, nppower opens /dev/np0 in order to turn it off. > This causes the printer to turn on every time it gets an > "nppower off" command from cron, i.e. every n minutes the printer > turns on in order to turn off. > > As I recall, npoffd just has the same problem. Well, I just run 'npoffd' from /etc/rc.local #begin if [ -x /usr/local/etc/npoffd ]; then (sleep 5; /usr/local/etc/npoffd 900) & (echo -n ' npoffd') >/dev/console else (echo ; echo "ERROR: can't find npoffd!") >/dev/console fi #end (where 900 is the # of seconds). I don't seem to have the source code anywhere (that's seems strange, I thought I had it ) but I think it does the same thing as nppowerd. It doesn't turn the printer on at all, it just turns it off after the inactivity time has passed. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up a OS/Intel as a gateway to the Internet. Date: 27 Jan 1997 03:10:55 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5chnuf$vme@Vir.com> Hello, I'm trying to set up an OS/4.1 Intel box as a gateway to the Internet through PPP. I would like to use just one IP address on the OS/4.1 Intel machine and hide the other machines from the Internet. It is not necessary for the other machines to connect to the Internet. I managed to connect through PPP, to the internet. I can telnet and send mail out, but I cannot recieve mail. What does the following error message mean? This is the error message I get in the mail that is returned. <<< 553 bw config error: mail loops back to myself I've setup PPP and DNS on the OS/4.1 machine. I have not set up NetInfo. But it seems I have made a mistake. (Maybe it's because it is so late at night? Who knows? :) Can anyone give me any hints. Is it better to use NetInfo or not? What files do I have to modify? (Maybe I missed one.) Anyhelp would be appreciated. Thank you, stef
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Networking NeXTs Message-ID: <E4MEyt.Irr@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <32EA3BC5.7858@onramp.net> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:59:17 GMT In article <32EA3BC5.7858@onramp.net> Brian Sutherland <bcs@onramp.net> writes: > I have a NeXT Turbo Dimension and NeXT Turbo Color Station. One has a > NeXT Color Printer and one has a CDROM drive. I want to be able to share > these devices between the two computers. I only have the Academic > version of NeXTSTEP 3.3 and no real good manuals. That is not true! And I very much appreciate that fact. You might not have a manual in print, but who cares? > I do not know how to set up a Netinfo or any type of NeXT server. > Can anyone help me via email or phone? Or if you have any lead to > where I can find NeXT networking information it would be helpful. > /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf A double click and there you are. All the low brain cookbooks you could ask for ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How to use NeXT monitor with PC Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 14:49:36 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32EBB550.FE3@osu.edu> References: <5c8nfc$3frm@news.doit.wisc.edu> <32E952B2.2B44@photonweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ben Konjkav wrote: > > Michael Giddings wrote: > > > > I am looking for information on how to adapt a NeXT MegaPixel color display > > to use on PC hardware. I saw mention once of an adapter that will do this > > but can find zero info on it. > > > > I would greatly appreciate information on how to do this. > > > > -- > > Michael Giddings > > giddings@chem.wisc.edu > > giddings@barbarian.com > > (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 > > http://www.barbarian.com > > Check out http://www.photonweb.com/next/ for the video card & > the cable that are designed to run your monitor on a PC > > Ben I do not suggest that anyone does business with these guys. They do not honor their return policy very well, tech support only rarely answers the phone, they do not return phone calls (especially if it is still within the 30 days guaranteed by the return policy), they do not know the details of the monitors they claim to support, and on top of all that, they have the rudest support staff I have ever dealt with. If anyone wants more information about them, please e-mail me, since I don't wish to start a flame-ware. Thanks Karl
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to replace /bin/sh Date: 26 Jan 1997 13:42:12 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5cg8i4$lt7@papoose.quick.com> References: <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu> In article <5bg3oe$sja@newstand.syr.edu>, Terry R. McConnell <tmc@barnyard.syr.edu> wrote: >If I try to use UserManager to change root's login shell to anything but >the "genuine" /bin/sh, LoginWindow refuses to allow root to login and displays >a message saying that the imposter shell will be run and its output ignored. > >Do init and/or LoginWindow.app do some kind of internal test to detect >the "real" /bin/sh? If so, is there any way around it? Add the full pathname of bash to the file /etc/shells. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished.
From: c.vollmert@moeller.net (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: usr sportster 33.6 and Next ?!? Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 20:29:17 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <5cgf1g$hd7@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> Hi ! I have a Problem with my new modem usr sportster voice 33.6 extern and ns 3.3 intel. under dos and windows and works really fine, but under next the modem hangs after the connect. my old noname 14.4 works under next really fine, but i think i have to change some points in the etc/remote script (or also somewhere else?) so if somebody has the same modem that works fine under ns3.3 could please send me some tips this would be really great. thanx and bye christian c.vollmert@moeller.net (no nextmail - right now)
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: swapfile Date: 26 Jan 1997 19:51:07 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <5cgcjb$2e3@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (FinalNews for NeXTstep; experimental 0.02) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, I use NS 3.3 on Intel and have the following problem. When I set my swapfile to 'nocompress' I get system panics very often during 'turn off' or 'reboot' (I mean the system panics while shutting down). This never happens when I use a compressed swapfile. I also think that it is related to the size of the swapfile. The bigger the file the more likely is a panic. Does anyone know why this happens and what I can do against it? --- _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: talkd vulnerability in NeXTSTEP? (re: CERT Advisory) Date: 27 Jan 1997 20:07:03 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5cj1t7$61l@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Does anyone know whether the NeXTSTEP talkd is vulnerable, as per the CERT Advisory CA-97.04 of January 27? If so, has anyone compiled the latest secure talkd? Thanks for posting the answer to the newsgroup. Ed --- Edward N. Zalta Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information Consulting Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy Stanford University Home Page URL = http://mally.stanford.edu/zalta.html
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! User Acct Will Not Open Date: 27 Jan 1997 05:21:10 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5che06$1vm$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> HELP! please Problem: I cannot login to my user acct [me], although root logs-in OK. After entering user name and passwd as thousands of times in past, machine opens workspace mgr, starts various apps, colour wheel then spins again for few seconds, then logs-out, reverting to login box. Even when a new user acct is created, then I logout, then attempt to login to the new user, same thing happens. Only root acct. works OK. Also I've examined permissions and checking dot-files (with my local Next expert) and we can find nothing out of order. Any helpers on this?. Thanks SD -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disabling remote root logins Date: 27 Jan 1997 01:58:43 GMT Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc. Message-ID: <5ch24j$9mg@dragonfly.wolfram.com> Keywords: root login remote How do I prevent remote root logins (i.e. root can only logon on the console)? Thanks erikw@wolfram.com -- Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701261635.LAA03987@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 699556ef4acbd53d215c5acd4076d758 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 97 11:35:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Why does this panic my 3.3 machine? (was Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)?) Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 699556ef4acbd53d215c5acd4076d758 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@p3.net> Original Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 11:23:50 -0500 > My guess is because there are specific reasons why a process > becomes unkillable (see below) The code supplied will panic the machine if it is used to terminate ANY process, regardless of its state of interruptible or not TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: vgrind help? Problem solved! Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:02:05 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5cig1d$bm8@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>?nus` <5cfv2r$lf6@papoose.quick.com> In-Reply-To: <5cfv2r$lf6@papoose.quick.com> Thank you Mr. Quick! Your response solved my vgrind problem. And here I thought big and little endian problems were mostly a thing of the past. Silly me. Randy J On 01/26/97, James E. Quick wrote: >In article <5bltdk$ioq@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, >Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >>When I try to use vgrind, I get the following: >> >># vgrind area.cc >>pscat: trouble reading .ct file >>lpr: stdin: empty input file >># >> >> >>What do I need to do to so that vgrind works? > >Ahah . . . You did not mention what architecture or version you >are using but it sounds to me like you are on an intel box. The @?Correct assumption.