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From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ? in /dev directory Date: 1 Mar 1997 04:07:08 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5f8a1c$7ao@news.next.com> References: <33178296.2A14@smart.net> In article <33178296.2A14@smart.net> gh@smart.net writes: > All of the files in my /dev directory have > a ? in the icon. Is this the way it is supposed > to be? If not, how should I correct this? That's normal. joe
From: gary-nospam-@screaming.org (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 1 Mar 1997 05:38:38 GMT Organization: Save the Skeet Foundation Message-ID: <5f8fcu$qop@news.platinum.com> References: <331414D7.488@ix.netcom.com> <AF39F574-114A06@207.147.51.249> Cc: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net In <AF39F574-114A06@207.147.51.249> it appeared that "Mitchell Allen" wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 1997 5:47 AM, Mark Trombino <mailto:mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> > wrote: > > The next beta version of RadicalNews (due out in March) will support > > internal MIME messages. It is *by far* the best newsreader I have ever > > used on ANY platform and strongly incourage others to try it out! > > The UI is great on RadicalNews, but the performance on my Turbo Cube is > slow as molasses even with a 28.8 connection. That Kiwi Newsreader is much > faster, but I don't know if it supports MIME. Hmm... I'm running RadicalNews on a TurboSlab, and it performs pretty well. (I do have a T1 to the net, but it's high-traffic most of the time.) I do have the slow link box checked in the preferences-NewsSources panel. /gary -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| OpenStep, MachOS, PLATINUM Technologies, Inc. | \ o.O| Objective-C: l_o_n_gsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= (Can i have his spam?) & MIME) |. U Elegance is Relevant.
From: Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 09:13:56 GMT Message-ID: <3317f28b.1845385@news.demon.co.uk> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit phm@eqt.ch wrote: >In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, > >> My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. >> OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. >> I've tried each of the SB drivers and none >> of them work. Does anyone know how to get >> this to work. > >I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). > > >Re >Phil > Is it a PnP soundblaster (yes an on-board one can be PnP) If so it will return a PnP ID which can be seen during a verbose boot. A line will appear saying "Plug and Play compatibility enabled" followed by any PnP IDs found. This value must be edited into the sound setup in Configure.App using "Expert" and changing the value "Detected IDs". I did all this and now my card is recognised but |I still dont have sound! Andy
From: Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 09:21:50 GMT Message-ID: <331cf4e7.2448942@news.demon.co.uk> References: <5f4tkq$qfb$2@mail.pl.unisys.com> <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit kc@criamon.omnigroup.com (Ken Case) wrote: >Andy Warne (andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk) wrote: >: My recent introduction into the world of NEXT has not been a happy >: one! >: I am trying to install Openstep 4.1 onto a Pentium Pro 200 with two >: Quantum Fireball 3200 3.2 gig SCSI disks. >: >: [...] >: >: I would be very happy if I could get Next just to do the logical thing >: and split each disk in half or to have a 2 gig first partition and a >: 1.2 gig second partition on each disk. I dont need any other operating >: system on this machine as its for a specific Next application (Animo). >: Has anyone any ideas? Please? > >Try this: > >Install OpenStep on Disk A (sd0). (I assume this is already done.) > >Run fdisk on Disk B (sd1), first deleting all partitions then creating >a single NeXT partition which fills the disk. > >Run "disk -i -p 4000000 /dev/rsd1h" to initialize Disk B with the >first partition size set to 4000000 blocks (2GB) and the second >holding any remaining space. (Watch the diagnostic output. If the >size it's using for the first partition is wrong, abort with Control-C >and retry the command, adjusting the block count appropriately. I >think 4000000 might overflow, so you might try 3800000 or something.) > >Mount Disk B's first partition: "mount -v /dev/sd1a /DiskB". > >Copy the first partition of Disk A to Disk B with the command: > > dump 0f - / | (cd /DiskB; restore rf -) > >Shut down your machine, renumber your SCSI disks so Disk B is sd0 and >Disk A is sd1 (so you can boot off Disk B and play with Disk A), and >repeat the above procedure to set up Disk A as desired. > >Hope this helps! >-- >Ken Case kc@omnigroup.com >Omni Development, Inc. http://www.omnigroup.com This nearly worked but /etc/disk split the remaining disk space into 2 again resulting in 3 partitions! I wrote a disktab entry in the end. Andy.
From: cchris@chum.hooked.net (Chris Christensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI drive problem Date: 1 Mar 1997 02:08:00 GMT Organization: Hooked Online Services Message-ID: <5f8320$9si$1@its.hooked.net> Greetings, I am trying to connect a SCSI drive ( Seagate ST4376N). During the boot process I get dumped to the monitor with the message: erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U # What does this mean?? Thanks for any help, Chris <cchris@hooked.net>
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: 1 Mar 1997 13:23:46 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> On 02/28/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Feb-97 Help: Old 400dpi > Next Laser.. by root@dev103.uafdcc.alask > > I am intersted in hooking it up to another computer and if I can > > understand what that printer is looking for I can look into writting a > > driver to talk to it. Thanks. Robert > > The general consensus is that it would require too much effort to design > an interface card to be worth the while. Don't let practicality stop > you if you want to play around with it, tho'.... :-) > This makes me wonder if at some point in the not-too-distant future AppLE's product line could include a reworking of the NeXT Laser Printer (to work with Rhapsody)...? All the benefits of the original still seem valid, however maybe technology has moved on such that it's no longer a *big* win to do the PostScript rendering on the main CPU? Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ELSA 1000 PRO / ELSA 2000 AVI under OpenStep 4.1 Date: 1 Mar 1997 12:03:33 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5f95ul$kcp$2@lynet.de> Hello, is anybody out there running a ELSA 10000 PRO or ELSA 2000 AVI under OpenStep 4.1? If yes, where do I get the drivers. I found a driver for the ELSA 1000 Pro on the ELSA-CD Version 1.2A, but this driver was not working (black or flimmering screen). Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sorting Incoming E-mail Date: 1 Mar 1997 14:56:20 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5f9g2k$p73@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Ok, so I've seen reference here to the possibility of sorting incoming e-mails into mailboxes other than Active. I've gotten mailapp-utilities, but don't really have the vaguest idea about how to set this up. I've checked the FAQs, but there is no mention of it. Does anybody have the patience to sit down and tell me how to do this? I would really find it helpful. Thanks in advance. Cheers - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://intrepid.mgmt.purdue.edu/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@mgmt.purdue.edu Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Gatekeeper from Station Message-ID: <1997Mar1.093309.95088@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 1 Mar 97 09:33:09 MDT References: <3316A71A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Distribution: world In <3316A71A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod wrote: > When trying to use Gatekkep (both 2.0 > and 2.1b5) nothng seems to work. Nothing is started, nothing tries to > talk to the modem and no diagnostics are written to any of the system > or gatekeeper files. I recommend using PPPMeter instead. It's much more straightforward to setup, and causes fewer headaches.
From: Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 20:47:11 GMT Message-ID: <3318951c.457062@news.demon.co.uk> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> <3317f28b.1845385@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andy@nutaumar.demon.co.uk wrote: >phm@eqt.ch wrote: > >>In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, >> >>> My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. >>> OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. >>> I've tried each of the SB drivers and none >>> of them work. Does anyone know how to get >>> this to work. >> >>I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). >> >> >>Re >>Phil >> >Is it a PnP soundblaster (yes an on-board one can be PnP) If so it >will return a PnP ID which can be seen during a verbose boot. A line >will appear saying "Plug and Play compatibility enabled" followed by >any PnP IDs found. This value must be edited into the sound setup in >Configure.App using "Expert" and changing the value "Detected IDs". I >did all this and now my card is recognised but |I still dont have >sound! > >Andy Update: The soundblaster drivers on the 4.1 cd DONT WORK. I downloaded the latest driver from Nextanswers and all is OK. Also there's a trap which I fell into. When editing the detected ID field, unless you press return after editing, the original value gets loaded back in when saving! Andy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Backup Software - SafetyNet Message-ID: <E6D3Mv.592@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 11:23:19 GMT In article <E6B7v2.Bx2@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) writes: > Hello, > > We are using SafetyNet 2.5r1 for quite a while now. It works > without problems, but our backuping demands are increasing. > > And this version of SafetyNet seems not to support 2 streamers > at the same time, so that I can backup certain files to streamer#1 > and another files on streamer#2. > > So I tried to contact systemix (vendor of Safetynet) in order > to ask whether there is a new version. But I didn't got > any response right now. Are they still alive ? My Emails > didn't bounce. Their web page seems to be very old, too. > There used to be a beta version of SN 2.6 on Peanuts. It works for me (with the same license key as SN 2.5). The autodiscover has a panel for two drives both for Exabytes and "normal" devices. But I doubt it's dual threaded. The hardware is insufficient to keep two drives streaming, IMHO. You could put a second DAT drive on a second machine and run a seperate instance of SafetyNet for different filesystems to improve throughput. I had an Email conversation with Brian some months ago about improvements to SN 2.6b. He (kind of) told me that he has carloads of ideas for extensions but can't afford to spend his time on a product that doesn't even pay for the electricity he burns on his computer system :-( -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Message-ID: <E6D5Mq.59x@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:06:26 GMT In article <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> root@dev103.uafdcc.alaska.edu (root) writes: > We have some old vintage 400dpi Next laser printers. I wanted to know > more about the printer. What protocol it talks. I know the postscript > stuff is done at the computer side. But what does the computer send the > output as. Raster? Bitmap? I am intersted in hooking it up to another > computer and if I can understand what that printer is looking for I can > look into writting a driver to talk to it. Thanks. Robert > The printer uses a high speed synchronous serial connection to download raster data which directly drive the illumination system. No other computer but a NeXT is capable to do so without asking for a considerable amount of rocket sience. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Routing question... Message-ID: <E6D77x.5Aq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <timothy-2602970024120001@ppp146-sf1.sirius.com> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:40:45 GMT In article <timothy-2602970024120001@ppp146-sf1.sirius.com> timothy@sirius.com (Timothy Stonis) writes: > Hi, > > I have (what I think is) a tough problem. I want to use my cube > to route > internet traffic from my local ethernet network (two macs and > the cube) through the cube's PPP connection. I'm just using bogus > IP numbers for the two macs and the cube (ie 192.0.0.x ). Any > ideas? Thanks in advance... > Can be done. Everything is there. Instructions on the online sysadmin manual and the man-pages. But you'll need a registered class C (sub)network first. And then you'll need a provider who'd be willing to service you (most just want to support client only PC connections or ask for real money to do so). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Strange Messages Message-ID: <E6D7FD.5BG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5f6vcg$spi@news.tamu.edu> Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:45:13 GMT In article <5f6vcg$spi@news.tamu.edu> jth9904@mail.tamu.edu writes: > Does anyone know why I would get the following messages in the boot up > sequence > > Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ssn/tcp: unknown service > Feb 21 12:09:04 chenext8 inetd[152]: netbios-ns/udp: unknown service > NetBIOS support has been entered into the control table (/etc/inetd.conf) of the 'inetd' network deamon but no software seems to be there to provide these services. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: andy@hps1.demon.co.uk (Andrew Robinson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Urgent Help Needed: ppp/GateKeeper Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 12:49:11 GMT Message-ID: <3319772d.1019408@news.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am desperately trying to get my ppp connections sorted out on a Nextstep 3.3 machine. I got ppp and GateKeeper installed and running last night I can only ping my ISP's gateway machine, and nothing else, whether by IP address or name! I can dial demon (my internet provider) and log in, and can ping 158.152.1.222 (the one that answers the phone) successfully with visible traffic over the modem. I can also ping 'gate' by name, which is a named machine in HostManager. However I cannot ping anything else 'out there' - I've tried lots of machines. Specifically, Demon's current FAQs put their nameservers at 158.152.1.43 and 158.152.1.58, but I cannot ping them by IP address from the Next. I can reach them fine with my other machine. Any suggestions? One obvious query: nowhere in my setup have I told my machine that its demon-assigned IP address is 158.152.71.205. On Win95, I specify this in the dial-up TCPIP propoerties, as well as a netmask of 255.255.0.0. Do I need to put this somewhere? Notes: 1. It is networked to a Win95 machine and they can ping, ftp, www (is that last one considered a verb yet?) each other with no trouble - always have done. 2. /etc/resolv.conf looks like this ---------------------------------- nameserver 158.152.1.43 nameserver 158.152.1.65 ------------------------------------- although I have also tried adding in their gate IP address and a domain with no benefits. 3. HostManager includes the following in the root domain: - gogarth (my server's name): 192.42.172.1, aliases 'mailhost', 'hps1','hps1.demon.co.uk'. - gate.demon.co.uk: 158.152.1.65, aliases 'gate', 'mailhost' - Various other local machines not currently connected, plus yosemite 3. /etc/hostconfig looks like: ---------------------------------- HOSTNAME=gogarth INETADDR=192.42.172.1 ROUTER= IPNETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPBROADCAST=192.42.172.255 NETMASTER=-YES- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=-AUTOMATIC- --------------------------------------- ============================= I haven't tried this yet, but I presume GateKeeper also handles incoming ppp connections if the modem is configured properly? I have a laptop arriving on monday, and a dedicated line as soon as BT and my freeholders stop wrangling over digging up the road, and will want to dial in regularly, as well as letting others do so. Many thanks for any advice. Andy Robinson andy@hps1.demon.co.uk Still programming for the day-job...
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Urgent Help Needed: ppp/GateKeeper Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:11:11 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un6OOTa00iWm03O9I0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3319772d.1019408@news.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3319772d.1019408@news.demon.co.uk> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 2-Mar-97 Urgent Help Needed: ppp/Gat.. by Andrew Robinson@hps1.dem > I can only ping my ISP's gateway machine, and nothing else, whether > by IP address or name! > > I can dial demon (my internet provider) and log in, and can ping > 158.152.1.222 (the one that answers the phone) successfully with > visible traffic over the modem. I can also ping 'gate' by name, which > is a named machine in HostManager. However I cannot ping anything > else 'out there' - I've tried lots of machines. Sounds like routing isn't working right. Check 'netstat -r' and verify whether you have a default route set going through your ISP's machine as a gateway. Take a look at 'man route' and the docs for your PPP software. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702261951.OAA11463@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: fc621da54660680ce960959b9d1a16eb - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:51:31 -0500 Subject: Re: pine Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: fc621da54660680ce960959b9d1a16eb - Responding To: Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Original Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 16:48:50 -0500 > Does anyone know a way to use pine with NeXXT's? How to set it up. > NeXT pull the mail from the incoming folder then puts it into the > folders it sets up with mailboxes (Active) but then you can't > really get the two to work together. Anyone been able to set this > up to work between the two mail handlers? Is there a mail handler > that can be used from the NeXT Mach kernel that will work with the > desk to GUI mail app? Is there a way to chage what the GUI Next > mail app does? NeXT's Mail.app uses directories (such as Active.mbox) and two files within that folder (table_of_contents and mbox). PINE uses a single file which is comparable (exactly!) with the "mbox" file. So what you need to do is link the /Users/bward/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox to /Users/bward/mail/active (change the paths as needed). The problem is that sometimes PINE will make the "table_of_contents" out of sync, which isn't really a problem (it will automatically regenerate) but does take some time if you have a large file. There's also the problem of locking. You wouldn't want to have Active.mbox open in Mail.app and pine at the same time. However, you can avoid this. What I'm saying is that this can be done if you observe a few careful rules and set things up. To help set them up you can use my little script which will setup the PINE links for you pretty much automatically after you configure the script. If you want my script, send me an email message with the SUBJECT send-mime mbox2pine.sh or goto http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/mailserver/mbox2pine.sh let me know if you need more help, I do this all the time (use PINE and Mail.app) with no fuss at all, I'd be happy to help you set things up. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 16:57:18 -0500 Subject: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to some) Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a single reference to how it can be done. Thanks TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702261938.OAA11349@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: bc086225d0c4364d6c7f01c8d910a224 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 97 14:38:22 -0500 Subject: Re: symptoms: 3 mistakes trying to solve one problem cause a worse problem Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: bc086225d0c4364d6c7f01c8d910a224 - Responding To: minch@lotka.Stanford.EDU (Eric Minch) Original Date: 25 Feb 1997 18:43:08 GMT > When I rlogin or telnet to the server, my login goes OK, but when I > try to su, it takes my password and replies "su: setgid: Not > owner", and I remain a lowly user. have you tried logging in a 'console' with no password? have you tried booting into single user mode and seeing what you can do there? TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702271436.JAA07831@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 21673db3c69fff107d9416e0252fd791 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 09:35:56 -0500 Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 21673db3c69fff107d9416e0252fd791 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Original Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:06:53 GMT > Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen > saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it > more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window > screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... I can't remember it exactly, but I think these two dwrites control it (as root!) loginwindow TimeToDim 180 loginwindow TimeToMove 40 TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP NeXTStepping since '91 Use `luomat@peak.org' for any email-contact Remove `luomat@nerc.com' from any trace of your memory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702271429.JAA07748@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 6adb90044db67c804c0f0a50c155c6da - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 97 09:28:58 -0500 Subject: Re: HELP: internal HD for slab ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 6adb90044db67c804c0f0a50c155c6da - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: mark zajac <mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> Original Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:18:52 -0500 > Is this really a sys-admin question? I'm not sure. I'd guess it's more of a hardware question > Can somebody recomend a good generic hard drive for mounting inside > a NeXT Color Turbo? What specs must I look for if I try to find one > from a catalog? "cool" would be the thing I would look for. There isn't a lot of space in that slab, and you'd really hate to melt your nice Turbo Color. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702282030.PAA11194@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 49ceabd68b482938e3693b6631db4496 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 28 Feb 97 15:30:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Lost/Forgotten root password. Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 49ceabd68b482938e3693b6631db4496 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: "Daniel B. Bezilla" <zilla@abci.net> Original Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:50:55 GMT Message-ID: 49ceabd68b482938e3693b6631db4496 - > I have NS 3.3 on Black box....Have lost (actually forgotten) the > root password. Any suggestions on how to recover? There is some > data on the drive I would like to keep so a complete reload is out. boot into single user mode, start NetInfo and run 'nu -m' to modify the root password TjL ps -- if you don't know how to do the above, checkout http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251607.LAA19832@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 86dc4c73101d264d1d29fedb8af3f038 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:07:18 -0500 Subject: Re: Where is comp.sys.next.sysadmin Archive? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 86dc4c73101d264d1d29fedb8af3f038 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jalegre@andante-systems.com Original Date: 24 Feb 1997 17:57:52 GMT > Is there an arcive for this group? you can use www.dejanews.com to lookup old posts > Is there a FAQ yes, I can't remember the exact URL but it is linked to http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251605.LAA19812@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: b128b49e1ade13a1f9ec455a5ee1ae16 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:05:39 -0500 Subject: Re: One time password for NeXTStep 3.3 ??? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: b128b49e1ade13a1f9ec455a5ee1ae16 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: pisati@mlab.dsi.unimi.it (Stefano Pisati) Original Date: 24 Feb 1997 15:27:04 GMT Message-ID: b128b49e1ade13a1f9ec455a5ee1ae16 - > Hi, I want to know if there is a soft like Skey o OPIE that > implement one time password on NeXTStep 3.3 ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/skey.NIHS.bs.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251612.LAA19893@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:12:17 -0500 Subject: Re: Socks for NeXTSTEP? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Original Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:18 GMT Message-ID: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - > Has anyone already done the work of building a Socks 4 or Socks 5 > server for NeXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach for black? I think this is what you want, although I have not used it myself ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/www/omniweb2bundles/socks4.NIHS.b.tar.gz TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199702251611.LAA19873@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: a2b1a2d1526e600a9081df3b62230ac8 - From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 11:10:55 -0500 Subject: Re: Loading from Network? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, smd3@ix.netcom.com References: a2b1a2d1526e600a9081df3b62230ac8 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Original Date: 21 Feb 1997 06:40:25 GMT Message-ID: a2b1a2d1526e600a9081df3b62230ac8 - > "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > When I start my Color NeXT station it says loading from network. > > My machine is not on a network. I have the OS software and can > > reload, but can anyone tell me how to get past this loading from > > network screen? > > If I remember right, reloading the software wouldn't solve the > problem anyway. You have to get into the ROM monitor, and change > the default bootup command. If you have the documentation handy, > read up on the ROM monitor. If you don't have it handy, mention > it here and someone (perhaps even me!) will dig up the steps you > need to do to reset the boot command. the info on getting into the ROM monitor is online at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/faq.html and resetting the boot command is as easy as entering 'p' at the ROM monitor prompt and the first thing you are asked for us the boot prompt. My guess is you'll want to set it to 'sd' TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Message-ID: <9702250411.AA14604@jonathan.bta.net.cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: Karsten Heinze <khe@jonathan.bta.net.cn> From: Karsten Heinze <Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 12:10:57 +0800 Subject: How to format with a Fujitsu MOD M2513A6 ? Hi, My new Fujitsu MOD M2513A6 can't format/init any MO under OPENSTEP = 4.1/Mach/Intel : /usr/etc/disk -i -h hemlock -l "UntitledDisk" -d 635586560 = /dev/rsd1a NOTE: This device's block size (2048) is too big to coerce to = DEV_BSIZE (1024). You won't be able to use it with software versions earlier than = Release 3.0. disk name: FUJITSU M2513A 1300=14=08=08=11 disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 310272 1939 2 8192 2048 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: insufficient space in super block for rotational layout tables with nsect 1939 and ntrak 2. File system performance may be impaired. cylinder group too large (16 cylinders); max: 14 cylinders per group /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) What must I do to use the MOD with OPENSTEP 4.1/Mach/Intel or = NeXTSTEP 3.3/Intel ? Thanks, - Karsten --- Karsten.Heinze@Informatik.TU-Chemnitz.DE=20 Phone / Fax : +86-10-64 94 78 03 *** Powered_By_NeXTSTEP ***
From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 22:05:48 -0500 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Sender: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Message-ID: <msg39688.857358512@flannet.middlebury.edu> References: 21673db3c69fff107d9416e0252fd791 - <199702271436.JAA07831@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-ID: <msg39688.857358512.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> >> Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen >> saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it >> more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window >> screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... >I can't remember it exactly, but I think these two dwrites control >it (as root!) >loginwindow TimeToDim 180 >loginwindow TimeToMove 40 Geez, you unix guys like to do it the hard way... ;-) Log in as root. Go to the preferences panel, click on the screen with the log in panel on it and change the time there. -- David Herren -------------------------------------------------- Web: http://www.middlebury.edu/~herren/ General: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu NeXTMail only: herren@barcelona.middlebury.edu
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 1997 00:03:41 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? .....................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703021941.OAA11323@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 97 14:41:18 -0500 Subject: sendmail and NetInfo help needed Cc: magnan@MATHCN.UMontreal.CA, Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary I have tried this at least 25 different ways, and have been unable to figure out the problem, and now I have a fix, but not a good fix. This is all use sendmail 8.8.5 under NS 3.3/m68k. Following the sendmail instructions put together by Francois Magnan I tried to use this: define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`peak.org')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',kira.peak.org)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:kira.peak.org)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl However, all mail gets bounced back to me with this error: 553 peak.org config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Someone suggested this define(`DS', DSkira.peak.org)dnl but that caused really weird problems ("Host kira.peak.orgkira.peak.org not found") I've defined the following hosts in NetInfo: nidump hosts .|sort 127.0.0.1 charisma charisma.peak.org 127.0.0.1 charisma.peak.org 127.0.0.1 localhost 129.187.214.142 peanuts.leo.org 198.68.22.17 kira.peak.org 198.68.22.3 troi.peak.org 205.247.120.1 nerc1.nerc.com 205.247.120.7 nerc3.nerc.com 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost (note: I get my PPP connection from 'nerc.com' but want to masquerade_as peak.org) Can anyone see what might be wrong? If I use 'kira.peak.org' it doesn't work for the reasons above, but if I use 'troi.peak.org' then it does, but this has its own undesirable effects for some 'peak.org' users. Any help appreciated. I can't tell you how long I've been fiddling with this... TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [NeXT Mach 4.1] Pb using NIS groups Map Date: 3 Mar 1997 09:34:45 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5fe5vl$3d9@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5f6mb2$io7@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> Claude LE BERRE (claude.leberre@enst-bretagne.fr) wrote: : Configuration : : - Solaris2 NIS (Yellow Pages) server : - and want to integrate a NeXT Mach as NIS client and no Netinfo : domain (just "local") : I had two problems : [...] : 2) I can't see NIS groups : so I do the same replacing "users" with "groups" : ==> No result !! : What did I do wrong ?? Nothing!!! : "/bin/domainame" shows the right NIS Domain and "ypcat group" works : but : [...] You need a new lookupd (even for OS 4.1), for which M. Majica said, it wouldn't be in the NeXTanswers soon (that was while 4.0 was the actual version) and he seems to be right. Stefan Ried was so nice to a) get it from NeXT and b) email me a copy - so you can ask him (I hope :-)) or me to send you a copy if you can receive NeXT- or MIME-E-Mail. Or you can contact NeXT yourself - maybe they have a newer version (feedback about this would be welcome). I have a far worse problem concerning rsh and (by that) rcp- commands under OPENSTEP 4.1 (mach Intel). It worked/works perfectly under NS3.3 (and before). Am I alone there or is there someone else having a problem like me. I'll post the details somewhere this week. There also seems to be a problem of identifying and using the symbolic names of network-services (like in /etc/services or their NIS and NI counterparts). Almost no service is recognmized by name (netstat -f inet), e.g. ntp or smtp or telnet or rlogin or the like. Just shell (for rsh) is being made symbolic directly and rsh doesn't work properly after an initial successful usage after a little while. Coincidence? I think NeXT/Apple has to work a little bit on these problems as they might get serious. Not being able to use rcp properly ruins my whole administration. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: woo@opus.bloomco.ornl.gov (John W. Wooten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Extraneous entry in Netinfo Date: 3 Mar 1997 11:57:27 GMT Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN Distribution: world Message-ID: <5feeb7$ku0@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov> I had a disk problem and after reformatting, and restoring from my JaZ, found that I have an "extra" printer in my Netinfo configuration that I can't delete. I has the same name as my NXFax. I've tried several ways to delete it, but it continues to say that "Netinfo write failed!, Object is not the child of the parent object. Cannot delete!". I've renamed it to BadFaxModem, but other than that can't get rid of it. Any suggestions? -- J. W. Wooten <jwooten@korrnet.org> http://sacam.oren.ortn.edu/~wooten Internet Consultant NeXTmail preferred, MIME is welcome Please finger woo@160.91.216.2 for PGP public key
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 97 08:26:44 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar3082644@howard.one.net> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> In-reply-to: planet@xmission.xmission.com's message of 3 Mar 1997 00:03:41 -0700 In article <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com>, planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) writes: I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? I'll assume that by this you mean that you want to overwrite /bin/csh with tcsh, as opposed to adding /usr/local/bin/tcsh to /etc/shells and making tcsh a user's login shell? Don't do it. It would _probably_ work, but NeXT has csh shell scripts in there which may (or may not) rely on various and subtle behaviours of csh. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: root@dev103.uafdcc.alaska.edu (root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: 27 Feb 1997 20:14:50 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Message-ID: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> Keywords: laser printer We have some old vintage 400dpi Next laser printers. I wanted to know more about the printer. What protocol it talks. I know the postscript stuff is done at the computer side. But what does the computer send the output as. Raster? Bitmap? I am intersted in hooking it up to another computer and if I can understand what that printer is looking for I can look into writting a driver to talk to it. Thanks. Robert roberth@muskox.alaska.edu
From: "Daniel B. Bezilla" <zilla@abci.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost/Forgotten root password. Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:50:55 GMT Organization: NCI Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc253b$486359a0$0bc471ce@pluto.abci.net> I have NS 3.3 on Black box....Have lost (actually forgotten) the root password. Any suggestions on how to recover? There is some data on the drive I would like to keep so a complete reload is out. TIA
From: kellerw@okstate.edu (Bill Keller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Console Question Date: 28 Feb 1997 05:34:26 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater OK Message-ID: <5f5qp2$gk3@news.cis.okstate.edu> Hello. I get the following in the console whenever I connected to the internet via PPP: PPP Reinitializing nmserver's network portion Feb 27 23:27:53 carcosa netmsgserver[22]: network_init Feb 27 23:27:53 carcosa netmsgserver[22]: Cannot get the socket broadcast address for interface ppp0: m Feb 27 23:27:53 carcosa netmsgserver[22]: Warning: could not find a useful broadcast address, using 255.255.255.255 Doesn't look very nice, but everything seems to work. I'm just afraid something might be lurking somewhere, just waiting to break. Thanks! -Bill
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 00:46:26 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> In-Reply-To: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 27-Feb-97 Help: Old 400dpi Next Laser.. by root@dev103.uafdcc.alask > We have some old vintage 400dpi Next laser printers. I wanted to know > more about the printer. What protocol it talks. I know the postscript > stuff is done at the computer side. But what does the computer send the > output as. Raster? Bitmap? It's a rasterized bitmap of the image, with a little control information. > I am intersted in hooking it up to another computer and if I can understand > what that printer is looking for I can look into writting a driver to > talk to it. Thanks. Robert The general consensus is that it would require too much effort to design an interface card to be worth the while. Don't let practicality stop you if you want to play around with it, tho'.... :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: mikel@velocity.com (Michael Lemire) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Next software donation Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 17:27:15 GMT Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <331b09e4.12221269@news.mr.net> I have a ton of Next Intel 3.2 and 3.3 Plus Developer, also many versions of software that I would like to donate to a local school (MN). I you are interested please email me at root@velocity.com. Thanks
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 1997 11:19:08 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5ff4ms$ajt$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <SHESS.97Mar3082644@howard.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Scott Hess <shess@one.net> wrote: : In article <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com>, : planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) writes: : I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if : anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? : I'll assume that by this you mean that you want to overwrite /bin/csh : with tcsh, as opposed to adding /usr/local/bin/tcsh to /etc/shells and : making tcsh a user's login shell? Yes. : Don't do it. It would _probably_ work, but NeXT has csh shell scripts : in there which may (or may not) rely on various and subtle behaviours : of csh. Gracias! ........................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS issue Date: 3 Mar 1997 18:03:09 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5ff3ot$bv8$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> Greetings ethereal composite mind, I'm NFS mounting my home directory onto my 3.3 NeXTStep machine from a Solaris 2.5 box. The NetInfo based Automounter config doesn't seem to want to let me import onto /Net in an arbitrary way, i.e.: /Net/oberon instead of /Net/oberon/export/share/home Is there a way to get the Automounter to behave the way I want it to? Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: accessing remote printer - help Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:45:38 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5ffgq2$osj$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I run NSFIP3.3 on a mixed network. We have an HP4SiMX Post Script printer that is connected directly to the tcip network. It is not driven by a print server, it has its own ip address. Now the sysadmin pages say to set up a printcap file for a remote printer, but I don't think the instructions there apply to this kind of setup (I tried it, leaving the remoteprinter field blank and using the ip for remotehost, but the print jobs just disappear into the bit-bucket). the printcap file looks like this: PrinterName|alias:\ :lp=:rm=remotehost:rp=remoteprinter:\ :sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/PrinterName:\ :ty=printertype: With appropriate names substituted for remotehost, remoteprinter, PrinterName (twice), alias, and printertype. Can anyone guide me on this configuration? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Curious console mesages Date: 3 Mar 1997 20:59:02 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Hi, Running NS 3.3 on intel and saw this on the console of a busy machine: Mar 3 09:20:12 host mach: Expanding zone pmap Mar 3 09:20:53 host lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone threads Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone pcb Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone uthreads What does this mean and should I be concerned? -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology, Operations and Networking University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: vova@rtr.transit.ru (Vladimir Pilipyuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [HELP] syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Date: 3 Mar 1997 13:56:31 GMT Organization: Transit Newsgate Message-ID: <5felaf$9ll@fido.transit.ru> Hi All, I have got a trouble with NetInfo. My NeXT is in Unix network, and it has not NetInfo parent domain. I set in HostManager.app - o Use local domain only v Readable only by local net That runs proper for a month but now I have at console - Mar 3 16:08:56 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:13:02 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:17:08 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:21:17 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:25:28 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:29:34 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:33:43 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Mar 3 16:37:49 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain nidomain -l prints - tag=network udp=712 tcp=713 tag=local udp=710 tcp=711 What is the network tag? Is it to be? How to protect NetInfo from looking for parent domain? Thank you, Vladimir -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!+3TDX+51E<FUI;F%L.UQF M,5QF;6]D97)N($-O=7)I97([?0I<;6%R9VPQ,C`*7&UA<F=R,3(P"EQP87)D M7'1X,3(T-UQT>#(T.35<='@S-S0S7'1X-#DY,5QT>#8R-#!<='@W-#@W7'1X M.#<S-5QT>#DY.#-<='@Q,3(S,5QT>#$R-#@P7&8P7&(P7&DP7'5L;F]N95QF M<S(T7&9C,%QC9C`@2&D@06QL+%P*7`I)(&AA=F4@9V]T(&$@=')O=6)L92!W M:71H($YE=$EN9F\N($UY($YE6%0@:7,@:6X@56YI>"!N971W;W)K+"!A;F0@ M:70@7`IH87,@;F]T($YE=$EN9F\@<&%R96YT(&1O;6%I;BX@22!S970@:6X@ M2&]S=$UA;F%G97(N87!P("U<"EP*;R!5<V4@;&]C86P@9&]M86EN(&]N;'E< M"G8@4F5A9&%B;&4@;VYL>2!B>2!L;V-A;"!N971<"EP*5&AA="!R=6YS('!R M;W!E<B!F;W(@82!M;VYT:"!B=70@;F]W($D@:&%V92!A="!C;VYS;VQE("U< M"EP*"EQF,2!-87(@(#,@,38Z,#@Z-38@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P M96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,3,Z,#(@;F5X M="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I- M87(@(#,@,38Z,3<Z,#@@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF M;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,C$Z,3<@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z M(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z M,C4Z,C@@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@ M9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,CDZ,S0@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P M96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I-87(@(#,@,38Z,S,Z-#,@;F5X M="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`I- M87(@(#,@,38Z,S<Z-#D@;F5X="!S>7-L;V<Z(&-A;B=T(&]P96X@3F5T26YF M;R!P87)E;G0@9&]M86EN7`H*7&8P(%P*;FED;VUA:6X@+6P@<')I;G1S("U< M"G1A9SUN971W;W)K('5D<#TW,3(@=&-P/3<Q,UP*=&%G/6QO8V%L('5D<#TW M,3`@=&-P/3<Q,5P*7`I7:&%T(&ES('1H92!N971W;W)K('1A9S\@27,@:70@ M=&\@8F4_7`I(;W<@=&\@<')O=&5C="!.971);F9O(&9R;VT@;&]O:VEN9R!F L;W(@<&%R96YT(&1O;6%I;C]<"EP*5&AA;FL@>6]U+%P*5FQA9&EM:7(*?0IF `
From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 3 Mar 1997 15:57:01 -0700 Organization: I'm not organized! Message-ID: <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) wrote: >I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if >anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? > Although I did not overwrite my csh, I *did* put tcsh in /usr/local/bin, and it works wonderfully. All of the users on my machine (all 3 of them, including root) use it as the default shell set via user manager. This is the only configuration I dare try. -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help] Diagnose Frequent Kernel Panic in NS3.3p1 on Turbo Cube Date: 3 Mar 1997 21:27:16 GMT Organization: 9H, Inc. Message-ID: <5fffnk$7od@library.airnews.net> Folks, Recently I've been experiencing frequent kernel panics on my Turbo (ROM v74) running NS3.3p1. This happens intermittently during cold or warm boots. But getting a dropped line while running PPP (at 38400) with GateKeeper2.1Beta4 and PPP2.2-0.4.6 will always cause such a disaster to happen shortly. I don't have a clue what the ROM MONITER messages mean, so any help parsing the following excerpt will be deeply appreciated: > unexpected kernel page fault failure > trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 3 faultaddr 0x42 > trap: pc 0x4034b34 sp 0x0 sr 0x2300 > trap: cpu 0 th 0x0 proc 0xffffffff pid -1 pcb 0x0 > traceback: fp 0x4000fd8 > called from .... > ... > last fp 0x0 > panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk > NeXT ROM Monitor 3.3 v74 Misc info: * I have a Turbo slab with exactly the same setup running ppp/GK at 57600. But it's so far been immune to such panics. * I take the machine down everyday, after work. Cold boots next morning will run into the panic half of the time. * 'reboot' issued in the ROM monitor will boot the machine fine everytime. * I haven't changed the battery, but /usr/adm/messages reported losing 2 days during a successful boot on Mar. 1st. Could a failing battery cause this? * I did have buffer overrun on serial port A when I was running ppp at 57600, and it paniced. I've since backed it down to 38400, no more overruns, but panics seem to persist. * 'fsck' run, no problems with drive. Much obliged! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:14:13 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3316CC15.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Grindrod wrote: > > I am experiencing problems mounting NeXT disks on IRIX 6.2 machines. The > error messages given below are seen on the NeXT machine. I have tried > mounting with rsize and wrsize set to 1k but this does not help and no > files are shown with ls. With the default rsize and wrsize ls hangs the > machine. Has anyone seen this problem and does anyone know the solution. > I have tried various mount options to fix this but with no success at > the moment. I seem to remember a thread about this before but cannot > remember what the solution was if any? > We have a mixed network with irix6.2, dec unix, NeXT3.3 and OpenStep 4.0 and 4.1 machines. They all exchange the users home directory with auto(nfs)mounts. And we had never problems with NeXTs NFS to any other system. May be the autonfsmount is more intelligent than the simple mount, but I don't belive that. Are you sure that you are using the right network card in the NeXT box. There are some cards producing strange errors due to to small buffers (some 3COM Cards). They are working just fine with telnet and ftp but fail with nfs. I recommend the Intel-Etherexpress. stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTSTEP and vi Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:19:27 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <3316CD4F.167E@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When editing on a NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP machine using vi then sometimes with files such as large Makefiles then a segmentation eror occurs and the terminal is lost. I have heard other people mention this before is there a fix for this. It happens on OPENSTEP and NeXTSTEP. I have tried many definitions for termcap entries so I do not think it is the terminal emulation that is the problem. Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: claude.leberre@enst-bretagne.fr (Claude LE BERRE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [NeXT Mach 4.1] Pb using NIS groups Map Date: 28 Feb 1997 13:24:50 GMT Organization: ENST de Bretagne - France Sender: leberre@univers.enst-bretagne.fr (Claude LE BERRE) Message-ID: <5f6mb2$io7@alfali.enst-bretagne.fr> Configuration : - Solaris2 NIS (Yellow Pages) server - and want to integrate a NeXT Mach as NIS client and no Netinfo domain (just "local") I had two problems : 1) I can't see NIS users ==>resolved with question/answer 4.34 "NIS and OpenStep" of NEXT Faq niutil -create . /locations/lookupd niutil -create . /locations/lookupd/users niutil -createprop . /locations/lookupd/users LookupOrder \ CacheAgent NIAgent FFAgent YPAgent 2) I can't see NIS groups so I do the same replacing "users" with "groups" ==> No result !! What did I do wrong ?? "/bin/domainame" shows the right NIS Domain and "ypcat group" works but : [5]>/bin/ls -alg total 3888 drwxr-xr-x 17 leberre 15 2560 Feb 28 09:49 . drwxr-xr-x 18 root daemon 512 Oct 16 08:57 .. drwxr-xr-x 3 leberre 15 512 Feb 18 17:32 .NeXT srwsrwxrwx 1 leberre 15 0 Feb 18 17:26 .TeXview_Pipe -rw------- 1 leberre 15 1051 Feb 27 13:57 .Xauthority -rw-r--r-- 1 leberre 15 1023 Feb 11 15:49 .Xdefaults -rw-r--r-- 1 leberre 15 1023 Feb 11 15:49 .Xdefaults.AVSETUP -rw-r--r-- 1 leberre 15 518 Feb 11 18:22 .ab_library [The reference file is /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf"] -- ======================================================================== Tel.(Int'l +33; F +0)298001259 | Telecopie/Fax(Int'l +33; F +0)298455133 Claude.LeBerre@enst-bretagne.fr http://www.enst-bretagne.fr/ TELECOM Bretagne, Technopole Brest-Iroise, B.P. 832, F-29285 BREST Cedex
From: mfuortes@med.cornell.edu (Michele Fuortes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 21:10:04 -0500 Organization: Leuca Software Message-ID: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Hi everybody, I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. So I was thinking about the idea of getting a cheap DOS card for my Macintosh here at home (9150), install OpenSTEP in there and REALLY have the Best of Both World ;-) Is it feasible? Does anybody have any experience with it? I don't see intrinsic limitations. I REALLY don't want to buy a Pentium box just for it (with memory, HD, monitor etc.etc) I don't care if it would be a little slow on a 486 card and I don't want to wait for Rhapsody DR. Any ideas? Thanks a lot
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:21:39 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970303055821.5135C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: d79ef917a288b94ad4637f97651cd62e - > I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if > anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? Nothing. I did this a few years ago when I was using csh and I think it did "just work". 'tcsh' is a 'tolerable csh' and does add some nice features while maintaining the same .cshrc (or .tcshrc) file. Some day when you have more time, checkout 'zsh' which is a lot nicer (and has a script with it that converts t/csh stuff to zsh) TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: login window screen saver timing? Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 18:21:17 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970303054241.5135A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: David Herren <herren@flannet.middlebury.edu> In-Reply-To: ce45b0094aef50064c6e2fd6266926fc - On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, David Herren wrote: > >> Is there any way to set the timing on the login window screen > >> saver? It seems to be defaulted at 30min. or so, and I'd like it > >> more like around 5min., since when I put it on the login window > >> screen, I'm going to leave the computer anyways... > > >I can't remember it exactly, but I think these two dwrites control > >it (as root!) > > >loginwindow TimeToDim 180 > >loginwindow TimeToMove 40 > > Geez, you unix guys like to do it the hard way... ;-) > > Log in as root. Go to the preferences panel, click on the screen with > the log in panel on it and change the time there. Ok, get a watch with a second hand, and tell me how long it takes you to logout and login as root, unhide Preferences.app, and set this preference. now time how long it takes to type this: asroot dwrite loginwindow TimeToDim 180 asroot dwrite loginwindow TimeToMove 40 Or you could use OpenSesame I guess, or asroot again: asroot /NextApps/Preferences.app/Preferences & Either way has gotta be faster than logging in as root ;-) *and* if you are on NeXTStep < 3.3 I don't think that preference module exists, but the dwrite does! Tj "I live at the commandline" Luoma -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703030243.VAA15377@peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 97 21:43:50 -0500 Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming E-mail Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 9dafdca4e42681bb88a2f0ec61cfb8e1 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Responding To: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) Original Date: 1 Mar 1997 14:56:20 GMT > Ok, so I've seen reference here to the possibility of sorting > incoming e-mails into mailboxes other than Active. I've gotten > mailapp-utilities, but don't really have the vaguest idea about how > to set this up. I've checked the FAQs, but there is no mention of > it. > > Does anybody have the patience to sit down and tell me how to do > this? I would really find it helpful. I'd be happy to help you. I've been using procmail for about a year and a half to sort my mail and do all sorts of neat things. I'm so procmail-happy that I wrote up a web-page about it. You can find it at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ (look under "Mail programs" for a "sorting" entry). There's everything you need to get started, including an example .forward and .procmailrc, the but they will need to be configured somewhat. If you need any help just let me know. There are also two procmail mailing lists: <procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> for subscription requests. <procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> for submitting questions/answers. These are incredibly helpful people TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: 4 Mar 1997 03:26:42 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5fg4pi$7f@news.next.com> References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Michele Fuortes writes > I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package > is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that > would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. It will run it, just not very swiftly. Certainly not a RECOMMENDED system for running 4.x. > So I was thinking about the idea of getting a cheap DOS card for my > Macintosh here at home (9150), install OpenSTEP in there and REALLY have > the Best of Both World ;-) It probably won't work. The problem is that many (all?) DOS cards for the Mac use a custom BIOS to talk to the Mac hardware for disk, mouse, and keyboard I/O. Someone would have to write custom drivers for OPENSTEP to run on the compatibility card... -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Book for NeXT networking? Date: 4 Mar 1997 05:02:57 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5fgae1$hdd$1@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> Cc: whataguy@epix.net In <whataguy-1802972230430001@grmn-105ppp78.epix.net> Ben Schaffer wrote: >Where can one read about all the intricacies of networking one's NeXTs >into an enterprise-wide Ethernet? The NEXTSTEP System Administration Manual. If you have an NS machine, you should have an online copy in /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/. If you don't, try to find a copy. It's the definitive (and pretty much the only) source of NS networking information. ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E6I5oz.LAF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 04:55:46 GMT References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71>, Michele Fuortes <mfuortes@med.cornell.edu> wrote: >Hi everybody, > >I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package >is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that >would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. > Your cube *will* run OPENSTEP for Mach 4.x. However, unless you have it stuffed full of RAM it will be slow. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Message-ID: <cdoutyE6Hv4J.JA4@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:07:31 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom19.netcom.com In article <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> wrote: >This makes me wonder if at some point in the not-too-distant future AppLE's >product line could include a reworking of the NeXT Laser Printer (to work >with Rhapsody)...? > >All the benefits of the original still seem valid, however maybe technology >has moved on such that it's no longer a *big* win to do the PostScript >rendering on the main CPU? I'll give you one very big win over the average PS laserprinter. I've got 128MB + VM on my cube. As I understand it (mostly from failing to print some very large PS files) a "normal" printer has to load the whole PS file into memory and rasterize it, again into memory. If you have a document with large scanned images, eg. previewing a magazine layout, you can easily run out of printer memory. Caveat: I have used anything but a NeXT laser for several years, but I had some real problems with big PS files cicra 1994. -Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Socks for NeXTSTEP? Date: 4 Mar 1997 07:25:24 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5fgip4$gpc@vader.WolfWare.com> References: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - <199702251612.LAA19893@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <199702251612.LAA19893@peak.org> On 02/25/97, Timothy J Luoma wrote: >Responding To: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) >Original Date: 25 Feb 1997 08:19:18 GMT >Message-ID: 5c2610756b2dc2d68fee1552ff1ccf26 - > >> Has anyone already done the work of building a Socks 4 or Socks 5 >> server for NeXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach for black? > >I think this is what you want, although I have not used it myself > >ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/next/Network/www/omniweb2bundles/socks4.NIHS.b.tar.gz Thanks for the response. What you list above is a bundle which allows OmniWeb to work through a socks server and is not quite what I was looking for - I was looking for an actual socks server and the socks client link libraries. I must've been fairly braindead when I posted the original query. The server and libraries from the latest Socks5 beta package from the net compile cleanly under both NeXTSTEP 3.3 and OpenStep 4.1/Mach. The socksified telnet client included with the package fails to build but I didn't need a telnet client anyways. :-) >TjL > >-- >Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) >If you have a web page about NeXTStep|OpenStep, email me the URL! > >EMAIL ADDRESS: Please use the PEAK address and not the NERC one > -- __________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf - NeXTStep/OpenStep Developer Mail: cwolf@wolfware.com Web: http://www.wolfware.com/cwolf/cwolf.shtml __________________________________________________
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5fghig$bn4@ecuador.earthlink.net> Date: 4 Mar 1997 08:15:05 GMT Control: cancel <5fghig$bn4@ecuador.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5fghig$bn4@ecuador.earthlink.net> Sender: shannon@wstarztv.net Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: NUDECELEBS Original Subject: Salma Hayek, Jenny McCarthy & more..!
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a MIME-capable news reader for NEXTSTEP? Date: 2 Mar 1997 21:46:09 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5fcsf1$je0@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <E64FL2.Iz3@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl wrote: > Subject line says it all. In the next NEXTTOYOU (due March 21st) there will be a solution for any newsreader via a services module that converts any MIME text that you've marked as a block. Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SoundBlaster 16 on board Date: 4 Mar 1997 09:15:54 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5fgp8a$6lo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <32FE7941.6C08@smart.net> <5f2b3i$2ra@uni2f.unige.ch> phm@eqt.ch wrote: : In SoundBlaster 16 on board comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x825bc> writes, : > My motherboard has SoundBlaster 16 on board. : > OpenStep 4.0 does not seem to recognize it. : > I've tried each of the SB drivers and none : > of them work. Does anyone know how to get : > this to work. : I have the same proble (AST Bravo MS P/100). PnP??? If yes, to be able to use the latest SB16-driver version, which you'll need, you must install the latest EISABus-driver (for your OS-Version, i.e. NS3.3 and OS4.x are different!!!), then the latest SB16-driver (again, for your OS-Version) and see if that's it already. If not, try to identify the PnP-Id of your Sound-System-Part of the 'builtin SB16 System' and compare it to the PnP-Id in directory '/private/Drivers/i386/SoundBlaster16.config' in the File Default.table or Instance0.table. If it matches - you are out of luck as far as I can tell. If it doesn't, add it to one of the tables - Instance0.table if you don't want to change the system permanently, Default.table if you want the system to remember; in the latter case you have to delete and (re-)install the the SB16-driver afterwards with Configure.app for the change to happen - boot away and 'good luck'. If you are out of luck or your system isn't PnP and the necessary resources (memory/ports, irqs, and dmas) aren't occupied by some other card/board-components, chances are, that your 'builtin' SB16 card isn't so much compatible after all - because the driver tries to locate the sound-system part and (obviously) fails to do so. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Two NS 3.3 Partitions on Same Disk? Date: 4 Mar 1997 09:33:07 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5fgq8j$6lo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5f2b6i$kc4$1@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Jonathan Rice (jorice@cs.tcd.ie) wrote: : Hi. I've got an NS/I 3.3 system which was originally configured to : be multi-OS - NS, Windows and Linux. I'm now running low on disk space : and want to convert the Windows and Linux partitions to being NEXTSTEP. : However, fdisk won't allow two NS partitions on the same disk! : Is there any way of getting this to work, without reinitialising : everything? (I kind of doubt it, from scanning similar postings in this : group over the last few months). 'Til now, it's a 'no no'. Just one FDISK-partition for NS/OS per drive (up to OS 4.1). In fact the message seems to be "just one partition of any recognized operating system per FDISK-partition on one disk" for NS/OS to recognize and mount it. I don't like this either. Hampers readjustments. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OS 4.1 on partition 'b' on a NeXTstation Date: 4 Mar 1997 11:48:43 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5fh26r$gmg$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Keywords: OpenStep, NEXTSTEP, install, parition, NeXTstation Hi, Can anyone tell me how to install OS 4.1 onto the second (`b') parition of a 2G disk in a NeXTstation Color machine? It seems that the NeXT installer wants to install the OS onto the `a' partition but I do not want this. I thought I try installing OS 4.1 using `ditto'. What I did was partially based on NeXTanswer #1986 (DITTO: A USEFUL NEW UPGRADING TOOL): 1. Logged in as root 2. Inserted the OPENSTEP_4.1 CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 3. Copied the system files: ditto -v -arch m68k -bom /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom /OPENSTEP_4.1 /PARTITION_B 4. Made a new boot block: /usr/etc/disk -B /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/standalone/boot /dev/rsd0b 5. Edited fstab to reflect changes: /dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0a /NS_3.2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 Now when I reboot using `bsd(0,0,1)- rootdev=sd0b' everything goes fine until the point where LoginWindow.app should fire up. Instead of the login panel I get a window which says that it wants to install "NeXTSTEP Essentials (192 MB)". The window has two buttons Quit and Install. Why does this panel come up? And what if I hit "Install", where would it install the essentials; sd0a or sd0b? It seems that this window is part of BuildDisk.app (according to /private/adm/messages) Mar 2 10:13:55 localhost loginwindow[177]: netname look up success: NeXT 4.0 Pasteboard Server (0) Mar 2 10:13:56 localhost loginwindow[177]: running /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk I would highly appreciate any help or answer to my questions. Thanx, Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 08:08:50 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am curious on how to CD-ROM burn some NeXT media, and am wondering if in the software that RockRidge Extensions are Necessary in addition to ISO 9660? Take the NEXTSTEP 3.3 disc, what exactly is required of the burning software to do this successfully. A Mac solution would be prefered... Is there Mac OS software that can do this? Anyone know the names? How about Windoze? Thanks in advance -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: krgue@nps.navy.mil (Kevin R Gue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep for Solaris newbie Date: 4 Mar 1997 00:56:22 GMT Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA Message-ID: <5ffrvm$7il@nps.navy.mil> I've recently installed Openstep for Solaris, but can't seem to get it up and running. When logging in, I select "Openstep Desktop" from the session menu, and the session starts up as a dressed up Open Windows (ugh) session. The windows have Openstep frames, etc, but I can't start Workspace or Edit or any such applications. Perhaps I am running "Openstep under Open Windows", as the online documentation says. How do I get to *real* Openstep?? Many thanks, --Kevin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kevin R. Gue, Ph.D. | krgue@nps.navy.mil Department of Systems Management | Tel: (408) 656-4299 Naval Postgraduate School | Fax: (408) 656-3407 Monterey, CA 93943 | http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~krgue ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us (Robert Braver) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5fhaat$9g0@bolivia.earthlink.net> Date: 4 Mar 1997 15:44:11 GMT Control: cancel <5fhaat$9g0@bolivia.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5fhaat$9g0@bolivia.earthlink.net> Sender: allsub@ififinet.net Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: NUDECELEBS Original Subject: This is great. Like iced tea!
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dots3.6 & Jetdirect Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 16:53:05 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970304165043.2723C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I try to use a Laserjet Printer connected via Jetdirect with Dots 3.6 but have no success so far, nothing happens if i make a print job. Does anybody use Dots on a Jetdirect connected Printer? --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de
From: DAVID HOUTS <dhouts@haywire.csuhayward.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Help please with disk partition problem! Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 19:00:25 -0800 Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970227185938.4066C-100000@haywire> References: <5f4tkq$qfb$2@mail.pl.unisys.com> <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Ken Case <kc@criamon.omnigroup.com> In-Reply-To: <5f5e9h$1k9@gaea.titan.org> Hello, I am a NS newbie-sort-of, but wish to share something you might wish to consider as you configure your machine. SoftPC permits you to run DOS/WIN apps under NEXTSTEP. If your DOS partition is the FIRST partition of the HD, SoftPC apps can use the same files available to the apps on your DOS/WIN partition. And welcome to the elegant, "literate" world of NS.
