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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <12797864532834@digifix.com> Date: 1 Jun 1997 03:57:29 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: leonvs@occam.com (Leon von Stauber) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Switching video modes without seeing what your're doing? Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 1 Jun 1997 04:56:34 GMT Organization: Occam's Razor Message-ID: <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> References: <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> Cc: comrade@umich.edu NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN In <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: > > A few times now my monitor has blanked out at certain video modes. Is >there a way to switch resolution/etc. without seeing the desktop? What can >I do to switch without having to reinstall? Boot single-user, then go into /private/Drivers. (Now I'm doing this from memory, so I may be a little off.) Find the proper directory for your video driver, cd to it, and there should be a file called Instance0.table. Open the file up in an editor, and you can directly edit the display resolution and frequency. Exit out of single-user, and you should see it come up in the new resolution. ____________________________________________________________________ Leon von Stauber http://www.occam.com/leonvs/ Occam's Razor, Game Designer <leonvs@occam.com> PSW Technologies, System Administrator <leonvs@pswtech.com> MIDS, Web Developer <leonvs@mids.org> "We have not come to save you, but you will not die in vain!"
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Switching video modes without seeing what your're doing? Date: 1 Jun 1997 06:40:28 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mr5gs$2qe$1@news.digifix.com> References: <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> In-Reply-To: <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> On 05/31/97, Leon von Stauber wrote: >NOTE: FOLLOWUPS TO COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN > >In <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: >> >> A few times now my monitor has blanked out at certain video modes. Is >>there a way to switch resolution/etc. without seeing the desktop? What can >>I do to switch without having to reinstall? > >Boot single-user, then go into /private/Drivers. (Now I'm doing this from >memory, so I may be a little off.) Find the proper directory for your >video driver, cd to it, and there should be a file called Instance0.table. >Open the file up in an editor, and you can directly edit the display >resolution and frequency. Exit out of single-user, and you should see >it come up in the new resolution. Ack! It would be much easier to at the start up OpenStep prompt type boot=Default and then change the setting of the refresh rate in the Configure.app -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bring up console from command line Date: 1 Jun 1997 15:22:42 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Hi, Is there a way to bring up the console from a term command line? Thanks, Emmett
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Switching video modes without seeing what your're doing? Date: 1 Jun 1997 17:17:12 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5msvto$lus@xmission.xmission.com> References: <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> <5mqve2$klq$1@hackberry.zilker.net> <5mr5gs$2qe$1@news.digifix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> wrote: : >In <AFAAB237-1224C1@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: : >> : >> A few times now my monitor has blanked out at certain video modes. : Is : >>there a way to switch resolution/etc. without seeing the desktop? : What can : >>I do to switch without having to reinstall? : Ack! It would be much easier to : at the start up OpenStep prompt type : boot=Default : and then change the setting of the refresh rate in the : Configure.app It would be easier if you could change the resolution and refresh rate from the login window. Try http://www.next.com/~svail/MainMenu/Nextstep/sv_nextstep.html for something that will make res switching much easier. Note that this is the personal home page of Scott Vail and doesn't represent the work of NeXT Software / Apple Computer. For the standard disclaimers, check out http://www.next.com/~svail/. ...................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: seeking advice on display adapters for NS 3.3 on Pentium Date: 2 Jun 1997 02:06:31 GMT Message-ID: <19970602020600.WAA13049@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Hello Seeking advice and insight on selecting a high quality display adapter for use with a Pentium ( Triton ) 166 system that is set-up with NS 3.3 - the vendor that is putting the unit together informs us that there are S3 conflicts when using either a Diamond Stealth 64 or a Number Nine Motion 771 with the Triton motherboard - anyone have any suggestions or work-arounds for this type of issue? Many thanks in advance ---- Bob K. -- please reply to my work e-mail bob@monet.dt.navy.mil
From: takis@takis2.ee.net (Panagiotis Velissariou) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: ISDN under NS? Date: 2 Jun 1997 04:16:52 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5mthfk$624$2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Cc: brennanh@pacbell.net In <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Brennan Hildebrand wrote: > I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine > running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. > > I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. > Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > -brennan > Hi, I thought ISDN devices come with PPP/SLIP and all you have to do is to configure the box to initiate the connections (phone#, username, password, IP adresses, e.t.c). Everything else is taken care through TCP/IP. Here at home I have an ISDM modem (Ascend Pipeline) configured and when I start for example OmniWeb it initiates the connection when I request a document on the Net. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Panagiotis Velissariou _/ _/ The Ohio State University _/ _/ Department of Civil, Graphics & Environmental Engineering _/ _/ E-mail: takis@superior.eng.ohio-state.edu _/ _/ pvelissa@postbox.acs.ohio-state.edu _/ _/ takis@takis2.ee.net _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: ISDN under NS? Date: 2 Jun 1997 04:21:20 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mtho0$s9n$1@news.digifix.com> References: <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> <5mthfk$624$2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5mthfk$624$2@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 06/01/97, Panagiotis Velissariou wrote: >In <338D1B76.CF488611@pacbell.net> Brennan Hildebrand wrote: >> I've got an ISDN box connected to my intel pentium based machine >> running NS 4.2 (prelude to rhapsody) over a serial connection. >> >> I can't seem to figure out how to use the thing with pppd and chat. >> Has anyone done this before? I assume that someone must have. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> -brennan >> > >Hi, > >I thought ISDN devices come with PPP/SLIP and all you have to do >is to configure the box to initiate the connections (phone#, >username, password, IP adresses, e.t.c). Everything else is >taken care through TCP/IP. > >Here at home I have an ISDM modem (Ascend Pipeline) configured and >when I start for example OmniWeb it initiates the connection >when I request a document on the Net. I'm not sure that the Ascend Pipeline qualifies as an ISDN modem as such, since it does connect to the machine via Ethernet, and is basically a router. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: seeking advice on display adapters for NS 3.3 on Pentium Date: 2 Jun 1997 04:22:31 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5mthq7$s9o$1@news.digifix.com> References: <19970602020600.WAA13049@ladder02.news.aol.com> In-Reply-To: <19970602020600.WAA13049@ladder02.news.aol.com> On 06/01/97, Rkurhajetz wrote: >Hello > >Seeking advice and insight on selecting a high quality display adapter for >use with a Pentium ( Triton ) 166 system that is set-up with NS 3.3 - the >vendor that is putting the unit together informs us that there are S3 >conflicts when using either a Diamond Stealth 64 or a Number Nine Motion >771 with the Triton motherboard - anyone have any suggestions or >work-arounds for this type of issue? Many thanks in advance ---- > Bob K. > My personal preference for video under NS is the Matrox Millenium... I've had excellent success using those under 3.3 and up.. -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Root and .cshrc..... Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:14:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970601201250.29515G-100000@kira> References: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: jon@haveman.org In-Reply-To: <5mmoqp$ff6@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> Is root's shell set to /bin/csh? What does the .cshrc file have in it? If you copy it to another user's home dir does it work there? Check root's $HOME in UserManager and make sure it isn't /root Just a couple thoughts.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ "The best things in life are made into inferior versions and bundled with the latest Microsoft systems" NS/OS users: My 'other sites' page has been entirely reworked
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:17:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970601201629.29515H-100000@kira> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> In-Reply-To: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > command line? I have no idea what you mean 'bring up the console' if you want to see the console.log, try 'cat /tmp/console.log' 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: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: verbose shutdown? Date: 29 May 1997 22:12:38 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <5mlgj6$6s1@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970529123934.10202B-100000@kira> <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <5mku5c$ian@crcnis3.unl.edu>, Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> wrote: >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? actualoly, what happened to me at first was i mistyped it. but then i typed it correctly, but didn't hit enter afterwards instead i just used the mouse to click on the value column and it reverted the setting to APM. anyway.. i got it now on my machine, and i can confirm that it works i tried the power off button that appears when i log out and both the reboot and power off buttons on the login window. yay!! no more crashes during shutdown. anyway. just out of curiosity, has anyone else experienced the same lockups during shutdown? 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: Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP: NSF mount from SunOS 4.1.4 Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 10:52:22 -0400 Organization: Center for Neural Science, NYU Message-ID: <3392DE25.167E@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have OpenStep 4.0 / Mach for Intel. I can mount files from other machines running NS 3.2 / Intel and from SGI machines running IRIX 5.3/6.2 but fail to mount from a Sun server running SunOS Release 4.1.4 when using the NFS manager... However, when I try to mount it by hand from a terminal by doing: % mount myserver:/u/u2 mounthere/ It works. Any ideas? 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
From: Garance A Drosehn <gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: 3 Jun 1997 01:24:00 GMT Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY, USA Message-ID: <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > command line? I'm not sure I understand what you mean. However, if I were to guess at what you mean, the answer would be "No". The second part of the answer would be "there is no need to". (unless you're talking about the NMI monitor, or the bootup monitor, in which case there might be a need to, but there still is no way to get to it from a unix command-line). --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer (MIME & NeXTmail capable) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
From: Lusty Wench <lusty@lusty.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what do I do with these core files? Date: 2 Jun 1997 19:24:01 -0700 Organization: What's that? Message-ID: <5mvv81$cg9@idiom.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> wrote: > >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?? You could make a hat... a broach... or a pterodactyl! Lusty
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: need to install Win3.1 after OS4.1 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 20:03:17 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sad but true... the day I've long dreaded is here... cable modems are coming to my area.... sounds like the only sure way to get connected it with W*nd*ws.... As much as I hate the thought/concept/morality of it (supporting the monopoly) I don't hate it enough to give up 1500kb/s.... I've got an 8meg DOS parition after my 2047meg OS4.1 partition and a second (also SCSI) HD.... I could also set the 2nd HD to id=0 to install.... I just want to make sure it doesn't muck with my OS4.1 partition.... Right now the boot manager comes up with 'n for ns d for dos' -- how can I tell it to do 'd for dos' on the 2nd HD? 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: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: need to install Win3.1 after OS4.1 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:00:19 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970603005759.3528A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Sad but true... the day I've long dreaded is here... > > cable modems are coming to my area.... sounds like the only sure way to > get connected it with W*nd*ws.... As much as I hate the > thought/concept/morality of it (supporting the monopoly) I don't hate it > enough to give up 1500kb/s.... > Really? This is a bad news for me. We have them available here and I always thought that I'd just connect my NeXT station to it using the ethernet cables. Am I wrong? How does it work then? Thanks. Rudy. P.S.: Don't get win3.1 - use win95 if you have to use win. Rudy.
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Install NEXTSTEP 3.2 on 3 GB large disk? Date: 3 Jun 1997 06:34:53 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5n0dud$dc8$3@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <EAtoLr.8u1@info.physics.utoronto.ca> <EAxwzM.67D@nidat.sub.org> Cc: liu@emerald.physics In <EAxwzM.67D@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote: > 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. This was the ONLY way I got 3.2 built on a 4G disk was with builddisk off another < 2G HD. Randy rencsok at channelu dot com
From: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: 3 Jun 1997 14:11:58 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5n18ne$1jc2@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> Cc: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu In <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> Garance A Drosehn wrote: > emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > > command line? > > tail /usr/admin/messages will output the same information as the console.
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Network time polling sites? Date: 3 Jun 1997 14:47:09 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5n1apd$2a1@corporate.hesta.com> We have a setting in our crontab.local file that is supposed to be polling and setting our network time... We have a full time link to the net, yet I noticed we had gotten off by almost 15 minutes, and lo and behold I *think* it may be set incorrectly; or the ans service is nop longer available. Here's what we have in the crontab entry: 0 * * * * root /usr/etc/ntp -s -f ns.ans.net. So I went in and simply executed the command itself to see what would happen. The result: corporate:1# /usr/etc/ntp -s -f ns.ans.net *Timeout* *Timeout* Host ns.ans.net is not responding corporate:2# Any suggestions? Are there other sites I should point to instead ? Thanks! -- "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
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: need to install Win3.1 after OS4.1 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 05:45:23 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603054112.5122B-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970602194826.6053A-100000@kira> <Pine.SOL.3.96.970603005759.3528A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970603005759.3528A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > Sad but true... the day I've long dreaded is here... > > > > cable modems are coming to my area.... sounds like the only sure way to > > get connected it with W*nd*ws.... As much as I hate the > > thought/concept/morality of it (supporting the monopoly) I don't hate it > > enough to give up 1500kb/s.... > > > > Really? This is a bad news for me. We have them available here and I > always thought that I'd just connect my NeXT station to it using the > ethernet cables. It's not the connection, I think but getting the IP address.... They claim that anything can do it, but they only support Win/Mac. The Ethernet connection (at least in this area) is the same as on my NeXTStation (if their web page is correct). > Am I wrong? How does it work then? Something called DCHP or something like that... rather than bootp, from what I've heard... > P.S.: Don't get win3.1 - use win95 if you have to use win. Rudy. Sure, anyone got a free copy? 3.1 is relatively easy to come by (people who have gotten Win95). They aren't giving away Win95 yet..... You don't actually expect me to pay for it, do you ?!? ;-) 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: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 06:49:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu In-Reply-To: <9706030347.AA01394@bifrostworks.com> Hey folks, Yeah me again.... in my every expanding attempts to not get any sleep at all, I have rendered my machine unbootable yet again.... I know what I did wrong & can fix it quite easily if I can boot off the CD-ROM. However, any time I try I get thrown into the installation process. What's the magical incarnation I'm looking for? This is my setup: (un)boot drive sd0a (SCSI ID=1... unfortunately I don't have a bootable backup drive because I "haven't gotten around to it" ... which I will get around to ASAB (as soon as bootable ;-) I've also got at sd1a (id=2) a SyQuest drive at sd2a (id=3) CD-ROM at sd3a (id=4) second HD So how do I boot off the CD into single-user mode? Supposing I made a bootable SyQuest cart, how could I boot off that (can it be done without changing the id=2)? Thanks for any help... I'm really rather stuck at the moment... 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: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: script at shutdown Date: 3 Jun 1997 17:02:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 1997 17:02:17 GMT Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? The reason for asking is that I just installed ps_if for virtual interfaces and it works very well (Thanks! to Hideo "Sir MaNMOS" Morishita <manmos@stellar.co.jp>) but ... when trying to shutdown the machine I get the following error message: Pseudo Device for NEXTSTEP by Hideo "Sir MaNMOS" Morishita Invalid ps control add-multicast So it seems to me that it would be best to automatically execute ps_unload before going down. I'm fairly sure I've seen shutdown scripts discussed before, but I can't find it in the archives or FAQs anywhere. Pointers please! Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:55:56 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603105343.15999A-100000@kira> References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> <5mvrng$9oe@usenet.rpi.edu> <5n18ne$1jc2@castor.cca.rockwell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <5n18ne$1jc2@castor.cca.rockwell.com> On 3 Jun 1997, Erik M. Buck wrote: > > tail /usr/admin/messages will output the same information as the console. note: I assume you meant 'tail /usr/adm/messages'... does that get all the same messages as /dev/console? Assuming you are logged in, you can also get /dev/console from /tmp/console.log 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: script at shutdown Date: 3 Jun 1997 17:40:51 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5n1kv3$2gp@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu In <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? > > CHOMP> > I'm fairly sure I've seen shutdown scripts discussed before, but > I can't find it in the archives or FAQs anywhere. Pointers please! > > Thanks. > > I second the request! If someone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it as well. We need the ability to run a inn shutdown command to assure no corruption of the news server. -- "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