@ >transcript font files are endian dependant, and I think that they >are compiled bigendian on the CD. What you need to do is rebuild >these fonts. > >This is complicated somewhat by the fact that the script used for >rebuilding includes a configuration script which hardcodes a path >specific to the original source environment, not the installation >environment. > >Try this: >cd /usr/lib/transcript/troff.font > >Modify the script fragment ./config so that: > PSLIBDIR=$REALPSLIBDIR > >Now move the current font directories out of the way since the build >script will not build a new font directory if the old one is in place. > mkdir old > for map in *.map > do $dir=`basename $map .map` > mv $dir old/ > done > >Now that you have moved the old font directories out of the way, >build new ones. > for map in *.map > do $dir=`basename $map .map` > ./addtroff.sh $dir $map > done > >Now if you are satified, you can now delete the old dir. >-- > ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com > / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. >\_/ (_\/ | Systems Integration Group (617) 895-3343 > ) | "I don't think so," said Rene Descartes. Just then, he vanished. > -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 20:35:32 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently installed the AppleTalk software from 3.0 on my 3.3 box and was surprised to find that it does not serve AppleTalk files, it only mounts them. Is this correct? If I just missed something, can someone please let me know where the documentation for those features is? Thanks! Karl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701271610.LAA08254@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f296a78bb485c7968b983a7d7ff2213c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 11:10:26 -0500 Subject: Re: hosed fstab Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f296a78bb485c7968b983a7d7ff2213c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Original Date: 25 Jan 1997 12:06:18 GMT > How can I mount the hd as r/w so I can put fstab > back where it belongs? If you can boot single user (which I would doubt, but it's possible) then you can go in and do mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / and then make /etc/fstab something like this: # # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # # This file contains information used to mount local hard disks. # Consult your Network and System Administration manual # for information on adding local disks. Information on the format # of entries in this file can also be found in the fstab man page. # /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Good luck TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: "Stephen V. Roller" <sroller@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: please suggest a web server for black Date: 27 Jan 1997 20:33:56 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <01bc0cd2$3473c8c0$bb8493cf@home-166> References: <m24tg445c6.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hi Nick, Head out to NeXT's web site, and fill out their registration form to download the Apache server for NeXT. While your there, you may also want to download WebObjects. http://wofapps1.next.com/download/ Steve Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> wrote in article <m24tg445c6.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca>... > > thanks > nick >
From: rr@xs4all.nl (rr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 2.1 and UUCP/mail Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 11:55:17 +0100 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Message-ID: <rr-1801971155170001@ztm07-28.dial.xs4all.nl> Hi, I'm trying to configure uucp so I can fetch my email I'm having trouble with this. I'm using an ancient version of NS (2.1) I have a, also ancient, HSD InterFax 24/96 NX modem, I could really use some help, Rodney
From: cpayne@xmission.xmission.com (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl.misc Subject: Re: NS3.3: compile/install Perl5 Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:30:33 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5cjaa9$152@xmission.xmission.com> References: <32de9ede.6814010@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In comp.lang.perl.misc Shane <zatezalo.2@osu.edu> wrote: > I snagged the latest.tar.gz (perl5.003.tar.gz) from www.perl.com. > I'm using a black color 040 NeXTStation w/ NS 3.3 dev. OK, just to answer the obvious first: I built 5.003 on a Station running 4.0 user/dev. ZERO problems whatsoever. Now, this reminds me of something: > I followed the instructions, and got to: > AutoSplitting perl library > Making DynaLoader (static) > sh: 5303 Memory fault > *** Exit 139 > Stop. > *** Exit 1 > Stop. I had a problem like this on a Cube running 3.3 u / 3.2 dev. The memory that was in the Cube was bad. They were 9-chip 4MB SIMMs by maker "Wakamazoo" or somesuch. Putting in 8-chip (nonparity) SIMMs from Micron cured that problem. FTR, the Station has parity RAMM, so I think it's more question of maker than parity or speed. Good luck. Carl
From: cpayne@xmission.xmission.com (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: please suggest a web server for black Date: 27 Jan 1997 15:36:12 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5cjaks$2qh@xmission.xmission.com> References: <m24tg445c6.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> wrote: > thanks > nick Apache Y'welcome Carl
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Single user boot Date: 23 Jan 1997 00:43:42 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5c6c7u$fhk@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32E6678A.3387@planete.net> Cc: craven@planete.net In <32E6678A.3387@planete.net> Chris Raven wrote: > > ------------358D33D94B380 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hello there, > I am on charge of a NeXT Cube administration. > Halas ! My network configuration is so bad, that I can not boot anymore > : > my station stops on file system mounting, I believe it is trying to > mount some > remote fs...well if I depress ctrl/c, I reach the services launch > screen, but > my poor NeXT keeps waiting...waiting... > > I believe the best question is : how the hell do I boot in single user > mode ???! > > Thank you !!! press Command-Command-~ (the upper left key in the number pad) to stop the boot process, type 'halt' (if you already have started the boot), 'bsd -s' will boot up in single user boot. Type exit here to resume the normal bootup procedure. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Unable to use serial ports (NS3.3p1 Intel) Date: 28 Jan 1997 08:17:02 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5ckclu$pn$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5ckc8p$jtl$1@Venus.mcs.net> font@MCS.COM (Font) wrote: > Drivers: include Serial Port 3.33, PCI Bus 3.30, ISA/EISA Bus 3.31, > Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge 3.31. Hi, the TTY port server driver is not on your list. Maybe this is the problem? This driver is needed to make /dev/tty* work, when you use version 3.33 of the ISASerialDriver. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Unable to use serial ports (NS3.3p1 Intel) Date: 28 Jan 1997 02:10:01 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5ckc8p$jtl$1@Venus.mcs.net> Scenario: NEXTSTEP 3.3p1 on Intel installed on a drive, which is too small to fit developer. Disk is dumped and restored to a larger disk. Situation: kermit will not speak to either /dev/tty*a or /dev/tty*b. Details: The major and minor numbers on the serial port devices aren't exactly the same as they are on NEXTSTEP 3.3p1 on black. I removed the tty*b devices and ran "MAKEDEV STD" on them and rebooted. The error message changed from a "not a terminal device" error to a "can't open connection" error. Prior to this change, attempts to access tty*a devices resulted in a long pause before the error, while attempts to access tty*b devices returned error conditions immediately. More details: ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 v3.0, AHA2940U, Matrox Millenium 4M, standard serial and parallel ports, Intel EtherExpress Pro/10. Drivers: include Serial Port 3.33, PCI Bus 3.30, ISA/EISA Bus 3.31, Intel 824X0 PCI Host Bridge 3.31. Questions: How do I get my serial ports to work? Did something go wrong during dump/restore? How can this be avoided in future? Comment: Sometimes I hate computers. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: About to buy CDROM for black. Seek recommendations Date: 27 Jan 1997 21:11:58 -0800 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5ck1qu$ist@slip.net> Hi, I'm about to buy a CDROM for my NeXTSTEP machine and am suggestions on what type to buy. The machine currently has NS2.1 on it, but I expect to upgrade to NS 3.3 or OpenStep 4.0. My first preference would be to buy a NeXT CDROM via a post on c.s.n.m. That way my machine would continue to have all NeXT parts. And hopefully be more reliable because of that. The fact that it might run at 1X doesn't bother me because I expect to run it only to install software. But I'm open to buying a compatible. Either because of great price or quality. (Will any SCSI modem work?) Suggestions? Thanks, Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701271630.LAA08433@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 9d078d320ce2aed34e04f30b39f64c4c - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 97 11:30:15 -0500 Subject: Re: disabling remote root logins Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 9d078d320ce2aed34e04f30b39f64c4c - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: erikw@wri.com (Erik Wolf) Original Date: 27 Jan 1997 01:58:43 GMT > How do I prevent remote root logins (i.e. root can only logon on > the console)? It is probably done for you already, unless you have changed /etc/ttys. Well, someone could telnet in and login as someone in the group "wheel" and then "su" to root, but the only thing I know of you can do to defend against that is turn off incoming rlogin/telnet connections TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Unable to use serial ports (NS3.3p1 Intel) Date: 28 Jan 1997 02:31:45 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5ckdhh$k58$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5ckc8p$jtl$1@Venus.mcs.net> font@MCS.COM (Font) writes: >Situation: kermit will not speak to either /dev/tty*a or /dev/tty*b. A perusal of the NeXTanswers driver overview web pages reveals what I should have known: TTY Port Server 3.33 is also required as a driver to get this to work. Hopefully this will fix my addled brains. -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: CD-WRITE on NS? Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 15:16:39 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32EE5EA7.47AD@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone used a CD-Writer on NeXTstep? Does anyone know which drives will work? I attached an HP SureStore to my machine(TurboColor), set all the device addresses properly, and it wouldn't show up. Does anyone know of the JVC drive will work? Can you dd from one CD to another? Anyone who can give me any info is much appreciated. Thanks! Karl
From: svenifer@snet.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Decompressing .zip files? Date: 28 Jan 1997 21:42:21 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5clrrt$iui@goofy.snet.net> Is there program that will decompress PKWARE's dos pkzip/pkunzip? thanks Sven.