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Gatekeeper from Station Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:36:27 +0100 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <3316A71A.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to setup a ppp connection using OPENSTEP 4.0 on a Black hardware. I have PPP setup connection and when using a script to connect then everythnig works. When trying to use Gatekkep (both 2.0 and 2.1b5) nothng seems to work. Nothing is started, nothing tries to talk to the modem and no diagnostics are written to any of the system or gatekeeper files. Even with diagnostics turned on. It seems that nothing is started when making the link. Has anyone observed this and is there an obvious fixed. I thought about using the Mu1.7 device drivers but this does not compile for OPENSTEP. Also ppp works without these drivers so it must be something within Gatekeeper. I have the same settings as for my PC which works fine! Dave -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sorting Incoming E-mail Date: 4 Mar 1997 14:20:34 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5fhb3i$14d@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <199703030243.VAA15377@peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma writes > Responding To: jon@mgmt.purdue.edu (Jon Haveman) > Original Date: 1 Mar 1997 14:56:20 GMT > > > > Ok, so I've seen reference here to the possibility of sorting > > incoming e-mails into mailboxes other than Active. I've gotten > > mailapp-utilities, but don't really have the vaguest idea about how > > to set this up. I've checked the FAQs, but there is no mention of > > it. > > > > Does anybody have the patience to sit down and tell me how to do > > this? I would really find it helpful. > > I'd be happy to help you. I've been using procmail for about a > year and a half to sort my mail and do all sorts of neat things. I went out, picked up procmail, picked up mailapp-utilities, and was totally clueless.....then, I got this message from TjL and there was light! Anybody wanting to sort mail....GO DIRECTLY TO http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ do not pass go, do not collect $200! Everything you need is there. It took an incredible neophyte like me only about a half hour to set it up...and that only because of a stupid typo! Thanks Timothy! -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: kykim@access1.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NSi 3.3 and laptops Date: 4 Mar 1997 13:12:50 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <5fhon2$8hq@access1.digex.net> Summary: what PCMCIA SCSI controllers work Hi all, I want to install NeXTStep 3.3 on my toshiba laptop. Looking around on the NeXT web site, I found that the only PCMCIA SCSI card supported it the Adaptec. I was wondering if anyone out ther has (1) tried this (2) found another PCMCIA SCSI card to work. Thanks, -kevin kykim@access.digex.net
From: graeme@cam-ani.co.uk (Graeme Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS problems between NeXT and SGI IRIX 6.* Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:44:24 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6B9y1.9rx@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <331566BE.41C6@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> David Grindrod <grindrod@mailhost.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> wrote: >I am experiencing problems mounting NeXT disks on IRIX 6.2 machines. One of the latest SGI patches stops NFS working between NeXT servers and SGI clients. The problem is basically down to NeXT having a really old NFS implementation but SGI made the changes that broke it, to be consistent with the latest NFS standard. You need to set rsize to 5120. If you want an explanation why, email me. Graeme -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Graeme Barnes : Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd : Tel: +44 1223 578100 Systems and Network : 20 Cambridge Place, Cambridge : Fax: +44 1223 578101 Administrator : Cambs CB2 1NR, UK : graeme@cam-ani.co.uk
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 12:47:56 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn761Ae00WBO02zV88@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu> <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 1-Mar-97 Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next L.. by mmalcolm crawford@shef.a >> The general consensus is that it would require too much effort to design >> an interface card to be worth the while. Don't let practicality stop >> you if you want to play around with it, tho'.... :-) > > This makes me wonder if at some point in the not-too-distant future AppLE's > product line could include a reworking of the NeXT Laser Printer (to work > with Rhapsody)...? > > All the benefits of the original still seem valid, however maybe technology > has moved on such that it's no longer a *big* win to do the PostScript > rendering on the main CPU? What's changed since then? Well, memory has gotten cheaper and lots of computers now have reasonable amounts of RAM, and CPU's have gotten a lot faster. I think the design decision to have the main computer do all of the work and have the printer be a dumb device makes as much or even more sense today than it used to. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Message-ID: <cdoutyE6J9Et.Frr@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:13:41 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom10.netcom.com In article <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Robert Worne <rworne@primenet.com> wrote: >Although I did not overwrite my csh, I *did* put tcsh in /usr/local/bin, >and it works wonderfully. All of the users on my machine (all 3 of them, >including root) use it as the default shell set via user manager. > >This is the only configuration I dare try. I highly recommend that you change root back to /bin/csh or /bin/sh, especially if /usr/local/* is on a second partition or is network mounted. You can use the preferences in Terminal.app or Stuart.app to open any shell, like tcsh, instead of the one listed in /etc/passwd. My rationale is that /bin/sh and /bin/csh are included on the NeXT CDROM and are definitely on the root partition. If you should have a failure such that /usr/local/bin/tcsh is not available, then there is the chance you can't login via loginwindow. You certainly won't be able to telnet or console login. Besides tcsh is a great interactive shell, but it doesn't lend itself to scripts. Just a thought, Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
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From: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 5 Mar 1997 02:25:01 -0700 Organization: I'm not organized! Message-ID: <5fje5d$6mp@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5ffkvt$1e@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <cdoutyE6J9Et.Frr@netcom.com> cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) wrote: >I highly recommend that you change root back to /bin/csh or /bin/sh, >especially if /usr/local/* is on a second partition or is network >mounted. You can use the preferences in Terminal.app or Stuart.app to >open any shell, like tcsh, instead of the one listed in /etc/passwd. > It is currently set at csh, I don't do much fiddling with root except to install apps, and after playing with OpenSesame (I was too lazy to look at it before). -- Robert Worne NeXT-OS/2-MacOS 26-52-78-CV-O2-Vec-MV-TI-C64-TG16-SMS-Jag //------------------------------------------------------------------// Starving CS Undergrad: "Sorry, I don't do Windows! I'd rather starve!" //------------------------------------------------------------------// Visit my videogame collecting site! http://www.primenet.com/~rworne/
From: notmy@address.org (Collin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP & CAP Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 04:57:09 -0500 Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> Hi All, I've had my NextCube talking to my Mac for about a month using Frank Siegert's CAP package for the NeXT. (Which BTW I highly recommend and thank Mr. Siegert for) My problem is that I've recently decided to put my cube on the net using the freeware NeXT PPP package and it seems that PPP and CAP don't like each other. I can get on the net if PPP loads first, but no AppleTalk connections or I can get AppleTalk connections, if CAP loads first, but no PPP connections. Has anyone encountered this? Are there any work arounds to get both running at simultaneously. I'm running NS 3.2. Thanks in advance...Collin ------- Sorry, I'm tired of junk email, so my reply address is invalid. clp5@cornell.edu
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & CAP Date: 5 Mar 1997 12:30:04 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5fjp0c$4q6$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> Cc: notmy@address.org In <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> Collin wrote: > Hi All, > I've had my NextCube talking to my Mac for about a month using Frank > Siegert's CAP package for the NeXT. (Which BTW I highly recommend and > thank Mr. Siegert for) My problem is that I've recently decided to put my > cube on the net using the freeware NeXT PPP package and it seems that PPP > and CAP don't like each other. I can get on the net if PPP loads first, > but no AppleTalk connections or I can get AppleTalk connections, if CAP > loads first, but no PPP connections. Has anyone encountered this? Are > there any work arounds to get both running at simultaneously. I'm running > NS 3.2. > > Thanks in advance...Collin > I have not tried this setup myself, but I have some theories: - The PPP interface and the BPF uses the same major number, then a recompile of BPF could help. A link to the BPF sources are on my site. - The PPP package installs its own BPF (look in /etc/rc.local or whereever the PPP LKS is loaded, which 'disables' the later use of the ethernet BPF in CAP. I do not know if PPP really needs the BPF, my guess it is only in there because of the possibility of running tcpdump on the PPP line) -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Does the /dev directory need to be configured? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 10:11:59 -0500 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <331D8D3F.5109@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to reach my serial port with C-Kermit. When I enter SET LINE /dev/cua, I get the response; Can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device Is there something I need to do to configure the devices to make them accessable? --gh
From: "Michael Barber" <michaelb@euler.nmclites.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT B&W Printer Date: 5 Mar 1997 15:03:55 GMT Organization: MSU - Northern Message-ID: <01bc2976$8971fd40$c65896c0@euler> I have a black box turbo which I have been using for years. The printer has also been used for years. All of a sudden (I know it didn't just happen) the printer has started printing approximately 1/2 inch to the right and up 1/2 inch. Print manager does not have any options so I don't know where to start looking. By the way, this happens while printing on the NeXT and if I print to it over the network from another machine. Michael B.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: Re: [Help] Diagnose Frequent Kernel Panic in NS3.3p1 on Turbo Cube Message-ID: <E6Krv2.ML@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organisation: AWT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5fffnk$7od@library.airnews.net> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:49:50 GMT You are probably victim of the very elusive serial driver problem on black hardware. I have spent much time (in the past) in trying to find out what is wrong, but haven't found a definite clue. My current guess is that there might be a hardware problem (maybe some DMA fault) which occurs only on some black machines in combination with a software error in the kernel that doesn't handle serial hardware perfectly. (I happen to know there were some hardware problems with the black hardware which were very elusive. I also know that you could get problems with your serial hardware e.g. that after dialing out, the port would seem to be free but it still behaved as blocked for dialing in, etc. There were some very deep unresolved kernel/hardware problems in NeXT machines/NEXTSTEP). One solution I know is running NEXTSTEP 3.2. While these problems occurred under NEXTSTEP 3.3, they never occurred under NEXTSTEP 3.2. NEXTSTEP 3.2 was the most stable NEXTSTEP so far. Another solution is switching machines. When we checked this problem in the past (especially Taylor UUCP was a program that gave the problem) and 25MHz cubes had the problem more often than 33MHz systems, though even these were not always immune. So, I would try to run NEXTSTEP 3.2 (if that is an option). -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Robert F Tobler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ELSA 1000 PRO / ELSA 2000 AVI under OpenStep 4.1 Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:04:30 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5fk5ie$10t@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <5f95ul$kcp$2@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5f95ul$kcp$2@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > is anybody out there running a > > ELSA 10000 PRO or ELSA 2000 AVI > > under OpenStep 4.1? If yes, where do I get the drivers. > I found a driver for the ELSA 1000 Pro on the ELSA-CD > Version 1.2A, but this driver was not working (black or > flimmering screen). > Can anybody help me? > Thanks in advance! I am running the ELSA 2000 Pro X 8 unde NextStep Openstep. The Version 1.3A of their driver (which should be available from http://www.elsa.de/, in their FTP area, under WINNER, 2000, DOS section) says it supports the following cards: ELSA 1000 1/2 ELSA 1000 AVI 1/2 ELSA 1000 ISA 1/2 ELSA 1000 PRO 1/2 ELSA 2000 2/4 ELSA 2000 PRO 2/4/H/X2/X4/X8 ELSA 2000 VL 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) Subject: What does VSIZE and RSIZE in ps output really mean? Message-ID: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organisation: AWT Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:22:14 GMT The man page says: VSIZE virtual size of the process (in bytes) RSIZE real memory (resident set) size of the process (in bytes) Buth especially VSIZE is confusing, because: PID TT STAT TIME SL RE PAGEIN VSIZE RSIZE LIM TSIZ TRS %CPU %MEM COMMAND 0 ? R N 104:12 0 0 0 53.7M 8.38M 0 0K 0 0.0 26.2 kernel idle -1 ? U 0:45 0 0 0 53.7M 8.38M 0 0K 0 0.3 26.2 <mach-task> -1 ? S < 0:00 0 0 0 53.7M 8.38M 0 0K 0 0.0 26.2 <mach-task> 945 ? RW 0:05 0 0 0 47.2M 7.30M 0 0K 0 3.5 22.8 SoftPC 257 ? SW 6:30 0 0 0 14.2M 6.72M 0 0K 0 4.0 21.0 WindowServer 314 p0 SW 0:22 0 0 0 5.51M 1.28M 0 0K 0 0.5 4.0 Stuart 288 ? S 0:01 0 0 0 5.02M 1.05M 0 0K 0 0.0 3.3 Workspace 947 p2 R 0:00 0 0 0 2.26M 792K 0 0K 0 0.0 2.4 ps 290 ? SW 0:01 0 0 0 6.23M 776K 0 0K 0 0.0 2.4 Preferences 345 p2 SWN 0:04 0 0 0 3.52M 536K 0 0K 0 0.0 1.6 squid 289 ? SW 0:05 0 0 0 5.95M 504K 0 0K 0 0.0 1.5 WM 317 p2 SW 0:01 0 0 0 5.95M 464K 0 0K 0 0.4 1.4 tcsh 117 ? SW 0:02 0 0 0 1.69M 272K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.8 netinfod 121 ? SW 0:01 0 0 0 1.75M 232K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.7 lookupd 22 ? S 0:00 0 0 0 6.79M 216K 0 0K 0 0.0 0.7 nmserver 53.7MB for the kernel? 47MB for SoftPC?? 6MB for tcsh? No way, my VM is at: gerben@NeXT 113) ll /private/vm total 51424 -rw------t 1 root 16777216 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile -rw------t 1 root 35872768 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile.front 35MB (compressed), and that is the max, probably not everything is at this moment actually in use. So, what does VSIZE exactly mean? (and RSIZE)? -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Robert F Tobler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install a printer? Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:09:00 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5fk5qs$10t@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <5f7nck$jat$3@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5f7nck$jat$3@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > > I would like to connect to the Internet and get a driver > for my ELSA 2000 AVI. > > - Is there a driver for that adapter out there? > The Version 1.3A of ELSAs driver (which should be available from ¬http://www.elsa.de/, in their FTP area, under WINNER, 2000, DOS section) says it supports the following cards: ELSA 1000 1/2 ELSA 1000 AVI 1/2 ELSA 1000 ISA 1/2 ELSA 1000 PRO 1/2 ELSA 2000 2/4 ELSA 2000 PRO 2/4/H/X2/X4/X8 ELSA 2000 VL 2 Maybe you could try one of the ELSA 2000 settings of the driver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 5 Mar 1997 09:17:15 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> I'm having problems posting using PersonalINN. Here's the post-news.log information: --------- BEGIN ---------- Mar 5 08:22:36 post-news[7106]: START Mar 5 08:22:37 post-news[7106]: flush outgoing spoolfile: Ok /usr/spool/news/articles/Bytes: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Xref: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Path: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/From: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Newsgroups: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Subject: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Date: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Organization: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Lines: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/Message-ID: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/References: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/NNTP-Posting-Host: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/In-Reply-To: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/X-Newsreader: does not exist /usr/spool/news/articles/ does not exist Mar 5 08:22:37 rpost [7117]: START Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Official host name: news.xmission.com Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Address: 198.60.22.3 Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Connected to news.xmission.com 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.5.1 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Sending "Mode Reader" command 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN 1.5.1 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Skipping Empty Message Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: Closing connection to news.xmission.com Mar 5 08:22:40 rpost [7117]: STOP Mar 5 08:22:40 post-news[7106]: STOP: Remote posting successful ------- END ------- Although it claims that remote posting was successful, no posts propagate. I don't trust the log anyway, since something in the posting mechanism seems to be choking on garbage. What do I need to do to fix this? .............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: Petr Novak <novak@microcomp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Launching Perl script ? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 17:56:56 +0100 Organization: Impact GmbH,Cologne, Germany Message-ID: <331DA5D8.354C@microcomp.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hallo ! How can be an Perl script executed from Openstep on NT ? I made some trials with NSTask, but without success. Petr Novak
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking OpenStep PC's Date: 5 Mar 1997 16:14:13 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5fk64l$kpm$1@lynet4.lynet.de> Hello, I've some trouble networking two OpenStep PC's and hope you can help me. I installed OpenStep (MachOS) Version 4.1 on both machines, then startet on one of both the Tool "SimpleNetworkStarter", marked all CheckBoxes, because I wanted it to be the server for my little network, and pressed the button "Configure". After successfully rebooting the server, I rebooted the client. During bootup of the client, I had the following dialog with him! network doesn't recognize computer Enter hostname: venus Add computer to network (Y/n) : y EnterPassword : ****** Then he was busy for about 6 seconds. After that I got the following message! No response from networkconfiguration server Type Control-C to startup the computer without network configuration While that happened at the client, I got a Kernel Trap at the server. Kernel Trap Failed instruction exception Press r to reboot! NetworkAdapter: 3Com Etherlink III Cabling: Thin EtherNet This procedure is repeatable. (Every time the same result.) I suppose the adapters are correctly configured (Interrupts a.s.o) because I succeeded to configure an OS/2-PeerNet on the same hardware. I would really be very happy, if someone could get me out of that mess. Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & CAP Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 11:26:13 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <331DACB5.19A0@ti.com> References: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> <5fjp0c$4q6$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Frank M. Siegert wrote: > - The PPP package installs its own BPF (look in /etc/rc.local or whereever > the PPP LKS is loaded, which 'disables' the later use of the ethernet BPF in > CAP. I do not know if PPP really needs the BPF, my guess it is only in there > because of the possibility of running tcpdump on the PPP line) Yep...you are correct. PPP does not need BPF unless one wants to run tcpdump. One can safely remove the statement that loads the PPP version of the BPF kernel server. - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What does VSIZE and RSIZE in ps output really mean? Date: 5 Mar 97 12:34:50 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar5123450@howard.one.net> References: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> In-reply-to: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl's message of Wed, 5 Mar 1997 15:22:14 GMT In article <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Drs G. C. Th. Wierda) writes: 53.7MB for the kernel? 47MB for SoftPC?? 6MB for tcsh? No way, my VM is at: Why not? So, what does VSIZE exactly mean? (and RSIZE)? VSIZE is the number of virtual memory pages the process has. Perhaps you're assuming that this has some relationship to the number of _actual_ pages, real or swap, that the program has. Don't assume that! For instance, if you use vm_copy() to dupe a range of pages, all of the original pages _and_ all of the copies are counted by VSIZE. And anything which is memory mapped (data files, executables, shared libraries) also gets counted, even though shared libs and executables are shared between programs. Add in a couple meg for libsys_s and libNeXT_s, and the tcsh executable, and pretty soon it's real numbers! You might try using pmem (which is undocumented), and focus on the number of unshared pages. Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Medows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pine Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 18:31:43 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Laboratory Message-ID: <5fkebb$8km@smash.gatech.edu> References: <Pine.SGI.3.94.970225164429.27695A-100000@attila.stevens-tech.edu> Brian Ward <bward@attila.stevens-tech.edu> wrote: >Does anyone know a way to use pine with NeXXT's? How to set it up. NeXT >pull the mail from the incoming folder then puts it into the folders it >sets up with mailboxes (Active) but then you can't really get the two to >work together. Anyone been able to set this up to work between the two >mail handlers? Is there a mail handler that can be used from the NeXT Mach >kernel that will work with the desk to GUI mail app? Is there a way to >chage what the GUI Next mail app does? Our lab uses a version of pine complied for the Next/OpenStep running on Intel hardware. In addition you will need an editor such as pico or vi. If you are in single use mode just put these programs into your /Apps folder, otherwise place them in /bin. Now edit the .cshrc file to reflect the correct path and be sure to set a terminal type (e.g. set term=vt100). While pine is not as capable as Nextmail, it has the advantage of allowing you to get your mail from almost any type of computer that has telnet. Brian K. Meadows _____________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Curious console mesages Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:25:31 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <on7QWfe00iVCQ7WMEi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> In-Reply-To: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 3-Mar-97 Curious console mesages by Milo Velimirovic@uwlax.e > Mar 3 09:20:12 host mach: Expanding zone pmap > Mar 3 09:20:53 host lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: Timed out > Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone threads > Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone pcb > Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone uthreads > > What does this mean and should I be concerned? I'll make a (somewhat) educated guess that your machine was busy enough that the kernel had to expand internal kernel data structures which are grouped together into memory zones which contain data related to each other. 'threads' presumably refers to kernel threads; 'uthreads' presumably refers to user threads. I can only guess that 'pmap' refers to the translation tables used to map physical memory frames onto virtual memory pages, and I don't know what pcb means aside from the obviously unrelated acronym for "printed circuit board". None of these should concern you. However, the NetInfo connection timeout is a little worrisome and you should verify that you've got good network connectivity between your NetInfo master server and the rest of the machines. Maybe you've got a minor problem in the cabling or some such that's causing excessive collisions and dropped packets. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: graeme@cam-ani.co.uk (Graeme Barnes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking OpenStep PC's Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 19:31:24 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6L4wE.CtG@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5fk64l$kpm$1@lynet4.lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: >I've some trouble networking two OpenStep PC's and hope you can help me. We've had the same problem setting up 4.1 networks for our customers. I haven't had time to look into the problem but it appears that either bootp isn't running on the server or isn't responding to bootp requests. Our quick workaround is to set the IP address explicitly in /etc/hostconfig on each client machine. You don't need to set the host name for the client as bootparamd does appear to work OK. I can't remember if the server actually adds the client info to the netinfo database so you may need to add the clients using HostManager.app by hand. Hope this helps, Graeme -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Graeme Barnes : Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd : Tel: +44 1223 578100 Systems and Network : 20 Cambridge Place, Cambridge : Fax: +44 1223 578101 Administrator : Cambs CB2 1NR, UK : graeme@cam-ani.co.uk
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with WangDat 3400DX (4/8GB) on Turbo Cube Date: 5 Mar 1997 20:42:00 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5fklqp$ruv@library.airnews.net> I'm running into problems trying to use a borrowed WangDat 3400DX (4GB native) drive on my Turbo Cube (NS3.3, ROMv74). The drive works fine on a PC. After I hooked it up to my Cube, it's recognized during boot: > WangDAT Model 3400DX Rev 1.4a as st0 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 I put in a 120m DDS2 tape, and tried to kick out the tape by # mt -f /dev/rst0 offline (rewind, etc. doesn't work either) Nothing happens with the drive but the console gives me: > st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 and when I tried to tar something to the drive # tar -cf /dev/rst0 /tmp I get > Tape error, I/O error. (something like that) and this blurb on the console: > st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 2H > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 I double checked my SCSI id, everything is fine (hd at 1, tape at 5). I've also tried /dev/rxt0, which I guess is for the 8mm Exabyte, but I tried it anyway. Didn't do anything for me. Anybody using similar tape drives? All ideas and suggestions are welcome! Much obliged! liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 15:57:35 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: michelt@sqliaison.com Bonjour, I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard with an Award BIOS and with 120 MHz Intel Pentium. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive inside. I solely have a PCI/Scsi Adaptec 2940 uw with a 664 N1H IBM drive. I'm trying to install NSFIP 3.3 with the default drivers supplied with NS 3.3 without success. Once loading NeXT Mach 3.3, Physical Memory... Driverkit version 330, Registering: PS2 Controller... I get: Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING Registering: event0 ... Bottom line, it cannot detect my brand new Adaptec 2940 uw controller. At the Adaptec bios level, I was able to format the drive and detect all the peripherals attached to it. Meaning: it works. But once Next Mach 3.3 is running, it does not detect the controller. Any idea why? Could it be the Award bios? If so, should I look for another bios i.e. AMI... What are my options. Thanks.
From: jklein@freon.artificial.com (jon klein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Date: 5 Mar 97 05:48:31 GMT Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst Message-ID: <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one : line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as : "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" : I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under : NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a : single reference to how it can be done. Most of the sites that are doing this with tcp wrappers, which you can find at coast.cs.purdue.edu in pub/tools/unix. tcp wrappers is just about an essential security tool in my opinion, and plus you get features like the welcome message thrown in for free. It's all in the tcp wrappers docs. -- -jon klein, jklein@freon.artificial.com NeXTmail welcome
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: michelt,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Adaptec 2940 uw + NSFIP 3.3 Problem Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 16:09:29 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.857597440.28475.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour, I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard equiped with an Award bios. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive connected. I solely have an PCI/SCSI Adaptec 2940 uw controller with a IBM 664 N1H 2GB drive attached to it. At the Adaptec level, I'm able to see every devices attached to it. I was even able to format the drive at the Adaptec BIOS level. So I should be able to install NSFIP 3.3 on it right? Wrong! When I do a brand new NS installation with the Adaptec 2940 driver selected and that NeXT Mach 3.3 loads I get these few messages: NeXT Mach 3.3 ... Physical Memory (40MB) .. Driverkit version 330 Registering: PS2Controller .. Adapetec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING Registering:event0 Registering:kmD .. It acts as it could not detect the PCI/SCSI Adaptec controller. I cannot see why since I'm able to format it using the Adaptec bios utility. I cannot download the most recent version of the Adaptec driver since I have no access to NS platform to install on a diskette. Do you think my problem is at the motherboard bios level? Do you think I should use an AMI bios or another instead? What am I doing wrong? Ciao. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: 5 Mar 1997 22:13:10 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5fkr5m$po3$1@darla.visi.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> wrote: : Any idea why? Could it be the Award bios? If so, should I look for : another bios i.e. AMI... What are my options. Did you load the one from the Additional Drivers disk marked Dev:16 (or something like that)? There's one for 2940 and one for 2940uw, and you have to pick the right one. -- # david young: oo developer, think new ideas east/onramp # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com (MIME ok, NeXTmail better)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What does VSIZE and RSIZE in ps output really mean? Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 16:42:05 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <on7SWhS00iV2I5Zvx=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> In-Reply-To: <E6KtD2.rq@AWT.NL> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 What does VSIZE and RSIZE i.. by Drs G. C. Th. Wierda@AWT > VSIZE virtual size of the process (in bytes) > RSIZE real memory (resident set) size of the process (in > bytes) > > Buth especially VSIZE is confusing, because: [ ... ] > 53.7MB for the kernel? 47MB for SoftPC?? 6MB for tcsh? No way, my VM is at: > > gerben@NeXT 113) ll /private/vm > total 51424 > -rw------t 1 root 16777216 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile > -rw------t 1 root 35872768 Mar 5 16:19 swapfile.front > > 35MB (compressed), and that is the max, probably not everything is at this > moment actually in use. > > So, what does VSIZE exactly mean? (and RSIZE)? VSIZE counts the number of virtual memory pages which are mapped into the processes address space. This may include pages which have not been used or written to (and thus consume no swap space), and it includes pages mapped from various sources like files on the disk drive, physical devices like the video framebuffer in the case of the kernel, etc. VSIZE is useful primarily to get an idea of how big a process is, and often a very large VSIZE indicates a process which is leaking memory somehow. RSIZE refers to the number of virtual pages actually residing in physical memory frames, and does not appear to include pages mapped in from external sources. RSIZE tells you how much memory a process needs to have around while running. Furthermore, ps operates over a finite period of time and thus is only an approximate (but close) picture of what the machine is doing. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 17:15:54 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 PersonalINN posting problems by planetary@xmission.xmiss > Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Official host name: news.xmission.com > Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Address: 198.60.22.3 > Mar 5 08:22:38 rpost [7117]: Connected to news.xmission.com > 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN > 1.5.1 > 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). > Mar 5 08:22:39 rpost [7117]: Sending "Mode Reader" command > 200 xmission InterNetNews NNRP server INN > 1.5.1 > 17-Dec-1996 ready (posting ok). [ ... ] > > Although it claims that remote posting was successful, no posts propagate. > I don't trust the log anyway, since something in the posting mechanism > seems to be choking on garbage. I wouldn't believe it either. Are you trying to feed articles back to your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is actually happening), or did you talk to your ISP and ask for them and you to exchange articles via IHAVE/SENDME? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail problem Date: 5 Mar 1997 23:43:37 GMT Organization: ServNet Internet Services Message-ID: <5fl0f9$2t1@brockman.serv.net> I just ran into a problem recieving mail through NeXTMail. I run POP from an ISP and Mail.app is set to grab new mail every few minutes, but when it does I get the following in console: MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile. MailFetch: No such file or directory MailFetch: Can't make a copy of spoolfile. MailFetch: No such file or directory Then I get a pop-up window saying Unable to write Active.mbox. File system error. No such file or directory. It all worked a few hours ago and there is nothing wrong with the permissions or the actual file of Active.mbox. Other users are able to get mail without any problems. Does anyone know what MailFetch does or why it can't copy what spool file? In general any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks, dean johnson
From: Lutz Kwasniok <101667.1750@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.app and CompuServe-Mailserver Date: 5 Mar 1997 17:36:48 GMT Organization: CompuServe, Inc. (1-800-689-0736) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5fkavg$fuh$1@mhadf.production.compuserve.com> HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! HELP! Does anybody know if I could use Mail.app with the mailserver of Compuserve, because they didn't have a pop/smtp mailserver. Did anybody know if there is a way to make use of the CompuServe- mailserver and how to configure my system to send mail to server and to get my mail from it ??? Any hints are wellcome. Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII) -- Lutz Kwasniok Hannover Germany Mail: 101667.1750@compuserve.com (MIME, ASCII)
From: Mike Segel <mikey@segel.NOSPAM-.KING.OF.MYDOMAIN.-NOSPAM.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: internal HD for slab ? Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:45:23 -0600 Organization: Home for the retired Caffiene Junkie Hackers Message-ID: <331CFA63.60DA@segel.NOSPAM-.KING.OF.MYDOMAIN.-NOSPAM.com> References: 6adb90044db67c804c0f0a50c155c6da - <199702271429.JAA07748@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy J. Luoma wrote: > > Responding To: mark zajac <mzajac@zajac2.phys.nd.edu> > Original Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 08:18:52 -0500 > > > Is this really a sys-admin question? I'm not sure. > > I'd guess it's more of a hardware question > > > Can somebody recomend a good generic hard drive for mounting inside > > a NeXT Color Turbo? What specs must I look for if I try to find one > > from a catalog? > > "cool" would be the thing I would look for. There isn't a lot of > space in that slab, and you'd really hate to melt your nice Turbo > Color. > > TjL Seagate Barracuda 2 Gig drives work ok. You have to remember that you need to set up 2 partitions though. Works great in my mono slab (TURBO!). -Mike -- #include <std_disclaimer.h> /* Mike Segel (MS385) */ #include <No_Spam.h> #ifdef OFFENDED_BY_CONTENT The author takes no responsibility for this post. Any resemblence to a coherent rational thought is purely coincidence. -The Management. #endif
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Curious console mesages Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:57:02 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Distribution: world Message-ID: <8n7UVCy00iWW0Ef4oX@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ffe2m$160g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> <on7QWfe00iVCQ7WMEi@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <on7QWfe00iVCQ7WMEi@andrew.cmu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 Re: Curious console mesages by Charles W. Swiger@andrew > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 3-Mar-97 Curious console > mesages by Milo Velimirovic@uwlax.e >> Mar 3 09:20:12 host mach: Expanding zone pmap >> Mar 3 09:20:53 host lookupd[116]: NetInfo connection timeout: RPC: >> Timed out >> Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone threads >> Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone pcb >> Mar 3 09:21:25 host mach: Expanding zone uthreads [ ... ] > 'threads' presumably refers to kernel threads; 'uthreads' presumably > refers to user threads. I can only guess that 'pmap' refers to the > translation tables used to map physical memory frames onto virtual > memory pages, and I don't know what pcb means aside from the obviously > unrelated acronym for "printed circuit board". Come to think of it, 'pcb' might mean "process control blocks". -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Tools for doing backup on NS Cube w/ NS3.0 ?? Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 20:11:35 -0500 Organization: USN-CDNSWC Message-ID: <331E19C7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Have a Next Cube running NS3.0 and I'm looking for the best way to do a full backup to a DAT drive before moving the system to NS3.3 - I've looked at both enTAR and SafetyNet but both seem to be only operational under NS3.1 or later - any info or insight on this would be much appreciated :) Bob Kurhajetz PS - I've got DAT's available to me running under SGI / IRIX systems and was wondering if anyone might be aware of how to run a remote tape copy to one of those guys ?-:| Thanks in advance
From: abc@rex.precipice.com (Alex Cone) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using DLT (Digital Linear Tape) drives from Mach Date: 6 Mar 1997 03:28:37 GMT Message-ID: <5fldl5$re@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Keywords: DLT Tape Backup Mach Hi All - We've recently outstripped even our DAT drives for backups. DLT drives offer 20-40GB of backup capacity and are very fast to boot. I've seen these run using Legato on Suns but I was wondering if something simple (and free) like dump and mt work with DLTs. Best of all would be if my network backup scripts running on the old DAT drive just continue to work. Has anyone had experience using DLT drives connected to a machine running Mach (intel or moto)? (email me as I don't always watch this list...) Alex Cone Objective Technologies, Inc. Thoughtport Software & Consulting abc@thoughtport.net
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 5 Mar 1997 21:50:19 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: : Are you trying to feed articles back to : your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is : actually happening), or did you talk to your ISP and ask for them and : you to exchange articles via IHAVE/SENDME? Thank you for responding, Chuck. I am using post-news, which is based on the get.news.innxmit script of the suck-2.5.1 distribution. post-news is included with PersonalINN. I included the man page for clarity. Reading the log file indicates that it was choking on a bunch of headers very important to a post, such as "Subject." I can't imagine my news server would feel like "Subject" is incompatible. I suppose I could have my news feeder use IHAVE/SENDME, but for various reasons I'm trying to configure my INN installation with as few dependencies as possible on a particular feeder. BTW, I have successfully built INN 1.5.1, but for various reasons I want to stick with PersonalINN. If someone wants to help me debug the configuration files to make sure this puppy was built correctly, I'd be happy to share. ..........................kris POST-NEWS(8) UNIX Programmer's Manual POST-NEWS(8) NAME post-news - send Usenet articles to an NNTP news server SYNOPSIS post-news [ sitename fqdn ] post.filter [ infile outfile ] DESCRIPTION Post-news is a front-end that invokes rpost(1) to send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP site no matter if it is in READER or FEEDER mode. The site to be fed must be specified by giving the sitename fqdn pair on the command line. The sitename should be the name of the site as specified in the newsfeeds(5) file. The fqdn should be the hostname or IP address of the remote site. Post-news expects that the batchfile for a site is named /usr/spool/news/outgoing/sitename. When in READER mode, most remote NNTP sites will be dis- turbed by certain header lines of the posted messages. Therefore post-news invokes the -f option of rpost to remove these lines from the header. The filter script it uses for this purpose is /usr/local/inn/bin/post.filter which reads the file infile, strips off the "NNTP-Posting-Host" and "Xref" header lines and writes the result to outfile. If even more header lines are to be removed, this script can be edited accordingly. See the instructions given in the script. LOGGING post-news reports its state to the file /usr/spool/news/log/post-news.log. HISTORY Written by Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> for PersonalINN based on the get.news.innxmit script of the suck-2.5.1 distribution. This is revision 1.0, dated 1996/04/22. SEE ALSO rpost(1), newsfeeds(5). -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: clp5@cornell.edu (Collin Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP & CAP Date: 6 Mar 1997 08:40:47 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <5flvuf$epe@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> References: <notmy-0503970457090001@cu-dialup-0822.cit.cornell.edu> <5fjp0c$4q6$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <331DACB5.19A0@ti.com> Cc: perkins@ti.com Yup, the problem seems to be a BPF conflict. I just disabled PPP's BPF and all works fine. To clarify, I was mistaken in the fact that PPP would not run when installed after CAP, it actually works presumably because PPP is unable to load it's BPF because CAP's is already loaded, but CAP will not work if loaded after PPP w/ BPF. Thanks for the help (and the software)...Collin In <331DACB5.19A0@ti.com> "Stephen J. Perkins" wrote: > Frank M. Siegert wrote: > > > > - The PPP package installs its own BPF (look in /etc/rc.local or whereever > > the PPP LKS is loaded, which 'disables' the later use of the ethernet BPF in > > CAP. I do not know if PPP really needs the BPF, my guess it is only in there > > because of the possibility of running tcpdump on the PPP line) > > Yep...you are correct. PPP does not need BPF unless one wants to run > tcpdump. One can safely remove the statement that loads the PPP > version of the BPF kernel server. > > - Steve > > -- > Stephen J. Perkins > Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com > Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265 > --
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 6 Mar 1997 05:23:33 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> Cc: planet@xmission.xmission.com In <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary wrote: > I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if > anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? I haven't done this, but I suspect that you would be okay. Well written scripts reference the proper interpreter as the first line of source code. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
From: Axel.Rau@fr.bosch.de (Axel Rau - QI/RZS2 - Bosch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mime Mail to Netscape looses Linefeeds Date: 6 Mar 1997 11:34:05 GMT Organization: Robert Bosch GmbH Message-ID: <5fma3d$spg@sioux.fr.internet.bosch.de> Keywords: Mime I compose a mime mail in Mail.app (3.3 or 4.1) with following contents: > Hi > > example11 example12 example13 > example21 example22 example23 > example31 example32 example33 > Reading that in Netscape Navigator 2.x ...4.0 Prerelease, I see the following: > Hi > example11 example12 example13 > example21 example22 example23 > example31 example32 example33 There is no wrapping of the resulting long line in the Netscape window. If I hit <CR> twice at the end of a line, my Netscape window shows up one. Any ideas folks ? -- Gruesse / regards, ----------------------------------------------------------------- Axel Rau - Bosch - QI/RZS31 - Internetdienste Boschweit - Germany Bosch Telecom QI/RZS31; P.O.Box; D-60277 Frankfurt Street: Kleyerstrasse 94; D-60326 Frankfurt Phone: +49-69-7505-6069; Fax: -2169;
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@nx_chi> Message-ID: <9703052239.AA19166@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@nx_chi> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 16:39:24 -0600 Subject: CDROM brings machine to halt I have a Gateway P100 with the EIDE hard drive and CDROM. I am using the EIDE with atapi driver. (Same prob with 3.32 and 3.35) I am running NS 3.3 If I leave a CDROM in my CDROM drive, my Next machine will get slower and slower over time. Within 2 to 8 hours it comes almost to a halt. It is not dead, but for example, I once tried to reboot when it was having this problem with <cmd><~> r. After about 20-30 minutes, the machine finally responded and rebooted. It happens with either DOS or NS cdroms, and no one needs to be logged in. Any idea what I can do (other then don't leave CDROM in) to prevent this? Thanks Randy Nelson randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Employer Talk: NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED LEADER: Inc. Magazine wrote us up a few years ago, but we haven't done anything innovative since.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Bootpd with DHCP Message-ID: <E6M7C3.7Mn@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 09:21:39 GMT Hi, I know, that there was a thread quite a while ago, but I didn't have it. I know that there is a patched version of bootpd with DHCP. Does anyone know, where I can get it ? Thanks, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision GmbH Developer Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 08:53:42 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by planetary@xmission.xmiss >: Are you trying to feed articles back to >: your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is >: actually happening), or did you talk to your ISP and ask for them and >: you to exchange articles via IHAVE/SENDME? > > Thank you for responding, Chuck. > You're welcome. > I am using post-news, which is based on the get.news.innxmit script of the > suck-2.5.1 distribution. post-news is included with PersonalINN. I > included the man page for clarity. Okay, I wanted to see how you were trying to talk with the news server. You're running entirely in reader mode using a 'suck' feed and using POST to send articles. > Reading the log file indicates that it was choking on a bunch of headers > very important to a post, such as "Subject." I can't imagine my news > server would feel like "Subject" is incompatible. Yes, I noticed that too. What's in /usr/spool/news/articles? Is it setting up the hierarchy of newsgroups correctly, and is incoming news working okay? Secondly, are you spooling outgoing articles correctly? They should be put in something like $SPOOL/Out.going-- note that the period makes the name impossible to be a newsgroup, since something like this newsgroup would put articles into $SPOOL/comp/sys/next/sysadmin. Is logging set up correctly? You'll have to edit /etc/syslog.conf. You should be logging a ton of information that will get summarized into a daily news report which should be mailed to the news admin (ie, you!). This report will note anything unusual and report errors in the configuration. BTW, have you run 'inncheck -v'? It's a great way of checking your overall configuration. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:18:26 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5fmn82$dtk$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> In-Reply-To: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> On 03/05/97, Pierre-Michel Tremblay wrote: > Bonjour, > Use version 3.37 of the adaptec scsi driver. I do, with the 2940 uw, and it works just great. >I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard with an Award BIOS and with >120 MHz Intel Pentium. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive inside. I solely >have a PCI/Scsi Adaptec 2940 uw with a 664 N1H IBM drive. I'm trying to >install NSFIP 3.3 with the default drivers supplied with NS 3.3 without >success. > >Once loading NeXT Mach 3.3, Physical Memory... Driverkit version 330, >Registering: PS2 Controller... >I get: >Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING >Registering: event0 >.... > >Bottom line, it cannot detect my brand new Adaptec 2940 uw controller. >At the Adaptec bios level, I was able to format the drive and detect all >the peripherals attached to it. Meaning: it works. But once Next Mach >3.3 is running, it does not detect the controller. > >Any idea why? Could it be the Award bios? If so, should I look for >another bios i.e. AMI... What are my options. > >Thanks. > > -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Date: 6 Mar 1997 15:24:17 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5fmnj1$e03$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org>? <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> In-Reply-To: <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> On 03/04/97, jon klein wrote: >Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: > >: When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one >: line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as > >: "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" > >: I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under >: NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a >: single reference to how it can be done. > >Most of the sites that are doing this with tcp wrappers, which you >can find at coast.cs.purdue.edu in pub/tools/unix. tcp wrappers is >just about an essential security tool in my opinion, and plus you >get features like the welcome message thrown in for free. It's >all in the tcp wrappers docs. > no such directory. other pointers? Randy >-- >-jon klein, >jklein@freon.artificial.com >NeXTmail welcome > -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: "Admin" <admin@sirius.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 6 Mar 97 18:44:03 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <01bc2a5e$6c04d640$43e286cd@compaq> After every login to the workspace, the workspace manager goes out and scans (all ?) disks for Apps (to register known file-extensions [?] in case your friendly sysadmin has installed new things since last login). In an nfs environment this puts too much load onto the nfs-server when frequent logins occur. I remember a magic "dwrite Workspace don't-do-that" existed but can't find it anymore, please post it if you can locate that it in your tool-chest. Wasn't there even a little program which peeks into an executable to see what dwrites a given App cares about? Thanks for any hints! Peter.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703052249.RAA13887@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 17:49:49 -0500 Subject: purging mail in the mailq [there was some conversation about this in csn.sysadmin in Jan] I don't know if this is a feature, oddity, or what, but sending kill -1 <sendmail's pid> when my PPP connection comes up was able to tell sendmail to purge the mailq (almost instantly) FYI FWIW TjL -- Tj Luoma (luomat@peak.org) PEAK OpenStep/NeXTStep FTP Site Newly revised and enhanced NeXTStep/OpenStep resources page, over 300 NeXTStep/OpenStep/Rhapsody related links. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <randyn@nx_chi> Message-ID: <9703052249.AA19302@nx_chi> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: Randy Nelson <randyn@nx_chi> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 97 16:48:59 -0600 Subject: Q:Problems with Serial port using ISASerialPort v3.33 I just installed the ISASerialPort 3.33 and the PortServer 3.33 drivers. (The new ppp2.3 requires them.) After installing (and removing the on-board-serial) and rebooting things come up fine. However, if I try to use kermit, it now seg faults. Also, if I try to run the new pppd v2.3b3, it gets the following errors and never starts up. ===== Mar 4 23:40:48 randyn pppd[244]: tcgetattr: No such device or address Mar 4 23:52:00 randyn pppd[308]: ioctl: TIOCMBIS/BIC: Inappropriate ioctl for d evice Mar 4 23:52:00 randyn mach: ppp0: setting mru 1500 Mar 4 23:52:11 randyn pppd[308]: read: Bad file number Mar 4 23:52:11 randyn pppd[308]: ioctl(TIOCSETD): Bad file number Mar 4 23:52:51 randyn pppd[320]: tcgetattr: No such device or address ===== The ppp3.2 kernel loaded without any errors. The mem and IRQ appear to be set correctly. Q: Any idea what I may have done wrong? PS. I restore the old on-board-serial drivers and removed the new ones, and things work fine again (with ppp2.2) Thanks, Randy Nelson randyn@jorsm.com __ Randy Nelson Software Engineer (NEXTSTEP Developer) NationsBanc--CRT randyn@crt.com (NeXT mail accepted) Internal Web: http://milk/~randyn/ Top 17 Programmer's Terminologies: 2. EXTENSIVE REPORT IS BEING PREPARED ON A FRESH APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM - We just hired three kids fresh out of college.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep 4.1 on GA-586DX (GigaByteBoard) Date: 6 Mar 1997 18:27:59 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5fn2bf$bva$1@lynet.de> Hello, I've just tried to install OPENSTEP 4.1 on a new purchased Motherboard GA-586DX from GigaByte, wich has a 2940 UW on board (AdaptecBIOS Version 1.41S2). Installing OS/2 on the machine is Ok, but installing OpenStep fails, because he neither finds the CD-ROM (NEC 3xi) nor the second HardDisk (Maverick 540 MByte). After installing an old Adaptec 2940 UW (BiosVersion 1.21), it works. Does anyone know, how that comes and how I get the OnBoardAdapter working with OpenStep (BiosDownDate?). Andreas
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <22496856059808@digifix.com> Date: 6 Mar 1997 20:42:14 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5437857680935@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT printing Message-ID: <1997Mar6.162601.28048@indyvax.iupui.edu> From: dalaw@austerlitz.iupui.edu (Dale Law) Date: 6 Mar 97 16:26:01 -0500 Has anyone succeeded in getting a NeXTstation to print to an Apple LaserWriter 12/640 PS? The printer has its¹ own ip address and I have entered everything on the NeXT for doing lpd printing, but nothing ever emerges. I would prefer to go the TCP/IP route rather than trying to use AppleTalk since that is currently so unwieldy. Please send responses directly to me. -- Dale K. Law Technical Assistant IU School of Journalism at Indianapolis (317) 274-2976 dalaw@gutenberg.iupui.edu CompuServe: 74776,2016
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 6 Mar 1997 05:37:28 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've needed to know: What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same subnet? advTHANKSance, -jcr
From: fxrsg@shadowtalon (Richard S. Guse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using UserManager without the root password Date: 6 Mar 1997 22:20:42 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Message-ID: <5fnfvq$3vm@news.alaska.edu> Summary: usermanager no root password dissemination Keywords: usermanager root sudo ns3.2 consultants We're running a lab with NS3.2 on our server. There are many people working here, and we've decided that it's a bad idea to have all these people have the root password. I've looked at installing sudo, which would work great if we created accounts using 'nu', but we don't (can't add other groups to a users' listing as far as I've seen...). We use UserManager.app Is there a way to get UserManager to accept a 'different' password? say, instead of set-uid root, it would be 'accountman', who could modify the user database. This way, we could limit the dissemination of the root password to the consultants. I 'suppose' one could login to sudo and load usermanager from the shell using nx, but I'm not sure that would inherit the properties from sudo, or from its own startup (and hence ask for the *real* root password). (?) -- Physicist by Choice, #define SYSOP GOD Power corrupts. Absolute Mathematician by Accident, #define REALITY NULL power is kind of neat. CS student by Mistake, #include "universe.h" Brilliant by act of God, e-mail: fxrsg@Camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu Poor by act of Congress... or fxrsg@Aurora.alaska.edu
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: date command Date: 6 Mar 1997 22:25:42 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> I'm a bit frustrated with the 'date' command built into NS 3.3. I want something more like the S5R4 date command that supports command-line formatting options, i.e., setenv DATE `date +%y%m%d` returns 970306 Is there a patch to the system level date command? Or should I just find a simple app that does the job? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: date command Date: 6 Mar 1997 23:18:09 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5fnjbh$19h$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu> wrote: : Is there a patch to the system level date command? Or should I just : find a simple app that does the job? system level date command? what is this, NT? compile GNU date. it's part of sh-utils (i think). the first thing i do on any NeXT boxes i acquire is compile a full set of GNU tools. there's a few things to watch out for (like GNU su), but other than that, it's a generally good policy. -- # david young: oo developer, think new ideas east/onramp # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com (MIME ok, NeXTmail better)
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 6 Mar 1997 17:05:31 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.857696640@shellx> References: <01bc2a5e$6c04d640$43e286cd@compaq> "Admin" <admin@sirius.com> writes: >After every login to the workspace, the workspace manager goes out and >scans (all ?) disks for Apps (to register known file-extensions [?] in case >your friendly sysadmin has installed new things since last login). In an >nfs environment this puts too much load onto the nfs-server when frequent >logins occur. I'm not sure, but try this: dwrite WM AutoFindApps No -sam
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Subject: Re: sendmail and NetInfo help needed In-Reply-To: "Timothy J. Luoma"'s message of 03 Mar 1997 04:41:18 JST Message-ID: <FUKASE.97Mar5041409@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp> Sender: news@will.sp.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp Organization: College of Science and Technology, Nihon Univ., Japan References: <199703021941.OAA11323@peak.org> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:14:08 GMT In article <199703021941.OAA11323@peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: ... > This is all use sendmail 8.8.5 under NS 3.3/m68k. > > Following the sendmail instructions put together by Francois Magnan > I tried to use this: If it's all right with you please show me your .mc file and show me the result of sendmail test with debug flag as follows; % /usr/lib/sendmail -bt -d0.4 -C./xxx.cf ^^^^^^^^file path .... ============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============ (short domain name) $w = xxx (canonical domain name) $j = xxx.your.domain.name (subdomain name) $m = your.domain.name (node name) $k = xxx.your.domain.name ======================================================== > 3,0 user@domai.name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to check mail routing > 3,1,11,4 your_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to check rewriting rule for the envelope sender address (local user doesn't add the `@domain.name') (in case of using sendmail-8.8.5/cf/cf/*.mc file) > 3,1,31,4 your_name ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^to check rewriting rule for the header sender address (local user doesn't add the `@domain.name') (in case of using sendmail-8.8.5/cf/cf/*.mc file) > However, all mail gets bounced back to me with this error: > > 553 peak.org config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Please show me what you want. Q.1 What style do you want sender's address from your host local? For example; From: USER@peak.org From: root@kira.peak.org ^^^^the accounts is used by system (root daemon news usenet postmaster..et al.) Q.2 What address do you want to receive for your local? For example; kira.peak.org <= hostname peak.org <= generic domainname in your domain > I've defined the following hosts in NetInfo: > > nidump hosts .|sort > > 127.0.0.1 charisma charisma.peak.org (?_?) o I think that the 127.0.0.1 value is for loopback interface. (127.0.0.1 localhost) o I think that the canonical name is FQDN style (host.domainname) in the Internet. If it's all right with you please show me your network style. For example; (host name for ppp interface) +----------+ +--------+ |your host +------ppp------| | +---+------+ +--------+ host name (for ethernet interface) ^^^^^^^^^ % hostname xxx <--`HOSTNAME='data in /etc/hostconfig (under NeXTstep) `xxx.domain.name' is host name for your ethernet interface. (Its mapping is in netinfo hosts database under NeXTstep.) > 198.68.22.17 kira.peak.org Is its mapping your host information? (under NeXTstep; Do you use a NetInfo Network? Can your sendmail look for the hosts information in netinfo database? (<=compile with original resolver) === p.s. > set type=mx > peak.org. ... peak.org preference = 5, mail exchanger = mail.peak.org ... > set type=any > mail.peak.org. .... mail.peak.org canonical name = PEAK.ORG > server ns.peak.org. ... > ls -t any peak.org. [ns.peak.org] ... PEAK.ORG. A 198.68.22.17 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (?_?) `PEAK.ORG' is a domainname. I think ...^_^;;; as follows; peak.org. IN MX 5 mail.peak.org kira.peak.org. IN A 198.68.22.17 IN MX 5 kira.peak.org. mail.peak.org. IN CNAME kira.peak.org. -- FUKASE, Mikio
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) Subject: Re: Changing user id number Message-ID: <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> Sender: Stefano Unternaehrer Reference: <5f738e$bpu$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 13:30:16 GMT Newsreader: (motif-based News Reader & Mailer) gazette (Version 2.1D) by BlackSheep References: 5f738e@newncar.ucar.edu Organization: Mecasoft s.a. Muralto, Switzerland AFAIK you only have to reassign all his files to the new owner (chown). <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,)> writes: > > I would like to change the user id number for one of my users. > What problems or dangers might I encounter? > > Thanks, > > -db- > -- > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | > | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | > +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- ____________________________ ______________________| Stefano Unternaehrer |__________________________ \ Mecasoft SA | Oracle DBA | fax: +41 91 743 5507 / \ 6600 Muralto | and PL/SQL, Pro*C | voice: +41 91 743 7444 / \ | C, XWindow & Motif | / / | Software Developer | email: \ / Switzerland Europe |____________________________| dba,unter@mecasoft.ch \ /________________________) (____________________________\ "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history" George Bernard Shaw
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 03:45:41 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Message-ID: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> I am posting this message because I am quite upset about the way the ask_next people handled my question and maybe somebody out there will give me a hand on this. The message is a little bit long (sorry!), but I didn't want to take anything away that would rest meaning to the question. There are 3 parts to this posting. The first one is the original letter I sent to ask_next@next.com after one of their technicians advised me to do so over the phone. The second one is the Chris Hapka (NeXT) reply, and finally my last message to him. Thank you for your patience!. RMC ----------- 1. Original letter to ask_next ------------------------- Dear Sirs, I called NeXT Technical Support, spoke to one of your technicians and he indicated that this should be something you could be interested on. Here is the problem. I have been a NeXTStep user for 7 years since I got my beloved NeXTStation Turbo Mono. Since then I have upgraded my operating system several times but the time has come to get a new faster system (Pentium Pro 200). I work on the enviromental modeling field, namely developing FORTRAN finite elements models for surface runoff. I bought OpenStep 4.1 Academic User/Dev for Intel 20 days ago, installed it and tested on the new system and so far works great!. I checked for a FORTRAN compiler (comercial or not) for the operating system and was quite depressed to find that both Absoft and NAG have discontinued support for OS4.1. It seems the the only available choices are the new GNU g77 or the f2c script. g77 seems to be quite interesting since GNU claims that you can do gdb debugging and some optimization. I downloaded gcc-2.7.2.2 and g77-0.5.19 from the archives a month ago and tried to install it into the new OpenStep 4.1 (with the devoloper package) system. When trying to compile it it went OK through the configure step but then it stopped at the make bootstrap process. I posted a message to the next.comp.sys.software and next.comp.sys.software newsgroups to see if somebody had encountered this problem and had found a work-around. A fellow (thank you Dave!) answered explaining that the new OpenStep libraries are dynamic and that a new nextstep.h (in the config subdirectory of the GNU distribution) needed to be used in place of the one included (I am including the file below). I tried this and it compiled (with lots of warnings during linking time). Finally, I compiled and run a model written in FORTRAN77 and after similar linking warnings from g77 I obtained an executable and run it. The program run OK but the results are quite different to those obtained with any other compiler I have used up to now (f77 DEC, f77 sun, MS-FORTRAN Power station for NT or even f2c). I am certain by exchanging messages over the net that the NeXT OpenStep community will apreciate very much your efforts since as I said before, we, FORTRAN Users don't seem to have any other choices at this time. Please let me know if you need any further info. RMC -------------- 2. Chris Hapka (NeXT) reply --------------------- From: Christopher Hapka <Christopher_Hapka@next.com> Subject: [107567] Problem with g77 on OpenStep 4.1 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:39:15 -0800 Dear Dr. Munoz-Carpena, Ask_Next@next.com is provided as a communication mechanism for information about NeXT Software, Inc. products. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide support for third-party development tools or other third-party products. Please contact the vendor of your FORTRAN compiler for assistance. Thank you, Chris Hapka Objectline Engineer Apple Computer, Inc. - NeXT Software ---------------------- 3. My reply to him ------------------------- Dear Chris, Thanks for your VERY STUPID reply... As you probably are aware of, g77 is a freeware (no vendor here Chris) GNU (Free Software Foundation) fortran 77 compiler, developed by a number of volunteers around the net. As I understand it, NeXT cc compiler was developed originally from the GNU source code. When I sent you my message, the intention was to let you know that you guys changed something fundamental between NeXTStep and OpenStep, so that the GNU cc and g77, that used to compile just fine under NS3.x, does not compile anymore in OS 4.x. So I was asking for a hint to what had changed and how I could get around it to get the software to compile (in my original message (see below) I said that somebody mentioned something about the dynamic libraries). If NeXT is to make it on the long run it will have to help users like me that are willing to move along the upgrade line and make things work. Visit the news and you will see questions about: does it work under 4.x?, is it better or worse?. I am sorry to find out that in the end you guys don't care about it, just give the easy answer and forget about it. I am still stuck with no FORTRAN compiler because you guys did not get along with Absoft so that they can develop the new version of their Fortran compiler or because the NAG people don't feel they can invest any resources to support a dead operating system. Chris, you just proved them right. RMC -- R. Munoz-Carpena, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar e-mail:rmunozc@eos.ncsu.edu BAE Dept. Box 7625 Fax: (919)515-7760 North Carolina State University Phone:(919)515-6732 Raleigh, NC 27695-2625
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 05:27:27 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5fo8vv$4o8@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) wrote: > I am posting this message because I am quite upset about the way > the ask_next people handled my question and maybe somebody out > there will give me a hand on this. [...] The first one is the > original letter I sent to ask_next@next.com after one of their > technicians advised me to do so over the phone. The second one > is the Chris Hapka (NeXT) reply, and finally my last message to > him. Thank you for your patience!. While I can understand your frustration, the reply from ask_next is perfectly understandable to me. The fact that the thing you want to use comes from GNU does not mean that NeXT has to support it when you want to use it. Support costs time and money. NeXT (really Apple now) has a few other important issues they have to address, issues that *only* they can address. No matter how you phrase your reply to that observation, the fact remains that you are asking them to support free software. If they have the right answer for your problem, then obviously they should provide it. However, if they do not *already* have the answer for the problem you see, then it is quite reasonable for them to say "We did not write this, we do not have the time to look into it". The problem is not that Apple is too busy to provide you with support for free software, the problem is that you have no other good options for fortran on OpenStep. If Apple does a good job getting Rhapsody together, then it is much more likely that writers of fortran compilers will support both Rhapsody and NeXTSTEP. The best thing for Apple and OpenStep users right now is for Apple to get the Rhapsody project working. I understand that this reply (my reply) is not very helpful either, and I'm sympathetic to that. I recently had some people ask me about NeXTSTEP, who ended up going somewhere else due to the lack of a good fortran compiler. I agree completely with the idea that availability of a fortran compiler would be an advantage for the OpenStep platform, but it is not Apple's business to write fortran compilers. Their business is to get the operating system together, and to make sure the transition from MacOS to Rhapsody is successful. If they do *that* job, then other companies will handle the issue of fortran compilers. If Apple does not succeed at that job, then it won't really make any difference if there's a fortran compiler available for a platform which (by then) will be dead. In your reply to the comments from ask_next, you said: > Thanks for your VERY STUPID reply... As you probably are aware > of, g77 is a freeware (no vendor here Chris) GNU (Free Software > Foundation) fortran 77 compiler, developed by a number of > volunteers around the net. I imagine that ask_next probably understands that quite well. I'd say your reply is much more stupid and obnoxious than theirs, because you are lecturing them on something that *you* do not seem to understand. If g77 is supported by volunteers, then you have to go to *those* people for questions. It is not the responsibility of Apple/NeXT to support everything which has been written by volunteers outside the of company, particular for things made available to you for free and which Apple had nothing to do with. This is particularly true for a large and complex program such as a compiler, where it really could take them a fair amount of time to investigate what is going on. Now, there are many helpful people in the GNU area, and I do sincerely hope that someone in that group knows the answer to the situation you are facing. I do think that the reply you got from ask_next was perfectly reasonable, that your reply to them was not, and I felt I should say so. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q:Problems with Serial port using ISASerialPort v3.33 Date: 7 Mar 1997 08:48:07 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5foko7$hua@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <9703052249.AA19302@nx_chi> Randy Nelson (randyn@nx_chi) wrote: : I just installed the ISASerialPort 3.33 and the PortServer 3.33 drivers. : (The new ppp2.3 requires them.) : After installing (and removing the on-board-serial) and rebooting things : come up fine. However, if I try to use kermit, it now seg faults. : Also, if I try to run the new pppd v2.3b3, it gets the following errors : and never starts up. : [...] Hello, this seems to happen more often now, either after OS upgrade (-> 4.x) or after installing the (new for 3.3) portserver drivers. Most often the cause is to forget to select the TTY portserver (in Configure(.app) under 'miscellaneous', where the (base) serial port drivers live), too. As long as this driver isn't configured too, the "/dev"'s cu[f]a, cu[f]b as well as the tty[df]a, tty[df]b aren't 'visible' to the programs. Try again, making sure that the TTY portserver is selected, too. If that's not it, I don't know, but kermit's problems to open the device are a good hint, that this is the problem. Kermit (up to now) never has failed me, except for my own mistakes - a very good program. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: vta@ludens.elte.hu (DMON) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can OpenStep switch off an Intel machine through APM? Message-ID: <1997Mar7.101834.37926@ludens> Date: 7 Mar 97 10:18:34 +0100 Organization: Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Dear all, I'm a hungarian student. I have an intel machine which can be switched off programatically through an appropriate APM BIOS call. What do you think, how can I manage OpenStep to switch off the machine instead of saying "Now it's safe to turn off the computer."? Thanks for any comments, advices. Best wishes, Tibor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.1 on GA-586DX (GigaByteBoard) Message-ID: <E6nypE.AHt@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5fn2bf$bva$1@lynet.de> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 08:10:26 GMT In article <5fn2bf$bva$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: > Hello, > > I've just tried to install OPENSTEP 4.1 on a new > purchased Motherboard GA-586DX from GigaByte, > wich has a 2940 UW on board (AdaptecBIOS Version 1.41S2). > Installing OS/2 on the machine is Ok, but installing OpenStep > fails, because he neither finds the CD-ROM (NEC 3xi) nor the > second HardDisk (Maverick 540 MByte). > After installing an old Adaptec 2940 UW (BiosVersion 1.21), > it works. > > Does anyone know, how that comes and how I get the OnBoardAdapter > working with OpenStep (BiosDownDate?). > Hi Andreas! worked for me. Your problem might be related to the CD-ROM (NEC are known to cause problems!) and/or a wrong Adaptec configuration! Hans -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Control: cancel <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Date: 7 Mar 1997 03:45:41 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Sender: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Message-ID: <cancel.5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Please cancel this article
From: breiter@mathematik.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Bernhard Reiter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 12:52:19 GMT Organization: RRZN - Newsserver Message-ID: <5fp323$adl$2@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> References: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In article <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu>, carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) writes: > I am posting this message because I am quite upset about the way the ask_next > people handled my question and maybe somebody out there will give me a hand > on this. There are a plenty other place you could ask. Maybe you should write an angry letter to NAG and Absoft. Maybe i can give you some additional hints. :-) [OpenStep 4.1] > ago, installed it and tested on the new system and so far works great!. I > checked for a FORTRAN compiler (comercial or not) for the operating system > and was quite depressed to find that both Absoft and NAG have discontinued > support for OS4.1. It seems the the only available choices are the new GNU > g77 or the f2c script. g77 seems to be quite interesting since GNU claims > that you can do gdb debugging and some optimization. > I downloaded gcc-2.7.2.2 and g77-0.5.19 from the archives a month ago and > tried to install it into the new OpenStep 4.1 (with the devoloper package) > system. There is a new version for g77 0.5.20 and there was a 0.5.19.1 The annoucements (on gnu.announce) stated that there were many serious long term bug fixed. You might want to try again. From what i heard it is possible to compile the new gcc on OpenStep so the g77 should be possible ,too . If you really need Fortran, you could spend money on free development for g77. A lot of Gnu developers are really interested to get there programs fine ang bug free. If you can provode good bug reports, they probably will help you. If you can provide a machine or similiar, they probably will solve your problem. If you spend money, you also might get firms, which provide support for g77. Even the FSF/GNU has a gold service and will compile their program for your favorite system, (to raise funds for their free projects) ;-> Regards Bernhard Reiter
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:25:49 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5fp50t$drq$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> Cc: jcr@idiom.com In <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> John C. Randolph wrote: > > I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've > needed to know: > > What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same > subnet? > > advTHANKSance, > > -jcr > CAP will do the trick, more info on http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Does the /dev directory need to be configured? Date: 7 Mar 1997 13:33:54 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5fp5g2$hkd@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> References: <331D8D3F.5109@smart.net> gh@smart.net wrote: >I am trying to reach my serial port with C-Kermit. >When I enter SET LINE /dev/cua, I get the response; > Can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device > >Is there something I need to do to configure the >devices to make them accessable? Yes.. if you intend to use cua/cufa with kermit under a non root userid (not a bad idea, because you then can run NXFax or other fax software on the same port using /dev/ttyfa) you run into difficulties with the permissions. Under OS4.1, the default permissions are: crw------- 1 uucp 11,224 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cufa crw------- 1 uucp 11,192 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cua Since local security was no issue for my machine at home, I simple used chmod a+rw /dev/ttycufa and am a happy camper ever since. Please note that you should use cufa rather then cua, since it gives you hardware flow control, assuming you are not using an older 68030 machine. Hope this helps, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.informatik.th-darmstadt.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) Subject: What is Cube NIBC? Message-ID: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: GSB, University of Chicago Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:30:10 GMT When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. Thanks.
