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From: sk68@cornell.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT cube hangs on boot: culprit = inetd Date: 1 Apr 1997 00:26:21 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: sk68@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <5hpknd$c41@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> josh hoge <jhoge@pollux.cs.uga.edu> wrote: >Help! My non- networked NeXT cube hangs on inetd on startup. It stops >booting after the inetd process is launched. Killing inetd on startup >resumes the startup, but netinfo complains and none of the >administration utils will work. The hard disk was built using build >disk on a cube networked cube running NS 3.2. This may account for the >network problem, but I'm not sure. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. Thanks. > >--Josh Hi Josh, I don't you try "cleaning out" the NetInfo database? If you need to know how to do this, please email me. Best regards, Sung Ho Kim sk68@cornell.edu
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: 31 Mar 1997 16:38:49 -0800 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.859854747@shellx> I've been using PPP 2.2 from thoughtport for a long time without trouble. I'd like to configure it to dial out "on demand." In other words, I want it to transparently bring up the net connection as needed, like when I access the web or attempt to login to a remote machine. Is this possible? Can someone point me to docs on how to do this? Thanks. -sam
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:21:19 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331200516.7158A-100000@kira> References: <sams.859854747@shellx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Samuel G. Streeper" <sams@best.com> In-Reply-To: <sams.859854747@shellx> > I've been using PPP 2.2 from thoughtport for a long > time without trouble. I'd like to configure it > to dial out "on demand." In other words, I want > it to transparently bring up the net connection > as needed, like when I access the web or attempt > to login to a remote machine. > Is this possible? Can someone point me to docs > on how to do this? I've been using the 2.3 "beta" version with no ill effects and some new features -- but dial on demand is not one of them. Gatekeeper.app can help you do this but you have to setup BIND and a DNS on your machine, which is a lot of hassle IMO, and I have not heard a lot of people say they have had good luck with it. If you want a less-comprehensive but still helpful version of dial on "demand" you can checkout http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul/DialOnDemand.htmld which has an app which will watch for when you launch certain apps and bring the link up when you launch them (ie you can tell it to bring the connection up when you launch OmniWeb, for example). Obvious limitations... I've been thinking of seting up DOD once I ge my Intel and my new drive... Here are the URLs for the DOD package for gatekeeper.... not for the faint of heart as I've said, but I'd love to hear from anyone who has it working or gets it working... ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.README.rtf ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.0.DoD.s.tar.gz TjL ps -- the docs for ppp2.3 (spec. 'man pppd') talk about a 'demand' option, but it is not implemented with the NS-port. -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "NEXTSTEP computers come with a set of uncomplicated yet powerful networking app lications, ... which reside in the /NextAdmin directory." -- NeXT online docs (01_Planning.rtf)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 04:41:08 -0600 From: Geoff.Hopson@mindless.com Subject: Initializing a Jaz disk on OpenStep4.1 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <859890567.10215@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I am having problems initializing a Jaz disk under OpenStep 4.1 on Intel/Mach. I can format the disk under OpenStep, and the drive works perfectly well under Win95. The diskette in question formats and operates correctly under Win95 too. I am using the disktab entry from NextAnswers, shown below: IOMEGAJAZ-1G:\ :ty=removable_rw_scsi:nc#3584:nt#4:ns#72:ss#1024:rm#5400:\ :fp#160:bp#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:ro=a\ :pa#0:sa#1032192:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#4096:ra#10:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:aa: The error I get is as follows: moose:5# disk -i -l "JazDisk" /dev/rsd1a disk name: IOMEGAJAZ-1G disk type: removable_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 1032192 72 4 8192 1024 16 10 90 4096 t /dev/rsd1a: 1032192 sectors in 3584 cylinders of 4 tracks, 72 sectors 1057.0Mb in 224 cyl groups (16 c/g, 4.72Mb/g, 1088 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at:write error: 32 wtfs: Not enough memory /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) The hardware is a Toshiba Tecra 730 with 80Meg of RAM, sitting in a deskstation, with the AMD PCI SCSI adaptor ....any clues? TIA Geoff -- +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Geoff Hopson | Geoff.Hopson@mindless.com | | Senior Telecomms Architect | http://www.datacomm.ch/~hopson | | SYSTOR AG | "I never make predictions, | | Baslerstrasse 60, 8048 Zurich | and I never will" | +-------------------------------+--------------------------------+ -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 08:39:38 -0600 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <33411E2A.3B26@ti.com> References: <sams.859854747@shellx> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331200516.7158A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I've been using the 2.3 "beta" version with no ill effects and some new > features -- but dial on demand is not one of them. >[munch] > ps -- the docs for ppp2.3 (spec. 'man pppd') talk about a 'demand' > option, but it is not implemented with the NS-port. That will change soon. I will begin work on 2.3 within this month (Yep... I finally finished school! ;). One thing I would like to do is to support the demand dial features of 2.3. The code is in the LKS but it has not been tested. Hopefully, lots of things regarding PPP will become much easier with round two of development (and PPP-2.3). - Steve -- Stephen J. Perkins Tel. +1(972)995-0029, Fax +1(972)995-6194, e-mail: perkins@ti.com Texas Instruments, P.O. Box 655474, MS 446, Dallas, TX 75265
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Configure PPP to dial on demand? Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 07:43:30 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970401073924.16171C-100000@kira> References: <sams.859854747@shellx> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331200516.7158A-100000@kira> <33411E2A.3B26@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> In-Reply-To: <33411E2A.3B26@ti.com> > > I've been using the 2.3 "beta" version with no ill effects and some new > > features -- but dial on demand is not one of them. > > ps -- the docs for ppp2.3 (spec. 'man pppd') talk about a 'demand' > > option, but it is not implemented with the NS-port. > That will change soon. I will begin work on 2.3 within this month > (Yep... I finally finished school! ;). One thing I would like to do is > to support the demand dial features of 2.3. The code is in the LKS but > it has not been tested. Hopefully, lots of things regarding PPP will > become much easier with round two of development (and PPP-2.3). This is excellent news! I'd like to take this chance to publically thank you for all the work you have put in on this project (where would I be w/out PPP???) -- and of course I'll be a guinea pig for whatever you come up with as far as beta-versions. The mysterious panics which seemed related to PPP have dropped off significantly -- right after my ISP updated their modem pool -- I think I am getting a lot less junk at connect time. I consider PPP a very stable work, and that's the 2.3 version which is still 'beta' itself I believe! Anyway, thanks for the tip (will DOD require a static IP?) Maybe I won't setup my own DNS after all ;-) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "NEXTSTEP computers come with a set of uncomplicated yet powerful networking app lications, ... which reside in the /NextAdmin directory." -- NeXT online docs (01_Planning.rtf)
From: khader@vnet.net (R. D. Khader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT Disk message? Date: 1 Apr 1997 16:31:33 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779 Message-ID: <5hrd95$3sp$1@ralph.vnet.net> My NS3.3 Intel has two disks an NT and a NS disk. Every time I boot from the NS disk Workspace asks about initializing the NT disk. How can I stop this message from comming all the time, I am affraid I will hit the wrong button and reformat the disk accidently. Also how can I read that NT file system from the NS environment? Thanks, khader@vnet.net
From: gadallah@value.net (Larry Gadallah) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 1 Apr 1997 17:25:49 GMT Organization: Value Net Internetwork Services Inc. Message-ID: <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote: : I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer : (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning : completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS : Essentials, so the install process crashes. : I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could : anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I : suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? : Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to : partition the disk and install the NS by hand? I have the same question as Rudolf, except that I am running on black hardware and trying to install 3.3 on a single 2.1 Gb partition. The installer insists on repartitioning the disk into two 1 Gb chunks. Anyone know how to "get around" the installer? Thanks, Larry Gadallah gadallah@value.net
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Routing a LAN to the Internet Date: 1 Apr 1997 18:35:52 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5hrki8$7mn$1@lynet.de> Hello, I've just installed PPP on Computer A as described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95 by Uli Zappe. PPP is working very well on this Computer, wich is additionally the NetInfo-, Email-,...Server of a small LAN. I now want to be able to access the Internet from each Computer in the LAN, when the PPP-Connection between Computer A and my Provider is up. So I suppose I need to declare Computer A as a Router to all other Computers in the LAN, but how do I do that? I tried set the RouterField in HostManager/local/Router to the ip-address of Computer A but that doesn't change anything. I still cannot ping my provider from another Computer than Computer A, wich is hosting the PPP-Connection. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Andreas
From: llefton@math.uno.edu (Lew Lefton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Floppy won't stay in drive Date: 1 Apr 1997 19:57:23 GMT Organization: University of New Orleans Message-ID: <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> Hello, We have a 3.5 in floppy disk which, when inserted into our 68040 slabs running NeXTstep 2.1, is immediately ejected. The console shows the following: Apr 1 09:39:51 Workspace[20976]: ...Ready Disk Label: UntitledDisk Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RECALIBRATE fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RECALIBRATE fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RECALIBRATE fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: FATAL Apr 1 09:59:30 Workspace[20976]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received for unknown device Any suggestions for getting the data off of this bad diskette? Thanks! P.S. Is there any archive of old postings to this newsgroup? Thanks again. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- | Lew Lefton | Phone: (504) 280-7441 | | Department of Mathematics | FAX: (504) 280-5516 | | University of New Orleans | e-mail: llefton@math.uno.edu | | New Orleans, LA 70148 | (NeXT mail welcome) | ----------------------------------------------------------------
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NT Disk message? Date: 1 Apr 1997 19:51:47 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5hrp0j$th2$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <5hrd95$3sp$1@ralph.vnet.net> Cc: khader@vnet.net In <5hrd95$3sp$1@ralph.vnet.net> R. D. Khader wrote: > > Also how can I read that NT file > system from the NS environment? > Use 'vmount' as available on the archives. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 15:28:49 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970401152705.25479E-100000@kira> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Larry Gadallah <gadallah@value.net> In-Reply-To: <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> NeXTStep cannot deal with disks or patitions 2.0gig or bigger So make a small partition and a big one,, or two ~gig partitions. There is no way around the 2.0 gig limit (well, unless you can NFS mount the drive, but that will not work for a boot drive) TjL
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep on the same disk with fdisk partitions. Date: 1 Apr 1997 23:42:11 -0500 Organization: Digital Gateway Systems Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5hso33$60h@DGS.dgsys.com> Well I'm trying this at the moment with System Commander and so far it appears to be working. I've got two NEXTSTEP fdisk partitions on a one gig drive. I just changed the id of the first when I installed the second with the Debian Linux fdisk tool. System Commander has the ability to tell a single partition to hide other partitions and I think this keeps the boot loaders happy. Can anybody suggest why this wouldn't work and I'd also like to know if the boot1 loader puts the partition number in the register for boot2 to pick up in OpenStep and NEXTSTEP 3.3 So far it all appears to work. To see if SC is necessary I'll turn off the hiding of the partitions and see if it still works. Cheers.
From: patrick blackburn <nike@well.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Windows NT as NFS server workable? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 22:35:45 -0800 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <3341FE41.1384@well.com> References: <5hdsj4$ncm$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jan-Willem de Bruijn <jwdb@fygir.nl> Jan-Willem de Bruijn wrote: > > Does anyone have a working setup with a Windows NT machine as NFS server > and a NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP Mach/UNIX system as NFS client? Yes, we are using the latest ChameleonNFS/X as the NT NFS server, which seems to be very robust. We do this in order to facilitate source code control systems which also require mounting of NT dirs to NeXT, Solaris, Win95 and the least common denominator, Mac NFS clients. Our backup solution is samba served from NeXT and Solaris to NT, but there are no Mac clients for SMB. -pat blackburn
From: mikec@archimedes.farallon.com (Mike Carter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gzip prob Date: 31 Mar 1997 02:41:46 GMT Organization: Farallon Computing Inc. Message-ID: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> Keywords: gzip NeXT Help!! I just got a NextCube and could not find gzip anywhere. I *thought* it was a standard UT but maybe not? Here's the prob...OD is broken and I would like to get gzip for the cube since all archived apps and docs are gzipped. As it stands now, I can't use any of the kewl apps I've FTPed!! How can I get a copy of gzip on the cube? The only connection I have is ethernet. I have another cube at work...a 68K running sys ver 1.0. I tried to tar a copy of gzip and ftp it here, only to find out I get a 'bad executable' error after I untar it. Any input would be greatly appreciated! --Mike Carter mikec@dyna-132-243.farallon.com (this NeXT Cube)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) Subject: Newbie NeXT Admin.,, Mail Call! Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group Message-ID: <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 05:49:33 GMT Okay, this is the next to last thing I need to do. I have a Turbo Color Slab 0S 3.3 on a networked IP connection. What I need to do is configure it as a mailserver. I'd like to beable to read the mail in 3 ways. 1. NextMail 2. Command line using PINE 3. With networked POP clients like Eudora, Netscape mail etc. I'm plodding through the O'Reilly book on sendmail but would really appreciate some tips in this process. Thanks in advance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | _ | | We are dreamers, shapers, singers and makers. /_\ | | We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, // \\ | | Crystal and scanner, holographic demons, \\ //___\\ | | And invocations of equations. \\ // \\ | | \\__// \\ | | These are the tools we employ. And we know... many things. \\ | | \\ | | | Frank Lazar http://www.interactive.net/~fmlazar | \\ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip prob Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:09:30 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402060836.5071A-100000@kira> References: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: mcarter@farallon.com In-Reply-To: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> send me email with the SUBJECT search-peak gzip you'll get a message back automatically telling you the URL of the gzip binary on PEAK TJL
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is OpenStep able to route a LAN to the Internet? Date: 3 Apr 1997 06:50:30 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5hvjvm$4uo$1@lynet.de> Hello, I have just configured a small LAN with SimpleNetworkStarter! I now want to connect the whole LAN to the Internet by connecting the Computer with the NetInfo-Database, Email-Server, ... over PPP to an InternetProvider. Is this possible and if yes, what do I have to do for it, so that I can access the Internet from all Computers in the LAN? The LAN is up and the PPP-Connection from my Server to the Provider is also, but nevertheless I cannot access the Internet from the other Computers. How do I setup my Server as a Router? Thank in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: how to deny rlogin to ftp guest accounts Date: 2 Apr 1997 07:34:28 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5htjok$lq0@papoose.quick.com> References: <xdzlo78jp1z.fsf@arcturus.ciril.fr> In article <xdzlo78jp1z.fsf@arcturus.ciril.fr>, Nabil HATHOUT <hathout@arcturus.ciril.fr> wrote: >Hello, > >We have a Sun Sparc workstation running NextStep 3.2 on and we want to >use it as ftp server in order to give project partners access to some >of our data. Our problem is that we want these partners to be able to >log on our machine via ftp but not via rlogin. Is there a mean to deny >rlogin to some user without also denying ftp login ? First add a line containing /bin/false to the file /etc/shells. This will enable you to assign the false program as a login shell. For each of these users add local accounts in netinfo. Create an account for each ftp user. Assign an appropriate home directory. Assign /bin/false as the login shell. Assign them all to a group that noody else uses or to the group nobody. Make sure they belong to no other groups. Be sure to set a password. The users will be allowed to ftp from your host (and to it, if you give them write access to any directories) -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bulding Perl 5.00X Date: 3 Apr 1997 04:27:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5hvbjv$mb8$1@news.digifix.com> References: <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net> <5hv5lt$msq@newstand.syr.edu> In-Reply-To: <5hv5lt$msq@newstand.syr.edu> On 04/02/97, Terry R. McConnell wrote: >In article <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net>, >Steven R. Staton <steve@deltos.com> wrote: >>I'm running into all kinds of problems building Perl 5.x on my >>NS3.3/Moto machine. Is there a problem using the Next_3 >>configuration? Is there a better one? > >I just built 5.003 under 3.2/moto using Next_3 with no problems. >I did run configure with the -Uuseposix switch, however. > By the same token, last week I built perl 5.00x on NS3.3 (Intel, but I doubt there will be a difference) I went even lasier than Terry though I ran configure -d it just takes the defaults, asks me nothing and just whizs on through. -- Scott Anguish DBS Online - http://www.dbs-online.com/DBS sanguish@digifix.com Stepwise OpenStep WWW - http://www.stepwise.com
From: kochhar@deas.harvard.edu (Sandeep Kochhar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reboot hangs after Network settings screwed up... (NS 3.3, Intel) Date: 02 Apr 1997 15:02:50 GMT Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Message-ID: <KOCHHAR.97Apr2100250@deas.harvard.edu> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> In-reply-to: josh hoge's message of Mon, 31 Mar 1997 17:40:47 -0500 hi! I was configuring my NextStep 3.3 running on a PC to add a network card driver (EtherPCI LAN Card) and possibly screwed up, since now upon reboot my system gets to the "starting automounter" stage and hangs forever...booting in verbose mode from a floppy shows that it usually hangs around inet or NetInfo stuff.... What's the way to get it to reboot without network support so that I can run Configure.app and try and fix it? I tried booting from the floppy and saying something like hd(1)mach_kernel config=Default but that didn't work either (the config=Default did work when I was having problems with my display driver). Thanks. Pl reply via email as well, if possible. sandeep kochhar, kochhar@avcinc.com -- ---------------------------- Sandeep Kochhar Tel: 617-876-2052, Fax: 617-238-0763 15-17 Lee St. #T2 Email: kochhar@das.harvard.edu Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.avcinc.com/people/kochhar/
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: win95, NT, & OpenStep NT... Date: 3 Apr 1997 06:18:33 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> Hi, I'm putting together a, shock, non OPENSTEP system this friday. I want to have win95 for the very limited purpose of booting to play games :) And NT to do OpenStep NT development on... I have a 1Gb drive for all purposes (it's a laptop)... So, I was thinking I could set up a tiney partition, say 64Mb's for win95; just enough to boot off of. And give NT the rest, but make the NT partition a DOS type of partition. Figuring, I could boot in win 95, yet save all my apps on the NT partition; games included. That way, I could kick off the 64Mb parition on drive C, and then double click on say Quake on the drive D/NT partition and things would work. Otherwise, when not playing games I could simple boot on drive D with NT and do development. However, I understand that to install OpenStep on NT one MUST make drive D an NTFS filesystem (not to mention install ALL of the network stuff). If I do have to make drive D NTFS, then, I'm guessing, when booting in the win95 partition, I won't be able to access any files on the NT partition... So is my only option set aside, say 200Mb for win95 and games? Or is there someway to share filesystems between win95 and NT w/ OpenStep? (perhaps I should just get a zip drive and boot off of that for games....) Thanks for any pointers :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: root@isc_file.dart.de (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: samba printing Date: 2 Apr 1997 15:54:03 GMT Organization: InterShop Communications Message-ID: <5htver$1v6@linux1.netconx.de> hi there, i set up samba to export a printer. i can print from the console as the samba user $/usr/ucb/lpr -PLaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962 i can print from the console as the samba user with smbrun and "" $/usr/samba/bin/smbrun "/usr/ucb/lpr -PLaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962" but i can not print from the console through smbrun without "" $/usr/samba/bin/smbrun /usr/ucb/lpr -PLaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962 and my samba never prints whatever i try. smbrun = /usr/samba/bin/mysmbrun (a script) smbrun = /usr/samba/bin/smbrun (included) print command = /usr/ucb/lpr -P%p %s print command = "/usr/ucb/lpr -P%p %s" and so on... the log says Running the command `/usr/ucb/lpr -P LaserJet6 /usr/spool/public/ADMINISTRA.001962' gave 0 but nothing shows up in the printer queue. please help! Atze
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:14:59 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu0m3$jnd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> The maximum partition size is 2GB, so you do need to split the disk up. If you use the regular installation process (floppy, CD, etc.), it will divide your drive up into equal sized partitions of less than 2GB, as many as it takes to do the whole drive. This is not generally optimal. Most people use the boot partition for system stuff and the other partition(s) for user stuff- and users probably need more space. The way around it is to use BuildDisk. Of course, you need to have a working NeXT to do it! If you have another drive (even a 200MB or so), install NEXTSTEP on that, then attach the other drive externally and use BuldDisk on it. Use the partition panel to divide it up, and make sure the partitions are smaller than 2GB (no, it doesn't check). I've not used BuildDisk on a drive larger than 4GB, but I don't think it handles more than two partitions gracefully. If you still have a problem, you'll have to do it manually, or use a different disk as your boot drive. ab
From: sarlo@xochi.tezcat.com (sarlo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reboot hangs after Network settings screwed up... (NS 3.3, Intel) Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:59:31 GMT Organization: Breakfast at Tezcat. Message-ID: <5hu39j$p9k@tepe.tezcat.com> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> <KOCHHAR.97Apr2100250@deas.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@deas.harvard.edu> wrote: > hi! > I was configuring my NextStep 3.3 running on a PC to add a > network card driver (EtherPCI LAN Card) and possibly screwed up, since > now upon reboot my system gets to the "starting automounter" stage and > hangs forever...booting in verbose mode from a floppy shows that it > usually hangs around inet or NetInfo stuff.... > What's the way to get it to reboot without network > support so that I can run Configure.app and try and fix it? I tried > booting from the floppy and saying something like > hd(1)mach_kernel config=Default I had a similar problem. I found by setting the netinfobind daemon to accept localhost as the netinfo server, this problem cleared up immediately. -- sarlo@tezcat.com - Sarlykins. | I was lying in bed, looking up at the EXXON - Put a tiger in your | stars when I suddenly thought to myself, tank! And while you're at it, | "Where the fuck did my roof go?" toss in a few dead otters too. | -EXXON Ad, 1989 | Alternatives: sarlo@chinet.com http://www.tezcat.com/~sarlo sarlo@pyrotechnics.com \||// sarlo@2600.com Don'tcha love bongo-.sigs? oO sarlo@blight.com ()^() Pttht. sarlo@ripco.com U /~~~~~~ root@mcs.net
From: rdingman@internal.mcafee.com (Ryan Dingman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Reboot hangs after Network settings screwed up... (NS 3.3, Intel) Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:36:58 GMT Organization: McAfee Associates, Inc. Message-ID: <5hu1va$5e1@news.mcafee.com> References: <33403D6F.232D@pollux.cs.uga.edu> <KOCHHAR.97Apr2100250@deas.harvard.edu> I have experienced the same problems when I tried to change network cards. If anyone has a solution to this I would appreciate a response also. -- ryan rdingman@internal.mcafee.com NeXTMail and MIME accepted
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 machines, 4 drives, how to best share? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:07:16 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu07k$jnd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970330130325.26147A-100000@kira> <5hocbn$1et@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> When I set up groups of NeXTs, I generally NFS mount /LocalApps and /LocalLibrary (because you can live without them) and /NextDeveloper (and /LocalDeveloper if you have one). Make sure all the /LocalApps and the Developer stuff is installed fat. Put the apps you cannot live without in your Apps directory (you said you were the only user) or in /LocalApps on the local disk before you do the mount (but then the mount will hide it, and you'll forget it's there). Ditto for /LocalLibrary. You can also do some of the stuff in /NextLibrary, but be careful as some of that is really necessary for proper operation. This works really well because the machines don't need each other, but the disk consuming stuff is shared. The only other big space hog is your home directory. :-) ab
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Driver floppy Date: 2 Apr 1997 18:06:01 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu769$bl@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Hi All, I've been trying to install NS3.3 for intel for a while now. I've got a boot floppy that seems to be doing its thing ok, but it prompts me for a driver floppy pretty quickly. I insert what a floppy that I've created by using the image off of ftp.next.com, but it looks at the floppy and says that there aren't any valid drivers on the disk. What exactly does this mean? Does it mean that I have the wrong floppies for my system? What seems more likely is that it doesn't recognize the drivers on the floppy. Anybody ever come across this problem before? I'm trying to install on a Gateway PPro with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI adaptor. Everything is SCSI. Right now I'm just trying to boot up with regular VGA....I couldn't afford a nice monitor yet and my Matrox Millenium won't be here for another week. Any suggestions? Thanks much - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: ab@purdue.edu (Allen Braunsdorf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Networking breaks Mathematica 2.x??? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:22:36 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5hu14c$jnd@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <BRISINDA.97Mar29170300@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca> brisinda@fsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Dale &) wrote: >I've recently networked a NS black machine running Mathematica 2.x >with an NS Pentium machine. Problem is that Mathematica no longer >works! It launches, but then when I ask it to evaluate some expression >the disk cursor just spins endlessly... I'm guessing this has >something to do with launching a remote vs local math kernel -- since >it was working fine before the networking. Mathematica will check its license when it loads the library. It checks against the hardware idea of the machine, so if it's not licensed for the machine you run it on, it won't work. Also make sure that the command line programs (math and something else) are in your path. I've seen that problem here a lot. Mathematica does work froma shared copy, but all the machines need to be in the license file. You aren't trying to run black binaries on your Pentium are you? ab
From: jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (Jan Sacharuk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting Openstep to recognize NTFS partition? Date: 3 Apr 1997 15:54:44 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Every time I start up Openstep (once NeXTstep..) it tells me that it can't read from my drive that has NT on it. I was hoping with the coming of Openstep, it would magically fix all my problems...but I guess not. How do I resolve this problem. I really hate telling the system that I don't want to initialize the disk at start up every time. Jan Sachaurk jan@cs.ualberta.ca
From: Malcolm Crawford <Malcolm_Crawford@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: CD-ROM burn of NeXT media and RockRidge Necessary? Date: 2 Apr 1997 16:40:17 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5hu25h$h3t$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In <331C2CE6.3F06@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Hi, I am curious on how to CD-ROM burn some NeXT media, and am wondering > if in the software that RockRidge Extensions are Necessary in addition > to ISO 9660? Take the NEXTSTEP 3.3 disc, what exactly is required of > the burning software to do this successfully. A Mac solution would be > prefered... > > Is there Mac OS software that can do this? Anyone know the names? How > about Windoze? > Try looking at Young Minds: http://www.ymi.com/ -- they seem to offer a good range of solutions. Best wishes, mmalc. Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: not@my.address.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 and OS 4.x on same LAN ? Date: 2 Apr 1997 19:55:11 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Message-ID: <5hudiv$pdi@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu> Can you run NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP/Mach 4.x on the same LAN? Anything to watch out for? Ie, does it matter which machine is the NetInfo server, or which one is the mailhost, etc. etc.? I'm tempted to try OS 4.x on a Turbo system if I can stuff it with enough RAM -- the OPENSTEP developer tutorial is just WAY TOO interesting ;) .. but I'm not sure I want to mess with OS 4.x on an old mono slab. NS 3.3 is nice and stable and zippy enough. Besides, I can use NXhost if I want anything from OS 4.x ... Suggestions, advice, entertaining anecdotes, etc. are all welcome. -- invert: umich.edu jdevlin insert: shift "2"
From: khader@vnet.net (R. D. Khader) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: mount dead lock? Date: 3 Apr 1997 15:58:05 GMT Organization: Vnet Internet Access, Inc. - Charlotte, NC. (704) 374-0779 Message-ID: <5i0k2d$d87$1@ralph.vnet.net> Hi there, I have two machine a cube and an intel. Trying to share file systems between the two I used NFSManager to export each's file system and import the other one. This worked fine until I had to shutdown both machines at the same time. Now none of the machines can start any more both hang on "mounting file systems..." messages. I disconnected the network and still no success. How can I correct this? Thanks, khader@vnet.net
From: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 21:22:46 +0100 Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm using Nextstep 3.3 and I note there is no uname command. How can I read the system type/version from a shell script? /Tomas
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: 3 Apr 1997 15:35:46 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5i0ioi$379@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In article <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> writes: > I'm using Nextstep 3.3 and I note there is no uname command. > How can I read the system type/version from a shell script? arch, hostinfo -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (Jan Sacharuk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bash for Openstep? Date: 3 Apr 1997 16:59:38 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5i0nlq$sd8@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I'm assuming that this is possible...I'd just like to know where I can get some directions on doing this, so that I don't bugger up. :) Thanks. :) Jan
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 3 Apr 1997 03:51:54 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary swapfile). Any answers greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: jsc@atype.com (Jin S. Choi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: procmail blowing up on large messages Date: 03 Apr 1997 12:24:46 -0500 Organization: Archetype, Inc. Sender: jsc@canker.atype.com Message-ID: <x4encskoip.fsf@canker.atype.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Anyone else out there use procmail as a mail delivery agent? I run it using the following lines in my sendmail.cf: Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=rlsDFMmnP, S=10, R=20, A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u Problem is, any message of moderately large size (several megs) will cause the procmail process to grow until it's sucked up all the memory on the system, caused the swapfile to take up all available disk, and hang the system. Has anyone else encountered this? Please help! An email reply would be appreciated, I will summarize any responses.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting Openstep to recognize NTFS partition? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:33:40 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970403102602.19170C-100000@kira> References: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jan Sacharuk <jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> > Every time I start up Openstep (once NeXTstep..) it tells me that it > can't read from my drive that has NT on it. I was hoping with the > coming of Openstep, it would magically fix all my problems...but I > guess not. How do I resolve this problem. I really hate telling the > system that I don't want to initialize the disk at start up every > time. [followup-ed to csn.sysadmin only, crossposting is evil] 'man fstab' will discuss about the options for disks: "4.3, nfs, dos, macintosh, nucfs, cfs, or ignore" I believe that if you set the disk to be of the type 'ignore' then that panel will go away. TjL
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Newbie NeXT Admin.,, Mail Call! Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:53:13 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr3.195313.24001@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> In <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> Frank Lazar wrote: > Okay, this is the next to last thing I need to do. I have a Turbo Color > Slab 0S 3.3 on a networked IP connection. What I need to do is configure > it as a mailserver. I'd like to beable to read the mail in 3 ways. > > 1. NextMail > 2. Command line using PINE > 3. With networked POP clients like Eudora, Netscape mail etc. If you have sendmail working, then 1 & 2 will work. For 3, install a POP daemon. One comes with the PopOver package on the archives, and is trivial to install (put the binary in the right place, modify /etc/inetd.conf, and niload a services entry). Getting standard NeXT sendmail to work is trivial, in two cases: 1) You are a client with a smart mailhost and your hostname set correctly. You need two netinfo directories set up: /locations/resolver, which contains the following property:value pairs: name:resolver nameserver:<ip address of your DNS server> and /locations/sendmail, with property:values - name:sendmail sendmail.cf:/etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf mailhost:<hostname of mailserver> 2) the machine is on the Internet, and has the hostname correctly set. You need /locations/resolver as above, and /locations/sendmail: name:sendmail sendmail.cf:/etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf The file /etc/sendmail/sendmail.mailhost.cf will need a careful review. In most cases, you just need to change: Cw, Dj, and possibly ruleset S6. It your hostname is OK, none of these changes are required. Some people like to install a more modern sendmail, but IMHO this is just needless hassle. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: jalegre@andante-systems.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NT, OpenStep Enterprise, and Office '97? Date: 2 Apr 1997 21:06:42 GMT Organization: SkyPoint Communications, Inc. Message-ID: <5huhp2$qsm$1@shadow.skypoint.net> While making a tech support call on another issue one of the support engineers at NeXT made a big deal about NOT using the OpenStep NT development environment if NT is running Office '97. I have a real hard time believing that OpenStep NT would have a problem with this basic Microsoft software. Is anyone out there using Office '97 with OpenStep Enterprise on NT? Any comments? Thanks -- John N. Alegre Andante Systems ############################################################### # NeXTMail preferred. | # jalegre@andante-systems.com | If you plant ice, # alegrej@andante.mn.org | you're gonna harvest wind! # jalegre@lenti.med.umn.edu | Hunter/Garcia ############################################################### # URL http://www.andante-systems.com ###############################################################
From: wegmann@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Frank Wegmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [NXFax 1.04] No dialtone at phone system Date: 03 Apr 1997 20:34:56 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Distribution: world Message-ID: <WEGMANN.97Apr3213456@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> I've an analog modem (ZyXEL U1496E+) attached to a phone system so that it needs an additional 0 in order to get a dialtone. I tried it with dwrite <faxmodem> WaitForDialTone NO but to no avail. Has anybody got a clue? Frank -- Frank Wegmann voice: +49 234 700 7677 / +49 234 700 2461 Sprachwiss. Institut fax : +49 234 7094 137 Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum email: wegmann@linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, 44780 Bochum wegmann@acm.org (NeXTmail, MIME welcome) Germany WWW : http://www.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
From: eighth@crl.com (Christoph Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: gzip prob Date: 3 Apr 1997 12:37:50 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5i14eu$g2h@crl.crl.com> References: <5hn89a$17u$1@io.farallon.com> Keywords: gzip NeXT >I just got a NextCube and could not find gzip anywhere. I *thought* it was Hmm, I think it came standard on my 3.3 CD, but otherwise you can find it at: ftp.next.peak.org You can search this ftp site with email by putting this in the subject: search-peak gzip and addressing it to: luomat@peak.org This gzip package might cme as a .tar.Z or a .compressed, both of which are included with NeXTSTEP. -- Hans-Christoph Steiner MIME, NeXTMail, SunMail and PlainOldMail accepted
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bulding Perl 5.00X Date: 3 Apr 1997 02:46:21 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5hv5lt$msq@newstand.syr.edu> References: <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net> In article <333b4229.47187109@news.dfw.net>, Steven R. Staton <steve@deltos.com> wrote: >I'm running into all kinds of problems building Perl 5.x on my >NS3.3/Moto machine. Is there a problem using the Next_3 >configuration? Is there a better one? I just built 5.003 under 3.2/moto using Next_3 with no problems. I did run configure with the -Uuseposix switch, however. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: "Lee Bennett" <lee.cool@ukonline.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking prob with 12 Blacks Date: 4 Apr 1997 01:34:08 GMT Organization: L&B Software Message-ID: <01bb21c6$be6d5ca0$a97206c2@default> Hi, I have 12 Black systems all hooked by BNC cable and T-Conects. The problem is thay wont talk to each other. Plus I get some shit about Netware not ready to work or something HELP ME!!!! Many Thanks lee@hyper-zone.com
From: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 10:40:48 +0100 Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <33437B20.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Louma told me: > here's all you need. > > It will work for 3.x, I would like to know if it works for OpenStep > > http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/scripts/uname > > TjL > > ps -- if you could post this for me I'd appreciate it as my news > server is not letting me post at the moment Thanks. /Tomas
From: Lars Immisch <lars@ibp.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: win95, NT, & OpenStep NT... Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:32:42 +0200 Organization: Immisch, Becker & Partner Message-ID: <3343DBAA.6E83@ibp.de> References: <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit John Kheit wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm putting together a, shock, non OPENSTEP system this friday. > I want to have win95 for the very limited purpose of booting to > play games :) And NT to do OpenStep NT development on... I have > a 1Gb drive for all purposes (it's a laptop)... > > So, I was thinking I could set up a tiney partition, say 64Mb's > for win95; just enough to boot off of. And give NT the rest, but > make the NT partition a DOS type of partition. Figuring, I could > boot in win 95, yet save all my apps on the NT partition; games > included. That way, I could kick off the 64Mb parition on drive > C, and then double click on say Quake on the drive D/NT partition > and things would work. Otherwise, when not playing games I could > simple boot on drive D with NT and do development. You don't want to do this ;-) 8.3 is unbearable for practically everything unless you are used to it since age 8 and have never seen anything else and have too little imagination to even think it could be different... > However, I understand that to install OpenStep on NT one MUST make > drive D an NTFS filesystem (not to mention install ALL of the > network stuff). If I do have to make drive D NTFS, then, I'm > guessing, when booting in the win95 partition, I won't be able to > access any files on the NT partition... Yes, but this should only be a problem when you run out of space for games. > So is my only option set aside, say 200Mb for win95 and games? Or > is there someway to share filesystems between win95 and NT w/ > OpenStep? (perhaps I should just get a zip drive and boot off of > that for games....) You will be able to use the FAT space from NT, just not vice versa. You can even give the FAT files real names; they will be mangled when viewed from DOS. Later, Lars -- mailto:immisch@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~immisch Yesterdays yellow yoyo can make you yawn today
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail domain problems Date: 29 Mar 1997 08:15:17 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Distribution: world Message-ID: <5hij2l$21$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5hhk6k$68s@news.next.com> In article <5hhk6k$68s@news.next.com> jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) writes: > "mailhost" is the default name in our config files for the > upstream mail relay. Joe's right. You need to tell your system who is the upstream mail relay by defining it to be "mailhost". While there are many ways to do this, one easy way is to add your upstream mail relay with HostManager and give it an alias of mailhost. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cloning Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 23:57:02 GMT Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Message-ID: <5huqtm$81e$1@news.bctel.net> I am trying to setup NextStep cloning. I have setup the clone server in the NetInfoManger. I was hoping that once I rebooted that if the the master netinfo server did not exist (not running) that the clone would boot and the network would be stable. What I find is that when I reboot the clone it actually times out looking for its 'parent server'. Does cloning actually allow me to keep the network up and running after the master goes down or is there some type of intervention that is required ? Another note, when I tried to remove the clone server in the NetInfoManager I would then reboot, go back into the NetInfoManager and the machine would still show as a clone. It is like I cannot remove the server as a clone. Thanks in advance. James Instep Mobile Communications Inc.
From: rbumpus@comp.uark.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail problem Date: 3 Apr 1997 05:45:05 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Message-ID: <5hvg51$54v@picayune.uark.edu> I'm helping to operate an '040 Mono Turbo machine running NS 3.0. The machine is connected to the local network and the mai daemon doesn't seem to working correctly. It will not: (1) receive mail from the outside world or (2) allow users to mail to each other without assigning the "@localhost" address to the end of the username. Is there something simple that we're overlooking or have we royally screwed up? Any replies can be posted here, e-mailed to Jon at jlosburn@comp.uark.edu, or mailed to me at the address below. Thanks in advance! Bob Bumpus University of Arkanas rbumpus@comp.uark.edu
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Newbie NeXT Admin.,, Mail Call! Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 09:13:45 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0304970913450001@170.detroit-003.mi.dial-access.att.net> References: <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net> In article <fmlazar-0304970050100001@host049.jerseycity.interactive.net>, fmlazar@interactive.net (Frank Lazar) wrote: > Okay, this is the next to last thing I need to do. I have a Turbo Color > Slab 0S 3.3 on a networked IP connection. What I need to do is configure > it as a mailserver. I'd like to beable to read the mail in 3 ways. > > > 1. NextMail > 2. Command line using PINE > 3. With networked POP clients like Eudora, Netscape mail etc. > > > I'm plodding through the O'Reilly book on sendmail but would really > appreciate some tips in this process. Thanks in advance. > I'm interested in this myself and would appreciate and pointers on it. Mitch
From: Jesus Izquierdo <krop@mad.servicom.es> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 100 Mbps network with Next/Open Step Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 15:16:09 +0100 Organization: KROP Audiovisual Systems Message-ID: <334118A8.2380@mad.servicom.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Somebody has any experience in setting up a 100Mbps network with Next? We have installed one but it doesn't perform as expected, just similar to a 10Mbps network. I would appreciate help on that. Regards: Jesus M. Izquierdo KROP Audiovisual Systems Avenida de Galapagar, 15 Torrejon de Ardoz 28850 Madrid, SPAIN Tel: 34 1 6779774 Fax: 34 1 6778279 E-mail: 72332.3705@compuserve.com
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI low-level format for NSFIP Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:37:49 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5i2p6d$49p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, I'm looking for a low level scsi-disk format program which works with intel NS3.3 systems and the Adaptec 2940UW controllter. I've already tried sdformat (version 1.3), but it didn't work. I got the following messages: > Format Unit... > Allowing 180 minutes for format operation to complete... > sr_io_status = 0x14 "<Unknown>" > SCSI status = 00H "Good" > --- sdformat Version 1.3 --- Could anyone point me to a program that works? The reason for this is that I want to re-format a scsi-disk with a block length of 1024 byes/sector in order to create NS-partitions larger than 2GB. Thanks... ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: mount dead lock? Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:41:46 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr3.184146.3331@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5i0k2d$d87$1@ralph.vnet.net> In <5i0k2d$d87$1@ralph.vnet.net> R. D. Khader wrote: > I have two machine a cube and an intel. Trying to share file systems between the two I used NFSManager to export each's file > system and import the other one. This worked fine until I had to shutdown both machines at the same time. Now none of the machines can > start any more both hang on "mounting file systems..." messages. I disconnected the network and still no success. How can I correct > this? You've probably got them both mounting in the Foreground, with option to Retry until it responds. Try Control C on one of them, which should at least let it complete booting. Then change the mounts so they don't conflict. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 17:04:24 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970402170142.17417A-100000@kira> References: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> here's all you need. It will work for 3.x, I would like to know if it works for OpenStep http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/scripts/uname TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Paul_Lynch@plsys.co.uk (Paul Lynch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail problem Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:56:52 GMT Organization: P & L Systems Sender: news@seer.demon.co.uk Message-ID: <1997Apr4.195652.2463@seer.demon.co.uk> References: <5hvg51$54v@picayune.uark.edu> In <5hvg51$54v@picayune.uark.edu> rbumpus@comp.uark.edu wrote: > I'm helping to operate an '040 Mono Turbo machine running NS 3.0. The > machine is connected to the local network and the mai daemon doesn't seem > to working correctly. It will not: (1) receive mail from the outside > world or (2) allow users to mail to each other without assigning the > "@localhost" address to the end of the username. Is there something > simple that we're overlooking or have we royally screwed up? Insufficient information. Look in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog for the reason why mail isn't working. It sounds like it doesn't know its own hostname, and so will refuse to accept email passed to it. With a 3.0 system, make sure that you have /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf linked to either of sendmail.subsidiary.cf or sendmail.mailhost.cf, and edit the cf files appropriately. Paul -- Paul Lynch (NeXTmail) http://www.plsys.co.uk/~paul
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: NetInfo and subnet information Message-ID: <E84p0z.7up@sounds.wa.com> Keywords: NetInfo subnet /etc/networks Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 19:34:06 GMT How does one specify a non-standard netmask for a subnet in NetInfo? Regular IP addresses have a default netmask based on their class (class 1, class 2, or class 3), but subnets further divide this netmask in a way that it not the default. When entering networks into /etc/networks or the NetInfo domain /networks, how does one inform OPENSTEP of the netmask for the subnet? Without the proper subnet netmask, I don't see how the router can determine whether a remote machine is on a given network that is subnetted. I have NETMASK set in /etc/hostconfig, and this properly works, but only for the local area network over the en0 interface. I need to specify a NETMASK for a remote network listed in /etc/gateways and named in /etc/networks or NetInfo /networks. Thanks, I believe this is an NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP specific question, and not general Unix, thus the newsgroup selected. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP and OpenStep Software Design Engineer Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: How to start routed on a gateway machine Message-ID: <E84xzI.B5L@sounds.wa.com> Keywords: routed gateway Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 22:47:37 GMT I would like to find out if I have set up my local area network correctly. Pointers to tutorials are welcome. After reading the routed man page and scanning /etc/rc, I decided that I could not use any of the default routing options that NeXT prvides. In /etc/hostconfig, one can specify -NO-, -ROUTED- or a hostname/ip address. With the hostname/ip, routed is not run, so this does not seem like the correct option for my gateway machine (which connects my LAN to the Internet), because no routing information will be shared on the LAN without routed. With -ROUTED-, /etc/rc runs "/usr/etc/routed -q" Am I correct in assuming that this is useless for a gateway machine? Doesn't the "quiet" option prevent the gateway from teaching other machines how to reach the Internet? Reading the TCP/IP book from Osborne/McGraw-Hill and the routed man page did not answer all of my questions. The routed man page seems to imply that I should use "routed -g" on my gateway. Is this necessary, or will "routed" with no options suffice? At the moment, I have specified ROUTER=-NO- in /etc/hostconfig, because I cannot make use of anything in /etc/rc. Instead, I have /etc/rc.local run "/usr/etc/routed -g" and have entered a few lines in /etc/gateways to keep routed from deleting the routes to the outside world when the SLIP line is down for long periods of time. I may meet with some success if my other posting Re: subnets and NetInfo is answered, but I would also like to ask if there is anything I need to set up besides routed. For example, if I run OmniWeb.app on the LAN, I have things set up so that the SLIP line on the gateway machine dials out, but the machine running OmniWeb never sees the host that it is trying to reach. I remember some mention of "arp" and that it was required to resolve TCP/IP connections between hosts on either side of a gateway, but I don't know how to use "arp" : is arp managed by a separate daemon or is it handled as part of routed (or both)? -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP and OpenStep Software Design Engineer Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
From: stephen@rhodes.demon.co.uk (Stephen Rhodes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP IP address and NetInfo lookup Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 00:12:02 GMT Message-ID: <860199122.21624.0@rhodes.demon.co.uk> References: <5hh7sp$7d6$1@eclipse.txdirect.net> I am running OpenStep 41. on my Digital HiNote Portable. It has to operate on two networks as well as standalone with the Internet. Accordingly it is set up to automatically take its network configuration from a NetInfo server. I use an ISP with this portable which dynamically allocates IP addresses each time a connection is established. I am finding that when the link is up applications are searching Netinfo for a local server with this allocated IP address and only after that search fails will they connect to the localhost server . Then everything works fine. I have tried dynamically adding the IP address to Netinfo but this doesn't work as Netinfo won't restart cleanly when the link is up - again it seems as if it is searching for a server. I would like to solve this as the whole process of searching/time out takes many tens of seconds. regards, Stephen
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:49:03 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4ljv$c2u@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:49:25 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN ON BOOT) Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:48:07 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4li7$bla@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: gcasamen@erols.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Matrox -- PLEASE READ Date: 5 Apr 1997 04:51:02 GMT Organization: Erol's Internet Services Distribution: world Message-ID: <5i4lnm$d3u@boursy.news.erols.com> The above address is not correct, please send replies to gcasamen@erols.com.... thanks. Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be causing this. I (unfortunately) also have Windows 95 on my machine and I have never had any problems with the display coming up with it. The "Boot Graphics" option is set to "Yes" currently. I am going to try setting it to "No" to see if that makes a difference. What confuses me the most is that this is only an occasional problem. My System is configured as follows: P200 w/ 512kb cache and 32MB RAM Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB WRAM SoundBlaster 16 (non-PnP) 33.6 KBps US Robotics Modem 1.6GB EIDE Hard Disk Drive 8x Mitsumi ATAPI compliant CD-ROM CTX 17" Monitor .25 dot pitch (max res 1600x1200) usually runs at 1280x1024 w/65536 colors. Thanks in advance for any advice or help regarding this problem. Greg C. Please e-mail me back at gcasamen@erols.com, or post to this newsgroup.