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: script at shutdown Date: 3 Jun 1997 18:31:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5n1nt7$1n0@news.tamu.edu> References: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 Jun 1997 18:31:03 GMT Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> wrote: >Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? Here's a perl script that seems to work for me. Please let me know if there are any sysadmin no-nos for using this. --BEGIN PERL SCRIPT #!/usr/local/bin/perl # This script allows commands to be run as part of the shutdown # process. Install it as /etc/shutdown or make /etc/shutdown a # symbolic link to this script. Should be executable by root only. # DO NOT replace /usr/etc/shutdown which is needed for this to work. # Author: Colin Allen <colin-allen@tamu.edu> # Date: June 06, 1997 # No warranties implied! # Place whatever commands you wish to run before shutdown # here using this format if you wish to see the output # print `command`; # E.g.: print `date`; # For example, if you are using Hideo Morishita's virtual # interface driver you may wish to uncomment this #print `/usr/local/etc/ps/ps_unload`; # This is for debugging. Uncomment as desired. #print `echo @ARGV`; # Uncomment the following line if you wish to execute # the shutdown exec "/usr/etc/shutdown @ARGV"; --END PERL SCRIPT -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: 3 Jun 1997 19:44:21 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <5n1s6l$gdi$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Cc: luomat@peak.org In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > Hey folks, > > Yeah me again.... in my every expanding attempts to not get any > sleep at all, I have rendered my machine unbootable yet again.... Sometimes I really wonder what in the heck you are doing.? > I know what I did wrong & can fix it quite easily if I can boot > off the CD-ROM. However, any time I try I get thrown into the > installation process. What's the magical incarnation I'm looking for? > > This is my setup: > > (un)boot drive sd0a (SCSI ID=1... unfortunately I don't have a bootable > backup drive because I "haven't gotten around to it" ... which I will get > around to ASAB (as soon as bootable ;-) > > I've also got > at sd1a (id=2) a SyQuest drive > at sd2a (id=3) CD-ROM > at sd3a (id=4) second HD > > So how do I boot off the CD into single-user mode? > > Supposing I made a bootable SyQuest cart, how could I boot off that (can > it be done without changing the id=2)? > > Thanks for any help... I'm really rather stuck at the moment... Check out NeXT Answers (here is the URL that might help) http://www.next.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1381.htmld/1381.html Title "Booting from CD-ROM" Randy rencsok at channelu dot com or spammers@ruin.the.internet.channelu.com
From: Jason Patrick <jason@4thdim.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting NEXT CD's under Linux Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 15:31:50 -0500 Organization: Obsidian Realm - The Crazy Fellow Message-ID: <33947F36.538F@4thdim.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to mount my OPENSTEP CD's on my Linux box, but I cannot figure out what type of filesystem to mount the CD's with. Can it even be done? I need to do this so I can see the DEVELOPER CD through NFS since I do not have a SCSI CDROM (nor do I intend on buying one if I can keep from it.) Thanks in advance for any help, Jason Patrick
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:05:37 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603124908.2333A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: rencsok@channelu.com In-Reply-To: <9706031949.AA05132@ascended.channelu.com> On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 spammers@i.channelu.com wrote: > In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma wrote: > > > > Hey folks, > > > > Yeah me again.... in my every expanding attempts to not get any > > sleep at all, I have rendered my machine unbootable yet again.... > > Sometimes I really wonder what in the heck you are doing.? Nothing as exotic as you might think... I'm trying to setup my machine to develop both NeXTStep & OpenStep..... there's a script out there that does this for you (it was designed for 4.0 and seems to have some problem with 4.1). anyway, I did this: % mkdirs /private/Developer/3.3 Permission denied # oh yeah, I need to do that as root, don't I.... % asroot mkdirs /private/Developer/3.3 % cd /private/Developer/3.3 % zcat /NeXTSTEP_3.3_DEV/NeXTCD/Packages/*/*.tar.Z | \ /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar xvf - (here I also got 'permission denied' messages % su - root Password: Root@localhost: zcat /NeXTSTEP_3.3_DEV/NeXTCD/Packages/*/*.tar.Z | \ /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar xvf - and it quietly went about installing NeXTStep 3.3 developer..... Anyone else see the problem with the above? That's right.... once I did 'su - root' I ended up at / rather than /private/Developer/3.3, so when the packages off the CD were unpacked, they over-wrote some of the OpenStep ones such as '/usr/lib/dyld' So assuming I can get booted onto CD I can fix the offending files and get back to work... TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: script at shutdown Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xd8q3ux2t.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) Organization: hardly any. . . References: <5n1imp$s8e@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:43:22 GMT >>>>> "CA" == Colin Allen <colin@snaefell.tamu.edu> writes: CA> Is there a default script that can be run at shutdown? /usr/etc/halt is run at shutdown. Rename it to something like /usr/etc/halt.org. Name your script /usr/etc/halt and in the last line call /usr/etc/halt.org (you should conserve the original arguments to 'halt' and pass them on to 'halt.org'). Markus "n.s" Gloede
From: cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Oops! [Was Re: Sendmail config problem] Date: 4 Jun 1997 01:36:43 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5n2grb$bov$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <5mipev$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$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5moeb6$c12$1@maryj.bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5moeb6$c12$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Just a note of public thanks to Yi Liu and Francois Magnan for their patient help and toleration of giant e-mail messages in regard to this problem. You guys are great! --Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 21:12:02 -0600 From: Tracla@aol.com Subject: NeXT People Question Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Message-ID: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service To: Tracla@aol.com Hello - my name is Tracey.. I am working with AT&T in HR as a partner. We are looking for NeXT System Administrators.. But my question is, since this is a new software product for me is: Do people outside of NeXT software have these skills? Are there any dedicated websites where we can post job opportunities What are the salaries of people with this skill set? Thank you for any assistance you can provide Tracey Claybrooke 813-685-6004 Tampa, Florida -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: solved -- Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:57:05 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195316.25226F-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Thanks to all who pointed me to NS # 1381, that did it.... TjL
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: builddisk failed 'file system full' but it isn't... Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 20:06:11 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195730.25226G-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> I tried to make a backup of 4.1 using BuildDisk on my EZ-135 It claims to only need 98megs... Jun 3 22:30:13 peace mach: /Disk/tmp/BD222284: optimization changed from SPACE to TIME Jun 3 22:55:32 peace mach: /Disk/tmp/BD222284: file system full It fails at 98%..... neither /Disk nor the EZ-135 is full % df -i /Disk Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on /dev/sd3a 241664 168 241496 0% /Disk % df -i /dev/sd1a Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree %IUsed Mounted on /dev/sd1a 508800 69096 439704 14% What gives? 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html e70000 652eac54 Jun 3 22:15:39 charisma last message repeated 2 times However it does work.... is there anything 'bad' about these errors? They do not seem to persist mount -t nfs intel:/usr/local /usr/local seems to work just fine if I do not put the /usr/local/stuff into NetInfo the Intel is setup to export /usr/local/..... Any help appreciated.... 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: builddisk failed 'file system full' but it isn't... Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:51:22 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603205303.6306A-100000@kira> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195730.25226G-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603195730.25226G-100000@kira> Actually I made a mistake it was full.... df /Backups Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd1a 125645 125645 -6283 105% /Backups but it claims it only takes 98 megs and I have 116 on the disk!?!?! What's going on? TjL
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From: mcgredo@crl.crl.com (Donald R. McGregor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 4 Jun 1997 08:37:43 -0700 Organization: Miskatonic University Department of Classics Message-ID: <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> In article <865389689.23631@dejanews.com>, <Tracla@aol.com> wrote: >Hello - my name is Tracey.. I am working with AT&T in HR as a partner. >We are looking for NeXT System Administrators.. > >But my question is, since this is a new software product for >me is: > >Do people outside of NeXT software have these skills? Since NeXT is BSD Unix under the skin, anyone with a Unix background should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. There's some flashy NeXT sysadmin tools that make life easier, but anyone who's competent should be able to pick that up quickly enough. Rhapsody might have enough flashy sysadmin tools for a non- unix type to get by, but that remains to be seen. >What are the salaries of people with this skill set? Uh, $500,000/yr. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) -- Don McGregor | I did it for the children. mcgredo@crl.com |
From: heywood@american.edu (John Quentin Heywood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Modem problems Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 01:45:24 GMT Organization: American University, Washington DC Message-ID: <33961818.2205671@news.american.edu> I am running NS 3.3pl1 on an Intel P5 box with a Hayes Optima internal 28.8 modem, and I am having some problems I hope someone can help me with. First, I have set up PPP2.2, and on booting the machine I get a message to the effect that all is well and PPP is up and running. But when I dial in to this machine, the modem does not answer. I have set /etc/ttys to allow dialup on serial port A (COM1). I can dial out on /dev/cua and /dev.cuaf. The problem is not in the modem, because ppp works fine in WinNT on the same box. I am muy confused. Any help would be appreciated. Second, I cannot get this modem to operate as a fax modem on NS. I am using the HSD modem choice. Is that correct? If this is a specific modem config file, can I get one for my modem? If so, where? Again, any help will be appreciated. Thanks, John Heywood John Quentin Heywood * heywood@american.edu * Room 115 * "On the Internet, Washington College of Law * nobody knows American University * you're a dog" 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW * Washington, DC 20016-8082 * vox: 202.274.4329 * fax: 202.274.4365 *
From: John Zachary <zachary@bit.csc.lsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Installing OS 4.2 along side NT 4.0 Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 15:55:57 -0500 Organization: LSU Robotics Research Laboratory Message-ID: <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This may be a FAQ, but I haven't found the answer. I have a disk with NT 4.0 (no service packs). I want to install OS 4.2 on the same disk without having to reinstall NT. What are the hoops that one must jump through to install OS 4.2 on a disk on which NT 4.0 is already installed. Thanks. -- John Zachary LSU Robotics Research Laboratory
From: Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 4 Jun 1997 21:51:13 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> Hello, I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it and where I see it (I suppose in France, but it's certainly an world-wide product). I see the document in /pub/next/documents/misc concerning the Fortress UPS but there's I think another one... If someone use or know a product supporting alert and auto-shutdown for PC running OpenStep/NextStep system, please contact me by email. Thank you for your help. Gael FOULON gfoulon@imaginet.fr
From: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 19:27:10 -0400 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> In article <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr>, Gael Foulon <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad > that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it > and where I see it (I suppose in France, but it's certainly > an world-wide product). > > I see the document in /pub/next/documents/misc concerning > the Fortress UPS but there's I think another one... > > If someone use or know a product supporting alert and > auto-shutdown for PC running OpenStep/NextStep system, > please contact me by email. > > Thank you for your help. > > Gael FOULON > gfoulon@imaginet.fr Check Tim Luoma's page. I know he has something about some NeXT capable UPS on there, but I don't remember the name or if it works on Black or white hardware. www.peak.org/~luomat Mitch
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: *emergency* Booting into OS4.1 from CD-ROM/other drive Date: 4 Jun 1997 07:37:55 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5n360j$bdq$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603053917.5122A-100000@kira> > I've also got > at sd1a (id=2) a SyQuest drive > at sd2a (id=3) CD-ROM > at sd3a (id=4) second HD > > So how do I boot off the CD into single-user mode? > Enter sd(2)mach_kernel rootdev=sd2a -s at the boot prompt. The problem is that in most configurations your first hard drive will be mounted in read-only mode, which is not very helpful when you want to do some repair on it. You have to remount it in r/w mode using the mount -n option. In some cases this might not work. Try to boot from the installation floppy then, entering "-s" at the floppy boot prompt. (Don't panic, it will really boot into single user mode, even if it displays that your partition will be erased and re-installed.) After that, mounting the hard disk in r/w mode will work in every case. Marcel --- Marcel Bresink, University of Koblenz, Institute for Computer Science Rheinau 1, D-56075 Koblenz, Germany, Fon: +49-261-9119-421 Fax: ...-497 MIME/NeXT Mail accepted --- WWW: http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~bresink
From: mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu (m.b.komor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird Failure at Boot -- Need help! Date: 4 Jun 1997 22:52:17 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5n4rj1$ib9@agate.berkeley.edu> Please Cc: all replies to <jrudd@cygnus.com>. This morning my mon NeXTslab came up just fine, let me PPP in just fine, using Gatekeeper, and then experienced a kernel panic (about its 6th, since I've had it --about 4 months) and produced the following on reboot: Booting from SCSI target 4 lun 0 trap 5 at pc 0x4380b06, sr 0x2700 d0: 0x2000 a0: 0x4387544 d1: 0x2 a1: 0x87ffb72 d2: 0x0 a2: 0x43972c0 d3: 0x200f a3: 0x438a03c d4: 0x2 a4: 0x43972c0 d5: 0x0 a5: 0x87ff62e d6: 0x8 a6: 0x43bbf84 d7: 0x0 a7: 0x43bbf64 And there it dies. Reseating the harddrive scsi cable (at both ends), the ROM, the memory cards, *nothing* has changed this bootup failure (same message, every time). I'm not a NeXT (or any other kind of hardware) geek. John Carmack donated this machine to me four months ago because he didn't want to see it go to waste-- it's the machine he wrote the original DOOM code on, so I'd really hate for it to die like this ('sides, there's a bunch of things on it that I *need* --it's also the only machine I have that's capable of running PPP and a graphical browser at the same time ;) ). Can anybody help me get this fixed? *ThanQ!* Best, _*____* _////___ Meriday Beth & Velcro ~<:========--- & Majyk! >'=========^--- ~*~~~~* ~/~\~~>~> ---- -& little Zaphod! | | | | click here for in-lined image. ---- mbkomor@remarque.berkeley.edu | @goonsquad.spies.com & gneet@toys.fubarsys.com indigo@samsara.circus.com & umm@deeptht.armory.com & natter@nando.yak.net ambasadr@kosh.punk.net & little@reddragon.empire.net & hi@callamerica.net
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] Floppy Search on Boot Time Date: 5 Jun 1997 02:40:39 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5n58v7$i32$1@news.nuri.net> I'm using OPENSTEP 4.1 on my ThinkPad 560, which has attachable floppy drive. Usually, I boot the system without the floppy drive but my OPENSTEP always try three(3) times to find out the floppy drive. Each trial takes about a minute and it's little bit boring. Does anybody know how to adjust the boot time floppy drive seeking options? I want to reduce the number of trials to one or to reduce the time taken by each trial if possible. Thanx! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:jin@nuri.net Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineer phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
From: Mitchell Allen <alcmaeon@one.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Server Question Date: 5 Jun 1997 02:50:45 GMT Organization: OneNet Communications HUB News Server Message-ID: <5n59i5$1ii@news.one.net> this may seem like a stupid question, but once a machine si set up as a NetInfro server, can it be turned off and back on and resume the service? I set up my cube as a netinfo server and then turned it off. When I turned it back on it started looking for a host itself. Mitch
From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CD-Writer and DVD-Drive under OpenStep Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:59:57 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5n69nt$8pf@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, Does anyone know how to use a CD-Writer (Philips or HP) under OpenStep as a normal CDROM-Drive? And how to use DVD-Drive (Toshiba) under OpenStep? Thanks a lot, Khanh,
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: UPS with native support for NextStep ? Date: 5 Jun 1997 14:17:02 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5n6hou$4ul$2@inet-prime.comshare.com> References: <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr> <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> Cc: mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net In <mitchell.allen-0406971927100001@190.cincinnati-001.oh.dial-access.att.net> mitchell.allen@worldnet.att.net wrote: > In article <5n4o0h$kqv@belzebul.imaginet.fr>, Gael Foulon > <gfoulon@imaginet.fr> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm searching for an UPS product that mention on their ad > > that they support NextStep. I can't remember when I see it <munch> go to www.benatong.com -Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
Message-ID: <33946259.270E8632@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 12:28:42 -0600 From: "R.P." <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: System Parameters for UNIX Compile Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have 2 HP-UX servers (dual processors) using the 10.20 OS. What parameters would I need to examine setting for say 10 users wanting to compile C++ code? I want to be sure that the system is not brought to the floor because of memory being used up for the compiles. I am using the C++ compiler for HP 10.20.01.
