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From: gary@a-team.connectnet.com (s00p) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cube to MAC ?s Date: 1 May 1997 01:28:55 GMT Organization: CONNECTnet Internet Network Services (619-638-2020) Message-ID: <5k8rkn$cvl$1@news.connectnet.com> References: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> In-Reply-To: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> On 02/25/97, Bill Mitchell wrote: >At home: >The "new" cube, about 2 weeks old, has the following config... > > NeXTStep 3.0, 040, 8MB RAM, 650 MB HD > > >Cube sits next, no pun intended, to my MAC Performa 6400/180. > > 1. What/how is best method of connecting/sharing the 2? > > 2. Can I "share" the Performa's modem with the Cube? > > 3. Can I print from Cube to attached Apple inkjet 1500 printer? > > 4. Will the EXECUTOR emulater assist in these quests? > >Thanks in advance. All responses are greatly appreciated. > > >Bill Mitchell > What I am doing with my P5 (OS 4.1) and my Powermac 7600 is this. I have them both on a 10BaseT hub and set up using TCP/IP. If youw anted to get fancy you could get this freeware NFS server for the Mac and use drives on the Cube. If you wanna get really fancy crazy you can get a 3rd party AppleShare server for the Cube. As far as modem sharing I don't know, but I think a quality Appleshare server will let you shaer printers. Hope this helps. -- Gary Danko <gary@mail.pex.net>
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cube to MAC ?s Date: 1 May 1997 01:47:10 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5k8smu$oju$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> References: <33136E88.4733@mercyic.com> <5k8rkn$cvl$1@news.connectnet.com> you might try Frank's port of CAP Appletalk software.. he has a good description on it on his webpage.. http://www.this.net : > 1. What/how is best method of connecting/sharing the 2? : > probably ethernet for best performance.. Tim Luoma is working on hooking up with his with an Intel .. using a "null" ethernet cable.. that would be the cheapest way to do it.. email Tim luomat@peak.org. I prefer hubs but then again if it is side by side.. hubs can be bulky. : > 2. Can I "share" the Performa's modem with the Cube? : > you need a gateway software : > 3. Can I print from Cube to attached Apple inkjet 1500 printer? : > is 1500 in Postscript mode?? if not try to see if there is a 3rd party driver for it.. the situation is similiar to the Mac<>PC printer side.. NeXT OS needs Postscript compatible printers in order to work out of the box.. there is stuff like freeware port of ghostscript etc. Godwin
From: mseibert@ita1.inow.com (Matt Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS from 95 Box to NeXT Date: Thu, 01 May 97 02:24:33 GMT Organization: Wildfire Technologies Message-ID: <5k8uv1$1gb@news.jump.net> Well, I guess that sums it up. I am looking for a way to mount a directory or two from the NeXT to my 95 Box. Sharware / freeware software that would help would be great, or a way to do it natively would be better. Matt please reply to mseibert@ita1.inow.com, news sux from here
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sound Card Help Date: 1 May 1997 01:58:21 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5k8tbt$hbq@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have purchased a P200 Pro that has a Soundblaster Vibra 16 PnP sound card. I am running NS 3.3 and can't get the card to be recognized while booting NS. The plug-n-play recognizes the card before given the NS boot option. Does anyone know if this card is supported with the drivers listed on NextAnswers? This card (Vibra) is a card made by creative labs for oems, but it is not a card they sell to the public. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Darryl ________________________________________________________ Darryl L. James darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu Mechanical Engineering NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail Texas Tech University http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ME_Dept/ ________________________________________________________
From: Rich@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: All writers seeking publication Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 22:59:35 Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Now*accepting <new> and <previously published> writers for publication. We are a NEW=YORK based international literary agency with three offices: 2 in NEW=YORK and one in <FLORIDA.> <Please follow guidelines for submission:> For ALL fiction, including screenplays for TV & Movies: Send us a <brief synopsis>, the first chapter, and include a self-addressed, stamped envelope=S.A.S.E. Short Stories: Send brief synopsis, 3 pages, S.A.S.E. Poetry: Send 3 poems, S.A.S.E. For ALL nonfiction: Send us a <brief synopsis>, the first chapter, and include a S.A.S.E. Do not send complete manuscript unless invited. <WOODSIDE=INTERNATIONAL=LITERARY=AGENCY> <Thirty Three Twenty Nine 58 St.> <Wood-Side, New York> <zip: 1.1.3.7.7> <(Tel)=={718}=651=8145>
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Date: 1 May 1997 04:04:22 GMT Control: cancel <5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5k90tv$m6c@chile.earthlink.net> Sender: Rich@aol.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Seek etc/remote entries on 040 for SupraFAX 14400 Date: 30 Apr 1997 22:39:49 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5k9ab5$hpj@slip.net> Hi, I'd like to use cu to dial into my ISP. I can't connect and I have a hunch that the source of the problem is that the machine is attempting to make a connection at the UNIX /etc/remote default baud rate of 9600. Ah, my ISP doesn't support anything less than 14400 and later I want to connect at rates faster than 14400 on another modem. I'm running an 040 cube with NS 3.3. Could someone send me the /etc/remote entries they are using for connections at faster speeds? Or is there a package which manages these entries? Also, I have Yyrid's package cables but it doesn't have a section on assigning these entries. If that can help somehow we can use that. Thanks, Emmett
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: dwrites in OpenStep? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 21:27:41 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Did something change with the defaults database in OpenStep? How do I access it now? Where can I get a list of these changes? DL didn't give much help.. Thanks TjL
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrites in OpenStep? Date: 1 May 1997 06:01:57 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5k9bkl$1c0$1@news.digifix.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> On 04/30/97, Timothy Luoma wrote: > >Did something change with the defaults database in OpenStep? > >How do I access it now? > >Where can I get a list of these changes? DL didn't give much help.. > It moved.... I ended up making 1 sanguish wheel 9 Mar 11 02:31 .NeXT -> .OpenStep/@ 6 sanguish other 1024 Apr 30 23:48 .OpenStep/ so that I could have all my old stuff still there, and so that some older apps that use dwrites worked properly.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: lin@localhost.com (Lin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: None, 8, 1 Date: 1 May 1997 10:51:26 GMT Organization: Univ. of Maryland Message-ID: <5k9sje$d7s$1@hecate.umd.edu> Is there any way to get the serial port on a black NeXT box to accept connection with none parity, 8 bits data word and 1 stop bit ? adding p8 to gettytab has no effect at all.
From: ŸŸŸŸŸö©6·michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting up next to be an lpr server Date: 1 May 1997 14:01:23 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5ka7nj$5a4@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5k7s2s$f8a$1@news5.gte.net> <5k870j$21je@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu wrote: >Run samba on the NeXT and export your printer. It'll also allow your NT box >to access the NeXT's filesystem (run rumba to get your NeXT to access NT's >filesystem). > >- Gareth Well we *are* running Samba and yet when I print to the next printers it will only print one page of the document.... I can't seem to figure out why. Otherwise it works fabulously as as file sharing system!
From: rangmj@rice.edu (Moon J. Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> Control: cancel <5jjjg4$c6j$1@joe.rice.edu> Date: 1 May 1997 16:52:32 GMT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Message-ID: <5kahog$r8l$1@joe.rice.edu> cancel
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS from 95 Box to NeXT Date: 1 May 1997 17:23:30 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5kajii$2811@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <5k8uv1$1gb@news.jump.net> Cc: mseibert@ita1.inow.com Openstep 4.1 ships with a SAMBA server. SAMBA lets Openstep talk Windows native SMB protocol. However, I was baffled by Windows network administration, and rather than thow the stupid things out a window (I was tempted), I invested in PCNFS from FTP Inc. PCNFS makes your Windows 95/NT/3.11 machine understand standard NFS protocols. On a related note, does anyone know how to make PCNFS translate back slashes \ into forward slashes / for UNIX ?
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sound Card Help Date: 1 May 1997 17:26:18 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5kajnq$2812@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <5k8tbt$hbq@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Cc: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu In <5k8tbt$hbq@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Darryl L. James wrote: > I have purchased a P200 Pro that has a Soundblaster Vibra 16 PnP > sound card. I am running NS 3.3 and can't get the card to be > recognized while booting NS. The plug-n-play recognizes the card > before given the NS boot option. Does anyone know if this card is > supported with the drivers listed on NextAnswers? This card (Vibra) > is a card made by creative labs for oems, but it is not a card they > sell to the public. Any help is greatly appreciated. > > I have had good luck by disabling the PNP features of NeXTstep via Configure. I think there is a switch in the ISA driver. Is seems that Next and BIOS can not agree so it is better to let BIOS take care of PNP issues.
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From: decoy_id@stop_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Starting network by hand Date: 1 May 1997 22:34:49 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5kb5q9$l3c$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> I have two NeXTstations networked together. If I power up one by itself, it finds the network is down, and doesn't start up whatever it would otherwise. So when I power on the other NeXTstation, is can't connect to the other. I couldn't find any documentation on what to do in this circumstance. I tried running rc.net on the first NeXTstation, but oh brother, it causes routed to eat up CPUs and prevents a clean shutdown. I couldn't find an answer on DejaNews either. If anyone knows the RIGHT thing to do, please reply. -- ======================================================================= 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: altenXber@mhpXcc.edu <Delete the "X"s; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~Xaltenber/ <Delete the "X"> =======================================================================
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 20:26:08 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ok, I thought this was pretty simple: Two machines: slab and Intel. Intel is hooked to the net. I want to sync the Intel to the atomic clock and then sync the slab to the Intel... but when I do: /usr/etc/ntp -sf InteHostname I get recvfrom: Connection refused I figured this was in /etc/inetd.conf but I didn't see anything.. figured I'd ask before mucking with netInfo (which could muck up PPP) Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> < Greatly pleased with his NSFIP from Bifrost > http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ Links to all things NeXTStep/OpenStep! Info, pictures, Ftp sites, FAQs and more.
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: dwrites in OpenStep? Date: 2 May 1997 03:33:24 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5kbna4$cid$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970430212650.22283F-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Did something change with the defaults database in OpenStep? >How do I access it now? For OPENSTEP apps, there is a new defaults system. The equivalent to dwrite/dread is now called defaults. Do a man on defaults. Also look for NSUserDefaults in Digital Librarian for programmer related info. NEXTSTEP 3.3 applications still store defaults in the old way and those defaults can still be accessed using dwrite/dread. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ne2000 nic and NS3.3 ??? Date: 2 May 1997 03:51:40 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5kbocc$d92$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <336687e3.4818688@news.wwa.com> <to4tcqhsrd.fsf@avalon.harvard.edu> Erik Evensen <erik@avalon.harvard.edu> wrote: >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. > >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. Buy a new network card. :-) The NE2000 in a modern system is just a bad idea. The prices of high performance NICs have dropped to a point where one should definitely get a Digital 21040 based 10mbps PCI network card for NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP. The NeXTanswer for the driver is: http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/2244.htmld/2244.html The explicitly supported cards are: Cogent EM960 PCI SMC PCI EtherPower (SMC 8432) Digital EtherWORKS Turbo PCI (DE435) Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card DANPEX PCI Ethernet (EN-9400P3) JCIS Condor (JC1260) Kingston EtheRx PCI Ethernet (KNE40T & KNE40BT) and the Digital 21140 driver (10/100Mbps) supports: Cogent EM100 Fast Ethernet Adapter Cogent EM110 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter SMC 9332 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter DEC DE500 Fast EtherWORKS PCI 10/100 Cogent EM110-T4 Fast Ethernet 10/100/BNC Adapter Neutronet (http://www.neutronet.com/) carries the Kingston EtheRx PCI 10BT card for $39.95 The combo version is $48.95, while the 10/100 is $68.95. The SMC EtherPower TP is $112.95. Personally, I have a Cogent EM960 combo which you should be able to find at any NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP hardware vendor like Bifrost Workstations (http://www.bifrostworks.com/). I can get over 900kbps on a quiet net with this card (the other end was a SPARC). My NeXTstation can only hit 450kbps and an Intel EtherExpress Pro ISA card is good for ~300kbps. (Raw throughput) It was about $140 at the time I bought it, but prices have dropped. Another vendor is JCIS - http://www.jcis.com/. They have their own card based on the 21040 - the JCIS Condor. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:22:08 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YnOSe0y00iWY01gwE2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 1-May-97 ntp on one of two machines .. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > Two machines: slab and Intel. Intel is hooked to the net. I want to sync > the Intel to the atomic clock and then sync the slab to the Intel... but > when I do: > > /usr/etc/ntp -sf InteHostname > > I get > > recvfrom: Connection refused You have to run ntpd on the Intel machine in order to service NTP requests sent to it. > I figured this was in /etc/inetd.conf but I didn't see anything.. figured > I'd ask before mucking with netInfo (which could muck up PPP) ntpd normally runs forever; it's not started when NTP requests come in via inetd (although you could set it to run that way, as well, I suppose). The easiest way to start ntpd is to set the TIME variable in /etc/hostconfig to -AUTOMATIC-, or run HostManager.app and change the "Local..." configuration to "use Network time". -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 09:11:35 -0600 From: epeyton@cmg.fcnbd.com Subject: Upgraded to Openstep : lost my /dev/cufb? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: epeyton@cmg.fcnbd.com Hi all, I just finished upgrading my machine to Openstep 4.2pr1 (from NS3.3) and everything went fine... at least I thought it did until I tried to dial out with my machine. I am using DialUp.app and I also tried Gatekeeper however both give the same message /dev/cufb no such device. Now I've checked /dev and a cufb is there. I checked my Serial Ports in Configure and those were fine. I tried other serial port /dev/cufa and recieved the same problem. Everything was fine the day before I upgraded and I can dial out fine from my Win 95 side of the same machine. Does anyone have any ideas??? Please respond to my e-mail as well as my Usenet service is sporadic at best. Thanks, Eric Peyton epeyton@cmg.fcnbd.com -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help! Can't boot single user. Message-ID: <E9Js2D.2tK@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:37:25 GMT In article <3364D693.78E25B87@imana.com> Marcos Polanco <marcos@imana.com> writes: > 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 might happen when you're logged in as 'root' (including some deamon or batch) or rhe root filesystem isn't setup with correct overhead margins and someone overfills the filesystem. This filesystem will never boot again until you removed some files manually. For doing so you need an alternate boot drive. Either attach a boot drive externally (SCSI-ID 0) or attach your drive to a bootable machine. If you're really desperate and/or have a recent backup, doing a fresh NS installation would clear the disk... -- 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: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Message-ID: <E9JrGA.2s5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:24:10 GMT In article <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) writes: > 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? > No, I don't believe you! Might be you think you only use 'local' but then you'd never get this error. Verify the 'serves' property of the entries in the /machines directory. I bet there is some './network' entry in it! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Drives stopped mounting on boot! HELP! Message-ID: <E9Jrns.2su@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 09:28:40 GMT In article <ukviv16vt01.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> fugue@nospam.ccp.uchicago.edu writes: > 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? > Might be you garbeled some access rights. Possibly dropped an s-bit or changed ownership... -- 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,control From: news@news.msfc.nasa.gov Message-ID: <cancel.5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> Control: cancel <5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> Subject: cmsg cancel <5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> no reply ignore Organization: Semi-Automatic Lupine Remover Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:20:40 GMT Sender: hinda ann kolansky<ayala20@prodigy.net> ignore Make Money Fast post canceled by J. Porter Clark.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl (Mark F. Vlems) Subject: What is the meaning of mach_kernel files with different sizes? Message-ID: <1997May2.174833.932@vbox.xs4all.nl> Sender: mvlems@vbox.xs4all.nl (Mark F. Vlems) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 17:48:33 GMT Howdy, I was looking around on my intel OPENSTEP 4.0 and found the following. Can anybody explain these differences? What about the kernel files that won't fit on a floppy? TIA, Mark vbox:51# ls -l /*mach* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Nov 12 1994 /mach -> $BOOTFILE@ -r--r--r-- 2 root 1019556 Apr 22 1996 /mach_kernel vbox:52# ls -l /private/tftpboot/*mach* -r--r--r-- 2 root 1019556 Apr 22 1996 /private/tftpboot/mach_kernel vbox:53# ls -l /OPENSTEP_4.0/*mach lrwxrwxrwx 1 mvlems 9 May 11 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/mach -> $BOOTFILE@ -r--r--r-- 2 mvlems 3284900 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/mach_kernel -r--r--r-- 3 mvlems 832196 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/odmach -r--r--r-- 3 mvlems 832196 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/sdmach vbox:54# ls -l /OPENSTEP_4.0/private/tftpboot/*mach* -r--r--r-- 3 mvlems 832196 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/private/tftpboot/mach -r--r--r-- 2 mvlems 3284900 Apr 22 1996 /OPENSTEP_4.0/private/tftpboot/mach_kernel -- Mark F. Vlems Poor is the man, MIME Mail OK Whose pleasures depend NeXTMail preferred! On the permission of another. Fax: +31 (0) 23 5622368 Madonna in "Justify my love", 1990
From: chris@computerActive.com (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: me account and auto-login Date: 2 May 1997 16:18:34 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login (ie when 'me' has no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? --Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst | 15 Capella Ct. Suite 128 computerActive Inc. | Nepean, ON, Canada K2E 7X1 chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXT/MIME) | Voice: (613)225-4824 http://www.computerActive.com/ | FAX: (613)225-1670 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The telephone was not invented by Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: vi segmentation fault Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 13:47:18 -0700 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It wasn't doing it before...as they say. **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: hinda ann kolansky<ayala20@prodigy.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Date: 2 May 1997 16:40:05 GMT Organization: Prodigy Services Corp Message-ID: <5kd5d5$5sm$7381@newssvr07-int.news.prodigy.com> ****Make up to $50,000 in 4 weeks! 100% leagal**** NO SCAM!!! Make $50,000 in 4 weeks! This system works! NOT A SCAM... Read the text! This is the fairest, most honest way I have seen to share in the wealth of the world! This works so well that all of my friends are trying it! Take five minutes to read this and it IT'LL change your life if you want to know how to make thousands of dollars quickly, and leagally with NO CATCH, then keep reading. THe internet has grown tremendously. it doubles in size every 4 months. Think about it. YOu see those "make money fast" postings more and more. Thats becasue it works! So I thought, all those new users might make it work. And I decided to try it out, a few months ago. Besides, whats $5 and a little effort on your behalf?? Everyone was calling it a scam, but there are soany new users from AOL, NETCOM, etc. that they will join in and make it work for you. just follow these simple steps: STEP ONE Invest your $5 by writing your name and address on five seperate sheets of paper along wit the words: "PLEASE ADD ME TO YOUR MAILING LIST." (in this way you are not just sending a dollar bill to someone, you are paying for a legimate service.) Also on each of the sheets of paper indicate the number of the person. Fold a $1 bill inside each piece of paper with your name and address on it. Ensure that when the dollar is folded in between the paper and it is held up to light, THE DOLLAR SHOULD NOT BE VISABLE! 1) Odd Hilsen Avda Espana 93 Sitio de Calahonda Mijias Costa- Malaga SPAIN 2) Peter Kjoge Camino de la Condesa 9, 5-A E-29640 Fuengirola SPAIN 3) Bob Tomlinson 3208 21st Sioux City, La 51105 USA 4) Alex Tikhanoff 1636 n. Verdugo rd. Glendale Ca. 91208 apt.202 USA 5) hinda kolansky 49-35 167 st flushing ny 11365 usa STEP TWO Now remove the top name from the list, and move the other names up. This way, #5 becomes #4 and so o. Put your name as the fifth one on the list. STEP 3 Post the article to at least 250 newsgroups. There are at least 19000 newsgroups at any given moment in time. Try posting to as many newsgroups as you can. Remember, the more newsgroups you post to, the greater your audience and cash flow from all these subscribers. STEP 4 You are now in business for yourself, and should start seeing returns within 7 to 14 days! Remember, the internet is new and awesome in its size. There is no way you can lose. now here is how and why the system works: Out of every block of 250 posts i made, i got back 5 responses. YES! THATS RIGHT ONLY 5. You make $5 in cash, not check or money orders, but real cash with your name at #5. Each additional person who sent you $1 now will also make 250 additional postings with your name at #4, 1000 postings. On average then, 50 people will send you $1 with your name at #4....$50 in your pocket! Now these 50 new people will make 250 postings each with your name at #3 or 10,000 postings. Average returns, 500 people=$500.00. they make 250 postings each with your name at #2=100,000 postings=5000 returns at $1 each=$5,000 in cash!! Finally, 5,000 people make 250 postings each with your name at #1 and you get a return of $50,000 before your name is dropped from the list. And thats only if everyone down the line makes 250 postings each! Your total income for this cycle is $50,000.00 When you see your name is no longer on the list, you take the latest posting and start all over again. The end result depends largely on you. You must follow through and repost this article everywhere you can think of! The more postings you make, the more cash ends up in your mailbox. Its too easy and too cheap to pass up!! So thats it. Pretty simple sounding working concept, dont you think? But believe me, this really works. There are millions o people surfind the net every day, all day, all over the world. And 100,000 new subscribers everday eager to access your newsgroup. Youknow that because you have read the facts in the newspaper and seen for yourself on T.V. So, my dear little 'fortne seeker.' read carefully the instructions and play fair and swuare with your endeavors.. remember, YOU CAN ONLY TAKE OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN!! thats the key to success in any venture. Print these pages out now REMEMBER....HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. YOU DON'T NEED TO CHEAT THE BASIC IDEA TO MAKE BIG BUCKS!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL, AND PLEASE PLAY FAIR AND YOUW ILL BE MORE THAN GENEROUSLY REWARDED! P.S. if you try to decieve people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the bucks to the people already included, you will not get much. I know someone who did this and only got about $150 (and thats after 2 months) then he sent the five bills and was added to their lists. In 4-5 weeks, he had in excess of $10,000. Good luck! <Picture>
From: dcase@case.com (David Case) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: trashed boot disk. Any hope? Date: 2 May 1997 22:19:33 GMT Organization: scruz-net Message-ID: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> I trashed my NS3.2 boot disk on my nextstation somehow. It id's the drive and starts to boot but, after the 'root on sd0' message the kernel panics and the system drops back to the monitor. I don't have any other boot media for it unfortunatly. The errors I get are 'vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root'. Is there any disk utilities in the monitor or any standalone type utilities on the 3.2 disk that I can get at? -- Thanks, David Case CASE Electronics - 4770 Soquel Drive - Suite D - Soquel - California - 95073 (408)479-0759
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: trashed boot disk. Any hope? Date: 3 May 1997 03:53:21 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5kecrh$qff$1@news.digifix.com> References: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> In-Reply-To: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> On 05/02/97, David Case wrote: >I trashed my NS3.2 boot disk on my nextstation somehow. It id's the drive >and starts to boot but, after the 'root on sd0' message the kernel panics >and the system drops back to the monitor. I don't have any other boot >media for it unfortunatly. The errors I get are 'vfs_mountroot: cannot >mount root'. Is there any disk utilities in the monitor or any standalone >type utilities on the 3.2 disk that I can get at? There are images of the 3.2 boot disks on NeXTanswers. You can create them using either a NeXT, or a DOS machine.. all the goodies needed are in NeXTanswers. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: espeyton@ix.netcom.com (Eric Peyton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Upgraded to Openstep : lost my /dev/cufb? Date: 2 May 1997 23:37:35 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5kdtrv$p1f@sjx-ixn8.ix.netcom.com> References: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> Thanks everyone for helping out. I found out that the upgrade had blown away my ttyport device. Fixed now. Well Thanks. Eric
From: Peter Sung <fantasia@hula.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: All you need is to invest $5 for a FORTUNE!!! ACT NOW!!! Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 04:07:13 -0700 Organization: Hula Net, Inc. Hawaii's Newest Internet Provider Message-ID: <336B1C61.322E@hula.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name="income.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="income.txt" A little while back, I was browsing these newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $5.00! So I thought, "Yeah, right, this must be a scam," but like most of us I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 to each of the 5 names and address stated in the article. You then place your own name and address in the bottom of the list at #5, and post the article in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured what have I got to lose except 5 stamps and $5.00, right? Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about the legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with my country Post Office, and others had with US Post (1-800-725-2161) and they confirmed that it is indeed legal! Then I invested the measly $5.00............. Well GUESS WHAT!!... with in 7 days, I started getting money in the mail! I was shocked! I still figured it would end soon, and didn't give it another thought. But the money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about $20.00 to $30.00 dollars. By the end of the second week I had made a total of over $1,000.00!!!!!! In the third week I had over $10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over $42,000.00 and it's still coming in ....... It's certainly worth $5.00, and 5 stamps, I spent more than that on the lottery!! Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, Why it works....also, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you can get the information off of it as you need it. The process is very simple and consists of 3 easy steps: STEP 1: Get 5 separate pieces of paper and write the following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST." Now get 5 $1.00 bills and place ONE inside EACH of the 5 pieces of paper so the bill will not be seen through the envelope to prevent thievery. Next, place one paper in each of the 5 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 5 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating the above phrase and a $1.00 bill. What you are doing is creating a service by this. THIS IS PERFECTLY LEGAL! Mail the 5 envelopes to the following addresses: #1 B.C. Smith P.O. Box 170 Greenland, AR 72703 #2 Beddingfield, Bobby 12404 Nokesville Road P.O. Box 40 Nokesville, Va 22123 #3 Keen, Callye 44181 Bristow Circle Ashburn, VA 20147 #4 Tom, BDB. Via Damiano Chiesa 10 00010 Marcellina (Roma) Italy #5 H. J. Sung 1839 Keeaumoku St. Honolulu, HI 96822-3004 STEP 2: Now take the #1 name off the list that you see above, move the other names up (5 becomes 4, 4 becomes 3, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 5 on the list. STEP 3: Change anything you need to, but try to keep this article as close to original as possible. Now, post your amended article to at least 200 newsgroups. (I think there is close to 25,000 groups) All you need is 200, but remember, the more you post, the more money you make! Don't know HOW to post in the newsgroups? Well do exactly the following: FOR NETSCAPE USERS: 1) Click on any newsgroup, like normal. Then click on "To News", which is in the top left corner of the newsgroup page. This will bring up a message box. 2) Fill in the SUBJECT with a flashy title, like the one I used, something to catch the eye!!! 3) Now go to the message part of the box and retype this letter exactly as it is here, with exception of your few changes. (remember to add your name to number 5 and move the rest up) 4) When your done typing in the WHOLE letter, click on 'FILE' above the send button. Then, 'SAVE AS..' DO NOT SEND YOUR ARTICLE UNTILL YOU SAVE IT. (so you don't have to type this 200 times :-) 5) Now that you have saved the letter, go ahead and send your first copy! (click the 'SEND' button in the top left corner) 6) This is where you post all 200! OK, go to ANY newsgroup article and click the 'TO NEWS' button again. Type in your flashy subject in the 'SUBJECT BOX', then go to the message and place your cursor here. Now click on 'ATTACHMENT' which is right below the 'SUBJECT BOX'. Click on attach file then find your letter wherever you saved it. Click once on your file then click 'OPEN' then click 'OK'. If you did this right, you should see your filename in the 'ATTACHMENT BOX' and it will be shaded. NOW POST AWAY! FOR INTERNET EXPLORER: It's just as easy, holding down the left mouse button, highlight this entire article, then press the 'CTRL' key and 'C' key at the same time to copy this article. Then print the article for your records to have the names of those you will be sending $1.00 to. Go to the newsgroups and press 'POST AN ARTICLE' type in your flashy subject and click the large window below. Press 'CTRL' and 'V' and the article will appear in the message window. **BE SURE TO MAKE YOUR ADDRESS CHANGES TO THE 5 NAMES.** Now re-highlight the article and re-copy it so you have the changes.... then all you have to do for each newsgroup is 'CTRL' and 'V' and press 'POST'. It's that easy!! THAT'S IT! All you have to do is jump to different newsgroups and post away, after you get the hang of it, it will take about 30 seconds for each newsgroup! **REMEMBER, THE MORE NEWSGROUPS YOU POST IN, THE MORE MONEY YOU WILL MAKE!! BUT YOU HAVE TO POST A MINIMUM OF 200** **If these instructions are too complex to follow, try Forte’s "Free Agent." It is freeware for noncommercial use. To download it, simply use a search utility and type "Forte Free Agent". You should be able to find it.** That's it! You will begin receiving money from around the world within days! You may eventually want to rent a P.O. Box due to the large amount of mail you receive. If you wish to stay anonymous, you con invent a name to use, as long as the postman will deliver it. **JUST MAKE SURE ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.** --- Now the WHY part: Out of 200 postings, say I receive only 5 replies (a very low example). So then I made $5.00 with my name at #5 on the letter. Now, each of the 5 persons who just sent me $1.00 make the MINIMUM 200 postings, each with my name at #4 and only 5 persons respond to each of the original 5, that is another $25.00 for me, now those 25 each make 200 MINIMUM posts with my name at #3 and only 5 replies each, I will bring in an additional $125.00! Now, those 125 persons turn around and post the MINIMUM 200 with my name at #2 and only receive 5 replies each, I will make an additional $626.00! OK, now here is the fun part, each of those 625 persons post a MINIMUM 200 letters with my name at #1 and they each only receive 5 replies, that just made me $3,125.00!!! With a original investment of only $5.00! AMAZING! And as I said 5 responses is actually VERY LOW! Average is probable 20 to 30! So lets put those figures at just 15 responses per person. Here is what you will make: at #5 $15.00 at #4 $225.00 at #3 $3,375.00 at #2 $50,625.00 at #1 $759,375.00 When your name is no longer on the list, you just take the latest posting in the newsgroups, and send out another $5.00 to names on the list, putting your name at number 5 again. And start posting again. The thing to remember is that thousands of people all over the world are joining the Internet and reading these articles everyday, JUST LIKE YOU are now!! So can you afford $5.00 and see if it really works?? I think so... People have said, "what if the plan is played out and no one sends you the money? So what! What are the chances of that happening when there are tons of new honest users and new honest people who are joining the Internet and newsgroups everyday and are willing to give it a try? Estimates are at 20,000 to 50,000 new users, every day, with thousands of those joining the actual Internet. Remember, play FAIRLY and HONESTLY and this will work. You just have to be honest. Make sure you print this article out RIGHT NOW, also. Try to keep a list of everyone that sends you money and always keep an eye on the newsgroups to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Remember, HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. You don't need to cheat the basic idea to make the money!! GOOD LUCK to all and please play fairly and reap the huge rewards from this, which is tons of extra CASH. **By the way, if you try to deceive people by posting the messages with your name in the list and not sending the money to the rest of the people already on the list, you will NOT get as much. Someone I talked to knew someone who did that and he only made about $150.00, and that's after seven or eight weeks! Then he sent the 5 $1.00 bills, people added him to their lists, and in 4-5 weeks he had over $10k. This is the fairest and most honest way I have ever seen to share the wealth of the world without costing anything but our time!!! Don't listen to the people that don't trust it and continue to say it's illegal and don't work... They are just too much skeptics. You also may want to buy mailing and e-mail lists for future dollars. Please remember to declare your extra income. Thanks once again...
Date: 3 May 1997 15:24:30 GMT From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) Sender: Peter Sung <fantasia@hula.net> Message-ID: <cancel.336B1C61.322E@hula.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <336B1C61.322E@hula.net> Control: cancel <336B1C61.322E@hula.net> MMF spam cancelled by clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca Original Subject: All you need is to invest $5 for a FORTUNE!!! ACT NOW!!! Total spams this type to date: 67124 Total this spam type for this user to date: 221
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: vi segmentation fault Message-ID: <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 10:57:26 GMT In article <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> writes: > I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I > try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I > get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 > lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It > wasn't doing it before...as they say. > I dont remember that I ever had such a problem on NS 3.2. Your image of 'vi' must be corrupted or some of the link libs must be fried. Try to reinstall the image from CD. -- 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 see the result by changing the time preference panel from a calender to a simple dialog where you can force network time update. -- 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: trashed boot disk. Any hope? Message-ID: <E9Lq5v.379@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 10:51:31 GMT In article <5kdp9m$5qv@news.scruz.net> dcase@case.com (David Case) writes: > I trashed my NS3.2 boot disk on my nextstation somehow. It id's > the drive and starts to boot but, after the 'root on sd0' message > the kernel panics and the system drops back to the monitor. I > don't have any other boot media for it unfortunatly. The errors > I get are 'vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root'. Is there any disk > utilities in the monitor or any standalone type utilities on the > 3.2 disk that I can get at? > I fear there is no hope. If you can't mount root not even a singleuser boot will be possible. The boot partition needs to be redone. Only other chance is to attach the drive to a bootable machine and repair then. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: mario@gestel.it (Mario Mazzardo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: support for IBM Thinkpad 760ED Date: 3 May 1997 23:46:18 +0200 Organization: GESTEL Italia srl Sender: mario@gestel.it (Mario Mazzardo) Message-ID: <5kgbna$jg2@mikasa.iol.it> I have a IBM Thinkpad 760ED and Openstep 4.1, configuring the drive 2522_IBMThinkPad760EDDisplayDriver.pkg.compressed after the boot the screen becames dark. Thank you Mario Mazzardo GESTEL Italia srl mario@gestel.it
From: "Jeffrey S. Dutky" <dutky@BellAtlantic.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me account and auto-login Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 18:32:38 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland Student Body Message-ID: <336BBCE0.1119@BellAtlantic.net> References: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Chris Saldanha wrote: > > Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login > (ie when 'me' has no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? > Yes. There are some command line arguments to loginwindow that allow you to select the default user. Check the man page for login window. I think that there might be default entries for this as well but I don't remember. - Jeff Dutky
From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,sfnet.atk.nt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,sfnet.atk.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NeXT laser printer type in Windows NT 4.0? Followup-To: poster Date: 4 May 1997 03:56:37 +0300 Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Sender: otto@tukki.cc.jyu.fi Message-ID: <OTTO.97May4035634@tukki.jyu.fi> NNTP-Posting-User: otto I've recently put Windows NT 4.0 into my PC as an addition to linux. I've set up TCP/IP printing to print to my NeXTstation 400dpi PS laser printer. Everything works nicely, except I haven't found a specific entry for the NeXT laser printer in Windows NT, nor have I located a "generic postscript" option. The only thing relevant I found on the net was a MicroSoft KnowledgeBase article from 1995 (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q104/7/48.htm) for NT 3.5 which has the most cheerful title of NeXT 400 DPI Laser Printer Is Not Supported Under Windows NT Suggestions, anyone? This most probably isn't widely interesting, so please reply via email to me. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@cc.jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 14 613 847, BBS: +358 14 211 562 (V.32bis/USR-HST,24h/d) */ /* Mail: Cygn.k.7 E 46/FIN-40100 Jyvaskyla/Finland, ICBM: 62.14N 25.44E */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
From: dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAPer funkiness Date: 4 May 1997 02:08:24 GMT Organization: DelMarVa OnLine! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> Hi, I've set up CAPer on a slab running 3.3 and I can mount exported directories from the slab on a macintosh. However, when I try to copy a file from the slab to the mac or try to copy a mac file to the slab it complains that it can't do the copy because the file is locked. It's not a permission problem I don't think, especially since the error occurs when I'm simply trying to read from the slab's drive. In any case I'm only trying to read or write in my home directory after having logged in as myself. What am I doing wrong? Dave.