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! User Acct Will Not Open Date: 28 Jan 1997 04:04:15 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5cjtrv$pd1$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> HELP! Something's gone awry on my 25 Mhz/040 Cube running NS 3.3; it's been configured for a longtime now as a single user, stand-alone machine, no network: PROBLEM: When I login as user, the usual, expected things happen: dock appears Desktop seems to build, THEN the color wheel (or beach ball, if you prefer) spins for a few seconds and THEN the machine quits, reverting back to the login box-----again and again. However, if I login as root everything is OK. I've created yet another user account, no problems, then logged out and tried logging in as the new user, but to no avail. Same story as the 1st user. Also I've inspected the all of the "dot-files (like .NeXT). Nothing seems to be out of order. Tried changing their names temporarily (to .33Appinfo from .Appinfo, for example), [after making a copy of these, for safety reasons]. Still no dice. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance... answer here or my email: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca Seamus -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Missing 3.3 Intel drivers Date: 19 Jan 1997 21:19:39 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5bu35b$8d0@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Maybe someone knows how to fix this: My PC has 3 drives -- one for 4.1, one for NT (don't comment) and one for 3.3. I just tried to install 3.3 on the one disk (it used to be Motorola) and I don't have many of the drivers needed, such as ELSA, PCIBus, and for teh DPTSCSI adapter. I found these drivers on the 4.0 and 4.1 floppies / CDs. So I went and copied them on a floppy, which I gave "it" to eat when it asked for them. I get the OS to install from CD onto the disk, but then when it boots from disk it asks me for the drivers again, and when I insert the floppy it crashes with either a "rld()" or "unknown symbol" errors. Any ideas? I am absolutely new to the NeXT-PC thing, where I come from I somehow expect things to work... Thanks! - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701281915.OAA05437@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fb3e220f72cfee4a5e2a428a2dbda111 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 97 14:15:21 -0500 Subject: Re: About to buy CDROM for black. Seek recommendations Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fb3e220f72cfee4a5e2a428a2dbda111 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Original Date: 27 Jan 1997 21:11:58 -0800 > But I'm open to buying a compatible. Either > because of great price or quality. (Will any > SCSI modem work?) This is more of a "hardware" question than a "sysadmin" question, but since we're already here.... here's what I've used and recommended in the past Internal Sony 4x CD-ROM (# CDU76) (pay no more than $100) AND External case for above CD-ROM (#CS-EXTDR1) ($48) Call 1-800-REAL-PCS (ASA Computers). I'm using this CD-ROM and case, and so is someone else I met here, and no problem whatsoever. TjL ps -- there are some very good NeXTStep CD-ROMs out there, you might not want to downplay the fact that a faster CD drive might be preferable further down the road. goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next and check out the "NeXTStep CD-ROMS" entry. -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: gco@cs.stir.ac.uk (Graham Cochrane (CO)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with installing NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Viglen genie ATX Date: 28 Jan 1997 14:18:35 GMT Organization: Computing Science and Mathematics, Stirling University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5cl1rr$6j2@lorne.stir.ac.uk> References: <5cam8i$305@lorne.stir.ac.uk> Keywords: NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel Viglen In article <5cam8i$305@lorne.stir.ac.uk>, I wrote:- |> We have just bought a Viglen genie ATX Intel PC and we thought that we'd |> have a go at trying to get NEXTSTEP 3.3 up and running on it, as an |> experiment. |> Unfortunately, we haven't got too far with this as yet! We ordered an |> Adaptec AHA2940 SCSI adapter for the machine, as this is mentioned on |> the hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com AND the driver for it |> is on the Device Drivers Disk that we have. However, we received an |> Adaptec `AHA2940 Ultra' SCSI adapter instead. This is also on the |> hardware compatibility guide on www.next.com, but I had to go to |> NeXTAnswers to get the driver for it. |> Anyway, when I try to install 3.3 on the PC, I get to the bit where it |> asks me to select the relevant driver for the CD-ROM and the Hard Disk, |> then after selecting the correct driver, the machine can't see any SCSI |> or CD devices, with the message:- |> . . . |> Registering: PCIO |> Adaptec: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING |> Registering: event0 |> Registering: kmDevice0 |> No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found |> Any ideas? By the way, this is the same symptoms when I install the |> plain AHA2940 driver from the release floppy. |> Any suggesttions as to what to do now would be welcomed. Just to report that I have succeeded in getting the machine to recognise the SCSI adapter - thanks to suggestions from Paul Lynch and Tim Bissell. The PCI ID for this particular adapter wasn't listed in the `Default.table' file under the `Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config' directory. When the machine tried to boot, there was a line:- Found PCI Device: ID=0x61789004 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0 The above ID (0x61789004) needs to be added to the `Auto Detect IDs' line within the `Default.table' file. Sadly, to do this you require a machine that is already running NEXSTEP, so that you can place the driver on an additional disk. Fortunately, I had a black slab at hand to allow me to do this. NOTE: To get the Intel driver from NeXTAnswers onto a floppy on a black slab, I had to download the compressed package, then after uncompressing, I had to edit the *.info file within the package (*.pkg) to say Relocatable YES so that you can specify the floppy name as the destination for unpacking. Thanks for the help. Graham. -- Graham Cochrane, Dept of Comp Science and Maths, Stirling University Stirling FK9 4LA SCOTLAND Tel: +44 1786 467442 Fax: +44 1786 464551 graham.cochrane@cs.stir.ac.uk http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~gco/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: lost boot loader due to win95... Message-ID: <E4qnxr.IGE@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: taweil@skat.usc.edu Organization: A.L.I. Technologies, Inc. Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:03:27 GMT References: <c4ak9oxcwim.fsf@skat.usc.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin taweil wrote: > I just installed Win95 and the NeXT bootloader disappear. Is there > anyway I can get it back without re-install the whole OS? Relax, this is easy to fix. (Just be glad you didn't install Windows 3.1/DOS, as it would have happily reformatted all attatched non-DOS drives). First, if you are automatically booting into W95 instead of NeXTSTEP, use the DOS fdisk program to swap which partition is active and then reboot into NeXTSTEP. Once booted into NeXTSTEP use the followin instructions rrom "NEXTSTEP Tech Support Frequently Asked Questions" http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1470.htmld/1470.html Q: My NEXTSTEP PC doesn't display the prompt 'Press n for NEXTSTEP, d for DOS' when the system starts up, even though my disk has both DOS and NEXTSTEP partitions. How can I fix the disk so I can boot from either partition? A: Somehow the boot sector for the disk became corrupted or was removed. You need to replace it. Often this is caused by installing DOS 6.x or Windows95. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0a for /dev/rsd0a. Note: You must execute this command as root. Incorrectly typing this command can have serious repercussions. Use caution when logged in as root. See also: NeXTanswer 1487 "Intel Boot Process" for details on booting. The NEXTSTEP fdisk(8) UNIX manual page and NeXTanswer 1130 "Surviving DOS". -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: biff and 10BaseT vs. thin net on black hardware Date: 27 Jan 1997 22:55:10 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5cjboe$m40@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, A friend of mine encountered the following peculiar problem: After a network upgrade from a thin net (coax) to 10BaseT network, doing 'biff y' in a Terminal.app window causes two sets of alerts to appear each time mail is received. This seems only to be related to which network connector the machine is using. Here is an excerpt from his description of the problem: >sure enough, i pulled the 10baseT out and fed through a 10baseT to >thinwire adapter plugged into usual thinwire port, and a single biff >alert. network is the same, only difference is which network port it >thinks it's using (and if i pull network connection entirely then last >used remains default, hence double biff even after unplugging 10baseT). > >can cycle back and forth (without rebooting, or with rebooting, doesn't >matter), totally reproducible (presumably on all the black slabs): double >biff alert with 10baseT, single with thinwire... He is running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched I believe) on a 25 MHz mono NeXTstation. netstat and ifconfig show no difference when switching between behaviors. So, has anyone seen anything like this before, or know what may be causing the problem? Cheers, Mark doyle@aps.org