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3Com Fast EtherLink XL Date: 3 Apr 1997 22:26:07 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5i1apv$18q@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Well, I've gotten NS/I 3.3 installed on my PPRo...it took a little help from Ryan Dingman....thanks Ryan. The first thing I have to say is... WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE it's fast! The second thing I had to say was....damn. They ordered me the wrong ethernet card. What I've got is a 3Com Fast EtherLink XL PCI 10/100BASE-TX I'm wondering/hoping that there is a driver out there for this puppy. I had a look around www.next.com, but came up empty handed. Has anybody used this card in conjunction with NS3.3? If so, what driver did you use? Thanks in advance. Cheers - Jon -- Jon Haveman http://www.haveman.org/ Asst. Prof. of Economics ,_~o jon@haveman.org Krannert School of Mgmt _-\_<, (765) 494-6156 (Office) Purdue University (*)/'(*) (765) 494-9658 (Fax) W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1310 (765) 742-7961 (Home)
From: Ador Reodique <*reodiqu@ibm.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: create /dev/audio Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 09:53:38 -0700 Organization: expresso dot org Message-ID: <3347D512.6EAC9A2@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello-- I deleted my /dev/audio file :( on my NS3.3 color slab. Don't ask; it was a long story and I learned my lesson. How do I re-create it? Thanks for your help! ador --**-- Email: *reodiqu@ibm.net Please remove the * to reply by mail.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Floppy won't stay in drive Date: 7 Apr 1997 00:51:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm286-29.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5i9gfb$iq$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> <E864Jz.3Gx@nidat.sub.org> Cc: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org In <E864Jz.3Gx@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > In article <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> llefton@math.uno.edu (Lew Lefton) > writes: > > Hello, > > > > We have a 3.5 in floppy disk which, when inserted into our 68040 slabs > > running NeXTstep 2.1, is immediately ejected. The console shows the > > following: > > > > Apr 1 09:39:51 Workspace[20976]: ...Ready > > Disk Label: UntitledDisk > > Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes > > fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY > > ...munch... > > fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: FATAL > > Apr 1 09:59:30 Workspace[20976]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received > > for unknown device > > > > Any suggestions for getting the data off of this bad diskette? > > Thanks! > > > Are you sure the floppy has a filesystem on it or is it just a tar archive > written to the raw device? > > In case you're not sure make tar read from the raw floppy and insert the > disk when the popup window asks you to do so. > > > P.S. Is there any archive of old postings to this newsgroup? Thanks > > again. > > There is a Usenet archive on Peanuts <peanuts.leo.org>. Also available on > the "Peanuts Archive" set of four CD/ROMs. > Unformatted (or with unknown format) WRITE PROTECTED floppies are kicked out of the drive immediately, since the question 'Initialize?' doesn't make sense. Rudy -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 7 Apr 1997 00:45:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm286-29.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5i9g2g$iq$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Cc: blazek@stt.msu.edu In <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek wrote: > Hallo all. > > I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer > (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning > completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS > Essentials, so the install process crashes. > > I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could > anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I > suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? > > Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to > partition the disk and install the NS by hand? > > Any advice would be really appreciated. > > Thank you. > > Rudy. > > > Thanks for all the comments. I have called NeXT and they told me that I have to use DOS fdisk (NOT the one under NS 3.3) and create partitions under 2 GB. Install NS in on of the partitions and when I log in, NS is supposed to tell me that it found an unformatted disk (the other partition) and allow me to initialize it with NeXTstep file system. Didn't work for me since I need more than 2 partitions. Might work with disks under 4GB, but I was unsuccessful. Now I am going to write a disktab entry for the disk (3 partitions 2GB, 1.1GB and 1.1GB = 4.2 GB). Start NS from the install floppy in single user mode, mount the root system off the CD ROM and the /private directory off another floppy. That way I can get the /etc/disktab used when formatting the disk by hand. If NeXTstep installer wont install correctly into the pre-formatted disk, I will have to create a new bootable install floppy that will mount the /private from another floppy, so the automatic procedure should again use my new disktab entry for partitioning the disk properly. I really hate writing a new disktab entry. Would anyone possibly have one for SEAGATE ST34371W 0360 disk? Thanks. Also any advice on what I am staring to work on would be really appreciated. Again, I have to do this since I need 3 partitions. People who can split the disk into 2 partitions under 2GB could try the NeXT suggested trick with DOS fdisk created partitions. Thanks all for any help. Good luck. Rudy -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 7 Apr 1997 00:48:50 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -no- @pm286-29.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5i9g9i$iq$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> Cc: gadallah@value.net In <5hrget$ecb$1@vnetnews.value.net> Larry Gadallah wrote: > Rudolf B. Blazek (blazek@stt.msu.edu) wrote: > > : I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 installer > : (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws the partitioning > : completely. The root partition sd0a is not even large enough to take the NS > : Essentials, so the install process crashes. > > : I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the disk. Could > : anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab entry for the disk (I > : suppose that I need one) during the installation process from floppy&CD? > > : Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode and try to > : partition the disk and install the NS by hand? > > I have the same question as Rudolf, except that I am running on black > hardware and trying to install 3.3 on a single 2.1 Gb partition. The > installer insists on repartitioning the disk into two 1 Gb chunks. > > Anyone know how to "get around" the installer? > > Thanks, > Larry Gadallah > gadallah@value.net > > In your case a NeXT suggested trick could work. Use DOS fdisk (not the one under NS 3.3) and split the disk into 2 partitions of desired size (one primary and one extended DOS). Then install the NS 3.3 the usual way in the extended DOS partition (it won't let you use the primary one unless you use the NS 3.3 fdisk during the install, which might cause a problem - they warned me to use the DOS fdisk to partition the disk.). Then format the other partition in NS 3.3 after you finish the installation. Didn't work for me, but my problem might be that I need 3 partitions. Good luck. Rudy. -- Rudy Blazek Michigan State University blazek@stt.msu.edu Department of Statistics & Probability
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: create /dev/audio Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 19:11:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970406190950.4438B-100000@kira> References: <3347D512.6EAC9A2@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3347D512.6EAC9A2@ibm.net> I don't even have a /dev/audio on my machine, is it made by some special program? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:09:18 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I got a new IBM UltraStar2ES 2GB hard disk, and wanted to put my primary swapfile on it. I made all the necessary changes to /etc/swaptab and /etc/fstab, but during boot, swapon tries to access the swapfile, and it gets a "Device busy" error, and then says "Giving up on"..... It commences to use the old swapfile instead. Details: I created the new swapfile using: localhost# mkfile 150994944 /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile localhost# ls -lg /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile -rw------t 1 root wheel 150994944 Apr 4 00:20 /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile The original swapfile: localhost# ls -lg /private/vm/swapfile -rw------t 1 root wheel 16777216 Apr 4 00:40 /private/vm/swapfile Here are the other files: /private/etc/fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /UsersIBM 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd4a /Users 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /private/etc/swaptab: /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944,prefer /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216 Any suggestions as to how to fix the problem will be greatly appreciated. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: 4 Apr 1997 11:29:46 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Cc: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net In <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Lee Altenberg wrote: > I got a new IBM UltraStar2ES 2GB hard disk, and wanted to put my primary > swapfile on it. I made all the necessary changes to /etc/swaptab and > /etc/fstab, but during boot, swapon tries to access the swapfile, and it gets a > "Device busy" error, and then says "Giving up on"..... It commences to use the > old swapfile instead. Actually, the error during boot when it tries to mount the swapfile is: Mount: device busy Mount: giving up on /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile So the problem seems to be that the system wants to mount the swapfile, but the disk is already mounted at that point. So how is it supposed to work? Do I need to edit /etc/rc.boot or something? -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Getting Openstep to recognize NTFS partition? Date: 5 Apr 1997 08:35:21 -0500 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5i5keq$bpg@papoose.quick.com> References: <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> In article <5i0js4$12us@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Jan Sacharuk <jan@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca> wrote: > > >Every time I start up Openstep (once NeXTstep..) it tells me that it >can't read from my drive that has NT on it. Add the partition to the /etc/fstab file with a type field of 'ignore'. example (tailor this for your specific needs): /dev/sd2h /NT ignore ro 2 1 man mntent for more information. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Antigone Press gateway, San Francisco Return-Path: <mross> Message-ID: <199704050343.WAA07482@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 97 22:43:20 -0500 Subject: Common Mounting Point for all CDs Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Is there some way I can trick all my CDs to mounting at the same point, such as /CDROM ? I saw a post about this awhile back but never saw the answer, if any. This would be very handy in a number of situations. Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo and subnet information Date: 5 Apr 1997 16:20:30 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5i5u4e$srq@news.next.com> References: <E84p0z.7up@sounds.wa.com> In article <E84p0z.7up@sounds.wa.com> brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) writes: > How does one specify a non-standard netmask for a subnet in NetInfo? > Regular IP addresses have a default netmask based on their class (class 1, > class 2, or class 3), but subnets further divide this netmask in a way > that it not the default. When entering networks into /etc/networks or the > NetInfo domain /networks, how does one inform OPENSTEP of the netmask for > the subnet? Without the proper subnet netmask, I don't see how the router > can determine whether a remote machine is on a given network that is > subnetted. > > I have NETMASK set in /etc/hostconfig, and this properly works, but only > for the local area network over the en0 interface. I need to specify a > NETMASK for a remote network listed in /etc/gateways and named in > /etc/networks or NetInfo /networks. Actually, it's class A,B, or C, according to the normal specs. There's no way to specify a netmask for the into in /etc/networks (or the equivalent netinfo data), but it really doesn't matter that much. That info is only used to translate network numbers to human readable form for when you do a "netstat" command or something similar. Nothing in the real networking code needs that info at all. The router itself needs to be programmed with the netmask associated with the network on each of it's ports. A NeXTSTEP box can only be on one network (normally), and it only needs to know the netmask for that network. Why do you think that you need to specify the info for a remote network somewhere on your local system? joe
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Message-ID: <E8644K.3G6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 13:57:55 GMT In article <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) writes: > I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP > 3.3. I know that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that > a limit on the space before or after formatting? I know that > the disk will come out under 2GB after formatting. So if the > limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any problem > or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, > I will want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use > it for my primary swapfile). > It is 2GB per partition, i.e. the filesystem pointers mustn't get an overrun on 32bit integers. Since /etc/disk, and therefore also BuildDisk.app, will also get an overrun on the disk capacity reported in the SCSI device info, you'll have to provide a /etc/disktab entry if you have a large drive (i.e. if it needs more than two partitions). Let /usr/etc/scsimodes be your guide in building a disktab entry. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Floppy won't stay in drive Message-ID: <E864Jz.3Gx@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:07:11 GMT In article <5hrpb3$e20$1@www.uno.edu> llefton@math.uno.edu (Lew Lefton) writes: > Hello, > > We have a 3.5 in floppy disk which, when inserted into our 68040 slabs > running NeXTstep 2.1, is immediately ejected. The console shows the > following: > > Apr 1 09:39:51 Workspace[20976]: ...Ready > Disk Label: UntitledDisk > Disk Capacity 1440 KB, Device Block 512 bytes > fd0: Sector 211(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: RETRY > ...munch... > fd0: Sector 216(d) cmd = Read; Missing Address Mark: FATAL > Apr 1 09:59:30 Workspace[20976]: Workspace: 'mounted' message received > for unknown device > > Any suggestions for getting the data off of this bad diskette? > Thanks! > Are you sure the floppy has a filesystem on it or is it just a tar archive written to the raw device? In case you're not sure make tar read from the raw floppy and insert the disk when the popup window asks you to do so. > P.S. Is there any archive of old postings to this newsgroup? Thanks > again. There is a Usenet archive on Peanuts <peanuts.leo.org>. Also available on the "Peanuts Archive" set of four CD/ROMs. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Message-ID: <E86597.3Hn@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:22:19 GMT In article <5hpf6m$7ni$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: > Hallo all. > > I have an Intel box with a 4.2 GB disk and when telling NS 3.3 > installer (from floppy) to use the whole disk for NS, it screws > the partitioning completely. The root partition sd0a is not even > large enough to take the NS Essentials, so the install process > crashes. > > I would like to have three (2, 1.1 and 1.1 GB) partitions on the > disk. Could anyone advice me how to go about using my own disktab > entry for the disk (I suppose that I need one) during the > installation process from floppy&CD? > > Or should I rather try to boot from the CD in single user mode > and try to partition the disk and install the NS by hand? > NEXTSTEP won't deal with disks of size if you must rely on the automagic disk handling (and you need this during initial loading from CD/ROM). The reason lies in the use of the age old BSD 4.3 filesystem code which uses 32bit integers as pointers and counters. Therefore, partitions larger than 2GB will lead to counter overruns. And thus /etc/disk is only prepared to handle partitions up to 2GB. Unfortunately it is also limited to two partitions if not guided by an appropriate /etc/disktab entry. All in all, NS is not suited to handle disk drives larger than 4GB during installs. You need to partition the drive on a running system with an appropriate disktab entry (up to six partitions of 2GB each should be possible). Then you can install NEXTSTEP without the slightest problems. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Networking prob with 12 Blacks Message-ID: <E865z5.3IM@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bb21c6$be6d5ca0$a97206c2@default> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:37:53 GMT In article <01bb21c6$be6d5ca0$a97206c2@default> "Lee Bennett" <lee.cool@ukonline.co.uk> writes: > Hi, > > I have 12 Black systems all hooked by BNC cable and T-Conects. > The problem is thay wont talk to each other. Plus I get some shit > about Netware not ready to work or something HELP ME!!!! > This is definitely the most desperate posting I've read for some time :-) Without any additional knowledge about the problem at hand I assume the worst of all conditions and tell you about the completely from scratch setup. But don't complain about the length of the procedure ;-) Replace /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo with the ones found in /usr/template/client/etc and reboot. Repeat on all machines and reboot. The systems will then all be in the pristine out of the box state. Next, read the sections on networking in the online sysadmin manual /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf and subsequently run SimpleNetworkStarter.app on all of the machines just like the manual tells you. After this all machines should be able to boot as members of a network and are ready for site customization (users, printers, NFS, etc.) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cannot stop PPP Date: 1 Apr 1997 20:06:54 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5hrpsu$65e@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5hbot3$5je$1@lynet.de> <8nCNvYG00iWp08Lv00@andrew.cmu.edu> <SHESS.97Mar29003857@slave.one.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970331055123.16238B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > Or just do "kill `cat /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid`". pppd puts its pid > > into ppp0.pid when it makes your connection ... in fact, here's > > a program: > > (note of obviousness: this might be ppp1.pid if you are using > ppp1) > > Note of less-obviousness: I _think_ that the .pid file is > root-read-only (chmod 600). That might just be peculiar to my > setup. Anyway, you'll want to check it on your system to see if > it is, and if you want to change it (which I do via /etc/ppp/ip-up: > chmod 444 /etc/ppp/ppp0.pid) I'm not sure there's much of an advantage to that. The 'kill' command isn't going to work unless you're root anyway, so there's not much gained by making the pid-file readable. On the other hand, there's probably no drawback to it either, so I don't expect that it can hurt to do that. The program that Scott posted would be the most convenient way to handle it, I imagine. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: loginwindow tries to start BuildDisk! Date: 6 Apr 1997 20:37:33 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5i9j4t$r53@surf.pangea.ca> I have a diskless cube that boots 3.3 fine from the local ethernet. It puts up the normal login pannel. Whenever a valid userid and password are entered, the screen brightens as expected, then reverts back to the login pannel. I can login as "console" or rlogin and all looks normal. Here is what is in /private/admin/messages: Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[295]: running /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[181]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255). Apr 4 19:59:51 rtmono loginwindow[181]: creating new loginImage There is no mention of BuildDisk in any NetInfo or dread database, nor in /etc/ttys. However "strings /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow | grep Build" gives: /usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk BuildDisk "df" gives: df Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on rt040:/ 653614 419643 168609 71% / rt040:/clients/rtmono 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private /private/vm/swapfile 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private/vm/swapfile.front rt040:/General 1014668 551100 362101 60% /General Anyone know what triggers loginwindow to try to start BuildDisk? ... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPPMonitor.app and USR 33.6 help Date: 7 Apr 1997 10:05:47 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> Hello. I would like to set up PPPMonitor.app to work on my NSFIP 3.3. I currently have it working with Kermit and ppp2.2. It would be nice to have the option of just clicking the connect button of PPPMonitor to bring up a connection. If someone has this setup working with a USR 33.6 Internal modem could you please send me the pppup and pppdown scripts so that I can try to bring up a link. I realize that there are examples in the /bin directory, but I unfortuneately dont know how to edit them to work on my system. I have tried Gatekeeper.app which works fine, but when I try to reconnect after a successful connection it freezes my system.( I know someone else that has the same setup as I do had the same problem, apparently it had something to do with USR) Therefore I would like to give PPPMonitor a try. Thank you very much. Gerardo -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@ucla.edu> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: "Georg Tuparev" <gtupar@ctp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Second IDE disk Date: 7 Apr 1997 10:52:23 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5iajl7$mi3@concorde.ctp.com> Hey Folks! I'm trying to initialize an old 250M DOS formated disk. This is what I got: haring# disk -l "bla" -i /dev/rhd1h Only using BIOS-accessible sectors disk name: QUANTUM LPS270A disk type: fixed_rw_ide hdform doesnt exist yet... writing disk label can't write label -- disk unusable!: I/O error .. but I can see the disk, delete and create files etc. What's wrong? (BTW, the workspace tries to initialize it and ends up with the same error...) Thanks -- georg -- P.S. I'm on HP Vectra Xu The boot disk is 500M IDE -- ------- /\/\ Georg Tuparev <georg_tuparev@ctp.com> / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners \ / / Apollo House, Apollolaan 15 \/\/ 1077 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: +31(20)575-0492 Fax: +31(20)575-0500 WWW: http://www.ctp.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with Matrox -- PLEASE READ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 05:57:29 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405055509.20918B-100000@kira> References: <5i4lnm$d3u@boursy.news.erols.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gcasamen@erols.com In-Reply-To: <5i4lnm$d3u@boursy.news.erols.com> You will find, or hopefully find, people are very willing to help you if you do not re-post the same message to several different groups. I recommend that you look at the document I sent you (http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html) for future reference. I do not have the answer to your problem. I hope someone can help you with it. TjL
From: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Date: Mon, 07 Apr 97 13:53:07 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 Looking in the system messages the following appear.... machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 occasionally this one also shows up: machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks Doug Booth
From: jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 10:33:23 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580000704971033230001@news.tiac.net> References: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) wrote: > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking > the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ....???? > Any ideas would be welcome. I would imagine the SCSI controller runs on a DMA channel if anything does. Maybe the drive is going ... If you really think it is a memory chip, try rotating them so that the bad bytes clobber some other bit of code. Also try an extended memory test on boot (see the manual about diagnostic tests). Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: kochhar@deas.harvard.edu (Sandeep Kochhar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3/Win95 dual boot: clock problems Date: 07 Apr 1997 14:25:46 GMT Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University Distribution: world Message-ID: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> hi! I have a PC configured for dual booting between NextStep 3.3 and Windows 95. I'm having problems keeping the clock (time of day) consistent between the two environments. Both are set to the same time zone (US/EST), but when I switch between the two, the hours are off (the minutes and day/year are OK)... Any ideas what might be wrong, or how to narrow down the problem? Thanks. -- ---------------------------- Sandeep Kochhar Tel: 617-876-2052, Fax: 617-238-0763 15-17 Lee St. #T2 Email: kochhar@das.harvard.edu Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.avcinc.com/people/kochhar/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 17:02:51 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folk, we want to nfs export something from a SGI running irix 6.2 to the NeXT world. Everything runs fine if the SGI is exporting a drive internally mounted with the old efs filesystems type. But if we use the new xfs type the SGI seems to change the nfs handling as described in man export[f]s and the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: /etc/fstab on the irix6.2 systems /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /usr/sw1 xfs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s0 0 0 /dev/dsk/dks0d3s1 /usr/sw2 efs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s1 0 0 ... Exports of /usr/sw2 could be nfs mounted on any NeXTStep or OpenStep/mach maschine, while nfs mounting exportfs of /usr/sw1 causes very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories some entries are missing. These errors are similar to problems caused by wrong "rsize" and "wsize" options. We tried a lot of options (*size, noac, ...) with the mount command on the NeXT side. No success. Even using the "32bitclients" option of the exportfs on the SGI side is not changing anything. There should be mixed networks with SGI and NeXT out there ! Are you not using the (much faster) xfs ? All NeXTs (NS3.3, OS/mach 4.x) behave in the same manner. Any hints ? stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] multiple rumba processes Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:00:03 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.70 Message-ID: <5ib5m3$6eo$1@news1.xs4all.nl> After an earlier question about NFS servers for Windows NT, several people suggested I have a look at rumba, which is basically a windows-export to NFS translator, acting as a client. Indeed it was surprisingly easy to use, and what's more it worked! I started changing our mount scripts from NFS to rumba, and then ran into this problem: Mounting one service from the NT server works flawlessly, but mounting two or more generates a lot of error messages like this one: rumba[12669]: Kernel: smb_request: send error = -32 And sometimes also receive errors. These are several services from the same server. For easy access I mounted all services in one temporary directory and have the Workspace show that directory in a separate window. Clicking on a top level directory (so, on the mountpoint) always causes these error messages. Sometimes the contents fail to show, and sometimes, after some delay, it works. Clicking on files/directories in lower levels then gives no problems. Has anybody else also observed this behaviour? Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPPMonitor.app and USR 33.6 help Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 05:56:33 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407045233.6232B-100000@kira> References: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "G. Quinonez" <quinonez@ucla.edu> In-Reply-To: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> I _think_ that all you need to do is setup a chat script, that should be the only thing specific to your pppup. What that is will depend on your modem initialization strings, and what your ISP gives as prompts when you connect, ie Login: vs login: vs Login: #space after colon vs User: vs user: ... et cetera and then once you have entered that whether you get: Password: password: PassWord: ... etc (pay close attention to whether there is a space or not after the colon in both those) After you do that, do that you have to enter anything to start PPP? The modem init strings should be the hardest, but your manual should make it easy. For example, I have a SupraFaxModem and my chat script is this: TIMEOUT 300 ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATX3 OK ATQ0H0 OK AT&D2 OK ATW1 OK ATM0 OK ATDT5551212 "CONNECT" "" TIMEOUT 25 ogin: luomat "ord: " mypassword which says: wait 300 seconds before timeout abort if you get "BUSY" abort if you get "NO CARRIER" abort if you get "ERROR" send the modem ATX3, and expect an "OK" response send the modem ATQ0H0, and expect an "OK" response send the modem AT&D2, and expect an "OK" response send the modem ATW1, and expect an "OK" response send the modem ATM0, and expect an "OK" response send the modem "atdt5551212" (which dials) and expect "CONNECT" (Honestly I can't remember why the "" is there) then change the timeout to 25 seconds and expect "login:" (no space after colon) and send "luomat" then expect "password: " (with a space after the colon) and send "mypassword" [Note: I don't try to match the entire word "login:" or the entire word "password: " but just the last few letters, which is why you see "ogin:" and "ord:". This means that it can handle "Login:" or "login:" and "Password: " or "PassWord: " or "password: "] I call this script using the -f flag to chat. It should be _relatively_ easy to adapt this to your own pppup script (make sure you have a /etc/ppp/options file, that makes things easier because it minimizes the options you have to supply pppd in the pppup script. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Greg_Anderson@afs.com (Gregory H. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail 8.8 STILL doesn't fix my mailbomb/child wait problems! Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:58:20 GMT Organization: Anderson Financial Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5ib93c$4rc@shelob.afs.com> I'm back, and this time I'm begging. 8^) With Robert's help, I successfully installed his sendmail 8.8 on our Net-connected machine. Unfortunately, it still doesn't solve the problem which has plagued us all along: certain mail transfer agents simply will not complete a successful transaction with us. One of two things happens: either they sit in a "child wait" state until one side gives up; or the transmission eventually finishes, but the other side doesn't realize it, so it requeues as a failed job and gets re-sent about 100 times. The latter effect is what I describe as "mail-bombing." Here are some sample syslog entries. The first two never deliver: Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: timeout waiting for input from mercury.csc.com during message collect Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: DAA02130: from=<wmoore1@cscmail.csc.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704070710.DAA02130@crab.afs.com>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mercury.csc.com [20.1.20.110] Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: timeout waiting for input from sweden-c.it.earthlink.net during message collect Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: DAA02778: from=<>, size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704070736.DAA02778@crab.afs.com>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, relay=sweden-c.it.earthlink.net [204.250.46.50] But this one does deliver and keeps mailbombing me, since the other side presumably believes it failed: Apr 7 04:21:38 shelob sendmail[2123]: DAA02123: from=<>, size=2039, class=0, pri=32039, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704042216.RAA28500@mx5.smtp.psi.net>, proto=ESMTP, relay=mx5.smtp.psi.net [38.8.139.2] Apr 7 04:21:39 shelob sendmail[2952]: DAA02123: to=<greg@afs.com>, delay=01:12:11, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=fugue.afs.com. [192.149.42.8], stat=Sent (Ok) And at first I thought ESMTP was the problem, but this got through on the first try and did not mailbomb: Apr 7 09:52:08 shelob sendmail[4183]: JAA04183: from=<jxh12@po.cwru.edu>, size=1182, class=0, pri=31182, nrcpts=1, msgid=<3348C3A1.6E59@po.cwru.edu>, proto=ESMTP, relay=root@arthur.INS.CWRU.Edu [129.22.8.215] Apr 7 09:52:09 shelob sendmail[4185]: JAA04183: to=<greg@afs.com>, delay=00:00:05, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=fugue.afs.com. [192.149.42.8], stat=Sent (Ok) I should make clear that over 95% of our incoming mail does not suffer this problem. And the culprits always seem to be the same sites. And one last curiosity, outgoing mail to the same locations is NOT a problem. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- Gregory H. Anderson | "I wander'd off by myself, In the Crystal Ball/Star Gazer | mystical moist night-air, and from Anderson Financial Systems | time to time, Look'd up in perfect greg@afs.com (NeXTmail OK) | silence at the stars." Walt Whitman
From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: 7 Apr 1997 09:50:45 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5iag1l$prl$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405143522.4757C-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Lee Altenberg wrote: > I got a new IBM UltraStar2ES 2GB hard disk, and wanted to put my primary > swapfile on it. I made all the necessary changes to /etc/swaptab and > /etc/fstab, but during boot, swapon tries to access the swapfile, and it gets > the error during boot when it tries to mount the swapfile is: > Mount: device busy > Mount: giving up on /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile > It commences to use the old swapfile instead. In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405143522.4757C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > I would guess that perhaps you have compression turned on for both of > them? > > Try using this for /etc/swaptab > > /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile prefer,lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944 > /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216,nocompress > > Don't know if that will help... would really like to know. This is one > area of the SwapFAQ that is sorely lacking -- how to use a swapfile on a > separate disk that is not entirely for swapping. > I switched the order in /etc/swaptab to: /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216 /Users/private/vm/swapfile lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944,prefer and now it seems to be working! Although I still get the "Mount..." error on reboot. At any rate, the swapfile with the "prefer" next to it is the one being paged to. At first, the file swapfile.front "virtual" file was placed in /Users/private/vm/. But then I saw it in /private/vm/, exept that clicking on it showed it to be on the /Users/ disk. Now, it is in /private/vm/, and on the boot disk. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100 Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenberATmhpcc.edu <MIME and NeXT Mail o.k.> <Substitute @ for "AT"; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~altenber/ =======================================================================
From: Nicole Vincent <nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP with fast modem on NeXTstation,... are serial ports on stations buggy? Date: 7 Apr 1997 16:35:13 GMT Organization: Swinburne University of Technology Message-ID: <5ib7o1$18h$1@lucy.swin.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I've just upgraded my modem from a 9600 <-> 14400 connection to a 33.6 <-> 33.6 connection,... the local exchange is a bit old and noisy, but I figured that with two modems of the same type, they should not have any problems retraining in noisy line situations. But as things go, the reality turned out more sinister. Whenever I try to set the DTE rate on the dialin end (a NeXTstation mono running NS3.3) to 38400, I find that the modem spends most of its time idle, _as_if_ it was retraining or something. However when I set it to 19200 it works fine (except for the obvious slowness). Since the DTE rate only affects the computer-to-modem transmit rate, I figure that irrespective of what rate I set it to, the modems should not have problems at the modem-to-modem level,... which brings me to suspect my station's serial ports, rather than the modems' capability to retrain in noisy line situations. If anyone has any experience with using NeXTstations with faster modems, then I'd appreciate it if you could send me a brief note describing whether you've had any problems. Would upgrading to 4.0 or 4.1 help? Could it be a driver problem? Thanx in advance for any help. Cheers Nicole ------------------- NeXTmail and MIME Accepted -------------------- Nicole Vincent : nicolev@number_one.csse.swin.edu.au URL : http://pedder.csse.swin.edu.au/~nicolev/index.html MELBOURNE VIC AUSTRALIA The joys of love made her human and the agonies of love destroyed her. -- Spock, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5842.8
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPPMonitor.app and USR 33.6 help Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 14:01:34 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gnGHNyi00iWPE81dxB@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5iagtr$hqp@bolivia.earthlink.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407045233.6232B-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407045233.6232B-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Apr-97 Re: PPPMonitor.app and USR .. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > TIMEOUT 300 ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATX3 OK ATQ0H0 > OK AT&D2 OK ATW1 OK ATM0 OK ATDT5551212 "CONNECT" "" TIMEOUT 25 ogin: > luomat "ord: " mypassword > > which says: > wait 300 seconds before timeout > abort if you get "BUSY" > abort if you get "NO CARRIER" > abort if you get "ERROR" So far so good. [ ... ] > (Honestly I can't remember why the "" is there) It says to expect an empty string (match anything), then send ATX3. Expect an "OK", then send ARQ0H0. Expect an "OK", then send AT&D2. ...etc... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: 7 Apr 1997 18:11:52 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: cdrom nextstep What are my options for using cdrom burners for backup/archiving/etc. on nextstep/intel? Convenient? Doable? Impossible? Thanks Geof -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2nd swapfile problem: "Device busy" Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 14:41:17 -0800 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970405143522.4757C-100000@kira> References: <5i2ngu$744$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5i2ona$7gc$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I would guess that perhaps you have compression turned on for both of them? Try using this for /etc/swaptab /UsersIBM/private/vm/swapfile prefer,lowat=150994944,hiwat=150994944 /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216,nocompress Don't know if that will help... would really like to know. This is one area of the SwapFAQ that is sorely lacking -- how to use a swapfile on a separate disk that is not entirely for swapping. TjL
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: 7 Apr 1997 20:35:12 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5iblq0$env$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Cc: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de In <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > Hi folk, > > > we want to nfs export something from a SGI running irix 6.2 to the NeXT > world. > > Everything runs fine if the SGI is exporting a drive internally mounted > with the old efs filesystems type. But if we use the new xfs type the > SGI seems to change the nfs handling as described in man export[f]s and > the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: > > > /etc/fstab on the irix6.2 systems > > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /usr/sw1 xfs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s0 0 0 > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s1 /usr/sw2 efs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s1 0 0 > ... > > Exports of /usr/sw2 could be nfs mounted on any NeXTStep or > OpenStep/mach maschine, while nfs mounting exportfs of /usr/sw1 causes > very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories > some entries are missing. > > These errors are similar to problems caused by wrong "rsize" and "wsize" > options. > > We tried a lot of options (*size, noac, ...) with the mount command on > the NeXT side. No success. > > Even using the "32bitclients" option of the exportfs on the SGI side is > not changing anything. > > > There should be mixed networks with SGI and NeXT out there ! > Are you not using the (much faster) xfs ? > > All NeXTs (NS3.3, OS/mach 4.x) behave in the same manner. > > Any hints ? > > > stefan > Stefan, I have a 9G xfs filesystem on a Indigo2 R4400 that exports to my black box running NS3.3 without a hitch. I have also exported a 2G disk on my black box to the SGI w/o problem (the SGI will switch to nfs2 because nfs on the NS3.3 is rather old). Your question doesn't seem to be very clear. Is it the case that you can nfs mount the xfs partition but that something else goes wrong when trying to read files, or that you can't mount it at all? Randy rencsok@channelu.com
From: bungi@omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 7 Apr 1997 13:52:11 -0700 Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5ibmpr$hrm$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> References: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> Keywords: Matrox NeXTSTEP blank gcasamen@erols.com writes: >Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium >video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been >experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the >monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor >flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be >causing this. I have a similar problem. My P6 has a Matrox Millenium and a ViewSonic PT810 -- this monitor is a PnP monitor, meaning that it and a PnP video card will carry out some obscure conversation over the monitor cable and agree on the list of resolutions and refresh rates that are possible. If I turn the machine on and boot the machine into NEXTSTEP 4.0 or 4.1, I do not get any video (the monitor flashes something about not being able to synch). If, however, I boot the machine into Win95 or NT4.0 first and then reboot into NEXTSTEP, all goes ok. Sounds like there is some bug in NeXT's drivers with respect to PnP video cards/monitors. -tim
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail 8.8 STILL doesn't fix my mailbomb/child wait problems! Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 16:36:00 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snGJek600iWl0CMnQ0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ib93c$4rc@shelob.afs.com> In-Reply-To: <5ib93c$4rc@shelob.afs.com> [ This is a generic sendmail question and has nothing to do with NEXTSTEP in particular; followups set to comp.mail.sendmail. ] Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 7-Apr-97 sendmail 8.8 STILL doesn't .. by Gregory H. Anderson@afs. > Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: timeout waiting for input from > mercury.csc.com during message collect > Apr 7 04:13:05 shelob sendmail[2130]: DAA02130: > from=<wmoore1@cscmail.csc.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<199704070710.DAA02130@crab.afs.com>, proto=ESMTP, > relay=mercury.csc.com [20.1.20.110] Hmm. It's got a valid envelope "from" header, but it looks like no data were transferred. This happens sometime with busy servers and/or networks losing connections. This might be innocuous. > Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: timeout waiting for input from > sweden-c.it.earthlink.net during message collect > Apr 7 04:39:10 shelob sendmail[2778]: DAA02778: from=<>, size=0, class=0, > pri=30000, nrcpts=1, msgid=<199704070736.DAA02778@crab.afs.com>, > bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, relay=sweden-c.it.earthlink.net > [204.250.46.50] Look at the from header-- looks like the remote end either isn't even making it through the initial SMTP negotiation to start sending a message (the "mail from: <sender>" part), it isn't correctly SMTP compliant, or someone is playing games by manually telneting to port 25. > But this one does deliver and keeps mailbombing me, since the other side > presumably believes it failed: > > Apr 7 04:21:38 shelob sendmail[2123]: DAA02123: from=<>, size=2039, > class=0, pri=32039, nrcpts=1, > msgid=<199704042216.RAA28500@mx5.smtp.psi.net>, proto=ESMTP, > relay=mx5.smtp.psi.net [38.8.139.2] > Apr 7 04:21:39 shelob sendmail[2952]: DAA02123: to=<greg@afs.com>, > delay=01:12:11, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, relay=fugue.afs.com. > [192.149.42.8], stat=Sent (Ok) Again, notice that the envelop from header is invalid; this implies that the remote end is screwing up. You've already asked this question a few times before, I believe. There's very little that can be done from your end-- it's the remote machines which aren't managing to make their way through a full SMTP exchange correctly. If you can get in touch with the admins for these sites which are failing to send mail correctly, you can try to have them match up the entries in their mail queue logs. If you can't get in touch with the remote administrators, you're probably out of luck. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Windows NT as NFS server workable? Message-ID: <E8A6x3.30M@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <3341FE41.1384@well.com> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:48:39 GMT In article <3341FE41.1384@well.com> patrick blackburn <nike@well.com> writes: > Jan-Willem de Bruijn wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a working setup with a Windows NT machine as NFS server > > and a NEXTSTEP or OPENSTEP Mach/UNIX system as NFS client? > > Yes, we are using the latest ChameleonNFS/X as the NT NFS server, which > seems to be very robust. We do this in order to facilitate source code > control systems which also require mounting of NT dirs to NeXT, Solaris, > Win95 and the least common denominator, Mac NFS clients. > > Our backup solution is samba served from NeXT and Solaris to NT, but > there are no Mac clients for SMB. > There is a commercial client called Dave for the Mac, I just do not know the name of the company. Sorry! -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 8 Apr 1997 00:01:50 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@nicecuppa.ohm.york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5ic1te$v7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <5i9g9i$iq$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: > In your case a NeXT suggested trick could work. Use DOS fdisk (not the one > under NS 3.3) and split the disk into 2 partitions of desired size (one > primary and one extended DOS). Then install the > NS 3.3 the usual way in the extended DOS partition (it won't let you use the > primary one unless you use the NS 3.3 fdisk during the install, which might > cause a problem - they warned me to use the DOS fdisk to partition the > disk.). > > Then format the other partition in NS 3.3 after you finish the installation. How do you do that - surely the NS partiition comes up as the first partition /dev/rsd0a and the DOS ppartition is mounted using /dev/rsd0h ? Thats what happens here anyway. I have exactlly this probllem and need a workaround fairly badly... -bat.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3/Win95 dual boot: clock problems Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 19:31:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970407193112.20221B-100000@kira> References: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Sandeep Kochhar <kochhar@deas.harvard.edu> In-Reply-To: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> Checkout this and see if it helps: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/clocks/TimeShift.I.bs.tar.gz TjL -- Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Submissions Coordinator for PEAK Personal NeXT Page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ PEAK NeXT FTP: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/ PEAK Web Access: http://www.peak.org/next/
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From: elillio@sndart.cemi.unt.edu (Elainie Lillios) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: networking black NS3.2 with MachTen help! Date: 6 Apr 1997 06:26:55 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Message-ID: <elillio-0604970024030001@remote63.server1.local.premium.dialup.unt.edu> Hi Everyone: I have a NeXtstation running NS 3.2 and I'd like to export filesystems using NFS to my mac which has a partition running MachTen (BSD-type unix). I purchased a Thin Coax microAAUI TnT Ethernet connector which I have hooked up to my mac, with a terminated BNC connector on the other end hooked up to the NeXT machine. I set up a network on my NeXT machine, added host information in /etc/hosts and exported the files with NFSmanager (or whatever that exporter app is called..). I also added host info in MachTen and edited my /etc/fstab file to reflect the filesystems that I want to mount. As you can imagine, this is not working. I think it's due to the fact that when I reboot my NeXT, it is looking for _its_ server -- rather than realizing that it _is_ the server and has no server above it. I run a small network of NeXTs at school, but it's a different setup because the machines are networked to the internet and also to each other. I only want my NeXT to export files to MachTen... no internet connection.. just local. Can someone help me with this dilemma? I know that in order to make any progress at this point I need to 'convince' my NeXT that it's the server.. but I don't know how to fix it. Has anyone successfully exported filesystems from NeXTs to macintosh systems running unix?? If so, how did you do it?? Any assistance is sincerely appreciated!!! Thanks in advance, Elainie Lillios University of North Texas
From: Michelle Buck <buck.erik@mcleod.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA help Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 04:54:25 -0700 Organization: EMB & Associates Message-ID: <33478EF1.4C88@mcleod.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Has anyone gotten SAMBA as distributed by next in 4.1 to work? I think I have it configured correctly, but every time a windows 95 machine trys to read shared files, smbd dies and leavs a 2Mb core file. As a child of inetd, smbd starts up again only to crash. I can fill a disk with core files!
From: Annard Brouwer <annard@sfo.com> (Annard Brouwer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SCSI low-level format for NSFIP Date: 8 Apr 1997 07:21:40 GMT Organization: The Borg Message-ID: <5icrm4$g84@ramona.sfo.com> References: <5i2p6d$49p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5i3a5l$7qt$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> You (spammers@ruin.the.internet <spammers@ruin.the.internet>) wrote in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 4 Apr 1997 16:27:33 GMT: > Unless your using Openstep (not NeXTStep) 4.x your going to find it > pretty hard (if not impossible) to make a partition that is larger than 2GB > by simply reformatting your disk from 512B/sec to 1024B/sec ;) > No no no. It will work on NS3.3, I did it! The only caveat is that it cannot be your boot drive on Intel because of BIOS limitations. Annard Give me enough bandwidth and I can transmit the earth. - Annard Brouwer (NeXT|MIME mail appreciated)
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NS3.3 on 4.2 GB disk Date: 8 Apr 1997 13:50:23 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5idiev$vg$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5i9g9i$iq$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5ic1te$v7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) wrote: >blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) writes: >> In your case a NeXT suggested trick could work. Use DOS fdisk (not the one >> under NS 3.3) and split the disk into 2 partitions of desired size (one >> primary and one extended DOS). Then install the >> NS 3.3 the usual way in the extended DOS partition (it won't let you use the >> primary one unless you use the NS 3.3 fdisk during the install, which might >> cause a problem - they warned me to use the DOS fdisk to partition the >> disk.). >> >> Then format the other partition in NS 3.3 after you finish the installation. > >How do you do that - surely the NS partiition comes up >as the first partition /dev/rsd0a and the DOS ppartition is mounted >using /dev/rsd0h ? Thats what happens here anyway. I have exactlly this >probllem and need a workaround fairly badly... > >-bat. Well, this is advice from NeXT that didn't work for me. They said that you'd just click on the DOS partition and then in the menu on Disk/Initialize and initialize the disk with NeXT filesystem. If it doesn't work for you, please call 1-800-955-NeXT and then choose 1 and again 1. And please be persistant. This is their Tech-support number with a lot of people who were trying to help me, but don't really know how. It is not the fault of the people at the phone. Their bosses didn't do the homework. I spent about 3 weeks using the damn installation softare and am getting really really mad. I found another bug in the install procedure (in single user mode from the CD ROM you cannot mount a floppy over existing directories on the CD, even if the advice after booting advices you do to exactly that). I have a feeling that they didn't know that. Or maybe NeXT did, but not all the tech support people. What I am really mad about is that they don't have a solution to the ancient problem of mishandling large disks during the installation. By ancient I don't mean that it is history. It's been known for years, but isn't solved yet. I think that this is really ridiculous. I am working hard on a solution, but I really don't understand why I should be spending so much time on installing NS. They owe me at least $2000 of my time. And $1 million for punitive damages I suffered after realizing that the NS istall is a lot worse then the one of for example Microsoft products. And that the tech support just isn't knowledgeable and/or helpful enough. Sorry to say this, I really dislike MS. Well, they have company now. Good luck to all. Rudy.