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: <25195862113623@digifix.com> Date: 4 May 1997 03:59:04 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <851862718425@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: marcel@system.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer funkiness Date: 4 May 1997 06:00:12 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5kh8lc$12f$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> In article <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) writes: > Hi, > > I've set up CAPer on a slab running 3.3 and I can mount exported > directories from the slab on a macintosh. > > However, when I try to copy a file from the slab to the mac or try to > copy a mac file to the slab it complains that it can't do the copy > because the file is locked. I had this problem, too. It was fixed by downloading the newest version. Apparently the first version had a bug on black only. Marcel
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: 4 May 1997 02:30:36 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5kgscc$838$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> <E9Lq0B.36L@nidat.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <E9Lq0B.36L@nidat.sub.org> On 05/02/97, Peter Nitezki wrote: >In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma ><luomat@peak.org> writes: >> >> Ok, I thought this was pretty simple: >> >> Two machines: slab and Intel. Intel is hooked to the net. I >> want to sync the Intel to the atomic clock and then sync the slab >> to the Intel... but when I do: >> >> /usr/etc/ntp -sf InteHostname >> >> I get >> >> recvfrom: Connection refused >> >> I figured this was in /etc/inetd.conf but I didn't see anything.. >> figured I'd ask before mucking with netInfo (which could muck up >> PPP) >> >You need to run SimpleNetworkStarter on the white machine to enable time >service. The server must be started at boot time, therefore a change to >rc.net and /etc/hostconfig will be made, AFAIR. Then either SNS or >HostManager should set the black machine to use network time. You'll see >the result by changing the time preference panel from a calender to a >simple dialog where you can force network time update. > >-- >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 I'm trying to achieve the same thing... (except the slab is hooked to the net and I want the Intel machine to update from the slab.) I have it all working to the point where I can go to preferences on the Intel machine and click on the synchronize button and it will synch with the black machine. However, I thought the whole point of ntp was to prevent the machines from getting out of synch in the first place but I notice the clock on the Intel machine drifting by a minute or so every couple of days. So my question is, how can I force the Intel machine to STAY in synch with the NeXT box without requiring manual intervention? - 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me account and auto-login Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 14:33:13 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970503143031.24056B-100000@kira> References: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Chris Saldanha <chris@computerActive.com> In-Reply-To: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> On 2 May 1997, Chris Saldanha wrote: > Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login (ie when 'me' has > no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? sure, as root use dwrite loginwindow DefaultUser chris to make 'chris' autologin account... but the account cannot have a password TjL
From: "I.U.T." <istechun@dci.iran.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP for adding new hard drive Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 06:43:12 -0400 Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970504063727.10294C-100000@dci> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hi, Recently i bought a 3Giga hard disk (QUANTUM) for my sun workstation SS2 with solaris 1.1 sunos4.1.2 - I try to add it to existing file systems . becuase we have many users and we have a restriction on /usr filesystem for sending/receiveing emails. In old hard disk with 1Giga capacity we have 5 file system. Amount of disk space ocupied by currently mounted file system is /dev/sd0a 92% capacity mounted on / /dev/sd0g 110% " " /usr /dev/sd0d 38% " " /export /dev/sd0e 0% " " /export/swap /dev/sd0h 63% " " /home Do you have any idea that how we can partition it for increasing our systems. If you have any point please contact with me. Thanks in advance for your cooperations masroor(^_^)! my personal email address is masroor@cc.iut.ac.ir
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAPer funkiness Date: 4 May 1997 12:01:09 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5khtq5$7p4$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> <5kh8lc$12f$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> marcel@system.de wrote: > In article <5kgr2o$cfe@news.dmv.com> dave@dmv.com (J. David Purnell) > writes: > > Hi, > > > > I've set up CAPer on a slab running 3.3 and I can mount exported > > directories from the slab on a macintosh. > > > > However, when I try to copy a file from the slab to the mac or try to > > copy a mac file to the slab it complains that it can't do the copy > > because the file is locked. > I had this problem, too. It was fixed by downloading the newest > version. Apparently the first version had a bug on black only. Yes, the m68k version V4 (as it is at the moment on the archives) has this problem, but a patch is available on the CAPer WWW site: http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html The CAPer Intel versions are not affected, it was a byte order problem. I would suggest you should get the newest V6 version from there as it solves a few other quirks too and is easier to use and setup. CAPer V6 is to hit the peanuts and peak archives as replacement for V4 in the next days. --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Christian Hahn <chahn@on-luebeck.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: driver for ct65545 display Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 21:37:00 +0200 Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V. Message-ID: <336CE55C.30F7@on-luebeck.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi to everybody! Is there a driver for the Chips & Technologies 65545 display? If yes, please mail me. Thanks in advance, Christian ------- Christian Hahn --- chahn@on-luebeck.de
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: ntp on one of two machines on a miniLan Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 20:51:28 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nPGwEO00iV1A1LUMH@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970501202323.22007A-100000@kira> <E9Lq0B.36L@nidat.sub.org> <5kgscc$838$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> In-Reply-To: <5kgscc$838$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 4-May-97 Re: ntp on one of two machi.. by Christopher Wolf@wolfwar > However, I thought the whole point of ntp was to prevent the machines from > getting out of synch in the first place but I notice the clock on the Intel > machine drifting by a minute or so every couple of days. > > So my question is, how can I force the Intel machine to STAY in synch with > the NeXT box without requiring manual intervention? You've got to run ntpd continuously. Unfortunately, NeXT really kludged ntpd when adapting it to NetInfo, and you are supposed to set up the configuration information (like which higher stratum timeservers to pay attention to) using NetInfo, according to the manpage for NeXT's version of ntpd. I've found it easier to just build a modern xntpd and use a standard /etc/ntp.conf file, which looks like this on my machine: # peer configuration for a private workstation server NETSERVER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU. server mailer.psc.edu. driftfile /etc/ntp.drift enable bclient monitor Make sure to touch '/etc/ntp.drift', which lets the ntp daemon keep a track of the machines' drift from "real time" and lets it compensate even when the machine first boots up or when it can't get in touch with other timeservers for whatever reason. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andreas@wb-net.de Subject: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection refused Sender: news@tlnet.de Organization: Nordic Data Communications Luebeck Message-ID: <5kk95g$qe@merkur.wb-net.de> Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 09:27:12 GMT Hello, I've just changed my provider. ConnectionEstablishment and mail is okay, but I still cannot slurp news from the new Server (PersonalINN installed). The configuration works with my old provider. I only exchanged all entries in the concerned files from news.lynet.de to news.tlnet.de and hoped it would work, wich it didn't. When my ip-up tries to get news with su news -c '(/usr/local/inn/slurp news.tlnet.de) &' I get the following ErrorMessage written to my slurp.log: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection refused What does that mean? I can connect to the newsServer on-line with Alexandra, so the anddress seems to be ok. Andreas Hoeschler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: andreas@wb-net.de Subject: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.lynet.de: Connection timed out Sender: news@tlnet.de Organization: Nordic Data Communications Luebeck Message-ID: <5kkdk1$29a@merkur.wb-net.de> Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 10:43:13 GMT Hello, I've just changed my provider. ConnectionEstablishment and mail is okay, but I still cannot slurp news from the new Server (PersonalINN installed). As you see posting news with post-news works. See also my last article. Because I cannot slurp news from the new provider, I tried to slurp from the old one while being connected to the Internet through the new Provider (synchronous PPP). This also didn't work. There I get the ErrorMessage tcp_open: can't connect to server news.lynet.de: Connection timed out I didn't find a hint in the manual-pages, so I you have an idea, I would really appreciate to get it. Thank you in advance! Andreas Hoeschler
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection refused Date: 5 May 1997 12:59:25 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5kkljd$r9@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> References: <5kk95g$qe@merkur.wb-net.de> andreas@wb-net.de wrote: > I've just changed my provider. ConnectionEstablishment and mail > is okay, but I still cannot slurp news from the new Server > (PersonalINN installed). The configuration works with my old > provider. I only exchanged all entries in the concerned files > from news.lynet.de to news.tlnet.de and hoped it would work, wich > it didn't. When my ip-up tries to get news with > > su news -c '(/usr/local/inn/slurp news.tlnet.de) &' > > I get the following ErrorMessage written to my slurp.log: > > tcp_open: can't connect to server news.tlnet.de: Connection > refused > > What does that mean? I can connect to the newsServer on-line with > Alexandra, so the anddress seems to be ok. Your new provider most probably doesn't offer time service on its news server. Start slurp with the -l option. Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine _____________________________________________________________________
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with manual fsck? Date: 5 May 1997 13:16:41 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5kkmjp$jq5@corporate.hesta.com> I have a 128mb optical drive and when you manually eject a disk while it is still mounted the disk gets corrupted slightly and will not remount again. The repair dialog box says it will not repair; years ago I learned how to manually moun the disk and run fsck...but for the life of me I cannot remember how... Could someone re-explain the process? (I will write it down this time....) Thanks. -- Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: bologna1@sirio.cineca.it Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: frame Buffer physical address of ATIMACH64 Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 16:03:05 +0200 Organization: NETTuno Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.970505155611.15020A-100000@sirio.cineca.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I had a Pentium 133Mhz with 64MB-RAM and ATI MACH 64 with 4MB I upgrade with Pentium Pro 200 with 128MB and the same video card, same configuration, but at the boot I have this error: Display 0:changing config table address to 0xFF000000 Display 0: frame buffer physical address 0xFF000000 mapped to 0x993e000 Registering Display 0 <3> object error: fatal error kerndevice descriptor does not recognize selector Panic: (CPU 0) objc If i start the system with config=Default and i use the ATI Mach 64 like a SVGA standard all is ok. Do you know this error? the driver config show a field mapped memory 4 MB at ... but how configure this field? Thank's Stefano Sola
From: "H. Blakely Williford" <blakew@fuller.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: equ. of xhost command in NeXT Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 02:55:36 -0500 Organization: The Fuller Brush Company Message-ID: <336D9278.50C98332@fuller.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello World! I'v inherited a NeXT cube (willow); when I key hostinfo the system comes back with the following information. |Mach kernel version: | NeXT Mach 2.1: Thu Mar 7 19:13:47 PST 1991; |/ph1_sources/projects/mk-108.14/RELEASE | |Kernel configured for a single processor only. |1 processor is physically available. |Processor type: MC680x0 (68040) |Processor active: 0 |Primary memory available: 16.00 megabytes. |Default processor set: 46 tasks, 77 threads, 1 processors |Load average: 0.42, Mach factor: 0.66 I am trying to allow users of these workstations access to netscape running on another unix machine. When I do the $ netscape -display willow:0 & I get a display error message, I've tried the "xhost" command but that dosent work -- command not found. Is what I'm trying to do even possable? thank-you for your time. -- H. Blakely Williford Men never do evil so completely and Systems Administrator cheerfully as when they do it from The Fuller Brush Company religious conviction. (Pascal)
From: yucheng@math.arizona.edu (Yuwen Cheng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: equ. of xhost command in NeXT Date: 5 May 1997 17:13:40 GMT Organization: University of Arizona Message-ID: <5kl4g4$fsq$1@news.ccit.arizona.edu> References: <336D9278.50C98332@fuller.com> Cc: blakew@fuller.com You don't have X-window installed in your NeXT. There are several possible options you may try, e.g., CubX, MouseX, co-Xist, etc. Check ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/XNeXT for detail. In <336D9278.50C98332@fuller.com> "H. Blakely Williford" wrote: > Hello World! > > I am trying to allow users of these workstations access to > netscape running on another unix machine. When I do the > > $ netscape -display willow:0 & > > I get a display error message, I've tried the "xhost" command > but that dosent work -- command not found. Is what I'm trying > to do even possable? > > thank-you for your time. > > -- Best Regards Yuwen Cheng ,,, (. .) +--oOO--(_)--OOo---------------------------------------------------+ Yuwen Cheng | yucheng@math.arizona.edu University of Arizona, MATH | NeXTMail welcome P.O. Box 43692 | (520) 881-4314 Tucson, AZ 85733 | (520) 881-4314 (fax) +------------------------------------------------------------------+
From: andreas@lynet.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PopOver.app says: Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! Date: 5 May 1997 18:44:56 GMT Organization: LyNet Kommunikation und Netzwerkdienste GmbH Message-ID: <5kl9r8$mk@merkur.lynet.de> Hello, my Mail/News-Configuration has been working for a long time. Yesterday, I tried to configure my system for a new provider. So I did some changes to my config-files, but know I can't pop my mail from any of the two providers anymore. I undid all changes to the config-files (I at least think so), but the problem remains. Each time I call PopOver to Retrive the new Mail, I get the following ErrorMessage after a few seconds. Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! But the password is quite correct. I checked it a few times. Moreover I can retrieve the mail under OS/2 with PM-Mail without any problems. So what's wrong here? Do you have any idea? PS:Please post your answer in the newsgroup, because I cannot retrieve your e-mail at the moment! Andreas Hoeschler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ernst@fritz.snafu.de.NOSPAM (Ernst Kloecker) Subject: Re: NeXT laser printer type in Windows NT 4.0? Message-ID: <E9o837.1IL@fritz.snafu.de> Sender: news@fritz.snafu.de Organization: Software Engineering Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 19:13:52 GMT >I've recently put Windows NT 4.0 into my PC as an addition to linux. >I've set up TCP/IP printing to print to my NeXTstation 400dpi PS >laser printer. Everything works nicely, except I haven't found >a specific entry for the NeXT laser printer in Windows NT, nor >have I located a "generic postscript" option. > >The only thing relevant I found on the net was a MicroSoft KnowledgeBase >article from 1995 (http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q104/7/48.htm) >for NT 3.5 which has the most cheerful title of > NeXT 400 DPI Laser Printer Is Not Supported Under Windows NT > I assume you have Samba installed on the NeXT system, so that exporting the NS printer as a Windows printer is no problem. First of all you can also use a driver for a different make of Postscript printer, e.g. here the Apple LaserWriter driver worked fine, too. But if you want to use special NeXT printer features, like 400dpi or manual paper feed, you should install a special PPD for the NeXT printer. Adobe provides PPDs for both NeXT Postscript Level 1 and Level 2 print engines on its web site. I am using the Level 2 PPD named Nxnlp2_1.ppd without any problems here. To be able to use it I first of all installed the Apple LaserWriter driver, which copies the generic PS driver and the LaserWriter specific PPD to C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 and C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2 and also puts some information into the registry, I found the appropriate entries looking for LaserWrite with REGEDIT.EXE. I then copied Nxnlp2_1.ppd to C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86 and C:\WINNT\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\2 and made some new registry entries according to the entries the LaserWriter driver had, but with the reference to the Nxnlp2_1.ppd of course. That was it. If you are interested, I can send you the PPD I got from Adobe (Nxnlp2_1.ppd). Cheers, Ernst. (Please use address below for replies) --- Ernst Kloecker ernst@fritz.snafu.de
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Hangs at "rootdev 600, howto 0" Date: 5 May 1997 16:14:14 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5kl10m$lhg@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> One of the machines in our network of Intel Pentiums running NEXTSTEP 3.3 will not reboot. The last few lines during reboot are: sd1: MITSUMI CD-ROM !B B05 Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 Registering: sd1a sd0: Waiting for drive to come ready sd0: Disk Not Ready Registering: event0 Registering: kmDevice0 rootdev 600, howto 0 Then, it just hangs there. It does this even when I reboot in single-user mode. When I try to restart (using ALT-NUMLOCK), I get "ROOT UNMOUNT FAILED 1 1 1 etc," it restarts, and then hangs at the same place. I do not really know what all these means and I do not know what to do next. Any help, suggestions, ... would be appreciated. Vicki Bragin -- ********************************************************** Victoria M. Bragin E-mail: vbragin@ix.netcom.com Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena,CA Phone: (818) 585-7147 Fax: (818) 585-7919 (NeXTmail and MIME mail welcome) **********************************************************
From: chk@deimos.frii.com (Christian Kuhtz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: me account and auto-login Date: 4 May 97 05:37:38 GMT Organization: Front Range Internet, Inc. Message-ID: <chk.862724258@deimos.frii.com> References: <5kd44q$7u0@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> chris@computerActive.com (Chris Saldanha) writes: >Can I configure a user other than 'me' to be the auto-login (ie when 'me' has >no password) user when NeXTSTEP 3.3 boots? Huh?.. Don't use the me login (in fact, blow it away) if you use a NeXT box for anything but non-networked use. What's the big deal about authenticating yourself with the system? -- Christian Kuhtz <ckuhtz@paranet.com> (work) <chk@gnu.ai.mit.edu> (home) Paranet, Inc. http://www.paranet.com/ "Humbly speaking for myself only."
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From: Robert La Ferla <Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Upgraded to Openstep : lost my /dev/cufb? Date: 6 May 1997 02:22:13 GMT Organization: HTI Message-ID: <5km4kl$omf@fridge-nf0.shore.net> References: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> In-Reply-To: <862581651.14733@dejanews.com> Verify that you have TWO instances of the SerialPort driver loaded and ONE instance of PortServer. You can also try removing the driver and adding it back in. If you did an upgrade vs. a full install, your system may be using the old 3.3 Instance0.table when the Default.table has changed. Robert -- Robert La Ferla Registered OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Consultant HTI Boston, MA - Washington, DC + 1 (617) 252-0088
From: greg davis <gregor@crosslink.net> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hp 820-70 or Epson 800 inkjets on a NeXTstation 3.1 machine Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:11:55 -0400 Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3370A9CB.47E7@crosslink.net> References: <01bc5a46$873f1480$d3463181@arty-s-win95.sunysb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dkat wrote: > > Does anyone know if you can install an Epson or HP inkjet on a NeXTstation > (black) machine that is running 3.1 without using something like > Ghostscript (tried it - can't get it to work and it is real ugly if you are > used to NeXT or Win95)? Is there an upgrade for NeXTstep that will handle > these printers and if so what is the lowest upgrade (I don't want to change > the basic look and use of the machine since it is for someone that does not > have time to deal with the differences)? Thanks, DK One alternative is to run a Hewlett-Packard Jet Direct box out of the ethernet port. It isn't the cheapest solution, but depending which model you get (1 or 3 outputs) you can run any parallel port output printer at network transfer speeds, and any machine (if you are on a local network) can access the printer(s). GS Corp had an excellent Epson driver for the 500, and that should drive the 800 as well. The downside there is that they are no longer selling license keys for their most excellent product any longer, as far as I know. Jet Pilot is still current but I've never used it, but it will work in conjunction with the Jet Direct box. BTW, a single port box is $225 or so street price, and the EX model is about $375. Lotsa luck Gregor
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network faxing w/ NXFax Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 11:16:42 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970507110923.4513A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: paul@plsys.co.uk Has anyone gotten this to work: (Using NXFax-compatible modem on NeXTStation) Fax from Intel (connected via NetInfo) through station... I assumed it would be similar to setting up printing from Intel to slab but that hasn't been the case... Thanks TjL
From: doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Date: 5 May 1997 14:47:36 GMT Organization: American Physical Society Message-ID: <5kkru8$9a@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> References: <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <E9JrGA.2s5@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >In article <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) >writes: >> 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? >> >No, I don't believe you! Well, to the best of my knowledge it is set up that way... ;^) >Might be you think you only use 'local' but then you'd never get this >error. Verify the 'serves' property of the entries in the /machines >directory. I bet there is some './network' entry in it! None have a ./network entry in it. Grepping for serves: (next)root:/Users/doyle|2> nigrep serves / 2 /machines/localhost: serves ./local 3 /machines/broadcasthost: serves So, there are no ./network references. However, broadcasthost defines an empty 'serves' property, but this seems OK to me. All other entries (including the one for next and next.aps.org which is the machine in question) don't define a 'serves' property at all, but again, this shouldn't matter. Another thing worth mentioning is that the machine is setup to be a PPP server. Perhaps I have that configured slightly wrong? Any other ideas or things to check? Cheers, Mark
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CRASH due to "excessive DPS errors" (with error log) Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:22:55 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970507162056.995B-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The last month or so my Pentium 100 running NS 3.3 has crashed several times due to "excessive dps errors." It (almost) always happens when I'm running Netscape over X-windows. I'm using CubX-window version 5.00. As you can see from the /usr/adm/messages file (see below) I get numerous DPS errors just prior the the crash. What is causing this and how do I fix it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[2160]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 3e5a4, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[2160]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs WM[202]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext ae7bc, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[454]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 44c84, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs Terminal[454]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs CubXWindow[203]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 3cc64, data -102 May 6 16:11:30 rjacobs CubXWindow[203]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs WatchSwap[207]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 12c44, data 0 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs WatchSwap[207]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs LaunchBar[210]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 18c64, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs LaunchBar[210]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Remotes[209]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 104c44, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Remotes[209]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs CDPlayer[234]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 16c24, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs CDPlayer[234]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs X[216]: DPS client library error: Connection closed unexpectedly, DPSContext 3f46fc, data 0 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs X[216]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Mail[204]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext a4cc0, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Mail[204]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Terminal[2251]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 3e5a4, data -102 May 6 16:11:31 rjacobs Terminal[2251]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:32 rjacobs Cassandra[208]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 26c44, data -102 May 6 16:11:32 rjacobs Cassandra[208]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:33 rjacobs BackSpace[206]: DPS client library error: Error while writing to connection, DPSContext 40c74, data -102 May 6 16:11:33 rjacobs BackSpace[206]: Exiting due to Window Server death May 6 16:11:45 rjacobs loginwindow[197]: Workspace exited (ts 0 cd 0 rc 0 sv 0 ss 0). May 6 16:11:46 rjacobs loginwindow[197]: dps_err_write May 6 16:11:46 rjacobs last message repeated 20 times May 6 16:11:46 rjacobs loginwindow[197]: exiting due to excessive DPS errors May 6 16:11:51 rjacobs loginwindow[3225]: Checking for DOS partitioned disk May 6 16:11:56 rjacobs reboot: rebooted by root May 6 16:11:57 rjacobs syslogd: going down on signal 15
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CRASH due to "excessive dps errors" Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 16:19:42 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970507161527.995A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII The last month or so my Pentium 100 running NS 3.3 has crashed several times due to "excessive dps errors." It (almost) always happens when I'm running Netscape over X-windows. I'm using CubX-window version 5.00. As you can see from the /usr/adm/messages file (see below) I get numerous DPS errors just prior the the crash. What is causing this and how do I fix it? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Robert rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: info@scribex.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PopOver.app says: Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! Date: 6 May 1997 16:19:21 GMT Organization: SPC Message-ID: <5knlm9$3i6$1@wagner.spc.videotron.ca> References: <5kl9r8$mk@merkur.lynet.de> In-Reply-To: <5kl9r8$mk@merkur.lynet.de> Did you configure PopOver correctly? You need to install both providers in PopOver's Mail host setup panel via the MailHosts... menu In PopOver, 1. Click on Mail Hosts... menu 2. In the Mail Hosts panel that follows, click on the Add... button. 3. In the Mail host setup panel, fill in the 3 fields with your provider's info. Mail host Username Password 4. Click on the OK button 5. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 for your second provider. Hope this helps. André --------------------- On 05/05/97, andreas@lynet.de wrote: > Hello, > > my Mail/News-Configuration has been working for a long time. Yesterday, I > tried to configure my system for a new provider. So I did some changes to my > config-files, but know I can't pop my mail from any of the two providers > anymore. I undid all changes to the config-files (I at least think so), but > the problem remains. Each time I call PopOver to Retrive the new Mail, I get > the following ErrorMessage after a few seconds. > > Password supplied for xxx is incorrect! > > But the password is quite correct. I checked it a few times. Moreover I can > retrieve the mail under OS/2 with PM-Mail without any problems. So what's > wrong here? Do you have any idea? > > PS:Please post your answer in the newsgroup, because I cannot retrieve your > e-mail at the moment! > > Andreas Hoeschler >
From: "dkat" <dkat@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hp 820-70 or Epson 800 inkjets on a NeXTstation 3.1 machine Date: 6 May 1997 17:55:52 GMT Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Distribution: inet Message-ID: <01bc5a46$873f1480$d3463181@arty-s-win95.sunysb.edu> Does anyone know if you can install an Epson or HP inkjet on a NeXTstation (black) machine that is running 3.1 without using something like Ghostscript (tried it - can't get it to work and it is real ugly if you are used to NeXT or Win95)? Is there an upgrade for NeXTstep that will handle these printers and if so what is the lowest upgrade (I don't want to change the basic look and use of the machine since it is for someone that does not have time to deal with the differences)? Thanks, DK
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: changing a HD Date: 8 May 1997 03:19:11 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5krgnf$cp@rumah.pc.my> What I have: Two slabs, connected via ethernet One slab w/ adequate HD One slab w/ very minimal HD One moderate sized HD w/o system in a cardboard box What I want to do: Replace the minimal HD with the moderate sized HD How to do this, considering: I do not have a CD-drive, so am not able to install system on the replacement disk that way. I do not have an external drive power supply to attach it via scsi. In other words, can I put the replacement HD in the slab, and somehow install the system via the ethernet? Thanks, Mike
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Hangs at "rootdev 600, howto 0" Date: 6 May 1997 07:00:58 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5kmkva$pqp$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5kl10m$lhg@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) wrote: > Registering: sd1 at Target 0 LUN 0 at sc0 > Registering: sd1a > sd0: Waiting for drive to come ready > sd0: Disk Not Ready > Registering: event0 > Registering: kmDevice0 > rootdev 600, howto 0 > This machine's SCSI boot disk isn't working. You should check the drive. Maybe a hardware failure? Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 21:05:05 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I used a DOS startup floppy (fdisk) to partition my drive into 2 partitions. How can I now format those partitions to a bsd file system? anybody have any ideas for a brand spanken new OpenStep 4.1 user/admin? thanks, sean
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mail via tcp Date: 8 May 1997 08:22:09 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5ks2fi$455@rumah.pc.my> I have taylor-uucp on NS3.2, and want to send mail via tcp when a ppp connection is up. However, I get the following errors: ---------------------- uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 15:31:01.84 3992) ERROR: All matching ports in use uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 15:31:01.96 3992) Calling system jaring (port TCP) uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 15:31:03.40 3992) ERROR: connect: Connection refused --------------------- The first error is due to an attempt to dial out, which then trys tcp as an alternative port. Is it a problem with my ISP not letting me connect? If so what can be done? Here's the relevant part of the sys file: ------------------------ system jaring time any call-timegrade a Expensive phone 1511 port V32bis:38400@cufa chat name: nuucp3 sword: jaring ogin: \L sword: \P chat-timeout 40 debug chat # the timeouts, window and packet sizes protocol igj alternate port type tcp address jaring.my chat ogin: \L word: \P ------------------------------ Note that if I take out the address line, the doc's say that the remote system name will be used. In this case, heres what happens: ------------------------------ uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 12:31:03.28 1365) ERROR: All matching ports in use uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 12:31:03.43 1365) Calling system jaring (port TCP) uucico jaring - (1997-05-08 12:31:03.45 1365) ERROR: 1511: unknown host name
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BSD libDB 1.85 ported to NS3.3? Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 13:34:36 GMT Organization: Deltos Fleet Computing Message-ID: <33712bd2.247407587@news.dfw.net> I'm trying to finish out the sendmail V8 (8.8.5) build, and to compile makemap(8) correctly, I need to have the BSD libdb.a v1.85. I'm having difficulty building this library on NS3.3 (Moto) -- NS is not in the "official" port list, and it's taking some time to get it together. Has anyone done a port, and is it out there (ftp, http)?
From: steve@deltos.com (Steven R. Staton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BSD libdb.a 1.85 ported to NS3.3? Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 13:34:37 GMT Organization: Deltos Fleet Computing Message-ID: <33712bad.247370960@news.dfw.net> I'm trying to build makemap(8) in the BSD sendmail V8 (8.8.5) kit, and it requires the unsupported BSD db library. I have the 1.85 version of this kit, but it doesn't list NeXTSTEP as an "official port". Trying to build it has taken most of the afternoon, and I'm still not getting very far. Is this library already built for NS3.3 (moto), or is there a makefile that will actually build it on the Net?
From: neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 9 May 1997 11:42:20 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > appreciate it. I've been running squid and CERN httpd with success, and recommend squid. It's available as a package via ftp (round up the usual suspects :-) Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: zorglub <marmier4@uni2a.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mutli-boot / Openstep 4.1 for mach / Intel Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 14:00:30 +0100 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <33731FED.30EAFF0A@uni2a.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: marmier4@hei.unige.ch I'm stuck in a nerve twisting problem: I've got an Intel with 2 IDE hard disk drives. One with Openstep, the other with windows 95. I've installed Openstep before Windows 95, consequently the multi-booter (is this the proper name?) is NOT running at boot... Openstep runs on the MASTER drive. I'have to switch jumpers to switch OS... :(( Is there a way to install the multi-booter without reinstalling all of Openstep? ...which is to much work... Thanks in advance Raphael Marmier marmier4@hei.unige.ch
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 9 May 1997 14:09:43 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So this is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that does all types of traffic? vince On 9 May 1997 11:42:20 GMT, neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.nospam (Christian Neuss) wrote: >Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: >> Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep >> machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy >> for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would >> appreciate it. > >I've been running squid and CERN httpd with success, and recommend >squid. It's available as a package via ftp (round up the usual >suspects :-) > >Chris >-- >// Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." >// http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ >// fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Server problems Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 10:30:56 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0905971030570001@47.detroit-005.mi.dial-access.att.net> Can anyone help me with these problems: 1. I have a cube running OS 4.1. I set it up as the NetInfo Server. I don't want it to run all the time so I shut it down. Now when I restart, i can't get it to serve the network info. Do you have to leave it running all the time? Is there anyway to set it up so that it will automatically serve the netinfo info when it comes on? 2. I have another NeXT MB ('030) in the cube. If I leave the cube on all the time, how can I restart the MB to get it to recognize the network. Will a ben be sufficient to get it to look for the network? Thanks, Mitch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Finding the second partition Message-ID: <E9x098.1t5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171542.6380B-100000@kira> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:03:08 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171542.6380B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > Hey all > > I've got a second partition somewhere, I think it is formatted > for WinNT... I'd like to use it for swapspace or storage space > under OpenStep. > > Problem is I can't seem to find it... the partition that is... > > I've tried > > mount -t dos /dev/sd0[a-h] /Partition > > (I'm not sure which it is... I think sd0h) > > What am I doing wrong? > You have to identify the partition in DOS first. Only when you know the DOS partition you can determine which BSD device mapping it would get. And NS (as well as OS) will only recognize the first FAT filesystem on a drive. Therefore, partitions on a white machine will only be available for BSD when they are not initialized for a known filesystem or they are the first FAT filesystem which will then be mapped through automounting. If it is the second FAT on the drive you must initialize the partition in DOS first, whithout generating a filesystem on it! -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: network faxing w/ NXFax Message-ID: <E9x0My.1tt@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5kt01s$ls3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:11:21 GMT In article <5kt01s$ls3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) writes: > Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > > >Has anyone gotten this to work: > > > >(Using NXFax-compatible modem on NeXTStation) Fax from Intel > >(connected via NetInfo) through station... > > > >I assumed it would be similar to setting up printing from Intel > >to slab but that hasn't been the case... > > > > I have a NetInfo network of NeXTstations, the fax/modem and NXFax > software are installed on the NetInfo master. All of the machines > in the master's domain have access to the fax. It is exactly > the same as setting up printers, use the PrintManager. If the > fax modem doesn't show up in the PrintManager then there may be > a problem with your NetInfo setup. Be sure to read the online > help about adding faxes in PrintManager and be sure to enable > public access. > This depends on the NetInfo domains you've set up and the rights on these the administrator has who wants to setup the FAX device. If you have proper rights PrintManager.app allows you to specify the domain for which you want to setup the FAX device as 'public'. Default is 'local' but it will show a listbox containing all domains in the hierarchy up to the root. -- 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: Partitioning for NetBoot Message-ID: <E9x0qs.1uH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <mitchell.allen-0805971534510001@31.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 13:13:39 GMT In article <mitchell.allen-0805971534510001@31.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net writes: > Is it really necessary to partition the disk to export the root and > /private directories? Is it possible to just create a /hosts/hostname > directory and copy the root entries into it? > No partitioning necessary. The only prerequisite is that the filesystem setup allows for conflict free NFS exports. -- 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: leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 9 May 1997 17:12:14 GMT Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <5kvlte$p8r$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> Vincent Koser writes > > So this is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that does all types > of traffic? I've compiled the Firewall Toolkit v1.3 quad-fat for NS 3.3. It has a generic proxy but we don't use it so I don't know if it works well or even at all. If you can tell me what the license restrictions are on distributing the FWTK v1.3 I'd be happy to send it to you. leo. +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Leo Turetsky | BLaCKSMITH, Inc. (NeXT/MIME) | | leo@blacksmith.com | OPENSTEP Systems Administrator | +---------------------+---------------------------------+ | Nah-ne kah-sah tahng-tah? <esp> Leo, your mom called. | +-------------------------------------------------------+
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Color Printers under Openstep Date: 9 May 1997 19:24:10 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5kvtkq$jui@news.acns.nwu.edu> Can anyone tell me if they have success with color printers? I'm considering purchasing a color printer and I'd like recommendations. Please email me at daj@nwu.edu Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson Northwestern University
From: wenews@usc.com (Will "to send me mail change to westes at usc.com" Estes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Better serial drivers for Intel 3.2? Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 17:12:29 GMT Organization: U.S. Computer Message-ID: <337065f5.35016125@SantaClara01.news.InterNex.Net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The serial drivers that comes with NS 3.2 FIP appear to be quite bad. We are constantly getting receive messages like "ttysccl: receive error 2 (-902)...last message repeated 200 times". I don't think the connection is bad. Is there a better set of serial drivers available, either as an upgrade addable to 3.2, or in NS 3.3/4.1? -- Will Estes U.S. Computer Internet: westes at usc.com POB 3150 Saratoga, CA 95070 PLEASE READ: to send me Internet e-mail, you will need to change the default reply address on this message to westes @ usc.com, removing the spaces on either side of the "@" character.
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 $HOME? Are they running the same >version of the OS? > >Just guessin' > >TjL One other possible cause might be that one machine is running NEXTSTEP and the other is running OpenStep.. the name of the directory that defaults are stored in got moved when they moved from NS to OS.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: proxy server Date: 6 May 1997 20:18:49 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would appreciate it. thanks vince
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 10 May 1997 06:54:09 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5l162h$osd$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> <5kvlte$p8r$1@anvil.BLaCKSMITH.com> leo@BLaCKSMITH.com (Leo Turetsky) wrote: >I've compiled the Firewall Toolkit v1.3 quad-fat for NS 3.3. It has a >generic proxy but we don't use it so I don't know if it works well or even FWTK version 2.0 is no longer in beta and was released sometime back. You might want to check it out. Rgds, Song
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 10 May 1997 06:56:04 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5l1664$osd$2@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) wrote: > >So this is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that does all types >of traffic? To proxy more types of traffic, you should look at SOCKS (www.socks.nec.com). I've never compiled it on NextStep and I think I remember someone with difficulties involving shared libraries... Rgds, Song
From: Samuel Goldberger <smg@orb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 23:59:32 -0800 Organization: Spherical Solutions Message-ID: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to boot from the drive, I get: SCSI unexpected msg 1 sc: unexpected msg etc. I ordinarily associate this with bad termination jumpers, but I've checked with Seagate tech support, and verified that they are correct. I've turned off parity. Anyone run into this and have a fix? Urgent! Please email. -- Samuel M. Goldberger <smg@orb.com> Spherical Solutions 47 Myrtle Avenue • Mill Valley, CA 94941 415-383-2919--voice • 415-381-9556--fax
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: MORE INFO (Re: network faxing w/ NXFax) Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 23:31:51 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> References: <5kt01s$ls3$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> <E9x0My.1tt@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <E9x0My.1tt@nidat.sub.org> Thanks to all those who have offered help The problem (I guess) is that these are two separate NeXT machines... Each has its own Netinfo which is aware of the other machine. This is OK for network printing and NFS but seems to be more challenging for Faxing... TjL
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From: ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 10:24:47 -0500 Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm using OnmiWeb 2 and am trying to set it's http requests to use the proxy server I have running on my PC machine. Can it be configured to use a proxy server? thanks Craig
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 15:00:14 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510145837.9036I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> FYI: OmniWeb 2.5 was just released There is a set of proxy preferences in OmniWeb (at least in 2.5). I'm not sure that it would do what you want, but it might... TjL ps -- you can find OW 2.5 at www.omigroup.com or peak.org in /pub/next/new_arrivals/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: proxy server Message-ID: <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: mgoedel@m.isar.de Organization: Disorganization References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 18:50:01 GMT In <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > In article <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) writes: > > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > > appreciate it. > > > > thanks > > vince > > A version of apache, which can be configures as proxy is avaible on several > NeXT related website (like ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) The good old CERN httpd works fine as a proxy as well. I have it running on a 040 NeXT with PPP. I'm surfing from a Linux box (Netscape) to the NeXT proxy, good solution.