From: Thomas.Tschannen@ivi.admin.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing from a NT system to black printers Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:17:24 GMT Organization: BFI, Bern (Switzerland) Message-ID: <5fpf2k$mfl@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> Keywords: driver, printing, NT Hi, I'm setting up a NT Server (4.0) from which I would like to print to a black printer via TCP/IP. Since there aren't any drivers for NeXTprinters I gave it a try with a QMS PS drive. It works as long as there is only one single page per document. As soon as I send a multipage document I get postscript errors on the printer. Is there anybody, who has done an installation like that ? What printerdriver is likely to produce meaningfull (in the sense of NeXT printers) postscript ? Thanks for your help. --- Thomas Tschannen, Systemsmanagement Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis, Switzerland email Thomas.Tschannen@ivi.admin.ch (NeXTmail welcome) Ph. ++41 31 84 89 256, FAX ++41 31 84 89 222
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:21:57 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6or0M.Mtv@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Andrew Chang) writes: > > When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me > what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. > Thanks. NeXT (aka fast Nu) Bus Interface Chip? $
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E6oM7D.8GF@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 16:38:01 GMT References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu>, Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> wrote: > >When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me >what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. >Thanks. > The NBIC is the NeXTbus Interface Chip, and must be installed on each board that wishes to communicate with other boards on the NeXTbus. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Apache SSL on nextstep 3.3 Date: 7 Mar 1997 15:01:23 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5fpak3$30u@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> Has anyone gone through the process of building apache with SSL? If so, any good advice for getting the Makefiles set up to build SSLeay correctly? pasc
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 12:41:54 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kn85BWq00iWRA61tFx@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 7-Mar-97 What is Cube NIBC? by Andrew Chang@gsbux1.uchi > When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me > what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. It's the Next Bus Interface Controller chip, which is required to arbitrate the NuBus slots inside the cube. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: date command Date: 7 Mar 1997 19:54:37 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <5fprpt$vva@library.airnews.net> References: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> Cc: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu In <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, wrote: > > I'm a bit frustrated with the 'date' command built into NS 3.3. > I want something more like the S5R4 date command that supports > command-line formatting options, i.e., > > setenv DATE `date +%y%m%d` Get GNU's sh-utils-1.16.tar.gz from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu, it's got the "DATE" you're looking for and much more. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: carpena@icia.rcanaria.es (Rafael Munoz-Carpena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GNU gcc & g77 FORTRAN, OpenStep 4.1 and NeXT Inc. Date: 7 Mar 1997 20:35:50 GMT Organization: Instituto Canario de Investigaciones Agrarias -ICIA Message-ID: <5fpu76$ro6@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> References: <5fo315$8ss@uni00nw.unity.ncsu.edu> <5fo8vv$4o8@usenet.rpi.edu> Cc: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Garance, In <5fo8vv$4o8@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn wrote: > >[...] The problem is not that Apple is too busy to provide you with > support for free software, the problem is that you have no other > good options for fortran on OpenStep. > > I understand that this reply (my reply) is not very helpful either, > and I'm sympathetic to that. I recently had some people ask me > about NeXTSTEP, who ended up going somewhere else due to the lack > of a good fortran compiler... I am glad to see that my message got through and my point is made. > I imagine that ask_next probably understands that quite well. I'd > say your reply is much more stupid and obnoxious than theirs, > because you are lecturing them on something that *you* do not seem > to understand. Thanks for the lecture ; - ) >[...] I do think that the reply you got from > ask_next was perfectly reasonable, that your reply to them was not, > and I felt I should say so. Good for you! : - ) Now, I apologize for what you found not reasonable, but again sometimes you need to resort to some noise to be heard. I hope NeXT (Apple) got the message!. Best regards, Rafa -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Rafael Munoz-Carpena, Researcher, Soil & Water Department | | INSTITUTO CANARIO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS - ICIA | | Apdo. 60 - Laguna, 38200 Tenerife (Spain) | |Tno:+34-22-476343;Fax:+34-22-476303;e-mail:carpena@icia.rcanaria.es| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing user id number Date: 7 Mar 1997 20:52:23 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5fpv67$g6n@usenet.rpi.edu> References: 5f738e@newncar.ucar.edu <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> <dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,)> writes: > I would like to change the user id number for one of my > users. What problems or dangers might I encounter? unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) replied: > AFAIK you only have to reassign all his files to the new > owner (chown). I like to create a new account with the old user id number, and make it so that new account can't signon. This just leaves a marker in case anything has saved away that UID value, so you remember where it came from. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: robert@amo.mit.edu (Robert Lutwak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Changing user id number Date: 7 Mar 1997 23:58:11 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <5fqa2j$opa@boursy.news.erols.com> References: <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> In article <E6MIw3.85I@mecati.mecasoft.ch> unter@mecati.mecasoft.ch (Stefano Unternaehrer) writes: > > AFAIK you only have to reassign all his files to the new owner (chown). You have to be a little clever to find 'em all. For example, don't forget /usr/spool/mail/username and all of the .filenames in the user's home directory. -- Robert Lutwak robert@amo.mit.edu
From: francis@az.stratus.com (Francis Hartojo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.1 and NetInfo. Followup-To: poster Date: 8 Mar 1997 00:18:20 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <5fqb8c$kfk@transfer.stratus.com> Hi, I'm wondering if there's something I can do to turn NetInfo completely off (i.e., make it to not be started up at all) on OS 4.1? Commenting it (and lookupd) out from the rc file doesn't do it 'cause it seems like everybody else still expect it to run. For now I've configured it to just serve the local machine (i.e., don't go looking for a parent server) since it's the only NeXT box in the LAN. But I much prefer if I could not use it at all and go back to the flat files. Thank you in advance, and please send your responses directly to: francis@az.stratus.com. P.S.: I just remembered, on one of the docs under /NextLibrary there's an explanation on how to configure the resolver where to look for information (e.g., flat files, YP, DNS, NetInfo, etc.). Kind of like the /etc/nsswitch.conf on Solaris. Would setting this to the flat files only and commenting out the NetInfo from the rc file work? I'd rather not experiment at this point. To put it simply, I need the NeXT box operational for work. (c: Thanks again. -- +------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Francis Hartojo | Ph.: 602-852-3195 [Speaking for myself, | | Stratus Computer, Inc. | 800-294-1344 x3195 nobody else.] | | francis@az.stratus.com | Fax: 602-852-3099 |
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: date command Date: 7 Mar 1997 21:18:41 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5fq0nh$9om$1@newncar.ucar.edu> References: <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> <5fprpt$vva@library.airnews.net> In article <5fprpt$vva@library.airnews.net>, Yi Liu <liuyi@crystalball.com> wrote: >In <5fng96$lcf$1@newncar.ucar.edu> David Blanchard,,, wrote: >> I'm a bit frustrated with the 'date' command built into NS 3.3. >> I want something more like the S5R4 date command that supports >> command-line formatting options, i.e., >> >> setenv DATE `date +%y%m%d` >Get GNU's sh-utils-1.16.tar.gz from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu, it's got the >"DATE" you're looking for and much more. I got it and it does exactly what I want. Thanks to all who pointed this out. -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703071941.OAA05959@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 50a7ce1c3d8c924db61a8f04e76eb1a2 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 14:41:04 -0500 Subject: Re: sendmail and NetInfo help needed Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 50a7ce1c3d8c924db61a8f04e76eb1a2 - Responding To: fukase@cst.nihon-u.ac.jp (FUKASE Mikio) Original Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 19:14:08 GMT Message-ID: 50a7ce1c3d8c924db61a8f04e76eb1a2 - > If it's all right with you please show me your .mc file and > show me the result of sendmail test with debug flag as > follows; I have it running actually, but thanks for the offer TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* I will be away from the evening of Mar 7 (Friday) until Mar 12 (Wed)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> References: <01bc2a5e$6c04d640$43e286cd@compaq> <sams.857696640@shellx> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 04:06:50 GMT Samuel G. Streeper wrote: > "Admin" <admin@sirius.com> writes: > >After every login to the workspace, the workspace manager goes out and > >scans (all ?) disks for Apps (to register known file-extensions [?] in case > >your friendly sysadmin has installed new things since last login). In an > >nfs environment this puts too much load onto the nfs-server when frequent > >logins occur. > > I'm not sure, but try this: > > dwrite WM AutoFindApps No Close: it's dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Message-ID: <E6oHnw.BuH@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 14:59:56 GMT In article <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> writes: > Bonjour, > > I've just purchased a Triton VX motherboard with an Award BIOS and with > 120 MHz Intel Pentium. I have no EIDE nor IDE drive inside. I solely > have a PCI/Scsi Adaptec 2940 uw with a 664 N1H IBM drive. I'm trying to > install NSFIP 3.3 with the default drivers supplied with NS 3.3 without > success. > > Once loading NeXT Mach 3.3, Physical Memory... Driverkit version 330, > Registering: PS2 Controller... > I get: > Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING > Registering: event0 > ... You need the new V3.37 Adaptec Driver from NeXTanswers ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
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From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Old 400dpi Next Laserprint, driver wanted. Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 17:57:47 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970304175508.19876A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <5f4pvq$lm8@news.alaska.edu> <Un5b4m_00iWZ4Hl7lU@andrew.cmu.edu><5f9al2$279@bignews.shef.ac.uk> <Qn761Ae00WBO02zV88@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Qn761Ae00WBO02zV88@andrew.cmu.edu> On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote: > What's changed since then? Well, memory has gotten cheaper and lots of > computers now have reasonable amounts of RAM, and CPU's have gotten a > lot faster. > > I think the design decision to have the main computer do all of the work > and have the printer be a dumb device makes as much or even more sense > today than it used to. There are already a lot of cheap "Windows-only" laser printers out there that use the same principle as the NeXT laser printer. Of course, none of them use Postscript - but why would a Windoze user care? :P -Isaac
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703071939.OAA05925@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 199e700f4b278952bdf40a93b2191344 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 97 14:39:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Using UserManager without the root password Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 199e700f4b278952bdf40a93b2191344 - Responding To: fxrsg@shadowtalon (Richard S. Guse) Original Date: 6 Mar 1997 22:20:42 GMT Message-ID: 199e700f4b278952bdf40a93b2191344 - > Is there a way to get UserManager to accept a 'different' password? > say, instead of set-uid root, it would be 'accountman', who could > modify the user database. This way, we could limit the > dissemination of the root password to the consultants. Well, you could install the program 'asroot' (setuid root) and create a new user (in the group "wheel") and give him the login shell /usr/local/bin/acctman.sh (add this to /etc/shells!) then create the 'acctman.sh' program to be something like this: #!/bin/sh trap true 1 2 13 15 exec /usr/local/bin/asroot /NextAdmin/UserManager.app/UserManager # end WARNING: there may be holes in this. 1 is that 'asroot' allows any member of the group 'wheel' to run programs as root, so you might not want to put it in a place where there are a lot of 'wheel' members. What this will allow is someone to 'su' to 'acctman' or whatever you call the user, run UserManager.app, and then logout when UserManager exits. The 'trap' calls should prevent people from being able to dump into a regular /bin/sh as this user. Others may have other/better ideas.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* I will be away from the evening of Mar 7 (Friday) until Mar 12 (Wed)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 8 Mar 1997 17:10:56 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> In article <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) writes: > dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. I have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 8 Mar 1997 12:28:44 -0000 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Is it possible to NXHost an application or message distributed objects between NEXTSTEP machines through any kind of firewall? (The firewall machine is not NEXTSTEP, by the way.) For the former, I tried putting up a simple proxy that would pass requests on port 178 on to the remote machine, but I think the remote WindowServer wants call back the originating machine on a private port or something, because it doesn't work. (Says "cannot connect to WindowServer on remote host" or something like that, after a timeout period.) Or is it trying to do something via Mach ports? Why can't I find any technical documentation on how this works?? Would NXHost.app help in any way? I don't know how it works. For distributed objects, I'm thinking that the TCPTransport example might be helpful. Has anyone fleshed that example out more? It looks like it does a rendezvous on a public port, which I can proxy easily enough, but then moves conversation over to a private port, so it looks like I'll have to hack that part. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Urban | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Installing OS 4.1 on partition 'b' on a NeXTstation Message-ID: <E6q16u.7t1@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5fh26r$gmg$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 10:59:17 GMT In article <5fh26r$gmg$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) writes: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me how to install OS 4.1 onto the second (`b') > parition of a 2G disk in a NeXTstation Color machine? > > It seems that the NeXT installer wants to install the OS onto the > `a' partition but I do not want this. > ...munch... In case the second partition is of adequate size I'd do the following: Copy the NS from partition a to b (by means of 'ditto' or BuildDisk.app) and make sure it boots correctly. Upgrade partition b by means of Upgrader.app from the OS4.1-CD. Only the installation procedure doesn't know how to handle different partitions. If the old NS is not upgradable (too old or too much fumbled around with) use the installation procedure to partition a. P.S.: There are many ways to make partition a fit onto partition b: 1. Compress user filesystems 2. Unload unused (by the upgrade) components like /LocalApps etc. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 15:34:19 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <sn8Qp=200iWZI4nnhH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> In-Reply-To: <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Mar-97 Re: dwrite "prevent WM to s.. by Rex Dieter@math.unl.edu >> dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO > > This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. > I have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is > enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? Automatically? It doesn't. However, you should be able to run make_services every time you wanted to find a new application. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jchan@apk.net (Jerome Chan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [newbie question] ftp, telnet and new users Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 17:50:25 -0500 Organization: TofuSoft Message-ID: <jchan-0803971750260001@as4-34.apk.net> I've just got OS4.1/Mach for Sparc and I've been playing around a bit with it. I've added in a new user but I can't use that account to telnet or ftp to the Sparc. I don't see the account listed in /etc/passwd. Is there a script I need to run after using the user manager? --- The Evil Tofu (Only Human)
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 8 Mar 1997 19:25:56 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5fseg4$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Mar-97 PersonalINN > posting problems by planetary@xmission.xmiss > > Although it claims that remote posting was successful, no posts propagate. > > I don't trust the log anyway, since something in the posting mechanism > > seems to be choking on garbage. > > I wouldn't believe it either. Rightly so. :-) The point is that (probably because of a corrupted outfile, I'll check this with Kris) all outfile messages appear to be empty and therefore won't need to be posted. The "posting successful" message is to be read relative to the fact that there seems to be nothing to post... :-/ > Are you trying to feed articles back to > your news server via the reader-mode POST command (which is what is > actually happening), Yes, that's the way rpost works. Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 8 Mar 1997 19:56:11 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5fsg8r$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) wrote: > Reading the log file indicates that it was choking on a bunch of headers > very important to a post, such as "Subject." I can't imagine my news > server would feel like "Subject" is incompatible. No no, that's not the point, of course. Hm, looks like a corrupted outfile to me. The outfile is supposed to include relative pathnames to the articles to be sent; rpost will add /usr/spool/news/articles to it. In your logfile, paths are generated with /usr/spool/news/articles and then the header names of a posting which suggests to me that your outfile includes the postings itself instead of just the pathnames. This, in turn, would be because of a misconfigured newsfeeds file. Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________ Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Sender: news@flop.schwaben.de Organization: NeXT Ghetto People feat. St.Eve Message-ID: <E6qMnz.sC@flop.schwaben.de> References: <E6pI3E.82s@flop.schwaben.de> <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 18:43:11 GMT Rex Dieter wrote: > > dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO > > This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. I > have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is > enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? Just press CMD-u after installation of a new app, and wait until the update finished. Works great! For services, logging out and back in might be required. Holger -- hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM LOAD "MACH_KERNEL",8,1
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite "prevent WM to scan for Apps" anyone? Date: 8 Mar 1997 16:29:30 -0800 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ft09a$c7@mpaque.mpaque> References: <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5fs6j0$vn@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > > dwrite Workspace AutoFindApps NO > > This is fascinating and sounds like a very good thing on a large network. I > have one important question regarding this, however. If this dwrite is > enabled, how DOES the workspace find new applications? In the Workspace menu, click on 'View >'. In the submenu that pops up, click on 'Update Viewers'. This will start the AppFinder processes. The Command Key shortcut for this is 'CMD-u'. -- I don't speak for my employer, whoever it is, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com Official business only NeXT Mail OK mpaque@wco.com Non-business or personal mail NeXT mail OK
From: Huiyang Yang <yang@focus.berkeley.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: about read mail in Chinese and Japanese Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 10:21:30 -0800 Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <3321AE2A.41C6@focus.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am using NeXT Electronic Mail Reader to read e-mail. Is it possible to read the mails in Chinese (GB or Big5) or Japanese? and how? Thanks Huiyang
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:54:48 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un >> Secondly, are you spooling outgoing articles correctly? They should be >> put in something like $SPOOL/Out.going-- note that the period makes the >> name impossible to be a newsgroup, since something like this newsgroup >> would put articles into $SPOOL/comp/sys/next/sysadmin. > > Please note that PersonalINN is NOT a vanilla INN installation; some things > are different for easier handling. Okay. > So, there is no need for a period in "outgoing" since newsgroups are stored > in a different subdirectory called "articles" which is on the same hierarchy > as "outgoing". Even if that is the case, why change the convention? It's easier to understand what's going on if your system is set up similarly to the way the documentation recommends. >> Is logging set up correctly? You'll have to edit /etc/syslog.conf. > > Well, logging obviously works. syslogd will do what /etc/syslog.conf says to do-- in that sense, logging "works". Whether the logging of INN's behavior works correctly is a different question. What facilities and levels does PersonalINN log to? >> You should be logging a ton of information that will get summarized into a >> daily news report which should be mailed to the news admin (ie, you!). > > This feature is turned OFF in PersonalINN's default setting. That strikes me as a bad idea. Maybe it would be okay to turn the daily news summary off when things have been working correctly for a while, but when someone first starts using INN, it's crucial to have the system monitor what's going on so that any problems can be detected and corrected. >> BTW, have you run 'inncheck -v'? It's a great way of checking your >> overall configuration. > > True, but it will not realize if the newsfeeds file is set to generate the > correct outfile format - which is probably the problem here (i.e. W*H* > instead of Wnm). Probably-- it does look like something was spraying article header information into what was supposed to be the list of outgoing articles for nntpsend (or rpost, or whatever). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 10:24:03 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970306101913.20654A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Michele Fuortes wrote: > I'd like to start programming OpenSTEP. The University developer package > is $299 which I can afford. I also have a old NeXT cube but I know that > would not run 4.x OpenSTEP. As I'm sure someone's told you, the cube (provided it's an 040) will run Openstep, albeit slowly. > So I was thinking about the idea of getting a cheap DOS card for my > Macintosh here at home (9150), install OpenSTEP in there and REALLY have > the Best of Both World ;-) Apple's DOS cards are exactly that - DOS cards. They only work with DOS-based operating systems (which includes Windows95, but not NT). Neither NEXTSTEP or Openstep will run on Apple's cards... HOWEVER: Orange Micro sells PC-compatibility cards that they advertise as NT-compatible. It may be possible to install NEXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach on one of those cards. Even if it isn't, OpenStep/NT may run if you have NT running on the card. -Isaac
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:04:30 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com> References: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> On 03/08/97, Nathan Urban wrote: >Is it possible to NXHost an application or message distributed objects >between NEXTSTEP machines through any kind of firewall? (The firewall >machine is not NEXTSTEP, by the way.) For the former, I tried putting >up a simple proxy that would pass requests on port 178 on to the >remote machine, but I think the remote WindowServer wants call back >the originating machine on a private port or something, because it >doesn't work. (Says "cannot connect to WindowServer on remote host" >or something like that, after a timeout period.) Or is it trying to do >something via Mach ports? Why can't I find any technical documentation >on how this works?? Would NXHost.app help in any way? I don't know >how it works. > By the same token... anyone able to tell me what ports/ packet types need to be blocked at my firewall to prevent off-site NXHost snooping? >For distributed objects, I'm thinking that the TCPTransport example might >be helpful. Has anyone fleshed that example out more? It looks like >it does a rendezvous on a public port, which I can proxy easily enough, >but then moves conversation over to a private port, so it looks like >I'll have to hack that part. >-- -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT on a Mac with a DOS card? Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:27:39 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm247-19.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5fthob$ir$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <mfuortes-0303972110040001@140.251.4.71> <Pine.LNX.3.95.970306101913.20654A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Cc: isaac@pobox.com In <Pine.LNX.3.95.970306101913.20654A-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> Isaac wrote: > HOWEVER: > > Orange Micro sells PC-compatibility cards that they advertise as > NT-compatible. It may be possible to install NEXTSTEP or OpenStep/Mach on > one of those cards. Even if it isn't, OpenStep/NT may run if you have > NT running on the card. > > -Isaac > > Do you know more about the company? Thanks Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <5437857680935@digifix.com> Date: 9 Mar 1997 05:25:33 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <7353857885137@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 9 Mar 1997 00:44:56 -0000 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5ft168$pbc@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com> In article <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com>, sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > By the same token... anyone able to tell me what ports/ packet types > need to be blocked at my firewall to prevent off-site NXHost snooping? Somebody told me port 2453, TCP. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Urban | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: root@ariel.infodesign.ch (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with WangDat 3400DX (4/8GB) on Turbo Cube Date: 8 Mar 1997 15:01:50 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <5frv0u$kls@news.eunet.ch> References: <5fklqp$ruv@library.airnews.net> In article <5fklqp$ruv@library.airnews.net> liuyi@crystalball.com (Yi Liu) writes: > I'm running into problems trying to use a borrowed WangDat 3400DX (4GB > native) drive on my Turbo Cube (NS3.3, ROMv74). The drive works fine on a > PC. After I hooked it up to my Cube, it's recognized during boot: > > > WangDAT Model 3400DX Rev 1.4a as st0 at sc0 target 5 lun 0 > > I put in a 120m DDS2 tape, and tried to kick out the tape by > > # mt -f /dev/rst0 offline (rewind, etc. doesn't work either) > > Nothing happens with the drive but the console gives me: > > > st: cmd = 0x1 sr_io_status = 2H > > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 > > and when I tried to tar something to the drive > > # tar -cf /dev/rst0 /tmp > > I get > > > Tape error, I/O error. (something like that) > > and this blurb on the console: > > > st: cmd = 0xa sr_io_status = 2H > > Sense key = 0x2 Sense Code = 0x4 > > > I double checked my SCSI id, everything is fine (hd at 1, tape at 5). I've > also tried /dev/rxt0, which I guess is for the 8mm Exabyte, but I tried it > anyway. Didn't do anything for me. > > Anybody using similar tape drives? > > All ideas and suggestions are welcome! > > Much obliged! > liuyi > -- > Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@crystalball.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII} You have discovered probably the proprietary format of the WangDat. Check the manual as to how to set the block sizes to a fixed length format, such as 1024 bytes per block. We had to open the cover and change a jumper to get a fixed block size! then use the program dd to pipe your data... Below is what we found works for us to move our tar files to NeXTSTEP3.3... # always use the tmp directory as this gets flushed automatically if you run out of # target disk space cd tmp #skip the first tar file on this particular tape... your mileage may vary mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1 #read from the tape device at a fixed block size of 1024 bytes per block #pipe the output stream to the tar program and extract the file from standard output #stream dd if=/dev/nrst0 bs=1024|tar xvf - For dump tapes such as... Dump date: Sat May 25 16:00:17 1996 do the following: mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf 1 restore -ivf /dev/rst0 the /dev/nrst0 device does not seem to work appropriately... Best regards, Gerold Rupprecht Geneva, Switzerland
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 9 Mar 1997 09:07:42 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > So, there is no need for a period in "outgoing" since newsgroups > > are stored in a different subdirectory called "articles" which > > is on the same hierarchy as "outgoing". > > Even if that is the case, why change the convention? It's easier to > understand what's going on if your system is set up similarly to the way > the documentation recommends. I don't think so. It sure is easier for people who already know INN and UNIX in general, but PersonalINN was configured with those in mind who DO NOT belong to exactly this group of people (who, by their knowledge, should be able to survive these changes, anyhow ;-) ). For those, given the generally overwhelming complexity of INN, anything a bit more intuitive is a gain, as are clearly to understand names and paths. So in PersonalINN e.g. all binaries are in /usr/local/inn (which also has a .dir.tiff and therefore looks a bit like an app wrapper), instead of spreading them across different directories. Don't forget that for German people (PersonalINN was created in connection with an internet article series for NEXTTOYOU), there's also the language barrier adding. For them, it is hard enough to read "outgoing" instead of "Ausgehende", you don't want to have even more irritation by "out.going". Besides, I really think it's a bad idea (now matter how traditional) to hide the outgoing directory amongst maybe hundreds of article directories, and I see no point in keeping a stupid convention. Generally speaking, the "philosophy" of PersonalINN has been to carefully lead pure users to UNIX configuration, i.e. don't hide the thing totally so that nobody understands what's going on behind the scenes, but make the UNIX side easy to comprehend for a novice. Of course, for you English speaking people, the 30 pages article is missing which illustrates all this with lots of graphics etc. :-( > syslogd will do what /etc/syslog.conf says to do-- in that sense, > logging "works". Whether the logging of INN's behavior works correctly > is a different question. What facilities and levels does PersonalINN > log to? This IS quite conventional; local0 & local1, notice - error (though maybe I'll change local0 since some people needed exactly this facility for something else). However, my point was that Kris' problem obviously has nothing to do wiht logging problems, nor were important logging informations missing. > > This feature is turned OFF in PersonalINN's default setting. > > That strikes me as a bad idea. > > Maybe it would be okay to turn the daily news summary off when things > have been working correctly for a while, but when someone first starts > using INN, it's crucial to have the system monitor what's going on so > that any problems can be detected and corrected. PersonalINN should be plug&play and seems to have been in more than 99% of the installations (except slurp, maybe, which isn't included in the mailing, anyway). Personally, I don't see any advantages in getting a daily report via mail vs. looking at the log files (which users are encouraged to do). Of course, actual error conditions ARE reported via mail. > Probably-- it does look like something was spraying article header > information into what was supposed to be the list of outgoing articles > for nntpsend (or rpost, or whatever). Meanwhile, Kris has sent me his newsfeeds file, and it was as I had supposed: for some reason I don't know yet he had added an "H" to "Wnm". So this was the mistake. Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is Cube NIBC? Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 11:54:30 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970307115030.7171B-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andrew Chang <tachang@gsbux1.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <E6oGAA.BID@midway.uchicago.edu> On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Andrew Chang wrote: > When a cube boots, it says something "NIBC present". Can anyone tell me > what the "NIBC" (or NBIC?) mean? I can not find an answer for this. NBIC = NeXTBus Interface Chip It's the controller that lets the CPU board access other devices (like NeXTDimension boards) across the NeXTbus. On the flip side, pulling that chip from the board allows the board to boot without seeing or being seen by other NeXTbus devices (like other CPU boards.) so you can run up to 4 independent CPU modules in one cube case. :) It's not multi-processing, tho. -Isaac
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:21:01 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un >> Even if that is the case, why change the convention? It's easier to >> understand what's going on if your system is set up similarly to the way >> the documentation recommends. > > I don't think so. You don't agree that it's easier to understand a complex system like INN if it's generally set up the way the documention suggests? I don't want to argue with you, but it seems self-evident that this would be true. > It sure is easier for people who already know INN and UNIX > in general, but PersonalINN was configured with those in mind who DO NOT > belong to exactly this group of people (who, by their knowledge, should be > able to survive these changes, anyhow ;-) ). For those, given the generally > overwhelming complexity of INN, anything a bit more intuitive is a gain, How much more intuitive is it to call something "outgoing" instead of "out.going"? > as are clearly to understand names and paths. So in PersonalINN e.g. all > binaries are in /usr/local/inn (which also has a .dir.tiff and therefore > looks a bit like an app wrapper), instead of spreading them across different > directories. I have no problems with doing that-- having the INN directory look like a wrapper is a good idea. > Don't forget that for German people (PersonalINN was created in connection > with an internet article series for NEXTTOYOU), there's also the language > barrier adding. For them, it is hard enough to read "outgoing" instead of > "Ausgehende", you don't want to have even more irritation by "out.going". Again, I don't want to get into a debate over language issues. If you wanted to translate INN into German, that would have been very nice for German-speaking people. So, if you decided to call it "Ausgehende" instead of "Ausge.hende" (or whatever), that would have been your choice. However, I don't believe the assertion that a German speaking person is going to have more difficulty and irritation with "out.going" than they would with "outgoing"-- and it's not worth changing when it breaks the convention that is expected by people familiar with INN. > Besides, I really think it's a bad idea (now matter how traditional) to hide > the outgoing directory amongst maybe hundreds of article directories, and I > see no point in keeping a stupid convention. Where are you getting the "hundreds of article directories" from? There are the big-8 top-level newsgroup hierarchies (comp, talk, news, alt, and so forth), plus one for each foreign language ("de" for German , "fr" for French, etc), possibly plus any local groups. [ ... ] > Of course, for you English speaking people, the 30 pages article is missing > which illustrates all this with lots of graphics etc. :-( But that's okay-- we've got all of INN's documentation to work with, plus a lot of news admins around who are very familiar with the default installation. In large part, that's why I'm concerned about making what appears to me to be gratuitous changes to the conventions. >> syslogd will do what /etc/syslog.conf says to do-- in that sense, >> logging "works". Whether the logging of INN's behavior works correctly >> is a different question. What facilities and levels does PersonalINN >> log to? > > This IS quite conventional; local0 & local1, notice - error (though maybe > I'll change local0 since some people needed exactly this facility for > something else). Okay; thanks for the info. > However, my point was that Kris' problem obviously has nothing to do wiht > logging problems, nor were important logging informations missing. I didn't want to make that assumption-- I prefer to systematically check what's going on with a non-functioning system and verify the basics are working okay before looking into more specific potential problem areas. (Otherwise known as a "sanity check". There's no point to spending time solving a specific problem when it turns out that something more basic was wrong and the specific problem was a result of that more basic problem.) >> Maybe it would be okay to turn the daily news summary off when things >> have been working correctly for a while, but when someone first starts >> using INN, it's crucial to have the system monitor what's going on so >> that any problems can be detected and corrected. > > PersonalINN should be plug&play and seems to have been in more than 99% of > the installations (except slurp, maybe, which isn't included in the mailing, > anyway). Personally, I don't see any advantages in getting a daily report > via mail vs. looking at the log files (which users are encouraged to do). The whole purpose of the daily report is to _summarize_ those log files in an intelligent fashion, and display them in a format that easier to read and understand. For example, you can't see the number of incoming articles, how much disk space is being used, or how the expiry is doing by looking at the log files. You also don't get statistics on reader behaviors, or even whether local postings have successfully been propogated off-site. > Of course, actual error conditions ARE reported via mail. Some are-- but what happens if the expiry gets bogged down and fails to complete within a 24-hour period? You're gonna run out of disk space on the drive with the spool sooner rather than later, and you're not going to get much warning about it until it happens, either. Getting the daily report lets you monitor what's going on and fix any problems before they get completely out of hand. Well, I hope you'll take this as some constructive criticism, and not as an argument.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Subject: talk/ntalk/ytalk anyone? Message-ID: <E6tIIq.Duo@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:06:26 GMT hello- although my machine appears to have the standard setup in services for talk and ntalk, no talk daemon seems present? has anyone else had this problem? i talk on a semiregular basis with another server, but i wanted to try and use my own talk daemon. any help always appreciated. thanks in advance, bryce the just now getting a clue
From: Charles Wiles <get_lost@all.spammers> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to some) Date: 7 Mar 1997 14:13:40 GMT Organization: Physics Teaching Course, Oxford Message-ID: <5fp7qk$gcr@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one > line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as > > "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" > > I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under > NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a > single reference to how it can be done. Timothy, it's defined in /etc/gettytab by the `im' property. The format of gettytab is a little horrible (another one in the termcap/printcap family) but is described by the man page. Edit the "default" entry. You will need to use things like '\n' and '\r' to get newlines, etc and there are some magic tokens like "%h" for hostname and "%t" for the tty name. Here's an example: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\n(%h) ****PUT YOUR LOGIN MESSAGE HERE**** \r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: cheers, charles _______________________________________________________________________ Charles Wiles, NeXT/Unix Systems Manager, Physics Practical Course Dept of Physics NAPL, University of Oxford UK charles@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
From: Thomas.Tschannen@ivi.admin.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from a NT system to black printers Date: 10 Mar 1997 10:26:33 GMT Organization: BFI, Bern (Switzerland) Message-ID: <5g0nkp$613@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> References: <5fpf2k$mfl@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> In article <5fpf2k$mfl@fwsrva.bfi.admin.ch> I wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up a NT Server (4.0) from which I would like to print to a > black printer via TCP/IP. > > Since there aren't any drivers for NeXTprinters I gave it a try with a > QMS PS drive. It works as long as there is only one single page per > document. > As soon as I send a multipage document I get postscript errors on the > printer. The 'printing-multipage-document-problem' is solved by setting 'page independence' to yes in the document defaults. A next specific .ppd can be found at http://www.adobe.com/ or in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/NeXT_400_dpi_Level_II_Printer.ppd on NeXTs. Should you have problems installing the .ppd, please get in touch with me. Thanks to Dave Johnson <ddj@gradient.com> Timm Wetzel <me@baloo.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Jeremy Bettis" <bettis@inetnebr.com> for their grate help. With kind regards, Thomas
From: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de (Axel Habermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Does the /dev directory need to be configured? Date: 10 Mar 1997 11:38:45 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5g0rs5$3d0$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <331D8D3F.5109@smart.net> <5fp5g2$hkd@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> In comp.sys.next.misc Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> wrote: : gh@smart.net wrote: : >I am trying to reach my serial port with C-Kermit. : >When I enter SET LINE /dev/cua, I get the response; : > Can't open connection: /dev/cua: No such device : > : >Is there something I need to do to configure the : >devices to make them accessable? : Yes.. if you intend to use cua/cufa with kermit under : a non root userid (not a bad idea, because you then : can run NXFax or other fax software on the same port : using /dev/ttyfa) you run into difficulties with the : permissions. Under OS4.1, the default permissions are: : crw------- 1 uucp 11,224 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cufa : crw------- 1 uucp 11,192 Oct 1 19:19 /dev/cua I don't think the permissions are the problem he has. Note that the error message was 'no such device' which leads to the conclusion that he did not install the PortServer (When using the new serial drivers, which I would strongly recommend, you have to install a driver named PortServer or TTY Port Server or somesuch, else the devices won't be there). -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: csrfb@sb636.rivm.nl (Francois Bourgeois) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Adding SCSI datadisk accessable by multiple OSes Date: 10 Mar 1997 11:28:27 GMT Organization: RIVM Bilthoven, Netherlands Message-ID: <5g0r8r$fg8@mississippi.rivm.nl> I have a problem configuring a second (2 GB) SCSI disk in my NS 3.3 on Intel machine. It has already an 1 GB SCSI disk with multiple partitions and OS's on it. I want my computer to be able to run NS3.3, DOS and NT (and maybe a fourth later on) and therefor I tried to initialize the second disk as a datadisk, accessable by al these OSes. First I created 4 partitions on the disk with DOS fdisk (and later on with NEXTSTEP fdisk too). After that I wrote a label to the disk with the 'disk' utility because newfs wouldn't make a filesystem. Eventually I made the filesystem with newfs (default parameters). Eventually I was able to mount the filesystem, but after entering an entry in /etc/fstab and rebooting the boottime mount failed AND the label was gone. Only after this, I read the NextAnswers doc# 1533 "Initializing and Partitioning Big Disks". This doc stated that there is a bug in the 3.2 (and 3.3 ?) version of /usr/etc/disk and that one should make an entry in the /etc/disktab. So I followed the recipe in NA doc#1533: 1. low level format (did this with Adaptec SCSI utilities because sdform didn't work; something like REQUEST SENSE failed). This worked. 2. Run /usr/etc/scsimodes to obtain the actual disk parameters. This worked: 512 bytes/sector, IBM DORS-32160 WA6A5U5Z disk, etc. 3. Create an entry in /etc/disktab. I defined 4 partitions with sizes of 800, 500, 500 and 200 MB respectively. Only the first partition with the i-flag (i.e. 'run newsfs on this partition'). I carefully made sure that the sum of the 4 partitions and the frontporch was equal to the number of sectors reported by scsimodes. When running newfs it still reports that about 350 sectors in the last cylinder are unallocated. 4. Write a label to the disk and initialize the disk. Worked well 5. Make an extra entry in /etc/fstab (in my case with /dev/sd2a). Worked well, that is: at boottime NEXTSTEP registers sd2a, sd2b, sd2c and sd2d and mounts sd2a. But when I want to access the disk from DOS (fdisk) it tells me that there are no partitions. So I suspect that the partitions in /etc/distab are something completely different from the fdisk partitions (?). Questions: - Is it possible to configure a disk as datadisk with multiple partitions (different OSses) where each partition is accessable by its own OS ? - Should I use fdisk for this datadisk or for bootable disks only ? On one NS machine I could create partitions on the second disk, but on another NS machine it says 'Bogus information in BIOS' when running fdisk as 'fdisk /dev/rsd1h'. - If I should use fdisk, how can I garantee that the sizes of the fdisk-partitions correspond to the sizes specified in disktab. - How do the partitions mentioned in the /dev/sd... manual page relate to DOS-style partitions of fdisk? - I alwalys thought that the DOS-style partitiontable was in the first sector of the disk. How does this relate to the 'front-porch' of 320 sectors that NA doc#1533 is talking about ? I have tried to understand all the partition related stuff from several doc's in the NEXT website. Maybe you have the idea that I still don't have a good idea of it. Then you are probably right. Who can help! Not only with recipes, but above all to make me understand it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Francois Bourgeois, postbak 1 | F.Bourgeois@rivm.nl Centre for Substances and Risk assessment (CSR) | MIME is OK Risk Assessment Division | voice ++31 30 2742962 P.O.Box 1, 3720 BA BILTHOVEN, the Netherlands | fax ++31 30 2744401 RIVM - National Institute of Public Health and the Environment
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost/DO through firewall? Date: 10 Mar 97 08:31:26 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar10083126@howard.one.net> References: <5frm1s$mst@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com> <5ft168$pbc@sps1.phys.vt.edu> In-reply-to: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu's message of 9 Mar 1997 00:44:56 -0000 In article <5ft168$pbc@sps1.phys.vt.edu>, nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) writes: In article <5ftgcu$edr@news.digifix.com>, sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > By the same token... anyone able to tell me what ports/ packet > types need to be blocked at my firewall to prevent off-site > NXHost snooping? Somebody told me port 2453, TCP. I'd guess that's correct: howard:/Users/scott> lsof -p 21 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF INODE/NAME nmserver 21 root cwd VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 0r VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 1r VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 2r VDIR 6, 0 2048 2 / (/dev/sd0a) nmserver 21 root 3u unix 0x1071be8c 0x0 ->(none) nmserver 21 root 4u inet 0x1012c0c0 0x0 TCP *:2453 ^^^^ nmserver 21 root 5u inet 0x101408cc 0x0 TCP 192.42.172.1:2453->192.42.172.2:2768 Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Martin Oettle Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wanted: Disktab - entry Date: 10 Mar 1997 14:06:03 GMT Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Message-ID: <5g14gb$36h@n.ruf.uni-freiburg.de> Hi, I'm looking for a Disktab-entry for an IBM DCAS 34300 Ultra SCSI - 3 HardDisk. Can somebody help me? Thanx in advance Ciao Martin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wiedner@nxcb01.cern.ch (Ulrich Wiedner) Subject: Black Color Monitor Replacement Message-ID: <E6u61o.818@news.cern.ch> Keywords: monitor Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:34:35 GMT Hi everybody, My black FIMI Monitor for my Color NeXTstation just died and I want to replace it with another (non-NeXT) monitor. Now I was just reading in a Sony manual that e.g. the Sony 17SE2T monitor goes into power-saving mode if it receives no signals on the vertical and horizontal synchronization. But with the NeXTstation there are no extra synchronisation signals, just RGB. Does this mean I cannot use one of these modern monitors, because they will automatically go into power-saving mode? Does anyone have experience with this or see a solution? I'd also be grateful for any recommendations of specific model/brand names of 17" monitors that work well with a color NeXTstation. Thanks...Ulrich
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 10 Mar 1997 15:57:29 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > You don't agree that it's easier to understand a complex system like INN > if it's generally set up the way the documention suggests? That's true. I don't agree with that as long as the original documentation is as twisted as is the case with INN. To me, surviving this "documentation" and its concepts seemed a bit like a initiation rite ;-) Note that "out.going" is a proposal from the FAQ and NOT an "official" setting. On some issues, the FAQ breaks explicitly with the ways the INN docs suggest: so it's recommended that all overview files are stored in directories separated from the article directories whereas the original docs intend to put them into the article directories. OTOH, if you put them into different directories, then there is no need to have a dot at the beginning of the name; but that wasn't changed by the FAQ's proposal. What I want to point out is that the INN documentation stems from various sources and is quite inconsistent. This inconsistency is confusing IMHO, and I tried to change that a bit. So there are a lot of paths in PersonalINN which are NOT the "standard" paths of INN, and the overview files for instance are called "overview" and NOT ".overview". > How much more intuitive is it to call something "outgoing" instead of > "out.going"? To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" > I have no problems with doing that-- having the INN directory look like > a wrapper is a good idea. My point was more that I've changed some pathname conventions with this. > Again, I don't want to get into a debate over language issues. If you > wanted to translate INN into German, that would have been very nice for > German-speaking people. Well, this would have been too much work, as I also wanted the English speaking community to be able to use PersonalINN, so it would have meant two versions (this is always a problem with projects that arise from NEXTTOYOU but shall be donated to the international public). As a matter of fact, with smaller projects (like an upcoming MailTIFF solution), I have begun to completely localize the UNIX programs involved. Concerning documentation, English speaking people have the manpage then, German speaking people have NEXTTOYOU. > Where are you getting the "hundreds of article directories" from? > > There are the big-8 top-level newsgroup hierarchies (comp, talk, news, > alt, and so forth), plus one for each foreign language ("de" for German > , "fr" for French, etc), possibly plus any local groups. Ahem, I've overdone that a bit ;-) However, in Germany we have a LOT more German top level hierarchies than just ".de" (about 10, I think) In my PersonalINN articles directory, I have 17 top level domains, and that's just a selection of what could be... > The whole purpose of the daily report is to _summarize_ those log files > in an intelligent fashion, and display them in a format that easier to > read and understand. Well, all that people have to do would be to delete the "nomail" entry in crontab. It's mentioned in the installation instructions you could do that if you wanted to receive the report. It's just that I think that casual users will only be disturbed by getting e-mail every night because of one more program they installed. > Some are-- but what happens if the expiry gets bogged down and fails to > complete within a 24-hour period? > > You're gonna run out of disk space on the drive with the spool sooner > rather than later, and you're not going to get much warning about it > until it happens Not true. You get an e-mail if only 50 MB (or something like this) are left on your disk > Well, I hope you'll take this as some constructive criticism, and not as > an argument.... That's fine with me. I'll read your posting again when it comes to PersonalINN 2.0. It's just that I love to break conventions if I don't regard them as rational. Otherwise I would use Windows :-) Bye Uli ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: Dana Shadrick <dana@sgsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zip Boot Disk Date: 10 Mar 1997 17:55:09 GMT Organization: SGS Net Inc. Message-ID: <5g1htt$45m@chinx10.tpa.net> I'm currently using Safety Net to backup to tape. I recently tried to upgrade from NextStep 3.3 to 4.1 and it failed. In order to return to NS 3.3 I had to remove my disk with the root partition and place it in another computer running NextStep and then restore the old 3.3 system from tape. This worked but was a real hassle. I would like to be able to boot from a 100 meg Zip disk with Safety Net installed on it. I've got it to the point where I can boot to single user mode, but it won't come up in multi-user GUI mode. It seems to get hung up on driver configuration. I've tried to boot with config=Default and it can't find the Default configuration. The boot process gets further if I don't specify config=Default. I've copied all the required driver files to the Zip disk including the System.config file. If anyone has any insight on this it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Dana -- ================================================= Dana A.Shadrick http://www.sgsnet.com/ dana@sgsnet.com Phone: 847-733-9607 SGS Net Inc. Fax: 847-733-8973 =================================================
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:04:37 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> Hallo, when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. Andreas
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: TerminalProgram for initializing the Modem Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:07:07 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5g1ikb$hrl$2@lynet.de> Hello, I'm searching for a simple TerminalProgramm that just sends the entered characters to a serial port and shows incoming characters at the screen. I need something like that to set my modem to AutoAnswerMode. Does something like that exists and if yes, where do I find it? Thank you in advance! Andreas
From: fxrsg@arrakis (Richard S. Guse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Black Color Monitor Replacement Date: 10 Mar 1997 20:10:07 GMT Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network Message-ID: <5g1pqv$715@news.alaska.edu> References: <E6u61o.818@news.cern.ch> Ulrich Wiedner (wiedner@nxcb01.cern.ch) wrote: : My black FIMI Monitor for my Color NeXTstation just died and I want to : replace it with another (non-NeXT) monitor. Now I was just reading in a : Sony manual that e.g. the Sony 17SE2T monitor goes into power-saving mode : if it receives no signals on the vertical and horizontal synchronization. : But with the NeXTstation there are no extra synchronisation signals, just : RGB. Does this mean I cannot use one of these modern monitors, because : they will automatically go into power-saving mode? Does anyone have : experience with this or see a solution? I'd also be grateful for any : recommendations of specific model/brand names of 17" monitors that work : well with a color NeXTstation. We have a NeXT lab here in Fairbanks, Ak. We bought 5 new Ibm's to hook-up to our system, but the monitors for our slabs started going bad on us. So, we hooked up the monitors, and they work fine! (the monitors are 17" SyncMaster 17GLsi)'s. The screen size is smaller than on the 17" black next color monitors(~1 cm) (something we haven't figured out yet), but they work fine. To hook them up, we had to buy a special cable that hooked into the regular monitor port on the nexts, but hooked into the rgb jacks on the monitors. (the monitor hook-ups are: R,G,B,H/V). There is nothing written on the connector cables except an inset diamond, so I can't give you any help there. We haven't hooked them up to our two cubes, but our only NeXTDimension board died on us anyway. We've never had a problem with power saving mode, the new monitors seem to work just as the black NeXT monitors do (standard NeXT screen saving). Hope this helps! ->r ps. Just looked on the back, and it's a Samsung. (why don't they write those on the front? *smile* -- Physicist by Choice, #define SYSOP GOD Power corrupts. Absolute Mathematician by Accident, #define REALITY NULL power is kind of neat. CS student by Mistake, #include "universe.h" Brilliant by act of God, Poor by act of Congress... e-mail: fxrsg@Camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu
From: Charles Wiles <get_lost@all.spammers> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help] Installing/Booting DOS not on the first partition? Date: 10 Mar 1997 20:41:21 GMT Organization: Physics Teaching Course, Oxford Message-ID: <5g1rlh$n7m@news.ox.ac.uk> We have a Tecra 720 notebook, with a 2GB EIDE hard drive which is currently divided into four partitions: Partition Type (ID) Size (MB) Operating System 1 NeXT (a7) 975 NEXTSTEP 2 Linux (83) 717 Linux 3 Linux swap (82) 100 [Linux swap] 4 DOS 16bit (06) 322 [Unformatted] We used the Linux fdisk to set up the above. We have Lilo working happily booting both OS's. Here's the catch: someone now wants me to install DOS (any DOS) on the machine. DOS fdisk sees the fourth partition but will only let me initialise it as an "Extended" (ie not bootable) DOS partition. I have been told by some people that DOS can only be booted from the first partition of a disk; others have told me it could work with Lilo. So, can I (and if so how do I) safely initialise the 4th partition, install and then boot DOS from it? I'd be most grateful for any help or advice, especially from someone who's already done something similar. (Could you please use email, as I can't read news on a regular basis?). I really don't want to have to blow away and reinstall our NEXTSTEP and Linux set-ups on this machine if I can avoid it! :-) Thanks, charles _______________________________________________________________________ Charles Wiles, NeXT/Unix Systems Manager, Physics Practical Course Dept of Physics NAPL, University of Oxford UK charles@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk
From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: determining processor Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:10:42 +0500 Organization: Merriam-Webster Inc. Message-ID: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway of determining what kind of processor is in it without operating on it? ---Amy West
From: font@MCS.COM (Font) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 16:46:26 -0600 Organization: MCSNet Services Message-ID: <5g2302$nb9$1@Venus.mcs.net> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there >something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line >appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this >under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. This is a function of your shell. If you're using NeXT csh, you can get emacs or vi-style command history editing with something like set editmode = vi (or set editmode = emacs) I like zsh, and to get a vi-style history editing (something like ksh's), one would use a command more like this bindkey -v Similar commands are available for ksh, bash (set -o vi), tcsh, etc. If you don't need visual-style editing, you can use the "!" history mechanism in csh. See the man page for details. For instance, to replace "abc" with "def" in the second to last command, one might type something like !-2:s/abc/def although that might seem a lot of trouble for short command lines... -- font@mcs.net Wishes are like dishes.