From: Hans Shimizu Karlsson <hanske@pobox.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenTransport Mac --> NeXT connection Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 01:33:58 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan Message-ID: <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Generated by Eloquent) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII This one should be easy, I have been told, but I am stuck. I am a novice in networking, so please bear with me. I have been trying to connect a Mac PowerBook to my black NeXTstation over OpenTransport/ftp. What I need to know is first if a. I will need to set up the NeXT at all, b. is so, how, and also c. the settings required in OpenTransport. They are hooked up to 10 base T Ethernet, the Mac using a NewerTechnology PC card. In between is a little hub. I have been able to make the NeXT see the Mac filesystem and copy files back and forth using the old, unsupported NeXT AppleTalk software, but this is so flakey that it is close to useless. On a *good* day it works brilliantly. As far as I understand you can use Fetch on the Mac, for example, to connect and log in as yourself and your own password. No spaecial settings needed on the NeXT side. I have tried this but the connection times out. I also set up ftp as a user and created the ftp directories pub, bin, and etc., following the steps in O'Reilly "Managing Internet Information Services", but no luck there either. I am not sure of the settings on the Mac side, which should be "easy" with OpenTransport. Does anyone know what settings are needed? For instance, what kind of server setting should you use? Using the "manual" setting crashes the Mac. It would be most helpful if someone provid sample setup info for OpenTransport to connect to the NeXT. I have not been able to connect using Telnet, due to the fact that the NCSA Telnet software requires MacTCP, and my Mac came with OpenTransport. MacTCP does not seem to be easy to find these days. Hans Shimizu Karlsson Tokyo, Japan www.webcom.com/hanske
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenTransport Mac --> NeXT connection Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 10:11:55 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-0804971011550001@slip-126-17.ots.utexas.edu> References: <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven> In article <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven>, Hans Shimizu Karlsson <hanske@pobox.com> wrote: >. . . >I have been trying to connect a Mac PowerBook to my black >NeXTstation over OpenTransport/ftp. > . . . >As far as I understand you can use Fetch on the Mac, for example, >to connect and log in as yourself and your own password. >No spaecial settings needed on the NeXT side. > >I have tried this but the connection times out. > . . . >I am not sure of the settings on the Mac side, which should be "easy" >with OpenTransport. Does anyone know what settings are needed? > >For instance, what kind of server setting should you use? Using the "manual" >setting crashes the Mac. You almost certainly need to set the Mac's IP number and the IP numbers of the Nameserver(s) manually. Unless your NeXT is miraculously running a BootP or DHCP server, that is the only way your Mac will know "who" it is. MacTCPWatcher 2.0 is a very useful tool for debugging network connections. It does Ping, Traceroute, DNS lookups, etc. If you are having trouble with OT, it will help track down your problem. > . . . >I have not been able to connect using Telnet, due to the fact that >the NCSA Telnet software requires MacTCP, and my Mac came with >OpenTransport. Nonsense. Any recent version of NCSA Telnet (2.7b4 was the last official one) will work just fine with OT. Jacques Distler
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: 8 Apr 1997 15:31:32 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com> References: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> In article <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) writes: > What are my options for using cdrom burners for > backup/archiving/etc. on nextstep/intel? > > Convenient? Doable? Impossible? > > Thanks > > Geof > > -- The only NextStep app that I ever found (and bought) for doing this was GSCorp's ExtraCD.app. Of course they completely disappeared from the NextStep scene (or any scene for that matter) a few months ago. Note that this app doesn't write the CD directly, it only creates an image file. You then reboot to Win95 and use your choice of apps to create the CD with the image. What's the word on sharing applications written by companies that went belly-up? Cool, not cool, pass at your own risk ??? Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:37:24 -0700 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> References: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > > Hi folk, ... > the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: > > /etc/fstab on the irix6.2 systems > > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s0 /usr/sw1 xfs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s0 0 0 > /dev/dsk/dks0d3s1 /usr/sw2 efs raw=/dev/rdsk/dks0d3s1 0 0 > ... > > Exports of /usr/sw2 could be nfs mounted on any NeXTStep or > OpenStep/mach maschine, while nfs mounting exportfs of /usr/sw1 causes > very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories > some entries are missing. > We're experiencing the same problems here. We have an Indy R5000 running 6.2. If you get an answer for it, I'd really appreciate finding out if there is a solution. I've been banging my head against it for a couple of weeks. We have a 2G drive (xfs) hanging off the SGI and are able to mount it fine from the NeXTs, but any kind of 'ls' only returns a partial listing of what we *know* is in the directory. Very frustrating. Wish I had an answer, but if you do solve it, I'd *really* appreciate the help. Thanks! P.S. - I tried to talk with NeXT about it, but they had never heard of this problem. -- **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: Eric Levenez <levenez@club-internet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 8 Apr 1997 18:41:58 GMT Organization: Grolier Interactive Europe Message-ID: <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) wrote: >I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know >that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or >after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after >formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any >problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will >want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary >swapfile). I have a IBM 4 GB on NS 3.3. I have to make 3 partitions because the disk (after formated) has a little more than 4 GB. The two first are just below 2 GB, the last one is a little 400 MB. Here is my disktab entry : DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ :ic:tc=4.3BSD: -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Éric Lévénez "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas" mailto:levenez@club-internet.fr Publius Vergilius Maro, (NeXTMail, MIME) Georgica, II-489 --------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 16:11:37 -0600 From: hoops@cbc.net Subject: Re: cdrom burning on nextstep Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <860533740.14466@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service References: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com> In article <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com>, cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) wrote: > > In article <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey > Matthews) writes: > > What are my options for using cdrom burners for > > backup/archiving/etc. on nextstep/intel? > > > > Convenient? Doable? Impossible? > > > > Thanks > > > > Geof > > > > -- > > The only NextStep app that I ever found (and bought) for doing this was > GSCorp's ExtraCD.app. Of course they completely disappeared from the NextStep > scene (or any scene for that matter) a few months ago. Note that this app > doesn't write the CD directly, it only creates an image file. You then reboot > to Win95 and use your choice of apps to create the CD with the image. > > What's the word on sharing applications written by companies that went > belly-up? Cool, not cool, pass at your own risk ??? > > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) > cdodson@cac.stratus.com I think GS is still around. I bought ExtraTiff a couple of months ago. You can still go to the web site http://www.gscorp.com They didn't take visa or master card I had to send them a check or money order. And it took a while for them to reply to my phone calls and email but they were there. There is another place offering NeXTSTEP CDR software that I just saw on the net a couple of weeks ago. A European outfit. You can download a demo from the site. http://ip-service.com/Gehle/ Hope this helps. Jon Hooper hoops@cbc.net -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [NXFax 1.04] No dialtone at phone system Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:41:06 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5if34i$g0e@news2.cais.com> References: <WEGMANN.97Apr3213456@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <WEGMANN.97Apr3213456@talisker.linguistics.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> On 04/03/97, Frank Wegmann wrote: -> I've an analog modem (ZyXEL U1496E+) attached to a phone system so -> that it needs an additional 0 in order to get a dialtone. I tried -> it with dwrite <faxmodem> WaitForDialTone NO but to no avail. Has -> anybody got a clue? dwrite <faxmodem> AuxATCommand "ATDT0" -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: win95, NT, & OpenStep NT... Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:38:42 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Distribution: world Message-ID: <5if302$4kes@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> Cc: jkheit@cnj.digex.net In <5hvi3p$3qi@news3.digex.net> John Kheit wrote: [munch question about setting up windows system] I have all my windows stuff in a single FAT partition, which includes Win NT, Win 95, and Openstep/NT. This appears to work just fine. Windows resides in c:\windows, and windows NT resides in c:\winnt. The Windows NT boot manager allows booting either of these. This way, all other files, such as program files, can be shared hassle free. And I've had zero problems with long file naming even though it is a FAT system (miraculously, MS appears to have gotten name mangling to work correctly!) To my knowledge, OpenStep is not limited to NTFS - if it is, I guess I'm the exception to the rule . . . The trick to installing this way is, first install Win95 on the disk. Then, when you install WinNT, it will give you the option of using the existing partition and just adding NT (as opposed to erasing it). -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:43:49 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5if39l$ibn@news2.cais.com> References: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <3342C015.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> On 04/02/97, Tomas By wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm using Nextstep 3.3 and I note there is no uname command. >How can I read the system type/version from a shell script? OS VERSION: % hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*NeXT Mach \([0-9\.]*\).*/\1/p' OS TYPE: % hostinfo | sed -n 's/.*Processor type: \([^ ]*\).*/\1/p' -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: Johan Nielsen <johan@nielsencorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Virtual Interfaces Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 21:54:42 -0500 Organization: Nielsen Information Technology Corporation Message-ID: <334B04E0.491D@nielsencorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a question regarding virtual interfaces on a NeXT cube. I'm running NeXTSTEP 3.1 (?) and I'm currently using a ps_load program to configure virtual interfaces in /etc/rc.local. My question: is it possible to configure more than 10 virtual interfaces in NeXTSTEP? Thanks in advance. johan
From: R.J.Patel@massey.ac.nz (Raj Patel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Simple Question... How do I disable telnet access for certain accounts ? Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 16:02:41 +1200 Organization: Massey University College Of Education Message-ID: <R.J.Patel-0904971602430001@130.123.240.100> Hi all, Subject says it all. Basically I'd like to disable interactive access on all but a few accounts for security reasons. Users should still be able to pop their mail off the server tho'. I've tried fiddling around with /etc/passwd and removing the shell but have had no luck. Any thoughts ? I'm trying to do a similar thing on a unixware server but haven't had much luck. I tried rksh as an alternative to the normal shell but still now joy (it lets me switch shells which would seem to defeat the purpose of a restricted shell). Thanx in advance for any assistance, Raj.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Message-ID: <E8BrLC.5nJ@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580000704971033230001@news.tiac.net> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 15:12:48 GMT In article <jbf_see_sig-ya023580000704971033230001@news.tiac.net> jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) writes: > In article <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug > Booth) wrote: > > > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it thinking > > the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors appeared. > > > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or ...???? > > Any ideas would be welcome. > We had the same errors on different machines, only happens under heavy load... -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: atze@aspohr.dart.de (Alexander Spohr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5htver$1v6@linux1.netconx.de> Control: cancel <5htver$1v6@linux1.netconx.de> Date: 9 Apr 1997 07:20:07 GMT Organization: InterShop Communications Message-ID: <5iffv7$st@linux1.netconx.de> cancel
From: hanske@pobox.com (Hans Shimizu Karlsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenTransport Mac --> NeXT connection Date: 9 Apr 1997 03:16:27 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan Message-ID: <5if1mb$cu5$1@godzilla.gol.com> References: <970408103358.553AAC1E.hanske@raven> <distler-0804971011550001@slip-126-17.ots.utexas.edu> Cc: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu In <distler-0804971011550001@slip-126-17.ots.utexas.edu> Jacques Distler wrote: > You almost certainly need to set the Mac's IP number and the IP numbers of > the Nameserver(s) manually. Unless your NeXT is miraculously running a > BootP or DHCP server, that is the only way your Mac will know "who" it is. > Thank you. Will investigate. I must say the on-line help in System 7.5 is scant. OP still is not hand holding enough for a beginner trying to set up his own network. There is for example a "use 803" [can't remember the exact number from the top of my head] checkbox, and I have not found any other edvice regarding the various server settings than "contact your system administrator". On the NeXT side, the documentation is cryptic, sometimes contradictory, but it's there. I wonder if they are going to translate the man pages to human language for Rhapsody. Or replace with "contact your system administrator". Individuals wishing to set up a LAN should be increasing... > >I have not been able to connect using Telnet, due to the fact that > >the NCSA Telnet software requires MacTCP, and my Mac came with > >OpenTransport. > > Nonsense. Any recent version of NCSA Telnet (2.7b4 was the last official > one) will work just fine with OT. > Sorry, I meant "my version of NSCA Telnet", which is an adoption that can display Japanese. Not sure if there is a newer version of that, but English only is better than nothing. BTW, the Japanese Language Kit is OK, but the NeXT internationalization is just so much better. You need the J version, but it costs the same as the English one. Pick your language and you're done. My wife logs in in a Japanese environment, I in English, and we both can use Japanese wordprocessing etc. No garbled characters, like in Mac control panels, for instance. Sorry, got carried away. Thank you for your help Hans Shimizu Karlsson Tokyo
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install Fax-Software (Users Manual) Date: 9 Apr 1997 06:34:42 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5ifda2$fu2$1@lynet.de> Hello, if I press Alt-p in any application I get the Print-Page presented and have the Choice to print my document to the printer, in a file or to the faxprogram. So I haven't installed any faxprogram now. I suppose it's part of OpenStep 4.1 because its mentioned a lot in the Intro-Manuals. They write there, that I have to look into the Users-Manual to find out, how to use the fax-software. This might be a stupid question, but I haven't found the users-manual yet. Where do I have to look for it? Thank you! Andreas
From: Hermann Lauer <Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: 4.1 lookupd core dumps Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:23:08 +0100 Organization: University of Heidelberg, Germany Message-ID: <3338F90C.41C6@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: hlauer Hello, we just installed a machine with NextStep 4.1 in our mixed network, after having problems with the setup of NIS(YP) (the key are the release notes of the lookupd), now we have frequent kernel traps when trying to "su root" on the machine. First the machine does nothing and the after a while the trap occured. Every kernel trap leaves a core in /, wich seems to came from lookupd. I include below the configuration of lookupd from netinfo. Has somebody a working version which uses NIS(YPAgent), DNS(DNSAgent) and Netinfo(NIAgent) ? Leaving out one of them (as suggested by some news posting) is impossible on the setup used here. Another question: Is this problem new to 4.1, i. e., have somebody Version 4.0 running with a similar setup ? Thanks for any help/infos/replys. Hermann -----Configuration of lookupd--------------------------------- # nidump -r /locations/lookupd / name = lookupd; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent, FFAgent); CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }, { name = networks; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); ValidateCache = NO; }); -------------------------------------------------------------- Hermann Lauer Bildverarbeitungsgruppe des Interdiziplinaeren Zentrums fuer wissenschaftliches Rechnen, Universitaet Heidelberg INF 368; 69120 Heidelberg; Tel: (06221)548826 Fax: (06221)545224 Email: Hermann.Lauer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cant add users on NeXTstation Date: 9 Apr 1997 10:26:10 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5ifqs2$bjm@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <334A5B36.41C6@odyssey.ucc.ie> You should rebuild your netinfo database. -> Boot machine as standalone (bsd -s at 'NeXT>' prompt) -> cp -r /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo /etc/ -> ^D (Yes, Ctrl-D, to start into multi-user) The machine should start up without root password and without passwd for the default user 'me' and logs in as user 'me' automatically. -> Set the password for 'me' with the 'Preferences' app -> log out. Now you may log in as root and create users. Possibly you have to restore 'hostconfig' (same directories) as well. Robert -- ----- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `--------------
From: wolfgang@wi.WHU-Koblenz.de (Wolfgang Roeckelein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: 9 Apr 1997 11:28:03 GMT Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Message-ID: <5ifug3$lip@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> References: <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> Hi, what patches have you installed on the SGI side? XFS and NFS (esp V3) had numerous problems and have lots of patches, not all open to all customers... Wolfgang -- Dipl.-Wirtsch.Inf. Voice: +49 941 943 3205 Wolfgang Roeckelein Fax: +49 941 943 3211 Uni Regensburg E-Mail: Wolfgang.Roeckelein@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de Universitaetsstr. 31 (MIME and NeXTmail ok) D-93053 Regensburg Germany WWW: http://www-wi.uni-regensburg.de/~row01458/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Q: How to set a netmask for more than 255 hosts? Message-ID: <E8CGqC.16F@mediahaus.de> Sender: news@mediahaus.de (News System) Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 00:15:48 GMT Hello everybody, I'm taking care of a small netinfo network within a heterogeneous network of several hundred hosts. In total, the network consists of IP numbers from two class C networks (..110.* and ..111.*). So far, all NEXTSTEP machines, all servers, and the router had IP addresses in the 110 range. Now system administration asked me to move the IP addresses of the NEXTSTEP machines to the 111 range. First, I wanted to move the network configuration server (running OPENSTEP 4.1 on Mach) over to its new IP address. For this I modified the INETADDR entry in /etc/hostconfig and modified the value of this machine's ip_address property in the host directory of the root netinfo domain. I then used HostManager to set the netmask to 255.255.254.0 (this setting was written to /etc/hostconfig by HostManager). After reboot the network ceased to work because I could not reach addresses in the 110 range (which unfortunately include the router). Using ifconfig -a I found out that the current netmask is ffffff00, even though I specified 255.255.254.0 (fffffe00). Stepping through the boot sequence in /etc/rc.net I stumbled over the following problem: I can try to configure a netmask of 255.255.254.0 using something like: ifconfig en0 inet <myIPnumber> netmask 255.255.254.0 broadcast <myBroadcastAddress> -trailers up but still ifconfig -a shows me a netmask of ffffff00 for en0. My question: Is there anything obvious I'm doing wrong or doesn't OPENSTEP 4.1 / Mach support a netmask of 255.255.254.0? Thanks, Piers -- -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=- "I think people are happy using Windows, and that's an extremely depressing thought." -= Steve Jobs, 1/96 =- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de -=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-=+=-
From: cdodson@cac.stratus.com***(Craig Dodson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: 9 Apr 1997 15:23:26 GMT Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA Message-ID: <5igc9e$dci@transfer.stratus.com> References: <860533740.14466@dejanews.com> > > In article <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey > I think GS is still around. I bought ExtraTiff a couple of months ago. > You can still go to the web site > > http://www.gscorp.com > > They didn't take visa or master card I had to send them a check or money > order. And it took a while for them to reply to my phone calls and email > but they were there. I'll be damned. This website was down for a *long* time this winter and I thought for sure they'd packed it in. Glad to see they are still around ! Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) cdodson@cac.stratus.com
From: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to install Fax-Software (Users Manual) Date: 9 Apr 1997 17:06:02 GMT Organization: Dental Records[tm] Message-ID: <5igi9q$1ja@news1-alterdial.uu.net> References: <5ifda2$fu2$1@lynet.de> Cc: andreas@lynet.de In <5ifda2$fu2$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > if I press Alt-p in any application I get the Print-Page presented > and have the Choice to print my document to the printer, in a file or > to the faxprogram. So I haven't installed any faxprogram now. I suppose > it's part of OpenStep 4.1 because its mentioned a lot in the Intro-Manuals. > They write there, that I have to look into the Users-Manual to find out, > how to use the fax-software. > This might be a stupid question, but I haven't found the users-manual yet. > Where do I have to look for it? > Thank you! > > Andreas > this is just a guess, but perhaps they mean the user manual of the (third party) fax software, eg NXFax by Black & White (among others). -rick
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 18:47:36 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <334BC827.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> <5ifug3$lip@rrzs3.uni-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wolfgang Roeckelein wrote: > > Hi, > > what patches have you installed on the SGI side? XFS and NFS (esp V3) had > numerous problems and have lots of patches, not all open to all > customers... > Wolfgang, the problem was definitely trapped down and could not be fixed by public available patches. The mach kernel of NeXT should be patched to fix it. There is a patch by NeXT but it is available to "Premium ObjectLine" customers only... Let's see what's happening if more and more people keep asking for it. Or do you have $25.000 per year to support your NeXT systems ? We don't. (http://www.next.com/Services/Support/Welcome.html) Stefan
From: fascist@vt.edu (Stefan Hall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Executables Downloading Corruption Question Date: 9 Apr 1997 17:49:37 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech/Blacksburg Electronic Village Message-ID: <5igkrh$ham$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Hello, The company I work at has a NeXTstation running version 3 of NeXTStep, and have self-extracting executables made with the WINZIP self-extractor builder for Windows 3.x. These executables (and *any* executable for that matter), when downloaded, are corrupted and will not run. However, a plain .ZIP file runs just fine. Has anyone encountered this problem as well, or know how to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond via email to: kweston@cslab.vt.edu. Ryan
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS exporting to 32bit client (PROBLEMS) Date: 9 Apr 1997 17:51:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5igkvr$leh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <33302A04.6BD6@wam.umd.edu> <33397501.5112@wam.umd.edu> <SHESS.97Mar29002733@slave.one.net> <cdoutyE81xIA.9H7@netcom.com> <5i103d$r62$4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3344B6E5.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <5ic73h$r8j$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3349EF04.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Cc: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de In <3349EF04.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > rencsok@channelu.com wrote: > > > > > I'm doing the same. xfs export to NeXT. There are hard problems with > > > longer directories. The 32bitclient option should be used with the > > > export on the irix6.x system. But I has no success yet. > > > > ..... Well I tried to export the whole xfs disk and started poking around > > on the NeXT with find, etc. I experienced a similiar problem (that some > > directories > > arn't available from the GUI. > > > Hi Randy, > > meanwhile after some emails with people at NeXT and SGI the cause of > this problem was absolutely trapped down. It seems to be clear that only > NeXT could fix this. Both NeXT and SGI know the problem ! > Playing around with rsize/wsize and the 32bitclient option has no effect > on this. > > The inofficial answer from NeXT was "we have a patch but I can't send a > copy to you...". So it seems to be a kind of beta version of a kernel > patch for big customers. > > As far as I know it will not be fixed in OpenStep/mach 4.2 too. > So I'm trying to force them to make this public with the help of the > German distributor DART. > > I recommend you to do the same with your distributor. > Stefan, I have some messages from two kindly people who e-mailed me and for now who shall remain nameless. The first person actually did some work diagnosing the problem. Here is a copy of the informative part of their e-mail to me. First person wrote me: >You wrote: >> Unless someone from NeXT can speak up on this definatively I >> can't say whether it's the SGI or NeXT NFS code that is >> causing the problems we're seeing. But I'd bet that it could >> easily be the SGI. How to pin it down as a user is another >> matter. > >Well, nothing definite and I don't work at NeXT but maybe >this will help. > >Here's a bit more information about the problem which drove >me absolutely nuts about a month and a half ago, regretfully >no fix is possible AFAIK but at least you'll know what seems >to be going on. This is from an email I sent to somebody else >after diagnosing the problem, it explains what is happening: > >> As you may remember the problem is (in a nutshell) NextStep >> 3.[23] NFS clients seeing incomplete directory entries when >> mounting filesystems from the O2 NFS server. Files are still >> there but the directory listings don't show them. This is >> apparently what is happening according to John Spiller, who >> deals with NFS at sgi (this is after I sent him, at his >> request, packet dumps of the ethernet exchanges between the >> next and the o2 when listing a directory): >> >> > The only guess I can make from this is that the next does >> > something like give up as soon as the readdir cookie goes >> > above 0x40000000. This could easily be the case since it >> > wasn't until last year that the sun guys begrudginly admitted >> > that a cookie isn't necessarily an offset. Our XFS system uses >> > the full 32 bits (and in fact uses 64 bits in nfs 3, hence the >> > 32bitclient export option). Since our directories are not >> > just linear files, offset is meaningless, so the numbers could >> > conceivably jump around, although I believe them to be >> > monotonically increasing. >> > >> > According to any spec I've ever seen, cookie is opaque, >> > meaning the client shouldn't try to interpret it at all. It >> > looks like NeXtStep is, however. >> >> The temporary solution is to use efs instead of xfs in the >> exported filesystems as it uses the old offset method for >> creating cookies and so does not generate cookies above >> 0x40000000. I believe the problem is fixed in latter versions >> of NextStep (4.x) although I have not tested that. > >So you see, it is the next clients that are silently failing >when they find what they believe to be objectionable nfs >cookies. I sent a bug report to NeXT but had no response >whatsoever (not surprising). I've heard of a patch for 3.3 >that solved this particular problem but I have not tried to >obtain it (it is not in NextAnswers of the ftp server). Well I think we can confirm it's not just an O2 running 6.3 but now a Indigo 2 running 6.2. And certianly NS3.3 & 4.x (4.2?) Another kind soul sent me the following: >> I've also sent a query off to a friend of mine that works at NeXT. If >> there's actually a beta kernel available, maybe there's some hope. With the followup :( > >Looks kinda hopeless. >No "premiere" customers are pushing for it. >It was very likely not fixed for 4.2. >It will be fixed for Rhapsody, but that's not much help for us :) > >It seems that the problem is actually two separate problems. >One in the kernel dealing with readdir() and one with "recursive file >system commands like ls, tar, du, chown...etc." due to potential bugs >in the system libraries. The fix for the second part appears to be >as simple as downloading the gnu fileutils and compiling them statically >linked. > >If I hear anything else, I'll let you know. That's about where it stands at this point. If NeXT has a patch I wish they'd just release it. I'd be looking for something for NS3.3 since I don't plan on running 4.x anytime soon. I think most of us Black users havn't had a distributor for years :( unless you think a Reseller has any weight with NeXT. I personally could probably do what I need with nfs since I only export space on that xfs disk to be used as a temp directory for images/sounds etc (to share space between machines). I'm rather confused as to why only XFS filesystems illustrate this bug and not EFS filesystems? I can only wonder what is really going on here. Anyone from NeXT or SGI care to comment publically or privately on this? Stefan This is about the best I can do in terms of making a stink about it. Any other action you could recommend to us would be gratefully accepted (like a few e-mail addresses to bombard). But I expect that persons with NeXT's and SGI's on the same LAN are rather RARE. Randy Rencsok rencsok@channelu.com
From: "Jason J. Gullickson" <xjasong@itis.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What's a good gen ref on PPP? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 13:33:57 +0000 Organization: ValCom/MTC Inc. Message-ID: <334A4945.FB8@itis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm configuring a NS3.0 machine for PPP, what/where can I find some good info or FAQ's about doing this (the PPP package I have doesn't have much in the way of documentation) xjasong@itis.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: petergun@coffeehaus.com (Stephane I. Matis) Subject: RARP for Nextstep Message-ID: <E7oH85.Gsv@coffeehaus.com> Organization: >> coffeehaus << " We percolate great ideas. " Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 01:24:05 GMT I'm in the need for RARP under NS 3.3 Is there such a beast anywhere ? Steph -- A .sig from the past! 1992 September to be exact. Roll! ___ +---------------------------------------------------+ Over! __ ( . ) From : Stephane I. Matis
From: James Meacham <webmaster@nh.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using NT fileserver with ColorTurboStation Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 04:11:18 -0400 Organization: NHAI Message-ID: <334CA0A5.70E@nh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi All, I've just started working at a new company, and they are running an NT Alpha file server. Is there a way of connecting my Turbo Color Station via ethernet to the server. So far, I've been stuck using the ridulous Windows 95 interface, and I'm going to die soon if I don't get my trusty NeXT box in here. Thanks in advance, Peace, James
From: rcc@tilt.engr.sgi.com (Ray Chen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS exporting to 32bit client (PROBLEMS) Date: 10 Apr 1997 01:54:10 GMT Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Message-ID: <5ihh82$51a@fido.asd.sgi.com> References: <33302A04.6BD6@wam.umd.edu> <5ic73h$r8j$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <3349EF04.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <5igkvr$leh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> In article <5igkvr$leh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>, <rencsok@channelu.com> wrote: >>So you see, it is the next clients that are silently failing >>when they find what they believe to be objectionable nfs >>cookies. I sent a bug report to NeXT but had no response >>whatsoever (not surprising). I've heard of a patch for 3.3 >>that solved this particular problem but I have not tried to >>obtain it (it is not in NextAnswers of the ftp server). > >Well I think we can confirm it's not just an O2 running 6.3 but now >a Indigo 2 running 6.2. And certianly NS3.3 & 4.x (4.2?) [stuff deleted ... ] >I'm rather confused as to why only XFS filesystems illustrate this bug >and not EFS filesystems? I can only wonder what is really going on >here. Anyone from NeXT or SGI care to comment publically or privately >on this? The reason is really quite simple. EFS, like all FFS-based filesystems that I know of, use the offset into the directory as the cookie that it hands to NFS. Directory entries in EFS don't move around so this is ok. XFS does something different. We couldn't use the offset because the location of a directory entry can change as the directory grows and shrinks so we had to use something else instead. So we use something that includes our btree lookup value (and something else but I forget at the moment exactly what). The problem of course, is that the value of the cookie we generate really has very little correlation with the size of the directory. The value of the cookies will increase as you go through the directory using readdir but that's about the only guarantee you've got. The NFS spec says that cookies are opaque. But the Sun NFS code essentially treated cookies as offsets and did things like silently truncate upper bits, etc. (even for NFS v3, I believe) in the belief that no one would ever have directories that are that big. I think the latest Sun NFS code has the problem fixed. But if Next's implementation is derived from older Sun NFS code, well... >Randy Rencsok >rencsok@channelu.com Ray Chen rcc@sgi.com
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 23:21:43 -0600 From: dsolis@data.net.mx Subject: APEX 4.6 GB OPTICAL HARD DRIVE Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Message-ID: <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: dsolis@data.net.mx Has anyone been able to format and use the PinnacleMicro Apex under NeXTStep?. It's a double-sided MO disk, and holds 2.3gig on each side. Any experience (disktab?) or comments would be appreciated by e-mail if possible. TIA David Solis dsolis@data.net.mx -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Colm Dineen <colm@odyssey.ucc.ie> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cant add users on NeXTstation Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 15:50:30 +0100 Organization: University College Cork Message-ID: <334A5B36.41C6@odyssey.ucc.ie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I recently aquired an old (black) NeXTstation color running version 2 of NextStep (I think!!). Unfortunatly I can'tcreate new user accounts orchange any of the existing ones. Unfortunatly I can only login as ROOT. Its a stand alone machine. It was connected to a net but was the only NeXT on the net so it didn't use any distributed NetInfo stuff. It uses NetInfo with a "/" or "local" domain. If I use either UserManager or NetInfoManager to change or add a user I get a "ERROR: Can't update database. All objects marked as read only" message. The files in /etc/netinfo (including local.nidb) all seem to have write permissions set for ROOT, when viewed from a terminal or file browser window. Any ideas???? Thanks in advance, Colm colm@cs.ucc.ie
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FAQ? Having DOS boot by default using NeXT booter? Date: 10 Apr 1997 06:39:14 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ii1ui$8nu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> I'm not sure if this is an FAQ but I've not seen an answer anywhere. I understand you can use the Linux LILO booter with NS/OS. Before I do that, is it possible to have the NeXT booter have D for DOS as the default boot? While I can achieve the default by setting the DOS partition as the active one, I'd still like to get the N for NeXT question, rather than having to set the active partition each time. Many thanks -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS mounting an SGI XFS Filesystem into NeXT Date: 10 Apr 1997 11:00:30 GMT Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Sender: fygir@194.229.196.71 Message-ID: <5iih8e$e2m$1@news1.xs4all.nl> References: <3341239B.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> <334A7444.28CC1042@ucsd.edu> >Stefan Ried wrote: >... >> the NeXTs are no longer able to nfs mount correctly from SGI: >> >> nfs mounting causes >> very strange errors. Namely in the transmission of longer directories >> some entries are missing. Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> wrote: >We're experiencing the same problems here. We have an Indy R5000 >running 6.2. If you get an answer for it, I'd really appreciate finding >out if there is a solution. I've been banging my head against it for a >couple of weeks. We have a 2G drive (xfs) hanging off the SGI and are >able to mount it fine from the NeXTs, but any kind of 'ls' only returns >a partial listing of what we *know* is in the directory. Very >frustrating. > >P.S. - I tried to talk with NeXT about it, but they had never heard of >this problem. But it is widespread. We have been having these exact same problems with an OPENSTEP 4.0 Mach system mounting filesystems exported by a Hummingbird Maestro NFS server on Windows NT. I received a technically interesting reply from Fernando Lopez: > I just had some fun a few weeks ago (not!) trying to get a new server > working with our 3.[23] NS clients. It is an SGI O2 running 6.2 and the > symptoms we experienced were exactly the same. Knowing what caused > things might help you (or not...). The problem in 3.[23] is that the sgi > (and probably your nt server) was sending nfs cookies with random (large) > values as it was exporting an xfs filesystem. Apparently the next > _interprets_ the cookies as offsets into the filesystem and bails out of > an ls (or anything that uses a readdir) when if finds an nfs cookie with > a value that is outside the range it expects. The temporary solution for > us was to recreate the sgi partitions as efs filesystems and export > that. Seems that the old efs implementation derives cookies from > filesystem offsets so the nexts are happy. Apparently some NFS servers out there (for Windows or other OSes) work fine, while others exhibit the behaviour described above. I have given up on NFS servers for Windows NT and am now trying my luck with rumba. Which doesn't work flawlessly either, but at least give complete directory access, as long as you mount only one service from the NT machine at a time. (See my earlier post; keyword: rumba.) 2 cents Jan-Willem -- Jan-Willem de Bruijn - F Y G I R logistic information systems
From: matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cd writers Date: 4 Apr 1997 19:55:48 GMT Organization: Western Washington University Message-ID: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Keywords: cdrom writers What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? -- Geoffrey Matthews matthews@cs.wwu.edu voice:360-650-3797 fax:360-650-7788
From: Markus Wenzel <not@this.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: Re: Automatic Reply Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:43:27 +0200 Organization: SNI Message-ID: <334CD25F.C34553F7@this.net> References: <40t4b4$m2b@caladan.restena.lu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 kay@sun wrote: (Check you From: address) > I want to set up the follwoing: > Someone should mail to a user (which doesn't exist) and get > a file (an answer) automatically send. How do I do that? > Example > mail info@cordis.lu > > and I send him back the result of the command ls -l > > ANy idea? You are looking for procmail. Cheers, Markus.
From: jkeenan@next.com (Joe Keenan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAQ? Having DOS boot by default using NeXT booter? Date: 10 Apr 1997 12:04:58 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5iil1a$cv4@news.next.com> References: <5ii1ui$8nu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> In article <5ii1ui$8nu$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) writes: > > I'm not sure if this is an FAQ but I've not seen an answer anywhere. I > understand you can use the Linux LILO booter with NS/OS. Before I do that, > is it possible to have the NeXT booter have D for DOS as the default boot? > While I can achieve the default by setting the DOS partition as the active > one, I'd still like to get the N for NeXT question, rather than having to > set the active partition each time. Sure. Just use fdisk (under either OS) to set the active partition to the one you want to boot by default (DOS). joe
From: Žiboehme@abm08.abm.de (Ivo Boehme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cd writers Date: 10 Apr 1997 15:19:40 GMT Organization: Nacamar Data Communications Message-ID: <5ij0ec$23h$1@news.nacamar.de> References: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu (Geoffrey Matthews) wrote: >What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? Geoffrey, tried CDDesigner 0.81? It states to fry CD's w/o needing to create an image first. Homepage: http://www.ip.cubenet.de/gehle --- Cheers, Ivo P.S. I don't work 4 them nor did I try this product ;-)
From: Charles Bennett <chuck@benatong.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Licensing.. Was: cdrom burning on nextstep Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 09:29:23 -0400 Organization: BenaTong Message-ID: <334B99B3.9D3@benatong.com> References: <5ibdd8$8f6$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> <5idock$ora@transfer.stratus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [munched] > What's the word on sharing applications written by companies that went > belly-up? Cool, not cool, pass at your own risk ??? > > Craig Dodson (Stratus Computer) > cdodson@cac.stratus.com My guess is "not cool" I'm not a lawyer but I think it would stillt fall under the normal copyright law. Something like 50 years after the authors death, or forever if the author is a corp..? Any real lawyers out there want to comment? Large company's usually negotiate an escrow of the application source in case it becomes unsupported, but you had better be buying in large numbers to make it worth your while. Perhaps you could contact someone from the companies (If you can find a contact) and get them to GNU license the software. Chuck -- BenaTong suppliers of PowerGuardian for NeXTSTEP http://www.benatong.com
From: Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 10:38:01 -0700 Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Message-ID: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: rjkuropk@inreach.com, gcasamen@erols.com Greetings, I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 7285. It is a Pentium-200 with a three Gig hard drive. I currently have three formated primary partitions (1 DOS/Win3.1 - 500Mg, 1 Win95 1G that came with the machine(Why does anyone use this OS?) and 1 currently hosed up Win NT partition - 800Mg.) The remaining 7-800 Meg is unformated. Boot Managment is being handled by System Commander. Eventually, I intend to add a second hard drive to install OS/2, Linux and Solaris. My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and move on, I get one of two respones. Either a black screen of purgatory or a screen full of messages ending with an error about not finding any SCSI device and one attempt to enter in a different root device. After trying several random guesses I gave up. I talked with someone else who sucessfully installed with and IDE CD-ROM and a SCSI disk by simply putting in the disk type in response to the prompt for CD-ROM driver and the CD-ROM driver (IDE) in response to the prompt for hard disk driver. My assumption is it loaded the two drivers and created one SCSI device and one IDE device and then figured out on it's own which one to install from and to. In my case however, I need to create two IDE devices, and the install does not seem interested in letting me do so. It then hangs searching for the non-existant SCSI device. I've had this software for a really long time and now finally have a machine I can load it on (I hope). Any help would be appreciated. Thanx, Robert Kuropkat rjkuropk@inreach.com robertk@mfg.sgi.com P.S. Assuming OpenStep would be kinder to me, can anyone tell me how much it costs for the average joe. I'm not in school and I don't need a site license for more than one. I tried looking at the Next site but must say I got a bit lost there. For a group supposedly heavilly involved in things WEB-like, thier own site certainly seemed less then usefull. Perhaps I was not patient or thorough enough in my search. I was kinda hoping to find a "Get install patch for IDE CD-ROM's here -->" link and an "Upgrade to OpenStep cheap here -->" link.
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! Date: 10 Apr 1997 17:28:32 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a very serious problem that I need help with. I have a Jaz disk that had files moved from it onto another disk (using the next window GUI move command). I want to recover the data fromm the original Jaz disk. Unfortunately the disk the data was moved onto was destroyed. The Jaz disk is intact and hasn't had anything done to it since the data was moved off (no read or writes). Is there any way this can be done? Can I do it myself or is there a service that I can send the disk to to have it recovered? If a service is the way to go, are there any recommendations? PLEASE HELP!! Of course I need the data recovered yesterday! Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: 10 Apr 1997 17:39:03 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ij8jn$kb4@q.seanet.com> References: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> Cc: gcasamen@erols.com Hello, I also run a Matrox Millenium with 4MB of WRAM on NeXT3.3, with a Sony 15sf monitor. When I first installed the system, I chose a refresh rate that Win95 and WinNT could handle, but NeXT did not, thus causing the black screen. On Intel boxes, type a "?" at the start prompt, to show a list of boot options. As I remember, type "config=Default" to bring up the default settings. Log in as root, and change the configuration panel settings for the Matrox card. You may need to try several times to find a setting that works for you, but I found that: Graphics Card and Resolution: Matrox - 4MB WRAM 768/1024 72Hz RGB:444/16 - Was the best setting I could use with my small monitor. Steve Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting to network and ISP Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 13:56:13 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <334D29BD.41FE@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to connect to my ISP with an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px. This is an ISDN router with an ethernet backend which is connected to my computer. My ISP uses an Ascend Max 4000, and has assigned me one static IP address (206.153.50.76). They depend on the router to use network address translation. The manual for the router says to assign the router an artificial address with each of the dotted quads between 100 and 255. And further, to assign the computer an address with the last number different from the router by one. Does this mean that I completely ignore the actual number that the ISP has assigned me, and use any bogus numbers such as 192.168.100.100 for the router and 192.168.100.101 for the computer? Would the correct netmask be 255.255.255.0? Would the correct broadcast address be 192.168.100.255? Are there any other parameters I need to set? I started up the Simple Network Starter application in order to set the parameters. When I entered the settings I got error messages that I could not change them with that application. The NeXT documentation says you can make changes with it, and whats the point in having that app if you can't make changes? So how can I get this app to work, or which app would I use to make the changes? --Greg
From: chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: loginwindow tries to start BuildDisk! Date: 7 Apr 97 14:47:02 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <chk.860424422@deimos.frii.com> References: <5i9j4t$r53@surf.pangea.ca> I ran into this a while ago... What it ended up being was a file that was missing or existant, which shouldn't have been. Depending on that file, loginwindow starts BuildDisk.. I believe it was /var/adm/BuildDisk.custom. Try touching that file and see what happens. This is something that absolutely has to go into the FAQ! Cheers, Chris siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) writes: >I have a diskless cube that boots 3.3 fine from the local ethernet. >It puts up the normal login pannel. >Whenever a valid userid and password are entered, the screen brightens >as expected, then reverts back to the login pannel. >I can login as "console" or rlogin and all looks normal. >Here is what is in /private/admin/messages: >Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[295]: running /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk >Apr 4 19:59:49 rtmono loginwindow[181]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 255 sv 0 ss 255). >Apr 4 19:59:51 rtmono loginwindow[181]: creating new loginImage >There is no mention of BuildDisk in any NetInfo or dread database, nor in /etc/ttys. >However >"strings /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow.app/loginwindow | grep Build" >gives: >/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom >/NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk >BuildDisk >"df" gives: >df >Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on >rt040:/ 653614 419643 168609 71% / >rt040:/clients/rtmono 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private >/private/vm/swapfile 1014668 438290 474911 48% /private/vm/swapfile.front >rt040:/General 1014668 551100 362101 60% /General >Anyone know what triggers loginwindow to try to start BuildDisk? >... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca> -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bpioline@thwgs2.cern.ch (Boris Pioline) Subject: virtual host Message-ID: <E8H30q.6EE@news.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 12:07:38 GMT Hi there, I want to set up a virtual host on a Next, ie two IP addresses for a single machine. The purpose is to run an Apache webserver answering for two different domains How can I do that ? Thanks Boris Pioline -- Boris Pioline -------------------------------------------------- CERN TH division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail aliases and NetInfo domains... Date: 11 Apr 1997 12:44:00 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ilbmg$o7p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, we're running a network with two NetInfo levels, the /-domain (root) and a subdomain called /faum. Now, I want to install some mailaliases only for the /faum domain in it's subdirectory /aliases. I put them there, but the users of the /faum subdomain didn't see those aliases in their Mail.app's until I put them in the /-Domain. That's exactly the location where I didn't want to put the aliases. Is it possible to add mailaliases in a subdomain, or do they always have to be in the /-domain? ...Ralf P.S.: I didn't forget to run mailDBupdate after I created the new aliases. -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: NFS export from Linux to NeXTSTEP file creation errors. Date: 11 Apr 97 09:12:32 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.97Apr11091232@slave.one.net> I've got a Linux box running the September 1996 Slackware, with kernel 2.0.27. In /etc/exports, I've got: / howard(rw) slave(rw) howard (NeXT, NS3.2) and slave (P133, NS3.3) are both defined in /etc/hosts, and work fine for everything but NFS. On the NeXT side, I have an fstab entry like: ichabod:/ /Net nfs nosuid,net,timeo=6 0 0 ichabod (i486, Linux) is in the appropriate tables on the NeXTSTEP side, and everything there is fine. I also have the username scott as uid 21 on both boxes. When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp and do "touch barf" from NeXTSTEP as scott, I get a response "touch: barf: Not owner". The zero-length file barf is created, with no rwx permissions at all. If I try to copy a file, same thing (zero-length no-permissions file created, not written). If I got over to ichabod and fix the permissions to be reasonable, I can overwrite the file just fine from NeXTSTEP. When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp and to "touch barf" as _root_, meanwhile, I get a zero-length barf with owner rw, group r, world r, owned be nobody.daemon. Any ideas? Am I running afoul of something specific to Linux or NeXTSTEP? I'm almost to the point where I'm considering running samba/rumba to get the files mounted in working fashion :-). Thanks, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: APEX 4.6 GB OPTICAL HARD DRIVE Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:16:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ilh3g$a9g$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> Cc: dsolis@data.net.mx In <860645494.20117@dejanews.com> dsolis@data.net.mx wrote: > Has anyone been able to format and use the PinnacleMicro Apex > under NeXTStep?. It's a double-sided MO disk, and holds > 2.3gig on each side. > > Any experience (disktab?) or comments would be appreciated by e-mail if > possible. > > TIA > Uck.. Your going to need a disktab for two partitions (we still have the 2G limit). How you'd get NeXTStep to mount both of them when inserting the media (via automounter) would still have to be solved (if even possible). I've never tried putting two partitions on a MO to see if the automounter would mount them both. :| Randy
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: 2 GB limit before or after formatting? Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:30:47 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5ilhun$a9g$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5hv9gq$38c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> Cc: levenez@club-internet.fr In <5ie3hm$jmc@news.grolier.fr> Eric Levenez wrote: > decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) wrote: > >I just got a 2.15 GB IBM UltraStar 2ES drive to run under NEXTSTEP 3.3. I know > >that 3.3 has a 2 GB limit per partition. Is that a limit on the space before or > >after formatting? I know that the disk will come out under 2GB after > >formatting. So if the limit applies to space after formatting, I won't have any > >problem or waste. But if the limit applies on space before formatting, I will > >want to split off 150 MB into another partition (I'll use it for my primary > >swapfile). > > I have a IBM 4 GB on NS 3.3. I have to make 3 partitions because the > disk (after formated) has a little more than 4 GB. The two first are > just below 2 GB, the last one is a little 400 MB. > > Here is my disktab entry : > > DFRSS4F|DFRSS4F-512|IBM DFRSS4F:\ > :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#4392:nt#16:ns#135:ss#512:rm#7200:\ > :fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\ > :os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=tasha:rw=a:rw=b:\ > :pa#0:sa#3997696:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#32:da#4096:ra#3:oa=time:\ > :ia:ta=4.3BSD:\ > :pb#3997696:sb#3997696:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#32:db#4096:rb#3:ob=time:\ > :ib:tb=4.3BSD:\ > :pc#7995392:sc#811008:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#32:dc#4096:rc#10:oc=time:\ > :ic:tc=4.3BSD: > You can't get up over 4M blocks? Did you try sa > 4000000? I would have thought one could get 4194000 blocks or there abouts which would eliminate the need for a third partition.. Here is mine for a Conner that does just under 2GB per partition. CONNER CFP4207S 4.28GB|CONNER|CFP4207S|4.28GB|CFP4207S-1024:\ :ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3384:nt#20:ns#62:ss#1024:rm#7200:\ :fp#160:bp#256:\ :os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=ascended:rw=a:rw=b:\ :pa#0:sa#2097151:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#4:da#4096:ra#5:oa=time:\ :ia:ta=4.3BSD\ :pb#2097151:sb#2096992:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#8:db#4096:rb#5:ob=time:\ :ib:tb=4.3BSD: Now if you want a 400M swap partition your disktab might be the ticket BTW: IMHO Be careful about putting a seperate swap partition on your HD's in some circumstances it can really work out your drive if you get into a swapping circumstance where the heads do a lot of moving back and forth (like if you had / on one partition /usr on another and /private/vm on another). Say your reading in a 20M file off / and you have to swap! Your disk will have to move the heads from / to swap and back again for every swap action. This can be quie hard on a HD. Randy
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cd writers Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 07:48:12 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970411074525.24640C-100000@kira> References: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Geoffrey Matthews <matthews@ripple.cs.wwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> > What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? I'm not sure why this would be thought of as a sysadmin question.... In fact, there is a thread going on about this on csn.software right now. TjL
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Resolving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 11 Apr 1997 15:30:09 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> Hello, I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it to an NetInfoServer. Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur What's wrong about it? Thank's in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: "Juhana Riihimäki" <jriihi@sci.fi> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: 11 Apr 1997 16:24:23 GMT Organization: - Message-ID: <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower> References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> wrote in article <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com>... > Greetings, > > I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion > 7285. It is a Pentium-200 with a three Gig hard drive. I currently > have three formated primary partitions (1 DOS/Win3.1 - 500Mg, 1 Win95 1G > that came with the machine(Why does anyone use this OS?) and 1 currently > hosed up Win NT partition - 800Mg.) The remaining 7-800 Meg is > unformated. Boot Managment is being handled by System Commander. > Eventually, I intend to add a second hard drive to install OS/2, Linux > and Solaris. My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the > first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first eh you can install it to second partition on first harddrive also :)) > primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary > controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. yep to get install search for nextstep ATAPI CD-ROM it must be connected as second drive to primary controller (slave).. > When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists > that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or > get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and You need to get EIDE 3.31 or EIDE 3.35 beta driver disk image and make that disk then use that disk when it asks for hard drive. as cd-rom drive use 154x. > I talked with someone else who sucessfully installed with and IDE CD-ROM > and a SCSI disk by simply putting in the disk type in response to the You just need that EIDE driver and to just supply install prog with 154x when it asks for scsi driver first then when it asks for harddisk driver supply EIDE then continue install and it uses automatically ATAPI CD-ROM as cd-rom drive. > P.S. Assuming OpenStep would be kinder to me, can anyone tell me how > much it costs for the average joe. I'm not in school and I don't need a i want openstep too so if you get good answers to this then tell me also. I have successfully installed: DOS, Win95, OS/2 Warp 4, WindowsNT 4.0 Workstation, Linux, FreeBSD and NeXTSTEP. My computer: (Pentium 120MHz, 40 Megs ram, 3.2 + 1.3 Gigs HDD + scsi CD-R)
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Resolving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 11 Apr 1997 17:39:19 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5ilt07$qir@newstand.syr.edu> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> In article <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de>, <andreas@lynet.de> wrote: >Hello, > >I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer >in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it >to an NetInfoServer. >Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an >IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. >I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical >IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> >I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have >made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur >What's wrong about it? >Thank's in advance! > It is normal to use NetInfo anyway in this situation to serve the local domain. Thus, if netinfod is running you would need to do niload hosts . < /etc/hosts in order for your changes to be known to netinfo. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Order of NFS mounts: when does it matter? Date: 11 Apr 1997 21:06:08 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5im940$s55@newstand.syr.edu> We have a server called math that exports 3 filesystems to the network: /dev/sd0a, which math mounts on /, /dev/sd1a on /foo and /dev/sd1b on /bar . The mounts directory in the root domain instructs every machine on the network to mount these filesystems /Net. What actually happens is that all machines mount math:/ and math:/foo normally; but while math:/bar appears to be mounted ( in mtab ), the directory /Net/math/bar on all machines is empty. What mystified me is that all of the options are identical for the 3 filesystems. The only difference is the order in which the machines mount the 3 filesystems: math:/foo, then math:/, and finally (and unsuccessfully) math:/bar. The order of mounts appears to be controlled by the directory id number of the corresponding subdirectory of /mounts. After much copying and deleting (is there a better way ?) I was able to rearrange the directory ids so that both /foo and /bar come before /. Now everything works fine. Can anyone explain to me what's going on here? (I guess if I had thought the order mattered I would have expected that / would need to come first, not last. Maybe the mounts actually occur in the reverse of the directory id numbering ?) -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> From: Darren Reely <dreely@cyberstore.ca> Message-ID: <334eac59.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 11 Apr 97 21:25:45 GMT Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> wrote: >Greetings, > >I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion >7285. >[snip] >My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the >first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first >primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary >controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. > >When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists >that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or >get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and >move on, I get one of two respones. Either a black screen of purgatory >or a screen full of messages ending with an error about not finding any >SCSI device and one attempt to enter in a different root device. After >trying several random guesses I gave up. >[snip] As I recall from the INSTALL NOTES, one of the things you must load is a SCSI driver. I think the Adaptec 1542. The other thing was that the IDE CD-ROM drive had to be connected to the first controller as a slave device. It also has to follow a certain protocol. I think ATAPI. See http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1933.htmld/1933.html I'm sure all of this is in the installation documentation that came with NS 3.3. Check NextAnswers if your missing that documentation. If none of this helps, then send me e-mail directly. Some trouble shooting notes for later: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1127.htmld/1127.html Darren Reely http://www.bcog.org/~dreely
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 11 Apr 1997 21:48:19 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer > in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it > to an NetInfoServer. > Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an > IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. > I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical > IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> > I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have > made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur NextStep/OpenStep does not use the /etc/hosts (or most other etc files) but the netinfo database. Use HostManager.app to add a system on a standalone NS machine, or in a shell (watch the spaces!) nidump hosts / > /tmp/hosts open /tmp/hosts <--- add your systems here niload -d -v hosts / < /tmp/hosts (the -d stand for 'delete hosts not in given input' and the '-v' for verbose (for every added hostname you get a '+' as output)) --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: rencsok@channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SCSI low-level format for NSFIP Date: 11 Apr 1997 22:03:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Sender: -Auth- @ascended.channelu.com Message-ID: <5imcf4$fj0$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5i2p6d$49p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5i3a5l$7qt$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <5icrm4$g84@ramona.sfo.com> Cc: annard@sfo.com In <5icrm4$g84@ramona.sfo.com> Annard Brouwer wrote: > You (spammers@ruin.the.internet <spammers@ruin.the.internet>) wrote > in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 4 Apr 1997 16:27:33 GMT: > > Unless your using Openstep (not NeXTStep) 4.x your going to find it > > pretty hard (if not impossible) to make a partition that is larger than 2GB > > by simply reformatting your disk from 512B/sec to 1024B/sec ;) > > > No no no. It will work on NS3.3, I did it! The only caveat is that it cannot be your boot drive on Intel because of BIOS limitations. > So show me a df on a mounted 4G partition on NS3.3 system. The other point was that I couldn't see why simply going from 512B/sec to 1024B/sec would do anything magical that would allow one to make a 4G partition. If there is then I'd like to know. Randy
From: gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch (Gerold Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help:Services on Root not working Date: 11 Apr 1997 17:27:31 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> Whenever I log in as root, the services menu does not work. They are perfectly ok when in a regular user account. The dock also does not allow me to add any new application under the root account. In a regular user account all is OK. Any ideas where I should be looking? -- geroldr@webshuttle.ch Gerold Rupprecht Consultant: NeXTSTEP/ Openstep/Databases Financial applications 3 rue Louis Curval CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) Subject: anyone figured out ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk? Message-ID: <E8I2AL.66r@midway.uchicago.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:49:32 GMT I realize that there are multiple compies of ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk, etc. available, but I wonder why my next machine can't even talk with itself! I niloaded services explicictly, but... alas... has anyone figured out the secret to talk on NS3.2? thanks in advance much, bryce
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 12 Apr 1997 03:36:25 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5imvvp$9kh$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> In-Reply-To: <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> On 04/11/97, Frank M. Siegert wrote: >andreas@lynet.de wrote: >> Hello, > >> I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer >> in a heterogene NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it >> to an NetInfoServer. >> Thus I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an >> IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) in HostManager-Local. >> I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use numerical >> IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> >> I get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have >> made an entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur > >NextStep/OpenStep does not use the /etc/hosts (or most other etc files) but the netinfo >database. > >Use HostManager.app to add a system on a standalone NS machine, or in a shell (watch >the spaces!) > >nidump hosts / > /tmp/hosts >open /tmp/hosts <--- add your systems here >niload -d -v hosts / < /tmp/hosts > >(the -d stand for 'delete hosts not in given input' and the '-v' for verbose (for every added >hostname you get a '+' as output)) Does this hold true for the more 'dangerous' /etc/host.equiv? -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: scribex@cedep.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3/Win95 dual boot: clock problems Date: 12 Apr 1997 09:23:08 GMT Organization: Internet-Login Message-ID: <5ink9s$p7i@supernews.login.net> References: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> In-Reply-To: <KOCHHAR.97Apr7102546@deas.harvard.edu> James E. Quick wrote a very useful utility that will solve your problem. It's called TimeShift. See: ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/hack/TimeShift .I.bs.tar.gz (22 KB) ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/hack/TimeShift .README Cheers, -André ---------------------------- On 04/07/97, Sandeep Kochhar wrote: > > hi! I have a PC configured for dual booting between NextStep 3.3 and > Windows 95. I'm having problems keeping the clock (time of day) > consistent between the two environments. Both are set to the same > time zone (US/EST), but when I switch between the two, the hours are > off (the minutes and day/year are OK)... Any ideas what might be > wrong, or how to narrow down the problem? > > Thanks. > > -- > ---------------------------- > Sandeep Kochhar Tel: 617-876-2052, Fax: 617-238-0763 > 15-17 Lee St. #T2 Email: kochhar@das.harvard.edu > Cambridge, MA 02139 http://www.avcinc.com/people/kochhar/ ====================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Executables Downloading Corruption Question Message-ID: <E8It15.5C0@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5igkrh$ham$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:27:04 GMT In article <5igkrh$ham$2@solaris.cc.vt.edu> fascist@vt.edu (Stefan Hall) writes: > Hello, > The company I work at has a NeXTstation running version 3 of > NeXTStep, and have self-extracting executables made with the > WINZIP self-extractor builder for Windows 3.x. These executables > (and *any* executable for that matter), when downloaded, are > corrupted and will not run. However, a plain .ZIP file runs just > fine. Has anyone encountered this problem as well, or know how > to fix it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please respond > via email to: kweston@cslab.vt.edu. > It might be that I'm a bit slow or even outright stupid, but could someone explain to me how a Intel executable like a self extracting ZIP archive is expected to run on a Motorola CPU without help of an emulator like SoftPC? -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Message-ID: <E8Itrq.5Cr@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:43:02 GMT In article <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) writes: > I have an old pizza box NeXT which has recently started to hang itself. > The machine has 32 MB of RAM and is running 3.3 > Looking in the system messages the following appear.... > > machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: channel 0x2000110 > machine-name mach: spurious DMA interrupt: state 0x1000000 channel 0x2000110 > > occasionally this one also shows up: > machine-name mach: en0: transmitter not ready > > I had an another machine and swapped the hard-disk and memory to it > thinking the problem may be on the motherboard. The same errors > appeared. > > Could this be a memory chip problem or is it a corrupted system or > ....???? > Any ideas would be welcome. > These spurious DMA interupts start to appear when the CPU is too slow to service all I/O requests. Some interupts then get lost while the kernel resides in an uninteruptible section. Since you also mentioned the Ethernet driver posting error messages, could it be that you have a troubled (possibly 10base2?) Ethernet segment that is awash in collisions and other garbled packets? This used to be a very common symptom on any of the erarly BSD implementations. I've seen this as a regular pattern on MicroVAX IIs running Ultrix, for instance. And SUN 3s used to show the same behaviour (although less frequently)... -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Resolving hostnames with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <E8IuBu.5DH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 10:55:06 GMT In article <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> andreas@lynet.de writes: > > Hello, > > I unfortunately have to use an OpenStep Computer in a heterogene > NetWork (OS/2...) so I cannot bind it to an NetInfoServer. Thus > I entered manually a hostname(venus) and an IP-Adress(192.168.1.2) > in HostManager-Local. I can ping the OS/2-Computer when I use > numerical IP-Adresses, but when I enter: ping merkur <return> I > get an error-message (unknown hosts), although I have made an > entry in /etc/hosts: 192.168.1.1 merkur What's wrong about it? > Thank's in advance! > NEXTSTEP just works different! The plain file sysadmin databases just remain for BSD compatibility with old code. Anything that was linked towards the NEXTSTEP runtime libs uses NetInfo to determine network setup and other such stuff (users, printers, etc.). Since you didn't enter the hostnames in NetInfo (by means of HostManager.app) these hostnames won't be resolved. You either enter these host by means of HostManager or you must bulk load them using 'niload' (see man-page). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Date: 12 Apr 1997 17:02:15 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5iof6n$f1e$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> <5imvvp$9kh$1@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: > On 04/11/97, Frank M. Siegert wrote: >... how to modify the host db on NeXTSTEP using nidump/niload > Does this hold true for the more 'dangerous' /etc/host.equiv? As far as I know /etc/hosts.equiv /etc/hosts.lpd /etc/resolv.conf /etc/fstab /etc/gettytab (...and a bunch of other files) are still used from /etc. (Maybe there is a way to feed them in NetInfo, however some of them are needed before NetInfo is running at boot time...) - Frank --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: sairanen@park.helsinki.fi (Mika Sairanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: comsat Date: 12 Apr 1997 21:19:01 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Message-ID: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hello, problem with comsat-procedure. our server does this: Mar 27 00:18:02 meisseli in.comsat[16246]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 00:20:05 meisseli in.comsat[16249]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 03:06:22 meisseli in.comsat[16327]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 03:46:23 meisseli in.comsat[16347]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 03:49:28 meisseli in.comsat[16348]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:00:10 meisseli in.comsat[16356]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:30:57 meisseli in.comsat[16371]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:51:13 meisseli in.comsat[16381]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 04:57:07 meisseli in.comsat[16385]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 05:30:26 meisseli in.comsat[16402]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 05:34:27 meisseli in.comsat[16403]: connect from 128.214.122.151 Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 and it is not wanted. do you know how to stop it? sairanen@elisir.helsinki.fi
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:29:31 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Dear NeXTers, I would like to ask you if you had any comments on the following procedure. It is only one of four I am putting together. So this is just a testing what you think. The other procedures will be: - Install on small disk in sd0a, initialize the large disk on sd1 using a custom disktab entry, change the SCSI ID's so that large disk becomes sd0a and then move all the stuff from the other disk. Details were provided by my friend. I will translate it, test it (maybe) and post it. - Copy the whole installation CD on a temporary disk, edit /etc/disktab and use the disk instead of the CD to install the software. Details later. - A suggestion to NeXT Software, details later. - Here comes the only procedure I had enough energy to test and type. Please comment. Good luck. Rudy. --------------------------------- I don't assume any responsibility if you damage anything on your machine. This is what I did, and if you want, you can try it. You are on your own. Don't do it unless you are sure what is going on. It is assumed that you have all SCSI and CDROM drivers and know how to perform NS 3.3 installation on your configuration. Procedure 1 ----------- Requires a second SCSI disk, of size at least 60 MB. Advantages: - additional disk could be small (60 MB), e.g. ZIP Drive (not tested) - The scsi ID of the disk might be high, e.g. ZIP drive (not tested) - No need to swap the SCSI id's during installation, useful if you don't want to fiddle with your internal SCSI drives. Disadvantages: - Complicated. - Tested with SCSI harddisks only. SCSI ID's are assumed to be set so that the disks are recognized as: sd0 .... Disk0 - a large harddisk (over 4GB or so) that we want to partition using a custom disktab entry while installing NS 3.3 from the CD on this disk. sd1 .... Disk1 - another harddisk. Size is not essential, as long as the whole NS installation CD can fit on it. This is a disk that we use temporarily to copy the whole CD on. sd2 .... CD ROM. NOTE !!! Both disks, Disk0 and Disk1, will be erased during the installation process. Stage 1 - Basic install on secondary disk Disk1. - Put the NS 3.3 installation CD in the CD ROM drive. - Boot from the installation diskette. - Specify the CD ROM and SCSI drivers as during a usual install. - When asked if you want to install NS on Disk0 (the large disk), type 2 to choose the smaller disk Disk1, which has SCSI higher than Disk0. - Then choose 1 to erase the entire disk and use it for NeXTstep (you can also specify a partition, if you want, but we assume that you use the whole disk.) - After that, choose 1 to start the installation and wait for the basic installation of NS on Disk1 to complete. Stage 2 - Rebooting in single user mode with Disk1 as the root device. - When asked to remove the floppy from the drive and press a key to restart the computer, PUT THE INSTALLATION FLOPPY IN THE DRIVE and then press a key to reboot from the floppy. - At the boot: prompt specify -a -s to start NS from the floppy in single user mode, using Disk1 as the root device. - You will be asked for the CD ROM and SCSI drivers again. It will look like you are starting the installation again, but you will end up in single user mode instead. - After selecting the CD ROM and HardDisk drivers, you will have chance to load additional drivers. Load the FLOPPY DRIVER which is located on the first driver disk. - When prompted for the root device, specify sd1 Stage 3 - Initializing and partitioning the target disk Disk0. - Insert the floppy containing your new disktab file. - Mount the floppy mount /dev/fd0a /Floppy - Copy the new disktab file from the floppy to /ect mv /etc/disktab /etc/disktab.orig cp /Floppy/disktab /etc - In single user mode execute fdisk to remove any partitions from the target Disk0. - To initialize the target disk Disk0 (recognized as sd0) execute: disk -i /dev/rsd0h -l Disk **** disktab notes ************************* Note that the disk will be initialized using your new disktab file. You have to be sure that the name of the disk in the disktab file match the name of the disk as reported by scsimodes. See NeXTanswers 1533 for details. Example output of: scsimodes /dev/rsd0h Drive type: SEAGATE ST34371W 0360JD 512 bytes per sector .... Then the name in the disktab file has to be SEAGATE ST34371W 0360JD-512 where the 512 is the number of sectors You can repeat this step a few times and experiment with the disktab file, until you are happy with the partitioning ... **** end of disktab notes ****************** Stage 4 - Copying the basic install files from Disk1 (mounted as root, sd1a) into the first partition of the target disk Disk0. - To mount the first partition of Disk0 as /Disk0 folder execute: mount /dev/sd0a /Disk0 - To create an identical copy of the Disk1 (sd1a) into the first partition of the target disk Disk0 (mounted as /Disk0) execute: dump 0f - /dev/sd1a | (cd /Disk0; restore xf -) Answer 'y' to the question if you want the set owner/mode for '.' Stage 5 - Continuing with standard install on target disk Disk0 - Edit the file /Disk0/etc/fstab so that the root is mounted from /dev/sd0a instead of /dev/sd1a. The change 1 --> 2 is the only change. For example vi /Disk0/etc/fstab - Touch the file /Disk0/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom to bypass BuildDisk which would report the size of your disk wrongly and wouldn't let you finish the installation (see Nextanswers 2107 for details) touch /Disk0/usr/adm/BuildDisk.custom - REMOVE ANY FLOPPY from the drive and reboot the system using reboot - Finish the installation on the large Disk0 (sd0a) as if you started the installation on this disk. Note: The machine will bypass the BuildDisk, so after you reboot, the machine will ask you for drivers, boot NS in graphics mode and instead of opening BuildDisk it will reboot immediately. So make sure that there is no floppy with drivers in the drive. After this second reboot it will ask you again for the drivers, so don't think that something went wrong. It's just bypassing the BuildDisk. Stage 6 - Finishing the installation - Since also the Configure.app stage was skipped, you have to install all the additional drivers by hand, otherwise you would be asked for the drivers at every booting. You have to do this as root, so set a password for 'me' account, log out and log in as root. Then run /NextAdmin/Configure.app ... - After you are done with the installation, you will have to edit the file /etc/fstab to mount all the other partitions of your large disk sd0. - Also you should erase all the files on the temporarily used disk Disk1 on sd1a. - You will have to install by hand any packages you want to have on your computer. You can do that by doubleclicking on the package files on the NS 3.3 CD, in the directory NeXTCD/Packages. Good luck, people. I am really tired of this. Rudy.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:34:04 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipd6c$5gh$2@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote: >sd0 .... Disk0 - a large harddisk (over 4GB or so) that we want > to partition using a custom disktab entry while installing > NS 3.3 from the CD on this disk. >sd1 .... Disk1 - another harddisk. Size is not essential, as long as > the whole NS installation CD can fit on it. This is a disk > that we use temporarily to copy the whole CD on. >sd2 .... CD ROM. > Sorry, the sd1 can be small, say 60MB. We will not copy the whole CD on it. This was written for a different procedure. Sorry. The sd1 (Disk1) is just another SCSI disk with at least 60MB. Rudy.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 01:42:50 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipdmq$5gh$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote: >- To create an identical copy of the Disk1 (sd1a) into the first partition > of the target disk Disk0 (mounted as /Disk0) execute: > dump 0f - /dev/sd1a | (cd /Disk0; restore xf -) I forgot the mention that my friend, Tom Hurka from Prague helped me with this step. Thanks, Tom. Rudy.