From: mark@sfmny.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Fast SCSI 2 disk drives..? Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 18:00:34 GMT Message-ID: <3370c1ba.427727599@raptor> Hello all, I need to buy a new disk drive for one of my NEXTStation's. Mostly there are Fast SCSI 2 disk drives on the market today along with Fast-Wide/SCSI 3, etc.. Will Fast SCSI2 disks work with the older NeXT hardware? The machines are NeXTStation Turbo ADB. I read in NeXTAnswers that the M68k driver does not recognise the "fast" SCSI implementation. Does anybody have any experience with this? It has been too long since I have had to work on my NeXT hardware. Do I have to buy a disk that is just SCSI 2 and NOT Fast SCSI 2? thanks in advance Mark LeScoezec Network Administrator Soros Fund Management mark@sfmny.com NO JUNKMAIL PLEASE
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: <851862718425@digifix.com> Date: 11 May 1997 03:58:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <8856863323226@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site ============================ http://www.next.com comp.sys.next.* newsgroups ========================== news:comp.sys.next.advocacy This is the "why NEXTSTEP is better (or worse) than anything else in the known universe" forum. It was created specifically to divert lengthy flame wars from .misc. news:comp.sys.next.announce Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new products, FTP submissions, user group meetings, commercial announcements etc.) This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post to it directly. Submissions should be e-mailed to next-announce@digifix.com where the moderator (Scott Anguish) will screen them for suitability. Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted to any other comp.sys.next groups. news:comp.sys.next.bugs A place to report verifiable bugs in NeXT-supplied software. Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so this is a place for the net community find out about problems when they're discovered. This newsgroup has a very poor signal/noise ratio--all too often bozos post stuff here that really belongs someplace else. It rarely makes sense to crosspost between this and other c.s.n.* newsgroups, but individual reports may be germane to certain non-NeXT- specific groups as well. news:comp.sys.next.hardware Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals, and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible with NEXTSTEP. In most cases, questions about Intel hardware are better asked in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware. Questions about SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for. news:comp.sys.next.marketplace NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be crossposted to any other c.s.n.* newsgroup, but may be crossposted to misc.forsale.computers.workstation or appropriate regional newsgroups. news:comp.sys.next.misc For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post here by definition doesn't belong anywhere else in c.s.n.*--i.e. no crossposting!!! news:comp.sys.next.programmer Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers. This is primarily a forum for advanced technical material. Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions), although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or porting issues are appropriate here. Note that there are several other more "horizontal" newsgroups (comp.lang.objective-c, comp.lang.postscript, comp.os.mach, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, etc.) that may also be of interest. news:comp.sys.next.software This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. news:comp.sys.next.sysadmin Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. Related Newsgroups ================== news:comp.soft-sys.nextstep Like comp.sys.next.software and comp.sys.next.misc combined. Exists because NeXT is a software-only company now, and comp.soft-sys is for discussion of software systems with scope similar to NEXTSTEP. news:comp.lang.objective-c Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. news:comp.object Technical talk about OOP in general. Lots of C++ discussion, but NeXT and Objective-C get quite a bit of attention. At times gets almost philosophical about objects, but then again OOP allows one to be a programmer/philosopher. (The original comp.sys.next no longer exists--do not attempt to post to it.) Exception to the crossposting restrictions: announcements of usenet RFDs or CFVs, when made by the news.announce.newgroups moderator, may be simultaneously crossposted to all c.s.n.* newsgroups. Getting the Newsgroups without getting News =========================================== Thanks to Michael Ross at antigone.com, the main NEXTSTEP groups are now available as a mailing list digest as well. next-nextstep 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. Scott ( eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU ) and Scott Anguish ( sanguish@digifix.com ) Additions from: Greg Anderson ( Greg_Anderson@afs.com ) Michael Pizolato ( alf@epix.net ) Dan Grillo ( dan_grillo@next.com )
From: quinonez@ucla.edu (G. Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: USR and PPro system problem Date: 10 May 1997 23:08:45 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <5l2v5t$17q@argentina.earthlink.net> Hello everyone. Someone has told me that he does not know of anyone running NSFIP3.3 on the PPRO200 and USR33.6 sportster. I realize NXFax does not work with USR, but what about just bringing a connection up to browse the web, pick up mail, etc? Does anyone have this working? I want to upgrade from my P90, but it will be of no use unless I can use the modem. Thanks for your responses. Please email responses to quinonez@ucla.edu gq -- _____________________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@ucla.edu> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SunMail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: inet97@ameritech.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Control: cancel <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 05:35:45 +1 Organization: Internet Communications Inc. Message-ID: <cancel.5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> References: <5l2koq$ipl$4741@nntp0.cleveland.oh.ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "InternetCommunicationsInc" or "summary of auto-cancellations" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Make Money With Your Computer!.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 11 May 1997 13:45:20 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5l4ihg$rig$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) wrote: > In <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > > In article <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) > writes: > > > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > > > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > > > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > > > appreciate it. I can only praise 'squid', fast, reliable, small, easy to install. From the readme: Squid has descended from Harvest, and is a non-forking proxy/cache server which uses asynchronous I/O. The source is freely available, and NEXTSTEP diffs are available from me by request. It's available at: ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/NeXT/ The Squid home page is http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/ --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Message-ID: <EA0H8E.2B9@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:02:37 GMT In article <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Samuel Goldberger <smg@orb.com> writes: > I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda > hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, > and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to > boot from the drive, I get: > > SCSI unexpected msg 1 > sc: unexpected msg > etc. > > I ordinarily associate this with bad termination jumpers, but I've > checked with Seagate tech support, and verified that they are correct. > I've turned off parity. > > Anyone run into this and have a fix? > That's the ordinary behaviour when the drive isn't set to asynch mode. In synch mode almost everything seems to work, just that you get the above error when you try to boot... -- 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: MORE INFO (Re: network faxing w/ NXFax) Message-ID: <EA0HMr.2Bx@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 10:11:15 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > Thanks to all those who have offered help > > The problem (I guess) is that these are two separate NeXT machines... > Each has its own Netinfo which is aware of the other machine. > > This is OK for network printing and NFS but seems to be more challenging > for Faxing... > No that's wrong! Printing and FAXing are almost the same! Only if you got a network printer that has its own IP address printing and FAXing would differ. The output file in the spooling system only differs in a handful of lines for print or FAX! But in general, you must share a NI domain to be able to share printers the easy way. Otherwise there is the mechanism described in the chapter on "Mixed Networks" in the online SysAdmin Manual. And this one should also work for FAX since, as I said, in the spooling queue the files differ only in a few lines of text. -- 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: can't open NetInfo parent domain errors in console Message-ID: <E9uyBx.16E@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5kkru8$9a@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 10:26:21 GMT In article <5kkru8$9a@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) writes: > Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: > >In article <5k8bg4$3ae@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> doyle@aps.org (Mark Doyle) > >writes: > > >> 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? > >> > >No, I don't believe you! > > Well, to the best of my knowledge it is set up that way... ;^) > > >Might be you think you only use 'local' but then you'd never get this > >error. Verify the 'serves' property of the entries in the /machines > >directory. I bet there is some './network' entry in it! > > None have a ./network entry in it. Grepping for serves: > > (next)root:/Users/doyle|2> nigrep serves / > 2 /machines/localhost: serves ./local > 3 /machines/broadcasthost: serves > > So, there are no ./network references. However, broadcasthost defines an > empty 'serves' property, but this seems OK to me. All other entries > (including the one for next and next.aps.org which is the machine in > question) don't define a 'serves' property at all, but again, this > shouldn't matter. > > Another thing worth mentioning is that the machine is setup to be a PPP > server. Perhaps I have that configured slightly wrong? > > Any other ideas or things to check? > I'm left clueless. I've never seen this error without any trace in the 'serves' property. But I have no exerience with PPP. So there's till some chance... -- 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: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Change disk name/label/whatever you call it? Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 18:44:24 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is there a way to change the label/name of a disk (hard drive) without reformatting the whole thing? I've got a disk that currently gets mounted at /Disk and I'd like to change it to 'swapdisk' I've tried disk -L and interactive 'disk' .... looks like the only way is to re-initialize / refomat which I'd much rather not do.... Any help appreciated (the drive is at /dev/sd3a FWIW) TjL
From: salvo@accessone.com (Marc Salvatori) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Change disk name/label/whatever you call it? Date: 11 May 1997 19:30:10 GMT Organization: Brittania Sportswear, LTD Message-ID: <5l56o2$3fo$1@kanga.accessone.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Is there a way to change the label/name of a disk (hard drive) without > reformatting the whole thing? > > Any help appreciated (the drive is at /dev/sd3a FWIW) The following should get the results that you are after, Tim: disk /dev/rsd3a name swapdisk w quit I have done this many times in the past without issue. 'name' is the alternative to 'label', where the latter causes irreparable damage. -- >< Marc J. Salvatori | >< >< mailto:salvo@accessone.com | MIME & NeXTMail are accepted ><
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Message-ID: <E9vK08.96D@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: roehnelt@csulb.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 18:14:31 GMT References: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > I used a DOS startup floppy (fdisk) to partition my drive into 2 partitions. > How can I now format those partitions to a bsd file system? > > anybody have any ideas for a brand spanken new OpenStep 4.1 user/admin? If this is for a boot disk, then the simplest thing to do is to install OpenStep using the floppies and the CD. You should get an opportunity to keep the existing partitioning and select the desired partition to use for OpenStep. If it is for a non-boot disk then you should investigate the /etc/disk program. -- 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 * "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." --- Les Lamport
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Partitioning for NetBoot Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 15:34:50 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0805971534510001@31.detroit-004.mi.dial-access.att.net> Is it really necessary to partition the disk to export the root and /private directories? Is it possible to just create a /hosts/hostname directory and copy the root entries into it? Thanks for the help, Mitch
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 12:29:00 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <33722977.84D4C119@csulb.edu> References: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> <E9vK08.96D@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Allan Noordvyk wrote: > > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > > I used a DOS startup floppy (fdisk) to partition my drive into 3 > partitions. > > How can I now format those partitions to a bsd file system? > > > > anybody have any ideas for a brand spanken new OpenStep 4.1 user/admin? > > If this is for a boot disk, then the simplest thing to do is to install > OpenStep > using the floppies and the CD. You should get an opportunity to keep > the existing partitioning and select the desired partition to use for > OpenStep. > > If it is for a non-boot disk then you should investigate the /etc/disk > program. > I did install OPENSTEP 4.1 from floppy-CD. I selected the partition that I wanted to install onto, and everything worked great. But now how do I make OPENSTEP recognize the other two partitions that exist? I have a 2 Gig partition with OPENSTEP installed on it (boot partition), a 1.9 Gig blank partition, and a 150 MB partiton. I don't know how to access either of the blank partitions... I guess that is my question. (I formatted it this way because BSD doesn't support partitions larger than 2 Gigs) any more help? sean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Help on formatting my 2nd partition on a 4.2 Gig drive Message-ID: <E9vnF6.G8w@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Cc: roehnelt@csulb.edu Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 19:28:18 GMT References: <337150ED.B4F61DCF@csulb.edu> <E9vK08.96D@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <33722977.84D4C119@csulb.edu> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > I did install OPENSTEP 4.1 from floppy-CD. I selected the partition that I > wanted to install onto, and everything worked great. But now how do I make > OPENSTEP recognize the other two partitions that exist? I have a 2 Gig > partition with OPENSTEP installed on it (boot partition), a 1.9 Gig blank > partition, and a 150 MB partiton. I don't know how to access either of the > blank partitions... I guess that is my question. (I formatted it this way > because BSD doesn't support partitions larger than 2 Gigs) Ooops. Sorry I read more into your post than was there. I assumed that you were leaving the other partitions for another operating system. So you want to just make a blank OpenStep file-system on the remaining partitions of the disk and you've already got OpenStep running on the first partition. Its been a while since I've done this but... Assuming that you are using a SCSI disk then you want to become root and type: /usr/etc/newfs /dev/sd0b and /usr/etc/newfs /dev/sd0c Since /dev/sd0b is the second partition of the first SCSI disk and /dev/sd0c is the third partition. If you are using a EIDE disk, then you would type: /usr/etc/newfs /dev/hd0b and /usr/etc/newfs /dev/hd0c If you read the man page for newfs, there are a bunch of options you can pass to it to tune your file system as desired. Once you've created the files systems you'll need to put them in /etc/fstab for them to be visible when you next reboot. This would be something like: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd0b /Foo 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd0c /Bar 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 where /Foo and /Bar are the names under which you would like the disks to appear. Change the sd's to hd's if you are using EIDE disks. -- 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 * "A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." --- Les Lamport
From: John LaViola <jlaviola@iconn.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:41:19 -0400 Organization: i-conn Message-ID: <3376834F.4CF4@iconn.net> References: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Samuel Goldberger wrote: > > I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda > hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, > and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to > boot from the drive, I get: > > SCSI unexpected msg 1 > sc: unexpected msg > etc. > I've used many Barracuda 2LP and 4LP drives and never had this problem. In fact installation was quite uneventful. What SCSI controller are you using? What driver?
From: "Thomas" <thomas@cs.sonoma.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba for NeXTStep 3.3? Date: 12 May 1997 01:49:22 GMT Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Message-ID: <01bc5e75$3d6efe00$6ea66bc7@206.170.168.35.jps.net> References: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> Hi. Thanks for the advice and such. Oddly the samba sources ain't on the NeXT archives (peanuts or anywhere else). I understand that they're included with 4.1 but am not really interested in running it. Maybe I'm finally becoming an old man and getting stubborn. For 3.3 compatability I had to hack the codebase a bit to get it to compile but... it seems to work perfectly now. Windoze networking is _definitely_ flaky but once you get things working the first time it works o.k. Thanks, Thomas Thomas Poff <thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu> wrote in article <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net>... > > Hi, > > Are there any networking solutions that allow Windows '95/NT connectivity > to NeXTStep? I'd like to add a couple of NeXT machines to our network > but haven't found anything except "rumba," which does the opposite of > what samba does (i.e. allows client but not servers). > > Thanks, > Thomas > > -- > <>+<> ////// __v__ __\/__ > `\|||/ /---\ """"""" | _ - | (_____) . / ^ _ \ . > (q p) | o o | <^-@-@-^> (| o O |) .( O O ), |\| (o)(o) |/| > _ooO_<_>_Ooo_ooO_U_Ooo_ooO__v__Ooo_ooO_u_Ooo_ooO__(_)__Ooa__oOO_()_OOo___ > [_____}_____!____.}_____{_____|_____}_____i____.}_____!_____{_____}_____] > __.}____.|_____{_____!____.}_____|_____{.____}_____|_____}_____|_____!___ > [_____{_____}_____|_____}_____i_____}_____|_____}_____i_____{_____}_____] >
From: "Scott A. Perry" <sperry@os-knight.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Trying to install NextStep 3.3 on Sparc 5 w/dual etherne Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:28:03 -0500 Organization: OS-Knight Corp. Message-ID: <33768E43.61E3@os-knight.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Help, I am trying to install NextStep 3.3 for Sparc on a Sparc 5 that has a SCSI/Ethernet SBus card in it. I try booting and it hangs on the network interface initialization. Are there any drivers that I can apply to get past this hump? (Removing the SBus card is not an option). Thanks in Advance. Desperately Seeking Solution, Scott A. Perry sperry@os-knight.com P.S. Could you please email me as I don't get a chance to read this group as often as I'd like (I just can't seem to get away from those 4 hours/night of sleep). Again, thanks. Scott
From: Mark Sirota <msirota@isc.upenn.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Exabyte 8500 on NeXT? Followup-To: poster Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 16:44:04 -0400 Organization: University of Pennsylvania, ISC Network Engineering Message-ID: <33723B14.5C3E@isc.upenn.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We've got an old NeXT system running NeXT Mach 3.3, to which we are trying to attach an Exabyte 8500 8mm tape drive. The device is seen, and we can talk to it as either /dev/rst0 or /dev/rxt0. However, we cannot write to it. We get "unexpected EOF" immediately. We're guessing that maybe the system only understands the 8200 (2.3gb) drives, and not the 8500 (5gb) drives, because it's too old or something. What do we need to do in order to be able to write to this drive? Please reply via e-mail; I will summarize if there is interest. -- Mark Sirota, Network Systems Engineer University of Pennsylvania, Information Systems and Computing msirota@isc.upenn.edu, 215/573-7214
From: thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu (Thomas Poff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba for NeXTStep 3.3? Date: 9 May 1997 00:44:58 GMT Organization: Information Resources and Technology Message-ID: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> Hi, Are there any networking solutions that allow Windows '95/NT connectivity to NeXTStep? I'd like to add a couple of NeXT machines to our network but haven't found anything except "rumba," which does the opposite of what samba does (i.e. allows client but not servers). Thanks, Thomas -- <>+<> ////// __v__ __\/__ `\|||/ /---\ """"""" | _ - | (_____) . / ^ _ \ . (q p) | o o | <^-@-@-^> (| o O |) .( O O ), |\| (o)(o) |/| _ooO_<_>_Ooo_ooO_U_Ooo_ooO__v__Ooo_ooO_u_Ooo_ooO__(_)__Ooa__oOO_()_OOo___ [_____}_____!____.}_____{_____|_____}_____i____.}_____!_____{_____}_____] __.}____.|_____{_____!____.}_____|_____{.____}_____|_____}_____|_____!___ [_____{_____}_____|_____}_____i_____}_____|_____}_____i_____{_____}_____]
From: psybeast@pond.com (PsyBeast) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Just Got a NeXT "Cube" Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 01:18:29 -0500 Organization: the Dragon Distribution: inet Message-ID: <psybeast-ya02408000R1205970118290001@news.pond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As of Friday, I now have a NeXT "Cube" running around my apartment, ethernet that is. The only major problem at this stage of the game, is that I need a Clean New OS install. The cube came with what appears to be all the basic manuals, and a blank 256MB MO cartridge... and NOTHING else!!!! When I log on as root, the icons in my apps dock are generic icons, and I have NO /NextApps directory/folder... All I have is /NextDeveloper, Library, Tour... and therefor, NO services... I want to reformat the drive... and begin FRESH... I have files that have NOT been touched since 1990... I need an OS... I did manage to upgrade the cube to 28MBs of RAM, and it already comes with an '040 with a 660HD and MO drive... no floppy... I want to connect it to my existing HOME ethernet network, and turn it into a possible print/file server... I did get the NeXT LaserWriter with it... I already have a PMac 7100/66/2xCD/56MB RAM/1GB HD... MacIIci 32MB/250 HD/DayStar cache card... Mac SE 4/80... HP DeskWriter w/Mini EtherPrint box... all connected with Cat 5 to a Dayna MiniHub-8... I have spent a good part of the weekend reading what I have in print, including the "Upgrading to Release 2.0", and I have surfed the various Net homepages, and found some GREAT FUTURE INFO... but, I have a really operating OS... In my searches, I was not able to find a place, where I could download ANY version... Did I miss something?? At NeXTes homepage, I found the multiple-K stuff without a problem, I am NOT an Enterprise... I just want to get a simple basic OS... Bonuses would be WriteNow... Mathematica... Websters... etc... I have emailed the folks at NeXT... and seeing it was the weekend, I really did not expect to hear anything til Monday... I did get an AutoAnswer from there mailer... Where can I find and OS!! I am willing to spend a couple hundred bucks for a LEGAL copy (factory sealed). Or, I do have a T1 at work and a major credit card... SCSI storage is NOT a problem... I carry a 3.2GBs HD around for work... I also have a 7300/180 with 2GBs... At home, externally, there is a 500HD, 1GB HD, 230HD 3.5" MO, 45MB SyQuest, and a 1xCD... I am also planning to hookup a TeleBit T-3000... In the new apartment, I'm looking at ISDN... July 1st time frame... In the new apartment, it looks like there will be at least three WinTels; 386/Win3.X, 486/Win95, 596/NT4 added to the HomeNet... Looking to go to TCP/IP... Again, after all that background info, I come back to my basic question... Where can I get a LEGAL version of a NeXT OS that will run on a NeXT 040/28MB RAM/660MB HD/256MB MO???? I you have any other comments, please send them along to me... Please don't spam... If I did miss something... Sorry, but I could not easily find it in the FAQs online... I have done some reading in my life, and I generally enjoy useful, practical information... I also submit the above with the knowledge that MacOS 8.0 is just around the corner, and Rhapsody's light might just be seen at the end of the WWDC next week's tunnel. Thanks in advance, Psybeast psybeast@pond.com www.pond.com/~psybeast ----- "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet" - Chinese future cookie
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BSD libDB 1.85 ported to NS3.3? Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:11:24 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171054.6380A-100000@kira> References: <33712bd2.247407587@news.dfw.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Steven R. Staton" <steve@deltos.com> In-Reply-To: <33712bd2.247407587@news.dfw.net> Have you seen ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.README TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Finding the second partition Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 17:18:33 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508171542.6380B-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hey all I've got a second partition somewhere, I think it is formatted for WinNT... I'd like to use it for swapspace or storage space under OpenStep. Problem is I can't seem to find it... the partition that is... I've tried mount -t dos /dev/sd0[a-h] /Partition (I'm not sure which it is... I think sd0h) What am I doing wrong? TjL
From: curtis@pencom.com (Curtis Preston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DUMP: (This should not happen)bread from /dev/rsd0a [block 207800]: Date: 12 May 1997 06:21:13 GMT Organization: Pencom Systems Incorporated Message-ID: <09970411231834.OUI52.curtis@pencom.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.90.970429151720.11868C-100000@bologna.nettuno.it> This usually means either a bad disk, bad file system, or a file system that is significantly changing underneath you. -- I am currently writing a book for O'Reilly Publishing about enterprise backup and recovery, and would really appreciate hearing anything you would like to ask me or tell me. If you have problems with something, then others will as well. Can you think of anything else that should go in such a book?
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Samba for NeXTStep 3.3? Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 20:44:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970508204317.2587G-100000@kira> References: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Thomas Poff <thomas@zippy.sonoma.edu> In-Reply-To: <5kts2a$e8o$1@nuke.csu.net> You should be able to get samba to compile under NS. Others have reported doing so TjL ps the web page for samba is http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/
From: Håkan Jonsson <Hakan_Johnsson@vtc.volvo.se> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Q: Users can not login Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:54:03 +0200 Organization: Volvo Truck Corporation Message-ID: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! After a crash the other day of my Intel machine running NS 3.3 a couple of tool files in Workspace.app became corrupt. I fixed this by copying them from the NS3.3 CD and things seemed to be OK again. Wrong! Now only root can login, all other users get trown out immediately. Restoring the old Workspace.app files does not work. What shall I do? What should I have done? /Hakan Jonsson
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syslog(3) buffer overrun - What NextStep versions? Date: 12 May 1997 15:39:28 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> syslog(3) is not vulnerable to buffer overrun on my 3.3 system. If you've verified that you have an overrun on your system, can you please tell me what version of NextStep was vulnerable? 3.2 and before? Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dual monitor config under OS 4.1? Date: 12 May 1997 15:17:47 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5l7car$p0d$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Hi, Has anyone had any success in getting a dual headed Intel box to work under OPENSTEP 4.1? I've tried using two Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 cards or one of those and an ATI Mach64 card, but no joy. The driver for Display0 always loads smoothly, but the Display1 driver just won't play ball. Either there is a port allocation conflict --- even if Configure.app is happilly saying that there are no conflicts --- or I get a screenfull of error messages unpleasantly full of hexadecimal which could be summarized as saying that there is a major problem with the video BIOS. Any clues would be gratefully received. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: thompson@shell3.ba.best.com (Eric Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to dual-boot NT4 and Openstep 4.x? Date: 12 May 1997 09:35:16 -0700 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories Message-ID: <5l7gs4$1c5$1@shell3.ba.best.com> I may have an opportunity to use a machine to dual-boot NT4 and OpenStep for Intel. What's the wisdom on methods of installing each of these; does NT4 go first, then OpenStep? If I have a 1gb boot disk, can I split it in half and expect reasonable (if minimal) performance from each? Any other caveats or advice (or pointers to URLs) appreciated! thanks, Eric
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: Re: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Message-ID: <EA1HwL.BK8@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:14:45 GMT In article <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> ** Craig Cook ** <cookca@cs.purdue.edu> writes: > I'm using OnmiWeb 2 and am trying to set it's http requests to use the > proxy server I have running on my PC machine. > > Can it be configured to use a proxy server? > > thanks > Craig > > Yes, OmniWeb supports proxy servers. Type in your proxy-server e.g. http://your_proxy:8080/ and and http, ftp and gopher als protocoll. Works fine. MaX(T) -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: mgoedel@m.isar.de Subject: Re: proxy server Message-ID: <EA1HuH.BJH@muaddib.m.isar.de> Sender: mgoedel@muaddib.m.isar.de (Maximilian Goedel) Organization: Michael Maximilian Goedel References: <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:13:29 GMT In article <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) writes: > In <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> mgoedel@m.isar.de wrote: > > In article <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) > writes: > > > Does any one have any kind of proxy server running on a nextstep > > > machine? I'm interested in having it dial up via ppp and then proxy > > > for the rest of my machines. If anyone has any info on this I would > > > appreciate it. > > > > > > thanks > > > vince > > > > A version of apache, which can be configures as proxy is avaible on several > > NeXT related website (like ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de) > > The good old CERN httpd works fine as a proxy as well. I have it running on a > 040 NeXT with PPP. I'm surfing from a Linux box (Netscape) to the NeXT proxy, > good solution. > > > Yes I know. It's also running on my machine. Hey Marcus, did you get the binaries for the cern? MaX(T) -- __ Michael Maximilian Goedel | Agilolfinger Platz 10 /\_\ KARSTADT AG Unternehmensbereich IW | 81543 Muenchen \/_/ Sysadmin der cyberb@r | Tel.: 049 89 652918 NeXTSTEP! mgoedel@m.isar.de (NeXT) | Work: 049 89 2902-5418
From: holger@object-factory.com.NOSPAM (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: proxy server Date: 12 May 1997 17:41:58 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <5l7kp6$amk$1@leonie.object-factory.com> References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <E9u6En.6yt@muaddib.m.isar.de> <1997May9.185001.550@gamelan.shnet.org> <5l4ihg$rig$1@wwwproxy.seicom.net> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > I can only praise 'squid', fast, reliable, small, easy to install. Yeah, but.. > From the readme: > > Squid has descended from Harvest, and is a non-forking proxy/cache server > which uses asynchronous I/O. The source is freely available, and NEXTSTEP > diffs are available from me by request. > > It's available at: > > ftp://ftp.schnet.edu.au/pub/lukeh/NeXT/ > > The Squid home page is > http://www.nlanr.net/Squid/ ..unfortunately I couldn't get any version later than 1.1.8 to work properly. They compile (courtesy the patches from Gerben Wieda, I think) but just refuse to connect. No errors in the logs - any client connection is simply refused. Does anybody know the trick? Holger
From: Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: vi segmentation fault Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 13:47:18 -0700 Organization: Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Message-ID: <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It wasn't doing it before...as they say. **************************** Chris Stuart Systems Administrator University of California, San Diego Center for Research in Computing and the Arts cstuart@ucsd.edu (619) 534-0184 ****************************
From: Serguei Bakhteiarov <serge@conextions.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to dual-boot NT4 and Openstep 4.x? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:02:16 -0400 Organization: Conextions, Inc. Message-ID: <33777748.705007F8@conextions.com> References: <5l7gs4$1c5$1@shell3.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Thompson wrote: > > I may have an opportunity to use a machine to dual-boot NT4 and OpenStep > for Intel. What's the wisdom on methods of installing each of these; does > NT4 go first, then OpenStep? If I have a 1gb boot disk, can I split it > in half and expect reasonable (if minimal) performance from each? > > Any other caveats or advice (or pointers to URLs) appreciated! > > thanks, > Eric I'd recommend to install OpenStep first and then NT, I did not have any problems with this. You certainly can split the fist HD. The minimum partitions (for developer) can be no less than 500Mb though... for the OpenStep. good luck serge
From: Serguei Bakhteiarov <serge@conextions.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mac with RJ45 and NeXT station; how to connect? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 16:07:59 -0400 Organization: Conextions, Inc. Message-ID: <3377789F.7F95449D@conextions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi folks, I bought Mac for my daughter and we want to use my black hardware via twisted pair. My first goal is: to share black NeXT printer. I understand that, there is a Samba which could share the Printer. So what I have to do from the black side of the problem is not a big deal for me. The most difficult thing is the Mac. 1. Can i connect Mac and NeXT using twisted pair (RJ 45) directly without hub? 2. What should I do on the Mac (Mac OS 7.5) side to see the printer? many thanks in advance, please respond to my e-mail address: serge@conextions.com serge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <markusg@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: proxy server Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xyb9k5p7b.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <5ko3n9$b5g$1@news2.gte.net> <5kv2is$qhh$1@news.th-darmstadt.de> <5kvb77$go0$1@news13.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:56:55 GMT >>>>> "VK" == Vincent Koser <vkoser@biggun.com> writes: VK> So this [squid] is a web/ftp proxy. Can't I get a proxy that VK> does all types of traffic? squid also serves as a proxy/cache for ftp. Markus G -- http://www.muc.de/~mgloede/A/URL/says/more/than/thousand/words/
From: Tom ONeil <oneilts@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rookie - need FAQ/sources Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 17:22:00 -0500 Organization: Microsoftically Impaired Message-ID: <33779808.2B16@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit to all; I am a Solaris Admin who just inherited a slew of Next machines. Having problems w/ "me" icon not appearing at the top of the tree, and some other minor glitches. Where is the FAQ for this group, and does anyone know where I can get some documentation on sys admin? I will be monitoring this newsgroup, and e-mail replies are appreciated. Tom ONeil "E Pluribus Unix"
From: tcondon@isp.net (Tom Condon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 23:41:46 -0700 Message-ID: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> I have received my Prelude to Rhapsody goodies today and have spent much of the evening setting up my PC. I have one problem. Does anyone know how to get OpenStep Mach setup to look for a DNS server. I found a reference in one of the online Docs thats says all I have to do is create a "/etc/resolv.conf" file. I have created it. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK! Any Ideas? -- Tom Condon
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslog(3) buffer overrun - What NextStep versions? Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 21:49:53 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1205972149530001@slip-125-9.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> In article <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg>, csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) wrote: >syslog(3) is not vulnerable to buffer overrun on my 3.3 system. Really??? That's interesting. Are you *sure*? There is a test program (syslogerr) included in http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/newlog-1.0.4.tar.gz Run it and see that is does not die with a segmetation fault. Then run syslogerr-fix (which was compiled with the new syslog library). Note that it terminates normally: % syslogerr Before Segmentation fault % syslogerr-fix Before After % > >If you've verified that you have an overrun on your system, can you please >tell me what version of NextStep was vulnerable? 3.2 and before? NS3.3 for HPPA is definitely vulnerable. Jacques Distler
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: Setting a web browser to a proxy server? Message-ID: <1997May12.192324.859@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: luomat@peak.org Organization: Disorganization References: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970510102215.15031B-100000@lore.cs.purdue.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510145837.9036I-100000@kira> Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 19:23:24 GMT In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510145837.9036I-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > FYI: OmniWeb 2.5 was just released > > There is a set of proxy preferences in OmniWeb (at least in 2.5). > > I'm not sure that it would do what you want, but it might... > Omniweb can use proxies of course. Works fine.
From: Grant Passmore<skaboy@usa.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Infusion Subject: Infusion BBS Software Message-ID: <33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Date: 12 May 97 00:00:32 GMT I just thought I'd let everyone know.... There is finally a BBS Software with all of the great features of OBV/2 and Iniquity, but without the bugs and bad support. Infusion BBS Software is a new generation in BBS Software, modeled after OBV/2 and Iniquity with everything that the sysop can imagine..and more. Some basic features are: o Multi-node upto 255 concurrent users o Light-bar support [arrow keys] o Requires NO Fossil Driver [selectable FOSSIL, ASYNC, and Digiboard for each node] o Online Configuration [menu editor, string editor, evemt editor, node editor, system editor, etc] o Pipe Color Codes o MCI Codes o Powerful scripting language o Internal One-Liners, Blacklist, voting booth, etc o Internal Z-Modem, X-Modem, Y-Modem, Y-modem-g [no limit to external protocols] o Internal COMM Program with internal protocols, Auto Up/DL o Great support o Basically all of the great features of OBV/2 and Iniquity combined Infusion has been picked up by fuEl [international art group], and Infusion 1.0th will be released June 10th. Come to the Infusion Home-Page at http://web.wt.net/~sparky/ibbs/ and jump into the JAVA Based Chatroom, or come to the ANNEX, the official Infusion IRC Server [irc.annex.net] #infusion / #bbs send the author skaboy101 [Grant Passmore] E-mail at skaboy@usa.net -lata skaboy101
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Date: 13 May 1997 06:26:01 GMT Control: cancel <33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Message-ID: <cancel.33765da0.1@data.wt.net> Sender: Grant Passmore<skaboy@usa.net> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: syslog(3) buffer overrun - What NextStep versions? Date: 13 May 1997 11:56:01 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5l9ksh$lbc$2@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> <distler-1205972149530001@slip-125-9.ots.utexas.edu> distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) wrote: >Really??? That's interesting. Are you *sure*? There is a test program Jacques, Sorry, you're right. 3.3 Intel is indeed vulnerable to syslog(3) overflow. I wasn't testing with multiple parameters. :-( Rgds, Song
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel Control: cancel <5l7djg$fc1$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> Date: 13 May 1997 11:53:23 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5l9knj$lbc$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> cancel
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz drive & OS4.1? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:46:57 +0100 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <337870D1.27A0@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone has got a 1gb Jaz drive working with OS.41 on Intel? If so, is there anything I should know before purchase? TIA, C. charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Jaz drive & OS4.1? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 14:47:22 +0100 Organization: NCast Communications Message-ID: <337870EA.13F1@ncast.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all - I'm wondering if anyone has got a 1gb Jaz drive working with OS4.1 on Intel? If so, is there anything I should know pre-purchase? TIA, C. charlesa@ncast.co.uk
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question about partitions Date: 13 May 1997 15:35:09 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I know about the 2Gb partition limit for OpenStep, but during a recent installation I may have got the number wrong. I asked for a partition size of 2079 (thinking it was in in units of decimal megabytes), and so now I have a Workspace that claims there is 250M free when there should be about 1500M free. What number should I specify for a maximum partition size? Sorry if there is a FAQ on this somewhere I haven't found. William Clocksin
From: gh@smart.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't ping router Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:40:23 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33788B67.7B4@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm not getting a response when I ping my router and want to make sure everything is configured correctly with NEXTSTEP before concluding that the router is broken. Entering 'netstat -rn' returns: Routing tables Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 298 lo0 default 192.168.100.101 UG 0 0 en0 192.168.100 192.168.100.102 U 4 1280 en0 My router, an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px, has the address 192.168.100.101 and my computer's address is 192.168.100.102. When I ping the router, it hangs, not returning any packets. When I ping the computer, it returns all packets immediately. It also returns all packets immediately when I ping 192.168.100.0 and 192.168.100.255. Does anyone know if this is configured correctly? --Greg
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Jaz drive & OS4.1? Date: 13 May 1997 11:02:05 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5la6qd$89t@xmission.xmission.com> References: <337870D1.27A0@ncast.co.uk> Charles Ashley <charlesa@ncast.co.uk> wrote: : I'm wondering if anyone has got a 1gb Jaz drive working with OS.41 on : Intel? Yes. I have. If so, is there anything I should know before purchase? You will need a custom disktab to format it in NeXTstep format. The disktab is available from Apple/NeXT. DOS and Mac formats work out of the box. ......................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 17:42:54 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > I know about the 2Gb partition limit for OpenStep, but during a recent > installation I may have got the number wrong. I asked for a partition size > of 2079 (thinking it was in in units of decimal megabytes), and so now I > have a Workspace that claims there is 250M free when there should be about > 1500M free. What number should I specify for a maximum partition size? > Sorry if there is a FAQ on this somewhere I haven't found. > > William Clocksin I just had a problem like this... but yes, you should have entered 2047 MB. I had OS4.1 automatically format my 4.2 Gig drive, and I had to throw eway 52 MB, otherwise it would tell me I have only 53 MB left, and thus said I didn't have enough disk space to continue the install. After I threw eway the 53 MB it auto partitioned and formated my disk into 4 1-Gig partitions... sean
From: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Change disk name/label/whatever you call it? Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 17:46:26 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <33790B61.F8B85304@csulb.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> <5l56o2$3fo$1@kanga.accessone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marc Salvatori wrote: > > In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970510184041.29372D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > > Is there a way to change the label/name of a disk (hard drive) without > > reformatting the whole thing? > > > > Any help appreciated (the drive is at /dev/sd3a FWIW) you could also do this in /etc/fstab I think... something like /dev/sd3a /NewDiskName 4.3 rw,noquota 1 2 sean
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Help: Configuring ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda for Black Hardware Date: 13 May 1997 23:13:40 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <5lasj4$5vk$1@radjah.navigator.de> References: <337429D3.6B6D@orb.com> <3376834F.4CF4@iconn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: jlaviola@iconn.net In <3376834F.4CF4@iconn.net> John LaViola wrote: > Samuel Goldberger wrote: > > > > I've run into a wierd problem with a Seagate ST32550N 2 gig Barracuda > > hard drive. I've successfully attached the drive to my Turbo station, > > and then intialized and built it under 3.3. However, when I attempt to > > boot from the drive, I get: > > > > SCSI unexpected msg 1 > > sc: unexpected msg > > etc. > > > > I've used many Barracuda 2LP and 4LP drives and never had this problem. > In fact installation was quite uneventful. What SCSI controller are you > using? What driver? Black hardware hasn't a big amount of different SCSI controllers and drivers. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: MORE INFO (Re: network faxing w/ NXFax) Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:23:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970513202018.6364I-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970509233015.1826B-100000@kira> <EA0HMr.2Bx@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Peter.Nitezki@bku.db.de In-Reply-To: <EA0HMr.2Bx@nidat.sub.org> > No that's wrong! Printing and FAXing are almost the same! Only if you > got a network printer that has its own IP address printing and FAXing > would differ. The output file in the spooling system only differs in a > handful of lines for print or FAX! Yes it would seem that would be true since the spooling takes place much the same way as faxing... > But in general, you must share a NI domain to be able to share printers > the easy way. Otherwise there is the mechanism described in the chapter > on "Mixed Networks" in the online SysAdmin Manual. And this one should > also work for FAX since, as I said, in the spooling queue the files differ > only in a few lines of text. Yes I will have to cehck this out since I don't seem to have the 'easy way' setup right now.... Thanks for the pointers... now that finals are done I should be able to get this working..... well, except that I'm moving this week too.. 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: OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:26:03 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970513202418.6364J-100000@kira> References: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Tom Condon <tcondon@isp.net> In-Reply-To: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> On Sun, 11 May 1997, Tom Condon wrote: > I have received my Prelude to Rhapsody goodies today :-P > of the evening setting up my PC. I have one problem. Does anyone know > how to get OpenStep Mach setup to look for a DNS server. I found a > reference in one of the online Docs thats says all I have to do is create > a "/etc/resolv.conf" file. I have created it. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK! > Any Ideas? Didya put the IP of a nameserver in the file, something like this: domain peak.org nameserver 198.68.23.27 nameserver 207.98.65.2 nameserver 128.193.4.20 You should use differetn IPs but that is how it should be setup... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Users can not login Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 20:28:44 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970513202734.6364K-100000@kira> References: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan_Jonsson?= <Hakan_Johnsson@vtc.volvo.se> In-Reply-To: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> My guess is that some of the files are not setuid or don't have the read bits turns on for non-root/wheel members? Check vs the CD to see if the permissions are the same... TjL
From: Horst_Dries@stratus.com (Horst Dries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: printer description file not available Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:27:10 GMT Organization: stratus.com Message-ID: <337b76ec.7371485@news> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Since the installation of OpenStep 4.1,I can't print to a HP LaserJet network printer anymore. I configured the printer with PrintManager , defined it as "access:private", "Communications:HP JetDirect" and assigned the correct IP address to it. When I try to print to that printer, the error message "printer description file not available " appears . Any hints are very appreciated. thanks & regards Horst
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: 14 May 1997 10:14:40 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> Cc: roehnelt@csulb.edu In <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> roehnelt@csulb.edu wrote: > William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk wrote: > > > > I know about the 2Gb partition limit for OpenStep, but during a recent > > installation I may have got the number wrong. I asked for a partition size > > of 2079 (thinking it was in in units of decimal megabytes), and so now I > > have a Workspace that claims there is 250M free when there should be about > > 1500M free. What number should I specify for a maximum partition size? > > Sorry if there is a FAQ on this somewhere I haven't found. > > > > William Clocksin > > I just had a problem like this... but yes, you should have entered 2047 MB. > > I had OS4.1 automatically format my 4.2 Gig drive, and I had to throw eway 52 > MB, otherwise it would tell me I have only 53 MB left, and thus said I didn't > have enough disk space to continue the install. > > After I threw eway the 53 MB it auto partitioned and formated my disk into 4 > 1-Gig partitions... If you can attach your disk temporarily to another NeXT box, or manage to boot single user off the CD Rom, you can partition a 2 -- 4 Gb disk into a 2Gb partition plus another partition with the rest of the space by the command: disk -h hostname -l diskname -i -b -p 2097152 /dev/rsd1a Note that the man page for disk says this about the -p flag: -p partitionsize The first partition of a two-partition disk will be partitionsize, and the second partition uses the remainder of the disk. The partitionsize is in units of the native blocksize of the device (minimum 1K). The -p option only has meaning when used with -i. In practice this means specify the partition size in kilobyte blocks for all standard disks with 512b or 1024b blocks. YMMV if you're a fan of using larger block sizes. If you want to get any fancier than that you're going to have to write a custom disktab entry: in theory with that you can create upto eight partitions per disk, for a maximum disk sie of 16Gb... Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: "Paul Summermatter" <paulrs@lgs-systems.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dump Date: 14 May 1997 12:32:00 GMT Organization: LGS Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> Hello All, We recently purchased a Sony HyperDAT II tape drive so that we can perform more thorough backups of our systems. I've been experiencing a lot of problems and am trying to determine if the problem lies in the hardware or my understanding of the use of tapes for backup. There are three machines on our network for which I would like to have a nightly backup. The tape drive is hooked up to an intel machine; let's call it intelbox. The other two machines are a cube and turbo slab; let's call them cube and slab. I've written a simple script which dumps the intelbox first, then rsh's to slab and rdump its hard drive to intelbox:/dev/nrst0, and finally rsh's to cube and rdumps to intelbox:/dev/nrst0. My first problem is that the rdump from cube never works. I always get a tape write error or an I/O error. In an attempt to trouble shoot the problem, I connected the tape drive directly to the cube and did a dump. Again I got tape write errors ( they have occurred any where from right at the outset of the dump to as far as 56% of the way completed). I have tried this on at least ten different occasions. To verify that the tapes are good, I successfully dump another machine, say slab, and then rewind the tape and try to dump cube, still with no success. That's major problem number one, as cube is our file server. One thing I should note about cube is that it has two internal hard drives. I'm trying to back up only sd0a. I don't want to take out the other drive until I have successfully dumped to tape. My second problem is with multiple dumps on a single tape. Let's say I successfully dump intelbox and then dump slab to the same tape. dump says it's rewinding the tape at the end of each dump, but it appears that this messsage is just wrong. I never hear the tape rewinding and nothing seems to be going on. My understanding is that if I want to now restore slab, since it is second on the tape, I rewind the tape 'mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind', and fast forward past the first file, 'mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 1', and execute 'restore -if /dev/nrst0'. I've also tried this on multiple occasions and each time I get the message, 'Tape/disk read error while restoring <directory file - name unknown>'. So, even though dump claims the dump from slab was successful, I cannot seem to restore. I've tried reversing the order of the dump, slab first and then intelbox, and it still seems that I can restore only from the first file on disk. Is there anything obvious which I am missing? I really know very little about this, help from a friend, man pages, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please cc:paulrs@lgs-systems.com, as I don't always get to read this newsgroup. Regards, Paul paulrs@lgs-systems.com
From: Trey or Gwen McClendon <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't ping router Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 08:10:36 -0500 Organization: haphazard Message-ID: <3379B9CC.1C5C@hiwaay.net> References: <33788B67.7B4@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gh@smart.net Having just installed my first Pipeline 75, I might take a guess. If you are running with an AUI to BNC transceiver made by Allied Telesyn, it might be getting too hot and failing. To test this, take it off for a few minutes and let it cool. Then connect it and ping within about 20 seconds. If it works, the transceiver is overheating (or just plain defective). I ordered an HP transceiver that works with a supply of 10.x to 15.8 volts. The Ascend supplies 15, but the AT transceiver expects 12, so it gets too hot. The IEEE spec is for 12 or 15. trey gh@smart.net wrote: > > I'm not getting a response when I ping my router > and want to make sure everything is configured > correctly with NEXTSTEP before concluding that > the router is broken. > > Entering 'netstat -rn' returns: > Routing tables > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 298 lo0 > default 192.168.100.101 UG 0 0 en0 > 192.168.100 192.168.100.102 U 4 1280 en0 > > My router, an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px, has the address > 192.168.100.101 and my computer's address is 192.168.100.102. > When I ping the router, it hangs, not returning any packets. > When I ping the computer, it returns all packets immediately. > It also returns all packets immediately when I ping > 192.168.100.0 and 192.168.100.255. > > Does anyone know if this is configured correctly? > > --Greg
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 06:30:56 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> > In practice this means specify the partition size in kilobyte blocks for all > standard disks with 512b or 1024b blocks. YMMV if you're a fan of using > larger block sizes. I believe that Intel hardware cannot boot off of anything but 512 blocksize.... but you should be able to mount a 1024 drive as a secondary drive.... FWIW I think for most folks 1024 is a waste of space, but that's just MO TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No such device or address? Message-ID: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> From: edx@cc.usu.edu Date: 14 May 97 09:05:27 MDT Distribution: world I'm trying to install an old 1 Gig drive on my cube. Ordinarily, when the machine boots with a new disk on it, it will prompt me if I want to format/install a filesystem. This time, it didn't do that. When I attempt a newfs, it complains that the disk has no label. When I try to put a label on the disk using the "disk -l /dev/rsd1a" command, it complains that there is "no such device or address". What gives here? What is triggering the disk utility to complain about no device? All other SCSI utilities (ie SCSIinquirer and SCSI_Inspector find the drive and report its parameters correctly. Any tips/help/advice appreciated.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device or address? Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 16:57:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514165638.4149A-100000@kira> References: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: edx@cc.usu.edu In-Reply-To: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> > When I attempt a newfs, it complains that the disk has > no label. When I try to put a label on the disk using > the "disk -l /dev/rsd1a" command, it complains that > there is "no such device or address". I take it that the drive is sd1a and not sd0a? Did you try BuildDisk? What version of the OS are you working on? TjL
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: Users can not login Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 20:42:01 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snSZjNe00iV104EjBV@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <337712EB.60E6@vtc.volvo.se> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 12-May-97 Q: Users can not login by Hkan Jonsson <Hakan_J@? > After a crash the other day of my Intel machine running NS 3.3 a couple > of tool files in Workspace.app became corrupt. I fixed this by copying > them from the NS3.3 CD and things seemed to be OK again. Wrong! Now only > root can login, all other users get trown out immediately. Restoring the > old Workspace.app files does not work. The odds are very good that you've lost the setuid bit on Workspace. Do a 'chmod u+s /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace' and see whether that fixes things. You should use 'tar' to copy filesystem hierarchies like so: cd fromdir; tar cf - . | (cd todir; tar xfp -) ...if you want to avoid changing the permissions inappropriately. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't ping router Date: 15 May 1997 05:16:42 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5le67q$a8c$1@news.nuri.net> References: <33788B67.7B4@smart.net> gh@smart.net wrote: > I'm not getting a response when I ping my router > and want to make sure everything is configured > correctly with NEXTSTEP before concluding that > the router is broken. > Entering 'netstat -rn' returns: > Routing tables > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 2 298 lo0 > default 192.168.100.101 UG 0 0 en0 > 192.168.100 192.168.100.102 U 4 1280 en0 > My router, an Ascend Pipeline 25 Px, has the address > 192.168.100.101 and my computer's address is 192.168.100.102. > When I ping the router, it hangs, not returning any packets. > When I ping the computer, it returns all packets immediately. > It also returns all packets immediately when I ping > 192.168.100.0 and 192.168.100.255. > Does anyone know if this is configured correctly? > --Greg -- Your routing configuration seems okay and thus I think that the problem is your router. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineering Team phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: 15 May 1997 08:31:45 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <33790A8E.76E4ED5F@csulb.edu> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > In practice this means specify the partition size in kilobyte blocks for all > > standard disks with 512b or 1024b blocks. YMMV if you're a fan of using > > larger block sizes. > > I believe that Intel hardware cannot boot off of anything but 512 > blocksize.... but you should be able to mount a 1024 drive as a secondary > drive.... > > FWIW I think for most folks 1024 is a waste of space, but that's just MO It's a toss-up, as ever. With larger block sizes, you can get better IO throughput and less of the disk space is taken up by the filesystem overhead, but each file, even if it is only a byte long, will eat up at least one filesystem block. So, as Tim says, it can be a big waste of space. Use small block sizes on partitions where there are lots of small files, eg. news spools, and larger block sizes where you keep lots of big files, like images or databases. 512b or 1024b blocks are about right for a Unix system disk and for most typical user home directories. Most SCSI disks come preformatted with 512b blocks, and not all will support larger sizes. Of course, if you're going to go to the trouble of tweaking your filesystem to this extent, you will probably want to account for the rotational speed of your drives, and to adjust the number of bytes per inode and so forth. Rotational speed can make quite a big difference: by default, the disktab supplied with NeXT systems assumes a 3600 rpm disk, whereas disks nowadays tend to operate at 5400 rpm or 7200 rpm. The first results in pretty close to pessimal performance, whilst the second is fairly good. Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: William.Clocksin@CL.cam.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: DE500 network card under OpenStep 4.1 Date: 15 May 1997 13:02:40 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5lf1hg$17j@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> I'm trying to configure a DE500 ethernet card under OpenStep 4.1, without success. I've tested the card and cable on another machine (running another operating system) OK; the green light comes on indicating an electrical connection; and "ifconfig en0" gives results saying the card is up, etc. Yet, no network traffic takes place (can't ping, etc). Hostconfig is all correct. Is there a problem with the driver? I'm using version 4.02 of the DE500 driver (10Mb/s option), and I don't see an alternative or a newer version. Can anyone help? William Clocksin Computer Laboratory
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Latest Apache? Date: 15 May 1997 18:02:11 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5lfj33$8tg$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has any success compiling the latest Apache?? The only version binaries I can find is Apache 1.0 on (www.apache.org), is there a reason for this?? pointers?? success stories?? Thanks Godwin
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No such device or address? Date: 15 May 1997 22:02:13 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5lg155$c51$4@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <1997May14.090528.98134@cc.usu.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514165638.4149A-100000@kira> Cc: edx@cc.usu.edu In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514165638.4149A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > When I attempt a newfs, it complains that the disk has > > no label. When I try to put a label on the disk using > > the "disk -l /dev/rsd1a" command, it complains that > > there is "no such device or address". Take a look at man disk. Or just type disk no parameters. dove> disk usage: disk [option flags] [action flags] raw-device option flags: -h hostname specify host name -l labelname specify label name -k kernelname specify default file to boot -t disk_type specify disk type name -p part_size specify partition 'a' size -n part_size specify bfd partition size -d density specify format density (in KBytes) action flags: -b write boot block -e eject disk -i initialize disk -q query disk name and print it -s print disk statistics -B[n] bootfile write boot block [#n] from file -F Format Disk -H hostname change host name on label -L labelname change disk label name -N do not format disk during initialization -T run test patterns -f Don't force blksize to be >= DEV_BSIZE -u Use all sectors, not just those bios-accessible interactive mode if no action flags specified you can get interactive mode by doing disk /dev/rsd1a ascended:1# disk /dev/rsd0a disk name: SEAGATE ST41650 disk type: fixed_rw_scsi Disk utility disk> help commands are: init initialize disk eject eject disk boot write boot block(s) label edit label information host change hostname on label name change disk label name defaultbootchange default bootfile Format Format Disk scan scan for superblocks read read from disk write write to disk verify verify data on disk rw read-after-write rwr read-after-write random look look at read/write buffer set set read/write buffer abort toggle abort on error mode vers toggle label version help print this list ? print this list quit quit program disk> and you can use label to drop the label on there. Your problem is the fact that disk -l /dev/rsd1a isn't complete valid command I think you want to probably try disk -i -L Disk1 /dev/rsd1a or something similiar.. Just remember to put the desired option/action flags and paramters in AND then the device.. > I take it that the drive is sd1a and not sd0a? > > Did you try BuildDisk? Only if he wants to build a complete System/boot disk. My impression is he wants a empty fs on the external 1G. > What version of the OS are you working on? > Shouldn't matter in this case AFAIK Randy rencsok at channelu dot com
From: dvit@ip.pt (Diogo Vitorino) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Just Got a NeXT "Cube" Date: 16 May 1997 00:24:05 GMT Organization: ILHA Distribution: inet Message-ID: <dvit-1605970127080001@pm-lx-1-03.net.ip.pt> References: <psybeast-ya02408000R1205970118290001@news.pond.com> In article <psybeast-ya02408000R1205970118290001@news.pond.com>, psybeast@pond.com (PsyBeast) wrote: > As of Friday, I now have a NeXT "Cube" running around my apartment, > ethernet that is. > > The only major problem at this stage of the game, is that I need a Clean > New OS install. > > The cube came with what appears to be all the basic manuals, and a blank > 256MB MO cartridge... and NOTHING else!!!! >..... I actually have more or less the same problem with a Turbo Color station. Please help!