From: francis@az.stratus.com (Francis Hartojo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 22:44:33 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <5g22sh$3ah@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> In article <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de>, <andreas@lynet.de> wrote: >Hallo, > >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there >something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line >appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this >under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. Hi, I think that depends on what shell you're running. If you're using csh, then there're a bunch of shell edit commands you can use (e.g., ^, !!, etc.). If you're using tcsh, then normally the up-arrow key gives you the previous command. The same if you're using bash. For ksh, you can use either vi or emacs key bindings to access the commands history. In other words, it depends on what shell you're using. (c: Hope that helps a bit. -- +------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ | Francis Hartojo | Ph.: 602-852-3195 [Speaking for myself, | | Stratus Computer, Inc. | 800-294-1344 x3195 nobody else.] | | francis@az.stratus.com | Fax: 602-852-3099 |
From: John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:01:02 -0500 Organization: Alverno Administrative Services Message-ID: <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) Thanks, John Haver
From: John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I HATE NS Installs Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:20:42 -0500 Organization: Alverno Administrative Services Message-ID: <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My Adaptec 1542 SCSI Card finally died and that was what I used to install Nextstep 3.3 for Intel. I have an Adaptec 2940U SCSI card that we had just recently purchased so I decided to give that a try. It bombed with the driver on the CD ROM so I downloaded the 3.37 version. That got me past phase 1 of the install. Now when NS reboots to continue the installation, it asks me for a floppy disk with the driver on it. I insert the exact same diskette that got me past the initial problem and start getting BIOS READ errors from the floppy drive. I'm convinced you can't win with NS... it's so nice after it is installed, but you can't get it installed. Any suggestions (I already tried copying the drivers to the hard disk as mentioned in NextAnswer 2107 -- that bombed on a different error) would be greatly, extremely appreciated. Worst case, can anyone recommend a currently available SCSI card that works with the 3.3 NSFIP CD that works without all the extra work required? Thanks, John
From: GehleSoftware@t-online.de (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: 5 Mar 1997 19:01:15 GMT Organization: Gehle Software Message-ID: <5fkftr$dvt@news00.btx.dtag.de> References: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Hi, CDDesigner is a software that allows to write CDRs with NeXTstep. It is easy to use and you can build the CDs via drag n drop. CDDesigner is running on NeXT and Intel and supports writers by Yamaha, HP, Phillips, Kodak and Grundig. For more information meet: http://www.ip.cubenet.de/gehle A free beta is available at: ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/cdrom/ Carsten Gehle
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: determining processor Date: 11 Mar 1997 00:03:29 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g27gh$ke8@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Cc: awest@m-w.com In <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Amy West wrote: > We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. > It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway > of determining what kind of processor is in it without > operating on it? > > ---Amy West > that's made easy by the fact that NeXT was only shipping motorola 68040 processors on the NeXTstation line. NS2.2 puts it at a manufacture date of around 1992, so most likely that '040 was runing at 25MHz. My early 1991 NeXTstation had NS2.0 and my late 1991 NeXTstation ran NS2.1. NS3.0 came out, I think december 1992, or january 1993. remember? we all had to run out and buy CD-ROM drives. I don't remember exactly when 33MHz came in, but the box would say turbo on it somewhere, one would guess. It could be a turbo. check the top corner of the case above the floppy drive where it says NeXTstation. see if it says turbo. if so than you have 33MHz. If you are planning to remain at NS2.2 for the OS, and want a set of printed docs, I have a spare set, like new, I might be willing to sell. I would suggest upgrading to at least 3.2 however, but you will need a CD-ROM drive. 2.2 was the last OS version on floppies. many many floppies... If you have specific questions though, feel free to ask. -rick
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: determining processor Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:50:27 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gn99t3O00iWm0EC9U0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> In-Reply-To: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Mar-97 determining processor by Amy West@m-w.com > We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. > It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway > of determining what kind of processor is in it without > operating on it? It's going to have a Motorola 68040 processor running at either 25 or 33 MHz, depending on whether the machine is a Turbo or not. The 'hostinfo' command can provide more detailed information (as can 'netstat' and 'vm_stat', depending on what you're interested in).... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jchan@apk.net (Jerome Chan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:47:46 -0500 Organization: TofuSoft Message-ID: <jchan-1003971847470001@as4-1.apk.net> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> In article <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de>, andreas@lynet.de wrote: >Hallo, > >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there >something like just pressing the CursorUp-Key and the last line >appears like under OS/2 in a commandline-Session? If I try this >under OpenStep, "[A" appears and nothing else happens. > >Andreas You need to configure your shell to do this. I'm not sure if csh does this. --- The Evil Tofu (Only Human)
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: TerminalProgram for initializing the Modem Date: 11 Mar 1997 00:09:59 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g27sn$ke8@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5g1ikb$hrl$2@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5g1ikb$hrl$2@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > I'm searching for a simple TerminalProgramm that > just sends the entered characters to a serial port > and shows incoming characters at the screen. I need > something like that to set my modem to AutoAnswerMode. > Does something like that exists and if yes, where do I find it? > Thank you in advance! > > Andreas > unless I'm missing something, I would use the program "tip", as included in NeXTSTEP and as explained in the man pages. Run from Terminal.app -rick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: determining processor Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E6uw5M.6u4@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 01:58:34 GMT References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com>, Amy West <awest@m-w.com> wrote: >We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. >It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway >of determining what kind of processor is in it without >operating on it? > If it's a slab then it has a 68040. If the slab is a "Turbo", then it's running at 33MHz. If not then it's at 25MHz. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: kristopher jon magnusson <kris@planetary.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: testing Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 20:58:15 -0700 Organization: the planetary network Message-ID: <3324D857.443B@planetary.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is a test
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 10 Mar 1997 22:10:27 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.858060278@shellx> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: >when I'm working in a Termnal-Session and I want to >repeat the last command (may be correct a mistake), do >I have to work with MARK, ALT-C, ALT-V, or is there (...) In the csh for NextStep 3.3 (and some other versions) you can do this: set editmode emacs to get some editing and recall abilities, but in this case it uses control keys rather than the arrow keys. Other shells like zsh, tcsh, bash, emacs etc have similar abilities; perhaps it's time to try a new shell? cheers, -sam
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 07:05:21 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g2sna$pg6@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Did You took the V3.37 driver in the second path too? You must have a disk with /private/Drivers/i386/Adaptec2940.configure (something like that) and the link. Someone stated that the path of the link is enough where the configure files should stay. Henry
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I HATE NS Installs Date: 11 Mar 1997 14:16:08 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5g3pf8$dbc$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> References: <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> Cc: jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org In <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> John Haver wrote: > My Adaptec 1542 SCSI Card finally died and that was what I used to > install Nextstep 3.3 for Intel. I have an Adaptec 2940U SCSI card that > we had just recently purchased so I decided to give that a try. > <snip> > Now when NS reboots to continue the installation, it asks me for a > floppy disk with the driver on it. I insert the exact same diskette > that got me past the initial problem and start getting BIOS READ errors > from the floppy drive. I'm having a similar problem: I've got an Adaptec 2940W... after the drivers are loaded (I've downloaded the version 3.37 Adaptec driver) I get: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make sure the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information. (above message duplicated) /private/etc/rc.cdrom: test: argument expected CDROM boot procedure complete Please wait until its safe to turn off computer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've got a Pentium 133, Triton chipset MB, AMIBIOS 10/10/94 PSI437 V1.7 1996-02-08. I'm using a venerable Seagate ST1480N on SCSI ID #1, a Matshita CD on SCSI ID#4. Previously I had a Conner drive on SCSI ID #0, with the same results. I really, really want to get NEXTSTEP loaded, but I've hit the wall here. I just don't know what else to try. I have no problem loading and running MS-Windows on the same hardware. Any help is vastly appreciated. Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /.OpenStep/.mailalias Date: 11 Mar 1997 15:33:36 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5g3u0g$fpv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Where does user 'root' store its .mailalias-- under 'me' that is in /me/.OpenStep/? It won't accept a .mailalias file therein either! Thanks a lot! Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 11:11:37 -0500 Organization: University d'/of Ottawa Message-ID: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. What I would like to know is: Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the regular Users/Developers Package? Since there is no reference to "Academic Bundle" in what we received, I am wondering whether the Academic Bundle is simply an "Academic price" for the usual developer's bundle. Is this true? Thanks, -Alan : Alan Kelm kelm@aix1.uottawa.ca : : Unix system technical support (613) 562-5800 ext 3527 : : Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. :
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Help] Diagnose Frequent Kernel Panic in NS3.3p1 on Turbo Cube Date: 9 Mar 1997 20:48:18 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5fv7mi$cq@unity.westfalen.de> References: <5fffnk$7od@library.airnews.net> Hi, it looks like a memory failure. May be you changed them or the slots are dirty or something what could cause a connection problem for the memory. I have had the same on a TurboColor and I cleaned the slots. Since then the machine is running fine. peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: connecting CDROM to NeXT (OpenStep) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:00:24 -0500 Organization: University d'/of Ottawa Message-ID: <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm starting to work with a NeXT Cube that has recently been upgraded to OpenStep 4.1. I have a CDROM drive which I would like to use (to install software). I connect the drive to the Cube and reboot. When I login I get the message: "The SCSI disk is unreadable" (This happens with the OpenStep distribution CD's as well as with the Mathematica 3.0 CD) Is there something I have to do on the software side to get the drive to be recognized properly? The Manuals say that the NeXT hardware automatically detects the drive. The same SCSI drive works fine when connected to a SGI Indy Unix system. I'd appreciate any suggestions of where I could look for more help. -Alan -- : Alan Kelm kelm@aix1.uottawa.ca : : Unix system technical support (613) 562-5800 ext 3527 : : Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, Canada. :
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: 3.3/intel install problem Date: 11 Mar 1997 17:38:16 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5g45a8$nf8$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> greetings etherial composite mind, I've got an Adaptec 2940W... after the drivers are loaded (I've downloaded the version 3.37 Adaptec driver) I get: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI or IDE card setup to make sure the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information. (above message duplicated) /private/etc/rc.cdrom: test: argument expected CDROM boot procedure complete Please wait until its safe to turn off computer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've got a Pentium 133, Triton chipset MB, AMIBIOS 10/10/94 PSI437 V1.7 1996-02-08. I'm using a venerable Seagate ST1480N on SCSI ID #1, a Matshita CD on SCSI ID#4. Previously I had a Conner drive on SCSI ID #0, with the same results. I really, really want to get NEXTSTEP loaded, but I've hit the wall here. I just don't know what else to try. I have no problem loading and running MS-Windows on the same hardware. Any help is vastly appreciated; please cc: email. Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: bisk@4dcomm.com (Stephen D. Biskis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing legal size on HP4+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 17:32:26 GMT Organization: 4D Global Internet Services Message-ID: <5g44vb$5q@news.4dcomm.com> Having trouble getting legal sized docs to print on an Intel box running NS3.3 connected to an HP 4 Plus w/6MB. The users (they're remote so I can't know for sure) have changed the HP's config to "Legal Size". I changed the default paper size to "Legal" in Preferences and can see that Apps now generate legal sized pages (via Preview). But every job that goes to the printer causes: ERROR: Configuration Error Offending Command: SetPageDevice STACK: The HP won't print a thing. It will print a legal-sized test page if asked via config menu, though. What bone-headed oversight have I made ??? Thanks, da bisk
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 16:58:03 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> In article <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> writes: > We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT > hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. > What I would like to know is: > Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the > regular Users/Developers Package? No. You basically get both bits in one package. There is no "developer bundle" - the real world buys both bits seperatly - the result being that they get two boxes, and maybe the odd extra manual, but nothing you're going to miss. Academic Bundle is (and has been) one of the greatest bargins going. $an
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 13:11:48 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un > Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >> You don't agree that it's easier to understand a complex system like INN >> if it's generally set up the way the documention suggests? > > That's true. I don't agree with that as long as the original documentation > is as twisted as is the case with INN. To me, surviving this "documentation" > and its concepts seemed a bit like a initiation rite ;-) That's somewhat true, but INN is one of the larger and more complex systems around-- it's not like installing a new version of gawk or some such. > Note that "out.going" is a proposal from the FAQ and NOT an "official" > setting. INN 1.5.x refers to "out.going" in the manpages for archive, buffchan, filechan, innxbatch, innxmit, newsfeeds, and nntpsend. > On some issues, the FAQ breaks explicitly with the ways the INN docs > suggest: > so it's recommended that all overview files are stored in directories > separated from the article directories whereas the original docs intend to > put them into the article directories. Having the overview files be in a seperate tree is a performance optimization that was discovered only after the INN 1.4.x docs were written. In general, the INN FAQ should be considered to override the documentation which was shipped with INN itself. [ ... ] >> How much more intuitive is it to call something "outgoing" instead of >> "out.going"? > > To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". And you'd have > immidiately the questions of those who are trying to understand and not only > accept things: "Why is it this way?" Well, I was happy with the explanation given, but it's clear that your preferences are otherwise. Shrug.... [ ... ] >> The whole purpose of the daily report is to _summarize_ those log files >> in an intelligent fashion, and display them in a format that easier to >> read and understand. > > Well, all that people have to do would be to delete the "nomail" entry in > crontab. It's mentioned in the installation instructions you could do that > if you wanted to receive the report. It's just that I think that casual > users will only be disturbed by getting e-mail every night because of one > more program they installed. Maybe. My point was more that the daily report is easier to read and see what's going on than it is to peruse the logfiles. >> Some are-- but what happens if the expiry gets bogged down and fails to >> complete within a 24-hour period? >> >> You're gonna run out of disk space on the drive with the spool sooner >> rather than later, and you're not going to get much warning about it >> until it happens > > Not true. You get an e-mail if only 50 MB (or something like this) are left > on your disk That's what I'm referring to. You'll fill up your drive until it gets full enough for innwatch to throttle the innd. Consider someone using PersonalINN for a (relatively) few newsgroups and is getting a very small feed-- for the sake of example, around 5 MB of news per day. And they've got the news spool on a 1 GB drive which was roughly half-full. If the expiry fails for some reason (maybe the active file got hosed, or whatever), you're going to gradually fill that disk up with 450 - 500 MB worth of articles over the next two months or so before you get an explicit warning that a problem happened. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Message-ID: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:54:55 GMT I've got a Seagate Barracuda 4LP ST34371W drive that has had it's block size changed to 2048. When I change it back to 512, it still leaves the sector count at only 2million. How can I convince it that it's not a 1gig drive, but that it's actually a 4gig drive and should have over 8million sectors? -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: jei2@aol.com (JEI2) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Business survey information needed Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:48:08 GMT Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Message-ID: <19970311194800.OAA10157@ladder01.news.aol.com> I am looking for business informational surveys that provide information about a company's computer database, o/s, servers, and if the company has plans to switch databases. Forward any information to jei2@aol.com
From: sanguish@digifix.digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: determining processor Date: 11 Mar 1997 20:28:10 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g4f8q$d63@news.digifix.com> References: <3323EC32.7933@m-w.com> <gn99t3O00iWm0EC9U0@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <gn99t3O00iWm0EC9U0@andrew.cmu.edu> On 03/10/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 10-Mar-97 determining >processor by Amy West@m-w.com >> We're using a NeXT with limited documentation. >> It's a "pizza box" station running NS 2.2. Anyway >> of determining what kind of processor is in it without >> operating on it? > >It's going to have a Motorola 68040 processor running at either 25 or 33 >MHz, depending on whether the machine is a Turbo or not. > >The 'hostinfo' command can provide more detailed information (as can >'netstat' and 'vm_stat', depending on what you're interested in).... > You could also just log in and do a Workspace->Info -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:16:55 GMT Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax Va. Sender: tfs----@gravity.science.gmu.edu (remove dashes to reply) Message-ID: <5fpf1n$d5n@portal.gmu.edu> References: <199702262157.QAA13069@peak.org> <?> <331d092f.0@192.33.12.30> <5fmnj1$e03$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Summary: /etc/motd In article <5fmnj1$e03$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, Randall W. Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> wrote: >On 03/04/97, jon klein wrote: >>Timothy J Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: >> >>: When I have telnetted to various sites I have see greetings (one >>: line) that come on before the 'login' prompt, such as >> >>: "Welcome to telnet.com, login as 'guest' to look around" >> >>: I am wondering where this is defined. I know it can be done under >>: NS because I have seen NS machines do it, but I haven't found a >>: single reference to how it can be done. >> >>Most of the sites that are doing this with tcp wrappers, which you >>can find at coast.cs.purdue.edu in pub/tools/unix. tcp wrappers is >>just about an essential security tool in my opinion, and plus you >>get features like the welcome message thrown in for free. It's >>all in the tcp wrappers docs. >> Tcp Wrappers do "banners" for messages for services that are denied not for stuff that is supposed to work. The file you want is a simple ascii text file called "/etc/motd". Put whatever you want in it, and if you don't want to see the contents, put a file called ".hushlogin" (that's empty basicly, it just has to exist.) in your home directory. Tim -- ________________________________________________________________ tfs@vampire.science.gmu.edu (NeXTmail, MIME) Tim Scanlon tfs@epic.org (PGP key aval.) crypto is good Play Mystic: adsl-122.cais.com 3000
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: 11 Mar 1997 21:43:57 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g4jmt$f57@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <5fkftr$dvt@news00.btx.dtag.de> Cc: GehleSoftware@t-online.de In <5fkftr$dvt@news00.btx.dtag.de> Carsten Gehle wrote: > CDDesigner is running on NeXT and Intel and supports writers by > Yamaha, HP, Phillips, Kodak and Grundig. > > Carsten Gehle > the docs for CDDesigner say that only the adaptec SCSI boards (if I remember right) are supported on intel, any plans for supporting the buslogic board in my object.station? -Rick
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:28:50 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I configuered an x86 OS4.1 system as 2 layer Master Netinfo Server. A Win NT Host in the same class c subnet is connected to the ethernet. DNS is not running and the NT Host is not included in Netinfo or etc/hosts. If i use ping with ip name i get a bus error. If i use ping with ip number and then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i cause a kernel trap. I also cause a kernel trap if i try to ftp or telnet to the OpenStep Host from the NT machine. Everything works fine if i enter the NT machine into Netinfo. I also installed Samba/Rumba and exported a few services. I can access the vie smbclient but the NT Host does not recognise the Openstep host. I can access NT shares from the Openstep Host via Rumba or Samba. What is wrong here? --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Shadowed passwords and NIS Date: 11 Mar 1997 22:20:47 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g4lrv$lot@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> We run SunOS on our NIS server, and it shadows passwords (the real ones are in passwd.adjunct). Can I convince a NEXTSTEP 3.3 client to get passwords from passwd.adjunct instead of passwd without exposing them to the world? ab
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:47:45 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <En9SwVm00iWY4DniY2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> In-Reply-To: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 what is "Academic Bundle"? .. by "Dr. Alan Kelm"@cms.math > We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT > hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. > What I would like to know is: > Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the > regular Users/Developers Package? The software you get is exactly the same, but you get the paper manuals when you pay full price instead of getting the Academic version. Also, the Academic Bundle has a different license which forbids its use for the development of commercial software-- you need to purchase NS/Developer for that.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:50:43 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <kn9Vc3i00iWp0I8Jk0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> In-Reply-To: <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 Re: PersonalINN posting pro.. by Uli Zappe@tallowcross.un >> INN 1.5.x refers to "out.going" in the manpages for archive, buffchan, >> filechan, innxbatch, innxmit, newsfeeds, and nntpsend. > > It does so only if that's how you configured it. Nope-- that's how the package ships before doing any configuration. Try looking at a clean install from the .tar.gz file. > Note that as soon as you enter FOO.GOING as your outgoing directory in the > configure file, all the manpages you mention will refer to FOO.GOING as > well. While this is true, the default configuration uses "out.going" and you have to explicitly change it to something else. >>> To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". >>> And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying >>> to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" >> >> Well, I was happy with the explanation given, > > You were??? More or less. I remember reading about the way the news spool is set up from $SPOOL, and I thought it was mildly clever to put one or two special directories there which were known to not be newsgroups because they had a "." in their name. There's ample convention in the past for files with a "." to be treated specially-- consider the whole concept of file extensions, or the convention under Unix that files starting with a "." are hidden files. Until you changed the default and gave your reasons why, I would never have thought about it further. >> but it's clear that your preferences are otherwise. > > What do you refer to? The "natural" part or the "questions" part? That you don't find "out.going" natural-- I regard configuring INN in some other way to reflect a personal preference of yours. But maybe it's just that I have a higher tolerance for minor inconsistancies when I'm dealing with a somewhat complex and arcane software package like INN. > Concerning the latter, it is something you surely will consider when > publishing a program you'll have to support... Tell me about it. :-) I stopped maintaining Angband more than a year ago, and I still get email from people using older versions. "One mistake, and you get to support it for a lifetime..." -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 21:59:35 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Qn9VkLK00iWp0I8MI0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 Bug in TCPIP stack? by Konstantin Wiesel@pollux > I configuered an x86 OS4.1 system as 2 layer Master Netinfo Server. A Win > NT Host in the same class c subnet is connected to the ethernet. DNS is > not running and the NT Host is not included in Netinfo or /etc/hosts. Well, if your network has got an Internet IP address assigned to it, you should get DNS working. Even if you don't, it's still a good idea to at least get a hosts table going. However, that doesn't mean the system should fail without them-- you might want to give a slightly more detailed report to bug_next@next.com (or use /NextDeveloper/Demos/BugNeXT.app). > If i use ping with ip name i get a bus error. Ping itself bus errors, right? Hmm. That may just be a bug with ping and/or the resolver libraries. > If i use ping with ip number and then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i cause > a kernel trap. I also cause a kernel trap if i try to ftp or telnet to the > OpenStep Host from the NT machine. That's no good-- definitely report this to NeXT. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Shadowed passwords and NIS Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:02:56 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4n9VnUS00iWp0I8Mo0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5g4lrv$lot@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <5g4lrv$lot@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 Shadowed passwords and NIS by Allen Braunsdorf@purdue. > We run SunOS on our NIS server, and it shadows passwords > (the real ones are in passwd.adjunct). Can I convince a > NEXTSTEP 3.3 client to get passwords from passwd.adjunct > instead of passwd without exposing them to the world? I think so, yes. With a little text massaging, you could combine the /etc/passwd and /etc/passwd.adjunct into the standard format to some filename and have it visible only by root, and then niload this file into NetInfo without having the encrypted passwords be world visible. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: spamblock.jimmilz@worldnet.att.net (Jim Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 05:44:29 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <332641a1.4099545@netnews.worldnet.att.net> References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) wrote: > >I've got a Seagate Barracuda 4LP ST34371W drive that has had it's >block size changed to 2048. When I change it back to 512, it still >leaves the sector count at only 2million. How can I convince it that >it's not a 1gig drive, but that it's actually a 4gig drive and should >have over 8million sectors? > >-- >Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College >707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. >707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 ><fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx> After issuing the command to set the blocksize to 512 (mode page 03h bytes 12 and 13), are you sending the FORMAT UNIT command to the drive? Regards, Jim Miller Chicagoland
From: sanguish@digifix.digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: 12 Mar 1997 06:31:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5g5ijr$hmk@news.digifix.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <En9SwVm00iWY4DniY2@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <En9SwVm00iWY4DniY2@andrew.cmu.edu> On 03/11/97, Charles William Swiger wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-Mar-97 what is >"Academic Bundle"? .. by "Dr. Alan Kelm"@cms.math >> We recently purchased the Academic Bundle of OpenStep 4.1 for NeXT >> hardware. It included both a Users and Developers CD. >> What I would like to know is: >> Are the contents of the Academic Bundle any different from the >> regular Users/Developers Package? > >The software you get is exactly the same, but you get the paper >manuals when you pay full price instead of getting the Academic >version. Although currently it appears there are not paper references available for OpenStep classes.... I REALLY wish there was.. >Also, the Academic Bundle has a different license which >forbids its use for the development of commercial software-- you >need to purchase NS/Developer for that.... > Thats probably the biggest difference that people need to note. If you qualify and accept those terms, the paper documentation that is available (see.. http://www.next.com/Pubs/PubsCatalog.html) can be bought much cheaper than the full version.. I'm really hoping that Apple/NeXT is going to have a big pricing announcement at InternetWorld.... this in an attempt to thwart the bad PR this week (black Friday). -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: liao@il.us.swissbank.com (David Liao) Subject: remote login Message-ID: <1997Mar12.001834.16547@il.us.swissbank.com> Sender: root@il.us.swissbank.com (Operator) Organization: Swiss Bank Corporation CM&T Division Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 00:18:34 GMT hi, I am looking for a way to login into a machine remotely for a user after the machine is rebooted. I am not talking about "rsh" or "rlogin", but the graphic login display... Is there a system script that allows you to type through the graphic login display as if the user is in front of his machine? Please send your recommendation to my address: david_liao@il.us.swissbank.com Thanks David
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 12 Mar 1997 09:09:41 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5g5rsl$138@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <kn9Vc3i00iWp0I8Jk0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > It does so only if that's how you configured it. > > Nope-- that's how the package ships before doing any configuration. Try > looking at a clean install from the .tar.gz file. OK. What I meant was, it's in the config file. You may, of course, leave the default value unchanged. But I'd still call this a configuration (i.e. a conscious decision, in this case to NOT change the value) > >>> To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". > >>> And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying > >>> to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" > >> > >> Well, I was happy with the explanation given, > > > > You were??? Ooops, misunderstanding! :-) I thought you meant MY explanations and was wondering... ;-) Of course, the explanation you mention is sufficient. My point was, German readers of NEXTTOYOU won't read that but ask ME to explain... > That you don't find "out.going" natural-- I regard configuring INN in > some other way to reflect a personal preference of yours. I can't argue with that. Then again, is there any action in the world that doesn't reflect the overall preferences of the actor? ;-) Bye Uli -- ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I HATE NS Installs Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:20:31 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g63hv$9nu@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> <5g3pf8$dbc$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> alanf@izzy.net wrote: : In <3324974A.3262@alverno.ssfhs.org> John Haver wrote: : I'm having a similar problem: : I've got an Adaptec 2940W... after the drivers are loaded (I've downloaded : the version 3.37 Adaptec driver) I get: : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ : fdisk: Bogus disk information in BIOS. You probably need to check your SCSI : or IDE card setup to make sure the BIOS is enabled. If the BIOS is disabled, : NEXTSTEP will be unable to get proper disk information. : (above message duplicated) Hello, as the reason for your problem isn't quite clear, first check your Adaptec card settings by pressing Ctrl-A on (BIOS-)boot up when the message tells you to do so. Then check in the Adaptec options if the BIOS support is (properly) enabled. Assuming that it is and there are not (e.g.) two (E)IDE disks 'before' the SCSI-drive, fdisk should work. If you can, also have a look into the driver .config directory to see, if your cards PCI-ID is in the list of the drivers autoconfig id's. Add it to Default.table and/or Instance0.table, if it's not there. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: jork@dvs-hannover.de (Ralf Jork) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Date: 12 Mar 1997 10:50:40 GMT Organization: DVS GmbH Hannover Message-ID: <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> Chris Osborn (fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us) wrote: : I've got a Seagate Barracuda 4LP ST34371W drive that has had it's : block size changed to 2048. When I change it back to 512, it still : leaves the sector count at only 2million. How can I convince it that : it's not a 1gig drive, but that it's actually a 4gig drive and should : have over 8million sectors? Set the appropriate number of blocks in the block descriptor for a Mode Select command (all 0 or 0xFF might work as well - depending from manufacturer and model). See the Seagate "Disc Drive ... Product Manual, Volume 2" for more info. -- Ralf.
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 08:23:35 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> And don't forget. You *must* have the developer kit because NS will not be supported in the near future, so You are on your own and in need for the develooper kit! Henry
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: 12 Mar 1997 11:44:14 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g64ue$9nu@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970311232127.331E-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel (kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de) wrote: : I configuered an x86 OS4.1 system as 2 layer Master Netinfo Server. A Win : NT Host in the same class c subnet is connected to the ethernet. DNS is : not running and the NT Host is not included in Netinfo or etc/hosts. If i : use ping with ip name i get a bus error. If i use ping with ip number and : then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i cause a kernel trap. I also cause a : kernel trap if i try to ftp or telnet to the OpenStep Host from the NT : machine. Everything works fine if i enter the NT machine into Netinfo. : I also installed Samba/Rumba and exported a few services. I can access the : vie smbclient but the NT Host does not recognise the Openstep host. I can : access NT shares from the Openstep Host via Rumba or Samba. What is wrong : here? I can confirm this observation. If there is no way to ask some nameservice for an IP-translation, there are core-dumps. It (usually) vanishes if it can ask a service (e.g. DNS), even if it doesn't get a name from it. Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Don McKinnon <Don.McKinnon@mail.house.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: I need software support in DC Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:38:05 -0500 Organization: U.S. House of Representatives Message-ID: <3326B1BD.B36@mail.house.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have no NeXT skills. I have a slab I've been using since 1990 and I need to hire someone to fix a few bugs that have accumulated: I can connect to Novell server, but I can't get printer connectivity. My memory seems to run out and crash everything. I need to have someone help me set up my modem. If its possible, I'd like to be able to connect to an NT server and to determine if I could run NeXT and Windows 95 from the same machine. If you or someone you know could help, please let me know what your hourly rate would be. Thanks and regards, Don McKinnon 202 225 2770
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: 12 Mar 1997 09:05:24 -0000 Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Message-ID: <5g5rkk$d0o@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> In article <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com>, Koplien@vnet.IBM.com wrote: > And don't forget. You *must* have the developer kit because NS will not be > supported in the near future, so You are on your own and in need for the > develooper kit! What gave you that idea?? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nathan Urban | Undergrad {CS,Physics,Math} | Virginia Tech nurban@vt.edu | {NeXT,MIME} mail welcome | http://nurban.campus.vt.edu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:41:41 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <En9gupa00iWUQ3m3so@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Mar-97 Re: what is "Academic Bundl.. by Koplien@vnet.IBM.com > And don't forget. You *must* have the developer kit because NS will not be > supported in the near future, so You are on your own and in need for the > develooper kit! References, please.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: stefanos@Vir.com (Stefanos Kiakas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to get the previous line in Terminal.app Date: 12 Mar 1997 10:24:25 -0500 Organization: Hookup Montreal, Internet Access Montreal. Message-ID: <5g6hr9$sjf@Vir.com> References: <5g1ifl$hrl$1@lynet.de> <sams.858060278@shellx> For csh, there is a description of how to do this in the NeXT FAQ. stef
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Our own sendmail is mailbombing us Date: 12 Mar 1997 15:53:48 GMT Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> We are running the stock sendmail in 3.3 on our Net-connected machine. Recently, there are several "problem" MTAs that don't like something about the way a delivery finishes, because they keep resending a message over and over and over and over, even though it was successfully received here the first time. The effect is like mailbombing. Culprits include relay-7.demo.co.uk, mailhost.worldnet.att.net, and some machine at InterNex.net. Has anyone else seen this, and if so, what is the solution? It's starting to drive us crazy, especially since mail from these locations tends to be unsolicited junk mail in the first place. -- Gregory H. Anderson | "I wander'd off by myself, In the Crystal Ball/Star Gazer | mystical moist night-air, and from Anderson Financial Systems | time to time, Look'd up in perfect greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | silence at the stars." Walt Whitman
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From: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Our own sendmail is mailbombing us Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:30:39 +0100 Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <we6ohcpm5sg.fsf@Cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> References: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> Hi, [virtual mailbombing] does this occur when the envelope headers include too many recipients? I heard, the elm filters had a bug to return a non-zero exit status when receiving such a mail, so the mail duplicated itself over and over again. here, a user sent email to 5000 users at a time, that caused this kind of problem here. sorry, I don't know a fix other than to disable the prog mailer (not an option, I think?), to wrap the filter in a script always returning 0, or really patch the filter, if you happen to have sources. ciao, stephan -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
From: Darin Smith <darin@aero.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:50:44 -0600 Organization: Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Message-ID: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:42:23 GMT Please help me...you're my only hope. I have recently been asked to move a NeXT pizza-box from a net that it was working on to a net where we run SGIs, Suns, and IBMs (AIX), i.e., "real Unices." I soon figured out that NeXT, while it has UNIX admin files, prefers not to look at them. Oh well...a Mac-ified UNIX... What I was trying to do was relatively simple, get the NeXT to use NIS, which we use on our other machines. Well, after much hassle and inaccurate information in the NeXT admin manual, I finally got it to confirm logins. However, after that it just has a blank gray screen and does nothing. Remote logins work fine. I figure this happened when I followed the instructions in the NeXT admin manual for setting up NetInfo to be the secondary service. It said to copy the passwd files and all (so I did groups and hosts(remembering to take out localhost and broadcasthost) as well) over to the NeXT and do something like: niload passwd / < masterpasswd So I figure that niload blasted something in the netinfo database that was critical. Any ideas? Any help would be appreciated, but please don't get into a NeXT advocacy discussion, this happened before on another NeXT group. I really don't care, and my position will likely be that "UNIX, while it has problems, is fine and NeXT should've left it alone." TIA, Darin W. Smith
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Message-ID: <E6xz85.CDK@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:57:41 GMT In article <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de>, Ralf Jork <jork@dvs-hannover.de> wrote: >Set the appropriate number of blocks in the block descriptor for a >Mode Select command (all 0 or 0xFF might work as well - depending >from manufacturer and model). >See the Seagate "Disc Drive ... Product Manual, Volume 2" for more info. It has been getting set to all 0, but the drive doesn't want to change the sector count. In fact, after formatting, when you do a MODE SENSE, the drive returns the number of blocks as 0. How do I know what the appropriate number of blocks *should* be? I can guess, but I don't know it precisely. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Message-ID: <E6xz26.CCx@nvc.cc.ca.us> Sender: news@nvc.cc.ca.us Organization: Napa Valley College References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> <332641a1.4099545@netnews.worldnet.att.net> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:54:05 GMT In article <332641a1.4099545@netnews.worldnet.att.net>, Jim Miller <spamblock.jimmilz@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >After issuing the command to set the blocksize to 512 (mode page 03h >bytes 12 and 13), are you sending the FORMAT UNIT command to the >drive? Yes, that's what I've been doing. Unfortunately the drive doesn't want to change its sector count from what it was when the block size was at 2048. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Our own sendmail is mailbombing us Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:13:32 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Yn9j9Au00iWY47Arpb@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> In-Reply-To: <5g6jic$ec8@shelob.afs.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Mar-97 Our own sendmail is mailbom.. by Gregory H. Anderson@afs. > We are running the stock sendmail in 3.3 on our Net-connected machine. > Recently, there are several "problem" MTAs that don't like something > about the way a delivery finishes, because they keep resending a message > over and over and over and over, even though it was successfully received > here the first time. The effect is like mailbombing. Culprits include > relay-7.demo.co.uk, mailhost.worldnet.att.net, and some machine at > InterNex.net. Hmm. Do your local logs indicate the message was received correctly (the "stat" entry)? It would also be useful to correlate message-ids so that the remote sites could examine their mail spool logs and see what _their_ mailer thought happened. That's assuming the problem sites are willing to cooperate with you. Otherwise, you might want to upgrade to a newer version of sendmail and use something like the integrated TCP_wrapper support to reject connections from the offending hosts. (Which might be a little drastic.... :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Duplicating BootDisks Date: 12 Mar 1997 17:17:51 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> Hello, I'm very new to OpenStep, so please don't blame me, if this is a stupid question, but I really don't know, how to duplicate the OpenStep-Bootdisk. I succeeded to install OpenStep 4.1 on my PC (Intel), so now I want to make a security-copy of the BootDisk, for avoiding the risk to loose the capabilty of reinstalling the system, when the disk gets damage somehow. Can anyone tell me, how to do this? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:07:56 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5g6uuc$116m@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> Darin Smith <darin@aero.tamu.edu> wrote: >I have recently been asked to move a NeXT pizza-box from a net that it >was working on to a net where we run SGIs, Suns, and IBMs (AIX), i.e., >"real Unices." Ouch! > I figure this happened when I followed the instructions in the NeXT > admin manual for setting up NetInfo to be the secondary service. > It said to copy the passwd files and all... Wrong. >Any help would be appreciated, but please don't get into a >NeXT advocacy discussion, this happened before on another NeXT group. Notice a pattern? :-) >I really don't care, and my position will likely be that "UNIX, while it >has problems, is fine and NeXT should've left it alone." Perhaps if you have a problem its not wise to start with "this is a piece of shit but I want you to help me". Back to your problem. NeXT and NIS work together quite well thank you. What version of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP are you using? NEXTSTEP first checks its NetInfo database for usernames and passwords. If it is not found there it then checks NIS (if enabled), if not there then its local /etc/passwd and /etc/group, if they are not there then the login fails. You do not need to manually load the NIS passwords into NetInfo - it will find them eventually anyway if NIS has been enabled (by default NIS is not because NEXTSTEP needs to know the name of your NIS domain). Have you set your NIS domain name by running HostManager? Do /etc/hosts and /etc/group have the requisite NIS magic cookie (+:) at the end of them? That's all that it takes and its very well documented in the online System Administration Manual ("NEXTSTEP as NIS Clients"). I'm sorry but I have no idea what damage you have done which caused your blank screen. I assume you're tried logging in as the root user and get the same blank screen? Try remote logging in a dumping the various NetInfo databases to see if something go screwed up (man nidump). Good luck. - Gareth
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bug in TCPIP stack? Date: 12 Mar 1997 19:04:07 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <5g6un7$iis@BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <Qn9VkLK00iWp0I8MI0@andrew.cmu.edu> >> If i use ping with ip number and then read the ARP tables (arp -a) i >> cause a kernel trap. I also cause a kernel trap if i try to ftp or >> telnet to the OpenStep Host from the NT machine. We were getting this problem when we had two _different_ ethernet cards installed in one OS 4.1 machine. We had to hack around this problem; we couldn't find an elegant solution. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXT/MIME) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
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From: Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHost problem Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 11:06:00 GMT Organization: R&A Sender: news@RnA.NL Message-ID: <E6xG61.Dxr@RnA.NL> I am trying to use NXHost to get the output of one system on another system but I am running in to problems. gerben@NeXT [~/tmp] 51) /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost domain1 DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host domain1 Where it reads 'domain1' the actual host is mentioned, I just edited it out. Anyway, how do I find what is going wrong? Note: both systems are not aware of each other in their netinfo's, they are standalone NEXTSTEP systems (one m68k one i486) connected through a simple TCP/IP-link. Telnet to and from both systems works fine. The filters between the systems do not tell me they are blocking anything. I can fire up 'telnet domain1 178' on the system where the program is supposed to run. This gives me in syslog: Mar 11 21:29:03 Spike NSWSd[14284]: refused connect from unknown Mar 11 21:29:09 Spike NSWSd[14285]: warning: can't get client address: Socket is not connected Mar 11 21:29:09 Spike NSWSd[14285]: refused connect from unknown Mar 11 21:29:15 Spike NSWSd[14286]: warning: can't get client address: Socket is not connected over and over again. But it does teach me that a tcp connection to NSWS (port 178) works. However, both systems seem not to connect properly. On the system where the program should be displayed, the private windows server settings are off (so it is a public windows server). So, what kind of connections are needed to get NXHost running? -- Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl (Gerben Wierda) NEXTSTEP RD242 "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there" Paraphrased in Alice in Wonderland, originally from the Talmud. Renee: "Met veel koper maakt men hoempa." (After hearing a Nielsen symphony)
From: John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 18:34:51 -0500 Organization: Alverno Administrative Services Message-ID: <33273D9B.9EB@alverno.ssfhs.org> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> <5g2sna$pg6@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Henry... I'm not sure what you mean about the link (I know what a link is, just not where it should be). I just created the /private/Drivers/i386/ directory and copied the Adaptec2940SCSIDisk.config file to it. Thanks in advance for your help... John
From: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Duplicating BootDisks Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:04:55 GMT Organization: The University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <5g7gb7$etf@news1.ucsd.edu> References: <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > I'm very new to OpenStep, so please don't blame me, > if this is a stupid question, but I really don't know, > how to duplicate the OpenStep-Bootdisk. > I succeeded to install OpenStep 4.1 on my PC (Intel), so > now I want to make a security-copy of the BootDisk, for > avoiding the risk to loose the capabilty of reinstalling the > system, when the disk gets damage somehow. > Can anyone tell me, how to do this? > Thanks in advance! Somewhere there's a GUI floppy-duplication app, but it's a terminal command one-liner: % dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/wherever/you/want/disk_image bs=18k To reverse this and create another copy: % dd if=/wherever/you/want/disk_image of=/dev/rfd0b bs=18k Oh, yes, the GUI app is called DiskCopyII.app, but I don't know if it works for anything except Black NeXT. -- carl lowenstein marine physical lab u.c. san diego clowenstein@ucsd.edu
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:47:51 GMT Organization: ace dot net internet technologies Message-ID: <5g7irn$rjq$1@darla.visi.com> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> <5g6uuc$116m@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: : Perhaps if you have a problem its not wise to start with : "this is a piece of shit but I want you to help me". Yeah, I've got to agree. :) BTW, if you need to start fresh: "Testing system" command-~ NeXT> bsd -s # cd /etc # rm -rf netinfo # rm -f hostconfig # cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo . # cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . -- # david young: oo developer, think new ideas east/onramp # vox: 212.629.6800 x170 phax: 212.629.6850 # net: david_young@thinkinc.com (MIME ok, NeXTmail better)
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:16:37 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this a threat worth worrying about? -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 15:02:28 -0600 From: rberber@spin.com.mx Subject: Re: Zip Boot Disk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <858199987.7254@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News USENET Posting Service Dana Shadrick wrote: > I would like to be able to boot from a 100 meg Zip disk ... > > If anyone has any insight on this it would be greatly appreciated. Did you change /etc/fstab on your zip disk? I commented out the boot disk and added the zip disk, which in my machine is the next disk (in SCSI order), it looks like this: #/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Also, at the boot promt I add the root device string, something like: boot: sd(1,a)mach_kernel rootdev=sd1a If you installed NeXTStep on the zip disk using BuildDisk you better check that the drivers are in /usr/Devices which is a link to /private/Devices which also is a link, this time to Drivers/i386. BuildDisk doesn't create the links; this is for version 3.3, maybe it was fixed later. Hope this helps, ___________________ Rene Berber rberber@spin.com.mx MIME / NeXT Mail welcomed -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please Help! Openstep 4.1 and ppp... Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 05:43:22 -0800 Organization: Egg Head Billy Productions Message-ID: <3327B794.2604@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Please, someone, I'm begging you. I'm on my knees here... I've read through USENET archives, I've searched NEXTAnswers, I've sent questions to next-ppp listserv, I've read man pages... But I still can't figure this out... I had ppp working fine on my turbo slab with NS 3.3. I installed 4.1 on this machine, then recongigured ppp. However, I can't get ppp to work. It loads properly, but when I try and bring up a ppp connection, it the server sends a terminate message or something and the line is dropped. Can someone please look at my ppp log, and maybe tell me where I should be looking for errors? Just point me in the right direction. Is it in the installation of ppp (hostconfig, iftab, rc.local) or in my scripts? Part of my ppp log (didn't want to send all of it): -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu chat[533]: netcom login: -- got it Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu pppd[453]: Serial connection established. Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Using interface ppp0 Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp> <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:49 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 35 fb 63 f9] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: LCP terminated at peer's request Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:53 jehu pppd[453]: Connection terminated. Mar 10 00:33:54 jehu pppd[453]: Exit.
From: icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Ian Patrick Cardenas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 08:31:42 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Message-ID: <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: >As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't >this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all >network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this >a threat worth worrying about? > I usually change the ni* utilities to 700. No reason any normal user should need to poke around in netinfo and it doesn't break anything. -- Ian P. Cardenas (icardena@uiuc.edu) CCSO Sites Technical Support "I am of the opinion that pizza and beer together are far superior to either in isolation." -James E. Quick on the Apple/NeXT merger
From: Dan Bikle <dbikle@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Need model# for 400dpi toner cartridge Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 13 Mar 1997 08:56:30 GMT Organization: Bikle Software Distribution: world Message-ID: <5g8ffu$6m5@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-User: dbikle Keywords: NeXT horizontal streaks Hi NeXT fans, This post is coming from a NeXT I *JUST* dredged out of my closet. It's running "3.0". The chip is a 68040 and it resides on a card in one of those boat-anchor-magnesium-cubes (not the pizza box style). I think it was manufactured about 1991 or 2. After I dusted him off and connected the periphs.... I pressed that magic button on the keyboard. It ... booted HURRAY!!!! Next, I tried out the 400dpi printer. I encountered a small problem. Portrait oriented printouts have horizontal streaks running across the page. I think maybe a new toner cartridge might solve this. If memory serves me right, the toner cartridge for the 400dpi printer is identical as the toner cartridge for some kind of Apple laser printer. So, that is my long winded way of asking: Where do I get a toner cartridge for a: "NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer" ?? Or... Whats the model # of that identical Apple laser printer cartridge? Thanks so much... -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel B. Bikle/Independent Oracle Consultant dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu | 415/941-6276 | P.O. BOX 1401 LOS ALTOS CA 94023 http://www.rahul.net/dbikle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: texinfo Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:13:39 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5g8nh3$99u@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Has anybody else had difficulties in running ./configure for texinfo-3.9 ... checking whether setvbuf arguments are reversed... configure: error: can not run test program while cross compiling or is aware of NeXT binaries to run info (forget about Emacs)? Thanks, Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703120036.TAA10789@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 19:35:56 -0500 Subject: Re: TerminalProgram for initializing the Modem Responding To: andreas@lynet.de Original Date: 10 Mar 1997 18:07:07 GMT Message-ID: 861794d70d9dc4cb6b46ce1860c48040 - > I'm searching for a simple TerminalProgramm that > just sends the entered characters to a serial port > and shows incoming characters at the screen. I need > something like that to set my modem to AutoAnswerMode. > Does something like that exists and if yes, where do I find it? > Thank you in advance! My favorite tool for this is 'kermit' which you can find at www.columbia.edu/kermit unless my mind is going, in which case checkout the 'misc internet' page at my home page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* We are working on the FTP problems at PEAK, thanks for your patience.
From: vova@rtr.transit.ru (Vladimir Pilipyuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Console to Sun by tip from NeXT, is it possible? Date: 13 Mar 1997 12:02:56 GMT Organization: On-line Research Community Message-ID: <5g8qdg$6it@jupiter.orc.ru> Keywords: tip sun next Hi All, Could you help me with the following trouble? I tried to make console for Sun running Solaris 2.5.1 by typing tip ttya9600 in the Terminal window on NexStep 3.3. The tip was connected and I saw data received from Sun but all what I typed was transfered to Sun incorectly. The /etc/remote file was original and I tried to exclude the tc=BASIC field from the ttya9600 definition. Do you have an idea? Regards, Vladimir e-mail: vova@rtr.transit.ru (NeXT & MIME accepted) -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9FYI;"!+3TDX+51E<FUI;F%L.WT* M7&UA<F=L,3(P"EQM87)G<C$R,`I<<&%R9%QT>#$R-#=<='@R-#DU7'1X,S<T M,UQT>#0Y.3%<='@V,C0P7'1X-S0X-UQT>#@W,S5<='@Y.3@S7'1X,3$R,S%< M='@Q,C0X,%QF,%QB,%QI,%QU;&YO;F5<9G,R-%QF8S!<8V8P($AI($%L;"Q< M"EP*0V]U;&0@>6]U(&AE;'`@;64@=VET:"!T:&4@9F]L;&]W:6YG('1R;W5B M;&4_7`I<"DD@=')I960@=&\@;6%K92!C;VYS;VQE(&9O<B!3=6X@<G5N;FEN M9R!3;VQA<FES(#(N-2XQ(&)Y('1Y<&EN9UP*7`IT:7`@='1Y83DV,#!<"EP* M:6X@=&AE(%1E<FUI;F%L('=I;F1O=R!O;B!.97A3=&5P(#,N,RX@5&AE('1I M<"!W87,@8V]N;F5C=&5D(&%N9"!)('-A=UP*9&%T82!R96-E:79E9"!F<F]M M(%-U;B!B=70@86QL('=H870@22!T>7!E9"!W87,@=')A;G-F97)E9"!T;R!3 M=6X@7`II;F-O<F5C=&QY+B!4:&4@+V5T8R]R96UO=&4@9FEL92!W87,@;W)I M9VEN86P@86YD($D@=')I960@=&\@97AC;'5D95P*=&AE('1C/4)!4TE#(&9I M96QD(&9R;VT@=&AE('1T>6$Y-C`P(&1E9FEN:71I;VXN7`I<"D1O('EO=2!H M879E(&%N(&ED96$_7`I<"E)E9V%R9',L7`I6;&%D:6UI<EP*7`IE+6UA:6PZ M('9O=F%`<G1R+G1R86YS:70N<G4@("A.95A4("8@34E-12!A8V-E<'1E9"D* "?0IO `
From: "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax Date: 13 Mar 1997 10:18:10 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> Anyone knows where are the publishers of NXFax? Were they gone or something? How do I contact them. I am an old user. Michael Chan
From: me@nextbox.enteract.com (Kevin Coffee) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: item stuck in recycler Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:20:56 GMT Organization: EnterAct L.L.C. Turbo-Elite News Server Message-ID: <5g8uvo$bhs@eve.enteract.com> I was deleting some files and somehow the <root> directory from one of my .NextTrash directories got stuck in the recycler (e.g. /HD-3/.NextTrash/root ). I don't know how it ended up in there, but now I'm stuck because it can't be deleted and cannot be moved out of the recycler. And of course now I get an alert every time I empty the recycler telling me that this item cannot be read... I tried su root, but no go. Any explanations and/or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks. please cc <kpc@enteract.com> -- Kevin Coffee <kpc@enteract.com> <diffwerk@enteract.com> d i f f w e r k s = w e b + d e s i g n + i n t e g r a t i o n NextToMacFaq = http://www.enteract.com/~diffwerk/next-mac-faq.html
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 13 Mar 1997 13:27:48 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g8vck$14j@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> Darin Smith (darin@aero.tamu.edu) wrote: : Please help me...you're my only hope. Let's see: a 'little' bit of work to do, but it should be easy for an experienced UNIX admin :-). If you use niload/dump to modify the database, it should be modified(!) only, not replaced (in most of the cases). So you should have extracted the original netinfo contents to flat files, merge 'your additional' information into them and then put them back/replace them. Probably to late for that. My proposition is to start 'all over' again and leave netinfo on its own and add the 'additional' information via NIS directly. You (should) have a virgin copy of 'netinfo' and if necessary of hostconfig (look into the /etc - version, it's a flat file and if everything is ok in there, leave it alone, otherwise copy the original version and edit it manually or by SNS (simple network starter) or by Hostconfig(.app)) in the '/usr/template/client/etc'-directory, where netinfo is a directory of its own. Copy it over to /etc, handle hostconfig as written above (hostconfig must contain you NIS-domain name). Now as you have a virgin copy, run SNS again and answer the questions. It will fill netinfo with name and address of your station, which is sometimes very nice if NIS/DNS isn't working. Of course, you can do all this 'manually' with NetInfoManager(.app), too, but ... Make /etc/resolv.conf containing the proper contents for DNS, either running named locally (don't forget to start it somewhere, e.g. in /etc/rc.local) or makeing the station just a client for the moment, what I would suggest. Now nameresolution should no longer be a problem (after reboot). Add the '+'-magic to /etc/passwd and /etc/group to enable NIS users and hosts. (Don't forget to have their HOME-directories ready :-)). If you are using an unusual shell, make an entry in /etc/shells. That should be it. Of course you have to reconfigure printers, timemanagement (ntp or timed), snmp and whatever else used to be configured via netinfo beforehand - this information is gone, sorry. And finally: NetManager is gone. It has replaced by Hostmanager (mainly) and augmented by SNS (SimpleNetworkStarter) to give unexperienced 'users' a chance to start the network. NetInfoManager is the tool which can alter any netinfo-information (graphically); you can also render the station unusable by doing bad things, of course :-). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHost problem Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:00:41 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5g91a9$b4o@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <E6xG61.Dxr@RnA.NL> In article <E6xG61.Dxr@RnA.NL> Gerben_Wierda@RnA.nl writes: > I am trying to use NXHost to get the output of one system on another system > but I am running in to problems. > > gerben@NeXT [~/tmp] 51) /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost domain1 > DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host domain1 You DID set the option: PublicWindowServer to yes (in NS3.2) or PrivateWindowServer to no (in NS3.3) in the Unix section of Preferences.app, right? -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:00:48 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <sn_0WEi00iWS421etj@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 13-Mar-97 nidump a security problem ? by Terry R. McConnell@barny > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't > this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all > network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Yes. > Is this a threat worth worrying about? That depends on what level of security you wish to enforce. It's a really good idea to install TCP_wrappers to prevent remote logins except from machines that you trust. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703120306.WAA13539@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 22:05:59 -0500 Subject: where did this come from (/Net) Ok, now I know that /Net is usually where NFS mounted directories are put, however, I have none of those. So imagine my surprise when I saw this in /etc/mtab: charisma:(autonfsmount[158]) "/Net" nfs ro,intr,port=757 0 0 (charisma is the name of my machine, and yes 158 is the PID for the automounter). Any ideas why this is there (I don't remember asking for it) and/or how to get rid of it? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> *Intel-bound thanks to Bifrost!* We are working on the FTP problems at PEAK, thanks for your patience.