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Date: 13 Apr 1997 02:31:55 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5ipgir$dk7$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek) wrote: >Dear NeXTers, > > I would like to ask you if you had any comments on the following procedure. >It is only one of four I am putting together. So this is just a testing >what you think. > > > >The other procedures will be: > >- Install on small disk in sd0a, initialize the large disk on sd1 using a >custom disktab entry, change the SCSI ID's so that large disk >becomes sd0a and then move all the stuff from the other disk. Details >were provided by my friend. I will translate it, test it (maybe) and post >it. > >- Copy the whole installation CD on a temporary disk, edit /etc/disktab and >use the disk instead of the CD to install the software. Details later. > >- A suggestion to NeXT Software, details later. > >- Here comes the only procedure I had enough energy to test and type. > > >Please comment. > >Good luck. > >Rudy. > I wrote the whole thing for the Intel platform. The idea should be the same for black harware, but the steps would need some changes. If I get some notes from you, I will add these plus my own 3 replies to my post and post it again. Sorry for the updates. Rudy.
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 21:46:06 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith Net-Illinois State University Message-ID: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sorry for the off topic question, but does anyone have info on installing Windows NT 4 & NEXTSTEP 3.3 onto a Jaz cart? It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? Iomega's WWW site has *NO* info on *installing NT* onto a Jaz cart, much less NS info... Thanks much in advance. The idea is that I can have a different OS on each 1 GB cart...Talk about being a chameleon! 8-) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D --- Instructional Technology Services --- Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."- Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc. CEO ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED REPRESENT MYSELF ONLY
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Services on Root not working Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:24:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Gerold Rupprecht <gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch> In-Reply-To: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> check to make sure the root home is properly defined, and is not something like /users/root if that path does not exist. TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 08:45:53 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> In-Reply-To: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Apr-97 comsat by Mika Sairanen@park.helsi > Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 > and it is not wanted. > do you know how to stop it? Edit /etc/inetd.conf, and disable the entry for the comsat daemon by commenting it out (insert a '#' as the first character on that line). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: anyone figured out ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk? Date: 13 Apr 1997 13:13:45 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5iqm69$s56$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <E8I2AL.66r@midway.uchicago.edu> bryce@cleopatra.rh.uchicago.edu (Bryce Sady) wrote: > I realize that there are multiple compies of ntalk, > talk, ytalk, etalk, etc. available, but I wonder why my > next machine can't even talk with itself! I niloaded > services explicictly, but... > alas... has anyone figured out the secret to talk on > NS3.2? Does your machine know about itself? One common problem is that the local hostname is only in /etc/hostconfig but not in the host db (in Netinfo) or known by the resolver. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty) Subject: Re: solving hostnames with /etc/hosts Message-ID: <cdoutyE8L5IJ.9Br@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services References: <5ille1$7dr$1@lynet.de> <5imbj4$5g4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> <5imvvp$9kh$1@news.digifix.com> <5iof6n$f1e$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 16:51:54 GMT Sender: cdouty@netcom13.netcom.com In article <5iof6n$f1e$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net>, Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: >sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) wrote: >> On 04/11/97, Frank M. Siegert wrote: >>... how to modify the host db on NeXTSTEP using nidump/niload >> Does this hold true for the more 'dangerous' /etc/host.equiv? > >As far as I know > > /etc/hosts.equiv > /etc/hosts.lpd > /etc/resolv.conf > /etc/fstab > /etc/gettytab > (...and a bunch of other files) > >are still used from /etc. (Maybe there is a way to feed them in NetInfo, however some of >them are needed before NetInfo is running at boot time...) Some of those are (can be) superceeded when NetInfo is running. As of 3.3 you can put resolv.conf into /locations/resolver. I'm not sure which takes precedence, the file or NetInfo, but it's probably NetInfo. Note that there is no builtin format for resolver info in niload/nidump. NFS mounts can go into /mounts, and I believe that autonfsmounts must go there. However the file /etc/fstab is certainly required for booting. Heaven help you if you have multiple disk partitions (or multiple disks) and you lose this file. The rest of those config files are definitely NOT in NetInfo. I'm not sure if this is good or bad. -Chris -- Christopher Douty - Rogue Engineer trapped in a land of software cdouty@netcom.com "Frequently the messages have meaning; that is they refer to or are correlated according to some system with physical or conceptual entities. These semantic aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: 13 Apr 1997 09:46:06 -0400 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5iqo2u$mop@papoose.quick.com> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi> In article <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.helsinki.fi>, Mika Sairanen <sairanen@park.helsinki.fi> wrote: >hello, >problem with comsat-procedure. >our server does this: >Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 >and it is not wanted. >do you know how to stop it? If you do not want to run comsat on your box then just comment out the definition of the service in /etc/inetd.conf. To do this change the line: comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/comsat comsat to #comsat dgram udp wait root /usr/etc/comsat comsat Then either send a hangup signal to inetd or reboot the system to have it take affect. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: carsten@selene.cube.net (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: cd writers Date: 13 Apr 1997 20:51:34 GMT Organization: CUBENet Munich Message-ID: <5irh0m$23g$1@salyko.cube.net> References: <5i3mc4$cif$1@ra.cc.wwu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970411074525.24640C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >> What are my options for a cdrom writer (burner) for nextstep/intel? > >I'm not sure why this would be thought of as a sysadmin question.... > >In fact, there is a thread going on about this on csn.software right now. > >TjL > > > A free Beta of the CDDesigner is available at http://www.ip.cubenet.de/gehle. It is a pre- and mastering software for NS on NeXT/Intel and supports devices by Yamaha, Grundig, HP, Phillips and Plasmon. Carsten Gehle (GehleSoftware@t-online.de)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 15:11:13 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In-Reply-To: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at least the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable drives. That being the case, I would assume Jaz drive would also work. > Iomega's WWW site has *NO* info on *installing NT* onto a Jaz cart, much > less NS info... I've had no contact with them myself, but from comp.scsi.periphs and others, I never expect to do business with them. SyQuest, on the other hand, has been very helpful on many differetnt occasions. Their email staff has been helpful, as has their 800# folks. > The idea is that I can have a different OS on each 1 GB cart...Talk > about being a chameleon! 8-) I intend to do the same thing one of these days when I get a SyJet drive. Hope it goes well. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: cortesr@alleg.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preferences Question Date: 14 Apr 1997 01:02:15 GMT Organization: Allegheny College Message-ID: <5irvmn$o0t@speering.alleg.edu> References: <jiwu-1304971553250001@ont-ca11-56.ix.netcom.com> I recently came across this problem and it happened after someone had their account restored. When changing the ownership of her account, some of the files in ~/.NeXT did not get changed from being owned by root to her ownership. So check the permissions in this directory with the Listing View in the WorkspaceManager.app. Ricardo "Jim Wu" <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> wrote: :-> Apparently I am unable to save my preferences setting any more. Does anyone :-> have an idea why? I am running 3.2 on a cube. I have recently added the :-> foundation patch, could that be why?? Thanks. :-> :-> Jim Wu :-> jimwu@bigfoot.com -- Ricardo Cortes Allegheny College cortesr@alleg.edu (NeXTMail OK) http://ace.alleg.edu/~cortes
From: gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch (Gerold Rupprecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Services on Root not working Date: 13 Apr 1997 18:59:51 GMT Organization: EUnet AG Message-ID: <5iraf7$38h@news.eunet.ch> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > check to make sure the root home is properly defined, and is not something > like /users/root if that path does not exist. > > TjL > > I am not sure where to look. All the users were created using the Create User apps. .. The root account appears to have been corrupted when we crashed NetInfo a while back... Can you explain what you mean by root being properly defined? Many thanx in advance, -- Gerold Rupprecht Consultant: NeXTSTEP/ Openstep/Databases Financial applications geroldr@webshuttle.ch 3 rue Louis Curval CH-1206 Geneva Switzerland
From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail aliases and NetInfo domains... Date: 13 Apr 1997 22:53:40 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5iro5k$t3o$1@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <5ilbmg$o7p@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5imb89$1e4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Cc: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de In <5imb89$1e4@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Uli Zappe wrote: >specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) wrote: >> we're running a network with two NetInfo levels, the /-domain >> (root) and a subdomain called /faum. Now, I want to install some >> mailaliases only for the /faum domain in it's subdirectory >> /aliases. I put them there, but the users of the /faum subdomain >> didn't see those aliases in their Mail.app's until I put them in >> the /-Domain. That's exactly the location where I didn't want to >> put the aliases. >> >> Is it possible to add mailaliases in a subdomain, or do they >> always have to be in the /-domain? > >Did you run mailDBupdate with the option -a /faum? > >By default, mailDBupdate only looks at the root domain. Right. Take a look at what's being done in your /etc/crontab(s). ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.3 Install on Proprietary Panasonic Adapter? Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:37:49 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith Net-Illinois State University Message-ID: <3351B49C.32F8@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anyone know if it's possible to do a NEXTSTEP 3.3 Install on Proprietary Panasonic Adapter? It's connected via the sound card, and is *NOT* straight IDE or SCSI. Thanks in advance. :) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D --- Instructional Technology Development --- Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."- Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc. CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: siren@surf.pangea.ca (Betty Siren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: loginwindow tries to start BuildDisk! Date: 13 Apr 1997 22:26:19 -0500 Organization: Pangea.CA, Inc. Message-ID: <5is84r$6a0@surf.pangea.ca> References: <5i9j4t$r53@surf.pangea.ca> <chk.860424422@deimos.frii.com> chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) writes: >I believe it was /var/adm/BuildDisk.custom. >Try touching that file and see what happens. BINGO! "touch /clients/rtmono/adm/BuildDisk.custom" fixed it. I had seen that file on the *server* and thought it might be the *problem* rather than the solution, since my diskless client used work fine. Of course it also used to be headless :-) It has since got the mono monitor from my server cube. Before installing a NextDimention on the server, I tried a quick backup, since I had not done one for a year. So long, in fact, that I left out the hyphen in: "dump 0uf - /dev/rsd0a | compress > /OD/backup.Z" Recovering took so many changes, I didn't know which one to blame. Must have tried a hundred "trial and error" fixes. >This is something that absolutely has to go into the FAQ! At least now it will be in DejaNews. Many thanks Chris. Also thanks to the emailers who suggested "dread -l" and "nidump -r" ... Richard Tilley <siren@pangea.ca>
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:43:55 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Services & Smith Net-Illinois State University Message-ID: <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: luomat@peak.org Timothy Luoma wrote: > > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? > > I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told > me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at least > the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable drives. Ok, thanks Timothy, but now the question is *HOW*! Is there an FAQ for this? > That being the case, I would assume Jaz drive would also work. I'm sure it would, but again - how? Have a URL for this info? > > Iomega's WWW site has *NO* info on *installing NT* onto a Jaz cart, much > > less NS info... > > I've had no contact with them myself, but from comp.scsi.periphs and > others, I never expect to do business with them. SyQuest, on the other > hand, has been very helpful on many differetnt occasions. Their email > staff has been helpful, as has their 800# folks. Why do you say this? Bad Iomega tech support? I have yet to deal with them, but soon... Also, I have a flakey SyQuest 130 MB cart drive, and have heard about the *extreme* suseptability of vibration damage to the SyQuest media, and that's what seems to have happened in my case...I don't know if SyJet media is the same, however - this experience caused me to buy a Jaz as opposed to SyJet, plus the Jaz has been out longer, and bugs worked out better...comments? > > The idea is that I can have a different OS on each 1 GB cart...Talk > > about being a chameleon! 8-) > > I intend to do the same thing one of these days when I get a SyJet drive. It would be most beneficial if you could post your experiences for all! :) -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D --- Instructional Technology Development --- Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."- Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc. CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Intel and NeXT -- NetInfo and setting up "network" printing Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:08:38 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210744.26047C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Could someone give me some clear FAQ pointers or "i've done this, do it this way" references to getting my Intel to print via my NeXT? They will be connected via Ethernet. I really do not know how to do this, and would gladly accept anyone's help. I know I have to set the NeXT laser printer to 'public' via PrintManager.app, but what else is required (or is anything else required)? I will have just 2 machines. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me --__==========00000000006906==antigone.sonic.net==__--
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help:Services on Root not working Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:07:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413205844.26047B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970412192410.20437C-100000@kira> <5iraf7$38h@news.eunet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Gerold Rupprecht <gerold@ariel.infodesign.ch> In-Reply-To: <5iraf7$38h@news.eunet.ch> > I am not sure where to look. All the users were created using the Create > User apps. .. The root account appears to have been corrupted when we > crashed NetInfo a while back... Can you explain what you mean by root > being properly defined? When you login to root from 'su' and do pwd what path do you see? When you login as root from the console, where is your home directory? When you open 'root' in UserManager.app (which I assume is what you mean by 'Create User' apps) what is the Home Directory path? Most users are in /Users/ but root is normally at / While it doesn't really matter which one you choose (I have set root to /Users/root personally) you must make sure that if it is set to /Users/root that /Users/root actually exists. You can also see root's home by doing 'nidump passwd . |grep root' TjL ps -- my Usenet reading is more sporadic than my email reading, so if you need a faster response, please send email directly... you just happened to catch me on a day I checked news twice.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo, PPP, IPs, and more Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:09:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210844.26047D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings all. I'm about a week from having my Intel machine, and I want to make sure I have all the details worked out so I can get up and running asap once it gets here. Here's the situation: 1) NeXTslab, whose main function in life will be printserver 2) Intel, which will be the main machine I've pretty much decided that the Intel's disk will be NFS mounted to the slab. That way I can keep the slab turned off when not in use. I would like to keep the slab otherwise independent of the Intel I will have backups of the Intel nightly, so if the Intel should ever die I should be able to get the slab running like the Intel was and have a limited amount of downtime. Of course, there are some m68k-only apps that I may want to NXHost, so maybe I will want the slab up.... who knows... Anyway, I've read the NeXT info on SimpleNetworkStarter, but I've got a few questions remaining. The Intel will be connecting to the 'net via PPP. Eventually I hope to have a static IP for it, but for now I will just have two machines, and I'd like to know how to setup the IPs in /etc/hosts and NetInfo. Should the Intel be '192.42.172.1' and the slab '192.42.172.2'? 192.42.172.1 IntelHostname 192.42.172.2 SlabHostname Thanks all TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me --__==========00000000006907==antigone.sonic.net==__--
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.linux.networking Subject: Re: NFS export from Linux to NeXTSTEP file creation errors. Date: 13 Apr 97 17:46:52 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Distribution: comp Message-ID: <SHESS.97Apr13174652@howard.one.net> References: <SHESS.97Apr11091232@slave.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@one.net's message of 11 Apr 97 09:12:32 In article <SHESS.97Apr11091232@slave.one.net>, shess@one.net (Scott Hess) writes: When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp (an NFS mount from a Linux machine) and do "touch barf" from NeXTSTEP as scott, I get a response "touch: barf: Not owner". The zero-length file barf is created, with no rwx permissions at all. If I try to copy a file, same thing (zero-length no-permissions file created, not written). If I got over to ichabod and fix the permissions to be reasonable, I can overwrite the file just fine from NeXTSTEP. When I'm in /Net/ichabod/tmp and to "touch barf" as _root_, meanwhile, I get a zero-length barf with owner rw, group r, world r, owned be nobody.daemon. This was a hairy one, and I'm still not sure what tipped me off. I tried doing the same basic things from another Linux machine - no problems at all. So I poked around. Under NeXTSTEP, user scott (uid 21) is a member of the wheel group (uid 0). Under Linux, scott was uid 21, but uid 0 was for group root, and NFS was doing magic id-remapping for root uid and gid. Bang! Adding no_root_squash to /etc/exports fixed things right up. Of course, root_squash is the default for a reason. But since the machines which get no_root_squash are both on a private LAN behind an IP_MASQUERADE box, and the routers are set up not to route packets from that LAN to the public Internet, and also not to route packets with the same network address _from_ the public Internet onto the private LAN, I _assume_ that it should be relatively safe. Thanks, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: recurve@resourceful.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: anyone figured out ntalk, talk, ytalk, etalk? Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 00:49:44 GMT Organization: Rosenzweig Investments Message-ID: <E8LrMw.1JC@xombi.wizard.net> References: <E8I2AL.66r@midway.uchicago.edu> <5iqm69$s56$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> > Does your machine know about itself? One common problem is > that the local hostname is only in /etc/hostconfig but not in > the host db (in Netinfo) or known by the resolver. Could you explain this a little more? I have two NeXTs networked together, one of which I gave the ficticious address 128.0.0.1 and hooked it up to the net via modem and PPP. The NeXTs and Macs on the network can send talk requests back and forth but the NeXT with the PPP connection is not able to talk to the outside world. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the ip address this machine recieves through PPP. --- SW Son of Ginger and Harry, Aaron Rosenzweig SW http://www.wam.umd.edu/~recurve/ SW... recurve@resourceful.com SWN?
From: Christian Hahn <chahn@on-luebeck.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: teTeX Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 21:18:15 +0200 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <33513176.5426FD13@on-luebeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi to everybody! Has anyone installed teTeX 0.4 under OS 4.1 properly? I did so far except one thing: When i try to start xdvi, it says "Error: Couldn't open display!" What's wrong, any ideas? Thanks in advance, Christian ---------- Christian Hahn --- chahn@on-luebeck.de .'/,-Y"^^^^^"~-. l.Y ^. /\ _\_ i ___/" "\ | /" "\ o ! l ] o !__./ \ _ _ \.___./ "~\ X \/ \ ___./ \ ___. _..--~~" ~`-. ` Z,-- / \ \__. ( / ______) \ l /-----~~" / Y \ / | "x______.^ |_____________\ j__________V___\__
From: Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:29:33 +0200 Organization: University of Karlstad Message-ID: <3352070D.2BEE@cse.hks.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've tried to install NextStep 3.3 now for two days w/o any success. Is there any FAQ that covers installation? My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and I'm using the Intel VX chipset. Thanks for any help. // jorgen
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Preferences Question Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 06:25:58 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970414062449.9014B-100000@kira> References: <jiwu-1304971553250001@ont-ca11-56.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jim Wu <jiwu@tuba.aix.calpoly.edu> In-Reply-To: <jiwu-1304971553250001@ont-ca11-56.ix.netcom.com> > Apparently I am unable to save my preferences setting any more. Does anyone > have an idea why? I am running 3.2 on a cube. I have recently added the > foundation patch, could that be why?? Thanks. Could be that some of your files in your $HOME are owned by root, so you don't have write permission. Check the $HOME/.NeXT folder and the files inside first. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: NFS from NeXT to SGI Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 16:39:20 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <33524197.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks, has anybody out there managed to nfs-mount something from a OpenStep/mach 4.1 or 4.2pr on a SGI running irix6.2 ??? Stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: jensb@mevis.uni-bremen.de (Jens Breitenborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NFS from NeXT to SGI Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:20:59 GMT Organization: University of Bremen, Germany Message-ID: <5iti0r$7sa@gina.zfn.uni-bremen.de> References: <33524197.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Cc: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de In <33524197.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Stefan Ried wrote: > Hi folks, > > > has anybody out there managed to nfs-mount something from a > OpenStep/mach 4.1 or 4.2pr on a SGI running irix6.2 ??? > > I've nfs-mounted various directories of an SGI file system (ONYX running Irix6.2) to be accessible by my OpenStep 4.1 / Mach for Intel system. But I haven't tried the other way. Jens -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Jens Breitenborn mailto:jensb@MeVis.Uni-Bremen.DE http://WWW.MeVis.Uni-Bremen.de/~jensb
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Boris Pioline <bpioline@thwgs2.cern.ch> Subject: ps_if for NextStep3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <335243C3.6F7@thwgs2.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN. European Lab. for Particle Physics Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:48:35 GMT Hi there, Being told in aswer to a previous message that 'ps_if' was the thing to use in order to set up multiple virtual hosts, (available from ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/), I installed it and was actually able to run it under NextStep3.3, not 3.0 (complains that ps_reloc is not a good Mach file - it also complains during compilation that it needs kernserv/machine/spl.h, not present in 3.0) Does anybody know whether there exists a version compatible with 3.0 around ? If not I will have to upgrade to 3.3 :-< Thanks all Boris Pioline
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: FAXing with PPP Date: 14 Apr 1997 15:34:30 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax mode? David A. Johnson, Research Engineer, Northwestern University
From: carsten@selene.cube.net (Carsten Gehle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem connection Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:09:05 GMT Organization: CUBENet Munich Message-ID: <5itkr1$3jf$1@salyko.cube.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hallo there probably anyone can help me with the this problem: I have a host (named hermes) running NXFax 1.04 and connected to a ZyXEL U-1496E. When I try to connect this host from a NECVersa (running a demo-version of NXFax and using a MultiTec MT2834LTI) via tip the following happens: > localhost:1# tip fa9600 > connected > ATDT.... > CONNECT 14400 LAPM COMPRESSED > > > NeXT / NXFax (hermes) (ttydfb) > > > hermes login: guest > P8^w'dw %(a destroyed password-request) from than any transferred characters seem to be destroyed. Any idea ? Thanks Carsten Gehle (carsten@selene.cube.net)
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dhpcd & NEXTSTEP: route-ing trouble Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:55:27 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: <5itnhv$il7$1@news.belwue.de> I'm trying to use our NeXT server as dhcpd server. The dhcpd package compiled fine with a few changes, but I seem to run in some routing problems now. The problem seems to be that I have to sent out packages with an unchanged broadcast address 255.255.255.255. NEXTSTEP, like other systems, seems to rewrite this to the local broadcast address, and this makes the clients unhappy. The documentation hints to add a route from the network interface address to 255.255.255.255, but with NEXTSTEP's route this won't work. Any hints how I can do this programmatically ? From the dhpcd docs: "Even if you only need dhcpd to work on systems with a single interface, there can still be problems. Of all the systems dhcpd currently works on, only one (Solaris) has an IP stack that allows the all-ones broadcast address (255.255.255.255) to go out onto the network unchanged. Other systems insist on changing 255.255.255.255 into the local subnet broadcast address (here, that's 204.254.239.255). This results in a protocol violation, and while many DHCP clients don't notice the problem, some (e.g., all Microsoft DHCP clients) do. Clients that have this problem will appear not to see DHCOPFFER responses from the server. It is possible to work around this problem on most such systems by creating a host route from your network interface address to 255.255.255.255. On most systems, you do this with: route add 255.255.255.255 <your-interface-address> 0 or route add -host 255.255.255.255 <your-interface-address> Some Linux systems work better with: route add -host 255.255.255.255 dev <your-interface-name> On some systems, you will get error messages if you use the route command, but may succeed if you write a small program to do the system calls. It would be nice if dhcpd were to do this automatically. If you have a patch to do this, send it in! :')" Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit Mathematisches Institut, Uni HD | | flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany | | (NeXTmail, MIME) (49)6221 54-5771 fax 54-8312 | | PGP Key fingerprint = 23 8F B3 38 A3 39 A6 01 5B 99 91 D6 F2 AC CD C7 |
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:33:39 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <3352070D.2BEE@cse.hks.se> Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> wrote: > I've tried to install NextStep 3.3 now for two days w/o any success. > Is there any FAQ that covers installation? > My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and I'm > using the Intel VX chipset. You'll need a SCSI CDROM. AFAIK EIDE won't work at install time. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: clp5@cornell.edu (Collin Pieper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Connecting to Gateway Date: 14 Apr 1997 16:36:55 GMT Organization: Cornell University Sender: clp5@cornell.edu (Verified) Message-ID: <5itmf7$d8r@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Hello all- I currently have my NeXTCube connected to the net via PPP, but I would prefer to use my Mac as a gateway to the net. I downloaded a demo of some internet gateway software for the mac and that seems easy enough to configure, but I'm not quite certain what to do on the NeXT side of things. The Mac and NeXT are happily connected via AppleTalk over Ethernet, so the physical connection is all set. I just need some pointers on how to configure the software on the NeXT. I imagine it's about as simple as setting a gateway address somewhere, but I'm not sure where to look. Thanks...Collin l (/NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf), Chapter 2 how to use the SimpleNetworkStarter.app to setup a master net info server. Carsten Gehle (carsten@selene.cube.net)
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 18:22:28 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5itsl4$ars@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> In article <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) writes: > Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> wrote: > > I've tried to install NextStep 3.3 now for two days w/o any success. > > My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and > > I'm using the Intel VX chipset. > You'll need a SCSI CDROM. AFAIK EIDE won't work at install time. This is incorrect. NS-3.3 fully supports installs to EIDE Hard drives from EIDE (ATAPI) CDROMS. You just need to get the most up-to-date drivers to use at install-time, to use instead of the drivers on the drivers diskette that comes with the NS-3.3 CDROM. You can get all the newest drivers (and drivers disk image) from NeXTanswers. In particular, you'll need: EISABus, v3.35 EIDE, v3.35 (which now supports installing from CDROM attached to secondary IDE channel) Good luck. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: bob@hugo.geophys.washington.edu (Bob Crosson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring USR internal modem Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:05:42 GMT Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <5iu676$3ot@nntp1.u.washington.edu> Keywords: modem I need help getting a US Robotics "Sportster" internal 33.6 modem to configure and then run on a NS Intel (Pentium Pro 200) machine. All of the patches and latest EISA bus (3.35), portserver, and serial port drivers have been installed. The modem board is configured PnP (checked on the board). In Configure.app, COM1 comes up normally and is configured as an active serial port (port 1) which feeds a Zyxel external modem (this part of the system works fine). COM2 appears to come up as the internal USR modem, and it configures with IRQ 3 (no conflicts). When the machine boots, everything looks find until final configuration of the modem port. The following message is issued to the system message log: ISASerialPort1: Unable to determine chip type at I/O base 0x2f8 I suspect that this is not really the problem, since the modem manual says that it has a "standard" 16550 UART, which is supposed to be acceptable to the driver according to the help section of Configure.app. Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Bob Crosson Geophysics University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195 E-mail: bob@geophys.washington.edu
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System Panic and DMA Underrun Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:32:56 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5iu7q8$c6j@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:32:56 GMT Here is a listing of our /private/adm file. We have had trouble printing lately in that the jobs will stop early, or that it will print half the page, and then print the full page, and then print the full page again. It should only print one page. Any ideas. This is our printserver machine. On a separate note, occasionally (once every three weeks) we will get system panics coming from the /users/ filesytem. We have this on a separate disk. Is it possible the disk is bad? Ideas?? Thanks, Jeromy jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu Apr 13 22:41:10 chenext1 mach: np0: spurious packet received, cmd = 87 Apr 13 22:41:10 chenext1 mach: np0: DMA Underrun; Reprinting Page Apr 14 08:14:11 chenext1 loginwindow[7089]: running /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace Apr 14 08:14:12 chenext1 Workspace[7089]: logged in Apr 14 10:44:10 chenext1 mach: dev = 0x610, block = 3016, fs = /users/Userdisk1 Apr 14 10:44:10 chenext1 mach: panic: (Cpu 0) free_block: freeing free frag Apr 14 10:44:11 chenext1 syslogd: going down on signal 15 Apr 14 11:04:29 chenext1 mach: init arg: -xx --
From: pmalley@csus.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sound problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 19:04:13 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <5itv3d$2ci@news2.snfc21.pacbell.net> I have black hardware running NS 3.3. I am getting strange sound problems. If I record myself and playback, all I get is garbage out, however all the system sounds come out ok. My sound for printer errors comes out garbage but if I decode MP3 files, they sound ok. Anyone know what is happening? Patrick(pmalley@csus.edu)
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel and NeXT -- NetInfo and setting up "network" printing Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 10:17:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970414101532.276I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210744.26047C-100000@kira> <5itluc$3jf$2@salyko.cube.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Carsten Gehle <carsten@selene.cube.net> In-Reply-To: <5itluc$3jf$2@salyko.cube.net> > See NeXTs SysAdmin Manual (/NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf), > Chapter 2 how to use the SimpleNetworkStarter.app to setup a master > net info server. Been there, read that. However, I do not want to have the slab with the printer be the NetInfo master, because it will not always be turned on. Unless I am mistaken (quite possible) that doesn't seem to be covered. I'll check again when I get home TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: bward@stevens-tech.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTs connected to the internet Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:03:45 -0400 Organization: Stevens Institute of Technology Message-ID: <3352B7D1.DDCC3A74@stevens-tech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 How safe is it to connect a NeXT to the internet? I read in a book that if you allow login on a NeXT connected the the internet your asking for big trouble. Are there any procautions other than the ussuals when it comes to a NeXT server? -- Brian Ward Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken NJ bward@stevens-tech.edu http://menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu/~bward
From: "Steve Buhr" <kdavis@apk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer info passed on to printer Date: 14 Apr 1997 22:57:41 GMT Organization: sb Message-ID: <01bc4928$bcaff960$LocalHost@bis.bowne.com> I print to a number of postscript printers using appletalk and IP on NS 3.2. The printer info like drawers, page size and so on, Is not passed on to the printer. If I open the ps file the info is there, At the the end of the file. Help Kent Davis kent.davis@bowne.com
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Blank screen Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 01:13:52 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33530E90.39F7@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I used NetInfo to change my computers IP address. I also changed the computer's name, net mask, broadcast, and nextdefault gateway addresses. After rebooting the computer, when I log in, the Workspace Manager does not come up. The background color is there, and the mouse pointer is there (and able to move it around), but there are no windows, just the blank backspace color. How can I correctly reset the machine, and how do I shutdown the machine cleanly if I reach this position again? --gh
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Intel and NeXT -- NetInfo and setting up "network" printing Date: 14 Apr 1997 20:47:33 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5iu555$t0s$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413210744.26047C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > Could someone give me some clear FAQ pointers or "i've done this, > do it this way" references to getting my Intel to print via my NeXT? > They will be connected via Ethernet. > I really do not know how to do this, and would gladly accept > anyone's help. > I know I have to set the NeXT laser printer to 'public' via > PrintManager.app, but what else is required (or is anything else > required)? I will have just 2 machines. Guess your mean 'How can my NeXTSTEP (or OS) Intel box print to my NeXT when both machines are not part of a NetInfo network (no NI master, both running standalone but networked)'? It's quite easy: (Assuming both machines know each other on the network and can be pinged from each other by name) 1. Create a 'local' printer of type 'LaserWriter' or similar (serial connected - doesn't matter) 2. Open NetInfoManager.app 3. Click on 'printers' in your local domain 4. Click on your new printer name, you should see Admin Comm Device forget about these and again doubleclick on your new printer name, a new browser opens, you should see the printcap entries beginning with 'name'. 5. Create a new property, give it the name 'rm' 5.1 Create for this property a new value, write your machine name here you want to print to here. (This will tell lpd to print to a remote machine, hence 'rm') 6. Create a new property, give it the name 'rp' 6.1 Create for this property a new value, write your queue name here you want to print to here (the printer name as it is called your your NeXT). (This will tell lpd the name of the target queue on the remote machine) 7. Create a new property, give it the name '_nxfinalform' (This will advice the NeXT printing mechanism to include all fonts in the print job) 8. Edit the 'ty' property value to make it a 'NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer' (This will tell your client system to use the correct PPD) 9. On your target machine, create a new file called '/etc/hosts.lpd' and write the name of your client machine in it. Alternatively you can use the '/etc/hosts.equiv' file. 10. Save and quit NetInfoManager.app. 11. Open an app and print something. It can take a few 10 minutes for the type of printer to propagate through NetInfo. If you want to be sure everything is set and ready just reboot. 12. I never understood why NeXT did not implement this functionaliy into PrintManager.app. Maybe someday I'll write an add-on utility for it. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: atownley@informix.com (Andrew S. Townley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 68040 boot problem Date: 14 Apr 1997 21:23:43 GMT Organization: Informix Software, Inc. Menlo Park, CA 94025 Distribution: WORLD Message-ID: <5iu78v$kag@news.informix.com> Keywords: 68040 monitor boot problem After owning my 60040 NeXTcube since NS2.1 was the latest and greatest version of the OS, I finally have what appears to be a serious hardware problem. The short version is: When powered on, the Testing System... graphic never goes away--even after 20 or 30 minutes. What seems to have happened is that either low voltage or some sort of power fluctuation must've done something to the system. Last Sunday, we were gone for about an hour-and-a-half during which there seems to have been two power outages (found out later). When we got home, the PC running NT was displaying the "blue screen of death", but the NeXT was still running. While rebooting the PC, the power went out for what we later found out was the third time. Everything was still running smoothly thanks to my Best Ferrups UPS so I proceeded to shut things down just in case. Later, after the power seemed to have stabilized (still no clue what was going on), I went to power-up the NeXT and encountered the above problem. In trying to figure out what happened, I swapped the 040 motherboard for a spare 030 board and changed all of the RAM. Put everything back together and booted cleanly (except for NXFax complaining that the password was invalid :). So, the problem doesn't appear to be with any of the other hardware than the 040 board, but I'm not sure how to go about finding out more information. If it is salvagable for a small amount of money, I'd like to make it work again because 030's (even with 40MB of RAM) are really slow, not to mention the apps which are tied to the ethernet ID of the board aren't usable until I get a new key. I am not prepared to spend the $$ to replace the board, however. I have two 030's that will run all the legacy m68k apps I own and would much rather buy something else. Sorry to be so long-winded, but has anyone out there encountered this problem? Does anyone have any ideas on where to go from here? All non-essential boot hardware from the 040 has been moved to other machines, so I'm not down, but it is still annoying! Thanks in advance for any suggestions, ast -- Andrew S. Townley ///// / 16011 College Boulevard // // / Lenexa, Kansas 66219 // / // Informix atownley@informix.com (NeXTmail welcome) / ///// Software, Inc.
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5iukoo$okg$7007@news.j51.com> Date: 15 Apr 1997 02:07:58 GMT Control: cancel <5iukoo$okg$7007@news.j51.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5iukoo$okg$7007@news.j51.com> Sender: S.P., Woodring<datamax@j51.com> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: 15 Apr 1997 05:59:16 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-Apr-97 comsat by Mika Sairanen@park.helsi > Mar 27 05:43:30 meisseli in.comsat[16409]: connect from 128.214.122.151 > and it is not wanted. > do you know how to stop it? >>Edit /etc/inetd.conf, and disable the entry for the comsat daemon by >>commenting it out (insert a '#' as the first character on that line). >>-Chuck Yes, but *what* is this thing Chuck? I was waiting with baited breath for your follow-up! I have tried to scour the SysAdmin & Man Pages, but have found nothing on this. I mostly see it show-up in 'top' whilst I have that running... Sincerely, - Hans Rupert rupert@noir.net
From: James Meacham <webmaster@nh.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 03:49:04 -0400 Organization: NHAI Message-ID: <335332F0.4579@nh.com> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know if you can use the AppleTalk client from 3.0 on 3.2. I'm using a NeXT colorstaiton turbo. If this won't work, is it possible to buy an AppleTalk client? Thanks in advance. Peace, James
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From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: teTeX Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:08:44 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970415110354.15765C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> References: <33513176.5426FD13@on-luebeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Hahn <chahn@on-luebeck.de> In-Reply-To: <33513176.5426FD13@on-luebeck.de> On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Christian Hahn wrote: > Hi to everybody! > Has anyone installed teTeX 0.4 under OS 4.1 properly? > I did so far except one thing: > When i try to start xdvi, it says > "Error: Couldn't open display!" > What's wrong, any ideas? > I would say that xdvi is a X11 client which in order to run needs a X11 display server which NextStep does not come with. You dont need it anyway since there exist a dvi previewer using Nexts own GUI, it should be available at any next archive. Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: I.J.Wiskerke@research.kpn.com (Yvo Wiskerke) Subject: NFS Stale filelocks (Linux <-> NeXTStep) Message-ID: <33532cc6.1123354588@news.research.kpn.com> Sender: usenet@news.research.kpn.com (USENET News System) Organization: KPN Research, Groningen Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:23:59 GMT Hello, I have a problem with Linux as NFS-server for a couple of NeXTStep clients. Now and then NeXTStep starts to cry 'NFS stale file locks'. Stale locks...fine...ok...,but I can't seem to find te cause of this problem. Does anybody out here have any suggestions? Thanks Yvo -------------------------------------- This message is the my opinion and not the one of the company I work for
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 07:14:03 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <EnIq=v600iWp02CZA0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> In-Reply-To: <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 15-Apr-97 Re: comsat by rupert@noir.net > >>Edit /etc/inetd.conf, and disable the entry for the comsat daemon by > >>commenting it out (insert a '#' as the first character on that line). > > >>-Chuck > > Yes, but *what* is this thing Chuck? I was waiting with baited breath for > your follow-up! I have tried to scour the SysAdmin & Man Pages, but have > found nothing on this. 'man comsat' is pretty informative: "COMSAT(8C) UNIX Programmer's Manual COMSAT(8C) NAME comsat - biff server SYNOPSIS /usr/etc/comsat DESCRIPTION Comsat is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail and notifies users if they have requested this service. Comsat receives messages on a datagram port asso- ciated with the ``biff'' service specification (see ser- vices(5) and inetd(8)). [ ... ]" -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Kris Thompson <thomp132@expressionsmedia.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Professional and Affordable Web Design and Hosting Date: 15 Apr 1997 11:33:39 GMT Organization: Expressions Multimedia Sender: -no- @pm281-22.dialip.mich.net Message-ID: <5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Welcome to Expressions Multimedia... We would like to extend an invitation to visit us at http://www.expressionsmedia.com. We specialize in providing professional yet inexpensive web page designs and web site hosting. Please be forwarned, many of our sites include ActiveX and Java and are optimized for Internet Explorer 3.0, so they many not look right in some browsers. Also, check out our newest site for the Blue Cardinal Motorsport racing team, they can be found at http://www.expressionsmedia.com/bluecard. I would like to thank you for your time, Kris Thompson thomp132@expressionsmedia.com
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: comsat Date: 15 Apr 1997 11:38:39 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5ivpbv$ast$1@news.inc.net> References: <5iou85$5o8$1@oravannahka.Helsinki.FI> <MnIBK1_00iWX80xG0e@andrew.cmu.edu> <5iv5fk$4h2$1@news.inc.net> <EnIq=v600iWp02CZA0@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu In <EnIq=v600iWp02CZA0@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger wrote: >>>'man comsat' is pretty informative: Duh. Would you believe that bleary-eyed, I kept typing 'comast'? I make that transposition so often, I should just remap the 'a' & 's' keys (or wsa that 's' & 'a'?) :) Thanks - sorry for the silliness. - Rupert
Date: 15 Apr 1997 09:32:53 EST Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <cancel.5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Control: cancel <5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: -no- @pm281-22.dialip.mich.net Subject: cmsg cancel <5ivp2j$9h8$4951@msunews.cl.msu.edu> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19970415.01 for further details
From: ddr@hee.phys.ufl.edu (Daniel D. Roscigno) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting password info from the network Date: 15 Apr 1997 12:25:31 GMT Organization: National Center for Supercomputing Applications Message-ID: <5ivs3r$f7f@nostromo.clas.ufl.edu> I have a single 68040 NeXT running NS 3.3 on a Unix network. The network uses yp passwords. Under NS 3.2 I thought that I just added a line to the end of my passwd file with a "+:" on it and the NeXT magically knew to look to another machine for the password info. When I upgraded to NS 3.3 I screwed this up :) Can anyone explain to me how this system works? Thanks -- --------------------------------------------------------- Dan Roscigno ddr@phys.ufl.edu 392-4028 Physics Dept., University of Florida Bldg 104 Rm. 5 ---------------------------------------------------------
From: steffi@dgs.dgsys.com (Robert Nicholson) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 1997 DISASTER RECOVERY SOURCEBOOK Date: 15 Apr 1997 21:02:40 -0400 Organization: Digital Gateway Systems Message-ID: <5j18fg$nq2@DGS.dgsys.com> References: <5itr5j$829$3@mhade.production.compuserve.com> $98.... James Martin eat your heart out!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: nameserver?? Message-ID: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: ihate@spammers.com Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:36:44 GMT References: <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com> In comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin bf wrote: > Im rather new to the next community and actually just fired up my color > station today to learn about it. I was trying to configure the network > and setup its IP, gateway etc with the SimpleNetworkSetup or something > similar in the admin apps. However i noticed no place to stick in a > nameserver, so i went searching for a resolv.conf in /etc with no luck. > Im not running a YP, etc server on this little localnet, so how do i > setup what nameservers to use?? You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't need DNS. Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips on that score as well. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.279.5422 x 317 Richmond, Canada Fax: 604.279.5468 * NeXT and MIME mail welcome * "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Subject: Re: Solved: Installation NS 3.3 on huge disks. Message-ID: <E8n84K.H7x@euler.han.de> Sender: js@euler.han.de (Juergen Sell) Organization: Ink Unknown References: <5ipctr$5gh$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:43:31 GMT Rudolf B. Blazek writes > Procedure 1 > ----------- > Requires a second SCSI disk, of size at least 60 MB. > Stage 1 - Basic install on secondary disk Disk1. whatever it takes on the platform. Complete the installation on this disk (may require reboot and continuation). I continued this until I had a barebones system disk complete with workspace, etc. give user me a password. This disk also is a nice live backup version - but then you have the CDs. > Stage 2 - Rebooting in single user mode with Disk1 as the root device. > Stage 3 - Initializing and partitioning the target disk Disk0. > Stage 4 - Copying the basic install files from Disk1 (mounted as root, sd1a) > into the first partition of the target disk Disk0. gnutar is an alternative > Stage 5 - Continuing with standard install on target disk Disk0 I disconnected (ejected) disk1. Booting will give CD in the workspace. Packages can be installed from there directly. Juergen --- AnsweringMachine +49 511 92455-50 Fon -51 Fax -52 NeXTMail welcome = What time do we live in when revolution reminds us of soap powder, = when spontaneity and freedom get associated with instant coffee, = when a politician's idea of social change is changing names = when a country posing as super know-how factory cuts expenses on education?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Viorel Chita <viorel@pathcom.com> Subject: Q: Replace Swapdisk with Swapfile Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3353EACC.468@pathcom.com> Sender: news@news.wrc.xerox.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: XEROX Canada, Ltd. Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:53:32 GMT Hi, all ! For NS 3.3/Intel: Hard drives: hd0, hd1, hd2 I have created a swapdisk on hd2 and I want to take it out, being too slow; Q: How can I take out the swap disk, and use a swapfile instead, on hd1 ? NS3.3's root (/) is on hd0, and has hd1 mounted in /Disk2 I will appreciate any info related with this issue, including pointers to info on the Net. Thanks, in advance ! ================================== Viorel Chita E-mail: viorel@pathcom.com ** NeXTmail, MIME mail welcome ** ==================================
From: awallace@blackslab.auburn.k12.al.us (Art Wallace) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Connecting to Gateway Date: 15 Apr 1997 19:27:30 GMT Organization: Altopia Corp. - Affordable Usenet Access - http://www.alt.net Message-ID: <5j0kr3$mlm@tofu.alt.net> References: <5itmf7$d8r@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Cc: clp5@cornell.edu In <5itmf7$d8r@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu> Collin Pieper wrote: > Hello all- > > I currently have my NeXTCube connected to the net via PPP, but I would > prefer to use my Mac as a gateway to the net. I downloaded a demo of some > internet gateway software for the mac and that seems easy enough to > configure, but I'm not quite certain what to do on the NeXT side of things. > The Mac and NeXT are happily connected via AppleTalk over Ethernet, so the > physical connection is all set. I just need some pointers on how to > configure the software on the NeXT. I imagine it's about as simple as > setting a gateway address somewhere, but I'm not sure where to look. > > Thanks...Collin I'm guessing that your referring to the Mac product called "VICOM Internet Gateway". I'm posting this message through such a gateway right now from a NeXTstation running RadicalNews. My Quadra 840 is running the gateway software using a 28.8 modem through a MindSpring POP. This server has been giving every Mac at my home Internet access for months. With Open Transport on the Mac client machines, DHCP addressing is easy and works well. For simplicity, I'll assume that you already have the VICOM gateway running with Mac OS clients getting their IP address through DHCP (as is the default configuration). This means that your already browsing the web, sending email, etc. from machines other than the gateway computer. While I'm pretty sure that a NeXT box can take advantage of DHCP addressing, I just bought mine last week and have yet to discover this secret. As such, the following directions are for setting the NeXT box up with a FIXED IP address, not DHCP. Assuming you accept the default configuration that VICOM offers, the IP address of the gateway machine would be 192.168.1.100. You will have to enter that IP address as the "Gateway Address" in the "Simple Network Starter" app on the NeXT. You will have to give the NeXT box an IP address of it's own, making sure that it is in the valid IP range that the router will see. I gave my NeXT the address of 192.168.1.125. This should work fine but could cause problems depending on the number of DHCP clients that you wish to use. Please email me if you want to talk things over. artwallace@aub.mindspring.com
Message-ID: <33548C75.1F92@ibm.net> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:23:18 +0900 From: Takahiro Oda <todays@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to install OS4 on SPARCstation20MP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Greetings, Could anyone tell me how to install OPENSTEP 4.0/4.1 on SPARCstation20 configured with *dual* 60MHz SuperSPARC? I understand NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP does not have multi-processing function right now, but want to install without removing one SPARC chip actually. Thanks in advance. -- //---------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Takahiro Oda // e-mail: takahiro.oda@ibm.net
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Replace Swapdisk with Swapfile Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:28:34 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970415182610.5568D-100000@kira> References: <3353EACC.468@pathcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Viorel Chita <viorel@pathcom.com> In-Reply-To: <3353EACC.468@pathcom.com> > I have created a swapdisk on hd2 and I want to take it out, > being too slow; > Q: How can I take out the swap disk, and use a swapfile instead, > on hd1 ? NS3.3's root (/) is on hd0, and has hd1 mounted in /Disk2 > > I will appreciate any info related with this issue, including pointers > to info on the Net. I've got a swapfaq... however this should be pretty easy. If you called it 'swapdisk' all you need to do is rename it and it _should_ be ok.... alright, you should check /etc/swaptab to make sure it looks something like this: # # /etc/swaptab # /private/vm/swapfile lowat=16777216 # 16 Meg low water mark If you did something else, you'll have to tell me what before I can tell you how to undo it TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "Give a man a piece of working code and you solve his problem. Teach a man to write code and you give him a lifetime of new problems" -- me
From: David Young <dwy@ace.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: x86 NextStep 3.3 Installation problems Date: 14 Apr 1997 18:44:15 GMT Organization: THINK New Ideas, Inc., New York City Message-ID: <5itttv$poj$1@darla.visi.com> References: <3352070D.2BEE@cse.hks.se> <5itm93$17f$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: > Jorgen Sigvardsson <di4sig@cse.hks.se> wrote: > > My system is a Pentium 166, 2 EIDE harddrives and an EIDE CD-ROM and I'm > > using the Intel VX chipset. > You'll need a SCSI CDROM. AFAIK EIDE won't work at install time. It can be done if you have another NEXTSTEP box to make a driver disk. You need to be familiar with the primary/secondary and master/slave configurations of your drives, and load two instances of EIDE/ATAPI for each port/IRQ combo (probably 14/15 and 0x170/0x1F0 ?). You'll probably need to fiddle with the order in which they load, as well. It's not fun. I did it once, it took me a good two hours. Intel rules. -- .............david.young...senior.developer...think.new.ideas.inc... ....work:.http://www.thinkinc.com...net:.david_young@thinkinc.com...
