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From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 1 Feb 1997 02:22:47 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5cu9dn$poc@eve.enteract.com> References: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> I belive it is... root 102 0.0 0.7 1.63M 440K ? SW 0:01 /usr/etc/netinfod local -Kevin On 01/31/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >>previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. >> >>"all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the >>cause of this? >> >>I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a >>contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions >>regarding how to track down/fix this problem. >I haven't heard of any problems with the patch and NetInfoManager.app. Anyone >else? Other info would be helpful. > >Have you installed any new apps? Is netinfo running (use ps -aux)? -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: frank@this.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 1 Feb 1997 00:07:14 GMT Organization: my own Message-ID: <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) wrote: > Porting it to NeXT/Openstep would require writing a loadable kernel module > (read "AppleTalk driver") that implements the various AppleTalk protocols, > plus > porting the atalkd daemon. I'd love to see a Next port of this software --- > or > even better for Next/Apple --- supply it as standard part of the OS. Even if netatalk is a better (say faster) solution, the CAPpl198/BPF combo works fine on NeXTSTEP. My performance tests show up to 400 kByte/sec AFP transfer rate, read and write. Beside 'afpmount' (which enables to mount remote Macintosh volumes) is based on CAP and would be some work to rewrite. The multicasting problems with certain drivers are no matter of CAP or netatalk but of ethernet card drivers problems. Granted, CAP has some overhead but running the Appletalk protocol stack in user space has advantages too, compatibility and stability wise. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux & PostScript Guy
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfoManager problem addendum Date: 1 Feb 1997 04:17:18 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5cug4e$i4f@eve.enteract.com> References: <5css9u$2g4@eve.enteract.com> <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ctbh0$lj8$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Thanks Ryan, I recently installed the MusicKit.pkg and a copy of ProductionPartner.app, but these should not have gone anywhere near /etc or /usr/bin or any other vital directories. I've since de-installed them both. I also notice that Configure.app has been hosed; "couldn't start this application because it is damaged." I've since copied NetInfoManager.app and Configure.app over from the CD, but still neither will start. I ran fsck -P; no errors reported. When I try to run nidomain -l I'm told Command not found. When I run it from /usr/etc/nidomain -l I get tag=local udp=700 tcp=701. ps -aux returns root 100 0.0 0.7 1.63M 440K ? SW 0:01 /usr/etc/netinfod local This machine is not part of a NetInfo network, but it is configured for PPP. Any pointers as to what files might be munged that would keep NetInfoManger.app and Configure.app from launching? The thought of reinstalling everything from scratch is less than cheerful. thanks. On 01/31/97, Ryan Scott wrote: >me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >>previously I wrote "3.1 patch" I meant the patch for 3.3. >> >>"all of a sudden" my NetInfoManager.app won't run. What might be the >>cause of this? >> >>I recently installed the 3.3 patch and now wonder if this might be a >>contributing factor, but would appreciate any clues or suggestions >>regarding how to track down/fix this problem. <snip> >I haven't heard of any problems with the patch and NetInfoManager.app. Anyone >else? Other info would be helpful. > >Have you installed any new apps? Is netinfo running (use ps -aux)? > >--Ryan > -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Decompressing .zip files? Message-ID: <E4vqK8.5qt@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5clrrt$iui@goofy.snet.net> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:48:08 GMT In article <5clrrt$iui@goofy.snet.net> svenifer@snet.net writes: > Is there program that will decompress PKWARE's dos pkzip/pkunzip? > > thanks Sven. Hi Sven, there is an application called Opener.app that is able to open zip and a lot of other formats. It is also able to create archieves. I am not absolutely sure where to get it, but it is on the peanuts cd and web server. -- ========================================================================== == Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ========================================================================== ==
From: therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Thomas J. Herbert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't talk with OpenStep4.0 Date: 31 Jan 97 14:10:08 EST Organization: Univ of Miami IR Message-ID: <1997Jan31.141008@umiami> I have a fairly new OpenStep 4.0 system in addition to 3.2 and 3.3 Intel systems. To put it simply, I cannot use the talk that came with the system or ytalk, at least "YTalk version 3.0 (2)" which works fine on my 3.2 and 3.3 systems. I get the following error message when attempting to use talk from the 4.0 system (and cannot talk into the 4.0 system from any other computer): [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] I don't know if this problem was from the start of operation of the machine or not. Early on, I used TeXMenu which runs slog. The slog was causing severe problems under 4.0 .. difficult to log off and processes remained. So, I removed slog from the TeXMenu application. I suspected something happened like permissions being changed or a LCK file being generated but I haven't been able to find anything unusual. Any ideas? Having talk or ytalk isn't critical but it sure would be nice. And this is really puzzling me. Is it a bug in OpenStep 4.0 (Intel), some incompatibility with talk, ytalk and 4.0, or something that I did with running the slog? Thanks in advance for any ideas or words of wisdom. Tom Herbert --- THOMAS J. HERBERT therbert@umiami.ir.miami.edu (VMS) tom@darwin.cox.miami.edu (NeXTMail accepted)
From: info@me.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Dial In and NT Printing Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:48:08 -0500 Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Message-ID: <32F2BCF8.5B25@me.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I have two questions. Firstly, I've just configured an OpenStep 4.1 on Mach machine to dial into our ISP using ppp. This machine is on our network, and I would like to know if there is a way to properly route packets so that other machines on the network can access the internet for web browsing, ftp, telnet, etc? This doesn't seem to be happening automatically, as I had hoped it would. Secondly, I would like to be able to print from an OpenStep on NT box to a black printer hooked up to a slab on our network. I know it can be done, but apparently it's not trivial. Can anyone get me pointed in the right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply to paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com Regards, Paul --- Paul Summermatter LGS Systems, Inc. 182 Lake Street Hamburg, NY 14075-4826 paulrs@lgs-systems.com www.lgs-systems.com (716) 646-1164
From: info@me.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Kermit Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:51:36 -0500 Organization: ServiceTech, Inc. Message-ID: <32F2BDC8.3922@me.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm using kermit to establish a connection to a remote server. My modem can handle up to 28,800 speeds. However, when I try to set the line speed to 28,800, kermit is not happy. Is there a declarations file for kermit which I need to modify to allow 28,800 connection speeds, or will kermit just not accept 28,8. If so, what sort of modifications must I make? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com thanks, paul --- Paul Summermatter LGS Systems, Inc. 182 Lake Street Hamburg, NY 14075-4826 (716) 646-1164 paulrs@lgs-systems.com www.lgs-systems.com
From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: amanda and NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k Message-ID: <1997Feb1.105920.47337@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 1 Feb 97 10:59:20 MET Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Hello, I'm running a NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k machine and I'd like to use amanda. Does anybody know, where I can get a precompiled version of it ? If try to compile ist, after I changed config.h, options.h and the file munge I get a lot of error messages and finally make stops. Thank you Markus Wildi
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to un-hose sendmail? Date: 1 Feb 1997 07:01:01 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> An attempt to upgrade to the latest sendmail totally failed. (This was using the recipe available). After the installation was backed out of, and the backup files restored, sendmail does some very peculiar things: 1. Sending to localhost & some ISP's work fine 2. Sending to other ISP's and telnetting to port result in the following error: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- Connected to freenet.carleton.ca: >>> HELO <<< 501 HELO requires domain address 554 SomeUser <SomeUser@freenet.carleton.ca>... Service unavailable ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <rworne> Received: by (NeXT-1.0f2 (From Sendmail 5.52)/NX3.0M) id AA00544; Sat, 1 Feb 97 05:37:44 PST Message-Id: <9702011337.AA00544@> Errors-To: rworne Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: <199701220347.WAA02554@freenet6.carleton.ca> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b5) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) Sender: Robert Worne <rworne> From: Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 97 05:37:42 -0800 To: SomeUser <SomeUser@freenet.carleton.ca> It never exhibited this behavior before, and I do have all the .cf files in the appropriate places for the stock config (in /etc/sendmail). The config files for NetInfo were also restored from the stock copies in the templates directory. For those of you that may ask why I screwed with sendmail: In order to receive confirmation of submitted assignments at my University, the From address *must* be correct, and the newest version of sendmail should have taken care of this. It just broke everything :( -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 1 Feb 97 00:03:01 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert (frank@this.net) wrote: : Even if netatalk is a better (say faster) solution, the CAPpl198/BPF combo works fine on : NeXTSTEP. My performance tests show up to 400 kByte/sec AFP transfer rate, read and : write. Beside 'afpmount' (which enables to mount remote Macintosh volumes) is based on : CAP and would be some work to rewrite. The multicasting problems with certain drivers : are no matter of CAP or netatalk but of ethernet card drivers problems. : Granted, CAP has some overhead but running the Appletalk protocol stack in user space : has advantages too, compatibility and stability wise. I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and painless. I *love* netatalk. When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. I'm giving up on CAP completely this time. NFS exporting to the Sparcs and mounting the filesystem by netatalk works fine and easily. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 1 Feb 1997 20:03:18 GMT Organization: Cyberstore Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5d07i6$i7p@scipio.cyberstore.ca> References: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> <5cp6et$986@eve.enteract.com> me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: > >Bottom line is the cable that came with the modem is not wired to >communicate with the RS-232C serial ports on Next hardware. Just a note, the Next Admin manual says the following. The 68030 Nexts have an RS-422 compatible port. The 68040 machines have an RS-423 compatible port. A non Mac cable is needed, as I have done with my SupraFAX modem. The next Admin manual indicates that using a Mac cable is a hit and miss possibilty. Darren http://www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 1 Feb 97 15:39:33 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF191438-10BAF6@207.147.62.179> References: <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, Jan 31, 1997 7:03 PM, jon klein <mailto:jklein@freon.artificial.com> wrote: > I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and > painless. I *love* netatalk. > > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. What were you trying to install this on? I ran Frank's installer on Black Hardware '040 Turbo and had no trouble. My NeXT drive came up on the powermac downstairs right through the chooser. file sharing was a breeze. I still have not cracked the printing nut yet, but all the networked laserwriters come up in the terminal window. As for the interface, it wasn't great and the documentation was sketchy, but Frank acknowledged this. On the other hand, I have very little experience (read "no experience") with UNIX and I was able to figure it out by looking at the example code. By the way, John, I like the web page. Are you a law student or do you do consulting for the Law School? Myself, I'm an attorney, not a programmer. :-) Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: Scott A Douglass <sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: LaserWriter II NTX Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:53:43 -0500 Organization: Psychology, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4mwvhbm00YUn0W6Wo0@andrew.cmu.edu> I've been looking through FAQs, documentation, etc. and cannot find a reason for my inability to connect and use a NTX. If you have connected a NTX to an 040 slab, please send me email. - I have a NeXT mini-8 -> db25 cable - The printer is known to be fully functional - Serial ports on the slab are known to be fully functional I'm particularly suspicious of the DIP switch setting on the NTX... Scott Douglass _____________________________________________________________________ Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University Office: (412) 268-1414, E-mail: sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu (NeXTMail OK) PGP Public Key: finger email address
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? [LONG] Date: 1 Feb 1997 18:16:34 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5d0md2$s2m@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Ident-User: liuyi Keywords: sendmail8.8.5, config In article <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> wrote: > An attempt to upgrade to the latest sendmail totally failed. (This > was using the recipe available). > > After the installation was backed out of, and the backup files > restored, sendmail does some very peculiar things: (I presume you're using the installation scripts on ftp.peak.org, and you've installed the sendmail8.8.5 package from the same site.) I can't tell exactly where and how your sendmail is hosed from your post, but I've installed the 8.8.5 package and configured it without much trouble on my machine. If you're game, I suggest you try the following configuration files I'm using and give it another chance. It may be a lot easier than trying to track down exactly which part of your old sendmail configurations got hosed in the botched attempt Note: Do _NOT_ use the installation scripts for 8.7.5 on peak, it probably won't work. I recommend you do it by hand. I've modified the 8.7.5 scripts to work with my config for 8.8.5, and I can send you a tar.gz of all my config files if you need them. I also recommend you get a copy of the standard 8.8.5 distribution from ftp.sendmail.org and read the README by Eric Allman, it's the best short intro to sendmail I've ever seen. (As it ought to be.) My Environment: ISP: PPP (dynamic IP), crystalball.com, MAILHOST: mail.crystalball.com Mach: ND Turbo under NS3.3p1, name: caiman, PPP2.2patch0beta3 GateKeeper2.1Beta4. Steps: 1. Get the precompiled package for 'peak' or your favorite NeXT archive: ftp://ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz 2. Install the package as root. 3. Make a dir (~/Config/sendmail8.8.5, e.g.) to keep track of your config files and RCS version control is recommended too. 4. Create 4 configuration files: 4.1 <yourmcfile>.mc file that is installed in /etc/sendmail/cf/cf: My file is named caiman-nextstep.mc. You can pick your name but _avoid_ picking any names that's already in /etc/sendmail/cf/cf. Here's my caiman-nextstep.mc file: #Copyright information deleted VERSIONID(`$Id: caiman-nextstep.mc,v 1.8 1997/01/29 06:07:15 liuyi Exp$') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl DOMAIN(crystalball)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(crystalball.com)dnl MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) Note0: OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl --- I'm using the default OSTYPE file that comes with the sendmail8.8.5 package: /etc/sendmail/cf/ostype/nextstep.m4 which sendmail uses to locate important directories like /usr/spool/mqueue for spooling mails. Change it if you _know_ you've configured your system differently. Note1: DOMAIN(crystalball)dnl refers to the crystalball.m4 file that you'll need to create. If you change it to another name, say mydomain.m4, you'll need to change this line to read DOMAIN(mydomain)dnl Note2: Change MASQUERADE_AS(crystalball.com) to your ISP's domain name. 4.2 <yourdomain>.m4 file that goes to /etc/sendmail/cf/domain. My filename is crystalball.m4, you'll need to change it to reflect your domain name. And don't forget to change to two lines in <yourmcfile>.mc as discussed in 4.1. Here's my crystalball.m4 file: #Copyright deleted. VERSIONID(`$Id: crystalball.m4,v 1.7 1997/01/29 06:04:20 liuyi Exp liuyi $') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.crystalball.com)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.crystalball.com)dnl Note: Change "mail.crystalball.com" in the last two defines to the mail host name of your ISP. 4.3 "sendmail.cw" file, it's not really necessary if you're standalone, but it's not really that much extra work either. This file should have "sendmail.cw" as the name and be moved to /etc/sendmail.cw Here's my "sendmail.cw" file: crystalball crystalball.com Note: if your ISP's domain name is something like "my.isp.com", your "sendmail.cw" should have these two lines: my my.isp.com my.isp my.isp.com 4.4 "userdb" file, which needs to be 'compiled' to userdb.db file as /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. This file, like sendmail.cw, isn't terribly information, but nice to have. Here's my "userdb" file root:mailname liuyi@crystalball.com liuyi:mailname liuyi@crystalball.com liuyi:maildrop liuyi@crystalball.com liuyi:fullname Yi Liu Just change "liuyi" to your login name, and "liuyi@cry..." to your email address at your ISP. 5. Install all the configuration files: * Back up all the files that are going to be written over in your * * current sendmail configuration, namely * * /etc/sendmail.cf * * /etc/sendmail.cw * * /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/<yourmcfile>.mc * * /etc/sendmail/cf/domain/<yourdomain>.m4 * * /etc/sendmail/userdb + /etc/sendmail/userdb.db * You need to be "root" to do the following: [From your ~/Config/sendmail8.8.5 directory] 5.1 Install userdb: cp ./userdb /etc/sendmail/userdb /usr/local/bin/makemap btree /etc/sendmail/userdb.db </etc/sendmail/userdb 5.2 Install <yourdomain>.m4 cp ./<yourdomain>.m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/domain/<yourdomain>.m4 5.3 Install <yourmcfile>.mc: cp ./<yourmcfile>.mc /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/<yourmcfile>.mc 5.4 Install sendmail.cw file: cp ./sendmail.cw /etc/sendmail.cw 5.5 Back up /etc/sendmail.cf if you haven't done so. 5.6 Create the new sendmail.cf file: (You'll need the GNU m4 macro package. Get a precompiled one from peak. Mine is in /usr/local/bin) cd /etc/sendmail/cf/cf /usr/local/bin/m4 ../m4/cf.m4 <yourmcfile>.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf *Whew* That's it. Simple, eh? Good luck! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@anet-dfw.com> | <liuyi@usa.net> Dallas, TX
From: frank@miranda (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 2 Feb 1997 00:36:38 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> Cc: jklein@freon.artificial.com In <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and > painless. I *love* netatalk. Ok, I can accept this. > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. Well, let me clarify some points: 1. Read the manual, methinks you are trying to install it on Intel hardware and there are some *known* problems with ethernet drivers which cause exactly the symptomes you have described. You will find a list of tested working/non-working drivers on my home page. 2. Email me and I would have given you help to solve your problem. 3. Since you obviously can't do either 1. or 2. wait until someone find port netatalk for you, put together a package in his spare time and post it on the network. Surely someday another idiot will turn up to do this. For the 'yucky' interface: It was designed to be functional and fast to implement, I am awfully sorry I hadn't neither time nor money to hire Keith Ohlfs for my icon and GUI design. (Who did a great work on http://www.pixelsight.com BTW). > I'm giving up on CAP completely this time. NFS exporting to the Sparcs > and mounting the filesystem by netatalk works fine and easily. > And so shall it be. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? [LONG] Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 00:54:50 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services-Illinois State University Message-ID: <32F43A1B.41F4@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <5d0md2$s2m@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Yi Liu <liuyi@cs.utexas.edu> Yi Liu wrote: > Steps: > > 1. Get the precompiled package for 'peak' or your favorite NeXT > archive: > ftp://ftp.peak.org:/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz > > 2. Install the package as root. > > 3. Make a dir (~/Config/sendmail8.8.5, e.g.) to keep track of your > config files and RCS version control is recommended too. In making the directory in step 3, where does this go, as root? There's no root in the /Users directory- so when you're root, what exactly does the path ~/whatever mean? Thanks in advance -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: "Mark Jenkins" <markj@inwave.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Serial Port Date: 2 Feb 97 02:12:59 -0600 Message-ID: <AF19A8B2-319A7@206.101.238.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ISASerialPort1 is not a registered port. PCPPointer prob: mouseInit failure What the heck happened? I switched my mouse to com2 in the Config.app and it all went to hell real fast! I am essentially locked out of my system as I cannot get the mouse to activate. Intel P90 OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach TIA Mark Jenkins markj@inwave.com
From: liuyi@cs.utexas.edu (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? [LONG] Date: 2 Feb 1997 02:41:20 -0600 Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <5d1jvg$t6f@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <5d0md2$s2m@bobby.cs.utexas.edu> <32F43A1B.41F4@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Ident-User: liuyi >>>>> "Eric" == Eric A Dubiel <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: >> ... >> 3. Make a dir (~/Config/sendmail8.8.5, e.g.) to keep track of your >> config files and RCS version control is recommended too. > In making the directory in step 3, where does this go, as root? > There's no root in the /Users directory- so when you're root, what > exactly does the path ~/whatever mean? Eric, "~" is predefined by the shell you're using as the home directory of the user, so if you're "root" it refers to "/" --- just as ~ and ~eadubie both refer to /Users/eadubie when you login as yourself. Sorry for being unclear on step 3, here's what I was really trying to say: 3. Make a dir where you can keep your own configuration files before you start to install them as sendmail system configs in the vital /etc directories. Where you keep them is not really important, as long as you know where they are. For example, I keep them in ~liuyi/Config/sendmail8.8.5 and here're the files I keep in it: caiman> ls -CF RCS/ README.rtfd/ aliases caiman-nextstep.mc crystalball.m4 inst_sendmail* sendmail.cw userdb I hope this clears up the confusion: you only need to be root when you install the sendmail package and the .mc, .m4, .cw, and userdb files and when you need to compile them to /etc/sendmail.cf and /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. Good luck! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPPMonitor help with scripts Date: 2 Feb 1997 08:04:26 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5d1hqa$hpl@uruguay.earthlink.net> Hello, I wanted to use PPPMonitor1.16 to hook up with my ISP earthlink and establish my connection. I am currently using kermit and log in manually by typing my password and login. I then manually type "do pppd" to finish the connection session. Im trying to use PPPMonitor but dont know what to put in the pppd or pppdown preferences. I cant seem to find the examples the author says are available. If someone has these scripts pppd and pppdown... /usr/local/bin/pppup /usr/local/bin/pppdown ...that work, please send me a copy to quinonez@ucla.edu i am running NSFIP 3.3 and USR 33.3 sportster. Thank you very much. -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
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From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting Supra FAX Modem to Black Help Date: 2 Feb 1997 17:42:29 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5d2jm5$nc1@eve.enteract.com> References: <5co7ve$1pr@client3.news.psi.net> <5cp6et$986@eve.enteract.com> <5d07i6$i7p@scipio.cyberstore.ca> In-Reply-To: <5d07i6$i7p@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Point of clarification: The serial lines in 68040 Nexts support RS-423 and RS-232, as documented in the man page for zs (zilog serial controller). Many (but not all) modems provide an RS-232 interface via a DB-25 connection on the modem backplane. Macintosh serial communications is RS-422, which is why Mac hardware handshaking modem cables don't work right with 040 Nexts, but the 68030 Next supported RS-422, which is why Mac modem cables should (might) work with those Nexts. Some Mac-compatible modems use an integral cable - which (naturally) will be wired for RS-422 (not RS-232). The pin-outs for a sucessful Next-to-modem cable are documented in man zs. I've also edited my FAQ (see sig) to refelect this clarification... -Kevin On 02/01/97, Darren Reely wrote: >me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) wrote: >> >>Bottom line is the cable that came with the modem is not wired to >>communicate with the RS-232C serial ports on Next hardware. > >Just a note, the Next Admin manual says the following. The 68030 Nexts have >an RS-422 compatible port. The 68040 machines have an RS-423 compatible >port. > >A non Mac cable is needed, as I have done with my SupraFAX modem. > >The next Admin manual indicates that using a Mac cable is a hit and miss >possibilty. -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: "Kevin P. Hannan" <khannan@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 19:19:08 -0500 Organization: AutoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <32F3DD7C.B84@ibm.net> References: <5cs5qt$kih$1@news.structured.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Randy Nelson wrote: > > I have a system with an > 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and > 2.SCSI drive with NS. > > My system will try to boot the EIDE drive first. > > I have installed System Commander and would like to be able to boot either > NS partition without having to enter sd()mach_kernel rootdev=sd0a when I > boot off of the SCSI one. > > Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off > of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? This is a function of the BIOS on White hardware. It will not boot from a SCSI disk if it can find a floppy, or an IDE drive. You must disable the IDE drive in the BIOS in order to use the SCSI device as a boot device. The downside is that the IDE device no longer exists :(. > > Thanks, > Randy > -- > > - Randy Nelson > Senior Systems Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) > > Email: randyn@jorsm.com (NeXTmail accepted) > WorkEmail: randyn@crt.com (NeXTmail accepted) -- Kevin P. Hannan Registered NeXT Developer khannan@ibm.net OS/2 Developer Technical lead - Team Sports (404) 238-7380 (w) Centennial Olympic Games (404) 303-1823 (fax) 6316 Chastain Drive, Atlanta, Ga 30342 USA
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No such device Date: 1 Feb 1997 20:59:11 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Modem Keywords: Modem Hi I just bought a new modem (E-Tech E288MX) and connected it to my Intel box with OS4.1 on it. I FTPed Kermit and tried to connect to the modem. That's the result: C-Kermit>set modem hayes C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufa Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cufa: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttyda Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttyda: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/ttydfa Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/ttydfa: No such device C-Kermit>set line /dev/cub Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cub: No such device Whatever I choose: "No such device". Could this be because I use the cabel that was delivered with the modem? Or what's the reason for this? Regards Phil
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 16:38:03 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000202971638030001@news.tiac.net> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) wrote: (snip of troubles with sendmail 8.X) > For those of you that may ask why I screwed with sendmail: In order to > receive confirmation of submitted assignments at my University, the > From address *must* be correct, and the newest version of sendmail should > have taken care of this. It just broke everything :( Do you mean the From info in the envelop (which I think shows up as a "Received: from" line for the recipient) or the "From:" line that the recipient sees? The standard 3.3 Mail.app can be persuaded to use any "From:" line you like by entering a "From" header (no colon) in the Expert preferences window. (Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand for this info.) Barney Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help on printing over Enet Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 16:58:40 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000202971658400001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I configured a mono slab running 3.3 to allow public access to the attached NeXT laser printer. When I send a print request from a Mac attached to the NeXT via ethernet via the Mac shareware "lpr" tool, the job just dies. Examining the /usr/adm/lpd-errs file, I find a "connection lost" message, so it would seem that the NeXT received and understood the print request. Anyone know what this signifies, and how it might be corrected? Additional info: both the NeXT and the Mac are defined on the / level of a two-level netinfo on the NeXT, and pinging/ftp work fine, so I doubt the Enet is at fault. The print files in question are postscript text, and print properly when transferred to the NeXT on a floppy, or by ftp, and then printed locally. TIA Barney Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: gossett@bethel.edu (Eric Gossett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer (lpd?) woes Date: 2 Feb 1997 21:58:29 GMT Organization: Bethel College, MN Message-ID: <5d32m5$3br$1@hermes.bethel.edu> Ever since I installed OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on my Pentium machine I have been having random print failures. Most of the time, I boot the machine and documents print with no trouble (from multiple applications). Occasionally, but often enough to be troubling, the printer hangs (from the first document on). The document makes it to the print spool (visible in /usr/spool/appkit, PrintManager.app and lpc both indicate all systems are enabled and the document is printing). However, the only response from the printer (HP laserjet 4P) is that the ready light starts blinking (normal when a print job is coming), but keeps blinking forever with no document produced. If I reboot the machine, everything comes out of the print queue and I have my documents. However, this is not a desirable printing procedure. Does anyone know (A) what is causing the problem (B) how to fix the problem without rebooting? Eric Gossett gossett@bethel.edu
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Dial In and NT Printing Date: 2 Feb 1997 23:35:00 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5d38b4$85s@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <32F2BCF8.5B25@me.com> In-Reply-To: <32F2BCF8.5B25@me.com> On 01/31/97, info@me.com wrote: >Hello, > > I have two questions. Firstly, I've just configured an OpenStep 4.1 on >Mach machine to dial into our ISP using ppp. This machine is on our >network, and I would like to know if there is a way to properly route >packets so that other machines on the network can access the internet >for web browsing, ftp, telnet, etc? This doesn't seem to be happening >automatically, as I had hoped it would. > > Secondly, I would like to be able to print from an OpenStep on NT box >to a black printer hooked up to a slab on our network. I know it can be >done, but apparently it's not trivial. Can anyone get me pointed in the >right direction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please reply >to paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com > >Regards, >Paul > >--- > >Paul Summermatter >LGS Systems, Inc. >182 Lake Street >Hamburg, NY 14075-4826 >paulrs@lgs-systems.com >www.lgs-systems.com >(716) 646-1164 > For routing packets in the internet: Is your provider routing packets for all the machines IP addresses (in your local network) through your ppp link? If not, you need this or need an artificial workaround. To print on your black printer from an NT box you need to run samba on the NeXT computer and you need to get a postscript driver for the NeXT printer on the NT side. You can get it at: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/26ee.htm http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/326e.htm (you need both). As for samba you should look around for the source or ask someone for a precompiled one. Francois -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Message-ID: <E4zwJz.H4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:47:58 GMT In article <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> "Zacharias J. Beckman" <zac@dreams.com> writes: > I very much would like to create a serial device which operates > at 38,400 baud. Unfortunately, NEXTSTEP seems to think this an > odd speed, as whenever I try the port fails to operate correctly. > I've followed what I believe are the correct steps to create the > port (cufa38400), but using 'tip cufa38400' results in a connection > that fails to communicate with the modem. > > Tip responds with 'connected,' so it appears the setup is correct. > I can type whatever I like... but apparently the modem never > receives it, or I never receive the modems response. > All NEXTSTEP binaries for serial lines assume plain ol'e BSD standard speeds, 9.6k is the highest of'em. In addition 'exta' and 'extb' are mapped to 19.2k and 38.4k respectively. Later versions of the header files allow higher speeds (for PC hardware). But only binaries compiled and linked with the according libs can use'em. --- Zacharias J. Beckman - zac@dreams.com - 310-822-1583 vox, 822-0163 fax 520 Washington Boulevard, Suite #339, Marina del Rey, California 90292 http://www.dreams.com -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: erikr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Erik Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NetInfo problem - "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain" Date: 3 Feb 1997 01:33:00 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Message-ID: <5d3f8c$h5i@Radon.Stanford.EDU> Hello, I have a mono NeXTstation '040 with 8 mb of RAM, and I've had a mysterious NetInfo problem since I upgraded from 3.0 to 3.3 that I was wondering if anyone else had run into. When I try to open NetInfoManager, it says "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain." At boot time, after everything else has been loaded and it's about to display the login window, it sits there for about 5 minutes doing nothing before showing the login window. nibindd and netinfod are both running: > ps -waux | egrep 'nibindd|netinfo' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root 94 0.0 1.3 1.59M 104K ? SW 0:00 /usr/etc/nibindd root 95 0.0 1.5 2.81M 120K ? SW 0:18 /usr/etc/netinfod local and the netinfo utilities (niutil, nidump) work. When I upgraded to 3.3, I copied my old 3.0 netinfo database. I thought this might be a problem, but I tried replacing it with a .nidb from another 3.3 machine and the problem persisted. The machine is on a non-NetInfo ethernet network but it boots locally. Any advice would be appreciated. -Erik Rauch -- .-----------------------------------------------------------------------. |Erik Rauch * URL: http://xenon.stanford.edu/~erikr * rauch@stanford.edu|
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help.. [Network Printer] ... Message-ID: <E4zw24.Fq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5crguc$a58$1@news.cc.umr.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:37:15 GMT In article <5crguc$a58$1@news.cc.umr.edu> sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) writes: > > HI, > We have a pentium 133 running NextStep 3.3. I was trying to connect > a Network printer (postScript printer) to this machine. What do I > need to do for this to work. > Read the chapters on "Mixed Networks" and "Peripherals" in the online sysadmin maual, for instance. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Where can I set the MTU? Message-ID: <E4zx1v.IG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5cq8eq$ri1$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:58:43 GMT In article <5cq8eq$ri1$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Niels Coelle) writes: > Hi all! > > How can I set set MTU for my Ethernet? The ifconfig way > does not work. > The MTU on Ethernet is a well known value. I wouldn't be too much astonished if they'd hardcoded it in the driver... Why not getting the BSD source code and have a look on it? -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NXFax : NO DIALTONE ? Message-ID: <E4zwuB.Hs@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <E4sDMn.1Ir@fritz.snafu.de> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:54:10 GMT In article <E4sDMn.1Ir@fritz.snafu.de> ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) writes: > Does anybody know how to operate NXFax if the modem is connected > to a PBX ? > > Apparently NXFax initialises the modem with ATX4. When connected > to a PBX the modem returns NO DIALTONE when the dialing command > is issued, i.e. sending faxes does not work any longer. > > If the modem would have been initialised with ATX3, everything > would work fine. That's the modem's NVRAM setting, but NXFax > issues a ATX4 after the ATZ before sending a fax, apparently. > That greatly depends on the version. Prior to v1.3 you needed to patch a string in the binary. From v1.3 on there is a default entry that can be altered. Best approach would be to use one of the very helpful default editors to browse the many options. But even the command line tools for the defaults database will do. The right option should be easy to find. Drop me a note if you still need some additional help. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: tlm@ameslab.gov (Dr. T. L. Marchioro II) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sending email attachments from command prompt Date: 3 Feb 1997 04:32:53 GMT Organization: Ames Laboratory Message-ID: <5d3ppl$nto@nntp1.u.washington.edu> References: <1997Jan30.001903.1232@il.us.swissbank.com> Cc: liao@il.us.swissbank.com David Liao wrote: > Is there a way to send email attachments from the > unix command prompt? > > I want to send an email with attachment file to users > with NEXT Mail reader. When the users receive the > mail, the attachment file should appear as an icon. > > The closest I got was uuencode, but the users need > to do an extra step of decoding a foreign attachment > from the NEXT Mail menu. Instead of sending NeXTmail, send MIME mail using mpack. Works beautifully! FYI: >>>>> borg> man mpack Reformatting page. Wait... done MPACK(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual MPACK(1) NAME mpack - pack a file in MIME format SYNOPSIS mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c content-type ] file address ... mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c content-type ] -o outputfile file mpack [ -s subject ] [ -d descriptionfile ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -c content-type ] -n newsgroups file DESCRIPTION The mpack program encodes the the named file in one or more MIME messages. The resulting messages are mailed to one or more recipients, written to a named file or set of files, or posted to a set of newsgroups. >>>>>>> > > Please send your recommendation to my email address: > david_liao@il.us.swissbank.com I'll copy to the that address, but post this for the general interest of all. > Thanks! Your Welcome. Hope this helps! TLM -- ********** NOTICE CHANGE OF ADDRESS *************** _________________________________________________________________ Dr. Thomas L. Marchioro II Two-wheeled theoretical physicist Depts. of Chemistry and Physics 206-721-0754 (home/FAX) University of Washington 206-713-0326 (Work) Seattle, WA 98195 tlm@u.washington.edu Project Coordinator: Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences http://uces.ameslab.gov/ _________________________________________________________________
From: pjb@imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Kermit Date: 3 Feb 1997 02:05:35 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5d3h5f$etc@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <32F2BDC8.3922@me.com> In article <32F2BDC8.3922@me.com> info@me.com writes: > Hello, > > I'm using kermit to establish a connection to a remote server. My > modem can handle up to 28,800 speeds. However, when I try to set the > line speed to 28,800, kermit is not happy. Is there a declarations file > for kermit which I need to modify to allow 28,800 connection speeds, or > will kermit just not accept 28,8. If so, what sort of modifications > must I make? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond to > paulrs@lgs-systems.com or info@lgs-systems.com 28800 is the speed between the modems. Between the computer and the modem, the speed must be either 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400 or even 57600 if your driver and serial chip support it. On black hardware, select 38400. On white hardware, you may select 57600 if the version of kermit you have allows it. __Pascal Bourguignon__
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: LaserWriter II NTX Message-ID: <E4zw8w.GE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <4mwvhbm00YUn0W6Wo0@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 21:41:20 GMT In article <4mwvhbm00YUn0W6Wo0@andrew.cmu.edu> Scott A Douglass <sd3n+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > I've been looking through FAQs, documentation, etc. and cannot find > a reason for my inability to connect and use a NTX. If you have > connected a NTX to an 040 slab, please send me email. > > - I have a NeXT mini-8 -> db25 cable > - The printer is known to be fully functional > - Serial ports on the slab are known to be fully functional > > I'm particularly suspicious of the DIP switch setting on the NTX... > PostScript printers speak a "natural language" conversational protocol. Thus any human operator can debug a serial printer connection by means of opening a terminal session to the printer port and see what's up. Use 'tin', or 'kermit', or even 'cat' to do such. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702021739.MAA04930@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f51503aef3a901e5d52804d6df8c731f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sun, 2 Feb 97 12:39:40 -0500 Subject: Re: PPPMonitor help with scripts Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f51503aef3a901e5d52804d6df8c731f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Original Date: 2 Feb 1997 08:04:26 GMT > Im trying to use PPPMonitor but dont know what to put in the pppd > or pppdown preferences. I cant seem to find the examples the author > says are available. If you d/l the PPP package off thoughtport.com there should be a folder "scripts" inside it with examples. My advice is to read the man page for pppd, set up an /etc/ppp/options file, and do something like this: /usr/local/bin/pppd connect /usr/local/bin/chat -v -f \ /usr/local/bin/chatscript where "chatscript" is the appropriate chatscript for your requirements. There's also GateKeeper, which I know people have found helpful. The newest version is at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/ (look for GateKeeper in that directory). That too has example scripts. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device Date: 2 Feb 1997 17:23:07 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5d2ihr$bhl@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> Solved the problem: I hadn't installed the tty-driver. Thanks for any attention Phil
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with PPP client and server Date: 3 Feb 1997 07:08:51 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5d42u3$n5r@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I am somewhat stuck with an installation of PPP on two NeXTs, both client and server side. Here is the general description of the system: Server -- NS3.3 turbo station, connected to a big network of non-NetInfo computers. Name resolution etc. works just fine on this net. Client -- NS4.0 P6, which has three other NeXT and two non-NeXT computers hanging on it. They are connected together without the full use of NetInfo, just registered with HostManager. This network is pretty much static and doesn't change. Goal: connect the clients to the server by PPP 2.2. I got the package, read the instructions, and I come this far: I get the server to pick up the phone, I manually connect in Kermit, then quit and start pppd on the client. The syslog shows all happiness, as can be seen below. However, when I do a "ping [hostname of server]" on the client, nothing happens. a "ping [IP of server]" works just fine. Short of this, no IP or name pings or telnets work, I am stuck connecting to the server, only thru IP and only directly from the primary client, not any of the connected computers. I have resolv.conf set properly. Regardless what I do with the "router" field in the HostManager Local dialog, I can't connect to anything else, from any of the computers. My confusion (other than it simply doesn't work) * The installation guide mentions "standalone client - do this". Well, it's not a standalone client, but it's not a NetInfo client either. (I will turn it into a clean NetInfo net later on). The instructions don't say what to do on a NON-standalone machine. * The server configuration. I don't really get what the section about "ethers" or proxyarp is trying to tell me. Where should I place entries for which computers? The ones on the (sub)net, hanging on the client? I am really confused here. The system works right now just fine with SLIP, routed thru a different server; so naming and such should really be dandy. Any help is greatly appreciated. I can't just go and try things out, any mods require major (actual physical) changes to the network; if you are interested I can send you more specific config info, including all config files, for you to look at. Thanks again! - Stan ppp2.2.log: Feb 2 20:47:09 pizza pppd[242]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Using interface ppp0 Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: local IP address 36.92.0.246 Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: remote IP address 36.92.0.18 Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Setting interface mask to 255.255.0.0 Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Compression enabled [Stanford has a Class-A network, and so netmask is said to be 255.255.0.0] pizza# pppd /dev/cufb defaultroute pizza# /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet 36.92.0.246 --> 36.92.0.18 netmask ffff0000 pizza# netstat -rn Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 344 lo0 36.92.0.18 36.92.0.246 UH 0 4 ppp0 default 36.92.0.18 UG 1 31 ppp0 36.92 36.92.0.246 U 8 1351 en0 pizza# -- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 01:24:16 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> Anybody manage to use the new resolver routines in BIND 4.9.5 (which compiles just fine) under NS3.3? Since they adhere to RFCs 952 and 1123, according to CERT, using them eliminates the buffer overflow problems such as the recently-discovered "talkd hole" <ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.04.talkd>. Unfortunately, ld complains that there are duplicate symbols between libresolv.a (the new one from BIND 4.9.5) and libsys_s.a (and, I suppose, the shared-library version thereof). I'm not interested in running my own DNS server, but would like to use the new resolver routines for the added security they provide. Jacques Distler
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help with Gatekeeper Date: 3 Feb 1997 07:11:37 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net> Hello, I recently set up Gatekeeper and am able to bring up a ppp connection just fine. However, whenever I do unlink from the menu it takes it down properly, but if I try to reopen GK then my whole system just freezes up. MY mouse and the system becomes unresponsive. I have to reboot. Once I reboot, once again everything works fine. But again if I shut GK down and try to restart it, my system becomes unresponsive. If anyone has this problem please let me know how to fix it. Also for some reason the timer wont tell me how long Ive been connected. Thank you. Please respond to the address below. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 07:51:42 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Feb3.075142.3917@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> In <5d0aqv$8n0@uni2f.unige.ch> moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch wrote: > I just bought a new modem (E-Tech E288MX) and connected it to my Intel box with OS4.1 on it. > I FTPed Kermit and tried to connect to the modem. > > That's the result: > > C-Kermit>set modem hayes > C-Kermit>set line /dev/cua > Sorry, can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device Do you have the serial ports installed in Configure.app? You really need a TTYPortServer and two serial ports. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: darwish@diderot.fre.jhu.edu (Miladus Edenensis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help with Gatekeeper Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 08:35:37 -0500 Organization: Pleroma Message-ID: <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> References: <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I Have been running Gatekeeper without any problems whatsoever. In order to get some help, tell us what version of Gatekeeper you are running and what version of NeXTStep as ewll, which platform, etc. Best, In article <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net>, quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) wrote: > Hello, I recently set up Gatekeeper and am able to bring up a ppp connection > just fine. However, whenever I do unlink from the menu it takes it down > properly, but if I try to reopen GK then my whole system just freezes up. MY > mouse and the system becomes unresponsive. I have to reboot. > > Once I reboot, once again everything works fine. But again if I shut GK down > and try to restart it, my system becomes unresponsive. > > If anyone has this problem please let me know how to fix it. Also for some > reason the timer wont tell me how long Ive been connected. > > Thank you. > Please respond to the address below. > > Gerardo > > > -- > _____________________________________________ > G. Quinonez, MD > quinonez@ucla.edu > quinonez@earthlink.net > NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 > NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome > http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/ -- I am the cook. May good teeth, strong stomach with you be! And since you have got down my book, you should get on with me... Nietzsche
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: 3 Feb 1997 15:46:51 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5d519c$qdf@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> In article <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > Anybody manage to use the new resolver routines in BIND 4.9.5 (which > compiles just fine) under NS3.3? Use v.4.9.4P1, which includes the security update. Teh README for 4.9.5 says to use 4.9.4 unless you're interested in the (possibly non-backward compatible) POSIX entensions to DNS. You can get a prebuilt binary at: http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/OpenStep/Unix/Network Or... build it yourself... it builds clean. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: jim middleton <overland.ppp@199.3.65.1> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Date: 3 Feb 1997 17:39:42 GMT Organization: overland Message-ID: <5d57su$497$1@news.iquest.net> References: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If anyone has an answer to this, I'm needign to do the same thing in aboutt a week, thanks!... - Greg SOrry I couldn't help you out... :<
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to un-hose sendmail? Date: 3 Feb 1997 11:27:03 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5d5aln$8n6@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <5cviat$p7n@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000202971638030001@news.tiac.net> jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote: >Do you mean the From info in the envelop (which I think shows up as a >"Received: from" line for the recipient) or the "From:" line that the >recipient sees? The standard 3.3 Mail.app can be persuaded to use any >"From:" line you like by entering a "From" header (no colon) in the Expert >preferences window. (Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand for this info.) > I've known about this "trick" for a while now, but it did not work with the brain-dead mail script my university uses... When a From: line is added, somewhere along the line a Sender: field gets added (unless the user is root, then it doesn't care). To this day, I don't know what munged the mail system on my machine. I have two NeXT machines here, and kept backups of all the mail files on the other machine. After fixing the mail package by putting the old files back where they belong, odd behavior stated up: Some sites refuse to accept my mail because there is no domain sent with HELO across port 25. Telnetting to 127.0.0.1 25 will attach me to my sendmail port, but HELO results in: "host name configuration error". Disgusted with all this, I reset the netinfo database, restored the working sendmail files (copied off the other NeXT w/a working configuration), and the bastard still would not work. Finally, I backed up all my local directories and re-installed the OS from scratch. *THAT* fixed it. I my instructor will have to put up with the errors the script generates, I spent 36 hours this weekend trying to make his life more convenient. :-\ -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: asoto@wsc.com (Andre L. Soto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SNMP Date: 3 Feb 1997 22:05:18 GMT Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc. Message-ID: <5d5neu$gp2@cerberus.wsc.com> I am looking for an SNMP agent that I can use with NeXTstep. We also have some workstations that run Solaris 2.5. Is there a SNMP program that I can use on both Solaris and NeXTstep? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Andre L. Soto asoto@wsc.com
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Date: 3 Feb 1997 20:13:57 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-i-52.usc.edu Message-ID: <5d5gu5$7ak@usc.edu> References: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Cc: piers@ilink.de In <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Piers Uso Walter wrote: > If you can use Perl, that's easy. > Take a look at the File::Find.pm module. Where can one find "Find.pm"? 9-) -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: haibach@unm.edu (Fred Haibach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 4.1 sendmail and email headers Date: 3 Feb 1997 00:49:59 GMT Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Message-ID: <5d3cnn$blu@lynx.unm.edu> Hi, I have a NeXT running NS 4.1, PPP with multiple users at home. One of my PPP providers is the local university, the other a commercial provider. Because the IP is dynamically assigned to this machine, all mail has to go to POP servers at the university or the commercial provider. This means that the address on email responses must be correct or 1) the mail gets bounced 2) the mail is received by a user intended for smith@foo.com but arrives at smith@bar.edu I realize that the Reply To: should to be set for each user on this NeXT for it to arrive at the proper POP server, but email recipients may use the From: field in the email addresses in their aliases file. I would like to create an obviously false address in the From: field of the header so that the improperly addressed email does bounce. I have modified the sendmail.cf as suggested in the file sendmail.cf. snippit: # major relay host DRsmtp.unm.edu CRsmtp.unm.edu ############################################################ ##### ##### General configuration information ##### # local domain name # # This is now set from the resolver configuration call. If the domain # name you would like to have appear in your mail headers is different # from your Internet domain name, edit and uncomment the following to # be your mail domain name. # DmPodunk.EDU DmYlocal.net which should yield an email with the From: smith@Ylocal.net What am I doing wrong? FgH... P.S. list administrator, if the subject of the email is inappropriate, please tell me so. +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Frederick G. Haibach | | Chemistry Graduate Student | | University of New Mexico | | >>>>> haibach@unm.edu ++++++ http://www.unm.edu/~haibach <<<<< | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9702031657.AA05250@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 97 10:57:33 -0600 Subject: More on STB Video support questions On 01/29/97 in the group comp.sys.next.sysadmin you wrote: >I am thinking about upgrading my STB S3 PCI card to either > STB 128 Lightning PCI or > STB Velocity which uses the 3D S3 Virge 3X > >Is anyone successfully using either one of these cards under NEXTSTEP? > >Will the S3 PCI or S3 Virge drivers work with either of these cards? (The S3 >Virge document doesn't mention the STB). Well I went ahead and purchased the STB Velocity 4MB PCI 3D Virge card and tried it with the Generic S3Virge driver. Unluckily I was NOT able to get it work with this driver. Has anyone else found a NEXTSTEP driver that works with this card? -Randy randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ The latest computer virus: MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus.
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 23:32:59 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> References: <distler-0302970124170001@slip-75-3.ots.utexas.edu> <5d519c$qdf@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5d519c$qdf@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >> Anybody manage to use the new resolver routines in BIND 4.9.5 (which >> compiles just fine) under NS3.3? > >Use v.4.9.4P1, which includes the security update. Teh README for 4.9.5 says >to use 4.9.4 unless you're interested in the (possibly non-backward >compatible) POSIX entensions to DNS. You can get a prebuilt binary at: > >http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/OpenStep/Unix/Network > >Or... build it yourself... it builds clean. Yep, it builds just fine. But I still haven't been able to use the new resolver library to build anything, as the "NeXT" versions of routines in question seem to have been placed in the standard system (shared) library, libsys_s.a . What do I have to do in order to take advantage of the security measures in the modern version of BIND ? Run my own DNS nameserver? Jacques Distler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NetInfo problem - "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain" Message-ID: <E51p3C.rI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5d3f8c$h5i@Radon.Stanford.EDU> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:02:00 GMT In article <5d3f8c$h5i@Radon.Stanford.EDU> erikr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Erik Rauch) writes: > Hello, I have a mono NeXTstation '040 with 8 mb of RAM, and I've > had a mysterious NetInfo problem since I upgraded from 3.0 to > 3.3 that I was wondering if anyone else had run into. > > When I try to open NetInfoManager, it says "Can't contact NetInfo > server for local domain." At boot time, after everything else > has been loaded and it's about to display the login window, it > sits there for about 5 minutes doing nothing before showing the > login window. > > nibindd and netinfod are both running: > > > ps -waux | egrep 'nibindd|netinfo' > USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND root > 94 0.0 1.3 1.59M 104K ? SW 0:00 /usr/etc/nibindd root > 95 0.0 1.5 2.81M 120K ? SW 0:18 /usr/etc/netinfod local > > and the netinfo utilities (niutil, nidump) work. > > When I upgraded to 3.3, I copied my old 3.0 netinfo database. I > thought this might be a problem, but I tried replacing it with > a .nidb from another 3.3 machine and the problem persisted. The > machine is on a non-NetInfo ethernet network but it boots locally. > The upgrade from NS 3.0 to 3.1 was rather rocky for my system, too. Might be 3.0 to 3.3 is still a problem. Anyway, your NetInfo conf is telling the client that there is a master NI server out where there ain't one. All the symptoms are way too familiar; a real FAQ, indeed. You either start from scratch by copying over /usr/templates/client/etc to /etc and follow the sysadmin manual after reboot. Or you look out for the serves properties in the machines directory of your local NI database. There's a bogus ./network entry, I'm sure! But I'm not so sure whether this is the only misconf... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1997 21:48:00 -0500 Organization: Yisraelim B'Chul Message-ID: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> Hello There, As a pathetic newbie to networking, I'd greatly appreciate any help in setting up a tiny TCP/IP network between my NeXTStation Color to a PowerMac 7200/75 via thin ethernet. The NeXTStation is running Nextstep 3.3, the PowerMac System 7.5.5 w/open transport, and I've verified that the ethernet connection is working through the Columbia Appletalk package (which works fine). My end goal in this project is to have the Mac serve as a PPP router, but in the meantime I'd be happy just to have the machines talking to each other through TCP/IP. Any IP numbers at this point would be fine (I'll get real numbers provided through my ISP when the PPP router scheme falls into place). Please post and/or mail me any suggestions on how I could get these machines talking to each other! Thanks again, Barry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org._NO_SPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: How to create serial port speed 38400??? Message-ID: <1997Feb3.095900.413@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org Organization: Disorganization References: <01bc0e84$7c4fae80$690497cf@opus.dreams.com> <E4zwJz.H4@nidat.sub.org> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 09:59:00 GMT In <E4zwJz.H4@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > All NEXTSTEP binaries for serial lines assume plain ol'e BSD standard > speeds, 9.6k is the highest of'em. In addition 'exta' and 'extb' are > mapped to 19.2k and 38.4k respectively. > > Later versions of the header files allow higher speeds (for PC hardware). > But only binaries compiled and linked with the according libs can use'em. > No, Motorola Nexts (040) can also use speeds of 56k. But overrun errors occur.