From: "Darin W. Smith" <darin@aero.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:59:50 -0600 Organization: Texas A & M University Message-ID: <33281666.3B67@aero.tamu.edu> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> <5g8vck$14j@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Mar 1997 14:58:18 GMT To: "H.-R. Oberhage" <phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de> Thank you for your kind reply. This makes a bit more sense now. -- Darin W. Smith Systems and Network Administrator Texas A & M University, Aerospace Engineering Department (409) 845-0821 darin@aero.tamu.edu -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- GAT/E d s:+>: a? C++$ UL++++A++++$I++++$S++++$X++++$ P+ L++(++++) E W+++ N+ o-- K- w--- O- M-- V PS-- PE Y+ PGP- t 5 X+ R tv+ b++ DI+ D+ G+ e++>+++ h* r* y- ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Ethernet card problems Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:57:30 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5g985a$4h0@sjx-ixn3.ix.netcom.com> Briefly, here is the problem that I am having. (1) An Ethernet card on one of our systems failed. The systems have been functioning for months. I am certain it was the card because when I used the same card on another machine, that machine gave the same message --- "Still searching for parent network ...etc. press 'c' to continue without network user accounts....." (2) Replaced the card with a new one - it worked for about a week. Now, the Ethernet card is not functioning again. Intel Pentium 100 MHz DECchip21040 Based Adapter Ethernet card (v3.36) My question: could there possibly be something on the motherboard that is causing the Ethernet card to fail repeatedly? Or, is that a dumb question? What should I check? Thanks for any help. Also, I tried to post this before but I notice that it never appeared on any of the newsgroups. So, please excuse the bandwidth if it should reappear at some later time. Vicki Bragin -- ********************************************************** Victoria M. Bragin Physical Sciences Division, Pasadena City College 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106-2003 Phone: (818) 585-7147 Fax: (818) 585-7919 E-mail: (NeXTmail and MIME mail welcome) vbragin@nextlab.calstatela.edu vbragin@ix.netcom.com vbragin@paccd.cc.ca.us vbragin@pslc.ucla.edu **********************************************************
From: ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu (Andrew J. Korty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:46:03 GMT Organization: Physics Department, Purdue University Message-ID: <5g97fr$ml8@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> In article <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, Ian Patrick Cardenas <icardena@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote: >tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: >>As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't >>this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all >>network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this >>a threat worth worrying about? >> > I usually change the ni* utilities to 700. No reason any normal >user should need to poke around in netinfo and it doesn't break >anything. Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* library functions to do essentially the same thing? ajk
From: t58@nikhef.nl (Bert Schellekens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with booting. Message-ID: <4229@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 13 Mar 97 17:13:41 GMT Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Help! I have mistakenly (how else) moved my EISABus.config directory on my portable (from /private/Drivers/i386 to another directory) and now my portable won't boot. During the booting it asks for a floppy with the driver and when I put a floppy containing the driver in various directories it keeps complaining that there are not suitable drivers on the floppy. I have tried the original NeXT driver floppy as well as floopies copied from a similar machine with the driver inside one of the directories private/Drivers/i386/ private/Drivers/ private/ and many more but nothing works. There is more floppy activity when there are more directories on the floppy but the result is always the same. What is happening here? What should I do? (the machine does not have a CD-ROM) and reloading is one royal pain in the neck and will destroy all the information on the disk. What is it looking for on the floppy? Any help would be most welcome. Bert Schellekens
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.1 and NetInfo. Date: 13 Mar 1997 17:08:12 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5g9c9s$1op@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5fqb8c$kfk@transfer.stratus.com> Hello, I don't think OPENSTEP/mach can live without lookupd. But lookupd is not netinfo!!! See the different netinfod running. And I think the netinfod for 'local' is always necessary, as e.g. the command to tell lookupd to look 'only' at flat files (FF(Agent)) would be an entry into the netinfo database (catch 22). But what worries you about netinfo (local-only). It's just a way for this 'UNIX' to get some 'local' info. Everything used from the outside can be configured or prevented - if the programs/daemons work properly; and all 'outside' information can be per flat-file (only) or NIS (only) or netinfo (only) or DNS (for hosts, only) or any combination of this. So choose flat file for your 'outside'-info and you have basically a 'normal' UNIX. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Philip Guenther <guenther@lunen.gac.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 11:46:04 -0600 Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN USA Message-ID: <e69sp1zn0rn.fsf@lunen.gac.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) writes: > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. Wouldn't > this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a copy of all > network password files for further cracking at his/her leisure ? Is this > a threat worth worrying about? You can't hide them. If you chmod the ni* utilities, what's to stop a user from simply compiling their own, or copying one from another machine? As far as I can tell, you can't do shadow passwords on a machine running NeXTstep, period. Philip Guenther ---------------------------------------------------------------- Philip Guenther UNIX Systems and Network Administrator Internet: guenther@gac.edu Voicenet: (507) 933-7596 Gustavus Adolphus College St. Peter, MN 56082-1498
From: jork@dvs-hannover.de (Ralf Jork) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Subject: Re: Can't get 4gig drive to believe it's a 4gig drive Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,linux.scsi Date: 13 Mar 1997 17:19:22 GMT Organization: DVS GmbH Hannover Message-ID: <5g9cuq$245@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> References: <E6w77K.72@nvc.cc.ca.us> <5g61q0$7l@neptun.dvs-hannover.de> <E6xz85.CDK@nvc.cc.ca.us> Chris Osborn (fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us) wrote: [...] : It has been getting set to all 0, but the drive doesn't want to change : the sector count. In fact, after formatting, when you do a MODE SENSE, : the drive returns the number of blocks as 0. : : How do I know what the appropriate number of blocks *should* be? I can : guess, but I don't know it precisely. See the Seagate "Barracuda 4LP ... Product Manual, Volume 1" for more info. BTW: the ST34371N I tested has 8,496,960 (0x81A740) blocks (512 byte sectors). Oh, and Mode Sense indeed reports "0" for this drive. According to the Seagate manual this translates to "all logical blocks". -- Ralf.
From: dwright1@voicenet.com (Darren Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:11:14 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Message-ID: <5g9n12$1i4@news1.voicenet.com> References: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> Get Frank Siegert's CAPer application off of PEAK>..... -Darren John C. Randolph (jcr@idiom.com) wrote: : I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've : needed to know: : What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same : subnet? : advTHANKSance, : -jcr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703130244.VAA04674@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 42a7a00dbc87de9046b037b7a2eec823 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 21:44:10 -0500 Subject: Re: Setting a 'telnet' greeting (warning: may be considered frivolous to Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 42a7a00dbc87de9046b037b7a2eec823 - Responding To: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim) Original Date: 7 Mar 1997 16:16:55 GMT Message-ID: 42a7a00dbc87de9046b037b7a2eec823 - > Tcp Wrappers do "banners" for messages for services that are denied > not for stuff that is supposed to work. They probably could be tweaked to do both.... > The file you want is a simple ascii text file called "/etc/motd". Not really, that's the file which appears once you are logged in What I want is a message which appears before the login prompt > Put whatever you want in it, and if you don't want to see the > contents, put a file called ".hushlogin" (that's empty basicly, it > just has to exist.) in your home directory. To do what I wanted, I had to edit the 'im' entry in /etc/gettytab. Pretty obvious once you look at it... I just didn't know where to look TjL
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:08:13 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g85kp$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <En9gupa00iWUQ3m3so@andrew.cmu.edu> Steve Jobs migrated to Apple. He struggled with the NeXT hardware, lost and joined Apple with his OS (In my eyes the last action to avoid the total crash, for both!). Apple was the one who took him back in the boat, but don't want to use his OS as is. What do You expect from a new OS? (New hardware too!). I love to see Your optimism but under a realistic point of view the future is passed. (What about the rumor with Lighthouse and SW for OS? Did You ever hold something in Your hands? What about the good idea supporting different hardware?) Henry
From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mounting NT on NeXT? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:25:52 +0500 Organization: Merriam-Webster Inc. Message-ID: <33278FE0.FF4@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I may not have phrased the subject line correctly, so please bear with me while I describe the situation: We have the NeXT. We have an NT file server. The NT file server has a DAT drive. Is there a way for me to get either machine to recognize the other so that I can back up the NeXT on to the NT's DAT directly? ---Amy West
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:19:44 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g9ui0$573@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> <e69sp1zn0rn.fsf@lunen.gac.edu> Philip Guenther <guenther@lunen.gac.edu> wrote: >You can't hide them. If you chmod the ni* utilities, what's to stop a >user from simply compiling their own, or copying one from another machine? >As far as I can tell, you can't do shadow passwords on a machine running >NeXTstep, period. I agree with you for NetInfo, certainly. What several other people don't seem to understand (I've gotten email like some of these postings too) is that NetInfo works very well- too well! It's transparent to the rest of the system, so all the library functions that get passwords give them out freely. On a system with shadowed passwords, all the usual routes to getting an encrypted password don't work for non-root users (or only work on their own passwords). This is a pretty easy fix if you have source to the libraries, but in the case of NetInfo, you could use the naked NetInfo functions (which the usual UNIX functions use) to do it anyway. There is a fix, but we can't do it. NetInfo has "writers" tags in it that control who can write to a directory (or entry in a directory). Take a look at your account's info, for instance and see that "_writers_passwd" is set to you. That means only you (and root) can write to passwd in that directory. Other directories will have _writers=* so people can write to them (printers and fax_modems used to be that way by default). If there were a "readers" tag, and it were enforced at a low level, shadowed passwords would be easy to do. If I could add one thing to NetInfo, that'd be it. Send me the source and I'll do it. :-) My question, which is in another thread ("Shadowed passwords and NIS"), is whether a NeXT can be taught to do shadowed passwords via yp. I've got my NIS server giving out bogus passwords in passwd and good ones (only to root) in passwd.adjunct. And it works, but I can't convince the NeXT to use the ones in passwd.adjunct, though it'll happily list them for root if I ask explicitly. Our non-NeXT clients do the right thing. Anybody know a way to make this work? ab
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Duplicating BootDisks Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:41:33 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g9vqt$573@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5g6ofv$t26$2@lynet.de> <5g7gb7$etf@news1.ucsd.edu> cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) wrote: >Somewhere there's a GUI floppy-duplication app, but it's a terminal command >one-liner: > > % dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/wherever/you/want/disk_image bs=18k > >To reverse this and create another copy: > > % dd if=/wherever/you/want/disk_image of=/dev/rfd0b bs=18k I use a shell script on my SPARC with some more stuff in it to make up for the lack of a detect/eject floppy drive. It goes like this: ------ #!/bin/sh echo "Insert source disk" echo "Reading..." /bin/dd if=/dev/rfd0b of=/tmp/FLOP /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "Remove source disk." echo "Insert destination disk and press ^D" cat - echo "Formatting..." /usr/etc/disk -i -h `hostname` -l "Copy" -d 1440 /dev/rfd0a /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "Writing..." /bin/dd if=/tmp/FLOP of=/dev/rfd0b /usr/etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "Remove copy" ----- The "disk -e"s "eject" the disk, which makes sure it's safe to remove it, but doesn't actually kick it out on my SPARC (or on most PCs). The "disk -i" initializes the disk because I've had trouble writing to unformatted disks. Also serves as a media check. Adding the bs to the dd is a good idea. And you need to be root. I don't use it much, so take it with a hunk of salt. ab
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Telnet to NS from Terminalserver? Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:24:50 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970313231921.1357D-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I try to telnet from a terminalserver to a NS 3.3 or OS4.1 machine. I connect and get the login string displayed but after entering the account name the NS/OS Host does not recognise the return key. Telnetting to a Linux Host is no problem at all. I tried different terminal emulations in my Com programm but without success, sometimes i achieve it to press return by pressing (ctrl+return,ctrl+m) and if i have logged in everything works fine even the return key. Now what is causing the problems during the logon procedure? --- Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:25:06 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g86ke$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <5g5lm0$134m@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <5g5rkk$d0o@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Let us see, I wish I could change my opinion in the near future. But I believe in two years no one would ever talk about NeXT as an existing OS. I own a TI-99/4A too. I remember those talkings 15 years ago. It's ringing a lot of bells in my mind... BTW, it is impossible to get any new driver for NS3.3 from NeXT. So if I don't want to spend a lot of money for a new OS every quater of a year, I am on my own! Nevertheless I have to buy a new computer for the next OS comming from Apple. -Uhhaha, I tell You, If I feel uncomfortable with the way things evolve I put Linux on my machine. It is by far not so good as NeXT, but supported and for free. I am very interested if NeXT will give any solution to the problem with the new SCSI controller 2940 from Adaptec. V3.37 seems not to work. Henry
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:39:51 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g87g5$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> <5g2sna$pg6@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> <33273D9B.9EB@alverno.ssfhs.org> I don't know exactly the path because I am sitting for a OS/2 and not for a NeXT. There exists a shorter path not including the "i386". Ok, I just rlogined... There is a link /private/Devices pointing to /private/Drivers/i386. As I wrote before someone stated that it is suffcient to only have this directory with the drivers. I don't know. One clear thing is to build the file tree like NeXT. Having /private/Drivers/i386/....configs and a link in /private. Just cd to /private and make cd /DISKETTE/private (Wheresoever You mounted your diskette...) ln -s Drivers/i386 Devices Hope that helps. Henry
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.1 and NetInfo. Date: 13 Mar 1997 22:31:10 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5g9v7e$573@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5fqb8c$kfk@transfer.stratus.com> <5g9c9s$1op@sun3.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: >I don't think OPENSTEP/mach can live without lookupd. But lookupd >is not netinfo!!! See the different netinfod running. And I think >the netinfod for 'local' is always necessary, as e.g. the command >to tell lookupd to look 'only' at flat files (FF(Agent)) would be >an entry into the netinfo database (catch 22). (Mostly of historical interet, probably...) The last time I tried it was NS2.1(? I think- before the big speedup, I'm sure), but at that time, NeXTs without NeXTprinters attached could live just fine without NetInfo by just using the usual UNIX files. I couldn't make npd and friends cooperate though. I called up NeXT to see if they could tell me how to make it work and they said that the machine wouldn't work at all without NetInfo. I told them I had a whole roomful and they worked fine. I asked them what specifically would break and the guy said "Lots of things." He could've at least admitted he didn't know. :-) I switched NetInfo back on so my printer would work, and I've used it ever since (it's a lot faster and nicer than it used to be, and I've learned a lot more about it), but it's possible you might be able to run without it still. I haven't a 4.x machine to try it on, but I'd be willing to hose one of my 3.3 machines if anyone cares. ab
From: pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEC CD-ROM Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:57:20 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ga490$viu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> -- =============================================================================== Peter Damiano Phone: (403)-492-2526 Department of Physics FAX: (403)-492-0714 The University of Alberta email: pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2J1 "Modern Man is the missing link between apes and human beings" ===============================================================================
From: Dana Shadrick <dana@sgsnet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 14 Mar 1997 00:16:34 GMT Organization: SGS Net Inc. Message-ID: <5ga5d2$cnm@chinx10.tpa.net> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) wrote: >In <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary wrote: >> I want to use tcsh as the standard shell on my machines. What, if >> anything, will it break if I replace csh with tcsh? > >I haven't done this, but I suspect that you would be okay. Well written >scripts reference the proper interpreter as the first line of source code. >-- >>< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >>< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted >< > I've been using tcsh since NextStep version 3.0 on Intel and I haven't had any problems. -- ================================================= Dana A.Shadrick http://www.sgsnet.com/ dana@sgsnet.com Phone: 847-733-9607 SGS Net Inc. Fax: 847-733-8973 =================================================
From: publicist@meetmeonline.com (MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) Date: 13 Mar 1997 23:39:56 GMT Organization: MeetMeOnline <a zerologic company> Message-ID: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> url: http://www.meetmeonline.com/ I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a workaround for this? TIA, Michael. -- Meet a friend, Meet a lover, Meet another... MeetMe at http://www.meetmeonline.com/
From: pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: 14 Mar 1997 00:20:44 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Hi. I screwed up on the first trial and so I hope that this works... I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader will work with black hardware Thanks in advance Peter Damiano (pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca) --
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Message-ID: <E6zME9.AKE@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 15:15:45 GMT In article <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> writes: > Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U > in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that > got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into > phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. > > When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. > > If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue > through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) > That is probably a REAL disk problem, we do is daily with no problems! -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to NeXT printer Date: 14 Mar 1997 01:45:39 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5gaak3$l3$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <jcr.857655364@idiom.com> <5g9n12$1i4@news1.voicenet.com> Cc: dwright1@voicenet.com In <5g9n12$1i4@news1.voicenet.com> Darren Wright wrote: > > Get Frank Siegert's CAPer application off of PEAK>..... > > -Darren > > John C. Randolph (jcr@idiom.com) wrote: > > : I know that this is a very old subject, but this is the first time I've > : needed to know: > > : What do I need to do to make my NeXT printer visible to a mac on the same > : subnet? > > : advTHANKSance, > > : -jcr > > Better the the CAPer.V4 from peanuts, the V2 on Peak is a bit outdated. And be sure to get the updated CAP binaries from my web page as this will solve some quirks on m68k (not related to printing). A new release is in the works... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax Date: 13 Mar 1997 20:00:34 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> Cc: Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg In <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> "Michael Chan" wrote: > Anyone knows where are the publishers of NXFax? Were they gone or > something? How do I contact them. I am an old user. > > Michael Chan > > the most recent contact info I have is: Black & White Software, Inc. Bridge Street Marketplace Waitsfield VT 05673-1210 802-496-8500 (voice) 802-496-5112 (fax) sales@bandw.com this from an announcement to users circa 1 year ago. a lot can happen in a year, I hope they are still around... -rick
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax Date: 14 Mar 1997 05:04:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5gam8p$92a@news.digifix.com> References: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> In-Reply-To: <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> On 03/13/97, Rick Sanford wrote: >In <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> "Michael Chan" >wrote: >> Anyone knows where are the publishers of NXFax? Were they gone or >> something? How do I contact them. I am an old user. >> >> Michael Chan <snip >sales@bandw.com > >this from an announcement to users circa 1 year ago. a lot can happen in a >year, I hope they are still around... > They are, and you can reach them at that email. They're not actively developing NXFax, but the current version does work on OS 4.1 (according to the email I got a week ago).. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703132339.SAA02082@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: c02ccb2b797ab2aa41f74db8fb466b82 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 18:39:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Duplicating BootDisks Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com, andreas@lynet.de References: c02ccb2b797ab2aa41f74db8fb466b82 - Responding To: cdl@proxima.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein) Original Date: 13 Mar 1997 00:04:55 GMT Message-ID: c02ccb2b797ab2aa41f74db8fb466b82 - > Oh, yes, the GUI app is called DiskCopyII.app, but I don't know if > it works for anything except Black NeXT. there's a dual-fat version at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/misc/DiskCopyII.NI.b.tar.gz TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 18:40:04 -0500 Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - Responding To: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Original Date: 13 Mar 1997 02:16:37 GMT Message-ID: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. > Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a > copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her > leisure ? yup. I think this is just one of the security holes in a standard NeXTStep installation. > Is this a threat worth worrying about? Only if you have a weak account and haven't changed the permissions! TjL ps -- anyone interested in starting that list of security holes?
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UNIX admin lost in NeXT Date: 14 Mar 1997 08:58:49 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5gb409$i9p$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3326ECF4.3ACF@aero.tamu.edu> <5g6uuc$116m@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5g7irn$rjq$1@darla.visi.com> Cc: dwy@ace.net In <5g7irn$rjq$1@darla.visi.com> David Young wrote: > bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > : Perhaps if you have a problem its not wise to start with > : "this is a piece of shit but I want you to help me". > > Yeah, I've got to agree. :) > > BTW, if you need to start fresh: > > "Testing system" > command-~ > NeXT> bsd -s > # cd /etc > # rm -rf netinfo > # rm -f hostconfig > # cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo . > # cp /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig . > > Nicely done. You know I've often wondered why people wouldn't just backup their /etc/netinfo hostconfig like so #cd /etc #tar -cvf netinfo.backup.97.03.14.tar netinfo hostconfig that way if you ever screw up netinfo you can boot single user mode and #cd /etc #rm -rf netinfo hostconfig #tar -xvf netinfo.yourfavoritebackup.tar #reboot and go.. ;) I thought this would be a cool way to test different network configs. Randy rencsok at channelu dot com OR at argus dot cem dot msu dot edu -- Randy Rencsok General UNIX, NeXTStep, IRIX Admining, Turbo Software Consulting, Programming, etc.) Note: My reply to header is invalid because parsing spammers are abusing any use of dead@eatthis.spammers.channelu.com type labels in public posts. First it was the easy Reply-To: fields we all know & love. Now it's text itself. I'd love to see a parser that can discern the intended meaning of the word at and the name rencsok (etc) and equate it to channelu dot com to reconstruct my address.. :} But then a parser still has a lot of header fields to play with :(
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing OS 4.1 on partition 'b' on a NeXTstation Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:03:24 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5gbeqc$dl4$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Keywords: OpenStep, NeXTstation, partition, install I wrote: > I have problem (installing and) booting OS 4.1 from the second ('b') > partition of my disk. [munch] > Here's how I installed 4.1: > > 1. Logged in as root > > 2. Copied the system files: > ditto -v -arch m68k -bom /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/lib/NextStep/BaseSystem.bom > /OPENSTEP_4.1 /MySecondPartition > > 3. Made a new boot block: > /usr/etc/disk -B /OPENSTEP_4.1/usr/standalone/boot /dev/rsd0b > > 4. Edited fstab to reflect changes: > /dev/sd0b / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd0a /NS_3.2 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 > > Now when I reboot using `bsd(0,0,1)- rootdev=sd0b' everything goes fine > until the point where LoginWindow.app should fire up. Instead of the login > panel I get a window which says that it wants to install "NeXTSTEP > Essentials (192 MB)". I figured out (from the scripts of the 4.1 Upgrader.app) that I need a 5. step that is: 5. Create /MySecondPartition/private/adm/BuildDisk.custom touch /MySecondPartition/private/adm/BuildDisk.custom And voila, the boot goes fine... Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------ Ps.: thanks for the relpy I got from Peter Nitezki <Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org>
From: "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Home Directory Icons Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:57:43 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <01bc3075$b2bd7980$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> I encountered this problem that some directories in my filesystem are being displayed as a normal folder instead of a directory. How do I revert them back to the home directory icons? I am using NS 3.3. Michael Chan
From: "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXFax Date: 14 Mar 1997 12:58:56 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <01bc3075$debd8340$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> References: <01bc2f67$d67a2f80$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> <5g9md2$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <5gam8p$92a@news.digifix.com> Yeah, I got them through e-mail! Thanks guys! Seems like they do not have a homepage. Michael Chan
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:47:52 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.858358475.11076.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour John, Yes, I was successful. I've used my old Adaptec 1542cf and copied the new 3.37 driver on a copy of my NS 3.3 drivers disquette. I've then replaced the old Adaptec with the new one. I loaded NS with the newest Adaptec driver. Here's one answer I've received that might help you: On 03/05/97 in the group comp.sys.next.sysadmin you wrote: >Bonjour, ... I remember spending almost a week on this problem about a year ago when I installed 3.3 on our PPro machines. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec driver supplied on the boot floppy doesn't properly recognize the 2940UW. You need to get the newer 2940 driver, v3.37, from NeXTanswers: <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1760.htmld/1760.html To install, you can either try the procedure outlined for another Adatec driver under NeXTSTEP 3.2 in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1541.htmld/1541.html or, you can do as I did and make a new copy of the boot floppy, as described in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1824.htmld/1824.html and <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1561.htmld/1561.html but replace the original Adaptec driver with the newer version. That's all I know. Good luck, TH Tom Holton <th@piglet.sfsu.edu> In Article Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. , John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> wrote: Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) Thanks, John Haver Ciao. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michel.tremblay@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem Installing NS3.3 FIP on a Jaz Disk. Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:55:59 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.858360099.16379.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour, Could you assist me installing NS 3.3 FIP? I have successfully format and initialized the Jaz disk on which I'm trying to install NS 3.3 FIP on. When installing NS 3.3 FIP from the boot diskette, I get up to where NS is about to write the files on to the Jaz disk and then I get a FATAL ERROR message as soon as NS is about to write to the disk. I do not have enough time to read the precise message. Sorry! I have installed the package from NextAnswers (Iomega Jaz Drive Package Overview Entry Number: 2155) but I'm not sure about the ordering of the steps I should follow when I read the Readme.rtf file provided with the package. When I manually fire up BuildDisk using the Jaz disk as my target drive, it looks like the BuildDisk application is freezing the system as soon as it tries to write to the disk. Is it that I need to somehow be able to configure the Jaz disk using the utility so that I could disable the eject disk option? I'm not a Bills Of Material expert. Is there a way to install NS from the NS CD-ROM using BOM without the GUI? Thanks. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michel.tremblay@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Your opinions and suggestion for improving CAPer/Ethertalk Date: 11 Mar 1997 21:17:56 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5g4i64$7qq$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Howdy! I'd like to ask everyone using CAPer about her/his suggestions (Columbia Appletalk Package for NeXT). I am in the process of improving this package and like to know about your problems. So please take 5 minutes of your time and help me a bit... - Does it work for you? - What must be improved to make installation easier? - What must be improved to make daily work/administration easier? - What functionality is missing? - Is the performance sufficent? - Did you experienced any crashes or data corruption? If so when and how? - Does the file export work for you? (AUFS server) - Does the file import (afpmount) work for you? - Does the print server (using UNIX printers from the Mac-side) work? - Does printing (to Appletalk printers) using 'papif' or 'lwpr' work? If not please describe the network environment. - Anything else? Thank you very much, please send this to frank@this.net. ---------- Some known problems in CAPer/CAPpl198 Release 8 (V4) are - when printing to a NT Server 'papif' does not work but 'lwpr' does. - when printing to a Novell Server neither 'papif' nor 'lwpr' works, the job is sent ok but the programs never finish since the server never sents an acknowledge packet. - afpmount'ed volumes from a NT server seems to cause problems, since the server terminate the connection on large file transfers. - Despite the message: 'Current zone is "*", using default zone "foobar"' from aarpd, it does not use the zone. It has to provided in the perferences. - Some zone names cannot be handled by the startup script, you have to set the name in the script itself, not in the default file. I am about to inverstigate these problems, and most are successful resolved. However I'd like to hear if you experienced one of these bugs too (maybe in a different context and environment...). -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Security (was: nidump a security problem ?) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 11:26:51 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1403971126510001@slip-92-14.ots.utexas.edu> References: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> In article <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org>, luomat@peak.org wrote: >> As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. >> Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a >> copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her >> leisure ? > >yup. I think this is just one of the security holes in a standard >NeXTStep installation. Aw c'mon. This is the *least* of your security worries under NS. Run Crack to make sure that there are no accounts with weak passwords (remember, on most systems the pasword file is world-readable anyway), and then start worrying about the real damage an attacker could with . . . * The Syslog(3) hole (CERT Advisory CA-95.13) (Don't be deceived by the emphasis on Sendmail. Any program running with a privileged UID which uses syslog(3) is vulnerable.) * The Rpc.statd hole (CERT Advisory CA-96.09) * The Rpc.ypupdated hole (CERT Advisory CA-95.17) none of which has a satisfactory patch available, and any of which can be coaxed into giving an attacker root access. Or, if you haven't taken appropriate action, you can worry about * Sendmail (So many holes, so little time . . .) (upgrade to 8.8.5) * The Talkd hole (CERT Advisory CA-97.06) (Misnamed. Really a "gethostbyname" hole. Install BIND 4.95, and run a caching-only nameserver) * The Rlogin hole (CERT Advisory CA-97.06) (replace rlogin) * The Rdist hole (CERT Advisory CA-96.14) (upgrade to 6.13) * The Lpr hole (AUSCERT Advisory AA-96.12) (install the lpr wrapper) or . . . the list just goes on and on. And this is *assuming* you've already configured your system in some reasonably safe fashion (are you still offering Rexec in your inetd.conf file ?). Under the circumstances, frankly, Nidump just doesn't rate worrying about. Jacques
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PersonalINN posting problems Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:32:26 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5g4c0a$15s@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5fk6ab$6lo$1@xmission.xmission.com> <Qn7T2OS00iV205ZnN=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5flieb$mag$1@xmission.xmission.com> <gn7gla_00iWR41LVA=@andrew.cmu.edu> <5fsgrs$18n@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <8n8VVcG00iVEI8khhD@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ftuku$f5@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <wn8iBhe00iVEA1OKxi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5g1b19$6r2@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> <In9O1Yq00iWY05p6Ud@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > > To me, surviving this "documentation" > > and its concepts seemed a bit like a initiation rite ;-) > > That's somewhat true, but INN is one of the larger and more complex > systems around-- it's not like installing a new version of gawk or some > such. Right. But PersonalINN, in contrast, should be even easier to install than gawk - that's why I tried to do it in a slightly modified way. > INN 1.5.x refers to "out.going" in the manpages for archive, buffchan, > filechan, innxbatch, innxmit, newsfeeds, and nntpsend. It does so only if that's how you configured it. Note that as soon as you enter FOO.GOING as your outgoing directory in the configure file, all the manpages you mention will refer to FOO.GOING as well. Of course, all manpages in PersonalINN reflect the actual paths of the installation... > > To me, it is. Feels more natural and not so "machine-like". > > And you'd have immidiately the questions of those who are trying > > to understand and not only accept things: "Why is it this way?" > > Well, I was happy with the explanation given, You were??? > but it's clear that your preferences are otherwise. What do you refer to? The "natural" part or the "questions" part? Concerning the latter, it is something you surely will consider when publishing a program you'll have to support... > Shrug.... Don't be afraid :-) I'm with you voting for UNIX and file extensions in Rhapsody... ;-) > Consider someone using PersonalINN for a (relatively) few newsgroups and > is getting a very small feed-- for the sake of example, around 5 MB of > news per day. And they've got the news spool on a 1 GB drive which was > roughly half-full. > > If the expiry fails for some reason (maybe the active file got hosed, or > whatever), you're going to gradually fill that disk up with 450 - 500 MB > worth of articles over the next two months or so before you get an > explicit warning that a problem happened. You have a good point here. Bye Uli PS: I'll be gone for CeBIT the next week. ______________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine ______________________________________________________________________
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 16:42:48 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <332971F8.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5g7o25$sqi@newstand.syr.edu> <5g8e1e$om3@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5g97fr$ml8@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andrew J. Korty wrote: > > > > I usually change the ni* utilities to 700. No reason any > > > Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* library > functions to do essentially the same thing? a normal user could even insert a floppydisk with the nidump binary on it. The chmod to ni* utilities is just a handicap for newbies. Not a serious protection ! If you want to make the netinfo accessable to privileged users only the lookupd should be modified for example to give only information to processes owning root privileges. The netinfo (password) access could then be restricted by sticky bits which are hard to get. This is quite not trivial as the lookupd must be able to tell trivial information to any user. For example the "ls" command wants to convert uids to user names ... As the source of lookupd is not available just forget about it ! By the way I don't see really a need to restrict the access. Remember networks with NIS are even worst. Most NIS Servers deliver all information to the world, not even to users on the system ... stef ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP and Openstep... Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:46:44 -0800 Organization: Egg Head Billy Productions Message-ID: <33299D0A.5328@ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, its me again. The guy who keeps posting questions about ppp and openstep. Still haven't figured out what's going on. I've reinstalled ppp twice now (once with having the LKS loaded in the rc.local script, and once in the kern_loader.conf script). Neither had any effect. From looking at the log below, I see that my machine rejects two AUTHTYPE messages. Could this have something to do with my connection not coming up? I've specified -pap and -chap in my options file. I've read about "secrets" files, but I really don't understand what they are and what they're used for at all. Can someone, PLEEEEEZE, help me? mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Exerpt from my ppp log follows: Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu chat[533]: netcom login: -- got it Mar 10 00:33:45 jehu pppd[453]: Serial connection established. Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Using interface ppp0 Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp> <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:46 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x1 <auth upap>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x2 <asyncmap 0x0> <auth chap 05> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (0) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (REJ) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd MAGICNUMBER Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (21c5d06f) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd PCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ACCOMPRESSION Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: (ACK) Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: lcp_reqci: returning CONFREJ. Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>] Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap 0x0> <magic 0x21c5d06f> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:49 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP ConfAck id=0x1 <mru 1500> <magic 0x35fb63f9> <pcomp> <accomp>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x0 35 fb 63 f9] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x1 <addr 0.0.0.0> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [CCP ConfReq id=0x1 <bsd v1 10>] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: rcvd [LCP TermReq id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: LCP terminated at peer's request Mar 10 00:33:50 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP TermAck id=0x4] Mar 10 00:33:53 jehu pppd[453]: Connection terminated. Mar 10 00:33:54 jehu pppd[453]: Exit.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Home Directory Icons Date: 14 Mar 1997 19:04:21 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5gc7fl$r50$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <01bc3075$b2bd7980$081378cb@cimichael.compugraph.com.sg> "Michael Chan" <Michael_Chan@compugraph.com.sg> wrote: >I encountered this problem that some directories in my filesystem are being >displayed as a normal folder instead of a directory. How do I revert them >back to the home directory icons? I am using NS 3.3. > >Michael Chan > This can happen if you have checked the "Large File System" option in the expert preferences in Preferences.app. --Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Message-ID: <E71s63.5p8@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 19:15:39 GMT P Damiano writes > I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader > will work with black hardware Yes, mine (nec multispin 3X) does. CDPlayer.app works with it. As does Carl Edman's freely available playcd. Juergen --- AnsweringMachine +49 511 92455-50 Fon -51 Fax -52 NeXTMail welcome = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dialin to NS3.3 or OS4.x Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:48:56 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5gcdjo$l8u@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> hello, Anyone sucessed to dial back to NS3.3 or OS4.x (Intel). Do I need to change the getty to mgetty or gettyPS? Help needed. Thanks! kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
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From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail.App oddity Date: 14 Mar 1997 22:08:42 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5gci9a$8oi$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have an NSFIP at OSU using a direct TCP/IP connection. I recently upgraded my hardware, and reinstalled NS3.3 (I have ordered 4.0, but it has yet to arrive!). We have a "fuzzy mailer" on campus, so that if someone sends email to an address close to someone's username or real name, the fuzzy mailer tries to make a match and forward the mail to the right place. My entry there is jackson.21@osu.edu. I use the same old IP and hostname, which is lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu as I had before the reinstall, and the resolv.conf file is the same as before. The mailhost is the university's central mailhost, in the ACS.ohio-state.edu domain. Now here is the oddity: If from a terminal window I mail to jackson.21@osu.edu, I get the mail a few minutes later with randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu in the From field. But if I mail to that address from Mail.app, the From field contains randyj@lubra.ACS.ohio-state.edu which incorrectly identifies my ip as a node in the ACS subdomain. When people receive my mail, and try to REPLY, their mail bounces, since lubra in ACS doesn't exist. The implication is that Mail.app is somehow not attaching the rest of my hostname to <lubra>, and is making the mail legal by extending it to lubra.ACS.ohio-state.edu. What can I do to eliminate this condition, which obviously is unacceptable! Help will be greatly appreciated! Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 14:59:35 -0600 Organization: Chapman and Cutler Message-ID: <geordie-ya02408000R1403971459350001@kyrie> References: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) wrote: :Hi. I screwed up on the first trial and so I hope that this works... : :I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader :will work with black hardware : My Multispin 4x works on my turbo. -- Geordie Korper geordie@chapman.com ********************************************************************* * The text above should in no way be construed to represent the * * opinions of my employer, even if specifically stated to do so. * *********************************************************************
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ATI video cards no longer supported ? Date: 14 Mar 1997 23:17:55 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5gcmb3$g8o$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> I just spoke to a NeXT tech support rep about problems I'm having with ATI's new Mach64 cards using the 264VT or Rage chipsets. That BIOS revision isn't supported by the current ATI driver, and he does not anticipate that any updates will be forthcoming since the driver engineers have been relocated to the Rhapsody group. Since it looks like the new ATI cards are all using those chipsets, this means that ATI is not an option any more? I'd like to hear otherwise... -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting an anonymous ftp session greeting Date: 15 Mar 1997 00:08:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5gcpap$r50$2@mark.ucdavis.edu> Hi all, How would I go about getting ftpd to give a welcome message to anonymous (only) ftp logins? (NS3.3 on black) Thanks, Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703141623.LAA08627@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:22:42 -0500 Subject: I can 'su' to root but I'm still me This is really strange. I am a member of the group 'wheel' and when I try to 'su' to root it lets me, but when I do 'whoami' it still lists me as 'luomat': su - root Password: charisma% whoami luomat charisma% touch /tmp/file charisma% ls -l /tmp/file -rw-r--r-- 1 luomat 0 Mar 14 11:22 /tmp/file charisma% Here's 'ls -l /bin/su*' lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 10 Feb 6 22:34 /bin/su -> su.nowheel* -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6620 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.nowheel* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6668 Oct 19 1994 /bin/su.wheel* Anyone got a clue as to why? TjL
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP: Procmail - forward to user? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 15 Mar 1997 08:53:37 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5gdo2h$563@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Hello, I was just trying to install "procmail" on my system, for this special purpose: I want it to take each incoming mail and if teh subject line matches, teh mail should go to me AND someone else (alternatively, only someone else). However, I don't seem to find any provisions for that... the ebst I got is that the mail went to the proper mailbox in the spool directory, but owned by me so that the other user didn't get at it... Is there any way, procmail or not, that would selectively forward my email to someone else? Please Cc: me when you reply to the newsgroup, our news server is lagging by ~4 days... Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: sanjeev@ee.umr.edu (Sanjeev Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: (Driver Kit...) Date: 15 Mar 1997 10:47:18 GMT Organization: UMR Missouri's Technological University Message-ID: <5gdunm$6f1$4@news.cc.umr.edu> Hi, I was trying to write a Device Driver for EPIX frame grabber card under NextStep 3.2. My problem is that when ever I try to open the port, and if the video signal is not present at the port (camera is not powered on) the system hangs. Is there any way I could time this out. I mean if the port is not available (not powered) just don't open it!! Any pointer on this will be helpful. Thank you very much for your time ... Sanjeev
From: mkagalen@lynx.dac.neu.edu (Michael Kagalenko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cyrillic in OPENSTEP/Mach Date: 14 Mar 1997 20:08:35 -0500 Organization: Northeastern University, Boston, MA. 02115, USA Message-ID: <5gcsqj$d0n@lynx.dac.neu.edu> Content-Type: text/html Have anyone managed to display Cyrillic text in KOI-8 encoding under NeXT OS ? I installed russian fonts from peanuts, but switching them on does not result in correct text display. I guess, it is mapping problem. Can one convert X fonts into NeXT fonts ? Thanks, Michael -- ABILITY,n. The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703150445.XAA03592@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 9bb8cdfb55ea311ca599f293fd75fa1b - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 23:45:00 -0500 Subject: Re: Please Help! Openstep 4.1 and ppp... Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 9bb8cdfb55ea311ca599f293fd75fa1b - Responding To: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Original Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 05:43:22 -0800 Message-ID: 9bb8cdfb55ea311ca599f293fd75fa1b - > Can someone please look at my ppp log, and maybe tell me where I > should be looking for errors? Just point me in the right direction. > Is it in the installation of ppp (hostconfig, iftab, rc.local) or > in my scripts? It looks like either: a) there's a problem with your ISP b) they want 'chap': Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap 05>] contact your ISP and see if they want 'chap' authentication. They might have switched this around the same time. Don't know if that's it, but that's what it looks like to me TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703150448.XAA03614@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 18889950a8810f6b7e33ac627c5b0336 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 23:48:32 -0500 Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 18889950a8810f6b7e33ac627c5b0336 - Responding To: ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu (Andrew J. Korty) Original Date: 13 Mar 1997 15:46:03 GMT Message-ID: 18889950a8810f6b7e33ac627c5b0336 - > Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* > library functions to do essentially the same thing? Only if they know it exists.... and of course there's no reason not to plug one hole just because another similar one exists... and the ni* stuff is a lot easier for a casual hacker to use... TjL
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade results in SendMail meltdown Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 23:09:51 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Lab Message-ID: <332b2c09.322898914@news.gatech.edu> During the last upgrade to OpenStep 4.1 for Intel hardware, our mail service begin to fail. The installation went fine, but in no time we begin to see a number anomalies in the transmission and reception of email. Incoming messages were either bounced back, delayed days before being received, or worse the message would be lost at our server. It appeared to the outside that mail was being received but in reality we never got the message from the spool file. We spent a good bit of time checking the external network (router, switch, nameserver, gateway…you get the idea). Finally, I had to punt and reinstall OpenStep 4.0. Things are back to normal so it must be the upgrade. I've looked over the news groups for awhile and haven't spotted anyone with a similar problem. I hoped my post might generate some ideas. Thanks for any and all help, Brian Meadows P.S. As a personal note, I am disappointed in Next for not supporting the upgrade. I was informed that Next charges 150 $/hr to debug sendmail problems. Even Microsoft supports their OS upgrades for 30 days. ______________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: tftpboot directory? Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 12:44:28 +0500 Organization: Merriam-Webster Inc. Message-ID: <332A535C.1B95@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The NeXT I'm working on was set-up originally by someone else. Why is there a /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot directory that has subdirectories that duplicate the entire drive structure? ---Amy West
From: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Pentium v. Pentium Pro Date: 15 Mar 1997 21:17:01 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Hi... Any comparisons between a Pentium 200 versus a Pentium Pro 200 for NS? Any advantages one way or the other? TIA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: [Q] Console to Sun by tip from NeXT, is it possible? Message-ID: <E72zxK.9t8@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5g8qdg$6it@jupiter.orc.ru> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 11:00:56 GMT In article <5g8qdg$6it@jupiter.orc.ru> vova@rtr.transit.ru (Vladimir Pilipyuk) writes: > > Hi All, > > Could you help me with the following trouble? > > I tried to make console for Sun running Solaris 2.5.1 by typing > > tip ttya9600 > > in the Terminal window on NexStep 3.3. The tip was connected and I saw > data received from Sun but all what I typed was transfered to Sun > incorectly. The /etc/remote file was original and I tried to exclude > the tc=BASIC field from the ttya9600 definition. > > Do you have an idea? > That's trivial. The serial line protocol (character size, stopbits) doesn't match. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked up to GERMANY | pgp, MIME, NeXTmail # the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: connecting CDROM to NeXT (OpenStep) Message-ID: <E730to.9ty@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 11:20:11 GMT In article <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> "Dr. Alan Kelm" <akelm@cms.math.ca> writes: > I'm starting to work with a NeXT Cube that has recently been > upgraded to OpenStep 4.1. I have a CDROM drive which I would > like to use (to install software). I connect the drive to the > Cube and reboot. When I login I get the message: > "The SCSI disk is unreadable" > (This happens with the OpenStep distribution CD's as well as with > the Mathematica 3.0 CD) > > Is there something I have to do on the software side to get the > drive to be recognized properly? The Manuals say that the NeXT > hardware automatically detects the drive. The same SCSI drive > works fine when connected to a SGI Indy Unix system. > The answer might not be better than the problem statement, but anyway... Trivial sources of trouble (though they might not be applicable here): - The SCSI-Ids are garbled (DC/ROMs should have an Id higher than the hard drives to avoid boot time trouble and need to be unique) - The block device mapped to the CD/ROM should not match an entry in /etc/fstab (mount/umount-trouble in conjunction with ejection of disks) - You're not supposed to have a disk in the drive during bootup since this will cause trouble with the automounter (might be your case). Any CD/ROM drive is supposed to work as long as the parameter ROM has not been altered (that's why Apple CD/ROMs don't work). There are some drives (older ones) that, in conjunction with damaged disks, cause the disk driver to post errors or even the generic SCSI driver to hang the system. Refer to the console log for any error messages. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: joabj@charm.net (Joab Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Question about commercial Internet monitoring software Date: Sat, 15 Mar 97 21:55:01 GMT Organization: Charm.Net Baltimore Internet Access, Hon (410) 558-3900 Message-ID: <5gf60c$m6n$4@news2.charm.net> Hello! I am writing a story for the Baltimore City Paper on software that monitors corporate Internet usage, programs like "Little Brother" (Yes that's the real name) and Sequel's "Net Access Manager." Basically these programs track where each individual at a corporate workplace is going to on the Internet, if they have Internet access. I'm wondering if, by chance, anyone reading this uses this software or knows anybody who uses this software? What do sysadmins think of such an idea? One of the selling points is that it allows you to monitor the flow of Internet traffic. But another one of its selling points is to find out which workers are playing all-day multiplayer sessions of Quake or something.This brings up some interesting issue sabout privacy, etc. In particular, I'm interested in finding someone who has installed this program, at the behest of management, but unbeknownst to the employees themselves. Maybe this goes on or maybe I'm just paranoid I don't know. If anyone is interested in discussing their experience of this sort on record, I'd keep their identity completely anonymous in the story. Any thoughts? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "History shows us again and again, how nature points out the follies of men" "Go, Go Godzilla!" joabj@charm.net joabj@delphi.com http://www.charm.net/~joabj/ 410.356.6274 -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQBtAzJFsfEAAAEDAOtSe/7TU8y0ZYBFXp8c6hxwzDIdbIsDtT svKx2Xv5S65Mdc3vCEFhMuwxceatO4T5IKgBFWJ2r7s9fFKtsA IS4vKCESi+wY7j5rEZ6oYbaeWlj1yfwjAjg8SUxCjuji1QAFEbQeS m9hYiBKYWNrc29uIDxqb2FiakBjaGFybS5uZXQ+ =ttEP -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
From: stinsley@mindspring.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ? NETWORKING - appletalk/NFS ?? Date: 16 Mar 1997 03:32:06 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <stinsley-1503972231430001@user-168-121-72-201.dialup.mindspring.com> I do web development on Macs and would like to install Apache on my black 040 NeXT cube to create a mirror, but need to network everything, QUESTIONS: 1. does next support Appletalk? apparently it did in 3.0 then it was removed in 3.3, any work-arounds, should i update the OS to 3.0 or 3.3? 2. should i use NFSshare on the macs to create an NFS net? i would rather not do this, probably more work and maintenance. 3. Other than ethernet cards for my macs & a hub is there any other hardware i will need? Any FAQs or "do this" would be great. thanx in advance!!!! chris snider cjs@mindspring.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <7353857885137@digifix.com> Date: 16 Mar 1997 05:00:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <608858488427@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Archives are available by ftp at ftp://ftp.stepwise.com/pub/Next_Announce_Archives Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. 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Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <ajk@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Message-ID: <199703160040.TAA19315@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? From: "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Id: <19310.858472855.1@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 19:40:56 -0500 Sender: ajk@physics.purdue.edu In message <199703150448.XAA03614@kira.peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > Couldn't a normal user write a simple program using the getpw* > > library functions to do essentially the same thing? > > Only if they know it exists.... and of course there's no reason not > to plug one hole just because another similar one exists... and the > ni* stuff is a lot easier for a casual hacker to use... That's true, but I'd hate for anyone to think that by making these utilities unavailable they have completely hidden the information. After all, it only takes a tiny Perl script to reveal the encrypted passwords. We've been trying to figure out a way to get shadowing working on our NeXT stations. We want them to be NIS clients to a Sun server which shadows passwords. Of course, we could write some scripts to import the maps (passwd.adjunct.byname for the encrypted passwords, and passwd.byname for the rest of the /etc/passwd information) into NetInfo, but it would be easy enough for people to use nidump or getpwent() to read them, rendering vain our efforts at shadowing. Course, if we could get all our users to choose intelligent passwords we wouldn't have this problem ... :-) ajk
From: publicist@meetmeonline.com (MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: white box Apache 1.2b? Date: 16 Mar 1997 08:22:48 GMT Organization: MeetMeOnline <a zerologic company> Message-ID: <publicist-1603970225350001@thebook.on-demand.com> url: http://www.meetmeonline.com/ Hello, Where might I be able to acquire a binary or .pkg for Apache 1.2b7? I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel. TIA! Michael. -- Meet a friend, Meet a lover, Meet another... MeetMe at http://www.meetmeonline.com/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703150837.DAA05791@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 97 03:37:40 -0500 Subject: help needed: re: NeXTStep/OpenStep security holes There has been significant response to an off-the-cuff remark I made a few days ago. I asked if anyone was interested in starting a list of security holes in NeXTStep. I've gotten quite a few people saying "Please tell me whatever you find out". So I've decided to start a new web page devoted to the subject. However, I do not have many "known holes", so I am asking that you out there who know what the holes are, please share that knowledge with me and others. You can email me at this address. Please include as much relevant information as possible, including what version this effects, how to solve the problem, etc. The new page will be found at: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/security/ Thanks again TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Today's Pet-Peeve: .sig files should not be longer than 4 lines.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703160645.BAA08734@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 370719eab60e8042e7c48b3f6a00af13 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 97 01:45:36 -0500 Subject: Re: PPP and Openstep... Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 370719eab60e8042e7c48b3f6a00af13 - Responding To: Mark Trombino <mtrombin@ix.netcom.com> Original Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:46:44 -0800 > Mar 10 00:33:47 jehu pppd[453]: sent [LCP ConfRej id=0x2 <auth chap > 05>] I don't know for sure, but this looks like someone is asking for 'chap' authentication TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Today's Pet-Peeve: .sig files should not be longer than 4 lines.
From: Christian Hahn <1919-484@online.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.1 can't boot anymore Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 10:52:19 +0100 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <332BC2D3.4861@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Please help, i got stuck in a boot problem: I installed OpenStep 4.1 properly, i configured everything i need and i was booting several times without any problems. But since i configured the GSPrinter-Filter (although i don't believe that this would be the reason for my problem), the startup comments (after having detected all devices correctly) just display "boot_rc" every two seconds without going on (no more harddisk activity). Any ideas? Thanks in advance
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba ports for NS 3.3? Date: 16 Mar 1997 19:01:56 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <5ghg35$hki@news.sei.cmu.edu> Sorry if this is a FAQ. Thought I'd just check before looking at the current Samba distribution. Any porting experiences welcome. Thanks. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
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From: pdamiano@gpu4.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: 16 Mar 1997 22:13:31 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ghrab$ona@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> <5ga5d2$cnm@chinx10.tpa.net> I've been using tcsh as the principle shell on NeXTstations and NeXTstation Turbo's for more than a year without any complications as of yet. Peter Damiano -- Peter Damiano Phone: (403)-492-2526 Department of Physics FAX: (403)-492-0714 The University of Alberta email: pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2J1
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: connecting CDROM to NeXT (OpenStep) Date: 16 Mar 1997 19:49:36 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5ghisg$7s1$1@hpax.cup.hp.com> References: <33258FA8.167E@cms.math.ca> <E730to.9ty@nidat.sub.org> In article <E730to.9ty@nidat.sub.org>, Peter Nitezki <Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de> wrote: >Any CD/ROM drive is supposed to work as long as the parameter ROM has not >been altered (that's why Apple CD/ROMs don't work). My Apple CD-ROM drive works on my cube. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue General Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open/Intelligent Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.7200
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703162022.PAA04657@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: e202d869784bec337028b83816a8ce63 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sun, 16 Mar 97 15:22:02 -0500 Subject: Re: Mail.App oddity Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: e202d869784bec337028b83816a8ce63 - Responding To: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Original Date: 14 Mar 1997 22:08:42 GMT Message-ID: e202d869784bec337028b83816a8ce63 - > The implication is that Mail.app is somehow not attaching the rest > of my hostname to <lubra>, and is making the mail legal by > extending it to lubra.ACS.ohio-state.edu. > > What can I do to eliminate this condition, which obviously is > unacceptable! 1) set a 'reply-to' line but not all mailreaders can use that and you might prefer a correct 2) use one of the KEY and VALUE settings under EXPERT preferences to be: From Randy Jackson <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> NOTE: don't put a colon in the expert preferences between the "From" and the address, it will be added automagically if you are really gung-ho you can 3) get sendmail.8.8.5 and configure it to masquerade_as the host you want or if you are really gungho you can probably edit the rulesets in your existing sendmail config, but I wouldn't know what to change... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Today's Pet-Peeve: .sig files should not be longer than 4 lines.