From: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca (Doug Booth) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help... Spurious DMA interrupts Date: Wed, 16 Apr 97 15:53:14 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5j2sns$kkk@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5iau9o$cj2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> <E8Itrq.5Cr@nidat.sub.org> Thanks to all who responded to my request for information. The problem has now been resolved. It turned out to be a hardware network problem. We had three other NeXTs autonfsmounting the user directories from the machine which was generating the spurios DMA interrupts. Upon checking the console messages from the other machines it turned out that 2 of the 3 were reporting errors in connecting. They were on a thin-net segment of the network. The T connector was replaced on the machine without the errors and this seems to have cleared up the problem. Again thanks to all! Doug Booth School of Mining & Petroleum Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA email: Doug.Booth@UAlberta.ca
From: geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:13:00 -0500 Organization: Chapman and Cutler Message-ID: <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> <335332F0.4579@nh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <335332F0.4579@nh.com>, webmaster@nh.com wrote: :Does anyone know if you can use the AppleTalk client from 3.0 on 3.2. :I'm using a NeXT colorstaiton turbo. If this won't work, is it possible :to buy an AppleTalk client? Thanks in advance. Peace, : :James I was able to do it with 3.1 but not 3.3. You might want to take a look at CAPer availible from <http://www.this.net/~frank> That is what I m using under 3.3. -- Geordie Korper geordie@chapman.com ********************************************************************* * The text above should in no way be construed to represent the * * opinions of my employer, even if specifically stated to do so. * *********************************************************************
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP !!! : REBOOTING - MONITOR - HANG UP Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:21:42 +0200 Organization: [posted via] Easynet SA Message-ID: <3354D266.4714@easynet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi There My system: NeXTCube 16/400 Mo, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (stand-alone machine, no network) The problem to be fixed: after booting by the Monitor, I cann't access to the Workspace Manager, nor to the login window. Actually, the system hangs up in the Monitor "NeXT Mach Operating System" window. Following is the process: -------------------------------------------------- Wed April 16 13:59:31 GMT+0100 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: adress automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapApr 16 13:59:47 localhost syslogd: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:. Starting network daemeons: intetdApr 16 13:59:48 localhost netinfod[98]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Apr 16 13:59:47 localhost rebbot: Reboot complete NXFax kernel server 1.03 loaded %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines %> xwing_fax: Unknown modem [...] %> xwing_fax: Wait for incoming call -------------------------------------------------- To help you to fix this problem, here are some facts: - I have to boot with the monitor ("NeXT > bsd") since 2 years now ! Never have problem like this one. - The login window always did appear after the line: %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines - The only I can do is to shut down the machine with the "Alim" key Thanks for your help, _Marc (Please reply at mduchesn@easynet.fr) -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr -------------------------------------------------- XWinG, The Fiberoptics Consulting & Training Company CE4801, Lisses - F 91048 Evry Cedex, France Tel +33 (0)1 60 86 2050 Fax +33 (0)1 60 86 2053 infos@xwing.oleane.com http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66 --------------------------------------------------
From: "Kevin Birch" <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: 16 Apr 97 20:31:09 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Allan Noordvyk" <allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca> Cc: kbirch@mindspring.com nntp://news.mindspring.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin Return-Receipt-To: ÁH On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 6:36 PM, Allan Noordvyk <mailto:allan@ali.bc.ca> wrote: >You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf >file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just >use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't >need DNS. >Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command >to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. >If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips >on that score as well. Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. TIA, Kevin --------------------------------------------------- This message was created and sent using the Cyberdog Mail System ---------------------------------------------------
From: rreynolds@rockstar.com (Richard Reynolds) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Killing pppd Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:34:16 -0700 Organization: Rockstar Studios, Inc. Message-ID: <rreynolds-1604971734160001@sfo-ca16-12.ix.netcom.com> For some odd reason, I can't kill pppd on my 4.0 OpenStep Turbo Station. I've tried kill -HUP 123 as well as every other kill option and it just won't die. Any ideas? Man someone has got to come out with a better PPP for NeXT/Rhapsody (Hint Hint). -- Rick Reynolds... Head Geek & Executive Nerd Rockstar Studios, Inc. For more FreePPP and Gearbox information check out http://www.rockstar.com Gearbox is coming in May 97 (Betcha can't wait!)
From: Tomas By <tomas@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: uname substitute in Nextstep 3.3 Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 10:40:48 +0100 Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Message-ID: <33437B20.41C67EA6@dcs.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tim Louma told me: > here's all you need. > > It will work for 3.x, I would like to know if it works for OpenStep > > http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/scripts/uname > > TjL > > ps -- if you could post this for me I'd appreciate it as my news > server is not letting me post at the moment Thanks. /Tomas
From: "Futeh Kao" <futeh@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:02:12 -0400 Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> try end the nameserver line with a return, i.e. "domain blah...\n nameserver 192.42.172.1\n" in C string representation. Hope this help. Kevin Birch wrote in article ... >On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 6:36 PM, Allan Noordvyk <mailto:allan@ali.bc.ca> >wrote: >>You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf >>file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just >>use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't >>need DNS. > >>Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command >>to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. > >>If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips >>on that score as well. > > > >Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I >tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with >domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the >...
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 09:13:53 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3355CDB1.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If you are using OpenStep/mach 4.x the lookupd is configured by netinfo. (See /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ReleaseNotes/lookupd.rtf) This means that lookupd looks for DNS (due to /etc/resolv.conf) to resolve names only if it is configured to do so. Set the right values with Netinfomanager.app like this: (nidump -r locations .) name = locations; CHILDREN = ( ... , { name = lookupd; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }); }); Unfortunately the word "LookupOrder" isn't written with a capital "L" in release notes. This is a documentation bug. I haven't seen anything documented which defautls lookupd uses if not configured with netinfo. Stefan Futeh Kao wrote: > > try end the nameserver line with a return, i.e. > "domain blah...\n > nameserver 192.42.172.1\n" in C string representation. > Hope this help. > > Kevin Birch wrote in article ... > >On Tue, Apr 15, 1997 6:36 PM, Allan Noordvyk <mailto:allan@ali.bc.ca> > >wrote: > >>You had it right. You just need to create an /etc/resolv.conf > >>file from scratch. By default there isn't one since if you just > >>use Netinfo and don't talk to the Internet then you don't > >>need DNS. > > > >>Once you've done this just fire up the nslookup command > >>to test things out. You don't even need to reboot. > > > >>If you need to set up a default route, I can give you tips > >>on that score as well. > > > > > > > >Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > >tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > >domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > >... -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nameserver?? Date: 15 Apr 1997 22:27:34 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com> Im rather new to the next community and actually just fired up my color station today to learn about it. I was trying to configure the network and setup its IP, gateway etc with the SimpleNetworkSetup or something similar in the admin apps. However i noticed no place to stick in a nameserver, so i went searching for a resolv.conf in /etc with no luck. Im not running a YP, etc server on this little localnet, so how do i setup what nameservers to use?? -b ------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- -------------------------------------------------------------
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 17 Apr 1997 07:48:32 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5j4kkg$3fe@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> <3355CDB1.446B@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> : Unfortunately the word "LookupOrder" isn't written with a capital "L" in : release notes. This is a documentation bug. I haven't seen anything : documented which defautls lookupd uses if not configured with netinfo. I believe that the default lookup order is CacheAgent, NIAgent (except for hosts and networks,where the order is CacheAgent, NIAgent, DNSAgent). I *think* this is the same as for lookupd in 3.x. -- Luke
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 17 Apr 1997 07:56:09 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, I installed PPP just as it is described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95. So after a fresh installation, I could put mail in the queue and as I brought up a PPP-Connection to my provider, it was delivered correctly. I really changed nothing at the configuration, but the next day it was no longer working. When I post mail, I get an error-message from the system (unknown host) and the mailqueue remains empty. So, I can repeat the whole progress. I reinstalled the system many times and had always the same effect. Could it be a problem, to put mail in the queue, then switch the computer off, before it could be send to the internet? My configuration is as follows! - resolv.conf - sendmail.mailhost.cf resolv.conf: ========== domain lynet.de nameserver 194.127.178.1 sendmail.mailhost.cf: ================= ############################################################ # # Sendmail configuration file for "MAIN MACHINES" # # You should install this file as /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf # if your machine is the main (or only) mail-relaying # machine in your domain. Then edit the file to # customize it for your network configuration. # # See the paper "Sendmail Installation and Administration Guide" # for more information on the format of this file. # # @(#)main.mc 1.0 88/10/26 NeXT; from SMI 3.2/4.3 NFSSRC # ### local info # my fully qualified hostname, $j, is now set by sendmail internally #Dj$?m$w.$m$|$w$. # if you want the gateway to assume the identity of its parent domain, use: Dj$m # Major relay mailer - typical choice is "ddn" if you are on the # Defense Data Network (e.g. Arpanet or Milnet). All mail for # non-local domains will be forwarded to the major relay host using # the major relay mailer. We chose "uucp" as the default because most # isolated networks use it to link their network with the outside # world. # # If you want to use a relay mailer, examine ruleset 0. There are some # rules that need to be uncommented DMddn # major relay host: use the $M mailer to send mail to other domains # To have mail automatically forwarded to other domains, you should # replace this with the name of your major relay host. DR mail.lynet.de CR mail.lynet.de # local UUCP connections - output from the uuname command FV|/usr/bin/uuname # options that you probably want on a mailhost: # checkpoint the queue after this many receipients OC10 # refuse to send tiny messages to more than these recipients Ob10 ############################################################ ##### ##### General configuration information ##### # local domain name # # This is now set from the resolver configuration call. If the domain # name you would like to have appear in your mail headers is different # from your Internet domain name, edit and uncomment the following to # be your mail domain name. # DmPodunk.EDU # Version number of configuration file DVNX3.0M ### Standard macros # name used for error messages DnMailer-Agent # UNIX header format DlFrom $g $d # delimiter (operator) characters Do.:%@!^=/[] # format of a total name Dq$?x$x $.<$g> # SMTP login message De$j Sendmail $v/$V ready at $b ### Options # Remote mode - send through server if mailbox directory is mounted OR # location of alias file OA/etc/sendmail/aliases # default delivery mode (deliver in background) Odbackground # rebuild the alias file automagically OD # temporary file mode -- 0600 for secure mail, 0644 for permissive OF0600 # default GID Og1 # location of help file OH/usr/lib/sendmail.hf # log level OL9 # default messages to old style Oo # To Cc postmaster on error replies I generate, uncomment the next line # OPPostmaster # queue directory OQ/usr/spool/mqueue # read timeout for SMTP protocols Or15m # status file -- none # OS/etc/sendmail/sendmail.st # queue up everything before starting transmission, for safety Os # return queued mail after this long OT3d # default UID Ou1 ### Message precedences Pfirst-class=0 Pspecial-delivery=100 Pjunk=-100 ### Trusted users Troot agent daemon uucp ### Format of headers H?P?Return-Path: <$g> HReceived: $?sfrom $s $.by $j ($v/$V) id $i; $b H?D?Resent-Date: $a H?D?Date: $a H?F?Resent-From: $q H?F?From: $q H?x?Full-Name: $x HSubject: H?M?Resent-Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j> H?M?Message-Id: <$t.$i@$j> HErrors-To: ########################### ### Rewriting rules ### ########################### # Sender Field Pre-rewriting S1 # None needed. # Recipient Field Pre-rewriting S2 # None needed. # Name Canonicalization # Internal format of names within the rewriting rules is: # anything<@host.domain.domain...>anything # We try to get every kind of name into this format, except for local # names, which have no host part. The reason for the "<>" stuff is # that the relevant host name could be on the front of the name (for # source routing), or on the back (normal form). We enclose the one that # we want to route on in the <>'s to make it easy to find. # S3 # handle "from:<>" special case R<> $@@ turn into magic token # basic textual canonicalization R$*<$+>$* $2 basic RFC822 parsing # make sure <@a,@b,@c:user@d> syntax is easy to parse -- undone later R@$+,$+:$+ @$1:$2:$3 change all "," to ":" R@$+:$+ $@$>6<@$1>:$2 src route canonical R$+:$*;@$+ $@$1:$2;@$3 list syntax R$+@$+ $:$1<@$2> focus on domain R$+<$+@$+> $1$2<@$3> move gaze right R$+<@$+> $@$>6$1<@$2> already canonical # convert old-style names to domain-based names # All old-style names parse from left to right, without precedence. R$-!$+ $@$>6$2<@$1.uucp> uucphost!user R$-.$+!$+ $@$>6$3<@$1.$2> host.domain!user R$+%$+ $:$1%%$2 user%host R$+%%$+%$+ $1%$2%%$3 move gaze right R$+%%$+ $@$>3$1@$2 re-canonicalize # Final Output Post-rewriting S4 R$+<@$+.uucp> $2!$1 u@h.uucp => h!u R$+ $: $>9 $1 Clean up addr R$*<$+>$* $1$2$3 defocus # Clean up an name for passing to a mailer # (but leave it focused) S9 R@ $@$n handle <> error addr R$*<$*LOCAL>$* $1<$2$m>$3 change local info R<@$+>$*:$+:$+ <@$1>$2,$3:$4 <route-addr> canonical ############################################################# ##### ##### Rewriting rules ##### # special local conversions S6 R$*<@$*.uucp>$* $@$1<@$2.uucp>$3 no change to UUCP hosts R$*<@$+>$* $:$1<@$[$2$]>$3 find canonical hostname R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain ############################################################ ##### ##### Local and Program Mailer specification ##### Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=rlsDFMnuP, S=10, R=20, A=mail -d $u Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMeuP, S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u S10 # None needed. S20 # None needed. ############################################################ ##### ##### Ethernet Mailer specification ##### ##### Messages processed by this configuration are assumed to remain ##### in the same domain. This really has nothing particular to do ##### with Ethernet - the name is historical. Mether, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuX, S=11, R=21, A=TCP $h S11 R$*<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2>$3 already ok R$+ $@$1<@$w> tack on our hostname S21 # None needed. ############################################################ ##### ##### General code to convert back to old style UUCP names ##### S5 R$+<@LOCAL> $@ $w!$1 name@LOCAL => host!name R$+<@$-.LOCAL> $@ $2!$1 u@h.LOCAL => h!u R$+<@$+.uucp> $@ $2!$1 u@h.uucp => h!u R$+<@$*> $@ $2!$1 u@h => h!u # Route-addrs do not work here. Punt til uucp-mail comes up with something. R<@$+>$* $@ @$1$2 just defocus and punt R$*<$*>$* $@ $1$2$3 Defocus strange stuff ############################################################ ##### ##### UUCP Mailer specification ##### Muucp, P=/usr/bin/uux, F=mDFMhuU, S=13, R=23, E=\n, A=uux - -r $h!rmail ($u) # Convert uucp sender (From) field S13 R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style R$=w!$+ $2 strip local name R$+ $:$w!$1 stick on real host name # Convert uucp recipient (To, Cc) fields S23 R$+ $:$>5$1 convert to old style ############################################################ ##### ##### DDN Mailer specification ##### ##### Send mail on the Defense Data Network ##### (such as Arpanet or Milnet) Mddn, P=[TCP], F=mDFMuCX, S=22, R=22, A=TCP $h, E=\r\n # map containing the inverse of mail.aliases DZmail.byaddr S22 R$*<@LOCAL>$* $:$1 R$-<@$-> $:$>3${Z$1@$2$} invert aliases R$*<@$+.$*>$* $@$1<@$2.$3>$4 already ok R$+<@$+>$* $@$1<@$2.$m>$3 tack on our domain R$+ $@$1<@$j> tack on our hostname ############################################################ # # RULESET ZERO # # This is the ruleset that determines which mailer a name goes to. # Ruleset 30 just calls rulesets 3 then 0. S30 R$* $: $>3 $1 First canonicalize R$* $@ $>0 $1 Then rerun ruleset 0 S0 # On entry, the address has been canonicalized and focused by ruleset 3. # Handle special cases..... R@ $#local $:$n handle <> form # For numeric spec, you can't pass spec on to receiver, since rcvr's # are not smart enough to know that [x.y.z.a] is their own name. R<@[$+]>:$* $:$>9 <@[$1]>:$2 Clean it up, then... R<@[$+]>:$* $#ether $@[$1] $:$2 numeric internet spec R<@[$+]>,$* $#ether $@[$1] $:$2 numeric internet spec R$*<@[$+]> $#ether $@[$2] $:$1 numeric internet spec # resolve the local hostname to "LOCAL". R$*<$*$=w.LOCAL>$* $1<$2LOCAL>$4 thishost.LOCAL R$*<$*$=w.uucp>$* $1<$2LOCAL>$4 thishost.uucp R$*<$*$=w>$* $1<$2LOCAL>$4 thishost # Mail addressed explicitly to the domain gateway (us) R$*<@LOCAL> $@$>30$1 strip our name, retry R<@LOCAL>:$+ $@$>30$1 retry after route strip # deliver to known ethernet hosts explicitly specified in our domain R$*<@$+.LOCAL>$* $#ether $@$2 $:$1<@$2>$3 user@host.ourdomain # hosts in no domains are assumed to be local R$*<@$->$* $#ether $@$2 $:$1<@$2>$3 user@host # Clean up addresses for external use -- kills LOCAL, route-addr ,=>: R$* $:$>9 $1 Then continue... # resolve UUCP domain R<@$=V.uucp>:$+ $#uucp $@$1 $:$2 @host.uucp:... R$+<@$=V.uucp> $#uucp $@$2 $:$1 user@host.uucp R<@$-.uucp>:$+ $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $1 R$+<@$-.uucp> $#error $:Never heard of UUCP host $2 # If you want to pass all other explicit domain names up the ladder # to our forwarder then uncomment the following line. R$*<@$*.$+>$* $#$M $@$R $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain # and comment out this one. #R$*<@$+.$->$* $#ddn $@ $2.$3 $:$1<@$2.$3>$4 user@any.domain # All addresses in the rules ABOVE are absolute (fully qualified domains). # Addresses BELOW can be partially qualified. R$*@$* $#error $:I don't understand $1@$2 # Local names with % are really not local! R$+%$+ $@$>30$1%$2 retry # everything else is a local name R$+ $#local $:$1 local names ===========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's a good gen ref on PPP? References: <334A4945.FB8@itis.com> From: dreely@cyberstore.ca Message-ID: <3355dbdb.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 17 Apr 97 08:14:19 GMT "Jason J. Gullickson" <xjasong@itis.com> wrote: > I'm configuring a NS3.0 machine for PPP, what/where can I find some > good info or FAQ's about doing this (the PPP package I have doesn't > have much in the way of documentation) Check out http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/ Darren http://www.bcog.org/~dreely I log in, the Workspace Manager does not come up. > The background color is there, and the mouse pointer is > there (and able to move it around), but there are no > windows, just the blank backspace color. How can I correctly > reset the machine, and how do I shutdown the machine cleanly > if I reach this position again? > > --gh > To shutdown the machine, if it went out of order, you can press ALT-NumLock (on Intel), wich brings a small window up, in wich you can either select 'r' for rebbot and 'h' for halt. Please choose halt, because then, filesystem is shutdown correctly. Pressing 'r' is equal to reset the computer with the reset-switch (Not a good idea)! You can't simply change hostname, ip-address, ... in HostManager. If you want to do such changes, you've to reset NetInfo to it's default state (No Network-Configuration). This is done with the following script, wich could be startet in singleuser-mode too (enter '-s' after 'boot:' at systemstart and then return. This brings up a textconsole wich is working even if the configuration is corrupted) #!/bin/sh # #Skript zum Ersetzen fehlerhafter Netinfo-Konfigurationen durch #Default-Dateien in /usr/template/net im Single-User-Modus # echo "" echo "Mache BackUp vom jetzigem NetInfo und jetziger" echo "hostconfig-Datei in /etc/netreset.backup" if [ ! -d /etc/netreset.backup ] then mkdir /etc/netreset.backup fi cp -pr /etc/netinfo /etc/netreset.backup cp -p /etc/hostconfig /etc/netreset.backup echo "" echo "Ersetze lokale NetInfo-Datenbank" cp -r /usr/template/net/netinfo/local.nidb /etc/netinfo echo "" echo "Ersetze hostconfig-Datei" cp /usr/template/net/hostconfig /etc echo "" echo "Lösche Netzweite NetInfo-Datenbank" rm -r /etc/netinfo/network.nidb echo "" echo "Ok" echo ""
From: John Wong <wongj@ats.orst.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't delete users Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:40:11 +0800 Organization: Oregon State University Message-ID: <33533EEB.328D@ats.orst.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to delete some users using niload but get the message "deletion for reeder failed: Cannot delete name object with children". I've listed the steps that I used. Does anyone know a solution to this problem? Thanks. John Wong, Oregon State University 1) nidump passwd . > /etc/passwd 2) edit /etc/passwd to delete some users 3) niload -d passwd . < /etc/passwd
From: fliu@uci.edu (Feng Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: 17 Apr 1997 20:48:22 GMT Organization: University of California, Irvine Message-ID: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Feng Liu Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-3975 phone: 714-824-1750, or 714-824-5406(MAE Department) Fax: 714-824-1750, or 714-824-8585(MAE Department)
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:52:42 +0100 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - Possibly a basic question. In UserManager under OS4.1/Mach/Intel, when trying to change someone's default shell from /bin/csh to /bin/csh, I get a message saying that "Unknown shell: /bin/tcsh Not found in: /etc/shells". Okay, so as su I change /etc/shells and add the entry /bin/tcsh. But even after rebooting, UserManager still doesn't want to accept any users with the /bin/tcsh. The previos message keeps coming back, even though I've modified that file Is there something I'm missing here? TIA, C. charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:03:08 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970417200003.23261B-100000@kira> References: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> > Possibly a basic question. In UserManager under OS4.1/Mach/Intel, when > trying to change someone's default shell from /bin/csh to /bin/csh, I > get a message saying that "Unknown shell: /bin/tcsh Not found in: > /etc/shells". > > Okay, so as su I change /etc/shells and add the entry /bin/tcsh. But > even after rebooting, UserManager still doesn't want to accept any users > with the /bin/tcsh. The previos message keeps coming back, even though > I've modified that file Is there something I'm missing here? Curious.... it seems that you have done all that it right. Yet it doesn't work. Welcome to my life ;-) Anyway, a few questions: does /bin/tcsh actually exist? Is it executable? It is readable? What about using nidump to a file, editing a user's shell to /bin/tcsh, and niload the file and see if it works? This is not a solution, obviously, but perhaps a temp. workaround. Be interested to see how it turns out TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
From: sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problem mounting second partition Date: 18 Apr 1997 04:35:57 GMT Organization: DigiPhone Corporation, Bryan/College Station Texas 409-693-8885 Message-ID: <5j6tnd$6a@news.myriad.net> Hello, I need help trying to mount a second partition of a scsi drive on a color slab. A friend has a hd that was formatted as 2 partitions, rsd0a, rsd0b. The NS 3.3 system on the first partition crashed and would not boot. So, he reinstalled NS 3.3 on the first partition (opps, :-( ). rsd0a is still the size that it was and fsck still finds and checks rsd0b but it says it only finds 2 files (not good). The b partition will not mount, mount /dev/sd0b just returns device not found. Any ideas as to how we might mount this drive, recover the files that were on this second partition? Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 22:40:31 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-1704972240320001@165.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> <335332F0.4579@nh.com> <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie> > > I was able to do it with 3.1 but not 3.3. You might want to take a look at > CAPer availible from <http://www.this.net/~frank> That is what I m using > under 3.3. > I was able to get the AppleTalk from 3.0 to work under 3.3, but you can't print to etherneted laswer printers with it. For that you will need CAPer.app. Mitch
From: sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 18 Apr 1997 05:01:57 GMT Organization: DigiPhone Corporation, Bryan/College Station Texas 409-693-8885 Message-ID: <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> On 04/14/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax mode? > >David A. Johnson, >Research Engineer, >Northwestern University > Do you have fax software, such as NXFax or there are some which may require a good bit of configuring available on NEXTSTEP ftp sites? The NS built in fax driver doesn't support Zyxel or very many other modems either. -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 18 Apr 1997 02:05:08 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc4b9d$40367270$5b506fcb@decisionware> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> Andreas Hoeschler <andreas@lynet.de> wrote in article <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de>... > Hello, > > I installed PPP just as it is described in NEXTTOYOU 4/95. So after a fresh > installation, I could put mail in the queue and as I brought up a > PPP-Connection to my provider, it was delivered correctly. > I really changed nothing at the configuration, but the next day it was no > longer working. When I post mail, I get an error-message from the system > (unknown host) and the mailqueue remains empty. So, I can repeat the whole > progress. I reinstalled the system many times and had always the same effect. > Could it be a problem, to put mail in the queue, then switch the computer > off, before it could be send to the internet? > My configuration is as follows! > > - resolv.conf > - sendmail.mailhost.cf > > resolv.conf: > ========== > domain lynet.de > nameserver 194.127.178.1 > > sendmail.mailhost.cf: > ================= > ############################################################ > # <snip> > # major relay host: use the $M mailer to send mail to other domains > # To have mail automatically forwarded to other domains, you should > # replace this with the name of your major relay host. > DR mail.lynet.de > CR mail.lynet.de > Andreas, There really is no need to change the sendmail.cf file. An alias in netinfo for mailhost would have sufficed and works well when upgrading a system. Anyway, to your problem. sendmail is trying to contact mail.lynet.de to send the mail but first it must resolve the name to an address. It is this stage that is failing. What you need to do is create a host (in HostManager.app) for mail.lynet.de with its real IP address. You can find this out while on-line. By putting the entry in HostManage.app you enable the DNS lookup to succeed. The next thing that fails when you are offline is the actual connection to that mail server. sendmail can cope with this failure so-long as it has a real IPaddress to try. The message sent while off-line will go to defferred status. Next time you are on-line run /usr/lib/sendmail -q0 (I think). You will need to be root to do this either via su or sudo (a shareware product that gives specific su access to some commands to some users). By running sendmail like this you will cause it to 'tickle' the queue and send any outstanding messages and now that you are on-line they will succeed. The same effect cannot be achieved by simply sending another mail message and hoping that sendmail will pick yours up on its way past. sendmail doco says this is the case but it is not. Sending new mail while on-line will only send that message not any deferred messages.
From: "Eric A. Dubiel" <eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Quantum 1GB Intermittant object.station problem Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 01:01:37 -0600 Organization: Instructional Technology Development - Illinois State University, Bloomington-Normal, USA Message-ID: <33571BB7.4F1C@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have a Quantum 1GB SCSI drive that came with my object.station and I have an intermittant problem- The drive only sometimes starts up, and now it RARELY starts up, the other 500 MB drive comes up fine, but this one - no luck. I've never had a head crash (or any other harddrive HW problem...), but are these the symptoms? Any response would be appreciated, as well as do-it-yourself data recovery techniques... -- Eric A. Dubiel; http://www.ilstu.edu/~eadubie mailto:eadubie@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu ytalk eadubie@138.87.201.11 --- MIME, SUN, NeXT, PGP Mail ok R&D--Instructional Technology Development--Illinois State University "I first saw NEXTSTEP in 1990 and I was blown away."-Eric Schmidt, Novell Inc CEO VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE ENTIRELY MY OWN
From: jbf_see_sig@frazer.com (James B. Frazer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: AppleTalk from 3.0 work on 3.2? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:21:46 -0400 Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <jbf_see_sig-ya023580001804970021460001@news.tiac.net> References: <5ilsa3$oa4@news.eunet.ch> <335332F0.4579@nh.com> <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <geordie-ya02408000R1604971413000001@kyrie>, geordie@chapman.com (Geordie Korper) wrote: > In article <335332F0.4579@nh.com>, webmaster@nh.com wrote: > > :Does anyone know if you can use the AppleTalk client from 3.0 on 3.2. > :I'm using a NeXT colorstaiton turbo. If this won't work, is it possible > :to buy an AppleTalk client? Thanks in advance. Peace, > : > :James > > I was able to do it with 3.1 but not 3.3. It runs under 3.3 if you know how to load it. Isn't reliable enough to bother. Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: wotmp@rhodes.edu (Mike Wottle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: 17 Apr 97 23:20:18 GMT Organization: The University of Memphis Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3400] Message-ID: <3356b032.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <5j4aut$9fb$1@juliana.sprynet.com> Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. Kevin - tell me how you fized it if you do - I'm having the exact same problem. Thanks.
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: 16 Apr 1997 18:04:41 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5j34bp$jpo@q.seanet.com> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > > > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? > > I have loaded OpenStep 4.1 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my NeXTstation turbo. It works fine, the Jazz drive works as well or better than the NeXTstations internal drive. I have loaded WinNT 4.0 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my Intel box. It also works, but the performance works as well or less than the Intel box internal drive. I now have 6 Jaz cartridges to share between NeXT and MS OS's. I give these two thumbs up for my consulting work. > > I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told > > me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at > > least the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable > > drives. > > Ok, thanks Timothy, but now the question is *HOW*! Is there an FAQ for > this? I will try to post a FAQ at our Puget Sound NeXT User Groups site: http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug There's disk geometry issues for the Jaz drive for NeXT, and you will need a MAC or Windows box running Jaz Tools to help with disk initialization issues, if the NeXT OS tells you the disk is bad. Steve Roller sroller@roller.seanet.com Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP NEEDED !!! : REBOOTING - MONITOR HANG UP Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:33:23 +0200 Organization: Marc Duchesne IT Consultant Message-ID: <335723C3.26F5@easynet.fr> References: <5j4lg1$rf6@hagen.amg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi There My system: NeXTCube 16/400 Mo, running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (stand-alone machine, no network) The problem to be fixed: after booting by the Monitor, I cann't access to the Workspace Manager, nor to the login window. Actually, the system hangs up in the Monitor "NeXT Mach Operating System" window. Following is the process: -------------------------------------------------- Wed April 16 13:59:31 GMT+0100 1997 Checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Faking root mount entries Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst0 Setting tape block size for /dev/nrst1 The network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it. lo0: adress automatically set to 127.0.0.1 Setting hostname to -AUTOMATIC- Reinitializing nmserver's network portion /usr/etc/mach_swapon: swapping on /private/vm/swapfile.front Cleaning up: /etc/nologin ptys floppy devices editors /tmp /Net. Starting early daemons: syslogd. Starting RPC and network services: portmapApr 16 13:59:47 localhost syslogd: /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog: No such file or directory netinfo lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons:. Starting network daemeons: intetdApr 16 13:59:48 localhost netinfod[98]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb sendmail printer. Starting NeXT services: pbs exec_faxes. Starting standard daemons: update cron. Apr 16 13:59:47 localhost rebbot: Reboot complete NXFax kernel server 1.03 loaded %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines %> xwing_fax: Unknown modem [...] %> xwing_fax: Wait for incoming call -------------------------------------------------- To help you to fix this problem, here are some facts: - I have to boot with the monitor ("NeXT > bsd") since 2 years now ! Never have problem like this one. - The login window always did appear after the line: %> xwing_fax: log trimmed to 1000 lines - The only I can do is to shut down the machine with the "Alim" key Thanks for your help, _Marc Please reply at/ mailto: mduchesn@easynet.fr -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr -------------------------------------------------- XWinG, The Fiberoptics Consulting & Training Company CE4801, Lisses - F 91048 Evry Cedex, France Tel +33 (0)1 60 86 2050 Fax +33 (0)1 60 86 2053 infos@xwing.oleane.com http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66 --------------------------------------------------
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 10:01:37 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <33572A61.15FB@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles Ashley wrote: > > Hi all - > > Possibly a basic question. In UserManager under OS4.1/Mach/Intel, when > trying to change someone's default shell from /bin/csh to /bin/csh, I > get a message saying that "Unknown shell: /bin/tcsh Not found in: > /etc/shells". > > Okay, so as su I change /etc/shells and add the entry /bin/tcsh. But > even after rebooting, UserManager still doesn't want to accept any users > with the /bin/tcsh. The previos message keeps coming back, even though > I've modified that file Is there something I'm missing here? I'm using tcsh and no problems. So login as root (csh, never change roots shell as the system might restore the old /etc/shells after upgrade). Set me's shell to tcsh. Do su - me in a terminal window. This tells all the messages lost when login by loginwindow. Stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Faxing with HayesCompatible Modem Date: 18 Apr 1997 07:29:19 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5j77sf$dh@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, i've installed JollyClass2.0-FaxDriver in the PrintManager and I'm able to send Faxes now, but how to I get the modem to receive faxes. There are controls in the preferences of the FaxDriver, to determine, after how many rings it should take the call a.s.n., so I suppose, the software is also for receiving faxes, but it does not put the modem in answering mode. Do I need another software for this purpose or do I just have to send some AT-commands to the modem on my one (with tip or so)? If yes, what commands do I have to use. I've an ELSA 28800 TVQ and unfortunately lost the handbook with the AT-CommandSet. Thank in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: 18 Apr 1997 08:30:48 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5j7bfo$dio@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> Feng Liu writes > All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel > become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down > the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. > I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. > Look into 'man loginwindow'. There you'll find something about "-PowerOffDisabled true". You may also use the Preferences to enable/disable PowerOff (as root, of course). Robert -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network printers, missing fonts, 8bit data Message-ID: <1997Apr18.111337.47476@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> From: frank@ifi.unibas.ch Date: 18 Apr 97 11:13:36 MET I'm having trouble with a HP laserjet 5M network printer. I have loaded the appropriate ppd and can use the printer for several applications as well as from the commandline. However, when trying to print something which uses fonts not present in the printer, it substitutes a default. Is there anyway of *automatically* downloading the missing font? The other thing is the problem with postscript containing 8bit data (to be exec'd from within the PS code). This data doesn't seem to be transmitted correctly, as the printer will just print junk instead of the data. When printing to a NeXT printer, all is fine. Any hints as to what can be done? Thanks, Robert -- Institut fuer Informatik tel +41 (0)61 321 99 67 Universitaet Basel fax. +41 (0)61 321 99 15 Robert Frank Mittlere Strasse 142 rfc822: frank@ifi.unibas.ch (NeXT,MIME mail ok) CH-4056 Basel X400: S=frank;OU=ifi;O=unibas;P=switch;A=arcom;C=ch Switzerland
From: wam@zoo.bt.co.uk (Wayne Morrison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: History keys ^P, ^N, ^B, ^F Date: 18 Apr 1997 09:39:46 GMT Organization: BT Labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK Message-ID: <5j7fh2$o45@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I set up Terminal.app so that I can shuffle through the command history list with the Cursor keys (or at least with a Ctrl-Cursor modifier) as opposed to using: ^P move up through history ^N move down through history ^B move left along the current command ^F move right along the current command I saw something on the FAQ that used emacs macros but was unable to get it to work. I've also set up my keymapping for the cursors but Terminal.app refuses to recognise the cursor press. Thanks for any help, Wayne
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 18 Apr 1997 09:52:18 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5j7g8i$f8@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> <01bc4b9d$40367270$5b506fcb@decisionware> "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> wrote: > There really is no need to change the sendmail.cf file. An alias in > netinfo for mailhost would have sufficed and works well when upgrading a > system. I don't understand. The alias just tells the system *which* sendmail config file to use (mailhost, subsidiary, sharedsubsidiary), but does not replace changes within them. It is correct, however, that sendmail.mailhost.cf for some configurations works "out of the box". > Anyway, to your problem. sendmail is trying to contact mail.lynet.de to > send the mail but first it must resolve the name to an address. It is this > stage that is failing. What you need to do is create a host (in > HostManager.app) for mail.lynet.de with its real IP address. You can find > this out while on-line. By putting the entry in HostManage.app you enable > the DNS lookup to succeed. This is really confusing me. I've heard several times now that people had to put an entry of their mailhost in HostManager.app to make sendmail queue mail when offline. The point is: this is *not* necessary on my machine (and on a lot of other's machines, for that matter). It "just works" with sendmail.mailhost.cf; when offline, mail gets queued, just as it should. No DNS information needed. So the explanation you're giving above can't be completely correct. Anybody has any idea why this problem causes so much grief for some users while it's plug'n'play for the others? Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine _____________________________________________________________________
From: rdogra@nowhere.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: History keys ^P, ^N, ^B, ^F Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:53:21 GMT Organization: Internet MCI Message-ID: <5j7qs1$87l$1@news.internetmci.com> References: <5j7fh2$o45@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit wam@zoo.bt.co.uk (Wayne Morrison) wrote: > > >How do I set up Terminal.app so that I can shuffle through the command >history list with the Cursor keys (or at least with a Ctrl-Cursor modifier) >as opposed to using: >^P move up through history >^N move down through history >^B move left along the current command >^F move right along the current command > >I saw something on the FAQ that used emacs macros but was unable to get it to >work. I've also set up my keymapping for the cursors but Terminal.app refuses >to recognise the cursor press. > >Thanks for any help, > > Wayne Hi From man page of csh: . . . HOW TO ENABLE THE EXTENDED C-SHELL FEATURES To enable the extended C-Shell features, put the line: set editmode = emacs in the .cshrc file in your home directory. If you don't have such a file, create one and add the line to the end. Log out and log in again and you will be using the new shell. . . . Rajnish
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Font conversion, how to make .lepf file (possibly from a .bepf file)? Message-ID: <E8u3rI.BID@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:52:29 GMT Hi, I have a font which contains a .bepf file. This is the big-endian binary file that contains the font. I'd like to use the font on an intel (little endian) machine instead. How do I create the .lepf file? I looked at prebuild, but I did not understand it. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: Trey or Gwen McClendon <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for HP DeskJet 870/850 Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 08:10:27 -0500 Organization: haphazard Message-ID: <335772C3.463A@hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have a PPD for the above printer that would work with Win95 and generate postscript that the eXTRAPRINT program by GS Corporation would digest? I'd like to be able to print from some win95 machines to our networked Color deskjet hanging off a NEXTSTEP-based computer. Thanks, Trey
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: network printers, missing fonts, 8bit data Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 04:47:28 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970418044601.4982F-100000@kira> References: <1997Apr18.111337.47476@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: frank@ifi.unibas.ch In-Reply-To: <1997Apr18.111337.47476@yogi.urz.unibas.ch> I don't know if this will work, but you might try 'save' from the Print panel and select 'For Chosen Printer/Include Fonts' in the save panel, and then print it. There may be another way, and this may not work, but it would be worth a try perhaps TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
From: mmalcolm crawford <malcolm@plsys.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:30:20 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5j842c$9dp$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> In-Reply-To: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> On 04/17/97, Feng Liu wrote: >All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel >become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down >the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. >I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. > These may have been disabled by root in Preferences -- there is an extra entry in Prefernces which only shows up when you're logged in as root. Best wishes, mmalc. -- Malcolm Crawford (NeXTmail) malcolm@plsys.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)1494 432422 P & L Systems Fax: +44 (0)1494 432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/~malcolm
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA Date: 17 Apr 1997 21:00:38 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5j631m$bg23@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Can anyone help with SAMBA config on Openstep 4.1. I get kernel panics when windows 95 clients attemp to access the SAMBA srver.
From: giddings@menominee.chem.wisc.edu (Michael Giddings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: History keys ^P, ^N, ^B, ^F Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:23:27 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison Message-ID: <5j8hnf$4ns4@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5j7fh2$o45@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk> <5j7qs1$87l$1@news.internetmci.com> Cc: rdogra@nowhere.com,wam@zoo.bt.co.uk In <5j7qs1$87l$1@news.internetmci.com> rdogra@nowhere.com wrote: > HOW TO ENABLE THE EXTENDED C-SHELL FEATURES > To enable the extended C-Shell features, put the line: > > set editmode = emacs > > in the .cshrc file in your home directory. If you don't > have such a file, create one and add the line to the end. > Log out and log in again and you will be using the new > shell. > > Rajnish > This doesn't enable the arrow keys (or at least I've never been able to get it to do so). The easiest way I've found to get arrow keys (and lot's of other neat features) is intsalling Bash. There is a pre-compiled binary for it at ftp.next.peak.org. Good luck. -- Michael Giddings giddings@chem.wisc.edu giddings@barbarian.com (608)258-1699 or (608) 692-2851 http://smithlab.chem.wisc.edu/PersonalPages/giddings/giddings.html http://www.barbarian.com
From: Fredrik Nyman <ice@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: 18 Apr 1997 15:22:03 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Message-ID: <ytwwq0cf1g.fsf@abattoir.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> writes: > I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running > NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a > 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP > Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP > 6MP). > > Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/printerdrivers/win/all has a huge collection of ppd files. You'll find the HP PPD's there, and they'll work fine with your NeXT with little if any tweaking. -- Fredrik Nyman Hughes STX Work <ice@sled.gsfc.nasa.gov> NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Play <fredrik@mindspring.com> Code 505 B32/N231 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Fax 301-614-5270
From: grape@matrix.teuto.de (Timo Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: OS Mach 4.1 Power-off and Restart button disabled. Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:57:42 +0200 Organization: PoP teuto.net Bielefeld Message-ID: <199704182057422168869@[192.168.0.2]> References: <5j62am$q2f@news.service.uci.edu> Feng Liu <fliu@uci.edu> wrote: > All of a sudden, the Power-off and Restart button on the usual login panel > become disabled(dimmed). I can not select them any more. To shut down > the machine I'd have to do the hard way: Alt-Alt-NumLock on my PC. > I am running OpenStep for Mach Intel 4.1. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > On my Nextstation (NEXTSTEP 3.2), I can power th achine off by entering "power" as user-name into the login window. Other keywords I found: "exit" seems to restart the Workspace manager (right word?) and "reboot" reboots the computer. Any more keywords out there? Bye Timo --- Timo Hoepfner - grape@matrix.teuto.de
From: zander@conextions.com (Aleksey Sudakov) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 18 Apr 1997 22:26:39 GMT Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc. Message-ID: <5j8sev$m88@news-central.tiac.net> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> Organisation: GarageSoftware Ivc Hi, I think the problem is in mailer. You might want to use ether instead of ddn. ># Major relay mailer - typical choice is "ddn" if you are on the ># Defense Data Network (e.g. Arpanet or Milnet). All mail for ># non-local domains will be forwarded to the major relay host using ># the major relay mailer. We chose "uucp" as the default because most ># isolated networks use it to link their network with the outside ># world. ># ># If you want to use a relay mailer, examine ruleset 0. There are some ># rules that need to be uncommented >DMddn Just change the last line to DMether and I hope it will help. Regards, Aleksey
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/passwd equivalent Date: 18 Apr 1997 23:37:06 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5j90j2$psv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi everyone, sorry to take your time! Where could I find the equivalent file to /etc/passwd in netinfo? Thanks in advance! Reply-to: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: "Nathan C. Burnett" <burnettn@enmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 23:08:54 -0600 Organization: Eastern New Mexico University Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970417230703.1278C-100000@cedar.enmu.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> cc: Allan Noordvyk <allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 16 Apr 1997, Kevin Birch wrote: > Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that > I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. > We had this problem before as well. It turned out that we had the permissions on /etc/resolv.conf incorrect. As root, do a chmod 644 /etc/resolv.conf and that *should* fix it. As to not having a resolv.conf in the first place, just create one, it's the standard BSDish format. Nate - --- Nathan C. Burnett nate@acm.org ENMU Systems Administrator http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/ PGP Key: http://wwwstd.enmu.edu/burnettn/pgpkey.txt Don't get even -- get odd! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBM1cB7c2CzYgxXPeRAQEVTgP8CVleyNwHHJqemNmkwnRX/wWFM3Pbx5AG EiqJ6FMEbGCqpnh6ERVt1ILztmTaiHxM3G+loXAjZPzWd+6GQdMVkyKBlBYnZzTh 3ICJry5LKUN105Lp8wN31o2BXtNuWXH413YnSGyt0SRkjx4os0/yCAU7/NzoM0pd 9+M+kBB71mA= =f8VN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:13:32 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <33582A47.7121@xsf.com> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu>, Futeh Kao <futeh@sprynet.com>, Mike Wottle <"wotmp"@rhodes.edu >, Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>, Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au>, Nathan.Burnett@enmu.edu, paul@spectrum.slu.edu, kris@xmission.com, allan@cetus.ali.bc.ca CC: welshofer.jay@mindspring.com Kevin Birch wrote: > > ... <snip> ... > Hello all, Thanks to everyone who has sent messages regarding the nameserver problem I've been having. When I posted my original message I probably didn't give enough information on my setup. It was pretty late when I wrote it so you'll have to forgive me. Here is my situation: I have a HP 712/80i running NeXTSTEP 3.3 User. It is a new install, so there is no danger of a corrupt system from a previous install. I created a resolv.conf file after reading the docs just like I've done on dozens of other UN*X systems. But nslookup never seemed to read in the address of the namserver. The resolv.conf file looks like this: takeda:21# cat resolv.conf domain cyberstar.com server 10.1.5.2 server 192.168.254.4 Paul Sanchez had hinted at something regaring the end of line character, but I created this file in vi, so I am assuming they would be correct. With the the resolv.conf file in this format nslookup does the following: takeda:22# nslookup Default Server: takeda Address: 0.0.0.0 > rune Server: takeda Address: 0.0.0.0 res_mkquery(0, rune.cyberstar.com, 1, 1) recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused *** takeda can't find rune: No response from server > rune.cyberstar.com Server: takeda Address: 0.0.0.0 res_mkquery(0, rune.cyberstar.com.cyberstar.com, 1, 1) recvfrom: Connection refused recvfrom: Connection refused *** takeda can't find rune.cyberstar.com: No response from server > takeda:23# I can change the server to the ip address of our server, and I can resove names within nslookup ( although it still prints out the "recvfrom: Connection refused" messages immediately after changing the ip address of the server). Stefan Ried had mentioned that NetInfo will preempt standard DNS, and that was what I was thinking was happening, since the nameserver never changes in nslookup. So I took Stefan Ried's advice and did a nidump and got this: takeda:23# nidump -r locations . name = locations; CHILDREN = { name = renderers; CHILDREN = { name = localhost; _writers = "*"; note = "Local Renderer"; }; }; There doesn't seem to be any entries for lookupd, even though it shows up in the process table. Would this info be somewhere else in 3.3? I also looked in NetInfo per Paul Sanchez's suggestion but it, ofcourse contains the same information. If I were to create file with the form of: name = locations; CHILDREN = ( ... , { name = lookupd; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent); }); }); and then did a niload, would this force NetInfo to behave? I am stumped. What am I missing? I apologize for the length of this message, but I wanted to clarify my situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Kevin
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:29:44 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nJakMG00iUyI4MbB3@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> In-Reply-To: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 16-Apr-97 Re: nameserver?? by "Kevin Birch"@xsf.com > Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that > I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. Did you put the IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and not the names? Why not show us the file.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: building a new 4.1 SCSI drive from 3.3 EIDE booting machine Date: 19 Apr 1997 05:52:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j9miv$cdf$1@news.digifix.com> I've got a spiffy new 4.2 gigger Baracuda drive here, ultra wide, its going to be replacing the EIDE drives I've been using... I gather I'm going to have to partition that bad boy in DOS to be 2 separate drives right? Am I going to have to futz with an disktab entry for it then??? I'd REALLY like to be able to install OpenStep 4.1 on it without having to go through the whole install disk, driver junk... Can I just run upgrader or BuildDisk and install using that? Or do I need to go through the whole process.... -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Ray Stricklin <kjaeros@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 20:45:08 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970418204330.6149H-100000@saul5.u.washington.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> <33582A47.7121@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: kjaeros In-Reply-To: <33582A47.7121@xsf.com> Predicate: Whose triangle is it? On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Kevin Birch wrote: > takeda:21# cat resolv.conf > domain cyberstar.com > server 10.1.5.2 > server 192.168.254.4 obelix:13# cat /etc/resolv.conf domain washington.edu nameserver 128.95.20.1 nameserver 128.95.21.1 search washington.edu u.washington.edu HTH ok -r http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kjaeros -------------------------------------- [ e x l i b r i s ]
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/passwd equivalent Date: 19 Apr 1997 04:16:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5j9guv$aki$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5j90j2$psv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5j90j2$psv@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> On 04/18/97, teb@eng.cam.ac.uk wrote: >Hi everyone, sorry to take your time! > >Where could I find the equivalent file to >/etc/passwd in netinfo? > >Thanks in advance! Reply-to: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk > >Thomas > > from the command line nidump passwd . (or / for the parent domain) From NetInfoManager there should be a users directory.. You could also just use the UserManager to find what you are looking for.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: b9gy9xd@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Alfonso Rush) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: faq and manual Date: 19 Apr 1997 01:59:07 -0500 Organization: Educational Computing Network Message-ID: <5j9qfr$mob@ecom3.ecn.bgu.edu> Summary: faq? Keywords: help need to find out how to print the system manual. My research group recently received 4 stations from another dept. I get to be sys admin but we have no manuals. I know that there is a way to print up the manuals from within the os but I don't remember how. Can anyone help? Also is there an f.a.q. for this group? where can i download it? thanks...