From: thompson@filoli.com (Peter Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CD-Writer and DVD-Drive under OpenStep Date: 5 Jun 1997 16:24:26 GMT Organization: Relax, don't worry! Have a homebrew! Message-ID: <5n6p7q$n0i$1@news.filoli.com> References: <5n69nt$8pf@news.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <5n69nt$8pf@news.tuwien.ac.at> On 06/04/97, Khanh P. Nguyen wrote: >Hi all, >Does anyone know how to use a CD-Writer (Philips or HP) under OpenStep >as a normal CDROM-Drive? And how to use DVD-Drive (Toshiba) under >OpenStep? >Thanks a lot, >Khanh, > For the CDWriter usage, you can use free software such as mkisofs and cdwrite, or you can use commercial software such as CDDesigner. For personal use, it is difficult to go wrong with CDDesigner (US$99). CDDesigner is a product of Ziegeler & Gehle Infosystems, their web page is: http://www.ip-service.com/gehle. As far as using the DVD, I haven't heard anything yet. If you hear of anything worthwhile, could you please post it? Thanks. Peter Thompson -- ************************************************************************** Peter Thompson ---- thompson@filoli.com ---- Filoli Information Systems. **************************************************************************
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 21:43:15 -0700 From: quinonez@ucla.edu (Gerardo Quinonez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NSFIP3.3, DozeNT4.0 on 4.5 GBW Scsi drive help Message-ID: <quinonez-0406972143150001@slip129-37-97-202.tx.us.ibm.net> Organization: UCLA Hello. This has probably been asked before but next answers did not help at this point. \ I just purchased a 4.5 GB Quantum wide scsi 34550W 7500rpm drive. I want to intstall as much(2GB) of this with NSFIP3.3 and the rest for NT. NS wont partition the drive for me. When tried with NT it did, but I couldnt install NS in it. Ive heard of disktabs, etc, but far too complicated for me. Is there an easier way of doing this? When I partition the drive with 2bg, 2 gb, 500gb and try to install next it tells me that "initialization program cant initialize disk". Can anyone help? Thanks Gerardo Quinonez
From: arpad@tezcat.com (Arpad Geller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: compiling SSLeay on NeXT 3.3 Date: 5 Jun 1997 15:02:03 GMT Organization: Pink Flamingos Message-ID: <5n6kdb$2h1@news.dialisdn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII I'm following the compile instructions for SSLeay and they claim that it will compile on NeXT. However, not being the *most* proficient compiler in the world, I'm having problems that I'm not sure how to solve. Basically, my make exits as follows: ld: Undefined symbols: _RSAPrivateDecrypt _RSAPrivateEncrypt _RSAPublicDecrypt _RSAPublicEncrypt _R_GetRandomBytesNeeded _R_RandomFinal _R_RandomInit _R_RandomUpdate *** Exit 1 Stop. *** Exit 1 Stop. There's a header file: rsaref.h that seems to define the above. Does anyone have a clue for me? Please. Thanks. David Geller arpad@hotspice.com
From: rbumpus@comp.uark.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printer Question Date: 5 Jun 1997 19:27:39 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Message-ID: <5n73vb$f14@picayune.uark.edu> I have a Turbo Station running OpenStep 4.1 and I'm trying to connect it to a printer. Does anyone know where I could find AppleTalk for OS 4.1? The machine originally came with 3.3 and AppleTalk was listed in preferences. With OpenStep, I haven't found anything related to AppleTalk. Does anyone know where I might look? Bob Bumpus rbumpus@comp.uark.edu
From: rbumpus@comp.uark.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with Mail Date: 5 Jun 1997 19:32:12 GMT Organization: The University of Arkansas Message-ID: <5n747s$f1b@picayune.uark.edu> I have a Turbo Station running OS 4.1 and I've been having problems with Mail. I can send mail out without a hassle and I can send mail from one user to another, also without problems. However, incoming mail does not arrive. When I send a message from my other account, I get a message from NeXT Mail Agent saying that there is a configuration error and the machine reports that "mail loops back to" itself. I have it setup with sendmail.cf linked to sendmail.mailhost.cf and I followed the advice in the docs and setup the machine as mailhost. I'm stumped as to what I should try. Is there something obvious that I'm overlooking? Bob Bumpus rbumpus@comp.uark.edu
From: asdlfj@soeiur.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mailloop v3.0 Released! Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:13:17 GMT Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Message-ID: <5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Mailloop v3.0 is an industrial strength bulk mailer. Mailloop v3.0 is a bulk mailing program for the internet. It can take a single message and broadcast it to either a listing of e-mail addresses or to a listing of newsgroups. Creates custom newsgroup lists by filtering NNTP servers. Creates custom e-mail lists by extracting them from newsgroups. Can also extract e-mail addresses or newsgroup names from other protocols. Built-in NNTP, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, EXEC, CGI, WHOIS and FINGER clients. Anti-cancelbot feature. Automatically processes remove requests. Includes extensive on-line help. The most powerful bulk mailer available. Requires Windows 95 or NT 3.51+ and internet access. The "Program" Mailloop is only available in English. For more info goto: http://205.199.4.219 http://205.199.4.219 Using it is easy: 1) Create a message ( http://205.199.4.219/editor.htm ) ...by using the pull down menus or ...by using any editor 2) Create a newsgroups list ( http://205.199.4.219/news3.htm ) ...by filtering an NNTP server or ...by importing from any text file or ...by manually creating with any editor or ...by extracting from any FTP file or ...by extracting from any HTTP file 3) Create an e-mail list ( http://205.199.4.219/em3.htm ) ...by extracting from newsgroups or ...by importing from any text file or ...by manually creating with any editor or ...by extracting from a WHOIS response or ...by extracting from a fingering response or ...by extracting from a UNIX response or ...by extracting from any FTP file or ...by extracting from any HTTP file or 4) Broadcast the message ...to the e-mail list or ( http://205.199.4.219/embc.htm ) ...to the newsgroup list ( http://205.199.4.219/ngbc.htm ) 5) Then process the remove requests ...by using the mailbox processor ( http://205.199.4.219/pop.htm ) 6) If you want you can use the Newsletter Sever ...The Newsletter Sever will allow you to have an topic-specific newsletter that other can subscribe and unsubscribe to. ...Customizing this server response files ( http://205.199.4.219/response.htm ) ...Creating a new newsletter ( http://205.199.4.219/create.htm ) ...Creating and Updating a newsletter the actual newsletter ( http://205.199.4.219/update.htm ) For more info visit http://205.199.4.219 http://205.199.4.219
From: jth9904@chenext1.tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Synchronous SCSI Transfers Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:09:47 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5n76eb$dgv@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:09:47 GMT It has always been my impression that although the hardware in the black nexts could support sychronous transfers, that this ability was never included in the software. I thought this was the main reason for harddrives performing slower in NeXTstep than say WINNT. I was thinking of installing NS on an Intel machine and I have the NCR SCSI with the SYMBIOSLOGIC controller shown below. Is it possible for me to dramatically increase the performance of my harddrive by turning on synchronous transfers in the Configure panel? It seems that the driver supports this. Thanks, Jeromy Driver: SymbiosLogic53C8xxSCSIDriver Driver Overview: _NeXTanswer #2415_ Last Update: July 12, 1996 Special Features of Driver / Driver Notes: Cmd queuing is disabled. Synchronous and wide data transfers are selectable through the Configure panel. Support for multiple adapters. --
Message-ID: <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 16:51:34 +0000 From: doc@zipatoni.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: please help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Primary Network. http://www.primary.net I just bought a used 25mhz/040 cube sight unseen and it will not boot. It says it has NeXTstep 3.0. It runs through the self diagnostics at the beginning but stops on the line: localhost reboot: Reboot complete It hangs at this point and never launches the GUI. Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone has to offer.
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Date: 5 Jun 1997 20:58:01 GMT Control: cancel <5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5n76kt$v@newsfep3.sprintmail.com> Sender: asdlfj@soeiur.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: Kent Davis <kent.davis@bowne.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 00:39:44 -0400 Organization: Bowne Information Services Message-ID: <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 and when I shut down the screen goes blank and hangs. I had to use the reset. HELP! Kent
From: stephlise@telco.com (Steph&Lise.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <998b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Control: cancel <998b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Message-ID: <despam.998b11fb.7057862@hiroken.hiroken.or.jp> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 01:00:00 -700 Cancel Spam.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer From: edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Message-ID: <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> Sender: edew@netcom2.netcom.com Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 02:22:37 GMT In article <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> mcgredo@nospam.crl.com writes: >In article <865389689.23631@dejanews.com>, <Tracla@aol.com> wrote: >>Hello - my name is Tracey.. I am working with AT&T in HR as a partner. >>We are looking for NeXT System Administrators.. >> >>But my question is, since this is a new software product for >>me is: >> >>Do people outside of NeXT software have these skills? > >Since NeXT is BSD Unix under the skin, anyone with a Unix >background should be able to pick it up fairly quickly. There's >some flashy NeXT sysadmin tools that make life easier, but >anyone who's competent should be able to pick that up quickly >enough. > And NeXTs are easier to administer than PCs (running NT, for example) or Macs or Solarises or HP-UXes. You can get two NeXT sys admins to manage up to 200 machines with little problems. >Rhapsody might have enough flashy sysadmin tools for a non- >unix type to get by, but that remains to be seen. > >>What are the salaries of people with this skill set? > >Uh, $500,000/yr. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) > It depends on the region. In the Silicon Valley, $500K is a little on the low side :-) EDEW
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting up Apple Laserwriter w/ NS 3.3 on Moto HW? Date: 6 Jun 1997 03:09:38 GMT Message-ID: <19970606030900.XAA20666@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Hi Just wondering -- how complicated to setup an Apple Laserwriter NT under NS 3.3 on a Nextstation ? any special wiring considerations ? thanks in advance for any and all insight and info :-) Bob K.
From: com@com.com (com@com.com) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 05:15:26 GMT Organization: com@com.com Message-ID: <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 02:22:37 GMT, edew@netcom.com (Eric Dew) wrote: >>>What are the salaries of people with this skill set? >> >>Uh, $500,000/yr. Yeah, that's the ticket. :-) >> >It depends on the region. In the Silicon Valley, $500K is a little on the >low side :-) Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company").
From: don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 6 Jun 1997 06:01:18 GMT Organization: Global Objects Inc. Message-ID: <5n893e$obh$3@news.xmission.com> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> com@com.com (com@com.com) wrote: > Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep > programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers > I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their > home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company"). Well, to inject some tiny hint of reality into this, the consultants charge what they can get, and that will vary greatly from one project to the next for most of them. If they are popular and well known, like Omni, they can get $250/hour on some contracts. If they don't have those sorts of credentials, they may be as cheap as, say a student who scrapes out code by night and goes for $15/hour. And there's a whole spectrum in between. So you could say that the NeXT developers are making something between $30k to $500k per year...though I _strongly_ suspect that most are nearer to the 60-100k range (depending upon skill) than either extreme. This is somewhat conjecture, somewhat based on what I know of others in the same field, but should be pretty close to the truth. I won't tell you what I make or charge, though, in any terms more precise than the above. :-) -- Later, -Don Yacktman don@misckit.com <a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a>
From: jeff@tiag.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NEXTSTEP laptop at two network locations Date: 6 Jun 1997 15:07:40 GMT Organization: Told in a Garden Message-ID: <5n993s$r78@noc1.gwi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm setting up a laptop running NEXTSTEP and connecting to two different small NEXTSTEP networks. My passwd, group, hosts, etc files are all compatible on each network so I don't really have to have separate copies of each when I connect the laptop to each of the networks (for now), however.... The one feature I would like is: to use two different sets of imported mount directories when connected to each of the different networks without having to wait for timeouts if I were to niavely just add all the entries from each network and have some mounts always timeout for me depending upon which network I am currently connecting to.... Does anyone know if using some advanced features of netinfo or setting up the networks in certain ways will make this really straght forward? My initial idea, which may be too kludgey, is to add all the import mount entries into the netinfo database of the laptop as "noauto" and in my rc.local script do some sort of check like the following pseudo code: if (can see network#1 machine) mount machine#1:/importdir1 /atdir1 mount machine#1:/importdir2 /atdir2 else if (can see network#2 machine) mount machine#2:/otherimportdir1 /atdir1 .... Has anyone already done this an easier way? Does anyone know if there are major pitfalls with this type of method... Thanks for any info, Jeff -- Jeff Adams jeff@tiag.com Told in a Garden http://www.tiag.com
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Initializing EIDE partitions. Date: 06 Jun 1997 10:51:28 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <vee910nrdhr.fsf@shell.one.net> I'm in a quandry. I recently added a 3.1 EIDE drive to my Intel PC running NeXTSTEP. For various reasons, I have the NeXTSTEP FDISK-level partition of the drive partitioned into 2 BSD-level slices, so that I can kickstart from the EIDE drive to a SCSI drive if needed. [So the NeXTSTEP FFS partition is ~8M and contains the kernel and some drivers, the OpenStep FFS partition is ~1Gig and contains everything it needs and more. The SCSI disk has the reverse pattern, with OpenStep on a kickstart to the EIDE and NeXTSTEP with the large partition.] Anyhow, I've now realized that I did the FFS partition backwards. hd0a is the 8M partition, and hd0b is the 1G partition. No big deal _except_ that the system insists on automounting that 8M partition, rather than the 1G partition (Workspace automounts the ?d?a partition, not the ?d?b ...). So, I took a dump of the partitions, intending to reverse things, but now I found that "disk -i /dev/rhd0a" causes a system panic. It first displays enough to indicate that it _is_ getting the disk name and partition size right. Then it says something about "hdform doesn't exist yet..." And I've been unable to figure out how it was that I originally accomplished the trick - though I do remember I had a number of system panics before hitting on the right command. I suspect that I'm telling it the wrong device, but I just can't remember. /dev/rhd0h doesn't seem right for some reason. Thanks for any help, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:31:19 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 6-Jun-97 Re: NeXT People Question by com@com.com@com.com > Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep > programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers > I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their > home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company"). It depends on whether you choose to be a salaried employee or whether you want to play the consulting game. Consultants can make anywhere up to $250 an hour, but somewhere in the region of $125-$150 is going to be a lot more typical. Of course, a consultant has to find new work on a regular basis, and they can end up not working for a while if the market slows down. The low-end for salaried employees is about $30,000 - $35,000, and really good NEXTSTEP programmers can see over $100K, with $50K being a reasonable guestimate for the average salary for an experienced programmer. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: remote printer not working Date: 6 Jun 1997 15:47:15 GMT Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> hi, i'm having trouble getting a remote printer connected to a unix machine working. printing with lpr from the command line is no problem, neither is printing the test page from the print manager. when printing anything from print panel nothing seems to happen - a detailed inspection showed that a correctly formatted print request is sent over the network - with nothing to print, i.e. all the packets except from the first (job request) were empty. no error messages show up. this is the contents of my printcap database: courier:lp=:rm=nice:rp=courier:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/lw-2G:ty=PostScript: helvetica:lp=:rm=nice:rp=helvetica:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/djet-vm:ty=PostScript Color: avantgarde:lp=:rm=nice:rp=avantgarde:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/avantgarde:ty=PostScri pt: -- Dr. Lars Konieczny Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft Computerlinguistik tel. +49 681 302 4681 Universitaet des Saarlandes fax. +49 681 302 4700 Gebaeude 17.3, Raum 3.04 e-mail lkon@coli.uni-sb.de
From: glipof@pervasive-sw.com (Guy R. Lipof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing OS 4.2 along side NT 4.0 Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:05:52 -0500 Organization: Pervasive Software Message-ID: <glipof-0606971205530001@supermac.pervasive-sw.com> References: <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu> i have done the below with nt server 4.0 and openstep 4.2. in order to be able to boot to either os using the openstep boot option screen, i had to do the following: - let's assume that my internal hd is a 2gb drive - i began the nt installation partitioning half the hard drive as ntfs and installed the software on the ntfs partition. - after rebooting and finishing the nt configuration, i began the openstep installation - in the openstep installation it prompts you to chose whether to install it on the entire 2gb partition(thus waxing your nt side) or chosing a separate partition/configuring other partions(go into this section). - openstep should recognize that a separate partition exists; however, it does not recognize the formating - select the free 1gb partition and install openstep on it - once you are done with the installation and openstep reboots, it will prompt you to boot into openstep or dos, if you choose dos then it will boot nt. this basically sets the openstep as the active partition. if you did openstep and then nt, then nt would have switched it to be the active partition and you would not be able to boot directly into openstep. guy r. lipof webmaster@pervasive-sw.com glipof@pervasive-sw.com http://www.pervasive-sw.com In article <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu>, zachary@premier.net wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but I haven't found the answer. > > I have a disk with NT 4.0 (no service packs). I want to > install OS 4.2 on the same disk without having to reinstall > NT. What are the hoops that one must jump through to install > OS 4.2 on a disk on which NT 4.0 is already installed. > > Thanks. > > -- > John Zachary > LSU Robotics Research Laboratory
From: glipof@pervasive-sw.com (Guy R. Lipof) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: wu-ftpd for openstep Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 12:45:57 -0500 Organization: Pervasive Software Message-ID: <glipof-0606971245570001@supermac.pervasive-sw.com> i am trying to setup washington university's ftpd on openstep. i have downloaded the 2.4 version, and have tried to build it choosing the nextstep 3.3 setting(nx3) but it fails. i do not see a choice for openstep as one of the config files only the following os's: aix, bsd, dgx, dyn, gen, hpx, isc, lnx. nx2, nx3, osf, ptx, sco, sgi, sny, sol, s41, ult if anyone has had any success with compiling it on openstep that would be great. i need to setup a site with user login that only have access to the chroot(~ftp). i am running openstep 4.1 on white hardware. guy r. lipof -- webmaster@pervasive-sw.com glipof@pervasive-sw.com ------- http://www.pervasive-sw.com