From: chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-ROM questions Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 07:30:14 GMT Organization: Netcom Sender: news@cmich.slip.netcom.com Message-ID: <1997Mar17.073014.2005@cmich.slip.netcom.com> Keywords: CD-ROM NeXT Originator: news@cmich.slip.netcom.com Originator: news@cmich.slip.netcom.com Hi there: I've noticed some strange behaviour when I use mac/PC disks in my CD-ROM. I've got the old single speed NeXT CD-ROM drive. When I put in some "hybrid" (i.e. pc and mac format) disks, the directory entries sometimes show up as double. Every file will appear twice. This happens mainly (exclusively?) with quicktime .mov files that I view with NeXTTIME. What's even more odd is that, NeXTTIME won't play them and if I try to copy them to the hard disk, the files never copy completely the first time. After several attempts, however, the file will copy completely and then NeXTTIME can run the movie from the hard drive. Is there some problem with the file reader or perhaps cd.util? Any suggestions? Is there a patch for this? I've looked at the files on both a mac and a pc, and the disks seem fine. Also, is there a driver for a CD-ROM burner for NeXT? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Chuck -------------------------------------------------------------- chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com NeXT Mail and MIME Mail gladly accepted -------------------------------------------------------------- -- -------------------------------------------------------------- chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com NeXT Mail and MIME Mail gladly accepted --------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: luomat@peak.org Organization: Disorganization References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:14:02 GMT In <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > As installed out of the box, /usr/bin/nidump is world executable. > > Wouldn't this allow a hacker who broke a weak account to obtain a > > copy of all network password files for further cracking at his/her > > leisure ? > > yup. I think this is just one of the security holes in a standard > NeXTStep installation. > > > > Is this a threat worth worrying about? > > Only if you have a weak account and haven't changed the permissions! > > TjL > > ps -- anyone interested in starting that list of security holes? Well, nidump is actually not a security hole. The big hole, actually a crater, is the lack of shadow passwords. Nowadays, almost all Unix boxes support shadow passwords. This is not a question of "weak" passwords alone. Passwords are weak per definition if their encryption is world readable.
From: Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DialIP,PPP, bad serial port? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 05:15:14 -0500 Organization: Internet Solutions Incorporated of Fort Wayne, IN Message-ID: <332D19B2.735C@mysolution.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I check if the serial port for my NeXTStation is bad? I have tried to check my modem by typing: tip fa9600 The system will return "connected", but then nothing happens... I am using a Macintosh Serial cable with a U.S.Robotics Courier V.Everything with X2 upgrade. I just want a response from my modem that I can see. Help??
From: stanj@cs.stanford.edu (Stan Jirman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Console is gone Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Date: 17 Mar 1997 12:32:06 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5gjdk6$hub@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I just logged in into my NS4.1 PC, and TickleServices said something about While loading `!Initialization!' for `/LocalLibrary/TickleServices/Mail.ts', TCL error, couldn't create error file for command: I/O error. Check console for more information. So I checked the console and oh surprise, nothing opens. There is also no console file in the /tmp directory. So I rebooted, for no avail. I don't remember doing anything spectacular recently, other than replacing my Ethernet board... Any insight as how to get my console back is really greatly appreciated. Thanks, - Stan --- Nature photography: http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~stanj NeXTmail and MIME: stanj@cs.stanford.edu
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Safe to replace csh with tcsh? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 13:48:52 +0100 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <332D3DB4.794B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5fdt4d$54o$1@xmission.xmission.com> <5flkcl$qte$1@kanga.accessone.com> <5ga5d2$cnm@chinx10.tpa.net> <5ghrab$ona@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit P Damiano wrote: > .. Don't forget to add tcsh in /etc/shells and add it again after an upgarde of the system. ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Darin Smith <darin@aero.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Admin question (NIS) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:47:14 -0600 Organization: Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering Message-ID: <332D6782.2230@aero.tamu.edu> References: <33244F74.1CC0@aero.tamu.edu> <5g26o8$ke8@news1-alterdial.uu.net> <3326E745.562B@aero.tamu.edu> <5g9la7$j69@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Mar 1997 15:34:33 GMT Followup: I got it all back. I just had to kill the netinfo database and start with a "virgin" copy. Once I had done that, it was like setting up a new machine and only took a few minutes using "HostManager" and "SimpleNetworkStarter". I haven't explained myself fully I guess...my big objection to using NetInfo over UNIX flat files is that it is kind of like the registry in NT or Win95 (I'm pretty sure NeXT is where MS got their idea for this). It may keep everything in a nice database (which is probably faster than flat files) but it's easy to screw yourself if you don't know what you are doing. On Windows, one can keep the OS from even coming up...on NeXT I was able to make it dump core whenever it tried to start the Display PostScript window manager. Now I know of ways to keep the right info backed up so that you can get everything back through a boot to single user mode (just like UNIX), but I'm still not sure I like it. Whatever floats your boat though... --Darin PS. Thanks to everyone who helped me out.
From: ibh@stibo.dk (Ib Hojme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting serial speed > 9600 Date: 17 Mar 1997 14:29:52 GMT Organization: Stibo Datagrafik, Development Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gjkh0$e6i@zeus.stibo.dk> Hi, Could anyone tell me what I have to do to set the port speed to more than 9600. I can't seem to get it higher than 9600 and I have a 28800 modem :-( I have a UUCP connection between two PC's, both running Next 3.3 and using the On-Board Serial Ports 3.30 serial driver. I have tried changing gettytab, remote, ttys in /etc, and 9600 is the most I can get. Setup in gettytab: std.19200|19200-baud:\ :sp#19200:p8:ap: std.38400|38400-baud:\ :sp#38400:p8:ap: Setup in remote : a19200|cua19200|Dial-out on cua at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#19200:tc=BASIC: b19200|cub19200|Dial-out on cub at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#19200:tc=BASIC: fa19200|cufa19200|Dial-out on cufa at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#19200:tc=BASIC: fb19200|cufb19200|Dial-out on cufb at 19200 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#19200:tc=BASIC: a38400|cua38400|Dial-out on cua at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#38400:tc=BASIC: b38400|cub38400|Dial-out on cub at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#38400:tc=BASIC: fa38400|cufa38400|Dial-out on cufa at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#38400:tc=BASIC: fb38400|cufb38400|Dial-out on cufb at 38400 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#38400:tc=BASIC: Setup in ttys : ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty std.38400" dialup on Thanks in advance. Ib / ibh@stibo.dk
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:03:34 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> In-Reply-To: <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Mar-97 Re: nidump a security probl.. by Thomas Funke@gamelan.shn > Well, nidump is actually not a security hole. The big hole, actually a > crater, is the lack of shadow passwords. Nowadays, almost all Unix boxes > support shadow passwords. I tend to agree. > This is not a question of "weak" passwords alone. Passwords are weak per > definition if their encryption is world readable. But this is wrong. Passwords are encrypted using what was intended to be a one-way function-- a function which requires so much computational effort to compute the inverse that it's not feasible to do so in a reasonable time. However, computer technology and encryption software (in the form of the UFC algorithm-- "Ultra Fast Crypt()") have improved to the point where a heuristic attack on the encrypted passwords is feasible if poor passwords were chosen. The scenario is similiar to messages encrypted using a public key system, except that /etc/passwd used a 56-bit DES algorithm, whereas more modern encryption systems like PGP use keys of 128-bits or more. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba and Rumba and CAPer...Oh My! Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:02:06 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <5gk0uu$g1c@news.sei.cmu.edu> My home desktop LAN has three boxes: a NeXTstation running NS3.3 a PowerMac running MacOS 7.5.5 a Pentium laptop running Windows 95 (w/PC Card Ethernet Adapter) (I also have a 68030 Mac running MacOS 7.5.5 and Vicom Internet Gateway providing routing services to the Internet via a PPP dialup into work...but that's another story.) My mission was for every box to be able to natively browse the files on every other box for NO money and a MODEST investment of time. Mac to NeXT was made easy thanks to Frank Siegert, et al., porting the Columbia Appletalk Package (CAP) to NS. Cheers to him, and I'll plug his site (www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html). After many travails in keeping NeXT's Appletalk Pkg functioning through 3.3, I kiss it goodbye. PC to NeXT was more challenging, but I kept hearing from Linux-folk about Samba (http://samba.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/). Got the latest version, hacked it, phutzed with it...it works. So this go me most of the way there. The PC was able to browse the NeXT's file system, but the NeXT had to use a terminal-based, ftp-like program "smbclient". Not good enough. Fortunately, Christian Starkjohann had posted the availability of a Lanmanager client for NS called Rumba, based on smbfs 0.8. Got it... it works fine. Rumba can be obtained from the Peanuts archive. (peanuts.leo.org) So mission accomplished. The Next provides a "nexus" ;') for the file sharing, such that the PC sees the Mac's files mounted remotely on, and exported by, the NeXT, and the Mac sees the PC's files the same way. Before anyone asks, printing services on my LAN are supported by an HP JetDirect ethernet print server, so printing wasn't an issue for me in the use of this software, although printer sharing is addressed by both Samba and CAP. Let's hear it for PD software and NeXT's bundling of NFS with NS, without which none of this would have been possible. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: gball@fg2.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Document Management Video Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 20:50:32 GMT Organization: Adhesive Media, Inc. Message-ID: <5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Thought you might like to know there is excellent document management video available at website: www.claritydmi.com Greg
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Pentium v. Pentium Pro Message-ID: <E76I5z.HrH@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 08:27:35 GMT In article <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) writes: > Hi... > > Any comparisons between a Pentium 200 versus a Pentium Pro 200 for NS? > Any advantages one way or the other? > The Pentium Pro is about 50% faster -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:21:59 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E779oq.45F@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <E71s63.5p8@euler.han.de> In article <E71s63.5p8@euler.han.de> js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) writes: > P Damiano writes > > I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader > > will work with black hardware > > Yes, mine (nec multispin 3X) does. Mine doesn't! More informativly, an ORIGINAL multispin, which is implicitly x2 will not work. Nor will it work with NT, or any number of other systems - they're just broken drives (works on my Mac though, so thats OK). the later ones work fine, as do just about every other drive. I had an nec multispin 4X once which was fine. $an
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From: Dan Bikle <dbikle@rahul.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 68040 cube needs disk space; any recommendations? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 17 Mar 1997 06:02:53 GMT Organization: Bikle Software Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gimqd$bqq@samba.rahul.net> NNTP-Posting-User: dbikle Keywords: quantum VP32170 quantum prodrive NeXT 68040 cc: dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu NeXT owners, I'm impressed with the advice I received here on my NeXT 400 dpi printer. Now.... I need to expand the diskspace of my 040 cube. The cube is running NS 3.0. I bought a 2gb quantum VP32170 and tried using it to replace an ancient 40mb quantum "prodrive". My NeXT would not recognize the VP32170. I experimented with various scsi address settings and scsi bus termination methods. Do any of you have a good experience with any 3.5" drives? -Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel B. Bikle/Independent Oracle Consultant dbikle@alumni.caltech.edu | 415/941-6276 | P.O. BOX 1401 LOS ALTOS CA 94023 http://www.rahul.net/dbikle ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Message-ID: <332DEA09.6918@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:04:09 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: NS harddrive crash recovery help requrested Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am running NS3.3 on an intel box with two harddrives. My secondary drive is fine and has NS3.3 on it. My primary drive is partitioned and has win95 on half and NS3.3 on the other half. I recently lost the NS side of the bootable drive and could not fsck it, so I re-initialized it. Then I copied *all* my NS3.3 stuff from my secondary drive to my primary drive (did have some trouble copying the /etc/dev stuff). Unfortunately, I still cannot boot on the NS side of the partitioned drive: I get the error, ERRNO 2; /etc/mach_init trying /etc/_init ERRNO 2: Then it hangs. Surely there are only a few files which I need to get in place... Any ideas? ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
Message-ID: <332DEA9A.691E@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:06:34 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Copying to a win95 partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am copying files from NS3.3 to a win95 partition, but there is a problem with the files which have too long a name. Is there an easier solution than writing a script which shortens every file name to < 8 characters and every extension to 3 chars? Ted Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
Message-ID: <332DEB6F.792D@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:10:07 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: NS3.3, PPP, and Mail Host Unknown Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am running NS3.3 on black hardware. Recently installed PPP using Gateway.app. Great way to do things. I use OminiWebb and Mail.app regularly. Omniweb works fine, but I cannot mail outside of my local domain. The mail gets returned with the statements: Host unknown (Authoritative answer from nameserver). I have set up the file resolv.conf with three nameservers and have the same three listed under NetInfoManager's local - locations - resolver - nameserver stuff. What to I need to get mail outside of the local network which I connect to? Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Date: 18 Mar 1997 03:13:58 GMT Control: cancel <5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5gk3uv$dbg$14@boris.eden.com> Sender: gball@fg2.com Spam cancelled. Notice ID: 19970318.30. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce or http://spam.ohww.norman.ok.us/spam_notices/19970318.30.html for complete report. Original Subject: Document Management Video
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:50:53 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All drives are on the A2940 chain. All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. Upon restarting, a fschk is done with another reboot. The ONLY way I have found is to specify "config=Default" at the boot: prompt, but then I can't get any of the color settings, etc. Also I have never seen the login panel... Any suggestions?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Samba ports for NS 3.3? Message-ID: <E7714F.J1K@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5ghg35$hki@news.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 15:17:03 GMT In article <5ghg35$hki@news.sei.cmu.edu> lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) writes: > Sorry if this is a FAQ. Thought I'd just check before looking > at the current Samba distribution. Any porting experiences > welcome. > > Thanks. > > -- > Larry Howard > Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University > lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397 Hi Larry, I have compiled Samba v1.9.16p9 (not the very latest version, but quite up to date) without many problems on NS 3.3 quad-fat. The only necessary changes (besides the makefile modifications) to the source were the following: open source/chgpasswd.c and search for the line if ((wpid = waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) and change it to if ((wpid = sys_waitpid(pid, &wstat, 0)) < 0) { Then open source/system.c and search for the line return waitpid(pid,status,options); change it to return wait4(pid, status, options, NULL); Save both files and recompile. This is not really "porting" and I guess you won't encounter big problems either. Good luck, Robert. ========================================================================= Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany =========================================================================
From: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Pentium v. Pentium Pro Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:38:51 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5gl9pb$s2$1@kronos.crosslink.net> References: <5gf3kd$7uk$1@kronos.crosslink.net> <E76I5z.HrH@onevision.de> Hans Stoeger (hans@onevision.de) wrote: : The Pentium Pro is about 50% faster Yes, thanks... I'm sticking with the Pro!
From: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Controlling growth of swapfiles? Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:44:24 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5gla3o$s2$2@kronos.crosslink.net> Hello! A recent performance issue came up with us... We noticed that the longer our NS/Intel machine stayed up longer, the larger the swapfile got and the slower the swaps became over time... enough that after a couple of months, we had to reboot (still 9000% better than M$ machines)... We read the NeXTAnswers regarding creating a secondary swapfile on another disk and that has alleviated some of the swap performance... Is there a preferred way to limit the growth of swapfiles, to keep them trim enough to not cause the disk to thrash about after a couple months in action? TIA!
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS Security Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 00:40:22 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1803970040220001@slip-102-30.ots.utexas.edu> References: bb840db88a10480cb818aae0b74f6863 - <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <distler-1403971126510001@slip-92-14.ots.utexas.edu> In article <distler-1403971126510001@slip-92-14.ots.utexas.edu>, distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote: Since there seems to be some interest in the community, I've decided to make available security patchs for some known holes in NeXTStep, specifically, there are drop-in replacements for rlogin(1), talkd(8) and syslog(3), each of which has been the subject of a recent CERT Advisory. All the patches are compiled quad-fat, and all include source-code, because you shouldn't be trusting me to compile your security patches for you :-). I STRONGLY recommend that you look over the source-code (and, if you are really conscientious, compare them with the FreeBSD originals) and compile them yourself. They are available at: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/index.html Cheers, Jacques Distler
From: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Help] MEdai errors Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:01:09 +1000 Organization: AUSNet Services Message-ID: <332DE955.60C3@FreeFall.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi; I started to get media errors on a hard disk which has been working non-stop for several months, as below. What can be done to fix this? Is there any way of marking the failing blocks as unusable? ------------ fsck output ---- /usr/etc/fsck /dev/rsd1a Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1f7d89H retry 1 [...] Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 1f7d89H retry 9 sd1 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11 SCSI Block in error = 2063753; Partition a F.S. sector 1031716 /dev/rsd1a: CANNOT READ: BLK 1031712 ---- end ---- Thanks, Piotr Palacz piotr@FreeFall.com.au
From: "Joseph K. Vossen" <jkv@issl.atl.hp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! SimpleNetStarter has got me down! Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 05:28:23 -0500 Organization: Internet and Systems Security Lab Distribution: world Message-ID: <332E6E47.F9F@issl.atl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I picked up a Turbo color station and a cube, both running 3.3. These machines run fine standalone, ie w/o being hooked up to a net. I would like to hook these machines to my home net, which runs os/2, win95, and linux. I thought it would be neat if the station would run as the netinfo server for the net and provide passwords and such for the cube and the linux box. So without the station hooked to the net, I started SimpleNetworkStarter (SNS). It ran for awhile and rebooted the machine. During reboot, I noticed that the IP address was incorrect. After the machine came up, I started SNS again and tried to change the IP address to what I needed. SNS came back and said I couldn't do that and would have to go back to a backup copy of netinfo and reboot. During reboot, "Starting Network Services" hung up, I entered 'c' and the boot continued. It hung up for a LONG time on mounting file systems. I entered "^c" and the boot completed, but instead of a login panel, I was created with the BuildDisk utility which wanted to rebuild my external SCSI disk. I quit this and rebooted in single user mode. /etc/fstab was missing a newline, fixed that, and rebooted. The machine again hung up during the start of network services and mounting the file systems, but instead of getting the BuildDisk app, the NeXTStep installer started and wanted to continue to install the system. I again rebooted in single user mode. I replaced /etc/netinfo/local.nidb (?) with the backup that was in /etc/netinfo but that didn't work. I replaced /etc/netinfo with /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo, but that didn't work either. Running nidump in single user mode gives me the error "cannot connect to netinfo server: communication failure". Every time I try to go multi-user, I get the installer app. Oh, and I noticed on the console that inetd is complaining that none of the services (tcp, udp, etc) are available. Of course, I didn't make a copy of /etc/netinfo before I started this exercise. Does anyone have any idea on how I can get back to where I started from? Both disks look fine; they don't appear to be trashed. It is obvious that the netinfo data base is hosed, but I would like to be able to get to a point where I can go multi-user again. any hints would be great thanks and sorry for the long post; I thought the more detail, the better.
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@ncs-ssc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 can't boot anymore Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 08:44:19 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc.; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332EAA43.474C@ncs-ssc.com> References: <332BC2D3.4861@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haChristian Hahn wrote: > > Please help, > i got stuck in a boot problem: > I installed OpenStep 4.1 properly, i configured everything i need and i > was booting several times without any problems. > Any ideas? > Thanks in advance I have had similiar problems with installation of OS4.1. After the initial install reboot, I get a blank screen of death. If you get any e-mail answers, let me know. I am installing OS4.1 on a PPro 200, AHA2940, Diamond Stealth 64. -- ============================================================================ Kurt E. Huhner, Software Consultant MailTo:khuhner@ncs-ssc.com Nation Computer Services, Inc. http://www.ncs-ssc.com Bldg. 9110, MSAAP Voice: (601)689-8100 Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 Fax: (601)689-8130 ============================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Message-ID: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 16:08:30 GMT I'd like to use -NXHost between two systems. But so far I can't. Part of the problem seems to be my Ip-setup. System 1: PC, Runs NEXTSTEP 3.3. Runs a BIND named. On the ethernet it has an internal domain 192.168.1.x. It runs Morningstar PPP. On the PPP link it has external IP address 194.183.97.59. System 2: NeXT turbo cube, Runs NEXTSTEP 3.3. Runs a BIND named. On the ethernet it has domain 194.183.97.84/255.255.255.248. There is a router on the ethernet. System 1 connects to system 2 with dial on demand. That is, if I start a telnet session from system 1 to system 2, my pppd log says: 3/18-16:21:52-234 tcp 194.183.97.59/4065 -> 194.183.97.85/telnet 44 syn bringup and the link gets created and telnet works. But if I try to do something with -NXHost, my log says: 3/18-16:50:39-234 udp 192.168.1.1/7657 -> 194.183.97.85/7657 156 bringup Note the difference. When telnet makes ppp initiate a connection, it says 194.183.97.59 -> 194.183.97.85. But when NXHosts makes ppp to initiate a connection it is 192.168.1.1 -> 194.183.97.85. That at least is wrong, because 194.183.97.85 won't know the way back to 192.168.1.x. So, I am desperately looking for people who know their way around this. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: Bob Kurhajetz <bob@monet.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question : NS3.0 and an Archive Python DAT drive ?? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:37:00 -0500 Organization: USN-CDNSWC Bethesda,MD Message-ID: <332EE0CC.446B@monet.dt.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, We have a cube server that is running NS 3.0 and an Archive Python 28388-xxx DAT drive - at the present time its the only external SCSI device on the bus ( its at address #4 ) - I have it terminated and the message window indicates that when I try to dump a directory tree to it I get the following; mach: st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a mach: st: cmd = 0x15 sr_io_status = 2H Sense key = 0x5 Sense Code = 0x1a any clues? - I've used the same unit on a NS 3.3 NS slab with no problem - anything real unique about 3.0 and DAT drives? All I'm trying to do presently is backup the server so I can load 3.3 - thanks for any and all help - advice - inspired knowledge - insight Bob Kurhajetz
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: texinfo Date: 18 Mar 1997 20:39:08 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5gmuhc$f3v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Do not manage to compile texinfo-3.9 with cc 2.5.8 for OpenStep 4.0 / Intel. Could anybody send me one? Many thanks, Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703181557.KAA08113@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 1db724fa0be929efa4c7a0933d92e1c5 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 10:57:28 -0500 Subject: Re: Samba and Rumba and CAPer...Oh My! Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 1db724fa0be929efa4c7a0933d92e1c5 - Responding To: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Original Date: 17 Mar 1997 18:02:06 GMT Message-ID: 1db724fa0be929efa4c7a0933d92e1c5 - > Let's hear it for PD software and NeXT's bundling of NFS with NS, > without which none of this would have been possible. a great success story! I'll have a mini-lan (2 machines) come NeXT month and I hope to have as much luck as you did! Of course, if I don't, know I know who to ask for pointers ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: cc-2.5.8 (OpenStep4.0) and gcc-2.7.2.2 Date: 18 Mar 1997 21:35:28 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5gn1r0$f3v@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hello gurus, 'make CC=cc bootstrap' results in a bus error when I try and compile gcc-2.7.2.2 under OpenStep4.0 / Intel with cc-2.5.8. Any hints are most appreciated. Thanks! Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) Date: 18 Mar 1997 21:36:23 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> In-Reply-To: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> On 03/13/97, MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson wrote: > I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much > to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a > workaround for this? > Yes, I got my machine working thanks to a useful pointer from Paul Lynch... The Adaptec2940AU is not officially supported by the current NEXTSTEP drivers: the driver information table, however, includes the "Auto Detect IDs" for the PCI devices. The ID for the AU is missing: I simply added 0x61789004 to the list and it seems to work fine. However, note that you have to follow the instructions given in NeXTAnswers for installing an updated driver, but with the Floppy driver to be loaded from the Core Drivers disk (image downloadable from ftp.next.com) rather than from the Devices directory (a difference apparently between 3.2 and 3.3). Once it boots you have to patch the driver that has been installed. I hope this gives enough for you to get going? Sorry it's not more clear on this occasion. Best wishes, mmalc. --
From: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: I can 'su' to root but I'm still me Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:14:39 -0800 Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Message-ID: <2ru3m8j19s.fsf@rhea.SLAC.Stanford.EDU> References: <199703141623.LAA08627@kira.peak.org> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: > This is really strange. I am a member of the group 'wheel' and > when I try to 'su' to root it lets me, but when I do 'whoami' it > still lists me as 'luomat': > > su - root > > Password: > charisma% whoami > luomat > charisma% touch /tmp/file > charisma% ls -l /tmp/file > -rw-r--r-- 1 luomat 0 Mar 14 11:22 /tmp/file root and luomat have the same user number, and luomat comes first when netinfo looks up that number in the "passwd" file? -- Bob Cook (415) 926-2769 bobcook@slac.stanford.edu Stanford Linear Accelerator Center PGP public key: ftp://ftp.slac.stanford.edu/pgp/bobcook/bobcook.publickey
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: mounting NT on NeXT? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:31:15 -0700 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970318112959.27308A-100000@beernut> References: <33278FE0.FF4@m-w.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Amy West <awest@m-w.com> In-Reply-To: <33278FE0.FF4@m-w.com> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Amy West wrote: > I may not have phrased the subject line correctly, so please bear > with me while I describe the situation: > > We have the NeXT. We have an NT file server. The NT file server > has a DAT drive. Is there a way for me to get either machine to > recognize the other so that I can back up the NeXT on to the > NT's DAT directly? > If you're willing to purchase the NFS client drivers for NT (I believe NFS is an add-on to NT) you can export the NeXT's filesystem to the NT box and then back up the mounted filesystem to the tape. Nate - --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt "Noooooooooooooo.........." -- Luke Skywalker -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMy7feT2UcPIj3Y3tAQFknwP+I3cJXoylqoH4uuD8gVtNcMRq+IcSvPXK plTbyr9maYe70+s0157iVUBflHBjNHgoWF79MQiHmQccM8nEAOef4SRhmRuMOBjk QVM96yts5M6xXpWDvgvgxNHQidHk93/NOXNp/Nz52fe5at+20Jh2veAe/vxUYi15 5P4BOeYeo9A= =vedt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca (Bill Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help! optical drive doen't mount Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:32:12 -0500 Organization: McGill Message-ID: <bill-1803971932120001@b52-32.das.mcgill.ca> The hard disk on my NeXT Cube crashed today, the third time since I got the machine in 1991. My cd-rom copy of NeXTStep 3.1 (or 3.0, I don't remember) being lost, I initialized my drive and installed NeXTStep 3.2. I have the browser up and running again, but when I tried to restore files (e.g, network config files, etc) from an optical disk, I found that it would not mount. Is it possible that NS 3.2 does not support the optical disk drive, that I wiped out support when I initialized the disk? Does anyone have any advice on how to mount the OD? Please respond on this newsgroup, since I suddenly have no e-mail due to the crash. Thanks, Bill Anderson
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trying NXHost Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:20:10 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith NET-Illinois State University Message-ID: <332F3F48.6A02@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm extremely interested in trying the NXHost feature over the internet, due to lack of people running NS/OSMach... Please email if interested in a bidirectional trial. Thanks in advance! :) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D---Instructional Technology Services----Illinois State University "NEXTSTEP is probably the most respected software on the planet" - Byte Magazine ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:42:54 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL>, G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) wrote: > I'd like to use -NXHost between two systems. But so far I can't. Part of the > problem seems to be my Ip-setup. snip the details of setup and logs > But if I try to do something with -NXHost, my log says: > 3/18-16:50:39-234 udp 192.168.1.1/7657 -> 194.183.97.85/7657 156 bringup > Note the difference. When telnet makes ppp initiate a connection, it says > 194.183.97.59 -> 194.183.97.85. But when NXHosts makes ppp to initiate a > connection it is 192.168.1.1 -> 194.183.97.85. That at least is wrong, because > 194.183.97.85 won't know the way back to 192.168.1.x. I have had the same problem when attempting to NXHost between two machines running ppp (but not dial on demand). I asked the net for help, but got no useful information. Perhaps the fact that you are demand dialing and have a log file to capture the request will provide a clue. If you get a resolution of the question, please email me, since I will be missing about a week's worth of postings due to a trip. (Note the antispam feature on the posting address.) Thanks Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.1 Display Install Problems Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 02:50:25 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332FA8D1.2E4@communique.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have recently installed OS4.1 for Mach on Intel. The install procedure produces a kernel panic in "pmap_remove_all 3". If I reboot with the "config=Default" option I can run under 640x480 using monochrome. After triple checking the capabilities of my display adapter/monitor I change tehm via Config.app and reboot. After the messages scroll by I end up with a blank screen, from which there is only one exit: reset. I am using a Diamond Stealth Video 64 VRAM PCI card and MagDX17F and chose 1024x768 @70Hz RGB888/32. The display adapter is listed as supported per NeXTAnswers. Anyone able to offer suggestions? khuhner@ncs-ssc.com
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHosting info from the past (longish) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:25:34 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972325340001@news.tiac.net> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net>, jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) wrote: > If you get a resolution of the question, please email me, since I will be > missing about a week's worth of postings due to a trip. (Note the antispam > feature on the posting address.) Well. I spoke too soon in a way. Though I never got a response to my old posting, I just found this 1995 message in my archives (wish I'd checked more carefully back then): ****** I'm gonna take a stab to see if I can help some of those who seem to be having problems using NXHost with PPP. Please do believe me, there are those (including myself) who have NXHost working. As part of my testing suite, I run a copy of PacMan NXHosted. Here is what I know: 1) The version of open that is shipped with NeXT is broken. There is a replacement version on 129.187.249.15:pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/workspace/ 2) Even with the new open, a command such as: open /LocalApps/PacMan.app -NXHost sidney will fail with a message like: open: can't open connection to Workspace on sidney. (Your milage will probably vary). 3) However, each app wrapper usually has an executable file of the same name (minus the .app extension) that resides inside the folder. What I have found is that: /LocalApps/PacMan.app/PacMan -NXHost sidney works just fine. For those of you trying to run apps NXHosted, please try using the executable file's name (inside the app wrapper) and let me know if that solves your problem. Stephen J. Perkins | perkins@cps.msu.edu ****** And I found I had a copy of this "open" replacement, which predates the NS 3.3 version. The author, Chris Limpach, says * open.h,v * Revision 1.2 1994/05/09 21:37:39 chris * fixed NXHost which was broken because of [Application new] I never installed it because that seemed a bit vague (and reading the source doesn't clarify anything), and it didn't matter at the time (or now, since I took the other machine off the net). Does anyone know if "open" is still "broken"? The General Reference for 3.3 includes the following: "An application generally registers with the Network Name Server under the name it uses for its executable file. For example, Digital Webster registers under "Webster" and Mail under "Mail". To get the port for Workspace, you should use the name NX_WORKSPACEREQUEST. Note, however, that this port isn't available until the application is fully initialized; requests for this port before Application's appDidInit: method is invoked will return PORT_NULL." (Which port are they talking about - the application or Workspace? Continuing ...) "If no port is registered for the name application, NXPortNameLookup() returns PORT_NULL. However, NXPortFromName() tries to have host's Workspace Manager launch the application. If the application can be launched and if it registers with the Network Name Server, send rights to its port are returned. This strategy is almost always successful for the local host. It's more problematic for a remote host, since the Workspace Manager is normally protected from messages coming from other machines." (And there are also timeouts such as NXNetTimeout, set to 60 seconds, plus another set to 30 seconds whose reference I have lost. Not quite enought to bring up PPP, restart the routing functions, and launch a remote app on a slower machine.) As for point 2 and 3 of Steve's post, that seems adequately explained by the first two lines of the quote. So perhaps we need a test of open in 3.3 and 4.X, followed by some timeout experiments. I can provide the old source file (when I get back), if it is still needed and has also vanished from the referenced site and archives. Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 00:19:36 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> In-Reply-To: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 18-Mar-97 Re: Help! How do I solve th.. by James B. Frazer@frazer.c > I have had the same problem when attempting to NXHost between two machines > running ppp (but not dial on demand). I asked the net for help, but got no > useful information. Perhaps the fact that you are demand dialing and have a > log file to capture the request will provide a clue. Did you send nmserver a 'kill -USR2' signal in order to reinitialize it's awareness of the available network interfaces whenever your ppp connection is brought up? Take a look at the end of /etc/rc.net.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199703181554.KAA08067@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 494ce54944f26f6a5ce13cc7f0a81bba - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 10:53:55 -0500 Subject: Re: DialIP,PPP, bad serial port? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 494ce54944f26f6a5ce13cc7f0a81bba - Responding To: Tommy Hwang <me@mysolution.com> Original Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 05:15:14 -0500 Message-ID: 494ce54944f26f6a5ce13cc7f0a81bba - > I am using a Macintosh Serial cable try getting a proper NeXT modem cable from Deepspacetech and see if it works better TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <9703181725.AA00767@nebula.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.0 v146.2) j%q;6~]olIY<I\1zLJ.~]53@+A]/}";bKMKAoA3DJn"3Ur/iVngM_b8?1=WhD(,C\OQ`!N PGO6e04/E9[ec6sDuxxB From: Eric Tremblay <eric@cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 09:25:46 -0800 Subject: CD-ROM questions Cc: chuck@cmich.slip.netcom.com The problem is that sometimes NEXTSTEP thinks it's a PC disc and sometimes it thinks it's a Mac disc. Here's a way to force it to see it only in Mac format... in usr/filesystems (logged in as root) rename the DOS.fs (DOS filesystem) folder to DOS.fsDisabled. Now NEXTSTEP can no longer read DOS formated cdrom's. This usually will solve your problem. Don't forget to rename your folder onces your done. Eric "E.T." Tremblay ericet@cam.org
From: svenifer@snet.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nmserver (netmsgserver) console messages? Date: 19 Mar 1997 07:02:49 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5go32p$nkh@goofy.snet.net> Hello all, After terminating a dial-up connection with a provider, I notice the following messages in Console. Mar 19 01:55:58 flupster netmsgserver[22]: srr_process_queued_request.srr_send_packet fails: 51 Mar 19 01:56:00 flupster netmsgserver[22]: srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 Mar 19 01:56:04 flupster netmsgserver[22]: srr_retry.sendto fails: 51, 8 + 120 = 128 Documentation of nmserver is scarce and nothing could be found on netmsgserver. Thanks Sven
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can I get 2 NS partitions rather than 4? Date: 19 Mar 1997 17:29:26 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5gp7pm$32m$1@jeeves2.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: partition, hard drive Hi, I have a new Intel system running NEXTSTEP. The drive is not partitioned the way I want and I was wondering if someone could tell me how to repartition it. I have a 4.3-GB SCSI hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 15150N). I would like to have a dual-boot system, with NEXTSTEP 3.3 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11. I would like to have something like one DOS partition of size 700-MB and two NEXTSTEP partitions of sizes 2000-MB and 1600-MB. I realize there is a 2-GB limit on NEXTSTEP partitions. The NEXTSTEP shop that I bought it from said they could not figure out how to do this and they sent it to me with one 700-MB DOS partition and *four* 900-MB NEXTSTEP partitions. Basically, I'd like to have one NEXTSTEP partition as large as possible for my user files and the remaining space used for the NEXTSTEP system and for /LocalApps. I have not put anything on the disk yet, so this is a good time to start from scratch (if necessary) and repartition the drive the way I want. The only problem is that I don't know how to do it. It sure seems like there must be a way. Could some kind soul please help me with this? Please email me if you have a solution. Thanks, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:08:29 -0800 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gpa2t$298@mpaque.mpaque> References: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> In article <332E111D.4183@communique.net> "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> writes: > I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) > motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All > drives are on the A2940 chain. > > All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the > suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the > "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it > appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. > No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. > > The ONLY way I have found is to specify "config=Default" at the > boot: prompt It sounds like there may be an overlap between the memory address of the framebuffer and main memory. I'd bet that your machine has 64 Mbytes of memory installed, and the Diamond Stealth card has it's default memory window address set to something less than 64 Mbytes. Boot with config=Default. Launch /NextAdmin/Configure.app, and click on the Display button. On the panel that appears for the Diamond Stealth 64, find the Memory Address field. Click the up/down buttons to raise the address past the end of main memory. Save, making sure that Configure.app reports no conflicts. Reboot, and keep your fingers crossed. -- I don't speak for my employer, whoever it is, and they don't speak for me. mpaque@next.com Official business only NeXT Mail OK mpaque@wco.com Non-business or personal mail NeXT mail OK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: help! optical drive doesn't mount Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E7Ansn.J0E@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:19:34 GMT References: <bill-1803971902070001@b52-32.das.mcgill.ca> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <bill-1803971902070001@b52-32.das.mcgill.ca>, Bill Anderson <bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca> wrote: > >Is it possible that NS 3.2 does not support the optical disk drive, that I >wiped out support when I initialized the disk? Does anyone have any advice >on how to mount the OD? > Unfortunately for you, 3.2 handles the optical drive just fine, and I can't think of any way that you could have trashed OD support. Can you mount it manually, doing something like # mount -o ro /dev/od0a /mnt as root? Failing that, perhaps your optical drive took this opportunity to die. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 19 Mar 1997 17:59:06 GMT Organization: Napa Valley College Message-ID: <5gp9ha$l7d@wiley.napanet.net> It seems that OPENSTEP 4.1 does *not* like to be a NetInfo server. Ever since I've started trying to make my Pentium Pro 200 into one, it's been giving me tons of Kernel Traps. I disabled Power Management as someone suggested, but it hasn't helped much. I'm still seeing this thing crash a lot. I'm also having problems with doing lookups on one particular hostname here. I ran telnet through gdb, and this is what happened: ---------- Hacking on nvcc: gdb /usr/ucb/telnet GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.14 (NEXTSTEP 4.0 --target i386), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /usr/ucb/telnet...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) set args homnibus (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/ucb/telnet homnibus Dynamic Linkeditor at 0x12000000 offset 0x0 Executable at 0x2000 offset 0x0 /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System at 0x5000000 offset 0x0 Reading symbols from loaded file...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Program generated(1): Memory access exception on address 0x0 (protection failure). 0x50034cb in memmove () ---------- Is there any fix for OPENSTEP 4.1 that will stabilize it? I need to use this for the server! I'm trying to upgrade from an old 25mhz NeXT cube. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Workspace Error 38001? (and info?) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:58:40 -0600 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-1903971358400001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> Hello, I've just started getting errors when Workspace starts up after logging in. It says that an Internal Error 38001 has occurred, and asks if I want to continue. If I continue, everything *seems* fine. I'm just wondering what this is? I *don't* want to reboot, there have been several other problems that I think I've solved, and the only way I can tell if they're fixed is to get quite a bit of uptime. Sooo... if the error is a *bad* thing, I'll do what's necessary to fix it. Otherwise, I'll just ignore it for awhile. Email appreciated, Thanks, John Ray
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: OS 4.1 Display Install Problems Message-ID: <E7AHuA.2yA@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <332FA8D1.2E4@communique.net> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:10:58 GMT In article <332FA8D1.2E4@communique.net> "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> writes: > I have recently installed OS4.1 for Mach on Intel. The > install procedure produces a kernel panic in "pmap_remove_all 3". > If I reboot with the "config=Default" option I can run under 640x480 > using monochrome. > > After triple checking the capabilities of my display adapter/monitor > I change tehm via Config.app and reboot. After the messages scroll > by I end up with a blank screen, from which there is only one > exit: reset. > > I am using a Diamond Stealth Video 64 VRAM PCI card and MagDX17F > and chose 1024x768 @70Hz RGB888/32. The display adapter is listed as > supported per NeXTAnswers. > > Anyone able to offer suggestions? > This is a "normal" problem. Your machine has more than 16MB of memory. You have to correct the address of the "mapped video memory" in Configure. set a higher value. If you have 64 MB replace the 0x1... with 0x4... -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 20 Mar 1997 00:42:37 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5gq15t$5qs@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199703160040.TAA19315@schwinger.physics.purdue.edu> Bcc: aris@next.com : the maps (passwd.adjunct.byname for the encrypted passwords, and : passwd.byname for the rest of the /etc/passwd information) into : NetInfo, but it would be easy enough for people to use nidump or : getpwent() to read them, rendering vain our efforts at shadowing. You could always recompile any binaries that use getpwnam() for authentication to use getspnam(). The only problem is that loginwindow isn't replacable with freely available software, although in Preferences.app you'll notice the provision for a plugin authenticator for loginwindow. It would be good if Rhapsody supported a pluggable authentication module interface, a la Solaris et Linux (which could be implemented quite elegantly using Objective C). Authenticator delegates could then be written for Kerberos, shadow passwords, one time passwords, SKey, etc... -- Luke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@PEAK.ORG> Message-ID: <199703192134.QAA03852@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@PEAK.ORG> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:34:22 -0500 Subject: Re: Controlling growth of swapfiles? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - Responding To: ted@ghn.org (Ted Okada) Original Date: 18 Mar 1997 05:44:24 GMT Message-ID: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - > Is there a preferred way to limit the growth of swapfiles, to keep > them trim enough to not cause the disk to thrash about after a > couple months in action? There is no way to prevent it from happening altogether. By using lots o'RAM. fast processor, and a swapdisk you can minimize the impact, but eventually you'll have to reboot to claim the lost space. There is no way to keep an apps from gobbling up all the swap it wants (well, except for running out of diskspace, which is a bad alternative :-) TjL, author of the SwapDisk and SwapFile FAQ which can be found at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: haze@sailfish.exis.net (Jason Jenkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: HELP: getting sendmail to send Date: 19 Mar 1997 22:08:47 GMT Organization: Exis Net Inc Message-ID: <5gpo5f$p3h@grouper.exis.net> I'm still strugling to get my new NeXTStation up and running as I'd like it. I am using GateKeeper and ppp2.2 to connect. It's working fine and I got OmniWeb to work, so I know the connection is good. I'd like to use Mail.app to do do email. I'm using PopOver to get the mail from my ISP, and recieving works fine. So here's the problem: I followed the help file in PopOver about setting up to send and modified sendmail.cf to include the ISP mail server. When I tell Mail.app to deliver the mail, the send data light on the modem flashes, so I know something is happening. The mail that I send though never get delivered. (ie, if I send something to myself, I never get it back.) Does anyone have any ideas/pointers. BTW I'm using NS3.3 and the included sendmail. Do I have to use a newer version of sendmail? Thanks, Jason
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 19 Mar 1997 21:50:34 GMT Organization: Napa Valley College Message-ID: <5gpn3a$6o3@news.zocalo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It seems that OPENSTEP 4.1 does *not* like to be a NetInfo server. Ever since I've started trying to make my Pentium Pro 200 into one, it's been giving me tons of Kernel Traps. I disabled Power Management as someone suggested, but it hasn't helped much. I'm still seeing this thing crash a lot. I'm also having problems with doing lookups on one particular hostname here. I ran telnet through gdb, and this is what happened: ---------- Hacking on nvcc: gdb /usr/ucb/telnet GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details. GDB 4.14 (NEXTSTEP 4.0 --target i386), Copyright 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc... Reading symbols from /usr/ucb/telnet...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) set args homnibus (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/ucb/telnet homnibus Dynamic Linkeditor at 0x12000000 offset 0x0 Executable at 0x2000 offset 0x0 /NextLibrary/Frameworks/System.framework/Versions/A/System at 0x5000000 offset 0x0 Reading symbols from loaded file...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Program generated(1): Memory access exception on address 0x0 (protection failure). 0x50034cb in memmove () ---------- Is there any fix for OPENSTEP 4.1 that will stabilize it? I need to use this for the server! I'm trying to upgrade from an old 25mhz NeXT cube. -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: mchahny@optlab25.opt.uh.edu (Mirko Chahny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need HELP with Group Assignment Date: 19 Mar 1997 23:04:35 GMT Organization: University of Houston Message-ID: <5gpre3$v8i@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Hello and thanks for reading! How do I create Groups (and Users) for the Mail.app Addresses panel? I spent about two hours trying to find out info in the literature and only found the explanation for creating groups for the purpose of creating Private Users and Private Groups. The documentation talks that the administrator (and that is me trying to learn the ropes quickly) can set Groups and Users up. It was my understanding (and hope) that if I create user groups when I create a user account and assign it into a group, that it would also show up under the general User and Groups category. All the users DO get listed by their Login Names, though. Can you please enlighten me as to how to create these Groups and Users so that our students can work more productively? Thanks for your time. Mirko Chahny University of Houston College of Optometry
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: samba on OS4.0 and NT4.0 Message-ID: <1997Mar18.165846.47422@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 18 Mar 97 16:58:46 MET I'm trying to configure samba on an OPENSTEP4.0 for mach running on both a Cube and Intel box. I'm quite sure the the configuration isn't quite correct, but what is correct? The Intel machine is to export two directories, while the cube exports several directories and also all printers (from a printcap which was dumped). The Intel machine has the internet name 'lucy' but should appear as IFI2_LUCY in the NT domain -- how do I set that? I've managed to set the domain name to IFI2 from the default WORKGROUP, but I can't see anything in the NT browser! I can mount the directories if I enter the full internet domain and name (lucy.ifi.unibas.ch), but then I get more than two directories! The man page is of no use for me at this stage of configuration. I had hoped that things would 'just work', but no, they don't (having to dump printcap is already a nuisance, having to use names shorter than 8 characters with all lowercase and no non-ascii is even worse ...). Any pointers to some usefull help on configuring the samba servers? Thanks, Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 22:26:39 -0500 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001903972226390001@news.tiac.net> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Did you send nmserver a 'kill -USR2' signal in order to reinitialize > it's awareness of the available network interfaces whenever your ppp > connection is brought up? Since you're responding to my post, I'll answer. Yes, of course I did. But his point, and it's a resonable concern, is that he can telnet out and bring the link up, but he can't use "open -NXHost" and get the same result. Barney (delete that _see_signature to email me)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu Organization: Disorganization References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:33:41 GMT In <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: > However, computer technology and encryption software (in the form of the > UFC algorithm-- "Ultra Fast Crypt()") have improved to the point where a > heuristic attack on the encrypted passwords is feasible if poor > passwords were chosen. It is quite common that many users choose poor passwords. That's the danger of world readable passwd files ! Several years ago I used a NeXT cube to crack a passwd file with about 2000 entries and I was successful at more than 50% of all passwords (after about 24 hours runtime). With todays technology, these numbers will be much better. The only solution to this is shadow password files.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703192137.QAA03893@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 1a07c5dfd7c4ae532aa4a89d1abe19ce - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:37:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [Help] MEdai errors Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 1a07c5dfd7c4ae532aa4a89d1abe19ce - Responding To: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Original Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:01:09 +1000 Message-ID: 1a07c5dfd7c4ae532aa4a89d1abe19ce - > Is there any way of marking the failing blocks as unusable? Checkout 'man reasb' but I can't tell you more than that, because I've only used it once and someone walked me through it (I can probably find the old message if you want). TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <luomat@peak.org> Message-ID: <199703192159.QAA04091@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) In-Reply-To: 5cd1b6544d771b59bc344a366caa43cd - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 97 16:59:01 -0500 Subject: Re: I can 'su' to root but I'm still me Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: 5cd1b6544d771b59bc344a366caa43cd - Responding To: Bob Cook <bobcook@rhea.slac.stanford.edu> Original Date: 18 Mar 1997 14:14:39 -0800 Message-ID: 5cd1b6544d771b59bc344a366caa43cd - > root and luomat have the same user number, and luomat comes first > when netinfo looks up that number in the "passwd" file? Here's a good one: login shell was owned and SETUID to 'luomat' TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: publicist@meetmeonline.com (MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU <-- Note the "A" :) Date: 20 Mar 1997 00:31:00 GMT Organization: MeetMeOnline <a zerologic company> Message-ID: <publicist-1903971833560001@thebook.on-demand.com> References: <publicist-1303971742370001@thebook.on-demand.com> <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk> url: http://www.meetmeonline.com/ In article <5gn1sn$nso@bignews.shef.ac.uk>, mmalcolm crawford <m.crawford@shef.ac.uk> wrote: > On 03/13/97, MeetMeOnline's Spokesperson wrote: > > I found the Adaptec 2940U drivers at the NeXTansers site but found, much > > to my dismay, that it doesn't support the AU. Does anyone know of a > > workaround for this? > > > Yes, I got my machine working thanks to a useful pointer from Paul Lynch... > > The Adaptec2940AU is not officially supported by the current NEXTSTEP > drivers: the driver information table, however, includes the "Auto Detect > IDs" for the PCI devices. The ID for the AU is missing: I simply added > 0x61789004 > to the list and it seems to work fine. I recieved a similar response too.... thanks to everyone who helped! Michael. -- Meet a friend, Meet a lover, Meet another... MeetMe at http://www.meetmeonline.com/
From: bisk@4dcomm.com (Stephen D. Biskis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Wide SCSI Controller w/disk cache Date: 20 Mar 1997 03:00:13 GMT Organization: 4D Global Internet Services Message-ID: <5gq97t$oq4@news.4dcomm.com> Does anybody have any especially good or bad experiences with any particular disk caching wide SCSI controller. I'm in the market for one to use with NS3.3. Thanks in advance. da bisk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:02:54 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom18.netcom.com In article <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org>, Thomas Funke <thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM> wrote: >It is quite common that many users choose poor passwords. That's the danger >of world readable passwd files ! Several years ago I used a NeXT cube to >crack a passwd file with about 2000 entries and I was successful at more than >50% of all passwords (after about 24 hours runtime). With todays technology, >these numbers will be much better. > >The only solution to this is shadow password files. I'll step out on a limb here. Shadow passwords are only a bandaid to make shallow thinking sysadmins believe that their system is "secure." Various exploitable bugs are found every day on Unix systems, especially NeXT with a relatively old implementation of basic Unix services. Many of the bugs can give a local or network user root access. root can read /etc/passwd.adjunct, regardless of permissions "protecting" it. The file, with passwords intact, can be spirited off to some fast DES crunching machine. What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch that, ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the moment how the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against semi-theoretical differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a number of newer encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could be used as drop in replacements for DES. Does it really matter that much that your /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? -Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: Jim.Matthews@dartmouth.edu (Jim Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting NeXTstation without a monitor? Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:22:25 -0500 Organization: Dartmouth College Message-ID: <Jim.Matthews-1803971122250001@test-bp-241.dartmouth.edu> We recently upgraded a NeXTstation to OpenStep Mach 4.1, and it seems to work fine with a monitor attached. But it crashes on boot when the monitor isn't there (and that's the way we would like to use it). We've had good luck running NeXTSTEP 2.x on headless machines, and were wondering whether there's a configuration change that would make 4.1 work. In particular, we're suspicious of the audio kernel server, and wonder if it could be disabled. Here's the startup log: booting SCSI target 0, lun 0 blk0 boot: sd()sdmach Booting from SCSI target 0 lun 0 NeXT ROM Monitor 2.0 v58 NeXT Mach 4.1: Thu Sep 26 22:54:37 PDT 1996; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.27.obj~2/RELEASE_M68K FPU version 0x40 physical memory = 32.00 megabytes. available memory = 29.12 megabytes. using 204 buffers containing 1.59 megabytes of memory fc0 at 0x2114100 Sony MPX-111N as fd0 at fc0 slave 0 SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000 DEC DSP3107LS Rev X441 as sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0 Disk Label: Disk Disk Capacity 1021MB, Device Block 512 bytes Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg1 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg2 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 Generic SCSI Device as sg3 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 en0 at 0x2106000 en0: Ethernet address 00:00:0f:00:65:fe IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet" dsp0 at 0x2108000 np0 at 0x200f000 sound0 at 0x200e000 root on sd0 Mon Mar 17 14:09:38 EST 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Setting up root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to ernestine Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmap routedMar 17 14:09:59 ernestine netinfod[101]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb Mar 17 14:09:59 ernestine netinfod[101]: NetInfo database local.nidb OK netinfo lookupd ntpd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:Mar 17 14:10:10 ernestine autonfsmount[124]: Can't get my (ernestine) address . Starting network daemons: inetd sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Mar 17 14:10:19 ernestine reboot: Reboot complete audio kernel server initialized unexpected kernel page fault failure trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0xb006f78 trap: pc 0x408a3e0 sp 0x3ffe854 sr 0x2300 trap: cpu 0 th 0x10013a80 proc 0x10013400 pid 0 pcb 0x10013c80 traceback: fp 0x4001250 called from pc 0x0408b19c fp 0x04001264 4-args 00000000 00000003 00000000 04001290 called from pc 0x0406a5a4 fp 0x04001290 4-args 1004bf20 00640064 00000001 040da046 called from pc 0x0406a69e fp 0x040012a4 4-args 00000003 00000000 00000000 040012b0 called from pc 0x0406a058 fp 0x040012b0 4-args 00000001 040012c4 04067e86 040da046 called from pc 0x04067e86 fp 0x040012c4 4-args 040da046 04067d10 040c95c4 040012f4 called from pc 0x04094388 fp 0x040012f4 4-args 00000000 00000000 040b609c 00000000 called from pc 0x0408a55c fp 0x04001304 4-args 00000002 11847f78 11847fb0 04001c6e called from pc 0x04001c6e fp 0x11847fb0 4-args 00000000 04051134 00002004 41f90400 called from pc 0x03ffe854 fp 0x11847fe8 4-args 20040405 1134006c 00000000 00000000 called from pc 0x04050a06 fp 0x11847ff4 4-args 040509de 11848000 04001b30 10023d80 unexpected kernel page fault failure trap: type 0x410 fcode 5 rw 1 faultaddr 0x11848008 trap: pc 0x409a4cc sp 0x3ffe854 sr 0x2709 trap: cpu 0 th 0x10013a80 proc 0x10013400 pid 0 pcb 0x10013c80 traceback: recursive call! panic: (Cpu 0) MMU invalid descriptor during table walk NeXT ROM Monitor 2.0 v58 panic: NeXT Mach 4.1: Thu Sep 26 22:54:37 PDT 1996; root(rcbuilder):Objects/mk-183.27.obj~2/RELEASE_M68K Thanks. -- Jim Matthews Dartmouth Software Development <http://www.dartmouth.edu/pages/softdev/>
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tftpboot directory? Date: 20 Mar 1997 08:00:21 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5grcd5$nes@papoose.quick.com> References: <332A535C.1B95@m-w.com> In article <332A535C.1B95@m-w.com>, Amy West <awest@m-w.com> wrote: >The NeXT I'm working on was set-up originally by someone else. >Why is there a /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot directory that >has subdirectories that duplicate the entire drive structure? The system was configured either as a boot server or install server. If you no longer need that functionality you may safely remove it. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: ablasco@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEWBIE QUESTION Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 15:52:20 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <33314113.26C0@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am a newcomer at the UNIX/NeXTSTEP world, so sorry for this question, I guess all of you know the answer. I have a PC running WIN95 and a Nextstation. I would like to make a network of the two computers but doesn't know how. I will apprecite your suggestions a lot! Thanks in advance Amando Blasco
From: hhoff@ultra.media-group.de (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Wide SCSI Controller w/disk cache Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Date: 20 Mar 1997 14:34:45 GMT Organization: media group Message-ID: <5grhu5$cs7$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5gq97t$oq4@news.4dcomm.com> Stephen D. Biskis (bisk@4dcomm.com) wrote: >Does anybody have any especially good or bad experiences with any particular >disk caching wide SCSI controller. I'm in the market for one to use with >NS3.3. DPT. They rule. Stable and fast as hell. 4 MB cache makes your system run; 16 MB or more (up to 64 possible) make you effectively forget about your hard disk, no matter how slow it is. Holger