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 01:01:07 -0600 From: rberber@spin.com.mx Subject: Re: Q on Booting NS off of second drive Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <855038396.24672@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Randy Nelson wrote: > > I have a system with an > 1.EIDE drive that is dual boot with 95 and NS and > 2.SCSI drive with NS. [snip] > Is there some way I can have these params be the default when booting off > of the SCSI drive? Maybe some way thru Configure.app? Yes. Just start Configure after booting from the EIDE disk, go to the "Summary of Devices", push Expert... and add sd(0,a)mach_kernel as value to the Kernel setting. You can also edit the Instance0.table inside /usr/Devices/System.config changing the kernel line to "Kernel" = "sd(0,a)mach_kernel"; One thing you should take care is that the "Boot Drivers" listed on that Instance0.table (the one on the EIDE disk) are the ones really loaded at boot up. I think the "Active Drivers" are read from the table on the SCSI disk. Hope this helps, _________________________ Rene Berber rberber@spin.com.mx MIME / NeXT Mail welcomed -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cant install OpenStep 4.1 on a Sun Ultra 1 Date: 4 Feb 1997 07:43:20 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5d6pao$cu4$1@rks1> I want to install OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on a Sun Ultra 1 but the boot - process breaks with the Message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss". Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? Thanks for every help Andreas dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de
From: enigma <llay@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.2 apps incompatible with OS/Mach 4.1?! Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 01:50:25 -0800 Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.94.970204004828.4203A-100000@ieng9.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I just recently upgraded my computer to OpenStep/Mach 4.1. I installed my old programs that used to run in NeXTSTEP 3.2. However, during execution of those program, strange error messages pops up in the console window: ... localhost netmsgserver [22] srr_process_queued_request.serr_send_packet fails: 51 ... localhost netmsgserver [22] srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 ... localhost netmsgserver [22] netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102 ... localhost netmsgserver [22] netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4 These messages are caused by launching any one of Lighthouse Design's programs (OpenWrite, Parasheet, Quantrix, etc.) as well as Anderson Financial System's PastUp v2.6. I'm not too sure of the versions for the Lighthouse's programs--is it possible that these aren't the newest versions? Perhaps these problems are solved by updates? Any ideas, suggestions, explanations appreciated. Thanks. Lucas.
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help with Gatekeeper Date: 4 Feb 1997 09:50:03 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5d70ob$2v8@colombia.earthlink.net> References: <5d4339$nba@uruguay.earthlink.net> <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> Cc: darwish@diderot.fre.jhu.edu In <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> Miladus Edenensis wrote: > I Have been running Gatekeeper without any problems whatsoever. In order > to get some help, tell us what version of Gatekeeper you are running and > what version of NeXTStep as ewll, which platform, etc. Thanks for responding. I am using ppp2.2 on NSFIP 3.3 with a USR sportster 33.3 GK 2.0 beta5 -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SNMP Date: 4 Feb 1997 11:38:20 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5d773c$jl2@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5d5neu$gp2@cerberus.wsc.com> In SNMP comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x29627c> writes, > I am looking for an SNMP agent that I can use with NeXTstep. We also have > some workstations that run Solaris 2.5. Is there a SNMP program that I can > use on both Solaris and NeXTstep? > > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. You can activate SNMP on your host. Further there's an network administration programm based on SNMP. Look in NeXTanswers. If you don't find it contact me again. Phil
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 21:41:03 -0600 From: russ@odyssey.com Subject: changing IP address of dedicated connection (LAN) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <855113178.1560@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I have a pure NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP LAN that is connected 24x7. My block of IPaddrs for my subnet had to change recently and it was hell getting all my machines to boot again. I am repeating the process for a friend, same setup, and I'm asking for info on this procedure & my problem. Any replys will be greatly appreciated. I am running 3.3 & 4.1, NetInfo master is a patched 3.3 system. NetInfo master mods went fine (actually started from scratch with nidumps & niloads, see procedure below) . It boots, establishes PPP connection to ISP with new IPaddr, pings, routes, telnets, send & receives mail, etc. Problem is getting the other machines to boot. Bind finds the NImaster. I say this because localhost ROM Monitor shows NIMaster returning all the new values in the usual lines after Setting tape block size: en0: setting netmask to correct-value-supplied-by-ISP-for-my-subnet, received from new-IPaddr-of-NIMaster. en0: address automatically set to correct-new-IPaddr of localhost en0: netmask automatically set to correct-new-value for subnet lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- -------> problem happens here the process never gets the hostname from the NIMaster. I've let it sit there overnight begging, pleading, screaming, but nothing. I've checked NI root /machines and all looks well. ANY SUGGESTIONS ANYONE? ---------------------- BTW: why doesn't NeXTanswers have a subtopic of SYSADMIN? Thanks in advance, Russ Schissler ----------------- Procedure I used to recreate NIMaster: nidump local and root copy netinfo from usr/template/client/etc/netinfo copy hostconfig from usr/templates/client/etc/hostconfig reboot run SNS (it seems to do okay for small LAN) enter hostname and new IPaddr under Network Options set new Netmask & Broadcast Addr values set all checkboxes and press CONFIGURE NILoad local : passwd Modify NIDumps of ROOT to use new IPaddrs for all hosts (bootptab & hosts) NILoad root : hosts, bootptab, fstab, group, passswd, printcap restart NI (cross fingers and toes) quit NI and reboot -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 5 Feb 1997 06:18:03 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5d98mr$btb@news.digifix.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> On 02/04/97, Art Isbell wrote: >colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) wrote: >> I recently upgraded my cube from 3.0 to 4.0 and since then I have been >> getting periodic "intruder alert" conditions. What happens is that >> attempts to su are met with the response "who are you?" and the >> command whoami returns "intruder alert". No logins are possible and >> other servers (such as httpd) also get shutdown. >> >> I can't find any documentation anywhere on this, so can someone please >> point me in the right direction. Is it a netinfo issue? > > Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash >occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a reboot. The >OS 4.1 lookupd seems more stable, but still crashes occasionally on my old >Cube. I've been experiencing this, but haven't been sure of what is the cause. Every once in a while, sometimes after several days, sometimes immediately after reboot, trying to 'telnet news' causes a bus error. Everything else still works, but I have to reboot to get telnet news to work. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:53:09 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32F76975.7C6@osu.edu> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5ct309$g41@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5cu1fi$r94@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: frank@this.net Frank, I at least would like to thank you for the work you did on the CAP stuff. The NeXT community is better for the work you have done (are doing). Thanks! Karl Frank M. Siegert wrote: > > In <32f28835.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > > I use netatalk on all of my sparcs and getting it to work was simple and > > painless. I *love* netatalk. > > Ok, I can accept this. > > > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. > > Well, let me clarify some points: > > 1. Read the manual, methinks you are trying to install it on Intel hardware > and there are some *known* problems with ethernet drivers which cause exactly > the symptomes you have described. You will find a list of tested > working/non-working drivers on my home page. > > 2. Email me and I would have given you help to solve your problem. > > 3. Since you obviously can't do either 1. or 2. wait until someone find port > netatalk for you, put together a package in his spare time and post it on the > network. Surely someday another idiot will turn up to do this. > > For the 'yucky' interface: It was designed to be functional and fast to > implement, I am awfully sorry I hadn't neither time nor money to hire Keith > Ohlfs for my icon and GUI design. (Who did a great work on > http://www.pixelsight.com BTW). > > > I'm giving up on CAP completely this time. NFS exporting to the Sparcs > > and mounting the filesystem by netatalk works fine and easily. > > > > And so shall it be. > > -- > * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net > * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 11:53:23 -0500 Organization: Yisraelim B'Chul Message-ID: <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac as a PPP router? barry In article <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net>, "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: >Hello There, > As a pathetic newbie to networking, I'd greatly appreciate any help in >setting up a tiny TCP/IP network between > my NeXTStation Color to a PowerMac 7200/75 via thin ethernet. > The NeXTStation is running Nextstep 3.3, the PowerMac System 7.5.5 w/open >transport, and I've verified that >the ethernet connection is working through the Columbia Appletalk package >(which works fine). > My end goal in this project is to have the Mac serve as a PPP router, but >in the meantime I'd be happy just to have >the machines talking to each other through TCP/IP. Any IP numbers at this >point would be fine (I'll get real numbers >provided through my ISP when the PPP router scheme falls into place). > Please post and/or mail me any suggestions on how I could get these >machines talking to each other! > > >Thanks again, > > Barry ¤
From: colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 4 Feb 1997 17:14:06 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> I recently upgraded my cube from 3.0 to 4.0 and since then I have been getting periodic "intruder alert" conditions. What happens is that attempts to su are met with the response "who are you?" and the command whoami returns "intruder alert". No logins are possible and other servers (such as httpd) also get shutdown. I can't find any documentation anywhere on this, so can someone please point me in the right direction. Is it a netinfo issue? Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/
From: Frank Bandle <fbandle@mmc.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Fax Broadcasting - how ? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 14:48:50 +0000 Organization: More and More Communication GmbH Message-ID: <32F89DD2.7774@mmc.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello i have the following problem. We want to do Fax-Broadcasting with NeXT. We are merging adresses with a document, then we want to fax these documents during the night to our clients. Printing is no problem - WriteNow, OpenWrite - is working fine. but faxing (sending later, the document to the correct client) I don´t know how ? Does anybody has an idea how we can do this ? Thank you Frank BTW: NX-Fax is running on our System +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ Visit us at CEBIT´97 Halle 18 "Internet Park CEBIT 97" Weatherinformation by More and More Communication http://www.mmc.de powered by NeXTStep and WebObjects +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ ----- +++ mmc - news +++ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frank Bandle EMail: fbandle@mmc.de More and More Communication GmbH Fon : 089 - 96276 - 0 Po.Box 1333 Fax : 089 - 96276 - 151 85731 Ismaning / Munich W3 : http://www.mmc.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- It never rains in California ! - This is not true ! MMC knows all about weather ! - This is true !
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 4 Feb 97 00:43:20 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32f68628.0@192.33.12.30> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert (frank@miranda) wrote: : Well, let me clarify some points: : 1. Read the manual, methinks you are trying to install it on Intel hardware : and there are some *known* problems with ethernet drivers which cause exactly : the symptomes you have described. You will find a list of tested : working/non-working drivers on my home page. I read the manual carefully, and I'm using black hardware. A NeXT turbo color to be exact. Don't tell me that I'm being ignorant just because the software isn't working. Did it occur to you that maybe I'm using the right machine and it still doesn't work? : 2. Email me and I would have given you help to solve your problem. Well, it says that everything is working fine, but it turns out that it cannot located any other machines on the network, and I can't find it in the chooser. : 3. Since you obviously can't do either 1. or 2. wait until someone find port : netatalk for you, put together a package in his spare time and post it on the : network. Surely someday another idiot will turn up to do this. Gosh you sound bitter. Like I said before, you were wrong about #1, and I saw no reason to do #2. Don't sit here and insult me because I'm fine with the solution I've got. I'm not complaining that netatalk hasn't been ported to the NeXT -- I've got a fine solution to my AppleTalk problems here, namely netatalk on the sparc which NFS from and print to the NeXTs. I wasn't making any kind of attack at you either -- only that I don't like CAP. This was not the first time I tried to install it on the NeXT, and in fact I'd tried to install it on SunOS and Solaris too, only to have similar problems. netatalk on SunOS worked simply and correctly the first time. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: 4 Feb 1997 18:29:41 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5d7v6l$t33@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> In article <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > Yep, it (v4.9.4P1) builds just fine. > > But I still haven't been able to use the new resolver library to build > anything, as the "NeXT" versions of routines in question seem to have been > placed in the standard system (shared) library, libsys_s.a . Add the -m flag at the linker line. It will use the first instance of a given library function for linking. Naturally, this flag is not-recommended unless you know what you're doing. You DO know what you're doing, right? (-; > What do I have to do in order to take advantage of the security measures > in the modern version of BIND ? Run my own DNS nameserver? Yep. Run a local caching DNS nameserver. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cant install OpenStep 4.1 on a Sun Ultra 1 Date: 4 Feb 1997 18:31:25 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5d7v9u$t34@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5d6pao$cu4$1@rks1> In article <5d6pao$cu4$1@rks1> dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) writes: > I want to install OpenStep 4.1 for Mach on a Sun Ultra 1 but the boot - > process breaks with the Message "Fast Data Access MMU Miss". > Does anybody knows how to solve this problem? Umm... last time I checked, Ultra/Hyper Sparcs were not supported by NeXTSTEP/OpenStep. That's most likely your problem. )-; -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: frank@miranda (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 4 Feb 1997 19:46:57 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5d83nh$ed5@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d0nim$1qv@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f68628.0@192.33.12.30> Cc: jklein@freon.artificial.com In <32f68628.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > ... > Gosh you sound bitter. > > Like I said before, you were wrong about #1, and I saw no reason to > do #2. Don't sit here and insult me because I'm fine with the > solution I've got. Read my words carefully again. I am insulting nobody (except myself), not you in particular. > I'm not complaining that netatalk hasn't been ported to the NeXT -- I've > got a fine solution to my AppleTalk problems here, namely netatalk on > the sparc which NFS from and print to the NeXTs. Ok, so this could be the best solution for anyone who has a Sparc running Solaris/SunOS handy. > I wasn't making any kind of attack at you either -- only that I don't like > CAP. This was not the first time I tried to install it on the NeXT, > and in fact I'd tried to install it on SunOS and Solaris too, only > to have similar problems. netatalk on SunOS worked simply and correctly > the first time. > The CAP package was tested on a lot of different configurations with a lot of testers, so far we have resolved all difficulties and problem or found the reason why it did not work on the particular configuration. For most of them it worked right out of the box. It is perfectly possible that it does not run on your system due to some strange setup or configuration I could not have foreseen. I criticize your way of not reporting your problems to me but to publically announce the package is not working. So I have no chance to find out why nor to fix it for others that may run into the same problems. I have put quite a lot of work into CAPer now because I see it as a missing piece of functionallity in the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep system and I want everyone to have this without paying lots of $$ for a commercial solution. As far as I can tell from my mail feedback it works for a lot of people now. Hopefully the complete CAPer package will become obsolete some fine day when the original Appletalk stack will be included into OpenStep. Until this moment I will continue to maintain CAPer. PS. What I am really mad about is your signature, Jon Klein. Anyway, I don't think we should discuss this topic any longer as it certainly don't belong into the c.s.n.sysadmin group. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 5 Feb 1997 15:20:27 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Distribution: world Message-ID: <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash : occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a : reboot. Yep---I do find /core. How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: "Jonathan W. Hendry" <jon@subsequent.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] Black Fileserver for Linux a/o Winblows ... Good Idea? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 12:27:42 -0500 Organization: By Displacement in Metric Tonnes. Message-ID: <32F8C30E.176E@subsequent.com> References: <5dad85$krv$1@news.nac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dmh wrote: > > I've been thinking of buying a black mono NeXTstation and setting it up as a > fileserver for my Linux box (which ocasionally runs windoze :(). But I'm > completely new to NeXT and have a couple of questions. I've got a similar setup: a cube, a p90 running Linux, and a Win95 box. > 1. I understand that the NeXT cube's have built in ethernet, is it 10BT, combo > or what (I'd really like to be able to avoid buying a hub)? The 030 Cubes just had coax. The 040 Cubes have coax and 10BT connectors. (Only one is active at a time.) > 2. What's the performance like on the 040 cubes with, say 16MB, should I buy > more ram? (FWIW the boxes I've seen seem to come w/ OS 3.1 or 3.3 ((I > think))). It's okay, not stellar. More memory might help. I mostly use mine as a print server. NeXT's black-hardware SCSI drivers and hardware have never been as fast as they could be. It's also pretty old SCSI, not FAST/WIDE. For most things, a cube should be fine. > 3. Since the system is Mach based does that mean that sysadmin is like a > typical UN*X installation or are there gooey (GUI) counterparts for > the typical net stuff (adduser, chmod, etc)? There are GUI tools for much of this. It's a little funky since NeXT uses their own 'Netinfo' system instead of NIS. -- jon@steeldriving.com
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: [Q] Black Fileserver for Linux a/o Winblows ... Good Idea? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 13:21:40 -0600 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <32F8DDC4.67C8F7C7@screaming.org> References: <5dad85$krv$1@news.nac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dmh wrote: > 3. Since the system is Mach based does that mean that sysadmin > is like a typical UN*X installation or are there gooey (GUI) > counterparts for the typical net stuff (adduser, chmod, etc)? All of this stuff is done through the GUI, but you're free to muck-around via a shell in a BSD unix environment -- if you're so inclined. -- pohl@screaming.org |"Reality is that which when you stop believing http://screaming.org/ | in it doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- OpenStep Inferno Java | Making the world safe for platform diversity.
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: NSFIP 3.3 Install probelm Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:52:04 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32F7BD94.4ED1@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have NSFIP 3.3 and have been trying to install it on my machine. I have a generic S3-968 video card (fixed frequency output--I use a Sun Monitor on my PC) with 4 MB RAM, and want to run NSFIP on the machine. I figured out all the stuff about needing the beta drivers to use my ATAPI CD-ROM, and so I can get it to start the install process. But, when it goes to change the video mode so that it can display the ROM Monitor imitation, nothing comes on the screen. Does anyone know of a solution to this problem, or has anyone had a similar problem? I have not experienced this with my video card before... Any input appreciated! Thanks! Karl
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 4 Feb 97 19:38:57 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF1D40D5-21585A@207.147.62.235> References: <32F76975.7C6@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 4, 1997 11:53 AM, Karl N. Matthias <mailto:matthias.3@osu.edu> wrote: > I at least would like to thank you for the work you did on the CAP > stuff. The NeXT community is better for the work you have done (are > doing). Thanks! I want to second that, Karl. I think Frank's package was easy to install and he e-mailed me with a few pointers when I asked him. As I said before,Ii had no trouble getting the Motorola version to install. I didn't have as much luck trying to install the Intel version on my Cube. :-) I am definitely a Unix virgin, but it wasn't that difficult. Thanks again, Frank. Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: 4 Feb 97 19:40:04 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF1D411A-21689B@207.147.62.235> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us. ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 4, 1997 11:53 AM, Barry A Starrfield <mailto:netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: > Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac > as > a PPP router? Wouldn't it be easier to use the Cube as a router? I have no idea how to use the Mac as a router. --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Peter Q. Olsson" <peter.olsson@gi.alaska.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP2.2 with Openstep 4.0 on Intel Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 12:55:02 -0900 Organization: Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks Message-ID: <32F7B036.548C@gi.alaska.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey all- Thanx for the many VERY helpful responses re: ftp sites. I am having a problem using ppp on a standalone machine. I seem to manage to make a ppp connection ok: Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 260 lo0 137.229.30.26 137.229.30.184 UH 0 0 ppp0 default 137.229.30.26 UG 0 0 ppp0 137.229 137.229.30.103 U 4 1610 en0 kotzebue:23# /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet 137.229.30.184 --> 137.229.30.26 netmask ffff0000 But my system does not know how to use this connection, i.e., no network operations (ping,telnet) are possible. This machine has previously been configured to run on a network, though I have made the modifications to /etc/hostconfig recommended in the ppp documentation for a standalone machine. Other suspicious symptoms: on boot-up, the machine takes a long time (essentially times out) on all the network-related items (naming service,etc). It is obviously still looking for a network connection via ethernet card. Also, a similar timeout takes place when running the chat script, i.e. about a 90-120 sec delay before dialing. When connected to the ethernet on bootup, the same machine dials immediately. I am 1) obviously a neophyte in regards to ppp and 2) having some kind of problem outside ppp which is contributing to my woes. It is likely something trivial, but close does not count w/r/t software! Any helpful suggestions? THanx, PQO -- ############################################ # # Dr. Peter Q. Olsson # Geophysical Institute # University of Alaska Fairbanks # Fairbanks, AK 99775 # # voice: (907) 474-6477 # fax: (907) 474 7290 # e-mail: peter.olsson@gi.alaska.edu # #############################################
From: gard@best.com (Ross Gard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 17:26:07 -0800 Organization: ComputerWare Message-ID: <gard-0402971726070001@NNTP.best.com> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net>, "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: > Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac as > a PPP router? > > barry > > > In article > <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net>, > "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote: > > >Hello There, > > As a pathetic newbie to networking, I'd greatly appreciate any help > in > >setting up a tiny TCP/IP network between > > my NeXTStation Color to a PowerMac 7200/75 via thin ethernet. > > The NeXTStation is running Nextstep 3.3, the PowerMac System 7.5.5 w/open > >transport, and I've verified that > >the ethernet connection is working through the Columbia Appletalk package > >(which works fine). > > My end goal in this project is to have the Mac serve as a PPP router, but > >in the meantime I'd be happy just to have > >the machines talking to each other through TCP/IP. Any IP numbers at this > >point would be fine (I'll get real numbers > >provided through my ISP when the PPP router scheme falls into place). > > Please post and/or mail me any suggestions on how I could get these > >machines talking to each other! > > > > > >Thanks again, > > > > Barry ¤ Barry, Take a look at Vicom Internet Gateway by Vicom <http://www.vicomtech.com/>. To my knowledge, this is the only Mac-based software IP WAN router available. It will allow your Mac to dial into a standard PPP account and act as a router and proxy server for your local net. It tends to remove concerns about security and the IP addresses of your local network. I run it myself on an old Quadra 800 to provide Internet access to my PowerMac 7500 running Mac OS and BeOS (which doesn't yet support PPP) and my Turbo Color NeXTstation (for which I now do not have to fiddle with PPP settings). Best of all, I can surf from both the Mac and the NeXTstation at the same time on the same PPP account. Regards, Ross _________________________________________________________ Ross Gard gard@best.com Systems Engineer (408) 328-1072 ComputerWare - The MacSource http://www.macsource.com/ 605 West California Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086-5020
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP package Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 01:46:16 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<32f28835.0@192.33.12.30>) by jon klein: > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even with the > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but nothing > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. > Very strange indeed! I've installed the nice CAP package from Frank two days ago. And it works perfectly! Very easy to install. I've already used Partner. But CAP looks nicer and easier to install. Only inconvenients: - Since I'm using ppp2.2, I'm using their BPF and it looks like it's interfering! I have to "Unload All" to be able to launch CAP. The problem is that for this reason, it's impossible to launch CAP at startup with the script in rc.local... Frank? =:) - I just can't understand how to use my LaserWriter from my NeXT station (but the other way the NeXT spool works fine for my Mac...) I think the documentation is a bit too short on this... =;) mc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking From: gary@scisysgw.sci.com (Gary Heston) Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Message-ID: <E55sA5.397@scisysgw.sci.com> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 02:01:17 GMT References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama In article <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) writes: > [comp.os.linux.networking included because of relevence] > Hi, I've got an original 030 cube with the laser printer, several >Linux boxes, a Sparc, and a couple of windows boxes here on a 10base2 LAN. >I'm having trouble communicating between the NeXT and Linux boxes right >down to pings, but it's intermittant and only happens with the cube, not >the rest of the network. To make the topology clear, the cube is on one >end of the segment and one of the linux boxes in question is in the >middle. The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the >segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. 99% of the problems I have with networks is in two areas: Cable problems Windoze First, if you're using *any* stubs, get rid of them. I tried those, and had *strange* problems--with a stub in one place, two systems 120' away on the cable wouldn't work, for example. Pulled the stub, those systems started working fine. Next, use an ohmmeter to check the resistance of the cable at each tap. Unless you're running a real long segment, you should see about 26 to 27 ohms at each point. Frequently, a connector gets resistive, throwing the impedance off, and causing the NICs to see collisions. I did this often enough at work that I made up a BNC-to-banana plug cable that I could just stick into the Tee or plugs. Then, check and make sure that all your cable is RG-58/C or real 10Base2 spec 50 ohm cable. RG-59/U is *not* acceptable; it's 75 ohm and should be used for video or cable-TV connections, not networking. For a quick test, you can move the cube over to the other end of the segment and connect with a short (.5m minimum) cable. If it suddenly starts working fine, there's definantly a cable problem. One other thing to check--measure both your terminators, and make certain they're 50 ohm. Someone slipped a 75 ohm terminator onto one of my segments, and it took me *weeks* to track down that intermittant problem. Especially annoying because my Microtest cable scanner wouldn't notice the slightly higher resistance. Gary -- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci.com Departmental net admin The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither. The Sultan of Brunei "has four Gulfstream IVs, three Airbuses, two Boeing 747s and one 767". (Forbes FYI) I'm available for adoption, Sultan.
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 5 Feb 1997 03:24:36 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) wrote: > I recently upgraded my cube from 3.0 to 4.0 and since then I have been > getting periodic "intruder alert" conditions. What happens is that > attempts to su are met with the response "who are you?" and the > command whoami returns "intruder alert". No logins are possible and > other servers (such as httpd) also get shutdown. > > I can't find any documentation anywhere on this, so can someone please > point me in the right direction. Is it a netinfo issue? Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a reboot. The OS 4.1 lookupd seems more stable, but still crashes occasionally on my old Cube. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 CaseServ: OPENSTEP Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: 5 Feb 1997 05:12:26 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> [comp.os.linux.networking included because of relevence] Hi, I've got an original 030 cube with the laser printer, several Linux boxes, a Sparc, and a couple of windows boxes here on a 10base2 LAN. I'm having trouble communicating between the NeXT and Linux boxes right down to pings, but it's intermittant and only happens with the cube, not the rest of the network. To make the topology clear, the cube is on one end of the segment and one of the linux boxes in question is in the middle. The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. Other issues: the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. When hooking the unit up to the network I launched the netadmin tool and specified a nonnetinfo network, this was the right thing to do but did I miss something else that's also important? Or is NetInfo broken in such an old NeXTStep? I just wiped SunOS because I was horrified at the libc DNS resolver hack I had to do just for DNS lookups; Solaris *is* much better. The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were they lying? The PC is a SMP dual P-120 with a 16 bit Intel Ether Express board. I've *never* had a problem hooking this box up to *any* network, and I've moved it around into all kinds of mixed enviornments... I don't suspect the machine. Intermittantly, the NeXT box will up and give up on talking to my gateway, a 386 running linux with an IP_Masq enabled kernel functioning as a firewall to the internal network. This *really* suggests to me a cube problem, are they known to have hardware problems with BNC networking? Could it be the OS? Do I need a patch - can I even get it? Can this guy run a more recent copy of NeXTStep? At least the 3.x series? As you can tell, I'm just gaining familiarity with this visually attractive, but pretty damn confusing, enviornment. This really looks like an IP implementation problem on the NeXT end, since I've never had problems with IP under Linux, am I wrong? My roomate and I are itching to get the cube to accept remote print jobs across lpd.... with that nice 400dpi PS laserprinter, is this too much to ask??? TIA, J. Maynard Gelinas
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Fax Broadcasting - how ? Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:31:01 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-40.usc.edu Message-ID: <5dbmq5$i1a@usc.edu> References: <32F89DD2.7774@mmc.de> Cc: fbandle@mmc.de In <32F89DD2.7774@mmc.de> Frank Bandle wrote: > We are merging adresses with a document, then we want to fax these > documents during the night to our clients. I believe there's an option in the fax panel for faxing later at a time you can specify. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: "Andrew Kim" <akim@pop.cogsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP Help!!! Anyone? Date: 4 Feb 97 21:52:05 -0800 Organization: Cogent Software Message-ID: <AF1D600C-2BE8A@207.13.170.22> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.hardware, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.misc, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.programmer, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.software, nntp://news.cogent.net/comp.sys.next.sysadmin --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there any one can tell me how to set up PPP for OpenStep 4.0 (040 Black) by step by step instruction? Online help does not gives me a bit helpful. I have Supra Sonic and NeXTstation Color. I am very confused and I have a no idea what to do. Thank you for any suggestion. PS. I tried Gatekeeper, & Kermit. but never worked. What did I do wrong??? --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-0002BCFC" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-0002BCFC Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <X-FONTSIZE><PARAM>12</PARAM><FONTFAMILY><PARAM>Palatino</PARAM>Is there any one can tell me how to set up PPP for OpenStep 4.0 (040 Black) by step by step instruction? Online help does not gives me a bit helpful. I have Supra Sonic and NeXTstation Color. I am very confused and I have a no idea what to do. Thank you for any suggestion. PS. I tried Gatekeeper, & Kermit. but never worked. What did I do wrong???</FONTFAMILY></X-FONTSIZE> --Cyberdog-MixedBoundary-0002BCFC-- --Cyberdog-AltBoundary-0002BCFC--
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5 and NS3.3 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 01:48:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0502970148490001@slip-96-4.ots.utexas.edu> References: <distler-0302972333000001@slip-98-15.ots.utexas.edu> <5d7v6l$t33@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5d7v6l$t33@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >Add the -m flag at the linker line. It will use the first instance of a >given library function for linking. Naturally, this flag is not-recommended >unless you know what you're doing. You DO know what you're doing, right? >(-; After a bit more mucking around, I THINK I now know what I'm doing. But, rather than recompiling clients with the new resolver routines (and crossing my fingers while using the -m flag for ld), I decided to follow your advice and . . . >Run a local caching DNS nameserver. which seems to work great. This also, presumably, protects clients (like talkd) for which I don't have the source code to recompile. Thanks, Jacques Distler
From: magnan@jsp.umontreal.ca (Francois Magnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with PPP client and server Date: 5 Feb 1997 23:03:13 GMT Organization: Universite de Montreal Distribution: world Message-ID: <5db3jh$eku@epervier.CC.UMontreal.CA> References: <5d42u3$n5r@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5d42u3$n5r@nntp.Stanford.EDU> On 02/02/97, Stan Jirman wrote: >I am somewhat stuck with an installation of PPP on two NeXTs, both >client and server side. Here is the general description of the >system: > >Server -- NS3.3 turbo station, connected to a big network of >non-NetInfo computers. Name resolution etc. works just fine on this >net. > >Client -- NS4.0 P6, which has three other NeXT and two non-NeXT >computers hanging on it. They are connected together without the >full use of NetInfo, just registered with HostManager. This network >is pretty much static and doesn't change. > >Goal: connect the clients to the server by PPP 2.2. > >I got the package, read the instructions, and I come this far: I >get the server to pick up the phone, I manually connect in Kermit, >then quit and start pppd on the client. The syslog shows all >happiness, as can be seen below. > >However, when I do a "ping [hostname of server]" on the client, >nothing happens. a "ping [IP of server]" works just fine. Short of >this, no IP or name pings or telnets work, I am stuck connecting >to the server, only thru IP and only directly from the primary >client, not any of the connected computers. > >I have resolv.conf set properly. Regardless what I do with the >"router" field in the HostManager Local dialog, I can't connect to >anything else, from any of the computers. > >My confusion (other than it simply doesn't work) >* The installation guide mentions "standalone client - do this". >Well, it's not a standalone client, but it's not a NetInfo client >either. (I will turn it into a clean NetInfo net later on). The >instructions don't say what to do on a NON-standalone machine. > >* The server configuration. I don't really get what the section >about "ethers" or proxyarp is trying to tell me. Where should I >place entries for which computers? The ones on the (sub)net, hanging >on the client? I am really confused here. > >The system works right now just fine with SLIP, routed thru a different >server; so naming and such should really be dandy. > >Any help is greatly appreciated. I can't just go and try things out, >any mods require major (actual physical) changes to the network; >if you are interested I can send you more specific config info, >including all config files, for you to look at. > >Thanks again! - Stan > > >ppp2.2.log: > >Feb 2 20:47:09 pizza pppd[242]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 >Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Using interface ppp0 >Feb 2 20:47:11 pizza pppd[242]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufb >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: local IP address 36.92.0.246 >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: remote IP address 36.92.0.18 >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Setting interface mask to 255.255.0.0 >Feb 2 20:47:14 pizza pppd[242]: Compression enabled > >[Stanford has a Class-A network, and so netmask is said to be 255.255.0.0] > > >pizza# pppd /dev/cufb defaultroute >pizza# /usr/etc/ifconfig ppp0 >ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> > inet 36.92.0.246 --> 36.92.0.18 netmask ffff0000 >pizza# netstat -rn >Routing tables >Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface >127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 344 lo0 >36.92.0.18 36.92.0.246 UH 0 4 ppp0 >default 36.92.0.18 UG 1 31 ppp0 >36.92 36.92.0.246 U 8 1351 en0 >pizza# > > >-- > >Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj >NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu > > The server should proxyarp for the IP addresses you gave to the clients. Without this how could the packets come back to the clients? Just add a arp -s an_ip_address_of_a_client pub for each client in the server's /etc/rc.local and reboot. You should maybe try it by hand before modifying the rc.local file. Francois -- ______________________________________________________ Francois Magnan Departement de Mathematique & Statistiques Universite de Montreal email: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca (MIME, NeXTMail Ok!)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702052133.QAA06839@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 16:33:20 -0500 Subject: 'at' jobs Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Is there a way to allow 'at' jobs to survive reboots/panics? It seems that when I set an 'at' job it will work fine as long as I don't reboot the machine before it is run. Is this "correct" or normal or is there a way around it? Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@crt.com> Message-ID: <9702052339.AA27711@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@crt.com> Date: Wed, 5 Feb 97 17:39:03 -0600 Subject: Stealth 3D 3000 Is anyone successfully using the Stealth 3D 3000 4MB card under NS? If so, which driver are you using? DiamondStealthDisplayDriver (NA #1939) S3ViRGEDisplayDriver (NA #2166) ? Thanks Randy randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Top 17 Programmer's Terminologies: 16. YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT - It finally worked!
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <40945538.17055785@news.zippo.com> Date: 6 Feb 1997 09:31:53 GMT Control: cancel <40945538.17055785@news.zippo.com> Message-ID: <cancel.40945538.17055785@news.zippo.com> Sender: cjtech@inreach.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: getting DNS to work (not hard) Date: 5 Feb 1997 17:34:52 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5dbcfs$ms6@crl.crl.com> Okay, I have asked about this problem about 4 monthes ago. But I hosed my NEXTSTEP partition BIG TIME (don't ask, its embarressing) but I am back trying to get my lookupd working. I am standalone 3.3 Intel running ppp 2.2.?%.@#. I can ping my nameservers and access everything with IP numbers, just no DNS. I also tried: kill -HUP 114 (114 being (lookupd)) adn rebooting. No luck. Any other ideas? yes yes, my resolv.conf has the correct info: domain crl.com nameserver 165.113.1.36 nameserver 165.113.1.37 thanks in advance...HC -- Josh Waltzer and Hans-Christoph Steiner MIME, NeXTMail, SunMail and PlainOldMail accepted
From: lars@andrej.rat.se (Lars Pehrsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dell Optiplex Pro 200... Onboard networkcard Date: 6 Feb 1997 11:02:09 GMT Organization: Research & Trade AB Message-ID: <5dcdnh$fra@baldwin.rat.se> Has anyone succedded in installing nextstep on this machine and got the onboard networkcard going ?? Onboard networkcard is suppose to be 3-Com compatible. Thanks in advance Research & Trade AB Lars Pehrsson lars@rat.se
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:07:22 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) wrote: > Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > : Do you find /core after this occurs? The new lookupd can crash > : occasionally which effectively shuts down all usefulness until a > : reboot. > > Yep---I do find /core. > > How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. And even if you are root, other problems may exist. The system is seriously hosed at this point. Fortunately, lookupd hasn't crashed very frequently in my experience - maybe about once per month. NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is understood and should be fixed in a future release. -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: reichman@usc.edu (Matthew N. Reichman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Files for installing a networked NeXT laser printer under Win95 (Was: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking?) Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:34:24 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Sender: reichman@comserv-b-40.usc.edu Message-ID: <5dbn0g$i1a@usc.edu> Cc: rschultz@iquest.net In <32F847F1.9F39E97@iquest.net> Rick Schultz wrote: > OK, here's the real point of my post: I have created a disk (er, set of > files) for installing a networked NeXT laser printer under Win95, > complete with the .inf and .ppd files. It requires running SAMBA on the > next. If anyone has a use for such a thing, let me know. If anyone > knows of a well-suited FTP site for this, let me know. If anyone knows > the legal ramifications of redistributing .DRV files, let me know that > as well... If it does turn out to be okay, the ftp.next.org site would be a good place! And probably quite appreciated. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <reichman@usc.edu> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 5 Feb 97 12:57:00 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32f8839c.0@192.33.12.30> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d83nh$ed5@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert (frank@miranda) wrote: : PS. What I am really mad about is your signature, Jon Klein. Anyway, I don't : think we should discuss this topic any longer as it certainly don't belong : into the c.s.n.sysadmin group. OH DEAR. oh dear... This is a huge misunderstanding. This has been my signature for a long time, and has NOTHING to do with CAP, you, or anything with this newsgroup for that matter. Caper is the name of a project of a friend of mine which is turning out to be quite a swiss-army-knife-type project -- it's turning out to do everything. When we come across a problem, the joke is to say, "Caper will do it for me". If you don't believe me, please feel free to look at dejanews for articles I've posted with this signature BEFORE this issue ever came up. I appologize profusely for this misunderstanding, as it never occured to me that in this context, it might be taken as offensive. At the time I wrote the signature, I had never used or heard of CAPer at all. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: Rick Schultz <rschultz@iquest.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 03:42:25 -0500 Organization: IQuest Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <32F847F1.9F39E97@iquest.net> References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "J. Maynard Gelinas" <maynard@jmg.com> J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the > segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. Can you ping all the machines using the IP numbers? If not, it's a gateway/routing problem. If you can do that, but not use hostnames, then DNS is the problem. > the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I > force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. Several of the files in /etc/ are not used once YP is up - check the files you're editing to make sure. > The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were > they lying? Bite yer tongue, lad! You probably need to enter the /etc/hosts information into the NIS/YP database. Configure the machine NOT to bind to a YP server (as if it were the server itself), then add all the info into the database with the admin tools. At least, that's how I did it under 3.3. > are they known to have hardware problems with BNC networking? Could it be the OS? I've seen a network of 300 NeXTs running entirely on thinnet. I can't account for the condition of your hardware, but, in general, the machines can handle this sort of thing. You might want to check for packet errors (ifconfig?) if you're worried about the physical connection. > My roomate and I are itching to get the cube to accept remote > print jobs across lpd.... with that nice 400dpi PS laserprinter, is this > too much to ask??? OK, here's the real point of my post: I have created a disk (er, set of files) for installing a networked NeXT laser printer under Win95, complete with the .inf and .ppd files. It requires running SAMBA on the next. If anyone has a use for such a thing, let me know. If anyone knows of a well-suited FTP site for this, let me know. If anyone knows the legal ramifications of redistributing .DRV files, let me know that as well... later, rick
From: Timothy B. Stiles <tbstiles@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Windows 95 Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 05:40:16 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5dbqh3$nmf@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Can someone please answer this question? If I have a program written for Windows 95 that won't allow you to do anything to the window except "restore" or "close" where can I change those properties? IS it in the registry? I'd like to re-enable minimize, maximize, and size functionality. Please respond ASAP and cc: to tstiles@ptp.hp.com. Your help with this is very appreciated! : ) Tim Stiles
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Serve AppleTalk files? Date: 6 Feb 1997 13:50:10 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5dcnii$nb6@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <32ED57E4.393D@osu.edu> <5cnm5s$fuf@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5d83nh$ed5@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <32f8839c.0@192.33.12.30> Cc: jklein@freon.artificial.com In <32f8839c.0@192.33.12.30> jon klein wrote: > Frank M. Siegert (frank@miranda) wrote: > > : PS. What I am really mad about is your signature, Jon Klein. Anyway, I don't > : think we should discuss this topic any longer as it certainly don't belong > : into the c.s.n.sysadmin group. > > OH DEAR. oh dear... This is a huge misunderstanding. > > This has been my signature for a long time, and has NOTHING to do > with CAP, you, or anything with this newsgroup for that matter. > > Caper is the name of a project of a friend of mine which is turning > out to be quite a swiss-army-knife-type project -- it's turning out to > do everything. When we come across a problem, the joke is to say, > "Caper will do it for me". > > If you don't believe me, please feel free to look at dejanews for articles > I've posted with this signature BEFORE this issue ever came up. > > I appologize profusely for this misunderstanding, as it never occured to > me that in this context, it might be taken as offensive. At the time I > wrote the signature, I had never used or heard of CAPer at all. > My oh my, guess most wars in history are started out of such bad misunderstandings. I have misinterpreted your words, sorry! -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: cward@adnc.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pop mail help. Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:10:16 GMT Organization: adnc.com Message-ID: <cward-0502972010100001@adnline1313.adnc.com> Somebody please send me a sendmail that actually works for sending mail to a pop host. Pop Over will retrieve beautifully. How do I send? I almost give up after a month of all day working on it. CW
From: jbays@gmu.edu (John Bays) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: cmsg cancel <jbays-0602971212010001@156.80.175.13> Control: cancel <jbays-0602971212010001@156.80.175.13> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 12:14:23 -0500 Organization: George Mason University Message-ID: <jbays-0602971214230001@156.80.175.13> cancel <jbays-0602971212010001@156.80.175.13>
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 'at' jobs Date: 6 Feb 1997 17:58:34 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5dd64a$l1v@library.airnews.net> References: <199702052133.QAA06839@nerc.com> Cc: luomat@nerc.com In <199702052133.QAA06839@nerc.com> Timothy J Luoma wrote: > Is there a way to allow 'at' jobs to survive reboots/panics? In theory, 'at' jobs should and will survive crashes and reboots, since they are spooled to /usr/spool/at and run by /usr/lib/atrun in the cron. In practice, my'at' jobs have survived reboots and panics, except for the jobs that are scheduled to run during the downtime. After the machine comes back up, I sometimes get messages from 'root' asking "Where are you?" on behalf of the 'at' jobs that didn't get a chance to run. > It seems that when I set an 'at' job it will work fine as long as I > don't reboot the machine before it is run. Since your 'at' runs fine while the machine is up, I don't know what's wrong. Maybe you have a /etc/rc[.local] job that goes out and clean the /usr/spool/at directory? > Is this "correct" or normal or is there a way around it? If it's important and runs all the time, it should be in the crontab in the first place. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: philippe_Provost <phil@cnam.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: looking for net related softwares Date: 6 Feb 1997 19:36:20 GMT Message-ID: <5ddbrk$vgn@pauli.cnam.fr> Greetings, I am looking for different products for the OpenSTEP (MACH) environment-intel based. mailing-list software NEWSGroup server (NNTP) ftp server I currently downloaded a software (NewsTools and NewsAdmin)from the archive which is 2 parts (installer and admin) for the nntp server, but I failed to pass thru the admin pack. I got a number of errors. where can I get useful doc ? which ftp server to install ? which is easy to set up and provided with good doc ? thank for all your reply. please post them to phil@cnam.fr philippe
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't boot after crash...Bad superblock Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 14:29:03 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8myX3zG00iVGE9RABV@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E56IDJ.GE@shinto.nbg.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <E56IDJ.GE@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 6-Feb-97 Can't boot after crash...Ba.. by Thomas Engel@shinto.nbg. > But a old and propably buggy CD-ROM trashed the SCSI bus after I almost > finished the installation leaving me with the same > > "Bad super block" > > message. Now is there a way to get this drive booted again ? > Can I put the super blocks back on the drive using the CD or boot disk ? Try 'fsck -b 16'. This will use the default alternate superblock, which hopefully will be valid. (There's no way to copy a superblock from some other device since the superblock contains information about the specific geometry of the device, and it's not going to be portable.) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: "dgrant" <darren@oxford.i-way.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: 5 Feb 1997 17:57:24 GMT Organization: I-Way Limited, Reading Message-ID: <01bc138d$15ccefc0$6fc081c2@Darren.i-way.co.uk> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0302972148000001@slip129-37-240-149.nc.us.ibm.net> <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net> You need the Vicom internet gateway to use a Mac as a router, www.vicomtech.com This will act as a software router for TCP-IP Barry A Starrfield <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> wrote in article <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us.ibm.net>... > Hi Again - I've now got TCP/IP running - anyone know of how to use a Mac as > a PPP router? >
From: colin@mulder.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 6 Feb 1997 20:55:56 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> I wrote: > How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without : lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. That's what I meant by "circumstances allow"; but your other comments about being hosed make me think that it's not worth trying anyway. : Fortunately, lookupd hasn't crashed very frequently in my experience - : maybe about once per month. Unfortunately, it has happened to me 4 times in 3 days, but I'm hoping that a little change I made in netinfo has fixed the problem -- the machine has been up about 18 hours now. I think my specific problem may have been caused by a slight incompatiblity between host entries in 3.0 netinfo and host entries in 4.0 netinfo. I noticed as soon as I upgraded that other machines that my cube serves netinfo too were not getting recognized properly. I had to resave their host entries in the master netinfo database (after a trivial edit) to get them recognized. I just never went ahead and did the same for my machine's own entry in the database. Having now done that, I'm hoping that it's fixed. If it crashes again today, I'll know that it isn't! : NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty : unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is : understood and should be fixed in a future release. Can't wait ;-) -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 6 Feb 1997 22:32:09 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> On 02/06/97, Colin F. Allen wrote: > >I wrote: >> How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? > >Art Isbell (aisbell@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >: Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without >: lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. > >That's what I meant by "circumstances allow"; but your other comments >about being hosed make me think that it's not worth trying anyway. > >: Fortunately, lookupd hasn't crashed very frequently in my experience - >: maybe about once per month. > >Unfortunately, it has happened to me 4 times in 3 days, but I'm hoping >that a little change I made in netinfo has fixed the problem -- the >machine has been up about 18 hours now. I think my specific problem >may have been caused by a slight incompatiblity between host entries >in 3.0 netinfo and host entries in 4.0 netinfo. I noticed as soon as >I upgraded that other machines that my cube serves netinfo too were >not getting recognized properly. I had to resave their host entries >in the master netinfo database (after a trivial edit) to get them >recognized. I just never went ahead and did the same for my machine's >own entry in the database. Having now done that, I'm hoping that it's >fixed. If it crashes again today, I'll know that it isn't! > What did you fix? Its only doing it a single host lookup here (tring to access news) and its driving me batty. >: NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty >: unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is >: understood and should be fixed in a future release. > >Can't wait ;-) Me too... like maybe in 4.2? -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: "Karl N. Matthias" <matthias.3@osu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 18:28:04 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <32FA6904.4E61@osu.edu> References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> <32F847F1.9F39E97@iquest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rick Schultz wrote: > > the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I > > force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. > > Several of the files in /etc/ are not used once YP is up - check the > files you're editing to make sure. > > > The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were > > they lying? > > Bite yer tongue, lad! > > You probably need to enter the /etc/hosts information into the NIS/YP > database. Configure the machine NOT to bind to a YP server (as if it > were the server itself), then add all the info into the database with > the admin tools. At least, that's how I did it under 3.3. > If you've already put all the info in the /etc/hosts file, you can easily load it into netinfo with the niload and nidump commands. First do a nidump hosts . >/tmp/nihosts. Then append the /etc/hosts file to the end of that. Then do niload hosts . </tmp/nihosts. Then you can remove /tmp/nihosts. Everything should be cosher then. I don't remember if you actually need to do this appending of the current hosts file, though... I don't think it hurts anything if you do.