From: mhovan@BLaCKSMITH.com (Michael A. Hovan III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 100Mbit Ethernet + NeXT ??? Date: 6 Jun 97 11:34:05 Organization: BLaCKSMITH, Inc. Message-ID: <MHOVAN.97Jun6113405@faulkner.BLaCKSMITH.com> References: <5n95fl$7c7@fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE's message of 6 Jun 1997 14:05:41 GMT > Has anyone a working 100Mbit network with Intel Next machines ? You bet, I have two 100Mbit subnets with around 30 machines on each. > We have tried a small network of two (Pentium+ PPro) machines > with SMC EtherPower 10/100 B 9332BDT autosensing cards SMC, Yuck. We use mostly Cogent EM110's and some Intel EtherExpress Pro's. > and we got 1MB/s transfer rate only. What was wrong ? Most likely the way you were testing them. You were probably using FTP which by nature is nice to routers so it doesn't eek out very much performance. I don't believe that it uses sliding windows, so the process waits for an ACK before sending the next packet. NFS will give you a better idea of performance, but under NS NFS is notoriously outdated. I did a test of our net earlier this year using the network performance (netperf) tools and did about 80Mb/s under NS on two PPro 180's. Same machines saw about 35Mb/s using NFS. I just did a quick test on my P-133 NS box talking to a PPro-180 FreeBSD box over NFS and the output looked like: faulkner:~ 8 %time dd if=bigfile of=/dev/null bs=1024k count=50 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 0.0u 4.9s 0:16 29% 0+0k 6428+0io 0pf+0w which times out to about (1024*1024*50/16*8) = 26.2Mb/s on a network the has some load. This about pegged my cpu load, so it would likely be faster if I had a PPro on my desk. IO on PPro's is about double what we see on Pentiums. Mike Hovan Mike_Hovan@BLaCKSMITH.com
From: dennis keane <dkeane@itsa.ucsf.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mounting Next NFS on Solaris Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 11:59:49 -0700 Organization: University of California, San Francisco Message-ID: <33985E23.1DE0@itsa.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I can't make a Solaris system see the files on a mounted Next directory on the network. The mount seems to work according to a 'df', the directory is there according to an 'ls', but the files inside aren't. Also the Next network comes crashing down when the Sun goes looking for the files. The directory is exported on the Next network, the host is listed in the Sun's host file, and the mount command seems to work. Maybe the Sun just can't understand the file system on the next - true? Thanks. Karen Vranizan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) Subject: sendmail question: Correct entry for FROM field Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator) Message-ID: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 16:27:11 GMT Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility Hello Everyone, I am currently running PopOver (a POP3 client) on NS3.0 The mail delivery is done directly to my SMTP mail host. I have the following problem: The 'From' field only has the entry <thas> instead of <thas@ibme.utoronto.ca>. This causes SOME mail servers to deny mail delivery. Note that there is a valid 'ReplyTo' field, but probably not all mail servers look at that field!? Could someone kindly tell me how/where I can modify the 'From' field in sendmail.cf (sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf)? Additional note: The 'ReplyTo' field is set using the PopOver program. It does not have provisions for setting the 'From' field. Thank you. -Thas
From: rvose@ix.netcom.com (R. Vose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Defaults Database Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 01:56:57 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I'm have a problem with the defaults database on my slab -- namely, I cannot alter it. If I attempt to change a default in an application or if I attempt to issue a "dwrite" command (from Terminal.app) to modify a default, I get the error: "Cannot write to database" Not too long ago I had a NetInfo problem with this machine. I was attempting to network my slabs together and got completely messed up and had to back it all out. I'm now running the machine standalone. The main point is that I had to recreate the user account with which I'm having the problem. I'm guessing that when I issue the "drwrite" the system is trying to access the original defaults database for this account, but since the UID changed when I recreated it, the system can't write to the database. I'm running NEXTSTEP 3.3 on a turbo slab. Any help would be appreciated! -- Randy V. rvose@ix.netcom.com Denver, CO
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: thf@iname.com (Thomas F. Unke) Subject: Re: Bring up console from command line Message-ID: <1997Jun4.190146.538@gamelan.shnet.org> Sender: thomas@gamelan.shnet.org (thomas) Cc: emclean@slip.net Organization: Disorganization References: <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 19:01:46 GMT In <5mssni$a9n@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to bring up the console from a term > command line? > > Thanks, > > Emmett tail -f /tmp/console.log
From: com@com.com (com@com.com) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 05:30:21 GMT Organization: com@com.com Message-ID: <3398eef1.3101355@news.voyageronline.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <5n893e$obh$3@news.xmission.com> On 6 Jun 1997 06:01:18 GMT, don@globalobjects.com (Don Yacktman) wrote: >com@com.com (com@com.com) wrote: >> Eric, I would be curious (and other lurkers) to know what a NextStep >> programmer makes? In particular, those many & several programmers >> I see that post here. The ones that do work "off location" (i.e. their >> home or office) (vs. i.e. working for a traditional "company"). > >Well, to inject some tiny hint of reality into this, the would the above, working off 'location', be in line with reality, in your opinion? >consultants charge what they can get, and that will vary >greatly from one project to the next for most of them. If >they are popular and well known, like Omni, they can get >$250/hour on some contracts. If they don't have those sorts I guess I was talking about what the individual takes home. I seem to remember reading somewhere. .that the "company" will bill (i.e.) $200./hour the programmer will get about 1/2 this. . which is still about 50% above what someone on salary gets (with the trade off, being. . salary=job protection, more benefits, more stable life, etc.) >of credentials, they may be as cheap as, say a student who >scrapes out code by night and goes for $15/hour. And there's I would be curious to know if such animals do exist? (in NextStep that is). >a whole spectrum in between. So you could say that the NeXT >developers are making something between $30k to $500k per >year...though I _strongly_ suspect that most are nearer to the >60-100k range (depending upon skill) Skill. . . . and location. . . a person making a $100k/year in the People's Republic of California. . or the Worker's Paradise of New York City, would probably not be living as well as someone that has left those type locales. .and relocated to the backwoods of wherever. Hence the question about working "off location". Even the most remote parts of the nation are connected now. >This is somewhat conjecture, somewhat based on what I know of >others in the same field, but should be pretty close to the truth. >I won't tell you what I make or charge, though, in any terms more >precise than the above. :-) And I wouldn't want you too! I'm looking more for "general" terms. I guess you have the 'low' and the 'high'---and most people probably fall into that bell curve in the middle. On the other hand, how many people that use NextStep are mediocre enough to be described as average? hmmm... Thanks for the input. > >-- >Later, > >-Don Yacktman >don@misckit.com ><a href="http://www.misckit.com/don.html">My home page</a> >
From: com@com.com (com@com.com) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 05:31:22 GMT Organization: com@com.com Message-ID: <3398ef04.3120517@news.voyageronline.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> <5n9qga$cnu$4@news2.digex.net> On 6 Jun 1997 20:04:26 GMT, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> wrote: >I think it being a highly demanded, but short supplied market has >a lot to do with the higher rates.... All that will change in the >upcoming years (so live it up while you can :). This is a most interesting statement! Would you care to guess as to the figures? I know that NextStep was never a "wild" success in terms of lots of people using it, but WAS a success in terms of programmers making money. Are you talking 20% off the figures above? ---or something more drastic, like "80%"? Also, can you give a time frame? (lets assume Rhapsody ships on time etc.). When would the above figure(s) start to influence the market?
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 05:42:29 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5nasc5$fva$1@news2.digex.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> <5n9qga$cnu$4@news2.digex.net> <3398ef04.3120517@news.voyageronline.net> com@com.com (com@com.com) wrote: > On 6 Jun 1997 20:04:26 GMT, John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> > wrote: > This is a most interesting statement! Would you care to guess > as to the figures? I know that NextStep was never a "wild" success > in terms of lots of people using it, but WAS a success in terms > of programmers making money. Are you talking 20% off the figures > above? ---or something more drastic, like "80%"? > Also, can you give a time frame? (lets assume Rhapsody ships on > time etc.). When would the above figure(s) start to influence > the market? Well, my best guestimate would be for those figures to asymtotically approach the industry average...The rate of change would depend upon how quickly and in what numbers people will go to the environment. I image w/in 3 years that OPENSTEP salaries get inline with the rest of the industry... Then again, it's pretty much speculation on my part :) -- Thanks, be well, take care, later, John Kheit; Self expressed... __________________________________________________________________ monoChrome, Inc. ASCII, MIME, PGP, SUN, & NeXTmail OK NeXT/OPENSTEP Developer mailto:jkheit@cnj.digex.net Telepathy, It's coming... http://www.cnj.digex.net/~jkheit New York Law School You're dangerous because you're honest
From: michael@rumah.pc.my (Michael Olan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: auto power on Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:05:22 GMT Organization: Personal Message-ID: <5n66hi$q9@rumah.pc.my> I have a slab that I selected the Preference for Auto on after power failure. It works OK if I pull the plug and reconnect soon after, but the doesn't seem to stick very long. A day or so later, and it won't auto start. I just put in a fresh battery, but no luck. Also, I keep turning off the preference for it to start up at a preset date & time, but it keeps showing up checked again. TIA for any info Mike
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 Date: 6 Jun 1997 11:56:58 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5n8tua$h7l$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Cc: kent.davis@bowne.com In <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Kent Davis wrote: > I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 and when I shut down the screen > goes blank and hangs. I had to use the reset. > Enter the line: "Shutdown Graphics" = "No"; in your /NextLibrary/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table (just after the "Boot Graphics" = "No"; line) ...and everything should be fine. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 100Mbit Ethernet + NeXT ??? Date: 6 Jun 1997 14:05:41 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <5n95fl$7c7@fu-berlin.de> Hi! Has anyone a working 100Mbit network with Intel Next machines ? We have tried a small network of two (Pentium+ PPro) machines with SMC EtherPower 10/100 B 9332BDT autosensing cards and we got 1MB/s transfer rate only. What was wrong ? (Both LED showed 100Mbit enabled, NS3.3 was booting up with IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet") Any help welcome, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 6 Jun 1997 20:04:26 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5n9qga$cnu$4@news2.digex.net> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> <Mna2p7O00UhBA1mvM2@andrew.cmu.edu> Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > It depends on whether you choose to be a salaried employee or > whether you want to play the consulting game. Consultants can > make anywhere up to $250 an hour, but somewhere in the region of > $125-$150 is going to be a lot more typical. Of course, a > consultant has to find new work on a regular basis, and they can > end up not working for a while if the market slows down. > The low-end for salaried employees is about $30,000 - $35,000, > and really good NEXTSTEP programmers can see over $100K, with > $50K being a reasonable guestimate for the average salary for an > experienced programmer. Boy, I think it depends on region, b/c here in NY the salaries I've heard of are a LOT higher. I've heard consultants getting round $350/hr (sheesh as bad as lawyers :) but on average $175-225, and full time work for a decently experienced NeXT programmer (3+ years) is in the 80-100k on average, and 130k on up for the super duper guys... I think it being a highly demanded, but short supplied market has a lot to do with the higher rates.... All that will change in the upcoming years (so live it up while you can :). -- 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 From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: builddisk failed 'file system full' but it isn't... Message-ID: <EBEJEI.9qE@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603205303.6306A-100000@kira> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:49:29 GMT In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970603205303.6306A-100000@kira> Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > Actually I made a mistake it was full.... > > df /Backups > > Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd1a 125645 125645 -6283 105% /Backups > > > but it claims it only takes 98 megs and I have 116 on the disk!?!?! > First, there goes a certain amount of space for the i-nodes. And second, there is a filesystem build parameter which tells how many headroom there is to be used. A regular user can't write to this space if 100% full was reached at open, only 'root' can. 'df' therefore displays partitions to be more than 100% full. But still there is some room, just not for the regular user. See man-pages on 'mkfs' and 'newfs' for details. (As usual it's all in the manuals, you just ought'a look for 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: mounting Next NFS on Solaris Message-ID: <EBEJpp.9r2@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <33985E23.1DE0@itsa.ucsf.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 10:56:13 GMT In article <33985E23.1DE0@itsa.ucsf.edu> dennis keane <dkeane@itsa.ucsf.edu> writes: > I can't make a Solaris system see the files on a mounted Next directory > on the network. The mount seems to work according to a 'df', the > directory is there according to an 'ls', but the files inside aren't. > Also the Next network comes crashing down when the Sun goes looking for > the files. The directory is exported on the Next network, the host is > listed in the Sun's host file, and the mount command seems to work. > Maybe the Sun just can't understand the file system on the next - true? > Not quite, IMHO. It might well be an expression of a well known NEXTSTEP <-> SOLARIS problem. NS still uses version 1 NFS while SOLARIS has version 2. The network block sizes don't match leading to buffer overruns on the NeXT. The block size must be explicitly set on the SUN to work correctly. I don't have SOLARIS here, so I don't recall the syntax. Refer to the FAQ on Peanuts for details. -- 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: NEXTSTEP laptop at two network locations Message-ID: <EBEK7H.9rs@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5n993s$r78@noc1.gwi.net> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:06:53 GMT In article <5n993s$r78@noc1.gwi.net> jeff@tiag.com writes: > > Hi, > > I'm setting up a laptop running NEXTSTEP and connecting to > two different small NEXTSTEP networks. > > My passwd, group, hosts, etc files are all compatible on each > network so I don't really have to have separate copies of each when I connect > the laptop to each of the networks (for now), > > however.... > The one feature I would like is: > to use two different sets of imported > mount directories when connected to each of the different networks > without having to wait for timeouts if I were to niavely just add all > the entries from each network and have some mounts always timeout for > me depending upon which network I am currently connecting to.... > > Does anyone know if using some advanced features of netinfo or > setting up the networks in certain ways will make this really > straght forward? > > My initial idea, which may be too kludgey, > is to add all the import mount entries into the netinfo > database of the laptop as "noauto" and in my rc.local > script do some sort of check like the following pseudo code: > > if (can see network#1 machine) > mount machine#1:/importdir1 /atdir1 > mount machine#1:/importdir2 /atdir2 > else if (can see network#2 machine) > mount machine#2:/otherimportdir1 /atdir1 > .... > > Has anyone already done this an easier way? > Does anyone know if there are major pitfalls with this type of method... > There would be a rather hacky way do this by tampering with /etc/rc to inquire for the configuration and then exchanging two sets of 'local' NetInfo databases, /etc/fstab, and /etc/hostinfo files. You'd only be able to do verbose boots thereafter since the GUI boot won't be able to read from the console, I presume. But as you say "small network" why not moving the mount entries out of /etc/fstab and only do autonfsmount out of NetInfo. Then you could enter the mount instructions in the 'network' NI database for the root domain which can be different for both networks... -- 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 Message-ID: <EBEKEu.9sG@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:11:18 GMT In article <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> writes: > I just bought a used 25mhz/040 cube sight unseen and it will not boot. > It says it has NeXTstep 3.0. It runs through the self diagnostics at > the beginning but stops on the line: > > localhost reboot: Reboot complete > > It hangs at this point and never launches the GUI. Thanks in advance > for any assistance anyone has to offer. > Could you possibly give a bit more details. I certainly won't recognize a single line of boot status just out of context. And I think the other people on this group possibly go the same. -- 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: Printer Question Message-ID: <EBEKov.9t6@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5n73vb$f14@picayune.uark.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:17:19 GMT In article <5n73vb$f14@picayune.uark.edu> rbumpus@comp.uark.edu writes: > I have a Turbo Station running OpenStep 4.1 and I'm trying to connect it > to a printer. Does anyone know where I could find AppleTalk for OS 4.1? > The machine originally came with 3.3 and AppleTalk was listed in > preferences. With OpenStep, I haven't found anything related to > AppleTalk. Does anyone know where I might look? > IN NS 3.0 there used to be a EtherTalk client package that was a bit of buggy. It used to become part of the "dicontinued technologies" scandal due to the marketing shift away from the mass market "Super PC" metaphor to the "mission critical" buseness platform. Only one of many rather frivolous marketing blunders connected to NeXT on their products, IMHO. You could load that using a NS 3.0 CD. But a better way to get back EtherTalk capabilities (and much more consistent) is CAPer. Go get it from the Net. -- 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: remote printer not working Message-ID: <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:23:31 GMT In article <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) writes: > hi, > > i'm having trouble getting a remote printer connected to a unix > machine working. printing with lpr from the command line is no > problem, neither is printing the test page from the print manager. > when printing anything from print panel nothing seems to happen > - a detailed inspection showed that a correctly formatted print > request is sent over the network - with nothing to print, i.e. > all the packets except from the first (job request) were empty. > no error messages show up. > > this is the contents of my printcap database: > > courier:lp=:rm=nice:rp=courier:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/lw-2G:ty=PostScript: > > helvetica:lp=:rm=nice:rp=helvetica:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/djet-vm:ty=Post > Script Color: > avantgarde:lp=:rm=nice:rp=avantgarde:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/avantgarde:ty= > Post Script: > But by now you should be aware that flat file Unix config data don't mean nothing to NEXTSTEP features unless they got loaded into the NetInfo database. You can learn about the correct way by refering to the section on "Mixed Networks" in the SysAdmin Manual (/NextLibrary/bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlf) -- 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: setting up Apple Laserwriter w/ NS 3.3 on Moto HW? Message-ID: <EBEL6x.9uI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <19970606030900.XAA20666@ladder02.news.aol.