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vi segmentation fault Date: 15 May 1997 13:39:23 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5lf3mb$77n$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> In article <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Chris Stuart <cstuart@ucsd.edu> > writes: > > I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. Whenever I > > try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some as small as 32K) I > > get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If I create a file of over 1000 > > lines, I get a bus error. Anybody know what's happening here. It > > wasn't doing it before...as they say. > > > I dont remember that I ever had such a problem on NS 3.2. Your image of > 'vi' must be corrupted or some of the link libs must be fried. Try to > reinstall the image from CD. > -- > 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 I have the same behaviour, but ONLY if the file is on a disk mounted via NFS from an SGI machine! Locally mounted disks or via NFS from SUNs, DECs or other NeXTs work fine with vi. I have no idea why! later, helmut -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: Tom ONeil <oneilts@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mac with RJ45 and NeXT station; how to connect? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 23:59:43 -0500 Organization: Microsoftically Impaired Message-ID: <337BE9BF.2885@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> References: <3377789F.7F95449D@conextions.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: serge@conextions.com Serguei Bakhteiarov wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I bought Mac for my daughter and we want to use my black hardware via > twisted pair. > > My first goal is: to share black NeXT printer. > > I understand that, there is a Samba which could share the Printer. So > what I have to do from the black side of the problem is not a big deal > for me. The most difficult thing is the Mac. > > 1. Can i connect Mac and NeXT using twisted pair (RJ 45) directly > without hub? > > 2. What should I do on the Mac (Mac OS 7.5) side to see the printer? > > many thanks in advance, > > please respond to my e-mail address: serge@conextions.com > > serge I think I can help w/ part of it - if you don't have a hub you have to use a hub-to-hub cable between the 2 machines. They can be identified by a yellow collar/yellow cable on them. Also called patch cords. As for the rest, I have little experience except for some loooong nites this week, getting some systems to work. tom -- Thomas J. ONeil oneilts@ix.netcom.com Dallas, Tx. USA UFO's are real - the Air Force doesn't exist. My apologies for the NOSPAM on the return address, but I pay for the disk space, not them.
From: Tom ONeil <oneilts@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSI resets on Compaq 5120e Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 00:10:47 -0500 Organization: Microsoftically Impaired Message-ID: <337BEC57.381D@ix.netcom.com.NOSPAM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To All, I am trying to load 3.3 on a Compaq 5120E w/ an Adaptec 1540 and a NEC CD. The whole rig works fine on H-P machines, but I get SCSI resets on boot after I install all the drivers. Is there a driver for the Compaq I nedd, or which EIDE driver should I use for the CD? Any help, including wild goose chases, is welcome. P.S. - These got dropped on me 'cause I'm the Unix admin and everyone else hates them. I may blow away NT4.0 and run this as a desktop O/S. This is more fun than Linux! And a cool GUI to boot! -- Thomas J. ONeil oneilts@ix.netcom.com Dallas, Tx. USA UFO's are real - the Air Force doesn't exist. My apologies for the NOSPAM on the return address, but I pay for the disk space, not them.
From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Newbie help Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 05:27:34 GMT Message-ID: <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com Hi NeXT GURU´s, i recently got my hands on a Monostation. There was no HD in it, so I have to install the OS (NeXTStep 3.0 in my case), but I´m unable to do so :-( Here is my hardware configuration: NeXTMonostation with 16MB RAM, Toshiba 4X speed SCSI CD-ROM (external) I tried a IBM 1 GB and a Quantum 170MB ProDrive SCSI Disk The SCSI ID of my disk is set to 1, the CD-ROM is set to 6. After power up, my Station is waiting for the disk to spin up. I´ve got no mention of the CD-ROM. (Don´t know if this is ok or not :-( I got some error messages from my harddisk, telling me that the disk is in a wrong format. ...... The last error message is Bad Label. I think that´s ok, becouse this HD´s never seen an NeXT before :-) I tried to boot from the floppy disk, using bfd. The floppy is spinning for about 10 sec. and than it returns to the NeXT prompt, telling me Exeption #3 and some addresses ..... I also tried to boot directly from CD, but here I got an no SCSI Disk error ... Please replay via e-mail to: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com Thanks for your help Dieter
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From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cdr driver Date: 16 May 1997 10:23:26 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5lhciu$jiv@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, Does anyone know what do I have to do for using a CDR-drive in OpenStep? The kernel didn't detect the drive. Thanks a lot, khanh,
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:45:23 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UnT_h3O00iV181xRVy@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> In-Reply-To: <tcondon-1105972341470001@204.153.195.187> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 11-May-97 OpenStep Mach as a DNS Client! by Tom Condon@isp.net > I have received my Prelude to Rhapsody goodies today and have spent much > of the evening setting up my PC. I have one problem. Does anyone know > how to get OpenStep Mach setup to look for a DNS server. I found a > reference in one of the online Docs thats says all I have to do is create > a "/etc/resolv.conf" file. I have created it. IT DOESN'T SEEM TO WORK! > Any Ideas? You have to list the nameservers in that file. Read 'man 5 resolver', although the format is quite simple: domain my.do.main nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx nameserver yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
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From: "bebeto.slip.wg.saar.de" <bebeto@wg.saar.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: boot-problems Date: 17 May 1997 10:52:59 GMT Organization: Yoyodyne Posting Systems, INN Lab. Message-ID: <5lk2mb$prg@bellona.wg.saar.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I have boot problems with my NeXT. Trying to boot with "bsd" gives me the message "... loginwindow: could not find WindowServer port". Can anybody helps me. Thanx Bebeto PS: I have the posibility to boot over the CD-ROM, but I dont know what command I must use? The SCSI-number of the CD-Rom is 4? Also, I have seen, that I can not shutdown the system correctly, only with plugging out.
From: andydunn@op.net (Andy Dunn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: flushing the mail queue Date: 17 May 1997 18:34:48 GMT Organization: OpNet -- Greater Philadelphia Internet Service Message-ID: <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net> Hi, I have the problem that I sometimes lose my SLIP connection while there are still outgoing messages in the mail queue. The sit there until either they timeout or I manually remove them. Is there some way to get sendmail to wake up and resend the messages the next time I connect to my server? I'm running NS 3.1, if that matters. Thanks for any help, _andy
From: tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! ColorStation turbo won't start Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 00:48:26 +0100 Organization: TelaArch Message-ID: <tim-1805970048260001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> My ColorStation turbo hung whilst copying a file in the Workspace, wouldn't let me log out. Pressed power key and got into the NMI monitor. Typed 'reboot', system restarted. The drive made a few (very few) read/write noises and then wouldn't get past the 'loading from disk panel...' The animated disk icon just keeps on spinning. System was purchased 4 weeks a go with a (i presume) new HD (540 MB Conner). Any ideas, pointers, etc.? Thanks in advance, Tim Danaher tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (B. N. Bondoc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help requested in making bash 2.0 on NS3.3 Motorola Date: 17 May 1997 20:23:43 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Hello, I am interested in compiling Bash 2.0 for Black running NS3.3 U&D I was wondering if someone had already acomplished this feat since it failed for me. I can provide more detailed information but for now I am trying to conserve bandwidth ... :^) thanks nick
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 14:21:10 -0600 From: awest@webster.m-w.com Subject: installing tcpwrappers & smrsh Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <863895502.20887@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Does anyone out there have any experience installing tcpwrappers or sendmail restriction shell on NeXTStep? I've hit a brickwall in installing both. And I'm merely an educated user (I picked up some Unix know-how when hanging out in my husband's Art Intell lab in grad school) who's stuck administering the mail system on this baby, so very often I don't have clue one about system stuff. I'm trying to install an old version of tcpwrappers (6.3) on an old version of NS (2.2) (okay, ancient). It exits (with a 1 not a 0) out of the "make next" right after this line: fakelog.o definition of _closelog in section (_TEXT, _text) /lib/libsys_s.a(syslog.o)definition of absolute _closelog (value 0x50022a6) What's going on? Any ideas? recommendations (yeah, I've heard "upgrade the system before)? With smrsh, first off it recommends compiling without dynamic linking? Do I have to worry about that? Also, the bloody thing won't compile: it complains that there's no unistd.h. Is there any way around this? ---Amy West, who won't open her big mouth next time and say, "I know some Unix" -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: industry@assiduity Subject: portray Organization: dcfgw-=5 Message-ID: <zlre3HqY8GA.216@moosecat.mooselogic.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 02:09:04 -0700 x-no-archive:yes For who use pictures to communicate: please click on http://www.webcom.com/h49tld20/photo/prolab.html
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: <8856863323226@digifix.com> Date: 18 May 1997 03:57:15 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. WWW site comp.sys.next newsgroups related newsgroups comp.sys.next newsgroups mailing list ftp sites NeXTanswers Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site =============================================== This online community resource includes - ISV company pages - ISV product descriptions - NEXTSTEP Developer Directory - NEXTSTEP Community WhitePages - Mailing List archives and information You can connect via the world wide web at: http://www.stepwise.com/ Suggestions or comments can be directed to me at sanguish@digifix.com If you would like to get your company and product information on Stepwise, please contact me at sanguish@digifix.com. eduSTEP WWW site ================ http://www.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de/eduStep/ eduStep aims to provide up-to-date information on: - NextStep tools and projects for scientists. - Third-party products interesting for the educational and scientific community (with educational discounts noted, where they exist). - A listing of resellers and shops interested in working with customers in the educational community. - Conferences, meetings, workshops - Major projects, such as SciTools, EMBL's project to develop a NextStep scientific work environment - Status reports on GNUStep, a freely-available implementation of OpenStep now being developed NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting parity - PPP Date: 18 May 1997 06:30:25 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <5lm7m1$a7m@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Is there any way of varying the word size and parity the version of PPP bundled with OpenStep 4.0 uses when making a serial-line connection to the PPP server via /dev/cufa or /dev/cufb? As far as I can tell, my NeXT ppp program uses a 7 bits even parity connection which my ppp server no longer tolerates (it previously did, but now 8 bits no parity or 7 bits space parity seems to be required). Many thanks for your suggestions. Tomaz
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From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: flushing the mail queue Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 11:46:58 +0200 Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany Message-ID: <337ED012.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Andy Dunn wrote: > > Hi, > > I have the problem that I sometimes lose my SLIP connection while there are > still outgoing messages in the mail queue. The sit there until either they > timeout or I manually remove them. > > Is there some way to get sendmail to wake up and resend the messages the next > time I connect to my server? May be this helps man sendmail says: -q[time] Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals. If time is omitted, process the queue once. Time is given as a tagged number, with ``s'' being seconds, ``m'' being minutes, ``h'' being hours, ``d'' being days, and ``w'' being weeks. For example, ``-q1h30m'' or ``-q90m'' would both set the timeout to one hour thirty minutes. If time is specified, sendmail will run in background. This option can be used safely with -bd. So I placed this in the ip-up script of my ppp as suggested by Gatekeeper. Stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dump Date: 19 May 1997 00:18:06 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5lo67u$sc0$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> <EADK5p.3to@nidat.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <EADK5p.3to@nidat.sub.org> On 05/17/97, Peter Nitezki wrote: >All in all, since I've become a SafetyNet user I'm happy about my tape >backup and have built a high level of trust in the safety of my data. I must say that SafetyNet is hands-down the best tape backup software I've ever used on any platform and I sure hope it gets ported to Rhapsody. - Chris >-- >Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth >Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and >D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked >GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5 -- _______________________________________________________________________ Christopher A. Wolf -- WolfWare -- NeXTSTEP/OpenStep/Rhapsody Developer For info about NewsFlash the lightning fast NeXTSTEP news-reader visit our newly revised web site at: http://www.wolfware.com _______________________________________________________________________
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Dump Message-ID: <EADK5p.3to@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 11:34:37 GMT In article <01bc6083$ec234d10$2f02b5cc@sicilia> "Paul Summermatter" <paulrs@lgs-systems.com> writes: > Hello All, > > We recently purchased a Sony HyperDAT II tape drive so that > we can perform > more thorough backups of our systems. I've been experiencing a > lot of problems and am trying to determine if the problem lies > in the hardware or my understanding of the use of tapes for > backup. > ...lengthy problem description deleted... Unfortunately, you omitted to tell which version of NS/OS you're running, so I'll have to be a bit more general about the problem. Tape operations on Unix are somewhat troublesome, especially on BSD derivatives. The tape driver was conceived in a time of slow Start/Stop drives, back in the sixties. For compatibility reasons (who wants to rewrite all the tape utilities?) streaming mode was halfheartedly "added on". It works but always has problems, weak spots, and unsupported features. NEXTSTEP is no exception! NS introduced "handcrafted" support for the EXABYTE line of 8mm video tape streamers (/dev/rxt0-1) since they were the only high performance tapes at the time of development and very popular at that time (had several of 'em on our VAXes and SUNs in the late 80ies). And then there was a generic SCSI-streamer (/dev/rst0-1) left for everybody who wanted to try something else. Most SCSI-streamer tapes however had problems with the generic SCSI driver since they didn't support variable length data transfers. So you needed to tamper with the settings of the SCSI driver. There were several PD solutions until NS 3.3 which introduced code that made /dev/rst being set to fixed block (512 Byte) transfers automatically. Most (all?) of the quick fixes turn out of not taking into account most exceptions that occur in some tape operations, rendering the driver in an unusable state. Setting back and forth sometimes cures the mishaps but sometimes only a reboot restores the proper settings. Second source of trouble: 'dump' and 'tar' and probably several other utilities have special features built in that rely on features and properties of tape drives discontinued long ago. The tape capacity computation of 'dump', for instance, or the append option of 'tar' which is broken for streamer tapes. Third, remote dumping/restoring relies on the 'rmt' protocol which might have trouble setting the right options for your tape drive. Thus, even when 'dump/restore' work, 'rdump/rrestore' might not. And unfortunately, I only can point to repeated experiment to find out how to make it work. But there is help for those who only want to make it work and don't care why and how. You can use NFS to mount all filesystems to be backed up and forget about remote tape operations at all. And you can cough up the money for a license of SafetyNetPro and forget about this dusted 'dump/restore' at all. SatetyNet is the 'dump/restore' of the NEXTSTEP ages. Not only that it introduces a high grade of usability through modern GUI features, it also has all the knowledge about modern streamer tapes and the NS SCSI subsystem built in. Therefore, you never have to worry whether this operation would work or not, it simply does. And SafetyNet has a high performance streaming interface. More than double the throughput of 'dump/restore', in most cases even a factor of five! All in all, since I've become a SafetyNet user I'm happy about my tape backup and have built a high level of trust in the safety of my data. -- 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: NeXT Newbie help Message-ID: <EADKvI.3uE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 11:50:06 GMT In article <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) writes: > Hi NeXT GURU s, > i recently got my hands on a Monostation. > There was no HD in it, so I have to install the OS > (NeXTStep 3.0 in my case), > but I m unable to do so :-( > > Here is my hardware configuration: > NeXTMonostation with 16MB RAM, > Toshiba 4X speed SCSI CD-ROM (external) > I tried a IBM 1 GB and a Quantum 170MB ProDrive SCSI Disk > > The SCSI ID of my disk is set to 1, the CD-ROM is set to 6. > > After power up, my Station is waiting for the disk to spin up. > I ve got no mention of the CD-ROM. > (Don t know if this is ok or not :-( > > I got some error messages from my harddisk, telling me that the disk > is in a wrong format. ...... > The last error message is Bad Label. > I think that s ok, becouse this HD s never seen an NeXT before :-) > > I tried to boot from the floppy disk, using bfd. > The floppy is spinning for about 10 sec. and than it returns to the > NeXT prompt, telling me Exeption #3 and some addresses ..... > > I also tried to boot directly from CD, but here I got an no SCSI Disk > error ... > The error message about the disk drive is no surprise since nobody expects a fresh disk to be bootable. Only thong you must make sure is that it is harware formatte dto 512B or 1kB blocks to be usable. To make a fresh install you need to place the NS User CD into the CD/ROM drive and insert the floppy. Then you need to type 'bfd' at the boot monitor prompt. If that doesn't work you might have a damaged floppy or dirty drive. Or you might have trouble with SCSI termination, although I don't expect this to be the case from what you discribed about your situation. But if you can't be sure the machine works at all there might even be hardware trouble at hand (memory?). The boot monitor has some basic tests built in. Type '?' or 'help' to get a synopsis of the boot monitor comands. -- 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: vi segmentation fault Message-ID: <EADu31.3vv@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5lf3mb$77n$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 15:09:00 GMT In article <5lf3mb$77n$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) writes: > In article <E9LqFr.37x@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter > Nitezki) writes: > > In article <336A52D6.52BFA1D7@ucsd.edu> Chris Stuart > > <cstuart@ucsd.edu> writes: > > > I'm getting strange behavior on a NeXTstation running 3.2. > > > Whenever I try to vi more than a few hundred lines long (some > > > as small as 32K) I get a "segmentation fault" error msg. If > > > I create a file of over 1000 lines, I get a bus error. > > > Anybody know what's happening here. It wasn't doing it > > > before...as they say. > > > > > I dont remember that I ever had such a problem on NS 3.2. Your > > image of 'vi' must be corrupted or some of the link libs must > > be fried. Try to reinstall the image from CD. > > I have the same behaviour, but ONLY if the file is on a disk > mounted via NFS from an SGI machine! Locally mounted disks or > via NFS from SUNs, DECs or other NeXTs work fine with vi. I have > no idea why! later, helmut This one is easy! NEXTSTEP uses the old (version 1) NFS protocol, whereas SUN, SGI, and others use the newer one. Therefore, you experience buffer overruns on NS when the buffer size isn't explicitly set. I don't remember the syntax, since I have no such machine on my site, but the topic is to be found in the FAQ on Peanuts and on the Usenet archives that keep c.s.n. groups. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: David Andel <da_vid@next_to_you.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help requested in making bash 2.0 on NS3.3 Motorola Date: 18 May 1997 14:40:44 GMT Organization: NEXTTOYOU (http://www.nexttoyou.de) Message-ID: <5ln4dc$vo8@hal.nexttoyou.de> References: <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> In article <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (B. N. Bondoc) writes: > I am interested in compiling Bash 2.0 for Black running NS3.3 U&D I > was wondering if someone had already acomplished this feat since it > failed for me. Rex Dieter just made a quad-fat Bash 2.0 Installer package. It should be soon available on the archives. Works like a charm. -- -> remove all "_" from my address to email me <- "...he said Captain, I said wot" (Captain Sensible)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: carlip@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Walter C3arlip) Subject: What to do in a Panic? Message-ID: <EA7HxE.9o8@boss.cs.ohiou.edu> Sender: news@boss.cs.ohiou.edu (News Admin) Organization: Ohio University Mathematics Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 05:00:50 GMT The folks at comp.sys.next.misc suggested I post this question here. Periodically, my black NeXT Slab drops into a "Panic" box. This usually occurs while I am logged in using ppp from home. My connection drops and I cannot get back in. Is there any way to have the slab automatically reboot when it hits such a panic or any way to log in remotely to reboot? As far as I can tell, the only way to fix this is to drive into the office, sit at the NeXTStation itself and reboot. Thanks, -- Walter -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Walter C3arlip **** carlip@ace.cs.ohiou.edu **** (the "3" is silent) _____________________________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help requested in making bash 2.0 on NS3.3 Motorola Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:39:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970519093748.28946B-100000@kira> References: <x7hgg1d3w0.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> <5ln4dc$vo8@hal.nexttoyou.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5ln4dc$vo8@hal.nexttoyou.de> ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/loginshells/bash.2.0.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/loginshells/bash.2.0.README
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mount: / not found Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:54:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970519095047.28946E-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII This seems to be a very bad thing... After a move (done with extreme care and original packaging) my NSFIP machine is acting rather strangely. I have removed all external SCSI connections so we are just dealing with the boot drive and the monitor (well, and the floppy drive). It boots just fine, everything going as expected until it gets to this point: Power management is enabled # normal Checking disks # normal Mount: / not found # very bad It then tries to continue booting but complains about the system being mounted Read Only. It hangs when starting the 'netinfo' services (before 'lookupd'). I can boot single user and get the same thing: Mount: / not found If I do this: mount -o remount /dev/sd0a / # thanks to Marc Majka @ Next a couple years ago for this gem! and then control-D out of single user mode, it starts up fine and dandy. However, this is not the way it should be, and not a process I want to go through everytime I reboot the machine. Has anyone seen this before? Does anyone know what is wrong and how to go about checking / fixing things? I have checked /etc/fstab, which was my first thought. It is there, and readable: # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # # This file contains information used to mount local hard # disks. Consult your Network and System Administration # manual for information on adding local disks. Information # on the format of entries in this file can also be found in # the fstab man page. # /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 #/dev/sd3a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 1 Note: /Disk is the other hard drive which is currently not attached Any help/guesses would be greatly appreciated..... I really don't want to power this machine down until I make sure I can get it back up and running! TjL
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Overwrote on Exabyte tape. Can I recover?? Date: 19 May 1997 18:17:44 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5lq5g8$4e8$1@ncar.ucar.edu> I have been archiving files to an Exabyte 8-mm tape on a daily basis. Each day, I advance the tape to the end of tape (EOT), then write another gnutar archive. $ mt -f /dev/nrxt0 fsf 99 $ gnutar -cvf /dev/nrxt0 * $ mt offline Unfortunately, one day I forgot to advance the tape and wrote the new archive at the beginning of the tape. Certainly the files that were overwritten are gone forever. But what about the files that are beyond the new EOT? How can I get the tape to advance past the EOT and start reading again? Can it be done? Thanks. NeXTstep v3.3 Sun Sparcstation 5 EXABYTE EXB-85058SQANXR1 07J0 -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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From: erikr@cs.Stanford.EDU (Erik Rauch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.soft-sys.nextstep Subject: Non-postscript printers with NextStep/Intel Date: 19 May 1997 20:57:11 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Message-ID: <5lqer7$m9s$1@Radon.Stanford.EDU> I'm buying an NextStep/Intel system and am considering what printer to buy for under $400. Has anyone used a cheap, non-postscript laser printer? If so, how does the print quality compare to postscript, and how is it done? How about an inkjet? I have heard that the original NeXT laser printer is not PostScript-compatible either - it relies on the Display postscript in software. So I'm figuring it must be possible to use a cheap laser printer to good effect, but this question is not present in any of the FAQ's. I'd appreciate anyone relating their experiences on this. -Erik
From: steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP wierdness Date: 20 May 1997 01:02:34 GMT Organization: Silicon Beach - Business Internet Services Message-ID: <5lqt7a$pje@ocean.silcom.com> I am setting up UUCP mail for a small net using the stock UUCP which comes with NS3.3p1. I am running into serial line wierdness on INTEL hardware. The same UUCP setup on black hardware works fine. On the intel I am running ISAserial driver v3.33 and TTY port server v3.33 and the serial line works fine with kermit. When UUCP trys to access the modem it can't get any characters back. Does any one have any suggestions as to what is wrong? Here are some transcripts. ------------------UUCP----------------- # /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x6 -sbeach root beach (5/19-17:40-10167) DEBUG (Local Enabled) finds (beach) called getto: call no. cufb for sys beach Using DIR to call Opening /dev/cufb login called ABORT ON: BUSY wanted """" got: that send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? root beach (5/19-17:40-10167) FAILED (LOGIN) root beach (5/19-17:40-10167) FAILED (call to beach ) and yet when I run kermit, it works fine: ------------------KERMIT----------------- C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufb C-Kermit>set speed 57600 /dev/cufb, 57600 bps C-Kermit>c Connecting to /dev/cufb, speed 57600. The escape character is Ctrl-] (ASCII 29, GS) Type the escape character followed by C to get back, or followed by ? to see other options. at OK -- ...STeve steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (NeXT and MIME mail welcome) (805) 963-5904 x104
From: bny@spamdunk_cut_here_crl.com (Brad Yearwood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhap.: WebObjects install problem Date: 19 May 1997 21:09:49 -0700 Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Message-ID: <5lr86d$lg3@crl3.crl.com> I was able to install 4.2 OPENSTEP and Developer OK, but seem to be having problems with WebObjects. When I try to start WebObjectsBuilder, it quits immediately, leaving the following on the console (edited a bit for line length): dyld: /NextDeveloper/Apps/WebObjectsBuilder.app/WebObjectsBuilder can't open library: /NextLibrary/Frameworks/EOAccess.framework/Versions/B/EOAccess (No such file or directory, errno = 2) There is no sign of EOAccess.framework/ . Is this part of EOF? Is something missing from the way I installed, or was WebObjects mis-packaged? Brad Yearwood bny@spamdunk_cut_here_crl.com (do what it says) Cotati, CA
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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Seek sz and rz for black Date: 19 May 1997 22:19:50 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5lrc9m$5iq@slip.net> Hi, I'm running a NS 3.3 on a 040/25 cube. I went to one of the NeXT archives seeking sz and rz. I found two zmodem like packages with zmodem compatibility but not actual rz and sz binaries. Would someone be so kind as to e-mail me their uuencoded binaries of sz and rz? (Ah, my ISP doesn't have kermit.) Thanks, Emmett
From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Newbie help Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 06:10:51 GMT Message-ID: <33813edd.4814857@8.1.30.1> References: <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> <EADKvI.3uE@nidat.sub.org> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com On Sun, 18 May 1997 11:50:06 GMT, Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: >In article <337bedee.1410826@8.1.30.1> sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter >Sabathi) writes: >> Hi NeXT GURU s, >> i recently got my hands on a Monostation. >> There was no HD in it, so I have to install the OS >> (NeXTStep 3.0 in my case), >> but I m unable to do so :-( ...... >> I tried to boot from the floppy disk, using bfd. >> The floppy is spinning for about 10 sec. and than it returns to the >> NeXT prompt, telling me Exeption #3 and some addresses ..... >> >> I also tried to boot directly from CD, but here I got an no SCSI Disk >> error ... >> >The error message about the disk drive is no surprise since nobody expects >a fresh disk to be bootable. Only thong you must make sure is that it is >harware formatte dto 512B or 1kB blocks to be usable. > >To make a fresh install you need to place the NS User CD into the CD/ROM >drive and insert the floppy. Then you need to type 'bfd' at the boot >monitor prompt. If that doesn't work you might have a damaged floppy or >dirty drive. Or you might have trouble with SCSI termination, although I >don't expect this to be the case from what you discribed about your >situation. > >But if you can't be sure the machine works at all there might even be >hardware trouble at hand (memory?). The boot monitor has some basic tests >built in. Type '?' or 'help' to get a synopsis of the boot monitor >comands. Thanks for your help. My NeXT ist now up and running !!! It looks like the guy who sold the Station to me took out half of the RAM. The monitor was telling me everything is ok, and 16 MB of RAM is found. But after pulling out this RAM and inserting it to the other bank (the one next to the powersupply) everything is working fine !! Greetings Dieter
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From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 14:54:33 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Seek sz and rz for black Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 04:56:32 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970520045550.21308A-100000@kira> References: <5lrc9m$5iq@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> In-Reply-To: <5lrc9m$5iq@slip.net> Did neither of these do what you needed? ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/comm/rzsz.0525.NISH.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/comm/rzsz.3.4.NIHS.tar.gz TjL
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 20 May 1997 09:37:14 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. : Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? No, unfortunately. ...................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Cannon GP200 Driver? Date: 20 May 1997 16:23:40 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5lsj6c$7th@corporate.hesta.com> Cc: bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com We are thinking of buying a multifunction (copy and print) machine from Cannon called a GP200 and attatching it to our network via ethernet. It has full postscript and PCL functionality - is there a driver for this? They have a Mac and Windows driver (no NT yet...) Can I get documents to print to it simply (no duplexing etc...) with a differnt driver ? What might the likelihood be that a driver would become available under Rhapsody? -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
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From: pat@altair.krl.caltech.edu (Pat Huber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Strange printer failure Date: 20 May 1997 18:31:22 GMT Organization: Kellogg Radiation Lab, Caltech Message-ID: <5lsqlq$t4r@gap.cco.caltech.edu> I have a printer which seems to drop data from the beginning of the files sent to it. TeX files appear shifted up and right (not getting initial centering commands) and the test page is missing the "cube" icon. Normally I get these things serviced on campus, but our guy has never seen this. I have switched the printer between identical NeXTstations and the problem follows the printer exactly. We have NeXTStep 3.2 on 68040s. -pat
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 21 May 1997 00:30:00 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? : No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. You wouldn't work for Novell, eh Kris? :-) I'm fairly sure Linux will do IPX routing. -- Luke
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 20 May 1997 21:55:15 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5ltrn3$sac@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote: : planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : : Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : : : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? : : No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. : You wouldn't work for Novell, eh Kris? :-) : I'm fairly sure Linux will do IPX routing. What I meant was to route IPX, *I* will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. =) ...........................kris : -- Luke -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.soft-sys.nextstep From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: PPD file for HPLJ4? Summary: Looking for PPD files in the net Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EAI1zu.Jot@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 21:50:18 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Greetings everyone! Could someone kindly point me to a site that hosts PPD files for Next OS. I'm particularly looking for HP LaserJet4 files. I looked at the Adobe site. But it seems to have PPD files only for Mac and Windows. Are any of these PPD files compatible with the ones for Next OS(v.3.0)? Thanks. -Thas (thas@ibme.utoronto.ca)
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From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPD file for HPLJ4? Date: 21 May 1997 09:44:07 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5lug57$3e2$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <EAI1zu.Jot@ecf.toronto.edu> In article <EAI1zu.Jot@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Greetings everyone! > > Could someone kindly point me to a site that hosts PPD files > for Next OS. I'm particularly looking for HP LaserJet4 files. > I looked at the Adobe site. But it seems to have PPD files > only for Mac and Windows. Are any of these PPD files compatible > with the ones for Next OS(v.3.0)? Besides the file name there is no big difference. They should work (see below). The PPD file for HP_LaserJet_4 is part of NEXTSTEP 3.3 in the standard distribution: /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/HP_LaserJet_4_PostScript_600DPI.ppd Those PPD files at the Adobe site are _packed for_ Mac or Win. They contain more or less the same PPD files, except for the file names and the ASCII new line characters. Unfortunately, the Mac archives are now packed with a StuffIt version that Opener.app can't deal with (newer compression algorithm ?). Further, the Win archives are self extracting executables,but in fact can be dealt with as ZIP file. You should try the Win version, rename it to "hp.zip" and see what Opener does. Worked for me! If this doesn't work, you'll need to use SoftPC to unpack or some DOS/Windows system. You may then rename the unpacked PPD files by taking the "*ModelName:", replacing all spaces (and other special chars like '/') with underscores and appending ".ppd". For further info see NeXTanswer #1367. Detlev -- Detlev Droege, Uni Koblenz, FB Informatik, Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany Tel:+49 261 9119-421,Fax:-497,NeXT/MIME/Emil: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good. --Bertrand Meyer
From: "Jeffrey R. Paules" <paules@albany.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA capabilities? Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 10:51:33 -0400 Organization: QED Associates Message-ID: <33830BF5.2A6B@albany.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does the SAMBA implementation in OpenStep 4.X permit printing from Win95 clients to a Next Laser printer connected to a slab? Any experience would be helpful. Jeff Paules paules@albany.net
From: jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu (Jesse Goldberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: logging fingers Date: 21 May 1997 20:25:22 GMT Organization: University of California at San Diego Message-ID: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Does anyone know how to log fingerers? Thanks in advance.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 15:33:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970521153051.13810A-100000@kira> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jesse Goldberg <jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> There is a program called back-finger I believe.... maybe ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Quartz/src/backfinger.tar.gz TjL
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 20:19:21 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> In article <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu>, jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu wrote: >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > TCP-Wrappers will log all sorts of services started by inetd, including fingerd. Of course, this won't record a *local* user executing finger, but I assume you were more interested in remote fingers. JD
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From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 22 May 1997 03:58:53 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5m0g9t$nt5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <5ltrn3$sac@xmission.xmission.com> planetary (kris@xmission.xmission.com) wrote: : : I'm fairly sure Linux will do IPX routing. : What I meant was to route IPX, *I* will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare SCO own UnixWare now, though? Wonder whether Rhapsody will have the NetWare client in it again. -- Luke
From: pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu (Paul R. Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: flushing the mail queue Date: 22 May 1997 07:07:45 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <slrn5o7rtk.g96.pbrown@ashkhabad.berkeley.edu> References: <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net> In article <5lkto8$31e$1@picasso.op.net>, Andy Dunn wrote: >I have the problem that I sometimes lose my SLIP connection while there are >still outgoing messages in the mail queue. The sit there until either they >timeout or I manually remove them. You'll find the following on the man page for sendmail: -q[time] Process saved messages in the queue at given intervals. If time is omitted, process the queue once. So, you want to do a "/usr/lib/sendmail -q" as root. Ta, Paul -- _____________________________________________________________________ Paul Brown Grad student, UCB mathematics (510)-843-7817 pbrown@math.berkeley.edu http://math.berkeley.edu/~pbrown/ _____________________________________________________________________
Subject: vnode_pageout: failed! Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: vincent@sente.ch (Vincent Kohler) Message-ID: <33841260.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Date: 22 May 97 09:31:12 GMT Hi, We experienced strange behavior with our brave NeXTStation Turbo. The machine has an internal 100MB swapdisk and an external 1.6MB SCSI disk. Suddenly, since beginning of last week, the console shows many vnode_pagout: failed! messages. This machine runs NS3.3 and is the master Netinfo, other stations run OPENSTEP 4.1. As I thought it was due to the second external SCSI disk we recently attached to, I removed the disk and renamed the swapdisk to avoid using it. It seemed to work for two days, but this morning, the strange message appeared again. Is it a hardware problem (like power weakness, or some rost above RAM chips :-) or are both HD too old (the 1.6 MB one is 3 years old) ? Thanks for any input. Regards Vincent -- ---------------------------------------- Vincent Kohler vincent@sente.ch (NextMail welcome) Sen:te Parc Scientifique - EPFL - Switzerland
From: richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhapsody network setup problem (newbie) Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 02:43:55 -0700 Organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. Message-ID: <richarde-2205970243550001@207.66.154.195> Hello, I am trying to install the "Prelude to Rhapsody" edition of OpenStep on my Pentium (Micron) machine and have run into a wall. I have the basic OS installed and booting OK but I cannot get the networking to function. This is the only OpenStep machine on my network (10BaseT) so I followed the setup instructions in the MixedNet.rtfd document in the SysAdmin Manual. Everything seemed to configure OK but I cannot connect to anything else on the network. I have tried pinging other machines on the same IP network and I never get a response, I have tried opening a telnet session to other hosts and I get stuck at the "Trying xx.xx.xx.xx..." message forever. When I installed OpenStep the Configure.app detected my Ethernet card (3COM 3c509b-TP) and loaded the Plug-and-Play driver for it. If I do an "ifconfig en0" from the shell window I get: en0: flags=63<UP, BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet xx.xx.xx.196 netmask fffffff0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.207 The the values all look good, in fact they are all the same values that I use when I boot this machine on it's other HD which has Window's NT installed and the networking is fine under NT. A "netstat -r" returns: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface localhost localhost UH 0 318 lo0 default xx.xx.xx.193 UG 0 3 en0 xx.xx.xx.192 xx.xx.xx.196 U 6 1219 en0 Note: xx.xx.xx.193 = my ISDN router xx.xx.xx.196 = OpenStep machine Another odd thing is that I cannot change either the IP address or the hostname in HostManager's "Local Configuration" window. If I click in either of those fields nothing happens (no insertion point appears and I cannot select any text in those fields). Other fields (like the Netmask and Router address) can still be edited just fine. If I try to change either of these values in SimpleNetworkStarter I get a slew of errors in the Log window after I click the Configure button as follows: Beginning Configuration Updating configuration file: /etc/hostconfig Error: Can't change computer's name with SimpleNetworkStarter Error: Invalid address for router: xx.xx.xx.193 Router's address is not on this network. Error: Invalid broadcast address. Any help is greatly appreciated! TIA! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Elmore That's a good idea; in fact it's such a good idea that I shall henceforth refer to it as "My Idea". - John E. Whitmore III
From: Jan Van Riel <jvanriel@innet.be> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhapsody: Boot Problem Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 01:52:44 +0200 Organization: Wave Research Message-ID: <33838ACC.E7A19D03@innet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I'm installing Prelude to Rhapsody on SCSI drive on an Intel box. I was able to do the initial install but when it reboots, it fails mounting the root. It says in the System Panic window: .... rootdev 300, howto 0 vfs_mountroot: error=19 panic: Cpu(0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root .... What can I do next? Where can I find more information on Mach commands e.g. the options for the "boot:" prompt, for example. Thanks. Jan Van Riel
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 05:56:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055510.13577B-100000@kira> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jacques Distler <distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu> In-Reply-To: <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> > >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > > > > TCP-Wrappers will log all sorts of services started by inetd, including > fingerd. Of course, this won't record a *local* user executing finger, but > I assume you were more interested in remote fingers. This will only log the ip/hostname they are coming from, right? Is there a way to get the username as well? I _think_ this is what backfinger does, but I've never used it... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: vnode_pageout: failed! Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 05:59:55 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055736.13577C-100000@kira> References: <33841260.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Vincent Kohler <vincent@sente.ch> In-Reply-To: <33841260.0@epflnews.epfl.ch> > We experienced strange behavior with our brave NeXTStation Turbo. The > machine has an internal 100MB swapdisk and an external 1.6MB SCSI > disk. > Suddenly, since beginning of last week, the console shows many > vnode_pagout: failed! messages. > This machine runs NS3.3 and is the master Netinfo, other stations run > OPENSTEP 4.1. As I thought it was due to the second external SCSI disk > we recently attached to, I removed the disk and renamed the swapdisk > to avoid using it. It seemed to work for two days, but this morning, > the strange message appeared again. This is the sign of the swapspace filling up. (usually) Give it more swapspace and it will take longer for this to happen. Reboot to reclaim that swapspace. Add more RAM to improve performance. Don't run any graphical apps on the machine to drastically improve the time between necessary reboots. Use WatchSwap.app to check the size of the swapfile: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/WatchSwap.1.7.NIHS.b.tar.gz TjL