From: "Keith L. Swallow" <swallow@oar.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:27:09 -0500 Organization: OARnet Message-ID: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: swallow@oar.net Hello all, I need to find a copy of tcl or instructions for installing tcl 7.6 on a next with nextmach 1.0 .. I know its old... But it is what I have to work with. SO any assistance would be gratfully appreciated. Please just reply to this by mailing me : swallow@oar.net Also sorry for cross posting... I wanted to hit everybody that might be able to help... thanks again... -Sincerly Keith Lee Swallow Thanks again... --
From: c.vollmert@moeller.net (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: US Robotics modem and Gatekeeper Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 08:15:49 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <5cn163$lfc@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> References: <5c0gra$5fc@alder.northcoast.com> stuart@redwood.northcoast.com (Stuart Staniford-Chen) wrote: >I'm trying to set up Gatekeeper (v2.0) /PPP with a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster >modem and I'm not getting through to my provider (the modems negotiate but >I never get a carrier). I *can* get through to a shell account with kermit. >I suspect my problem is with the entry in /etc/remote or with the modem >initialization. Can anyone who has done this help me out with their setup? >Thanks, >Stuart Staniford-Chen >Computer Security Group >UC Davis. Hi ! I´m having the same problem. So if you recive any help could you please send me an answer too ? Thanx Christian c.vollmert@moeller.net (right now, no nextmail please)
From: markus@isolde.mpi-stuttgart.mpg.de (Markus Stoll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: CD-WRITE on NS? Date: 29 Jan 1997 08:53:47 GMT Organization: MPI Stuttgart Message-ID: <5cn36r$pnr@gwdu19.gwdg.de> References: <32EE5EA7.47AD@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> wrote: >Has anyone used a CD-Writer on NeXTstep? Yes > Does anyone know which drives will work? Depends on the cd writing application >I attached an HP SureStore to my machine(TurboColor), set >all the device addresses properly, and it wouldn't show up. What do you mean? It doesn't show up as cdrom? >Does anyone know of the JVC drive will work? Depends on the cd writing application >Can you dd from one CD to another? No. You definetly need a cd writing application. Our program AerePerennius is in the final testing phase and will support Philips (and compatible as the HP) and Yamaha recorders. If you want to test it, send me a mail. Markus
From: Marty McDade <mmcdade@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pro Audio Spectrum Plus (Not 16) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 22:00:18 -0500 Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <32EEBD42.4B0F@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone out there used a Pro Audio Spectrum Plus card under Nextstep? I am trying to use this card on my system running OpenStep 4.1. I am trying to use the driver for the Pro Audio Spectrum 16, but I have only been able to produce an annoying high pitched noise when I try to produce any sound. The card is recognized during the device driver loading phase of the boot up. Thanks for any assistance, hints, etc. Marty
From: "Håkan Jonsson" <hajons@combitech.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q:Info on software versions Date: 28 Jan 1997 08:39:00 GMT Organization: Dell Computer Corporation Message-ID: <01bc0cf7$185af1c0$1f504b92@P080031.software.combitech.se> Hi! Q: How do I get information on which versions of software are available in a certain release of NS? I have tried man pages, release notes,nextanswers etc without luck. What I want to know at the moment is what versions of sendmail and m4 that are shipped with NS 3.3. Can anyone help? /Hakan Jonsson
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: <9701281436.AA05709@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Karsten Heinze <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 97 22:36:13 +0800 Subject: NeXTSTEP as PPP server problems Hi, I have a Intel NeXTSTEP 3.3 with NeXT-ppp2.3-0.5.0 and try to setup = a PPP server. The problem is : I call with a W95 box to my NeXT, it connects, it comes=20 "login:", i type the login, then comes a lot ot strange characters = but not the "password:" Any hints ? Thanks, - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE=20 Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: US Robotics modem and Gatekeeper Date: 29 Jan 1997 12:21:48 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5cnfcs$6l9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <5cn163$lfc@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> I suspect the problem you guys are having is as follows: As mentioned in one of the ppp FAQ's on some modems the DTE speed will remain at the value set when the last AT command was issued. This can be a problem when dialing using comm programs such as tip instead of chat. The Manual Dial mechanism in 2.0 and all prior releases relies on tip and is therefore suceptible to this problem. Its very hardware dependent so many will never see this problem (my Supra is aflicted, my Boca is not). For this reason and to simplify things the Manual Dial in GateKeeper 2.1 was rewritten to eliminate the need for tip. Get GateKeeper 2.1 Beta 5 off of Peak. Set the serial port and DTE speed in GK's preferences->Link panel and everything should just work. In article <5cn163$lfc@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> c.vollmert@moeller.net (Christian Vollmert) writes: >stuart@redwood.northcoast.com (Stuart Staniford-Chen) wrote: > >>I'm trying to set up Gatekeeper (v2.0) /PPP with a US Robotics 33.6 Sportster >>modem and I'm not getting through to my provider (the modems negotiate but >>I never get a carrier). I *can* get through to a shell account with kermit. >>I suspect my problem is with the entry in /etc/remote or with the modem >>initialization. Can anyone who has done this help me out with their setup? > >>Thanks, > >>Stuart Staniford-Chen >>Computer Security Group >>UC Davis. > >Hi ! > >I m having the same problem. So if you recive any help could you >please send me an answer too ? > >Thanx > >Christian > >c.vollmert@moeller.net (right now, no nextmail please) > -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with Audio CDs and NeXTStep 3.2/Moto Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 27 Jan 97 22:30:55 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32ed2c9f.0@192.33.12.30> References: <5c5hn9$ctc@news3.texas.net> <5cd6oe$gco@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> Michael Pieper (michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de) wrote: : >It's almost as if the system won't recognize/mount audio CDs.. did I : >forget to add a filesystem type somewhere?..... : There should be a directory /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs. I have the same problem! Upon inspecting /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs, I have cdaudio.util, but not cdaudio.device. I assume this is important. Moreover, it's not on the NS3.1 CD. Do I have to generate this device myself? If so, how? If not, how do I get it? -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 29 Jan 1997 14:17:32 GMT Organization: NO ORGANIZATION, INC. Message-ID: <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> Cc: matthias.3@osu.edu In <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" wrote: > I recently installed the AppleTalk software from 3.0 on my 3.3 box and > was surprised to find that it does not serve AppleTalk files, it only > mounts them. Is this correct? If I just missed something, can someone > please let me know where the documentation for those features is? > > Thanks! > > Karl > See my home page for more information about NeXTSTEP Appletalk connectivity: http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 29 Jan 97 09:53:04 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> In-reply-to: "Keith L. Swallow"'s message of Tue, 28 Jan 1997 20:27:09 -0500 In article <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net>, "Keith L. Swallow" <swallow@oar.net> writes: I need to find a copy of tcl or instructions for installing tcl 7.6 on a next with nextmach 1.0 .. I know its old... But it is what I have to work with. SO any assistance would be gratfully appreciated. Please just reply to this by mailing me : swallow@oar.net I've posted a copy of tcl7.6 modified to compile under NeXTSTEP3.3 to my home page. Getting it to compile under NS1.0 will likely be a chore, since a lot has happened since then. If you told us what goes wrong when you try to ./configure and compile it, well, then we might be able to help more. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell>