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From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't get AddType to work! Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:19:52 -0500 Organization: CyberNews Network Message-ID: <33591AD8.60D8107@kypris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can someone help me? I'm running Apache 1.1.0 on a NeXT box. Runs fine, but I can not get a new type to add. I've realaudio encoded a sound file and have put something on a web page with the EMBED tag, pointing to a .rpm file, which is the RealAudio metafile. I've added the following to BOTH mime.types and srm.conf: AddType audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin .rpm I've also tried adding this to my srm.conf: AddHandler x-pn-realaudio-plugin rpm I've restarted the server numerous times. When hitting the web page in Netscape, it tells me there's a plugin of type "text/plain". Anybody have any ideas how I can get this to work or what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Dan -- Daniel A. Nichols [O-] Voice: (972) 790-7255 2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (972) 790-2950 Irving TX 75061-6645 E-Mail: dan_nichols@kypris.com LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail Welcome! <A HREF="http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan/">
From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Can't get SSI to work with Apache Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 14:32:32 -0500 Organization: CyberNews Network Message-ID: <33591DD0.2F830224@kypris.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi. I'm running Apache 1.1.0 on a NeXT box. I've done all the things that are supposed to make SSI work, but nothing happens. I added the following to both mime.types and srm.conf, separately and together: AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml Then I added the following to a .shtml file: <!--#include file="sig.html"--> Nothing gets included. The include module is supposedly compiled into my server. Thanks for any help. Dan -- Daniel A. Nichols [O-] Voice: (972) 790-7255 2905 Lawrence St. Fax: (972) 790-2950 Irving TX 75061-6645 E-Mail: dan_nichols@kypris.com LP 40,45,64 NeXTMail Welcome! <A HREF="http://rampages.onramp.net/~dan/">
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 19 Apr 1997 21:15:45 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) writes: >On 04/14/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >>I have a ZyXEL 2864 FAX/Modem. I have the modem connected to the >first com port (serial port 1, /dev/cufa). I am currently using the >modem and PPP to dial out. What I'd like to know is, what needs to be >done to allow me to use the FAX features of the modem? When I >configure a FAX modem in the PrinterManager, then the port (/dev/cufa) >is busy when I try to use PPP. Also, when I have established a modem >queue and I try to use it it appears that nothing gets sent. Do I >need to send some sort of modem commands to switch the modem to fax >mode? >> >>David A. Johnson, >>Research Engineer, >>Northwestern University >> >Do you have fax software, such as NXFax or there are some which may >require a good bit of configuring available on NEXTSTEP ftp sites? The >NS built in fax driver doesn't support Zyxel or very many other modems >either. >-- >--- >Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net >Computer Consulting Intl, LTD >PO Box 1046 >College Station, TX 77841 >409-778-4717 >"the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests" >President Andrew Jackson, June 8, 1845 Maybe you can get mgetty+sendfax on major Linux FTP site. kai
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From: punzi@nwlink.com (Robin N. Werner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Dual boot of Linux and OPENSTEP Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 11:14:56 -0700 Organization: Northwest Link Message-ID: <punzi-ya023580001904971114560001@news.nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Keywords: Linux Openstep dual-boot lilo Hello, I have Openstep 4.1 running on white hardware, and I would like to configure the machine to also run Linux. Furthermore, I would like to use Lilo as the boot loader. Has anyone successfully produced such a configuration? If so, would you be willing to share your lilo.conf for booting the machine? Any additional experiences you could share would be a great help. Thus far, I have found information regarding dual booting similar configurations, but never using Lilo. NeXTanswers does mention that this is possible, but the actual configuration is not provided. I have also searched FAQ's at Stepwise and peak.org, but their answer's utilized OS/2's boot-loader. Prior to obtaining Openstep I was running Linux on this machine so I am familiar with the basics of configuring a Linux host and Lilo. As a new Openstep user, I do not wish to destroy it when I reinstall Linux and overwrite the existing master boot-record. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Robin Robin N. Werner punzi@nwlink.com
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From: dennis@csie.nctu.edu.tw (¥[µá¿ß) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: nextstep hangs if no boot option.. Date: 18 Apr 1997 01:30:37 GMT Organization: Computer Science & Information Engineering NCTU Message-ID: <5j6irt$1dt@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw> hi all, when my nextstep system starts, it will hang (blank screen) if I didn't give any option for the "boot:" prompt. It only sccess when I give any option such as "-v". How can I resolve this problem? or is there any way to define a "default" boot option so that I won't have to type the option everytime. thanks.
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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <15479860904022@digifix.com> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:59:34 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26385861508830@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep next-advocacy next-announce next-bugs next-hardware next-marketplace next-misc next-programmer next-software next-sysadmin object lang-objective-c (For a full description, send mail to listserv@antigone.com). The subscription syntax is essentially the same as Majordomo's. To subscribe, send a message to *-request@lists.best.com saying: subscribe where * is the name of the list e.g. next-programmer-request@lists.best.com The ftp sites ============= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org - The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de: - (Peanuts) Located in Germany. ftp://ftp.dn.net/pub/next - Peanuts mirror in the US ftp://terra.stack.urc.tue.nl - (Dutch NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://cube.sm.dsi.unimi.it - (Italian NEXTSTEP User Group) ftp://ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/next - eduStep ftp://ftp.next.com: - See below ftp.next.com and NextAnswers@next.com ===================================== [from the document ftp://ftp.next.com/pub/NeXTanswers/1000_Help] Welcome to the NeXTanswers information retrieval system! This system allows you to request online technical documents, drivers, and other software, which are then sent to you automatically. You can request documents by fax or Internet electronic mail, read them on the world-wide web, transfer them by anonymous ftp, or download them from the BBS. NeXTanswers is an automated retrieval system. Requests sent to it are answered electronically, and are not read or handled by a human being. NeXTanswers does not answer your questions or forward your requests. USING NEXTANSWERS BY E-MAIL To use NeXTanswers by Internet e-mail, send requests to nextanswers@next.com. Files are sent as NeXTmail attachments by default; you can request they be sent as ASCII text files instead. To request a file, include that file's ID number in the Subject line or the body of the message. You can request several files in a single message. You can also include commands in the Subject line or the body of the message. These commands affect the way that files you request are sent: ASCII causes the requested files to be sent as ASCII text SPLIT splits large files into 95KB chunks, using the MIME Message/Partial specification REPLY-TO address sets the e-mail address NeXTanswers uses These commands return information about the NeXTanswers system: HELP returns this help file INDEX returns the list of all available files INDEX BY DATE returns the list of files, sorted newest to oldest SEARCH keywords lists all files that contain all the keywords you list (ignoring capitalization) For example, a message with the following Subject line requests three files: Subject: 2101 2234 1109 A message with this body requests the same three files be sent as ASCII text files: 2101 2234 1109 ascii This message requests two lists of files, one for each search: Subject: SEARCH Dell SCSI SEARCH NetInfo domain NeXTanswers will reply to the address in your From: line. To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. 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From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5jboag$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Date: 20 Apr 1997 03:37:09 GMT Control: cancel <5jboag$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5jboag$8p1@news.netusa1.net> Sender: <glucas@netusa1.net> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: gary@mail.pex.net (Gary Marantos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up a network... stupid newbie question Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:40:21 -0700 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <gary-ya02408000R1904972340210001@news.connectnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Please be patient, I am new to the world of Unix admin. :) I am running OPENSTEP Mach 4.1 on an Intel machine. I have an Intel 10/100 EtherExpress card and a 3Com 8 port 10BaseT hub. My other computer is a PowerMac 7600/150 with the built in 10BaseT connector. I ran the SimpleNetworkStarter in attempt to start the netowrk. I set up all of the parameters and everything appears to be starting at boot, but I can't see my Mac and my Mac can't see the Unix box. I have tried to ping the Mac with no success. If anyone has routinely done this and is willing to at least guide me in the right direction I'd appreciate it. I don't really wanna be told step by step because I learn nothing and there's no point in it if I can;t learn something. :) Please email me if you can offer some help, thanks. :) PS: I did read the help files but they're pretty vague. :)
From: gary@mail.pex.net (Gary Marantos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium (BLACK SCREEN) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:46:39 -0700 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <gary-ya02408000R1904972346390001@news.connectnet.com> References: <5i4lkl$c8u@boursy.news.erols.com> <5ibmpr$hrm$1@gaea.omnigroup.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I had the same with a 4m Diamond. Boot with the setting "config=Default" and go into Configure.app. Then load the driver for the card and check for an area of ram you can switch, move it up one notch. I forget what it's called and I am not on my NeXT box now but it fixes the black screen problem. You need to change it on machine with >32m ram. In article <5ibmpr$hrm$1@gaea.omnigroup.com>, bungi@omnigroup.com (Timothy J. Wood) wrote: > gcasamen@erols.com writes: > > >Hi, I am having the following problem. I own a Matrox Millenium > >video card. Recently upon booting up the machine I have been > >experiencingoccasions when the login screen will not come up and the > >monitor remainsdark. One of the lights on the front of the monitor > >flashes as ifit is not recieving a signal. I have no idea what might be > >causing this. > > I have a similar problem. My P6 has a Matrox Millenium and a ViewSonic > PT810 -- this monitor is a PnP monitor, meaning that it and a PnP video card > will carry out some obscure conversation over the monitor cable and agree > on the list of resolutions and refresh rates that are possible. If I turn > the machine on and boot the machine into NEXTSTEP 4.0 or 4.1, I do not get > any video (the monitor flashes something about not being able to synch). > > If, however, I boot the machine into Win95 or NT4.0 first and then reboot > into NEXTSTEP, all goes ok. Sounds like there is some bug in NeXT's drivers > with respect to PnP video cards/monitors. > > -tim
From: gary@mail.pex.net (Gary Marantos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's a good gen ref on PPP? Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 23:47:23 -0700 Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <gary-ya02408000R1904972347230001@news.connectnet.com> References: <334A4945.FB8@itis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have NS/OS PPP configuration down to a science. I can help you if you need help. In article <334A4945.FB8@itis.com>, "Jason J. Gullickson" <xjasong@itis.com> wrote: > I'm configuring a NS3.0 machine for PPP, what/where can I find some > good info or FAQ's about doing this (the PPP package I have doesn't > have much in the way of documentation) > > > xjasong@itis.com
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 20 Apr 1997 00:31:26 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> Hi, I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of headphones, no sound comes out. Is there something I need to do play music on this CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from a CD-ROM? Thanks, Emmett
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: lpd? Date: 20 Apr 1997 11:54:31 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5jd05n$fqo$2@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5jben1$v26$1@brokaw.wa.com> ihate@spammers.com (bf) wrote: > ive got a mac on the localnet that is running lpd so that my unix boxes > can print to its laserprinter. Can I/How do I setup NeXT to print to a > ethernet lpd server? Since you did not include an eMail address (Maybe a bit too paranoid even in this spammer-cursed world) I will repost the instructions in this group: (Assuming both machines know each other on the network and can be pinged from each other by name, 'local' is the NeXT, 'remote' is the target machine) 1. Create a 'local' printer of type 'LaserWriter' or similar (serial connected - doesn't matter) 2. Open NetInfoManager.app 3. Click on 'printers' in your local domain 4. Click on your new printer name, you should see Admin Comm Device forget about these and again doubleclick on your new printer name, a new browser opens, you should see the printcap entries beginning with 'name'. 5. Create a new property, give it the name 'rm' 5.1 Create for this property a new value, write your machine name here you want to print to here. (This will tell lpd to print to a remote machine, hence 'rm') 6. Create a new property, give it the name 'rp' 6.1 Create for this property a new value, write your queue name here you want to print to here (the printer name as it is called your your NeXT). (This will tell lpd the name of the target queue on the remote machine) 7. Create a new property, give it the name '_nxfinalform' (This will advice the NeXT printing mechanism to include all fonts in the print job) 8. Edit the 'ty' property value to make it a 'NeXT 400 dpi Level II Printer' (or whatever the remote printer is known to be, if the type is correct there is not need to change it and you can skip this step) (This will tell your local system to use the correct PPD) 9. On your target machine (if it is a BSD UNIX system), create a new file called '/etc/hosts.lpd' and write the name of your client machine in it. Alternatively you can use the '/etc/hosts.equiv' file. 10. Save and quit NetInfoManager.app. 11. Open an app and print something. It can take a few 10 minutes for the type of printer to propagate through NetInfo. If you want to be sure everything is set and ready just reboot the local machine. I never understood why NeXT did not implement this functionaliy into PrintManager.app. Maybe someday I'll write an add-on utility for it. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: bobg@uic.edu (Bob Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Can't get SSI to work with Apache Followup-To: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Date: 20 Apr 1997 15:02:23 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: <5jdb5v$1a8k$1@piglet.cc.uic.edu> References: <33591DD0.2F830224@kypris.com> Dan Nichols (dan@kypris.com) wrote: : Hi. : I'm running Apache 1.1.0 on a NeXT box. : I've done all the things that are supposed to make SSI work, but nothing : happens. : I added the following to both mime.types and srm.conf, separately and : together: : AddType text/x-server-parsed-html .shtml You must also enable the ssi module for your particular directory or location. You need something like: <Directory ....> Options ... Includes .... </Directory> Check out the "Options" directive for details. bobg
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Network settings using NAT Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 16:26:56 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <335A7C10.3C55@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to connect to my ISP using an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px router with OPENSTEP 4.0/Intel. The ISP has assigned me one static IP address along with a registered domain name. The Ascend directions say that in order for NAT to work correctly, all of the dotted quads in the IP address must be above 100, and further, to assign the computer an address one number next to it so that the router sees it as being on the same network. Since one of the dotted quads of the address that my ISP assigned me is below 100, I assigned my router a dummy address of 100.100.100.100. Using SimpleNetworkStarter, in section 1, I checked the third box 'Provide the services specified below'. In section 2, I set the IP address to 100.100.100.101. And under [Network Options...], I set the -Router- to the address of my router 100.100.100.100, set -Netmask- to 255.0.0.0, set -NIS Domain Name- to my registered domain name, and set -Broadcast Address- to 100.255.255.255. I then attached the ethernet wire when the prompt told me to. However I am not able to get the computer to make a connection to the network. Afterwards, I accessed the router directly using Kermit and dialed into my ISP manually. When I set the router's IP address to the dummy number, it would connect with my ISP for about five seconds then terminate. However if I set the address to the number that they assigned me, the connection would stay up - but I can't use NAT with this IP address. Are the above settings correct? And does anyone know how I can get this working? --gh
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: faq and manual Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 13:14:15 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970420131257.12895O-100000@kira> References: <5j9qfr$mob@ecom3.ecn.bgu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Alfonso Rush <b9gy9xd@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5j9qfr$mob@ecom3.ecn.bgu.edu> You can find the FAQ link and many other helpful (I hope!) pointers at my web page http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next As for the manual & doc, open Librarian.app and see if that helps. If not, drop me a line TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Questions asked in crossposted messages should not be answered. Read http://www.stepwise.com/Resources/Newsgroups/roadmap.html
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From: Jeff Fedor <jfedor@annexmultimedia.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS Problem Booting Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:43:21 +0000 Organization: Annex Multimedia Message-ID: <335A8DF9.1DAF@annexmultimedia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi... I just got a mono NeXTStation (running release 3.0) I played around with it and filled in the new network info upon which the system suggested I reboot. Now it won't get past the "CHECKING SYSTEM FILES" part of the boot... any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. thanks in advance, Jeff
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPD for newer HP Laserjets Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 10:09:51 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970417100231.880A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I currently have an HP Laserjet III on my NeXTstation running NS3.0 (I have a cable with a serial port connection on one end and a 25-pin connector on the other) . I'm looking to upgrade to a newer HP Laserjet that's faster and has built-in postscript (e.g. HP 5MP or HP 6MP). Does anyone have the correct PPD files for either of these printers? Anything else I should consider? Reasons why this won't work? Thanks for any comments. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: [Q] Dual boot of Linux and OPENSTEP Date: 20 Apr 1997 17:25:22 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jdji2$pd7@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <punzi-ya023580001904971114560001@news.nwlink.com> Keywords: Linux Openstep dual-boot lilo punzi@nwlink.com (Robin N. Werner) writes: >Hello, > I have Openstep 4.1 running on white hardware, and I would like to >configure the machine to also run Linux. Furthermore, I would like to use >Lilo as the boot loader. > Has anyone successfully produced such a configuration? If so, would >you be willing to share your lilo.conf for booting the machine? Any >additional experiences you could share would be a great help. > Thus far, I have found information regarding dual booting similar >configurations, but never using Lilo. NeXTanswers does mention that this is >possible, but the actual configuration is not provided. I have also >searched FAQ's at Stepwise and peak.org, but their answer's utilized OS/2's >boot-loader. > Prior to obtaining Openstep I was running Linux on this machine so I >am familiar with the basics of configuring a Linux host and Lilo. As a new >Openstep user, I do not wish to destroy it when I reinstall Linux and >overwrite the existing master boot-record. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks! > -Robin >Robin N. Werner >punzi@nwlink.com Yes, it work but one thing to remember is the OPENSTEP only boot from 1st HD (NeXT disk utility suck). below is a sample config. lilo.conf boot=/dev/sda # put your lilo in the MBR root=/dev/sda1 # your linux root device . . other=/dev/sda3 label=openstep -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: gary@a-team.connectnet.com (s00p) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS box can't see Mac on network Date: 21 Apr 1997 06:06:29 GMT Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com> I am running OPENSTEP Mach 4.1 on a Pentium 133 and this box is networked to a PowerMac 7600 via TCP/IP. Here's the problem, if anyone has any suggestions please email me. :) When I first boot my Mac I am unable to ping the Mac from the OS machine. My pings, telnets, and FTPs all time out. Now, when I go to the Mac and telnet to the OS box I can get in. After I have made the attempt to contact the OS box from the Mac I can ping the Mac from the OS box. In a nutshell, the OS can not see the Mac until *after* the Mac has tried to connect to the OS. Any ides on this? Thanks Gary
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From: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at (Robert F Tobler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS 4.1 & tcsh Date: 21 Apr 1997 15:29:27 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Message-ID: <5jg14n$3f3@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <3356C5DA.3E18@ncast.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970417200003.23261B-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org > > Curious.... it seems that you have done all that it right. Yet it doesn't > work. Welcome to my life ;-) > > Anyway, a few questions: does /bin/tcsh actually exist? Is it executable? > It is readable? > > What about using nidump to a file, editing a user's shell to /bin/tcsh, > and niload the file and see if it works? This is not a solution, > obviously, but perhaps a temp. workaround. > Another possibility: some UNIX configuration files are sensitive with respect to missing linefeeds. So make sure, you have put in a linefeed after the end of /bin/tcsh in /etc/shells ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robert F. Tobler - tel:+43(1)58801-4585,fax:5874932 Institute of Computer Graphics - mailto:rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at Vienna University of Technology - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~rft/
From: ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to send e-mail to all the users Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 18:33:10 GMT Organization: WorldCom Message-ID: <335bb18b.9932151@news.worldcom.ch> Hi there, I would like to send an e-amil to all the user of my network. The mailserver runs NeXTSTEP 3.3. Is there an way to send to all user in one time or must I send the e-mail to each of theme separately ??!! Thanks LiONEL
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: top Date: 21 Apr 1997 21:49:40 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5jgndk$7d1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Hi, would anyone know off-hand where to obtain an equivalent to the familiar 'top' monitor for use in a terminal? Cheers, Thomas B. --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: HELP!!! HELP!!! HELP!!! Date: 22 Apr 1997 00:19:50 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5jh076$gd7@news.tamu.edu> References: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 1997 00:19:50 GMT In-Reply-To: <5ij800$kv1@news.acns.nwu.edu> On 04/10/97, daj@nwu.edu wrote: >I have a very serious problem that I need help with. > >I have a Jaz disk that had files moved from it onto another disk (using the next window GUI move command). I want to recover the data fromm the original Jaz disk. Unfortunately the disk the data was moved onto was destroyed. The Jaz disk is intact and hasn't had anything done to it since the data was moved off (no read or writes). Is there any way this can be done? Can I do it myself or is there a service that I can send the disk to to have it recovered? If a service is the way to go, are there any recommendations? > >PLEASE HELP!! Of course I need the data recovered yesterday! > >Thank's in advance, > > > >David A. Johnson > Here are a list of companies to whom I have talked about recovering data. DriveSavers are expensive but might be the best bet. I tried Lazarus and CBL. I would not recommend CBL for NEXTSTEP especially and in general their customer service was not very good. Data Recovery Labs (813) 725-3818 Phone (813) 725-8510 Fax datareclab@aol.com $100 eval. - recovery ~$500-$1200 Data Recovery Services, Inc. ? Vantage 1-800-487-5678 (603) 883-6249 FAX: (603) 883-1973 recovery@vantagetech.com $250 eval. fee CBL 1-800-551-3917 590 Alden Rd., Unit 105, Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 8N2 (905) 479-9938, Fax: (905) 479-1515 $100/hr 2-4hrs wk Unix DriveSavers (800) 440-1904 415-883-4232 FAX (415) 883-0780 E-Mail: DriveSaver@aol.com NEXTSTEP Lazarus 381 Clementina Street San Francisco, CA 94103 800-341-DATA 415-495-5553 fax
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Executable Size vs Machine Specs Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:37:32 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5jh89c$ljb@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:37:32 GMT Problem: We currently have 2 machines running NeXT/OpenStep. We are compiling fortran software (using the same version of f2c). When we increase the size of given arrays, the ld (link) fails on Machine 2, but not on Machine 1. The linker messages complain about crossing segment boundaries. The 2 major differences between the 2 machines are the version of the compiler and the amount of RAM. Can anyone tell me which is giving me the problem, and why? Machine 1. PentiumPro, 64Mb RAM, running OpenStep 4.0 with cc Compiler version 475 with gcc version 2.5.8 Machine 2. Pentium, 40Mb RAM, running NeXTStep 3.3 with cc Compiler version 432.2.6 with gcc version 2.5.8 --
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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 07:11:20 -0600 From: Tom Guyette <tguyette@is.com> Subject: Intel 3.3 SerialPort driver recognizes a 16550 when a 16650 is present Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <861710199.3532@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I recently purchased a serial card from ByteRunner (actually made in Taiwan) on which I got a 16650 hoping to improve my multitasking ability. I am running 3.3 and I have the latest Next drivers installed - ISA/EISA Bus Support(v3.35) SerialPort(v3.33) TTY Port Server(v3.33) Although the SerialPort driver's documentation does say that it automatically detects the 16650, on my system it DOES NOT. It says that a 16550 is detected with fifo=16 bytes!! I asked next and they said to try downloading the latest drivers which I did and the results didn't change. I booted in DOS and ran a program that detects the UART and it saw a 16650 alright!! Any suggestions how to get this guy to work? Does anyone have the same problem? Tom -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: byeger@cs.ucr.edu (Boaz Yeger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: starting X from rc.local Date: 21 Apr 1997 18:24:56 GMT Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <5jgbdo$l6q@rumors.ucr.edu> Hello, I am trying to start X by running /usr/local/bin/X -query from rc.local. My goal is to have X login windows come up during boot time without the need to login and start it manually. I added some debug lines in rc.local, but nothing is recorded there. Any ideas? Boaz Yeger
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From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfomanager Date: 22 Apr 1997 15:55:38 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am having problems on my motorola turbo. I just installed 3.3, it was at 3.0 before. I just gave it an IP address before and it worked just fine. I only have my NT machine and the next machine at home. I just want to be able to ftp to the next and maybe run samba. When I try to run the simplenetworkstarter.app it says netinfo manager not found, then it quits when I hit ok. Can anyone tell me what is setup wrong? oh, it also says that it can't find the netinfo server at bootup. I want to be the netinfo server since I'm the only next on the network right? How can I make myself the server? thanks vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to send e-mail to all the users Message-ID: <E91F0J.82G@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <335bb18b.9932151@news.worldcom.ch> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:38:43 GMT In article <335bb18b.9932151@news.worldcom.ch> ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) writes: > Hi there, > > I would like to send an e-amil to all the user of my network. > The mailserver runs NeXTSTEP 3.3. > Is there an way to send to all user in one time or must I send > the e-mail to each of theme separately ??!! > This request has a good share of RTFM in it ;-) The way NeXTmail supports this is via "group addresses". There are system wide and private group addresses. The system wide feature has the same flexibility as all NetInfo based user administration, i.e. it can be tied to NI domains. It is up to a sysadmin to form system wide groups. You could use user admin exists to create default entries into several groups if you're running NS 3.3 or higher (the new bulk admin feature in UserManager.app). Any user can point and click his own address groups through the Mail.app address book dialog, though. A second chance are alias lists in sendmail. Notice, this is not a NEXTSTEP feature! Though, the plain sendmail installation in NEXTSTEP would allow for this (see sendmail docu in man-pages, for instance). But to put it plain and simple, there is no out of the box E-mail broadcast built into NEXTSTEP (or any other Unix I know). Sysadmins always have to become the active part in making this possible. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NS Problem Booting Message-ID: <E91Fww.836@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <335A8DF9.1DAF@annexmultimedia.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:58:08 GMT In article <335A8DF9.1DAF@annexmultimedia.com> Jeff Fedor <jfedor@annexmultimedia.com> writes: > Hi... > > I just got a mono NeXTStation (running release 3.0) I played around with > it and filled in the new network info upon which the system suggested I > reboot. > > Now it won't get past the "CHECKING SYSTEM FILES" part of the boot... > any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. > The reason why this achieved FAQ status long ago: it is much easier to mess up the network conf than getting back to a standalone conf. As second hand markets certainly don't form a marketing pressure I don't expect this situation to change that soon ;-) Unfortunately, curing your situation minimal invasively would require much more knowledge about what you did and/or direct access to your system. therefore, you can only get advice on the most radical of all cures. How to get a messed up NEXTSTEP conf back into out of the box state. 1. Boot into single user mode Type 'Command-Command-~', yes a triple key stroke, to get into the boot monitor. Then type 'bsd -s' to boot single user from the boot disk. You'll get a bare bones Unix environment. Don't expect it to be fun. But it will be exactly what you need to save your ass. 2. Copy the files in /usr/templates/client/etc/hostinfo and /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo /etc Yes, you'll have to do this with plain Unix commands. And you'll have to account for netinfo being a directory. This will erase ALL your site customization. If you feel fit to recover some of the setup make copies of the replaced files. 3. Reboot and give the account 'me' a password. Then log in as 'root' and start to redo your site specific setup from scratch (and stay away from the networking stuff until you studied the Sysadmin Manual thoroughly :-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Date: 22 Apr 1997 12:16:36 EST Message-ID: <cancel.199704221015.DAA28927@web1.zzz.com> Control: cancel <199704221015.DAA28927@web1.zzz.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Sender: <Barb@railway.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <199704221015.DAA28927@web1.zzz.com> EMP/ECP (aka SPAM) cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce, report 19970422.24 for further details
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: top Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 19:26:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970421192554.1213C-100000@kira> References: <5jgndk$7d1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <5jgndk$7d1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/top.0.5.NI.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/top.0.5.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/top.0.5.s.tar.gz TjL
From: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS box can't see Mac on network Date: 22 Apr 1997 18:46:53 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <5jj12t$1ts$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com> s00p writes > In a nutshell, the OS can not see the Mac until *after* the Mac has > tried to connect to the OS. Any ides on this? Have you tried adding the mac's ethernet (MAC, no pun intended) address to NetInfo? The arp tables on the OS box aren't being updated properly. Well, maybe. leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXT/MIME) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unable to put Mail in mailqueue when PPP is down Date: 22 Apr 1997 21:06:15 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc4f61$2f861670$87506fcb@decisionware> References: <5j4l2p$19n@merkur.lynet.de> <01bc4b9d$40367270$5b506fcb@decisionware> <5j7g8i$f8@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Uli Zappe <uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote in article <5j7g8i$f8@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>... > "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> wrote: > > There really is no need to change the sendmail.cf file. An alias in > > netinfo for mailhost would have sufficed and works well when upgrading a > > system. > > I don't understand. The alias just tells the system *which* sendmail config > file to use (mailhost, subsidiary, sharedsubsidiary), but does not replace > changes within them. It is correct, however, that sendmail.mailhost.cf for > some configurations works "out of the box". the alias entry in netinfo in this instance is for the DMmailhost line to resolve to a host name (eg. mail.server.com.au) rather than changing the sendmail.cf line to DMmail.server.com.au or some such. The mechanism in use on my machine for deciding *which* sendmail.cf file to use is done with a symbolic link from sendmail.cf to sendmail.mailhost.cf. > <snip> > > This is really confusing me. I've heard several times now that people had to > put an entry of their mailhost in HostManager.app to make sendmail queue mail > when offline. The point is: this is *not* necessary on my machine (and on a > lot of other's machines, for that matter). It "just works" with > sendmail.mailhost.cf; when offline, mail gets queued, just as it should. No > DNS information needed. So the explanation you're giving above can't be > completely correct. > point taken.
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From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 3Com Etherlink Drivers Date: 22 Apr 1997 19:23:53 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute Message-ID: <5jj389$bd6@news.sei.cmu.edu> Have a PC with an EtherLink XL (3C900-COMBO) PCI network adapter card upon which I'm hoping to run NS 3.3. Can't find any information on NextAnswers concerning an appropriate driver. Any other info? An alternative might be replacing XL with an EtherLink III EISA, but NeXT's information on latest EtherLink III driver (4.03) gives EISA model as 3C589C-COMBO, whilst 3Com is selling 3C592-COMBO. Should I worry about compatability here too? Finally, if I'm obliged to buy an EISA NA, what's my best option among current offerings when running NS 3.3? Thanks. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Misc Questions Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 00:05:55 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jjjq3$a7s@news.jump.net> Looking for a NeXT Guru who can tell me: (Black Hardware Questions) Is it possible to change the root pattern in the X Windows environment to be a XBM (or similar)? How? Is the lowest device ID on the SCSI controller the one that is booted from? What ID does the controller own? (ie on a PC, Controller is standard ID 7, and boot disk is standard ID 0) What would DSP memory get me? Would it be worthwhile to invest in some? Where would I get it? What is the Max memory configuration of a NextStation Mono Turbo? I am roughly familiar with Linux and SunOS, so standard UNIX stuff I've got. How do I go about installing and / or compiling new apps? And for the real winner: Where can I get a few good FAQs, a group of FAQs, or a reference manual? Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: rangmj@rice.edu (Moon J. Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: Wed, 23 Apr 97 00:00:30 GMT Organization: Rice University Message-ID: <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower> I have been trying to install NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a Pentium PC with two 1.6 GB EIDE hard disks ( one is for Win95 and the other is blank), an EIDE CD-ROM drive, and a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM video card ( 2 MB, S3-986 chip). The BIOS uses "LBA" mode for the hard disk. My plan is the NEXTSTEP is installed in the second blank hard disk and later booting up the second disk with boot floppy diskette. I have read the manual and NEXT answers and list below is what I did (1) Connect the blank hard disk ( unformatted ) as master and the CD-ROM drive as slave to the primary disk controller on the motherboard. The other hard disk is left disconnected. (This is the only way to install NEXSTEPT from CD-ROM ) (2) Change the BIOS setup according to the above connection. (3) Insert NEXTSTEP 3.3 CD and 3.3 boot floppy disk ( downloaded recently from ftp.next.com) (4) When boot prompt is appeared, type -v ( in verbose mode) (5) Select the Adaptec 154x SCSI driver ( v 3.31) for CD-ROM drive ( NEXT answer says that it is the only choice no matter what CD-ROM drive is connected) (6) Select EIDE and ATAPI device controller ( beta version 3.35 : downloaded from next ftp site) for the hard disk (7) Select the advanced installation : create a 750 NEXTSTEP partition ( the rest is free space ) and install on it (8) ROM monitor shows a bunch of messages and then the files being installed (9) After about 10 miniutes, the message says the installation is completed (10) Remove only the floppy disk and press return to restart the computer (11) When boot prompt is appeared, type -v ( in verbose mode) (12) The computer requests to insert the floppy disk having EIDE and ATAPI device controller( version 3.35 ) -> insert it and return (13) Another bunch of messages on ROM monitor ( Everything seems fine, except one message in middle of messages : " device loader : scandir ( /dev/EIDE.cong ) error " " Aborting the configuration of EIDE device" (14) ROM moniter disappears, and "Alert window" appears and says " insert the floppy disk having EIDE controller version 3.35" -> insert it and return (15) Summary of Devices screen appears (16) In expert mode, change " Boot Graphic mode" from "Yes" to "No" (17) Add display device driver ; Diamondstealth PCI, S3 Generic ,or Default VGA display. (18) When "save" button is pressed, the screen goes into black and the red light for the hard disk keeps on ( not blinking and no sound ) I restarted the installation from the start and changed the choice of EIDE device controller ( 3.31 or 3.35 ) and of display driver as the above (17) in device configuration step (15-18). No luck Is this the problem of hard disk or display card ( hard disk and display card have no problem with Windows95 ) ? Did I miss something during the installation ? If you have any idea about this problem, please post it or email me. I am really looking forward to hearing the good advice. lIn article <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower>, "Juhana Riihimäki" <jriihi@sci.fi> wrote: >Robert Kuropkat <robertk@mfg.sgi.com> wrote in article ><334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com>... >> Greetings, >> >> I am attempting to install NextStep3.3 on a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion >> 7285. It is a Pentium-200 with a three Gig hard drive. I currently >> have three formated primary partitions (1 DOS/Win3.1 - 500Mg, 1 Win95 1G >> that came with the machine(Why does anyone use this OS?) and 1 currently >> hosed up Win NT partition - 800Mg.) The remaining 7-800 Meg is >> unformated. Boot Managment is being handled by System Commander. >> Eventually, I intend to add a second hard drive to install OS/2, Linux > >> and Solaris. My understanding is that NextStep must be installed in the >> first drive in a primary partition. The hard disk is on the first > >eh you can install it to second partition on first harddrive also :)) > >> primary EIDE controller and the CD-ROM is on the second primary >> controller. There are no SCSI devices what-so-ever. > >yep to get install search for nextstep ATAPI CD-ROM it must be connected as >second drive to primary controller (slave).. > >> When booting from the install disk the first driver it asks for insists >> that all CD-ROMs ever made where SCSI and offers no way to by-pass it or >> get a list that includes the IDE drivers. If I select one anyway and > >You need to get EIDE 3.31 or EIDE 3.35 beta driver disk image and make that >disk then use that disk when it asks for hard drive. as cd-rom drive use >154x. > >> I talked with someone else who sucessfully installed with and IDE CD-ROM >> and a SCSI disk by simply putting in the disk type in response to the > >You just need that EIDE driver and to just supply install prog with 154x >when it asks for scsi driver first then when it asks for harddisk driver >supply EIDE then continue install and it uses automatically ATAPI CD-ROM as >cd-rom drive. > >> P.S. Assuming OpenStep would be kinder to me, can anyone tell me how >> much it costs for the average joe. I'm not in school and I don't need a > >i want openstep too so if you get good answers to this then tell me also. > >I have successfully installed: >DOS, Win95, OS/2 Warp 4, WindowsNT 4.0 Workstation, Linux, FreeBSD and >NeXTSTEP. > >My computer: (Pentium 120MHz, 40 Megs ram, 3.2 + 1.3 Gigs HDD + scsi CD-R) >
Message-ID: <335AFBA3.5801@ultranet.ca> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:31:15 -0800 From: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would agree that mgetty+sendfax would be the way to go. If you manage to get them installed and configured let me know. I think you have to be a bit of a propellor-head to set up mgetty!
Message-ID: <335AFFFD.4B13@ultranet.ca> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 21:49:49 -0800 From: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: newsgroups FTP sites Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I hate browsing through the news online. Where is an FTP comp.sys.next.* archive from which I can download and grep to my heart's content? Thanks.
From: Tom <troehl@mnsinc.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Networking Nextstation with Mac Date: 23 Apr 1997 01:13:34 GMT Organization: Monumental Network Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so they are both able access the network? Thanks. Tom troehl@mnsinc.com
Date: 23 Apr 1997 01:39:02 GMT From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Sender: ao;kjfdslj@o;ajfl;ksjda.com Message-ID: <cancel.5jjc5u$3kl@argentina.earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5jjc5u$3kl@argentina.earthlink.net> Control: cancel <5jjc5u$3kl@argentina.earthlink.net> CELEBRITY spam cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Original Subject: -Christina Applegate Nude Total spams this type to date: 1455 Total this spam type for this user to date: 1
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: newsgroups FTP sites Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:15:57 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970422191414.8760B-100000@kira> References: <335AFFFD.4B13@ultranet.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> In-Reply-To: <335AFFFD.4B13@ultranet.ca> If you check out my web page you'll find info on various NeXTStep CD-ROMS, including the Big Green CD collection, which has the news from the beginning of time through last October on CD rom, ready for Digital Libraian Much nicer than grep, and a lot of other good stuff on the CDs too TjL
From: roger@baseline.net (Roger Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with configuring imapd on OpenStep 4.1 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 18:37:13 -0700 Organization: Base Online Message-ID: <roger-2204971837130001@smith-roger.apple.com> Hi, I managed to compile the imap4rev-1 sources, but am having problem getting it running. Does some one have some pointers on the various settings in the config files I need to use? Does anyone have imapd working under 4.1? Roger --- Roger Smith Base Online internet:roger@baseline.net
From: lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking Nextstation with Mac Date: 23 Apr 1997 04:24:35 GMT Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jk2u3$e5p@news.sei.cmu.edu> References: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Cc: troehl@mnsinc.com In <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Tom wrote: > I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want > to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked > at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems > really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the > PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so > they are both able access the network? Thanks. Can be done using software routing/proxying products from Vicom Technology (http://www.vicomtech.com); Internet Gateway, for example. -- Larry Howard Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University lph@sei.cmu.edu (NeXTmail/MIME) (412) 268-6397
From: ltinguely@pobox.com (Lionel Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hardware passwd lost!!!!!! Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:59:47 GMT Organization: WorldCom Message-ID: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Hi there, I lost the Hardware password of a NeXTSTATION... How can I recover ? Thanks LiONEL
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 07:41:27 -0600 From: Zanitti Leo <zleo@net.iss.it> Subject: Re: nextstep hangs if no boot option.. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <861798732.4532@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service References: <5j6irt$1dt@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw> In article <5j6irt$1dt@netnews.csie.nctu.edu.tw>, dennis@csie.nctu.edu.tw (¥[µá¿ß) wrote: > > hi all, > when my nextstep system starts, it will hang (blank screen) if > I didn't give any option for the "boot:" prompt. It only sccess > when I give any option such as "-v". How can I resolve this problem? > or is there any way to define a "default" boot option so that > I won't have to type the option everytime. > > thanks. some video cards can boot only in non graphic mode (this is only for the load the OS [kernel, etc.], after boot process you have the system run normally). In Configure.app Expert Settings, set Boot Graphics to No. You can also use -v in the Kernel Flags. I think you must log as root for change this. Bye -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Networking Nextstation with Mac Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 11:51:30 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <E93A9v.251@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> In article <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Tom <troehl@mnsinc.com> writes: > > I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want > to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked > at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems > really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the > PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so > they are both able access the network? Thanks. As someone has pointed out, to do it on the Mac requires the Viacom router or similar (about $150), as Mac TCP implementations are too dumb to handle variable numbers of interfaces (My NeXT varies between 0 and 3, plus the loopback). Using the NeXT isn't so difficult (it's a bit daunting if you're new to TCP networking, but if you're going to have to get to grips with this however you tackle it), and requires only free software, but the NeXTSTation serial ports aren't so fast (and NeXTPPP occasionally crashes). Additionally the NeXT will not fake IP addresses, so you'd need two IP addresses from your ISP. (Don't know about the Viacom router, but I think not). I'm currently looking at tackling this problem using a freeBSD box - the machine itself can be just a 386, so you can put together a machine for ~$100 (less than the Mac software), and all the software is free. Serial ports will be faster than the NeXT, and you're not loading either the NeXT or the Mac with needless extensions. Best of all freeBSD will act as a gateway and firewall such that you can connect to external sites from internal machines with only a single external IP address (big win). As an added bonus I should be able to use it as both an NFS and AppleShare server (maybe I'll hook my printer there too) so I can hang discs on there, and access then from all machines (again without loading either of the clients with needless extensions - particularly as my Mac is only a PowerBook!). You can also use the new machine as a general mail, news and web server. Just another option you could consider... $an
From: wottle@mathcs.rhodes.edu (Mike Wottle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using SCSI devices pon my NeXTstation Date: 22 Apr 97 01:25:32 GMT Organization: The University of Memphis Sender: -Not-Authenticated-[3400] Message-ID: <335c138c.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> Xdisclaimer: No attempt was made to authenticate the sender's name. I'm a beginner to NeXTStep and I was wondering two things: Can I use my SyQuest EZ135 drive with it? and Can I use the Apple CD 300e drive with it? If so, how would I do this? Thanks. Also, if anyone has an extra copy of NS Dev which will work with NS 3.0, let me know. email me at <wottle@mathcs.rhodes.edu>
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfomanager Date: 23 Apr 1997 13:49:51 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jl41v$8hk$1@news10.gte.net> References: <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nevermind. I reinstalled and it works great now. vince
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: using SCSI devices pon my NeXTstation Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:55:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970423065333.27955B-100000@kira> References: <335c138c.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mike Wottle <wottle@mathcs.rhodes.edu> In-Reply-To: <335c138c.0@ALPHA.RHODES.EDU> > I'm a beginner to NeXTStep and I was wondering two things: > Can I use my SyQuest EZ135 drive with it? Yes, in fact I am using one with it righ now. Works nicely. You can use any SCSI-1 or SCSI-2 device, and hard drives as long as they use asynch (I think). TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hardware passwd lost!!!!!! Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 06:56:44 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970423065541.27955C-100000@kira> References: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Lionel Tinguely <ltinguely@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Checkout the faq at my page which explains this process and many others. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to remove newsgroups in PersonalINN Date: 23 Apr 1997 10:46:42 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, I've removed some newsgroups in slurp.sys and in active, but the directories for these groups and the corresponding files still exist on the disk. Do I have to delete them by hand, or are they removed automatically by PersonalINN at a later news.daily-call?