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Windows 95 Date: 6 Feb 97 20:44:43 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF1FF345-1D0EAC@207.147.51.218> References: <5dbqh3$nmf@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, Feb 6, 1997 12:40 AM, Timothy B. Stiles <mailto:tbstiles@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Can someone please answer this question? > > If I have a program written for Windows 95 that won't allow you to do > anything to the window > except "restore" or "close" where can I change those properties? IS it in the > registry? > I'd like to re-enable minimize, maximize, and size functionality. Please > respond ASAP and cc: to > tstiles@ptp.hp.com. > > > Your help with this is very appreciated! : ) > > > Tim Stiles > Why did you post this to comp.sys.next.sysadmin? Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Barry A Starrfield" <netanya_bastarrfield@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help Networking a PowerMac and a NextStation Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 07:44:38 -0500 Organization: Yisraelim B'Chul Message-ID: <netanya_bastarrfield-0502970744380001@slip129-37-240-201.nc.us.ibm.net> References: <netanya_bastarrfield-0402971153230001@slip129-37-240-94.nc.us. ibm.net> <AF1D411A-21689B@207.147.62.235> In article <AF1D411A-21689B@207.147.62.235>, "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >Wouldn't it be easier to use the Cube as a router? I have no idea how to >use the Mac as a router. > Good point - I can't seem to find any of these bloody NeXT to Mac serial cables around anywhere, and a software router for the Mac would cost about $300 (nearly the price of a Cube!). I've found, however, information that says that Open Transport 1.5 will allow a Mac to serve as a small scale router (at least for PPP). As this comes from only one site, I have no confirmation on the issue. In the meantime, I'll be using the Columbia Appletalk package and lots of shady file shifting to at least impersonate a full network connect betwen my NeXT, Mac and the Internet. Barry
From: taweil@skat.usc.edu (taweil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lost boot loader due to win95... Message-ID: <c4ak9oxcwim.fsf@skat.usc.edu> Date: 28 Jan 97 21:36:50 GMT Sender: taweil@skat.usc.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Hi, I just installed Win95 and the NeXT bootloader disappear. Is there anyway I can get it back without re-install the whole OS? -- Ta-Wei Li
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 7 Feb 1997 04:03:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> Scott Anguish (sanguish@digifix.com) wrote: : What did you fix? Its only doing it a single host lookup here : (tring to access news) and its driving me batty. Do you have the address of your news server stored in your netinfo database, or are you going out to dns? The reason I ask is if the former, the behavior seems more explicable in light of my experiences here. To fix the problem here, if I have indeed fixed it :-(, I used HostManager to open the machine's entry under the root domain, simply deleted the last character of the hostname, retyped it, and saved. Some background: My upgrade was from 3.0->4.0. The Upgrader.app would not work, so I had to install from scratch. Once 4.0 was up I simply copied my old netinfo databases into /etc/netinfo to replace the default ones provided. Here's where I think I caused the trouble, because it seems that the 3.0 netinfo structure is a bit different from 4.0's, so several things were not quite working properly (printing and serving as the netinfo master for our network, to mention two). I now believe that lookupd was crashing because something in netinfo was in not quite the right format - I noticed, for example, that doing a lot of su changing accounts, or running NetInfoManager seemed to be correlated with the crashes, and both of these are operations that require calls to netinfo. So far so good, but, of course, this is still speculation: however, the machine has not been up for 25 hours without a crash and hope springs eternal! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 7 Feb 1997 00:49:30 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything installed fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 GB disk. How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: Pohl Longsine <pohl@screaming.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP Help!!! Anyone? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 10:19:05 -0600 Organization: mementech, inc. Message-ID: <32F8B2F9.54E682D1@screaming.org> References: <AF1D600C-2BE8A@207.13.170.22> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew Kim wrote: > Is there any one can tell me how to set up PPP for OpenStep 4.0 > (040 Black) by step by step instruction? I'd like to point out here that it's really bad form to crosspost support questions to all of the comp.sys.next.* groups. Be more selective, please. -- pohl@screaming.org |"Reality is that which when you stop believing http://screaming.org/ | in it doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick ----------------------+---------------------------------------------- OpenStep Inferno Java | Making the world safe for platform diversity.
From: wildi@ubaclu.unibas.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Amanda backup system and NeXTSTEP 3.3 m68k Message-ID: <1997Feb6.135023.47350@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Date: 6 Feb 97 13:50:23 MET Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland Hello, I'm looking for some who has experience with amanda 2.3.0 and NeXT 3.3 m68k. I tried to compile amanda 2.3.0 but recieved many, many error messages. Is there somebody out who solved this problem and has a running system ? greetings, Markus Wildi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199702061406.JAA12050@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 01a3fe009a4d1858b2f0372e3962c812 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 09:05:55 -0500 Subject: Re: pop mail help. Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 01a3fe009a4d1858b2f0372e3962c812 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: cward@adnc.com Original Date: 6 Feb 1997 04:10:16 GMT > Somebody please send me a sendmail that actually works for sending > mail to a pop host. > > I almost give up after a month of all day working on it. Oh my. This is a relatively simple problem. sendmail 8.8.5 is available for NeXTStep. You can get it from ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/ There are also instructions for how to set it up which are linked to my web page http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ under the "NeXTStep related web pages" site (which I think is http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/other-sites-noframes.html for those who can't do frames) The instructions make setting this up a project that should take less than 30 minutes and a reboot. They were written for 8.7.5 but still work for 8.8.5. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 7 Feb 1997 05:43:01 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5defd5$2ch@news.digifix.com> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> On 02/06/97, Colin F. Allen wrote: >Scott Anguish (sanguish@digifix.com) wrote: >: What did you fix? Its only doing it a single host lookup here >: (tring to access news) and its driving me batty. > >Do you have the address of your news server stored in your netinfo >database, or are you going out to dns? The reason I ask is if the >former, the behavior seems more explicable in light of my experiences >here. > Its not listed in netinfo, and I'm not sure that I've got a similar situation... :-( Perhaps I should stick it into the hosts for /... I guess it couldn't hurt. >To fix the problem here, if I have indeed fixed it :-(, I used >HostManager to open the machine's entry under the root domain, simply >deleted the last character of the hostname, retyped it, and saved. > >Some background: My upgrade was from 3.0->4.0. The Upgrader.app would >not work, so I had to install from scratch. Once 4.0 was up I simply >copied my old netinfo databases into /etc/netinfo to replace the >default ones provided. Here's where I think I caused the trouble, >because it seems that the 3.0 netinfo structure is a bit different >from 4.0's, so several things were not quite working properly >(printing and serving as the netinfo master for our network, to >mention two). I now believe that lookupd was crashing because >something in netinfo was in not quite the right format - I noticed, >for example, that doing a lot of su changing accounts, or running >NetInfoManager seemed to be correlated with the crashes, and both of >these are operations that require calls to netinfo. > >So far so good, but, of course, this is still speculation: however, >the machine has not been up for 25 hours without a crash and hope >springs eternal! > >-- >Colin Allen >http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/ > > > -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:10:30 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <5dcvpm$l@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <E4F1qH.9zs@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <a24e8958c123e5f6fbb47dc46fbf5d9c> <199701162312.PAA18669@peak.org> <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com> In Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x8ac8c> writes, > In article <5bshkj$8kv@hpax.cup.hp.com>, Ken Lui <klui@cup.hp.com> wrote: >>In article <E45o85.HBA@novice.uwaterloo.ca>, >>David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> wrote: >>> I didn't write it anyway. :) >> >>Do you know who wrote it? I'd like to get rid of those PID -1 Mach Tasks. >> > > I have no idea who wrote it. I grabbed it from a posting here years and > years ago (and, as I recall, the poster said, "I didn't write this--I grabbed > it from a posting a while ago".) At the moment I have to work a lot with tip and modems. tip hangs quiet often and I don't know why. The problem is, I can't kill it aftwards. Nothing works: ÃC, kill, kill -9... So I have to reboot and most of the time make a fsck for my 2.1GB disk. Not very efficient... So if this famous program could kill also this problem, I would appreciate a lot if somebody could send it to me (moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch); preferably fat (for Intel and m68k). Thanks a lot! Phil
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: 5 Feb 1997 14:42:22 GMT Organization: ipc, U of Tuebingen, Germany Message-ID: <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> Cc: mic@micmac.com In <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin > (<32f28835.0@192.33.12.30>) by jon klein: > > When Frank posted this, I tried again to get CAP to work. Even > with the > > nice 'simple' interface (which was actually pretty yucky), it still > > wouldn't work. I've tried all sorts of troubleshooting, but > nothing > > works. No errors, no nothing... it just doesn't work. > > > > Very strange indeed! > I've installed the nice CAP package from Frank two days ago. And it > works perfectly! > Very easy to install. I've already used Partner. But CAP looks nicer > and easier to install. > > Only inconvenients: > - Since I'm using ppp2.2, I'm using their BPF and it looks like it's > interfering! I have to "Unload All" to be able to launch CAP. The > problem is that for this reason, it's impossible to launch CAP at > startup with the script in rc.local... Frank? =:) Yes, I'm here :-). I have heard this now from serveral sources and I am investigating this problem. Looks like both BPF uses the same major device numbers, but I have no solution yet (except not using/unloading the ppp BPF before starting up CAP/BPF). > - I just can't understand how to use my LaserWriter from my NeXT > station (but the other way the NeXT spool works fine for my Mac...) I > think the documentation is a bit too short on this... =;) > Yeah, I second this. To minimize the problems I have put together a step by step documentation and put it on http://www.this.net/~frank/cap_howto.html The setup of a local queue to print to a remote LaserWriter is unfortunately not automated yet, so you have to use the shell / NetInfoMananger (read the notes about a potential problem using it!) to setup. A future release will include an automatic setup mechanism. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp via compuserve Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:49:22 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5dfbt2$rjm$2@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> HELP HELP HELP I want a PPP connection via Compusere. My problem is that I can't get a connection. My computer and the Compuserve host try to configure but they didn't get right. My computer sends the configuration requsts 7 times and then the connection got terminated. I use Nextstep 3.3, PPP2.2 and GateKeeper 2.0 (Beta). What's wrong? Any hints are wellcome. Thanks Lutz ----------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Kwasniok Germany email : 101667.1750@compuserve.com (ASCII,MIME) -- Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (sorry no nextmail)
From: "Giraudo1" <giraudos@avon.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: 7 Feb 1997 13:01:32 GMT Organization: iiNet Technologies Message-ID: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> Cache-Post-Path: oak.avon.net.au!unknown@ppp08.avon.net.au The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came with the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. Also when I was going through the online system book something was mentioned about PHONE? Does this also not come come with OPENSTEP 4.0 THANK YOU someone who is trying to show others that there is an easier, independant and more exciting way to computing. Simon Giraudo
From: dmh@cnct.com (dmh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: [Q] Black Fileserver for Linux a/o Winblows ... Good Idea? Date: Wed, 05 Feb 97 16:41:00 GMT Organization: Net Access Corp, Denville NJ (+1-201-983-0725) Message-ID: <5dad85$krv$1@news.nac.net> I've been thinking of buying a black mono NeXTstation and setting it up as a fileserver for my Linux box (which ocasionally runs windoze :(). But I'm completely new to NeXT and have a couple of questions. 1. I understand that the NeXT cube's have built in ethernet, is it 10BT, combo or what (I'd really like to be able to avoid buying a hub)? 2. What's the performance like on the 040 cubes with, say 16MB, should I buy more ram? (FWIW the boxes I've seen seem to come w/ OS 3.1 or 3.3 ((I think))). 3. Since the system is Mach based does that mean that sysadmin is like a typical UN*X installation or are there gooey (GUI) counterparts for the typical net stuff (adduser, chmod, etc)? Thanks for any info you can provide. Dave dmh@cnct.com http://www.cnct.com/home/dmh finger for PGP key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCA/FA d>--- s>+:() !a C$>++++ ULVC(on)>++$ !P>+ L>++$ E>---- W(++)$ N++>++ o K--- w---(---) O()> M() V-->-- PS PE+++(+++)@>+++ Y+(+)>$ PGP+(+) !t !5 !X !R tv++ b+++>$ DI++ D++ G e h r++ y++** ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
From: jdevlin@umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Standalone to Network -- services and fonts disappeared Date: 5 Feb 1997 16:50:06 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <5dadnu$7m8@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Hello, I've put a second NeXTstation on a Netinfo network with my original standalone slab. Let's call them "client" and "server". /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary have been exported from server and mounted on client at /Net/client/LocalApps /Net/client/LocalLibrary All users are network users, and they can access those apps and files from either machine. I thought that was it, but I have two problems that I can't solve. Problem #1: The services which these apps provide no longer show up either in the Services menu or in the appropriate Preferences.app panel. Users have this problem whether they are logged in on host or on client. Problem #2: The fonts in /LocalLibrary are only accessible from server. They do not appear in the font panel for apps launched from client. Any ideas? Many thanks! -- John Devlin Department of Philosophy The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - 1003
From: Anton Sieber <anton.sieber@ubs.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CHAP & PPP Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 14:01:16 +0100 Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Message-ID: <32FB279C.2892@ubs.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi out there Now I poste my first question in a newsgroup because I can't find anything about CHAP ! I hobe it's ok this way... I installed PPP. My pppup -script can connect to my provider. But then communikation stops because my ppp/configuration knows only PAP authentifikation. But authedtification at my provider runs only with CHAP ! Is it possible for me to connect with CHAP ? How ? Thank's a lot for help... Please respond to this address: sieber@netwings.ch //// (. .) +--------------------------oOO-(_)-OOo-------------------------------+ | Anton Sieber, SYNE/SYBS-X9A System Engineer | | Union Bank of Switzerland, Bahnhofstrasse 45, Zuerich, Switzerland | | Email: Anton.Sieber@ubs.ch Tel: +41 1 236 7999 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 15:57:18 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E58pnK.5yu@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> In article <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> "Giraudo1" <giraudos@avon.net.au> writes: > The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came with > the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. No. Part of the great NeXTStep unfeaturing... $an
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 7 Feb 1997 16:51:03 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dfmhn$g81$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> In article <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) writes: -> ->I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything installed ->fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 GB disk. ->How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. -> ->-- -> After a little research I think I have a solution but may need a little guidance. Since the 2GB drive is the boot disk I need to boot off the CDROM and format the disk from there, then somehow, I need to setup a disktab entry for before (?) I install NS. How can I make this happen? After reformatting the disk can I do a half installation, just enough to set up the disktab? -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: Bill Mitchell <bill.mitchell@mercyic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT ?s Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 11:14:15 -0600 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <32FB62E7.6470@mercyic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just received my new cube Wednesday night. Couldn't be happier. Have some questions though. Here is the 'all-black' configuration. NeXT cube 68040 processer 8 MB memory magneto-optical drive (No other media drives) 650 MB Fujitsu hard drive NeXT keyboard NeXT mouse NeXT megapixel display The OS is NeXTSTEP 2.0. Questions: (Please excuse the length) 1. Has anybody used SUN externals for media. SUN CD_ROM or SUN Cartridge drives (6525 style)? 2. The gentleman I purchased the Cube from gave me NeXTSTEP 1.0, 2.0, & 3.0 in Magneto-optical. I wanted to get to 3.0, but I have hit a snag. The 3.0 MO has no "Upgrade_3.0.app" like the 2.0 MO has. I can boot to NeXTSTEP 3.0 using the MO but that is very slow once up Want to upgrade, but not sure of the route to take. I have the 2.0 documentation, but the seller sold the 3.0 docs seperately. The 3.0 MO has the following directories and files: bin dev etc lib lost+found mach me NexTadmin NeXTApps NeXTDeveloper NeXTLibrary odmach private sdmach tmp usr .cshrc .hidden .login NeXT .NeXTrash .profile The NextAdmin directory contains the following: BuildDisk.app HostManager.app Installer.app InstallTablet.app NetInfoManager.app NetWareManager.app NFSManager.app PhoneConnector.app PhoneManager.app SampleNetworkStart UserManager.app
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: 7 Feb 1997 17:45:57 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5dfpol$g93$2@majipoor.cygnus.com> References: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> <E58pnK.5yu@cam-ani.co.uk> Cc: ians@cam-ani.co.uk In <E58pnK.5yu@cam-ani.co.uk> Ian Stephenson wrote: > In article <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> "Giraudo1" > <giraudos@avon.net.au> writes: > > The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came > with > > the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. > > No. > > Part of the great NeXTStep unfeaturing... Actually, the Netware manager app is no longer in /NextAdmin, but I can still get to Netware volumes via /Net/Netware/{SERVER} just like before. So I don't know if that means it's still supported or not :-} -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Smalltalk == Astronaut's tools. Awkward at first, but exceptional design C++ == A hammer. A SLEDGEHAMMER. Not cast metal, a big rock on a stick.
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTstation won't power down Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Feb 97 02:44:50 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <32fa9722.0@192.33.12.30> References: <E56K06.HB@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org) wrote: : Hi, : since almost 2 month the behavior of one NeXTstation Turbo (NS 3.3/Patched) : is getting stranger. : I know that a system ofter refused to shut down if there are some zombie : processes which can not be killed or refuse to die. (e.g. an ungracefully : interrupted printer driver oft was the cause on my machine) : But on this particular machine the behaviors seem to result from something : different. If you log in as root and play with preferences , there are options 'reboot upon shutdown' and such... I've never gotten them to work (I have a situation where I would like such behaviour), but if they did, the behaviour you describe is what I would expect. -- -jon klein jklein@freon.artificial.com Caper will do it for me.
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Patched rlogin source? -- Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term Date: 7 Feb 1997 19:14:08 GMT Organization: data communication and networking services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dfuu0$7mo@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5ddf0h$3nj@news.sei.cmu.edu> Could someone upload source+binary for "rlogin" that fixes the following security bug to FTP sites (and let us know)? For those systems that are running NS/OS versions < 4.1. Thanks! Izumi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In article <5ddf0h$3nj@news.sei.cmu.edu> CERT Advisory <cert-advisory@cert.org> writes: CERT(sm) Advisory CA-97.06 Original issue date: February 6, 1997 Last revised: -- Topic: Vulnerability in rlogin/term Unfortunately, many implementations of the rlogin program contain a defect whereby the value of the TERM environment variable is copied to an internal buffer without due care. The buffer holding the copied value of TERM can be overflowed. In some implementations, the buffer is a local variable, meaning that the subroutine call stack can be overwritten and arbitrary code executed. The executed code is under the control of the user running the rlogin program. In addition, the rlogin program is set-user-id root. .... NeXT Software, Inc. =================== This problem is fixed in OpenStep/Mach release 4.1 and later.
From: jason@pdh.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Support for 3Com 3C905-TX? Date: 7 Feb 1997 19:12:26 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5dfuqq$ocl@news6.noc.netcom.net> Does anyone know if there is a driver in the works for the 3Com 3C905-TX NIC for NS 3.3 or OS 4.1? TIA - Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Can't boot after crash...Bad superblock Message-ID: <E56IDJ.GE@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 11:24:55 GMT Hi, I just tried to install a couple of Intel boxes with Openstep 4.0 and I am having quite some trouble these days. I suspect that most problems are due to strange SCSI curicumstances which randomly corrupt the data on the disk. On one machine (Adaptec 1542CP...used the new 4.01 driver) the crashes started after 4 hours and after 3 or 5 crashes the system was rendered useless. While the simple crashes could be "ignored" after a manual fsck the final crash usually resultd in a "Bad super block 3" message and that was the time to reinstall from scratch. While on this machine I consider the SCSI card to be resonsible (PnP didn't work and timed out on resetting the bus.e.etc...pp) I have another PCI based system which used to run NeXTSTEP before the upgrade pretty stable. But a old and propably buggy CD-ROM trashed the SCSI bus after I almost finished the installation leaving me with the same "Bad super block" message. Now is there a way to get this drive booted again ? Can I put the super blocks back on the drive using the CD or boot disk ? I have gotten pretty fast at doing installs lately...but I hate the idea of always deleting all the previous work. Thanx for any information. Aloha Tomi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: NeXTstation won't power down Message-ID: <E56K06.HB@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:00:05 GMT Hi, since almost 2 month the behavior of one NeXTstation Turbo (NS 3.3/Patched) is getting stranger. I know that a system ofter refused to shut down if there are some zombie processes which can not be killed or refuse to die. (e.g. an ungracefully interrupted printer driver oft was the cause on my machine) But on this particular machine the behaviors seem to result from something different. When you power off the machine - it refuses to do so - you go into NNI and power it off with "brute" force - the system reboots and does its "fsck" - you power it of from the loginpanel rigth away (without login into the system to launch any other processes). - ...and it will again refuse to power of ??? I just don't understand that. While this usually happened seldomly (and we blamed it on the printer driver)...it now happens more often. Still unpredictable when it will happen, but it happens even when no communication with any serial port has happene (neither modem nor printer) Is this a software issue or a hardware thing (low battery ??) I seriously don't know how to explain this behaviour to my "customer". Any help is appreciated. Aloha Tomi
From: yblock@next.mc.maricopa.edu (York Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question about memory configuration Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 14:18:56 -0700 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <yblock-0702971418570001@60.phoenix-001.az.dial-access.att.net> I have a Next Turbo Color computer with 16MB (2 8MB SIMMs) of memory. I want to upgrade it to 64MB. - Should I get 2 32MB SIMMs and take off the 2 8MB SIMMs? or - Do I need to get 4 16MB SIMMS? Carlos.
From: peter@mathworks.com (Peter Greis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Riddle me this... Date: 7 Feb 1997 21:42:18 GMT Organization: The MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA 01760 Message-ID: <5dg7jq$btk@turing.mathworks.com> I defer to group knowledge... I currently have a SLIP dialup line with an ISP, my cube providing the connection and the routing for my home network. I will be getting a cable modem connection in another week. This promises 1.5MB download and 300K upload. Quite a bit faster than a 28.8, I would say. As part of the trade off, I will be losing my class C address. This is not entirely tragic, as I only had 3 machines connected at any one time. So, my questions are... The connection from the cable modem is twisted pair, will there be any problem switching interfaces from the bnc connector (gotchas)? The IP negoitiation is DHCP; can I even handle this under NeXTSTEP (3.3)? And finally, assuming the first two are solvable, can I set up a proxy (using just the one ethernet port) so that I can get the other machines connected to the net? I have seen this done with two ethernet interfaces, I have not seen it with one. Or, do I go to place D: buy/steal/acquire and old 486, put two ethernet cards in it, install Linux, and go from there? exploring options, -peter -- =================================================================== Peter Greis peter@mathworks.com peter@freethinker.com Toolsmith The MathWorks, Inc. <NeXT & MIME mail accepted> N1YDE Registered Be Developer "To gain knowledge, add something every day. To gain wisdom, remove something every day." ===================================================================
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Sendmail: removing actual host from FROM:? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Feb 1997 23:22:19 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN When I send mail from my machine, it says "stanj@hostname.domain". This then prompts people with some backwards mailers to reply directly to that host, which so happens to be down most of the time. Short of adding a "Reply-To: field, which gets disregarded anyway, how can I remove teh actual hostname from the From: field? I know that one can tweak the sendmail.cf and make the mail appear to come from a given host; the problem is that when several people are using the machine, I still would like to keep the username flexible. Mail should somehow appear to come from user@mailserver.domain or so. Sounds reasonable? Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: gbh@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Blank screen on bootup Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 23:57:13 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32FC07A9.BC0@erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am using OPENSTEP 4.0 on an Intel machine. I installed a driver for my display card, S3ViRGE, and set it to 1024x768 at 85MHz. When I reboot the machine I get a blank screen after it finishes the boot process. I don't know why, maybe my monitor does not support that frequency. In any case, first, what command can I give to shutdown the computer? I am literally in the dark because I can't see anything on the screen. And second, how do I boot with the default settings so I can try other display settings with my driver? I am using a boot floppy, at the boot prompt, I have tried 'sd()mach_kernel config=default'. I get some kind of error message and a return to the boot prompt. I have also tried 'sd()mach_kernel display=default'. It continues to boot afterwards, but still comes up with a blank screen. -gh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Blank screen on bootup Message-ID: <E59BuL.Mq@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: gbh@erols.com Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 23:56:44 GMT References: <32FC07A9.BC0@erols.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin gbh@erols.com wrote: > I am using OPENSTEP 4.0 on an Intel machine. > I installed a driver for my display card, S3ViRGE, > and set it to 1024x768 at 85MHz. When I reboot the > machine I get a blank screen after it finishes the > boot process. I don't know why, maybe my monitor > does not support that frequency. > > In any case, first, what command can I give to shutdown > the computer? I am literally in the dark because I can't > see anything on the screen. And second, how do I boot > with the default settings so I can try other display > settings with my driver? I am using a boot floppy, at > the boot prompt, I have tried 'sd()mach_kernel config=default'. > I get some kind of error message and a return to the > boot prompt. I have also tried 'sd()mach_kernel display=default'. > It continues to boot afterwards, but still comes up with a > blank screen. Press the left alt key and the numlock key simultaneously. This brings up a panel (which you won't be able to see, of course) which allows you to do an emergancy halt or restart. Press 'r' for reboot. Wait a moment and your machine will reboot. You don't need the boot floppy. Remove it and just wait for the boot: prompt. At this point type: config=Default and press enter. Your machine should now come up in glorious 640 x 480 monochrome (ie. save default VGA). You should then be able to run Configure.app and change the frequency to something your monitor can handle. Note that if you have done a couple dirty shutdowns (ie. just cut the power) before now, your computer will have to perform a file system check and reboot once again before you can run Configure. In this case remember to type config=Default at the boot prompt again. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail: removing actual host from FROM:? Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 19:40:41 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580000702971940410001@news.tiac.net> References: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) wrote: > Short of adding a "Reply-To: > field, which gets disregarded anyway, how can I remove teh actual hostname > from the From: field? > > I know that one can tweak the sendmail.cf and make the mail appear to come > from a given host; the problem is that when several people are using the > machine, I still would like to keep the username flexible. Mail should > somehow appear to come from user@mailserver.domain or so. To repeat last Sunday's post, the standard 3.3 Mail.app can be persuaded to use any "From:" line you like by entering a "From" header (no colon) in the Expert preferences dialog. (Thanks to Lennart Lovstrand for this info.) Each user has his own set of Mail.app preferences, and hence his own choice of a "From:" line. Barney Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Patched rlogin source? -- Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 21:13:09 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Distribution: world Message-ID: <distler-0702972113100001@slip-63-5.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5ddf0h$3nj@news.sei.cmu.edu> <5dfuu0$7mo@agate.berkeley.edu> In article <5dfuu0$7mo@agate.berkeley.edu>, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu wrote: >Could someone upload source+binary for "rlogin" that fixes the following >security bug to FTP sites (and let us know)? > >For those systems that are running NS/OS versions < 4.1. > The source code for the FreeBSD2.2 version of "rlogin", hacked to compile and run under NS (tested on 3.3 for HPPA) can be found at <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/rlogin.tar.gz> You will find both the original FreeBSD source, and my (very minor) modifications. Just do a "diff" to see what I changed. To build it, you should be able to simply type "make". Note, I did NOT bother to get the Kerberos support, available under the FreeBSD version of "rlogin", to work. I expect it is probably not too hard, should anyone like to try. Note, too, that rlogin must be installed setuid root. Now that you've had fun with "rlogin", anyone care to tackle replacing "rpc.rstatd" (NS <4.0 vulnerable, according to CERT Advisory CA-96.09), or "talkd" (CA-97.04). Jacques Distler
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Uninterruptible processes Date: 8 Feb 1997 01:33:13 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dgl4p$3ua@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> % ps -aucx | grep 'U' USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND art 251 0.0 4.1 6.16M 2.61M ? U 2:33 WM art 661 0.0 2.9 5.20M 1.88M ? U 0:49 Edit art 1983 0.0 0.5 2.13M 336K p2 U 0:00 emacs art 2342 0.0 0.9 3.70M 568K p2 U 0:00 open My OS 4.1/Mach/NeXT system is heading south again :-( This seems to be happening more and more frequently. Workspace Manager, Edit, and emacs are hosed - uninterruptible - and apparently unschedulable - spin cursor. I'm in the middle of a 8.2 MB download, so I hope the system stays up until the download completes. I'm beginning to suspect that PPP might somehow be involved with processes becoming uninterruptible. Is anyone else experiencing these problems? -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Restoring NS/Intel Partition Date: 8 Feb 1997 03:50:25 GMT Organization: Petroleum and Geosystem Engineering, U of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dgt61$6j7@socony.pe.utexas.edu> Now that the replacement harddisk from Maxtor arrived (the previous one suddenly had many bad blocks in the Win95 partition in just under 3 months, but not on the Linux or NS/intel partition) I need to restore my NS/intel partition. Is there a way to restore the partition and extract from the backup tar file of the files without a clean reinstall ? I am not looking forward to clean install from the CD and then gnutar extract from the backup file to overwrite the new partition. The one that I'm looking for is a sequence similar to this: - boot with only essential files (non GUI) - fdisk and create the NS/i partition - mkfs that NS/i partition - mount the NS partition - gnutar xvf backup.tgz (restore the filesystem) to the mounted partition. Is it possible to do this ? Thanks for the pointers, Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org n5snn@mail.utexas.edu paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail: removing actual host from FROM:? Date: 8 Feb 1997 04:53:51 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5dh0sv$b5t@news.digifix.com> References: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5dgdfb$qji@nntp.Stanford.EDU> On 02/07/97, Stan Jirman wrote: >NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN > >When I send mail from my machine, it says "stanj@hostname.domain". This then >prompts people with some backwards mailers to reply directly to that host, >which so happens to be down most of the time. Short of adding a "Reply-To: >field, which gets disregarded anyway, how can I remove teh actual hostname >from the From: field? > >I know that one can tweak the sendmail.cf and make the mail appear to come >from a given host; the problem is that when several people are using the >machine, I still would like to keep the username flexible. Mail should >somehow appear to come from user@mailserver.domain or so. > What you need to do is set your sendmail to masquerade as the address you want on the right side of the asterisk. This is pretty easy with the current sendmail... -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702071813.NAA17821@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 901cffa767f1de9b11023c3387d4ee53 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 97 13:13:51 -0500 Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 901cffa767f1de9b11023c3387d4ee53 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch Original Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:10:30 GMT > At the moment I have to work a lot with tip and modems. tip hangs > quiet often and I don't know why. The problem is, I can't kill it > aftwards. Nothing works: ^C, kill, kill -9... So I have to reboot > and most of the time make a fsck for my 2.1GB disk. Not very > efficient... I'd suggest using 'kermit' rather than tip > So if this famous program could kill also this problem, I would > appreciate a lot if somebody could send it to me > (moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch); preferably fat (for Intel and m68k). If you're running 3.2 it might work. If you're running 3.3 it seems to panic the machine. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702071811.NAA17800@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 7d592ace34e44ddf889aa755c762f02f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Fri, 7 Feb 97 13:11:26 -0500 Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 7d592ace34e44ddf889aa755c762f02f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Original Date: 7 Feb 1997 00:49:30 GMT > I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything > installed fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 > GB disk. How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. Oldest trick in the NeXTStep world..... partition it into two 1-gig pieces TjL
From: Lars Immisch <immisch@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: Black Next 2.2 + Linux != networking? Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 16:38:19 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <32F9FAEB.2EA5@pobox.com> References: <5d94rq$bqr@cheyenne.iac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit J. Maynard Gelinas wrote: > > [comp.os.linux.networking included because of relevence] > > Hi, I've got an original 030 cube with the laser printer, several > Linux boxes, a Sparc, and a couple of windows boxes here on a 10base2 LAN. > I'm having trouble communicating between the NeXT and Linux boxes right > down to pings, but it's intermittant and only happens with the cube, not > the rest of the network. To make the topology clear, the cube is on one > end of the segment and one of the linux boxes in question is in the > middle. The cube can talk to a Windows box at the other end of the > segment, but not the linux box. The sparc can ping them all. > > Other issues: > > the cube won't read /etc/hosts for name resolution, even when I > force a /etc/resolv.conf with a order hosts, leaving out bind. When > hooking the unit up to the network I launched the netadmin tool and > specified a nonnetinfo network, this was the right thing to do but did I > miss something else that's also important? Or is NetInfo broken in such > an old NeXTStep? I just wiped SunOS because I was horrified at the libc > DNS resolver hack I had to do just for DNS lookups; Solaris *is* much > better. The NeXT documentation claimed NeXTStep supported DNS... were > they lying? /etc/hosts is never read. This information is in NetInfo - even if you (correctly) run a non NetInfo _network_, local information is still in there. Think of NetInfo as the Registry. Gash. Nah. Wrong. Think of the Registry as a NetInfo clone. > The PC is a SMP dual P-120 with a 16 bit Intel Ether Express > board. I've *never* had a problem hooking this box up to *any* network, > and I've moved it around into all kinds of mixed enviornments... I don't > suspect the machine. Intermittantly, the NeXT box will up and give up on > talking to my gateway, a 386 running linux with an IP_Masq enabled kernel > functioning as a firewall to the internal network. This *really* suggests > to me a cube problem, are they known to have hardware problems with BNC > networking? Could it be the OS? Do I need a patch - can I even get it? > Can this guy run a more recent copy of NeXTStep? At least the 3.x series? Hmmm. Hardware problems with Cube's seem to be not very common, cable problems are... I would exchange cables first. Some kind soul from c.s.n.s will certainly answer your question regarding 3.x on '30 hardware. I dunno. Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: kahlern@netdoor.com (NAK) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netware with openstep 4.0? Date: 8 Feb 1997 02:30:58 GMT Organization: UcoNects InterNetNews Server Message-ID: <5dgoh2$69f@news.uconect.net> References: <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In article <01bc14f8$531bb160$271f3bcb@giraudos.avon.net.au>, giraudos@avon.net.au says... > >The office network is run on novell netware. Does Netware that came with >the earlier NEXTSTEP come on OPENSTEP 4.0. I asked NEXT the same question when I got 4.0 and they responded by saying that NO it does not support Netware as the previous NEXTSTEP did and that they were not planning on adding any support. I might add, that you can find mentions of Netware in the help files, and this is probably due to the use of the same UI as in previous releases and the help files didn't get updated. Wish I could be a bit more positive. Norman Kahler kahlern@netdoor.com
From: lji@dnai.com (LEE JOHNSON INT'L) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OODB DBA/SysAdmin (will train RDBMS DBA) jobs in SF & NYC Date: 7 Feb 1997 19:21:25 GMT Organization: Lee Johnson Int'l Message-ID: <5dfvbl$q9q@jupiter.dnai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Keywords: Search Consultant Gemstone DBA/System Administrator San Francisco Bay Area and New York City Several of our Gemstone clients are starting to move from R&D to production environments and are finding they have a big hole that their databases are disappearing into due to lack of an experienced, detail-oriented, structured, and rigorous DBA/System Administrator. This lack is creating significant production problems and is at the heart of all of their problems. Our clients are willing to pay unbelievably high salaries for DBAs with an track-record of success and happy users. They want people who came up through System Administration or Operations and moved into Database Administration (preferably Gemstone) and are very meticulous, disaster preparation oriented, structured, rigorous, and sensitive to user needs. Our clients will consider exceptional RDBMS DBAs if they have some understanding of object technology and/or Smalltalk and are willing to learn OODBs. The typical Gemstone environment is two or three UNIX enterprise servers and 100-1000 NT clients. Production operations run only during the day. SEND RESUME TO: (in order of preferred mode) #1. Email to: lji@dnai.com #2. U.S. Mail to: Lee Johnson LEE JOHNSON INTERNATIONAL P.O. Box 817 Crockett, CA 94525 #3. FAX to 510-787-3191 USE HIGH-QUALITY MODE ("FINE") BACKGROUND OF THIS RECRUITING FIRM ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ LEE JOHNSON INTERNATIONAL is a small search firm established in 1974 specializing exclusively in employer-paid-fee recruiting and placement of Software Engineering professionals. We work in leading edge technologies such as object-oriented, connectivity, fuzzy logic, neural networks, distributed database internals, communications networking, optimizing compilers, programming environments, GUI, and multiprocessor OS. We operate on a one-to-one relationship with our client companies and candidates. In order to never overlook any skill set or person, we use an OCR system and full-text database software that indexes every word in a resume. When conducting a search, we query the database with a complex boolean search statement. If your resume is retrieved, we will contact you with a detailed description of the position, discuss the opportunity with you, and ask if you care to be presented as a candidate for the position. YOUR RESUME IS SECURE: The database resides on a stand-alone PC that is not connected to any network. WE NEVER RELEASE YOUR RESUME WITHOUT YOUR AUTHORIZATION.
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From: Patrick Gallagher <gallagher@uh.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 9 Feb 1997 00:45:16 GMT Organization: University of Houston Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dj6ms$o3o@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> In <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> Colin F. Allen wrote: > machine has been up about 18 hours now. I think my specific problem > may have been caused by a slight incompatiblity between host entries > in 3.0 netinfo and host entries in 4.0 netinfo. I noticed as soon as I think I might be able to corroborate that. I was chasing a slight DNS problem and made a modification to the /locations/resolver entry in netinfo. It had been panicing or locking irregularly prior to that, but after that it took manually copying in a virgin copy of the NetInfo databases from /usr/template to get the machine to run for more than 2 minutes or so. After doing this and recreating what was lost from the old version, I've not had any panics or locks. I believe the initial symptoms stemmed from a configuration problem which was fixed about the same time. This machine was a clean install of 4.1, not an upgrade. Also, a couple of additions to Scott's observation of telnet giving a bus error. I have found that most of the "basic network utilities" (i.e., telnet, rlogin, and finger in particular) will give this behavior. Rebooting does not seem to fix it, but it does come and go seemingly randomly. Here's the interesting bit: It only seems to occur when talking to 3.3 machines and specifically, it only seems to occur when talking to black 3.3 machines. This is not extremely well tested, so I'd like to hear your experiences. Finally, if I give the FQDN for the machine, followed by a period (like telling nslookup not to append the local domain to your request), the program will execute correctly as follows. Also, using the IP address instead of the hostname works. ----- ratbert> telnet somehost.uh.edu Bus error ratbert> telnet somehost.uh.edu. Trying 129.7.xx.xx... Connected to somehost.uh.edu. Escape character is '^]'. NeXT Mach (fisher) (ttyp0) Password: ----- Apparently something is broken in lookupd's DNS lookups? > : NeXT's lookupd author told me that a pretty > : unusual sequence of events must occur for a crash, but that the problem is > : understood and should be fixed in a future release. > > Can't wait ;-) Yes. Will be nice. Any prospective release dates for 4.2? Maybe a patch? PG -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Gallagher <Gallagher@uh.edu> (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is more to life than increasing its speed." -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Wolfgang Hukriede <whukriede@ifm.uni-kiel.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: find dead symbolic links ? Date: 9 Feb 1997 01:39:22 GMT Organization: IfM Kiel Message-ID: <5dj9sa$act@gutemine.informatik.uni-kiel.de> References: <854169667.15651@dejanews.com> <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> <5d5gu5$7ak@usc.edu> In <E4Kow8.3E7@mediahaus.de> Piers Uso Walter wrote: > If you can use Perl, that's easy. > Take a look at the File::Find.pm module. Or use the z-shell. for i in **/*(@); do [[ -a $i ]] || echo $i: dead link; done Where `**/' does recursive directory search, `@' matches symbolic links and "-a" tests for file existence. Greetings, Wolfgang.
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 7 Feb 1997 04:05:51 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5de9mv$m4j@news.tamu.edu> References: <5d7qou$nct@news.tamu.edu> <5d8uhk$s8o@dfw-ixnews10.ix.netcom.com> <5da8fr$i8o@news.tamu.edu> <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <5ddggs$5va@news.tamu.edu> <5ddm59$sqp@news.digifix.com> <5de9i5$m4j@news.tamu.edu> Colin F. Allen (colin@scully.tamu.edu) wrote: : So far so good, but, of course, this is still speculation: however, : the machine has not been up for 25 hours without a crash and hope ^ Typo! It has *now* been up for 25 hours... -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702081932.OAA28009@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Sat, 8 Feb 97 14:32:18 -0500 Subject: SUBMISSION: Patched rlogin source? -- Re: CERT Advisory CA-97.06 - Vulnerability in rlogin/term Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Persuant to "distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler)"'s post about the rlogin source code, I have compiled the code at <http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/rlogin.tar.gz> It has been tested under m68k and HPPA. Use at your own risk. The quadfat version is now at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.tar.gz and linked to: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/rlogin.FreeBSD2.2.NIHS.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL!
From: Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo pros and cons if turned off Date: 08 Feb 1997 20:14:02 -0500 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <m2d8ua2339.fsf@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I just got a NeXT slab and installed 3.3 on it but the thing is that it is the only NeXT in the department so it seems to me too much of a trouble to get into the intrinsics of the OS if none of its functionality is actulally used ... many of the man pages have ads stating that file so-and-so is to be ignored if NetInfo is running etc. One that buggs me most is /etc/printcap: i do not have a NeXT printer but a network printer and have been unsuccessful in installing it as a "HP JetDirect" printer. I really want to use this machine as a unix machine, so I would like to hear experiences, good and bad, relating to turning off NetInfo. I do not yet know the power of NeXT OS so feel free to give some advice. Thanks. nick -- B. N. Bondoc pager: 514 - 930 - 1385 ===================================================== office addr: Ernest Rutherford Physics Building Physics Department, McGill University 3600 University Street, Room 223 Montreal, PQ, Canada, H3A 2T8 phone: 514 - 398 - 5938 fax: 514 - 398 - 7022 =====================================================
From: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 8 Feb 1997 15:18:13 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5di5fl$j5d$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> References: <199702071811.NAA17800@nerc.com> Keywords: 2GB, format, install In article <199702071811.NAA17800@nerc.com> writes: ->Responding To: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu (john stanhope) ->Original Date: 7 Feb 1997 00:49:30 GMT -> -> ->> I am trying to use a 2GB disk as my boot disk and everything ->> installed fine but when I login the system tells me I only have a 1 ->> GB disk. How do I format the disk to get all the space? Thanks. -> ->Oldest trick in the NeXTStep world..... -> ->partition it into two 1-gig pieces -> I would just like to follow up this my saying that when I installed NS 3.3 on the new disk it had created 2 partitions for me, 1GB, each but never bothered to tell me. Three cheers to Carl Lowenstein who had the solution to merely check for the other partition with df and then add an entry to /etc/fstab so that on the next boot the partition appeared. -- John Stanhope jehu@vt.edu
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 9 Feb 1997 00:50:41 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on my LAN... whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to the innd server port (119) some kind of network activity occurs which causes the router to dial out on the WAN. Any ideas where I can start looking to figure out what innd is looking for on the WAN? Some more configuration details: I'm running OpenStep/Mach 4.1 on the machine running the newsserver. The router managing the WAN connection is an Ascend Pipeline 50. I have a 3 bit subnet assigned for my machines and everything else seems to be configured correctly so that LAN traffic does NOT bring up the WAN connection except in this one case. Telnetting to port 119 on the newsserver machine results in the WAN activity - telnetting to other ports on the newsserver machine does not cause this behavior. I expected this might be some sort of lookupd/DNS problem (the DNS server is on the other side of the WAN connection) but setting ValidateCache NO for lookupd using NetInfo did not have any effect. Any suggestions of solutions or a better forum to ask for advice would be appreciated. - Chris -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 9 Feb 1997 12:54:38 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5dkhee$241@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> Organisation: RRR cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) wrote: > I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on > my LAN... whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to > the innd server port (119) some kind of network activity occurs > which causes the router to dial out on the WAN. Any ideas where > I can start looking to figure out what innd is looking for on > the WAN? INN, or better said innrpd does a gethostbyaddr on the ip-number when a client connects to it. This can be disabled by changing the NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR to DONT in the inn config.data. But you have to recompile. Maybe puting the clients hostname in NetInfo on the INN server host will solve the problem. ciao Bastian -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:39:36 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> In-Reply-To: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Feb-97 PersonalINN/innd - why does.. by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar > I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on my LAN... > whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to the innd server port > (119) some kind of network activity occurs which causes the router to dial > out on the WAN. Any ideas where I can start looking to figure out what > innd is looking for on the WAN? It's doing a DNS lookup, most likely. You can look at 'netstat' to see what's going on, or capture the packets and take a look. > I expected this might be some sort of lookupd/DNS problem (the DNS server > is on the other side of the WAN connection) but setting ValidateCache NO > for lookupd using NetInfo did not have any effect. That probably wouldn't matter, I think. I seem to recall that INN does DNS queries directly and maintains it's own internal cache of DNS information instead of depending on the local resolver routines, so changing lookupd's behvaior won't matter. The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: kpompei@xmission.com (Kevin Pompei) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printinf from OS 4.1 to HP 4ML Date: Sun, 9 Feb 1997 16:23:52 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <MPG.d680a72422c2266989681@news.xmission.com> I just installed OpenStep/Mach/Intel 4.1 and am having trouble printing to a HP LaserJet 4ML. First of all I know the hardware is setup correctly because everything works fine from Windows. I setup the printer in Print Manager using the provided PPD. When I go to print the light on the printer light up as if it is processing data, but then it just stays in this state indefinitely. Eventually I have to cancel the job in the print que. I used to use this same printer with NS 3.1/Intel and it worked fine. I've also tried using other PPD's including ones for similar but different printers. All of them behaved in the same way. Also, the parallel port appears to be setup with no conflicts (like I said before it works fine with Windows). Any ideas? Thanks, Kevin Pompei
From: EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de (Thomas Richter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing Problems with HP LaserJet 5MP Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 14:55:29 GMT Organization: Landesamt fuer archaeologische Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt) Message-ID: <5dkrq7$o5s@news.Dortmund.Germany.EU.net> Hi, we use tow HP LaserJet 5MP printers in our office with external HP network adaptors. Often the printer "eats" print jobs, the printer gets the job, but doesn´t print it. Turning the printer off and on and resend the job prints the job fine. This problem occurs with print jobs from NEXTSTEP and Windows machines. I tested different PPD, but tit doesn´t solve the problem. Thanks for any help Thomas Thomas Richter, Landesamt fuer archaeologische Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 20:26:25 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. I've tried each of the SB drivers and none of them work. Does anyone know how to get this to work. --gh
From: john@getafix.demon.co.uk (John Shirlaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lpr and enscript Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 22:14:12 GMT Message-ID: <855526452.24994.0@getafix.demon.co.uk> Hi, if I use lpr to send a file to a printer it apears to automatically pass the file through enscript. is there a way to stop this happening, and simply send the file directly to the printer. For note the printer is hung off the ethernet port via a JetDirect box. Thanks for the help john.
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Slow NFS transfer between PC and NeXT Date: 10 Feb 1997 07:50:35 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5dmk0b$3ia@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I have my 25MHz NeXTcube and my P6 connected together with Thinnet. With this, I am experiencing really strange phenomena: When I transfer files from one to the other by drag & drop, through the Net folder for instance, the progress pie often stops for a while, or the process even gets aborted. The NeXT prints messages like "server [PC] not responding". During the (rare) time when it's running it's really fast. With the default NFS settings, 8KB buffers etc., I can't transfer a single MB over to my NeXT. One person advised me to lower the buffers to 1KB, and now I can transfer even 7MB files, after maybe 5 minutes or so. NFS timeout 1s, 5 retries. Interestingly, when I create a connection by ftp between the two machines, I get transfer rates around 300KB/s, both ways. When connected to the "outer world", the NeXT has transfer rates of up to 200KB/s, the PC about 50KB/s. The P6 has an Adaptec PCI Ether combo board. The cables are fine, it's cable-independent. The Cube is running 4.0, the PC is running 4.1 and 3.3 -- with same problems. Any ideas? Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 10 Feb 1997 07:00:06 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5dmh1m$1on@vader.WolfWare.com> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> On 02/08/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Feb-97 PersonalINN/innd >- why does.. by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar >> I'm using the PersonalINN package to run a small NNTP server on my LAN... >> whenever a client on the LAN attempts to connect to the innd server port >> (119) some kind of network activity occurs which causes the router to dial >> out on the WAN. Any ideas where I can start looking to figure out what >> innd is looking for on the WAN? > >I seem to recall that INN does >DNS queries directly and maintains it's own internal cache of DNS >information instead of depending on the local resolver routines, so >changing lookupd's behvaior won't matter. > >The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on >the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. Setting up a local nameserver solved the problm. Thanks. - Chris -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 10 Feb 97 08:22:17 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Feb10082217@slave.one.net> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> In-reply-to: dave@prim.demon.co.uk's message of Sun, 9 Feb 1997 10:53:07 GMT In article <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk>, dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) writes: In article <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: >I've posted a copy of tcl7.6 modified to compile under NeXTSTEP3.3 >to my home page. Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? I've had it running under Xnext, but no NeXTSTEP, yet. Last time I looked (tk4.1, I think), it looked like it was just too X11-based. Essentially, you'd have to write an emulator translating X11 calls into NeXTSTEP calls, and I really didn't want to get involved with that. Besides, I'd much rather have native "widgets". I don't want to see 12-pixel borders on my buttons, even if the script author wanted them! That might be a more useful port, but it would probably also take somewhat longer than an X11 emulation. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell>
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From: pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 10 Feb 1997 15:00:42 GMT Organization: MLab,Dep. of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy Message-ID: <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. Now I want to upgrade it to 1.2.17 but when I try to compile it I receive this error: rsa.c: In function `rsa_random_prime': rsa.c:302: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `mpz_mod_inverse': rsa.c:353: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c:363: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `derive_rsa_keys': rsa.c:410: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c:431: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `rsa_generate_key': rsa.c:531: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' *** Exit 1 Stop. Anyone know how to fix it ??? Tnx in advance !!!