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: 22 May 1997 14:38:10 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5m1loi$hi9$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055510.13577B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >This will only log the ip/hostname they are coming from, right? > >Is there a way to get the username as well? I _think_ this is what >backfinger does, but I've never used it... TCP Wrappers can be compiled with support for IDENT. In such a case, tcpd will try to contact identd on the system from which the finger originated. However, many systems do not run identd. Fingering the site where the finger originated from can also be done by TCP Wrappers. However, think about what happens if two similar sites carelessly keep fingering each other endlessly as a result... ;-) I feel that it is not possible to track where an elusive finger comes from. Accounts can be stolen, fingers can be chained, public gateways may be used, etc... Rgds, Song
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: 22 May 1997 15:25:42 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5m1ohm$j6e$2@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <distler-2105972019210001@slip-127-8.ots.utexas.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522055510.13577B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >This will only log the ip/hostname they are coming from, right? > >Is there a way to get the username as well? I _think_ this is what >backfinger does, but I've never used it... TCP Wrappers can be compiled with support for IDENT. In such a case, tcpd will try to contact identd on the system from which the finger originated. However, many systems do not run identd. Fingering the site where the finger originated from can also be done by TCP Wrappers. However, think about what happens if two similar sites carelessly keep fingering each other endlessly as a result... ;-) I feel that it is not possible to track where an elusive finger comes from. Accounts can be stolen, fingers can be chained, public gateways may be used, etc... Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cancel Control: cancel <5m1loi$hi9$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> Date: 22 May 1997 15:25:48 GMT Organization: Subscriber, Pacific Internet, Singapore Message-ID: <5m1ohs$j6e$3@newton.pacific.net.sg> cancel
From: nospamthanx@nowhere.com (Gary Finley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: 22 May 1997 15:14:41 GMT Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Message-ID: <5m1nt1$f7c$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> On 05/21/97, Jesse Goldberg wrote: >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > Finger 1.04 (which I got from the orst/peak archive years ago) includes an executable .plan-file option that can be used to log fingerers. -- ---------------------------------------------- Gary Finley, Psychology Dept. Univ. of Alberta Network manager, Web manager, and postmaster. gfin@psych.ualberta.ca (NeXTmail welcome) http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/staff_bios/gary.finley.htmld/
From: Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a question of disks Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 12:52:39 -0400 Organization: USN-CDNSWC Message-ID: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi We've got an Intel 166 running NS 3.3 and we've had various heartburn in getting a reliable 2 GB disk installed and opearational on the system ( not as a boot disk, just a 2 GB disk in two 1 Gig partions ) - have tried a 2 Gig Quantum and have had a variety of problems - given the Intel system what seems to the most reliable device that others are using with NS ? Thanks in advance for any and all insight / info / etc. Bob Kurhajetz
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 22 May 1997 12:58:11 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5m2503$cn0@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <5ltfm8$i0t@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <5ltrn3$sac@xmission.xmission.com> <5m0g9t$nt5@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Luke HOWARD <lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au> wrote: : Wonder whether Rhapsody will have the NetWare client in it : again. I hope so. .............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail question From: ebaca@ICSI.Net Message-ID: <3384b174.0@news.intnet.net> Date: 22 May 97 20:49:56 GMT My service provider account name is "ebaca" (sendmail reads u=ebaca), my local user name is "ernie" (g=ernie), my service provider is "icsi.net" (m=icsi.net). In mail.app I have filled in the Reply-To field with "ebaca@icsi.net". When I send mail the headers say the following: > From: Ernesto Baca <ernie@icsi.net> > ... > Reply-to: ebaca@icsi.net Question: How can I change the From: field so that it reflects the correct address? i.e., From: Ernesto Baca <ebaca@icsi.net> Please, email the answer to ebaca@icsi.net since I don't follow this group very much. Thank you for your help. ---ernie -- ____________________________________________________________ Visit me at: http://www.bac-ground.com/ Last Updated: 20 May 1997 - ILE Banner added to homepage Go Rockets! ____________________________________________________________ Ernesto Baca, P.E. Environmental Consultant BAC-GROUND Houston, TX, USA ebaca@ICSI.Net (713) 664-8452 (w) ____________________________________________________________
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging fingers Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 14:57:16 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522145525.28232D-100000@kira> References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> <5m1nt1$f7c$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: Tim Luoma <luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <5m1nt1$f7c$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> On 22 May 1997, Gary Finley wrote: > On 05/21/97, Jesse Goldberg wrote: > >Does anyone know how to log fingerers? > > > Finger 1.04 (which I got from the orst/peak archive years ago) includes > an executable .plan-file option that can be used to log fingerers. ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/finger.1.04.N.bs.tar.gz I'll compile a quadfat version as soon as I can... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: mikelea@digex.net (Michael Lea) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: appending to the mail spool? Date: 22 May 1997 22:29:49 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> I'm working on setting up mail forwarding from my Pentium to my NextStation. I don't want to set up a whole smtp server on the pentium, so I've been playing with automagically ftp'ing selected messages from the pentium directly to the mail spool on the next. However, if I try to just append to the file (/usr/spool/mail/mikelea, for example), it doesn't see the message as seperate from the previous message. What is the seperator used in the spool to differentiate between messages? Thanks... -- *mikelea@access.digex.net* "imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known-there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, because I will not change." -de Sade
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail question Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:01:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522145923.28232E-100000@kira> References: <3384b174.0@news.intnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: ebaca@ICSI.Net In-Reply-To: <3384b174.0@news.intnet.net> With NS 3.3 or higher, set the Expert Headers to include the From line... http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/ has instructions on upgrading to sendmail.8.8.5 TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a question of disks Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 15:02:23 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970522150206.28232F-100000@kira> References: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> In-Reply-To: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> The Seagate barracuda is working well for me... TjL
From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network printing problem Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:15:01 GMT Message-ID: <3385334d.4453584@8.1.30.1> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com Hi NeXT GURUs. I´d like to use my HP Deskjet600 as a printer for my new NeXT Monostation. The printer doesn´t have a Serial port, so I want to use my other computer (Amiga 4000) to act as the printserver. On the peanuts archive I found a piece of software called djf as a solution to print on a HP Deskjet locally mounted to the NeXT. I got the NeXT to print via TCP/IP to the Amiga. On the Amiga I got a quite simple lpd, unable to do any filtering. AFAIK the machine the printer is connected to, should do the PS to raster conversation, but in my case that´s impossible :-( Is there any way to let the NeXT do this filtering before sending the file to the other computer ????? Please reply by e-mail ! Thanks for your help Dieter
From: jinyu@eagle.pa.dec.com (Jin Yu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHost protocol? Date: 23 May 1997 07:34:11 GMT Organization: DEC Systems Research Center Message-ID: <5m3h9j$jgt@src-news.pa.dec.com> I am interested in the protocol behind NeXT's remote display mechanism, ie. how does a NeXT app display to a remote WindowServer using -NXHost? What is the communication channel? using TCP/IP like X protocol? Mach port? ... Is the protocol public? Any docs? I assume an app sends a stream of binary PS 2 to the remote WindowServer. But I would like to know the detailed mechanism... Please reply by email, thanks... Jin
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 03:33:18 -0600 From: Benoit.Marchant@questintl.com Subject: How use rumba so that users can write on mounted directory ? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc Message-ID: <864376023.27678@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I succed to mount a NT shared drive while logged in as root with: rumba //nt_server/shared /nt -U John -P Thanks -s NT_SERVER the nt drive is mounted with root access permissions. I made chown root rumba chmod u+s rumba and while logged in as user corresponding to John/Thanks rumba //nt_server/shared /nt -U John -P Thanks -s NT_SERVER answered me: error connecting to server: [1] Not owner Does anyone has a script or an idea to get nt drive mounted on OpenStep client with rumba with netinfo ? Thanks in advance for help Best Regards, Benoit Marchant -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Helmut Heller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: appending to the mail spool? Date: 23 May 1997 09:03:52 GMT Organization: [posted via] Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany) Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m3mho$sg$1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> References: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> In article <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> mikelea@digex.net (Michael Lea) writes: > I'm working on setting up mail forwarding from my Pentium to > my NextStation. I don't want to set up a whole smtp server > on the pentium, so I've been playing with automagically > ftp'ing selected messages from the pentium directly to the > mail spool on the next. However, if I try to just append > to the file (/usr/spool/mail/mikelea, for example), it doesn't > see the message as seperate from the previous message. What > is the seperator used in the spool to differentiate between > messages? > Thanks... Usually this should work. Probably you don't have the proper header lines, perhaps the From: field has been mutilated somehow. From: needs to be at the beginning of the line and I think this is what starts a new mail. -- Servus, Helmut (DH0MAD) ______________NeXT-mail welcome_________________ FAX: +49-89-2394-4607 "Knowledge must be gathered and cannot be given" heller@attila.imo.physik.uni-muenchen.de ZEN, one of BLAKES7 Phone: +49-89-2394-4565 ------------------------------------------------ Dr. Helmut Heller, Ludwig Maximilians University | G i b D O S | Institute for Medical Optics, Theoretical Biophysics Group | k e i n e |
From: dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem with compiling using Workshop Openstep for Solaris Date: 23 May 1997 09:00:44 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5m3mbs$7ic$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Aftrer I installed (and licensed) the Openstep Workshop for Solaris on a Sun Ultra I try to compile a simple project. But the process stopped with the Message: CC -O -Isym -mt -I/usr/openstep/include -I/usr/openwin/include -I/usr/openwin/include/X11 -c HelloWorld_main.m -o sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o sh: CC: not found *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o' Does anybody knows what the caused this problem? Thanx for your help Andreas dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: logging fingers Message-ID: <EAMpoL.DKn@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5lvlni$jot$1@news1.ucsd.edu> Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 10:12:21 GMT A TCP Wrappers binary (4-way fat) Installer package can be found at ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next/Internet -- Gerben Wierda, Stafmedewerker Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid. Staff member Advisory Council for Science and Technology Policy Javastraat 42, 2585 AP, 's-Gravenhage, The Hague, The Netherlands Tel (+31) 70 3639922 Fax (+31) 70 3608992 http://www.AWT.nl/ "One foolish wise man can state more than a thousand wise fools can question." "Doubters need to understand believes. Believers need not understand doubt."
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 15:10:55 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970523150822.1836D-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> On 20 May 1997, planetary wrote: > Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: > > : Is it possible to route the ipx protocoll with a NextStep/OpenStep Host? > > No. To route IPX you will need an IntranetWare or UnixWare box. Or Netware server, i should have known this... maybe thes a public tool available that can do it? > > : Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? > > No, unfortunately. What about using some programs from 3.3 in combination? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: appending to the mail spool? Date: 23 May 1997 13:55:58 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5m47le$8ou$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> mikelea@digex.net (Michael Lea) writes: > see the message as seperate from the previous message. What > is the seperator used in the spool to differentiate between > messages? A blank line - plus an old style UUCP deluivered from line (no colon). take a look aat the file and you will see what I mean... -bat.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: appending to the mail spool? Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:35:54 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523063343.4622E-100000@kira> References: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Michael Lea <mikelea@digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5m2hct$bn0$1@news2.digex.net> For the record: I think this is a very bad idea. For real mail forwarding you should be using a .forward file.... if you want to only forward some messages, use procmail (I'll even offer to help). However, since you asked: messages are separated by a blank line and then a 'From ' line such as From luomat@peak.org 00:30:21 -0700 TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problem with compiling using Workshop Openstep for Solaris Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 06:39:02 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523063702.4622F-100000@kira> References: <5m3mbs$7ic$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andreas Dietzsch <dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <5m3mbs$7ic$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> This would probably be better in csn.programmer, but I can even tell you this one... > CC -O -Isym -mt -I/usr/openstep/include -I/usr/openwin/include > -I/usr/openwin/include/X11 -c HelloWorld_main.m -o > sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o > sh: CC: not found > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `sparc_obj/HelloWorld_main.o' > > Does anybody knows what the caused this problem? Sure: CC was not found. CC is the compiler. You might want to use 'cc' (check to make sure that /bin/cc exists and it executable), or set your environmental variable: CC=/bin/cc (you could also use whatever flags you like for cc there) TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 23 May 1997 15:11:05 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have a Pentium Pro system with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller. Currently I have a Baracuda 4.3gb boot drive that I have set asside only 2 Gb for NextStep. I just purchased a Seagate Cheeta 4.5Gb Wide SCSI drive and I would like to install it as my boot drive. I'd like to partition it something like this sd0a partition 2Gb sd1a partition .5Gb (for swap space) 2GB dos partition Now here's the questions.... 1.) From what I understand the WIDE SCSI drives have to be at lun 8 and above, is this true? 2.) [Newbie question here] Is there anyway (with my existing hardware) to boot from the Cheeta drive and have other (narrow SCSI drives) on luns 1-6? 3.) How do I create a NeXT/Openstep bootable WIDE SCSI (or for that matter any SCSI disk) disk that has more than one NeXT partition on a Pentium Pro? My basic (and it is very very basic) understanding is to partition the disk using DOS fdisk, but with the PentiumPro I can't boot from dos 6. Should I try to boot to Win96 using the Baracuda drive, and partition the Cheeta drive using Win95 fdisk? Why won't NeXT's fdisk work? Thank's in advance for any help or suggestions.... David A. Johnson Research Engineer Northwestern University
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 23 May 1997 15:45:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> daj@nwu.edu wrote: > I have a Pentium Pro system with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller. > Currently I have a Baracuda 4.3gb boot drive that I have set > asside only 2 Gb for NextStep. > I just purchased a Seagate Cheeta 4.5Gb Wide SCSI drive and I > would like to install it as my boot drive. I'd like to partition > it something like this > sd0a partition 2Gb sd1a partition .5Gb > (for swap space) 2GB dos partition This is NOT wise. If you make another partition the swap drive, it will THRASH the drive. i.e. as you read some files in partition a, and a pge swap occurs in partition b, the head of the drive will have to leave partition a, travel to partition b, then go back to partition a. You will get a net performance decrease. If you want to gain performance, you need a seperate drive for swapping, not a seperate partition. -- 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: Richard J Appleyard <appleyar@ohsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HD won't boot Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 08:35:31 -0700 Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University Message-ID: <3385B892.B92@ohsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: appleyar@ohsu.edu The filesystem is intact (fsck checks out) and the disk can be mounted as an external drive. However, the disk will not boot (as the startup disk) and hangs around the "root on sd0" message. I thought that the boot block might be corrupted? Any thoughts? I tried re-installing the boot block with the 'disk -b' command but I get the error, 'get info: Inappropriate ioctl for device' Can anyone help me here? Thanks, Richard. -- Dr Richard J Appleyard, Medical Informatics Fellow Biomedical Info. Comm. Ctr (BICC), Oregon Health Sciences Univ. appleyar@ohsu.edu, Voice (503) 494-1230, Fax (503) 494-4551 "To err is human, but to really screw things up takes a computer!"
From: Jeffrey Koppi <jkoppi@diehlgraphsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: domain name server? Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 16:08:30 -0400 Organization: Diehl Graphsoft, Inc. Message-ID: <3385F914.4CAE@diehlgraphsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How do I specify my Domain Name Server (DNS) in OpenStep 4.2 (Mach Intel)? I run OmniWeb, and it says "No such Host" for any URL I enter. If I type in the address number instead of the domain name it works. Jeff jkoppi@diehlgraphsoft.com
From: "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes Date: 24 May 1997 00:04:48 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> Please be patient, I haven't learned much about NEXTSTEP yet. I have learned a lot in the last 2 weeks from FAQS and by reading posts in this and other groups but I can't get either of the cubes I am trying to administer to work correctly. I think that there is just something simple wrong with them that I don't understand yet but maybe one of you more experienced peple could help me with. Here is the situation: Cube 1: Palo 68040-25 8 megs RAM NS 2.1 This cube was once upon a time hooked up to a server in a college lab. It is no longer hooked up to a server of any kind, but is now simply attached to a piece of ethernet cable along with some Windows machines. I think that the cube still thinks it is part of its old network. When I got it it would not boot into its GUI, it always drops out into the verbose unix mode complaining about not being able to find its server when I attached a ethernet line to it. I tried to edit the host files and other files that contained references to the college in its /etc directory and it doesn't say that its trying to find its server anymore, but it still doesn't work. Here is what happens: everything looks ok to me until it gets to the "checking disks" part. then it displays checking disks /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check Please insert new disk for volume 0 (press n if disk is not available) **I press n here because there is no MO disk for the drive* can't open /dev/rod0a (null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY Reboot failed. . . help! Faking root mount entries Configuring ethernet interface to 192.42.172.4 Using default broadcast address Configuring local interface Configuring hostname to Palo erase^?, intr ^C, kill ^U # It wont go into the GUI at this point, it stays in the command prompt mode. I boot it with bsd, not the single user mode I read about so I thought that it should go into the GUI but it doesn't. I don't understand what it means with the null pointer stuff but I understand that when it says "reboot failed. . . help!" it isn't good! Can anyone tell me what I can try to get the cube back into its graphical state? If you can't explain it to me, can you suggest places that I can check? I tried the NeXT Answers and FAQ and some of the FAQS at TjL's page which were helpful but didn't tell me enough to make it work. I don't have any original manuals from the computers, I ordered the User Guide from NeXT but it is not a technical reference at all and doesn't help me. I will post the other cube's problem in a seperate message because it is totally different and I don't want to get them mixed up. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. Heath Tucker heatht@mindspring.com
From: "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Ailing cube 2 Date: 24 May 1997 00:31:39 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <01bc67d9$54543460$6ad845cf@heath> Here is the other cube that I am unable to get working. Cube 2: Alto 68030-25 16 MB RAM NS 3.3 This cube was working fine when we got it, it booted right up into its GUI like we needed it to. We were trying to figure out how to get it to talk to some Windows machines though, and we messed it up. I don't have the books that came with it so I was trying to figure it out on my own by looking at the online librarian files and the net FAQs and Next Answes. I thought I had it working pretty well, I could FTP and Telnet to it from the other machines but then I was making some fine tuning adjustments and rebooted and poof! it wont work anymore. This one wont even finish its booting without being put into single user mode. Here is what it does: it loads nicely and looks good until it gets to this part., then it goes very badly astray. Starting RPC and network services: portmap netinfo lookupd Mounting remote filesystems May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: Link failed May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver wont link May 23 24:19:07 Alto kern_loader: kern_loader: server mididriver wont link *then it sits here forever* I can get into it with single user mode and edit files, but I dont know what to do. I don't have a boot disk because this cube has no drives. The other cube, Palo has an OD but I dont know if it works, and I dont have a MO disk. I have a CD player, but not the NS disks. I thought that I could get around a full reinstallation because I can still get into the computers and all the files seem intact, they are just configured incorrectly. Can anyone help me with either computer? (for first cube see "Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes" post) Once again, any help/advice/tips would be very appreciated. BTW, if this looks familiar it is because my friend Jennifer Mask posted for help in the software group a few days back, but was still unable to fix it so she gave me the task of correcting this cube also ; ) Heath Tucker heatht@mindspring.com
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 23:07:25 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII OK this should be simple, right? On Intel I have two HDs one as / and another as /Disk I want to export them to the slab I setup NFSexport on Intel to export the /Disk I setup NFSimport on slab to import /Disk at /Net/peace/Disk yet nothing appears at /Net/peace/Disk Am I missing something? Please help... I feel very clueless... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 02:32:07 -0600 From: Benoit.Marchant@questintl.com Subject: New NFS Client for NextStep, OS 4.1, O.S 4.2 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software Message-ID: <864458820.17741@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service Hi, I experience troubles using an NT Server as a file server througth NFS with OpenStep 4.1 Clients. Other people got the same troubles with SGI servers. I rode in this thread that NeXT had a patch for it ? NeXT, is it correct ? If it is not possible to be supported by NeXT itself, would it be possible for someone with that knowledge and a bit of time to adapt the NFS Client of Linux for which source code is available to NeXTSTEP/OpenStep for Mach ? Best regards, Benoit Marchant -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhöfer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prelude to Rhapsody: Boot Problem Date: 23 May 1997 07:23:15 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5m3gl3$v48@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <33838ACC.E7A19D03@innet.be> Jan Van Riel <jvanriel@innet.be> wrote: >I'm installing Prelude to Rhapsody on SCSI drive on an Intel box. I was >able to do the initial install but when it reboots, it fails mounting >the root. It says in the System Panic window: > >.... >rootdev 300, howto 0 >vfs_mountroot: error=19 >panic: Cpu(0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root >.... > >What can I do next? Where can I find more information on Mach commands >e.g. the options for the "boot:" prompt, for example. Ups, I had this several times ... a) your SCSI controllor was recognized at installation time, but not anymore. This happens sometimes on my stone-age system (VLB bus, aha-1542), but probably not on a new system and definitely not regularly. Let's rule this out. b) try "rootdev=/dev/sd0a" at boot time, or whereever you root partition lies; if it is on the second partition of the first drive, it's "/dev/sd1a", if it's the first partition of the second drive, "/dev/sd0b" etc. If this doesn't work, I'm at a loss. SCSI controller problem? Try "config=Default rootdev=xxxxxx" (<- right drive again) at "boot:". This will use the generic setup without any drivers except SCSI. If this *was* the problem, then - ack, my memory leaves me here - try to edit /private/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table There should be an entry for "Boot Device" with a proper entry there, but, as it goes, I'm not so sure anymore. Probably no big help :), Rainer. (This I*tel HW is a pain in the ***, I'll try to lay my hands on some decent hardware as soon as Rhapsody comes out) -- ---------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer Frohnhöfer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prelude to Rhapsody: Boot Problem Date: 23 May 1997 13:20:31 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5m45iv$jmn@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Arg, I wrote: > b) try "rootdev=/dev/sd0a" at boot time, or whereever you root partition >lies; if it is on the second partition of the first drive, it's "/dev/sd1a", >if it's the first partition of the second drive, "/dev/sd0b" etc. Rats rats rats! This should read: Drive one, first partition: /dev/sd0a drive one, second partition:/dev/sd0b drive two, first partition: /dev/sd1a drive two, secon partition: /dev/sd1b ... and so on ... I didn't have enough caffeine this morning ...... -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 24 May 1997 12:36:47 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5m6ncv$3on@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Organisation: RRR Hello Timothy et. al., Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > OK this should be simple, right? Not quite :) > On Intel I have two HDs one as / and another as /Disk > > I want to export them to the slab > > I setup NFSexport on Intel to export the /Disk > I setup NFSimport on slab to import /Disk at /Net/peace/Disk > > yet nothing appears at /Net/peace/Disk "df /Net/peace/Disk" reports "peace:/" right? The problem is that the automounter has problems with mounting the root filesystem as /Net/peace and another filesystem as /net/peace/Disk. You can try to bypass this by mounting peace:/ as /Net/peace/peace (e.g.) or try tweaking with the sequence in witch the mounts get executed (hm, don't know how to do that for the automounter) Hope this helps Bastian -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@gmd.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 17:38:59 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Can somebody please explain how to use a wavetable board connected to a Soundblaster in an Ix86 computer. I tried the midi driver out of the Music kit without success. The Soundblaster driver blocks the port and interrupt and also i would like to know if there is anywhere a mixer application available? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: IPX Routing with NextStep/OpenStep Date: 24 May 1997 13:35:48 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5m7fuk$cir@xmission.xmission.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970520145304.265B-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5lsgfa$a2@xmission.xmission.com> <Pine.NXT.3.95.970523150822.1836D-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : On 20 May 1997, planetary wrote: : > Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> wrote: : > : Or Netware server, i should have known this... maybe thes a public tool : available that can do it? Caldera OpenLinux might be able to do this, but I sure can't tell from looking at their web site. : > : > : Does the Netware Client of OS4.1 work? : > : > No, unfortunately. : What about using some programs from 3.3 in combination? It might work, but it would be useful only with a 3.1x server or a 4.x server with bindery emulation. If that's all you have to worry about, then by all means, grab your 3.3 CD and give it a whirl. What we really need is an NDS-aware client, because NDS is where the big fun happens with IntranetWare. I think it might actually be easier to get source to NDS itself than to a client, though, since NDS is licenseable to any OS vendor. And I'd hate to write a client from scratch. ...............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
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: <16065863928021@digifix.com> Date: 25 May 1997 03:57:50 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: dogstar@unixg.ubc.ca (Seamus Dunne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help Install NS3.3.-->Intel box w NO SCSI? Date: 25 May 1997 04:35:39 GMT Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5m8fir$d18$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> A number of NeXT-knowledgable fellows have told me that NEXTSTEP 3.3 will, will, in fact, install onto a PC (AMD K5, 64 MB RAM, Quantum 3.2 GB HD )(partitioned into a 700 MB part'n, made "installable" and active; this is where NEXTSTEP will go) using the 2 floppies supplied with NS for Intel. OPENSTEP will install *without using a SCSI CDROM*, despite what the sages prescribe. Been there; done it. . YES I *know* that the usual situation calls for a SCSI CD-ROM: This is my question. Can I install NS3.3? I've done so with Open step 4.0---but I don't own that CD, only the NS3.3 CD. I've tried doing as directed: selecting first an Adaptec SCSI driver. then an ATAPI/EIDE driver....The sys finds the Quantum HD, but cannot find the SCSI device. I get "packet sent...packet not received" and other errors. Any advice would be appreciated. Reply here, but certainly to my email, so I don't miss anything. >>>>> THANK YOU...... -- If I can't die happily-- I'd rather not die at all. Anon
From: <lavy@gate.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cable T.V & EQUIPMENT Date: 25 May 1997 11:14:23 GMT Organization: land of jesus Message-ID: <5m96uf$1m70$9270@news.gate.net> you need cable T.V call us. we can help you wite CONVERTERS & EQUIPMENT. 30 - days MONEY BACK** 1 YEAR WARRANTY. e-mail me to: lavy@gate.net
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 25 May 1997 14:52:13 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: ... I setup NFSexport on Intel to export the /Disk I setup NFSimport on slab to import /Disk at /Net/peace/Disk yet nothing appears at /Net/peace/Disk ... Why use the '/Net' mount? - it's part of the 'autonfsmount', and you probably don't need the extra step. I've had great luck with small setups like this just mounting these things at the root level. Two things: - Is there **really** a directory at /Net/peace? Are you sure? Sorry, but I doubt it. - Don't include the name of the mount (/Disk). Just tell NFSMangler to mount it at /Net. Read the sections on NFS in SysAdmin.bshlf; you won't be sorry. Particularily, watch how you mount things (forground/background) and how errors are handled. Let me know how you do. - Rupert
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Help! ColorStation turbo won't start Message-ID: <EAqHHv.5Ap@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <tim-1805970048260001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 11:05:55 GMT In article <tim-1805970048260001@tdanaher.demon.co.uk> tim@tdanaher.demon.co.uk (Tim Danaher) writes: > My ColorStation turbo hung whilst copying a file in the Workspace, > wouldn't let me log out. Pressed power key and got into the NMI monitor. > Typed 'reboot', system restarted. The drive made a few (very few) > read/write noises and then wouldn't get past the 'loading from disk > panel...' The animated disk icon just keeps on spinning. System was > purchased 4 weeks a go with a (i presume) new HD (540 MB Conner). > A 540MB Conner drive leads me to qustion your usage of the term "new" ;-) But seriously, have you tried to boot verbosly (Command-Comand-~, and then 'bsd' at the boot monitor prompt)? What is the verbose boot telling you just before it gets stuck? -- 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: Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes Message-ID: <EAqJ0z.5BI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 11:38:59 GMT In article <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> writes: Disclaimer: I have not much experience with NS 2.1, and I know your conf is a bare bones minimum, but I'll try to give you a few pointers drawn from analogies with NS 3.x. You can check them out and see whether teh"re valid. I share your feeling that the trouble comes from ripping the pour critters out of their usual network environment without being reconfigured properly. In NS 3.x the network conf is determined by the file /etc/hostinfo and the contents of the local NetInfo database. They can be restored to a pristine state by copying /usr/templates/client/etc/hostinfo and /usr/templates/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc. Unfortunately, this will not only restore the network conf but all local customization. But anyhow, it is a way to clean the machine up and start from new. The only other way would be to restore NS 2.1 from optical disk (if you have one). NS 3.x is no option since the low amount of memory would make the poor cube creep to almost a halt. The "NULL POINTER" thing is a unfriendly reaction to the optical disk not being available. I don't know why the machine insists in the od being a vital part of the boot process but why not just insert one and try again? The reaction you get is a kind of mild panic, the boot has failed but a basic (possibly single user) mode is usable for debugging. To me this is a kind of friendly reaction, much better than just shutting down :-) At least you can browse the /etc/rc and /etc/rc.* scripts and get an idea at which point the boot failed and try some corrective measures... > Please be patient, I haven't learned much about NEXTSTEP > yet. I have learned a lot in the last 2 weeks from FAQS and by > reading posts in this and other groups but I can't get either of > the cubes I am trying to administer to work correctly. I think > that there is just something simple wrong with them that I don't > understand yet but maybe one of you more experienced peple could > help me with. Here is the situation: > > Cube 1: Palo 68040-25 8 megs RAM NS 2.1 > > This cube was once upon a time hooked up to a server in a college > lab. It is no longer hooked up to a server of any kind, but is > now simply attached to a piece of ethernet cable along with some > Windows machines. I think that the cube still thinks it is part > of its old network. When I got it it would not boot into its > GUI, it always drops out into the verbose unix mode complaining > about not being able to find its server when I attached a ethernet > line to it. I tried to edit the host files and other files that > contained references to the college in its /etc directory and it > doesn't say that its trying to find its server anymore, but it > still doesn't work. Here is what happens: > > everything looks ok to me until it gets to the "checking disks" > part. then it displays > > checking disks > /dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check > Please insert new disk for volume 0 > (press n if disk is not available) **I press n here because there is > no MO disk for the drive* > can't open /dev/rod0a > (null pointer): CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM > (null pointer): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY > Reboot failed. . . help! > Faking root mount entries > Configuring ethernet interface to 192.42.172.4 Using default > broadcast address Configuring local interface Configuring hostname > to Palo > > > erase^?, intr ^C, kill ^U > # > > It wont go into the GUI at this point, it stays in the command > prompt mode. > I boot it with bsd, not the single user mode I read about so I > thought that it should go into the GUI but it doesn't. I don't > understand what it means with the null pointer stuff but I > understand that when it says "reboot failed. . . help!" it isn't > good! > > Can anyone tell me what I can try to get the cube back into its > graphical state? If you can't explain it to me, can you suggest > places that I can check? I tried the NeXT Answers and FAQ and > some of the FAQS at TjL's page which were helpful but didn't tell > me enough to make it work. I don't have any original manuals > from the computers, I ordered the User Guide from NeXT but it is > not a technical reference at all and doesn't help me. > > I will post the other cube's problem in a seperate message because > it is totally different and I don't want to get them mixed up. > Thanks in advance for any help you can give me on this. > -- 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
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From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 15:29:49 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 23-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > > I just purchased a Seagate Cheeta 4.5Gb Wide SCSI drive and I > > would like to install it as my boot drive. I'd like to partition > > it something like this > > sd0a partition 2Gb sd1a partition .5Gb > > (for swap space) 2GB dos partition > > This is NOT wise. If you make another partition the swap drive, > it will THRASH the drive. i.e. as you read some files in partition > a, and a pge swap occurs in partition b, the head of the drive will > have to leave partition a, travel to partition b, then go back to > partition a. You will get a net performance decrease. If you want > to gain performance, you need a seperate drive for swapping, not > a seperate partition. John, I know you've convinced yourself that partitioning a drive for swapspace decreases performance, but that doesn't actually make it true. There's an entire chapter in the O'Reilly "Unix System Performance Tuning" (may not be the exact title, but close) book on how to partition drives correctly. You'd find it good reading.... In general, you want to have where the swap area is located to be near the middle of the drive cylinders, and you want to have actively-used files/partitions on either side of the swap area. Such an arrangement results in higher performance compared to not partitioning the drive, both from experimental testing, and from a theoretical standpoint (compare full-disk seek times to half-stroke seek times, and consider the impact of IO request scheduling algorithms like elevator seeking). Given a 4.5 MB drive and what the original poster wants to do, I'd probably partition the drive as follows: sd0a -- 400 MB to 750 MB (for the operating system, depending on whether Developer is going to be installed) sd0b -- 250 MB (swap partition) sd0c -- 1.x GB, for NEXTSTEP user space (and /LocalApps, etc) sd0d -- 2 GB for DOS I'd create a ~240 MB swapfile in sd0b using mkfile which would be the primary swapfile (set the low and hi water marks appropriately), and I'd create a secondary swapfile 0 bytes in size on sd0a in case the primary ever fills up. Also, you can blow away sd0a and re-mkfs it when upgrading to a new version of the system, which is convenient. Some of the other advantages of having a seperate swap partition is that you can newfs/mkfs the filesystem more appropriately for what you're doing (reduce the number of inodes and cylinder groups). Also, such a swap partition is not going to have the swap file as fragmented as it would be if it were created on a partition which held lots of other files (say on the main root partition holding the system). The reason for that is because the FFS wants to store files in empty cylinder groups before completely filling up all of the blocks in partially-used cylinder groups (this relates to MINFREE, the 10% or so disk space reserved to help avoid fragmentation)-- since leaving some empty space allows files to grow in size without having to fragment themselves (or not too badly, anyway). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 25 May 1997 20:55:46 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > John, I know you've convinced yourself that partitioning a drive > for swapspace decreases performance, but that doesn't actually > make it true. > There's an entire chapter in the O'Reilly "Unix System Performance > Tuning" (may not be the exact title, but close) book on how to > partition drives correctly. You'd find it good reading.... So the way I unders stand it: 1) The partitions are physically seperated. e.g. partition a would be the inner portion (wheel) of the drive, and partition b would be the outer. If the swap is in the outer portion, and the regular system is in the inner, a demand to swap while reading info on the outer would force the head way out to the outer. 2) The partitions are striped "interlaced" so that a seek would not not be necessarily further from any system file to the swap portion. However, that "interlacing" makes the swap file non contiguous physically and thereby reduces performance. Even in your example of putting the swap in the middle... Look at would "could happen" in case 1. If it's a large drive, say only 600megs of the first 2gig partition is used, and 1.5Gb of the third. Then if there's a swap request, and the head is in the first partition, it might have to travel over a good bit of space to get to the middle, and the same if from the 3rd. Whereas if it was one partition, then it's equally likely it would be closer, at least mathematically, than with the partitions. I.E. it would only be dealing with traversing 2.1Gb of data instead of 4Gb (assuming a 4Gb drive). In the second case, if the partitions are NOT physically seperate and are "interlaced" then the swap file is NOT contiguous and that is reducing performance. It's an either or situation (as far as I can tell). If I got it wrong, could you please let me know where the performance boost lies? What are the other alternatives that make partitioning for swap space and system access just as fast as having a single unpartitioned drive (obviously a seperate drive will always be better than either of the former possibilities). -- 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: pdamiano@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca (P Damiano) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Web Browsers for NS3.2 Date: 25 May 1997 19:23:49 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Message-ID: <5ma3k5$fjm$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Hi. I was wondering if anyone new of any frames compatible Web Browsers that would be compatible with NeXTStep version 3.2 on black hardware. Thanks Peter Damiano -- =============================================================================== Peter Damiano Phone: (403)-492-2526 Department of Physics FAX: (403)-492-0714 The University of Alberta email: pdamiano@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2J1 ===============================================================================
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Web Browsers for NS3.2 Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 17:00:28 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525165932.24869C-100000@kira> References: <5ma3k5$fjm$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: P Damiano <pdamiano@gpu3.srv.ualberta.ca> In-Reply-To: <5ma3k5$fjm$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> You can use OmniWeb 2.5, you need the FoundationUserPatch.... You can find them both @peak.org and/or my web pages... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: Suppressing Printer Burst Page Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EAqsp5.B2r@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 15:07:52 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Greetings everyone! I have my Next machine connected to a LaserJet 4M which is equipped with a JetDirect Card. I'm using the LPD in the JetDirect card. Could someone kindly suggest how I might be able to AUTOMATICALLY suppress the annoying burst pages (and hence save some trees!) that are sent every time I send a print job to the printer? Thanks. -Thas
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo "master", server/client, and a headache the size of Nebraska Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 17:30:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525170158.24869D-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: rupert@noir.net, Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu, everhart@alterlife.com, netinfo-talk@xedoc.com.au, nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com In-Reply-To: <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> Greetings Friends and NetInfo gurus, My forehead throbs, my keyboard has several imprints of my brow, as do the desk, wall, and dog.... I have rendered my machine unbootable several times now, and I'm just out of ideas.... I've read "QuickStart" about a dozen times and now find its name is just a mockery... Here's what I'd like to do: Intel running 4.1 Slab running 3.3 I want the _Intel_ to be connected to the 'net via PPP, do time & host config, serve as the NetInfo master for folders (NFS) and Users. The slab will handle printing and faxing.... Anytime I try SimpleNetworkStarter (yeah, right) I get this: "May 25 12:38:57 peace syslog: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping" or this "May 25 12:43:57 peace lookupd[117]: NetInfo timeout connecting to local domain, sleeping" and some other time I got this: "May 24 19:05:26 localhost sendmail[138]: My unqualified host name (localhost) unknown; sleeping for retry" With HostManager, I've set "Use local domain only" and 'Readable only by local net' I've set the hostname to 'peace' and set the internet address to 192.42.172.1, Broadcast & Netmask to 'default' and Rounter to 'none' Anytime I set SNS to 'provide the services below: - Maintain the master copy of the network admin data - limit access to admin data to local network - automatically add new NS systems to the network - Require password - Run network time - maintain the network's email server (this one doesn't matter much) Directories exported: Homes = /Users Shared Apps = /LocalApps Shared data = /usr/local I reboot and get the above errors... I'm stuck & confused and may just be overlooking something really simple... Anyway, any help appreciated.... I had this working with the slab as the netinfo master but decided I wanted the Intel to be it... I thought I had reset everything to its default but perhaps I overlooked something... Thanks yet again TjL ps -- I also need sendmail to run on the Intel just for outgoing mail from the Intel to the 'net ...