From: hallmann@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Hallmann ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: disktab builder out there? Date: 23 Apr 1997 15:12:29 GMT Organization: CS Department, University of Dortmund, Germany Message-ID: <5jl8st$ml8$1@fbi-news.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Keywords: disktab Hello, I want to know if there exists a utility which helps a lonesome sysadmin building disktab entries for multipartitioned disk. Any hints? -- Andreas Hallmann Lehrstuhl Informatik V, Fax : +49-231-755-4851 University of Dortmund, Tel. : +49-231-755-5107 D -44221 Dortmund >>> If live is too complex, just make an abstraction. <<<
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: where to get samba Date: 23 Apr 1997 15:29:58 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jl9tm$3v5$1@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I got a binary distribution of samba a few weeks ago and I need it again. I can't seem to find it this time. Can anyone point me to it? thanks vince
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: netinfomanager Message-ID: <E93K4H.sE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:24:16 GMT In article <5jin1q$49j$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) writes: > I am having problems on my motorola turbo. I just installed 3.3, it > was at 3.0 before. I just gave it an IP address before and it worked > just fine. I only have my NT machine and the next machine at home. > I just want to be able to ftp to the next and maybe run samba. When > I try to run the simplenetworkstarter.app it says netinfo manager not > found, then it quits when I hit ok. Can anyone tell me what is setup > wrong? > > oh, it also says that it can't find the netinfo server at bootup. I > want to be the netinfo server since I'm the only next on the network > right? How can I make myself the server? > The upgrade from a NS 3.0 NetInfo database to a later version is not always successful if the local config was not anticipated by the developers (there was a major design change from 3.0 to 3.1!). I had the same problems with my upgrade to 3.1. Although, I agree that later versions had better converters it seems not all conversions work well. My solution was a backup of 3.0 to a second drive (I relegated my user partition to tape for this) and did a full installation from scratch followed by a manual restore of all local changes. Lots of work but it payed! This requires that you have either enough spare disk or a sufficient tape drive, though. And if the original 3.0 conf has not been saved somewhere the restore of the old conf will inevitably need much more research and labour. In this case it might be more rewarding to redo all installations from scratch. Depending on your prior situation that might be taxing, though. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Misc Questions Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:38:04 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snLZQAO00WBO43l45V@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5jjjq3$a7s@news.jump.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 23-Apr-97 Misc Questions by Matt Seibert@ita1.inow.c > Is it possible to change the root pattern in the X Windows environment to > be a XBM (or similar)? How? Did whatever version of X you have installed come with 'xsetroot'? Try that.... > Is the lowest device ID on the SCSI controller the one that is booted from? Yes. > What ID does the controller own? (ie on a PC, Controller is standard ID 7, > and boot disk is standard ID 0) The SCSI controller is ID 7. > What would DSP memory get me? Probably nothing, unless you're doing something special with sounds & MIDI or doing some DSP programming. > Would it be worthwhile to invest in some? Probably no, but it depends on what you want to do. > Where would I get it? You might be able to buy some used DSP memory from someone, but I don't even know whether that style of memory is still being manufactured. > What is the Max memory configuration of a NextStation Mono Turbo? 128 MB; four 32-MB 72-pin SIMMs. > I am roughly familiar with Linux and SunOS, so standard UNIX stuff I've got. > How do I go about installing and / or compiling new apps? NEXTSTEP software generally comes in packages-- ie, files with a .pkg extension. Double-click on such a file to run Installer.app, which is very user friendly (you shouldn't have any problems). As for compiling software, you need to have NEXTSTEP/Developer installed. > And for the real winner: > Where can I get a few good FAQs, a group of FAQs, or a reference manual? Take a look at /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin, NeXTAnswers (www.next.com), and Stepwise (www.stepwise.com). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to remove newsgroups in PersonalINN Date: 23 Apr 1997 18:17:36 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5jljo0$9hn$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> On 04/22/97, Andreas Hoeschler wrote: > >Hello, > >I've removed some newsgroups in slurp.sys and in active, but the directories >for these groups and the corresponding files still exist on the disk. Do I >have to delete them by hand, or are they removed automatically by PersonalINN >at a later news.daily-call? You should be using the ctlinnd command to add and remove groups cleanly. ctlinnd rmgroup <groupname> ctlinnd newgroup <groupname> See man ctlinnd for more details. - Chris -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf -- WolfWare -- NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody Developer For info about NewsFlash the lightning fast NeXTSTEP news-reader visit our newly revised web site at: http://www.wolfware.com _______________________________________________________________________
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SNI security Advisory (BIND Vulnerability) Date: 23 Apr 1997 19:18:42 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5jlnai$4s1$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Has anyone from SGI seen this yet and care to comment. Randy rencsok (at) channelu (dot) com PS. I have been finding my dns server hosed periodically lately with the latest incident being a spammer forging my domain, IP, etc. on their unsolicited garbage.. I couldn't help but wonder if this is related.. ************************************************************************************* ###### ## ## ###### ## ### ## ## ###### ## # ## ## ## ## ### ## ###### . ## ## . ######. Secure Networks Inc. AND CORE Seguridad de la Informacion Security Advisory April 22, 1997 BIND Vulnerabilities and Solutions Problem Description ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This advisory contains descriptions and solutions for two vulnerabilities present in current BIND distributions. These vulnerabilities are actively being exploited on the Internet. I. The usage of predictable IDs in queries and recursed queries allows for remote cache corruption. This allows malicious users to alter domain name server caches to change the addresses and hostnames of hosts on the internet. II. A failure to check whether hostname lengths exceed MAXHOSTNAMELEN in size. This results in potential buffer overflows in programs which expect the BIND resolver to only return a maximum hostname length of MAXHOSTNAMELEN. Problem I. The usage of predictable ID's ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Problem I. - Impact ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Remote root users can poison BIND and Microsoft Windows NT name server caches by forging UDP packets. We should note that unlike other well documented attacks, in this instance it is NOT necessary for the attacker to take over a DNS server or sniff the target network. Problem I. - Technical Details ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This particular cache corruption attack requires that the target nameserver be configured to allow recursion. Recursion allows a nameserver to handle requests for zones or domains which it does not serve. When receiving a query for a zone or domain which is not served by the name server, the name server will transmit a query to a nameserver which serves the desired domain. Once a response is received from the second nameserver, the first nameserver sends the response back to the requesting party. The following attack is outlined in the paper "Addressing weaknesses in the Domain Name System Protocol" by Christopher Schuba and Eugene Spafford [6]. To the extent of our knowledge, this problem has not been previously addressed. The paper also assumes that the attacker has super-user access to a primary nameserver, here we demonstrate that this is not necessary nor are source routed packets required. Using the recursion feature, one can poison the cache on a name server with the following procedure: Problem I. - The Players ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. HOST.ATTACKER.COM is the attacking host. .. DNS.ATTACKER.COM is ATTACKER.COM's nameserver, we presume that this is the only name server for ATTACKER.COM to simplify the description. .. DNS.TARGET.COM is the target nameserver which runs BIND. What we will attempt to do is add an A (address) resource record on DNS.TARGET.COM that will resolve WWW.SPOOFED.COM to 127.0.0.1. We are sure that WWW.SPOOFED.COM is not cached in DNS.TARGET.COM's DNS cache. .. DNS.SPOOFED.COM is the nameserver for SPOOFED.COM's domain. We have determined this before the attack begins. Once again we just presume its the only one in order to simplify this description. Problem I. - The Attack ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A. First a query is sent to DNS.TARGET.COM asking for the address of UNKNOWN.ATTACKER.COM. Our query has the recursion desired bit set, meaning that if the nameserver we are querying has recursion enabled, it will query another nameserver with our query (assuming it does not have the information cached). B. DNS.TARGET.COM will first determine who serves the ATTACKER.COM domain, then it will build a query packet and send it to DNS.ATTACKER.COM. C. We sniff DNS.ATTACKER.COM's local network and retrieve the query packet sent by DNS.TARGET.COM to DNS.ATTACKER.COM. We can then determine the query ID (qid0) used by DNS.TARGET.COM. Chances are that the next queries generated by DNS.TARGET.COM will have query IDs that will fall in the range [qid0,qid0+N] where N is dependent on the amount of queries DNS.TARGET.COM is generating in the period of time on which the attack takes place. N is usually <= 10 for most cases. D. Once we have determined what the next query ID generated will be, we send a query to DNS.TARGET.COM asking for WWW.SPOOFED.COM's address. E. Then we start sending spoofed DNS replies from DNS.SPOOFED.COM, telling DNS.TARGET.COM that WWW.SPOOFED.COM is '127.0.0.1'. F. If we guessed the query ID used by DNS.TARGET.COM in its recursed query and our response is received first, our response will be taken as valid and the address will be cached. Subsequent responses will be discarded as duplicates. We can always send many (N*M) spoofed packets with different IDs in the range (qid0,qid0+N] so we will be sure that at least one of them will hit DNS.TARGET.COM and have the 'right' ID. M is a factor dependent of the amount of UDP packets we expect to lose on their way to DNS.TARGET.COM. Problem I. - The Result ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If the attack succeeded, any query to DNS.TARGET.COM asking for WWW.SPOOFED.COM's address, will get 127.0.0.1 as a response. Thus, any user on TARGET.COM's domain will connect to 127.0.0.1 if they try to contact WWW.SPOOFED.COM. The usage of 127.0.0.1 in this description is of course for instructional purposes, any IP address can be used, in particular an attacker could use its own IP address (BADGUY.COM's IP) so all connections to 'host' will go to 'BADGUY'. The attacker can then 'impersonate' WWW.SPOOFED.COM. Given this attack, it is easy to visualize the effects of impersonating a high traffic FTP distribution site. This attack can also be used to intercept email traffic, and bypass address based authentication methods, including TCP wrappers and firewalls. Problem I. - Notes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This attack depends on a few things to succeed: 1. The attacker has complete control of DNS.ATTACKER.COM's network, he can both spoof and sniff DNS packets there. In particular, he can sniff DNS packets sent to DNS.ATTACKER.COM. 2. Spoofed DNS responses sent from the attacker to DNS.TARGET.COM must be received before the legit response from DNS.SPOOFED.COM. This is very easy to achieve. In testing we have not yet encountered a situation where we could not get our packets to the nameserver first. 3. The name server on DNS.TARGET.COM supports recursion and caches responses. This is common practice. It should be noted that most nameservers allow recursion (unless specifically denied by configuration options). Root name servers, however, do not allow recursion. If DNS.TARGET.COM caches negative responses as well (NCACHE), a denial of service attack can be performed, in this case, spoofed responses sent by the attacker will tell DNS.TARGET.COM that WWW.SPOOFED.COM does not exist (and be authorative on this). The existence of several nameservers for the domains does not alter the basic outline of this attack. The attacker would only need to send DNS responses with source addresses of each of SPOOFED.COM's nameservers. (N*M*I responses, where I is the number of nameservers). Problem I. - Systems Affected ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - All systems using BIND as their domain name server with recursion enabled. - - Windows NT (server) version 3.51 & 4.0 DNS server. Microsoft has been notified and has acknowledged this is a serious problem. No information on a fix is availible. Problem II. Hostname length checking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Problem II. - Impact ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BIND allows passing of hostnames larger than MAXHOSTNAMELEN in size to programs. As many programs utilize buffers of size MAXHOSTNAMELEN and copy the results from a query into these buffers, an overflow can occur. This can allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a remote server in a worst case scenario. Problem II. - Systems Affected ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ All systems running BIND. Fix Information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Obtain BIND version 4.9.5-P1. BIND is availible from ftp.isc.org in the directory /isc/bind/src. Patches to solve both problem I and problem II are included at the end of this advisory. Once BIND has been obtained, follow the following procedure: i. First remove the patches from this text. This can be performed by removing all text in between the "CUT HERE" lines, and saving it to a text file (i.e. /tmp/diffs.txt). ii. Perform the following operations to apply the patches: % gzip -d bind.tar.gz % mkdir bind % cd bind % tar -xvf ../bind.tar % patch < /tmp/diffs.txt iii. Rebuild BIND Attributions ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ivan Arce <ivan@secnet.com> Emiliano Kargieman <ek@secnet.com> The OpenBSD Project Who found a good solution to problem, developed a solution and performed various tests to ensure its correctness. Individuals involved in this effort were: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> Niels Provos <provos@openbsd.org> Todd Miller <millert@openbsd.org> Allen Briggs <briggs@openbsd.org> Further attributions: AUSCERT <auscert@auscert.org.au> David Sacerdote <davids@secnet.com> Oliver Friedrichs <oliver@secnet.com> Alfred Huger <ahuger@secnet.com> Additional Information: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [1] Vixie P. , "DNS and BIND security issues". This was originally published in the proceedings of the 5th USENIX Security Symposium and its included in the BIND distribution under the doc/misc directory. [2] Kumar A., Postel J., Neuman C., Danzig P. , Miller S. "RFC1536: Common DNS implementation errors and suggested fixes" Refer to problem 2 for a description of other weaknesses previously found in the recursion scheme. [3] Lottor, M., "RFC1033: Domain administrators operations guide" [4] Mockapetris, P., "RFC1034: Domain names - Concepts and facilities" [5] Mockapetris, P., "RFC1035: Domain Names - Implementation and specification" [6] Schuba Christopher and Spafford Eugene, "Adressing weaknesses in the Domain Name System Protocol", COAST Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University. Comments and questions regarding this advisory can be sent to: Ivan Arce <ivan@secnet.com> Emiliano Kargieman <ek@secnet.com> For more information about CORE S.A. contact: core@secnet.com Or visit: http://www.secnet.com/core Encrypted mail can also be sent to <sni@secnet.com> encrypted with the following PGP key: Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID pub 1024/9E55000D 1997/01/13 Secure Networks Inc. <sni@secnet.com> Secure Networks <security@secnet.com> - -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.3ia mQCNAzLaFzIAAAEEAKsVzPR7Y6oFN5VPE/Rp6Sm82oE0y6Mkuof8QzERV6taihn5 uySb31UeNJ4l6Ud9alOPT/0YdeOO9on6eD1iU8qumFxzO3TLm8nTAdZehQSAQfoa rWmpwj7KpXN/3n+VyBWvhpBdKxe08SQN4ZjvV5HXy4YIrE5bTbgIhFKeVQANAAUR tCVTZWN1cmUgTmV0d29ya3MgSW5jLiA8c25pQHNlY25ldC5jb20+iQCVAwUQM1yd EB/bLKAOe7p9AQFptAQAiYpaZCpSmGgr05E698Z3t5r5BPAKUEtgvF53AvZUQLxz ZsYsVU5l5De0qKWJOQ/9LiDyWu1lvKhlTphbLy2RatWD4kO3oQL9v3TpSXm2WQhU uIzyZvj7S5ENodNnKn+gCDIvbou6OMot+7dRbWWgN2oabbru4CSlOxbG++yaTz+J AJUDBRAzTefbtOXez5VgyLkBAd0bA/43eGEgvPOFK+HHWCPpkSWCwtrtDU/dxOVz 9erHnT/CRxeojCI+50f71Qe+kvx9Q1odz2Jl/fLxhnPQdbPnpWblIbu4F8H+Syrj HTilDrl1DWa/nUNgK8sb27SMviELczP1a8gwA1eo5SUCG5TWLLTAzjWOgTxod2Ha OwseUHmqVIkAlQMFEDNOVsr/d6Iw8NVIbQEBxM0D/14XRfgSLwszgJcVbslMHm/B fF6tHoWYojzQle3opOuMYHNN8GsMZRkc1qQ8QuNA9Aj5+qDqEontGjV5IvhBu1fY FM77AhagskaFCZxwqV64Qrk328WDO89NGSd+RuovVNruDdn20TxNCEVuPTHjI0UA 8H+E6FW9jexg6RTHhPXYtCVTZWN1cmUgTmV0d29ya3MgPHNlY3VyaXR5QHNlY25l dC5jb20+iQCVAwUQMtqTKB/bLKAOe7p9AQFw5wQAgUwqJ+ZqfEy/lO1srU3nzxLA X0uHGHrMptRy/LFo8swD6G1TtWExUc3Yv/6g2/YK09b5WmplEJ+Q09maQIw+RU/s cIY+EsPauqIq4JTGh/Nm0Z4UDl2Y1x4GNtm0YqezxUPS0P0A3LHVLJ3Uo5og0G8O gPNrfbVz5ieT14OSCWCJAJUDBRAy2hd2/3eiMPDVSG0BAVNhBACfupfAcNhhnQaq aI03DOOiZSRjvql1xw4V+pPhM+IksdSK3YNUZVJJtANacgDhBT+jAPRaYbBWI3A5 ZMdcSNM8aTG0LWMLIOiOYEm6Lgd3idRBFN0Js08eyITl8mhZ33mDe4I0KQri9UiV ZcPYTbb9CWM6Hv2cMbt6S6kLnFziqIkAlQMFEDLaF0+4CIRSnlUADQEBCLoEAJwt UofDgvyZ4nCDx1KKAPkkXBRaPMWBp46xeTVcxaYiloZfwHfpk1h2mEJAxmAsvizl OtIppHl4isUxcGi/E2mLCLMvis22/IQP/9obPahPvgNaMLVtZljO1Nv3QFEkNciL FEUTNJHR1ko7ibCxkBs4cOpirFuvTMDvWnNaXAf8 =DchE - -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Copyright Notice ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The contents of this advisory are Copyright (C) 1997 Secure Networks Inc and CORE Seguridad de la Informacion S.A., and may be distributed freely provided that no fee is charged for distribution, and that proper credit is given. You can find Secure Networks papers at ftp://ftp.secnet.com/pub/papers and advisories at ftp://ftp.secnet.com/advisories You can browse our web site at http://www.secnet.com You can subscribe to our security advisory mailing list by sending mail to majordomo@secnet.com with the line "subscribe sni-advisories" Patches ~~~~~~~ --- CUT HERE --- diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/contrib/host/host.c ./contrib/host/host.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/contrib/host/host.c Sat Oct 12 16:24:42 1996 - --- ./contrib/host/host.c Wed Apr 9 15:27:05 1997 *************** *** 537,543 **** _res.retrans = DEF_RETRANS; /* timeout in secs between retries */ /* initialize packet id */ ! _res.id = getpid() & 0x7fff; /* save new defaults */ new_res = _res; - --- 537,543 ---- _res.retrans = DEF_RETRANS; /* timeout in secs between retries */ /* initialize packet id */ ! _res.id = res_randomid(); /* save new defaults */ new_res = _res; diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/named/ns_main.c ./named/ns_main.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/named/ns_main.c Tue Nov 26 03:11:23 1996 - --- ./named/ns_main.c Wed Apr 9 00:24:14 1997 *************** *** 1658,1668 **** } /* ! * These are here in case we ever want to get more clever, like perhaps ! * using a bitmap to keep track of outstanding queries and a random ! * allocation scheme to make it a little harder to predict them. Note ! * that the resolver will need the same protection so the cleverness ! * should be put there rather than here; this is just an interface layer. */ void - --- 1658,1668 ---- } /* ! * This just an interface layer to the random number generator ! * used in the resolver. ! * A special random number generator is used to create non predictable ! * and non repeating ids over a long period. It also avoids reuse ! * by switching between two distinct number cycles. */ void *************** *** 1674,1683 **** u_int16_t nsid_next() { ! if (nsid_state == 65535) ! nsid_state = 0; ! else ! nsid_state++; return (nsid_state); } - --- 1674,1680 ---- u_int16_t nsid_next() { ! nsid_state = res_randomid(); return (nsid_state); } diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/Makefile ./res/Makefile *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/Makefile Thu Aug 8 16:49:48 1996 - --- ./res/Makefile Wed Apr 9 00:32:13 1997 *************** *** 77,89 **** res_comp.c res_init.c res_mkquery.c res_query.c res_send.c \ getnetbyaddr.c getnetbyname.c getnetent.c getnetnamadr.c \ gethnamaddr.c sethostent.c nsap_addr.c hostnamelen.c inet_addr.c \ ! inet_ntop.c inet_neta.c inet_pton.c inet_net_ntop.c inet_net_pton.c OBJS= base64.o herror.o res_debug.o res_data.o \ res_comp.o res_init.o res_mkquery.o res_query.o res_send.o \ getnetbyaddr.o getnetbyname.o getnetent.o getnetnamadr.o \ gethnamaddr.o sethostent.o nsap_addr.o hostnamelen.o inet_addr.o \ ! inet_ntop.o inet_neta.o inet_pton.o inet_net_ntop.o inet_net_pton.o all: libresolv.a - --- 77,91 ---- res_comp.c res_init.c res_mkquery.c res_query.c res_send.c \ getnetbyaddr.c getnetbyname.c getnetent.c getnetnamadr.c \ gethnamaddr.c sethostent.c nsap_addr.c hostnamelen.c inet_addr.c \ ! inet_ntop.c inet_neta.c inet_pton.c inet_net_ntop.c inet_net_pton.c \ ! res_random.c OBJS= base64.o herror.o res_debug.o res_data.o \ res_comp.o res_init.o res_mkquery.o res_query.o res_send.o \ getnetbyaddr.o getnetbyname.o getnetent.o getnetnamadr.o \ gethnamaddr.o sethostent.o nsap_addr.o hostnamelen.o inet_addr.o \ ! inet_ntop.o inet_neta.o inet_pton.o inet_net_ntop.o inet_net_pton.o \ ! res_random.o all: libresolv.a diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_comp.c ./res/res_comp.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_comp.c Mon Dec 2 02:17:22 1996 - --- ./res/res_comp.c Fri Apr 18 18:45:02 1997 *************** *** 98,103 **** - --- 98,105 ---- dn = exp_dn; cp = comp_dn; + if (length > MAXHOSTNAMELEN-1) + length = MAXHOSTNAMELEN-1; eom = exp_dn + length; /* * fetch next label in domain name diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_init.c ./res/res_init.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_init.c Sat Sep 28 00:51:07 1996 - --- ./res/res_init.c Wed Apr 9 00:33:30 1997 *************** *** 197,209 **** if (!(_res.options & RES_INIT)) _res.options = RES_DEFAULT; - - /* - - * This one used to initialize implicitly to zero, so unless the app - - * has set it to something in particular, we can randomize it now. - - */ - - if (!_res.id) - - _res.id = res_randomid(); - - #ifdef USELOOPBACK _res.nsaddr.sin_addr = inet_makeaddr(IN_LOOPBACKNET, 1); #else - --- 197,202 ---- *************** *** 644,655 **** return(0); /* if not using DNS configuration from NetInfo */ } #endif /* NeXT */ - - - - u_int - - res_randomid() - - { - - struct timeval now; - - - - gettimeofday(&now, NULL); - - return (0xffff & (now.tv_sec ^ now.tv_usec ^ getpid())); - - } - --- 637,639 ---- diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_mkquery.c ./res/res_mkquery.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_mkquery.c Sat Sep 28 00:37:58 1996 - --- ./res/res_mkquery.c Wed Apr 9 00:31:30 1997 *************** *** 107,118 **** #endif /* * Initialize header fields. */ if ((buf == NULL) || (buflen < HFIXEDSZ)) return (-1); bzero(buf, HFIXEDSZ); hp = (HEADER *) buf; ! hp->id = htons(++_res.id); hp->opcode = op; hp->rd = (_res.options & RES_RECURSE) != 0; hp->rcode = NOERROR; - --- 107,123 ---- #endif /* * Initialize header fields. + * + * A special random number generator is used to create non predictable + * and non repeating ids over a long period. It also avoids reuse + * by switching between two distinct number cycles. */ + if ((buf == NULL) || (buflen < HFIXEDSZ)) return (-1); bzero(buf, HFIXEDSZ); hp = (HEADER *) buf; ! hp->id = htons(_res.id=res_randomid()); hp->opcode = op; hp->rd = (_res.options & RES_RECURSE) != 0; hp->rcode = NOERROR; diff -cNr ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_random.c ./res/res_random.c *** ../bind-4.9.5-P1-rel/res/res_random.c Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969 - --- ./res/res_random.c Tue Apr 22 02:31:25 1997 *************** *** 0 **** - --- 1,262 ---- + /* $OpenBSD: res_random.c,v 1.3 1997/04/19 10:07:01 provos Exp $ */ + + /* + * Copyright 1997 Niels Provos <provos@physnet.uni-hamburg.de> + * All rights reserved. + * + * Theo de Raadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> came up with the idea of using + * such a mathematical system to generate more random (yet non-repeating) + * ids to solve the resolver/named problem. But Niels designed the + * actual system based on the constraints. + * + * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without + * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions + * are met: + * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright + * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. + * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright + * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the + * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. + * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software + * must display the following acknowledgement: + * This product includes software developed by Niels Provos. + * 4. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products + * derived from this software without specific prior written permission. + * + * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR + * IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES + * OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. + * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, + * INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT + * NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, + * DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY + * THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT + * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF + * THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. + */ + + /* + * seed = random 15bit + * n = prime, g0 = generator to n, + * j = random so that gcd(j,n-1) == 1 + * g = g0^j mod n will be a generator again. + * + * X[0] = random seed. + * X[n] = a*X[n-1]+b mod m is a Linear Congruential Generator + * with a = 7^(even random) mod m, + * b = random with gcd(b,m) == 1 + * m = 31104 and a maximal period of m-1. + * + * The transaction id is determined by: + * id[n] = seed xor (g^X[n] mod n) + * + * Effectivly the id is restricted to the lower 15 bits, thus + * yielding two different cycles by toggling the msb on and off. + * This avoids reuse issues caused by reseeding. + * + * The 16 bit space is very small and brute force attempts are + * entirly feasible, we skip a random number of transaction ids + * so that an attacker will not get sequential ids. + */ + + #include <sys/types.h> + #include <netinet/in.h> + #include <sys/time.h> + #include <resolv.h> + + #if defined(BSD) && (BSD >= 199103) + # include <unistd.h> + # include <stdlib.h> + # include <string.h> + #else + # include "../conf/portability.h" + #endif + + #define RU_OUT 180 /* Time after wich will be reseeded */ + #define RU_MAX 30000 /* Uniq cycle, avoid blackjack prediction */ + #define RU_GEN 2 /* Starting generator */ + #define RU_N 32749 /* RU_N-1 = 2*2*3*2729 */ + #define RU_AGEN 7 /* determine ru_a as RU_AGEN^(2*rand) */ + #define RU_M 31104 /* RU_M = 2^7*3^5 - don't change */ + + #define PFAC_N 3 + const static u_int16_t pfacts[PFAC_N] = { + 2, + 3, + 2729 + }; + + static u_int16_t ru_x; + static u_int16_t ru_seed; + static u_int16_t ru_a, ru_b; + static u_int16_t ru_g; + static u_int16_t ru_counter = 0; + static u_int16_t ru_msb = 0; + static long ru_reseed; + static u_int32_t tmp; /* Storage for unused random */ + static struct timeval tv; + + static u_int32_t pmod __P((u_int32_t, u_int32_t, u_int32_t)); + static void res_initid __P((void)); + + #ifndef __OpenBSD__ + /* + * No solid source of strong random in the system. Sigh. Fake it. + */ + u_long + arc4random() + { + static char state[256]; + char *savestate; + char *setstate(); + static unsigned seed; + static int count; + u_long datum; + + if (++count == 129837 || seed == 0) { + struct timeval tv; + + count = 0; + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + seed = getpid() ^ tv.tv_sec ^ tv.tv_usec; + initstate(seed, state, sizeof state); + } + savestate = setstate(state); + datum = random(); + setstate(savestate); + return (datum); + } + + #endif + + /* + * Do a fast modular exponation, returned value will be in the range + * of 0 - (mod-1) + */ + + static u_int32_t + pmod(gen, exp, mod) + u_int32_t gen, exp, mod; + { + u_int32_t s, t, u; + + s = 1; + t = gen; + u = exp; + + while (u) { + if (u & 1) + s = (s*t) % mod; + u >>= 1; + t = (t*t) % mod; + } + return (s); + } + + /* + * Initalizes the seed and chooses a suitable generator. Also toggles + * the msb flag. The msb flag is used to generate two distinct + * cycles of random numbers and thus avoiding reuse of ids. + * + * This function is called from res_randomid() when needed, an + * application does not have to worry about it. + */ + static void + res_initid() + { + u_int16_t j, i; + int noprime = 1; + + tmp = arc4random(); + ru_x = (tmp & 0xFFFF) % RU_M; + + /* 15 bits of random seed */ + ru_seed = (tmp >> 16) & 0x7FFF; + + tmp = arc4random(); + + /* Determine the LCG we use */ + ru_b = (tmp & 0xfffe) | 1; + ru_a = pmod(RU_AGEN, (tmp >> 16) & 0xfffe, RU_M); + while (ru_b % 3 == 0) + ru_b += 2; + + tmp = arc4random(); + j = tmp % RU_N; + tmp = tmp >> 16; + + /* + * Do a fast gcd(j,RU_N-1), so we can find a j with + * gcd(j, RU_N-1) == 1, giving a new generator for + * RU_GEN^j mod RU_N + */ + + while (noprime) { + for (i=0; i<PFAC_N; i++) + if (j%pfacts[i] == 0) + break; + + if (i>=PFAC_N) + noprime = 0; + else + j = (j+1) % RU_N; + } + + ru_g = pmod(RU_GEN,j,RU_N); + ru_counter = 0; + + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + ru_reseed = tv.tv_sec + RU_OUT; + ru_msb = ru_msb == 0x8000 ? 0 : 0x8000; + } + + u_int + res_randomid() + { + int i, n; + + gettimeofday(&tv, NULL); + if (ru_counter >= RU_MAX || tv.tv_sec > ru_reseed) + res_initid(); + + if (!tmp) + tmp = arc4random(); + + /* Skip a random number of ids */ + n = tmp & 0x2f; tmp = tmp >> 6; + if (ru_counter + n >= RU_MAX) + res_initid(); + + for (i=0; i<=n; i++) + /* Linear Congruential Generator */ + ru_x = (ru_a*ru_x + ru_b) % RU_M; + + ru_counter += i; + + return (ru_seed ^ pmod(ru_g,ru_x,RU_N)) | ru_msb; + } + + #if 0 + void + main(int argc, char **argv) + { + int i, n; + u_int16_t wert; + + res_initid(); + + printf("Generator: %d\n", ru_g); + printf("Seed: %d\n", ru_seed); + printf("Reseed at %ld\n", ru_reseed); + printf("Ru_X: %d\n", ru_x); + printf("Ru_A: %d\n", ru_a); + printf("Ru_B: %d\n", ru_b); + + n = atoi(argv[1]); + for (i=0;i<n;i++) { + wert = res_randomid(); + printf("%06d\n", wert); + } + } + #endif + --- CUT HERE --- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM1ygQLgIhFKeVQANAQHhvwQAgm9c8ai94FzE03dZ3S8HQmpiZXDB4cGU EqZYu32tV7a/eHT/fyw01uMXpeLIaZERQNGTJokwpZKbCUAY67ZzsOGYqp5Ja+To YN3WMD1pXHPEC5+vq+r94chX0zobvjPrd3Rhg1PHxEcrkMjsliiYPNnTrotOMrUy NHiFI/kbY0Q= =vf1T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com (Eric Chu) Subject: Re: Networking Nextstation with Mac Message-ID: <E93po0.LEo@ceco.ceco.com> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co. References: <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> <E93A9v.251@cam-ani.co.uk> Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:24:00 GMT Ian Stephenson (ians@cam-ani.co.uk) wrote: : In article <5jjnnu$82l@news1.mnsinc.com> Tom <troehl@mnsinc.com> writes: : > : > I have a Mac and a Nextstation sitting side by side and I want : > to be able to use them both to connect via PPP to my ISP. I looked : > at what is needed to set up the Nextstation for PPP but is seems : > really complicated. Would it be possible to use the mac to set up the : > PPP connection and then connect the two machines via ethernet so : > they are both able access the network? Thanks. : Using the NeXT isn't so difficult (it's a bit daunting if you're new to : TCP networking, but if you're going to have to get to grips with this : however you tackle it), and requires only free software, but the : NeXTSTation serial ports aren't so fast (and NeXTPPP occasionally : crashes). : I'm currently looking at tackling this problem using a freeBSD box - the : machine itself can be just a 386, so you can put together a machine for : ~$100 (less than the Mac software), and all the software is free. Serial : As an added bonus I should be able to use it as both an NFS and AppleShare : server (maybe I'll hook my printer there too) so I can hang discs on : there, and access then from all machines (again without loading either of : the clients with needless extensions - particularly as my Mac is only a : PowerBook!). You can also use the new machine as a general mail, news and : web server. hi, while i agree that the above is certainly possible, would you really want to use a 386 as a NFS and AppleShare server? I just as well load down the '40 mono for those duties and leave all of the firewall/proxy/ gateway to the 386. ...but besides i get the feeling that Tom didn't want to spend any money and was looking for a software solution...time to pick up o'reilly and learn tcpip. jsut another thought, eric echu@ceco.com : Just another option you could consider... : $an
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to remove newsgroups in PersonalINN Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:27:53 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nLZGd_00WBO43l3ZW@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5jkpai$rt@merkur.lynet.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 23-Apr-97 How to remove newsgroups in.. by Andreas Hoeschler@lynet. > I've removed some newsgroups in slurp.sys and in active, but the directories > for these groups and the corresponding files still exist on the disk. Do I > have to delete them by hand, or are they removed automatically by PersonalINN > at a later news.daily-call? The old articles will eventually be removed via the daily expiration process. However, there's a better way, from the INN FAQ: ---------- Subject: expire reports "Group not matched (removed?) -- Using default expiration" Expire says: Group not matched (removed?) alt.techno-shamanism -- Using default expiration Group not matched (removed?) misc.computers.forsale -- Using default expiration Group not matched (removed?) de.rec.sf.startrek -- Using default expiration YOU DID NOTHING WRONG! That just means that you've removed those newsgroups and expire is slowly removing articles from the spool as they expire. Eventually the articles will all have been deleted and so will these messages. Here's a neat trick to make deleted groups go away at the next expire instead of hanging around waiting for their articles to expire in a timely manner. Using this combination of lines at the *start* of expire.ctl: *:A:0:0:0 *:U:0:7:31 *:M:0:14:365 will cause groups which are neither moderated nor unmoderated to be discarded - the only such groups are deleted ones. Thanks to ian@pipex.net (Ian Phillipps) for this tip! ---------- -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@NeXT.CoM (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hardware passwd lost!!!!!! Date: 23 Apr 1997 20:16:18 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Message-ID: <5jlqmi$3vj@news.next.com> References: <335deb53.21938125@news.worldcom.ch> Lionel Tinguely writes > > Hi there, > > I lost the Hardware password of a NeXTSTATION... How can I recover ? > > Thanks > LiONEL Power off the system, take out the battery, wait a few minutes, then put it back in. Alternatively, there's a program out on the archive sites that will recover the hardware password for you (if you run it as root). -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: svenifer@snet.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: using dump with TR4 tape drive? Date: 23 Apr 1997 20:45:02 GMT Organization: "SNET dial access service" Message-ID: <5jlsce$k4t@goofy.snet.net> Hi readers, Using a Seagate 4MB native QIC drive, I am trying to use the dump of dump/restore for OPENSTEP4 on Mach. At command line I type: dump 0ufsd /dev/nrst0 740 60000 where 740 is tape size in feet and 60000 is bits per inch. My question is why might this program report that a backup of 750MB will require 3.3 4MB tapes? Thanks, Sven
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: lpd services Date: 23 Apr 1997 22:48:21 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jm3jl$n73$1@news13.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit can someone tell me the proper way to setup a printer so that it is available as an lpd type from an NT box? I have the printer working from the next and I also setup the printer to be available to / domain from the print manager. It doesn't seem to be working though. any help is greatly appreciated. vince
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From: bierman@apple.com (Peter Bierman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OS box can't see Mac on network Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 15:47:29 -0700 Organization: I do not speak for Apple Computer! Message-ID: <bierman-2304971547290001@17.128.203.192> References: <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com> In article <5jf055$ida$1@news.connectnet.com>, gary@mail.pex.net wrote: > When I first boot my Mac I am unable to ping the Mac from the OS > machine. My pings, telnets, and FTPs all time out. Now, when I go to > the Mac and telnet to the OS box I can get in. After I have made the > attempt to contact the OS box from the Mac I can ping the Mac from the > OS box. > > In a nutshell, the OS can not see the Mac until *after* the Mac has > tried to connect to the OS. Any ides on this? Usually, macs are configured not to load their TCP stack until it's used. Hence, no ping response until after you do something. Try turning off the "load only when needed" checkbox in the TCP/IP control panel. -pmb -- bierman@apple.com http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~lunatic/ "This is MASS MADNESS you MANIACS!"
From: Patrique Lalonde <pat@point-net.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing NextStep3.3 on Intel with EIDE CD-ROM & Hard Disk Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:25:38 -0400 Organization: Bell Network Solutions Message-ID: <335EC4A2.1F55@point-net.com> References: <334D2579.41C6@mfg.sgi.com> <01bc4695$2e3f40e0$e053d7c2@tower> <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit There is also a nice alternative... you can also make a 7 mb NeXT partition on the primary drive which you can boot off into NS later on... quite nice... Next answers covers this in detail... Search the archive for: Booting from alternate hard drive... Pat
From: Patrique Lalonde <pat@point-net.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zyxel Elite 2864 + NS + NXFax... Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 22:41:12 -0400 Organization: Bell Network Solutions Message-ID: <335EC848.5B3D@point-net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all just upgrade my ZyXEL's ROM to 1.15. Ever since, the modem answers but won't handshake. So I can't receive any faxes or complete any dial-ins... Anyone know of a fix for this? P.S. Please post a copy to my e-mail address. I am not always able to connect to my news server. Patrique Lalonde
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: lpd services Date: 24 Apr 1997 04:40:46 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5jmo8e$ijl$1@news8.gte.net> References: <5jm3jl$n73$1@news13.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, I have the local printer working just fine. I opened the print monitor and added a remote name and chose the printer to be in the / domain. Then I added an lpd port to my windowsNT machine pointing at the IP of the next and the name "Laser" wich is the name that I specified for the printer to be known as. I just get printing errors on the NT machine so I'm not sure whats going on. Does anyone have the location of a howto or faq on this? thanks vince
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:14:22 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061018.18199B-100000@kira> References: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> In-Reply-To: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> 1) 3.1 is so old you wouldn't want to use it even if it would work. 2) It probably won't work... 3.1 / Intel was a version 1.0 of Intel support.... I doubt it would handle anything but SCSI and a few SCSI drivers... 3) there is no way to upgrade it... unless it is the commerical bundle TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:20:20 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira> References: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I assume you mean from Mail.app? Select the message you want to copy, press 'copy' and then paste into an Edit.app ASCII window... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ARRRGG! Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:42:35 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424062142.18199D-100000@kira> References: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> > Did something DUMB! You ain't kidding... > Deleted the ROOT account! How can I save my ass? Hmm.. can you 'nidump passwd . > /tmp/somefile' add a line like this: root::0:0:Operator:/:/bin/csh and then niload passwd . < /tmp/somefile Otherwise you'll have to restore the default NetInfo, I'd guess... There's a NeXTanswer about this... http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1295.htmld/1295.html **WARNING: restoreing the NetInfo is a big step, a major pain... but it may, may be all you can do... someone else may have another thought.. TjL
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ARRRGG! Date: 24 Apr 1997 18:57:16 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5joaec$oi$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424062142.18199D-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424062142.18199D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > Did something DUMB! > > You ain't kidding... > > > Deleted the ROOT account! How can I save my ass? > > Hmm.. > can you 'nidump passwd . > /tmp/somefile' > > add a line like this: > root::0:0:Operator:/:/bin/csh > > and then > > niload passwd . < /tmp/somefile > > Otherwise you'll have to restore the default NetInfo, I'd guess... > > There's a NeXTanswer about this... > http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1295.htmld/1295.html > > **WARNING: restoreing the NetInfo is a big step, a major pain... but it > may, may be all you can do... someone else may have another thought.. > This is one of the MANY reasons for maintaining periodic backups. One could restore /etc/netinfo and /etc/password and be back up.. Of course you'd have to be clever about turning off netinfod or booting single user mode to drop the old /etc/passwd and particularly /etc/netinfo back in place. Since I think that information is cached when you come up into multiuser mode (i.e. netinfod starts).. I'm not an absolute expert on netinfo caching particulars though :| Randy rencsok (at) channelu (dot) com PS. Anyone see the SNI BIND security advisory?!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <E95KAE.K8J@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 17:23:01 GMT References: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira>, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >I assume you mean from Mail.app? > >Select the message you want to copy, press 'copy' and then paste into an >Edit.app ASCII window... > There's also a service provided by something (maybe Edit, maybe TickleServices) that is something like "Save to File..." that prompts you for a file name and then shoves the text in there. -- David Evans (NeXTMail OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: klingler@news.rt66.com (Dave Klingler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: suddenly netinfo hangs me Date: 24 Apr 1997 18:43:13 -0600 Organization: Rt66.COM Sender: Dave Klingler Distribution: world Message-ID: <5joun1$jn6$1@mack.rt66.com> Hi folks. My Intel 4.2 machine suddenly started hanging during boot. It gets to Apr 24 18:24:37 bosephus netinfod local[106]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb netinfo ...and hangs for 5 minutes or so, then goes on to lookupd. Mounting remote filesystems Starting file service daemons: ...and hangs again for a few minutes, then proceeds to Apr 24 18:30:07 bosephus autonfsmount[125]: Can't get my (bosephus) address . Starting network daemons: inetd ...and hangs again, etc. I can't figure out what it's timing out on. I don't *think* I've made any changes, other than installing MusicKit this afternoon, but obviously something's different. The other thing I did, obviously a more likely candidate, was attempt yesterday to get my NeXT cube to export a few directories via nfs. So far as I could tell, that never worked, and I deleted my exports file. This is not the first time the Intel machine's been rebooted since I made that change, but it is the first time it's hung. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I would guess that autonfsmount is running now and wasn't before. I also just looked in messages and noticed a "netinfo error: 0" that I hadn't noticed before. From there, I'm still sorting out where to look. Thanks! Dave klingler@REMOVE.rt66.com
Message-ID: <335F2F24.10F20C6C@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:00:05 -0400 From: Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A bit of a blast from the past here... After sitting on the unopened box for almost 4 years - I finally opened up my copy of NeXTStep/Intel 3.1 and tried to install it. I have a Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller, 16meg of memory, and a suitable IDE hard drive. When booting the NS3.1 kicker disk, it cannot locate the CD-ROM. Ever. Even when I add a SCSI hard drive to the system, no SCSI devices register (and the "Resetting SCSI Bus..." message takes quite a long time.) My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct mystical incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I console myself with running off my black hardware forever? Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation package through NeXT? (The last time I had contacted their web site, they were perfectly happy to send me info on how I could purchase their latest software.) Thanks in advance to anybody patient enough to reply.. Bill (..determined to check this newsgroup to monitor replies..)
Message-ID: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:02:55 -0400 From: Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 A bit of a blast from the past here... After sitting on the unopened box for almost 4 years - I finally opened up my copy of NeXTStep/Intel 3.1 and tried to install it. I have a Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller, 16meg of memory, and a suitable IDE hard drive. When booting the NS3.1 kicker disk, it cannot locate the CD-ROM. Ever. Even when I add a SCSI hard drive to the system, no SCSI devices register (and the "Resetting SCSI Bus..." message takes quite a long time.) My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct mystical incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I console myself with running off my black hardware forever? Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation package through NeXT? (The last time I had contacted their web site, they were perfectly happy to send me info on how I could purchase their latest software.) Thanks in advance to anybody patient enough to reply.. Bill (..determined to check this newsgroup to monitor replies..)
From: bchin@freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Date: 25 Apr 1997 04:10:44 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5jpas4$c8t$2@news.freedomnet.com> References: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> wrote: >I have a Adaptec 1540 SCSI controller, 16meg of memory, >and a suitable IDE hard drive. > >When booting the NS3.1 kicker disk, it cannot locate the >CD-ROM. Ever. Even when I add a SCSI hard drive to >the system, no SCSI devices register (and the "Resetting >SCSI Bus..." message takes quite a long time.) What CD-ROM drive do you have? Does the Adaptec 1540 "see" the proper devices when it registers it's BIOS at boot time? If I remember correctly, there are updated drivers available. Of course, 3.1 stuff may not be around... it was the first Intel version and I would recommend at least running 3.2 on a VESA local bus system or you must run 3.3 (or least, it's very highly recommended) on a PCI Intel system. >My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct >mystical incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I >console myself with running off my black hardware >forever? It depends on your PC hardware. Anything short of a 486DX4 100Mhz CPU, adequate memory and fast local bus video, you might as well stick with black hardware. >Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation >package through NeXT? You can upgrade to OPENSTEP 4.x for Mach on Intel User for $199. It's Developer that's really expensive. Of course, Apple is expected to change the pricing model so if you wait until WWDC or after, they might have a better deal. ..Bill Chin
From: bchin@freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3Com Etherlink Drivers Date: 25 Apr 1997 04:04:12 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5jpafs$c8t$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <5jj389$bd6@news.sei.cmu.edu> lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) wrote: >Have a PC with an EtherLink XL (3C900-COMBO) PCI network adapter card >upon which I'm hoping to run NS 3.3. Can't find any information on >NextAnswers concerning an appropriate driver. Any other info? Unfortunately, there isn't one. >An alternative might be replacing XL with an EtherLink III EISA, but >NeXT's information on latest EtherLink III driver (4.03) gives EISA model >as 3C589C-COMBO, whilst 3Com is selling 3C592-COMBO. Should I worry >about compatability here too? If you are going to buy an ethernet card, get a PCI one based on a DEC 2104x chipset. See the NeXTanswers for exact supported cards (Cogent, Linksys, etc.). Far better than the 3Com stuff under NS/OS/Mach. Unfortunately, 3Com's are often the bundled solution (like Gateways), so if Apple/NeXT could get an EtherLink XL driver out, a lot more people would even try OPENSTEP. ..Bill Chin
From: teb@eng.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Date: 24 Apr 1997 12:07:03 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Does anyone know, what the most elegant way of doing so could be (the text is ascii-postscript)? Thanks for your help! Thomas --- Thomas E Biesinger, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK, em: biesingert@asme.org, vc: +44 1223 3 32869, fx: +44 1223 3 32662. NeXT-Mail welcome, PGP-2.6.i key available.
From: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Ralf Specht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Configuring 2 display resolutions at boot-time Date: 24 Apr 1997 11:41:17 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5jngst$ear@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Hi all, I want to set-up two different configurations (differing in their display-resolutions, both using the same driver) which should be selectable at boot-time with the config=low or config=high options to the NeXTstep boot manager. config=low should boot the machine with a low displat resolution, config=high should select the higher resolution. I tried to Install the two .table-files in /private/Drivers/i386/System.config but had no success because they both use the same display-driver. Is there a possibility to tell the display-driver which resolution it should use for which config-table? Thanks... ...Ralf -- Ralf Specht Daimler-Benz AG, Research Center Ulm Department of Text Understanding Systems P.O. Box 23 60 89013 Ulm, Germany e-mail: specht@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM phone: +49 731 505-2356 fax: +49 731 505-4113
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: speed of Openstep on black hardware? Date: 25 Apr 1997 05:43:27 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5jpg9v$oau@news.dmv.com> I'm wondering if there are any performance caveats to running Openstep4.1 on black hardware. I've got a NeXTstation turbo color with 3.3 user installed. It's pretty responsive and I like it. However I've got no developer stuff and I was wanting to get the developer cd. But then I thought I'd just get openstep but I'd like to no whether it will be as responsive as 3.3 is. Is it bloatware that runs best on a pentium or is it also optimized for black hardware? TIA, Dave
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ARRRGG! Date: Thu, 24 Apr 97 12:37:15 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jnk6v$n7b@news.jump.net> Did something DUMB! Deleted the ROOT account! How can I save my ass? Matt
From: markfr@markfr .cse.tek.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: problems with lookupd during boot up Date: 24 Apr 1997 16:21:47 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR USA Distribution: USA Message-ID: <5jo1ar$o9t$1@bvadm.bv.tek.com> I am connecting my Next to a Sun NIS domain. The boot process sometimes proceeds OK. Other times, after lookupd is started, and I get the message: "Mounting remote file systems", I get the error message: "yp:server not responding for domain "sun_domain_name"; still trying" This message keeps going up forever, until I hit ctrl-C, but then I am not connected to the NIS server. Can anyone help me locate the problem? Is there anything I can put in the boot up scripts to give me further information? - Thanks, Mark markfr@markfr.cse.tek.com
From: "Steve Loranz" <sloranz@pencom.com> Subject: Re: nameserver?? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin References: <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com> Organization: Pencom Systems Administration Message-ID: <01bc50cd$86c1d920$e17578a4@loranzs.sch.advantis.com> Date: 24 Apr 97 16:26:41 GMT You can actually put this in NetInfo. Every new machine you put in the domain will then be able to resolve DNS names. Create a resolver directory under locations. Mine sits in /locations/Resolver with domain, nameserver, nameserver, search properties. -steve bf <ihate@spammers.com> wrote in article <5j0vcm$ia5$1@brokaw.wa.com>... > Im rather new to the next community and actually just fired up my color > station today to learn about it. I was trying to configure the network > and setup its IP, gateway etc with the SimpleNetworkSetup or something > similar in the admin apps. However i noticed no place to stick in a > nameserver, so i went searching for a resolv.conf in /etc with no luck. > Im not running a YP, etc server on this little localnet, so how do i > setup what nameservers to use?? > > -b > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- larryf at halcyon dot com > ----------------------------------------------------- > --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- > ------------------------------------------------------------- >
From: ŸŸŸŸŸö©6·michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Login tiffs in 4.x Date: 24 Apr 1997 16:52:46 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5jo34u$890@corporate.hesta.com> There used to be a way to get custom login screens - under 3.3 we had them...anyone patient enough to tell me how to get them to work again under 4.0 Mach/Intel? And can I use the old 3.3 ones still up on PEAK as templates? Thanks! Michael Verruto michael@hesta.com MIME + NeXTMail Ok.