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:28:09 GMT In article <19970606030900.XAA20666@ladder02.news.aol.com> rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) writes: > Hi > > Just wondering -- how complicated to setup an Apple Laserwriter NT > under NS 3.3 on a Nextstation ? any special wiring considerations ? > thanks in advance for any and all insight and info :-) > You need a special serial line cable with a NeXT side and an Apple side. And you need to set up the printer to accept a serial line connection. The NEXTSTEP setup is described in teh SysAdmin Manual in /NextLibrary/Bookshelves/SysAdmin.bshlv, the Apple side should be in some manual or one of the "Inside MacIntosh" books. -- 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.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: HELP with WIDE SCSI formatting of 4.5Gb drive Message-ID: <EBF5wn.62B.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5m4c29$1p9@news.acns.nwu.edu> <onWQcHm00Uzx020GQi@andrew.cmu.edu> <5md69b$7i3$1@news2.digex.net> <YnWjWRa00UhBI1Z3sb@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:55:34 GMT NeXT uses the Berkeley Fast File System (BFFS), described in the UNIX System Manager's Manual, chapter 14. Grab a copy via the Web, Archie, or ftp, and read it through. >Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.hardware: 26-May-97 Re: HELP with >WIDE SCSI for.. by John Kheit@cnj.digex.net >> 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... There should be no dead space. I seem to remember that the BFFS purposely spreads out the files over different heads and cylinders to protect against total loss of data if a single head or cylinder is lost. >> 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------| I guess you're assuming that each new file will be allocated with the lowest block numbers available in the partition. I cannot explain why you can feel the heads moving, but this just isn't true. The BFFS places file under 1MB in a contiguous sequence of blocks, but as far away as possible from other files in the partition (I may be exaggerating a bit here). BFFS also tries to use a different head or platter for each new file - obviously in a cyclic scheme - to protect against loss of all data when a single head crashes. This overall scheme may be thwarted by SCSI drives which do not accurately report their sector, head, and cylinder count - or by drives which change the number of sectors per track between the inner and outer cylinders - but the file system still treats things this way for allocation purposes. An interesting side note about the BFFS is that files above 1MB are "pre-fragmented." In other words, they are purposely broken into 1MB chunks that are spread out across the disk. If you think about this from one point of view, it actually makes sense. There is a maximum "run" of data that can be sucked from a drive non-stop without CPU or SCSI throughput necessitating a brief pause. Also, you wouldn't plan a file system for a multi-tasking operating system without considering that huge files can not be read in their entirety without breaking the I/O request up so that other processes can run. I would assume that different hardware would have a different optimal run size. I don't know if BFFS allows this 1MB chunk size to be changed, but I assume this is the sort of thing that people adjust when tuning their file system parameters to their system (a mysterious art that I have not mastered). >Yes, you're absolutely correct that partitioning the drives in the way >you describe would decrease performance. > >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. > >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. It sounds like I've jumped into the discussion late. Although the ideas are sound, I think that some of the examples do not exactly apply to OPENSTEP, unless you both were talking about using FDISK to partition DOS formatted drives. We're not talking about a toy file system like DOS. Even though NeXT had been criticized for not having a "modern" file system (there are some out there with advantages), BFFS is a far cry better than a first hack, FAT-based file system that a certain software giant seems unwilling to move beyond. :-( -- 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: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Date: 7 Jun 1997 20:02:12 GMT Control: cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Sender: jasonben@aol.com Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: Hippykill@NextStation.digex.net (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail question: Correct entry for FROM field Date: 7 Jun 1997 21:46:28 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5nckrk$csr$1@news2.digex.net> References: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> In article <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu (Murugathas Yuwaraj) writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I am currently running PopOver (a POP3 client) on NS3.0 > The mail delivery is done directly to my SMTP mail host. > I have the following problem: > The 'From' field only has the entry <thas> > instead of <thas@ibme.utoronto.ca>. This causes SOME > mail servers to deny mail delivery. Note that there is a > valid 'ReplyTo' field, but probably not all mail servers > look at that field!? > > Could someone kindly tell me how/where I can modify the > 'From' field in sendmail.cf (sendmail.sharedsubsidiary.cf)? > > Additional note: The 'ReplyTo' field is set using the > PopOver program. It does not have provisions for setting > the 'From' field. if you are using mail.app (the mailer that comes with NS), you can set your from line it it and it'll pass the correct one along to sendmail. Otherwise, the only way I could make it work was to change my hostname on the NeXT to something the mail server would accept. Not a good solution, I think... -- *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: embuck@palmer.cca.rockwell.com (Erik M. Buck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Re: NeXT People Question Date: 7 Jun 1997 18:47:58 GMT Organization: Rockwell Collins Message-ID: <5ncacu$5fo3@castor.cca.rockwell.com> References: <865389689.23631@dejanews.com> <5n4247$odp@crl.crl.com> <edewEBC19q.H4D@netcom.com> <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> Cc: com@com.com In <33979c83.1360723@news.voyageronline.net> com@com.com wrote: EXPERT nextstep programmers who ALSO have some knowledge of one of the many application fields using NeXTstep earn low 6 figures from remote offices and mid 6 figures for on-site work. Add 25% for New York City and some other expensive areas. NOVICE nextstep programmers earn about standard fees 50-75k / year One reason fees are high (apart from supply and demand) is that expert nextstep programmers are capable of creating apps for vertical or horizontal markets very rapidly and inexpensively. Employers are pay a premium for the "opportunity costs" of distracting the programmers from building and selling their own apps. For instance, my company earns 7 figures for selling apps but only six figures for contract work. With nextstep, the risks of building apps without a paying customer are low. It is an extremely good business to be in right now.
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Defaults Database Question Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 18:28:20 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970607150044.27278J-100000@kira> References: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "R. Vose" <rvose@ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> as root find /path/to/account -print |xargs chown rightuser 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Kent Davis <kdavis@apk.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 01:57:12 -0400 Organization: APK Net, Ltd. Message-ID: <339A49B7.708BE6F2@apk.net> References: <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> <5n8tua$h7l$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: "Frank M. Siegert" <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> Frank M. Siegert wrote: > In <3396430F.D9F73C5D@bowne.com> Kent Davis wrote: > > I have a Diamond Stealth 2000 on NS3.3 and when I shut down the > screen > > goes blank and hangs. I had to use the reset. > > > > Enter the line: > > "Shutdown Graphics" = "No"; > > in your /NextLibrary/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table (just after > > the > > "Boot Graphics" = "No"; > > line) > > ...and everything should be fine. > > -- > * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net > * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy I was missing the "Shutdown Graphics" Thanks I just put in a Matrox Millennium, It works great. Kent
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: please help Message-ID: <EBF6K6.655.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com> Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 19:09:41 GMT In article <3396EE93.5642@zipatoni.com>, <doc@zipatoni.com> wrote: >I just bought a used 25mhz/040 cube sight unseen and it will not boot. >It says it has NeXTstep 3.0. It runs through the self diagnostics at >the beginning but stops on the line: > >localhost reboot: Reboot complete > >It hangs at this point and never launches the GUI. Thanks in advance >for any assistance anyone has to offer. Could this have been a NeXTdimension (NeXTcube + Dimension video card) where someone sold the highly sought after Dimension video card and left you with the cube? The line you give above is the last thing I see on my NeXTdimension systems before the following: May 28 13:20:12 scream reboot: Reboot complete May 28 13:20:17 scream mach: NeXTdimension Board in Slot 2: May 28 13:20:17 scream mach: ROM Version 43, Memory Controller step 1, i860 step C.1 May 28 13:20:17 scream mach: 64 Mbytes of DRAM installed, NTSC video configured May 28 13:20:17 sounds netinfod local[107]: checking NetInfo database local.nidb May 28 13:20:18 scream mach: NeXTdimension server running (7936) May 28 13:20:20 scream mach: audio kernel server initialized IMHO, you have two choices: 1) Give up on any "free" software on the drive and reinstall NEXTSTEP. 2) Mount the internal drive in a case and connect it to another SCSI-based system running NEXTSTEP to grab anything off of it before reinstalling NEXTSTEP. -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Defaults Database Question Message-ID: <EBGELG.AJ4@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 11:00:52 GMT In article <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> rvose@ix.netcom.com (R. Vose) writes: > I'm have a problem with the defaults database on my slab -- > namely, I cannot alter it. If I attempt to change a default in > an application or if I attempt to issue a "dwrite" command (from > Terminal.app) to modify a default, I get the error: > > "Cannot write to database" > > Not too long ago I had a NetInfo problem with this machine. I > was attempting to network my slabs together and got completely > messed up and had to back it all out. I'm now running the machine > standalone. The main point is that I had to recreate the user > account with which I'm having the problem. I'm guessing that > when I issue the "drwrite" the system is trying to access the > original defaults database for this account, but since the UID > changed when I recreated it, the system can't write to the > database. > Now you definitely know about the cause, i.e. the change in the UID for you account. Now why don't you act up on it, i.e. restore ownership to all (also the hidden!) files in the home directory of your account? BTW, the files in question are in ~/.NeXT. -- 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: Re: sendmail question: Correct entry for FROM field Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:56:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970607145503.27278H-100000@kira> References: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Murugathas Yuwaraj <yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu> In-Reply-To: <EBD4DB.H66@ecf.toronto.edu> Isn't this in the FAQ yet? There are two ways, set the expert header to From Murugathas Yuwaraj <yuwaraj@ecf.toronto.edu> or setup sendmail, which means mucking with sendmail.cf or installing it new.... 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 -- 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.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: <26791865137630@digifix.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 03:57:17 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <14012865742421@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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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: rvose@ix.netcom.com (R. Vose) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Defaults Database Question Date: 8 Jun 1997 05:46:08 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ndgv0$l4l@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> References: <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: rvose@ix.netcom.com In <5naf59$n1i@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> R. Vose wrote: > I'm have a problem with the defaults database on my slab -- namely, I cannot > alter it. If I attempt to change a default in an application or if I attempt > to issue a "dwrite" command (from Terminal.app) to modify a default, I get > the error: > > "Cannot write to database" Big DUH for me... When I did the "chown" to reset the UID after the crash, it didn't recurse into ~/.NeXT, so the defaults database was owned by another user! Problem solved... Thanks for the responses! -- Randy V. rvose@ix.netcom.com Denver, CO
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ownership/home dir problems Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 23:12:18 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608225532.3728A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII After swapping in a new HD, I'm having some ownership problems. 1) can anyone tell me why / was 'drwxrwxrwt' ? 2) if I login as 'root' my home is / (even though NetInfo shows it clearly as /Users/root). a) if I login via terminal.app my home is set properly 3) if I logout and login as 'exit' a) sometimes the loginwindow will shake about 50-60 times and then act fine b) if I login as root, my homedir is /Users/root c) the loginwindow preferences are actually seen 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 23:33:26 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Mike Selner <mike@tela.com> In-Reply-To: <339B8B4A.7FF8@tela.com> thanks... 'man mount' said: suid set-uid execution allowed (cannot be specified; default if root mounts the filesystem). but when I specified it, it worked.... I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, so if I should have something else there, 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: dnelson@slip.net (Dru Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep Intel/Mach tips page Date: 8 Jun 1997 04:05:27 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <5ne3ln$jdp@slip.net> I have made a web page that has some tips for dealing with some of the Openstep install issues. You can get to it here: http://www.slip.net/~dnelson/openstep.html Basically, it describes some of the problems I have had and some of the solutions. contact me here: dnelson@slip.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Message-ID: <EBIKqB.Cps@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: luomat@peak.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:08:34 GMT References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Timothy Luoma wrote: > > thanks... 'man mount' said: > > suid set-uid execution allowed (cannot be specified; > default if root mounts the filesystem). > > but when I specified it, it worked.... > > I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 I think the problem is that root is not mounting the system. Since you have noauto set for sd1a, it isn't being mounted until someone logs in and then under their user id. You should be able to remove both the suid and noauto directives from sd1a and have everything work as desired (that is how my system is set up and it works fine, although I have left noquota on as well). Note that your boot drive is the only drive with which you want to use the noauto directive. This is because it is already mounted in order to boot the operating system, before /etc/fstab can be checked. > BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, so > if I should have something else there, please let me know.... I would recommend changing the last number to a 2, as this will speed up recovery from a dirty shutdown. With my other advice this would give you: /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 -- Allan
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:44:24 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608183642.8121A-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm in the process of setting up a dual-boot drive.... actually the dual-boot is working fine... The old single-boot drive is still setup as something of as backup... and besides I've already done the setup there... So I linked /Disk/usr/local (the old disk gets mounted as /Disk) to /usr/local: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 15 Jun 8 19:05 /usr/local -> /Disk/usr/local/ but now when I try to run certain setuid programs I get: "Setuid execution not allowed" Why is this and how can I override it? The drive is mounted in /etc/fstab: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noauto 0 1 I don't know what else to do... TjL
From: sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Mux for 4.x ? Date: 8 Jun 1997 23:54:20 GMT Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <5nfgnc$9jq@news.nd.edu> Hi all, I need to run the MUX driver (for the Digiboard 8 port serial card) on OpenStep 4.0. It seems that Mux doesn't like to install itself on 4.0. I have it installed on an old 3.3 system at home, but this nifty new 4.0 system at the lab doesn't work the same. Anybody get MUX to work on OS 4.x? If you're interested in why, here's a quick run-down. I'm studying the nonlinear dynamics of body movements. This is a part of psychology called Perception-Action Systems. I'm working to establish serial communications with an odd "bird". This is a set of magnetic coil position trackers called a "flock of birds". Unfortunately, these people have a relatively non-standard serial interface that uses RTS to reset their electronics! Yech! I'm stuck with XON/XOFF protocol and I'm trying to synchronize a number of sensors simultaneously. Enter Digiboard and the MUX driver, right? Eight ports with 16 byte buffering, and if I'm clever, I can get enough data moving from each sensor to maintain a reasonable enough sampling rate to understand some of the low level processes in how we maintain balance and how we perform non-verbal communication. If anyone can help here, I'd be very thankful. I've been up and down and back and forth with a breakout box before I came to the inescapeable conclusion that the Flock of Birds wants to run at 57 kbaud without hardware flow control. Insane! I'm going to have to step down the speed and add more ports. All the best, Steve -- Dr. Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Date: 8 Jun 1997 16:51:33 GMT Control: cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Message-ID: <cancel.5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Sender: Photorep45@ibm.net Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote printer not working Date: 9 Jun 1997 10:37:08 GMT Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> References: <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> In article <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) writes: > In article <5n9be3$8gp@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars > Konieczny) writes: > > hi, > > > > i'm having trouble getting a remote printer connected to a unix > > machine working. printing with lpr from the command line is no > > problem, neither is printing the test page from the print manager. > > when printing anything from print panel nothing seems to happen > > - a detailed inspection showed that a correctly formatted print > > request is sent over the network - with nothing to print, i.e. > > all the packets except from the first (job request) were empty. > > no error messages show up. > > > > this is the contents of my printcap database: > > > > courier:lp=:rm=nice:rp=courier:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/lw-2G:ty=PostScript: > > > > helvetica:lp=:rm=nice:rp=helvetica:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/djet-vm:ty=Post > > Script Color: > > avantgarde:lp=:rm=nice:rp=avantgarde:sd=/usr/spool/NeXT/avantgarde:ty= > > PostScript: > > > But by now you should be aware that flat file Unix config data don't mean > nothing to NEXTSTEP features unless they got loaded into the NetInfo > database. > Sorry, I haven t mentioned that I did _niload_ the printcap data (I even restarted the computer). All printers do appear in the print-panel, and printing appears to be fine, except that no content is sent to the printer (although there is communication with the printer). Again, printing the "Test" page from PrintManager, as well as printing from command line works fine. Any other ideas? Lars
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Joost Backus <joostb@plex.nl> Subject: NT 4.0 and Openstep Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <339C60C1.7DAC@plex.nl> Sender: news@plex.nl (Usenet News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Plex -- a public access Internet provider -- References: <3395D65D.4332@bit.csc.lsu.edu> <glipof-0606971205530001@supermac.pervasive-sw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:00:01 GMT L.s. I installed Openstep 4.1 Enterprise numerous time under NT 4.0 but is does not seem to work. Interface builder or other meaningfull sw starts and after a few disk rumblings no more action. In the installation notes is nothing special. Any ideas. I couldn't find any references to this problem until now. Joost Backus.