From: Michel Coste <mic@micmac.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: JumpBack cryptic message... Followup-To: comp.sys.next.software Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 20:10:46 GMT Organization: MiCMAC Sender: news@micmac.com Message-ID: <EAr6py.1xD@micmac.com> I do my backups with JumpBack. Now it tells me again and again the same thing about some files that appear to be safe: Warning: missing links... These are GIF files. And they are all in the same directory. -- mc _________________________________________________________ Michel Coste <mailto:mic@micmac.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what do I do with these core files? Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 19:54:39 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' files.... Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? TjL
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Creating multiple NeXT partitions on single disk? Date: 26 May 1997 06:17:08 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5mb9t4$evm$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Hello All, How is it possible to create a second OpenStep/Mach Intel partition on an IDE disk? I have a 1Gb disk that has been partitioned with a spare 200Mb for DOS that we now want to use as a data storage area for the 800Mb OpenStep partition. Given that BuildDisk will automatically partition a drive greater than 2Gb into 2 OpenStep partitions, how do I get fdisk to allow me to create two NeXT partitions? Do I have to mark my second 200Mb partition as something other than NeXT? Many Thanks Leigh -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 26 May 1997 06:40:05 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Cc: kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > Can somebody please explain how to use a wavetable board connected to a > Soundblaster in an Ix86 computer. I tried the midi driver out of the Music > kit without success. The Soundblaster driver blocks the port and > interrupt and also i would like to know if there is anywhere a mixer > application available? > > Regards > Konstantin Wiesel > Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de > > > As far as I know, the daughter boards are not supported as MIDI devices, only MIDI output to external synths are (which works well enough). The only way you could get internal MIDI instruments to work would be if the mapping was totally in hardware and it had been programmed correctly. I believe someone is working on a mixer or new driver for the Soundblaster, dunno who and a mate of mine needs the same thing. If you can wait another half year I might be able to have a go at it....Sorry. Leigh -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME)
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:29:29 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526112708.4291C-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Leigh Smith <leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> On 26 May 1997, Leigh Smith wrote: > In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > > > As far as I know, the daughter boards are not supported as MIDI devices, only > MIDI output to external synths are (which works well enough). The only way > you could get internal MIDI instruments to work would be if the mapping was > totally in hardware and it had been programmed correctly. I believe someone > is working on a mixer or new driver for the Soundblaster, dunno who and a > mate of mine needs the same thing. If you can wait another half year I might > be able to have a go at it....Sorry. > Hmm, up to this time i thought there was no difference whether i use an external midi synth or the wavetable daughtercard, at least thats the way i use it under windows (External midi device driver). Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: question about partitions Message-ID: <EAs2xE.71H.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 07:46:26 GMT >In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: >> >> FWIW I think for most folks 1024 is a waste of space, but that's just MO It depends upon the drive. Usually, you gain space on a drive by low-level formatting with a larger block size. Here are some real-world figures: Drive Model Size@512 Size@1024 Increase in size ----------- -------- --------- ---------------- Seagate ST1480N 406.5MB 419.9MB 13.39MB Maxtor MXT-1240S 1183MB 1257MB 73.3MB Seagate ST34371N 4148.9MB 4341.3MB 192.37MB In article <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, Matthew Seaman <matthew_seaman@plsys.co.uk> wrote: >It's a toss-up, as ever. With larger block sizes, you can get better IO >throughput and less of the disk space is taken up by the filesystem overhead, >but each file, even if it is only a byte long, will eat up at least one >filesystem block. So, as Tim says, it can be a big waste of space. There is a difference between physical block size at the low level and allocation size at the file system level. The BSD 4.3 BFFS that NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP use has a minimum allocation size of 1024 bytes, so even those 512 byte block drives are still wasting 1K per file. Actually, the 4.3 file system will break a partition block (usually 8192 bytes) into 4 smaller fragments (minimum 1024 bytes) for use by files which are smaller than one block. Search for BFFS on the Web or via Archie to learn more. >512b or 1024b blocks are about right for a Unix system disk and for most >typical user home directories. Most SCSI disks come preformatted with 512b >blocks, and not all will support larger sizes. I don't think that there is ever a gain under NEXTSTEP for 512 byte blocks. If you are forced to use 512 bytes blocks by a stunted Intel BIOS or by a narrow-minded drive manufacturer, then you don't have a choice. In this light, portability between Intel and real workstations might point to the only advantage of 512 byte block formatting. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Bellevue, WA, U.S.A. Registered NeXT/Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner BrianW@SoundS.WA.com NeXTmail welcome
From: Sven Droll Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 26 May 1997 10:17:21 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> Hi We have got the same problem here (white machine exports a disk, black does not mount it). As far as I know, this is a problem with the permissions (the black machine has not the right to mount the disk). The permissions for our black machine was granted through NFSManager, but it seems that this do not work. Any hint how to solve this problem would be nice. ciao -- Sven Droll __ ______________________________________________________/ / ______ __ sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de / /_/ ___/ /_ _/ _/ =====\_/======= LOGOUT FASCISM! ___________________________________________________________________ NeXT-mail, MIME-mail welcome ;-))
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NXHosting NS3.3 -> OS4.1 Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 16:27:37 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526162449.4533A-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Very often the NXHosting from the NS3.3 P1 machine to the OS4.1 machine does not work. It displays the following line: DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host pollux I used this command line: /NextApps/Edit.app/Edit -NXHost pollux& Any suggestions anyone? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:36:19 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> In-Reply-To: <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 25-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > So the way I unders stand it: > > 1) The partitions are physically seperated. e.g. partition a would > be the inner portion (wheel) of the drive, and partition b would > be the outer. If the swap is in the outer portion, and the regular > system is in the inner, a demand to swap while reading info on the > outer would force the head way out to the outer. But read what I said again-- you want to have the swap partition in the middle of the drive surrounded by active partitions. Ie, a being the system (or system mini-root), b being the swap, and c being either user space or the rest of the system. Case 1 is the most common arrangement with normal drives. > 2) The partitions are striped "interlaced" so that a seek would > not not be necessarily further from any system file to the swap > portion. However, that "interlacing" makes the swap file non > contiguous physically and thereby reduces performance. Right. Such a case might happen on an IDE drive due to the bizzare way sectors have to be remapped by lying about the real drive geometry due to BIOS limitations. > Even in your example of putting the swap in the middle... Look at > would "could happen" in case 1. If it's a large drive, say only > 600megs of the first 2gig partition is used, and 1.5Gb of the third. > Then if there's a swap request, and the head is in the first > partition, it might have to travel over a good bit of space to get > to the middle, and the same if from the 3rd. Whereas if it was > one partition, then it's equally likely it would be closer, at > least mathematically, than with the partitions. It doesn't work out that way in practice, John. A system under enough load to be swapping is obviously doing a fair amount of work, or is completely RAM-starved (or both). If it's doing a lot of work, it's virtually certain that the IO requests involve both files from the system and /tmp, and user files or applications. In other words, the drive heads are going to be moving accross a fiarly wide range of cylinders just for user-side IO no matter where you put the swap area. The time required to perform an IO request involves the sum of the seek time to the initial track, reading the data, plus any track-to-track motion (exaberated if the file is highly fragmented), plus overhead imposed by and within the OS. Given the arrangement of partitions I've defined above, the average distance required to reach the swap area is going to be D/4, where D is the total distance between the inner and outer cylinders. If you don't partition, the average distance to reach the swap area is going to be D/2. [ This is modulo many assumptions, but it's a reasonable model for the purpose of discussion. ] Using a dedicated partition for swapping reduces swapfile fragmentation to the best it can possibly be, which means that you also minimize the amount of track-to-track motion within the IO request due to file fragmentation. If you didn't have a seperate swap partition, the swap file is going to be more fragmented, which means more time spent moving track-to-track. > In the second case, if the partitions are NOT physically seperate > and are "interlaced" then the swap file is NOT contiguous and that > is reducing performance. It's an either or situation (as far as > I can tell). If I got it wrong, could you please let me know where > the performance boost lies? In the case of an interlaced drive, usually it's interlaced on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The initial seek times are going to be completely equivalent, but using a seperate swap partition is still going to reduce fragmentation within each cylinder because you've ensured that all sectors within a cylinder are going to belong to the swap area, which would not be the case if you didn't partition. Again, partitioning for the swap area can help performance. > What are the other alternatives that make partitioning for swap space and > system access just as fast as having a single unpartitioned drive > (obviously a seperate drive will always be better than either of the > former possibilities). Yes, a seperate drive is going to be better because you can do IO in parallel, and because you've got two sets of head assemblies to work with, which means that you win due to the probable locality of reference for swapfile accesses. I think I've answered the other part of your question above. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question about partitions Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:46:36 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <onWQlwu00UzxI20Mle@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5la1nd$2ec@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <5lc3ag$emm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970514062918.2052E-100000@kira> <5lehlh$ar4$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <EAs2xE.71H.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 26-May-97 Re: question about partitions by Brian Willoughby@sounds. > There is a difference between physical block size at the low level and > allocation size at the file system level. The BSD 4.3 BFFS that NEXTSTEP > and OPENSTEP use has a minimum allocation size of 1024 bytes, so even those > 512 byte block drives are still wasting 1K per file. > > Actually, the 4.3 file system will break a partition block (usually 8192 > bytes) into 4 smaller fragments (minimum 1024 bytes) for use by files which > are smaller than one block. Close, but that's not quite right. From 'man mkfs': The optional arguments allow fine tune control over the parameters of the file system. Nsect specify the number of sectors per track on the disk. Ntrack specify the number of tracks per cylinder on the disk. Blksize gives the primary block size for files on the file system. It must be a power of two, currently selected from 4096 or 8192. Fragsize gives the fragment size for files on the file system. The fragsize represents the smallest amount of disk space that will be allocated to a file. It must be a power of two currently selected from the range 512 to 8192. ...and from 'man fs': Addresses stored in inodes are capable of addressing frag- ments of `blocks'. File system blocks of at most size MAXBSIZE can be optionally broken into 2, 4, or 8 pieces, each of which is addressable; these pieces may be DEV_BSIZE, or some multiple of a DEV_BSIZE unit. You can get a 512 byte fragment size, which means that files waste an average of 256 bytes due to internal fragmentation. -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: NXHosting NS3.3 -> OS4.1 Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 11:25:42 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970526112143.23793B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970526162449.4533A-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.3.95.970526162449.4533A-100000@pollux.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Very often the NXHosting from the NS3.3 P1 machine to the OS4.1 machine > does not work. It displays the following line: > > DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host pollux Sounds like you do not have PublicWindowServer turned "on" for host "pollux" see Preferences.app under UNIX module... unless your sysadmin has 'discourage PublicWindowServer' in NetInfo, in which case it will not show up in Preferences.app and you have to set it via commandline, something like dwrite System PublicWindowServer YES (let me know if you need the exact dwrite... I'm sure I have it somewhere....) Not a good idea if the machine is on the 'net but works just fine
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 26 May 1997 23:27:39 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > But read what I said again-- you want to have the swap partition > in the middle of the drive surrounded by active partitions. Ie, > a being the system (or system mini-root), b being the swap, and > c being either user space or the rest of the system. Well, first, this breaks down in the case of a system with two partitions (like mine :) because in that situation you WILL have the head going over some dead space to get to the swap all the time... > It doesn't work out that way in practice, John. A system under > enough load to be swapping is obviously doing a fair amount of > work, or is completely RAM-starved (or both). If it's doing a > lot of work, it's virtually certain that the IO requests involve > both files from the system and /tmp, and user files or applications. > In other words, the drive heads are going to be moving accross > a fiarly wide range of cylinders just for user-side IO no matter > where you put the swap area. Hmmm, that's true... My setup is two partitions (which might be a worst case scenario!) and typically you can almost FEEL the darn heads being moved away to get to swap... However, one point to make...if the drive is REALLY big... Let's say 9 gigs, and you have 3 partitons: a being 4gb for system, b being 1gb for swap, and c being 4gb for files/apps... Let's say you only have 1gb of data on both partitions a and c. Then the heads will have to travel over more space than had the person made a single partition with all 3gb's of data situated more tightly together...no? See what I mean... |aa-aaa-aa----------------|bbbbbbbb|cc-ccc-cc--------------| |-----------max head seek distance----------| vs. |a-c-aa-c-a-c-ac-bbbbbb-a-c-a-cc-b-b-----------------------| |---------max h.seek distance------| When there is LOTs of free space, on average the heads might travel less in the single partition situation... Especially when the system has to access BOTH system (a partition) and files/apps (c partition) info... In that case, I may have reduced my max seek distance, and thereby also reduced my avg seek, no? When the drive gets more and more full, then I think what you say is true when a lot of swapping takes place, b/c the system is guaranteed to find the swap in the middle. But note, if the system uses both system and files more often (i.e. partitions a & c), then it's still going to thrash something silly. And in practice, I think both system and user files are accessed quite often...so even if swap isn't at issue, you still take a hit with system and user files/apps. Anyway, sorry if I'm being daft and frustrating you. It's truly based on my ignorance and I'm trying hard to "get it straight." -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.hardware From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: CDROM detected but not mounted Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EAsz66.19q@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 19:22:54 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Hello Everyone, I have an external MediaVision CDROM drive that I used to install NetStep3.0 on my nextstation. I had no problem when I was installing the software. But now I have the following problem: - if I boot the system with NS3.0 disk in the drive, the CDROM is detected and mounted. - if I have any other disk (e.g.RedHat Linux - for installing on another machine), the system detects the drive at boot time but does not mount the drive. Instead I get the message "Eject Disk". If I eject the disk, the system puts the message "Please Insert a Disk" !! A manual mount attempt using a terminal results in the following error mount: /dev/sd1a on /cdrom: I/O error mount: giving up on: /cdrom NOTE: At boot time the system detects the CDROM and connects it as sd1 at sc0 target 6 lun 0 Has anyone experienced this problem? Any suggestions would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks. Cheers, -Thas
From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what do I do with these core files? Date: 27 May 1997 04:55:06 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5mdpfa$n3c$1@brokaw.wa.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' > files.... > > Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? > > TjL not unless you plan on using a debugger and examining the core files to find out why the program blew up. Otherwise, just delete them as they serve no usefull purpose (unless yer the developer or like to hack source ;) -b -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- Email: larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Greg Shaw" <gshaw@zeta.org.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what do I do with these core files? Date: 27 May 1997 05:16:48 GMT Organization: Decisionware Message-ID: <01bc6a5b$f6e0b120$015f6fcb@decisionware> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Timothy, 'core' files are used for post-crash diagnostics usually by the developer or alpha tester. If you have no need of them or cannot decode them then feel free to delete them. Cheers, Greg Shaw. Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote in article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970525195313.9772A-100000@kira>... > > I seem to have crashed lookupd a couple times, producing two 7+ meg 'core' > files.... > > Do they have any use or should I recycle them?? > > TjL > > > >
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: liu@emerald.physics (Wei Liu) Subject: Install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on 3 GB large disk? Message-ID: <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@info.physics.utoronto.ca (System Administrator) Organization: University of Toronto - Dept. of Physics Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 04:32:14 GMT Hi, there: Anyone has such experience in installing NEXTSTEP OS 3.2 on a large SCSI disk bigger than 2GB? I know both /etc/disk and DiskBuilder have problem with that. And the CDROM installation won't help either. Following one of NEXTanswers on this issue, I was able to partition and initialize it by creating a disktab entry. Although it behaves all right as a file system, it seems it can't be booted even I moved every system file to this disk and wrote the /usr/standalone/boot into the boot sector. It just hangs ri ght after saying "root on sd0". Sometimes it even says no SCSI disk attached. Your help is greatly appreciated!! Wei
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Two Disks and a question Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 05:59:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527055112.17194C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I've got one 2-gig disk (2047meg/one partition of OS 4.1) and one 1-gig disk. The 2gig is new and the 1gig is a few years old (3-5 I'd say) I'd like to 'tweak' this setup as much as possible for compiling & overall performance.... Right now I've got _all_ my system files under the 2-gig which is the boot drive, with a couple hundred megs remaining (it has 4.1 user/dev installed). The 1-gig has nothing on it except a 200meg swapfile (/tmp remains on the primary drive) For compiling: I assume that because the source code will be on the 2gig and the swap on the 1-gig I will be getting the full 'double-spindle' effect when compiling. Q: would I be any better off with the header files & swap on the 1gig and the source code being compiled on the 2-gig? Q: other than making the 1-gig a backup-bootable drive and using the leftover space for swap, what else could I use it for? Thanks folks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 11:07:09 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 26-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> But read what I said again-- you want to have the swap partition >> in the middle of the drive surrounded by active partitions. Ie, >> a being the system (or system mini-root), b being the swap, and >> c being either user space or the rest of the system. > > Well, first, this breaks down in the case of a system with two > partitions (like mine :) because in that situation you WILL have > the head going over some dead space to get to the swap all the > time... Yes, it does. There are lots of ways of partitioning your drives which decrease performance, and only having two partitions is one of them for precisely the reasons you've described. [ ...I wanted to snip some of the following, but there's no good place to do so... ] >> It doesn't work out that way in practice, John. A system under >> enough load to be swapping is obviously doing a fair amount of >> work, or is completely RAM-starved (or both). If it's doing a >> lot of work, it's virtually certain that the IO requests involve >> both files from the system and /tmp, and user files or applications. >> In other words, the drive heads are going to be moving accross >> a fairly wide range of cylinders just for user-side IO no matter >> where you put the swap area. > > Hmmm, that's true... My setup is two partitions (which might be > a worst case scenario!) and typically you can almost FEEL the darn > heads being moved away to get to swap... However, one point to > make...if the drive is REALLY big... Let's say 9 gigs, and you > have 3 partitons: a being 4gb for system, b being 1gb for swap, > and c being 4gb for files/apps... Let's say you only have 1gb of > data on both partitions a and c. Then the heads will have to travel > over more space than had the person made a single partition with > all 3gb's of data situated more tightly together...no? > > See what I mean... > > |aa-aaa-aa----------------|bbbbbbbb|cc-ccc-cc--------------| > > |-----------max head seek distance----------| > > vs. > > |a-c-aa-c-a-c-ac-bbbbbb-a-c-a-cc-b-b-----------------------| > > |---------max h.seek distance------| Yes, you're absolutely correct that partitioning the drives in the way you describe would decrease performance. However (and this however is an essential distinction), you aren't supposed to randomly partition drives with arbitrary sizes. You're supposed to consider the actual space requirements, and size the partitions accordingly. That's why OS vendors which encourage use of and/or ship systems with pre-partitioned drives (Sun comes to mind), generally break the OS itself into a bootable miniroot that's guaranteed to fit in 16-32 MB, so you can break up your boot drive into at least three partitions (miniroot, swap, and the rest of the OS including X or whatever windowing system) which is a situation where the IO load is pretty much guaranteed to be distributed. They generally provide disk configuration utilities to aid in partition-size calculations.... > When the drive gets more and more full, then I think what you say > is true when a lot of swapping takes place, b/c the system is > guaranteed to find the swap in the middle. But note, if the system > uses both system and files more often (i.e. partitions a & c), then > it's still going to thrash something silly. TANSTAAFL. If you've got X GB worth of system and data/user files, you've got X GB worth of cylinders to move the heads across no matter what you do. However, there tends to be patterns of IO requests due to the fact that you generally swap when starting up a new process or resuming an swapped out one (ie, by reading in the executable pages from disk), and that there tends to be regular IO to /tmp and to user files for storing documents and program output after the executable pages are read in. Partitioning the drive to put the swapspace in the middle improves performance unless you've badly misjudged how big the partitions should be and have too much unused space. > And in practice, I think both system and user files are accessed quite > often... That's certainly true. > so even if swap isn't at issue, you still take a hit with system and > user files/apps. Again, there ain't no free lunch. Partitioning the drive can still help even ignoring swap since you tend to have the system files filling up most of the root partition, with enough free space left for /tmp, corefiles, log files, mail spools, and so forth...which tends to be fairly self-contained, and the user space, which gets used however. Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more fragmentation, and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem tuning to adjust the filesystem parameters more appropriately for the intended usage of the partition. > Anyway, sorry if I'm being daft and frustrating you. It's truly > based on my ignorance and I'm trying hard to "get it straight." No need to apologize to me; I make mistakes too. And it's infinitely better to have a reasonable conversation with someone who's honestly trying to understand a topic rather than arguing with people who refuse to listen or consider other points of view (which is half of .advocacy, unfortunately). You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing too far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt performance. -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: Anyone running FreeBSD & NeXTStep/OpenStep? Followup-To: poster Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 08:07:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527080458.1779A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu [Homebrew folks: sorry if this is a little off-topic] I've been toying with the idea... just to see what another UNIX looks like I guess.. Anyway, if anyone has done this and would be willing share their experiences, please let me know... Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 27 May 1997 16:03:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > John Kheit said: > > When the drive gets more and more full, then I think what you > > say is true when a lot of swapping takes place, b/c the system > > is guaranteed to find the swap in the middle. But note, if > > the system uses both system and files more often (i.e. partitions > > a & c), then it's still going to thrash something silly. > TANSTAAFL. If you've got X GB worth of system and data/user ^^^^^^^^^^is a new one on me :) What's it mean? > files, you've got X GB worth of cylinders to move the heads across > no matter what you do. > Partitioning the drive to put the swapspace in the middle improves > performance unless you've badly misjudged how big the partitions > should be and have too much unused space. Aha! I see now...ok. So on a a 4Gb drive one might do the following... Partition a is 450Mb for OPENSTEP, partition b is swap and say 550Mb, partition c is 1.5Gb for apps, and partition d is 1.5Gb for User stuff? See, the problem is that one will have about 3+gb's left over for user/apps stuff, and we have 2gb partition limits... So what will likely happen on partition's c and d is they will have lots of free space (unless you have a LOT of user files etc... Hmmm...which partition, if any, is it OK to keep a goodly amount of space free so performance won't take a hit? > Again, there ain't no free lunch. Partitioning the drive can Ain't that the truth...seems like a real balancing act that may change w/ time as a user get's more stuff... > Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more > fragmentation, and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem > tuning to adjust the filesystem parameters more appropriately > for the intended usage of the partition. Yea, but doesn't FFS pretty much keep that to a minimum (I don't think I've ever had more thean 0.7% percent fragmentation, and that was on a PACKED hard drive (almost no free space) that was used for a LONG LONG LONG time). And as for swap space fragmentation and placement...one could fill the hard drive half way... then kick with another system, make a new 500mb swap file, delete the old one (make the appropriate swaptab entries with lowat, hiwat, etc) then install the rest of the user files...and in essence get the swap file unfragmented in the middle of the system... > You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts > performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing > too far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt > performance. I can see in certain situations it doesn't have to be an all out performance looser now... I guess I'll have to try it for myself to see if it is a genuine performance winner (as soon as I figure out how to arrange partitions with free space appropriately...) Thanks much for the info! :) -- 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 27 May 1997 13:54:43 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mep33$drv@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > Can somebody please explain how to use a wavetable board connected to a > Soundblaster in an Ix86 computer. I tried the midi driver out of the > Music kit without success. The Soundblaster driver blocks the port and > interrupt and also i would like to know if there is anywhere a mixer > application available? You're mostly out of luck. Reading the docs for Music kit indicate you can only use the Sound OR Midi capabilities for Soundblaster, not BOTH. You can load the Midi(MPU) driver OR the Soundlbaster driver on boot. The only card that currently supports midi within the native audio driver is Ensoniq. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 14:26:09 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <QnWmR1C00UhBA6PkB5@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 27-May-97 Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> TANSTAAFL. If you've got X GB worth of system and data/user > ^^^^^^^^^^is a new one on me :) What's it mean? "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch", R.A. Heinlein. >> Partitioning the drive to put the swapspace in the middle improves >> performance unless you've badly misjudged how big the partitions >> should be and have too much unused space. > > Aha! I see now...ok. So on a a 4Gb drive one might do the > following... Partition a is 450Mb for OPENSTEP, partition b is > swap and say 550Mb, partition c is 1.5Gb for apps, and partition > d is 1.5Gb for User stuff? 400-odd is plenty for a normal User install; you want more like 600-odd for a full Developer install, and that depends on how much logging and /tmp space you want available. If you've got space to burn, 750 is probably more than enough. I'd be fairly surprised if you filled up more than 100-200 MB worth of swap space, but again, if you've got disk space to blow, you can make swap bigger. That would leave around 3 GB or so, which I'd probably break into a 2 GB partition and a 1+ GB partition; use the first for everything active, and maybe use the second for rarely used stuff like .tar.gz archives, random images (GIF, TIFF, JPEG), backups of essential system files, and whatnot. > See, the problem is that one will have about 3+gb's left over for > user/apps stuff, and we have 2gb partition limits... Right. I tend to prefer smaller drives than 4 GB myself because you can take advantage of IO in parallel between multiple drives and the difference in cost economy isn't that great, and there's the performance gain. > So what will likely happen on partition's c and d is they will have > lots of free space (unless you have a LOT of user files etc... > Hmmm...which partition, if any, is it OK to keep a > goodly amount of space free so performance won't take a hit? The last one. Your active files are going to be in the first 3 partitions (or should be, anyway). >> Again, there ain't no free lunch. Partitioning the drive can > > Ain't that the truth...seems like a real balancing act that may > change w/ time as a user get's more stuff... Yes, or when the intended usage of the machine changes. Of course, if you've got a decent backup mechanism, it's no big deal, but it still takes time to reformat and reinstall. >> Having everything be on one partition tends to cause more >> fragmentation, and it prevents you from doing any kind of filesystem >> tuning to adjust the filesystem parameters more appropriately >> for the intended usage of the partition. > > Yea, but doesn't FFS pretty much keep that to a minimum (I don't > think I've ever had more thean 0.7% percent fragmentation, and that > was on a PACKED hard drive (almost no free space) that was used > for a LONG LONG LONG time). The FFS tries to reduce fragmentation by using cylinder groups and restricting the max number of blocks a file can use in a cylinder group (and gby keeping MINFREE reserved). In some sense, the FFS deliberately fragments very large files into medium-sized but contiguous pieces in order to avoid extreme fragmentation. I mentioned this in more detail earlier. > And as for swap space fragmentation > and placement...one could fill the hard drive half way... then > kick with another system, make a new 500mb swap file, delete the > old one (make the appropriate swaptab entries with lowat, hiwat, > etc) then install the rest of the user files...and in essence get > the swap file unfragmented in the middle of the system... If I've followed you, yes, that's precisely what you want to do. >> You've clearly understood that partitioning a drive badly hurts >> performance quite noticably, but you make a mistake by generalizing >> too far and claiming that partitioning a drive will always hurt >> performance. > > I can see in certain situations it doesn't have to be an all out > performance looser now... I guess I'll have to try it for myself > to see if it is a genuine performance winner (as soon as I figure > out how to arrange partitions with free space appropriately...) > > Thanks much for the info! :) You're welcome. Tell you what, though-- if we ever run into each other at an expo or some such, you owe me a good beer. :-) -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 27 May 1997 19:03:23 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5mfb5r$fgr$4@news2.digex.net> References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> <5mf0kh$av9$1@news2.digex.net> <QnWmR1C00UhBA6PkB5@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 27-May-97 Re: HELP > with WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net > > And as for swap space fragmentation > > and placement...one could fill the hard drive half way... then > > kick with another system, make a new 500mb swap file, delete > > the old one (make the appropriate swaptab entries with lowat, > > hiwat, etc) then install the rest of the user files...and in > > essence get the swap file unfragmented in the middle of the > > system... > If I've followed you, yes, that's precisely what you want to do. I meant NOT partitioning above. That one could use a single partition to achieve much the same as a multipartition setup.... In essence do what can be done with 3 partitions in only one...but from what you mentioned before...that FFS WILL break up a file into chunks...b/c of that, it's better to set up a middle partition with few inodes and just fill the sucker up with a single file that's going to be guaranteed to be contiguous.... Whereas, even making a huge file the same size in a single partition won't guarantee a contiguous file... Ok, I think I've got it (or at least as much as the mush in my head will allow :) > You're welcome. Tell you what, though-- if we ever run into each > other at an expo or some such, you owe me a good beer. :-) Sounds like a good deal to me :) -- 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
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 19:47:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com /etc/resolv.conf is setup with IPs just as it has been before... I've been mucking with NetInfo, etc so maybe that has something to do with it... Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by hostname, just IPs. Now normally this is that /erc/resolv.conf isn't setup, but in this case it is.... so what do I look for NeXT? Thanks TjL
From: ultra@best.com (Scott Violet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with serial ports under 4.1 Date: 27 May 1997 20:46:29 -0700 Organization: Best Internet Communications, Inc. - 415 964 BEST Distribution: usa Message-ID: <5mg9ql$5ne$1@shell2.ba.best.com> Hi, I know there has been some recent discussion about the differences between serial ports under 3.3 and 4.1 Mach on Intel. But I still can't get mine to work and am hoping that someone might have a clue what is up. I have a serial mouse on COM1 and the modem on Com2, I've added two serial port drivers and one tty port manager with two instances. When I try to tip/kermit to the device I get: /dev/cua: No such device link down Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, -Scott Violet (ultra@best.com)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: NFS-Automounting from WIN NT (Hummingbird NFS) Message-ID: <EAvts0.F5@onevision.de> Keywords: nfs,automount,nextstep,nt Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 08:19:12 GMT Hello, I am currently evaluting the Hummingbird NFS Server for Win NT4.0 on our NT Server. I am in need to export some drives from NT to our NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Machines via NFS. I have exported the drives in netinfo domain / with bg,net,timeo=6 option to /Net. With 4.1 and up there is no problem with automounting them. With 3.3 (half of our machines) I can not automount that drives. It is just not working. No error nothing. Just a few seconds of spinning mousecursor. But I can do a 'mount -t nfs ntserver:/d/test /test' on 3.3. What is not working is automounting... My NFS setup is correct. Mounting by hand works every time on every version of the operationg system I have handy. Any ideas? I need to mount them. Or has anyone a better suggestion for a NT NFS server software? Thanks, Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Developer, SysAdmin Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: 28 May 1997 13:55:32 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5mhdgk$8g7$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by >hostname, just IPs. > >Now normally this is that /erc/resolv.conf isn't setup, but in this case >it is.... so what do I look for NeXT? You can check to see if your DNS setup is working by using nslookup. Just type in nslookup at the command line and it should do something like: nikita:5# nslookup Default Server: richmond.freedomnet.com Address: 198.240.104.3 > Obviously, your DNS server IP address and name will be different. At the > prompt, then type in a name to be resolved (ie. www.next.com). It should answer something like: > www.next.com Server: richmond.freedomnet.com Address: 198.240.104.3 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.next.com Address: 129.18.1.3 > Type Control-D to exit. If any of this doesn't work, make sure that the IP address you have for your DNS server is correct. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with serial ports under 4.1 Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 07:12:34 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970528071130.12508D-100000@kira> References: <5mg9ql$5ne$1@shell2.ba.best.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Scott Violet <ultra@best.com> In-Reply-To: <5mg9ql$5ne$1@shell2.ba.best.com> I'd guess you didn't go to configure.app & add the TTY / serial port stuff.... (last module in configure.app) I could be wrong... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: aks@athens (Allan Schougaard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 28 May 1997 14:52:15 GMT Organization: Pioneer Global Message-ID: <5mhgqv$5sr@wizard.pn.com> References: <5mbb85$evm$2@enyo.uwa.edu.au> <5mep33$drv@crcnis3.unl.edu> Cc: rdieter@math.unl.edu In <5mep33$drv@crcnis3.unl.edu> Rex Dieter wrote: > In <Pine.NXT.3.95.970524173343.5517C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> > Reading the docs for Music kit indicate you can only use the Sound OR Midi > capabilities for Soundblaster, not BOTH. You can load the Midi(MPU) driver > OR the Soundlbaster driver on boot. The only card that currently supports > midi within the native audio driver is Ensoniq. Where can you find the native audio driver for the Ensoniq ? (Yes I have looked at NextAnswers.) --Allan
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: verbose shutdown? Date: 28 May 1997 16:27:55 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network Message-ID: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been noticing something. I have an Intel system with the Triton chipset and an S3 card. I know about the timing problem that causes lockups during a graphical boot, but I noticed that occasionally, when i shut down, the same lock up happens when it's trying to switch to the graphical screens. I started using shutdown from the command line, and it has not once locked up. which is making me begin to think that the timing problem exists during the shutdown procedure at times. I'd like to know if it's possible to configure the thing so that it does a verbose shutdown, similar to what was done to prevent the graphical boot screen. if it's possible, please let me know. my gf is highly computer illiterate and having to type shutdown blah blah blah is asking a bit too much of her *8^).. thanks andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail and UUCP on NeXT Date: 28 May 1997 17:53:23 GMT Organization: Silicon Beach - Business Internet Services Message-ID: <5mhrej$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Hi, I am in sendmail hell. What I am trying to set up should be straightforward. I have an old cube that I want to set up to serve mail for an isolated network. Currently I am using a tangled web of PPP, sendmail, fetchmail, and procmail to send and receive mail. This set up is less than optimal. For one thing, the free PPP for the next, while great for a home user, isn't reliable enough to send mail via a cron script. The mail host (an 040 cube) dials every hour. When it works, it is fine, but it crashes several times a week and everyone using it grumbles about how unreliable it is. On the incoming end the mail is dropped into a multidrop mailbox on the ISP and I have been using fetchmail to split it apart. While this works okay, it is less than optimal since once the mail has been delivered into the ISP mailbox, the envelope address has been lost and the true recipient is often unknowable. It dawned upon me that what I was really doing was recreating UUCP so I decided to set up a UUCP mail transfer. I thought it would be easy, but it has turned out to be a pain. If one uses the instructions with the next supplied BSD UUCP and sendmail, the mail addresses are in UUCP bang style addressing. I really want to have sendmail hide all of the internal machine names and to rewrite the outgoing addresses as user@wyatt.com. Therefore I got a more recent version of sendmail (sendmail.8.8.5) which supports masquerading but the documentation, while describing all of the zillions of configuration options, isn't very helpful in setting up a very basic connection. All I want is all outgoing mail be rewritten in DNS notation and the mail transport to get queued up for the next UUCP connection. Does anyone have a simple set of configuration files which does this? Similarly I want the UUCP bring in all of the incoming mail. There must be others out there who have nearly the exact same configuration as I. How do others deal with this problem? -- ...STeve steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (NeXT and MIME mail welcome) (805) 963-5904 x104
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: 28 May 1997 13:15:47 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mhb63$fkl@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > /etc/resolv.conf is setup with IPs just as it has been before... > Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by > hostname, just IPs. Try a few things: 1. /usr/etc/nslookup Does it tell you which server it's using? hint: it should be one you've specified in /etc/resolv.conf 2. Post the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file. 3. You can alternatively specify the resolver information in NetIfno, at /locations/resolver with tags, name: resolver nameserver: nameserver_ip1 nameserver_ip2 nameserver_ip3 domain: your.domain.here -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (Steven Trainoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UUCP and internal sportster modem. Date: 28 May 1997 18:08:08 GMT Organization: Silicon Beach - Business Internet Services Message-ID: <5mhsa8$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> I am having a problem with internal sportster modem running in a Dell Pentium Pro. I am running NS3.3pl1 with Serial Port driver v3.33 and TTY port server (v3.33). Kermit and PPP work fine on /dev/cufb, however when I use uucp on these lines I don't get anything back from the modem. The same L.sys works fine on other intel hardware as well as an old cube. Does anyone have a clue as to why UUCP can't access the modem. Here is a simple example: -----------------KERMIT--------------- C-Kermit 5A(190), 4 Oct 94, for NeXTSTEP Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. Type ? or HELP for help. C-Kermit>set line /dev/cufb C-Kermit>set speed 38400 /dev/cufb, 38400 bps C-Kermit>c Connecting to /dev/cufb, speed 38400. The escape character is Ctrl-] (ASCII 29, GS) Type the escape character followed by C to get back, or followed by ? to see other options. at OK ---------------------------------------- Notice that the modem echos "OK", However if I use uucp I get nothing back --------------------UUCP-------------------- # /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -x6 -s root gollum (5/28-10:59-12274) DEBUG (Local Enabled) finds (silcom) called root silcom (5/28-10:59-12274) FAILED (call to silcom ) finds (beach) called getto: call no. cufb for sys beach Using DIR to call Opening /dev/cufb login called ABORT ON: BUSY wanted """" got: that send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? send "AT" wanted "OK~3" got: ? root beach (5/28-10:59-12274) FAILED (LOGIN) root beach (5/28-10:59-12274) FAILED (call to beach ) ---------------------------------------- Notice that all I ever get back from the modem is "?" Any clues? -- ...STeve steve.trainoff@wyatt.com (NeXT and MIME mail welcome) (805) 963-5904 x104
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From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS and PPP Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 16:53:02 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Friends, I am using PPP to connect my NeXT to the [schol's] internet. I have a NeXT account at work as well. I would like to access the diskspace on the NeXT machine from home. The problem is that the IP address is different every time as it gets assigned semi-randomly at the time of establishing the PPP connection. I was wondering if you could advise me how to export/import the disks in such a case. I don't think that the standard NFS allows for using user/password verification. So the other options I thought about were Samba/Rumba at Work/Home or Appletalk installed on both (CAPPer) What do you think? Are the Samba and Appletalk the only choices I have. Which one would you recommend? Thanks. Rudy blazek@stt.msu.edu
From: brennanh@pacbell.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with SB64AWE PnP Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 28 May 1997 21:31:10 GMT Organization: Hildebrand Consulting Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mi86u$5s6$1@news3.snfc21.pacbell.net> Keywords: Sound Blaster NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN I've recently installed OpenStep 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) and can't seem to get my soundblaster 64 awe PnP to work. This card is really just a glorified SB16PnP with the advanced wave effects and 64 voice channels. I've tried setting it up through hostconfig, but the only choices are the SB16 and SB16 PnP. I don't mind giving up the extra features for the time being and using the card as a straight SB16. Unfortunately, I can't get it to make any sound at all. Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
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From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS intel? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:06:04 -0700 Organization: A customer of Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1CCC.7525B52A@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fuser command or equiv Date: 28 May 1997 17:50:05 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5mhr8d$q7f@inet-prime.comshare.com> greetings ethereal composite mind, "fuser" doesn't appear to exist on NS, is there something else I can use to find out who/what has a file open? Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:58:05 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1AED.3974DD14@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:00:22 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:58:27 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1B03.6DE8FB48@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: tmccubbin@nccsinc.com (Tracy McCubbin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help With Next IP Config Date: 28 May 1997 15:28:00 -0700 Organization: NCCS Inc. Message-ID: <MPG.df66d4a3fa1f9e4989680@news.primenet.com> I am new to Next but i have a basic unix background. Where on the next 3.2 system can i have it use its local settings for ip and such. Now it is looking for a network load or info server? Thanks in advance.