From: january@december.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 10 Feb 1997 14:14:20 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Control: cancel <5dnafs$1eh@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Mon Feb 10 17:08:36 1997 Original subject was: CD-R Media for Sale at Good Prices
From: rfu@ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named for nextstep ? Date: 10 Feb 1997 17:39:41 GMT Organization: Butterfly Liberation Front Message-ID: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> Hi ! We need to set up our nextstation/68k running mach 3.3 as nameserver, but there is no named pre-installed. I tried to compile the BSD named source, but I didn't succeed. Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or compilable code ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Fuegenstein rfu@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I got some problems, too, three of 'em. I didn't have 'em, this morning. I guess that's just the way life is, sometimes" (William Gibson, from "Count Zero") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CHAP & PPP Date: 10 Feb 1997 16:37:05 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5dnirh$1tbn@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <32FB279C.2892@ubs.ch> Anton Sieber <anton.sieber@ubs.ch> wrote: >I installed PPP. My pppup -script can connect to my provider. But then >communikation stops because my ppp/configuration knows only PAP >authentifikation. But authedtification at my provider runs only with >CHAP ! >Is it possible for me to connect with CHAP ? How ? Yes, your PPP software supports both PAP and CHAP authentication. Try: "man pppd" :-) As far as I remember, simply have to provide the correct passwd files in /etc/ppp. Best wishes, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: Bill Mitchell <bill.mitchell@mercyic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT ?s Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:30:51 -0600 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <32FF695B.309D@mercyic.com> References: <32FB62E7.6470@mercyic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks to all who answered my request for help. What a great group. More responses and helpful hints than any other group from which I read and/or post. I know my NeXT Cube has already been worth the investment:-) Bill Mitchell
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named for nextstep ? Date: 10 Feb 1997 19:27:38 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5dnsrb$70p@news.next.com> References: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> In article <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> rfu@ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) writes: # #We need to set up our nextstation/68k running mach 3.3 as nameserver, #but there is no named pre-installed. I tried to compile the BSD named #source,but I didn't succeed. # #Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or #compilable code ? Huh? What do you call /usr/etc/named? Joe
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named for nextstep ? Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 18:23:26 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YmzuriO00iV8Q9=XIa@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> In-Reply-To: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Feb-97 named for nextstep ? by Rainer Fuegenstein@ping. > We need to set up our nextstation/68k running mach 3.3 as nameserver, but > there is no named pre-installed. What about /usr/etc/named? It should be version 4.8.3, which is a very stable although slightly outdated version. > I tried to compile the BSD named source, but I didn't succeed. Hmm. BIND-4.9.x should compile pretty much as-is if you simply follow the directions. > Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or > compilable code ? You can check the standard NeXT FTP sites. RTFAQ. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: .netrc & crontab Date: 10 Feb 1997 23:43:31 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5dobr3$kf7@library.airnews.net> References: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Cc: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu [Posted and Mailed] In <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble setting up > * cron jobs > * ftp permissions via .netrc > ... > 1. After a thorough reading of the man pages for cron/crontab, it appears > that there is a master file that contains all cron job entries. I would > prefer to have a cronjob file that is user specific. Is this possible? You can get Paul Vixie's Cron from peak or peanuts, it gives you the SYSV crontab features you're looking for. You might want to search other archives for the latest versions though, the one on peak is compiled for NS2.1. (Caveat: I've never used it.) > 2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I > have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, > usernames, and passwords, > > machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD I just checked, ftp works fine with .netrc on my NS3.3. Where exactly did your ftp session with .netrc fail? liuyi
From: adt@dsi.bc.ca (Andrew Tuline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot problem, how to interrupt & fix my mistake Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 21:16:15 GMT Organization: Dynapro Message-ID: <5do3bs$3k5@wolfe.wimsey.com> In the file /etc/hostconfig, I modified the YPDOMAIN entry to 'NO' instead of '-NO-' in our NeXT workstation and can't boot the workstation. Since we don't have docs, and the NeXT experts have all left our company, I ask the question: How to interrupt the boot process and modify the /etc/hostconfig file.
From: Stephen Peters <speters@cygnus.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 10 Feb 1997 11:51:07 -0800 Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <qd914wigno.fsf@blues.cygnus.com> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> <SHESS.97Feb10082217@slave.one.net> shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? > > I've had it running under Xnext, but no NeXTSTEP, yet. Last time I > looked (tk4.1, I think), it looked like it was just too X11-based. > Essentially, you'd have to write an emulator translating X11 calls > into NeXTSTEP calls, and I really didn't want to get involved with > that. > > Besides, I'd much rather have native "widgets". I don't want to see > 12-pixel borders on my buttons, even if the script author wanted them! > That might be a more useful port, but it would probably also take > somewhat longer than an X11 emulation. The Tk8.0 release seems to be focusing a bit more on providing the ability to use native buttons, menus, scrollbars, and font designations. I've been toying with the idea of trying to do a NeXTSTEP/OpenStep port, but it's still kind of low on my to-do list :-) -- Stephen L. Peters speters@cygnus.com PGP fingerprint: BFA4 D0CF 8925 08AE 0CA5 CCDD 343D 6AC6 "What, do you think soup is a biped?" -- Crow, MST3K
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: .netrc & crontab Date: 10 Feb 1997 19:31:51 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL Message-ID: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> I'm having a bit of trouble setting up * cron jobs * ftp permissions via .netrc My knowledge of these subjects is based on use of SunOS and HP-UX. That information does not seem to apply in the same way with NS 3.3. Questions: 1. After a thorough reading of the man pages for cron/crontab, it appears that there is a master file that contains all cron job entries. I would prefer to have a cronjob file that is user specific. Is this possible? 2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, usernames, and passwords, machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD It appears that this file does not send the login and password tokens to the remote machine. In fact, I'm not sure it is even being used. What is the correct procedure for this task? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ncar.ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: joel mayes <jmayes@peop.tdsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syquest drives on black Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:28:22 -0600 Organization: TDS Telecom - Madison, WI Message-ID: <32FFA106.76BC@peop.tdsnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have read where the syquest ez135 and flyer230 disk drives work plug and play on next black systems. But can these drives on black systems read files from cartridges written on a windows 95 system? Also can windows 95 systems read files written on the next ?
From: leivian@axon.sps.mot.com (Bob Leivian) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pop mail help. Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:23:13 GMT Organization: Semiconductor Products Sector Message-ID: <5do74h$12g2@newsgate.sps.mot.com> References: <cward-0502972010100001@adnline1313.adnc.com> cward@adnc.com wrote: >Pop Over will retrieve beautifully. >How do I send? add a host with HostManager called 'mailhost' with the ip address of whatever machine on the dialed in net can handle mail the 'out of the box' sendmail will then send the mail along its way -Bob -- Bob Leivian leivian@axon.sps.mot.com Data Extraction Systems Lab (602) 413-5117 2100 E. Elliot MD EL508 Tempe, AZ 85284
From: bomb@localhost.erols.com (Scott Turner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Opener v3.3(Mac Files) Date: 11 Feb 1997 05:11:21 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5dov1p$c67@boursy.news.erols.com> Is there any way to get opener.app to open the macintosh bin.hex compression format while leaving the file as a single binary, instead of three files : xxxx.sea.data xxxx.sea.info xxxx.sea.rsrc I 've seen a post on this before, but can't remember the solution. Scott Turner FirstSight Inc. http://www.1stsight.com vision@1stsight.com
From: mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT in heterogeneous net Date: 10 Feb 1997 16:22:19 -0800 Organization: Miskatonic University Department of Classics Message-ID: <5doe3r$nng@crl.crl.com> I've got a new Intel NeXT box that I need to plug into the rest of the network. Everything else is using NIS and the automounter, so I need to conform to that. 1. How do I get the bloody thing to use NIS for passwds instead of netinfo? It seems to be recognizing hosts OK, but not the passwd map. I dumped the yp passwd map and loaded it into netinfo, but that doesn't seem like a very good solution. 2. We've got home directories set up to automount, eg, /home/foo/blogs, /home/bar/schmo. How do I do the same thing here? -- Don McGregor | Mistakes were made. mcgredo@crl.com |
From: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.python Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Date: 11 Feb 97 06:52:15 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.97Feb11065215@fisher.psych.uh.edu> References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> <SHESS.97Feb10082217@slave.one.net> <qd914wigno.fsf@blues.cygnus.com> In-reply-to: Stephen Peters's message of 10 Feb 1997 11:51:07 -0800 Greetings! shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? > > I've had it running under Xnext, but no NeXTSTEP, yet. Last time I > looked (tk4.1, I think), it looked like it was just too X11-based. > Essentially, you'd have to write an emulator translating X11 calls > into NeXTSTEP calls, and I really didn't want to get involved with > that. > > Besides, I'd much rather have native "widgets". I don't want to see > 12-pixel borders on my buttons, even if the script author wanted them! > That might be a more useful port, but it would probably also take > somewhat longer than an X11 emulation. The Tk8.0 release seems to be focusing a bit more on providing the ability to use native buttons, menus, scrollbars, and font designations. I've been toying with the idea of trying to do a NeXTSTEP/OpenStep port, but it's still kind of low on my to-do list :-) That sounds very cool -- would allow for Python-based GUI development on the NeXT! Keeping in mind I haven't delved into Tk much beyond Python's tkinter, how difficult would it be to emulate Tk's worldview in native NeXTSTEP? I don't mean at the X11 call level necessarily, but just below the Tk interface, with definiting buttons, packing them, etc... Hmm... Michael B. Johnson did some excellent work with Tcl/NeXTSTEP integration at the Media Lab, I guess I should look at that again. :-) (For the curious, it also involved RenderMan-Tcl bindings, URL: http://wave.www.media.mit.edu/people/wave/ ) More later, Jason Asbahr 808 Sul Ross Suite 7 Reactive Systems Houston, Texas 77006 jason@reactive.com (713) 942-7937 voice
From: mattw@staff.uiuc.edu (Matt Ward) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TFTPD question, can I have tftp access logged to the console? Date: 10 Feb 1997 23:06:33 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Distribution: na Message-ID: <5do9lp$g0l@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Summary: TFTPD: Can I have realtime access logged to the console window? Keywords: tftpd I am running tftpd on a black box with 3.3 and I would like to see realtime accesses occur, is that possible? Maybe even have them appear on the console window. Thanks -- Matt Ward mattw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinios CCSO
From: svenifer@snet.net(Sven Crouse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mounting partitions Date: 11 Feb 1997 00:30:19 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5doeir$ekp@goofy.snet.net> References: <32FE7FDD.68D8@smart.net> In-Reply-To: <32FE7FDD.68D8@smart.net> On 02/09/97, gh@smart.net wrote: >I have created 4 partitions with the following on each: >1. OPENSTEP 4.0 >2. Linux swap partition >3. Red Hat Linux 4.0 >4. A directory I need to access from both Linux and OPENSTEP. > >The fourth partition is currently a Linux file system, >however OPENSTEP does not recognize it. I have downloaded >the utility 'vmount', but there are no instructions on >what to do with it. I have placed it in the /usr/bin >directory and executed the command vmount, but that does >not seem to be the solution. So, here are my questions; > >How do I set up vmount correctly? >Which file system should be placed on the 4th partition? >Would simply labelling the second partition 'swapdisk' >allow OPENSTEP to use it as a swap disk? If so, where >should it be mounted? >And, how do I get the OS to mount a Win95 disk as vfat >instead of DOS? > >--gh > The following is Christian Starkjohann's (creator of vmount) response to a question much like yours: <Christian speaks> You don't need to do something with NFS yourself. You don't even need to know that NFS is involved with vmount, it's just how it works internally. If you have the ext2 partition on your root drive, which (I assume) should be /dev/rsd0h, you can try the command vmount -m /mount-point -p2 -t ext2 -w /dev/rsd0h The option -p2 means that vmount should look at the second primary partition for the ext2 filesystem. If it is an other partition, change the option appropriately. The option -w means that you allow vmount to write to your disk. If you don't trust it enough, just omit the -w option. If you want to find out the name of your root device, type 'mount' in a terminal window. On my machine I get among others the line: /dev/sd0a on / type 4.3 (rw,noquota,noauto) which means that /dev/sd0a is mounted as root directory. vmount uses the associated raw device for the disk and that is /dev/rsd0h. For /dev/hd0a it would be /dev/rhd0h, I think. <Christian stops speaking> Hope that helps. Sven
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot problem: missing EISA kernel bus class Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 09:49:21 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <330086F1.1577@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am using OPENSTEP 4.0. I get the following error message when I boot: System panic Missing EISA kernel bus class (Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor) The screen then freezes. To give some background, I use a boot floppy since the OS is on a SCSI drive and Win95 is on an IDE drive. I did not have my 4.0 installation floppy around, so I used an old 3.2 installation to boot. It did not work, so I hunted down the 4.0 floppy and rebooted the system. I then encountered the above problem. I was able to reboot the system by setting config=Default. I resaved the configuration and tried rebooting but got the same result. Any help would be appreciated. --Greg
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:41:45 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5dq0f9$e8s@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) writes: > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > Now I want to upgrade it to 1.2.17 but when I try to compile it > I receive this error: Not too long ago, I built v 1.2.16 and uploaded to ftp.next.peak.org. You're welcome to use IT, unless there is some important feature in v.17 that's not in v.16. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: .netrc & crontab Date: 11 Feb 1997 00:05:11 GMT Organization: NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5dod3n$ck$1@newncar.ucar.edu> References: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> In article <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu>, David Blanchard <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu> wrote: (I wrote....) >2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I >have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, >usernames, and passwords, > > machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD > >It appears that this file does not send the login and password tokens >to the remote machine. In fact, I'm not sure it is even being used. >What is the correct procedure for this task? Problem solved. The problem is that I defined the remote host as A.B.C.D, but I referred to it simply as "A" because it is within the local domain. Using the fully qualified domain name makes everything work correctly. -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the most out of 2 GB drive? Date: 11 Feb 1997 03:56:02 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Distribution: world Message-ID: <5doqki$pu8@kanga.accessone.com> References: <5ddu6q$6tk$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <5dfmhn$g81$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Cc: jehu@jehu.async.vt.edu In <5dfmhn$g81$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> john stanhope wrote: > After a little research I think I have a solution but may need a little > guidance. Since the 2GB drive is the boot disk I need to boot off the CDROM > and format the disk from there, then somehow, I need to setup a disktab > entry for before (?) I install NS. How can I make this happen? After > reformatting the disk can I do a half installation, just enough to set up > the disktab? If you install from CDROM, it will do all of that for you; it even handles additional drives for mounting. The installation process allows you to specify how much of the disk want for the boot partition. If "all of the disk" is seen as only 1GB, then you may need to make sure that your motherboard is configured to work with >1GB partitions. On my old 486 EISA, I had to specifically set this. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syquest drives on black Date: 11 Feb 1997 14:43:15 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5dq0i3$e91@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <32FFA106.76BC@peop.tdsnet.com> In article <32FFA106.76BC@peop.tdsnet.com> joel mayes <jmayes@peop.tdsnet.com> writes: > I have read where the syquest ez135 and flyer230 disk drives > work plug and play on next black systems. But can these drives > on black systems read files from cartridges written on a windows 95 > system? Also can windows 95 systems read files written on the next ? Yes. Same drive, same data, same result. PnP. They are pretty nice. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named for nextstep ? Date: 10 Feb 1997 22:42:48 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5do898$crs@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> In article <5dnmgt$68g@news.Austria.EU.net> rfu@ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) writes: > Does anybody know where to get a pre-compiled nameserver suite or > compilable code ? Find v4.9.4P1 at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ Somewhere. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: asmash@mail2.sas.upenn.edu (Adam Smash) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Corrupted Netinfo Database Date: 11 Feb 1997 17:19:18 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5dq9mm$kak@netnews.upenn.edu> One of my users apparently corrupted his Netinfo database with SimpleNetworkStarter.app. The results being that the machine hangs at the login panel after something is typed in. I plan to rebuild his netinfo database from scratch by copying from /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo. I would like to attempt to extract the passwd table and various others from the corrupted netinfo database. The problem is that I can't nidump from the corrupted database because it is not running a netinfod, etc..., and these utilities won't attach. I thought I saw something awhile back that NetInfoManager now allowed you to specify the filesystem directory of a netinfo database, and you could view this database without it actually running a netinfod, being bound, etc.... This would solve my problem nicely except NetInfoManager 3.3 does not seem to have this feature. Any other possible solutions? BTW, is there still a next-managers mailing list? I tried mailing to next-managers@stolaf.edu but got bounced. -adam
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 11 Feb 1997 08:39:21 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (FinalNews for NeXTstep; experimental 0.02) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Charles William Swiger wrote in <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> on 1997-02-09 16:39:36 +0100: > The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on > the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. Yes, but the nameserver will check regularly with another nameserver and so a connecting will be made. Isn't there another way to solve this problem? I exchange my news via uucp with a certain server. Why is it necessary for inn to contact a DNS every time I post news? Can't I tell inn just to forget about calling a DNS? Right now I deaktivated my nameserver entry in resolv.conf and inn works just fine. So the DNS lookup isn't really needed. But this solution is a bad one. So I hope someone has a better one. --- _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TCL for NeXT (HELP) Message-ID: <1997Feb11.142706.47358@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 11 Feb 97 14:27:06 MET References: <32EEA76D.41C67EA6@oar.net> <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> <1997Feb9.105307.1337@prim.demon.co.uk> dave@prim.demon.co.uk (Dave Griffiths) wrote: > In article <SHESS.97Jan29095304@howard.one.net> shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: > > > >I've posted a copy of tcl7.6 modified to compile under NeXTSTEP3.3 to > >my home page. > > Has anyone ported Tk to NeXTStep? > > Dave > If I properly recall, yes. Some company (of which I of course don't have the name anymore) once did something like TK (ObjectTK?) and sold it commercially. Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: need PPD file for HP LaserJet 5M Date: 11 Feb 1997 21:41:01 GMT Organization: The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Message-ID: <5dqp1d$gn7@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: PPD, HP, LJ5M Hi, I am running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on black hardware and I have an HP LaserJet 5M printer connected via 10baseT to our network. I have a PPD file for the 5MP, which seems to work for some things, but I am having a few problems and I thought that perhaps using the correct PPD would clear these up. I went to the Adobe site, but I could not find the UNIX PPD file for the LaserJet 5M (only the Mac and Windows versions). Can I use either of these? The problem I'm having is that when I bring up the print panel and ask for 2 copies of a document, I only get one copy. Also, if I submit 2 print jobs, one immediately after the other, only one prints. Have others had these problems? Do you think the correct PPD file will solve these problems? Thanks in advance for any help. Bye, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT Boot Loader loading NS3.3 ? Date: 12 Feb 1997 01:17:25 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5dr5n5$8i1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Anyone manage to load NS3.3 on different partition using NT Boot Loader? If yes, please give me pointer how to do it. Thanks!! kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: "Mark Jenkins" <markj@inwave.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot problem: missing EISA kernel bus class Date: 11 Feb 97 22:57:10 -0600 Message-ID: <AF26A9CF-48D7E@206.101.238.13> References: <330086F1.1577@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tue, Feb 11, 1997 8:49 AM, gh@smart.net <mailto:gh@smart.net> wrote: >I am using OPENSTEP 4.0. I get the following error >message when I boot: > >System panic >Missing EISA kernel bus class >(Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor) I had the same problem after a "clean" install. Apparently I had selected the wrong option for the SCSI controller by mistake during the install process. After the initial "text based" install procedure the second half of the install would not come up due to this error. Nothing I did would correct the problem. config=Default would not even work! :-( It would not even let me type the 'r' to reboot or the 'm' for monitor. Now, this does not mean that someone else might might not have a solution as I am am complete newbie to OPENSTEP and UNIX. I re-installed, this time being very careful to select the correct options and everything is fine. Mark markj@inwave.com
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 22:56:24 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> In-Reply-To: <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Feb-97 Re: PersonalINN/innd - why .. by Juergen Grieb@eskimo.bb. >> The best solution is too set up a nameserver on this side of the WAN; on >> the NNTP server by preference unless it's too heavily loaded. > > Yes, but the nameserver will check regularly with another nameserver > and so a connecting will be made. That depends. For example, you can set up the local nameserver to be authoritative for the DNS information it uses most if that infomation is in your zones (which is likely to be the case for a newsserver on a LAN without a permenent link to the Internet). Furthermore, if you can control your link so that it's not brought up for DNS traffic, the local nameserver will return previously cached information for what is normally a fairly long time [the expiration TTL is controlled in the SOA record, just like the other TTLs]. > Isn't there another way to solve this problem? You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Newbie NeXT Admin:The NeXT Chapter. Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-1202970004250001@host034.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 05:04:25 GMT Hi there remmber me? When we last left our hopeful hero.... OH, never mind that. :) I've got got my Turbo Color Slab up and running and being more brave than sensible went ahead and plugged it into Ethernet LAN (mostly Mac-based 10basedT) I even got the Novell client (novell queue printing as well). working although I am a bit annoyed to see that the NeXT is seeing the files through the DOS namespace. (The server has DOS, MAC, and OS2 namespaces and I think NFS is also avvailable.) I'd like to see full names but that's relatively trivial compared to my main needs.) So far my total experience with the NeXT OS is measured in hours, but I seem to have a full 3.3 install up and running. The machine is configured with 80 megs of RAM and a 2 gig Seagate. (another strange item there. The installer recognised that I was only taking up 300 megs of a 2010 megabute drive, but the browser only reports about 745 megs free. does it only recognise 1 gig? It was originally formatted Mac and I simply went along with the defaults during the installation. Also I have to set up mailservice for a few macs and 1 SCO Unix station that has about 12 users on it that will be depending on the NeXT for mail service. I also need to know what kind of security I should enable for this beast. I do need/want to be able to telnet to it from home so I can do some administration stuff offsite. Back to that SCO station, right now the sales folks are gritting their teetch with those amber character-based terminals. My boss is thinking about picking up some mono slabs to replace them. I'd need to find wordprocessing software. (we currently use WordPerfect on the SCO and I'd like to get the NeXT incarnation of that if possible, or just a good wordprocessor.) Has always, your input is greatly appreciated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Printing from NT to NeXTprinter? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 12 Feb 1997 06:30:51 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5dro2r$fcq@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hi, I have a PC running NT4.0 and OpenStep connected to my good old cube, and would like to use this old buddy as a print server. This works so far that I get the test page to print, as well as any one-page documents (I chose one of the Canon printers). The problem is that if I am printing any >1 page docs, only the last page (i.e., only the 1st printed page) comes out -- then, game over, NeXT stops due to a no further specified PS error. Someone got it working? Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Timeouts Date: 12 Feb 1997 06:43:15 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <5droq3$p0q@hermes.is.co.za> We have recently trying to switch our 10MB network over to a 100MB network. We are using the SMC9332 Cards and we are using the DEC Chip 21140 Drivers for these cards. When we used these cards as 10MB cards everything on the network was fine. We then changed the network to be 100MB by replacing our cables and HUB. On our Intel boxes we merely changed the driver for the card from the SMC9332 10MB Driver to the SMC9332 100MB Drivers. When we now start up any client machine, the machine consistantly times out on netinfo. We even connected the master machine directly to the client machine with a null cable and the same problem continued to exist. An Ftp of 200K from the client to the Master machine takes about 10 Minutes to get through. What did we do wrong? Is there any pointers that might help us in determining the problem? Should NetInfo be setup differently for 100MB versus 10MB networks? Any help will be appreciated. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org (Thomas Engel) Subject: Re: Blank screen on bootup Message-ID: <E5HKsv.D4@shinto.nbg.sub.org> Sender: news@shinto.nbg.sub.org Organization: STEPeople's home (A NUGI member) References: <32FC07A9.BC0@erols.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:50:54 GMT gbh@erols.com wrote: > I am using OPENSTEP 4.0 on an Intel machine. > I installed a driver for my display card, S3ViRGE, > and set it to 1024x768 at 85MHz. When I reboot the > machine I get a blank screen after it finishes the > boot process. I don't know why, maybe my monitor > does not support that frequency. > > In any case, first, what command can I give to shutdown > the computer? I am literally in the dark because I can't > see anything on the screen. And second, how do I boot > with the default settings so I can try other display > settings with my driver? I am using a boot floppy, at > the boot prompt, I have tried 'sd()mach_kernel config=default'. > I get some kind of error message and a return to the > boot prompt. I have also tried 'sd()mach_kernel display=default'. > It continues to boot afterwards, but still comes up with a > blank screen. > While someone suggested that it the window driver try to following: If you do the suggested "Press the left alt key and the numlock key simultaneously" and are actually able to see(!) the NMI Monitor then you have one of these strange situations I was not really able to understand myself. In this case it usually did happen that your machine could not connect to the window server ! For me this was a problem with certain drivers or a messed up installation. A reinstall often solved this problem. But if for some strange reasons your "network" configuration is messed up (like localhost not defined or that like) then it migh cause this problem too. It seems like the Mach ports to the Window Server fail ue to the confused network/naming infos. I sorry that this is not very specific....but maybe i will help you. Aloha Tomi
From: Gaston Groisman <gaston@rionet.rionegro.com.ar> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System crash Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 10:34:06 -0300 Organization: Wandel & Goltermann Technologies Message-ID: <3301C6CE.1AFB@rionet.rionegro.com.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry to intrude but I need help. My NextStatio crashed and now it reports problems with the OS. I can boot but the accounts are broken, printing doesn't work, etc. I am willing to trash the stuff on the disk and start anew but don't know how. I have the OS on CD. Can someone tell me how to proceed? Thank you, Gaston Groisman gaston@rionet.rionegro.com.ar
From: markfr@markfr (Mark Frank) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for Lexmark printer? Date: 12 Feb 1997 17:30:15 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA Message-ID: <5dsun7$mmo@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> I can't find a PPD for a Lexmark Optra Lxi printer at the Adobe site. Does anyone know what other ppd I can use? - Thanks, Mark
From: "Ben" <benjamin@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ppp NS 3.0... Date: 12 Feb 1997 17:50:06 GMT Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <01bc1915$c012dac0$5f0c43ce@ben.p3.net> Does anyone know of ppp software for NS 3.0? I have found it for the newer operating systems, but seem to run out of options in finding it for 3.0. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Benjamin Folk Jr. benjamin@p3.net
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SUMMARY: .netrc & crontab Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:55:32 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5dt3n4$5ra@ncar.ucar.edu> References: <5dnt37$g6b$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Here is a quick summary of the answers to the questions that I posed a few days ago. Thanks to all those who responded with FollowUps and by email. -db- -------- I wrote: >1. After a thorough reading of the man pages for cron/crontab, it appears >that there is a master file that contains all cron job entries. I would >prefer to have a cronjob file that is user specific. Is this possible? The answer is yes. Paul Vixie's "cron-vixie" application allows each user to have a personal crontab file. Available at most download sites. >2. I want to set up an automatic ftp file retrieval. In the past, I >have used the .netrc file (with permission of 600) to give host names, >usernames, and passwords, > > machine A.B.C.D login MY_USER_NAME password MY_PASSWORD > >It appears that this file does not send the login and password tokens >to the remote machine. In fact, I'm not sure it is even being used. >What is the correct procedure for this task? The problem lies with how the host name is used. A fully-qualified name (A.B.C.D) produces the correct results. A partial name (A) will not. Using the fully-qualified name solves the problem. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intruder Alert - Help Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:15:37 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Distribution: world Message-ID: <5dt1c9$opc@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> In article <5dbldq$ph8@dfw-ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) writes: > > How about restarting lookupd without rebooting when circumstances allow? > > Not unless you're running as root when this happens because without > lookupd, you won't be able to su or logon as root. And even if you are root, > other problems may exist. The system is seriously hosed at this point. When lookupd disappears, all authentication reverts back to the old /etc/passwd, /etc/group flatfiles. You can avoid being seriously hosed by having the /etc/passwd file contain a valid root account with password as well as another user with a password. Make sure that user is in group wheel (and listed in /etc/group). When lookupd dies, you can still login as that user, su root, and restart lookupd. This also plugs a nasty security hole, since, as NeXT ships it, the /etc/passwd flat file contains a root account with no passwd and a 'me' account with no passwd. Fortunately (unfortunately?), 'me' is not in group 'wheel'. I recommend using a different password in the flat file than what is in NetInfo, so that the flatfile doesn't unduly compromise the security of the properly running system. You can do this by temporarily changing the passwords of both accounts and doing nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd; nidump group . > /etc/passwd and editing those files to remove all other entries. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: PPD for Lexmark printer? Message-ID: <E5I4sv.3I4@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: markfr@tek.com Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 18:02:54 GMT References: <5dsun7$mmo@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Mark Frank wrote: > I can't find a PPD for a Lexmark Optra Lxi > printer at the Adobe site. Does anyone know > what other ppd I can use? We use the one on the floppy which came with the printer. If you can't find it, I can e-mail the file to you. PS: The e-mail address (markfr@markfr) attached to your post is mangled. You should check your news software configuration. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck." -- Rob Pike, commenting on The X Window System
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT in heterogeneous net Date: 12 Feb 1997 18:29:08 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5dt25k$n68@news.next.com> References: <5doe3r$nng@crl.crl.com> In article <5doe3r$nng@crl.crl.com> mcgredo@crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) writes: > > I've got a new Intel NeXT box that I need to plug into the > rest of the network. Everything else is using NIS and the > automounter, so I need to conform to that. > > 1. How do I get the bloody thing to use NIS for passwds > instead of netinfo? It seems to be recognizing hosts OK, > but not the passwd map. I dumped the yp passwd map and > loaded it into netinfo, but that doesn't seem like a very > good solution. > > 2. We've got home directories set up to automount, eg, > /home/foo/blogs, /home/bar/schmo. How do I do the same > thing here? /NextLibrary/NextAdmin/SysAdminManual/11_MixedNet.rtfd -- Jim Sowers NeXT Technical Support
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting partitions Date: Sun, 09 Feb 1997 20:54:37 -0500 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <32FE7FDD.68D8@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have created 4 partitions with the following on each: 1. OPENSTEP 4.0 2. Linux swap partition 3. Red Hat Linux 4.0 4. A directory I need to access from both Linux and OPENSTEP. The fourth partition is currently a Linux file system, however OPENSTEP does not recognize it. I have downloaded the utility 'vmount', but there are no instructions on what to do with it. I have placed it in the /usr/bin directory and executed the command vmount, but that does not seem to be the solution. So, here are my questions; How do I set up vmount correctly? Which file system should be placed on the 4th partition? Would simply labelling the second partition 'swapdisk' allow OPENSTEP to use it as a swap disk? If so, where should it be mounted? And, how do I get the OS to mount a Win95 disk as vfat instead of DOS? --gh
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep (Mach) to NT Printing Date: 9 Feb 1997 20:49:21 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5dld8h$oes$1@shadow.skypoint.net> I am looking to add a laser printer to my NT Workstation 4.0. The NT is connected TCP/IP to the OpenStep 4.1 (Mach cube) NeXT. I am looking for suggestions of a printer for NT (preferably HP) that will serve the NeXT with a quick and easy set up. All comments welcome. -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NS3.3/i386 bootfloppy shot -- someone send me a dd image, please Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:32:31 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5dt9cv$5m9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Hi there: I just attempted to install an Intel box with our i386 CD set, and the floppy is shot. It hangs during the initial boot process after the command prompt. Can someone please create a dd image of the bootfloppy for N3.3 and mail it to me? Thanks a bunch! -- Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) ".com is a mistake."
From: kwong@comnetix.com (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sol'n: Booting NS from NT Multi-boot loader Date: 12 Feb 1997 22:48:39 GMT Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA Message-ID: <5dthc7$brc$1@loki.tor.hookup.net> Cc: kwong@comnetix.com Below is the procedure for booting NS from NT Multi-boot loader: 1) First of all, grep a tool for NT/DOS from http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/gvollant/bootpart.htm 2) Change the attrib of the boot.ini in you NT boot partition to writable (not necessary). 3) Run bootpart to list your partition table on your disk. 4) Run bootpart <your_NeXT_or_Linux_partition # from 3> <Bootsect.nxt or Bootsect.lnx> [<String to be shown on your NT boot menu>] [ ] mean optional email me if you need help! kai -- email: kwong@comnetix.com url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pop Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:37:49 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <3302463D.5789@stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Whats a good pop server for NeXT?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702121621.LAA14011@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fc1955303edeec9dcd0686affb3016a4 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 11:21:39 -0500 Subject: Re: Boot problem, how to interrupt & fix my mistake Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fc1955303edeec9dcd0686affb3016a4 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: adt@dsi.bc.ca (Andrew Tuline) Original Date: Mon, 10 Feb 97 21:16:15 GMT > Since we don't have docs, and the NeXT experts have all left our > company, I ask the question: > > How to interrupt the boot process and modify the /etc/hostconfig > file. I don't know if anyone has answered this yet. All you need to do is get to the ROM monitor, boot into single user mode, and edit the file. The steps are outlined on the faq page at my NeXT page http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ TjL ps -- drop me a note if you have more problems...
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Backup question Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 05:30:58 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5J0nM.29q@xombi.wizard.net> I'd like to backup my NeXT Cube running NS3.2 and am having one heck of a time figuring out how to backup to Zip disks. I thought "dump" would do it...but I can't figure out how to get it to span multiple disks. I've heard that gnutar can span multiple disks...there isn't a man page for it but the man page in NetBSD/FreeBSD doesn't seem to mention anything about this. I'm also worried that gnutar might have a path length limit like vanillia tar does. SafetyNet isn't a good solution for Zip media. Suggestions? Thanks :-) --- Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de (Juergen Grieb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 12 Feb 1997 20:11:44 GMT Organization: "private site" Message-ID: <5dt860$2pe@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (FinalNews for NeXTstep; Version 0.04 / Feb 10, 1997) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Charles William Swiger wrote in <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> on 1997-02-12 04:56:24 +0100: > You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd > have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... I just did, but I couldn't find anything to set about DNS. Do you have any idea how it could be done? --- _______________________________________________________________________ Juergen Grieb ** 72119 Ammerbuch/Germany ** Tel. +7073 - 5118 e-mail: juergen@eskimo.bb.bawue.de ** NeXTMail and Mime welcome PGP-Key is available (please request it, so mail exchange will be safe)
From: jstella@okeefe.com (Seraphim J. Stella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Boot problem, how to interrupt & fix my mistake Date: 11 Feb 1997 17:02:29 GMT Organization: digitalNATION high speed internet Message-ID: <5dq8n5$chg$1@news1.dn.net> References: <5do3bs$3k5@wolfe.wimsey.com> Cc: adt@dsi.bc.ca In <5do3bs$3k5@wolfe.wimsey.com> Andrew Tuline wrote: ..... > How to interrupt the boot process and modify the /etc/hostconfig file. On the next boot, hold down "Command "Command" (both Command keys) and tap the top left key on the numeric keypad (the "`" key). This will bring up the ROM prompt. Type "bsd -s" at the prompt to enter single-user mode. Then use vi to edit the file. Be careful because the ROM prompt terminal does not have access to the arrow jeys for editing purposes, so you will have to use j - k -l, etc. Also, the screen updates aren't very accurate, so be sure to cat the file after your edits to make sure you did what you thought you did... Type "reboot" and use the box. Josh Stella
From: edx@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Message-ID: <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> Date: 13 Feb 97 09:07:58 MDT References: <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it> Organization: Utah State University In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it>, pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) writes: > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > Now I want to upgrade it to 1.2.17 but when I try to compile it > I receive this error: > > rsa.c: In function `rsa_random_prime': > rsa.c:302: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c: In function `mpz_mod_inverse': > rsa.c:353: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c:363: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c: In function `derive_rsa_keys': > rsa.c:410: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c:431: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > rsa.c: In function `rsa_generate_key': > rsa.c:531: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' > *** Exit 1 > Stop. > > > Anyone know how to fix it ??? > > Tnx in advance !!! The docs mention that the NS3.3 compiler is too mangled (their words) to handle this code. They suggest installing gcc 2.7.2. I tried installing with 2.7.2.1, and it does compile. However, when I try running sshd, it craps out with a bus error. I haven't had time to track it down any further than that. So, for now I make do with ssh 1.2.13. > >
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: NS3.3/i386 bootfloppy shot -- someone send me a dd image, please Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:15:46 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <330305F2.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5dt9cv$5m9@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christian Kuhtz wrote: > > Hi there: > > I just attempted to install an Intel box with our i386 CD set, and the floppy > is shot. It hangs during the initial boot process after the command prompt. > > Can someone please create a dd image of the bootfloppy for N3.3 and mail it > to me? Thanks a bunch! > > -- > Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) <ckuhtz@paranet.com> > (work) > ".com is a mistake." The disk images are available from next and some ftp sites. For example: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/NeXTanswers/CompressedFiles/NEXTSTEP/Floppy_Images/00-index.html stef -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: 13 Feb 1997 13:57:53 GMT Organization: We all live in a yellow submarine... Message-ID: <5dv6l1$ql9@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com> Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> wrote: > But other problem occurred: > - now I can't copy Mac files to the exported volumes! The Mac is > confused and says: "The file "" couldn't be written because it's > locked". (It's not!) I can't copy from either! > For the same reason I can't create documents from applications! The > only thing it accepts is new folders... [and, yes, I've put the > necessary .dot files...] Has anyone this problem too? If so please contact me immediately. I tried to reproduce it here on my local system but it can access the exported volumes read/write without any glitch. (...V4 does not use file locking at all) --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 11:53:05 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5JICH.3pw@micmac.com> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com> Cc: frank@this.net Cache-Post-Path: adria.isdnet.net!unknown@ppp60.mon.hol.fr This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com>) by Michel Coste: > > But other problem occurred: > > - now I can't copy Mac files to the exported volumes! The Mac is > confused and says: "The file "" couldn't be written because it's > locked". (It's not!) I can't copy from either! > For the same reason I can't create documents from applications! The > only thing it accepts is new folders... [and, yes, I've put the > necessary .dot files...] I reverted back to the binaries included in V2 (/usr/local/cap). And everything works OK now! I just have to remember to delete the files on the Mac side with some utility, not with the Finder trash... > > - And also top level icons stay generic ("u" gothic!) even with > afpfile configured. It works though in the other directories (with > the exception of WriteNow files - maybe for mapping reasons that I > haven't investigated yet...) Still the same. I'm sure it's a translation problem for WriteNow (the Creator contents a ‘ and I guess it's what causes the problem)) > > - Exported directories from the root level can't remember their > windows position either though I've made their .dot files universally > readable etc... Still the same... The root level .finderinfo folder and related content are _sometimes_ modified BUT when remounted I still get the default window. I guess I the quick fix is not to use a root level directory! (I don't have to anyway...) mc
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:07:22 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4n0msee00iWk027a80@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dt860$2pe@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> In-Reply-To: <5dt860$2pe@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Feb-97 Re: PersonalINN/innd - why .. by Juergen Grieb@eskimo.bb. >> You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd >> have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... > > I just did, but I couldn't find anything to set about DNS. Do you > have any idea how it could be done? Check out the NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR option in config/config.dist. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: joel@quicklink.com (Joel Kelmenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: POP3 mail question. Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:42:56 GMT Organization: Internet QuickLink, Corp. (212) 307-1669 Message-ID: <5dvgco$55l@news.quicklink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How can I get a POP3 email client, like Eudora, to get mail from my NeXTstation? I was searching for the answers but had no luck finding the answer. Ant help would be nice. Thank you for you time. joel@quicklink.com
From: colin@scully.tamu.edu (Colin F. Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Going slow with 4.0---Help! Date: 13 Feb 1997 18:19:52 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5dvm08$9of@news.tamu.edu> Cc: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu Since upgrading to 4.0 on my cube I am getting horrendously slow delivery of files to tty devices. For example, here is the output of "time cat foo" where foo is a 32K file: 0.0u 0.2s 4:40 0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w Note the 4 minutes 40 seconds real time to output the file on the terminal. Delivering the same file over a web server is likewise awfully slow. At first I thought this might be some kind of scsi disk access issue, but "emacs foo" loads up the entire file in less than a second, so it does not seem like a disk access problem. Suggestions? Thanks, -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem Configuring GateKeeper-v2.1b4 for Multiple Users Date: 13 Feb 1997 22:18:27 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5e03vj$6pu@library.airnews.net> I'm having a hard time trying to configure GKv2.1b4 w/ ppp2.2.0.4.6 for more than one user account. My wife is fed up with using my account and defaults and wants her own. I thought it was easy, so I copied my ~Library/GateKeeper/*.Gate files to her account, and clicked on the ">" in the GK tool bar, here's what I got: *) Popup window saying "Unable to access the" mailqueue directory, I can't remember the exact words. I know GK will try to send the unsent mails in /usr/spool/mqueue, so I chmod'ed the dir wide open. I don't get this messages anymore. *) Then GK will light up the modem, and dial, but then it hangs waiting for something. And I get "Can't restart syslogd, not owner" and "/dev/log" already in use kind of messages in the "Console" window. I checked her configuration and the permission bits of GateKeeper in /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app (suid), nothing is out of the ordinary. This is where I'm stuck right now. I can't see if there's anything I can run that she doesn't already have permission to do since we're in the same groups. Note: I can use /etc/ppp/pppd to get a ppp link fine in her account, and as long as I avoid using GK in her account, everything works fine. And after she logs out, I can use GK in my account without a problem. Here's my environment: HW: ND Turbo Cube; Mono Turbo Slab SW: NS3.3p1 GateKeeper.v2.1b4, PPP2.2.4.6, sendmail8.8.5 GK in /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app Gate docs in ~/Library/GateKeeper/*.Gate (2 ISP's) And I did remember to configure her GK to point to her config files. Is this a known bug? Thanks, liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail propogation question Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 23:27:38 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5KEI3.E1@xombi.wizard.net> I'm able to mail people without trouble for the most part. My computer has the static IP at xombi.wizard.net and also has this name, If I try to mail to anyone else at wizard.net I can't because sendmail acts like I'm trying to mail someone on my local machine. If I mail "someone@someplace.com" it goes through great. If I mail myself "recurve@wizard.net" the mail goes ok...but it never leaves my machine. If I mail "fella@wizard.net" I get the response "Error, user fella does not exist" because it's trying to send to my local machine. Any ideas how to correct this? Could it be the following lines of sendmail.mailhost.cf? # If you want to pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder # to our forwarder then uncomment the following line. R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain # and comment out this one. #R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain Thanks :-) Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP package Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:56:44 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5IqqK.Hp3@micmac.com> References: <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> <5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<5da68e$igp@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>) by Frank M. Siegert: > In <E53wx5.2uy@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > > - I just can't understand how to use my LaserWriter from my NeXT > > station (but the other way the NeXT spool works fine for my Mac...) I > > think the documentation is a bit too short on this... =;) > > > > Yeah, I second this. To minimize the problems I have put together a step by > step documentation and put it on > > http://www.this.net/~frank/cap_howto.html > > The setup of a local queue to print to a remote LaserWriter is unfortunately > not automated yet, so you have to use the shell / NetInfoMananger (read the > notes about a potential problem using it!) to setup. A future release will > include an automatic setup mechanism. > I've read your doc and it's perfectly clear and much better to understand than the original man pages you put in CAPer. You should include it in next release! In fact the man is completely buggy here when it talks about printing to a Mac connected LaserWriter, using the NeXT spooler!!! I was even more confused because I had two zones and the LaserWriter was not appearing from the NeXT... Now it prints perfectly from all my computers. I even use the NeXT spooler from the Mac! But other problem occurred: - now I can't copy Mac files to the exported volumes! The Mac is confused and says: "The file "" couldn't be written because it's locked". (It's not!) I can't copy from either! For the same reason I can't create documents from applications! The only thing it accepts is new folders... [and, yes, I've put the necessary .dot files...] - And also top level icons stay generic ("u" gothic!) even with afpfile configured. It works though in the other directories (with the exception of WriteNow files - maybe for mapping reasons that I haven't investigated yet...) - Exported directories from the root level can't remember their windows position either though I've made their .dot files universally readable etc... Except this I'm happy with CAPer! I mean when it will work for file sharing too! I just don't understand what happened... Thanks anyway for you important contribution to the NeXT community! (I'm clearly understand that CAPer is not responsible for my problems...) mc
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: wrong #9 Imagine 128 setting Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 22:14:46 -0500 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg32513.thr-1e673a.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg32513.thr-1e673a.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> We're admittedly ignorant in the original sense of the word... Running OS 4.1 on a Dell intel box, 17" Dell monitor, #9 Imagine 128 series 2 video card, and the 3.3 beta of the driver at: ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/Files/NEXTSTEP/Intel_Configuration_In formation/Drivers/3.3_Drivers/Beta/2488_Number9Imagine128S2DisplayDriver
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@nerc.com> Message-ID: <199702131453.JAA14151@nerc.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: d35e1611927dd02d76556b145a6abf0f - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@nerc.com> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 09:53:17 -0500 Subject: Re: pop Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: d35e1611927dd02d76556b145a6abf0f - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> Original Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:37:49 -0500 > Whats a good pop server for NeXT? PopOver. Available at PEAK. Send me a message with the SUBJECT search-peak popover for the URLs I believe the package has the software both to d/l mail from a POP server as well as the software to make your NeXT a popserver TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Message-ID: <9702131524.AA17762@mail.valverde.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Mac Patel <mpatel@mail.valverde.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 97 07:23:56 -0800 Subject: Boot Problem.. Hello... Recently I installed 3.3 onto a Dell Optiplex GXi. Installation went fine, but I get the following error when the system restarts, right after the boot: statement... Can't Find $LBL Has anybody run into similar problem? I would like to thank everyone in advance and you could reply directly at mpatel@valverde.edu if you so desire. Mac Patel Val Verde USD
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? Date: 14 Feb 1997 09:40:21 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5e1bu5$t70@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <199702071813.NAA17821@nerc.com> In Re: Why do processes become uninterruptible ("U" state in ps)? comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0xd8d60> writes, > Responding To: moetteli@citeu1.citeu.unige.ch > Original Date: 6 Feb 1997 16:10:30 GMT > >> At the moment I have to work a lot with tip and modems. tip hangs >> quiet often and I don't know why. The problem is, I can't kill it >> aftwards. Nothing works: ^C, kill, kill -9... So I have to reboot >> and most of the time make a fsck for my 2.1GB disk. Not very >> efficient... > > I'd suggest using 'kermit' rather than tip kermit is also weird sometimes... And when kermit doesn©t work, I use tip. >> So if this famous program could kill also this problem, I would >> appreciate a lot if somebody could send it to me >> (moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch); preferably fat (for Intel and m68k). > > If you're running 3.2 it might work. > > If you're running 3.3 it seems to panic the machine. Thanks, I received and it does work under my OS4.1 machines (Intel & m68k). Phil
From: overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstep Firewall ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 10:38:31 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e1fb7$rop@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Hello. Perhaps someone has done something like I am trying to do. I have a NeXT box connected to the 'net via PPP and a modem. I also have a pentium connected via ethernet. I would like to use the 'net from the pentium but simply configuring the next box as the "gateway" does not do it. Is there a way to tell the next that I want to use it as such? Dave (overeem.1@osu.edu)
From: overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTstep Firewall ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 10:40:28 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e1fes$rou@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> Hello. Perhaps someone has done something like I am trying to do. I have a NeXT box connected to the 'net via PPP and a modem. I also have a pentium connected via ethernet. I would like to use the 'net from the pentium but simply configuring the next box as the "gateway" does not do it. Is there a way to tell the next that I want to use it as such? Dave (overeem.1@osu.edu)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 14 Feb 1997 14:19:16 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> In article <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu writes: > In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it>, pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) writes: > > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > The docs mention that the NS3.3 compiler is too mangled > (their words) to handle this code. They suggest installing > gcc 2.7.2. 9 times out of 10, it means you must specify in CFLAGS: -traditional-cpp when using NeXT's supplied cc C compiler. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ??? Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:08:57 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5e2679$g0@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > In article <1997Feb13.090758.93811@cc.usu.edu> edx@cc.usu.edu writes: > > In article <5dnd6q$r33@oracle.csi.unimi.it>, pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it > (Stefano Pisati) writes: > > > Hi, I've ssh 1.2.13 running on my black cube with NeXTStep 3.3. > > The docs mention that the NS3.3 compiler is too mangled > > (their words) to handle this code. They suggest installing > > gcc 2.7.2. > > 9 times out of 10, it means you must specify in CFLAGS: > -traditional-cpp > when using NeXT's supplied cc C compiler. From the looks of the errors, it seems the problem is vararg macros which NeXT's GCC doesn't support (grrrr). The only workaround would be to convert all variable argument macros to fixed arg macros. Ugh. Install gcc-2.7.2. FYI, ssh 1.2.16 is on next-ftp.peak.org and it works fine. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT '040 cube & DAT drives Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:31:25 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5e27hd$emb@hpax.cup.hp.com> For those who have '040 non-turbo NeXTs and backup your systems to DAT drives: when backing up, does your DAT drive stream or does it write, stop, write, stop, etc? I've found that when I'm backing up my drive, it doesn't stream as much as I would like. Every 5-10 seconds, the drive hesitates and it's not good for its longevity. During backup, the system is in single user mode, I run mtset -i prior to using dump with the following options: 0ufs /dev/rst0 75000 /, using a 60m tape. Throughput speed is roughly 25MB/minute, and I know the drive is capable of much faster operation--on my Mac, its throughput is around 35MB/minute. My drive on my NeXT hovers at around 800K/sec but the 25MB/minute equates to 420K/sec. I tried using the default 1600bpi and 6250bpi option, both giving me the same results. The DAT drive is a Sony SDT-7000. Cube has 28MB RAM. Haven't tried tar. When untarring stuff form a DAT tape I write in the office, it streams fine, which leads me to believe I'm doing something wrong on the NeXT end when I backup. Oh yeah, my HD is formatted at 512bytes/sector, and it's approximately half full; running 3.2. Any ideas? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue General Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open/Intelligent Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.7200
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From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXTstep Firewall ? Date: 14 Feb 1997 21:02:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5e2jt6$a7i@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <darwish-ya023680000302970835370001@news.jhu.edu> <5e1fes$rou@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> overeem.1@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu (Operator) wrote: >Hello. Perhaps someone has done something like I am trying to do. I have >a NeXT box connected to the 'net via PPP and a modem. I also have a >pentium connected via ethernet. I would like to use the 'net from the >pentium but simply configuring the next box as the "gateway" does not do >it. Is there a way to tell the next that I want to use it as such? Actually, it does do it ;-). Your setup is very much like what mine looks like at home (for my PPP backup link). Your problem is that the network between your PC and the NeXT is not publically routed, so that even if you had setup your routes properly, the packets simply wouldn't go anywhere beyond the point of your PPP server. What you need to do is to install a proxy server on your NeXT. That can either be a application specific proxy or a generic proxy (like SOCKS, which is what I'd recommend). The only things that is left is to point your apps on your PC to your proxy running on the NeXT, and.. voila, things will start working. You don't need a firewall setup. However, it might be advisable for you to study up on how to implement UNIX host security with regards to rejecting unauthorized access, for instance via TCP wrappers. I am not aware of a firewall product for NeXT, although, the PPP code probably could be modified to provide hooks for that, concerning traffic through the PPP interface. Suggested reading would be O'Reilly & Associates books, such as "TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt, and "Practical UNIX Security". Best regards, -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work), <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "A German who speaks for himself."