From: yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IBM Ultrastar where can I get it??? Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 17:32:30 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <yblock-2801971732310001@79.phoenix-001.az.dial-access.att.net> Hi, I need some advise. I am trying to buy the IBM Ultrastar ES 2.1GB FSCSI2 (not the wide version) harddisk. I tried to get it from NECX but they don't have it rigth now. Does anyone know whereelse I can buy it?. Thank you York
From: taweil <taweil@skat.usc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lost boot loader due to win95... Date: 28 Jan 1997 13:36:50 -0800 Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Sender: taweil@skat.usc.edu Message-ID: <c4ak9oxcwim.fsf@skat.usc.edu> Hi, I just installed Win95 and the NeXT bootloader disappear. Is there anyway I can get it back without re-install the whole OS? -- Ta-Wei Li
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) Subject: NXFax : NO DIALTONE ? Message-ID: <E4sDMn.1Ir@fritz.snafu.de> Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de Organization: Software Engineering Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 20:15:57 GMT Does anybody know how to operate NXFax if the modem is connected to a PBX ? Apparently NXFax initialises the modem with ATX4. When connected to a PBX the modem returns NO DIALTONE when the dialing command is issued, i.e. sending faxes does not work any longer. If the modem would have been initialised with ATX3, everything would work fine. That's the modem's NVRAM setting, but NXFax issues a ATX4 after the ATZ before sending a fax, apparently. Thanks for any info, Ernst. --- Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
From: rick@axon.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Rick Gray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: rdist: update: mtime not delimited? Date: 29 Jan 1997 17:59:09 GMT Organization: Div. of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Message-ID: <5co35d$fof@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> We're using rdist to make a mirror of a laptop home directory onto a lab machine. Everything works fine, but we get a bunch of these errors: rdist: update: mtime not delimited What does this mean, and how can I fix it? NextStep 3.3 on both laptop and cube housing rdist's target disk. thanks, rick -- Rick Gray, Division of Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx 77030 | Internet: rick@mft.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu | NeXTMail accepted
From: khans@slingshot (Shehryar Khan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 29 Jan 1997 19:21:18 GMT Organization: PSI Public Usenet Link Message-ID: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> I'm trying to connect a 28.8 Supra Fax Modem (Mac) to a NeXT Turbo Color (68040). In the modem manual it explicitly says that the cable that comes with it has hardware handshaking support. I made the appropriate entry in /etc/remote af28800| ... | dv=/dev/cufa (for flow control). etc.. now when I typed tip af28800 it says connected but then it hangs. It won't let me type anything. It won't even let me quit. so I tried using dv=/dev/cua instead. that works fine. It lets me set modem parameters and dial in. However when it does get a "carrier" it starts spewing out junk. I can see the send data and receive data lights flashing on the modem which leads me to believe that data is being transmitted and received properly. Does this have anything to do with setting the connection "rate." Has anybody experienced any problems like this?? What have I done wrong?? Would really appreciate it if somebody could help me out on this. Thanks! shehryar khans@psca.com OpenStep/NeXTStep Developer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: [Q] make_services : someone else is making services??? Message-ID: <E4puCu.EA@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <u8n2tzdnh4.fsf@laeff.esa.es> <QmuFyUu00iV203UvlR@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 11:24:29 GMT Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jan-97 [Q] > make_services : someone.. by Eduardo F. Vieira@laeff. > > I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 Intel Version (HP Vectra 486), and every time one > > logins in I got the message: > > > > syslog: make_services: someone else is already making services. > > > > Is it dangerous?? Could I avoid it in some way ? > > It's not dangerous. What's happening is the WorkSpace normally rebuilds > its database of information like what file extensions correspond to what > app, and what services various apps provide, etc when you log in. > > If, for whatever reason, this process is already going on or if > something else tries to rebuild the services while the WorkSpace is > already doing so, you'll get that message. Don't worry about it. > While I have no problems on my home machine we discoverd some pretty strange behavior on a freshly installed OPENSTEP 4.0 PC. When you log in Mail.app failes to launch automatically. I have seen this on my NeXTcube with 4.0 too but a manuall launch of the Mail.app usually fixes this and its not a real pain...while it is strange. But on the "PC" things go further then that. Launching Mail by hand imediatly quites the app...no message on the console or what ever. Same gos for Opener.app and some others. While yet other apps lauch perfectly. If you do an "upate viewers" in Workspace then you will get teh "someone else is already making services" so you can tell that this process is running in the background. On the PC this takes pretty long but there are not that many apps installed and the filesystem is pretty clean and small up to now (much smaller then on my NeXT at home) Now the strange thing is that if you wait long enough you can launch Mail.app or Opener.app without any problem...and it seems that this is related to the finished "make-_services" stuff. But then...it does not happen always !!!?? Some user can log in and have Mail fired up and running. Some users sometimes can launch Mail and sometimes have to suffer from that descirbed mystery ? So is this a 4.0 "bug/feature" and will 4.1 fix that ? I am pretty puzzled. Aloha Tomi
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,su.computers.next Subject: can't find NS partition on 2nd SCSI hard disk Date: 29 Jan 1997 22:29:39 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5coj0j$j53@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I just installed a 2nd SCSI HD into my NS/Intel 3.2 system. I used fdisk to split it into 3 partitions (in order: DOS, NEXTSTEP, Linux). NEXTSTEP doesn't seem to recognize the NS partition of the 2nd disk. My 1st HD has 2 partitions (DOS, NEXTSTEP). NS can see both of these, and the new DOS partition on the new disk, but not the NEXTSTEP partition. NS can see the raw device (/dev/rsd1h), and in fact, I used NS's version of fdisk to do the partitioning. Before partitioning, NS could see the disk and I even formatted it and could read and write on it. But I couldn't leave things like this since I wanted to have it split so I could run Linux. Now, no directory comes up under '/' for the new NS partition, nor do I get a message when I log on saying "SCSI disk unreadable, would you like to format it", as I did before it was partitioned. The Console shows a message that complains that the device is busy and so it gave up trying to mount it. (Full Console output included below.) Can NS handle a 2nd SCSI disk that is partitioned? (Misc: There are no IDE HDs, only 2 SCSI ones. The SCSI IDs are: 1st HD = 0, 2nd HD = 1, CD-ROM = 2, Adaptec 1542cf SCSI controller = 7. The raw devices in NS for the HDs are: 1st = /dev/rsd0h, 2nd = /dev/rsd1h.) -Karl Console output: Software Version 3.2 (Thunder5S) probing for DOS Filesystem name: DOS Jan 29 14:18:33 Workspace: Mounted DOS disk at /dos-win95 probing for CDROM probing for DOS Jan 29 14:18:36 Workspace: Mounted scsi disk at /dos-win95-2 probing for DOS Filesystem name: DOS mount: /dev/rsd1h on /dos-win95-2_2: Device busy mount: giving up on: /dos-win95-2_2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: liao@il.us.swissbank.com (David Liao) Subject: Sending email attachments from command prompt Message-ID: <1997Jan30.001903.1232@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 00:19:03 GMT Is there a way to send email attachments from the unix command prompt? I want to send an email with attachment file to users with NEXT Mail reader. When the users receive the mail, the attachment file should appear as an icon. The closest I got was uuencode, but the users need to do an extra step of decoding a foreign attachment from the NEXT Mail menu. Please send your recommendation to my email address: david_liao@il.us.swissbank.com Thanks!