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@no.spam> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: 9 Jun 1997 20:00:31 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5nhncv$4ek@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608183642.8121A-100000@kira> Organisation: RRR Hello Timothy et.al., Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: [...] > The old single-boot drive is still setup as something of as backup... > and besides I've already done the setup there... [...] > but now when I try to run certain setuid programs I get: > > "Setuid execution not allowed" > > Why is this and how can I override it? > > The drive is mounted in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,noauto 0 1 ^^^^^^ remove the noauto line, it prevents the "mount -a" command in /etc/rc from mounting the second disk while booting. I suppose it's actually mounted because Workspace finds+mounts it. (The disklabel of the second disk is "Disk" right ? :) But when you are logged in as a non-root user you get the described behaviour of suid-executables. And then you followed up to yourself: >thanks... 'man mount' said: > > suid set-uid execution allowed (cannot be specified; > default if root mounts the filesystem). > >but when I specified it, it worked.... > >I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: > >/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 >/dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 > Funny :) I suppose you were logged in via Worspace as root!? This would explain the difference ... > BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, > so if I should have something else there, please let me know.... It determines in what order filesystems (fs) are fsck'ed. All fs with the same number are checked at the same time in parallel, starting with the number 1. So its best to give only the root-fs the number 1 (this brings you faster to a single user boot prompt after a real crash. And then give all your other fs the following numbers in a way that two fs that are on the same physical disk are not checked at the same time (speeds up fsck'ing due to less head movement). Hth, ceers 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: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Eberhard Mandler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dithering on 12Bit color displays Date: 9 Jun 1997 08:49:13 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Is there a possibility to avoid dithering in case of viewing 24Bit color images with a 12 Bit video card? -- best regards, eberhard mandler Daimler-Benz Research Center Ulm Wilhelm-Runge-Str. 11 89081 Ulm Germany Phone: ++49-731-505-2116 Fax: ++49-731-505-4113 Please reply to: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) Subject: Re: NT 4.0 and Openstep Sender: news@news.mediahaus.de Organization: Mediahaus Stroebel in Duesseldorf (Germany) Message-ID: <EBJ1Hw.n3u@news.mediahaus.de> References: <339C60C1.7DAC@plex.nl> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 21:10:44 GMT Joost Backus <joostb@plex.nl> writes > L.s. > > I installed Openstep 4.1 Enterprise numerous time under NT 4.0 but is > does not seem to work. > > Interface builder or other meaningfull sw starts and after a few disk > rumblings no more action. > > In the installation notes is nothing special. > > Any ideas. I couldn't find any references to this problem until now. > > > Joost Backus. What language version of NT are you running? Here are two nasty topics that prevent OS 4.1 from working with the german language version of NT right after installation: 1. The Openstep daemons that have to be autostarted (if I remember correctly these were the window server and the pasteboard server) are installed to the program group "Startup" whereas in the german language NT version they have to be installed in the "Autostart" program group. Fix: just move them over to the other program group. 2. The file <NEXT_ROOT>\NextLibrary\Frameworks\AppKit.framework\Resources\German.lp roj\Printing.strings is corrupted, causing Openstep programs to crash. Fix: copy the version from the English.lproj folder. Regards Piers --- Piers Uso Walter ilink GmbH piers@ilink.de
From: shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Initializing EIDE partitions. Date: 09 Jun 1997 13:47:34 -0400 Organization: Is a sign of weakness Sender: shess@shell.one.net Message-ID: <veewwo3fz2h.fsf@shell.one.net> References: <vee910nrdhr.fsf@shell.one.net> In-reply-to: shess@shell.one.net's message of 06 Jun 1997 10:51:28 -0400 In article <vee910nrdhr.fsf@shell.one.net>, shess@shell.one.net (Scott Hess) writes: I recently added a 3.1 EIDE drive to my Intel PC running NeXTSTEP. ... now I found that "disk -i /dev/rhd0a" causes a system panic. It first displays enough to indicate that it _is_ getting the disk name and partition size right. Then it says something about "hdform doesn't exist yet..." And I've been unable to figure out how it was that I originally accomplished the trick - though I do remember I had a number of system panics before hitting on the right command. Well, I managed to get through this. For unknown reason, the fdisk partitioning information wasn't being understood by NeXTSTEP. I rebooted to Linux, rewrote the partition table from Linux fdisk, and then NeXTSTEP was able to format the appropriate partition just fine. Has anyone noticed that NeXTSTEP fdisk gets confused by 3.1G EIDE disks? It reports: No partitions in use Unused Blocks Start Size ------------------------------- Free Space 0 2049 It is fully capable of initializing a NeXTSTEP FDISK partition created from some other fdisk program, it just doesn't seem to handle them itself. I've never tried partitioning with NeXTSTEP fdisk and writing the partitioning info, because I figure it's most likely to lose me the last Gig of space... Later, -- scott hess <shess@one.net> (606) 578-0412 http://w3.one.net/~shess/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Eberhard Mandler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Gamma Correction Date: 9 Jun 1997 08:47:38 GMT Organization: debis Network Services GmbH Message-ID: <5ngfva$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 How can I adjust the "Gamma Correction" of a NeXTStep PC? -- best regards, eberhard mandler Daimler-Benz Research Center Ulm Wilhelm-Runge-Str. 11 89081 Ulm Germany Phone: ++49-731-505-2116 Fax: ++49-731-505-4113 Please reply to: mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Q: NS3.3,white: changing IP-Adress Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 09:12:00 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970609091023.28413A-100000@kira> References: <5ngau3$7l6$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Niels Coelle <mwnc@idefix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <5ngau3$7l6$1@methusalix.rz.tu-clausthal.de> On 9 Jun 1997, Niels Coelle wrote: > How can I change the IP-adress of my installation? When I tried it with the HostManager.App I > could not enter the IP field. > Any guesses? I think I just saw this on my machine... try selecting 'bind to netinfo server' and then unselect that (assuming that you are not and do not want to do so). That worked for me and let me set the IP (in fact it told me to!) This was under 4.1/white 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" Bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed" Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:53:22 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Ynb_K2W00UhB82Sxl4@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Jun-97 Re: "Setuid execution not a.. by Timothy Luoma@peak.org > but when I specified it, it worked.... > > I guess it is my fault for believing them... I now have: > > /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 > /dev/sd1a /Disk 4.3 rw,suid,noauto 0 1 > > BTW: I don't really understad the 'passno' numbers are the end there, so > if I should have something else there, please let me know.... I believe you should not specify 'noauto' for any drive you want automaticly mounted by root at system startup (excluding '/', which gets mounted as a special case). This might have been why suid was not the default behavior. As for the pass number entries, '/' should be at pass 1, and everything else should be at some higher pass number-- read 'man fsck' for a more complete description. -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: wpbrown@xensei.com (WPBrown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 9 Jun 1997 03:11:56 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Greetings, I'm quite new to NeXT, and in running the user configuration application to change root's shell, I inadvertantly changed root's home directory from / to /root. Unfortunately I can not seem to change it back, the application will not accept my corrected entry. In checking /etc/passwd, the root directory is listed as /, although a finger will also show it to be /root. Any thoughts onhow to correct this? Thanks.
From: Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OS 44.1 and DECchip211440 Network driver 100 MB? Date: 10 Jun 1997 10:02:53 GMT Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Message-ID: <5nj8od$drb@omega.gmd.de> Hello, when booting OPENSTEP 4.1 our DECchip211440 Network driver - configured for 100 MB - says it enabled 10MB. When we try a connection, it seems even slower. The network card is a SMC 9332 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Adapter. Can anybody give us some hints? Can we believe the enabling of 10 MB and why does it not 100 MB? Or should we ignore that and search on the other end or the hub? Since I don't read the news regularly could You please send e-mail too to me <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> or to <BEC@gex.gmd.de> Many thanks j.k. -- Jelske Kloppenburg, +49 2241 14-2433, <Jelske.Kloppenburg@gmd.de> GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology "Don't kill the Winners!" Dennis Tsichritzis
From: Kent Davis <kent.davis@bowne.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NS3.3 with out the Network Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 23:41:16 -0400 Organization: Bowne Information Services Message-ID: <339CCCDC.D2651C99@bowne.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I need to start NS3.3 with out the network. It is looking for the two NSF mounts and hangs. Any ideas? Kent
From: Photorep45@ibm.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Control: cancel <5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Message-ID: <despam.5ndqp5$nm$1163@news.internetmci.com> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 06:00:00 -700 Cancel Spam.
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gettytab questions (timeouts and drops) Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:20:25 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970610120430.14148D-100000@cc344191-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I have been mucking around with the 'im' field of /etc/gettytab to change the telnet greeting.... I was wondering if there was a way to set a timeout for ftp/telnet/rlogin users to put in their username and password man getty says: Getty can be set to timeout after some interval, which will cause dial up lines to hang up if the login name is not entered reasonably quickly. but does not say how... so I checked 'man 5 gettytab' Name Type Default Description <snip> to num 0 timeout (seconds) This is the standard entry in gettytab: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: I tried putting it at the end, alphabetically: default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600:to=60 or at the beginning default:\ :to=60:ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#9600: and other places but could not get it to timeout. Speaking of which, is there a way to 'drop' a connection if they fail in say 3 attempts to enter a valid user and password? Thanks! TjL ps -- the lowercase % variables which I found work are: %d = 11:13am on Tues, 10 June 1997 %h = hostname %t = tty
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 10 Jun 1997 13:22:38 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5njkeu$120c@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> References: <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> Hi, In article <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> wpbrown@xensei.com (WPBrown) writes: > Greetings, > > I'm quite new to NeXT, and in running the user configuration application to > change root's shell, I inadvertantly changed root's home directory from / to > /root. Unfortunately I can not seem to change it back, the application will > not accept my corrected entry. In checking /etc/passwd, the root directory is > listed as /, although a finger will also show it to be /root. Any thoughts > onhow to correct this? > > Thanks. > Two choices... as root make a directory /root -or- Use NetInfoManager and change the value of the home property to be / Should be easy to fix... -Milo -- Milo Velimirovic <Milo.Velimirovic@uwlax.edu> Unix Computer Network Administrator (608) 785-8030 Information Technology Services -- Network Services University of Wisconsin - La Crosse La Crosse, Wisconsin 54601 USA 43 48 05 N 91 14 22 W
From: emi@cais.cais.com (EMI Software Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't log into upgraded OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 Date: 10 Jun 1997 12:09:15 GMT Organization: Sent via CAIS Internet <info@cais.com> Message-ID: <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> I just upgraded my 4.1 system to 4.2 and now when I try to log in I get the following message displayed in an alert panel, and my log in attempt fails. This account does not have a user shell. /usr/bin/bash will be executed and all output will be ignored. Do you still want to execute this command? Any help with this will be appreciated. Eric Marshall EMI Software Engineering
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: fsck passnos (was: Re: "Setuid execution not allowed") Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 15:16:13 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970610151319.19865E-100000@cc344191-a> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970608232942.3728C-100000@kira> <Ynb_K2W00UhB82Sxl4@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Ynb_K2W00UhB82Sxl4@andrew.cmu.edu> On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Charles William Swiger wrote: > As for the pass number entries, '/' should be at pass 1, and everything > else should be at some higher pass number-- read 'man fsck' for a more > complete description. Complete, sure, but comprehendible? Right now this is what I have setup: /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 /dev/sd3a /Disk 4.3 rw,noquota 0 2 /dev/sd3h /ap dos rw,noquota 0 3 does that look right then? # btw: why is 'noquota' necessary? I didn't think there was any quota # support in OS/NS? Thanks TjL
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: pine setup question Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:33:30 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5nkdmq$ivo$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I'd like to use pine for email when I rlogin, and Mail.app when I'm at the keyboard. What I want to know are 1. should I anticipate any difficulties or problems? 2. what values should I enter in pine's setup/configure? Thank you for your help. Randy Jackson -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't log into upgraded OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:57:46 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <339DBFCA.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit EMI Software Engineering wrote: > > I just upgraded my 4.1 system to 4.2 and now when I try > to log in I get the following message displayed in an alert panel, > and my log in attempt fails. > This account does not have a user shell. > /usr/bin/bash will be executed and all output will be > ignored. Do you still want to execute this command? > > Any help with this will be appreciated. > It seems that /etc/shells does not have your login shell. Login single user (-s) and add your shell to /etc/shells. stefan -- ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: Dual Booting Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:58:46 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have a PP200 that has NS 3.3 and NT 4.0 installed on the hard drive. I have always been able to boot into either OS until today, now I can only boot into NS. I no longer have the option type 'n' for NS or 'd' for dos. I used fdisk to look at the disk partitioning, but all seemed ok. Also NS recognized the dos partition as a folder from the file viewer. Does anyone know how to get back the ability to dual boot? Thanks in advance. -- 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/ ________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com (Eric Chu) Subject: NS4.0 exabyte 8505 dump paraaters Message-ID: <EBKwu8.EqB@ceco.ceco.com> Sender: root@ceco.ceco.com (Operator) Organization: Commonwealth Edison Co. Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 21:25:19 GMT Hello all, silly question. when i try to do a full system dump to my exabyte tape drive, NS4.0 comes back and says i need 15 8mm tapes to do a 1gb backup. So....what parameters am i missing? What should i set my block size to be? I am using standard 112m 8mm tapes. TIA stupid newbie named eric echu@ceco.com
From: awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 10 Jun 1997 17:19:09 -0500 Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Message-ID: <5nkjst$552@plains.NoDak.edu> References: <5nfs9s$11$1@e3000.supernews.com> <5njkeu$120c@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <5njkeu$120c@wiscnews.wiscnet.net>, Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> wrote: >> I'm quite new to NeXT, and in running the user configuration application to >> change root's shell, I inadvertantly changed root's home directory from / to >> /root. Unfortunately I can not seem to change it back, the application will >> not accept my corrected entry. In checking /etc/passwd, the root directory >is >> listed as /, although a finger will also show it to be /root. Any thoughts >> onhow to correct this? >> >Two choices... as root make a directory /root >-or- >Use NetInfoManager and change the value of the home property to be / also nu -m as root will let you manage existing accounts. change passwd, home directory, etc. hehe.. the good old /root bug. man i remember being hit by that when i first installed NEXTSTEP.. took me weeks to figure out what happened. 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: jimbo@easyway.net (James C. Brost) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4mm DAT Date: 11 Jun 97 01:22:13 GMT Organization: Bell Atlantic Internet Solutions Message-ID: <339dfdc5.0@fiji.easyway.net> I'm trying to add a Archive Python 4mm DAT to my NeXT (BLACK 040) under NeXT STEP 3.3 with patch1. MAKEDEV doesn't seem to add it, as I get a IP error in TAR. Any Ideas? -- jimbo@easyway (posted in Alexandra.app)
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From: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com (Dieter Sabathi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network printing insider question Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 06:01:58 GMT Message-ID: <339e3d72.3486276@8.1.30.1> Organization: Ye 'Ol Disorganized NNTPCache groupie Cache-Post-Path: arctica.sime.com!unknown@relay.sime.com Hi NeXT Insider I want to use some sort of printfilter (djf for examble) to render the postscript output on my NeXTstation running NeXstep 3.3 BEFORE sending it to an other computer on my network via lpr/lpd to print it on my HP deskjet printer. After some searching I figuerd out the scripts running before the printfile is send to the remote computer, but I don´t know how to get the filter to do the real postscript to deskjet conversation ...... Any one out there who knows what to do ???? Please reply by email to: sabathi_dieter@stekom.com Thanks for your help Dieter