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Controlling growth of swapfiles? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:39:28 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snAIkUa00iV_A21HEj@andrew.cmu.edu> References: 87e32d79dfaba86e540689333eb43f71 - <199703192134.QAA03852@kira.peak.org> In-Reply-To: <199703192134.QAA03852@kira.peak.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Mar-97 Re: Controlling growth of s.. by "Timothy J. Luoma"@PEAK. >> Is there a preferred way to limit the growth of swapfiles, to keep >> them trim enough to not cause the disk to thrash about after a >> couple months in action? > > There is no way to prevent it from happening altogether. Sort of. It should be that killing a process will free up all of it's associated pages so that you can reuse them for new processes. There may be an infrequent bug in this process that casues pages to be forgotten about occaisionally, however. > There is no way to keep an apps from gobbling up all the swap it > wants (well, except for running out of diskspace, which is a bad > alternative :-) There is a way to control the memory utilization of processes. From a shell: " limit limit resource limit resource maximum-use limit -h limit -h resource limit -h resource maximum-use Limits the consumption by the current process and each process it creates to not individually exceed maximum- use on the specified resource. If no maximum-use is given, then the current limit is printed; if no resource is given, then all limitations are given. If the -h flag is given, the hard limits are used instead of the current limits. The hard limits impose a ceil- ing on the values of the current limits. Only the super-user may raise the hard limits, but a user may lower or raise the current limits within the legal range. Resources controllable currently include cputime (the maximum number of cpu-seconds to be used by each pro- cess), filesize (the largest single file which can be created), datasize (the maximum growth of the data+stack region via sbrk(2) beyond the end of the program text), stacksize (the maximum size of the automatically-extended stack region), and coredumpsize (the size of the largest core dump that will be created). The maximum-use may be given as a (floating point or integer) number followed by a scale factor. For all limits other than cputime the default scale is `k' or `kilobytes' (1024 bytes); a scale factor of `m' or `megabytes' may also be used. For cputime the default scaling is `seconds', while `m' for minutes or `h' for hours, or a time of the form `mm:ss' giving minutes and seconds may be used. For both resource names and scale factors, unambiguous prefixes of the names suffice." Or take a look at setrlimit().... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! How do I solve this IP/NXHost problem? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 10:05:35 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snAJ8zK00iV_021LNH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> <on=rRcK00iWTMLdIdz@andrew.cmu.edu> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001903972226390001@news.tiac.net> In-Reply-To: <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001903972226390001@news.tiac.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Mar-97 Re: Help! How do I solve th.. by James B. Frazer@frazer.c >> Did you send nmserver a 'kill -USR2' signal in order to reinitialize >> it's awareness of the available network interfaces whenever your ppp >> connection is brought up? > > Since you're responding to my post, I'll answer. Sigh. It's pretty simple, James-- it bugs me when people send me email with a return-address that's invalid. So I ask such people, politely, to not send me email so that I don't have to deal with bounces which occur due to the invalid address. That annoyance isn't present when I respond to an Usenet article. > Yes, of course I did. Well, good for you. I trust you'll agree that zapping the nmserver is one of the important things that people forget to do, and having NXHost fail to work is one of the indications? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:59:27 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cnAJ3Dq00iV_021KtE@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 20-Mar-97 Re: nidump a security probl.. by Chris Douty@netcom.com > What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch that, > ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the moment how > the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against semi-theoretical > differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a number of newer > encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could be used as drop in > replacements for DES. Does it really matter that much that your > /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? No, it wouldn't matter at all. The problem is that the US government forbids the export of stronger encryption systems that what is currently being used, under authority of the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR), which defines cryptographic devices, including software, as munitions. So much for the First Amendment, but that's a discussion that probably belongs on other newsgroups.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 09:50:13 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cnAIuZW00iV_A21KNB@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> In-Reply-To: <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Mar-97 Re: nidump a security probl.. by Thomas Funke@gamelan.shn >> However, computer technology and encryption software (in the form of the >> UFC algorithm-- "Ultra Fast Crypt()") have improved to the point where a >> heuristic attack on the encrypted passwords is feasible if poor >> passwords were chosen. > > It is quite common that many users choose poor passwords. True. But there are improved passwd implementations that will reject inadequate passwords which people can install if they want to correct the problem. > The only solution to this is shadow password files. There are lots of other solutions. They include one-time (non-reusable) passwords, challenge-response systems, using dedicated (ie, secure) connections that outsiders presumably could not get access to instead of putting a modem on Ma Bell's global telephone network that anyone could dial into, etc. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: dave@siqin.feinberg.nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! with #9Imagine128 Series 2 Date: 20 Mar 1997 16:09:22 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5grnfi$759@news.acns.nwu.edu> HELP! I have a Micron Pentium Pro system with 64 Mb of RAM. The system came with the #9Imagine128 Series 2 (Rev 2) , 4Mb video board. I downloaded & installed 2488_Number9Imagine128S2DisplayDriver.pkg.compressed from NeXTanswers (Version 3.30). The problem I'm having is that it just plain don't work!!!!! When I boot using this driver the monitor doesn't sync and I don't get a thing on the Monitor. I've tried another video board (#9GXE64Pro, which uses the S3 chipset) and it works fine. If I use the #9Imagine128 Series 2 board while booting into Win95 everything works great, confirming that the board works. What troubles me is that in Configure.app in the expert settings there is no entry for Memory Maps, I/O Ports, IRQ Levels. Could this have anything to do wiith the symptoms I'm seeing? Can anyone tell me how they have their expert settings configured using a #9Imagine128 Series 2 board? Does anyone have any suggestions how I can get this board to work. Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How do we change TELNET default Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:20:40 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5grv5o$i9i$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5gpq86$uit@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> mchahny@optlab25.opt.uh.edu (Mirko Chahny) wrote: >Hello and thanks for reading! I am new to the world of administration and >I have two questions pertaining to the use of telnet with Terminal.app. > >When a user uses Terminal.app and issues command telnet >machine.domain.name, the system automatically fills in the user name from >their NeXT account and skips to the Password: > >However some of our users have been given different user names on other >machines on campus. This means that they will have to try to login two >times since there is no way to go back into the user field and retype. > >Can you please give any suggestions on how to change this default? If I understand your problem correctly, all the user needs to do is hit return at the first telnet password prompt. The message "Login incorrect" will appear and the user will then be prompted for a new login name and password. > >Second question: > >Is there a way for the non-programmer users to create a simple file that >will automatically log them on to another machine? (i.e. Terminal.app >startup file of some sort) I looked at the documentation for Terminal.app >and found a lot of "over-the-head" info on writing scripts--is there an >easy way to do this? Look into using rlogin instead of telnet. It has some of the features you are looking for built in. --Ryan
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper DialUp fails Date: 20 Mar 1997 18:08:50 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5grufi$5u9$1@lynet.de> Hallo, I've just installed ppp2.2 (successfull, I suppose) and GateKeeper2.1 Beta 7. When I now choose "dial" from the GateKeeper-menu, I get the following message: Device cudfa is locked by pid 286 What do I have to do to fix that? I would really appreciate to get a hint. Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 20 Mar 1997 14:10:55 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> I've been following the discussion of nidump being used to capture passwords, and I thought I'd bring up what I see as a much bigger security problem in Netinfo: It doesn't use secure RPC! Think about that for a moment, people. You can packet-sniff the traffic between Netinfo hosts and their servers. Not good. -jcr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Arno Bosse <abosse@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: HELP! with #9Imagine128 Series 2 (Joe Blow) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3331C058.54EA@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Univ. of Chicago References: <5grnfi$759@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:55:25 GMT Whoops. My apologies. Dummy settings in Netscape (Joe Blow etc.) were still in place. Arno
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joe Blow <joe@site.com> Subject: Re: HELP! with #9Imagine128 Series 2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3331BFF5.50BB@site.com> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: joe's place References: <5grnfi$759@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 22:53:47 GMT > What troubles me is that in Configure.app in the expert settings there is no entry for Memory Maps, I/O Ports, IRQ Levels. > Could this have anything to do wiith the symptoms I'm seeing? That doesn't matter - it doesn't, as far as I know, apply to PnP PCI cards. > Can anyone tell me how they have their expert settings configured using a #9Imagine128 Series 2 board? > Does anyone have any suggestions how I can get this board to work. Again, you don't need to worry about this. Based on my own experience however, I would make sure that you match the pre-set sync/resolution of your monitor with the settings in Configure.app. i.e. only select modes in Configure that are already preset for your monitor. But I may be wrong here. One other difficulty I had, which was just a stupid error on my part, was having both the beep and the SB16 drivers installed. This messed things up in various ways, incl. the display. Hope this helps. I am using the driver & card on a Dell PPro w/o any problems now (NS 3.3). good luck, arno
From: ablasco@gcomm.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting NeXTSTEP to Window 95 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 10:41:26 +0200 Organization: CompuServe Incorporated Message-ID: <3327BDB6.BE7@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anybody knows if it's very difficult to connect a nextstation to a Pentirum running windows 95? I need to connect them via Ethernet but I don't know how. Any information will be appreciated! Thanks in advance Amando Blasco
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 02:22:12 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5gsrck$4to@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Chris Douty (cdouty@netcom.com) wrote: : What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch that, : ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the moment how : the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against semi-theoretical : differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a number of newer : encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could be used as drop in : replacements for DES. Does it really matter that much that your : /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? It does matter if you want to share the password file via NIS, NetInfo, or rdist. Of course, whether that's a good approach to distributed authentication is another question. There's no reason why someone couldn't write an MD5 drop-in authentication module, at least under Solaris and Linux (using PAM). In fact, I believe it might be being done. -- Luke
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Lost root password on Intel Date: 20 Mar 1997 20:39:38 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> I have fixed this successfully on Moto hardware, but not on Intel, though I can't see why there would be a difference. What I usually do to regain control over the root account when I have lost the passwd is to 1. Boot in single user mode. 2. Change the root password by doing the following: # passwd root New password: ******* Retype new password: ******* # This doesn't work on my Intel box. What happens is when I boot into multiuser mode and try to log in to the machine as root with the new password, the login window shakes and of course I can't get in. I can of course blow away the NetInfo database, but I'd rather not for certain reasons. What's the deal? Thanks for any help you can muster. .................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:53:16 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> In article <jcr.858895736@idiom.com>, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >I've been following the discussion of nidump being used to capture >passwords, and I thought I'd bring up what I see as a much bigger >security problem in Netinfo: It doesn't use secure RPC! > >Think about that for a moment, people. You can packet-sniff >the traffic between Netinfo hosts and their servers. Not good. > Packet-sniffing, spoofing, the whole ball 'o wax. And, of course, NeXT's implementation of NIS is no better (arguably, worse). At least, if you install Wietse Venema's Portmapper, you can make spoofing attacks on your RPC daemons a little harder. As to packet sniffing, one could argue that if soemone is sniffing on the network, he can just steal the passwords directly. The way to combat this is to use a One-Time Password system like S/Key. That totally bypasses whatever weakenesses there are in Netinfo and NIS, as the S/Key keys are not shared between machines. However, you can (safely) use the same secret passphrase for each. Jacques Distler
From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 20 Mar 1997 22:59:48 -0800 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: >In article <jcr.858895736@idiom.com>, jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >>I've been following the discussion of nidump being used to capture >>passwords, and I thought I'd bring up what I see as a much bigger >>security problem in Netinfo: It doesn't use secure RPC! >> >>Think about that for a moment, people. You can packet-sniff >>the traffic between Netinfo hosts and their servers. Not good. >> >Packet-sniffing, spoofing, the whole ball 'o wax. >And, of course, NeXT's implementation of NIS is no better (arguably, worse). >At least, if you install Wietse Venema's Portmapper, you can make spoofing >attacks on your RPC daemons a little harder. >As to packet sniffing, one could argue that if soemone is sniffing on the >network, he can just steal the passwords directly. >The way to combat this is to use a One-Time Password system like S/Key. >That totally bypasses whatever weakenesses there are in Netinfo and NIS, >as the S/Key keys are not shared between machines. However, you can >(safely) use the same secret passphrase for each. That deals with logins, but not with the normal inter-server traffic that goes between netinfo domains. I guess we could solve a lot of this if SWAN was part of the NEXTSTEP distribution. Anyone ported IPSEC from Linux to FreeBSD yet? -jcr
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost root password on Intel Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:36:23 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320213228.11106J-100000@kira> References: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> > I have fixed this successfully on Moto hardware, but not on Intel, though > I can't see why there would be a difference. there should not be one. > What I usually do to regain control over the root account when I have lost > the passwd is to > 1. Boot in single user mode. > 2. Change the root password by doing the following: > > # passwd root > New password: ******* > Retype new password: ******* > # I would think you would have used 'nu -m' to update the NetInfo entry, rather than 'passwd' which would only update the /etc/passwd file. Did you start NetInfo when you logged into single user mode? sh /etc/rc & Let me know if it doesn't work TjL ps -- you may have to reboot to get it to recognize the new password, or restart the NetInfo daemons by hand with 'kill' -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Workspace Error 38001? (and info?) Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:13:02 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320211022.11106G-100000@kira> References: <jray-1903971358400001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Ray <jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <jray-1903971358400001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, John Ray wrote: > I've just started getting errors when Workspace starts up after logging > in. It says that an Internal Error 38001 has occurred, and asks if I want > to continue. If I continue, everything *seems* fine. > > I'm just wondering what this is? > > I *don't* want to reboot, there have been several other problems that I think > I've solved, and the only way I can tell if they're fixed is to get quite a > bit of uptime. > > Sooo... if the error is a *bad* thing, I'll do what's necessary to fix > it. Otherwise, I'll just ignore it for awhile. I've gotten this error on more than one occasion, never figured out why. I've come to expect that if it works for a few minutes after it appears and I say 'continue' then it'll be OK a few times it will panic, and sometimes it will just keep coming back until I select 'logout' YMMV TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: How do we change TELNET default Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:23:24 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320211547.11106H-100000@kira> References: <5gpq86$uit@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mirko@uh.edu In-Reply-To: <5gpq86$uit@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> > When a user uses Terminal.app and issues command telnet > machine.domain.name, the system automatically fills in the user name from > their NeXT account and skips to the Password: > Can you please give any suggestions on how to change this default? use the (undocumented) "-l" flag to change the username /usr/ucb/telnet remotehost -l remotename (you will be prompted for just a password, but for the account 'remotename') > Is there a way for the non-programmer users to create a simple file that > will automatically log them on to another machine? (i.e. Terminal.app > startup file of some sort) I looked at the documentation for Terminal.app > and found a lot of "over-the-head" info on writing scripts--is there an > easy way to do this? There's really only one way, and that's rlogin and using .rhosts files, which have security issues. However, if you want to use them: Assume we have 'user1' on host 'MyCube' who is known as 'usera' on 'HostTwo' on "MyCube" make a file ~user1/.rhosts with these contents: HostTwo usera On HostTwo make a file ~usera/.rhosts with these contents: MyCube user1 make the files chmod 600 (-rw-------) so no one else can read/edit them. Have them use 'rlogin MyCube' from "HostTwo" and 'rlogin HostTwo' from 'MyCube' If you need more help with this, let me know TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Need HELP with Group Assignment Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:26:27 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970320212500.11106I-100000@kira> References: <5gpre3$v8i@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mirko Chahny <mchahny@optlab25.opt.uh.edu> In-Reply-To: <5gpre3$v8i@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> If you are using NeXTStep 3.3 I believe you need to add this dwrite: dwrite Mail LoadNetInfoAddresses YES I don't think it exists with pre-3.3 I don't know of any other way to get it to work. I would also like to know if you find another way, or if this way works for you TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor
From: Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:34:13 -0800 Organization: University of Calfornia Santa Barbara Message-ID: <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Howdy all - any ideas how i can get my OpenStep 4 machine to access my yp network database? ypbind starts up a-ok and i see the stuff using ypcat, but no dice when i try to login with a username/password sent over via yp. presumably this has something to do with netinfo, of which i know nothin' about (i'm a sun guy). thanks for any help! -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Matthew E. Dunham | dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu Marine Science Institute | 805 893-7670 University of California | 805 893-3777 fax Santa Barbara, CA 93106 | http://rtg.lscf.ucsb.edu/~dunham -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: cpayne@xmission.xmission.com (Carl Payne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lost root password on Intel Date: 21 Mar 1997 09:39:29 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5gudk1$6uu$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5gsvtq$9fb$1@xmission.xmission.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> wrote: > What I usually do to regain control over the root account when I have lost > the passwd is to 1) scream 2) call your mother 3) scream more > 1. Boot in single user mode. > 2. Change the root password by doing the following: <snip> > This doesn't work on my Intel box. A couple of suggestions: Try using nu -m instead of passwd or other typical SysV tricks... Try doing an nidump and ni restore (modified) (I've only heard it works) Try shutting down NetInfo, doing an nu -m and restarting... > Thanks for any help you can muster. Ketchup goes better with that freshness packet. Carl -- Opportunity only knocks once In my case, it also leaves a flaming bag of dog crap on the porch
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 14:42:24 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5gu6og$d04@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> wrote: >any ideas how i can get my OpenStep 4 machine to >access my yp network database? ypbind starts up >a-ok and i see the stuff using ypcat, but no dice >when i try to login with a username/password >sent over via yp. presumably this has something >to do with netinfo, of which i know nothin' about >(i'm a sun guy). I don't run 4, but I'll imagine it's the same as it ever was. Two things to check: First, make sure there's a "+:" as the last line of /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Second, the NetInfo database supersedes yp, so if you've got NI stuff loaded, and want to use yp, get rid of it. All this is covered in the manual- do they still have all those online in 4? If so, use the Librarian to search for NIS in NextAdmin. I think it's the MixedNet chapter. ab
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(CD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 17:50:20 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5guhos$5e7@transfer.stratus.com> References: <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> In article <3331D785.2278@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> writes: > Howdy all - > > any ideas how i can get my OpenStep 4 machine to > access my yp network database? ypbind starts up > a-ok and i see the stuff using ypcat, but no dice > when i try to login with a username/password > sent over via yp. presumably this has something > to do with netinfo, of which i know nothin' about > (i'm a sun guy). > > thanks for any help! > Did you put a "+" character at the end of your /etc/passwd file on the OpenStep machine ? You need to do this in order for YP password validation to work. Note that you do *not* need the "+" in the NetInfo password database - only the /etc/passwd file. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 21 Mar 1997 18:17:28 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: >>As to packet sniffing, one could argue that if soemone is sniffing on the >>network, he can just steal the passwords directly. > >>The way to combat this is to use a One-Time Password system like S/Key. >>That totally bypasses whatever weakenesses there are in Netinfo and NIS, >>as the S/Key keys are not shared between machines. However, you can >>(safely) use the same secret passphrase for each. > >That deals with logins, but not with the normal inter-server traffic >that goes between netinfo domains. True, though the original discussion *was* about stealing password data. > >I guess we could solve a lot of this if SWAN was part of the NEXTSTEP >distribution. Anyone ported IPSEC from Linux to FreeBSD yet? Would be nice if there were *some* focus on security in the NeXTStep distribution. Personally, I'd like to see support for Pluggable Authentication Modules, like in Solaris and RedHat Linux. But hey, just issuing security patches for known root holes would be a start . . . Jacques
From: lewispsc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Philip Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: messages Date: 21 Mar 1997 11:34:59 -0800 Organization: Stanford University, CA 94305, USA Message-ID: <5gunt3$227@elaine38.Stanford.EDU> private/adm/messages is no longer recording. How do I restart it? Philip Lewis
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ls weirdness Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 13:15:16 -0800 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <3332FA64.500F9F30@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have several NeXTstations running 3.2 and mounting an NFS shared disk off of an SGI Indy. I also have NIS clients on the NeXTs and the NIS master running on the SGI. Everything's hunky-dory; I can login as the user as specified in the passwd file on the SGI, but I'm getting one weird bug... Some files do not get listed when I do an ls from the NeXT machines in that directory that resides on the SGI. If I do an ls for a specific file that I *know* is there, it DOES list it, but it doesn't list it when I just do a plain 'ls' or 'ls -al'. No difference in permissions or filetypes. It appears that it just wants to list some and not all. Anyone every run into this? -- **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/YP access ? Date: 21 Mar 1997 23:16:19 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5gv4s3$k8u@news.next.com> References: <5guhos$5e7@transfer.stratus.com> Just some clarification on NIS (formerly known as Yellow Pages / YP) access in NEXTSTEP / OPENSTEP for Mach. You need to set your NIS domain name in /etc/hostconfig. Various tools such an NetManager, HostManager, and SimpleNetworkStarter do this for you. If you want to do it with Edit / emacs / vi / whatever, just edit /etc/hostconfig and set the YPDOMAIN variable, e.g: YPDOMAIN=foobar Before version 4.0: Add a "+" to /etc/passwd and /etc/group ("+user" style entries also work). Version 4.0 and later: Lots of details are given in the 4.0 release notes for lookupd: /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf BEWARE! There's a typo in the release notes - it talks about setting lookupd's "lookupOrder". This should be "LookupOrder" with a capital "L". The 4.0 lookupd is vastly more configurable than the old one. To the greatest extent possible, it works exactly the same was as the old lookupd, but enabling NIS is a bit different. The 4.0 lookupd has a set of "agents" for different information systems - NetInfo, NIS, DNS, Flat Files, and an internal cache. When lookupd gets a request for information, it consults with these agents. You can decide which agents should be consulted, and set the order in which they are consulted. For example, you might want to do lookups first in NIS, then in NetInfo, and then in the flat files (/etc/passwd and so on). On top of that, you can also set the lookup order on a per-category basis. The categories are hosts, users, printers, and etc. Thus, you can tell lookupd to look for users from one set of information sources (for example, NIS then NetInfo), while looking for hosts in another set (for example, DNS, then NetInfo, then NIS). The 4.0 lookupd reads all of its configuration options out of the directory /locations/lookupd in NetInfo. You can put the configuration at any level in your NetInfo hierarchy. Put it in a computer's local domain, and it applies to only that one system. Put it in a mid-level domain, and it applies to a subset of your network. Put it in the root domain, and it applies to the whole network. You can use niutil or NetInfoManager to create and manage the configuration. Here's an example, placed in a domain named /sales (I've broken up long lines with "\"): niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd \ LookupOrder CacheAgent NIAgent YPAgent FFAgent This tells lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then NetInfo, then NIS (YP), and finally to read the flat files. Note that the NIS maps are treated as a fully independent information source, not as a network extension of the local flat files. You can use one or the other or both, and in any order you'd like. niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd/hosts niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd/hosts \ LookupOrder CacheAgent DNSAgent NIAgent This overrides the lookup order for hosts, telling lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then DNS, and finally NetInfo. niutil -create /sales /locations/lookupd/users niutil -createprop /sales /locations/lookupd/users \ LookupOrder CacheAgent YPAgent NIAgent FFAgent This overrides the lookup order for users, telling lookupd to consult its internal cache first, then NIS, then NetInfo, and finally the /etc/passwd file. The release note has more details on lookupd's features and configuration options. -- Marc Majka
From: phm@eqt.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXFax Data Call Returns Garbage! Date: 22 Mar 1997 01:41:34 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5gvdce$qkm@uni2f.unige.ch> Hi I have installed NXFax on a computer, that has been used for several months, without any problem, as a PPP server. Now, the PPP connection isn©t possible any more, because the client receives only garbage, altough NXFax seems to recognize properly the data call: %> citenext_fax: wait for incoming call %> citenext_fax: activity on port Mon Mar 17 23:05:05 1997 %> citenext_fax: wait for connect %> citenext_fax: ring 1 %> citenext_fax: answer call %> citenext_fax: incoming data call %> citenext_fax: CONNECT 19200 ----------NXFax Driver Version 1.04.1---------- %> citenext_fax: Mon Mar 17 23:05:21 1997 %> citenext_fax: data call %> citenext_fax: Mon Mar 17 23:05:25 1997 Then it starts the getty process: root 407 0.0 2.4 2.00M 392K ? S 0:00 getty NXFaxA - With the NXFaxA parameter from gettytab (where I had to remove the p8 parameter!): # NXFax dialup on port A NXFaxA:ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT / NXFax (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400: But now at the clients end there©s only garbage. The connection seems to be there, but the output is unreadable. I tried in kermit to fiddle with the 7/8 bit terminal bytes, but no result. Any help appreciated! Phil
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel <distler-2103972147570001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu> Control: cancel <distler-2103972147570001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 21:49:59 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2103972150000001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu> cancel <distler-2103972147570001@slip-12-4.ots.utexas.edu>
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.lang.perl Subject: Perl5.003 / DB_File / NeXTStep question Date: 22 Mar 1997 05:17:56 GMT Organization: Hotspice Development Message-ID: <5gvq24$l7p@chinx10.tpa.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I've been trying to get Perl to compile with the DB_File extension on NeXTStep 3.3 for Intel. The first problem was to get libdb.a to compile which I eventually gave up on and copied a version from another machine. Problem number 2 is that when the Perl compile tries the DB_File extension, it dies on the db.h (which I supplied from the Berkeley db.1.85 source), complaining: /usr/local/include/db.h:40: header file 'sys/cdefs.h' not found /usr/local/include/db.h:120: illegal declaration, missing `;' after `)' /usr/local/include/db.h:120: syntax error, found `struct' /usr/local/include/db.h:120: illegal member declaration, missing name, found `)' /usr/local/include/db.h:121: illegal external declaration, missing `;' after `)' etc... Has anyone had success with this?? Perhaps you have an appropriate db.h? There's a really nice module for Perl that I'd like to use but it wants the DB_File.pm package installed. Help, of course, would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Please reply by email. -- Peace, Arpi arpad@tezcat.com (773)395-8581<voice> (773)395-8582<fax> Chicago, IL
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing to JetDirect Date: 24 Mar 1997 07:46:45 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: na Message-ID: <5h5t3l$3aho@atlas.vcu.edu> I'm having a problem printing from OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 to a HP LaserJet 4 with the Postscript option and an HP JetDirect interface. It seems that OPENSTEP/Mach/4.0 does not include the proper JCL header to inform the printer to switch to Postscript. Instead, it prints the %! and so on. Adding _nxfinalform doesn't help. I've tried both the NeXT supplied LaserJet 4 PPD as well as the HP one (really for the 5/5M) from their ftp site. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu BTW, printing through NetWare (yes it does seem to work under OPENSTEP 4.0) produces the same results.
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ATI video cards no longer supported ? Date: 24 Mar 1997 07:50:54 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h5tbe$19l2@atlas.vcu.edu> References: <5gcmb3$g8o$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) writes: >I just spoke to a NeXT tech support rep about problems I'm having with ATI's >new Mach64 cards using the 264VT or Rage chipsets. That BIOS revision isn't >supported by the current ATI driver, and he does not anticipate that any >updates will be forthcoming since the driver engineers have been relocated to >the Rhapsody group. NeXT recently posted an ATI Rage driver on NeXTanswers (see the sorted by date index). Now all the Gateway 2000's that VCU has been buying can display color under OPENSTEP/Mach. However, the 3Com Etherlink III PCI cards aren't yet. :-( ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu
From: Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Marking bad sectors? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 00:22:02 +1000 Organization: AUSNet Services Message-ID: <33368E0A.81B@FreeFall.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi; is there any way of marking bad sectors on a SCSI, 4.3-formatted hard disk? (this is black NS 3.2). Thanks, Piotr piotr@FreeFall.com.au
From: ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:36:20 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5h4ia4$j6i@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> In article <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> abosse@midway.uchicago.edu writes: >Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz wrote: >> >> Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: >> 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus >> >> Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com >> >> Thanks, Stan > >Yes, I'm in the same boat. No driver is available. Maybe someone at NeXT >will re-assure us that the driver is on the "planned" list... > >Arno I also have this card. Would someone like to suggest a different PCI ethernet card? I need a "Combo" card as I will be switching from BNC to twisted pait in 6 months. Thanks, Dan -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: lewanto@stan.donet.com (Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 22 Mar 1997 15:56:00 GMT Organization: Dayton Ohio Network (DONet, Inc.) Message-ID: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com Thanks, Stan
From: Christian Hahn <1919-484@online.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP II P driver Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 23:52:01 +0100 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <33288511.5E1A@online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know where i can get a HP II P printer driver for OpenStep? Thanks in advance, Christian
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting PPP to work Date: 24 Mar 1997 20:15:44 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> Hello, on advice of Ulli Zappe, I ordered the German NewsLetter for OpenStep (3/95 - 2/96), because therein should be a very good introduction to PPP under OpenStep. The articles are great and I know much more about PPP and the Internet now as before, but the connection is still down. I made all steps described in the second article (the config-Files are listed below), but after dialing the provider (mostly successful), ppp is not starting up, and I have absolutely no idea, what could be wrong. Thanks in advance! Andreas ************************************************ ******************* etc/options ******************* ************************************************ /dev/cudfb 38400 crtscts lock defaultroute lcp-echo-interval 15 lcp-echo-failure 3 #-vj debug ************************************************ ******************** .ppprc ********************** ************************************************ # nutzerspezifische options-Datei # erg•nzt bzw. ÷berschreibt /etc/ppp/options # verbindung mittels asyncronem ppp gem•¹ /pppup 57600 connect "/usr/local/ppp/bin/chat -vf /pppup" ************************************************ ****************** pppup ************************ ************************************************ ABORT BUSY ABORT ERROR ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO ANSWER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" "" ATZ OK ATD06131100 "lynet login:" andreas "Password:" a1b2c3 ************************************************ ******************** etc/remote ****************** ************************************************ BASIC|Basic setup:\ :el=^C^S^Q^U^D:ie=%$:oe=^D: # a9600|cua9600|Dial-out on cua at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#9600:tc=BASIC: b9600|cub9600|Dial-out on cub at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cub:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fa9600|cufa9600|Dial-out on cufa at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufa:br#9600:tc=BASIC: fb9600|cufb9600|Dial-out on cufb at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cufb:br#9600:tc=BASIC: ttya9600|Hardwire on ttya at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/ttya:br#9600:tc=BASIC: ttyb9600|Hardwire on ttyb at 9600 baud:\ :dv=/dev/ttyb:br#9600:tc=BASIC: # # General dialer definitions used below # dial1200|1200 Baud Hayes attributes:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#1200:at=hayes:du: dial300|300 Hayes attributes:\ :dv=/dev/cua:br#300:at=hayes:du: # # UNIX system definitions # UNIX-1200|1200 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\ :el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial1200: UNIX-300|300 Baud dial-out to another UNIX system:\ :el=^U^C^R^O^D^S^Q@:ie=#%$:oe=^D:tc=dial300: # tip0|tip1200:tc=UNIX-1200: tip300:tc=UNIX-300: cu0|cu300:tc=UNIX-300: cu1200:tc=UNIX-1200: dialer:dv=/dev/cua:br#1200: #-------------------------------------------------------------------- #The attributes are: # #dv device to use for the tty #el EOL marks (default is NULL) #du make a call flag (dial up) #pn phone numbers (@ =>'s search phones file; possibly taken from # PHONES environment variable) #at ACU type (vadic, ventel, hayes, courier) #ie input EOF marks (default is NULL) #oe output EOF string (default is NULL) #cu call unit (default is dv) #br baud rate (defaults to 300) #fs frame size (default is BUFSIZ) -- used in buffering writes # on receive operations #tc to continue a capability # ********************************************************* # additional entries by Andreas Hoeschler # Date: 22.3.1997 # ********************************************************* b28|cudfb28800|Dial-out on cudfb at 28800 baud:\ :dv=/dev/cudfb:pa=none:pr#38400:tc=BASIC:
From: nospamthanx@nowhere.com (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:03:32 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5h6tnk$fse@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> <5h4ia4$j6i@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <5h4ia4$j6i@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> On 03/23/97, Daniel D. Roscigno wrote: .. Etherlink XL... >I also have this card. Would someone like to suggest a different PCI >ethernet card? I need a "Combo" card as I will be switching from BNC >to twisted pait in 6 months. I've had good success with the Cogent EM 960 and the Inter Etherexpress Pro/10. Both are available in combo versions, and both have solid NS 3.3 drivers. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: 24 Mar 1997 22:36:26 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h6vla$ln1@news.next.com> References: <5h3l8p$1eeo@atlas.vcu.edu> Weiyuan W Chin writes > Why doesn't Apple just ship all display drivers with their > framebuffer settings as high as possible? Can the framebuffer > address be above Apple/NeXT's Mach 2.5's maximum system RAM capacity > (was that 256 or 384mb?). Wouldn't that help alleviate a > significant portion of Intel installation problems? Would there > be performance problems setting it high? Some adapters don't support higher framebuffer addresses (this is particularly true of VL-BUS adapters, and older S3 chipsets). So we'd be trading one problem for another. That might be the way to go, though - is anybody still running NEXTSTEP on a VL-BUS system? -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Admin QUESTION Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 17:15:44 GMT Organization: WorldCom Message-ID: <5h17gn$hur@news.worldcom.ch> Hi there ! I must set up a NeXT machin remotly. I have the root password but no users belong to the wheel group I can not make any su !!! What can I do to have the root permissions ? LiONEL >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< name : Lionel Tinguely (MiMe & NeXT mail ok) e-mail: ltinguely@pobox.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence E.W. Dijkstra Teaching C++ should be sentenced to life imprisonment Me
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting PPP to work Date: 25 Mar 1997 00:32:00 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5h76e0$8s2@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> References: <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, Hello... I don't know if this will help, but I was having a lot of trouble getting ppp running on my machine as well. My scripts all looked good, I had followed several sources of info on how to set ppp up, etc. I was finally able to get it working after using the right modem initialization commands. I don't know what kind of modem you are using, but if you haven't already, you should make sure that you're initializing your modem correctly. (I can't really tell you what exactly -- I don't know myself :) ) -- Mark Trombino mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (NEXTMail, MIME Mail okay)
From: alcmaeon@one.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: NeXT and AT&T Worldnet Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:39:43 GMT Organization: OneNet Communications HUB News Server Message-ID: <5h7acv$n1v@news.one.net> I have been trying to get logged on to AT&T WorldNet from the Cube. I am logged on to another ISP that I have with no trouble, but when I try to get on WorldNet, I get through the UserName and Password stages, but then I get a message something to the effect that: "the serial connection is not 8-bit clean, 0 appears at position 7" Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Mitch
From: alan@osci.me.ttu.edu (Alan A. Barhorst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: comsat and biff problem??? Date: 25 Mar 1997 03:11:04 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5h7fo8$a1h@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Keywords: comsat,biff Hello, I hope some veterans out there can help me with this. I am running a network of NS 3.3 machines and it appears that comsat on all my machines broadcasts to every unix box on our campus when new mail arrives on my machines. Is this a known problem. Does anybody know of a fix. I have read the man pages on biff and comsat and it appears they are geared for shell usage. However, NeXT must use them for the GUI mailer because I witnessed comsat running just before I received new mail in my Mail.app. Any help is much appreciated. -- AB _______________________________________________________________ Alan A. Barhorst | alan@osci.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering | http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ Texas Tech University | NeXT, MIME, Sun, & ASCII mail
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 22 Mar 1997 20:14:04 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <5h1eic$n58$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph) wrote: > >I guess we could solve a lot of this if SWAN was part of the NEXTSTEP >distribution. Anyone ported IPSEC from Linux to FreeBSD yet? It's been ported to OpenBSD: ftp://freestuff.cs.colorado.edu/pub/OpenBSD/src/sbin/ipsec/ That's a start, anyway. Jacques
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Newbie NeXT Admin: The NeXT Chapter Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-2403972342000001@host054.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 04:42:00 GMT Okay here's where I've gotten to, I've got the Turbo color Slab, (refered to as Nexus) up and booting. Nexus is is doing the Internet client things, recognising DNS, telnetting and the Web server stuff. Now that I've played with the machine it's time to get it to work at it's true functions. I was helped on much of this awhile ago, but I lost the ftp shopping list before I finished. What I need to run on this machine is DNS and I need to do the smntp, POPmail thing. The mail clients are macintoshes and one unix box that will either to TCP/IP or UUCP with Nexus, both via ethernet. What software should I be getting or stuff within the box that I should configure? In an unrelated bit of derring do, throwing caution through the winds and after about 15 mins of reading the instructions I recently connected and Amiga 4000 to a T1 Internet connection and it was GOOD. After a few upstarts, I used the ftp software and a few clicks and unpacks I was running Voyager surfing the web. (that reminds me is there a better web browser for NeXT besides Omniweb? the ftp function in Omniweb is an extreme pain to deal with. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software From: Arno Bosse <abosse@midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3333F38D.2E58@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: zlewanto@stan.donet.com Organization: Univ. of Chicago References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:58:21 GMT Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz wrote: > > Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: > 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus > > Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com > > Thanks, Stan Yes, I'm in the same boat. No driver is available. Maybe someone at NeXT will re-assure us that the driver is on the "planned" list... Arno
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <umax!antigone.sonic.net!ispnet!peak.org!luomat> Message-ID: <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org> In-Reply-To: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 97 09:40:53 -0500 Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Cc: comp-sys-next-sysadmin@antigone.com References: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__" This is a MIME-encapsulated message If you read this, you may want to switch to a better mailer --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit *This message was sent using a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) UUCPGate* --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit *This message was received using a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) UUCPGate* --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Responding To: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Original Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 07:02:54 GMT > What I can't understand is why every major Unix vendor, no scratch > that, ALL vendors I've heard of stick with DES. (I'll skip for the > moment how the "salt" used actually weakens Unix passwords against > semi-theoretical differential cryptanalysis attacks.) There are a > number of newer encryption algorithms/one-way functions which could > be used as drop in replacements for DES. Does it really matter that > much that your /etc/passwd is not compatible with Brand X's? Excellent point. Is it possible to change DES for PGP for password encryption under NS? How would some fool (ie me ;^) go about trying this? Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NOTE: If you are having problems uploading to PEAK, tell me Computer humor: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/humor --__==========00000000055066==antigone.sonic.net==__--
From: "Jonathan Katz" <jkatz@mac.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Proxies... Date: 23 Mar 1997 00:41:29 GMT Organization: INTERNET Indiana Message-ID: <01bc3723$c2ae09e0$0100000a@litterbox.in.net> Greetings! I have a mini-LAN setup at my house, with a Win95 box acting as a proxy/router. My question is how do I configure my NeXT Cube to use the proxy? Both boxes talk to each other (I can telnet back and forth, as well as telnet from the NeXT station to the proxy). Any/all ideas and information would be appreciated. I'm using WinGate as the proxy software on the Win95 box, and running NS 3.3 developer on the Cube. Many Thanks in advance! -Jon
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:54:48 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2203972054490001@slip-22-13.ots.utexas.edu> References: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org> In article <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org>, luomat@peak.org wrote: >Is it possible to change DES for PGP for password encryption under NS? > >How would some fool (ie me ;^) go about trying this? FreeBSD uses (iterated) MD5 hashes instead of the standard Unix crypt() method. The FreeBSD source code is, well, freely available: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/ You could try grabbing the source for /bin/login and related routines, and see whether you could get it working. Of course, this would necessarily bypass NetInfo. You would also have to do the same for ftpd (which, unlike telnetd and rlogind, does not call /bin/login). I don't know whether LoginWindow calls /bin/login. If not, then you are S.O.L., as the source for that is unavailable. If PAM (Plugin Authentication Modules) were implemented for NeXTStep, you could have your pick (standard Unix passwords, MD5 a la FreeBSD, S/Key one-time passwords, . . .). But it's not. Anyway, the lack of cryptographic strength of crypt() is not, I think, the biggest on your list of worries. Anyone willing to invest the time and effort to cryptanalyse your /etc/passwd file (or the contents of your NetInfo database) could much more easily obtain your password by snooping on the wire, or, for that matter, obtain root access on your machine through any one of a number of root holes (both local and remote) which are as yet unpatched under NeXTStep. Replacing crypt() with something stronger is like installing a heavy deadbolt lock, but leaving the windows of your house wide open. Jacques
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@math.enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting NeXTSTEP to Window 95 Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 20:13:00 -0700 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.96.970322200656.-94697F-100000@spam.wireless.org> References: <3327BDB6.BE7@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: ablasco@gcomm.com In-Reply-To: <3327BDB6.BE7@gcomm.com> On Thu, 13 Mar 1997 ablasco@gcomm.com wrote: > Does anybody knows if it's very difficult to connect a nextstation to a > Pentirum running windows 95? I need to connect them via Ethernet but I > don't know how. Any information will be appreciated! > As far as the hardware connection goes you either need to run them both into an ethernet hub or wire yourself an ethernet cable with wires reversed accordingly, kind of the same way a NULL modem reverses the TX and RX lines... Unless of course you already have a LAN setup in which case just plug them into an existing hub or router and assign them IP addresses and off you go. What else you need depends on what you want to do. If you want to do filesystem sharing you either need a Windows NFS package or a NeXT SMB package. Also keep in mind that Windows 95 comes out of the box with no server software. So unless you buy the software you can ftp, telnet, etc into you windows box. l8r, Nate --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt "Noooooooooooooo.........." -- Luke Skywalker
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NEC CD-ROM trial 2 Date: 22 Mar 1997 23:25:40 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h2bc4$1jvu@atlas.vcu.edu> References: <5ga5ks$neu@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> pdamiano@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) writes: >I was wondering if anyone might know if an NEC Multispin CD-ROM Reader >will work with black hardware Depends on the Multispin. Some MultiSpin models had standards compliance problems (especially some of the older 1 and 2X models as well as the "p" models). Also, if you have a 3X, they had a ROM upgrade program. Finally, you might want to make sure if there is a SCSI level setting, that it's set to SCSI-2. Otherwise, it should "just work" barring any other standard SCSI problems like bad cables, terminators, conflicting SCSI ID's, etc. Good luck, ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu
From: phy070@spo109.power.uni-essen.de (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting PPP to work Date: 25 Mar 1997 13:01:39 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5h8ibj$8bo@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5h6ndg$p3f$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: : Hello, : [...] Hello, first idea/comment: do the serial ports/lines work properly - outside PPP like with kermit? Many users - even experienced ones :-) - forget to install/add the TTY portserver in Configure.app (in Misc.) in addition to the serial drivers, especially after upgrade or installtion. The installation/upgrade process does not activate/include the TTY portserver on its own. I'm suspecting that at least three people in this newsgroup are experiencing consequences of this problem at the moment. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.x license Date: 23 Mar 1997 00:18:06 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5h1sru$3tf@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> I am a sysadmin running a mixture of DEC Alphas and NeXT slabs. The NeXT machines are all running NS 3.2 Can someone tell me what the academic licensing is like for NeXT hardware/software? Can I buy the NS 3.3 Academic Bundle and upgrade any/all of the machines, or do I need a seperate license for each machine? The NeXT stations have been here much longer than me so I am unclear on the license situation. Thanks, Dan ( a new NeXT user ) -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <608858488427@digifix.com> Date: 23 Mar 1997 05:00:18 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3027859093225@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: wiedner@nxcb01.cern.ch (Wiedner) Subject: Color Monitor for NeXTstation found Message-ID: <E7Lst7.Cu2@news.cern.ch> Keywords: monitor Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 14:41:31 GMT Hi everybody, 2 weeks ago I posted a mail asking for help in choosing a color monitor for my (black) Color NeXTstation. Several people asked me to inform them if I found out something. Unfortunately their mails got lost, so I have to contac them this way. It seems that a SONY 17SE2T5 monitor works nice with my NeXTstation. To connect it I use the PigTail adapter, which basically conversts the 13W3 connector of the NeXT to RGB (BNC). So, I'm in business again. Cheers...Ulrich
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netboot question Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:13:14 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E7Lx22.8v@xombi.wizard.net> I have a Cube with 1 gig disk and a Slab with 100 meg disk. I've used the Cube for a while now but just bought the Slab. It would be great to Netboot the Slab off of the Cube. After reading the online documentation I've: * added an entry via Hostmanager.app for the Slab, including the physical ethernet address and IP address as well as setting the Netboot options. * exported the root directory to the Slab via NFSManager.app, however I couldn't explicitly export the /clients/slabname directory since it's a child of the root directory.....perhaps this is where my problem starts. So I reboot the Cube, then turn on the slab...halt the Slab and do "ben" and get: Requesting BOOTP information...... [timeout] Any suggestions? Thanks! --- SW Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig SW http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ SW... recurve@resourceful.com SWN?
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: case sensitive mail aliases Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:17:11 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5h98bn$eqg@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Mar 1997 19:17:11 GMT Ever since I upgraded to 4.0, my mail aliases have become case sensitive. I would prefer that this was not the case. I've read the documentation and can't find anything about how to change this behavior. Please let me know if you know how to do this. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Juha Tuominen <comm@sci.fi> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem in installing NS3.2 into Pentium PC Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:44:45 GMT Organization: Scifi Communications International Oy, http://www.sci.fi/, helpdesk@sci.fi, 03 2899111 Message-ID: <5h9h0d$rid@tron.sci.fi> I'm forced switch back to 3.2 due to unexpected problems in 3.3's Sound system (recording does not work correctly). I've got a new 166 MHz Osborne Pentium PC with 64 MB of RAM, Diamond Steath 64 VRAM (PCI) and Adaptec 1542CF (ISA). There's a 2 GB Seagate Barracuda connected to Adaptec. The problem is that 3.2 installation fails at the very beginning after choosing the initial drivers. The error is thread: waitforInterrupt: return -735 I've seen that error before and earlier I have managed to fix it by making my own installation diskette with updated Adaptec driver. Well, that's exactly what I did now, too, but the problem didn't disappear. I've double- checked that I really have the new driver on the installation diskette and installation program loads it without any errors. When installation is proceeded with "2, continue without installing any further drivers", the last text I manage to see on the screen is that system is loading PS2Keyboard and after that the error message flood begins. Does this problem ring a bell? Anyone? I'd be very appreciated of any suggestions that you might have to solve this problem. -Juha -- My wife ran off with my best friend and I still miss him.
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: How to get NeXTSpell.service into 'Services? Date: 25 Mar 1997 21:52:15 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5h9hef$omo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi, fairly new to OpenStep 4.0 and thus have no idea how to activate the NeXTSpell checker as it is done e.g. with Enhance-Mail or even better in 'Services! I copied NeXTSpell.service from /NextLibrary/Services to /LocalLibrary/Services with no apparentt effect. Thanks everybody for their help! Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(CD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printing to JetDirect Date: 25 Mar 1997 22:00:20 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Distribution: na Message-ID: <5h9htk$kpb@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5h5t3l$3aho@atlas.vcu.edu> In article <5h5t3l$3aho@atlas.vcu.edu> s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) writes: > > > I'm having a problem printing from OPENSTEP for Mach 4.0 to a > HP LaserJet 4 with the Postscript option and an HP JetDirect > interface. It seems that OPENSTEP/Mach/4.0 does not include > the proper JCL header to inform the printer to switch to > Postscript. Instead, it prints the %! and so on. Adding > _nxfinalform doesn't help. I've tried both the NeXT supplied > LaserJet 4 PPD as well as the HP one (really for the 5/5M) > from their ftp site. > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated, > > ..Bill Chin I'd check the printer side of things. Do you have the printer's "personality" set to "auto" so that it can switch between PS and PCL ? Did you try setting the printer to just "PS" mode ? How does it behave then ? I've done a lot with NS and JetDirect and this one sounds like a printer-side problem. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu (Weiyuan W Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: 23 Mar 1997 11:20:41 -0500 Organization: Virginia Commonwealth University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5h3l8p$1eeo@atlas.vcu.edu> References: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> <5gpa2t$298@mpaque.mpaque> mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) writes: >In article <332E111D.4183@communique.net> "Kurt E. Huhner" ><khuhner@communique.net> writes: >> I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) >> motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All >> drives are on the A2940 chain. >> >> All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the >> suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the >> "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it >> appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. >> No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. >It sounds like there may be an overlap between the memory address of the >framebuffer and main memory. I'd bet that your machine has 64 Mbytes of >memory installed, and the Diamond Stealth card has it's default memory >window address set to something less than 64 Mbytes. Why doesn't Apple just ship all display drivers with their framebuffer settings as high as possible? Can the framebuffer address be above Apple/NeXT's Mach 2.5's maximum system RAM capacity (was that 256 or 384mb?). Wouldn't that help alleviate a significant portion of Intel installation problems? Would there be performance problems setting it high? ..Bill Chin s0wwchin@atlas.vcu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org.NOSPAM (Thomas Funke) Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Message-ID: <1997Mar23.121604.546@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: cdouty@netcom.com Organization: Disorganization References: <199703132340.SAA02124@kira.peak.org> <1997Mar15.181402.624@gamelan.shnet.org> <An=LZai00iVD45rgVz@andrew.cmu.edu> <1997Mar17.213341.655@gamelan.shnet.org> <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:16:04 GMT In <cdoutyE7By8u.4z@netcom.com> Chris Douty wrote: > > Shadow passwords are only a bandaid to make shallow thinking sysadmins > believe that their system is "secure." Various exploitable bugs are > found every day on Unix systems, especially NeXT with a relatively old > implementation of basic Unix services. Many of the bugs can give a local > or network user root access. root can read /etc/passwd.adjunct, > regardless of permissions "protecting" it. The file, with passwords > intact, can be spirited off to some fast DES crunching machine. Shadow password don't make a system "secure". But the lack of shadow passwords allow a simple user to crack easily, without special knowledges, many accounts. Of course there are other ways to get access to root or other accounts, but they are not so easy as cracking a passwd file. A secure system consists of many more security measures, but a system which has world readable passwd files is a security nightmare.
Message-ID: <332DEA9A.691E@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:06:34 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Copying to a win95 partition Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am copying files from NS3.3 to a win95 partition, but there is a problem with the files which have too long a name. Is there an easier solution than writing a script which shortens every file name to < 8 characters and every extension to 3 chars? Ted Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ethernet, IPs, PPP, and more Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:25:43 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970325194733.11642B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com Greetings folks, I am about to have a 2 machine LAN here, my original Slab and a new Intel in about 2-3 weeks. They will be connected via Ethernet so I can use the LaserPrinter on the slab, and to run a few m68k-only apps and programs. I am trying to think through the various issues around the best way to set these two machines up. Assume the following: - 2 machines ("A" and "B") running NS 3.3, connected via Ethernet - One machine (either one) connected via PPP to Internet (assume "A" for purposes of this discussion) - a machine "C" which is simply some machine on the Internet Can I: 1) connect from machine "B" to the internet (www,ftp,telnet,rlogin). For example, if I wanted to run the PPP software on the NeXT but wanted to surf/email/etc from the Intel, could I do that? 2) connect (telnet/ftp/rlogin) from B->A and A->B when the PPP connection is up? 3) connect (telnet/ftp/rlogin) from B->A and A->B when the PPP connection is down? (What IPs do I use for machine A and B? [understanding that "A" will get its own when PPP comes up] 4) connect from "C" to machine "B" (ie the one NOT running the PPP connection. If so, what IP would it have?) For example, I can see being at computer "C" and wanting to get to a file on "B" I was thinking that if I cannot connect to "B" from the 'net then I should NFS mount "B" to "A" For example, in the model below, would I be able to telnet to go from the Internet to the Intel and then to the Slab? (I'm sure I couldn't go directly to the slab since it won't have an Internet-acceptable IP) ________ __________ | | | | | slab |<--Ethernet-> | Intel | --modem/PPP--> Internet \____/ | | -------- <--NFS-- ---------- This is the other alternative, where I could connect to the slab from the 'net, but could I go from the slab to the Intel? Could I surf/telnet/ftp/etc from the Intel to the 'net through the slab? Internet | modem/ppp | ___|____ __________ | | | | | slab |<--Ethernet-> | Intel | \____/ | | -------- <--NFS-- ---------- Final Q: I assume that the two machines will be entirely independent (in case one or the other has some big problems). The only thing which would connect them would be the need to Print on the NeXT laser printer from the Intel. How is this done? I assume something in NetInfo. Email response is best. I will post summary info (and re-ask whatever questions get overlooked in the responses). Thanks TjL ps -- FAQ/NeXTDoc pointers appreciated. This is a whole new area for me...
From: "Kurt E. Huhner" <khuhner@communique.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS4.1 Install Problem Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 21:50:53 -0600 Organization: NCS, Inc; http://www.ncs-ssc.com Message-ID: <332E111D.4183@communique.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a Tyan S1662 (Dual Pentium Pro, Secondary CPU disabled) motherboard, Adaptec 2940, and a Diamond Stealth 64. All drives are on the A2940 chain. All seems to install ok but when the install restarts for the suspected last time, I get a "blank screen of death". Using the "-v" switch I get all the normal print outs and then when it appears the login panel is displayed is when the freeze occurs. No key stroke, mouse, etc can get out of this frozen state. Upon restarting, a fschk is done with another reboot. The ONLY way I have found is to specify "config=Default" at the boot: prompt, but then I can't get any of the color settings, etc. Also I have never seen the login panel... Any suggestions?