From: Christian Kuhtz <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gcc 2.7.2.1 (Re: SSH 1.2.17 on NextStep 3.3 ???) Date: 14 Feb 1997 21:05:09 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5e2k25$a7i@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> References: <5e1s94$mn4@crcnis3.unl.edu> <5e2679$g0@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) wrote: >From the looks of the errors, it seems the problem is vararg macros which >NeXT's GCC doesn't support (grrrr). The only workaround would be to convert >all variable argument macros to fixed arg macros. Ugh. Install gcc-2.7.2. > >FYI, ssh 1.2.16 is on next-ftp.peak.org and it works fine. What's the proper way to build GCC for the NeXT btw? If I just run configure and the usual shebang for GCC, it seems like I need to specifiy /usr/include/bsd explicitly for includes, cause it doesn't look there by default. Am I doing something wrong? ;-).. 2.7.2.1 works fine otherwise, aside from barfing on various includes. -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work), <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (personal) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "A German who speaks for himself."
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 14 Feb 1997 22:31:59 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Howdy! - I have put the patch for CAPer V4 m68k on www.this.net that will hopefully solve the dreaded locked files problem for some people. The problem does not seem to happen for the Intel releases, so V4 remains the last i486 version, whereas V4update1 will be the current m68k release. Please fetch the update from http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html, replace your cap_basedist_1.tar.gz file in the CAPer.app wrapper and reinstall CAP. Again: This is not needed for the i486 versions! - In case you experienced problems installing CAP on your machine: I found out that in any non-trivial network your have to enter your zone by name, using the default '*' does not cause the aarpd daemon to attach to the first zone it encounters, it wants the full name. If you do not supply the correct name, the NeXT CAP server will be invisible to the network (and vice versa). Sorry for any inconvenience. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
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From: Christian Valor <valor@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Second Annual Hackers, Crackers & Sniffers Conference Date: 14 Feb 1997 17:15:09 -0700 Organization: Primenet (602)416-7000 Message-ID: <5e2v6d$jc3@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Second Annual Hackers, Crackers & Sniffer Symposium "Perils of the Internet and Practical Solutions" The Ashford Club Atlanta, GA - April 22-24, 1997 [Please visit our web site for similar conferences scheduled this year in San Diego, Boston, Biloxi, Norfolk, Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, Melbourne, and others.] Co-Sponsored by: Information Systems Audit & Control Association National Computer Security Association Internet Security Systems Delta Airlines and Transquest Security First Technologies HomeCom and a Community of Interests Featuring EMERGING INITIATIVES IN COMPUTER SECURITY Dr. Peter Tippett - President, National Computer Security Association INFORMATION WARFARE - CYBERTERRORISM Winn Schwartau - Noted Author and International Authority IMPROVING SECURITY BY VULNERABILITY ANALYSIS Tom Noonan - President, Internet Security Systems INTRUDER IMPACT AND EMERGING SECURITY DIRECTIONS Dr. John Alger, Dean, Information Warfare Institute, National Defense University Scott Charney, Chief of Computer Crimes Unit, U.S. Department of Justice Brent Mead, Network and Computer Security Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Workshops presented by leading Expert Practitioners Special Presentation by Christopher Klaus, Founder, ISS Fee $495.00 Symposium Coordinator NEW DIMENSIONS INTERNATIONAL P.O. 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From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep PPP Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 19:25:29 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <3304BC29.4E6D@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just got OpenStep 4.1 Mach and see that it has pppd and chat. I need to set this up and would like to know if there is guide I can use. Thanks, Jason
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD for Lexmark printer? Date: 15 Feb 1997 05:20:04 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5e3h24$huq@news2.cais.com> References: <5dsun7$mmo@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> <E5I4sv.3I4@gateway.ali.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <E5I4sv.3I4@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Anyone who wants the PPD for the Lexmark Optra should e-mail me. I will e-mail you the file. -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help installing 3.3 on PPro200 from gateway Date: 15 Feb 1997 17:31:57 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e4rud$k52@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Please help! I have just purchased a Pentium Pro 200 Intel box from Gateway, which has an AHA Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide scsi controller, (scsi ID 7). When I try to install NS3.3 from the floppy, I get the usual installation messages, choose english, select scsi adapter driver, where I respond with the adaptec 294x number (4) for the driver. When I get the following physical memory = 96.0 megabytes using (usual line here ...) Plug and Play support enabled Plug and Play card 0x0e8c0026:CTL0026 s/n 0x3e280710 ISA/EISA bus support enabled ISA bus PCI version 2.10 Buscount=1 Features=[BIOS16CM1] Found PCI Device: ID=0x12378086 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x70008086 at Dev=7 Func=0 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x70108086 at Dev 7 Func=1 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x81789004 at Dev=11 Func=0 Bus=0 Found PCI Device: ID=0x883d5333 at Dev=15 Func=0 Bus=0 PCI Bus DriverKit version 330 Registering: PS2Controller Registering PCKeyboard0 Registering EISA0 PCI Bus support enabled Registering: PCIO Adaptec 2940: Can't get CONFIGSPACE; ABORTING Registering: event0 Registering: KmDevice0 No SCSI controller or CD-ROM Drive Found followed by a boot info request and a panic. Guidance please? Thanks. Randy Jackson -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Christian Valor <valor@primenet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5e2v6d$jc3@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Control: cancel <5e2v6d$jc3@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Date: 15 Feb 1997 10:58:04 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <cancel.5e2v6d$jc3@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Cancelled because it's spam.
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help installing 3.3 on PPro200 from gateway Date: 15 Feb 1997 18:20:51 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e4uq3$kj5@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5e4rud$k52@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5e4rud$k52@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Additional info, the CD-ROM drive is a Matshita 8X scsi drive at scsi id 1. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN/innd - why does it bring up the WAN? Date: 15 Feb 1997 19:03:24 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5e519s$7qg@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5dj711$18s@vader.WolfWare.com> <QmzSys600iWW81I3RY@andrew.cmu.edu> <5dpb7p$dg@eskimo.bb.bawue.de> <Qn0Hxcm00iV8484FVH@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > Isn't there another way to solve this problem? > > You can; look at the configuration options for INN. Of course, you'd > have to build INN instead of using a precompiled binary.... Sorry for being late on this thread, but I've been quite busy lately. Since I don't use Dial on Demand here I haven't been plagued by this kind of problem. It is correct that PersonalINN is compiled with NNRP_GETHOSTBYADDR DO. Right now, I see no reason for not changing this to DONT which should solve the problems. The next update of PersonalINN due sometime this summer will incorporate this change. However, if somebody needs this change urgently, I *might* be able to help him before that (can't promise, though) - just contact me. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Need Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config v 3.37 Date: 15 Feb 1997 20:05:13 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e54tp$lm2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I believe I need a newer version of the Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config than the one on the 3.3 installation disks. If anyone hase v 3.37 or later, could you please NeXTMail me a copy? Thank you. Randy Jackson -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 18:46:29 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net Cache-Post-Path: news2.isdnet.net!unknown@ppp13.mon.hol.fr This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>) by Frank M. Siegert: > Howdy! > > - I have put the patch for CAPer V4 m68k on www.this.net that will hopefully > solve the dreaded locked files problem for some people. > Sure. It works. Thanks! (I'm doing the upgrades manually since I don't want to squash my configuration files - not a big deal! but... =:=@) ) > - In case you experienced problems installing CAP on your machine: I found > out that in any non-trivial network your have to enter your zone by name, > using the default '*' does not cause the aarpd daemon to attach to the first > zone it encounters, it wants the full name. If you do not supply the correct > name, the NeXT CAP server will be invisible to the network (and vice versa). > I sure have to enter the zone name... But what I find strange is that CAP works perfectly WHEN the Mac and its router are already running. Using the configured Mac router values... Though when I start the NeXT first, CAP always default to values that are not compatible with the Mac router! Since the NeXT is THE server, that's very inconvenient! When I start the Mac nothing works... i.e. in my case: # interface "en0" netRangeStart 0.00 netRangeEnd 255.254 thisNet 255.00 thisNode 56 thisZone "my_zone" bridgeNet 0.00 bridgeNode 0 bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 nisNet 255.00 nisNode 56 asyncNet 0.00 asyncZone "" # Why? Where are stored these values? I found nothing nowhere about that. When I start the Mac first, I have this (and everything is working!): # interface "en0" netRangeStart 0.01 netRangeEnd 254.254 thisNet 0.01 thisNode 56 thisZone "my_zone" bridgeNet 245.235 bridgeNode 177 bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 nisNet 0.01 nisNode 56 asyncNet 0.00 asyncZone "" # Do I really have to install UAR in this case? It's a real pain since UAR is not available for NeXT... mc
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 16:31:16 -0600 From: john@nextdoor.com Subject: Re: Printing from NT to NeXTprinter? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <856045067.25358@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: Eric_Noyau@next.com References: <5dro2r$fcq@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM> In article <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM>, Eric_Noyau@next.com (Eric Noyau) wrote: > > (Munch...) > > You have to check the 'page independence' switch somewhere in one of the > NT configuration panel. Right click on your printer, and click on > 'document defaults'/Advanced/'Postscript options'/'Page independence'. > > That should do the trick. IT WORKS!!! Well, for the most part anyway. I still get an occasional PostScript error when printing a subset of the pages in an MS Word document, and I got a "WindowServer[202]: nxpd_PageProc: can't print page: invalid port" error in the middle of a multi-page document once, but compared to being able to print only one page at a time, I can live with errors like these occasionally. Eric, THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU! I was wrestling with this problem for weeks, and was just getting ready to go out and buy a new laser printer for the PC. You saved me 700 bucks! John john@nextdoor.com -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 16 Feb 1997 01:27:00 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> Cc: mic@micmac.com In <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > Sure. It works. Thanks! (I'm doing the upgrades manually since I > don't want to squash my configuration files - not a big deal! but... > =:=@) ) > Hopefully this means your happy factor has increased :) > > I sure have to enter the zone name... > > But what I find strange is that CAP works perfectly WHEN the Mac and > its router are already running. Using the configured Mac router > values... > Though when I start the NeXT first, CAP always default to values that > are not compatible with the Mac router! Since the NeXT is THE server, > that's very inconvenient! When I start the Mac nothing works... > i.e. in my case: > # > interface "en0" > netRangeStart 0.00 > netRangeEnd 255.254 > thisNet 255.00 > thisNode 56 > thisZone "my_zone" > bridgeNet 0.00 > bridgeNode 0 > bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 > nisNet 255.00 > nisNode 56 > asyncNet 0.00 > asyncZone "" > # > Why? Where are stored these values? I found nothing nowhere about > that. > When I start the Mac first, I have this (and everything is working!): > # > interface "en0" > netRangeStart 0.01 > netRangeEnd 254.254 > thisNet 0.01 > thisNode 56 > thisZone "my_zone" > bridgeNet 245.235 > bridgeNode 177 > bridgeIP 127.0.0.1 > nisNet 0.01 > nisNode 56 > asyncNet 0.00 > asyncZone "" > # > > Do I really have to install UAR in this case? It's a real pain since > UAR is not available for NeXT... > You may try to 'feed' in your values to aarpd and atis by maintaining a '/etc/atalk.local' file: # This is a sample atalk.local file. Comment lines start with #. # mynet, mynode, myzone refer to network values for the CAP host. # bridgenet, bridgenode, bridgeIP refer to the hardware gateway. # NB: bridgenode has to be the lower 8 bits of the IP address. # nisnet, nisnode point to the host running atis. Normally these # are the same as mynet and mynode. This line is semi optional. # asyncnet and asynczone apply to Asynchronous AppleTalk on the # CAP host. This line is also optional but, if included, *must* be # the fourth active line (ie: nisnet and nisnode must be present). # Zone names containing spaces must be quoted with " or ' quotes. # Zone names containing " or ' can use \" or \' as escapes. # # mynet mynode myzone 0.01 56 my_zone # bridgenet bridgenode bridgeIP 245.235 177 127.0.0.1 # nisnet nisnode 0.01 56 # asyncnet asynczone #0.00 "my_zone Async" -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
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: <413853649874@digifix.com> Date: 16 Feb 1997 02:23:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <22496856059808@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: chris@homer.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Christian Vollmert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ghostscript and bubblejet Date: 16 Feb 1997 11:14:14 GMT Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne Message-ID: <5e6q66$oh2@news.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> hi i need some help with my canon bj240 i got the gs-filter package 1.1 and it s allready installed running it from the shell there is no problem and it works but i can't get it working as a next-printer over the printermanager. so if anybody use an canon bubblejet (bj10, bj200, bj210 or bj240) please send me the settings for how i can get this thing working see ya christian c.vollmert@moeller.net
From: kazdan@hans.math.upenn.edu (Jerry L. Kazdan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem making perl5.003 Date: 16 Feb 1997 22:16:36 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5e8104$p1d@netnews.upenn.edu> I am attempting to make perl 5.003 on NeXT (black) running NeXTSTEP 3.2 (Developer). I ran "Configure" using only the default values. Then I ran "make". After a while I got a "Segmentation fault". Here is the last part of the log from running "make": .....(snip)..... `sh cflags libperl.a globals.o` globals.c CCCMD = cc -c -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -O rm -f libperl.a ar rcu libperl.a perl.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o \ mg.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.odoop.o \ doio.o regexec.o taint.o deb.o globals.o cc -u libsys_s -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/gnu/lib -o miniperl miniperlmain.o libperl.a -ldbm ./miniperl configpm tmp sh mv-if-diff tmp lib/Config.pm ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2html.PL Extracting pod2html (with variable substitutions) *** Segmentation fault *** `pod/pod2html' removed Stop. Any hints on how I can fix this? -- Jerry
From: jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: Sun, 16 Feb 97 22:37:16 GMT Organization: UUNet PIPEX server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet PIPEX) Message-ID: <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> Hi folks. I have a problem with DNS resolution .. I have 3 DNS servers defined in /etc/resolv.conf. The first is to my local DNS, the second to one ISPs DNS and the third to another ISPs DNS. If I connect to either ISP, DNS lookups don't work. But, if I go into nslookup and point it directly at one of my ISPs DNS servers, it resolves it. So, depending on which ISP I connect to, I change my /etc/resolv.conf to have only that ISPs DNS server in it. Then, by sending a HUP to the nibindd, it should restart and reload info from /etc/resolv.conf, no? Why doesn't this seem to work? Any thoughts? Thanks, Jeff Richmond
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4.0/4.1 drivers on 3.3? Date: 16 Feb 1997 22:40:35 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5e82d3$89v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Do the 4.0/4.1 OS drivers work for NS3.3? Thanks. Randy Jackson -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAPer on Canon object.station 41 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 17:26:24 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! I'm trying CAPer on a Canon object.station 41 on NS 3.3, and supposedly BPF isn't compatible with the AMD PCnet32, which is what's in the object.station AFAIK. So, I'm wondering if there's a workaround aside from buying another ethernet card? Is there any hope? In the install readme, it mentions that this card doesn't have support for multicast, yet on the same computer in Win95, I can browse the AppleTalk network with a product called COPStalk- http://www.copstalk.com Perhaps they use different implementation methods for Atalk...any ideas? Thanks! -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:59:48 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5e871k$5u5@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> References: <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> In article <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) writes: >Hi folks. I have a problem with DNS resolution .. I have 3 DNS servers >defined in /etc/resolv.conf. The first is to my local DNS, the second to one >ISPs DNS and the third to another ISPs DNS. If I connect to either ISP, DNS >lookups don't work. But, if I go into nslookup and point it directly at one >of my ISPs DNS servers, it resolves it. > >So, depending on which ISP I connect to, I change my /etc/resolv.conf to >have only that ISPs DNS server in it. Then, by sending a HUP to the nibindd, >it should restart and reload info from /etc/resolv.conf, no? Why doesn't this >seem to work? Any thoughts? > >Thanks, > >Jeff Richmond nibindd is not a BIND daemon. From the NS Sys Adm manual: nibindd Starts NetInfo service; spawns netinfod processes The BIND daemon is named. Btw, the setup you describe in your first paragraph should work if you configure it proplerly. In particular you should probably configure the local nameserver as a "caching only" DNS server. Should you have further questions you might want to check out the NeXT Network and System Administration (search for DNS) manual and also the BIND docs for help. The O'Reilly and Associates book "DNS and Bind" is also a good source of information. -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer on Canon object.station 41 Date: 17 Feb 1997 00:20:02 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5e887i$bi7@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Cc: eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu In <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Hi! > I'm trying CAPer on a Canon object.station 41 on NS 3.3, and supposedly > BPF isn't compatible with the AMD PCnet32, which is what's in the > object.station AFAIK. > > So, I'm wondering if there's a workaround aside from buying another > ethernet card? Is there any hope? In the install readme, it mentions > that this card doesn't have support for multicast, yet on the same > computer in Win95, I can browse the AppleTalk network with a product > called COPStalk- http://www.copstalk.com > > Perhaps they use different implementation methods for Atalk...any > ideas? Thanks! > It is usually not a problem with the hardware but with the drivers, e.g. the DEC Chip 21040 (Cogent EM960) drivers prior to 3.37 were 'bad' but the 3.37 release seems to run fine. So a driver update can do the trick, however I cannot provide your with such an update... sorry. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer on Canon object.station 41 Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 18:27:25 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <3307A57E.171E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <33079739.578@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit BTW: I suppose Frank, you could add the AMD PCNet32 driver for NS 3.3 version 3.0 as a driver that's known not to work... Anyone know if there's a patched driver that does work? I just installed version 3.2 of that driver, but that's also known not to work, as is version 3.3. Perhaps version 4 works??? Can OPENSTEP/MACH 4.x drivers (ie PCnet32) work on NS 3.3? Thanks -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: talk/ytalk problem Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 00:26:21 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5q17y.1GG@xombi.wizard.net> talk and ytalk don't seem to work for me accross the internet. For people logged into my Cube it works fine, they can talk to each other but if I try someone at another address this is what I get: xombi.wizard.net> talk login@glue.umd.edu talk: xombi.wizard.net: Can't figure out network address. xombi.wizard.net> ytalk login@glue.umd.edu new_user: bad host: 'xombi.wizard.net': (no system error) I don't know why I'm getting these errors because other operations work fine like telnet, etc. And people can telnet to xombi.wizard.net (when I'm dialed in). --- Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@netventures.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail & ppp Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:41:21 +0000 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <33079B21.39D3@netventures.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi - I've got outgoing mail failing on ppp links after complaining that ether isn't working as the relay mailer. Is "DMether" the culprit in /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf? TIA, C.
From: rmunoz@eos.ncsu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: f2c or g77 for OpenStep 4.1 Date: 17 Feb 1997 04:55:42 GMT Organization: North Carolina State University Message-ID: <5e8oce$guf@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Hello all, I am trying to get a fortran compiler for my new OpenStep 4.1 for Intel system. The new release of g77 +gcc in the archives fail to render usable code in my OS4.1. I have also tried to compile the "f2c" sources in the archive sites but they fail to compile in my system. Has anybody got any of them to work?. Would you be so kind as to share it with me or tell me what I need to do to make it work?. I am in desperate need of a fortran compiler (in fact, the main reason why I moved from my beloved NeXTStation Turbo to my new Intel system is the expected increase in speed.... ) Thank you very much for your help. Rafa -------------------------- R. Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D. e-mail:rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu Visiting Scholar fax:(919)515-6732 BAE Dept. North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695-7625
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 17 Feb 1997 07:36:59 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) and EIDE CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've been trying to get it to play audio CDs, but it refuses to cooperate. I cannot get it to work with CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a similar configuration and has been able to make this work. When I put in an audio CD, it will auto-launch OmniCd.app, but the app is incapable of locating the drive. (Cmd-O/cmd-o displays an empty list, so it obviously can't see the drive for some reason.) I guess I'd have been better off with a SCSI drive, but it is too late for that now. I've got what I've got...and I would like to get it working if possible. :-) -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: f2c or g77 for OpenStep 4.1 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:41:47 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <33087C3A.167E@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <5e8oce$guf@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu It is possible to compile g77 for OPENSTEP. You have to make some changes to reflect the fact that sys_s is a shared library. I do not have the changes with me as I did this at home, but I will try and repost later today or tomorrow with the changes I made to the nexststep.h. It gives many warning messages when linking but the executables are fine. I have compiled a number of molecular biology programs with g77 under NeXTSTEP. For those interested I may later this week try and get the pgcc/pg77 the pentium optimised compiler to run under OPENSTEP. This should give binaries which are optimised for pentum machines. This is available for linux and solaris x86 altready I have heard and I will take a look and see how much work it is to get it to compiled for OPENSTEP. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: f2c or g77 for OpenStep 4.1 Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 18:54:29 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <33089B54.2781@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> References: <5e8oce$guf@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------446B794B15FB" To: rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------446B794B15FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have attached the nextstep.h file for compiling gcc and g77 under OPENSTEP. Overwrite the file in the config directory of the gcc distribution. Type ./configure --with-gnu-as make bootstrap make install Should see you through. You have to install g77 correctly and apply the necessary patches for the gcc version you are using. I have compiled this with gcc 2.7.2.1 and gcc 0.5.19 and it works fine. When linking with g77 (and gcc) there are a lot of warning messages but the executable created seems to be okay. The warning messages are created from the next ld command. The attached nextstep.h is only a temporary fix and hopefully a full OPENSTEP port will be done. If people cannot read the attachment let me know and I will put it on an ftp site. Alternatively to overwriting the nextstep.h just put the stuff relating to LIBGCC (from my changed nextstep.h) into config.h after doing the ./configure --with-gnu-as. I hope this helps. The g77 compiler created is really useful and hopefully eventually will be included into OPENSTEP as it would be nice to create multiple binary versions. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/ --------------446B794B15FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="nextstep.h" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="nextstep.h" /* nextstep.h -- operating system specific defines to be used when targeting GCC for NeXTSTEP. Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of GNU CC. GNU CC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. GNU CC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU CC; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ /* Use new NeXT include file search path. In a cross compiler with NeXT as target, don't expect the host to use Next's directory scheme. */ #ifndef CROSS_COMPILE #undef INCLUDE_DEFAULTS #define INCLUDE_DEFAULTS \ { \ { GPLUSPLUS_INCLUDE_DIR, 1, 1 }, \ { LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 1 }, \ { TOOL_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 1 }, \ { GCC_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 0 }, \ /* These are for fixincludes-fixed ansi/bsd headers \ which wouldn't be found otherwise. \ (The use of string catenation here is OK since \ NeXT's native compiler is derived from GCC.) */ \ { GCC_INCLUDE_DIR "/ansi", 0, 0 }, \ { GCC_INCLUDE_DIR "/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/Headers", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { "/LocalDeveloper/Headers", 0, 0 }, \ { "/LocalDeveloper/Headers/ansi", 0, 0 }, \ { "/LocalDeveloper/Headers/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { "/NextDeveloper/2.0CompatibleHeaders", 0, 0 }, \ { STANDARD_INCLUDE_DIR, 0, 0 }, \ { "/usr/include/bsd", 0, 0 }, \ { 0, 0, 0 } \ } #endif /* CROSS_COMPILE */ #undef EXTRA_FORMAT_FUNCTIONS #define EXTRA_FORMAT_FUNCTIONS \ "NXPrintf", FALSE, 2, FALSE, \ "NXScanf", TRUE, 2, FALSE, \ "NXVPrintf", FALSE, 2, TRUE, \ "NXVScanf", TRUE, 2, TRUE, \ "DPSPrintf", FALSE, 2, FALSE, \ "bsd_sprintf", FALSE, 2, FALSE, \ "bsd_vsprintf", FALSE, 2, TRUE, /* Make -fnext-runtime the default. */ #define NEXT_OBJC_RUNTIME /* We have atexit. */ #define HAVE_ATEXIT /* Enable recent gcc to compile under the old gcc in Next release 1.0. */ #define __inline inline /* wchar_t is unsigned short */ #undef WCHAR_TYPE #define WCHAR_TYPE "short unsigned int" #undef WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE #define WCHAR_TYPE_SIZE (BITS_PER_WORD / 2) /* Don't default to pcc-struct-return, because gcc is the only compiler, and we want to retain compatibility with older gcc versions. */ #undef DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN #define DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN 0 /* These compiler options take n arguments. */ #undef WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG #define WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG(STR) \ (DEFAULT_WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG (STR) ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segalign") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "seg1addr") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segaddr") ? 2 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectobjectsymbols") ? 2 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segprot") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectcreate") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectalign") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "segcreate") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "sectorder") ? 3 : \ !strcmp (STR, "siff-mask") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "siff-filter") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "siff-warning") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "arch") ? 1 : \ !strcmp (STR, "pagezero_size") ? 1 : \ 0) #undef WORD_SWITCH #define WORD_SWITCH(STR) \ (WORD_SWITCH_TAKES_ARG (STR) \ || !strcmp (STR, "bsd") \ || !strcmp (STR, "object") \ || !strcmp (STR, "ObjC") \ || !strcmp (STR, "all_load")) /* Machine dependent ccp options. */ #undef CPP_SPEC #define CPP_SPEC "%{!traditional: -D__STDC__} \ %{posixstrict:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} \ %{!posixstrict:%{bsd:-D__STRICT_BSD__} \ %{posix:-D_POSIX_SOURCE} \ %{!ansi:-D_NEXT_SOURCE}} \ %{MD:-MD %M} %{MMD:-MMD %M}" /* Machine dependent ld options. */ #undef LINK_SPEC #define LINK_SPEC "%{Z} %{M} \ %{execute*} %{preload*} %{fvmlib*} \ %{segalign*} %{seg1addr*} %{segaddr*} %{segprot*} \ %{pagezero_size*} \ %{seglinkedit*} %{noseglinkedit*} \ %{sectcreate*} %{sectalign*} %{sectobjectsymbols}\ %{segcreate*} %{Mach*} %{whyload} %{w} \ %{sectorder*} %{whatsloaded} %{ObjC} %{all_load} %{object}" /* Machine dependent libraries. */ #undef LIBGCC_SPEC #ifndef LIBGCC_SPEC #define LIBGCC_SPEC "" #endif #undef LIB_SPEC #ifndef LIB_SPEC #define LIB_SPEC "%{!shared:-lgcc} %{!shared:-lsys_s}" #endif #undef STARTFILE_SPEC #ifndef STARTFILE_SPEC /* config.h can define STARTFILE_SPEC to override the default crt0 files. */ #define STARTFILE_SPEC \ "-dynamic %{!shared:-lcrt1.o}" #endif /* Why not? */ #undef DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS #define DOLLARS_IN_IDENTIFIERS 2 /* Allow #sscs (but don't do anything). */ #define SCCS_DIRECTIVE /* We use Dbx symbol format. */ #undef SDB_DEBUGGING_INFO #undef XCOFF_DEBUGGING_INFO #define DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO /* This saves a fair amount of space. */ #undef DBX_CONTIN_LENGTH #define DBX_CONTIN_LENGTH 0 /* These screw up NeXT's gdb at the moment, so don't use them. */ #undef DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_DIRECTORY #define DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_DIRECTORY(FILE, FILENAME) /* These come from bsd386.h, but are specific to sequent, so make sure they don't bite us. */ #undef DBX_NO_XREFS #undef DBX_CONTIN_LENGTH /* gdb needs a null N_SO at the end of each file for scattered loading. */ #undef DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_FILE_END #define DBX_OUTPUT_MAIN_SOURCE_FILE_END(FILE, FILENAME) \ fprintf (FILE, \ "\t.text\n\t.stabs \"%s\",%d,0,0,Letext\nLetext:\n", \ "" , N_SO) /* Don't use .gcc_compiled symbols to communicate with GDB; They interfere with numerically sorted symbol lists. */ #undef ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC #define ASM_IDENTIFY_GCC(asm_out_file) #undef INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP #define INIT_SECTION_ASM_OP #undef INVOKE__main #undef ASM_OUTPUT_CONSTRUCTOR #define ASM_OUTPUT_CONSTRUCTOR(FILE,NAME) \ do { constructor_section (); \ ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, 1); \ fprintf (FILE, "\t.long "); \ assemble_name (FILE, NAME); \ fprintf (FILE, "\n"); \ fprintf (FILE, ".reference .constructors_used\n"); \ } while (0) #undef ASM_OUTPUT_DESTRUCTOR #define ASM_OUTPUT_DESTRUCTOR(FILE,NAME) \ do { destructor_section (); \ ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, 1); \ fprintf (FILE, "\t.long "); \ assemble_name (FILE, NAME); \ fprintf (FILE, "\n"); \ fprintf (FILE, ".reference .destructors_used\n"); \ } while (0) /* Don't output a .file directive. That is only used by the assembler for error reporting. */ #undef ASM_FILE_START #define ASM_FILE_START(FILE) #undef ASM_FILE_END #define ASM_FILE_END(FILE) \ do { \ extern char *language_string; \ if (strcmp (language_string, "GNU C++") == 0) \ { \ constructor_section (); \ destructor_section (); \ ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN (FILE, 1); \ } \ } while (0) /* How to parse #pragma's */ #undef HANDLE_PRAGMA #define HANDLE_PRAGMA(finput) handle_pragma (finput, &get_directive_line) /* Give methods pretty symbol names on NeXT. */ #undef OBJC_GEN_METHOD_LABEL #define OBJC_GEN_METHOD_LABEL(BUF,IS_INST,CLASS_NAME,CAT_NAME,SEL_NAME,NUM) \ do { if (CAT_NAME) \ sprintf (BUF, "%c[%s(%s) %s]", (IS_INST) ? '-' : '+', \ (CLASS_NAME), (CAT_NAME), (SEL_NAME)); \ else \ sprintf (BUF, "%c[%s %s]", (IS_INST) ? '-' : '+', \ (CLASS_NAME), (SEL_NAME)); \ } while (0) /* Wrap new method names in quotes so the assembler doesn't gag. Make Objective-C internal symbols local. */ #undef ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF #define ASM_OUTPUT_LABELREF(FILE,NAME) \ do { if (NAME[0] == '+' || NAME[0] == '-') fprintf (FILE, "\"%s\"", NAME); \ else if (!strncmp (NAME, "_OBJC_", 6)) fprintf (FILE, "L%s", NAME); \ else if (!strncmp (NAME, ".objc_class_name_", 17)) \ fprintf (FILE, "%s", NAME); \ else fprintf (FILE, "_%s", NAME); } while (0) #undef ALIGN_ASM_OP #define ALIGN_ASM_OP ".align" #undef ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN #define ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGN(FILE,LOG) \ if ((LOG) != 0) \ fprintf (FILE, "\t%s %d\n", ALIGN_ASM_OP, (LOG)) /* Ensure correct alignment of bss data. */ #undef ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL #define ASM_OUTPUT_ALIGNED_LOCAL(FILE, NAME, SIZE, ALIGN) \ ( fputs (".lcomm ", (FILE)), \ assemble_name ((FILE), (NAME)), \ fprintf ((FILE), ",%u,%u\n", (SIZE), floor_log2 ((ALIGN) / BITS_PER_UNIT))) /* Output #ident as a .ident. */ #undef ASM_OUTPUT_IDENT #define ASM_OUTPUT_IDENT(FILE, NAME) fprintf (FILE, "\t.ident \"%s\"\n", NAME); /* The maximum alignment which the object file format can support. For NeXT's Mach-O format, this is 2^15. */ #undef MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT #define MAX_OFILE_ALIGNMENT 0x8000 /* Create new Mach-O sections. */ #undef SECTION_FUNCTION #define SECTION_FUNCTION(FUNCTION, SECTION, DIRECTIVE, WAS_TEXT, OBJC) \ void \ FUNCTION () \ { \ extern void text_section (); \ extern void objc_section_init (); \ extern int flag_no_mach_text_sections; \ \ if (WAS_TEXT && flag_no_mach_text_sections) \ text_section (); \ else if (in_section != SECTION) \ { \ if (OBJC) \ objc_section_init (); \ fprintf (asm_out_file, "%s\n", DIRECTIVE); \ in_section = SECTION; \ } \ } \ #undef EXTRA_SECTIONS #define EXTRA_SECTIONS \ in_const, in_cstring, in_literal4, in_literal8, \ in_constructor, in_destructor, \ in_objc_class, in_objc_meta_class, in_objc_category, \ in_objc_class_vars, in_objc_instance_vars, \ in_objc_cls_meth, in_objc_inst_meth, \ in_objc_cat_cls_meth, in_objc_cat_inst_meth, \ in_objc_selector_refs, \ in_objc_symbols, in_objc_module_info, \ in_objc_protocol, in_objc_string_object, \ in_objc_class_names, in_objc_meth_var_names, \ in_objc_meth_var_types, in_objc_cls_refs #undef EXTRA_SECTION_FUNCTIONS #define EXTRA_SECTION_FUNCTIONS \ SECTION_FUNCTION (const_section, \ in_const, \ ".const", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (cstring_section, \ in_cstring, \ ".cstring", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (literal4_section, \ in_literal4, \ ".literal4", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (literal8_section, \ in_literal8, \ ".literal8", 1, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (constructor_section, \ in_constructor, \ ".constructor", 0, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (destructor_section, \ in_destructor, \ ".destructor", 0, 0) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_class_section, \ in_objc_class, \ ".objc_class", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_meta_class_section, \ in_objc_meta_class, \ ".objc_meta_class", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_category_section, \ in_objc_category, \ ".objc_category", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_class_vars_section, \ in_objc_class_vars, \ ".objc_class_vars", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_instance_vars_section, \ in_objc_instance_vars, \ ".objc_instance_vars", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cls_meth_section, \ in_objc_cls_meth, \ ".objc_cls_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_inst_meth_section, \ in_objc_inst_meth, \ ".objc_inst_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cat_cls_meth_section, \ in_objc_cat_cls_meth, \ ".objc_cat_cls_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cat_inst_meth_section, \ in_objc_cat_inst_meth, \ ".objc_cat_inst_meth", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_selector_refs_section, \ in_objc_selector_refs, \ ".objc_message_refs", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_symbols_section, \ in_objc_symbols, \ ".objc_symbols", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_module_info_section, \ in_objc_module_info, \ ".objc_module_info", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_protocol_section, \ in_objc_protocol, \ ".objc_protocol", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_string_object_section, \ in_objc_string_object, \ ".objc_string_object", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_class_names_section, \ in_objc_class_names, \ ".objc_class_names", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_meth_var_names_section, \ in_objc_meth_var_names, \ ".objc_meth_var_names", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_meth_var_types_section, \ in_objc_meth_var_types, \ ".objc_meth_var_types", 0, 1) \ SECTION_FUNCTION (objc_cls_refs_section, \ in_objc_cls_refs, \ ".objc_cls_refs", 0, 1) \ \ void \ objc_section_init () \ { \ static int been_here = 0; \ \ if (been_here == 0) \ { \ been_here = 1; \ objc_class_section (); \ objc_meta_class_section (); \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ objc_cat_inst_meth_section (); \ objc_cls_meth_section (); \ objc_inst_meth_section (); \ objc_selector_refs_section (); \ objc_symbols_section (); \ objc_category_section (); \ objc_protocol_section (); \ objc_class_vars_section (); \ objc_instance_vars_section (); \ objc_module_info_section (); \ objc_string_object_section (); \ objc_class_names_section (); \ objc_meth_var_names_section (); \ objc_meth_var_types_section (); \ objc_cls_refs_section (); \ } \ } #undef READONLY_DATA_SECTION #define READONLY_DATA_SECTION const_section #undef SELECT_SECTION #define SELECT_SECTION(exp,reloc) \ do \ { \ if (TREE_CODE (exp) == STRING_CST) \ { \ if (flag_writable_strings) \ data_section (); \ else if (TREE_STRING_LENGTH (exp) != \ strlen (TREE_STRING_POINTER (exp)) + 1) \ readonly_data_section (); \ else \ cstring_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == INTEGER_CST \ || TREE_CODE (exp) == REAL_CST) \ { \ tree size = TYPE_SIZE (TREE_TYPE (exp)); \ \ if (TREE_CODE (size) == INTEGER_CST && \ TREE_INT_CST_LOW (size) == 4 && \ TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (size) == 0) \ literal4_section (); \ else if (TREE_CODE (size) == INTEGER_CST && \ TREE_INT_CST_LOW (size) == 8 && \ TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (size) == 0) \ literal8_section (); \ else \ readonly_data_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == CONSTRUCTOR \ && TREE_TYPE (exp) \ && TREE_CODE (TREE_TYPE (exp)) == RECORD_TYPE \ && TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp)) \ && TREE_CODE (TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp))) == IDENTIFIER_NODE \ && IDENTIFIER_POINTER (TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp)))) \ { \ if (!strcmp (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (TYPE_NAME (TREE_TYPE (exp))), \ "NXConstantString")) \ objc_string_object_section (); \ else if ((TREE_READONLY (exp) || TREE_CONSTANT (exp)) \ && !TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (exp)) \ readonly_data_section (); \ else \ data_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == VAR_DECL && \ DECL_NAME (exp) && \ TREE_CODE (DECL_NAME (exp)) == IDENTIFIER_NODE && \ IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (exp)) && \ !strncmp (IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (exp)), "_OBJC_", 6)) \ { \ const char *name = IDENTIFIER_POINTER (DECL_NAME (exp)); \ \ if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_METHODS_", 20)) \ objc_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_INSTANCE_METHODS_", 23)) \ objc_inst_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CATEGORY_CLASS_METHODS_", 20)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CATEGORY_INSTANCE_METHODS_", 23)) \ objc_cat_inst_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_VARIABLES_", 22)) \ objc_class_vars_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_INSTANCE_VARIABLES_", 25)) \ objc_instance_vars_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_PROTOCOLS_", 22)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_NAME_", 17)) \ objc_class_names_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_METH_VAR_NAME_", 20)) \ objc_meth_var_names_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_METH_VAR_TYPE_", 20)) \ objc_meth_var_types_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_REFERENCES", 22)) \ objc_cls_refs_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CLASS_", 12)) \ objc_class_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_METACLASS_", 16)) \ objc_meta_class_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_CATEGORY_", 15)) \ objc_category_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_SELECTOR_REFERENCES", 25)) \ objc_selector_refs_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_SYMBOLS", 13)) \ objc_symbols_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_MODULES", 13)) \ objc_module_info_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_INSTANCE_METHODS_", 32)) \ objc_cat_inst_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_CLASS_METHODS_", 29)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_REFS_", 20)) \ objc_cat_cls_meth_section (); \ else if (!strncmp (name, "_OBJC_PROTOCOL_", 15)) \ objc_protocol_section (); \ else if ((TREE_READONLY (exp) || TREE_CONSTANT (exp)) \ && !TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (exp)) \ readonly_data_section (); \ else \ data_section (); \ } \ else if (TREE_CODE (exp) == VAR_DECL) \ { \ if ((flag_pic && reloc) \ || !TREE_READONLY (exp) || TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (exp) \ || !DECL_INITIAL (exp) \ || (DECL_INITIAL (exp) != error_mark_node \ && !TREE_CONSTANT (DECL_INITIAL (exp)))) \ data_section (); \ else \ readonly_data_section (); \ } \ else \ readonly_data_section (); \ } \ while (0) #undef SELECT_RTX_SECTION #define SELECT_RTX_SECTION(mode, rtx) \ do \ { \ if (GET_MODE_SIZE(mode) == 8) \ literal8_section(); \ else if (GET_MODE_SIZE(mode) == 4) \ literal4_section(); \ else \ const_section (); \ } \ while (0) --------------446B794B15FB--
From: tyf@primenet.com (Tin-Yau Fung) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help!] : Triple boot on 2 disk Date: 17 Feb 1997 11:25:05 -0700 Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet Message-ID: <5ea7q1$6qn@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Hi, I have placed an order for an Intel system to run NS 3.3 I am going to have a new 2.1 gig hard disk , but I also want to use my old 500 MB hard disk. I am thinking of partitioning the 2.1 gig drive to run NeXTSTEP and Linux, and the second drive with NT. My question is whether it's possible to install a bootable OS on a non-primary disk? The 2.1G disk I am going to have would be SCSI=0 disk. Is it possible to boot an OS from a SCSI=1 disk? Pointers appreciated. Thanks a lot. -- --------------------------- Tin-Yau Fung @ UC Berkeley : tyf@ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu. MIME / NeXT mail welcome! http://www-ucsee.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tyf
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 17:05:26 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Cc: frank@this.net Cache-Post-Path: news2.isdnet.net!unknown@ppp43.mon.hol.fr This was written in comp.sys.next.sysadmin (<5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de>) by Frank M. Siegert: > In <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > > Sure. It works. Thanks! (I'm doing the upgrades manually since I > > don't want to squash my configuration files - not a big deal! but... > > =:=@) ) > > > > Hopefully this means your happy factor has increased :) Yes but still puzzled! (For the ones not using CAP, this "smilie" comes from: << # Showing Network entities... Looking for =:=@ >> > > You may try to 'feed' in your values to aarpd and atis by maintaining > a '/etc/atalk.local' file: > Sure, I've seen it in Man pages. I've already tried it. And even retried it after reading your post but it just doesn't work. From what I understand, CAP is configured to work with a seeding Apple router. It can not seed by itself. More if I wanted to configure the Apple router (in my case the software "Apple Internet Router") with the same strange values that UAR choose , it's not possible since they are out of the configurable range! (according "uar.cookbook": 5. Decide on whether or not you are going to run UAR as a "seed router". That is, if UAR is to be configured with details of your local AppleTalk network or is to determine information empirically from the network. For UAR to function as a "seed router", you must create a uar.conf file that contains network number(s) and zone name(s) for each of the participating ethernet interfaces on your UAR host (see the sample uar.conf provided). The information in uar.conf *must* be identical to the configuration in any other AppleTalk routers on the local networks, this is not optional! Normally your campus/institution network manager is the best source of such information. 6. If you are absolutely certain that there are no other local AppleTalk routers then you may choose numbers for the "network", "networklo" and "networkhi" entries. A "node" entry is optional. Network numbers are 16-bit quantities and can range from 1 to 65534 (the values 65280 to 65534 are reserved as the "startup range" on Phase 2 networks, don't assign a network number in this range). These 16-bit numbers can also be represented as two decimal numbers separated by a dot. In this notation, 56284 is represented as 219.220 (ie: 219 x 256 + 220). The node number is an 8-bit number, the valid range is 1 - 254 on Phase 1 AppleTalk networks and 1 - 253 on Phase 2 AppleTalk networks (assume Phase 2 for recent Macintoshes unless you know otherwise). Node numbers specified for UAR should be towards the high end of the range, ie: 253. You must also choose a zone name or list of zone names for your network, in the latter case specify one of them as the "default" zone name. The interface names are the device names for your ethernet interfaces and can be listed using the command 'netstat -i'. Under AIX, use "ent0", "ent1" rather than the listed "en0", "en1".) For me it looks like that if I want to use the NeXT network as primary network (able to seed the Apple network), I have to use UAR... The problem is that I can not compile it!!! Or else find ***where in the hell*** CAP is looking for the exotic values ("(the values 65280 to 65534 are reserved as the "startup range" on Phase 2 networks, don't assign a network number in this range)") of: netRangeStart 0.00 netRangeEnd 255.254 thisNet 255.00 bridgeNet 0.00 bridgeNode 0 mc
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 17 Feb 1997 19:39:57 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5eac6d$fp6@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> Cc: mic@micmac.com In <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> Michel Coste wrote: > For me it looks like that if I want to use the NeXT network as > primary network (able to seed the Apple network), I have to use > UAR... > The problem is that I can not compile it!!! You can get a patched version of the UAR source from the ftp site of Satoshi Adachi (who did the BPF port) ftp://ftp.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp/pub/adachi/bpf_NeXT/ If you cannot compile it yourself will set it up and upload it to my page in the next days for you... just tell me. > Or else find ***where in the hell*** CAP is looking for the exotic > values > ("(the values 65280 to 65534 are reserved as the > "startup range" on Phase 2 networks, don't > assign a network number in this range)") of: > netRangeStart 0.00 > netRangeEnd 255.254 > thisNet 255.00 > bridgeNet 0.00 > bridgeNode 0 > This is set to the default values in support/ethertalk/aarpd.c (around line124), it will probe for the current values in init_enet() (also in aarpd.c). -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer Update for m68k (locking problems solved) Date: 17 Feb 1997 20:10:01 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5eadup$ftc@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5e2p4v$3fd@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5nqtH.Kn@micmac.com> <5e5np4$7om@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <E5rBH2.J3@micmac.com> <5eac6d$fp6@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Now I got my hands on the UAR 1.0 source I stumbled upon its licence which clearly states that it may not be redistributed (that's the reason it is unbundled from CAP methinks). I have asked for permission, but without I cannot put a binary UAR on my site... Let's wait and see. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT Boot Loader loading NS3.3 ? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:19:33 -0600 Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <330949F5.E3F@okstate.edu> References: <5dr5n5$8i1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kai S. Wong wrote: > > Anyone manage to load NS3.3 on different partition using NT Boot Loader? > If yes, please give me pointer how to do it. http://genesis.rz.uni-hildesheim.de/~ttoe0057/nextsdwx.html -- Bill Keller (kellerw@okstate.edu) ---------------------------------
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 4.0/4.1 drivers on 3.3? Date: 17 Feb 1997 14:06:05 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5e9okd$dbi@news.next.com> References: <5e82d3$89v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5e82d3$89v@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) writes: #Do the 4.0/4.1 OS drivers work for NS3.3? Generally, NO. joe
From: Joe_Keenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: 17 Feb 1997 14:11:33 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5e9oul$dcr@news.next.com> References: <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> In article <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff Richmond) writes: #Hi folks. I have a problem with DNS resolution .. I have 3 DNS #servers defined in /etc/resolv.conf. The first is to my local DNS, #the second to one ISPs DNS and the third to another ISPs DNS. If I #connect to either ISP, DNS lookups don't work. But, if I go into #nslookup and point it directly at one of my ISPs DNS servers, it #resolves it. That's your first problems. The list if servers in /etc/resolv.conf is not search order, but a list of (ordered) alternative servers. If the resolver library can talk to the first server on the list, it won't try any of the others. It only attempts to contact the [second,third] server on the list if it can't reach the first one. #So, depending on which ISP I connect to, I change my /etc/resolv.conf #to have only that ISPs DNS server in it. Then, by sending a HUP to #the nibindd, it should restart and reload info from /etc/resolv.conf, #no? Why doesn't this seem to work? Any thoughts? Wrong daemon. nibindd is the NetInfo binder daemon. You want to restart lookupd. joe
From: "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring the sendmail Date: 17 Feb 1997 16:07:38 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5e9voa$ctj@concorde.ctp.com> Hey Folks! Currently my From: field has the following format username@hostname.domainname I would like to have it in the following format: username@domainname What should I do? Thanks -- georg -- -- ------- /\/\ Georg Tuparev <georg_tuparev@ctp.com> / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners \ / / Apollo House, Apollolaan 15 \/\/ 1077 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31(20)575-0492 Fax: +31(20)575-0500 WWW: http://www.ctp.com
From: Peter Cushing <vkoser@biggun.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 16:04:52 -0800 Organization: None Message-ID: <3308F224.7DB3@biggun.com> References: <5eabjl$s4f@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jon Haveman wrote: > A friend of mine is in the process of setting up my NeXT to be a name > server for a couple of domain names. He has done this with a couple of > SGI computers and says he had no problem. He is struggling a little bit > with my NeXT. Says he read the man page and did the stuff he knows to > do, but that it isn't working. > I know that that isn't very much information, but does anybody know if > there is anything non-standard, or tricky with respect to setting this up > on a NeXT. I'm currently using NS3.3 if that matters. > Thanks in advance. > Cheers - jon ok, here is some more info on where I (the friend) am at with the setup. I have created the named.boot file and setup the db file for the domain that jon wishes to be the authoratative name server for. I then start named as I would normally and it shows up in the process table but returns this error when I query his machine for the new domain. xx are real numbers I'm just paranoid so I replaced them. [root]:/Users/vince > nslookup foo.org 128.210.xx.xx *** Can't find server name for address 128.210.xx.xx: Server failed *** Default servers are not available [root]:/Users/vince > so, it looks as though named is not even running. it is running though. does anyone know if there is a special way of running named that just running it as root won't work? thanks for any help. vince
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:37:55 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 17-Feb-97 samba functionality on next? by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > disk and printer sharing) from the host. NeXT's ship with NFS and lpd. Look up those topics in the man pages, Librarian.app and NeXT's Sysadmin docs, and/or your favorite O'Reilly reference manuals. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NeXT '040 cube & DAT drives Message-ID: <E5qDMK.2L4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5e27hd$emb@hpax.cup.hp.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 04:54:19 GMT In article <5e27hd$emb@hpax.cup.hp.com> klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) writes: > For those who have '040 non-turbo NeXTs and backup your systems > to DAT drives: when backing up, does your DAT drive stream or > does it write, stop, write, stop, etc? > > I've found that when I'm backing up my drive, it doesn't stream > as much as I would like. Every 5-10 seconds, the drive hesitates > and it's not good for its longevity. During backup, the system > is in single user mode, I run mtset -i prior to using dump with > the following options: 0ufs /dev/rst0 75000 /, using a 60m tape. > Throughput speed is roughly 25MB/minute, and I know the drive is > capable of much faster operation--on my Mac, its throughput is > around 35MB/minute. My drive on my NeXT hovers at around 800K/sec > but the 25MB/minute equates to 420K/sec. I tried using the default > 1600bpi and 6250bpi option, both giving me the same results. > > The DAT drive is a Sony SDT-7000. Cube has 28MB RAM. Haven't tried > tar. When untarring stuff form a DAT tape I write in the office, > it streams fine, which leads me to believe I'm doing something > wrong on the NeXT end when I backup. Oh yeah, my HD is formatted > at 512bytes/sector, and it's approximately half full; running 3.2. > > Any ideas? > Possibly not an idea but another observation. Mine (25MHz slab with HP-DAT) went the like until I began using SafetyNet, a hellufan app! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: 17 Feb 1997 19:29:57 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5eabjl$s4f@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> A friend of mine is in the process of setting up my NeXT to be a name server for a couple of domain names. He has done this with a couple of SGI computers and says he had no problem. He is struggling a little bit with my NeXT. Says he read the man page and did the stuff he knows to do, but that it isn't working. I know that that isn't very much information, but does anybody know if there is anything non-standard, or tricky with respect to setting this up on a NeXT. I'm currently using NS3.3 if that matters. Thanks in advance. Cheers - jon -- Jon Haveman http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@mgmt.purdue.edu Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disk mounting (or not) question Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:43:25 -0600 Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <3309336D.23D2@okstate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have two SCSI disks, one formatted for Nextstep, the other for NT using NTFS. Everytime I boot Nextstep, I get the "SCSI disk is unreadable, do you want to initialize?" panel. Is there anyway to force Nextstep to stop looking at this disk on startup? -- Bill Keller (kellerw@okstate.edu) ---------------------------------
From: carlisle@juncol.juniata.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking Error Message-ID: <1997Feb17.223536.2312@juncol.juniata.edu> Date: 17 Feb 97 22:35:36 -0500 Organization: Juniata College, Huntingdon, PA -- USA I am having problems getting my machine back from networking errors. I gave my NeXT a faulty network setting, and now it is hanging on retrying the communications with the network. The manual states to hit Command-~(tilda) to interrupt the boot in the ROM Monitor stage and boot single user, but the Command-tilda key combination doesn't work. I've used Command-Alternate before, but now that doesn't work either. Any ideas? Please e-mail. -Bill Carlisle carlisle@juniata.edu
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 18 Feb 1997 06:47:03 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5ebj97$p5a@gaea.titan.org> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> In article <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com>, Don Yacktman wrote: > > I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) and EIDE > CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've been trying to get it > to play audio CDs, but it refuses to cooperate. I cannot get it to work with > CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a > similar configuration and has been able to make this work. (I sent this to Don via email, but I thought it might be of more general interest, and actually, I'm hoping that someone who knows more about SCSI/ATAPI programming might be able to help me.) You might try removing OmniCD (or moving it to some place where the system won't try to autolaunch it), then pop in your audio cd. (You'll generally need to log out and log back in to get the system to stop trying to launch OmniCD.) If all goes well, CDPlayer will autolaunch and open the cd normally. (I've not experimented with this very much.) OmniCD has two (known) problems with ATAPI cdrom drives: The first is that OmniCD currently scans the SCSI bus looking for cdrom devices, and at the same time builds a map between physical SCSI ids and logical ids. I'm checking whether or not there's a device at a given ID by opening the generic SCSI device, setting the appropriate target id (I always use LUN 0 here, which is why OmniCD doesn't work on other LUNs), and then clearing unit attention (via a Request Sense). That Request Sense fails on ATAPI devices (not sure why - I thought that one would work), so I go back thinking there's no device on that ID. (If I ignore failure on the Request Sense, I go back thinking there's a device on _every_ ID.) I don't know much about SCSI/ATAPI programming, so if anyone tells me the correct way to do this, I'll fix it. Rakesh Dubey could probably help me here, but I've been unable to contact him. The second problem is that the commands for changing volume are different on EIDE devices, so even when I set it up so I can address an ATAPI device, I can't change the volume. I expect I could Again, any clues here would be appreciated. I imagine that the reason CDPlayer can work with ATAPI drives is that it doesn't scan the bus - it just tries to open whatever device the system tells it to when an audio cd is mounted. I haven't tested whether or not CDPlayer can change the audio volume for ATAPI cdrom drives, but I suspect it can or I would have probably heard otherwise. Note that even CDPlayer will require an ATAPI drive - not just any EIDE cdrom drive will work. -andrew -- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: UK NeXTSTEP-user group meeting: 20 February 1997 Date: 18 Feb 1997 11:15:08 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5ec2vs$18d@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Sorry about short notice, and for brevity of this message: Luke Howard of Xedoc is currently in the UK, and has kindly consented to give a talk about NetInfo (which will then lead to a discussion about other aspects of "recent events" :-) at 6:00pm on Thursday 20 February at Complete Works 399 Strand, London. (Just above Stanley Gibbons) 0171 836 0808 Many thanks to Jackie Mackay of Complete Works for agreeing to host this at short notice. Could you please let me know if you're likely to attend. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INETD or XINETD source? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:25:40 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <3308A2A4.1294@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Anyone know where I can find source code for INETD or XINETD that will compile under NS 3.3. ?? I need to up the nunber of allowed connections per minute. I'm running into the 40 connection "looping" limit once in a while. Email would be best, thanks in advance! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- James R. Pooton <james@digisys.net> President/Technical Director DigiSys Incorporated