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From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't log into upgraded OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:26:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nlnft$8ac$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emi@cais.cais.com In <5njg5b$7i6@news2.cais.com> EMI Software Engineering wrote: > I just upgraded my 4.1 system to 4.2 and now when I try > to log in I get the following message displayed in an alert panel, > and my log in attempt fails. > This account does not have a user shell. > /usr/bin/bash will be executed and all output will be > ignored. Do you still want to execute this command? Let me guess, under 4.1 you put /usr/bin/bash in where it wasn't in the original distribution, and then made it your shell. Then you upgraded to 4.2 and it blew away /usr/bin/ and probably /etc/shells but left NetInfo in place. Now you have a login shell which does not exist or is not in /etc/shells? Assuming that root is not also /usr/bin/bash, you can login as root (however I am guessing you thought of this already) Otherwise you can boot single user, and either put /usr/bin/bash in place and make sure it is in /etc/shells, or change your shell to something that does exist and in in /etc/shells such as /usr/bin/zsh You may have to start netinfo by hand sh /etc/rc & in single user mode and then use 'nu -m' or nidump passwd . > /tmp/passwd and then edit /tmp/passwd and niload passwd . < /tmp/passwd Morals of the story: you should use /usr/bin/zsh you should not change all your login shells to a shell which is not part of the standard distribution you should not put a file in /usr/bin that should really be in /usr/local/bin (which I think would have survived the upgrade process). Hope it works.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: bernard@cyllene.uwa.edu.au (Bernard Cena) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: HELP: IDE OpenStep 4.1 setup Date: 11 Jun 1997 08:56:28 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5nlp7s$hqv$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Hi! I've got an EIDE/Intel based OpenStep 4.1 setup with two 3 GB hard disks set up as masters on the first (Disk A) and second (Disk B) EIDE channels with an ATAPI CD-ROM set up as slave on the primary channel (such is the install requirement for 4.1). I have successfully installed OpenStep 4.1 on a partition on the disk A (Windog 95 is on there too *blush*). >>>This is what I'd like to do: I want to shift OpenStep to live on disk B (master,second EIDE channel) on a 1.5GB partition (the rest will be a Linux partition) and be able to boot it from a floppy or Linux LILO bootloader. How do I do this so everything is happy ? >>>This is what I've tried: I used the build disk gizmo to make an OpenStep partition on disk B (it copied everything there for me that I had on my partition on disk A). The problem is I cann't boot it :( I tried doing the common sense thing at boot prompt: hd(1)mach_kernel root=/dev/hd1a (and related combinations ) - I get through quite a bit of the boot procedure until it looks for the root device where it gives up saying it cann't find it :( The other thing that I thought would be obvious was to ditch drive A and set up drive B as master/primary EIDE channel with the CD-ROM as slave and re-install OpenStep from scratch on that, except for some stupid reason (oh how I love PC's! *grrr*) the BIOS won't recognise the CD-ROM in conjunction with that PARTICULAR drive (works fine with the other!) *sigh*. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Bernard Cena
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: slow network behavior Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:26:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5nn8m7$f2r@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jun 1997 22:26:15 GMT I am (still) trying to track down a problem with slow throughput between our NeXTs and the university modem bank, and I have noticed that when a process is sleeping, netstat shows that the associated tcp send queue is at 4096 bytes, whereas a linux machine on the same subnet has a send queue over 23000 bytes for a similar task. Could the way in which the NeXTs are queueing packets for transmission have something to do with slow output (e.g. 6 minutes to deliver a 20K file either by http or by cat to a tty)? Another thing I have noticed is that I'm getting collision rates around 5%, but I don't see why this would affect the NeXTs, but not the other machines on the same subnet. Pointers please! Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Hippykill@NextStation.digex.net (Hippykill) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with NeXT 3.3 root home directory Date: 11 Jun 1997 23:59:48 GMT Organization: DIGEX, Inc. Message-ID: <5nne5k$f3f$1@news2.digex.net> References: <5nkjst$552@plains.NoDak.edu> In article <5nkjst$552@plains.NoDak.edu> awang@plains.NoDak.edu (Andy Wang) writes: > also nu -m as root will let you manage existing accounts. > change passwd, home directory, etc. > hehe.. the good old /root bug. man i remember being hit by that > when i first installed NEXTSTEP.. took me weeks to figure out what > happened. Happened to me too...however, when I tried to do anything at all to change it I couldn't. So I just reset my NetInfo database and all was well...just had to create new accounts, and my NeXT is a home machine... -- *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: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: HELP: Partition weirdness after 4.1 install Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:59:09 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nnolt$1c0c@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all! This has me stumped... I installed OS 4.1 on my new Dell Optiplex PPro, with a 4095MB internal SCSI drive. So, I told the installation program to put OpenStep on a 2.5GB partition, and to reserve the remaining 1.5GB for DOS. Now my system is up and running, and fdisk reports exactly the partitions I originally ordered. But the problem is that regardless of what fdisk reports, according to OpenStep, the 2.5 GB of OpenStep space appears to be distributed amount sd0a, sd0b, and sd0c; each reports about 800MB. sd0a is the root partition. The 1.5 GB DOS partition appears not to exist at all, from OpenStep's perspective. If it's any help... the Workspace InfoPanel reports "Disk: 0MB". What on earth is going on? Can I stop it? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Novell support dropped in 4.x? Say it isn't so... Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:50:55 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nno6f$25s8@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, Graduating from my black hardware to a PPro entailed purchasing a new version of the NeXT OS. I have 4.1. Of course, on installing 4.1 on the new system, I noticed that /NextAdmin/NetWareManager.app doesn't exist. Someone please tell me I am having a bad dream. Has the Netware support simply been removed from the NeXT CDs? If so, where do I turn? Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
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From: ihate@spammers.com (bf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help! Monitor Sync Problems! Ack! Date: 12 Jun 1997 03:45:34 GMT Organization: Crack Whores of America Message-ID: <5nnrcu$nr6$1@brokaw.wa.com> I have a Colorstation ADB running NS 3.3/3.2 on it with a 17" megapixel std. next color monitor. For some reason, upon boot up the colorstation cant seem to sync with the monitor and ends up getting a jumbled image. It usually takes 5-6 power-ons before it can finally sync up. Whats going on here?? -b -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.halcyon.com/larryf/ -- Email: larryf at halcyon dot com ----------------------------------------------------- --NOTE: Email address in header is fake due to spam-- --------------------------------------------------------------------
From: lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adaptec 2940 AU Date: 12 Jun 1997 05:28:23 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5no1dn$sqm$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi there, we just got a new Pentium computer on which we wanted to install Nextstep 3.3. Unfortunately, it seems that the driver for the SCSI Adapter does not work. The Adapter is a new Adaptec 2940AU. We are using the driver version 3.37, downloaded from Nextanswers several weeks ago. During install, we receive an error message saying "Cannot get config space, no SCSI adapter found". Any help would be appreciated. Markus
From: atl2@lehigh.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: 12 Jun 1997 02:47:57 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, I know this one comes around regularly...I even kept an archive of old posts in anticipation of the arrival this week of my PPro system with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. But I can't seem to figure out what I need to do. The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my system. The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, nor how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in system panics on boot-up. Help, anyone? Cheers, Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: exere@intercon.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Product Annoucement Date: 12 Jun 1997 07:10:15 GMT Organization: DEC Inc. Message-ID: <5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Hey, just thought i'd share with everyone, I found a site with loads of nude CHEERLEADERs. The address is: http://www.mid-night.com/cheer.htm --Jason-- (Sorry for the intrusion, everyone needs some short skirts in their life) P.S. They also have a few thounsand celebrities but im not into that.
From: exere@intercon.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 12 Jun 1997 07:10:15 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Control: cancel <5no7cn$olp$73@nw001.infi.net> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr. It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Thu Jun 12 13:34:15 1997 Original subject was: Product Annoucement
From: freeman@cornell-iowa.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programming Subject: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:30:36 GMT Organization: The University of Iowa Message-ID: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> I have been using perl 5.003 on 3.3 black for some time without problem. I needed to compile perl again, and I am having significant problems with the compilation. miniperl is dying with memory or bus errors in the middle of the make process. If you rerun the make several times, the errors will occur in diffferent parts of the process. I am not sure what is going on. Would anyone be willing to send me the configure.sh file you used to successfully compile perl 5.003? Thanks. Jim Freeman --- Dr. James H.Freeman freeman@Cornell-Iowa.edu (Nextmail OK) Department of Mathematics (Mime OK) Cornell College 319-895-4393(office) 600 First Street West 319-895-6866(home) Mount Vernon, Iowa 52314-1098
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote printer not working Date: 12 Jun 1997 13:48:31 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5nounf$4qa$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <EBEKz7.9tu@nidat.sub.org> <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Cc: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de In <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Lars Konieczny wrote: > Sorry, I haven t mentioned that I did _niload_ the printcap data (I even > restarted the computer). All printers do appear in the print-panel, and > printing appears to be fine, except that no content is sent to the printer > (although there is communication with the printer). Again, printing the "Test" > page from PrintManager, as well as printing from command line works fine. Maybe you have not unlimited the file size...put a mx#0 in your printcap options. What does lpq say? -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: pine setup question Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:28:36 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612083842.4716B-100000@cc344191-a> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5nkdmq$ivo$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 10 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > I'd like to use pine for email when I rlogin, and Mail.app when I'm at > the keyboard. > > What I want to know are > > 1. should I anticipate any difficulties or problems? I've had PINE mess up the table_of_contents file of some Mail.app mboxes... no real problem except it takes time to be rebuilt when it is done... I think the TOC just sees that someone has touched the 'mbox' file and thinks it needs to update it.... You shoud _NOT_ use pine to delete messages, and you will not be able to read NeXTMail messages. NOTE: if you have Active.mbox open in Mail.app (which happens by default when you start Mail.app) PINE will have trouble trying to read the Active mailbox, because it waits for Mail.app to give up the lock, which it does not do until you close the window, so be sure and close Active.mbox or don't try to access it from the PINE session. If you forget and need to access it and are not in front of the computer, you can try this: kill -QUIT `/bin/ps -auxwww|fgrep Mail.app|grep -v fgrep|awk '{print $2}'` (which basically says: find Mail.app's PID and send the nice QUIT signal.) Then run 'ps' again to make sure it quit... (Man Rhapsody better do something about having no commandline news-reader, I've been waiting 6 years for one...) > 2. what values should I enter in pine's setup/configure? Well, it doesn't really matter all that much.... If you want easy access to the Mail.app mailboxes you need to make links from the 'mbox' file within the 'mbox' wrapper to wherever the PINE mailboxes are (usually ~/mail). IE if you want access to the Active.mbox you should do this in Terminal.app: cd ~/mail ; ln -s ../Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox ../mail/active I wrote a little script to find all your Mail.app mailboxes and try to help setup PINE links.... it's probably on my web page under 'mailserver' or send me mail with the SUBJECT send-help and you can get it via email... Oh, you might want to set PINE's outgoing mailbox to the same as Mail.app's, but I wouldn't because it will muck with the table_of_contents in the outgoing.mbox.... just keep them separate.... and you do not want to 'auto move read messages' ie from /usr/spool/mail/yourname to Active.mbox because that will also cause TOC problems.... email me if you have more questions TjL
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: 12 Jun 1997 14:44:46 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np20u$fsk@fu-berlin.de> References: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Cc: atl2@lehigh.edu In <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > Hi all, > > I know this one comes around regularly...I even kept an archive of old > posts in anticipation of the arrival this week of my PPro system with a > 4MB Matrox Millenium. But I can't seem to figure out what I need to do. > > The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the > WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT > 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory > mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my system. > The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, nor > how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in > system panics on boot-up. > > Help, anyone? I had the same problem. Swapping this card with another Matrox 4MB worked for me. Now the card is in a WinNT machine and works in all resolutions Strange, I know. Maybe it is a hardware problem (defective card, slot, etc ...) Ciao, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rob@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HP JetDirect Printer on NS3.0 -- can it be done? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 09:54:17 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970612093709.270A-100000@rjacobs.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm wondering if I can hook up an HP printer with a JetDirect ethernet interface to an old black station running 3.0. Has anyone done it? Clearly it's not standard. What are my options? Thanks. Robert
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.sun.admin Subject: lockd errors in Solaris when accessing Next NFS files Date: 12 Jun 1997 22:30:52 GMT Organization: UCSF, ITS Message-ID: <5nptas$kcm@itssrv1.ucsf.edu> The following errors occur in my Solaris console when I trying to run an data analysis program there that accesses Next NFS files. The files are Next files and are mounted on Solaris. They are generally usable, thanks to some of you suggesting I reconcile the read and write block size between the Next and Sun. Anyway, I have no trouble reading and writing the files with programs like the editor and vi, but when it comes to this particular data analysis program the errors occur. Is this due to incompatibility between the NFS versions that Solaris and Nextstep use? Jun 12 13:48:14 eclipse lockd[113]: create_client: no name for inet address 0xF09E7D18 Jun 12 13:48:14 eclipse lockd[113]: nlm1_call: RPC: Program not registered Thanks. Karen Vranizan
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940 AU Date: 12 Jun 1997 23:06:12 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5npvd4$3b3$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <5no1dn$sqm$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) writes: >Hi there, >we just got a new Pentium computer on which we wanted to install Nextstep >3.3. Unfortunately, it seems that the driver for the SCSI Adapter does not >work. The Adapter is a new Adaptec 2940AU. We are using the driver version >3.37, downloaded from Nextanswers several weeks ago. During install, we >receive an error message saying "Cannot get config space, no SCSI adapter >found". >Any help would be appreciated. >Markus Add 0x61789004 to the Auto Detect IDs" for the Adaptec Device. kai -- Software Engineer email: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca url: http://web.cs.mun.ca/~kwong/ PGP fingerprint <1B 67 F5 6C C4 44 4F 87 52 F7 61 C7 8E D0 36 40> finger kwong@plato.ucs.mun.ca to get PGP public key.
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP! weird emacs behavior Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:21:04 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:21:04 GMT I'm running OpenStep on black hardware and sporadically I have been getting a problem when starting up emacs, which bombs out with the message "Illegal instruction" and screws up the tty (no character echo on input and no carriage return, just linefeeds). Any further attempts to run that copy of emacs will cause the same problem on other ttys too. But here's the really weird thing: if I run another copy of the executable (e.g. from the cd-rom) it runs fine. I have now taken to keeping a copy that I named emacs.clean on my disk drive and every time I get this problem (it happened twice today) I just cp it to /usr/bin/emacs and thenceforth everything runs fine (until the next time it happens!) The number of bytes on the screwed up copy of emacs is identical to the clean copy. Can anyone suggest an explanation for this bizarre behavior? Could I have a failing disk drive here? (But if so why would it affect only this program?) Thanks. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: lappe@neurobiologie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Markus Lappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: NextStep Installation Problems Date: 13 Jun 1997 05:57:08 GMT Organization: Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Rechenzentrum Message-ID: <5nqnfk$q61$1@sun579.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Hi, Thanks you all for the many prompt answers I received to my question about how to get the new Adaptec 2940AU to work. Indeed, it was only necessary to add 0x61789004 to the Auto Detect IDs in the defaults.table (and in the instance0.table, too!). However, surely we got subsequently stuck with another problem. Apparently NextStep cannot make a connection to the serial (mouse) port during booting. We receive an error message saying that it cannot reserve IRQ4 and that SerialPort0 is not a valid device. Does anybody know what this might be? Thanks again, Markus
From: root@127.0.0.1 (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Phantom Printer Queue! Date: 13 Jun 1997 06:04:14 GMT Organization: Center for NEXTSTEP Research Message-ID: <5nqnsu$t06@tofu.alt.net> My NeXTcube used to have a NeXT laser printer connected to it until I recently moved it to my NeXTstation. Now, it seems, that I am unable to remove the queue for the NeXT laser in PrintManager. The NeXT laser queue in PrintManager is dimmed and as a result I cannot delete it from PrintManager. I tried manually removing it using NetinfoMangager but every time I reboot my NeXTcube it reappears. Does NEXTSTEP 3.3pl1 require a default print queue in PrintManager? Has anybody else experienced this? How can I remove the print queue? Regards.
From: root@127.0.0.1 (Charlie Root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sending email via PPP and sendmail.mailhost.cf Date: 13 Jun 1997 06:15:08 GMT Organization: Center for Space Research Message-ID: <5nqohc$7l@tofu.alt.net> My NeXTcube connects via PPP to my internet providor. I am using sendmail 8.8.5 and the NeXT supplied sendmail.mailhost.cf. The problem I am having is that I can't send email within my domain because sendmail thinks that I am the mailhost and doesn't forward the email to my internet providor. All other email is sent to it's appropriate destination. I am aware of the "hack" option that Francois Magnan has developed and I don't like that solution. It seems that there must be an easy sendmail rule which can solve this problem. Any ideas? Regards.