From: Matthew Dunham <dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: solaris dual boot ? Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:04:39 -0800 Organization: University of Calfornia Santa Barbara Message-ID: <33386817.7B12@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit howdy all - when i boot openstep 4.1 on my Sparc 4, the OS tries to mount the Solaris drive, fails, and then wants to initialize it. the NeXT sparc FAQ says to see the mntent man page on how to fix this. so following the sparse intructions there, i stick the following "ignore" lines in my fstab as follows: sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 sd1a /dummy-mount-point ignore sd1b /dummy-mount-point ignore sd1c /dummy-mount-point ignore ... etc, etc ... no dice - still comes up with the "intialize" prompt on login. so i'm wondering if a) anyone knows how to write this fstab properly or b) anyone can tell me how where to zap the automounting facility that creates this mess. thanks a bundle. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Matthew E. Dunham | dunham@lifesci.lscf.ucsb.edu Marine Science Institute | 805 893-7670 University of California | 805 893-3777 fax Santa Barbara, CA 93106 | http://rtg.lscf.ucsb.edu/~dunham -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Message-ID: <332DEB6F.792D@b-bop.com> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:10:07 -0600 From: The Math Doctor <mathdoc@b-bop.com> Organization: The Math Doctor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: NS3.3, PPP, and Mail Host Unknown Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin I am running NS3.3 on black hardware. Recently installed PPP using Gateway.app. Great way to do things. I use OminiWebb and Mail.app regularly. Omniweb works fine, but I cannot mail outside of my local domain. The mail gets returned with the statements: Host unknown (Authoritative answer from nameserver). I have set up the file resolv.conf with three nameservers and have the same three listed under NetInfoManager's local - locations - resolver - nameserver stuff. What to I need to get mail outside of the local network which I connect to? Please reply to ted@cmps03.nich.edu. ========================================================== The Math Doctor 1 888 537 1604 (toll free fax) Math by fax and email http://mathdoc.b-bop.com mathdoc@b-bop.com P.O. Box 751096 New Orleans, LA 70175-1096 ==========================================================
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NS 3.3 Driver for 3Com Etherlink XL Date: 23 Mar 1997 21:37:22 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5h47qi$bm3$1@shadow.skypoint.net> References: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> In-Reply-To: <5h0veg$slj@toast.donet.com> On 03/22/97, Zdzislaw H. Lewantowicz wrote: >Help - need NS 3.3 Intel driver for: > 3Com EtherLink XL (3C900-TPO, 3C900-COMBO) - PCI bus > >Does anyone know of one? Pls email to: zlewanto@stan.donet.com > >Thanks, Stan > I have been in touch with the NeXT Tech support group on this. I am an EAP. The story I am getting is that it is being writen wtih NO timeframe till beta release yet. May be if we all keep up a weekly reminder effort we will ge their attention. Send email to Mark Tacchi <mtacchi@next.com> and Marc Driftmeyer <Marc_Driftmeyer@next.com> If you hear of any drivers for this card please let me know and visa versa. Thanks -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: chris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch (Christian Limpach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NXHosting info from the past (longish) Date: 23 Mar 1997 22:49:57 +0100 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site - NOT Message-ID: <x767yicm7u.fsfchris@nice.usergroup.ethz.ch> References: <E78y66.6EB@AWT.NL> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972042540001@news.tiac.net> <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972325340001@news.tiac.net> In-reply-to: jbf_see_signature@frazer.com's message of Tue, 18 Mar 1997 23:25:34 -0500 Originator: uucp@nice.ethz.ch Originator: news@nowhere.ethz.ch In article <jbf_see_signature-ya023580001803972325340001@news.tiac.net> jbf_see_signature@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: > And I found I had a copy of this "open" replacement, which predates > the NS 3.3 version. The author, Chris Limpach, says > > * open.h,v > * Revision 1.2 1994/05/09 21:37:39 chris > * fixed NXHost which was broken because of [Application new] > > I never installed it because that seemed a bit vague (and reading the > source doesn't clarify anything), and it didn't matter at the time > (or now, since I took the other machine off the net). this is not related to your problem, it's just that I had to parse the NXHost myself and not let [Application new] steal it from argv. Also the -NXHost option of open does not exactly do what most people here seem to expect: it will not run an application on this machine and NXHost it to another machine but it will ask the other machine's Windowserver to run the application on the other machine > Does anyone know if "open" is still "broken"? The General Reference for > 3.3 includes the following: It seems, that the bug which made me write an open replacement is not longer present in 3.3 (you couldn't say "open -a AppName" in 3.2 if you had a private windowserver). There are numerous features in my open version so that it's still of great use, at least to me. ftp://nice.ethz.ch/users/chris/open.1.3.NI.s.tar.gz is the latest version. christian -- Christian Limpach, CS-Student @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland. http://nice.ethz.ch/~chris --- System-Administration VIS/NiCE member of the managing board of VIS (http://www.vis.inf.ethz.ch/)
From: ghost@ghost.neosoft.com (Mark C. Allman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Syslogd: seg fault on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach Date: 26 Mar 1997 05:47:56 GMT Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. Message-ID: <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> I seem to recall a thread somewhere about logging not working, but can't find anything in the newsgroup archive, so ... Anyone having a problem running syslogd on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach? When I run it from the command line with the -d (for debugging) switch I get a seg fault, and when I run it w/o the -d I don't see the process running. It also isn't in the process list ("ps -ax") after booting up. Question 1: Is there a fix/patch/new release? I didn't see anything on NeXTAnswers. Question 2: I expect this is why I can't get my PPP s/w to log start-up activity. Right? Yes, I have the line local2.debug /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log in my syslog.conf file. -- Mark Allman -- Sr. Engineer, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, allman@pat.mdc.com -- Software consulting (Perl, C, Python, ...), ghost@ghost.neosoft.com -- (see: http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/5857.html)
From: Koplien@vnet.IBM.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what is "Academic Bundle"? (OpenStep 4.1) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 07:08:13 Organization: IBM Zurich Research Laboratory Message-ID: <5g85kp$dge@grimsel.zurich.ibm.com> References: <33258439.41C6@cms.math.ca> <E6w1ss.JLD@cam-ani.co.uk> <En9gupa00iWUQ3m3so@andrew.cmu.edu> Steve Jobs migrated to Apple. He struggled with the NeXT hardware, lost and joined Apple with his OS (In my eyes the last action to avoid the total crash, for both!). Apple was the one who took him back in the boat, but don't want to use his OS as is. What do You expect from a new OS? (New hardware too!). I love to see Your optimism but under a realistic point of view the future is passed. (What about the rumor with Lighthouse and SW for OS? Did You ever hold something in Your hands? What about the good idea supporting different hardware?) Henry
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Admin QUESTION Date: 26 Mar 1997 06:51:46 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5hah22$9b@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5h17gn$hur@news.worldcom.ch> Lionel Tinguely (ltinguely@pobox.com) wrote: : Hi there ! : I must set up a NeXT machin remotly. I have the root password but no : users belong to the wheel group I can not make any su !!! What can I : do to have the root permissions ? Use NetInfo to add yourself (using "-p" to authenticate yourself to the NetInfo server) to the wheel group while logged in as your ordinary account. eg. niutil -appendprop . /groups/wheel users lukeh -- luke
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nidump a security problem ? Date: 24 Mar 1997 00:01:57 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5h4g9l$gbv@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: aec5224d5e3e94b41b04a274d3a409b3 - <199703221441.JAA01052@kira.peak.org> <distler-2203972054490001@slip-22-13.ots.utexas.edu> : bypass NetInfo. You would also have to do the same for ftpd (which, unlike : telnetd and rlogind, does not call /bin/login). I don't know whether : LoginWindow calls /bin/login. If not, then you are S.O.L., as the source : for that is unavailable. LoginWindow doesn't call /bin/login, but the authenticator is replacable at runtime. : If PAM (Plugin Authentication Modules) were implemented for NeXTStep, you : could have your pick (standard Unix passwords, MD5 a la FreeBSD, S/Key : one-time passwords, . . .). But it's not. No, but if you were going to implement a different authentication scheme under NEXTSTEP, you'd be better off porting PAM. -- luke
From: "Erik D. Schminke" <edschminke@willmar.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hacking a NeXT Mach System Date: 23 Mar 1997 19:06:05 GMT Organization: MEANS Message-ID: <01bc37bc$a9a0d380$ca3a0ace@schminke.willmar.com> I would like some questions answered by any hackers out there willing to help. My school runs a NeXT Mach system and someone hacked into it using one of the so called "default accounts". Please take a look at what was done. The website is at http://willmar.k12.cfa.org/. I expect that this page will be take down and returned to what it was before, as soon as it is discovered, so I made a copy of the page and put it at http://www.willmar.com/~schminke/willmar/. Please check one of these pages and then explain how to this was do to me via e-mail. My address is edschminke@willmar.com Thank you, -- Erik Schminke (edschminke@willmar.com)
From: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michelt@sqliaison.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 11:47:52 -0500 Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <Forum.858358475.11076.michelt@taho.sqliaison.com> References: <331DDE3F.3006@sqliaison.com> <332492AE.2B3@alverno.ssfhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Bonjour John, Yes, I was successful. I've used my old Adaptec 1542cf and copied the new 3.37 driver on a copy of my NS 3.3 drivers disquette. I've then replaced the old Adaptec with the new one. I loaded NS with the newest Adaptec driver. Here's one answer I've received that might help you: On 03/05/97 in the group comp.sys.next.sysadmin you wrote: >Bonjour, ... I remember spending almost a week on this problem about a year ago when I installed 3.3 on our PPro machines. If I remember correctly, the Adaptec driver supplied on the boot floppy doesn't properly recognize the 2940UW. You need to get the newer 2940 driver, v3.37, from NeXTanswers: <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1760.htmld/1760.html To install, you can either try the procedure outlined for another Adatec driver under NeXTSTEP 3.2 in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1541.htmld/1541.html or, you can do as I did and make a new copy of the boot floppy, as described in <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1824.htmld/1824.html and <http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1561.htmld/1561.html but replace the original Adaptec driver with the newer version. That's all I know. Good luck, TH Tom Holton <th@piglet.sfsu.edu> In Article Re: Adaptec 2940 uw + Nextstep Problem. , John Haver <jhaver@alverno.ssfhs.org> wrote: Pierre... I'm having exactly the same problem trying to use a new 2940U in a Compaq Deskpro 2000. I did download the new 3.37 driver and that got me past phase 1 of the install, but now when I reboot to go into phase 2, it asks for the floppy disk with the updated driver. When I insert that disk I get nothing but bios read error 0x4 errors. If you get past this, I'd be interested in knowing how to continue through phase 2 of the install (anyone???) Thanks, John Haver Ciao. Michel. ------------------------------------- Name: Pierre-Michel Tremblay E-mail: Pierre-Michel Tremblay <michel.tremblay@sqliaison.com> SQLiaison Inc. 9900, Bd Cavendish, #200 St-Laurent, Quebec H4M 2V2 Tel: (514)333-6600 Ext. 140 Fax: (514)333-1080 SQLiaison Inc. *** AUTHORIZED SYBASE AGENCY ***
From: nextjet@bellsouth.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re:Need nextstep ppp help Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 22:40:47 +0000 Message-ID: <3335B16B.45A0@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Would be willing to contract someone to set up my cube for ppp internet access I am in the Miami Area so if there are any next folks here please mail me with your schedule. german gobel nextjet@bellsouth.net
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ATI video cards no longer supported ? Date: 14 Mar 1997 23:17:55 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5gcmb3$g8o$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> I just spoke to a NeXT tech support rep about problems I'm having with ATI's new Mach64 cards using the 264VT or Rage chipsets. That BIOS revision isn't supported by the current ATI driver, and he does not anticipate that any updates will be forthcoming since the driver engineers have been relocated to the Rhapsody group. Since it looks like the new ATI cards are all using those chipsets, this means that ATI is not an option any more? I'd like to hear otherwise... -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:10:44 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Mar-97 Cannot stop PPP by andreas@lynet.de > They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID > is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find > anything like this in the process-List. When I enter > ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps > itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the > connection is to restart the computer. This is not > very funny. Try 'ps aux', or 'ps aux | grep pppd'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: planet@xmission.xmission.com (planetary) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reporting connect rates using PPP Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:45:56 -0700 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> My PPP installation used to capture connect rates in the log file. It doesn't any longer. I know the modem still reports connect rates, because when I use tip to dial out to my ISP, it reports the connect rate. I use the "-v" option in the chat script. I am using PPP 2.2.0. Also, on my Turbo machine, I cannot use the rate 57600--it claims it is a bad rate. I got the Turbo machine specifically to get the 57600 throughput on the port. What do I need to do to get the higher throughput? TIA, ..........kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: bill@markov.math.mcgill.ca (Bill Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: EZ-Flyer as a backup on a NeXTCube? Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:41:37 -0500 Organization: McGill Message-ID: <bill-2603971841370001@e-14.das.mcgill.ca> To replace a dead optical drive on my NeXTCube (68040, 16mb, 400mb,3.2), I'm planning to get a Syquest EZ-Flyer removable cartridge drive. I've seen comments on this newsgroup that there is no problem using a Zip Drive. I prefer the EZ-Flyer because I have a friend with an EZ-135, and we can swap disks. My question is: Does anyone know for sure (say from personal experience) that the EZ-Flyer will work with my NeXTCube? Would the formatting instructions be the same as with a Zip drive? Thanks, Bill Anderson
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:53:18 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5hccte$a0p$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> On 03/26/97, andreas@lynet.de wrote: >Hello, > >I've just managed to start PPP as described in >NEXTTOYOU 4/95 on Page 35. The Connection to >my provider is working very well (WWW, E-Mail) >but I can't stop anymore. >They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID >is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find >anything like this in the process-List. When I enter >ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps >itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the >connection is to restart the computer. This is not >very funny. > >How do I manage to stop the connection? >Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > >Andreas > > Actually, ps -x will do, but to kill ppp you probably will have to be su'd to root. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
From: "John H. Casseday" <casseday@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep/Solaris Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:17:43 -0800 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <3339E6D7.F28@u.washington.edu> References: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have detailed information on how to set .profile (Bourne sh) to automatically start OpenStep? Also I would like to know of any source of information (other than Sun) on how to set up OpenStep on Solaris.
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! PAP access & GateKeeper Date: 28 Mar 1997 05:37:47 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5hflfb$29$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> My IP has recently switched from PPP to 'Password Authorization Protocol' [PAP] which means I'm out in the cold 'til I can learn how to access PAP. No one at the UBC Computer Help Desk seem to know that anything other than Windoze95 and Macs exist in the world, and have never heard of something called a NeXT. Can anyone help me? Thanks! Seamus If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: klines@halcyon.com (Karen And Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 27 Mar 1997 23:34:10 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Message-ID: <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> I have the exact same mail problem. I am running ns 3.3 and I am connected to the next (foo.bar.com). I can receive mail sent to foo.bar.com, but I can't send mail out. -nick -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Karen Kline 90% of success in life is just showing Woodinville, WA up. ------Woody Allen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Kill-Script does not work Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:05:08 GMT Organization: DFW Internet Services, Inc. Message-ID: <333b427d.47271282@news.dfw.net> References: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> On 27 Mar 1997 19:19:28 GMT, andreas@lynet.de wrote: >Hallo, > >I just tried to kill a process with a Script >containing the following line: > > kill 'ps -ax | egrep "PopOver" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/' > > >The Result is an errormessage like: > > usage kill [ -sig] pid... > [process terminated - exit code 2] > kill(1) requires a signal (-sig in the help). Typically, you want to send -TERM (otherwise known as -9) to the process. Try: kill -9 `ps -ax | fgrep "PopOver" | fgrep -v "fgrep" | sed \ 's/^\([0-9]+\).*/\1'/' fgrep(1) is a faster grep, when there are no regular expression meta-chars in the search string, and I switched a '*' to a '+' so that you wouldn't match on zero digits in a ps(1) line. BTW, kill(1), ps(1) and fgrep(1) mean look in the first section of the UNIX manual pages: % man 1 kill to find out how the command works. These pages are complete and tell you all you really need to know.
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bulding Perl 5.00X Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 04:00:25 GMT Organization: DFW Internet Services, Inc. Message-ID: <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net> I'm running into all kinds of problems building Perl 5.x on my NS3.3/Moto machine. Is there a problem using the Next_3 configuration? Is there a better one?
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Syslogd: seg fault on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach Date: 26 Mar 1997 16:48:40 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hbk18$rid$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> Keywords: tabs syslog core In article <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> ghost@ghost.neosoft.com (Mark C. Allman) writes: > ... > Anyone having a problem running syslogd on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach? > When I run it from the command line with the -d (for debugging) > switch I get a seg fault, and when I run it w/o the -d I don't see > the process running. It also isn't in the process list ("ps -ax") > after booting up. >... Hi Mark, You may want to check that your /etc/syslog.conf file has tabs between the fields instead of spaces. This is one sure way to make syslogd dump core. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: Nabil HATHOUT <hathout@arcturus.ciril.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: how to deny rlogin to ftp guest accounts Date: 28 Mar 1997 11:20:24 +0100 Organization: CIRIL, Nancy, France Message-ID: <xdzlo78jp1z.fsf@arcturus.ciril.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, We have a Sun Sparc workstation running NextStep 3.2 on and we want to use it as ftp server in order to give project partners access to some of our data. Our problem is that we want these partners to be able to log on our machine via ftp but not via rlogin. Is there a mean to deny rlogin to some user without also denying ftp login ? Thanks in advance, Regards, -- Nabil Hathout ----------------------------Nabil Hathout--------------------------- CNRS INaLF Château du Montet Nabil.Hathout@inalf.cnrs-nancy.fr Rue du Doyen Roubault http://www.ciril.fr/~hathout/ F-54500 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy tél : +33 (0)3 83 44 74 40 France fax : +33 (0)3 83 44 38 29
From: klines@halcyon.com (Karen And Nick Kline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 28 Mar 1997 01:34:16 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Message-ID: <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> In article <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com>, Karen And Nick Kline <klines@halcyon.com> wrote: > >I have the exact same mail problem. > >I am running ns 3.3 and I am connected to the next (foo.bar.com). I can >receive mail sent to me (nicknext.taltos.com) but I can't send mail out. More info. I could ping localhost, or nicknext.taltos.com, but not simply nicknext. I added a new machine in netinfo for nicknext, even though that seems unnecessary. Now I can ping nicknext, but when I try to send mail I still get a message from mailer-agent that says: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 klines@halcyon.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) My sendmail.cf points to the subsidiary one, and the additions I made: 25,32d24 < #my hostname < Cwnicknext < < DSmail.taltos.com < A friend with a linux box uses mail.taltos.com successfully now. My resolv.conf file is: #domain halcyon.com domain taltos.com #was commented out nameserver 198.137.231.1 #nameserver 198.137.231.1 nameserver 204.57.150.1 nameserver 192.135.191.1 My hostconfig is HOSTNAME=nicknext INETADDR=204.57.150.227 ROUTER=-ROUTED- IPNETMASK=255.255.255.240 IPBROADCAST=204.57.150.239 YPDOMAIN=-NO- NETMASTER=-NO- TIME=-AUTOMATIC- nidump hosts / reports: 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost 204.57.150.227 nicknext nidump -r / / reports includes: CHILDREN = ({ name = machines; CHILDREN = ({ name = localhost; ip_address = 127.0.0.1; serves = ./local; }, { name = broadcasthost; ip_address = 255.255.255.255; serves = (); }, { name = nicknext; ip_address = 204.57.150.227; serves = ./local; }); }, { hostname says 'nicknext' thanks for any help -nick -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Karen Kline 90% of success in life is just showing Woodinville, WA up. ------Woody Allen ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
From: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: 4.1 lookupd core dumps Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:23:08 +0100 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <3338F90C.41C6@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: hlauer Hello, we just installed a machine with NextStep 4.1 in our mixed network, after having problems with the setup of NIS(YP) (the key are the release notes of the lookupd), now we have frequent kernel traps when trying to "su root" on the machine. First the machine does nothing and the after a while the trap occured. Every kernel trap leaves a core in /, wich seems to came from lookupd. I include below the configuration of lookupd from netinfo. Has somebody a working version which uses NIS(YPAgent), DNS(DNSAgent) and Netinfo(NIAgent) ? Leaving out one of them (as suggested by some news posting) is impossible on the setup used here. Another question: Is this problem new to 4.1, i. e., have somebody Version 4.0 running with a similar setup ? Thanks for any help/infos/replys. Hermann -----Configuration of lookupd--------------------------------- # nidump -r /locations/lookupd / name = lookupd; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent, FFAgent); CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }, { name = networks; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }); -------------------------------------------------------------- Hermann Lauer Bildverarbeitungsgruppe des Interdiziplinaeren Zentrums fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universitaet Heidelberg INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)548826 Fax: (06221)545224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 26 Mar 1997 17:00:28 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hbknc$rus$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> In article <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) writes: > But hey, just issuing security patches for known root holes would be a start > . . . I think it is fair to say that we have no support from NeXT when it comes to security problems. When something has a bug, we either go to great lengths to install a replacement or we disable services. If NeXT ever has a statement on CERT advisories, it has to be that the bug will be fixed in the next version of OpenStep. I wish they'll back port some of these patches. I have long given up the idea of giving acocunts on my NeXT system. It's just too unsafe. Blocking remote root attacks is at least a little more realistic. I am still upset about simple things like SYN flooding and big pings. NeXT has never made it's position on bug pings official. Our kernel is also not toughened against SYN flooding. While I can filter ICMP, I can't do anything about SYN flooding. SIGH. I look forward to the new Rhapsody effort. But I realize that many things have to change. Security has to drastically improve. I hope they have a bunch of guys working on this now. Rgds, Song PS: Rgding netinfo servers, make sure it's not accessible to the world! ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: recurve@wam.umd.edu (Aaron David Rosenzweig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sleeping Netinfo is eluding me Date: 28 Mar 1997 15:36:57 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <5hgoip$q06@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> I have an '030 Cube named xombi which I'd like to use as a Master NetInfo server and a slab named nanotech which I'd like to connect to it. Unforntuately I get the following error during bootup: Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries en0: netmask set to 0.0.0.0 lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to nanotech Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapFeb 6 10:17:21 nanotech syslogd: /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug: No such file or directory netinfo lookupdFeb 6 10:17:25 nanotech lookupd[98]: netinfo sleeping: RPC: Unable to recirve; errno = Connection reset by peer Any help appreciated, thanks! -- The fervid Tubist, son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig. http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ finger recurve@old.wam.umd.edu to get my PGP key.
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(CD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 28 Mar 1997 17:03:37 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5hgtl9$15q@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> In article <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) writes: > In article <E7G5H3.1nG@flop.schwaben.de>, > Holger Hoffstaette <hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM> wrote: > >To the original poster: if you really can't get anything going > >without frequent panics, wipe out NI completely, restore from > >/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo and start again. > > I did that quite a few times before ever posting that I was having > problems. I did get a new lookupd from someone at NeXT, but I'm > *still* having problems. > > Now after about 24 hours or so, lookups start to get *very* > slow. It'll take forever to do a lookup on the server for one of the > computers that is in my domain, but is *not* in NetInfo. After about > 36 hours or so, the server hangs *so severely* that I cannot restart > it any other way than to push reset. Can't get into the NMI, nothing. > > So far it looks like there are serious problems with using 4.1 as a > NetInfo server. > Interesting. I've been using 4.1 as a NetInfo server (with 3 clones) on a 100 node network for about 6 months now. Aside from some 4.1-induced driver issues, I haven't had any problems. Certainly none with NetInfo anyway. Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.tratus.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Syslogd: seg fault on OPENSTEP 4.1 for Mach Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:17:54 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328091523.26744B-100000@kira> References: <5hadac$eik@uuneo.neosoft.com> <5hbk18$rid$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Chuang Shyne Song <csong@tip.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <5hbk18$rid$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> > You may want to check that your /etc/syslog.conf file has tabs between the > fields instead of spaces. This is one sure way to make syslogd dump core. This seems a little overly specific, especially since whitespace is generally ignored. I don't doubt that this is a way to dump syslogd, it just seems... ridiculous TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:28:21 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Karen And Nick Kline <klines@halcyon.com> In-Reply-To: <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> > but when I try to send mail I still get a message > from mailer-agent that says: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown so... is there a host named 'ether' somewhere that handles your mail? That is what this message seems to indicate is wrong. You might try finding the 'ether' setting in your sendmail config files and changing it to a hostname of a machine which can actually handle mail coming in and going out.... Or you might want to upgrade your sendmail config to 8.8.5 (there are instructions linked to my web page under 'other sites' and then 'Information') which may make this a lot simpler in the long run. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK (ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/put/next) META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! PAP access & GateKeeper Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:20:58 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092004.26744C-100000@kira> References: <5hflfb$29$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Seamus Dunne <dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca> In-Reply-To: <5hflfb$29$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> did 'man pppd' help at all? It describes how to setup PAP (and CHAP for that matter). TjL
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cannot stop PPP Date: 26 Mar 1997 18:11:47 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> Hello, I've just managed to start PPP as described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95 on Page 35. The Connection to my provider is working very well (WWW, E-Mail) but I can't stop anymore. They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find anything like this in the process-List. When I enter ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the connection is to restart the computer. This is not very funny. How do I manage to stop the connection? Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: sarlo@tezcat.com (sarlo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bigger security problem than nidump Date: 26 Mar 1997 21:13:38 GMT Organization: Breakfast at Tezcat. Message-ID: <5hc3i2$624@tepe.tezcat.com> References: <jcr.858895736@idiom.com> <distler-2003972153170001@slip-119-16.ots.utexas.edu> <jcr.858927497@idiom.com> <5gujbo$9p8$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler (distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu) wrote: : Would be nice if there were *some* focus on security in the NeXTStep : distribution. Personally, I'd like to see support for Pluggable : Authentication Modules, like in Solaris and RedHat Linux. : But hey, just issuing security patches for known root holes would be a start On my box, I have a total of 2 suid files: Terminal and Workspace. Granted, not a very friendly operating environment except for root, but then, i'm one of 2 people who use it... ps, as far as i can tell can allow you to get kmem priviledges if a race condition is exploited. Several other holes exist that I found. Basicly, un-suiding anything that isn't needed is a good start. Running qmail instead of sendmail is another. I don't even need to go into netinfo's problems - they're a nightmare, and unfortunatly, as far as i can tell, they are needed in order to keep the machine up, even in a stand-alone fashion. It would be nice if the kids at NeXT payed a little bit of attention to security details, but alas, I'm not counting on it. -- sarlo@tezcat.com - Sarlykins. | I was lying in bed, looking up at the EXXON - Put a tiger in your | stars when I suddenly thought to myself, tank! And while you're at it, | "Where the fuck did my roof go?" toss in a few dead otters too. | -EXXON Ad, 1989 | Alternatives: sarlo@chinet.com http://www.tezcat.com/~sarlo sarlo@pyrotechnics.com \||// sarlo@2600.com Don'tcha love bongo-.sigs? oO sarlo@blight.com ()^() Pttht. sarlo@ripco.com U /~~~~~~ root@mcs.net
From: ferengi@legend.txdirect.net (Conceptual Mindworks Inc.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network Connections Date: 28 Mar 1997 19:58:17 GMT Organization: Internet Direct, Inc. Message-ID: <5hh7sp$7d6$1@eclipse.txdirect.net> Hello All, Is it possible to use both the 10-Base2 and 10-BaseT connectors at the same time? My first guess is no but I just want to be sure. Thanks and party on Dudes, Dan aka Ferengi
From: Jason Lincoln <jlincoln@us.oracle.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HostManager Question Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 02:07:06 +0000 Organization: Oracle Corp. Message-ID: <333B27CA.1069@us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi NeXTians, Could someone tell me why HostManagerdoes not allow me to alter the Internet Address in the Local configuration? I had PPP working and then tried to install gatekeeper and now PPP doesn't work and I can't change the Internet Address value. I am running Openstep 4.1 on Mach if that makes a difference. Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Marking bad sectors? References: <33368E0A.81B@FreeFall.com.au> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <333a0132.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 27 Mar 97 05:10:10 GMT In article <33368E0A.81B@FreeFall.com.au>, Piotr Palacz <piotr@FreeFall.com.au> wrote: > >Hi; > >is there any way of marking bad sectors on a SCSI, 4.3-formatted hard >disk? >(this is black NS 3.2). > >Thanks, > >Piotr > >piotr@FreeFall.com.au > This is what worked for me: Login as root, or (better) su to root in a terminal window from an ordinary account which is a member of the wheel group. First make sure you really have bad blocks as spare blocks are limited in number. (Thanks for the next bit to Fabien Roy, originally) Think it very easy to test the disk for bad reading blocks: as root type dd if=/dev/rsd0a of=/dev/null bs=512k and some time later: 812+1 records in 812+1 records out which says I have a wealthy 400Meg drive. --Fabien ___________________________________________________________________ Fabien Roy fabien@free.fdn.org NeXTmail OK --------------------- OK, he meant to say "healthy" but this can be done safely on any disk, it is non-destructive and simply reads the disk into the biit bucket. This is done from a terminal window, but open the console window too as there is critical info there (namely the bad block number in both hex and decimal. It is the decimal number you are interested in). Having determined the bad block, use reasb to re-assign it (this accesses the disk hardware and makes a completely transparent fix, as though the bad block never existed) Thus if the device was /dev/rsd0a (as in Fabien's example) and the bad block was 212382 base 10 then type reasb /dev/rsd0a 212382 and you should get a message saying the block was re-assigned. You can repeat the bad blocks test and see if it now runs clean. If not, repeat the re-assignment (I've only ever had 2 bad blocks, one on each of two separate occasions, same drive). Provided your drive didn't run out of spare blocks, you have an error free drive. The pointer to reasb I also got off the net, but have lost the reference. Thanks to whoever provided that information to me originally. There is a manual page. This is all for an original black NeXT computer. Good luck. david --- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: gary-nospam-@screaming.org (Gary W. Longsine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: NetInfo/Lookupd and OPENSTEP 4.1 cause endless Kernel Traps Date: 28 Mar 1997 23:18:34 GMT Organization: Save the Skeet Foundation Message-ID: <5hhjka$fiv$1@news.platinum.com> References: <5gpn3a$6o3@news.zocalo.net> <5grg5o$jg0@crcnis3.unl.edu> <E7G5H3.1nG@flop.schwaben.de> <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> Cc: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us In <5hei73$c80@news.zocalo.net> it appeared that Chris Osborn wrote: > In article <E7G5H3.1nG@flop.schwaben.de>, > Holger Hoffstaette <hhoff@schwaben.de.NOSPAM> wrote: > >To the original poster: if you really can't get anything going > >without frequent panics, wipe out NI completely, restore from > >/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo and start again. > > I did that quite a few times before ever posting that I was having > problems. I did get a new lookupd from someone at NeXT, but I'm > *still* having problems. > > Now after about 24 hours or so, lookups start to get *very* > slow. It'll take forever to do a lookup on the server for one of the > computers that is in my domain, but is *not* in NetInfo. After about > 36 hours or so, the server hangs *so severely* that I cannot restart > it any other way than to push reset. Can't get into the NMI, nothing. > > So far it looks like there are serious problems with using 4.1 as a > NetInfo server. As far as I can tell, lookupd on OpenStep 4.1 is marginally functional. I can't get it to work properly with NIS on either NeXT or Intel. (On Intel, I can run the NS3.3 lookupd, and everything that I use -- NIS & DNS -- works fine. On NeXT hardware, this swapout does not work.) The symptom you describe is classic binary-has-a-serious-defect material. You *might* talk to NeXT - maybe there is another update after the one you got. watch the vsize on your lookupd... it may have a leak and be growing so badly that it fills your VM... mine's been up for 5 days, and is less than 2MB VSIZE, and is 400k RSIZE. (I'm running the NS3.3patcha lookupd on an OPENSTEP 4.1/intel system). PID USERNAME STATE PRI NICE THR VSIZE RSIZE %MEM %CPU TIME COMMAND 122 root SW 10 0 1 1808K 400K 0.61 0.00 0:02 lookupd If the lookupd you have is functional (i.e. if it provides the services you need until it causes the machine to lock up) you can set a cron job to kill and restart lookupd every night or something like that. If you find that lookupd is growing for you, do some checking to see if a "kill -1" will cause it to free the bogusly claimed memory (that would be nice... but don't hold your breath) If not, you'll need to spank harder. dinobert # uptime 5:05pm up 5 days, 5:30, 3 users, load average: 1.72, 1.77, 1.79 /gary -- Gary W. Longsine, Systems Engineer | ____/| OpenStep, MachOS, PLATINUM Technologies, Inc. | \ o.O| Objective-C: l_o_n_gsine@platinum.com (NeXTmail | =(_)= (Can i have his spam?) & MIME) |. U Elegance is Relevant.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> Organization: University of Calgary CPSC From: hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (David Hill) Message-ID: <333a0432.0@news.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 27 Mar 97 05:22:58 GMT In article <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de>, <andreas@lynet.de> wrote: >Hello, > >I've just managed to start PPP as described in >NEXTTOYOU 4/95 on Page 35. The Connection to >my provider is working very well (WWW, E-Mail) >but I can't stop anymore. >They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID >is the process-Id of pppd, but I cannot find >anything like this in the process-List. When I enter >ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for ps >itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the >connection is to restart the computer. This is not >very funny. > >How do I manage to stop the connection? >Any ideas? Thanks in advance! > >Andreas > You need to type "ps -uaxcg | grep pppd" and this will print a list of all running processes and use grep to print out only the lines relevant to pppd (leave out the " | pppd" if you want to see all the running processes). Now you have the PID. I usually run pppd from a terminal window (via kermit) and simply type my interrupt character when I want to terminate it, but you can find out the process number as above and kill it as you said you wanted to. Hope this helps. david ---- -- David R. Hill, CS & Psych Depts., U. Calgary | Imagination is more Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4 Ph: 604-947-9362 | important than knowledge. hill@cpsc.ucalgary.ca OR david@firethorne.com| (Albert Einstein) http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~hill (^NeXTMail)| Kill your television!
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reporting connect rates using PPP Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:48:19 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970326193710.22579C-100000@kira> References: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <5hccfk$9v5$1@xmission.xmission.com> > My PPP installation used to capture connect rates in the log file. It > doesn't any longer. Sounds like something changed your modem initialization. Check your modem manual > I know the modem still reports connect rates, because when I use tip to > dial out to my ISP, it reports the connect rate. I use the "-v" option in > the chat script. I am using PPP 2.2.0. Hmm...ok maybe I was wrong above.... are you using any init strings in 'chat'?? Maybe that changed something. > Also, on my Turbo machine, I cannot use the rate 57600--it claims it is a > bad rate. I got the Turbo machine specifically to get the 57600 throughput > on the port. What do I need to do to get the higher throughput? That doesn't make any sense... It should "just work"... You might try going to ppp2.3, I've been using that for awhile (since it came out) and it works very well. TjL
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 28 Mar 1997 23:28:20 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5hhk6k$68s@news.next.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > but when I try to send mail I still get a message > > from mailer-agent that says: > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > > so... is there a host named 'ether' somewhere that handles your mail? > > That is what this message seems to indicate is wrong. Nope. It's saying that the "ether" mailer can't contact the machine known as "mailhost". "mailhost" is the default name in our config files for the upstream mail relay. But if you don't use SimpleNetworkStarter (or some other mechanism) to define who that really is, this is what you get. I think the original poster needs to use SNS to define his machine as it's own mail server, then edit the /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf file to define who his upstream host is. joe
From: appleyar@ohsu.edu (Richard J Appleyard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! NS Harddrive Crash Recovery Date: 29 Mar 1997 00:15:23 GMT Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University Message-ID: <5hhmur$hpj@fremont.ohsu.edu> I am running NS3.2 on black HW (NeXTStation Mono). The HD will not boot up. It hangs at "root on sd0". I am able to boot off the CD-ROM using a bootable floppy. I have 'fsck' the drive and it now checks out fine. I have even mounted it and checked the 'init' and 'mach_init' files. What should I try now? I have checked NeXTAnswers and the FAQs to no avail. Thanks, Richard. -- Dr Richard J Appleyard, Medical Informatics Fellow AMIA Internet WG Newsletter Editor, Maintainer WWW VL Medicine Index Biomedical Info. Comm. Ctr (BICC), Oregon Health Sciences Univ. appleyar@ohsu.edu, Voice (503) 494-1230, Fax (503) 494-4551 "To err is human, but to really screw things up takes a computer!"
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Windows NT as NFS server workable? Date: 27 Mar 1997 13:27:00 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.70 Message-ID: <5hdsj4$ncm$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Does anyone have a working setup with a Windows NT machine as NFS server and a NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP Mach/UNIX system as NFS client? We are having a ball here (not!), with Maestro running on the NT server. (This is NFS Maestro Server V 5.1.3 from Hummingbird.) The automounter seems to be totally ignored, so putting the NT directories to be mounted in NetInfo (with NFSMangager.app) is useless. Mounting from a Terminal window by typing the commands works, but the result is that both `ls` and the File Viewer only show a subset of the files, the first few entries. Not a fixed number, but it seems related to the total length of all the filenames. We have been varying all possible parameters - rsize/wsize spring to mind - but without effect. Can anyone confirm these observations, or better, does anybody have a proper NFS server for Windows NT? Thanks in advance for your comments, Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 00:46:26 -0500 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <knD_mmK00iWn0=VnQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> <5hfs9i$btf$1@halcyon.com> <5hg3ao$e3p$1@halcyon.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970328092216.26744D-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 28-Mar-97 Re: Mail domain problems by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > > 550 mailhost (ether)... 550 Host unknown > > so... is there a host named 'ether' somewhere that handles your mail? Nope. It's the name of the mailer which is handling that address. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Kill-Script does not work Date: 27 Mar 1997 19:19:28 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> Hallo, I just tried to kill a process with a Script containing the following line: kill 'ps -ax | egrep "PopOver" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/' The Result is an errormessage like: usage kill [ -sig] pid... [process terminated - exit code 2] I'm not an expert in cryptical unix-cripts, so I have absolutely no idea, what the kill-string above does and why. I just copied it from NEXTTOYOU and hoped, it would work, but it didn't. Any ideas? Andreas
From: Matthew Estes <Matthew.Estes@rose-hulman.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NIS Masters Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:25:13 -0500 Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Message-ID: <33371B69.6F89@rose-hulman.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I currently use a Silicon Graphics machine as an NIS Master. I will be changing the NIS Master to a different SGI machine during some upgrades on the original Master. However, after configuring the new NIS Master machine, the Next machines in my lab cannot find the new master. They work fine as soon as I reactivated the old master, however. The other SGIs in the lab find the new master instantly. Why can't the Nexts find it? -- Matthew Estes, Imaging Lab Manager, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Matthew.Estes@rose-hulman.edu "Always busy, just make time."
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Kill-Script does not work Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:09:11 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970327134638.7690F-100000@kira> References: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: andreas@lynet.de In-Reply-To: <5heh80$dr3$1@lynet.de> save this text below into an ascii file: #!/bin/sh name=`basename $0` for i in $* do echo `/bin/ps -auxwww | grep -v grep |grep -v $name| \ grep -w $i | awk '{print $2}' | tr -s '\012' ' '` done exit 0 # done -- this should be the last line of the file save the text file as 'pid' and do this: 'chmod 755 pid' then move 'pid' to somewhere like /usr/local/bin and type 'rehash' This will allow you to get the PID of a process by entering pid PopOver at the commandline. For example, if you wanted to know the PID of Mail.app, pppd, and PopOver, you could use pid Mail.app ppp PopOver if you want to QUIT PopOver.app, you could do this: kill -QUIT `pid PopOver.app` If you wanted to kill it dead, you could use kill -9 `pid PopOver.app` NOTE: 'pid' is case-sensitive. To make it NON case-sensitive, use 'grep -i -w' rather than 'grep -w' in the code above... For those of you would like to know what this does, I'll walk through it #!/bin/sh << this says what shell the script should use name=`basename $0` << this gets the name of this program and puts it into a variable called 'name' the `basename $0` turns '/usr/local/bin/pid' into 'pid' for i in $* << this says "enter a loop and do it once for do << each argument (that is, each word after "pid") echo ` ` << just says "print to the screen what the command << inside the ` ` gives as output /bin/ps -auxwww << this gets a listing of ALL processes grep -v grep << says "ignore the process with the name "grep" or else we'll get the wrong number grep -v $name << ignore the PID of this program grep -w $i << accept the process line for this argument (ie 'PopOver if you called this program as 'pid PopOver' awk '{print $2}' << of that process line, take the second entry tr -s '\012' ' ' << tells it to 'translate' (tr) and 'substitute' (-s) carriage returns (\012) for simple spaces ' ' done << end of the loop exit 0 <<exit with a nice zero, indicating success I started writing this a few days ago and got side tracked for some reason. I hope it is still useful information. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK (ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/put/next) META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Sleeping Netinfo is eluding me Message-ID: <E7t11L.1rL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hgoip$q06@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 12:22:33 GMT In article <5hgoip$q06@dailyplanet.wam.umd.edu> recurve@wam.umd.edu (Aaron David Rosenzweig) writes: > I have an '030 Cube named xombi which I'd like to use as a Master > NetInfo server and a slab named nanotech which I'd like to connect > to it. > > Unforntuately I get the following error during bootup: > > Checking disks > /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries > en0: netmask set to 0.0.0.0 > lo0: address automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to nanotech > Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping > on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy > devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. > Starting RPC and network services: portmapFeb 6 10:17:21 nanotech > syslogd: /usr/adm/ppp2.2.debug: No such file or directory > netinfo lookupdFeb 6 10:17:25 nanotech lookupd[98]: netinfo sleeping: > RPC: Unable to recirve; errno = Connection reset by peer > The network on "xombi" has not been properly configured (looks like a typical RTFM violation to me). And after installing PPP no automatic procedure in SimpleNetworkStarter.app might lead to a proper configuration. You either get a networking guru on site who is apt in the NEXTSTEP specialities or redo the whole customization from scratch. For the latter first study the appropriate sections in the online sysadmin manual /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf. The copy /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig and /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc and reboot. Then run SNS and redo the PPP configuration (plus anything else you did to customize your network). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: brisinda@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dale &) Message-ID: <BRISINDA.97Mar29163713@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 29 Mar 1997 23:37:13 GMT Organization: University of Calgary Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Networking OpenStep (Print Server) to WindowsNT Distribution: world Hi all, here is the scenario: I have a NeXTstation Turbo (hades) w/ NeXT printer attached and I have a Pentium machine (pegasus) running WindowsNT and OpenStep. I've successfully networked the two machines together when *both* are running NeXTSTEP and OpenStep (hades acts as a remote print server to pegasus, and there is also filesystem sharing on both ends). Now I'd like to do the same for WindowsNT and hades. Problem is (or is it?) that pegasus is the primary netinfo server and the primary netinfo server is off-line when WindowsNT is running (same machine). When I reboot pegasus to run WindowsNT, hades freezes up becoming unusable. So how can I easily get WindowsNT on pegasus to send print requests to hades? On a related note, do I have to do anything special in WindowsNT to convert print output from standard apps (Word, etc.) to PostScript before it sends it down the pipe to hades? Thanks, Dale --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html -- --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 18:47:59 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII As I have mentioned previously, I'm about to add an Intel to my slab. The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. I'm looking for creative suggestions on how to config these two machines (connected via Ethernet) so they can be connected but not dependent. FAQ & other pointers appreciated TjL
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From: brisinda@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dale &) Message-ID: <BRISINDA.97Mar29170300@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Date: 30 Mar 1997 00:03:00 GMT Organization: University of Calgary Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Networking breaks Mathematica 2.x??? Distribution: world Hi all, I've recently networked a NS black machine running Mathematica 2.x with an NS Pentium machine. Problem is that Mathematica no longer works! It launches, but then when I ask it to evaluate some expression the disk cursor just spins endlessly... I'm guessing this has something to do with launching a remote vs local math kernel -- since it was working fine before the networking. Help! Dale --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html -- --- Dale Brisinda, Grad. Student Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary brisinda@acm.org or brisinda@cpsc.ucalgary.ca http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~brisinda/home.html
From: Jiunn-jye Huang<jjhuang@cm.nctu.edu.tw> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compiling samba-1.9.16p11 problems under NS 3.3? Date: 30 Mar 1997 08:02:26 GMT Organization: Dept. of Comm, Natinoal Chiao Tung Univ., Taiwan Message-ID: <5hl6mi$l92@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Sorry, I don't know how to program in UNIX, so I don't know what the problem is when I compiled samba-1.9.16p11.... Maybe somebody answered this question before, but I can't find in the c.s.n.s newsgroup, I just found a post of editing chgpasswd.c and system.c, and I failed compiling *before* editing, and failed *after* editing. So I really don't know what problem is. I got the messages below, Thanks in advance: Using CFLAGS = -DSMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.smb" -DNMBLOGFILE="/usr/local/samba/var/log.nmb" -DCONFIGFILE="/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf" -DLMHOSTSFILE="/usr/local/samba/lib/lmhosts" -DLOCKDIR="/usr/local/samba/var/locks" -DSMBRUN="/usr/local/samba/bin/smbrun" -DWORKGROUP="WORKGROUP" -DGUEST_ACCOUNT="nobody" -DNEXT3_0 -arch m68k -arch i386 -arch hppa -arch sparc Using LIBS = Compiling server.c For architecture m68k: server.c: In function `main': server.c:4064: `O_NONBLOCK' undeclared (first use this function) server.c:4064: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once server.c:4064: for each function it appears in.) *** Exit 1 Stop. -- ¶À«T³Ç = Jiunn-jye Huang Administrator of Taiwan main NeXT ftp site, ftp://ftp.cm.nctu.edu.tw/ ===============================#========================================= Dept. of Communication Eng. # mailto:jjhuang@cm.nctu.edu.tw National Chiao Tung University # NeXTMail,PGP,MIME are welcome! 1001 Rd. University # URL http://www.cm.nctu.edu.tw/~jjhuang Hsin Chu City # Phone: +886-3-5726111 x82408/x54592 300 Taiwan # PGP Key ID=0xC40BC8B5 on Key Server ===============================#=========================================
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:49:03 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira>, Tim Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > As I have mentioned previously, I'm about to add an Intel to my slab. > > The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) > > There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. > > I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. > > I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines > can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used > as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. > > I'm looking for creative suggestions on how to config these two machines > (connected via Ethernet) so they can be connected but not dependent. > > FAQ & other pointers appreciated > > TjL Do you want useful or creative? Here is the creative solution: Format the drives as Apple Mac drives and serve them up using CAP or something like that. Then you can install the AppleTalk program from the 3.0 disk and access them as AppleTalk drives. Alternatively, you could just FTP to each drive from whatever machine wasn't directly connected. You can do this without CAP or AppleTalk. Mitch
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: 30 Mar 1997 20:35:49 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hmir5$d89@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> > In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira>, Tim Luoma > <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > As I have mentioned previously, I'm about to add an Intel to my slab. > > > > The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) > > > > There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. > > > > I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. > > > > I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines > > can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used > > as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. > > > > I'm looking for creative suggestions on how to config these two machines > > (connected via Ethernet) so they can be connected but not dependent. > > > > FAQ & other pointers appreciated > > > > TjL I'm not sure what you mean by not dependent. If they'll both be turned on all the time, here's what I'd do: Use the internal 105 as a swapdisk for the slab. Use the 2.1M as a swapdisk and /tmp for the Intel box. Attach the 300M drive to either computer and make it the bootdisk. Attach the 1G drive to the other computer and make it the bootdisk. NFSmount the 1G drive on the other computer. --------- ------------------ | Intel |-----ether------| Slab - 105disk | --------- / ------------------ | /--NFS---/ | ------ / ------ | 1G |---/ | .3G| ------ ------ | ------ | 2.1 | ------ But that's just me...... :) And I'm a neophyte. :) -- Jon Haveman
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 13:08:45 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970330130325.26147A-100000@kira> References: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> <5hmir5$d89@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jon Haveman <jon@haveman.org> In-Reply-To: <5hmir5$d89@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> > I'm not sure what you mean by not dependent. If I wake up one day and one machine is on fire I'd like the other machine to still be working just fine (or with minimal problems). On a smaller scale: if one disk dies I'd like to have the other machine up and running still. > If they'll both be turned on all the time I would guess they would, except the Intel may be running Win* at some point in the future, and I'd like for the slab to be able to keep running even when the Intel is on Win* mode. > Use the internal 105 as a swapdisk for the slab. > Use the 2.1M as a swapdisk and /tmp for the Intel box. > Attach the 300M drive to either computer and make it the bootdisk. > Attach the 1G drive to the other computer and make it the bootdisk. > NFSmount the 1G drive on the other computer. Sorry, I meant to say 2.1GIG, which seems like a lot of space for swap and /tmp ;-) Thanks for your suggestion, by changing the 300meg and the "2.1M" in the above I think that's a god suggestion. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> New Submissions Coordinator for PEAK (ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/put/next) META-URL: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu (Paulus Adisoemarta) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! NS Harddrive Crash Recovery Date: 29 Mar 1997 14:10:04 GMT Organization: Petroleum Engineering Dept, U of Texas, Austin Message-ID: <5hj7rs$v06$1@socony.pe.utexas.edu> References: <5hhmur$hpj@fremont.ohsu.edu> Cc: In article <5hhmur$hpj@fremont.ohsu.edu>, Richard J Appleyard <appleyar@ohsu.edu> wrote: >I am running NS3.2 on black HW (NeXTStation Mono). > >The HD will not boot up. It hangs at "root on sd0". Let it sit there for a couple of minutes, then type 'bsd' to boot If you can make it boot this way, this means the drive is flaky when cold and works fine whenever the drive is hot. Paulus -- Paulus Suryono Adisoemarta, N5SNN / YG1QN yono@parokinet.org paulus@nextdown.pe.utexas.edu
From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! NS Sys Admin inVancouver BC? Date: 30 Mar 1997 23:04:54 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5hmrim$jjp$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Is there anyone in the Vancouver BC area who could help me with some periodic system admin on my NeXT Cube w NS 3.3? ....and of course, I expect you'd deserve some remuneration for your time. Thanks Seamus -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 31 Mar 1997 11:04:27 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5ho5nr$l0h$3@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> Cc: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu In <5hctta$7cv@news.tamu.edu> Jeromy Hollenshead wrote: > if I try to send a message to name@tamu.edu from the next it doesn't > seem to search farther than the local system for the name and it > reports nothing as if the mail was sent. Is there anyway I can send > this error to get mailed back to the user that sent the message?? > I have the exact same problem. If I try to send mail to user@mhpcc.edu, it tries to send it to that user on the local NEXTSTEP machine. There must be a definitive solution to this in how one sets up the /etc/hostconfig, /etc/resolv.conf, etc. files. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: 31 Mar 1997 12:57:27 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hocbn$1et@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970330130325.26147A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes > Jon Haveman writes: > > Use the internal 105 as a swapdisk for the slab. > > Use the 2.1M as a swapdisk and /tmp for the Intel box. > > Attach the 300M drive to either computer and make it the bootdisk. > > Attach the 1G drive to the other computer and make it the bootdisk. > > NFSmount the 1G drive on the other computer. > > Sorry, I meant to say 2.1GIG, which seems like a lot of space for swap and > /tmp ;-) Heh, and 2.1M seems just a wee bit small for any drive, let alone a swap drive. Oops.... :) -- Jon Haveman
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: 29 Mar 97 00:38:57 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> In-reply-to: Charles William Swiger's message of Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:10:44 -0500 In article <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Mar-97 Cannot stop PPP by andreas@lynet.de > They recommend to use "kill PID", where PID is the process-Id of > pppd, but I cannot find anything like this in the process-List. > When I enter ps, I only get a line for the shell-process and for > ps itself, but not for pppd. The only way to stop the connection > is to restart the computer. This is not very funny. Try 'ps aux', or 'ps aux | grep pppd'. Or just do "kill `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`". pppd puts its pid into ppp0.pid when it makes your connection ... in fact, here's a program: slave:/Users/scott> cat /usr/local/ppp/src/killppp.c /* killppp, Scott Hess <shess@winternet.com> */ /* Read the pid for pppd and kill that specific process, without being root. */ /* On NeXTSTEP: cc -O -object -o killppp killppp.c */ /* chown root.wheel killppp ; chmod 6755 killppp */ #include <libc.h> #include <stdio.h> void main( void) { FILE *ff; int pid; ff=fopen( "/etc/ppp/ppp0.pid", "r"); if( ff==NULL) { perror( "opening ppp0.pid"); exit( 1); } if( fscanf( ff, "%d", &pid)<1) { fprintf( stderr, "Unable to read pid from ppp0.pid\n"); exit( 1); } fclose( ff); if( kill( pid, SIGINT)==-1) { perror( "killing pppd"); } } Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:12:29 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331055123.16238B-100000@kira> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Scott Hess <shess@one.net> In-Reply-To: <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> > Or just do "kill `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`". pppd puts its pid into > ppp0.pid when it makes your connection ... in fact, here's a program: (note of obviousness: this might be ppp1.pid if you are using ppp1) Note of less-obviousness: I _think_ that the .pid file is root-read-only (chmod 600). That might just be peculiar to my setup. Anyway, you'll want to check it on your system to see if it is, and if you want to change it (which I do via /etc/ppp/ip-up: chmod 444 /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "NEXTSTEP computers come with a set of uncomplicated yet powerful networking app lications, ... which reside in the /NextAdmin directory." -- NeXT online docs (01_Planning.rtf)
From: scholz@leo.org (Bernhard Scholz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: How to get NeXTSpell.service into 'Services? Date: 31 Mar 1997 17:39:46 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5host2$f5@xenia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> References: <5h9hef$omo@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: >Hi, fairly new to OpenStep 4.0 and thus have no >idea how to activate the NeXTSpell checker as it >is done e.g. with Enhance-Mail or even better in >'Services! > Nothing to do. Try Edit->Spelling ... Or did I get something wrong ... Greetings, Bernhard. -- Bernhard Scholz http://www.leo.org/~scholz/ Peanuts FTP Admin http://peanuts.leo.org/ scholz@leo.org, (StuSta ONLY: boerny@xenia.stusta.mhn.de)
From: Isaac <isaac@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 16:47:42 -0500 Organization: Florida State University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970330163946.25118C-100000@lab.housing.fsu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970329163553.5356B-100000@kira> <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net, luomat@peak.org In-Reply-To: <mitchell.allen-3003971349030001@149.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> On Sun, 30 Mar 1997 mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > > The slab has an internal 105 (enough to put fit the NS 3.3/user) > > There will be a 1.0gig drive and a 2.1 drive to use. > > I will also have a 300meg drive serving as a swapdisk. > > > > I am the only user here. My goal is to have a setup where both machines > > can operate independently of each other. Primarily the slab will be used > > as a print server and running a few m68k-only apps. Here's my suggestion: Hook the 1 gig and 105 to the slab (use the 105 as swapdisk). Hook the 2.1 gig and 300 meg to the intel box (use the 300 as swap and temp). Use NFS to mount the 2.1 gig on the NeXT and the 1.0 gig on the Intel. Thus each computer has adequate local storage, but still has access to the total shared space. (excluding the swapdisks, but why bother sharing those anyway?) 105 megs is not enough to do much useful on the slab. If you don't want to dedicate a gig to the slab, use the 300meg drive for it. Then put the 1gig, 2gig, and 105meg drives on the Intel box, using the 105 for swap. Share via NFS as above. > Here is the creative solution: > > Format the drives as Apple Mac drives and serve them up using CAP or > something like that. Then you can install the AppleTalk program from the > 3.0 disk and access them as AppleTalk drives. Now that *is* creative. :) Unfortunately, I don't think NEXTSTEP or OpenStep will install or run on a mac-formatted disk. > Alternatively, you could just FTP to each drive from whatever machine > wasn't directly connected. You can do this without CAP or AppleTalk. Ugh. I've had to do that before when NFS wasn't an option. No fun. -Isaac
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep for NT? Date: 31 Mar 1997 21:21:16 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5hp9sc$du2@ecuador.earthlink.net> Hello, I am interested in Openstep for NT. However, Im not quite sure what it is. I am now using NSFIP 3.3. Is it similar, but just running on NT? Could I use the NeXTMail app in NT, etc? Or is it just for developers? Thank you. -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@ucla.edu> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: josh hoge <jhoge@pollux.cs.uga.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT cube hangs on boot: culprit = inetd Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:40:47 -0500 Organization: University of Georgia, Athens Message-ID: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Help! My non- networked NeXT cube hangs on inetd on startup. It stops booting after the inetd process is launched. Killing inetd on startup resumes the startup, but netinfo complains and none of the administration utils will work. The hard disk was built using build disk on a cube networked cube running NS 3.2. This may account for the network problem, but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. --Josh
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 31 Mar 1997 22:52:06 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm243-24.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Hallo all. I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS Essentials, so the install process crashes. I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to partition the disk and install the NS by hand? Any advice would be really appreciated. Thank you. Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
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