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS and PPP Date: 28 May 1997 22:42:04 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5micbs$pk8$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu In <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > Dear Friends, > I am using PPP to connect my NeXT to the [schol's] internet. I have a > NeXT account at work as well. I would like to access the diskspace on > the NeXT machine from home. > The problem is that the IP address is different every time as it gets > assigned semi-randomly at the time of establishing the PPP connection. > I was wondering if you could advise me how to export/import the disks > in such a case. > I don't think that the standard NFS allows for using user/password > verification. So the other options I thought about were Samba/Rumba at > Work/Home or Appletalk installed on both (CAPPer) > What do you think? Are the Samba and Appletalk the only choices I have. > Which one would you recommend? Appleshare won't cross PPP lines, you'll need to encapsulate it in IP using a router. NFS and Samba/Rumba should work. However the changing IP number and hostname would make NFS a bit hard to setup. Based on the afpmount program I have started a little tool that uses ftp to connect to a remote server but looks like a NFS mounted directory on the local side (a FTP to NFS mapper). I know of Alex (a similar utility) but mine will (hopefully) be much easier to use and setup. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: Brennan Hildebrand <brennanh@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ISDN under NS? Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 23:00:06 -0700 Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <338D1B66.8CA9AE58@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -brennan
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to use MPU401 on NS/Intel, Mixer for SB available? Date: 28 May 1997 16:15:49 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mhlnm$g04@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mhgqv$5sr@wizard.pn.com> In article <5mhgqv$5sr@wizard.pn.com> aks@athens (Allan Schougaard) writes: > Where can you find the native audio driver for the Ensoniq ? > (Yes I have looked at NextAnswers.) From the announcement posted to comp.sys.next.announce on May 7: SoundscapeVIVO Audio Driver now shipping from Sound Consulting ..snip... For additional information on the EnsoniqSoundscape Audio Driver, including pointers to sources for the sound cards, please visit the web pages at http://www.nwlink.com/cyberartists/brianw/ss_nsi.html -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP on 4.1 Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 21:28:11 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-2805972128120001@104.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> Does anyone know where I can get some detailed instructions on setting up PPP on OS 4.1 on black? I can't seem to crack this nut. Mitch
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and UUCP on NeXT Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:40:13 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970528172636.11677C-100000@kira> References: <5mhrej$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Steven Trainoff <steve.trainoff@wyatt.com> In-Reply-To: <5mhrej$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Steven It's OK, you are in good company.... others have done this also... Let me make sure I understand you correctly: You want to use PPP to connect to the world You want to be able to send mail off-line and have PPP start via cron & pure the mail q You want to be able to download mail via cron Does your ISP have pop3 support or imap? If so, you can use PopOver.app to download mail & feed it to procmail. Set the mail directory to |/usr/local/bin/formail -e -s procmail You can use this in yourprocmailrc file: :0wfh *^From PopOver | formail -I'From ' | formail and that will recreate the 'From ' line and procmail can deliver the mail (we can talk procmail later) If you want help setting up sendmail, checkout this most helpful guide http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan/Sendmail/ (note: using this guide I was able to setup my config once and have used it through 3 reinstalls... this past time I setup sendmail in less than 5 minutes), ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz is the newest sendmail setup for NeXTStep/OpenStep. As for PPP -- what version are you using? I am using ppp2.3 under NSFIP and it hasn't crashed once... Feel free to ask me more questions if I've missed something... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UUCP and internal sportster modem. Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:46:59 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970528174500.11677D-100000@kira> References: <5mhsa8$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Steven Trainoff <steve.trainoff@wyatt.com> In-Reply-To: <5mhsa8$kc5@ocean.silcom.com> Did you load the Serial port & tty drivers in configure.app? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sendmail config problem Date: 29 May 1997 02:25:35 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Hello, all-- I have _almost_ completely configured sendmail for the first time, on my cube, running NS 3.3, and ppp2.2, following the sendmail instructions of Francois Magnan, and everything is working EXCEPT... everything I send is "from" Operator@root.ns.bitstream.net, or root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net. Messages from me should all be "from" cejensen@bitstream.net. This problem is causing confusion and misdirected mail. ganesh is my machine name. ns.bitstream.net is my domain server. I have browsed through old UseNet messages on this subject that sort of dance around the solution to this problem, but never spell out precisely what files I have incorrectly configured and which files (or which lines of which files) I need to tweak to get this fixed. Luckily in Mail.app preferences I am able to change the reply-to field, which helps, but not every mail application seems to read this field, leading to returned messages sent in error to Operator@root.ns.bitstream.net. Any pearls of wisdom from the NeXT community would be sincerely appreciated! Many thanks in advance -- Chris Jensen Please send replies to cejensen@bitstream.net
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP on 4.1 Date: 29 May 1997 05:42:19 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5mj4vr$8on$1@news.nuri.net> References: <mitchell.allen-2805972128120001@104.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get some detailed instructions on setting up > PPP on OS 4.1 on black? I can't seem to crack this nut. > Mitch Setting up ppp on 4.1 is same as on 3.3 except those two: (You could follow the instruction of GateKeeper Help memu for 3.3) 1) Directories: pppd is at /usr/etc/ and configurations are /etc/ppp/. You don't need to install pppd again. It's aleady installed with the OS itself. (You should install GateKeeper by yourself) 2) Loadable Kernel Module: on 3.3 you should load two kernel modules but, on 4.1 you are needed to load only one kernel module, ppp_reloc, by inserting following line into your /etc/rc.local: if [ -f /usr/lib/kern_loader/ppp/ppp_reloc ]; then /usr/etc/kl_util -a /usr/lib/kern_loader/ppp/ppp_reloc > /dev/console 2>&1 (echo -n * ppp*) > /dev/console fi Good Luck! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineering Team phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sendmail config problem Date: 29 May 1997 06:44:41 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net On 29 May 1997 02:25:35 GMT, Operator <root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net> wrote: > [...] > everything I send is "from" Operator@root.ns.bitstream.net, or > root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net. Messages from me should all be "from" > cejensen@bitstream.net. This problem is causing confusion and > misdirected mail. > [...] Hello, Chris, It looks like you're logged in as root and sending mail that way. Then the problem might be that _by sendmail default_, 'root' are exposed, even though you are masquerading as bitstream.net via MASQUERADE_AS(...). In other words, when you send mail as root, instead of appending your domain name to ($M) your address, your internal site name will also be displayed. Fix: (Don't know how to do this through m4 macros.) * edit /etc/sendmail.cf Find the following lines: # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host... # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even ... # class M: domains that should be converted to $M #CL root CE root Comment out "CE root". * restart your sendmail daemon. If this still doesn't work, please post your sendmail .mc, .m4 and userdb files. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
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From: richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Prelude to Rhapsody Networking doesn't Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 02:32:31 -0700 Organization: Wolfe Internet Access, L.L.C. Message-ID: <richarde-2905970232320001@207.66.154.195> I am trying to get networking to function on my Intel machine that I have installed the Prelude to Rhapsody on. Everything _seems_ to be configured OK, the info returned by ifconfig and netstat all looks good but I cannot even ping other machines on my network. So I fired up the packet analyzer to see what is happening on the wire and here is what I found: Every time I try to ping another system on my LAN (from the OpenStep machine) I see the OpenStep machine generate an ARP request packet requesting the MAC address corresponding to the IP address I ping'ed. The target device responds with what looks like a valid ARP response packet. The OpenStep machine never sends the ICMP echo packet to the target machine, and about a second later the OpenStep machine sends another ARP request identical to the last one. This cycle repeats until I kill the ping command. If I try to ping the OpenStep machine from another machine I see the ICMP echo packets being sent to the OpenStep machine but it never responds. So it looks like the OpenStep machine is not seeing the ARP responses, or is somehow mishandling them. About the only odd thing in my network setup is that my IP network is a small subnet of our companies class C using a netmask of 255.255.255.240 and my LAN is connected to the main company LAN via a Farallon ISDN router. Other systems on the local network can communicate through the router fine, so I am pretty sure the problem is on the OpenStep machine. General Setup Info: System: Micron Millennia P166 w/48MB of RAM Ethernet card: 3COM 3c509b-TP, auto-detected during install, plug-and-play driver loaded. "ifconfig en0" returns: en0: flags=63<UP, BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet xx.xx.xx.196 netmask fffffff0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.207 A "netstat -r" returns: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use localhost localhost UH 0 318 lo0 default xx.xx.xx.193 UG 0 3 en0 xx.xx.xx.192 xx.xx.xx.196 U 6 1219 en0 Note: xx.xx.xx.193 = ISDN router xx.xx.xx.196 = OpenStep machine Any ideas? TIA! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Richard Elmore That's a good idea; in fact it's such a good idea that I shall henceforth refer to it as "My Idea". - John E. Whitmore III
From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 29 May 1997 07:43:42 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net [ Followup: To my own response to Chris Jensen's root email address question ...] Sorry, I left the following out of the proposed fix for Chris' problem. Indeed, the previous post will only take your "From" header as far as root@bitstream.net, for all mails sent while logged in as root. To achieve the desired effect, i.e., cejensen@bitstream.net, you must also put the following in your /etc/sendmail/userdb file: Your /etc/sendmail/userdb file should look similar to this: [There're other ways to do it, but this is how I did it.] root:mailname cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net cejensen:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net cejensen:maildrop cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net cejensen:fullname Chris Jensen [...other users...] **Make sure you recompile your userdb after changing it!** **Don't forget to restart your sendmail daemon either ! ** Now, when you send mail as root, your "From:" header will be From: Operator <cejensen@bitstream.net> If you want "From:" to look like From: Chris E. Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> even when you're sending mail as root, then put this line in your /etc/sendmail/userdb file: root:fullname Chris E. Jensen (Note: I did not test this part, YMMV.) If you want to find out why, the easiest way is to run sendmail in debug mode, e.g., '/usr/lib/sendmail -d cejensen < /etc/hosts'. liuyi On 29 May 1997 06:44:41 GMT, I wrote: > Hello, Chris, > > It looks like you're logged in as root and sending mail that way. > Then the problem might be that _by sendmail default_, 'root' are > exposed, even though you are masquerading as bitstream.net via > MASQUERADE_AS(...). > > In other words, when you send mail as root, instead of appending your > domain name to ($M) your address, your internal site name will also be > displayed. > > Fix: (Don't know how to do this through m4 macros.) > > * edit /etc/sendmail.cf > > Find the following lines: > > # class E: names that should be exposed as from this host... > # class L: names that should be delivered locally, even ... > # class M: domains that should be converted to $M > #CL root > CE root > > Comment out "CE root". > > * restart your sendmail daemon. > > If this still doesn't work, please post your sendmail .mc, .m4 and > userdb files. > > liuyi > -- > Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
From: stephlise@telco.com (Steph & Lise) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 22:38:21 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.336b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Subject: cmsg cancel <336b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Control: cancel <336b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Thu May 29 11:25:15 1997 Original subject was: Cum visit our free BBS
From: dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: configure a network-printer Date: 29 May 1997 10:26:31 GMT Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Message-ID: <5mjlkn$s8g$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Hello all! I'm a starter in administrating NEXTSTEP and I now hav the problem to configure a network printer. I used the PrintManager to install a new one. How can I deny a group of users to use this printer. thanx for your help Andreas dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de
From: Timm Wetzel <me@baloo.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 13:23:10 GMT Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) wrote: > I've been noticing something. I have an Intel system with the Triton > chipset and an S3 card. I know about the timing problem that > causes lockups during a graphical boot, but I noticed that [...] > during the shutdown procedure at times. I'd like to know if it's possible > to configure the thing so that it does a verbose shutdown, similar to what > was done to prevent the graphical boot screen. Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. Timm --- Timm Wetzel <twetzel@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> <twetzel@gwdg.de> Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie, Abt. 081 Am Fassberg 11, D-37077 Goettingen
From: dcoyle@ctp.com (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getting rumba working Date: 29 May 1997 13:50:23 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5mk1iv$e4d@concorde.ctp.com> Could someone please point me to some more practical information (like a Web page or FAQ) on rumba? I'm afraid the man page just doesn't do it for me... ;-) thanks, Dave ------- /\/\ Dave Coyle <dcoyle@ctp.com> / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners \ / / 118/119 Lower Baggot Street \/\/ Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland Tel: +353 1 607 9008 WWW: http://www.ctp.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS-export /usr/local/ ? Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 06:53:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529061854.6816D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Greetings folks Thanks to the extraordinary help from Hans Rupert, I have my network running. There is one slab running 3.3 (unpatched/no dev tools) called 'charisma' There is one Intel running 4.1 (user/dev) called 'peace' trying to NFS mount '/usr/local' from 'peace' onto 'charisma', so that 'charisma' will have it's own /usr/ but the /usr/local/ will be the same as on 'peace' However, when I tried that with NFSMangler, I got this error when I rebooted 'charisma' May 28 23:07:51 charisma mach: NFS write error 13 on host peace fh 60000 0 a000000 80450200 8d38dd52 a000000 5be70000 652eac54 May 28 23:07:58 charisma last message repeated 5 times So either I've set something wrong or this isn't possible.... but if people can NFS mount /usr/spool/mail to other machines with a /usr/ folder, why can't I NFS export /usr/local/ (other than preferences about what "/usr/local/" is supposed to mean). Any help appreciated.... thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Please help NeXT newbie with 2 ailing cubes Date: 27 May 1997 17:42:43 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5mf6ej$19dc@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <01bc67d5$8ecfa880$6ad845cf@heath> "Heath Tucker" <heatht@sprynet.com> wrote: >checking disks >/dev/rsd0a: file system clean: skipping check >Please insert new disk for volume 0 >(press n if disk is not available) **I press n here because there is no >MO disk for the drive* Sounds a little like its trying to force mount the OD. Did you check in /etc/fstab to see there isn't an entry for mounting the OD. Might be worth checking. - Gareth
From: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu (Brian K. Meadows) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: /etc/resolv.conf IS setup and still no 'by hostname' connections Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:12:30 GMT Organization: Applied Chaos Lab Message-ID: <338dcba2.87982601@news.gatech.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527192355.4812C-100000@kira> On Tue, 27 May 1997 19:47:07 -0700, Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > > /etc/resolv.conf is setup with IPs just as it has been before... > >I've been mucking with NetInfo, etc so maybe that has something to do with >it... > >Problem is this: I cannot connect (ping/rlogin/telnet/etc) to any host by >hostname, just IPs. > >Now normally this is that /erc/resolv.conf isn't setup, but in this case >it is.... so what do I look for NeXT? I've had a similar problem since upgrading to 4.x . Everything worked fine under NS 3.3 but now if I try and use a the host name to telnet and OS can't find the IP. However, if I specify the full host name and domain (but not the address) I can telnet out. For example: /Users/zippy> telnet acme acme: Unknown host /Users/zippy> telnet acme.gatech.edu Trying 130.207.165.24... Connected to acme.gatech.edu. If you check the lookup: acl1:1# nslookup Default Server: troll-gw.gatech.edu Address: 130.207.244.251 >acme Server: troll-gw.gatech.edu Address: 130.207.244.251 Non-authoritative answer: Name: acme.gatech.edu Addresses: 130.207.165.22, 130.207.160.10, 130.207.171.14 Now resolv.conf reads: domain gatech.edu nameserver 130.207.244.251 nameserver 130.207.244.244 The man pages say /etc>resolv.conf is all I need to enable DNS. It's just a little problem, but I'd still like to know what's going on. As always any and all help is greatly appreciated. Brian ______________________________________ Brian K. Meadows Applied Chaos Laboratory School of Physics Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0430 phone: (404) 894-1448 fax: (404) 894-9958 email: bmeadows@acl.gatech.edu WWW: http://acl.gatech.edu ______________________________________
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Date: 29 May 1997 14:59:29 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mk5kh$1e7@news.acns.nwu.edu> References: <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5m4e2p$k44$5@news2.digex.net> <snW9Aha00Uzx81xd9I@andrew.cmu.edu> <5ma90i$a7i$1@news2.digex.net> I didn't mean to cause a big todo over this. I think I've got the practicle answer. Buy an additional fast wide SCSI drive and use it for swap space! Now its a problem of money (one almost everyone is familiar with)! BTW my situation is that I have a 128Mb PenbiumPro and the real problem is related to some mathematical modeling I run in Mathematica. Often I am doing multidimensional Fourier's with several thousands of long float type operations. Then I output very very large PostScript files as results (along with some condensed data files). So essentially, I often run out of RAM and use swap space, however when I do it should be heavily hit in continuous or frequent sequences. By using a separate swap drive it should speed things up considerably. David A. Johnson > > Yes, a seperate drive is going to be better because you can do IO in > parallel, and because you've got two sets of head assemblies to work > with, which means that you win due to the probable locality of reference > for swapfile accesses. > > I think I've answered the other part of your question above. > > -Chuck > > > Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer > ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- > I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS and PPP Date: 29 May 1997 15:44:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5mk89p$ohj$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <5micbs$pk8$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) wrote: >In <Pine.SOL.3.96.970528165238.6190A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B >Blazek wrote: > >[Snip] > > > >Appleshare won't cross PPP lines, you'll need to encapsulate it in IP using >a router. NFS and Samba/Rumba should work. However the changing IP number and >hostname would make NFS a bit hard to setup. > >Based on the afpmount program I have started a little tool that uses ftp to >connect to a remote server but looks like a NFS mounted directory on the >local side (a FTP to NFS mapper). I know of Alex (a similar utility) but mine >will (hopefully) be much easier to use and setup. > >-- >* Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net >* NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy > Cool! Looking forward to seeing it... --Ryan Scott
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: CDROM detected but not mounted Message-ID: <EAxw9u.66n@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EAsz66.19q@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:08:18 GMT In article <EAsz66.19q@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I have an external MediaVision CDROM drive that I used to install > NetStep3.0 on my nextstation. I had no problem when I was installing > the software. But now I have the following problem: > - if I boot the system with NS3.0 disk in the drive, the CDROM > is detected and mounted. > - if I have any other disk (e.g.RedHat Linux - for installing on > another machine), the system detects the drive > at boot time but does not mount the drive. Instead I get the > message "Eject Disk". If I eject the disk, the system puts > the message "Please Insert a Disk" !! > A manual mount attempt using a terminal results in the following error > mount: /dev/sd1a on /cdrom: I/O error > mount: giving up on: > /cdrom > As far as I remember (NS 3.0 is quite a way back) this version had problems installing ISO 9660 CDs (or it wasn't supported at all?). I question whether filesystem support from later versions would run on NS 3.0 since the kernel libs were changed from NS 3.0 -> 3.1. I'd advise you to get NS 3.1 User or later. That should do it. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on 3 GB large disk? Message-ID: <EAxwzM.67D@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:23:46 GMT In article <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> liu@emerald.physics (Wei Liu) writes: > Hi, there: > > Anyone has such experience in installing NEXTSTEP OS 3.2 on a > large SCSI disk bigger than 2GB? I know both /etc/disk and > DiskBuilder have problem with that. And the CDROM installation > won't help either. Following one of NEXTanswers on this issue, > I was able to partition and initialize it by creating a disktab > entry. Although it behaves all right as a file system, it seems > it can't be booted even I moved every system file to this disk > and wrote the /usr/standalone/boot into the boot sector. It just > hangs ri > > ght after saying "root on sd0". Sometimes it even says no SCSI > disk attached. Your help is greatly appreciated!! > You didn't tell which hardware you're on. But let's assume it is a black one. Most of your descriptions match this assumption. For a disk drive to be bootable on black machines it must be configured SCSI-1, asynch. SCSI drives will not boot when in synch mode! ON NS 3.2 it might be right that the installation procedure is not configured to partition large drives in two. But /etc/disk and BuildDisk.app will be able to generate two partitions and get the OS installed on the first one. Although this might imply that such drives don't fit an initial installation on NS 3.2 (I only did upgrades, sorry), they certainly work as second drives. Worst case, you'd have to attach the drive to a running black machine and run BuildDisk on the second drive. Then, after having partitioned and initialized you can switch it bach to your machine and boot from there. Alternatively, you could generate a 'disktab' entry for the drive to force a custom partitioning. Details to be found in the man-pages and in the FAQ on Peanuts. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NFS-Automounting from WIN NT (Hummingbird NFS) Message-ID: <EAxxCy.683@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EAvts0.F5@onevision.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:31:46 GMT In article <EAvts0.F5@onevision.de> roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) writes: > Hello, > > I am currently evaluting the Hummingbird NFS Server for > Win NT4.0 on our NT Server. I am in need to export some > drives from NT to our NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Machines via NFS. > > I have exported the drives in netinfo domain / with > bg,net,timeo=6 option to /Net. > > With 4.1 and up there is no problem with automounting > them. With 3.3 (half of our machines) I can not automount > that drives. It is just not working. No error nothing. > > Just a few seconds of spinning mousecursor. But I can > do a 'mount -t nfs ntserver:/d/test /test' on 3.3. > What is not working is automounting... > > My NFS setup is correct. Mounting by hand works > every time on every version of the operationg > system I have handy. > Is this the good old block size problem? NS 3.x used to have this problem since it only implements NFS v1. All NFS v2 systems sent blocks too large to fit into NEXTSTEP's buffers (used to be the case for Solaris servers). It used to go away if the server was explicitly told to use smaller blocks. I don't remember the exact syntax but it is described in the FAQ and/or Usenet archive on Peanuts. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Two Disks and a question Message-ID: <EAxxKz.68r@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527055112.17194C-100000@kira> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:36:34 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970527055112.17194C-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > I've got one 2-gig disk (2047meg/one partition of OS 4.1) and one 1-gig > disk. > > The 2gig is new and the 1gig is a few years old (3-5 I'd say) > > I'd like to 'tweak' this setup as much as possible for compiling & > overall performance.... > > Right now I've got _all_ my system files under the 2-gig which is the > boot drive, with a couple hundred megs remaining (it has 4.1 user/dev > installed). > > The 1-gig has nothing on it except a 200meg swapfile (/tmp remains on > the primary drive) > > For compiling: I assume that because the source code will be on the 2gig > and the swap on the 1-gig I will be getting the full 'double-spindle' > effect when compiling. > > Q: other than making the 1-gig a backup-bootable drive and using the > leftover space for swap, what else could I use it for? > Link /tmp to the drive and enjoy some speedup in scratch file heavy operations. Same could be advisable for the spool filesystem. -- 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: roehnelt@csulb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Soundblaster on P6 PnP Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 10:20:02 -0700 Organization: http://www.csulb.edu Message-ID: <338DBAC0.2AC926F5@csulb.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to get OPENSTEP 4.1 to recognize my sound card. I'm using the soundblaster driver 4.01 and the isa/eisa driver 4.03 After I install the driver my system hangs right before the login window searching for the defice (it doesn't hang, it just searches forever) then I press reset; start in default mode; remove the driver and reboot. I tried turning all the PnP stuff off and setting the DMA and IRQ manually, but I seem to be having the same problem. any ideas? sean -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sean Roehnelt : CSU Long Beach Extended Education mailto:roehnelt@csulb.edu : 1250 Bellflower Blvd, UTC-113 http://amp.csulb.edu/~roehnelt : Long Beach, CA 90840 (562) 985-4352 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 17:14:24 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network Message-ID: <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> Timm Wetzel wrote: > awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) wrote: > > I've been noticing something. I have an Intel system with the Triton > > chipset and an S3 card. I know about the timing problem that > > causes lockups during a graphical boot, but I noticed that > [...] > > during the shutdown procedure at times. I'd like to know if it's possible > > to configure the thing so that it does a verbose shutdown, similar to what > > was done to prevent the graphical boot screen. > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
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From: icol.animo@t-online.de (Alexander Dietz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Digital 21140 NIC Revision Problem Date: 28 May 1997 14:24:56 GMT Organization: ICOL GmbH Message-ID: <5mhf7o$c3b$2@news01.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have made good expieriences with network cards with the Digital 21140 Chipset. Unfortunately the new revicion of the chip is 21140-AE and does not work with NexTStep. Revision 21140-AC works fine. How can we get the -AE revision working? Any Tips are wecome. Alex -- ICOL GmbH Alexander Dietz Im Grundrasen 3 36391 Sinntal Tel: +49 6664 919211 Fax: +49 6664 6204 E-Mail: icol.animo@t-online.de
From: awang@plains.nodak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 17:20:33 GMT Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Network Message-ID: <5mkdt1$2jk$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Andy Wang wrote: > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. > > I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter > Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. > > andy oops.. correction. i was stupid it worked.. i just mistyped it as ShutDown... duh.. god i'm dumb. andy -- ----------------- Dopey (Andy Wang) - NeXT, MIME or SUN mail OK -------------- - Pro-hemp, and proud of it! - finger -l awang@plains.nodak.edu for pgp key - - What the hell is a chicken? - http://www.acm.ndsu.nodak.edu/~awang/ - ------------------------- awang@plains.nodak.edu -----------------------------
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 Date: 29 May 1997 17:53:17 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5mkfqd$sec$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Oh dear, I guess there's yet another security hole to fix up. ============================================================================= CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 Original issue date: May 29, 1997 Last revised: --- Topic: ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- More to the point, why isn't Apple/NeXT taking a pro-active role in responding to security concerns raised by CERT? There's no mention of NextStep/OpenStep anywhere in the advisory, and judging by the number of BSD variants that are affected, I'd guess that NS is too. Now, where did I put those sources to wu-ftpd I had lying about... Matthew -- Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, England Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Apache SSL -- SmartSoft?? Date: 29 May 1997 16:00:04 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <5mk964$3u1@news.dialisdn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm looking for a port of the Stronghold/Apache webserver for NeXTSTEP. Apparently, a company called SmartSoft out of Cedarburg, WI successfully released this but now the company has disappeared, for all practical purposes. Their phone is disconnected and they don't answer their emails. Does anyone have any information regarding this company or their ported SSL server?? Alternately, does anyone know of an ssl server that will run on NeXT (other then the $24,999 WebObjects)? Thanks. David Geller arpad@hotspice.com
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From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:45:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> References: <5mhmeb$7bi$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <5mjvvu$n7i$1@gwdu19.gwdg.de> <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Andy Wang <awang@plains.nodak.edu> In-Reply-To: <5mkdhg$24q$1@daily-planet.nodak.edu> > > > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. > > I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter > Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. I didn't mistype anything afaik and I still get this happening to me and cannot seem to fix it.. I'm new @ configure.app.... amd I supposed to have an APM yes entry? What do I do (exactly) to set this up? Thanks TjL
From: croehrig@cs.ubc.ca (Chris Roehrig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Prelude to Rhapsody Networking doesn't Date: 29 May 1997 20:44:04 GMT Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Message-ID: <5mkpqk$8f1$1@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> References: <richarde-2905970232320001@207.66.154.195> In article <richarde-2905970232320001@207.66.154.195> richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore) writes: > About the only odd thing in my network setup is that my IP network is a > small subnet of our companies class C using a netmask of 255.255.255.240 .. > "ifconfig en0" returns: > en0: flags=63<UP, BROADCAST, NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> > inet xx.xx.xx.196 netmask fffffff0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.207 I'm running a similar setup with a 5-bit netmask (but with NEXTSTEP3.3) and it works fine. Your network configuration looks ok. This has all the symptoms of an IRQ problem: you can send packets, but not receive them. I've had problems with PnP systems where the IRQ could not be assigned because of conflicts, running out of lines, etc, and the BIOS never complained! Check for IRQ's conflicts with Configure. Try booting with the -v option (if it's the same in OPENSTEP 4.2) to see how your eNet card is getting configured. -- Chris Roehrig croehrig@House.ORG Neuroscience and Computer Science at University of British Columbia, Vancouver http://www.House.ORG/chris http://www.sns.cs.ubc.ca/chris
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 21:58:04 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > > > > > Adding `Shutdown Graphics = No' (analog to `Boot Graphics') in > > > Configure.app's (main) expert settings should work. > > > > I thought about trying that. but it doesn't work. As soon as i enter > > Shutdown Graphics as a new Setting, it replaces it with APM. > > I didn't mistype anything afaik and I still get this happening to me and > cannot seem to fix it.. Don't worry, keep typing... it happened to me too. As soon as you type the name for the entry, it gets alphabetized IMMEDIATELY, putting it near the bottom, and, of course, putting APM first again. Leave the expert panel, and come back, and you'll see your new entry is indeed there. BTW, I now have "Shutdown Graphics = No", but it doesn't work. Can anyone confirm that it Does/Doesn't work? -- 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: paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU (Paul Lansky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Swap file won't shrink!!! Date: 28 May 1997 17:46:11 GMT Organization: Princeton University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mhr13$3vl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Originator: paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU I'm posting this for a friend. His problem is that his swapfile does not shrink on a reboot, and consequently it is chewing up all of his disk space. Reply here or to me at paul@silvertone.princeton.edu or to him at link@klang.latrobe.edu.au thanks in advance paul lansky
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Swap file won't shrink!!! Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:43:04 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529184027.21390B-100000@kira> References: <5mhr13$3vl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Paul Lansky <paul@washburn.Princeton.EDU>, link@klang.latrobe.edu.au In-Reply-To: <5mhr13$3vl$1@cnn.Princeton.EDU> Hi Paul ! I also live in Princeton (near Rt 1), nice to meet a 'neighbor' The swapfile does not shrink, as a rule, until you reboot. If you or your friend wants to read more about this, checkout my FAQ at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/FAQs/swapfaq.html Feel free to email me if you or he has more questions.. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 30 May 1997 02:07:12 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> Hello-- > > If this still doesn't work, please post your sendmail .mc, .m4 and > > userdb files. Ok... I'm afraid your suggestions did'nt work, but it is possible that I didn't execute them properly. As you request, here are my userdb, mydomain.m4, and next.mc files: <...begin userdb...> root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net <...end userdb...> <...begin mydomain.m4...> divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # 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 the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors # may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software # without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``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 REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS 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. # # # The following is a generic domain file. You should be able to # use it anywhere. If you want to customize it, copy it to a file # named with your domain and make the edits; then, copy the appropriate # .mc files and change `DOMAIN(generic)' to reference your updated domain # files. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)mathcn.umontreal.ca.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/21/95') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`ns.bitstream.net')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl <...end mydomain.m4...> <...begin next.mc...> divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # 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 the University of # California, Berkeley and its contributors. # 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors # may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software # without specific prior written permission. # # THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``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 REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS 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. # # # The following is a generic domain file. You should be able to # use it anywhere. If you want to customize it, copy it to a file # named with your domain and make the edits; then, copy the appropriate # .mc files and change `DOMAIN(generic)' to reference your updated domain # files. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)mathcn.umontreal.ca.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/21/95') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`ns.bitstream.net')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl <...end next.mc...> All of these are altered as per the instructions of Francois Magnan in the readme.rtfd enlosed with his set of sendmail config files. They were then copied/installed to their respective locations with the inst_sendmail executable included with these docs. As per your suggestions I tried the following userdb files, with no result: <---> root:mailname cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net root:fullname Chris Jensen cejensen:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net cejensen:maildrop cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net cejensen:fullname Chris Jensen me:mailname cejensen@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net me:fullname Chris Jensen <---> root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net root:fullname Chris Jensen me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:fullname Chris Jensen <---> Ultimately, what I want is for mail sent from both accounts on my machine (root and me), to have Chris Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> in preferably both the From: and Sender: headers. > > exposed, even though you are masquerading as bitstream.net via > > MASQUERADE_AS(...). What about MASQUERADE_AS? As you can see from the files above, as far as I know I am not masquerading as anyone! :-) How do I do this? Is this the answer to my problem? Many thanks for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you! --Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
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From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 21:10:54 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2905972110540001@slip-76-14.ots.utexas.edu> References: <5mkfqd$sec$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <5mkfqd$sec$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>, Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) wrote: >CERT* Advisory CA-97.16 >Original issue date: May 29, 1997 >Last revised: --- > >Topic: ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >More to the point, why isn't Apple/NeXT taking a pro-active role in >responding to security concerns raised by CERT? This isn't even a *new* hole. CERT is just reprinting an old AusCERT advisory: The text of this advisory was originally released by AUSCERT as AA-97.03 ftpd Signal Handling Vulnerability on January 29, 1997, and updated on April 18, 1997. . . . So Apple/NeXT has had months to mull the matter over. >There's no mention of >NextStep/OpenStep anywhere in the advisory, and judging by the number of BSD >variants that are affected, I'd guess that NS is too. Almost every ftpd *is* vulnerable (according to the BugTraq discussions from way back when). It's a sure bet that NS's ftpd is vulnerable too. Have fun compiling a replacement! Jacques Distler