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail 8.8.5 dbopen problem Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 03:44:02 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I try to send mail (I recently upgraded to sendmail 8.8.5), I get the message in my console: sendmail[5047]:dbopen(/etc/sendmail/userdb.db): Invalid argument any ideas? I'm on NS 3.3 Intel, and am not using the sendmail.cw file. Thanks in advance. -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University Time keeps slipping into the future... ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: samba functionality on next? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 19:52:06 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello All, Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie disk and printer sharing) from the host. Is there a package out there to help? Please CC my private mail address on replies. Thanks a lot, Paul Doornbusch
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q. How copy boot disk to new disk, including DOS partition? Date: 18 Feb 1997 09:49:33 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5ebtve$5a0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I plan to get a new 2 GB hard disk, and I want to simply copy to the new disk my existing 1 GB boot disk in its entirety, which includes a DOS partition and the boot block. In reading the NeXT documentation and FAQs, it is not clear to me whether (or how) ditto, dump, or BuildDisk will do this. Any definitive answers on how this is done will be greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: "James R. Pooton" <james@digisys.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Standalone POP3 server anyone? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:22:32 -0700 Organization: DigiSys Incorporated Message-ID: <3309E558.3364@digisys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyone using a standalone POP3 server under NeXTStep? (*NOT through inetd) Anyone gotten "cucipop" to compile successfully? Any thoughts would be appreciated, email if poosible. Thanks! -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- James R. Pooton <james@digisys.net>
From: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:17:56 +0100 Organization: Wirehub! Internet Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> NFS is not what I wanted, an SMB server is really the answer. I think the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. Paul On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 17-Feb-97 samba > functionality on next? by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > > disk and printer sharing) from the host. > > NeXT's ship with NFS and lpd. Look up those topics in the man pages, > Librarian.app and NeXT's Sysadmin docs, and/or your favorite O'Reilly > reference manuals. > > -Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist. > > > Paul Doornbusch Sonology Dept. Royal Conservatory Den Haag The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: file ownership Message-ID: <E5t9Lq.E7A@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:20:14 GMT References: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: > I'm having a problem with file ownership. > My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. > However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep changing > ownership to my account . > ... > So my questions are: Why does it keep changing ownership? > How can I make the ownership sticky (remain root)? > What caused this problem, so I can prevent it in the future. Typically this is caused by not having an entry for the disk in your /etc/fstab file. If Workspace notices a SCSI disk which isn't specifically mentioned in your fstab, it assumes that it is a temporary disk which you want mounted in the same manner as a floppy. The disk is mounted using the permissions of the current user logged in. If this is the cause of your problem, you can simply add a line like the following to /etc/fstab, so that the disk will be a permanent part of your machine's set of file systems: /dev/sd1a /LocalApps 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 assuming you want the disk mounted as /LocalApps. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fdisk broken in 4.0 installation? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:57:49 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <330A09BD.46F1@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've installed OPENSTEP 4.0 about six times and seem to come accross the following problem. If I partition the disk at the beginning of the installation proceedure (I created a 150MB DOS partition), all goes fine until the very end of the installation. I get the error messages posted below. However if I use the entire disk for OPENSTEP, or if I use Linux to partition the disk first, then install OPENSTEP on an unused partition, all goes fine. I get these error messages when I use OPENSTEP's installation diskette to partition the disk: Installing /usr/bin/fgrepsd1: No error to report; Retrying target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4>..... sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:900 blockCount:4 IO error on pagein (breadDirect) /usr/bin/fgrep: Bad address sd1:UNIT ATTENTION; Retrying. target:2 lun: op:Read block:228 blockCount:1 completed The hard disk is ready to use as the startup disk to complete installing OPENSTEP. Remove the disk from the floppy disk drive and then press return. (At this point I removed the floppy, hit Return, and got this message when it restarted) Error 1 reading bitmap from /usr/standalone/i386/Panel.image' Could not load all bitmaps; using test mode. Loading OPENSTEP Can't find mach_kernel Error 1 reading bitmap from /usr/standalone/i386/Panel.image' Could not load all bitmaps; using test mode. Loading OPENSTEP Can't find mach_kernel boot: I reinstalled several times before using Linux to partition the disk first. Then the installation went fine. --Greg
From: ŸŸŸŸŸúÈ6·jim@acb2.cgs.edu (Jim Kieley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UNIX "cut"command Date: 18 Feb 1997 18:35:11 GMT Organization: The Claremont Colleges Message-ID: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> I'm trying to use a front end to the SWISH indexing engine called WWWWais. The indexing script calls the "cut" command which I find on our Solaris boxes but not as part of NeXT/Openstep. > foreach pathname (`du $rootdir | cut -f2 | tail -r`) Is there an alternative I can easily use or has someone compiled "cut" for Motorla hardware? Thanks! Jim Kieley jim@cgs.edu
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rumba and NT4.0 workstation question. Date: 18 Feb 97 16:45:27 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.97Feb18164527@howard.one.net> Why ask this question on a NeXT group? I figure I'm more likely to understand the responses. OK, so I'm not an NT guru. Got samba. Compiled it. Works fine. Can mount my NeXT files onto the NT system. Got rumba, compiled it. Now I can mount my samba-exported home directory from my ISP. I _can't_ mount shared files from the NT system, though. Not sure why. I can "mount" the shared files from the NT system onto itself just fine, though I doubt that's a valid test of any sort (everything seems to work fine, I just don't necessarily believe it's working :-). Only have the one NT machine here, so I can't test whether it can export to another successfully. After asking for my password, rumba says: Kernel: smb_receive_raw: Invalid packet 0x83 Kernel: smb_receive: receive error: -5 Kernel: smb_proc_connect: Failed to send SESSION REQUEST. error connecting to server: [5] I/O error Anyone have any clues? Makes no difference if I use my compiled binary or the pre-compiled m68k binary off the net. Unfortunately, I can't test whether it works for Intel, because the Intel machine is also the NT machine :-). [But, hey, it works for the ISP's samba ...] Thanks for any help, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: marsu@hh.home.netcs.com (Henrik Hempelmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX "cut"command Date: 18 Feb 1997 23:07:13 +0100 Organization: Palumbian Networks Message-ID: <5ed96h$f8u$1@hh.home.netcs.com> References: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jim Kieley writes: >I'm trying to use a front end to the SWISH indexing engine called WWWWais. >The indexing script calls the "cut" command which I find on our Solaris boxes >but not as part of NeXT/Openstep. >> foreach pathname (`du $rootdir | cut -f2 | tail -r`) > Is there an alternative I can easily use or has someone compiled "cut" for >Motorla hardware? Thanks! "cut" is part of the "GNU textutils" - compiles on NeXT right out of the box. henrik -- Henrik Hempelmann marsu@in-berlin.de (NeXT/MIME/PGP-Mail) http://home.pages.de/~marsu/ individual network berlin - internet von privat fuer privat
From: Buddy Cox <buddyc@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Color Printer Msg Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 11:49:58 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <32FA19C6.B7C@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to configure a newly acquired NeXT Color Printer and really need some good advice! I have installed the printer (running Openstep 4.1 on a turbo color), cabled it up and have run a test page (through the selection panel on the printer) which seems to work okay. However, when I boot up and attempt to print a test page from printmanager or from an application I get the message "printer is offline/unavailable." I have switched out SCSI cables, etc. on the hardware side. Was wondering if I have overlooked anything? It is a non-networked (at this point) printer. And I have attached it to several other standalone machines running 3.2, 3.3 and 4.1 with no luck. Any feedback would be GREATLY appreciated! Buddy
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:47:13 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kn2Xy1y00iWSMDUcE8@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 18-Feb-97 Re: samba functionality on .. by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > NFS is not what I wanted, an SMB server is really the answer. I think > the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank > Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under > /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. If you're motivated, you could always configure the software as you see fit and release it to the Internet at large. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Message-ID: <E5sy3E.2K9@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:11:37 GMT In article <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> writes: > Hello All, > > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > disk and printer sharing) from the host. > > Is there a package out there to help? > > Please CC my private mail address on replies. > Thanks a lot, > > Paul Doornbusch > Hi Paul, You are right, Samba does provide file and printer sharing functionality. So your Windows PCs (except Windows 3.1-PCs, there are, as far as I know, some problems) will be able to access your Nextstep PC's hard drives and printers. As far as I know, there isn't any precompiled samba-package for NS 3.3, but it is (after a little source modification) no problem to compile at least Samba v1.9.16p9 for NS 3.3 quad-fat. This is the version I have already compiled at our company and it is working fine since set-up. You can get the sources for example at http://lake.canberra.edu.au/samba or /pub/samba, I don't quite remember. If you would like me to email you the samba package I have already compiled, please drop me a note (Installer package size is about 2.5MB). Robert. ========================================================================= Robert Wunderer OneVision GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany =========================================================================
From: maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP + SAMBA '030 cube binaries? Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:28:57 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5edl0p$ekg$1@cheyenne.iac.net> Looking for CAP and SAMBA binaries for a '030 cube running NS 2.2. Unfortunately I lack the original media distribution, and also lack a development c compiler.... Anyone able to help with this? We have a printer just waiting to be shared with some Win95 and mac boxes... TIA! J. Maynard Gelinas
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX "cut"command Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 20:19:43 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gn2ZIji00iWp0GT8E0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ecsov$g46$1@cinenews.claremont.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Feb-97 UNIX "cut"command by Jim Kieley) > > foreach pathname (`du $rootdir | cut -f2 | tail -r`) > > Is there an alternative I can easily use or has someone compiled "cut" for > Motorla hardware? Thanks! You can build the GNU version off of ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/textutils-1.21.tar.gz (or a later version). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: allman@pat.mdc.com (Mark Allman ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: problem making perl5.003 Date: 18 Feb 1997 23:12:26 GMT Organization: McDonnell Douglas, Houston Division Message-ID: <5edd0q$9qe@cisu2.jsc.nasa.gov> References: <5e8104$p1d@netnews.upenn.edu> In article <5e8104$p1d@netnews.upenn.edu>, kazdan@hans.math.upenn.edu (Jerry L. Kazdan) writes: |> I am attempting to make perl 5.003 on NeXT (black) running NeXTSTEP 3.2 |> (Developer). |> |> I ran "Configure" using only the default values. Then I ran |> "make". After a while I got a "Segmentation fault". |> Here is the last part of the log from running "make": |> |> .....(snip)..... |> `sh cflags libperl.a globals.o` globals.c |> CCCMD = cc -c -DUSE_NEXT_CTYPE -O |> rm -f libperl.a |> ar rcu libperl.a perl.o gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o \ |> mg.o hv.o av.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.odoop.o \ |> doio.o regexec.o taint.o deb.o globals.o |> cc -u libsys_s -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/gnu/lib -o miniperl |> miniperlmain.o libperl.a -ldbm |> ./miniperl configpm tmp |> sh mv-if-diff tmp lib/Config.pm |> ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2html.PL |> Extracting pod2html (with variable substitutions) |> *** Segmentation fault |> *** `pod/pod2html' removed |> Stop. |> |> |> Any hints on how I can fix this? |> |> -- Jerry Execute ./miniperl -Ilib pod/pod2html.PL at the command line. I believe that'll work. Then just type "make" to continue the build. I ran into the same thing (I think). I'm trying to build on OpenStep 4.1 and am running into even worse problems. -- Mark Allman -- Sr. Engineer, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, allman@pat.mdc.com -- Software consulting (Perl, C, Python, ...), ghost@ghost.neosoft.com -- (see: http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/5857.html)
From: jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 18 Feb 1997 22:26:15 -0800 Organization: Blarg! Online Services - 206/441-9109 Message-ID: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> Keywords: stumped I have an OPENSTEP 4.1 question. How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? I know how to use the Tools Inspector to show which apps OPENSTEP thinks can open the particular file type and to set the default application for that file type, but what if an application doesn't show up in the list the Tools Inspector displays? Is there any way to force the application to be "discovered" by the Tools Inspector? Specifically, I am running some FAX software that generates TIFF files. However, it calls them <blahblahblah>.tif. The only apps that the Tools Inspector claims can open a .tif file are IconBuilder, Edit, and WM. If I rename the file to be <blahblahblah>.tiff, then Preview shows up in the list of applications. I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set Preview as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? Thank you for any help, Jon -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Wright jwright@blarg.net voice 206-635-0338 fax 206-635-0339 I'm a potato and I'm so hip http://www.blarg.net/~jwright
From: "Trey McClendon" <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from NT to NeXTprinter? Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:47:09 GMT Organization: Ongoing Message-ID: <01bc1e06$d0951700$699193d0@tgm.hiwaay.net> References: <5dro2r$fcq@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM> <856045067.25358@dejanews.com> I've had some excellent success with the Adobe Postscript driver in conjunction with the NeXT Laserprinter PPD file also available at Adobe. I don't know if it runs on NT, though. It might be worth checking out. See the www.adobe.com site for more details. trey john@nextdoor.com wrote in article <856045067.25358@dejanews.com>... > In article <5dt574$nha@news.NeXT.COM>, > Eric_Noyau@next.com (Eric Noyau) wrote: > > > > (Munch...) > > > > You have to check the 'page independence' switch somewhere in one of the > > NT configuration panel. Right click on your printer, and click on > > 'document defaults'/Advanced/'Postscript options'/'Page independence'. > > > > That should do the trick. > > > IT WORKS!!! > > Well, for the most part anyway. I still get an occasional PostScript > error when printing a subset of the pages in an MS Word document, and I > got a "WindowServer[202]: nxpd_PageProc: can't print page: invalid port" > error in the middle of a multi-page document once, but compared to being > able to print only one page at a time, I can live with errors like these > occasionally. > > Eric, THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU! I was wrestling with this problem > for weeks, and was just getting ready to go out and buy a new laser > printer for the PC. You saved me 700 bucks! > > John > john@nextdoor.com > > -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet >
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.5 dbopen problem Date: 19 Feb 1997 03:55:21 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5edtj9$6vu@news2.cais.com> References: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> sendmail is expecting a user database. The sendmail doc in /etc/sendmail/doc discusses the format. You basically create a text file with the following info: # cat /etc/sendmail/userdb eadubie:mailname Eric_Dubiel Eric_Dubiel:maildrop eadubie then run "makemap" on it to create /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. Restart sendmail and all will work fine. -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: root@h0010112.smith.ilstu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.5 dbopen problem Date: 19 Feb 1997 07:08:06 GMT Organization: Illinois State University- Instructional Technology Services Message-ID: <5ee8sm$ct4@thor.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <33097917.4FD5@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <5edtj9$6vu@news2.cais.com> Keywords: sendmail, dbopen, error, bug Cc: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com In <5edtj9$6vu@news2.cais.com> Robert La Ferla expressed: > sendmail is expecting a user database. The sendmail doc in > /etc/sendmail/doc discusses the format. You basically create a text > file with the following info: > > # cat /etc/sendmail/userdb > eadubie:mailname Eric_Dubiel > Eric_Dubiel:maildrop eadubie > > then run "makemap" on it to create /etc/sendmail/userdb.db. Restart > sendmail and all will work fine. Hmm, currently I have: #[many comment lines deleted] root:mailname eadubie@ilstu.edu eadubie:mailname eadubie@ilstu.edu eadubie:maildrop eadubie@ilstu.edu eadubie:fullname Eric A. Dubiel Can you see any problems here? I want the setup to be where I get my mail at my RS6000 account- eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu and so I can send mail from my NS 3.3 Intel box. Could those comment lines be fudging things up? Thx! -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu MIME, SUN or NeXT Mail; PGP ok Instructional Technology Services- Illinois State University Understanding is best learned via experience ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702181628.LAA11746@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: bf0391bca8f0170f270742e305f583ff - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 97 11:28:34 -0500 Subject: Re: Configuring the sendmail Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: bf0391bca8f0170f270742e305f583ff - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> Original Date: 17 Feb 1997 16:07:38 GMT > Currently my From: field has the following format > username@hostname.domainname > > I would like to have it in the following format: > username@domainname > > What should I do? If using 3.3 you can use the Expert preferences and add your own header. From username@domainname (no ":" in there) Or you can use the new sendmail and the instructions (which are linked to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/) for setting it up that way. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702181640.LAA11956@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 898ac1f003be7f8e61765076415cfa25 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 97 11:40:00 -0500 Subject: Re: disk mounting (or not) question Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 898ac1f003be7f8e61765076415cfa25 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Bill Keller <kellerw@okstate.edu> Original Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 22:43:25 -0600 > Is there anyway to force Nextstep to stop looking at this disk on > startup? Under NS 3.3 there is an entry for 'ignore' in 'man fstab' which some have reported does not work for them and others have said does. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: Lars Immisch <immisch@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 14:13:06 +0100 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <3309AAE2.7BBA@pobox.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: Paul Doornbusch <pauld@koncon.nl> Paul Doornbusch wrote: > > Hello All, > > Please excuse me is this is something everyone else knows about, but I > would like the sort of functionality that I think Samba gives on NS 3.3. > I have a few PC's hanging off our net (we mostly have NS and Mac's - > thanks Frank for Cap), and while they network well between themselves > with Windoze software, the users would like similar functionality (ie > disk and printer sharing) from the host. Samba - ftp://nimbus.anu.edu.au/pub/tridge/samba - compiles on NS 3.3 without problems. You have to edit the Makefile, but there is a section explaining what you have to do for NS 3.x. If you follow them, it should compile fine. > Is there a package out there to help? Not as a package... But it's easy to build. > Please CC my private mail address on replies. > Thanks a lot, > > Paul Doornbusch Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: Sharad Shanbhag <shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing PPD file for NeXT Laser Printer in NT 4.0 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 00:21:15 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Message-ID: <330A9BDB.26AB@neuro.med.umn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------1513FF33836" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1513FF33836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was finally able to install a PPD file for my unsupported printer on my NT 4.0 system. Since this is poorly documented (at least on the Microsoft web site), I thought I'd summarize what I did. The idea for this came from a posting to comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware by Gerald Gordon. My configuration: NT 4.0 printing via lpr/lpd over ethernet to a NeXT Laser Printer on a NeXTstation (UNIX box for those unfamiliar with NeXT systems) 1) Obtain an NT 4.0 Postscript printer driver from somewhere (I got mine from www.codonics.com as per Mr. Gordon's post) 2) Unzip the downloaded driver package into a directory. The directory should contain the following files (these are form the Codonics driver package: layout.xxx np1600.inf np1600.ppd pscript.dll pscript.hlp pscriptui.dll If another Postscript printer is installed on your system, the files pscript.dll, pscript.hlp, pscript.dll may also be copied from %systemroot%\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 It is CRITICAL that layout.xxx and the .inf file be present. If the layout.xxx file is missing, the print driver installer barfs and gives you the message "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware." 3) Delete the np1600.ppd file and replace it with the ppd file you want to install (in my case, nxnlp2_1.ppd downloaded from www.adobe.com). 4) Edit the .inf file, correcting the manufacturer name for your printer, and substitute the name of you ppd file where necessary. Save your changes and enter the print manager. 5) In the add printer wizard, click "have disk" and point the wizard to the directory with your new driver and supporting files. Hopefully, your printer driver is now installed. Getting things to actually _print_ is another matter entirely :) Below, I have included uuencoded copies of the layout.xxx and my nextlp.inf files. Good luck. ================================================================ Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu University of Minnesota (NeXT & MIME) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu ================================================================ --------------1513FF33836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Layout.xxx" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Layout.xxx" [Version] signature="$Windows NT$" ClassGUID={00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000} ; ; diskid = description,tagfile,unused,subdir ; ;[SourceDisksNames] ;_x = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" ;_1 = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" ;_2 = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" ;_3 = %wkscd%,\cdrom_w.40,,"" [SourceDisksNames.x86] 1 = %wkscd%,,,\i386 ; ; filename_on_source = diskid,subdir,size,checksum,spare,spare ; extra fields are nt-specific ; bootmediaord,targetdirectory,upgradedisposition,textmodedisposition,targetname ; [SourceDisksFiles] pscript.dll = 1,,225792,,,,,11,3 pscript.hlp = 1,,14336,,,,,18,1 pscrptui.dll = 1,,179712,,,,,11,3 [Strings] wkscd = "Windows NT Workstation CD-ROM" --------------1513FF33836 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Nextlp.inf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Nextlp.inf" ; NTPRINT.INF (for SUR) ; ; List of supported printers, manufacturers ; [Version] Signature="$Windows NT$" Provider="Microsoft" LayoutFile=layout.xxx ClassGUID={4D36E979-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} Class=Printer ; ; Manufacturer section. ; ; This section lists all of the manufacturers ; that we will display in the Dialog box ; [Manufacturer] "NeXT" ; ; Model sections. ; ; Each section here corresponds with an entry listed in the ; [Manufacturer] section, above. The models will be displayed in the order ; that they appear in the INF file. ; [NeXT] "NeXT Laser Printer" = NXNLP2_1.PPD ; ; Installer Sections ; ; These sections control file installation, and reference all files that ; need to be copied. The section name will be assumed to be the driver ; file, unless there is an explicit DriverFile section listed. ; [NXNLP2_1.PPD] CopyFiles=@NXNLP2_1.PPD,PSCRIPT DataSection=PSCRIPT_DATA ; Copy Sections ; ; Lists of files that are actually copied. These sections are referenced ; from the installer sections, above. Only create a section if it contains ; two or more files (if we only copy a single file, identify it in the ; installer section, using the @filename notation) or if it's a color ; profile (since the DestinationDirs can only handle sections, and not ; individual files). ; [PSCRIPT] PSCRIPT.DLL PSCRPTUI.DLL PSCRIPT.HLP ; ; Data Sections ; ; These sections contain data that is shared between devices. ; [PSCRIPT_DATA] DriverFile=PSCRIPT.DLL ConfigFile=PSCRPTUI.DLL HelpFIle=PSCRIPT.HLP ; ; Call SetupSetDirectoryId with 66000 to set the target directory at runtime ; (depending on which environment drivers are getting installed) ; [DestinationDirs] DefaultDestDir=66000 [SourceDisksNames.x86] 1 = "NEXT DISK",,, [SourceDiskFiles] NXNLP2_1.PPD=1 --------------1513FF33836--
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: EOF 1.1 with sybase, what to put in /usr/sybase/interfaces Date: 19 Feb 1997 10:35:24 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Message-ID: <5eel1c$iv@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> Hi, I wanted to demo EOF 1.1 on NS 3.3 with our sybase server on a Solaris machine , but unfortunatly I wasn't able to figure out what to put exactly in /usr/sybase/interfaces? Could some kind soul guide to some docu for this fileor give me some hints? Thank a lot in advance, Wolfgang -- Dipl.-Wirtsch.Inf. Voice: +49 941 943 3205 Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 3211 Uni Regensburg E-Mail: roeckelein@wi.whu-koblenz.de Universitaetsstr. 31 Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de D-93053 Regensburg (MIME and NeXTmail ok) Germany WWW: http://www-wi.uni-regensburg.de/~row01458/
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: 19 Feb 1997 01:13:30 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5edk3q$ljg@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970217190149.304B-100000@koncon> <In2ETny00iWVIFs1co@andrew.cmu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.91.970218131550.4160A-100000@koncon> <kn2Xy1y00iWSMDUcE8@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <kn2Xy1y00iWSMDUcE8@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 18-Feb-97 Re: samba > functionality on .. by Paul Doornbusch@koncon.n > > NFS is not what I wanted, an SMB server is really the answer. I think > > the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank > > Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under > > /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. > > If you're motivated, you could always configure the software as you see > fit and release it to the Internet at large. > Will happen hopefully soon. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo pros and cons if turned off Date: 18 Feb 1997 19:21:37 -0800 Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Message-ID: <2rlo8ljxa6.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> References: <m2d8ua2339.fsf@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> Bebe Nicolae Bondoc <nick@zwiebelkuchen.physics.mcgill.ca> writes: > I really want to use this machine as a unix machine, so I would like > to hear experiences, good and bad, relating to turning off NetInfo. I > do not yet know the power of NeXT OS so feel free to give some advice. Our approach has been to work with NetInfo rather than trying to remove it. For example, to accomplish what you want for printcap, prepare printcap the way you're used to. Then (as root) niload -d printcap / < /etc/printcap The same (or similar) can be done for most of the flat Unix files. Try "man" on niload and nidump . Or, look them up in Librarian in the SysAdmin bookshelf. -- Bob Cook (415) 926-2769 bobcook@slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center PGP public key: ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/pgp/bobcook/bobcook.publickey
From: whataguy@epix.net (Ben Schaffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Book for NeXT networking? Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 22:30:42 -0500 Organization: Metropotamia Inc. Message-ID: <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> Where can one read about all the intricacies of networking one's NeXTs into an enterprise-wide Ethernet? Thanks in advance. Ben Schaffer For Himself
From: ploeger@pedcard.uni-kiel.de (Andreas Ploeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: group id of newly created files on a NFS volume Date: 19 Feb 1997 15:55:03 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Kiel, Germany Message-ID: <5ef7on$12h@infosrv.rz.uni-kiel.de> Usually newly created files inherit the group id of the directory they are created in. For NFS mounted volumes they get the id of the user's default group. Did anybody else observe this? Is this a bug or a feature? Thanks, A. Ploeger -- Dr. Andreas Ploeger Kiel University Phone: +49 431 597 1757 Clinic for Pediatric Cardiology FAX: +49 431 597 1745 or 1831 Schwanenweg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany
From: IT Connections <mail@it-connect.com> Newsgroups: uk.jobs.offered,uk.jobs.contract,comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT's Web Objects/Enterprise Objects Job - London based. Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:55:00 +0000 Organization: IT Connections Distribution: world Message-ID: <$DHk4GAUJyCzEwjn@it-connect.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 NeXT's Web Objects/Enterprise Objects Job - London based. Anyone out there like a job? This is an excellent opportunity to work for one of the coolest companies in the Universe. A developer is required to spearhead the commercialisation of their Web site. This will involve creation of both backend objects via data from an Oracle database and creation of front end dynamic pages using NeXT's Web Objects and Enterprise Objects and HTML. Contractors maybe considered for this role. Salary top pay Contact Andrew Akhurst for an informal discussion or mail CV to him. IT Connections Tel: 01525 840123 98-100 Dunstable Street Fax: 01525 840899 Ampthill Email: mail@it-connect.com Bedfordshire URL: http://www.it-connect.com MK45 2JP
From: amxd@aol.com (Amxd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tcpdump type program for NeXTSTEP? Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:38:22 GMT Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Message-ID: <19970219203800.PAA04974@ladder02.news.aol.com> Hi, Does anyone have a network program for NS 3.3 which supports tcp packet dumping. I can't compile tcpdump and have not seen any other programs around that can do this kind of stuff? I have used snoop on Solaris which would be great to have on NeXTSTEP. If anyone has an executable they can mail me, that would be great. Please use MIME format as sadly I have to access the net via AOL with Win95. Thanks, Amxd@aol.com
From: jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net (The Rev. James David Meacham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why won't my Color Turbo Station power down Date: 18 Feb 1997 20:42:17 GMT Organization: JLC-net, Milford NH Message-ID: <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> I really do love my color turbo. Problem is, whenever I try to reboot it or shut it down, it hangs, necessitating a break to the ROM monitor, and a 'bsd' from there. I'd like to skip this,. Does any know why it might do this? Thanks in advance. Peace, James -- The Rev. James David Meacham First Unitarian Congregational Society of Wilton Center, NH e-mail:jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net 603-654-9518 (Church) 603-654-9590(Home) 603-654-2248(fax) Church Home Page: http://www.jlc.net/~jmeacham/index.html Personal Home Page: http://www.jlc.net/~jmeacham/jameshome.html
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Book for NeXT networking? Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:44:29 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5efond$i2p@news.next.com> References: <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> In article <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> whataguy@epix.net (Ben Schaffer) writes: > Where can one read about all the intricacies of networking one's NeXTs > into an enterprise-wide Ethernet? > NeXTanswers 2173 NEXTSTEP Networking References <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers> -- Jim Sowers - NeXT Technical Support
From: swill@asic.sc.ti.com (Scott Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Video drivers for TGUI 9440 wanted Date: 18 Feb 1997 15:04:31 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <5ed5gv$avk@concho.asic.sc.ti.com> Does anyone have or know where i can get video drivers for an STB sprintVL board. This board uses the trident TGUI 9440 chipset. The drivers for STB pegasus board is available from next answers, but this does not work with my board. I would like to avoid having to buy another video card if i can help it. Regards, Scott -- ____________________________________________________________________________ \ Scott T. Williams \ P.O. Box 660199 \ e-mail:swill@asic.sc.ti.com / \ Texas Instruments, INC. \ M/S 8664 \ Phone:(972)480-4427 / \ ASIC Test Development \ Dallas, TX 75266 \ Fax:(972)480-4406 /
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: file ownership Date: 18 Feb 1997 17:48:03 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> I'm having a problem with file ownership. My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep changing ownership to my account . Example: /dev/sd1a is mounted as /LocalApps and contains all of my Local Applications (logically). This disk and its contents should be owned by the system - root. However when I do: ls -la / |grep LocalApps I get drwxrwxrwt 50 dave 2048 Feb 17 15:45 LocalApps/ Similarly if I do: ls -la /LocalApps |grep SoftPC I get drwxr-xr-x 18 dave 1024 Jan 19 1996 SoftPC.app/ Now what is confusing me is that these files were initially installed by root and if I change ownership of them by doing: chown -R root /LocalApps chown -R root /LocalApps/SoftPC.app and chown root /LocalApps/* chown root /LocalApps/*/* etc.... eventually the damn files return to my ownership. So my questions are: Why does it keep changing ownership? How can I make the ownership sticky (remain root)? What caused this problem, so I can prevent it in the future.
From: Hergen Eilers <qvi@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Replacement hard drive problems Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:10:42 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ed61s$be5@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> First, the easier question. What is ment by SCSI Linking be supported or not. SCSI Linking is listed when I look at a SCSI device using AutoSCSI. I have an Adaptec Buslogic BT445C (VL-bus ISA to SCSI bus) host adapter. The computer is a Canon ObjectStation 41. The reason I want to know what SCSI Linking means is that the original hard disk in my computer supported it, the one I am tying to replace it with does not. We have a few other similarly configured computers and I have replaced the drives in some. All of the current drives that work are from the Quantum Fireball series and support SCSI Linking. The new drive that doesn't work is a Seagate ST31051N. These are all Pentium or 486 computers running the NeXTStep 3.3 with the patch. How long should a hard disk last if it is running continually? I have had four that have failed within a year and a half. Three started making a high pitch whining noise. They all had trouble spinning on a restart (especially if I turned the computer off for a while) and eventually won't spin at all. My computer boots fine from the Seagate hard disk when the computer is not connected to the network and has an external Iomega Zip drive attached. It also boots fine when connected to the network without the Zip drive attached. The problem is when it is connected to the network and the Zip drive. The boot process times out while starting up network services. This error has occurred in the past when I have not told the system to mount additional hard drives that are connected. I have tried other Zip drives, external and internal hard disks. I have tried turning the adapter SCSI termination off and on using AutoSCSI. Nothing works. (The other computers work fine with external disks and the adapter termination on or off.) Nothing else in the system has changed other than replacing the hard disk. The external drive worked with the old hard disk. I have even swapped the Seagate hard disk with a hard disk from another computer that has a Zip drive attached. When I put the second computer's drive into the computer that has been giving me trouble it worked fine. When I tried the Seagate hard disk in the second computer I had the same problem. Therefore, I belive the problem is the Seagate hard disk. Unfortunately, I spent a few hours loading software on to this disk. So hopely all I have to do is change something in its configuration. Any suggestions are appreciated. Could you please send a copy of your responce to qvi@netcom.com. Thanks. Brian Olmsted Quantum Vision, Inc. 3180 B Porter Drive Menlo Park, CA 94304 Phone: (415) 842-6844 Fax: (415) 842-6845
From: kevin@vulcansthrone.az.stratus.com (Kevin Dorer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Black box on 3.3 will not power off Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:54:34 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> Black NeXT hardware, pizza box running NeXTStep 3.3 powers on automatically after power off. Neither the 'After power off/failure' nor the 'At specified time' buttons are checked under preferences for root or other 2 users. Buttons may have been checked at some time in the past for one of the users. Also tried enabling/disabling power off (problem with this mentioned 3.1 release notes). Ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin C. Dorer VOS Mail: Kevin_Dorer@vos.stratus.com Software Systems Engineer NeXT Mail: kevin@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc., 4455 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix AZ 85018
From: lebmjb@juno.com (lebmjb) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Network NeXT to a Dell Pentium PC Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:40:37 GMT Organization: LEBMJB Message-ID: <5egh3l$jg8@composer.inav.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII If this has been asked before (and I'm sure it has), I appoligize. I am new to these NeXT newsgroups. How can we network a NeXT computer to a Dell Pentium computer. I need to know the actual physical hook-up, ie; network cards, cables, etc. Thanks -- Larry
From: aisbell@ix.netcom.com (Art Isbell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 20 Feb 1997 05:27:08 GMT Organization: Netcom Distribution: world Message-ID: <5egnbc$gi@dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> <5efp3c$i42@news.next.com> jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) wrote: > In article <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon > Wright) writes: > > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set > Preview > > as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? > > > > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application does > not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot change it, > since it is the app that sets which extension it will support. You may > want to see if your fax software will generate the .tiff extension instead > of the .tif extension. Or you can change it yourself (or write a shell > script). Or you can complain to the app's creator(s). Hmmm, seems like segedit allows the Mach-O section that specifies the file extensions, associated icons, etc. to be extracted from the executable to produce a file that's identical to the *.iconheader file that's part of the source. Then edit the file to add a new file extension and associated icon. segedit then allows this modified iconheader file to be loaded back into the executable. But maybe I'm just dreaming about being able to do this... :-) -- Art Isbell NeXT/MIME Mail: aisbell@ix.netcom.com Trego Systems Voice/Fax: +1 408 335 2515 OPENSTEP/NT Voice Mail: +1 408 335 1154 managed care solutions US Mail: Felton, CA 95018-9442
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: INN 1.5.1 and OPENSTEP 4.0 Date: 19 Feb 1997 22:47:00 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5egogk$2rr@xmission.xmission.com> Has anyone compiled INN 1.5.1 on OPENSTEP 4.0? I'm after a config.data file. I wouldn't turn down a config.data file for 1.5.1 on NEXTSTEP 3.3, either. ................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: arno <arno@lysis.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: printing problem on OpenStep 4.x under Windows NT 3.51 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:37:47 +0000 Organization: Planet Communications Sarl Message-ID: <330C378B.76A1@lysis.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi gurus, I have aproblem to print, from a next application (like TextEdit), on a HP laserjet 5MP. When i try to print a receive the following error messages: <printer> is not supported please select a Poscript printer Any clue what i can do ? -- Arno Streuli Network Administrator arno@lysis.ch
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Black box on 3.3 will not power off Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:28:16 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un37iUe00iWm02vLA0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> In-Reply-To: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 20-Feb-97 Black box on 3.3 will not p.. by Kevin Dorer@vulcansthron > Black NeXT hardware, pizza box running NeXTStep 3.3 powers on > automatically after power off. Neither the 'After power off/failure' > nor the 'At specified time' buttons are checked under preferences > for root or other 2 users. Buttons may have been checked at some > time in the past for one of the users. Also tried enabling/disabling > power off (problem with this mentioned 3.1 release notes). Ideas > or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Maybe the battery which maintains that configuration information is dying and needs to be replaced. I think the battery type used to be called a "BR/23A" or some such, but check the FAQ for the name which it is now known by. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 17 Feb 1997 13:26:26 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5e9ma2$4lr@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: > > I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) > and EIDE CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've > been trying to get it to play audio CDs, but it refuses to > cooperate. I cannot get it to work with CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app > and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a similar > configuration and has been able to make this work. All the CD-playing applications for NeXTSTEP that I know about are using SCSI commands to run the CD. If the cd-rom is not on the scsi chain, then the applications are not going to be able to drive it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) Subject: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Message-ID: <E5wt63.22y@fritz.snafu.de> Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de Organization: Software Engineering Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 16:15:36 GMT Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? I thought it would be pretty easy : First I moved /etc/halt to /etc/halt.orig and replaced /etc/halt with a shell script which calls /etc/halt.orig with all the parameters at its end. At the start of the new /etc/halt I inserted the following line : echo ATZ > /dev/cufb (ATZ turns off auto-answer on my modem) The new /etc/halt shuts down my Cube o.k., but the ATZ never gets through to the modem. Then I tried issuing "echo ATZ > /dev/cufb" as root in a terminal window, also with no immediate effect. After a few seconds though, the modem's lights flash briefly. I guess the fax system (NXFax) noticed that some process fiddled with the serial line and resets the modem to auto-answer. Does anybody know how I can send commands to the modem without having NXFax changing the modem's settings shortly afterwards ? Cheers, Ernst. --- Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 20 Feb 1997 21:10:19 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5eiejr$gqq@news.xmission.com> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> <5e9ma2$4lr@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> wrote: > don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: > > > > I've got a Pentium Pro machine with a SCSI hard drive (boot disk) > > and EIDE CDROM drive on it running OPENSTEP for Mach 4.1. I've > > been trying to get it to play audio CDs, but it refuses to > > cooperate. I cannot get it to work with CDPlayer.app or OmniCD.app > > and so I'd like to know if anyone out there has a similar > > configuration and has been able to make this work. > > All the CD-playing applications for NeXTSTEP that I know about are > using SCSI commands to run the CD. If the cd-rom is not on the > scsi chain, then the applications are not going to be able to drive > it. The APAPI drive makes the drive masquerade as a SCSI device, so it does work. I've managed to get CDPlayer.app to work, sort of, by removing OmniCD from the system (it does not yet work, though I think Andrew knows how to get it to at least work as well as CDPlayer.app now, so perhaps a new version will be forthcoming). I can play audio via the headphone jack, but not through the sound card, since the volume control in CDPlayer.app doesn't work at all and leaves the volume at zero. Accoring to an engineer at NeXT I spoke with, this is a known bug in the ATAPI driver. Just thought you'd want to know about the above... -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: file ownership Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:12:33 GMT Organization: data communication and networking services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: : I'm having a problem with file ownership. : My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. : However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep changing ownership to my account . : This is because the file system on the second and third drives are mounted at the time you logged in. The WorkspaceManager sets the owner to the user logged in at the time. To solve your problem, you need to set the file systems to be mounted at the time of booting up. This can be done by adding entries in the file /etc/fstab like /dev/sd2a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota noauto 0 1 (this is my fstab entry, my /Users directory is on a seprate disk) where the /dev/sdXa and /"MountPoint" should be changed to match your configuration. Look at "fstab" man page for more helps. !!Caution!! A mistake can cause the machine to be unbootable! Edit /etc/fstab file carefully! Enjoy! -- Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: no.spam@no.where (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EOF 1.1 with sybase, what to put in /usr/sybase/interfaces Date: 20 Feb 1997 03:34:39 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5eggof$ofj@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <5eel1c$iv@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> In article <5eel1c$iv@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) writes: > Hi, > > I wanted to demo EOF 1.1 on NS 3.3 with our sybase server on a Solaris > machine , but unfortunatly I wasn't able to figure out what to put exactly > in /usr/sybase/interfaces? > > Could some kind soul guide to some docu for this fileor give me some > hints? > > Thank a lot in advance, > Wolfgang Here is my /usr/sybase/interfaces to address my Sybase server running on my same NeXTstation: --------------------------------------------- DSLISTEN master tcp next-ether localhost 3696 DSQUERY query tcp next-ether localhost 3696 DSCONSOLE console tcp next-ether localhost 4696 SYBASE master tcp next-ether localhost 3696 query tcp next-ether localhost 3696 console tcp next-ether localhost 4696 debug tcp next-ether localhost 5696 trace tcp next-ether localhost 6696 localhost master tcp next-ether localhost 3696 query tcp next-ether localhost 3696 console tcp next-ether localhost 4696 debug tcp next-ether localhost 5696 trace tcp next-ether localhost 6696 --------------------------------------------- So basically, you would need to replace each occurance of localhost by the name of your Solaris machine, and check that the port number correspond to those used by the Sybase server. __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fstab question Date: 20 Feb 1997 22:44:50 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5eik52$pec@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have a 2.8 GB partition that I used to install NS 3.3. NS split this into /dev/sd0a, /dev/sd0b and /dev/sd0c (why three partitions instead of two?). The first is the root drive, so it obviously is mounted. I would like to automount the second two at mountpoint /. I have seen the SysAdmin notes on automounting second *disks*, but I wanted to be sure of the proper fstab entries for automounting second and third partitions. Also, I will have a second disk, say sd2a. Would my fstab file be: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd0c / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 And what is the meaning of the trailing two integers? Thank you. Randy Jackson -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Loading from Network? Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:22:41 -0500 Organization: Student Message-ID: <330D06F1.7074@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I start my Color NeXT station it says loading from network. My machine is not on a network. I have the OS software and can reload, but can anyone tell me how to get past this loading from network screen? I need help! steve
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: quick SendMail propogation question (repost) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 01:04:58 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E5xHoB.1Er@xombi.wizard.net> My Cube has the address xombi.wizard.net Mail travels fine in almost all instances save when I try to mail other people at wizard.net Why? because the mail never leaves my machine, I get an error message that login@xombi.wizard.net does not exist. To get around this I put the following band-aid fix into my /etc/resolv.conf: domain xombi.wizard.net right above my nameserver declarations. So far everything seems to be working but does anyone have other suggestions? Thanks :-) --- Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ recurve@resourceful.com
From: LowellSchneider@SchemaResearch.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OpenStep 4.1 onto a Sparc 4gig drive. Date: 21 Feb 1997 02:34:19 GMT Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5ej1jb$cmp$1@Nntp1.mcs.net> I can't install OpenStep4.1 on my Sparc with a 4gig drive. The 4gig drive seems to be the problem. After trying a simple install... Under NEXTSTEP3.3 on SPARC, I created an appropriate disktab entry, and successfully initialized the 4gig drive into two partitions of 2gig each. I then tried to to reinstall OpenStep4.1 SPARC. I'm successful up until the point where it asks you what optional software I want to install. I'm not allowed to make any choices, probably because at the bottom of the window, it reports that my disk drive is 54 meg in size, and that I need another 7 meg. I can't finish the install. Reboot NS3.3. I see that OpenStep4.1 Sparc tried to install into the first partition of the 4gig drive. Yet it continued to believe that the drive was 54meg instead of looking at the size of the partition it was installing into, which was 2gig (1.7gig actually). The scsimodes command under NEXTSTEP3.3 seems to work correctly. SCSI information for /dev/rsd0a Drive type: SEAGATE ST34371N 0338JD 512 bytes per sector 165 sectors per track 10 tracks per cylinder 5168 cylinder per volume (including spare cylinders) 80 spare sectors per cylinder 0 alternate tracks per volume 8496959 usable sectors on volume The sdform command under NS3.3 thinks the drive is 54 meg. My drive is EXACTLY 4gig + 54meg. Interesting. So how do I convince OpenStep 4.1 Sparc to install on my 4gig drive? Lowell Lowell@SchemaResearch.com
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:36:17 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5ejc8h$18a@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <E5wt63.22y@fritz.snafu.de> ernst@fritz.snafu.de (Ernst Kloecker) wrote: > Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer during > shutdown ? > > I thought it would be pretty easy : No, it's a bit more tricky, but it's doable. It's described in detail in NEXTTOYOU 3/96, page 11ff. (should be no language problem involved for you ;-)) ) Basically, you'll have to use Kermit instead of just an echo command. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:50:52 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5efp3c$i42@news.next.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> In article <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon Wright) writes: > I have an OPENSTEP 4.1 question. > > How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? > I know how to use the Tools Inspector to show which apps OPENSTEP thinks > can open the particular file type and to set the default application for > that file type, but what if an application doesn't show up in the list the > Tools Inspector displays? Is there any way to force the application to be > "discovered" by the Tools Inspector? > > Specifically, I am running some FAX software that generates TIFF files. > However, it calls them <blahblahblah>.tif. The only apps that the Tools > Inspector claims can open a .tif file are IconBuilder, Edit, and WM. > If I rename the file to be <blahblahblah>.tiff, then Preview shows up > in the list of applications. > > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set Preview > as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application does not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot change it, since it is the app that sets which extension it will support. You may want to see if your fax software will generate the .tiff extension instead of the .tif extension. Or you can change it yourself (or write a shell script). Or you can complain to the app's creator(s). -- Jim Sowers - NeXT Technical Support
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help with stale lock Date: 21 Feb 1997 09:45:53 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5ejqsh$l62@bolivia.earthlink.net> Hello, Im getting this message after I uninstalled the AMolaf software. The reason I uninstalled it was because after I installed it, I wasnt able to connect to my ISP with kermit and got this stale lock message below.... typhus> kermit ppp/earth Removing stale lock /usr/spool/uucp/LCK/LCK..cufb (pid 171454514 terminated) Number: 1 213 620 8910 Device: /dev/cufb, modem-dialer: courier, speed: 38400 Dial timeout: 30 seconds To cancel: type your interrupt character (normally Ctrl-C). Speed changed to 28800 I used the rm -f in a root shell to remove the stale lock, without success. So I had to uninstall the software manually and finally the dialup goes through. However, the message still comes up. Does anyone know how to remove this thing? Of course I tried the removal from a root shell. I am using NSFIP3.3 wiht USR 33.6 modem Thank you very much. Please respond with suggestions to my email address directly. -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: "Nicole Williams Robertson" <resadv@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS machine ? Date: 21 Feb 1997 16:41:51 GMT Organization: Resource Advisory Message-ID: <01bc203f$d76043d0$c69b45cf@resadvnt> Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS Intel machine. We have tried using the ppd that Lexamrk ships and they do not work. We have asked NeXT and they didn't have much feed back either. The lpd seems to send jobs to the printer, but the printer says its busy and never completes the job. We tried a couple of other ppd like Unknown, HP Laser Jet with no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks for taking the time to read this. - Nicole resadv@mindspring.com
From: amxd@aol.com (Amxd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tcpdump type program for NeXTSTEP? Date: 19 Feb 1997 21:58:28 GMT Organization: AOL, http://www.aol.co.uk Message-ID: <19970219215800.QAA19353@ladder02.news.aol.com> Hi, Does anyone have a network program for NS 3.3 which supports tcp packet dumping. I can't compile tcpdump and have not seen any other programs around that can do this kind of stuff? I have used snoop on Solaris which would be great to have on NeXTSTEP. If anyone has an executable they can mail me, that would be great. Please use MIME format as sadly I have to access the net via AOL with Win95. Thanks, Amxd@aol.com
From: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@p3.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 11:53:28 -0500 Organization: Surf Network Message-ID: <330DD308.3D01@p3.net> References: <5eabjl$s4f@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <3308F224.7DB3@biggun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Cushing wrote: [cut] > xx are real numbers I'm just paranoid so I replaced them. > > [root]:/Users/vince > nslookup foo.org 128.210.xx.xx > *** Can't find server name for address 128.210.xx.xx: Server failed > *** Default servers are not available > [root]:/Users/vince > > [cut] > vince What is in your resolv.conf file? The contents of that file determine the server that nslookup queries. Melody
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Configuring modem under NS 3.3 Message-ID: <E5yrD4.B40@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:31:51 GMT References: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Sharad J Shanbhag wrote: I> 've been messing around with installing an internal modem with > NS 3.3. ... > I can access the modem and dial into my university modem pool at 9600 > baud using the command > > tip a9600 > > with no problem. (I'm reading news and email now via this modem). > However, I cannot seem to make things work at 14,400 baud. I have > created an entry in /etc/remote: > > a14400|cua14400|telepath 14,400 attrib:\ > :dv=/dev/cua:br#14400:tc-BASIC: > > but tip a14400 returns "bad baud setting". This is a bit non-intuitive, but you need to change the line to: a14400|cua14400|telepath 14,400 attrib:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#19200:tc-BASIC: Even though your modem will produce an average of only 14,400, it will produce bursts of higher transmission rates due to runs of data which compresses/decompresses better than average. Thus you want to run at a higher baud than 14.4, which isn't supported by tip anyhow. > The whole point of this is that I'd like to get PPP working under > NS. I would recommend getting a copy of GateKeeper.app, as this will ease configuration and will provide a guide to modifying the other non-intuitive communication config files. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@ccp.spc.uchicago.edu Subject: Is disk striping possible? Message-ID: <ukvzpwy6j1p.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 19:44:18 GMT Is it possible to stripe disks under 3.2? If so, is it possible to stripe swap? Thanks, Mark -- fugue "The police used to watch over the people. Now they're watching the people."