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: identd for Next? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 14:26:18 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970425142456.20627B-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Does Nextstep come wth it or do i have to get it somewhere else? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: FAXing with PPP Date: 23 Apr 1997 14:24:06 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5jl626$ggg@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5itiq6$17m@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5j6v85$bm@news.myriad.net> <5jbcm1$j7l@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <335AFBA3.5801@ultranet.ca> John Hills <jhills@ultranet.ca> writes: >I would agree that mgetty+sendfax would be the way to go. If you manage to >get them installed and configured let me know. I think you have to be a bit >of a propellor-head to set up mgetty! I have a copy compiled. Send me email if you want one. kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: michael@curie (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is there a "shutdown" file? Date: 25 Apr 1997 14:35:51 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> Dumb question most likely, so I apologize in advance. Our INN server is on a machine that we reboot from time to time and as such our ISP news guru tells me I need to insert a clean shutdown command into the shutdown script. The inverse I would imagine of the rc.local file on the way *up*. I have the command however cannot seem to determine if there is such a file referenced as part of the automatic reboot/shutdown process. Any help? -- Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: gvandyk@icon.co.za Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail.cf Date: 25 Apr 1997 06:11:28 GMT Organization: E.S. Systems cc (Financial Systems Development) Message-ID: <5jphug$eik$1@hermes.is.co.za> Hi, I am desparately looking for a sendmail.cf file that works fine over PPP. I have tried several different configurations but with no luck. Is there anybody that uses a dial-up connection to an ISP via PPP that has a sendmail.cf file that works fine? My problem is the "Sender" and "From" Headers in the mail that I send are wrong. -- Regards, Gerrit van Dyk email: gvandyk@icon.co.za (NeXTMail welcome) E.S. Systems cc The OBJECT is the ADVANTAGE
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a "shutdown" file? Date: 25 Apr 1997 19:47:46 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5jr1p2$1it@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit michael@curie (Michael Verruto) wrote: > Our INN server is on a machine that we reboot from time to time > and as such our ISP news guru tells me I need to insert a clean > shutdown command into the shutdown script. There is no such thing as a "shutdown script". Rename /usr/etc/halt to /usr/etc/halt.ORIGINAL, and write a script /usr/etc/halt that does what you want to be done and finally calls /usr/etc/halt.ORIGINAL. That's the only way to do it. The following example script issues a command to a modem via kermit before shutting down:
CUF=c # Prüfe auf Nothalt-Optionen case $* in *-n* | *-q* ) STOP=1 ;; esac # Falls kein Nothalt, stoppe FaxDaemon und sende "atz2" an das Modem if [ ! "$STOP" ]; then kill `ps -ax | egrep "FaxDaemon" | egrep -v "egrep" | sed 's/^\([ 0-9]*\) .*/\1'/` /usr/local/bin/kermit -C "set line /dev/cuf$CUF, set speed 19200, msleep 300, o atz2\13, exit" fi # rufe das eigentliche Programm (halt bzw. reboot) auf /usr$0.ORIGINAL $*
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: speed of Openstep on black hardware? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:47:38 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425124235.3163H-100000@kira> References: <5jpg9v$oau@news.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. David Purnell" <dave@dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <5jpg9v$oau@news.dmv.com> OpenStep/Mach has the great quality of running NeXTStep apps... however there is a cost when running both NeXTStep and OpenStep apps on the machine... someone put it at 8megs is taken up by loading the libraries or something llike that... You are running a turbo, so that's good. I'd suggest 64 ram from comments I've heard on csn.* , and I would have a nice magazine handy to read while compiles are running if you plan to do developer stuff. I'd probably wait until the summer and see what 4.2 brings (another month I'd guess hopefully??) unless you have a pressing desire to go to OpenStep, and some extra cash also. NeXTStep 3.3 is nice to have if you are nostalgic about the last NeXTStep release and have some black hardware which cannot take more than 32 ram (like most non turbo slabs, I think). It is also handy (in fact, downright necessary) if you want to be able to compile quadfat apps for NeXTStep... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: identd for Next? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:53:12 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425124916.3163I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970425142456.20627B-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970425142456.20627B-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> I seem to have it on my machine but I think I got & compiled it from somewhere... It must not have been too hard if I got it compiled... in fact, it probably worked autpmatocailly... I've got it only for m68k however if that will help you I will be happy to email it to you TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: tgo@phorcys.wscis.wsc.com (Thomas Kent Go) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Writeup document questions Date: 25 Apr 1997 21:03:20 GMT Organization: WSC Investment Services, Inc. Message-ID: <5jr66o$idq@cerberus.wsc.com> Hi, I have about a few hundred Writeup document in which I want to convert to either Word or WordPerfect for Windows. Does anyone know of any command line or program that could convert these files easily? At this point I would need to open each one and save it as a Word or WordPerfect format. Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks Thomas tgo@wsc.com P.S. Please respond via e-mail
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Extract text from an e-mail into a separate file? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 12:40:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425123846.3163G-100000@kira> References: <5jnid7$dg3@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970424061521.18199C-100000@kira> <E95KAE.K8J@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <E95KAE.K8J@novice.uwaterloo.ca> > Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > >I assume you mean from Mail.app? > > > >Select the message you want to copy, press 'copy' and then paste into an > >Edit.app ASCII window... > > > > There's also a service provided by something (maybe Edit, maybe > TickleServices) that is something like "Save to File..." that prompts you for a > file name and then shoves the text in there. I believe that is from TickleServices.... It is called 'Save as ASCII...' on my system here... There's also this program which does that and a few other neat tricks: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/SaveFromMail.1.03.NIHS.bs.tar.gz TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is there a "shutdown" file? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 13:03:29 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425125457.3163J-100000@kira> References: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5jqfg7$bje@corporate.hesta.com> > Dumb question most likely, so I apologize in advance. Not at all... > Our INN server is on a machine that we reboot from time to time and as such > our ISP news guru tells me I need to insert a clean shutdown command into the > shutdown script. The inverse I would imagine of the rc.local file on the way > *up*. I have the command however cannot seem to determine if there is such a > file referenced as part of the automatic reboot/shutdown process. You should not have to tell the machine to shutdow cleanlly, it should do it by default. There is no 'shutdown script' per se... the system just halts and reboots or powers down: /usr/etc/shutdown -h -p # to power down cleanly /usr/etc/shutdown -h -r # to reboot cleanly You could, of course, rename the shutdown script to something like 'shutdown.real' and then put your own script in its place and have it call 'shutdown.real' when it is done... if this is what you want, let me know and I'll see if I can come up with something... I've written some scripts before to do such things... 'man shutdown' has one of the better opening descriptions of any UNIX command: Shutdown provides an automated shutdown procedure which a super-user can use to notify users nicely when the system is shutting down, saving them from system administrators, hack- ers, and gurus, who would otherwise not bother with niceties. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: WTB: 3.3 Developer for HPPA Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:06:28 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <336146CE.1B6C@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I am looking for a copy of NeXTSTEP 3.3 Developer for HP. I realize that this is an old product, but I really would like to start development on NeXTSTEP. TIA, Kevin
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Where are all the extras in 3.3? Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:17:04 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <33614977.6DB8@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I recently installed 3.3 User on an HP and am enjoying it so far. I hadn't used NeXTSTEP for a long time, but as I recall, it used to come with lots of extra niceities. Things like Shakespeare's writings, Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, WriteNow, Mathematica, Allegro Common Lisp, and Sybase's SQL server, etc. What happened to all this cool stuff? Kevin -- Kevin Birch Principal Scientist Xsf, Incorporated
From: Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Printing with NeXTSTEP 3.3 on HP Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 19:17:17 -0500 Organization: Xsf, Incorporated Message-ID: <33614984.4186@xsf.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, I have an HP 715/80i running NeXTSTEP 3.3 User, and I am trying to set up printing. I want to communicate with an Apple LaserWriter 12/640PS. In PrintMagnager my options are either HP JetDirect or serial. I tried JetDirect and put in the printer's ip address, but it never prints. The busy light will flash briefly but then it will stop, and the print job just sits in the queue forever, and no errors are ever reported. Next I tried serial, but even less happens there. The busy light never even flashes. The 715 has only one serial port, but I have tried to print with both serial A & B selected in PrinterManager. Again, the jobs sits forever in the queue. I installed the correct PPD for my printer according to the docs, and it shows up in the list of available printer types. I'm stumped, any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA, Kevin
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail.cf Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 17:43:48 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425174139.8295B-100000@kira> References: <5jphug$eik$1@hermes.is.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: gvandyk@icon.co.za In-Reply-To: <5jphug$eik$1@hermes.is.co.za> There is a detailed set of instructions on how to upgrade to a new version of sendmail, which makes this easy. This can be done by modifying the sendmail.cf file directly, and has been discussed frequently in recent time. Checkout dejanews if there isn't a copy of the answer on your news server.... TjL, on his way to add this to his FAQ... -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dwrite Error Date: Sat, 26 Apr 97 03:46:46 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> System: Mono Turbo Station, NS 3.3 User When I try to set the LoginWindow to display the hostname (perthe FAQ) by typing: dwrite loginwindow HostName WildNeXT I get the following error: dwrite: Couldn't write into database Any suggestions? Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Keeping a CD mounted on logout (or other removable device) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 21:15:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970425192352.28809A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I found an easy way to keep a CD or other removable drive mounted after logout. Create a link from the CD to the regular filesystem. For example, I linked /FontGarden to ~/Library/Fonts/ and it stayed in even after I logged out... FYI TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: mc6983@mclink.it Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Receiving faxes Date: 26 Apr 1997 15:40:53 GMT Organization: MC-link The World On Line Message-ID: <5jt7m5$osg@news1.mclink.it> I 've installed a copy of JollyClass2.0 and now I can fax out my documents with my USRobotics Sportster 33.6 FaxModem. The problem is that I cannot receive faxes. I remember I read a similar question sometime ago but I couldn't find the article. Did someone solve the problem ? Thanks. Mario Scarpa -- mc6983@mclink.it
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 3Com Etherlink Drivers Date: 26 Apr 1997 18:11:16 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5jtgg4$hq0@uni2f.unige.ch> References: <5jpafs$c8t$1@news.freedomnet.com> <5jj389$bd6@news.sei.cmu.edu> In Re: 3Com Etherlink Drivers comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x2a57bc> writes, > lph@sei.cmu.edu (Larry Howard) wrote: >>Have a PC with an EtherLink XL (3C900-COMBO) PCI network adapter card >>upon which I'm hoping to run NS 3.3. Can't find any information on >>NextAnswers concerning an appropriate driver. Any other info? > > Unfortunately, there isn't one. And, as far as they told me, there are also no plans to do so. > Unfortunately, 3Com's are often the bundled solution (like Gateways), so if > Apple/NeXT could get an EtherLink XL driver out, a lot more people would even > try OPENSTEP. We would have no Windog computer here, if NeXT would... Phil
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: imapd for m68K? Date: 26 Apr 1997 23:04:35 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5ju1m3$dvs@news.dmv.com> Does anyone know where I can get an imap daemon for Nextstep 3.x ? I'd like to use Mail.app while I'm in front of the machine and then go home and connect with an imap client. Dave
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite Error Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:10:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426180708.11887C-100000@kira> References: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Matt Seibert <mseibert@ita1.inow.com> In-Reply-To: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> > System: Mono Turbo Station, NS 3.3 User > > When I try to set the LoginWindow to display the hostname (perthe FAQ) by > typing: > > dwrite loginwindow HostName WildNeXT > > I get the following error: > dwrite: Couldn't write into database Are you doing this as root? If so, make sure that root's home dir is properly defined. If you aren't doing this as root, I don't think it will work, but if you are then it means your dwrites file (insider ~/.NeXT) has somehow become owned by root. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: imapd for m68K? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:13:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426181227.11887D-100000@kira> References: <5ju1m3$dvs@news.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "J. David Purnell" <dave@dmv.com> In-Reply-To: <5ju1m3$dvs@news.dmv.com> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin-compressed/imapd-bin.next.Z TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: reasb help Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 18:42:21 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426183533.18649A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've read the 'read' man page and I'm still not quite sure how to fix this. Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 1 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 2 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 3 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 4 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 5 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 6 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 7 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 8 Target 2: MEDIA ERROR; block 36f8dH retry 9 sd2 (2,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11 SCSI Block in error = 225165; Partition a F.S. sector 112422 I got this response (above) from this command: # dd if=/dev/rsd2a of=/dev/null bs=512k dd: /dev/rsd2a: I/O error 219+0 records in 219+0 records out This was on my EZ135 disk. I checked the rest and they all reported no error: 255+1 records in/out How can I reassign this block? Thanks folks, this is one of my backup carts... TjL
From: Brian Sutherland <rmaniac.spamless.@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Netinfo: Please Help Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 21:27:19 -0600 Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP Message-ID: <3362C796.6353165E@onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Please remove the .spamless. from my email address before replying. I have two NeXT machines and all I want to do is share the printer. I tried to set one up as a master netinfo server and it works ok until I reboot. Then when the server is rebooting it gives me an error saying it cannot find the master netinfo server. (of course it can't IT IS THE MASTER NETINFO SERVER!) What am I doing wrong? Is there an easier way to share a printer? Any info would be helpful it seems like a very compicated thing to set up a network with theses things tho I am told it is easy. The instructions I have been reading all say not to plug in the workstations to the ether net until the server is set up is this really nesassary? Do all the machines have to be fresh installs just to make a network work properly? Thanx in advance. -Brian Sutherland rmaniac,onramp,net
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <26385861508830@digifix.com> Date: 27 Apr 1997 03:59:44 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997 20:26:41 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've got a crossover cable (and a hub if I want to use that). I've got a slab, I'll have an Intel soon. I want to figure out some various things about Networking these two machines. I've read the online info & NeXTanswers, and they make it sound liket it's really easy to setup my own Network. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear from some folks as to some 'gotchas' they've come across, as well as answer some (probably simple) networking questions I have. One quick q: if I have 2 connected machines, should one be 192.42.172.1 and the other 192.42.172.2? (One of these machines will occasionally link to the 'net via PPP). - what if I get a static IP from my ISP? What IP should I give the other one? (192.42.172.1?) I'm not trying to do anything too fancy, just be able to rcp/rsh/rlogin, maybe NFS a few directories, print from the Intel to the slab (I think I've got info on this already from someone here).... maybe send email from slab-->Intel (ie Intel will be PPP host, I'll want to be able to send email from the slab to someone on the 'net and have it get there). Thanks! TjL ps -- if you're willing to answer some more, specific questions as I come across them, please drop me a line directly. Otherwise feel free to send your replies here, as I'm sure others will want to know also..
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: How to use Sony NeXT CD-ROM for music on MO (or just how to play music) References: <5jcgoe$1m5@slip.net> From: ANTI-SPAM! Message-ID: <336309ca.0@scipio.cyberstore.ca> Date: 27 Apr 97 08:09:46 GMT emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: >I purchased an original Sony CD-ROM (CDU-541 Rev 2.6a) >for my 040/25 cube on c.s.n.m. For installing software >it works great. But when I insert a music CD and plug >a set of speakers into the sound jack, or a set of >headphones, no sound comes out. > >Is there something I need to do play music on this >CD-ROM and to have the music come out of the sound jack? > >Do I need run a particular app to listen to music from >a CD-ROM? As I recall, just plug the headphones into the front jack and turn up the volumn control to the right of the jack and set the volumn on the cd-player app up. Is the cd player app incrementing the time indicating the music is actually being played. If not try a different CD or may sure the proper files are installed in the /usr/filesystems/cdaudio.fs directory. Darren Reely P.S. Return e-mail address should now be useless thanks to those damp spammers.
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: reasb help Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 12:01:40 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nMrVY200iWm03zH40@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426183533.18649A-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426183533.18649A-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-Apr-97 reasb help by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > How can I reassign this block? Try "reasb /dev/rsd2a 225165 -r".... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Machine hangs upon typing bfd or bsd in ROM monitor on black Date: 27 Apr 1997 16:13:32 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5k0mis$f30@slip.net> Hi, I'm trying to re-install NS 3.3 user on an 040/25. After putting the CD in the external CD-ROM and putting the startup diskette into the internal floppy drive and typing bfd in the (ROM Monitor v5 2.66 ) the machine hangs. The machine also hangs if I type bsd. (Once bsd(0,0,0) worked but now that doesn't work either) However, if I don't hold down the command key and just let the machine boot with out interupting it, it starts up logged in as "me" and fails to prompt for a user login or password. Ah, I just upgraded the machine from 28 to 40 MGs of RAM. I also added a second hard drive. Originally I installed the new hard drive with a SCSI target value of 2 (the original disk had a SCSI traget value of 1). I used build disk to format the new disk and copied the NS OS onto it. Then I opened the box and switched SCSI target values. (I left the cabeling and termination sequence the same) So the new larger disk has a SCSI target of 1 and the old disk has a target of 2. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Emmett San Francisco
From: "Steve Loranz" <sloranz@king.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x Date: 28 Apr 1997 06:29:03 GMT Organization: Kiwi InterNet Group, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc5395$03ddc7b0$09b429ce@fisher> Has anybody built BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x? I running into problems while building the named binary. It was complaining about _inet_aton being defined multiple times so I put -m in the ldflags to get it to use the symbol defined in libresolv.a within the bind source tree. Apparently, NeXT's cc doesn't understand -m as a linker option. I commented out the cc line in the named makefile and replaced it with a call to ld but then I had a number of undefined symbols. ld should look in the standard lib and include directories, no? I'm including all of the object files and libraries that the cc line had... I'd be happy to get any insight from people who have gotten this package to build. Thanks in advance. -steve
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.1 (Intel) -- worthwhile? Date: 26 Apr 1997 21:25:52 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5jtrt0$i0r@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <335F2FCF.82C1303@ibm.net> Vocatan <vocatan@ibm.net> wrote: > After sitting on the unopened box for almost 4 years - I finally > opened up my copy of NeXTStep/Intel 3.1 and tried to install it. > My question: Is it worthwhile labouring over the correct mystical > incantations to get NS3.1 to install, or should I console myself > with running off my black hardware forever? It is probably not worth it to get NS-3.1 running on Intel hardware. > Question #2: Can I get any sort of rebate/evaluation package > through NeXT? Not at this time. If you had registered NS-3.1 back when you bought it, you would have received the upgrade to NS-3.2 for free. I think this is a case of "you snooze, you lose". NS-3.3 fixed up even more things that were missed in NS-3.2, so really that's the version I'd recommend the most (if you aren't going to make the jump to NeXTSTEP 4.x). NS-3.2 is pretty good. NS-3.1 has too many problems, particularly on the Intel platform, to spend a lot of time on it. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Boris Pioline <bpioline@thwgs2.cern.ch> Subject: ps_if for NextStep3.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <335243C3.6F7@thwgs2.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: CERN. European Lab. for Particle Physics Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 14:48:35 GMT Hi there, Being told in aswer to a previous message that 'ps_if' was the thing to use in order to set up multiple virtual hosts, (available from ftp://ftp.thoughtport.com/pub/next/ppp/), I installed it and was actually able to run it under NextStep3.3, not 3.0 (complains that ps_reloc is not a good Mach file - it also complains during compilation that it needs kernserv/machine/spl.h, not present in 3.0) Does anybody know whether there exists a version compatible with 3.0 around ? If not I will have to upgrade to 3.3 :-< Thanks all Boris Pioline
From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Steve Roller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz Install of NT & NS Date: 16 Apr 1997 18:04:41 GMT Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA Message-ID: <5j34bp$jpo@q.seanet.com> References: <335056F9.6A0E@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970413145105.22831A-100000@kira> <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> In <3351B5F7.483F@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> "Eric A. Dubiel" wrote: > Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > It's easy to do with Mac OS, I've heard ruminations about *installing > > > NS* working, and I wonder if you can install NT *onto* the Jaz cart? > > I have loaded OpenStep 4.1 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my NeXTstation turbo. It works fine, the Jazz drive works as well or better than the NeXTstations internal drive. I have loaded WinNT 4.0 on a Jaz Cartridge to use on my Intel box. It also works, but the performance works as well or less than the Intel box internal drive. I now have 6 Jaz cartridges to share between NeXT and MS OS's. I give these two thumbs up for my consulting work. > > I don't know if they are comparable, but I emailed SyQuest and they told > > me that WinNT and Win95 can both be loaded onto removable drives (at > > least the SyJet 1.5gig drive), assuming the SCSI card supports removable > > drives. > > Ok, thanks Timothy, but now the question is *HOW*! Is there an FAQ for > this? I will try to post a FAQ at our Puget Sound NeXT User Groups site: http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug There's disk geometry issues for the Jaz drive for NeXT, and you will need a MAC or Windows box running Jaz Tools to help with disk initialization issues, if the NeXT OS tells you the disk is bad. Steve Roller sroller@roller.seanet.com Puget Sound NeXT Users Group http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: nameserver?? Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:29:44 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nJakMG00iUyI4MbB3@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <E8pDL9.6yL@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> In-Reply-To: <AF7AE7A2-1ED9C@10.1.5.32> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.software: 16-Apr-97 Re: nameserver?? by "Kevin Birch"@xsf.com > Well, I've been hearing this same advice from many, but I when I > tried it, I got nada. I had no /etc/resolv.conf, so I created one with > domain and nameserver lines, but nslookup always thinks that the > name server is 0.0.0.0! Is there anything in NetInfoManager that > I am missing? This has really got me fustrated. Did you put the IP addresses in /etc/resolv.conf and not the names? Why not show us the file.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: sbrandon@music.gla.ac.uk (Stephen Brandon - SysAdmin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ethernet buffers and network problems Date: 28 Apr 1997 12:22:25 GMT Organization: University of Glasgow Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k24q1$19r@singer.cent.gla.ac.uk> Hi all, Our master netinfo server has started to crash regularly (like nearly every night) with enrx: no network buffers It's a black cube, running 3.3 patched. It had the same problem while running 3.3 unpatched. 64MB RAM, plenty of HD space. It serves a 3-level domain, a total of about 40 NeXTs and NS/I systems. The result of this error is that the machine grinds to a halt, and loses contact with the rest of the network. This has happened at times when I have put a high network load on the machine (lots of Omniweb, RBrowser, SafetyNet etc), so I have eased up a bit on those things. But most regularly it crashes out at seemingly random times overnight. It occasionally does the same thing, unprovoked, during the day. I have got tcpdump running on another cube, and have tried to trace packets being sent to it, to identify any host that might be flooding it. So far that has not turned up anything, except that at least once it has crashed on a scheduled cron job of quotaing (sizing) all user accounts during the night (user accounts are stored on other machines on the network, nfs mounted). This is not consistent behaviour though. It has been suggested that bad connections on the ethernet (electrical problems maybe) could be interpreted as real packets by the ethernet interface on the machine. But only this machine seems to be having the problems... surely this would affect all machines on the network? I get the server to log "date" into a file every 15 minutes to gauge exactly when it crashes -- this helps a bit. But I am no closer to finding out why this happens. I was told that netstat -m gives the ethernet buffer situation (thanks NeXT support!). Ok, that's interesting... the % "in use" (what is this? number of buffers in use out of total? Percentage of allocated memory in use?) seems to fluctuate in a strange way. It certainly goes up if I do nfs-intensive activity (like my quotaing stuff) but then takes a while to go back down again after the script is finished. The usual % in use is around 70-80%, but this rises into the high 90s at times. I assume that when the machines crashes, that that is when it reaches 100%. On our Intel machines, the figure is in the 30s. I had the idea that the nbuf command on bootup controlled the amount of memory available for buffers. Without the nbuf command, 254 buffers get allocated. On another machine, I tried varying nbuf and looking at the effect that this has on netstat -m. Well, nbuf=1 prevented the machine from booting, but any other figure *seemed* to have no effect on the % thing which stayed reasonably constant. At the moment I have set nbuf on the affected machine to a somewhat lower figure, hoping that simply making a change might make a difference. It hasn't helped. (in any case, the only logical change to nbuf would be to increase it, not decrease it, but it doesn't go past 254 I don't think). Can anyone help me please? What I want to know is: 1) How do I increase the amount of network buffers available? 2) How can I trace exactly what is using the buffers that are available? 3) Have other people had this problem? 4) Could it be caused by aging hardware on this one machine? It is the only machine on our network that has this problem, though the fact that it is the master NetInfo server makes it look a bit too much of a coincidence. 5) Can anyone explain all the figures in the netstat -m command, or point me to an info on them? 6) Are any of these figures related to the particular ethernet card you use if you are on Intel? Questions, questions. NeXT tech support recommended that I don't upgrade to 4.0 or 4.1 on this machine (4.2 might be ok), but that 4.2 on a new Intel (my suggestion) would be the best. Stephen Brandon Systems Administrator, Department of Music, e-mail:S.Brandon@music.gla.ac.uk 14 University Gardens, (NeXT mail welcomed) University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0)141 330 6065 Glasgow. Fax: +44 (0)141 330 3518 Scotland
From: Marcos Polanco <marcos@imana.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Can't boot single user. Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 09:55:47 -0700 Organization: Imana, Inc. Message-ID: <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm running NS3.3 on a Nextstation slab. The problem here is that my machine refuses to boot claiming: / file system is full vnode_pageout: failed! Or something close to the above. I can't even get into the machine single user. So I'm locked out. Anyone experience this before? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance, - marcos -- Marcos J. Polanco Imana, Inc. 415.436.9700 tel 480 Potrero Ave. 415.436.9793 fax San Francisco, CA 94110 marcos@imana.com http://www.imana.com
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrite Error Date: Mon, 28 Apr 97 18:19:25 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5k2ppe$g2m@news.jump.net> References: <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net> Finally figured it out. Apparently (probably due to me) the Root's home dir got set to /root instead of /. Fixed this using NU and it works fine now. Matt In article <5jrtt0$h3m@news.jump.net>, mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) wrote: >System: Mono Turbo Station, NS 3.3 User > >When I try to set the LoginWindow to display the hostname (perthe FAQ) by >typing: > >dwrite loginwindow HostName WildNeXT > >I get the following error: >dwrite: Couldn't write into database > >Any suggestions? > >Matt >please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: dturren@dukebar.crml.uab.edu (Don Turrentine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UDP ports for netinfo Date: 28 Apr 1997 19:09:04 GMT Organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham Message-ID: <5k2skg$c89@maze.dpo.uab.edu> What are the UDP port numbers that netinfo use? I have about a dozen machines that I need to temporarily set up on a new segment and do not want to set up a new netinfo server or domain. I was told that the ports were 666, 667 ,668 about a year ago in this newsgroup. I am using version 2.2 and 3.0 on the old black hardware. Please e-mail - Don -- Don Turrentine, Network Specialist University of Alabama Health Services Foundation 301 South 20th Street LNB 201 Birmingham, AL 35233 (205) 731-9666 Direct (205) 731-9856 Fax dturrent@uabmc.edu
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 00:05:54 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote in article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira>... > > > I've got a crossover cable (and a hub if I want to use that). > I've got a slab, I'll have an Intel soon. > I want to figure out some various things about Networking these two > machines. > > I've read the online info & NeXTanswers, and they make it sound liket it's > really easy to setup my own Network. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear from > some folks as to some 'gotchas' they've come across, as well as answer > some (probably simple) networking questions I have. > A quick fix to get out of the hole you will inevitably find yourself in. A virgin copy of your /etc/netinfo directory is kept in /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo. Copy this entire directory into /etc and you will rectify damn near anything submitted to netinfo. This includes bad passwords, bad/lost domain controllers, bad subnet masks, etc. You will lose you own password but not your preferences. 'me' will also lose it's password Also backup your hostconfig before you start. > One quick q: if I have 2 connected machines, should one be 192.42.172.1 > and the other 192.42.172.2? (One of these machines will occasionally link > to the 'net via PPP). > > - what if I get a static IP from my ISP? What IP should I give > the other one? (192.42.172.1?) > The following is open to conjecture by more experienced net heads. Be aware that once you connect up it is possible that your IP address will become visible to the outside world. So although one of your addresses is static the other may be in use by someone else on the net. It is important to use addresses that either are not routed across the net like 10... addresses. Also check how you are routing your traffic to the net.
From: Ryan Watkins <vamp@vamp.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 28 Apr 1997 17:03:19 -0700 Message-ID: <x6iv1666gn.fsf@zero.dimensionx.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Cc: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > One quick q: if I have 2 connected machines, should one be 192.42.172.1 > and the other 192.42.172.2? (One of these machines will occasionally link > to the 'net via PPP). > > - what if I get a static IP from my ISP? What IP should I give > the other one? (192.42.172.1?) > > I'm not trying to do anything too fancy, just be able to rcp/rsh/rlogin, > maybe NFS a few directories, print from the Intel to the slab (I think > I've got info on this already from someone here).... maybe send email from > slab-->Intel (ie Intel will be PPP host, I'll want to be able to send > email from the slab to someone on the 'net and have it get there). I presume what you want to do is setup the ethernet interface on each machine as an IP from the reserved private IP block. I currently use 192.168.* for all the machines on my private network. (ex 192.168.1.1 for one machine and 192.168.1.2 for the other) Then use whatever IP address you get from your ISP for the PPP interface. You can then telnet/nfs/etc between the two machines using the private 192.168.* network. If you need to access something on the internet from the second machine (not directly connected) you can setup a telnet or http proxy service on the machine thats got the PPP connection and connect thru it to the outside. -- Ryan L. Watkins "Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' Web Overlord label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad vamp@dimensionx.com old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance www.dimensionx.com of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network." - Tim Berners-Lee
From: mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 05:32:10 GMT Organization: WorldWide Access (tm) - Midwestern Internet Services http://www.wwa.com Message-ID: <3365865a.4425653@news.wwa.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970426201145.29793A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > >I've got a crossover cable (and a hub if I want to use that). >I've got a slab, I'll have an Intel soon. >I want to figure out some various things about Networking these two >machines. > >I've read the online info & NeXTanswers, and they make it sound liket it's >really easy to setup my own Network. Nonetheless, I'd like to hear from >some folks as to some 'gotchas' they've come across, as well as answer >some (probably simple) networking questions I have. > Another thing you'll want to learn (before you really need to) is how to boot single user mode. This will be required for backing out some kinds of configuration errors. On my machine (Intel Hardware, configured w/ NextStep3.3, Windoze95, NT4.0) I hit ? at the "boot:" prompt, then type "hd()mach_kernel -s". On a Turbo Slab, you would hit Command-Tilde when the first beep happens during boot, then type "bsd -s" at the prompt.
From: mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 05:37:01 GMT Organization: WorldWide Access (tm) - Midwestern Internet Services http://www.wwa.com Message-ID: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey Next People! Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux NEX000 driver. Can this be used with 3.3? I'd love to hear from anyone who has 3.3 working with an ne2000 ethernet card... Thanks, Matt Krueger mkrueger@wwa.com
From: marcel@system.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 05:50:53 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k427t$6vq$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <3365865a.4425653@news.wwa.com> In article <3365865a.4425653@news.wwa.com> mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) writes: > Another thing you'll want to learn (before you really need to) is how > to boot single user mode. This will be required for backing out some > kinds of configuration errors. On my machine (Intel Hardware, > configured w/ NextStep3.3, Windoze95, NT4.0) I hit ? at the "boot:" > prompt, then type "hd()mach_kernel -s". On a Turbo Slab, you would > hit Command-Tilde when the first beep happens during boot, then type > "bsd -s" at the prompt. Just typing '-s' in either case will suffice. Or at least has for me. Marcel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr Subject: Can‚t see my posts with CNews? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <E9E5Ls.8uA@x-lan.alienor.fr> Sender: news@x-lan.alienor.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Organization: x&lan Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 08:44:15 GMT I‚ve installed CNews on NS 3.3 and an Intel machine. I‚ve made a local newsgroup and managed to compose some news. The news appear in the in.coming directory but when newrun is launched from the crontab (or by hand) they move to dead.article. In the log file the error message is :" no Message-ID: header". And in fact there is no Message-ID : header in the files in in.comming. So what to do for having a Message-ID : header ??? Thanks for help. -- --------------------------------------- ® ® | ® O_O ® ® | O_O -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Fred Galot fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr
From: comuboma <comuboma@bologna.nettuno.it> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:17:47 +0200 (METDST) Organization: NETTuno Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.90.970429151720.11868C-100000@bologna.nettuno.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, I'm trying to backup my next (harware intel), but I don't know this warning: DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: the hard disk is QUANTUM XP34550W 4,5 giga partioned in thre zone: /dev/sd0a 2049247 1328240 516082 72% / /dev/sd0c 1146343 9 1031699 0% /extend /dev/sd0b 1146343 402707 629001 39% /extend2 Can anyone offer some suggestions? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Stefano Sola ------------------------------ rsh funes /usr/etc/rdump 0usf 500000 uqbar:/dev/nrst9 funes:/ DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Apr 29 13:35:29 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/nrst9 on host uqbar DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 1374126 tape blocks on 0.16 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: 6.36% done, finished in 1:13 DUMP: 12.91% done, finished in 1:07 DUMP: 19.52% done, finished in 1:01 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 223016]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 199746]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 201536]: count=2048, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 202432]: count=8192, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 204217]: count=7168, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 223912]: count=6144, got=-1 DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 225696]: count=8192, got=-1 DUMP: 25.20% done, finished in 0:59 DUMP: 31.98% done, finished in 0:53 DUMP: 39.00% done, finished in 0:46 DUMP: 45.70% done, finished in 0:41 DUMP: 52.76% done, finished in 0:35 DUMP: 59.96% done, finished in 0:30 DUMP: 67.12% done, finished in 0:24 DUMP: 68.13% done, finished in 0:25 DUMP: 74.44% done, finished in 0:20 DUMP: 81.10% done, finished in 0:15
From: Erik Evensen <erik@avalon.harvard.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Date: 29 Apr 1997 09:18:30 -0400 Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Message-ID: <to4tcqhsrd.fsf@avalon.harvard.edu> References: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> mkrueger@wwa.com (Matt Krueger) writes: > Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I > have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux > NEX000 driver. Can this be used with 3.3? I'd love to hear from > anyone who has 3.3 working with an ne2000 ethernet card... Hi, I think I'm using the driver to which you are refering in my NS3.3 system. It works except for one big problem: it appears that when I try to access the network and the disk (Seagate Barracuda on an Symbios (NCR) 810 controller) the machine locks up solid and I have to hit the hardware reset to get the thing back. I haven't had the time to muck around looking for the solution to this problem; has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix for it? Thanks! --erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu Subject: Drives stopped mounting on boot! HELP! Message-ID: <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:49:34 GMT Oddly enough, whenever I reboot now, nothing mounts but my root drive (/dev/sd0a), and the thing drops into a single-user shell, where I then have to manually mount sd1a and sd2a, then continue. From there, everything seems to be fine (well, except that no one can access /etc/utmp, which also seems strange). Anyhow, my fstab is still there and still correct, so does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Thanks much, Mark
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x Message-ID: <E9EJA3.L0@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <01bc5395$03ddc7b0$09b429ce@fisher> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:39:39 GMT "Steve Loranz" <sloranz@king.net> wrote: >Has anybody built BIND 4.9.5-P1 on OPENSTEP 4.x? I running into problems There is a BIND-4.9.5 installer package which I created in directory: ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet Note, that this is a binary-only package and it only replaces named, nslookup and such, it does not install a new libresolv.a or header files. The new named and nslookup do use the BIND 4.9.5 libresolv.a (if I recall correctly). The reason is as follows: NeXT's resolver functions (gethostbyname() and such) are Netinfo-aware, but they still keep the BIND names. Which means that installing (and using) a libresolv.a from BIND would make Netinfo unavailable for programs linked with libresolv.a. NeXT's BIND installation is special, they have renamed all functions to something like _res_gethostbyname(), and the Netinfo-aware functions (like gethostbyname()) call these functions. If I had enough time, I would probably create a way to make a NeXT MachOS compatible libresolv.a that would give you a way to upgrade to BIND 4.9.5 seamlessly. But I do not know what all the naming conventions for NeXT's adaptation of BIND are, so thus far I have kept that project on hold. If someone can give me a reliable mapping between BIND names (like gethostbyname()) and NeXT names for BIND functions (like _res_gethostbyname()), I'll create a complete installer package, also for Developer installations. And don't forget, NeXT's istallation is multiple-architecture (with several endiannesses), so it is quite a bit of work to get the stuff transparantly working. If I only had the time to do it, I would. So far, let's keep it at named and nslookup, that at least gives you the extra security of running BIND 4.9.5. -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: planetary <planet@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help! Can't boot single user. Date: 29 Apr 1997 10:42:11 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5k58d3$meu@xmission.xmission.com> References: <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Marcos Polanco <marcos@imana.com> wrote: : Hello, : I'm running NS3.3 on a Nextstation slab. The problem here is that my : machine refuses to boot claiming: : / file system is full : vnode_pageout: failed! : Or something close to the above. I can't even get into the machine : single user. So I'm locked out. Anyone experience this before? Your help : is much appreciated. This happened to me once. I had to remove the disk from the slab, install it in another machine, then remove files by hand to clear up some space. ...............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 18:04:23 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5k5d77$c0f$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> In article <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> writes: > A quick fix to get out of the hole you will inevitably find yourself in. A > virgin copy of your /etc/netinfo directory is kept in > /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo. ..... Here's another hint for keeping your NetInfo safe: I always keep an up-to-date text version of my NetInfo databases. I do cd /etc/netinfo; nidump -r / . >ni.local nudump -r / / >ni.network These can be hand-edited if necessary and used to rebuild the NetInfo database. However, it's rather tricky as NetInfo needs to be already running in order to rebuild the databases from the text files. What I do is boot single user, copy the virgin netinfo templates to my local.nidb and network.nidb directories (in /etc/netinfo), run an rc.emergency script to bring up the services essential to running NetInfo, run nibindd (which starts the local and network netinfo services using the virgin templates, and finally do niload -d -r / . </etc/netinfo/ni.local niload -d -r / / </etc/netinfo/ni.network to restore my original NetInfo databases. Here's my emergency script: #!/bin/sh -v # # rc.emergency # Emergency script to start rudimentary network services and NetInfo # /usr/etc/nmserver -nonet # remove this line if you're on an m68k box... /usr/etc/driverLoader a sh /etc/rc.net -h sh /etc/rc.swap mount -vat 4.3 /usr/etc/mach_swapon -av /bin/rm -f /dev/log /usr/etc/syslogd /etc/hostconfig /usr/etc/portmap /usr/etc/route add default $ROUTER 1 (echo "Type /usr/etc/nibindd to start netinfo services") >/dev/console (echo "Type /usr/etc/lookupd to start lookup services") >/dev/console -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr Subject: Re: Can‚t see my posts with CNews? Message-ID: <E9EK2D.9FJ@x-lan.alienor.fr> Sender: news@x-lan.alienor.fr Organization: x&lan References: <E9E5Ls.8uA@x-lan.alienor.fr> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:56:37 GMT It was a very stupid question.... the mailname file and the server file were empty..... -- --------------------------------------- ® ® | ® O_O ® ® | O_O -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Fred Galot fgalot@x-lan.alienor.fr
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT & Intel networking, bunch of questions, anyone willing to help? Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:44:16 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5k5j2g$113g@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <01bc5431$26747bb0$17506fcb@decisionware> <5k5d77$c0f$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> >Here's another hint for keeping your NetInfo safe: > I always keep an up-to-date text version of my NetInfo databases. I do > cd /etc/netinfo; > nidump -r / . >ni.local > nudump -r / / >ni.network > ... Or just cp -rp /etc/netinfo /etc/netinfo.backup cp -p /etc/hostconfig /etc/hostconfig.backup cp -p /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup When necessary boot single user, copy them back, and reboot. - Gareth
From: andreas@lynet.de (Andreas Hoeschler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 29 Apr 1997 09:40:50 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, I've just setup a small network with a NetInfoServer and wondered, why there's a difference in the screenlayout depending on, on wich machine I log me in. I've customized the dock and the FileViewer of my login on one machine and hoped I would find the same, when I login on another host, but I haven't. Instead the dock presented himself in the template-format with the Librarien and Edit Icon on it and in the FileViewer I even didn't see my HomeIcon (single House) but only the Icon of the host. Why this? Does anyone has an idea? Andreas Hoeschler
From: Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't Connect PS printer over Ethernet Date: 30 Apr 1997 01:11:30 GMT Organization: err...dinges... Message-ID: <3366BA51.53E7@euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit More specifically, I can't even select anything other than serial connection... BTW I am runnin 3.2 on Black Hardware...but the Print Manager says it's version 3.0 ? huh? I installed the correct PPD for the printer. Switched Appletalk on and off, both of them didn' work. Any help greatly appreciated... ....Thanks, Igor (please mail direct: igorvo@euronet.nl)
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 23:34:59 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cnNfrXe00iWZQIC=BG@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 29-Apr-97 DOCK and FileViewer not ide.. by Andreas Hoeschler@lynet. > I've just setup a small network with a NetInfoServer and wondered, why > there's a difference in the screenlayout depending on, on wich machine I log > me in. I've customized the dock and the FileViewer of my login on one > machine and hoped I would find the same, when I login on another host, > but I haven't. Is the filesystem which contains your home directory NFS exported and is the second machine mounting it correctly? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't Connect PS printer over Ethernet Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:27:33 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202633.8736F-100000@kira> References: <3366BA51.53E7@euronet.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Igor van Oostveen <igorvo@euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <3366BA51.53E7@euronet.nl> > BTW I am runnin 3.2 on Black Hardware...but the Print Manager says it's > version 3.0 ? huh? I'm using NeXTStep 3.3 and PrintManager says it's version 3.0... They don't necessarily change the apps for each version of the OS TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 04:32:59 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k6i1r$t60$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202511.8736E-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970429202511.8736E-100000@kira> On 04/29/97, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >Do they share the same path to your $HOME? Are they running the same >version of the OS? > >Just guessin' > >TjL One other possible cause might be that one machine is running NEXTSTEP and the other is running OpenStep.. the name of the directory that defaults are stored in got moved when they moved from NS to OS.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 07:40:52 GMT Organization: GMD-FOKUS Message-ID: <5k6t24$1mg@stern.fokus.gmd.de> References: <5k4fn2$18n@merkur.lynet.de> Andreas Hoeschler writes > Hello, > > I've just setup a small network with a NetInfoServer and wondered, why > there's a difference in the screenlayout depending on, on wich machine I log > me in. I've customized the dock and the FileViewer of my login on one machine > and hoped I would find the same, when I login on another host, but I haven't. > Instead the dock presented himself in the template-format with the Librarien > and Edit Icon on it and in the FileViewer I even didn't see my HomeIcon > (single House) but only the Icon of the host. > Why this? Does anyone has an idea? > > Andreas Hoeschler Different screen resolutions lead to different dock layout. Very clever, isn't it? Robert -- --- - .-. -- -- --- / \ ---- Robert Fischer .-. / \ --- .-. __o .-. @ / \ / \ / \ _`\<,_ / \ GMD-Fokus / \ / \ / \ (*)/ (*) / `-------------- / `---' `-' `-----------'
Subject: NFS from SGI to NeXT Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vincent@sente.epfl.ch (Vincent Kohler) Message-ID: <33674788.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Date: 30 Apr 97 13:22:16 GMT Hi, I experienced something strange with NFS. We just tried to mount a shared dir from an SGI (IRIX 6.2) to OPENSTEP 4.1 and NS3.3 machine. The mounted dir behaves strangely. When we try to copy, say the Draw project from the developer examples into the shared dir and begin to compile it, some file disappear (i.e Group.h is not visible any more), and the compilation fails. Uh ? The same with the NS3.3 machine. As soon as we try to access the directory (a simple ls -al into a Terminal) and some file disappear... Anybody has any idea ? Vincent K. -- ---------------------------------------- Vincent Kohler vincent@sente.epfl.ch (NextMail welcome) Sen:te Parc Scientifique - EPFL - Switzerland
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu Subject: UPDATE: Re: Drives stopped mounting on boot! HELP! In-Reply-To: fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu's message of Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:49:34 GMT Message-ID: <ukvhggoa9ia.fsf_-_@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 14:08:29 GMT fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu said: > > Oddly enough, whenever I reboot now, nothing mounts but my root drive > (/dev/sd0a), and the thing drops into a single-user shell, where I then > have to manually mount sd1a and sd2a, then continue. From there, everything > seems to be fine (well, except that no one can access /etc/utmp, which also > seems strange). > > Anyhow, my fstab is still there and still correct, so does anyone have any > idea what's happening here? Just an update: Turns out that the machine is complaining about not being able to access the kernel namelist (i.e., /mach), and this is apparently what causes the machine to drop into a single-user shell during boot. I've collected an exhaustive list of all the files I've changed this month, and checked the file permissions on the kernel files, and I can't come to any better conclusion that I somehow thrashed /mach. Sooooo...I'm going to reinstall the system tonight, which should fix the problem (and hopefully leave my config in place). I'll let everyone know if this solves the problem. Thanks again Mark
From: "John Hills" <jhills@ultranet.ca> Subject: Re: Where are all the extras in 3.3? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software References: <33614977.6DB8@xsf.com> Message-ID: <01bc5581$352cc580$8cbf66cf@kyushu.infoserve.net> Date: 30 Apr 97 16:18:10 GMT Kevin Birch <kbirch@xsf.com> wrote in article <33614977.6DB8@xsf.com>... > Hello all, > > I recently installed 3.3 User on an HP and am enjoying it so far. I > hadn't used > NeXTSTEP for a long time, but as I recall, it used to come with lots of > extra > niceities. Things like Shakespeare's writings, Oxford Dictionary of > Quotations, > WriteNow, Mathematica, Allegro Common Lisp, and Sybase's SQL server, > etc. What > happened to all this cool stuff? > > Kevin The operative phrase is "used to come with". They've all been dropped. BTW my NS2.0 OD is futzed and thanks to an inadequate backup strategy (fixed) I lost my copy of WriteNow. If anyone out there would be kind enough to send it to me, I'd be v.grateful. I'm sure it would be legal, since I still have my old 1.0 and 2.0 ODs. The Date App from 2.0 would be nice too.... John Hills jhills@ultraserve.ca
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting up next to be an lpr server Date: 30 Apr 1997 16:30:20 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5k7s2s$f8a$1@news5.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have NS3.3 black hardware and a next postscript laser printer. I have it and my windows NT machine happily on the network at my house. I can telnet to the next and ftp etc.... I would like to make the next printer show up as a printer that the NT machine can print to as an lpr type printer. Can anyone help me with the steps needed to do this? I'd be happy to write a section for the FAQ when I have it figured out. thanks vince ed various ways of making the printer known as a service, but still no success. So I gave up. Be interested to hear how you get it to work, if you do. Barney (delete that _see_sig to email me)
From: kykim@access2.digex.net (Kevin Yungsun Kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: ESS1x88 Audio Driver problems Date: 30 Apr 1997 13:00:34 -0400 Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA Message-ID: <5k7tri$6on@access2.digex.net> Summary: sound works a few times, then stops Hi all, I'm using the ESS 1x88 driver on my Toshiba Portege 610CT (which has an ESS688 chip built-in) running NS 3.3. Sounds will play a few times, then stop. It then won't play any sounds until I power off and restart the machine. A restart won't fix it. I hate to have to power off my machine all the time to get sounds working. And I would really like to be able to play sounds. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, -kevin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Message-ID: <1997Apr30.111722.26585@roper.uwyo.edu> From: nor@panoramix.uwyo.edu (norbert pirzkal) Date: 30 Apr 97 11:17:22 MDT References: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> Distribution: world Cc: mkrueger@wwa.com In <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> Matt Krueger wrote: > Hey Next People! > > Has anyone got a NE2000 clone ethernet card working with NS3.3? I > have located a driver for 3.2 which seems to be a port of the Linux > NEX000 driver. Can this be used with 3.3? I'd love to hear from > anyone who has 3.3 working with an ne2000 ethernet card... > I have used this driver under 3.3 for a while with no problems. There is a new driver of the peak ftp archive, which might be better. I have yet to try it... -- Norbert Pirzkal http://faraday.uwyo.edu/grads/npirzkal P.O. Box 3905 Physics & Astronomy Department University Station Laramie, WY, 82071
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Trouble with DPT2012 SCSI and upgrading to NEXTSTEP3.3 Date: 30 Apr 1997 17:26:13 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k7vbl$r7i@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Keywords: DPT2012 EISA SCSI Disk controller Hi, I have a problem upgrading several servers from NEXTSTEP 3.2 to 3.3. After three years of extremely reliable operation I tried to upgrade from 3.2 and was totally frustrated by the problems I've run into. Systems: Dell 4066/XE (i486DX2-66MHz CPU's 32MB RAM) DPT 2012 SCSI disk controllers Integrated (on mother board) S3-805 graphics adapter and Intel EtherExpress16 NIC's I ran the upgrader and things went very smoothly... I rebooted and the system hangs trying to find the DPT2012 controller... so I twiddle the hostfig file in single user mode and reboot with config=Default and it works OK. I run Configure.app and select the drivers to match my hardware config and reboot... and again it hangs.... A couple of things I've found... The Instance0.table file for the driver contains the following line: "Auto Detect IDs" = "0x1214a410"; The Default.table does NOT. On boot up under 3.2 this shows up in /usr/adm/messages: .. mach: CPU: EISA id 10ac0036 .. mach: slot 8: EISA id 1214a402 Do I drop the Auto Detect IDs line from the Instance0.table or add the ID that the DPT 2012 claims? And, yes, I know I should get the 3.32 version of the driver... but its *.table files appear to be similar to the v3.30 files. Any advice gratefully accepted, Milo -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology Services -- Network Services University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting up next to be an lpr server Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:36:51 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5k870j$21je@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5k7s2s$f8a$1@news5.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) wrote: >I have NS3.3 black hardware and a next postscript laser printer. I >have it and my windows NT machine happily on the network at my >house. I can telnet to the next and ftp etc.... I would like to make >the next printer show up as a printer that the NT machine can print to >as an lpr type printer. Run samba on the NeXT and export your printer. It'll also allow your NT box to access the NeXT's filesystem (run rumba to get your NeXT to access NT's filesystem). - Gareth
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS from SGI to NeXT Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:59:40 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <3367A4AC.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <33674788.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vincent Kohler wrote: > > Hi, > > I experienced something strange with NFS. > > We just tried to mount a shared dir from an SGI (IRIX 6.2) to OPENSTEP > 4.1 and NS3.3 machine. The mounted dir behaves strangely. > When we try to copy, say the Draw project from the developer examples > into the shared dir and begin to compile it, some file disappear (i.e > Group.h is not visible any more), and the compilation fails. Uh ? > > The same with the NS3.3 machine. As soon as we try to access the > directory (a simple ls -al into a Terminal) and some file disappear... > > Anybody has any idea ? > > Vincent K. > If your SGI is exporting a filesystems internally managed by xfs this bug is well known. There was a longer thread in comp.sys.next.sysadmin and comp.sys.sgi.bugs on this topic. I have figured out (with the help of serveral people at SGI and NeXT) exactly what the problem is. Both companies agree that it's NeXT's turn to patch their mach kernel. NeXT has even done a first version of a kernel patch for two of their main customers. Unfortunately NeXT is not willing to spend any time on it and this patch seems not to be published or finished any more. I recommend to complain at your dealer and directly at NeXT. As it looks like in the moment nothing will happen until Rhapsody is out. (So no more NeXTStep Apps, only OpenStep and Mac Apps are going to run in connection with NFS from SGI for ever !) As I'm not very happy about this, see the official answer to Bug Report109248 below. Stefan -------------------------- cut ------------------------- From: Kenneth Topka <ktopka@next.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 14:42:29 -0700 To: ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de Subject: [109646] NFS from SGI to NeXT:Bug Report109248 Reply-To: appendlog@next.com, ktopka@next.com Hi Stefan, Here is the response from the senior engineer responsible for the kernel patch. The bottom line is no - the patch is not available. Further explanation is given below: This can get tricky. With some genuine engingeering efforts I am confident we could isolate the problem in the recursive commands - then we would be able to distribute a patch at some level. I was under extreme pressure to provide a patch to two major customers at the time - hence, I resorted to a temporary fix that was supposed to be followed up with it being fixed in 4.2 (then I would provide a proper patch for 3.3, 4.1, 4.0). However... because of Rhapsody there hasn't been much effort to get this fixed for 4.2. To summarise: the kernel is fixed - there remains some invesitgation as to why recursive filesystem commands return bogus information with this kernel. Chances are that if we supply this patch to your customer then they will find problems with it (eg: the install command I replace has different options to ours). Again, not something I want to deal with until Rhapsody. If we did get a proper fix to the problem with the recursive commands, and engineering OK-ed the kernel changes, then I'd put together a backpatch for 3.3, 4.0, 4.1. Then I'd say we could offer the patch to almost everyone. Unfortunately, this is not likely to happen anytime soon. Ken Topka - NeXT/Apple Tech Support -------------------------------- cut --------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: mwatson@next.com (Matt Watson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DOCK and FileViewer not identical on different machines Date: 30 Apr 1997 20:07:01 GMT Organization: NeXT Software, Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5k88p5$fqb@news.next.com> References: <5k6i1r$t60$1@news.digifix.com> The dock defaults are preserved on a screen-size basis. So, if you log into a machine with 1024x768 screen, then to a (perhaps the same) machine with a 1280x1024 screen, you'll get different docks. matt.
From: michael@curie (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: dread and dwrite problems Date: 30 Apr 1997 19:22:49 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5k8669$2dk@corporate.hesta.com> I am having some flaky behavior on one of our systems running 3.3intel. When I try to dread or dwrite I get the following: # dread -l dread: Can't open defaults database # dwrite loginwindow ImageFile /LocalLibrary/Images/LoginScreens/nextlogin.Computerstack.4.0.tiff dwrite: Couldn't write into database # Plus it's the only terminal that won't show the hostname in the prompt line - which leads me to believe theirs something fishy... Any sugestions? -- Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Date: 30 Apr 1997 20:53:24 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, I am being plagued by these errors every 5 minutes and 36 seconds or so. Apr 30 16:22:13 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Apr 30 16:27:49 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Apr 30 16:33:26 next syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain Rebooting doesn't help. I am running Intel NS 3.3 and the machine is set up to only use the local NetInfo domain. Anyone have any suggestions for what might be causing these messages? Cheers, Mark
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Reformatting a single disk partition Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:00:03 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5k8fd3$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Hi, When I purchased my Intel machine I had the 2 GB disk divided into two partitions, one for NeXTSTEP and one for DOS. I never needed the DOS partition and don't intend to ever use it, so I would like to reclaim the space that it takes up. Is there are way to intall a NeXTSTEP filesystem over the DOS partition so that the partition can be mounted and accessible without reformatting the whole drive and losing the information that is in the current NS partition? Cheers, Mark
From: martin brouillette <martin.brouillette@gme.usherb.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem receiving mail Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 20:33:55 -0500 Organization: Universite de Sherbrooke Message-ID: <3367F302.1806@gme.usherb.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I had to reinstall NS 3.3 from scratch and since then I am having problems with receiving mail. My slab is correctly (so it seems) hooked up to our network, and name service works fine. I can send messages without any problem but any message sent to me is returned to the sender after "too many hops" with the message from my computer that "service is unavailable." This happens with the two mail configurations that I tried: 1- mailhost is defined in NetInfo as the SMTP server on my network and I use "sendmail.subsidiary.cf" as the sendmail.cf file for my computer; 2- mailhost is defined as my computer and I use "sendmail.mailhost.cf" as the sendmail.cf file. In either case, the usr/spool/mail directory is not exported (it sits in my slab). Both of these configurations have the same (poor) performance. I wonder if this problem happened before and what could be the fix. TIA, Martin Brouillette martin.brouillette@gme.usherb.ca
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.