From: stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) Newsgroups: comp.security.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ssh on NeXTStep Date: 29 Jan 1997 23:25:59 GMT Organization: Northcoast Internet Message-ID: <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be possible but it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but "make" hits a wall with: gcc -c -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DSIZEOF_INT=4 -DHAVE_ALLOCA=1 -DC_UNDERSCORE=1 -I. -I. -I.. -I./.. -g -O mp_bases.c ../gmp-impl.h:259: syntax error, found `)' ../gmp-impl.h:259: bad attribute specification, expecting constant, found `;' ../gmp-impl.h:298: syntax error, found `32' ../gmp-impl.h:298: bad attribute specification, expecting constant, found `;' ../gmp-impl.h:299: syntax error, found `20' ../gmp-impl.h:299: syntax error, found `;' ../gmp-impl.h:300: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `exp' ../gmp-impl.h:301: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `sig' ../gmp-impl.h:304: illegal external declaration, found `}' *** Exit 1 (Note that gcc is a link to NeXT's /bin/cc on my system, but it doesn't help to take it away) Inspection of the relevant code does not quickly reveal the problem to me (but we're deep in macros inside macros here). The problem compiling this file persists even running the compiler with the -E option (it will not produce any output). The same thing happens with the preceding version of ssh (v1.2.16). Has anyone successfully installed this tool on a Next and can they help me out? Stuart Staniford-Chen Computer Security Group University of California, Davis.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199701291707.MAA10593@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 232bb62ba384515e3e6d760cb0f93b51 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 12:07:23 -0500 Subject: Re: Q:Info on software versions Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 232bb62ba384515e3e6d760cb0f93b51 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "Hikan Jonsson" <hajons@combitech.se> Original Date: 28 Jan 1997 08:39:00 GMT > What I want to know at the moment is what versions of sendmail and > m4 that are shipped with NS 3.3. Can anyone help? sendmail: Have you tried "telnet localhost 25"? That should tell you the sendmail version. m4 run /bin/strings on /usr/bin/m4. Looks like version 1.3 to me TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NLP problems persist Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:28:47 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <32EFC10F.1F54@worldbank.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hope someone can help me. The problems I'm having with my NeXT Laser Printer persist. Basically, the page is printed stretched in the vertical dimension. If I draw a box that's one inch square and print it, the printout shows a box one inch wide but a little more than one inch tall. That's not too much of a problem when printing text, but it makes any kind of graphics very difficult. And plays havoc with mailing labels! This happens from all apps that print. I might add that occasionally, the first print job does come out right, but all subsequent ones do not. Anyone have any suggestions as to a cause/solution? Any help would be very much appreciated. -- Stefano Pagiola 850 N Randolph Str No.817, Arlington VA 22203, USA All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
From: "Bill Keller" <kellerw@okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT boot loader Date: 30 Jan 1997 08:15:50 GMT Organization: Creative Logic Software Message-ID: <01b99229$af4be3a0$06254e8b@carcosa> Has anyone had any success setting up nextstep to launch from the Windows NT boot loader? I've played around with the boot.ini file, but can't seem to get the right settings. I have IDE hard drive with dos SCSI hard drive with nextstep SCSI hard drive with NT These are in the order that they appear in the rdisk portion of the boot.ini file. Any info would be a big help. Thanks! -- Bill Keller (kellerw@okstate.edu) Creative Logic Software
From: "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Date: 30 Jan 1997 08:05:45 GMT Organization: Dreams Message-ID: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I very much would like to create a serial device which operates at 38,400 baud. Unfortunately, NEXTSTEP seems to think this an odd speed, as whenever I try the port fails to operate correctly. I've followed what I believe are the correct steps to create the port (cufa38400), but using 'tip cufa38400' results in a connection that fails to communicate with the modem. Tip responds with 'connected,' so it appears the setup is correct. I can type whatever I like... but apparently the modem never receives it, or I never receive the modems response. Any suggestions or step-by-step notes on creating and verifying such a connection would be greatly appreciated. Please email me--if anyone is interested, I'll be glad to post a summary. Thanks! --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 30 Jan 1997 04:01:33 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5cp6et$986@eve.enteract.com> References: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> In-Reply-To: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> The Mac SCC handles hardware handshaking by modulating the signal against an inverted copy of the same signal. It implements RS-422. Bottom line is the cable that came with the modem is not wired to communicate with the RS-232C serial ports on Next hardware. You need to follow the man zs instructions on this one. For a comparison of the two, see the URL in my sig below. -Kevin On 01/29/97, Shehryar Khan wrote: > >I'm trying to connect a 28.8 Supra Fax Modem (Mac) to a NeXT Turbo >Color (68040). > >In the modem manual it explicitly says that the cable that comes with >it has hardware handshaking support. >I made the appropriate entry in /etc/remote > >af28800| ... | dv=/dev/cufa (for flow control). >etc.. > >now when I typed > > tip af28800 > >it says connected but then it hangs. It won't let me type anything. >It won't even let me quit. > >so I tried using dv=/dev/cua instead. >that works fine. It lets me set modem parameters and dial in. However >when it does get a "carrier" it starts spewing out junk. I can see the >send data and receive data lights flashing on the modem which leads me >to believe that data is being transmitted and received properly. > >Does this have anything to do with setting the connection "rate." Has >anybody experienced any problems like this?? What have I done wrong?? > >Would really appreciate it if somebody could help me out on this. > >Thanks! > >shehryar >khans@psca.com >OpenStep/NeXTStep Developer > -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: Marty McDade <mmcdade@sprintmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pro Audio Spectrum Plus Card Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 23:20:37 -0500 Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <32F02195.103@sprintmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: marty_mcdade@fanniemae.com Does anyone know if it is possible to use the 8 Bit Pro Audio Spectrum Plus card with NextStep. I am trying to use the Pro Audio Spectrum 16 Driver with OpenStep 4.1 (Intel). The "Configuring Devices" stage of the boot procedure reports that the card is being recognized. However, the card only produces a high pitched noise when I attempt to play any sound files. I have tried all the interupt and IRQ settings that were available with my system. With OS/2 I was able to use the 16 bit driver after making some changes to a configuration file. I am hoping there is a similar work around for the OpenStep driver. Thanks for any help! Marty McDade