From: "Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson" <ken@acni-2.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Date: 21 Feb 1997 02:45:25 GMT Organization: Gleason Consulting Message-ID: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and then copy the files back, and reboot. The machine is the authoritative source for NetInfo for the domain. Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? thanks, in advance, Ken Gleason ken@mpimedia.com
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Parallel Port Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 08:21:40 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Has anybody else problems in activating the parallel port with an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 MB? The driver don't recognize the parallel port at 0x378. (_IOProbe... can't find a parallel port blabla blabla... failed; or somthing like that) No problems with an old MB (...TP4XE). Version is NS3.3 (white one, what else with a par. port at 0x378). Anyone find a solution? MB-BIOS is the latest from 29. January 97. Henry
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring modem under NS 3.3 Date: 21 Feb 1997 00:30:44 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Sender: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu Message-ID: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> I've been messing around with installing an internal modem with NS 3.3. The modem is a Gateway Telepath II (which is really a USR Sportster 14,400 I believe). Works fine for PPP under WinNT 4.0 I have the serial ports driver and the tty port server installed and working (v 3.33 on both). I can access the modem and dial into my university modem pool at 9600 baud using the command tip a9600 with no problem. (I'm reading news and email now via this modem). However, I cannot seem to make things work at 14,400 baud. I have created an entry in /etc/remote: a14400|cua14400|telepath 14,400 attrib:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#14400:tc-BASIC: but tip a14400 returns "bad baud setting". The whole point of this is that I'd like to get PPP working under NS. Any help will be most appreciated. TIA, Sharad ---- Sharad Shanbhag Department of Neurosurgery University of Minnesota shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu (NeXTmail/MIME)
From: wdeng@arc.unm.edu (Ward Deng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: need recommandations on NeXTStep sysadmin books Date: 21 Feb 1997 23:52:18 -0700 Organization: Albuquerque Resource Center, HPCERC Message-ID: <5em532$ol8@laguna.arc.unm.edu> Keywords: nextstep system administration I need your recommandations on NeXTSTEP system administration books because I have had a lot of problems with system recovery when kernel crashes when a wrong Ethernet driver is selected or a wrong serial port driver is loaded. Thanks, -ward (wdeng@arc.unm.edu)
From: trail@ix.netcom.com (Jeff Trestrail) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: fstab question Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 01:34:11 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5eitna$odc@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> References: <5eik52$pec@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In article <5eik52$pec@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) wrote: >I have a 2.8 GB partition that I used to install NS 3.3. NS split this into >/dev/sd0a, /dev/sd0b and /dev/sd0c (why three partitions instead of two?). >The first is the root drive, so it obviously is mounted. I would like to >automount the second two at mountpoint /. I have seen the SysAdmin notes on >automounting second *disks*, but I wanted to be sure of the proper fstab >entries for automounting second and third partitions. Also, I will have a >second disk, say sd2a. Would my fstab file be: > >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 >/dev/sd0c / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 >/dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 > Each partition requires its own mount point. In your example above, all 4 partitions would be mounted on top of one another at "/". What you want to do is create an empty directory on the root file system for each new partition, and use that directory as a mount point in your fstab. Using your above partitions as an example: >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd0b /foo 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 >/dev/sd0c /bar 4.3 rw,noquota 0 3 >/dev/sd1a /baz 4.3 rw,noquota 0 4 > >And what is the meaning of the trailing two integers? > The second number tells fsck on which pass to check a particular partition. The root partition should be 1. Each partition on a single physical disk should have a different pass number to speed fsck up. Jeff trail@ix.netcom.com
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2 manpage/ptroff questions Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:21:22 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5emhb2$3ds@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Hi, I have two questions concerning the formatting of manpages: 1. If I try to print out manpages, no matter if I use ptroff or try to do it step by step using pscat I always get the error: pscat: trouble reading .ct file Is this just broken in my machine (NEXTSTEP 3.3 Intel), or a known bug? What can I do? 2. When writing manpages, is ther a way to automatically format them or do I have to do it manually. I couldn't find anything about writing manpages in the documentation. Any hints appreciated! Thank you! Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: zatezalo.2@osu.edu (Shane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: error: Invalid login given by getlogin?? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:58:55 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <330ed3f0.3158227@achilles.medctr.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I just created two new accounts. Both do not use csh as their shells, so I editted /etc/shells and put theirs in there. Now, if I try to su to their account to test it, after entering the correct login/password I get: Invalid login given by getlogin It's a NS3.3 black '040 box. Please help!! -- zatezalo.2@osu.edu http://www.ecaetc.ohio-state.edu/shane
From: fucuco@hamlet.net (Good Friend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:30:20 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.330d7938.6008657@news.uoknor.edu> Subject: cmsg cancel <330d7938.6008657@news.uoknor.edu> Control: cancel <330d7938.6008657@news.uoknor.edu> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Fri Feb 21 15:14:42 1997 Original subject was: Learn to Make $$$FAST CASH$$$ With Honest Work
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702210349.WAA07514@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 77a457575098b97e23a66e03d0bf39b5 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 97 22:49:48 -0500 Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, jwright@animal.blarg.net, aisbell@ix.netcom.com References: 77a457575098b97e23a66e03d0bf39b5 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) Original Date: 19 Feb 1997 20:50:52 GMT > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application > does not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot > change it, since it is the app that sets which extension it will > support. No no no! That's entirely not true. In fact, I made a version of Preview.app that opens .tif files in 5 minutes. Use SegHoarker ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/SegHoarker.1.0.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz Make a copy of Preview.app. Open ("Hoark") the _COPY_ of Preview within Preview.app and open __ICON and then __header. You will get a file opened in Edit.app that looks like this: F Preview.app Preview app F Preview Preview app S ps Preview ps S tiff Preview S eps Preview Copy the "S tiff Preview" line and change it to: S tif Preview Save the Edit.app file. Goto SegHoarker and click on "Replace" (while still selected on __ICON and __header). Save the new copy as "Preview". Move the file "Preview" inside the COPY of "Preview.app" that you started from. Then you need to move the new Preview.app to somewhere like /LocalApps and then renamed the original Preview.app to something like Preview.app.offline (which will take it off the registered list of apps). Lastly, run "Update Viewers" from Workspace manager, which will update the app registry list so your version of Preview.app will come up for files which end in "tif". This may not work for all apps, but it certainly works for Preview.app. It's one of the reasons I love NeXTStep, this type of customization. Garrick Toubassi (formerly of NeXT) made the source code for SegHoarker available to us. If I haven't made this process clear, please let me know. It's really easy to do but harder to describe. TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS machine ? Date: 21 Feb 1997 17:30:23 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5ekm3f$a91@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <01bc203f$d76043d0$c69b45cf@resadvnt> Cc: resadv@mindspring.com In <01bc203f$d76043d0$c69b45cf@resadvnt> "Nicole Williams Robertson" wrote: > Has anyone gotton an Lexmark Optra R+ running on a NS Intel machine. We > have tried using the ppd that Lexamrk ships and they do not work. We have > asked NeXT and they didn't have much feed back either. The lpd seems to > send jobs to the printer, but the printer says its busy and never completes > the job. We tried a couple of other ppd like Unknown, HP Laser Jet with no > luck. Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thanks for taking the time to read this. > Most likely your error is not connected to the ppd but the connection host - printer. Do you have attached it by serial, paralell or network? -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: C.S.N.sysadmin archives and FAQ? Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:18:23 -0800 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5end9f$anf@crl10.crl.com> There are a few problems that I am having that I remember being covered in the past. I don't want to ask avout them again so I would like to know where an archive of this stuff is. TIA...HC -- Josh Waltzer and Hans-Christoph Steiner MIME, NeXTMail, SunMail and PlainOldMail accepted
From: stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parallel Port Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:11:49 GMT Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd. (WAVE) Message-ID: <5enufl$hvj3@crash.videotron.ab.ca> On 02/19/97, Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: >Has anybody else problems in activating the parallel port with an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 MB? >The driver don't recognize the parallel port at 0x378. (_IOProbe... can't find a parallel port Yes, I had exactly this problem. There's a PD parallel port driver on the Peak archive (Par.config) that solved the problem for me. Just run Config.app, delete the NS 3.3 parallel port driver, and add Par instead. -- -------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept. Network manager, Web manager, postmaster gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld ocal) to shut off answering by my office modem during the daytime. To use it yourself, substitute your fax's name for "chrome_fax": /usr/local/etc > cat FAX_dont_answer #!/bin/sh # Set NXFax ring count to zero (don't answer) for daytime hours. /usr/bin/niutil -destroyprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer /usr/bin/niutil -createprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer 0 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes And here's the script that makes the modem answer on ring one for evening and weekend hours when I use my slip line (also run from /etc/crontab.local): /usr/local/etc > cat FAX_ring_1 #!/bin/sh # Set NXFax ring count to one. /usr/bin/niutil -destroyprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer /usr/bin/niutil -createprop . /fax_modems/chrome_fax rings_to_answer 1 /usr/lib/NextPrinter/exec_faxes -- -------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept. Network manager, Web manager, postmaster gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld
From: stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resetting the nibindd daemon Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:17:12 GMT Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd. (WAVE) Message-ID: <5enupo$hvj4@crash.videotron.ab.ca> On 02/17/97, Joe Keenan wrote: >In article <5e827q$pe9@join.news.pipex.net> jrichmond@i-way.co.uk (Jeff >Richmond) writes: > >The list if servers in /etc/resolv.conf is >not search order, but a list of (ordered) alternative servers. If the >resolver library can talk to the first server on the list, it won't try >any of the others. It only attempts to contact the [second,third] >server on the list if it can't reach the first one. This is the theory, but it doesn't seem to work for me on my NS 3.2 mailhost. I list the 3 DNS servers on my campus in resolv.conf, but if the first one goes down, nibindd doesn't check the others. Would this be fixed if I upgraded the machine to 3.3? -- -------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Univ. of Alberta Psychology Dept. Network manager, Web manager, postmaster gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome!) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configuring modem under NS 3.3 Date: 22 Feb 1997 00:24:58 GMT Organization: Posted via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5elecq$5h4@news2.cais.com> References: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> In-Reply-To: <5ejfek$8ve@gold.tc.umn.edu> 14,400 is the DCE (modem to modem) speed. You need to set the DTE (modem to computer and vice versa) speed. Set it to 38,400 or 57,600 and it will work fine. Also, use /dev/cufa since it uses hardware flow control. /dev/cua doesn't. -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Date: 23 Feb 1997 02:50:33 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5eob9p$1rd@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5enu94$hvj2@crash.videotron.ab.ca> In article <5enu94$hvj2@crash.videotron.ab.ca> stop@spam.com (see sig for my real address) writes: >On 02/20/97, Ernst Kloecker wrote: >>Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer during >>shutdown ....At the start of the new /etc/halt I inserted the following line : >>echo ATZ > /dev/cufb... >>I guess the fax system (NXFax) noticed that some process fiddled with the >>serial line and resets the modem to auto-answer. >> >>Does anybody know how I can send commands to the modem without having NXFax >>changing the modem's settings shortly afterwards ? > > >Yes, NXFax puts things back the way it wants them. The solution is to change >the NXFax "rings_to_answer" property in Netinfo. Here's another, which I feel more comfortable than tamparing with NetInfo all the time. I had a similar problem, and did it with a more permanent solution by patching /usr/lib/NextPrinter/NXFax_Fax_Modem_Driver We use NXFax Driver Version 1.04.1. The file NXFax_Fax_Modem_Driver contains a string "ats0=%d". This string has been changed to "ats0=50" using emacs. This sets the modem to autoanswer on ring 50. (To me, autoanswering on ring 50 is the same as autoanswering turned off, assuming no one or no fax machine will let it ring 50 times.) %d is probably at offset 53526 according to cmp for m68k hardware. (On other NXFax versions, the offset will be different.) Make sure you retain a back up copy, and exactly replace "%d" with "50". Otherwise, offset for the rest of the binary will change and things will stop working. NXFax appears to set # of rings for autoanswer (ATS0) to N+3 where N is the number specified in "rings_to_answer" in the configuration in NetInfo. However, NXFax does NOT use the autoanswer mode. It counts the rings itself and actively answers. Thus, "rings_to_answer" is always set to 1 in NetInfo in my case, but if the machine crashes, the modem will not autoanswer until ring 50. Meanwhile, an old backup fax machine (set to answer on ring 6) will answer if and only if the fax modem is not answering. This way, I won't ever have to worry about losing any fax even if there is a remote chance of crashed machine hosting the fax modem. I have found no ill effects of this patch for more than a year.
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: file ownership Date: 22 Feb 1997 01:16:14 GMT Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5elhcu$d3@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> Cc: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu In <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> Satoru Uzawa wrote: | dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: | : I'm having a problem with file ownership. | : My root disk / is owned by the system and everything is fine with that. | : However my second and third scsi disks and all of the files on them keep | : changing ownership to my account . | : | This is because the file system on the second and third drives are mounted | at the time you logged in. The WorkspaceManager sets the owner to the user | logged in at the time. OK so far. You have identified the real problem. | To solve your problem, you need to set the file systems to be mounted | at the time of booting up. This can be done by adding entries in the | file /etc/fstab like | | /dev/sd2a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota noauto 0 1 No. You have found one of the errors in the NeXT SysAdmin Manual, and believed it. Only the root file system should have an entry "noauto". All other file systems to be mounted at boot time should not have this, since it is really a signal to the "mount -a" command to ignore that line. | (this is my fstab entry, my /Users directory is on a separate disk) where | the /dev/sdXa and /"MountPoint" should be changed to match your | configuration. Look at "fstab" man page for more helps. If you have a NS3.3 system that was built from scratch, rather than being upgraded from NS3.2, you will not have an "fstab" man page. It can be found hidden under the name "mntent". | !!Caution!! A mistake can cause the | machine to be unbootable! Edit /etc/fstab file carefully! If necessary, you can boot the system single user (bsd -s) and repair the /etc/fstab entry. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Date: 22 Feb 1997 20:29:01 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5enkud$pg4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - <199702211841.NAA09650@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer > > > during shutdown ? > > > > > > I thought it would be pretty easy : > > > > No, it's a bit more tricky, but it's doable. It's described in > > detail in NEXTTOYOU 3/96, page 11ff. (should be no language problem > > involved for you > > Would you care to share the info with those of us not fortunate > enough to speak German? I append the source below. As I said, basically it comes down to using Kermit. The program issues an "atz2" command to the ZyXEL. It was written to enable the standalone fax mode of the ZyXEL when turning off the computer, but of course you could store any other kind of profile in profile 2, or else could replace the "atz2" by something else as long as it is ONLY ONE command (more won't work!) Place the program in /usr/local/bin, link it two times to /usr/etc, one time rename it halt, the second reboot. Rename the original progs to halt.ORIGINAL and reboot.ORIGINAL. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________ #!/bin/sh # Dieses Skript dient zum automatischen Aktivieren der Standalone-Fax-Funktion # der ZyXEL-Elite-Modems und -ISDN-Adapter durch den Befehl atz2 beim # Ausschalten des Computers. Es ist nach /usr/local/bin zu kopieren und von # dort zweimal ein Verweis nach /usr/etc zu erstellen; der erste Verweis ist in # halt, der zweite in reboot umzubenennen. halt und reboot selbst sind in # halt.ORIGINAL und reboot.ORIGINAL umzubenennen. Die genaue # Installationsanleitung findet sich in NEXTTOYOU 3/96. # Nutzer-Konfiguration
## # Setze serielle Schnittstelle, an der das Modem / der ISDN-Adapter # angeschlossen ist (a, b, c, d, ...) CUF=c # Skript
## # Prüfe auf Nothalt-Optionen case $* in *-n* | *-q* ) STOP=1 ;; esac # Falls kein Nothalt, stoppe FaxDaemon und sende "atz2" an das Modem if [ ! "$STOP" ]; then kill `ps -ax | egrep "FaxDaemon" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/` /usr/local/bin/kermit -C "set line /dev/cuf$CUF, set speed 19200, msleep 300, o atz2\13, exit" fi # rufe das eigentliche Programm (halt bzw. reboot) auf /usr$0.ORIGINAL $*
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail configuration partially working... Date: 21 Feb 1997 19:38:02 -0700 Organization: I'm not organized! Message-ID: <5elm6a$a5m@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> I have a sendmail updated to 8.8.5, and after much difficulty, I have it running finally. But there are a few nagging problems: 1. E-mail sent locally works fine, yet when mix sends mail, it gets delayed: Over internet from a machine on the network (and sending through the machine hooked up as a mail host): Feb 21 14:10:55 chaos sendmail[7227]: OAA07227: from=<hbbus802>, size=2469, class=0, pri=32469, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199702212210.OAA07227@chaos.primenet.com>, proto=SMTP, relay=borg [198.68.36.199] Feb 21 14:11:26 chaos sendmail[7229]: OAA07227: to=<someone@somedomain.edu>, ctladdr=<hbbus802> (101/20), delay=00:00:32, xdelay=00:00:31, mailer=relay, relay=mailhost.primenet.com [206.165.5.52], stat=Sent (PAA27433 Message accepted for delivery) Here is e-mail sent locally, with the PPP connection down: Feb 21 15:03:19 chaos sendmail[7250]: PAA07250: from=rworne, size=145294, class=0, pri=175294, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199702212303.PAA07250@chaos.primenet.com>, relay=root@localhost Feb 21 17:54:53 chaos sendmail[7252]: PAA07250: to=hbbus802, ctladdr=rworne (100/20), delay=02:51:36, xdelay=00:00:07, mailer=local, stat=Sent Why the nearly 3-hour delay? Telling the networked machine to check for mail did not do it, telling the mailhost to check for mail *did* get the mail to go over to it. Here's where I send a message to the networked machine via NeXTMail.app: Feb 21 17:57:45 chaos sendmail[7293]: RAA07293: from=rworne, size=733, class=0, pri=30733, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199702220157.RAA07293@chaos.primenet.com>, relay=rworne@localhost Feb 21 17:57:46 chaos sendmail[7295]: RAA07293: to=hbbus802, ctladdr=rworne (100/20), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, stat=Sent No delay here... Here's what happens when mail gets sent to another domain (with the PPP down) or a read-receipt is encountered when the machine has the PPP connection down. It *used* to spool mail, now it just bombs : Feb 20 16:13:24 chaos sendmail[290]: QAA00288: to=hbcsc595@csun.edu, ctladdr=rworne (100/20), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, relay=mailhost.primenet.com [198.68.36.156], stat=Local configuration error Feb 20 16:13:25 chaos sendmail[290]: QAA00288: QAA00290: DSN: Local configuration error Feb 20 16:13:26 chaos sendmail[290]: QAA00290: to=rworne,root, delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=local, stat=Sent This has me stumped. No matter what I try, or whatever config I use, there has to be *something* busted in the configuration. If that gets fixed, then a problem will crop up elsewhere. my setup: My mail server, netinfo host (and PPP machine): chaos My other next machine: borg My internet domain: primenet.com My internet mail host: mailhost.primenet.com How I want my mail to look like: rworne@primenet.com /etc/sendmail/cf/cf/nextstandalone.mc divert(0)dnl # comments and copyright removed for brevity divert(-1) VERSIONID(`@(#)nextstandalone.mc 8.4 (Montreal) 25/2/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl DOMAIN(primenet)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(stickyhost)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(primenet.com)dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl /etc/sendmail/cf/domain/primenet.m4 divert(0) VERSIONID(`$Id: primenet.m4,v 1.0 1997/02/06 1:08:00 rworne Exp rworne $') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mailhost.primenet.com)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:localhost)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl /etc/sendmail/userdb root:mailname root@rworne.lax.primenet.com rworne:mailname rworne@primenet.com rworne:maildrop rworne@chaos.primenet.com rworne:fullname Robert Worne hbbus802:mailname hbbus802@csun.edu hbbus802:maildrop hbbus802@chaos.primenet.com -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702211841.NAA09650@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 97 13:40:58 -0500 Subject: Re: How to turn off fax modem's auto-answer during shutdown ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Original Date: 21 Feb 1997 05:36:17 GMT Message-ID: 616dd410dde3023987fa05bd6cbfc7aa - > > Does anybody know how I can turn off my fax modem's auto-answer > > during shutdown ? > > > > I thought it would be pretty easy : > > No, it's a bit more tricky, but it's doable. It's described in > detail in NEXTTOYOU 3/96, page 11ff. (should be no language problem > involved for you Would you care to share the info with those of us not fortunate enough to speak German? TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: sugawara@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why won't my Color Turbo Station power down Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 22 Feb 1997 08:20:42 GMT Organization: Edmonton FreeNet, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Message-ID: <5ema8q$5e8$1@news.sas.ab.ca> References: <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> The Rev. James David Meacham (jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net) wrote: : I really do love my color turbo. Problem is, whenever I try to reboot : it or shut it down, it hangs, necessitating a break to the ROM : monitor, and a 'bsd' from there. I'd like to skip this,. Does any : know why it might do this? Thanks in advance. Peace, : James There may be a process which is refusing to die. You may try to find out if that is the case by verifying if it's a daemon process (system programs that waits for a specific event to occur on the NeXT) by powering up the machine, and trying to shut it down once the login box appears. If it does power down ok, you are probably using a program as a user which refuses to die. Otherwise, try powering up in single user mode, and then try to power down. It's been a while since I've done this, but I believe it's "bsd -s" off the ROM monitor. If you are able to power down at this point, there is a program being launched from an rc file (/etc/rc, /etc/rc.boot, /etc/rc.local) which is hanging. Try to log in remotely into your machine as root, and kill each root process except your login shell, from the largest PID to the smallest (because killing pid 1, which is the init process is a fast way of getting unix to reboot). Standard disclaimers apply. -- /**************************************************************************/ Masahiko (Sam) Sugawara email: sugawara@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Message-ID: <E5yrwr.18E@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <5eiejr$gqq@news.xmission.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 17:43:39 GMT Don Yacktman writes ... > The APAPI drive makes the drive masquerade as a SCSI device, so it does work. > I've managed to get CDPlayer.app to work, sort of, by removing OmniCD from > the system (it does not yet work, though I think Andrew knows how to get it > to at least work as well as CDPlayer.app now, so perhaps a new version will > be forthcoming). I can play audio via the headphone jack, but not through > the sound card, since the volume control in CDPlayer.app doesn't work at all > and leaves the volume at zero. Accoring to an engineer at NeXT I spoke with, > this is a known bug in the ATAPI driver. > > Just thought you'd want to know about the above... Masquerading as SCSI ... HM.. does this mean you could use the scsi devices interface to access that drive? Then you might try playcd to get the audio data directly via the data-connection without any loss of information. Carl Edman started that thing quite some time ago. Works like a charm on all drives which support audio access commands. It is not an app though, just a cli program - plain and simple. Juergen --- AnsweringMachine +49 511 92455-50 Fon -51 Fax -52 NeXTMail welcome = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Domain defined -> Boot process stops! Why??? Date: 21 Feb 1997 03:23:55 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ej4gb$qp6@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Boot process stops Keywords: Boot process Hi all! We have here a domain of our own. When I now define this domain name in HostManager, the boot process stops after the message "Starting File Service Deamons:". With "ÃC" I can continue the boot process and everything seems to be ok. Could somebody tell me why? And what could I do against it ? Has it something to do with NIS? ypserv? I know, something is wrong. But where? Any help appreciated! Thanks! Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Subject: Re: Configuring the sendmail In-Reply-To: "Georg Tuparev"'s message of 18 Feb 1997 01:07:38 JST Message-ID: <FUKASE.97Feb19214451@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan References: <5e9voa$ctj@concorde.ctp.com> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:44:50 GMT In article <5e9voa$ctj@concorde.ctp.com> "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> writes: ... > Currently my From: field has the following format > username@hostname.domainname > > I would like to have it in the following format: > username@domainname > > What should I do? If you use a template file on NeXTstep as sendmail configuration file you will attain your purpose provided you rewrite it as follows; *** /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf Wed Sep 1 17:31:17 1993 --- sendmail.mailhost.cf Wed Feb 19 17:29:43 1997 *************** *** 234,240 **** Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok ! R$+ $@$1<@$w> tack on our hostname S21 # None needed. --- 234,240 ---- Mether, P=[TCP], F=msDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok ! R$+ $@$1<@$m> tack on our hostname S21 # None needed. *************** *** 289,295 **** R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain ! R$+ $@$1<@$j> tack on our hostname ############################################################ --- 289,295 ---- R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain ! R$+ $@$1<@$m> tack on our hostname ############################################################ Check: your machine name: xxx.ctp.com new sendmail configuration file: sendmail.mailhost.cf % /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.4 -C./sendmail.mailhost.cf Version NX5.67f2 canonical name: xxx.ctp.com a.k.a.: xxx using configuration file ./sendmail.mailhost.cf ADDRESS TEST MODE Enter <ruleset> <address> [Note: No automatic ruleset 3 call] > 3,1,22,4 georg <--DDN Mailer rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 22 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 22 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: "georg" "@" "ctp" "." "com" > 3,1,11,4 georg <--Ethernet Mailer rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 11 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 11 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: "georg" "@" "ctp" "." "com" > 3,0 georg@ctp.com rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" "@" "ctp" "." "com" rewrite: ruleset 6 input: "georg" "<" "@" "ctp" "." "com" ">" rewrite: ruleset 6 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "georg" "<" "@" "LOCAL" ">" rewrite: ruleset 30 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 0 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 9 input: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 9 returns: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "local" $: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 30 returns: $# "local" $: "georg" rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# "local" $: "georg" > If you want to use sendmail 8.8.5 on your NeXTstep machine I can recommend to use CF(WIDE Sendmail.cf Generation Package). (Note: Its documents are in Japanese.) URL: ftp://ftp.kyoto.wide.ad.jp/mail/CF/CF-3.5Wpl4.tar.gz (1) % gnutar zxvf CF-3.5Wpl4.tar.gz (2) % cd CF-3.5Wpl4 % make cleantools % make tools % make samples % mkdir DESC (<-work directory) % cp Samples/Makefile DESC/Makefile % cp Standards/sendmail-v7.def DESC/sendmail-v7.def (3) % cd DESC % cp sendmail-v7.def myhosts.def % vi myhost.def <-or edited by Edit.app point: OS_TYPE=nextstep ALIAS_FILE_PATH='/etc/sendmail/aliases,netinfo:/aliases' DAEMON_OPTIONS='Port=25' ---- FROM_ADDRESS='$m' <--your purpose '$m': From: user@domainname ACCEPT_ADDRS='$m' <--your purpose? This address is received by local mailer. (except canonical name) RECIPIENT_GENERIC=yes <--your purpose? additional address yes: To: user ==> To: user@FROM_ADDRESS (To: user@domainname) no(default): To: user ==> To: user@OFFICIAL_NAME (To: user@hostname.domainname) (4) % make myhost.cf (5) check: % /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.4 -C./myhost.cf Version 8.8.5 ... canonical name: xxx.ctp.com a.k.a.: xxx a.k.a.: xxx.ctp UUCP nodename: xxx.ctp.com a.k.a.: xxx a.k.a.: [<your IP address>] a.k.a.: [127.0.0.1] ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============ (short domain name) $w = xxx (canonical domain name) $j = xxx.ctp.com (subdomain name) $m = ctp.com (node name) $k = xxx.ctp.com ======================================================== ADDRESS TEST MODE (ruleset 3 NOT automatically invoked) Enter <ruleset> <address> > 3,1,11,4 georg rewrite: ruleset 3 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: georg rewrite: ruleset 1 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 1 returns: georg rewrite: ruleset 11 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 11 returns: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 4 input: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 4 returns: georg @ ctp . com > 3,0 georg@ctp.com rewrite: ruleset 3 input: georg @ ctp . com rewrite: ruleset 96 input: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 96 returns: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 0 input: georg < @ ctp . com > rewrite: ruleset 97 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 3 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 3 returns: georg rewrite: ruleset 0 input: georg rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: georg rewrite: ruleset 97 returns: $# local $: georg rewrite: ruleset 0 returns: $# local $: georg --- FUKASE, Mikio
From: Stefano Pagiola <spagiola@worldbank.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 10:23:34 -0500 Organization: World Bank Message-ID: <330DBDF6.7A4B@worldbank.org> References: 77a457575098b97e23a66e03d0bf39b5 - <199702210349.WAA07514@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application > > does not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot > > change it, since it is the app that sets which extension it will > > support. > > No no no! That's entirely not true. In fact, I made a version of > Preview.app that opens .tif files in 5 minutes. > > [instructions deleted] > > This may not work for all apps, but it certainly works for > Preview.app. It's one of the reasons I love NeXTStep, this type of > customization. Yes, it can be done, but wouldn't it be nice if there was a generalized, GUI way to do this? Something you could manipulate through a workspace inspector, for example? It seems to me that this should be easy to implement. --- Stefano Pagiola 850 N Randolph Str No.817, Arlington VA 22203, USA All opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Message-ID: <E60wv7.3z6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 21:25:55 GMT In article <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> "Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson" <ken@acni-2.com> writes: > I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. > Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another > machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and > then copy the files back, and reboot. The machine is the > authoritative source for NetInfo for the domain. > > Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? > Will work that way if you know what to copy back over. Otherwise you'd have overwrite the pretty nice brandnew NEXTSTEP you installed just before. And you'd miss the NetInfo server. No easy NFS mounts. You'd have to redo most of the NetInfo config before you get a connection. Why not attach the drive to the external SCSI port temporarily (don't tell me you have no enclosure and power supply :-( Then get it partitioned and a filesystem made by 'disk' or BuildDisk.app and copy the whole disk. Swap the drives and everything works again as before... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Why won't my Color Turbo Station power down Message-ID: <E60r52.3wy@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 19:22:13 GMT In article <5ed479$ctm@mozart.jlc.net> jmeacham@meacham.jlc.net (The Rev. James David Meacham) writes: > > > I really do love my color turbo. Problem is, whenever I try to reboot > it or shut it down, it hangs, necessitating a break to the ROM > monitor, and a 'bsd' from there. I'd like to skip this,. Does any > know why it might do this? Thanks in advance. Peace, > FAQ There is at least one process in an uninteruptible state. Most likely from a hung serial line, i.e. someone switched the device on the serial off while still in use by a process. Use 'ps -ax' to get a listing of processes while manually shutting down apps. You might find the hung process by gradually following this routine 'til it shuts down cleanly. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: rfu@gromit.ping.at (Rainer Fuegenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: named....is it tricky under NS? Message-ID: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 19:29:46 Hallo ! Jon Haveman wrote in a message to All: JH> A friend of mine is in the process of setting up my NeXT to JH> be a name server for a couple of domain names. He has [...] I currently try to set up a nameserver by myself (nextstation running NS 3.3), but I didn't succeed in compiling the BIND package from vix.com. which named are you using ? JH> I know that that isn't very much information, but does JH> anybody know if there is anything non-standard, or tricky JH> with respect to setting this up on a NeXT. I'm currently JH> using NS3.3 if that matters. As far as I figured out, there is no named included in our version of NS 3.3 .... mfg Rainer http://iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at/~rfu
From: maynard@jmg.com (J. Maynard Gelinas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP + SAMBA '030 cube binaries? Date: 18 Feb 1997 05:08:54 GMT Organization: Internet Access Cincinnati 513-887-8877 Message-ID: <5ebdh6$833$1@cheyenne.iac.net> Because of the current lack of development software (or original distribution media) for a particular black cube, I have need for CAP and SAMBA *binaries* to complete turning this beast into a print server. Can anyone out there help me? For those folks who helped with my network problems, thank you! It turned out that I needed to modify a simple line in the rc script which was calling ypserv.... this enabled DNS, and then the rest was pretty straightforward berkeley print daemon configuration. Sooooo, can anyone out there offer me an ftp solution to this? Don't mail the binaries to me... I *don't* have enough disk space on my mail server for that! If you won't open your box to me, I'll open up mine to you for an arranged upload. TIA! J. Maynard Gelinas
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help:Installing second harddrive to NeXT system Date: 23 Feb 1997 19:06:23 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5eq4ff$ckh@nicaragua.earthlink.net> Hello everyone. I am currently running NSFIP 3.3(800MB) and Doze NT(200MB) on a 1GB SCSI HD. I wanted to reinstall the system by adding another 500MB hard drive. I wanted some advice in terms of installing NS on the full 1GB harddrive and the other drive for Doze NT. Is this possible with NS? If so, what is the procedure for doing the install? What are the pitfalls, what is the bootable drive, etc? The system is SCSI using ADAPTEC 2940. Any suggestions or comments welcomed. Thank you. Please respond to... quinonez@ucla.edu -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD quinonez@ucla.edu quinonez@earthlink.net NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: quick SendMail propogation question (repost) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 09:53:46 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <330D629A.2781@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <E5xHoB.1Er@xombi.wizard.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit recurve@resourceful.com wrote: > > My Cube has the address xombi.wizard.net > > Mail travels fine in almost all instances save when I try to mail other > people at wizard.net Why? because the mail never leaves my machine, I get > an error message that login@xombi.wizard.net does not exist. > > To get around this I put the following band-aid fix into my /etc/resolv.conf: > domain xombi.wizard.net > > right above my nameserver declarations. So far everything seems to be > working but does anyone have other suggestions? > > Thanks :-) > --- Are you usind sendmail.mailhost.cf. So your machine can deliver mail by itself without using the mailhost at you domaen. But in the other way it things all users at the domaen are to known at you local machine. We had the same problem and worked around by commenting out the last rule below. ############################################################# ##### ##### Rewriting rules ##### # special local conversions S6 R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname #R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain This prevent the sendmail to look for a user that is on the mailhost at you domaen. stef ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: tg@chmsr.gatech.edu (T. Govindaraj) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.mac.portables Subject: What notebook will you recommend? Date: 21 Feb 1997 12:12:00 GMT Organization: Center for Human-Machine Systems Research - Georgia Tech Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ek3eg$mnt@smash.gatech.edu> I am about to buy a notebook computer. Having only used the cubes from the beginning (of NeXT), and continuing to use them along with NEXTSTEP on Sparcs, I am not too knowledgeable about Intel. I have been seriously looking into the Toshiba Tecra 730, from Bifrost Works, since I can buy it with openstep pre-installed. I have been corresponding with Jason and I really like his responsiveness and helpful attitude. There are a couple of problems. First I will have to get a special dispensation from the state to buy computers that are either not on the approved list or from vendors who are not approved. This could be a major hurdle. I know Gateway is on the approved list, but I don't know how difficult it would be to install openstep on a Gateway notebook. I am likely to hear objections (and possibly denial to buy) since the Toshiba is more expensive than a "comparable" (i.e., processor speed etc.) machine from Gateway or some other company. If you have recently bought a Gateway or other fast notebook (not less than 12.1 active matrix screen), I would appreciate your advice and suggestions. Openstep will be my primary operating system, with space allocated for Linux, and windoze NT. Thank you very much. govind Even the new Apple PowerBooks look attractive, and I could consider buying one instead, hoping that I will get Rhapsody as soon as it becomes available. T. Govindaraj, Georgia Tech, 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0205. http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty/T_Govindaraj, +1 404 894 3873
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702232004.PAA14159@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: f958b860288ea78e9a8c9f5f62c3d3c2 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 97 15:04:02 -0500 Subject: Re: C.S.N.sysadmin archives and FAQ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: f958b860288ea78e9a8c9f5f62c3d3c2 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Original Date: 22 Feb 1997 10:18:23 -0800 > There are a few problems that I am having that I remember being > covered in the past. I don't want to ask avout them again so I > would like to know where an archive of this stuff is. Depends on how far back you want to go. The PEANUTS site has the the archives of all the USENET NeXT groups under ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Usenet/news/YEAR where YEAR is the 4 digit year you are looking for. There's also the CD-ROM collections, such as the Big Green CD set which has USENET archives (through Oct 96 I believe) all set and ready to go with DL. (You can find more about BGCD and the other CD sets at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/) If you can't find what you're looking for, let me know. I've got the archive of this newsgroup in Mail.app since Oct 96. (and the other newsgroups as well, except programmer and advocasy). TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: C.S.N.sysadmin archives and FAQ? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:18:18 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un46r_G00iV_M1jg5a@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5end9f$anf@crl10.crl.com> In-Reply-To: <5end9f$anf@crl10.crl.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 22-Feb-97 C.S.N.sysadmin archives and.. by Christoph Steiner@crl.co > There are a few problems that I am having that I remember being covered > in the past. I don't want to ask avout them again so I would like to > know where an archive of this stuff is. Try <URL=http://www.dejanews.com> for archived news articles. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:21:39 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Mn46uHW00iV_E1jjZm@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> In-Reply-To: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 22-Feb-97 named....is it tricky under.. by Rainer Fuegenstein@gromi > JH> I know that that isn't very much information, but does > JH> anybody know if there is anything non-standard, or tricky > JH> with respect to setting this up on a NeXT. I'm currently > JH> using NS3.3 if that matters. > > As far as I figured out, there is no named included in our version > of NS 3.3 .... /usr/etc/named. And 'man named' works too. Look again. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Domain defined -> Boot process stops! Why??? Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:25:24 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <En46xoK00iV_41jU5l@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ej4gb$qp6@uni2f.unige.ch> In-Reply-To: <5ej4gb$qp6@uni2f.unige.ch> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Feb-97 Domain defined -> Boot proc.. by phm@eqt.ch > We have here a domain of our own. When I now define this domain name in > HostManager, the boot process stops after the message "Starting File > Service Deamons:". With "ÃC" I can continue the boot process and > everything seems to be ok. Could somebody tell me why? And what could I do > against it ? Has it something to do with NIS? ypserv? Setting a domain in HostManager refers to an YP/NIS domain; your machine pauses because it's trying to get in contact with a local NIS server. If you don't have a local NIS server, don't set the domain field in HostManager and /etc/hostconfig. If you want to you can explicitly set your machine's Internet/DNS hostname via adding a "hostname my_machine.do.main" to the /etc/rc.local file. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem starting OpenStep for Solaris Date: 24 Feb 1997 07:21:53 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5erfih$asi$2@rks1> I try to install the Solaris OpenStep on an Ultra 1 running on SunOS Release 5.5.1 and OpenWindows 3.5.1. The installation is finished successfully. I made the changes to the .login file and started OpenWindows with the openwin -dpi 72 commandline. When I now try to start OpenStep the following Message appears in the shell window: %% DPS Client Library Warning: % Value '0.5' is invalid for dpsColorCube.PseudoColor.8.gamma resource %%[ Error: undefined; OffendingCommand: 1,000000 ]%% Feb 24 10:05:10 Workspace[1061] An uncaught exception was raised Feb 24 10:05:10 Workspace[1061] DPS error code 1000 (%[ DPS error name: undefined error: 1,000000 ]%) After 45 seconds the process ends without starting the OpenStep environment. Does anybody knows causes this error and how I can handle it? Thank You for helping me Andreas dietzsch@rmhs2.urz.tu-dresden.de
From: gloger@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Jochen Gloger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parallel Port Date: 24 Feb 1997 11:37:40 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5erui4$qsk@news.sns-felb.debis.de> References: <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Cc: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com In <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: > Has anybody else problems in activating the parallel port with an ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 MB? > The driver don't recognize the parallel port at 0x378. (_IOProbe... can't find a parallel port > blabla blabla... failed; or somthing like that) No problems with an old MB (...TP4XE). Version > is NS3.3 (white one, what else with a par. port at 0x378). Anyone find a solution? MB-BIOS > is the latest from 29. January 97. > Henry > Hi, there are two possibiblities 1. You use a new parallel port driver which is available on the net. I tried this, but my system reacts with system panic, so I had to look for another possibiblity 2. In the BIOS you can select several modes for the parallel port. When I switched from the "normal" mode to "EPP" I had no longer problems. Hope that helps regards, Jochen -- ===================================================================== Jochen Gloger, Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm, Institute of Information Technology, Department of Text Understanding Phone: +49 731 505 2353, Fax: +49 731 505 4113 Address: Wilhelm-Runge-Str.11, P.O. Box 23 60, 89013 Ulm, Germany Email: gloger@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM =====================================================================
From: "I.U.T." <istechun@dci.iran.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: debugging core file Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 07:02:30 -0500 Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970224070107.28503A-100000@dci> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII hi, how i can debug a core file on sunos 4.1.2 solaris 1.1.1? thankx, another email address: masroor@cc.iut.ac.ir
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sending the font by default when printing? Date: 24 Feb 1997 09:52:07 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5eroc7$6f0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I am printing over a network to an HP LaserJet 4si MX. When I print any non-standard font (e.g. Aachen, Sonata, Calliope), the printer prints junk, because the PostScript sent to it refers to a font it knows of not. So, I have to go through Print->Save... Chosen Printer / Include Fonts every time I print. Is there a way that the font can be sent along with the spooled PostScript as a default when I just say "Print" ? The NeXT FAQ said nothing on this. Also, it seems that the *.ppd files are not utilized when printing over the network. I.e. there is no place in the /etc/printcap entries for the appropriate *.ppd file. So are the *.ppd files needed only when setting up a printer connected by the serial port to the NEXTSTEP computer? -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: One time password for NeXTStep 3.3 ??? Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:27:04 GMT Organization: MLab,Dep. of Computer Science, University of Milan, Italy Message-ID: <5esc08$q2p@oracle.csi.unimi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I want to know if there is a soft like Skey o OPIE that implement one time password on NeXTStep 3.3 Tnx in advance !!!
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Where is comp.sys.next.sysadmin Archive? Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:57:52 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5eskr0$sg5$1@shadow.skypoint.net> Is there an arcive for this group? Is there a FAQ Thank you -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP!!!! Mail.app and CServe-Mail Date: 24 Feb 1997 19:00:47 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Message-ID: <5esogv$fg5$1@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! Does anybody know if I could use Mail.app with the mailserver of Compuserve, because they didn't have a pop/smtp mailserver. Does anybody know if there is a way to make use of the CompuServemailserver and how to configure my system to send mail to server and to get my mail from it ??? Any hints are wellcome. Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII) -- Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (sorry no nextmail)
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Parallel Port Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 13:22:58 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5es17l$kg0@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <5egu2g$15lm@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Thank's to the guys who gave me a response. One suggested to use the par.port. driver you will find at ftp.peak.org. I will test this too. Last weekend I found a different solution, namely first to "boot" the printer and than NS. Now the driver is satisfied and works in the wellknown manner. Seems that ASUS will check on the very first boot procedure if any printer is connected and working and than enabling or disabling the parallel chip set. Strange... Henry
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: named....is it tricky under NS? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 97 13:14:27 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5es0nl$kg0@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <856738759.AA03544@gromit.ping.at> <Mn46uHW00iV_E1jjZm@andrew.cmu.edu> ...named Nevertheless, if you will install Gatekepper and you want dial on demand, you have to install a named package. The latest version I installed was BIND4.9.3. I run into some problems configuring a primary "root" domain (which are not solved). Henry
From: markfr@markfr .cse.tek.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Receiving mail in a unix network Date: 24 Feb 1997 19:12:56 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc, Beaverton, OR, USA Message-ID: <5esp7o$am0@tekadm1.cse.tek.com> I am trying to receive mail on my Next in a Sun network. I have mailhost aliased to the Sun mail host, and I am able to send mail OK. When I try to send mail to my Next, the mail gets bounced. I looked in the Network and System Administration book, and they say I need to mount /usr/spool/mail from the Sun network. However, I have been able to receive mail on other Sun networks without using this mount. Thanks for any help. - Mark Please reply to: markfr@mdhost.cse.tek.com or Post your response.
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: next and linux partitions Date: 24 Feb 1997 19:30:59 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <5esq9j$arc@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: next linux disk partitions I've got a dual boot next/linux system. Can I mount my linux partition under nextstep and vice versa? Thanks Geof -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu (Sharad J Shanbhag) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Shutdown/halt/reboot fails on NS 3.3 Intel Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:40:43 -0600 Organization: University of Minnesota Sender: shan0029@gold.tc.umn.edu Message-ID: <5et1sr$3cv@gold.tc.umn.edu> Whenever I attempt to halt my system, I get the following messages: unmounting Dos... Done unmounting Netware... Done unmounting /Net.... Done unmounting swapfile.front....Done unmounting disk2....Done Root unmount FAILED 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3It's safe to power off computer. Sometimes I get 1s instead of the 3s. Since the system doesn't go down clean, I wind up having to fsck the drive after every reboot. Normally this isn't a problem, (why ever boot into DOS ;) but I will have to use a couple of programs under WinNT and this could get kinda annoying. My config: NS 3.3 (user+dev, patched) SuperMicro PCI Mainboard, Intel P150 CPU 32 MB EDO RAM Diamond Stealth 64 2MB Intel EtherExpress Logitech Bus Mouse NCR PCI SCSI adapter 500MB Seagate ST5660N (root/boot partition) 1.2 MB Fujitsu M1606S (mounted at /disk2) Iomega Zip Drive (external) Thanks for any help. ---- Sharad J. Shanbhag phone: (612) 626-9215 Graduate Program in Neuroscience and fax: (612) 626-9201 Department of Neurosurgery shanbhag@neuro.med.umn.edu University of Minnesota (NeXT & MIME) sharad@next1.neuro.umn.edu
From: Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rebuild kernel Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 23:39:51 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know how to rebuild the mach kernel for a next server?