From: Kausik Sarkar <sarkar@venus.me.jhu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netmanagement Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:17:28 -0500 Organization: UIUC Message-ID: <338E46C8.1AD5@venus.me.jhu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi I am a new one in the group. I inherited a NeXT machine and trying to bring it back to life. The problem I have is regarding net communication. I wanted to change the assigned IP address of the machine as the computer network has been recently remodelled. Anyway because I could not do that I copied /hostconfig and /netinfo from /usr/template. That allowed me to start the local .. from User manager. Now I do not see how to assign gateway and DNS. There is one entry called "router" ---I set it to the correct gateway. But after that booting is not working properly. Kausik Sarkar
From: arzt@isc.upenn.edu (Noam H. Arzt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Alternate "from" address in NeXTMail? Date: 30 May 1997 03:42:42 GMT Organization: University of Pennsylvania Message-ID: <5mlibi$ap0@netnews.upenn.edu> Folks, Any way for an individual user of NeXTMail 3.3 to configure for an alternate outbound address ("from", not "reply-to") for mail? I know how to change it system-wide in the sendmail.cf file, but many desktop mail clients allow users to fudge the outbound address. I don't see how to do it under NeXTmail. Thanks in advance. Please respond via email. -- Dr. Noam H. Arzt 215/898-3029 (voice) University of Pennsylvania 215/898-9348 (FAX) Executive Director, Administration, Info Systems & Information Technology Architecture, Computing (ISC) and Network Services Research Associate/Senior Fellow Leonard Davis Institute
From: willadams@aol.com (WillAdams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Samba configuration for use of files on NeXT Date: 30 May 1997 03:53:01 GMT Message-ID: <19970530035300.XAA08944@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com I currently have a one-line samba.conf ([homes] writable = yes or some such--copied it out of a Byte magazine article) and I'm having difficulties using the files on my NeXT with NeXTStep programs. Does anyone have any suggestions/examples on what I should add to my conf to make this usage more transparent? Thanks! William William Adams http://members.aol.com/willadams Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
From: Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,roadrunner.help Subject: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Date: 30 May 1997 03:58:15 GMT Organization: Road Runner Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure it for use with an ethernet card. I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem service. My UNIX sysadmin skills are very weak. Is there a FAQ for this kind of thing? Thanks, -Tony Graham
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From: liuyi@dragon-dance.com (Yi Liu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 30 May 1997 05:52:38 GMT Organization: 9h, Inc. Message-ID: <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net Chris, Now that you've posted your config files, I have a pretty good idea of why your "From:" header doesn't work: * Your mydomain.m4 is _exactly_ the same as your next.mc, did you cut and paste the wrong next.mc? * Your domain is misconfigured: Your real domain: bitstream.net As configured: ns.bitstream.net That's what has been causing all mails sent out from ganesh to look like they are from ns.bitstream.net. To check this out, after you've dialed in, run this in Termial.app nslookup `netstat -rn|grep ppp0|grep -v default|awk '{print $2}'` If it comes back with a host name like ppp102.bitstream.net, then your FQDN (fully qualified domain name) is ganesh.bitstream.net. (I'm assuming you're on a dynamic IP PPP dialup.) Make the appropriate changes to NetInfo following the Sendmail config instructions. * Are you using sendmail.cw file? If not, you should. (See below) There're some other things you might want to fix, but there're not directly related to your current sendmail problem. I've put them at the very end of the post. Instead of going through your config files line by line, let me write a set of sendmail config files for you from all the info you've given so far. I've left out the divert(-1) etc, since they're not necessary. You can put in those boilerplates later on. Your config files should look like these: (Note: throw away the comments when you paste the following files, they are meant for humans only and might screw up m4 macro processor) # File: next.mc # OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl DOMAIN(mydomain)dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) # End of next.mc # File: mydomain.m4 # define(`ALIAS_FILE', netinfo:members@/aliases)dnl ifdef(`HELP_FILE',`define(`HELP_FILE', /usr/lib/sendmail.hf)')dnl define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`bitstream.net')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.bitstream.net)dnl # End of mydomain.m4 # File: sendmail.cw # bitstream bitstream.net # End of sendmail.cw # File: userdb # root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net root:maildrop root@ganesh.bitstream.net root:fullname Chris Jensen me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:maildrop me@ganesh.bitstream.net me:fullname Chris Jensen # End of userdb # File: aliases # Put these in your aliases file as appropriate. I've left out all # the comments and examples in the default aliases Postmaster: root MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster MAILER-AGENT: postmaster nobody: /dev/null root: me news: me usenet: me # End of aliases That's it. And don't forget to modify the FQDN in NetInfo. There're several other things you might want to consider: * mail to 'root' and any other account on ganesh should be delivered locally, i.e., to root@ganesh, to ensure that, put this line in your next.mc file: FEATURE(stickyhost) * I strongly recommend that you setup a 'cejensen' account on ganesh, because using 'root' as your regular account is considered unsafe and 'me' is a big security hole. 'me' should be deleted as soon as possible. * Consider installing tcpwrapper package once you're done with sendmail configuration. It protects you from most of the casual attacks from crackers. (If you decides to use 'root' or 'me' as your regular account, then please at least install tcpwrapper to give yourself some protection.) You can find the latest tcpwrapper package on peak or peanuts. Let me know how it goes. liuyi -- Realife: Liu, Yi <liuyi@dragon-dance.com> {NeXTMail|MIME|ASCII}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: roland@onevision.de (Roland Schwingel) Subject: Re: NFS-Automounting from WIN NT (Hummingbird NFS) Message-ID: <EAzIAL.4sF@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <EAxxCy.683@nidat.sub.org> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 08:01:32 GMT Hello, > > Hello, > > > > I am currently evaluting the Hummingbird NFS Server for > > Win NT4.0 on our NT Server. I am in need to export some > > drives from NT to our NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP Machines via NFS. > > > > I have exported the drives in netinfo domain / with > > bg,net,timeo=6 option to /Net. > > > > With 4.1 and up there is no problem with automounting > > them. With 3.3 (half of our machines) I can not automount > > that drives. It is just not working. No error nothing. > > > > Just a few seconds of spinning mousecursor. But I can > > do a 'mount -t nfs ntserver:/d/test /test' on 3.3. > > What is not working is automounting... > > > > My NFS setup is correct. Mounting by hand works > > every time on every version of the operationg > > system I have handy. > > > Is this the good old block size problem? > > NS 3.x used to have this problem since it only implements NFS v1. All NFS > v2 systems sent blocks too large to fit into NEXTSTEP's buffers (used to > be the case for Solaris servers). It used to go away if the server was > explicitly told to use smaller blocks. I don't remember the exact syntax > but it is described in the FAQ and/or Usenet archive on Peanuts. I even have tried this befor my posting and limited the blocksize to 1024. I didn't helped. If it would be the read/writesize problem I would have got a readdir failure in the console. But there is nothing. Unfortunately. Roland -- ============================================================================ Roland Schwingel OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Developer, SysAdmin Zeissstrasse 9 Email:roland@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ============================================================================
From: wgriffit@neo.lrun.com.nospam (William Griffith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,roadrunner.help Subject: Re: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Followup-To: alt.test,alt.binaries.test Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:10:58 GMT Organization: Meep Meep Message-ID: <3393d1a2.60920619@news-server> References: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 30 May 1997 03:58:15 GMT, Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> wrote: >I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure it >for use with an ethernet card. > >I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem >service. > >My UNIX sysadmin skills are very weak. Is there a FAQ for this kind of >thing? > >Thanks, >-Tony Graham Please refrain from cross posting to roadrunner.help Thank You William
From: jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Root and .cshrc..... Date: 30 May 1997 14:39:21 GMT Organization: Purdue University Message-ID: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Ok, I should be able to solve this problem, but I can't seem to. When I "su", the .cshrc file for root doesn't seem to be acknowledged and I end up with this really helpful prompt: "#". This is a new phenomenon on my Intel system that I didn't encounter on black or HP. I'm running NS 3.3 The .cshrc file is in "/" I've tried putting: "source /.cshrc" in both .profile and .login and still it doesn't work. As you know because you're read this far, I'm a neophyte. Any suggestions as to what I need to do? 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: "Kurt Ramsden" <ramsden@mscd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Client cannot find NeXT server Date: 30 May 1997 17:01:13 GMT Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver Message-ID: <01bc6d1b$05df34f0$17719993@ramsden> I am new to NeXTStation networking. I am trying to connect a client to a network with the server on a different router. Unfortunately, it is not finding the server. Is there a protocol that needs to be turned on for the router on the servers end? Any information on a solution would be greatly thanked, Kurt Ramsden ramsden@mscd.edu
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 30 May 1997 13:17:48 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5mmk1s$j2m@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> In article <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) writes: > BTW, I now have "Shutdown Graphics = No", but it doesn't work. Can > anyone confirm that it Does/Doesn't work? OK, I'll confirm it myself. It does indeed work, but only the NEXT time you boot up and shutdown. Sorry for the confusion. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Date: 30 May 1997 13:19:45 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mmk5h$j2p@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> In article <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> writes: > I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure it > for use with an ethernet card. > I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem > service. As far as I know, NEXTSTEP/OpenStep uses bootp, and NOT DHCP. If it IS possible, I'd bet it is not trivial. Good luck. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.admin.networking,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CHAP authentication using PPP Date: 30 May 1997 20:42:48 GMT Organization: BCTEL Advanced Communications Message-ID: <5mne48$b0e$1@news.bctel.net> Keywords: CHAP, PPP, authenticate Trying to have my unix mahcine (NeXTStep) dial into my NT Server machine using PPP. I find they negotiate on all parameters except the authenication being used. I have tried both CHAP and PAP and I cannot get them to work. Is there either a way of disabling authentication all together on NT or what is NT expecting as a part of the CHAP authentication. From NT I get an auth chap 80 as a configuration request from but can't seem to configure my Next machine to match this. Thanks in advance. -- James Ford <james@instep.bc.ca> <604-872-7116> System Support, InStep Mobile Communications Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From: Kurt Neumann <kneuman1@san.rr.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,roadrunner.help Subject: Re: Setting up OpenStep 4.x (Intel) as a DHCP client? Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 15:55:52 -0700 Organization: Road Runner Message-ID: <338F5AF8.7EEE35E1@san.rr.com> References: <5mlj8n$auq@proxye1.san.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: Anthony Graham <adgraham@san.rr.com> I have been using NS 3.3 / 4.0 for quite a while. There is no FAQ for NeXT Road Runner, but many for getting ISDN and dialup connections going. Initially your host manager local config should have : Netinfo : Use local domain only Readable only by local net Hostname : autoconfigure NIS domain name : none Internet Address : Autoconfigure Broadcast Address : default Time Standard : Ignore Network Time Netmask : Automatic Router : Dynamic Following this, simply compile the freely available client for BSD. If don't have the NS compiler, I might be able to give something. Thats the description in a nutshell. Try getting the ip config working first. You should be able to ping addresses like 204.210.2.254. Then compile the client. If you have any questions drop me a line, I always like helping with NeXT configs. :) > I've got an OpenStep 4.0 Intel box and have just managed to configure > it > for use with an ethernet card. > > I need to set it up to be a DHCP client to connect it to a cable modem > > service. > > My UNIX sysadmin skills are very weak. Is there a FAQ for this kind of > > thing? > > Thanks, > -Tony Graham
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems installing Openstep on wide scsi Date: 30 May 1997 22:53:44 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5mnlpo$l5t@news.acns.nwu.edu> Ok everyone, I think I've resolved some of the newbie questions I had earlier relating to using a wide SCSI disk. Now I have real problems. Here's my system Micron Pentium Pro with 64Mb, and one CPU with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI Controller. On the SCSI controller I have 2 SCSI devices, a ST34501W Seagate ST34501W Cheetah 4.3Gb WIDE SCSI Hard Drive and a Plexor 12x CDROM. Now my problem I start the installation proceedure select the appropriate disk controller and I select to set asside 2.3Gb for DOS. After which the system IS SUPPOSED TO (but doesn't) partition the drive and format it for Openstep. I get an error something like: Can not initialize hard drive, rebooting, this may take a minute. (The above is a paraphrase since I'm working from memory, which is failing daily) So I figure, maybe I've got some small problem with the disk, so I low level format it using the SCSI controller bios and try the install again. Again I get the same message. Has anyone got any clue what the problem is? Does Openstep support Wide SCSI as a bootable drive? Is the problem the rotational speed of the disk (10k rpm) or some other disktab type entrie? Please email/post ASAP I can't live without my machine! David A Johnson At Home......
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 31 May 1997 01:41:31 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> In-Reply-To: <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> On 05/29/97, Yi Liu wrote: > * Your mydomain.m4 is _exactly_ the same as your next.mc, did you cut > and paste the wrong next.mc? Probably. I've now changed that file as you instructed. If all went well, the headers on this post should be correct... Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Apache SSL -- SmartSoft?? Date: 31 May 1997 08:41:09 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5moo75$5nb$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5mk964$3u1@news.dialisdn.net> arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) wrote: >... >Alternately, does anyone know of an ssl server that will run >on NeXT (other then the $24,999 WebObjects)? >... >David Geller >arpad@hotspice.com Will SSL v2 be sufficient? If so, there are publicly available patches for Apache. Last time I tried, it worked fine with 1.1.3. You should find a link to a UK site from the Apache site. If you still need the URL, let me know. I've seen similar patches for NCSA and CERN as well. Rgds, Song ---- Shyne Song, Chuang <csong@tip.com.sg> http://tip.com.sg/~csong/ PGP Key Info : 1024 / 79EDBA81 / CCC1F0848DA943384D93C4968677C8D3
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Subject: Re: Root and .cshrc..... Message-ID: <EB0q10.KFF@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Organization: none References: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 23:46:12 GMT jon@haveman.org (Jon Haveman) wrote: > Ok, I should be able to solve this problem, but I can't seem to. > > When I "su", the .cshrc file for root doesn't seem to be acknowledged and I end > up with this really helpful prompt: "#". This is a new phenomenon on my Intel > system that I didn't encounter on black or HP. > > I'm running NS 3.3 > > The .cshrc file is in "/" > > I've tried putting: "source /.cshrc" in both .profile and .login and still it > doesn't work. Did you treat the root-account with the UserManager ? Sometimes it changes the homedirectory to /root. One can change it back using NetinfoManager. Greetings Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 31 May 1997 03:48:22 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> On 05/30/97, Operator wrote: >If all went well, the headers on this post should be correct... All did not go well. Mail is now not going out at all! Console is reporting the following error: May 30 22:38:57 ganesh sendmail[240]: WAA00238: SYSERR(root): mail.bitstream.net config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) Please help! What's wrong? Inbound mail is still coming in. >Chris Jensen >cejensen@bitstream.net > >
From: root@ganesh.ns.bitstream.net (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 31 May 1997 05:52:38 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5moeb6$c12$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$q1a$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <CFF2EED57D3B9D87.42583E76A9F01CBC.36D61AB5F09CAD08@library-proxy.airnews.net> <626520DC8F825B58.51950838CC502A9E.0BA3ED6C07BAB65A@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mlcog$145$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <F1D76BE6CD709A70.5CAB9DE7304474B8.39E1FB320B89B64E@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5mnvkb$6ab$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5mo726$97v$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Hello, Yi Liu-- You wrote: > * Your mydomain.m4 is _exactly_ the same as your next.mc, did you > cut and paste the wrong next.mc? I believe I did. Sorry. My current one is below. > > * Your domain is misconfigured: > > Your real domain: bitstream.net > As configured: ns.bitstream.net > > That's what has been causing all mails sent out from ganesh to look > like they are from ns.bitstream.net. > > To check this out, after you've dialed in, run this in Termial.app > > nslookup `netstat -rn|grep ppp0|grep -v default|awk 'print $2'` > > If it comes back with a host name like ppp102.bitstream.net, then > your FQDN (fully qualified domain name) is > ganesh.bitstream.net. > (I'm assuming you're on a dynamic IP PPP dialup.) You're right: The result of the above command while connected was: port166.bitstream.net > Make the appropriate changes to NetInfo following the Sendmail > config instructions. When I did this, however, my Sendmail ceased to function! When I attempted to send mail, the collowing console error occurred: May 30 21:56:24 ganesh sendmail[237]: VAA00235: SYSERR(root): mail.bitstream.net config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) So I had to revert to the following in NetInfo: /machines/ganesh/name/[value]ganesh/[value]ganesh.ns.bitstream.net I had originally created machines/ganesh in NetInfo by duplicating and editing /machines/localhost. When I shortened ganesh.ns.bitstream.net to ganesh.bitstream.net, I merely edited /machines/ganesh. Was this wise? Should I have deleted /machines/ganesh and reduplicated localhost i.e. started over? Or would this not make any difference? > * Are you using sendmail.cw file? If not, you should. (See below) Yes. > Your config files should look like these: I edited everything exactly as you specified, and got the error above. I then reverted to the old, incorrect files (that at least got mail out!). Just so we know how the files stand right now, here they are at the moment, again sending mail, but with the incorrect headers: ####/etc/sendmail.cf (sans comments, etc)#### Cwlocalhost # file containing names of hosts for which we receive email Fw/etc/sendmail.cw # my official domain name # ... define this only if sendmail cannot automatically determine your domain Djns.bitstream.net CP. # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DSrelay:mail.bitstream.net # place to which unknown users should be forwarded Kuser user -m -a<> DLrelay:mail.bitstream.net.CA ####/etc/sendmail.cw#### ns ns.bitstream.net ####/etc/sendmail/cf/cf/next.mc#### VERSIONID(`@(#)nextstandalone.mc 8.4 (Montreal) 25/2/96') OSTYPE(nextstep)dnl define(`ALIAS_FILE', netinfo:members@/aliases)dnl ifdef(`HELP_FILE',`define(`HELP_FILE', /usr/lib/sendmail.hf)')dnl FEATURE(use_cw_file) FEATURE(masquerade_envelope) DOMAIN(mydomain)dnl define(`confUSERDB_SPEC',`/etc/sendmail/userdb.db')dnl MAILER(local)dnl MAILER(smtp)dnl ####/etc/sendmail/userdb#### root:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net me:mailname cejensen@bitstream.net ####/etc/resolv.conf#### domain bitstream.net nameserver 204.73.77.77 ####/etc/sendmail/aliases#### # @(#)aliases 0.8 88/10/31 NeXT ## # Aliases can have any mix of upper and lower case on the left-hand side, # but the right-hand side should be proper case (usually lower) # # >>>>>>>>>> The program "newaliases" will need to be run after # >> NOTE >> this file is updated for any changes to # >>>>>>>>>> show through to sendmail. # ## # Following alias is required by the mail protocol, RFC 822 # Set it to the address of a HUMAN who deals with this system's mail problems. Postmaster: root # Alias for mailer daemon; returned messages from our MAILER-DAEMON # should be routed to our local Postmaster. MAILER-DAEMON: postmaster MAILER-AGENT: postmaster # Aliases to handle mail to programs or files, eg news or vacation # decode: "|/usr/bin/uudecode" nobody: /dev/null # Sample aliases: # Alias for distribution list, members specified here: #staff:wnj,mosher,sam,ecc,mckusick,sklower,olson,rwh@ernie # Alias for distribution list, members specified elsewhere: #keyboards: :include:/usr/jfarrell/keyboards.list # Alias for a person, so they can receive mail by several names: #epa:eric ####################### # Local aliases below # ####################### ####end of config files#### When I got the error, and realized no mail was getting out, I decided to go back to the last configuration that was at least sending mail, even if that configuration had errors in it. I may have not needed to revert every file, but felt it was the safest route. In addtion, in the Mail.app expert preferences, I have tried adding a From key, with the value "Chris Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net". As far as I can tell, this is having no effect whatsoever. This information does not appear in the mail headers when it is received (I send test messages to my CompuServe acct. on my Windows PC). Do you have any idea what went wrong? Suggestions for a fix? FYI: My ISP is Bitstream Underground, their Domain Name Server is ns.bitstream.net, their domain name is bitstream.net, DNS IP is 204.73.77.77,and router or gateway address is 204.73.77.254. Many humble thanks for your continued help! ************************************************************ Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
From: NoboruYamada <danbo@tcp-ip.or.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Wanted! Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:08:19 +0900 Organization: =?iso-2022-jp?B?TUFDGyRCJCpKdTRVRGpDRBsoSg==?= Message-ID: <338F7A02.2E06@tcp-ip.or.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wanted! I personally manage news web site of Macintosh in Japan. I want your topics, such as trouble shooting at software and hardware, leak of beta software and Apple, and any. I am looking forward to your information! Regards, Mac Treasure Tracing Club http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~danbo/ DANBO danbo@tcp-ip.or.jp
From: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I installed NS4.1/Mach and set aside a DOS partition on which I want to install Windows-95. However, when I boot with the Win-95 startup diskette it wants to format my entire disk... How do I install Win-95 on the DOS partition? Thanks... -- Dario Ringach | office: (212) 998-7614 lab: (212) 998-7613 Center for Neural Science | home: (212) 727-9346 fax: (212) 995-4011 4 Washington Place, Rm 809 | New York University | e-mail: dario@cns.nyu.edu New York, NY 10003 | http://www.cns.nyu.edu/home/dario
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: configure a network-printer Message-ID: <EB1JH9.762@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5mjlkn$s8g$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:22:20 GMT In article <5mjlkn$s8g$1@rks1.urz.tu-dresden.de> dietzsch@wise.wiwi.tu-dresden.de (Andreas Dietzsch) writes: > Hello all! > > I'm a starter in administrating NEXTSTEP and I now hav the problem to > configure a network printer. > > I used the PrintManager to install a new one. How can I deny a group of > users to use this printer. > You can't, it is either private, i.e. local to a machine and open to all the users of this machine, or public and, therefore, open to every machine in the NetInfo domain they belong to. So either you choose your NetInfo domains in a way only those machines accessible to the right people belong to the domain the printer is known to, or you resort to nasty hacks about write access to the spool file which will lead to ugly error messages if you don't have a right to write. -- 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: Client cannot find NeXT server Message-ID: <EB1u83.7nH@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <01bc6d1b$05df34f0$17719993@ramsden> Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 14:14:27 GMT In article <01bc6d1b$05df34f0$17719993@ramsden> "Kurt Ramsden" <ramsden@mscd.edu> writes: > > I am new to NeXTStation networking. I am trying to connect a client to > a network with the server on a different router. Unfortunately, it is > not finding the server. Is there a protocol that needs to be turned on > for the router on the servers end? > Reposting a contribution of Marc Majka on exactly this problem. There is no more compent and exaustive answer on this matter, IMHO! ---------------------------------------------- From: majka@next.com (Marc Majka) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo between different subnets Date: 1 Jul 1994 17:30:52 GMT Organization: NeXT, Inc. Lines: 310 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2v1jsc$46c@rosie.next.com> References: <2v08sh$hec@nntp2.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: grep.next.com Todd Takken writes > How do I have a client NeXT computer bind to a netinfo server in another > internet subnet? This is a question that gets to the heart of NetInfo configuration. Here's a long reply that covers most of the details. If you want to know everything there is to be known about NetInfo configuration and NetInfo internals, see the Summer 1993 issue of NEXTSTEP IN FOCUS. It's available from NeXTanswers. First of all, a quick review of terms: A "domain" is a collection of NetInfo server processes that all have a copy of the same database. One of these servers is called the "master" of the domain, and it holds the "master" copy. The remaining server processes in the domain are "clones". The master is responsible for maintaining database consistency within the domain. Within the database that's shared by all the server processes for a domain is a list of computers (the contents of the /machines directory). If a computer has a NetInfo server process for this domain, then a record of that fact is kept in the"serves" property for that computer. A value for the serves property will be "./<tag>", where "tag" is a somewhat-arbitrary name that identifies a particular NetInfo server from the potentially large number of NetInfo database server processes that may be running on that computer. To say all that again from a slightly different perspective, the database for a domain records the location (computer's name and Internet address) and tag of every server for that domain. Any computer that hosts a server for the domain will be included in /machines, and will have a value "./<tag>" for its "serves" property. For example, say the domain has a master server process running on the computer named "alcor", and that the database on "alcor" has the tag "super" (i.e. in the file viewer, you'll find the database in the directory /etc/netinfo/super.nidb). Lets say there's a clone copy of the database on the computer named "mizar", and that it's tag there is also "super". In the domain's database, then, you'll find this entry for /machines/alcor: name: alcor ip_address: 192.42.172.12 serves: ./super And there will be an entry for /machines/mizar: name: mizar ip_address: 129.18.33.74 serves: ./super The master and its clones carry on a little dialogue from time to time to make sure that their copies of the database remain synchronized. As long as the Internet addresses are correct, it doesn't matter what subnets they are on. All that is important is that they can communicate with one-another to maintain database synchronization. A NetInfo domain may be related to other NetInfo domains in a tree-structured hierarchy. The database for each domain records the location (computer's name and IP address), tag, and "domain name" of all the server processes of it's child domains. If a computer, say "polaris", runs a NetInfo server (say with the tag "network") for the child domain that you've named "graphics", then the parent domain's database will contain an entry for /machines/polaris that looks like: name: polaris ip_address: 129.18.2.7 serves: graphics/network That is, a parent domain identifies a server for a child domain by attaching a value of the form "<child_domain_name>/<tag>" to the record for the computer which hosts that child server process. If the computer "deneb" also has a server for the "graphics" domain, and its copy of the "graphics" domain database also has the tag "network", then the parent domain will also have an entry for /machines/deneb: name: deneb ip_address: 192.42.172.147 serves: graphics/network As long as the Internet addresses of the child servers are correct, then there's no problem finding a server for the child domain named "graphics" (relative to the current domain). In this example you have a choice: you can contact the server process named "netinfod network" running on the computer named "alcor", or the server process named "netinfod network" running on the computer named "mizar". Since they each have a copy of the same database, it doesn't really matter much which one you contact. Notice again that it doesn't matter what the Internet addresses of the computers are (as long as they're correct!), so the servers for a child domain can be on many different subnets. Let me make a brief aside into the UNIX filesystem for a moment. Like NetInfo domains, the UNIX filesystem has a hierarchical structure. A "node" in the UNIX filesystem hierarchy (called a "directory") contains a list of the names and file numbers ("i-node numbers" if you want to get technical) of all its children. You can see this if you use the UNIX "ls -i" command. For example: myhost> ls -i 48975 .NeXT/ 47887 .logout 51143 Library/ 47881 .commanddict 47885 .mailrc 54404 Mailboxes/ 47953 .cshrc 47888 .pipedict 48044 meeting_notes 47883 .indent.pro 47886 .plan 48043 mydata 47884 .index.store 47889 .profile 47882 .login 50063 Apps/ So what? you might say. My point is that, like NetInfo, the UNIX filesystem creates a hierarchy by maintaining, in each "node", a list of the symbolic names of the "children" of that node, and some internal addressing information that specifies exactly where that child is to be found. For example, if you give the shell command: myhost> cd Library it looks up the name "Library" in the current "node" and finds that "Library" is really i-node number 51143 in the filesystem. At that point, you've switched your attention to a new "node" (number 51143), which contains still more names and i-node numbers. This is exactly what happens in NetInfo: If, for example, you are inspecting your NetInfo domain hierarchy using NetInfoManager, and you decide to open a connection to the domain "/graphics". Assuming that NetInfoManager already has a connection to the "/" domain (I'll return to this point), then all it needs to do is look through the computers listed in /machines in the "/" domain and find all the "serves" properties that look like "graphics/<tag>". Doing so, it constructs a list of the IP address and tag of all the servers for the "/graphics" domain, and establishes a connection to the first one on the list that if finds actually running. By having the complete list, the NetInfo software can also switch to a different server for the "/graphics" domain at any time. For example, if it connected to "netinfod network" on deneb, but deneb crashes, then the NetInfo software will switch to "netinfod network" on polaris as soon as it gets a timeout. It can do all this without a blink, and you will only notice a short delay (the default is 5 seconds for the timeout, but each client can adjust its own timeout independently). One more point to make: not only do parent domains keep a list of the addresses, tags, and domain names of their children, but child domains know the addresses and tags of server processes for their parent domain. Let me make a quick return to my comparison of NetInfo domains to "nodes" in the UNIX filesystem. If you are working in a UNIX shell and issue the command: myhost> cd .. you are telling the software to move you up to the parent directory of the current directory. How does the filesystem find the parent directory? It turns out that each directory contains not only a list of its children, but it contains the i-node number of its parent as well: myhost> ls -ai 47880 ./ 47884 .index.store 47889 .profile 10379 ../ 47882 .login 50063 Apps/ 48975 .NeXT/ 47887 .logout 51143 Library/ 47881 .commanddict 47885 .mailrc 54404 Mailboxes/ 47953 .cshrc 47888 .pipedict 48044 meeting_notes 47883 .indent.pro 47886 .plan 48043 mydata Aha! There's an entry for ".." - it's i-node number 10379. Thus ".." is really just a name that means "parent directory", and the shell can use this name to move up in the directory hierarchy. Back to NetInfo: It turns out that we use the name ".." to mean "parent" in NetInfo too. If you're looking around in the "/graphics" domain, you'll find an entry for the computer polaris: name: alcor ip_address: 192.42.172.12 serves: ../super That is to say: if you want to contact a NetInfo server for the parent ("..") of this domain, you can contact "netinfod super" at alcor. You may find other entries for servers for the parent domain, in the example I've been using, you'll probably find: name: mizar ip_address: 129.18.33.74 serves: ../super in the "/graphics" domain as well. When a process that accesses NetInfo (a NetInfo client process) needs to access the parent domain of a domain to which it already has a connection, it asks the server for the child for the address and tag of any one of the servers for its parent domain (in NetInfo terminology, this is called an "rparent" request by the client). Before the child server gives back a reply to the "rparent" request, it checks two things: First, it checks if it actually *has* any parents. A server for the top-level domain in the hierarchy won't have any computers listed with "../<tag>" values. If it has no parents, it must be a server for the top-level ("root") domain. In that case it replies to the "rparent" request with the information that it is a server for the root domain. Second, if it isn't a server for the root domain, it checks to see if it has ever been in contact with one of the servers for its parent domain. If it hasn't, it sends a request of its own to all of the parent servers listed in it's database. NetInfo calls this a "bind" request. At the other end, a server that receives a "bind" request checks to see if the sender is really one of its children. If so, it sends back a reply. (We'll see later why its important that a server that receives a "bind" request will only reply if the sender is listed as a child). If, on the other hand, a server that gets an "rparent" request has already been in contact with a parent (i.e. it has already sent a "bind" request and received a response from some server for its parent domain), then it only probes to see if the parent is still running. If it is, then it gives the NetInfo client (the one that sent it the "rparent" request) the address and tag of its parent server. If the parent isn't running, the child goes through its "bind" procedure all over again to find another running parent, and then gives that new parent's address and tag as a reply to the "rparent" request. We see from the paragraph above, that anytime a client process (for example, NetInfoManager) needs to climb up the NetInfo domain hierarchy, it can ask a server at each step for the address and tag of its parent. This may result, behind the scenes, in making that server bind or re-bind to a parent, but the NetInfo client doesn't really care what goes on behind the scenes. All it cares is that it gets back the address and tag of a server for the parent domain, and that the address and tag are for a server that's actually running at the moment. The client, upon connecting to that server for the first time, collects the addresses and tags of all the servers for that domain (the master and all its clones: anything with a serves property like "./<tag>"), so that it can re-connect to a new server if its current connection times out. One last thing about clients: How do they know how to start climbing the hierarchy at all? They always start with the server named "netinfod local" running on the same computer that they are on. The tag "local" is reserved for the bottom-level of the domain hierarchy. There's a curious thing about children: They often want a parent, but they don't really care which parent they get. A frightened child will broadcast a request for a parent, and it will be happy as soon as any of its parent replies to its broadcast. The same may be true of NetInfo: it can be configured so that child servers send a broadcast request for a parent server when they bind. How? Look in one of your local domains. You'll find an entry for /machines/broadcasthost: name: broadcasthost ip_address: 255.255.255.255 serves: ../network This means that when a "netinfod local" server tries to bind to a parent, it will broadcast a bind request to "netinfod network". It is extremely important to note that (1) you should *never* change this address, and that (2) the "netinfod local" server isn't *restricted* to sending a bind request to the broadcast address. As I mentioned above, a child looks for ALL "serves ../<tag>" properties, and sends a bind request to ALL of them. It may be that ONE of the bind requests it sends is directed to the address 255.255.255.255, which means something special to the Internet protocol (IP) software on your computer: it means "this message is addressed to every computer on the local area network". The astute reader will have noticed that this is the first and only time that I've said that any NetInfo communication is related in any manner to the network topology. We ship NetInfo so that the only parent that the "local" servers have in their database are the one shown above: "network" at 255.255.255.255. If you want the local domain of a computer on one subnet to be able to bind to a parent server running on a computer on another subnet, then all you need to do is to tell the child how to contact that parent. If, for example, you want the local domain to be able to bind to "network" at polaris, then all you need do is add /machines/polaris to the local domain: name: polaris ip_address: 129.18.2.7 serves: ../network The reasons that we ship NetInfo with only the "broadcasthost" parent in the local domain are: (1) we don't know the addresses and names of your computers when we put a /etc/netinfo/local.nidb on your NEXTSTEP CD-ROM. (2) in most cases, there will be a parent or two on the local subnet, so sending out a broadcast bind request is sufficient to find at least one running parent. This means less work for you, the system administrator, since you don't need to edit each and every one of your local NetInfo databases when you set up your NEXTSTEP network Since for the most part, local domains do rely exclusively on broadcast to find a parent, we recommend that, after you've established the first NEXTSTEP system on a new subnet, you make a clone of the parent domain on that computer. That way, you won't have to edit the local database on any other computers you add to that subnet, since they'll contact the new clone when they broadcast. In fact, we recommend that you have at least two servers per subnet for any domain that relies on broadcast. Why two? So that if one is down, the other will still be available to answer broadcast bind requests. One final comment on broadcast binding: we now see why it's important that parents only reply to bind request from their own children. There may be many servers on a single network that all have the tag "network", but grouped into a few separate domains. A "netinfod local" that sends a broadcast bind request may get the attention of some "netinfod network" servers that are not servers for THAT local domain's parent domain. Since the recipients won't have a "serves <childname>/local" value for the sender, they will ignore the bind request, so the child will only receive replies from real parents. -- Marc Majka NeXT Computer -- 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: "John E. Ray" <jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [HELP] Problems with installation hang on OS 4.0, Intel Date: 31 May 97 14:02:17 -0400 Organization: NetSet Internet Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <AFB5DFED-302D4@128.128.128.127> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.netset.com/comp.sys.next.sysadmin I'm having a bit of a problem installing OpenStep 4.0 on a Pentium IDE system. The installation disks work fine, the CD-ROM is recognized, everything progresses normally up to the point where it should be prompting me to set up a partition on my drive. I get the "NeXT Mach OS" screen, it registers the ATAPI CD-ROM, then the hard drive. The last three messages I get are : "root on sd0", "rootdev 600, howto 0", and "Power Management is enabled." Then the machine just stops. I've disabled power management, and the same thing happens (minus the "Power Management enabled" message). It doesn't completely freeze the machine, because *sometimes* I can type into the window, and everytime I can hit ALT-CLEAR and reboot or halt the machine. I've also tried the latest EIDE/ATAPI drivers, to no avail. Any thoughts or suggestions? I'm not sure what it *should* be doing at this point, so I'm at a bit of a loss. Thanks, John ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Ray, System Dev/Eng. "You hack code in your sleep, dreaming Communications & Technology, OSUE in Perl and Java..." -- Redhat Ad. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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