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9701291656.AA00487@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 97 10:56:18 -0600 Subject: STB Video support questions Cc: randyn@jorsm.com I am thinking about upgrading my STB S3 PCI card to either STB 128 Lightning PCI or STB Velocity which uses the 3D S3 Virge 3X Is anyone successfully using either one of these cards under NEXTSTEP? Will the S3 PCI or S3 Virge drivers work with either of these cards? (The S3 Virge document doesn't mention the STB). Thanks Randy randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ The Top 50+ Geek T-Shirt Slogans: 28. CONGRESS.SYS Corrupted: Re-boot Washington D.C (Y/N)? tried booting wit -s and then fsck'ing. I then <cntl><d> to enter multi-user mode. When done this way it gets thru all the rc stuff, and tries to bring up the screen. However, all I get is just a black screen. It kind of seems like the video may be having a problem. If I boot with config=Default, it will boot up fine (using the VGA of course). Any ideas what may be happening and how I can fix it? Is an setting on the S3 I should change to prevent it from conflicting with this new memory? Thanks, Randy Nelson randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Employer Talk: MUST HAVE AN EYE FOR DETAIL: We have no quality control.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.1 and Windows NT Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:21:03 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <32F0922F.2781@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have just installed OPENSTEP 4.1 for windows NT and although all the developers stuff seems to work okay, there does not seem to be any applications. What I wondered was if there was any of the NeXT applications included, such as the mail program and the terminal etc. These were not on the distibution I have. Was the port limited just to the developers stuff? Has anyone any experience of porting generally available software to OPENSTEP/Windows NT and is there any archive off application for windows NT available. I could not see anything on the peanuts archive which is fairly extensive here in Germany. Email replies preferred if possible. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.1 and amd Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 13:31:03 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <32F09487.446B@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have upgraded my Intel machine to OPENSTEP 4.1 and everything went okay apart from a problem with OPENSTEP and the amd automounter. This is the linux automonter. The problem is that sometimes it gives bus error and when starting it by hand immediately after reboot, and if starting it automatically in the boot script it stops the boot and error messages about printer/tcp unknown are given. If I start the deamons later their is no bus error and it seems to work okay. But I need to start it on reboot so that home directies etc etc are mounted for people to login. I have recompiled the original version I used, and also the latest version available and all give the same problem. I did not any problems with OPENSTEP 4.0 or NeXTSTEP 3.3 which all work perfectly. Does anyone have any ideas or suggests on what could be the problem. There is not a lot of documentation on the difference between 4.0 and 4.1 supplied with the documentation. I am trying to search the NeXT server for possible problems that might cause the conflict but boy is it really slow to connect to the NeXT server. Any suggestions welcome. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ssh on NeXTStep Date: 30 Jan 1997 13:48:52 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5cq8s4$inl@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> In article <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen) writes: > I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 for > Intel system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be > possible but it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but > "make" hits a wall with 1. I've built 1.2.16 already. Feel free to use it. Find it at peak. 2. You'll need to specifiy an additional CFLAG: -traditional-cpp if you REALLY want to try to build yourself. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Niels Coelle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Where can I set the MTU? Date: 30 Jan 1997 13:41:46 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der TU Clausthal Message-ID: <5cq8eq$ri1$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Hi all! How can I set set MTU for my Ethernet? The ifconfig way does not work. thanks Niels
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: command to turn off NeXT prn? Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 16:18:32 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32E38CC8.2307@ibp.de> References: <5bvuku$h8v@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Stephen Johnson wrote: > > It seems like I remember some posts about using a command in crontab > to automatically turn off the NeXT prn and I thought I saved the info > but can't find it now that I ready to try to do it. > Can anyone refresh my 'database', please? > > Stephen nppower on | off Fun, Lars -- mailto:lars@ibp.de http://www.ibp.de/~lars Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Shyne-Song Chuang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ssh on NeXTStep Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 22:49:29 +0800 Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <csong-3001972249290001@centris.tip.com.sg> References: <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> <5cq8s4$inl@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5cq8s4$inl@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: > In article <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com> stanifor@cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart > Staniford-Chen) writes: > > I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 for > > Intel system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be > > possible but it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but > > "make" hits a wall with > > 1. I've built 1.2.16 already. Feel free to use it. Find it at peak. > 2. You'll need to specifiy an additional CFLAG: -traditional-cpp > if you REALLY want to try to build yourself. > > -- > Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) -traditional-cpp fixes your problem above. However, you'll probably bump into asm problems next. You need to configure with -disable-asm. BTW, 1.2.17 makes out of the box on NextStep 3.3 Intel with gcc as long as you disable asm. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: nurban@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Nathan M. Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Question Date: 30 Jan 1997 16:28:29 -0500 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5cr3pt$3n@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> References: <32F109F1.4BB@onramp.net> In article <32F109F1.4BB@onramp.net>, rmaniac@onramp.net wrote: > I found a gif of what was supposed to be NeXTSTEP 4.0 a while back. That was likely a mockup of a 4.0 beta release. > It had a new dock, gradient windows bars and many niceties. I picked up a > copy of openstep 4.1 and it looks just like NS 3.3. Am I missing a > setting or did they scrap all the visual stuff when they moved from > NeXTSTEP to OPENSTEP? They scrapped it. The betas had a new UI, but that didn't make it into 4.0. -- Nathan Urban | nurban@vt.edu | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: <9701300101.AA05524@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Karsten Heinze <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 97 09:01:34 +0800 Subject: Re: ssh on NeXTStep Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com In article <5coma7$mma@alder.northcoast.com>, you wrote: > I'm trying to install ssh v1.2.17 (secure shell) on a NeXTStep 3.3 = for Intel=20 > system. According to the compatability guide this ought to be = possible but=20 > it's not working. "Configure" appears to work ok, but "make" hits = a wall=20 > with: ... > Has anyone successfully installed this tool on a Next and can = they help me=20 > out? Hi, the problem ist the gmp library, use the version for NeXTSTEP from = next-ftp.peak.org or use the compiled ssh-1.2.17 from = next-ftp.peak.org. - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE=20 Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
From: anna@cat.com Organization: Copy.Cat Shop. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> References: <5cr4m7$5f@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:44:38 +1 EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "TheCopyCatShop" or "summary of auto-cancels" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Complete Canon P133 Computer System.