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Loading from Network? Date: 21 Feb 1997 06:40:25 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5ejg0p$oij@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <330D06F1.7074@ix.netcom.com> "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > When I start my Color NeXT station it says loading from network. > My machine is not on a network. I have the OS software and can > reload, but can anyone tell me how to get past this loading from > network screen? If I remember right, reloading the software wouldn't solve the problem anyway. You have to get into the ROM monitor, and change the default bootup command. If you have the documentation handy, read up on the ROM monitor. If you don't have it handy, mention it here and someone (perhaps even me!) will dig up the steps you need to do to reset the boot command. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: altenber@acpub.duke.edu (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sending the font by default when printing? Date: 25 Feb 1997 01:03:19 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5etdon$cos@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5eroc7$6f0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Cc: altenber@acpub.duke.edu A kind Netizen replied that one needs to add the property _nxfinalform= to the NetInfo entry for the printer. I did it, rebooted, and it worked. In <5eroc7$6f0@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Lee Altenberg wrote: > I am printing over a network to an HP LaserJet 4si MX. When I print any > non-standard font (e.g. Aachen, Sonata, Calliope), the printer prints junk, > because the PostScript sent to it refers to a font it knows of not. So, I have > to go through Print->Save... Chosen Printer / Include Fonts every time I print. > Is there a way that the font can be sent along with the spooled PostScript as a > default when I just say "Print" ? The NeXT FAQ said nothing on this. > > Also, it seems that the *.ppd files are not utilized when printing over the > network. I.e. there is no place in the /etc/printcap entries for the > appropriate *.ppd file. So are the *.ppd files needed only when setting up a > printer connected by the serial port to the NEXTSTEP computer? > -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenber@mhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 21 Feb 1997 06:37:35 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5ejfrf$oij@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon Wright) wrote: > Specifically, I am running some FAX software that generates TIFF > files. However, it calls them <blahblahblah>.tif. The only apps > that the Tools Inspector claims can open a .tif file are IconBuilder, > Edit, and WM. If I rename the file to be <blahblahblah>.tiff, > then Preview shows up in the list of applications. > > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to > set Preview as the default application for .tif files. Any > suggestions? Hmm. You might be able to get Opener.app to do this, except that I think you'd have to compile Opener.app to do that. My guess is that the current version of Opener is based on the older version of NeXTSTEP, and it would require some work to compile it (at all) under OpenStep 4.x. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Where is comp.sys.next.sysadmin Archive? Date: 25 Feb 1997 09:29:42 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5eube6$nh5@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <5eskr0$sg5$1@shadow.skypoint.net> jalegre@andante-systems.com writes > Is there an arcive for this group? > Is there a FAQ > To browse all posted articles use DejaNews: http://www.dejanews.com To filter out 'comp.sys.next.sysadmin' start with defining a search filter: http://www.dejanews.com/forms/dnsetfilter.html Good Luck, Robert -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Socks for NeXTSTEP? Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:18 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5eu7a6$3c5@vader.WolfWare.com> Has anyone already done the work of building a Socks 4 or Socks 5 server for NeXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach for black? - Chris -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 19:03:02 GMT Organization: R&A Sender: news@RnA.NL Message-ID: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Subject line says it all. Oh, and I don't mind a command line based newsreader that can just decode the contents of a MIME message like the use of uudecode from within nn. -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rebuild kernel Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:34:18 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0n4idOe00iWQQ1B1VD@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> In-Reply-To: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Feb-97 Rebuild kernel by Brian Ward@stevens-tech. > Does anyone know how to rebuild the mach kernel for a next server? Apple's new employees who were formerly NeXT system engineers do. However, NeXT has never released any facilities for users to rebuild the kernel as in SunOS 4. What did you want to do, anyway? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Rebuild kernel Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E660vD.DwK@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 15:40:25 GMT References: <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <33126D17.A36@stevens-tech.edu>, Brian Ward <bward@stevens-tech.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know how to rebuild the mach kernel for a next server? You can't re-build NeXT kernel. You can, however, set some operational parameters from the boot prompt/ROM monitor/whatever your machine has. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NoteBook.app, how can I get a license? Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:50:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ev8ou$e93@news.acns.nwu.edu> I tried NoteBook.app and I like it. I'd like to purchase a license but I haven't been able to contact the authors. Here is what I know (from there info panel), it is written by Millennium Software Labs, Inc. 1010 El Camino Real, Suite 300 · Menlo Park, CA 94025 · USA (415) 321-3720 · (415) 321-3650 Fax · info@millennium.com Call (415) 321-3720 to order products But there phone is disconnected and has no forwarding information. Can anyone tell me now to contact them? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What is a process true memory consuption? Date: 25 Feb 1997 17:10:23 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5ev6dv$sr3@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> I was playing a bit with OmniWeb to see when it is allocation large amounts of memory and fiddled with some tools. 1. "ps -agvx" which gives me PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSIZE RSIZE LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND 419 ? SW 1:11 0 0 0 26.6M 0K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.0 OmniWeb2 2. "pmem 419" (as root) pid private aliased unshared shared total nobjects command 419 3688 2480 6168 6480 12648 122 OmniWeb2 How do the 12648 (guess thats pages, there is no man page for pmem) correspond to the 26.6 M? -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: symptoms: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:43:08 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5evbrt$964@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <5evajo$8lt@morrow.stanford.edu> I forgot to describe the symptoms of problem 2: When I try to login at the server console (as root or as any user), the login goes OK and the login window goes away, the cursor spins a moment and becomes an arrow, and the screen stays blank; my familiar Workspace layout never shows up. I have to NMI and reboot to get the login screen back. When I rlogin or telnet to the server, my login goes OK, but when I try to su, it takes my password and replies "su: setgid: Not owner", and I remain a lowly user. -- Eric Minch Stanford Genetics Department http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:21:44 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5evajo$8lt@morrow.stanford.edu> Hi Folx-- One of our machines (a Sparc 20) mysteriously went down last Friday and wouldn't reboot. I reinstalled NS3.3 [first mistake] and its NSF exports showed up everywhere they should, but it wasn't importing as it should. That's the first problem, and in the course of trying to solve it I tried to copy /usr/bin/* from its identical twin machine but instead copied them to our server, a black cube [second mistake]. Naturally the cube server wouldn't execute /usr/bin/* anymore, so I copied /usr/bin/* from another cube [third mistake]. Now I can't login at the server console, but I can login remotely, but I can't su. In other words, no root access is possible to our server, so my so-called sysadmin duties are at an end unless I can solve the second problem (no root access to server), and then finally solve the first problem (client exports but doesn't import). Anyone care to lend a hand? -- Eric Minch Stanford Genetics Department http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E669Dp.29K@flop.schwaben.de> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:44:13 GMT Jon Wright wrote: > How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? You can't - not without pulling a hack, that is. See below. > I know how to use the Tools Inspector to show which apps OPENSTEP thinks > can open the particular file type and to set the default application for > that file type, but what if an application doesn't show up in the list the > Tools Inspector displays? Is there any way to force the application to be > "discovered" by the Tools Inspector? Yes. The application in question has to register itself for the partiular file type; if it doesn't do that, WM won't allow you to select it. > (snip) > I can manually open the .tif file in Preview, but I'd like to set Preview > as the default application for .tif files. Any suggestions? --snip-- >From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)>Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software >Subject: Re: Preview as default opener for .tif files? In article <1994Oct12.230604.1945@nbivax.nbi.dk> sams@nbivax.nbi.dk writes: >Preview is the default opener for .ps and .tiff files. Is it possible >to make it the default opener for .tif tiles too? (I'm creating the >files under msdos and would like to keep the same names.) Edit __header section of __ICON Mach-O segment in executable /NextApps/Preview.app/Preview. Extract __header using segedit, edit it to add a line for "tif" and put it back using segedit again. See "man segedit" or just type the command without args. It should be obvious what to do from the following. % segedit Preview -extract __ICON __header ~/header % cat ~/header F Preview.app Preview app F Preview Preview app S ps Preview ps S tiff Preview S eps Preview @ -- Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020 Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: 510-642-3323, (NeXT & MIME mails welcome) --snip-- This also works fine for any other file type, for example JPEGs or GIFs if you have an appropriate filter installed. No more n+1 custom picture viewers for different file types.. Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can OpenStep be configured to serve PPP? Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:42:40 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5evis0$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a OpenStep 4.1/Intel machine on my desk at my University. We have a T3 Network connection, so to say the least it is very fast. Unfortunately, the University has implemented a 90 minute time limit for their dialup IP service. So to get around it I am looking into establishing my own dialin service. Can anyone tell me if I can configure OpenStep to act as a PPP or Slip server for dialup? What tools/packages would I need? Is there any documentation on this? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: deniseh@nntp.best.com (Denise Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:56:58 GMT Message-ID: <5evjmq$mvb$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> <5ejfrf$oij@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn (gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu) wrote: : Hmm. You might be able to get Opener.app to do this, except : that I think you'd have to compile Opener.app to do that. Correct on both counts. Opener has already been modified to do something very similar--it takes care of .TIFF and .EPS files (note the capitalization). All it does is change the suffixes to .tiff/.eps and message Preview to take the files from there. : My guess is that the current version of Opener is based on the : older version of NeXTSTEP, and it would require some work to : compile it (at all) under OpenStep 4.x. Correct again. The current version was built quad-fat under NS 3.3. In my spare time here and there I am working on completely rewriting Opener so that it can be more easily OpenStep-ified. But don't look for the announcement anytime soon, since my real job is keeping me plenty busy.... Denise -- Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward. NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: file ownership Date: 25 Feb 1997 20:45:34 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5evj1e$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <5elhcu$d3@news1.ucsd.edu> <5ecq0j$btd@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5egff1$btg@agate.berkeley.edu> > > No. You have found one of the errors in the NeXT SysAdmin Manual, and > believed it. Only the root file system should have an entry "noauto". All > other file systems to be mounted at boot time should not have this, since it Yep that did it! the problem was the noauto!!!! Thank's for the help!
From: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Solution: Help: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Date: 25 Feb 1997 21:27:18 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5evlfm$hph@morrow.stanford.edu> References: <5evajo$8lt@morrow.stanford.edu> Hi folx-- Thanks and a tip o' the hat to Magnus Nordberg and Ken Lui. The uid and gid bits were wrong after I copied /usr/bin/*. A single-user reboot and a few chmods fixed them. As for problem #1, I'll just re-re-install 3.3 with the client not connected to the net this time (though this isn't supposed to be a problem for the Sparcs). Eric Minch Stanford Genetics Department http://lotka.stanford.edu/~minch/
From: rob@blackhole.ix.netcom.com (Rob Blessin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Disney buys stake in Pixar! Stock soars! Date: 25 Feb 1997 21:29:37 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5evlk1$qnh@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Hello NeXT/Apple community: Wow ! Disney buys stake in Pixar all I can say is looks like it was a good investment... Renderman in Rhapsody would be nice. Way to go Steve! Best regards Rob Blessin President Black Hole, Incorporated bhi1@ix.netcom.com
From: Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pine Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:48:50 -0500 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970225164429.27695A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know a way to use pine with NeXXT's? How to set it up. NeXT pull the mail from the incoming folder then puts it into the folders it sets up with mailboxes (Active) but then you can't really get the two to work together. Anyone been able to set this up to work between the two mail handlers? Is there a mail handler that can be used from the NeXT Mach kernel that will work with the desk to GUI mail app? Is there a way to chage what the GUI Next mail app does? Thanks
From: kevin@vulcansthrone.az.stratus.com (Kevin Dorer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Black box on 3.3 will not power off Date: 25 Feb 1997 22:41:34 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5evpqu$as4@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> In article <5eghtq$lmi@transfer.stratus.com> kevin@vulcansthrone.az.stratus.com (Kevin Dorer) writes: > > Black NeXT hardware, pizza box running NeXTStep 3.3 powers on > automatically after power off. Neither the 'After power off/failure' > nor the 'At specified time' buttons are checked under preferences > for root or other 2 users. Buttons may have been checked at some > time in the past for one of the users. Also tried enabling/disabling > power off (problem with this mentioned 3.1 release notes). Ideas > or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks to Chuck (Charles Swiger) who suggested replacing the 3v battery. Put in a new battery and no more problem! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kevin C. Dorer VOS Mail: Kevin_Dorer@vos.stratus.com Software Systems Engineer NeXT Mail: kevin@az.stratus.com Customer Assistance Center Customer Service: (800) 828-8513 Stratus Computer, Inc., 4455 E. Camelback Road, Phoenix AZ 85018
From: Bill Mitchell <bill.mitchell@mercyic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cube to MAC ?s Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:58:16 -0600 Organization: Avalon Networks Inc. Message-ID: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At home: The "new" cube, about 2 weeks old, has the following config... NeXTStep 3.0, 040, 8MB RAM, 650 MB HD Cube sits next, no pun intended, to my MAC Performa 6400/180. 1. What/how is best method of connecting/sharing the 2? 2. Can I "share" the Performa's modem with the Cube? 3. Can I print from Cube to attached Apple inkjet 1500 printer? 4. Will the EXECUTOR emulater assist in these quests? Thanks in advance. All responses are greatly appreciated. Bill Mitchell
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OmniWeb and Re: What is a process true memory consuption? Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:11:25 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <sn4r6Ri00iWl0ENO80@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ev6dv$sr3@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> In-Reply-To: <5ev6dv$sr3@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 25-Feb-97 What is a process true memo.. by Frank M. Siegert@this.NO > PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSIZE RSIZE LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND > 419 ? SW 1:11 0 0 0 26.6M 0K 0 0K > 0 0.0 0.0 OmniWeb2 > > 2. "pmem 419" (as root) > > pid private aliased unshared shared total nobjects command > 419 3688 2480 6168 6480 12648 122 OmniWeb2 > > How do the 12648 (guess thats pages, there is no man page for pmem) > correspond to the 26.6 M? Number of private pages * 8K per page / (1024 K per MB): 3688 * 8 / 1024 ~= 28 MB. Close enough.... Private + aliased = unshared. Unshared + shared = total. I believe the shared category refers to pages mapped in from the shared libraries. ------------------------------- Speaking of OmniWeb's memory usage, I made the change that Ken suggested-- turning all of the cache times to 0 except Omni/DocView. I've been running OmniWeb 2.5b2 for a week or so with about 4 document windows open all of the time. % ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSIZE RSIZE TT STAT TIME COMMAND chuck 10624 0.0 29.7 241M 23.8M ? SW 18:52 /LocalApps/OmniWeb.app/Omni OmniWeb still shows the ever-increasing VM size.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: CD audio with EIDE drives? Date: 24 Feb 1997 05:36:36 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5er9d4$m2@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5e91qr$qo4@news.xmission.com> <5e9ma2$4lr@usenet.rpi.edu> <5eiejr$gqq@news.xmission.com> don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: > The APAPI drive makes the drive masquerade as a SCSI device, so > it does work. I've managed to get CDPlayer.app to work, sort > of, by removing OmniCD from the system (it does not yet work, > though I think Andrew knows how to get it to at least work as > well as CDPlayer.app now, so perhaps a new version will be > forthcoming). I can play audio via the headphone jack, but not > through the sound card, since the volume control in CDPlayer.app > doesn't work at all and leaves the volume at zero. According to > an engineer at NeXT I spoke with, this is a known bug in the > ATAPI driver. > > Just thought you'd want to know about the above... Hmm. Does the drive actually show up as a SCSI device, at a specific SCSI ID? If so, I wonder if mCD.app would work with it. Presumably it should (though of course it would have the same problem with the volume, if that's a but in the driver). Thanks for the info. I can't test mCD on this (as my NS/Intel machine has a SCSI CD-ROM drive), but I'd be interested in what happens if anyone else tests tries mCD with it. (note to onlookers: I'm the author of mCD.app, such as it is...) (which has not been OpenStep-ified yet, so you probably can't compile it under NS-4.x). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Date: 24 Feb 1997 05:54:08 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5erae0$m2@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> "Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson" <ken@acni-2.com> wrote: > I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. > Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another > machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and > then copy the files back, and reboot. The machine is the > authoritative source for NetInfo for the domain. > > Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? I wouldn't do it that way. The root partition includes like /private/dev, and those device-definitions probably won't copy well across an NFS connection... I have replaced the root hard disk on more than one NeXTstation (but never on any other NeXTSTEP platform). What I do is attach the new hard disk in some temporary setup (borrowing some external case to hold the new drive). I get it all formatted and partitioned the way I want. I then boot off the NeXTSTEP 3.3 CD-ROM, and if you answer the questions correctly you end up in a unix command shell. I then mount both the old and new hard disks (using the -n option), and then use the "ditto" command to copy the old hard disk to the new one. Luckily the ditto command doesn't even require a working /tmp, so this works well. Note that I have not yet tried this with the CD for NS-4.0 or NS-4.1 , but hopefully both of them should work the same. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IMAP4 mail client? Date: 25 Feb 1997 23:37:25 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5f0ln5$ph3$1@xmission.xmission.com> I've successfully compiled IMAP4 for OPENSTEP 4.1 on the suggestion of Mark Crispin that I ditch imap2bis. (Mark was *extraordinarily* helpful. Thanks, Mark.) Now the next step is to get an IMAP4-compatible graphical mail client for OPENSTEP 4.1. Anyone have any suggestions? ......................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: timothy@sirius.com (Timothy Stonis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Routing question... Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:24:12 -0800 Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <timothy-2602970024120001@ppp146-sf1.sirius.com> Hi, I have (what I think is) a tough problem. I want to use my cube to route internet traffic from my local ethernet network (two macs and the cube) through the cube's PPP connection. I'm just using bogus IP numbers for the two macs and the cube (ie 192.0.0.x ). Any ideas? Thanks in advance... _Tim
From: root@localhost (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 09:53:19 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> I've installed a new root drive in my NeXTstation with a 128Mb swapdisk partition. However, it wasn't until after I installed everything on the new hard drive that I discovered the swapdisk partition was not EXACTLY 128Mb. Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition sizes without having to reinstall everything? Regards, -- # mark miller # markm@kaiwan.com (NeXTmail ok)
From: root@localhost (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 09:59:36 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <5f11i8$ra@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> I've installed a new root drive in my NeXTstation with a 128Mb swapdisk partition. However, it wasn't until after I installed everything on the new hard drive that I discovered the swapdisk partition was not EXACTLY 128Mb. Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition sizes without having to reinstall everything? Regards, -- # mark miller # markm@kaiwan.com (NeXTmail ok)
From: root@localhost (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 10:03:00 GMT Organization: KAIWAN Internet (310-527-4279,818-756-0180,909-785-9712,714-638-4133,805-294-9338) Message-ID: <5f11ok$sv@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> I've installed a new root drive in my NeXTstation with a 128Mb swapdisk partition. However, it wasn't until after I installed everything on the new hard drive that I discovered the swapdisk partition was not EXACTLY 128Mb. Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition sizes without having to reinstall everything? Regards, -- # mark miller # markm@kaiwan.com (NeXTmail ok)
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: One time password for NeXTStep 3.3 ??? Date: 26 Feb 1997 10:05:38 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5f11ti$e7i@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <5esc08$q2p@oracle.csi.unimi.it> In-Reply-To: <5esc08$q2p@oracle.csi.unimi.it> On 02/24/97, Stefano Pisati wrote: > Hi, I want to know if there is a soft like Skey o OPIE that implement > one time password on NeXTStep 3.3 > Yes, skey... We certainly have the "client" here -- I'm not sure if it's been ported to the "server", however I'd guess so. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 02:47:51 -0800 Organization: Egg Head Billy Productions Message-ID: <331414D7.488@ix.netcom.com> References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote: > > Subject line says it all. > > Oh, and I don't mind a command line based newsreader that can just decode the > contents of a MIME message like the use of uudecode from within nn. > The next beta version of RadicalNews (due out in March) will support internal MIME messages. It is *by far* the best newsreader I have ever used on ANY platform and strongly incourage others to try it out! - Mark Trombino (not affiliated in any way to Radical Software. Just a fan!)
From: mark zajac <mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: internal HD for slab ? Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:18:52 -0500 Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <3314383C.689F@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Is this really a sys-admin question? I'm not sure. If not, then sorry for posting the wrong group. Can somebody recomend a good generic hard drive for mounting inside a NeXT Color Turbo? What specs must I look for if I try to find one from a catalog? I'll try to wactch for a post but mail (mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu) will reach me sooner. Keep a song in your heart [:-)] Mark
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pfnfsd for NSFIP 3.3 Date: 26 Feb 1997 14:51:30 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5f1ili$7qg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, does anyone know where to get a pcnfsd for NS3.3 FIP? ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: "B. Alexander King III" <aking@uic.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can't format optical disk Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:44:09 -0600 Organization: Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago Message-ID: <33145A49.4113@uic.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: aking@uic.edu I have a NeXT cube with a 25MHz 68040 running NeXTStep 3.0. I also have two blank 256Mb optical disks. Unfortunately, I am unable to initialize them from the Workspace Manager's Disk menu. The optical drive won't even recognize them (it just spits them back out). What could be wrong? Thanks in advance. bak
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba functionality on next? Date: 26 Feb 1997 18:36:15 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5f1vqv$nkc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <5edk3q$ljg@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> > > > the package http://www.this.net/~frank/samba.pkg.tar.gz from Frank > > > Siegert will do the trick, I just wish it could be installed under > > > /usr/local instead of root - not a big deal. If you want the samba.pkg to allow you to install the package in a particular place, you can edit the samba.info # These fields determine where the installed package will go. DefaultLocation / Relocatable YES I do not know if the package was compiled to look in specific places (eg /samba/blah....) However, you could make a symbolic link at that point. In our case, we do store things on shared network drives... pasc
From: "Mitchell Allen" <mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 26 Feb 97 14:13:02 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <AF39F574-114A06@207.147.51.249> References: <331414D7.488@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp.sys.next.software, nntp://netnews.worldnet.att.net/comp.sys.next.sysadmin On Wed, Feb 26, 1997 5:47 AM, Mark Trombino <mailto:mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > The next beta version of RadicalNews (due out in March) will support > internal MIME messages. It is *by far* the best newsreader I have ever > used on ANY platform and strongly incourage others to try it out! The UI is great on RadicalNews, but the performance on my Turbo Cube is slow as molasses even with a 28.8 connection. That Kiwi Newsreader is much faster, but I don't know if it supports MIME. Mitch --------------------------------------------------------- Cyberdog ---A Product of Apple Computer, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can OpenStep be configured to serve PPP? Message-ID: <1997Feb26.104636.26294@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 26 Feb 97 10:46:36 MST References: <5evis0$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> Distribution: world Cc: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu In <5evis0$j15@news.acns.nwu.edu> dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu wrote: > Can anyone tell me if I can configure OpenStep to act as a PPP or Slip server for dialup? > What tools/packages would I need? Is there any documentation on this? > The PPP package that ships with Openstep 4.1 works just fine... -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 19:46:30 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5f23um$ttj@library.airnews.net> References: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <E680Dr.4sL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: > Not that I know of. I think once it's there you're stuck with it. Even > the exotica of AIX's storage system can't reduce the size of filesystems. Apologies for being off topic in csns, but on AIX3.2.5/4.1.4 there is a sneaky way to reduce the sizes of JFS partitions on rootvg and non. I don't remember how off the top of my head, but it's detailed in an article from 800.IBM4FAX. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E680Dr.4sL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 17:25:02 GMT References: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com>, Charlie Root <root@localhost> wrote: >Is there a utility or a sneaky method of changing partition >sizes without having to reinstall everything? > Not that I know of. I think once it's there you're stuck with it. Even the exotica of AIX's storage system can't reduce the size of filesystems. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: Richard Rostad <rrostad@norgit.no> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Windows NT filesystem and ZIP disks. Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:06:20 +0100 Organization: NORGIT Senteret AS Message-ID: <3314A5CC.5F4C@norgit.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: a.ncg.net! I need to exchange data between Windows NT and NextStep Workstations using iomega ZIP drives. This works ok until someone formats a ZIP disk using the NTFS file system. Is there a way to make the NEXT read these disks? If possible, will it be possible to read compressed directories also? Could NEXT be able to compress directories on NTFS disks? I would suppose the two last would be asking too much, but NTFS as an installable file system seems possible. I see the NEXT already handles both NEXT, FAT and Macintosh file systems, so one more should be possible? Thanks Richard.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pfnfsd for NSFIP 3.3 Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:23:15 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un58qXK00iVCI8QK9G@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5f1ili$7qg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> In-Reply-To: <5f1ili$7qg@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Feb-97 pfnfsd for NSFIP 3.3 by Ralf Specht@dbag.ulm.Dai > does anyone know where to get a pcnfsd for NS3.3 FIP? How about '/usr/etc/rpc.pcnfsd'? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jorice@cs.tcd.ie (Jonathan Rice) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Two NS 3.3 Partitions on Same Disk? Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:50:10 GMT Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Sender: isgnntp@vangogh.cs.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5f2b6i$kc4$1@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Hi. I've got an NS/I 3.3 system which was originally configured to be multi-OS - NS, Windows and Linux. I'm now running low on disk space and want to convert the Windows and Linux partitions to being NEXTSTEP. However, fdisk won't allow two NS partitions on the same disk! Is there any way of getting this to work, without reinitialising everything? (I kind of doubt it, from scanning similar postings in this group over the last few months). -- Jonathan Rice -- Jonathan Rice, Dept. Comp. Sci., Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/jorice/jorice.html Jonathan.Rice@tcd.ie
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Windows NT filesystem and ZIP disks. Date: 26 Feb 1997 22:19:27 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5f2ctf$19j@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <3314A5CC.5F4C@norgit.no> Cc: rrostad@norgit.no In <3314A5CC.5F4C@norgit.no> Richard Rostad wrote: > I need to exchange data between Windows NT and NextStep Workstations > using iomega ZIP drives. This works ok until someone formats a ZIP disk > using the NTFS file system. Is there a way to make the NEXT read these > disks? If possible, will it be possible to read compressed directories > also? Could NEXT be able to compress directories on NTFS disks? > > I would suppose the two last would be asking too much, but NTFS as an > installable file system seems possible. I see the NEXT already handles > both NEXT, FAT and Macintosh file systems, so one more should be > possible? > > Thanks > Richard. > Try 'vmount' (available on the public archives, e.g. http://peanuts.leo.org/). Guess it does not read compressed ntfs... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: crump@world.std.com (David Crump) Subject: /etc/hosts not resolving hostnames...help! Message-ID: <E688Ay.283@world.std.com> Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 20:16:10 GMT I am having trouble with my NeXT box resolving hostnames. In my local configuration, I have the correct IP number, router number, netmask and hostname. I have tried both NetInfo Network and NON-NetInfo Network, but to no avail. My /etc/hosts file has all my names and numbers in it, but it says to NOT use NetInfo if I want this file to be read. How exactly do I do this? Thanks for the help via e-mail... David Crump crump@world.std.com ===================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Subject: login window screen saver timing? Message-ID: <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:06:53 GMT Hi all. Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... Thanks in advance, bryce
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: 26 Feb 1997 21:48:34 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> Summary: SoundBlaster on board Keywords: SoundBlaster In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, > My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. > OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. > I've tried each of the SB drivers and none > of them work. Does anyone know how to get > this to work. I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). Re Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: How to change partition sizes on boot disk? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E68pJu.GBG@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 02:28:42 GMT References: <5f116f$m1@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> <E680Dr.4sL@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5f23um$ttj@library.airnews.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5f23um$ttj@library.airnews.net>, Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> wrote: >dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) wrote: >> Not that I know of. I think once it's there you're stuck with it. Even >> the exotica of AIX's storage system can't reduce the size of filesystems. > >Apologies for being off topic in csns, but on AIX3.2.5/4.1.4 there is a >sneaky way to reduce the sizes of JFS partitions on rootvg and non. Well, yeah, but it's basically "make a backup, shrink the partitions, do a restore." I mentioned AIX because someone may bitch about NeXTSTEP not being able to do this. AIX's disk handling is very good, but even it can't do it without going through this big annoying kludge. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Accessing a serial port Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:52:23 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33151307.DA5@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have connected an Ascend P25 terminal adapter to my computer. It is connected by ethernet for the network connection and to the 1st serial port for terminal access. Now I need to access it with VT100 terminal emulation in order to configure it. The manual gives directions for only Win95, which says to use HyperTerminal. Will I be able to use NeXT's terminal app for this? What command should I give to access the 1st serial port? Or should I use a different app altogether? Thanks, Greg
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 27 Feb 1997 03:21:15 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm132-28.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5f2ujb$j3m$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> <7xg1yjry8m.fsf@burrow.muc.de> Cc: markusg@burrow.muc.de In <7xg1yjry8m.fsf@burrow.muc.de> Markus Gloede wrote: > >>>>> "GW" == Gerben Wierda <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl> writes: > > GW> Subject line says it all. > > Everytime somebody askes for a good newsreader my voice can be heard > shouting: Emacs + Gnus! It does everything you want and more. > > Markus G > It doesn't sound to me like what he meant. He's most likely looking for a newsreader extension for the 'vi' editor? No full screen, line by line mode. Sorry, I couldn't help myself, just a friendly joke. :-))) Good luck. Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xg1yjry8m.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:36:25 GMT >>>>> "GW" == Gerben Wierda <Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl> writes: GW> Subject line says it all. Everytime somebody askes for a good newsreader my voice can be heard shouting: Emacs + Gnus! It does everything you want and more. Markus G
From: younghoon KIL <ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 15:25:53 +0900 Organization: KORNET Message-ID: <331528E4.466E@soback.kornet.nm.kr> References: <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b-sady@uchicago.edu Bryce Sady wrote: > > Hi all. > > Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen saver? > It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it more like > around 5min., since when I put it on the login window screen, I'm > going to leave the computer anyways... Yes, you can adjust the timing. Double click the Preferences on the Dock and move to Login Window Preferences. Now you can find Automatic Screen Saver adjust slider. younghoon KIL ppai@soback.kornet.nm.kr http://soback.kornet.nm.kr/~ppai (NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP Q&A & Info Board written in Korean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: How to change PS font encoding? Message-ID: <E68Gu7.Avn@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 23:20:31 GMT I just got a Mac PostScript font (MetaPlus) which I've converted using Frank Siegert's FontConvert.app. Unfortunately this font's encoding seems to be very strange, so that eight bit characters are not displayed correctly. Specifically, if I have an accented character in Helvetica and change its font to MetaPlus, it becomes something like a Yen sign for example. Does anybody know how to fix this? I really need this font, so I'm willing to resort to even the most tedious manual solution (e.g. hand-editing the font and afm files) in order to get the font to work. I tried changing the values in the PostScript Encoding array, but this did not seem to have any effect. Piers -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I think people are happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought." -= Steve Jobs, 1/96 =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@iqweb.de -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:49:34 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am experiencing problems mounting NeXT disks on IRIX 6.2 machines. The error messages given below are seen on the NeXT machine. I have tried mounting with rsize and wrsize set to 1k but this does not help and no files are shown with ls. With the default rsize and wrsize ls hangs the machine. Has anyone seen this problem and does anyone know the solution. I have tried various mount options to fix this but with no success at the moment. I seem to remember a thread about this before but cannot remember what the solution was if any? Is there any searchable archive of NeXT postings? Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Question about swapping root drive on NextStation Date: 27 Feb 1997 07:37:18 -0500 Organization: PHCS Message-ID: <5f3v5u$o0o@papoose.quick.com> References: <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear> In article <01bc1fa1$36e738d0$01c0e1ce@bear>, Ken Gleason & Ann Ferguson <ken@acni-2.com> wrote: >I've got to swap a root hard disk for a larger one in a nextstation. >Currently, my plan is to copy the entire root partition to another >machine's NFS volume, swap the disks, reinstall Nextstep, and then copy the >files back, and reboot. The machine is the authoritative source for >NetInfo for the domain. > >Any forseen problems in doing it this way, or any suggestions? Is there any way you can temporarily use an external case for this. This will simplify matter quite a bit. Just add the drive externally with an ID 2 or higher. Do a BuildDisk to get a boot track, and formatting done, and to install a minimal boot set. Then mount the drive as root : mount /dev/sd1a /tmp/mnt. Do a full backup and restore to the new drive (in bourne compatible shell) dump 0f - / | (cd /tmp/mnt; restore xf -) Power off, and change the external scsi ID to 0 for testing. Now reboot and you will be booting from the new drive, and can test it out. This will save a lot of time, and is safer. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Private HealthCare Systems NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Systems Engineering Group (617) 895-3343 ) | The best wetware is often in beta.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to change PS font encoding? Date: 27 Feb 1997 14:03:41 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5f447t$up@bias.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <E68Gu7.Avn@mediahaus.de> piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) wrote: > I just got a Mac PostScript font (MetaPlus) which I've converted using > Frank Siegert's FontConvert.app. > Unfortunately this font's encoding seems to be very strange, so that > eight bit characters are not displayed correctly. Specifically, if I > have an accented character in Helvetica and change its font to > MetaPlus, it becomes something like a Yen sign for example. > Does anybody know how to fix this? I really need this font, so I'm > willing to resort to even the most tedious manual solution (e.g. > hand-editing the font and afm files) in order to get the font to work. > I tried changing the values in the PostScript Encoding array, but this > did not seem to have any effect. 1. Open the convertered PS font wrapper, open the PS file (not the afm) using Edit.app 2. Search /Encoding 256 array dup 0/NUL put dup 1/Eth put dup 2/eth put dup 3/Lslash put dup 4/lslash put dup 5/Scaron put dup 6/scaron put ... dup 254/ogonek put dup 255/caron put readonly def it may look different in yours, but it goes from '/Encoding' to the 'def'. 3. Change this to /Encoding StandardEncoding def 4. Save the file as /tmp/FooBar (or the name of your font) 5. rerun FontConvert over /tmp/FooBar (to generate a fresh afm) 6. replace your original font. 7. Your mileage may vary. This seems to work for most Fontographer generated fonts, if however your font defines strange glyphs it won't work. Then you have to hand edit the encoding vector. Do not forget to regenerate the afm file! Hope this helps Frank --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:39:16 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <An5NmIO00iV0Q1_nFQ@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> In-Reply-To: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Feb-97 NFS problems between NeXT a.. by David Grindrod@mailhost. > Is there any searchable archive of NeXT postings? http://www.dejanews.com -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: 27 Feb 1997 15:23:51 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5f48u7$qqo@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> References: <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> Hi, Try these dfaults settings as root: dwrite loginwindow ScreenSaverEnabled Yes dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim 120 The TimeToDim value is in seconds. In article <E68LrH.ALG@midway.uchicago.edu> bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) writes: > Hi all. > > Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen saver? > It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it more like > around 5min., since when I put it on the login window screen, I'm > going to leave the computer anyways... > > Thanks in advance, > bryce -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology, Operations and Networking University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: next and linux partitions Date: 27 Feb 1997 18:29:58 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <5f4jr6$1fl@news-central.tiac.net> References: <5esq9j$arc@ra.cc.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5esq9j$arc@ra.cc.wwu.edu> On 02/24/97, Geoffrey Matthews wrote: >I've got a dual boot next/linux system. >Can I mount my linux partition under nextstep and vice versa? You might want to have a look at vmount available at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount Hope that would help, Aleksey
From: Keith Gillette <gillette@arch.housing.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Remote Application Execution on OPENSTEP for Solaris / NEXTSTEP 3.0 Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 12:52:47 -0600 Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970227121427.12797A-100000@arch.housing.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does anyone know if it's possible to have an old NeXTstation (running NextStep 3.0) act as a window server for an OPENSTEP application running on Solaris OPENSTEP 1.0 under Solaris 2.5.1? If not, would it work if the NeXTstation were upgraded to OPENSTEP 4.1? We have a number of old NeXTstations and a couple of Sparcstation servers and it would be nice to use the NeXTstations as clients for the Sparcstations. Thanks! Keith ___________________________________________________________________________ Keith A. Gillette -- <http://arch.housing.wisc.edu/gillette/>
From: vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu (Victor Quevedo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Switching Computer hostnames Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:50:06 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <5f4s1u$653@nuke.csu.net> I have changed the hostname of my computer. And am finding that there are many people that are still sending to my old hostname. I have asked that our site create a hostname alias for my computer via IP address aliases.. But people are still having trouble getting email to me. Is there a way to ( I think it is in the sendmail.cf file) that I can identify my computer to recieve email with different hostnames... ( ie... wilma.calstatela.edu and fred.calstatela.edu.. ) Both would have the same IP addressing.. Can someone let me know how this could be done. -- Victor R. Quevedo vqueved@nssnext.calstatela.edu NeXTMail Welcome
From: andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk (Andy Warne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 05:19:10 GMT Organization: Unisys Corporation Message-ID: <5f4tik$qfb$1@mail.pl.unisys.com> Hi all you Next experts out there! My recent introduction into the world of NEXT has not been a happy one! I am trying to install Openstep 4.1 onto a Pentium Pro 200 with two Quantum Fireball 3200 3.2 gig SCSI disks. The first attempt was to let the installation do its own thing. When prompted I let Next create a 100 meg DOS partition and let it use the rest of the disk for itself. I assumed that because of the 2 Gig limit it would split the rest of the disk into two 1.5 approx gig partitions. Wrong. It split it into two 820 Meg partitions and I'm not sure what it did with the other 1.5 gig if anything (how do I tell?) Not what I want at all! Furthermore it went on to split the second disk into two 1.2 gig partitions, again with 800 meg unaccounted for. I never tried mounting any more than 2 partitions so I suppose the extra space could have been partitioned in some way. The next try was to force it to split the disks into 2 by telling nextstep to use 2 gig at installation. So I ended up with a 2 gig next partition running just fine. But what about the other 1.2 gig? Thought no problem, just run Fdisk from within Next and set up another 1.2 gig partition. Wrong again. Fdisk says "only one Next partition allowed" so I now have 1.2 gig of unusable (by Next) space! and also crazily partitioned second drive. I tried several other variations such as using DOS Fdisk to set up 2 equal partitions before installing Next over one of them but after installing theres no way to reallocate the other partition to Next. In fact I have now done at least 10 complete Next installations with various attempts at partitioning! Glad I installed a 16 speed CD-ROM drive! I would be very happy if I could get Next just to do the logical thing and split each disk in half or to have a 2 gig first partition and a 1.2 gig second partition on each disk. I dont need any other operating system on this machine as its for a specific Next application (Animo). Has anyone any ideas? Please? Thanks in advance! Andy.
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How do I associate an app with a file type? Date: 27 Feb 1997 21:41:29 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5f4v29$emo$3@news.xmission.com> References: <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> <5efp3c$i42@news.next.com> jsowers@next.com (Jim Sowers) wrote: > In article <5ee6e7$5q0@animal.blarg.net> jwright@animal.blarg.net (Jon > Wright) writes: > > I have an OPENSTEP 4.1 question. > > > > How do I associate an OPENSTEP application with a particular file type? > > You cannot (if you do not have the source code). If an application does > not support a filetype (a particular extension) you cannot change it, > since it is the app that sets which extension it will support. You may > want to see if your fax software will generate the .tiff extension instead > of the .tif extension. Or you can change it yourself (or write a shell > script). Or you can complain to the app's creator(s). That's not quite right, at least on Mach. The app's executable under Mach is a Mach-O file. You can use otool to extract the file which contains info about supported file types (<appname>.iconheader), modify it, and then use otool to reassemble the binary with the new iconheader. But you pretty much need to be an "expert" to do this without screwing up the app, so be careful! This won't change the extensions used to write the file, however. It only changes what extensions the WorkSpace thinks the app will open up (and the icon to go with it). And again, it is not for the faint of heart... -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: jth9904@mail.tamu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange Messages Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:59:12 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5f6vcg$spi@news.tamu.edu> Does anyone know why I would get the following messages in the boot up sequence Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ssn/tcp: unknown service Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ns/udp: unknown service Thanks, Jeromy --
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NO CD-ROM DRIVE FOUND Date: 28 Feb 1997 15:37:57 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5f6u4l$qbr$1@lynet.de> Hello, I'm trying to install Mach 4.1 on an Intel PC (Pentium) Adaptec 2940UW CD-ROM Drive (NEC 3xi) He resets successfully the SCSI-Bus, but then he says "NO CD-ROM FOUND" and then installation stops. The CD-ROM Drive is accessible from other OS's (OS/2, MS-DOS,...) Can anyone help with that problem? Thank you in advance! Andreas
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Message-ID: <1997Feb28.093029.26302@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 28 Feb 97 09:30:29 MST References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> Distribution: world Cc: roland@onevision.de In <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> Roland Schwingel wrote: ... > So I tried to contact systemix (vendor of Safetynet) in order > to ask whether there is a new version. But I didn't got > any response right now. Are they still alive ? My Emails > didn't bounce. Their web page seems to be very old, too. ... I think they rae still alive. I have been using their backup software for over a year and it is just great! Anyway, they posted version 2.51 on ftp-peak and announced a special pricing policy for the next few weeks. I therefore think that they are still around... -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: 28 Feb 1997 02:01:21 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> References: <5f4tkq$qfb$2@mail.pl.unisys.com> Andy Warne (andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk) wrote: : My recent introduction into the world of NEXT has not been a happy : one! : I am trying to install Openstep 4.1 onto a Pentium Pro 200 with two : Quantum Fireball 3200 3.2 gig SCSI disks. : : [...] : : I would be very happy if I could get Next just to do the logical thing : and split each disk in half or to have a 2 gig first partition and a : 1.2 gig second partition on each disk. I dont need any other operating : system on this machine as its for a specific Next application (Animo). : Has anyone any ideas? Please? Try this: Install OpenStep on Disk A (sd0). (I assume this is already done.) Run fdisk on Disk B (sd1), first deleting all partitions then creating a single NeXT partition which fills the disk. Run "disk -i -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h" to initialize Disk B with the first partition size set to 4000000 blocks (2GB) and the second holding any remaining space. (Watch the diagnostic output. If the size it's using for the first partition is wrong, abort with Control-C and retry the command, adjusting the block count appropriately. I think 4000000 might overflow, so you might try 3800000 or something.) Mount Disk B's first partition: "mount -v /dev/sd1a /DiskB". Copy the first partition of Disk A to Disk B with the command: dump 0f - / | (cd /DiskB; restore rf -) Shut down your machine, renumber your SCSI disks so Disk B is sd0 and Disk A is sd1 (so you can boot off Disk B and play with Disk A), and repeat the above procedure to set up Disk A as desired. Hope this helps! -- Ken Case kc@omnigroup.com Omni Development, Inc. http://www.omnigroup.com
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Changing user id number Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:05:18 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5f738e$bpu$1@newncar.ucar.edu> I would like to change the user id number for one of my users. What problems or dangers might I encounter? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: jes@rednsi.com (Josep Egea i Sanchez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CRITICAL. Sybase crash. Can I recover? Date: 28 Feb 1997 17:30:49 GMT Organization: Unisource Espana NEWS SERVER Message-ID: <5f74o9$k39$1@diana.ibernet.es> Hello all, I'm in a HUGE problem. Last night, we had a power failure. Among other things, it affected to a NeXTstation running Sybase (ver. 4.0, shipped with old cubes). When restarting the server, we got the following error: > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Recovering database 'Nexus' > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Error: 624, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Attempt to retrieve row from page via RID failed > because the requested RID has a higher number than the last RID on the page. > Rid pageid is 0x350f and row num is 0x10 .Page pointer = 0x712000, pageno > = 13583, status = 0x105, objectid = 8, indexid = 0 . > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Database 'Nexus' (dbid 4): Recovery failed. > Please contact Technical Support for further instructions. > Feb 28 1997 10:34AM server: Recovery complete. There are backup copies, but these are images of the entire device where the database resides and attempts to restore it have failed. One of the copies fail with the very same error when launching the server. Another one (one day older), gives the following error: > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Recovering database 'Nexus' > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Error: 3425, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Transaction (13583, 4) not found in transaction > table. > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Database 'Nexus' (dbid 4): Recovery failed. > Please contact Technical Support for further instructions. > Feb 28 1997 4:01PM server: Recovery complete. This is probably because the separate log device (file) is not in synch with this snapshot of the database. I've tried to launch it with no log device (temporary renaming the log device file) but another error occurs: > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: initializing virtual device 5, >"/SybaseLogs/nexus_log" > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: dopen: open "/SybaseLogs/nexus_log", No such file > or directory > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: dinit: failed to open primary device >/Net/nserver/General2/SybaseLogs/nexus_log for vdn 5 > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Recovering database 'model' > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Clearing temp db > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Recovering database 'Nexus' > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM kernel: udstartio: vdn 5 has not been set up > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Error: 822, Severity: 20, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Could not start I/O for request BLKIO pointer = > 0x664b3c, flags = 0x2001, size = 2048, errcode = 0x0 BUF pointer = 0x6f0782, > page ptr = 0x713000, virtpage = 377, dbid = 1, status = 0x1000 . > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Error: 3414, Severity: 21, State: 1 > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Database 'Nexus' (dbid 4): Recovery failed. > Please contact Technical Support for further instructions. > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Buffer 6f072a from database 'Nexus' has page > number 0 in the page header and page number 13583 in the buffer header. > Feb 28 1997 4:17PM server: Recovery complete. Is there any chance or getting the data back? Can I launch this last copy of the database with no logs and recover the data from there? I've checked all "dbcc" commands with no luck. Any help would be VERY appreciated! Thanks and best regards. Josep Egea (jes@rednsi.com) -- Josep Egea - jes@rednsi.com - NeXTMail & MIME OK Nexus Servicios de Informacion - Barcelona (Spain) Telf: + 34 3 285 00 70 - Fax: + 34 3 285 00 70
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Date: 28 Feb 97 12:24:17 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Feb28122417@slave.one.net> References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> In-reply-to: roland@onevision.de's message of Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:59:26 GMT In article <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de>, roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) writes: So I tried to contact systemix (vendor of Safetynet) in order to ask whether there is a new version. But I didn't got any response right now. Are they still alive ? My Emails didn't bounce. Their web page seems to be very old, too. Keep trying. I talked, via email, with Brian not too long ago (month, two months?), and systemix recently posted on csn.announce. More than likely, he's just like me - I have a "real" job, which often takes precedence over secondary (and low-money) pursuits. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: Info wanted: NeXT hardware password reset Message-ID: <E6BzK4.DDH@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:57:40 GMT This topics was discussed a while ago, but I did not catch it before it is too late now. I keep a copy of the NeXT hardware password reset program written by Louis A. Mamakos (then at University of Maryland), but I can not find the header files in order to compile his program. I also tried to take out the battery, but this did not work. Do I need to take out the ROM? What else can I do? Thanks for any info.
From: me@venetia.pgh.pa.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:47:50 GMT Organization: Pittsburgh OnLine, Inc. Message-ID: <5f7nam$5s2@dropit.pgh.net> References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> <1997Feb28.093029.26302@roper.uwyo.edu> > I think they are still alive. I have been using their backup software for > over a year and it is just great! > Anyway, they posted version 2.51 on ftp-peak and announced a special pricing > policy for the next few weeks. I therefore think that they are still > around... Is that 2.51 or 2.5r1? I have the latter, but I don't want to spend a lot of tme downloading something I already have.. ----- Bob Peirce Venetia, PA 412-941-6883 me@venetia.pgh.pa.us [HOME (NeXT)] rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us [OFFICE] There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. -- P.J. O'Rourke
From: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca () Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Info wanted: NeXT hardware password reset Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 28 Feb 1997 23:40:26 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5f7qda$bqc@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <E6BzK4.DDH@midway.uchicago.edu> Andrew Chang (tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu) wrote: : : This topics was discussed a while ago, but I did not catch it before it : is too late now. : : I keep a copy of the NeXT hardware password reset program written by : Louis A. Mamakos (then at University of Maryland), but I can not find : the header files in order to compile his program. I also tried to take : out the battery, but this did not work. Do I need to take out the ROM? : What else can I do? Thanks for any info. Take out the battery. Short across the locatation where the battery was with a paperclip. Go away for a cup of coffee. I should have forgotten it's passwd.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install a printer? Date: 28 Feb 1997 22:48:52 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5f7nck$jat$3@lynet.de> Hello, I've been using OS/2 for the last 3 years, wich was fine. But I all the time thought about a change to a MultiUser-OS and when Apple made the deal with Next, I decided that OpenStep is the system for me. So I purchased a User + Dev. Version 4.1 and succeeded to install it on my PC (Intel Pentium). But what to do now. There's nearly no printed documentation, and I do not know how to print something. - How do I install a printer? I would like to connect to the Internet and get a driver for my ELSA 2000 AVI. - Is there a driver for that adapter out there? - What about an WWW-Browser and dialer to establish a PPP-Connection to my Provider. I would really appreciate, if someone could help me with that. The questions may sound stupid, so you see, I'm really a newcomer to OpenStep. Thanks in advance Andreas
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ? in /dev directory Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 20:12:54 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33178296.2A14@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All of the files in my /dev directory have a ? in the icon. Is this the way it is supposed to be? If not, how should I correct this? --Greg
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.