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help.. [Network Printer] ... Date: 31 Jan 1997 01:12:44 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5crguc$a58$1@news.cc.umr.edu> HI, We have a pentium 133 running NextStep 3.3. I was trying to connect a Network printer (postScript printer) to this machine. What do I need to do for this to work. Thank you very much .. Sanjeev
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help... [CD ROM on next]... Date: 31 Jan 1997 01:17:20 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5crh70$a58$2@news.cc.umr.edu> I had installed a CD ROM driver (6x) on Pentium 133 running NS 3.3. Of late I cannot seem to access the CD ROM driver (for music CDs or otherwise). I was wondering what could have gone wrong. Could it have been some bug in CD Player that comes with the system. What do I need to do to correct this. Thank you .. Sanjeev
From: Brian Sutherland <rmaniac@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 14:52:01 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies; ISP; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA Message-ID: <32F109F1.4BB@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found a gif of what was supposed to be NeXTSTEP 4.0 a while back. It had a new dock, gradient windows bars and many niceties. I picked up a copy of openstep 4.1 and it looks just like NS 3.3. Am I missing a setting or did they scrap all the visual stuff when they moved from NeXTSTEP to OPENSTEP? The file I speak of is ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/next/Graphics/From_NeXT/ns40.gif Please write back both E-mail and newsgroup so I will be sure to get it. my email address is in my sig it is not uptop for spam resons. -Brian bcs@onramp.net
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot process fails arter adding more RAM Date: 30 Jan 1997 22:19:20 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5cr6p8$7o9$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <9701291652.AA00393@nx_chi> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> wrote: : I added 2 4x32 16MB SIMMs to increase my RAM from 32 to 64MB. : However now my White NEXT won't complete the boot process. : It is a Gateway P100 with dual boot of 95/NS. It has an STB PCI Powergraph 64 : w/2MB and I am using the S3 Generic PCI Display Driver with settings at 0x3B0 : and 0x3000000 64*1024*1024 = 0x4000000 Set the memory map for the graphics card to something higher than this. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: john@wpa.com (John Bartley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS question Date: 31 Jan 1997 06:40:29 GMT Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Message-ID: <5cs44t$pha@twain.mo.net> Anyone have an experience with accessing NeXTs using the Hummingbird Maestro NFS client? I've tried it at the office and tried it at home and have had no luck. It can see my exports, but when I try to connect it simply pops up a tiny little error panel with a little red X on it!! :-( The only word is in the title bar and it says HCLNET. Not exactly a lot of help in figuring out what's wrong. I've tried varying everything I can think of, but to no avail. Does anyone have a clue about what it might be objecting to? This appears to be a problem on the PC side, since I had the same trouble with an HP server running HP UX. My NeXT and the HP mount file systems from each other, so I know that NFS works fine on both of them as clients and servers. The only thing I can think of that is a problem might be the port assignment. Maestro lists port 2049 in the configuration panel, but I don't think NS likes this. I tried setting up an entry in netinfo just in case, but got the same result. So, NFS gurus, do I need better PC software or a better brain? :-) Thanks for any pointers.... John Bartley john@wpa.com
From: randy@randyn2.jorsm.com (Randy Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Date: 31 Jan 1997 07:09:17 GMT Organization: Structured Network Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <5cs5qt$kih$1@news.structured.net> I have a system with an 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and 2.SCSI drive with NS. My system will try to boot the EIDE drive first. I have installed System Commander and would like to be able to boot either NS partition without having to enter sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a when I boot off of the SCSI one. Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? Thanks, Randy -- - Randy Nelson Senior Systems Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) Email: randyn@jorsm.com (NeXTmail accepted) WorkEmail: randyn@crt.com (NeXTmail accepted)
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfoManager problem Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:29:45 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5css49$2e2@eve.enteract.com> "all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the cause of this? I recently installed the 3.1 patch and now wonder if this might be a contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions regarding how to track down/fix this problem. thanks -Kevin -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 31 Jan 1997 13:32:46 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. "all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the cause of this? I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions regarding how to track down/fix this problem. thanks, again -Kevin -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: i455@baracke.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Bergmann Winfried) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Date: 31 Jan 1997 15:47:13 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5ct461$tr7@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5cs5qt$kih$1@news.structured.net> Randy Nelson (randy@randyn2.jorsm.com) wrote: : I have a system with an : 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and : 2.SCSI drive with NS. : : My system will try to boot the EIDE drive first. : : I have installed System Commander and would like to be able to boot either : NS partition without having to enter sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a when I : boot off of the SCSI one. : : Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off : of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? I'm not familiar with w95, but the NT4.0 boot loader kann boot an os with it's boot sector (in something like boot.ini). If w95 is similiar, try this. I also have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 distribution, which came with a boot loader (osbs) which can boot from the second drive. (Mail me for further details, cause I'm not at home to check this) : : Thanks, : Randy : -- : : - Randy Nelson : Senior Systems Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) : : Email: randyn@jorsm.com (NeXTmail accepted) : WorkEmail: randyn@crt.com (NeXTmail accepted) -- ========================================================================== Winfried Bergmann | Germany - 91478 Ulsenheim 14 | I read it in the paper i455@stio1.sari.fh-wuerzburg.de | There's death on every page ==========================================================================
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: biff and 10BaseT vs. thin net on black hardware Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Date: 29 Jan 97 08:54:26 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32ef1042.0@192.33.12.30> References: <5cjboe$m40@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Mark Doyle (doyle@aps.org) wrote: : A friend of mine encountered the following peculiar problem: : After a network upgrade from a thin net (coax) to 10BaseT network, doing : 'biff y' in a Terminal.app window causes two sets of alerts to appear each : time mail is received. This seems only to be related to which network : connector the machine is using. Here is an excerpt from his description of : the problem: : He is running NeXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched I believe) on a 25 MHz mono : NeXTstation. netstat and ifconfig show no difference when switching : between behaviors. : So, has anyone seen anything like this before, or know what may be causing : the problem? Ooh ooh me! I've got the same problem on my color turbo running 3.3. I'm also on a 10bt network, and I've never tried thin at all. I've come to accept this as part of every day life. But get this: I've got a sparc running SunOS sitting right next to me on the network. When I get mail on the NeXT, I get a message on the sparc. At first I assumed this was because they were sharing filesystems and mail spools and something weird was happening. However, a friend is running Linux, and our machines are not related in anyway whatsoever (aside from being on the same network :) no shared filesystems, etc). I do have an account there, and guess what happens when I get new mail for jklein@freon? Anywhere on my subnet, if I get mail here, and there is a jklein on the machine, I get biff'd, but only once. I'm a little confused as to how biff works, then... since if I ifconfig en0 broadcast 0 then I get no biffs. I would expect that I would get 1, and zero on the other machines with this. I'm confused :) anyone? -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 31 Jan 1997 17:52:32 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. > >"all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the >cause of this? > >I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a >contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions >regarding how to track down/fix this problem. > >thanks, again >-Kevin >-- >Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> >d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n >NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html I haven't heard of any problems with the patch and NetInfoManager.app. Anyone else? Other info would be helpful. Have you installed any new apps? Is netinfo running (use ps -aux)? --Ryan
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 31 Jan 1997 15:27:05 GMT Organization: P & L Systems, Ltd. Message-ID: <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> In <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > In <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> "Karl N. Matthias" wrote: > > I recently installed the AppleTalk software from 3.0 on my 3.3 box and > > was surprised to find that it does not serve AppleTalk files, it only > > mounts them. Is this correct? If I just missed something, can someone > > please let me know where the documentation for those features is? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Karl > > > > See my home page for more information about NeXTSTEP Appletalk connectivity: > > http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html > Frank references the netatalk pages at umich.edu from his next_cap page, which describe an alternative and IMHO superior implementation of functionality equivalent to CAP: I've used netatalk on Linux boxen, and I think it performs very well indeed. Unfortunately, the netatalk FAQ (http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/netatalk/faq.html) has this to say about Nextstep, and by implementation, Openstep: Does netatalk work on NeXTs? At one point we were working on a port. It was not going well, and then NeXT decided to become a completely different company. We are no longer working on a port. I've heard that there are people interested in a port. Porting it to NeXT/Openstep would require writing a loadable kernel module (read "AppleTalk driver") that implements the various AppleTalk protocols, plus porting the atalkd daemon. I'd love to see a Next port of this software --- or even better for Next/Apple --- supply it as standard part of the OS. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS question Date: 31 Jan 1997 20:19:31 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5ctk4j$fdb$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5cs44t$pha@twain.mo.net> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin John Bartley <john@wpa.com> wrote: : Anyone have an experience with accessing NeXTs using the Hummingbird Maestro NFS : client? I've tried it at the office and tried it at home and have had no luck. It : can see my exports, but when I try to connect it simply pops up a tiny little : error panel with a little red X on it!! :-( The only word is in the title bar and : it says HCLNET. Not exactly a lot of help in figuring out what's wrong. Have you started /usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd? -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot process fails arter adding more RAM Date: 31 Jan 1997 08:21:57 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5csa35$86b@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <9701291652.AA00393@nx_chi> Cc: randyn@crt.com In <9701291652.AA00393@nx_chi> Randy Nelson wrote: > I added 2 4x32 16MB SIMMs to increase my RAM from 32 to 64MB. > > However now my White NEXT won't complete the boot process. > > It is a Gateway P100 with dual boot of 95/NS. It has an STB PCI Powergraph 64 > w/2MB and I am using the S3 Generic PCI Display Driver with settings at 0x3B0 > and 0x3000000 > > Any ideas what may be happening and how I can fix it? Is an setting on the S3 > I should change to prevent it from conflicting with this new memory? > > Thanks, > Randy Nelson > randyn@jorsm.com > Sounds like the memory collision bug. Your S3 memory address must fall within the addresses of your new RAM. What you need to do is pick a value outside that range in Configure.app. I've seen the exact answer posted before (which I can't remember), so check the FAQ. Good luck! ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
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