From: decoy_id@no_junk_on_the.net (L e e Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Sending email via PPP and sendmail.mailhost.cf Date: 13 Jun 1997 09:25:02 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5nr3le$a1e$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> References: <5nqohc$7l@tofu.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: root@127.0.0.1 In <5nqohc$7l@tofu.alt.net> Charlie Root wrote: > > My NeXTcube connects via PPP to my internet providor. I am using > sendmail 8.8.5 and the NeXT supplied sendmail.mailhost.cf. > > The problem I am having is that I can't send email within my domain > because sendmail thinks that I am the mailhost and doesn't forward > the email to my internet providor. All other email is sent to it's > appropriate destination. > > I am aware of the "hack" option that Francois Magnan has developed > and I don't like that solution. It seems that there must be an easy > sendmail rule which can solve this problem. > > Any ideas? This works just fine: On Mon, 31 Mar 97, jth9904@pop.tamu.edu wrote: Modify your sendmail's config file so the rule that looks like this: R$*<@$*$=m>$* $1<@$2LOCAL>$4 convert local domain is commented out. Mail to <user>@tamu.edu will be processed properly. -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100, Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenXber@mhpXcc.edu <Delete the "X"s; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~Xaltenber/ <Delete the "X"> =======================================================================
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: why does DECchip 21140 think it's a 21040? Date: 13 Jun 1997 15:17:25 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5nroa5$t12$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: Cogent EM 110, DECchip 21104, DECchip 21040 Hi, I have an interesting situation. Here is the story. The fellow in the next office just bought a new Dell OptiPlex GXpro 6200 (a pentium pro 200). It came with a built-in 3Com PCI 10/100 ethernet adapter (3C90x ?). He wanted to see if OPENSTEP 4.1 ran well on this system, so I told him I'd help him check it out. I had heard that this 3Com ethernet adapter was not (yet) supported under OPENSTEP, so we disabled it in the BIOS. We loaded OPENSTEP and all went well. I had an extra Cogent EM 110 (PCI 10/100) ethernet card, which uses the DECchip 21140. This card works fine on our DEC pentium pros, so I thought we could try it in the Dell. For some reason the Dell thinks it's a DECchip 21040 rather than a 21140. If we use Configure.app to load either the Cogent EM 110 driver or the DECchip 21140 driver, we get the following message during the reboot: DECchip 21140: unsupported PCI hardware However, if we use the DECchip 21040 driver, everything seems to work. We're not really complaining, since the ethernet card works this way, but we do find it curious. Has anyone else seen this? Are we doing something wrong? We installed the card and then used Configure.app to load the driver. Do we need to reverse this (use Configure.app to load the driver and then install the card)? Also, does the card have to go in a particular PCI slot? The messages during boot look like: DECchip 21040: PCI Dev: 11 Func: 0 Bus: 1 Registering en0 DECchip 21040 based adapter at port 0xec80 irq 10 interface TP One last question. Configure.app does not mention an IRQ being used, but booting gives this message about IRQ 10. This seems strange. Any comments would be welcome. Thanks in advance. Gregg =========================== Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: lacsap@bait.media.mit.edu (Pascal Chesnais) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: thinkpad 560 display driver Date: 12 Jun 1997 16:00:26 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Distribution: world Message-ID: <5np6eq$rnu@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> I just got myself a thinkpad 560 active matrix display. I tried the display driver from nextanswers but it does not seem to work: It detects the display adaptor (says chipversion 66) and then it gives an error "Unsupported PCI hardware" and proceeds to load the default VGA driver. Any one else have this problem? pasc
From: ashrafi@mit.edu (Babak Razzaghe Ashrafi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: thousand of input packets per second!? Date: 13 Jun 1997 14:38:01 GMT Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology Message-ID: <5nrm09$8md@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> The network monitor on KPerMon has been maxed out on my NeXTstation for a few days. Netstat shows thousands of input packets per second, hundreds of errors, no collisions. Although everything, including ping, NewsGrazer, Apache httpd, and OmniWeb seem to be working normally, I would like to be sure that nothing has gone wrong on my machine, especially (horrors!) hardware. Thanks for any advice, Babak ashrafi@mit.edu
From: decoy_id@no_junk_on_the.net (L e e Altenberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cover page on print jobs Date: 14 Jun 1997 01:38:58 GMT Organization: MHPCC Message-ID: <5nssni$smb$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I finally got the modified PPD file to work for printing duplex jobs on an HP Laserjet 4 SI/MX printer. But the cover page is printed at the end of the job, instead of the beginning. The cover page prints: User: Host: Class: Job: Where is this cover page created? I couldn't find any entries that refer to the cover page or its entries in HP_LaserJet_4Si%4SiMX_PS_600dpi.ppd or HP_LaserJet_4SiMX_Duplex_600DPI.ppd How can I get the cover page to be printed at the beginning? How can I alter its contents? -- ======================================================================= Lee Altenberg, Ph.D. Research Affiliate, University of Hawai`i at Manoa Office: Maui High Performance Computing Center 550 Lipoa Parkway, Suite 100, Kihei, Maui HI 96753 Phone: (808) 879-5077 x 296 (work), (808) 879-5018 (fax) E-mail: altenXber@mhpXcc.edu <Delete the "X"s; done to stop junk e-mail> Web: http://pueo.mhpcc.edu/~Xaltenber/ <Delete the "X"> =======================================================================
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (B. N. Bondoc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 13 Jun 1997 22:01:26 -0400 Organization: McGill University Computing Centre Message-ID: <x7zpsurlhl.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Hello, I would appreciate a thread of discussion on this I am new to perl thanks nick
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 13 Jun 1997 20:14:12 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> Hi, Could someone provide some suggestions on how I should go about connecting my NeXT Cube to my ISP with a ppp connection? Ah, I have a fresh install of NS 3.3 User/Dev. Ah, also have another cube. So in addition at some point I'd like to get these two machines to talk to each other as well. Ah, I don't have time to read a research paper on exactly what ppp and slip are. What I'd like would be a set of readings explaining how to set up my network, which IP addresses I should use for the two boxes, which NeXT Tools should be used for various administrative tasks. That or just some email advice. Thanks, Emmett
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: Test ignore Message-ID: <EBqz0t.Fzv@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 03:58:04 GMT test -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: test ignore Message-ID: <EBr30C.H14@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 05:24:12 GMT test -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
From: peis290731@aol.com (PEis290731) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Dual Booting Date: 14 Jun 1997 11:41:07 GMT Message-ID: <19970614114101.HAA29407@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL Bertelsmann Online GmbH & Co. KG http://www.germany.aol.com References: <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Hi Darryl, one solution for your problem is to boot into NT 4.0 and start the diskmanager. There you have to set the NS partition activ. The next time you will boot into NS. There you must log in as root. As the user root, type this command in a Terminal window: disk -B0 /usr/standalone/i386/boot0 /dev/rsd0a If you're using an IDE disk, substitute /dev/rhd0a for /dev/rsd0a. Note: You must execute this command as root. Incorrectly typing this command can have serious repercussions. Use caution when logged in as root. Hope this helps, Peter
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: samba and printer export Date: 14 Jun 1997 12:23:41 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I would like to export my next laser printer from samba but can't seem to get it working. Could someone share their config file from samba that allows the standard laser printer to be exported? thanks vince
From: Tony Scott<summer@laoffices.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Distributors Wanted NOW!! Date: 14 Jun 1997 15:07:04 GMT Organization: World Wide Pants Promotion Message-ID: <5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Hi, This is a Solicitation Email, we are looking for new TUFF'97 DISTRIBUTORS. TUFF'97 is a promotional concept for a prospect follow-up system called "Simple Track". Software designed for Windows 95, 3.11 and NT machines. (Macintosh users read the NOTE below(*)) Concept: The TUFF'97 software includes a copy of Simple Track, so you can use this for your own personal administration (free). However, the TUFF'97 software is designed to give you BIG TIME credits for just taking the efforts to PROMOTE it. How do I get those credits?. Easy, just distribute/promote it. How? (Give away the software for free, put it on your website/homepage and let everyone download it. Give it to your friends, attach it by email etc). With a one time $40.00 (USD) validation code purchase, YOUR name becomes part of all sofware you sent out to your customers. When your TUFF'97 software gets validated, all your personal information is automatically integrated in the software, so everyone knows how to reach you by phone/fax or email and where to sent the check/money or cash orders. Basically this is the concept. Offcourse you need the software to grasp the whole thing. Believe it, there is absolutely no marketing knowledge required, just ask for the software package, join and start promoting your own TUFF'97 line. The only thing you DO need is a PC or Mac(*) and Internet. (*) TUFF'97 is only available for MacOS users running Connectix VirtualPC or Insignia's Sofwindows 95/3.11. A true MacOS version is not available. When you're interested in becoming a TUFF'97 distributor and create your own distribution line, sent a mailto:FiReStArTeR@frodo.com and ask for your copy of the TUFF software (We'll sent you a download location and install instructions). This is a serious opportunity, so only serious responses are processed. If you're not interested, have a nice day. Best Regards, Tony Scott Worldwide Pants Promotions 24H Support/Download requests, mailto:FiReStArTeR@frodo.com voice:(+01)779 698 4655 Fax :(+01)779 698 4555
From: rbraver@ohww.norman.ok.us Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Date: 14 Jun 1997 17:40:06 GMT Control: cancel <5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Message-ID: <cancel.5nuc2o$84p$7664@cadmium.aware.nl> Sender: Tony Scott<summer@laoffices.com> Spam cancelled. Notice ID: 19970614.03. See news.admin.net-abuse.announce or http://spam.ohww.norman.ok.us/spam_notices/19970614.03.html for complete report. Original Subject: Distributors Wanted NOW!!
From: mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Dithering on 12Bit color displays Date: 14 Jun 1997 11:37:56 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5nuoe4$l4@mpaque.mpaque> References: <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> In article <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> mandler@dbag.ulm.DaimlerBenz.COM (Eberhard Mandler) writes: > Is there a possibility to avoid dithering in case of viewing 24Bit color > images with a 12 Bit video card? Not if you use the WindowServer to do the depth conversion for you. You could write a bit of code to convert your 24 bit image into a 4 bit per channel RGB image using your favorite depth conversion algorithm. Put the resulting 12 bit per pixel image in an NSBitmapImageRep object, and composite it to a window. You'll get the best performance if you pack the RGB data into 16 bit unsigned shorts, with red in the high nybble, followed by green, then blue, then 0xF in the bottom nybble. There may be some third party image manipulation apps that can do the dirty work for you. I haven't evaluated any, so I won't make a recommendation. > How can I adjust the "Gamma Correction" of a NeXTStep PC? A few PCs support gamma correction in hardware, mostly just in 8 bit pseudocolor mode. If the PC hardware supports gamma correction in the current display mode, you can use the NeXT PS extension 'setframebuffertransfer' to modify the hardware gamma. The transfer functions are stored in PostScript shared VM, so you'll need to do 'true setshared' before setting the new transfer functions. For a gamma of 1.6, the pft session to set the gamma looks like: % pft Connection to PostScript established. true setshared { 1 1.6 div exp } dup dup {} 0 setframebuffertransfer Here's the relevent documentation: setframebuffertransfer redproc greenproc blueproc grayproc fbnum setframebuffertransfer - Warning: This operator should only be used for the development of screen-calibration products. Sets the framebuffer transfer functions in effect for the framebuffer indexed by fbnum. fbnum ranges from 0 to countframebuffers-1. The framebuffer transfer describes the relationship between the framebuffer values of the display, and the voltage produced to drive the monitor. The initial four operands define the transfer procedures: Monochrome devices use grayproc (but see the Note below), color devices use the others. The procedures must be allocated in shared virtual memory. In addition, the Window Server assumes that the framebuffer values are directly proportional to screen brightness. This is important for the accuracy of dithering, compositing, and similar calculations. The default transfer for NeXT Color Displays is { 1 2.2 div exp } bind dup dup {} Note: setframebuffertransfer is unsupported on the current generation of NeXT monochrome displays. It's possible to make framebuffer transfer functions persist beyond the lifetime of the Window Server by storing a property in the NetInfo screens database. In the local NetInfo domain, /localconfig/screens holds the configuration information for the screens known to the Window Server (MegaPixel, NeXTdimension, and so on). These specify the layout and activation state of the screen. The NetInfo defaultTransfer property can contain a string of PostScript code suitable for execution by the setframebuffertransfer operator (without the fbnum parameter). For example, the following represents the NetInfo configuration for a NeXTdimension screen with a default gamma of 2.0: localhost:1# niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/NeXTdimension name: NeXTdimension slot: 2 unit: 0 defaultTransfer: {1 2.0 div exp } dup dup dup bounds: 0 1120 0 832 active: 1 _writers: * The defaultTransfer property is used to configure the screen each time the Window Server starts up. This allows monitor calibration products to save their settings so the next time the Window Server starts up, the new values will be used. Note that in some cases, the NetInfo configuration state for a monitor will not have active equal to 1, although the monitor is being used by the Window Server. If there are no active screens (screens that are explicitly marked as being active), the Window Server uses a suitable default, however, the other NetInfo properties for that screen are ignored. Thus, you must be sure that the screen for which you are adding a defaultTransfer value has active set to 1. -- Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: NS4.0 exabyte 8505 dump paraaters Message-ID: <EBrB1y.Bvu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <EBKwu8.EqB@ceco.ceco.com> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 08:17:58 GMT In article <EBKwu8.EqB@ceco.ceco.com> echu@bpo-ess.ceco.com (Eric Chu) writes: > Hello all, > > silly question. > Yes, indeed :-) > when i try to do a full system dump to my exabyte tape drive, NS4.0 > comes back and says i need 15 8mm tapes to do a 1gb backup. > So....what parameters am i missing? What should i set my > block size to be? > The man-page on 'dump' shows parameters 's' and 'd' for size and density of tape. They are remainders from the time of tape reels. You have to compute what size a tape reel would have if it had the capacity of your cassette and specify the parameters accordingly. -- 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: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Best ppp ? ppp2.2, Gatekeeper, or MorningStarPPP ? Compatibility ? Date: 14 Jun 1997 14:07:35 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nv16n$igi@slip.net> Hi, I'm interested in recommendations as to what is the best ppp package for NS 3.3 on blackhardware. Ah, I'd like to get going with ppp soon which means that one of the public packages, ppp2.2 or Gatekeeper is best suited to my immediate needs, but since I have TTYDSP, I'm considering purchasing MorningStarPPP. Ah, will MorningStarPPP be incompatible with either ppp2.2 or Gatekeeper? Thanks, Emmett
From: alex@guava.phil.lehigh.edu (Alex Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: GSPrintFilter and Netware Printers? Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:21:07 GMT Message-ID: <5nv203$22rk@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Hi all, The subject line says it all. Can it be done? I have had no success so far... Cheers! Alex -- Alexander Levine Philosophy Department Lehigh University ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <14012865742421@digifix.com> Date: 15 Jun 1997 03:57:19 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Topics include: Stepwise NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information WWW site eduSTEP WWW site NeXT Computer, Inc. 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From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't find "/usr" in File Viewer Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:49:53 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> How to I get the File Viewer to display the files in /usr/bin? On the command line I can cd to / do an ls and see /usr, but I can't click on the leftmost broswer and see /usr eventhough File Viewer sees other directories such as /LocalApps. Ah, I want to put some application icons on the desktop and can't get to their icons. Thanks, Emmett
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to register an application with Librarian Date: 14 Jun 1997 21:55:23 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5nvsjr$dcb@slip.net> References: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> Hi, How does one register the documentation of a package with Librarian? For example, I just installed co-Xist on NS 3.3 and when I search on xterm in Librarian nothing appears. However, co-Xist does have a documentation directory. Similarly I can't find documentation there on other common things like PPP. I recall reading a post which said the doc on PPP through Librarian was pretty good. Thanks, Emmett
From: chrisj@bellatlantic.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Cheerleaders are so sweet...! Date: 15 Jun 1997 08:58:41 GMT Organization: Bell Atlantic Message-ID: <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Hey, just thought i'd share with everyone, I found a site with loads of nude CHEERLEADERs. The address is: http://www.mid-night.com --Jason-- (Sorry for the intrusion, everyone needs some short skirts in their life) P.S. They also a have spanish / latina women archive
From: rupert@noir.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't find "/usr" in File Viewer Date: 15 Jun 1997 09:49:44 GMT Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net Message-ID: <5o0dro$4uj$1@news.inc.net> References: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: How to I get the File Viewer to display the files in /usr/bin? On the command line I can cd to / do an ls and see /usr, but I can't click on the leftmost broswer and see /usr eventhough File Viewer sees other directories such as /LocalApps. Ah, I want to put some application icons on the desktop and can't get to their icons... ---------------------------------------------- Oh, my. I'm sorry, but if you're a Mac user we're not allowed to tell you that. Remember, "UNIX Bad. Icons Good". Plus, why in the world would you want to put standard UNIX apps on your File Viewer Shelf? The Apple policy is: "Don't ask, don't tell" remember? Bad, bad, bad, curious boy! You're not supposed to **see** any of those nasty UNIX things... (which, is btw the default behaviour of NEXTSTEP for all you UNIXphobes - hidden UNIX) :)) Sorry, I couldn't resist. Please launch Preferences.app, which should be the 2nd app (default setting at any rate) on your Dock. Once it is up, please slide the scrollbar to the far right. You should see a "UNIX" icon. Please select it. The Pref's panel will change dynamically, and you will have the notice under the File System Options a check-off the box marked UNIX Expert. Please give it a check mark. If you will now return to your File Viewer, you shall see "/usr", probably right under "/tmp". I hope this helps you. You may want to read the brief on-line help for Preferences.app while you are there - it is really quite handy. Please, now would all the kind Mac folks now at least acknowledge that NeXT **tried** to make the user experience as simple, clean and pleasurable as the Macintosh? From all the vehement posts I've read lately, one would think that Steve & Co. had set out to purposely piss off Mac fans, when in fact he rarely attempted to "reinvent the wheel", as it where... Uggh. (not directed at Mr. McLean's post) -- Hans Rupert <rupert@noir.net> Direktor noir
From: chrisj@bellatlantic.net Organization: Bell Atlantic Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Control: cancel <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> References: <5o0as1$go1$154@nw001.infi.net> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:04:13 +1 EMP/ECP spam cancelled by hweede@berlin.snafu.de. This is an ongoing spam whose Breidbart index already is above 20. See my report "www.mid-night.com" or "summary of auto-cancellations" in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Subject was: Cheerleaders are so sweet...!.
From: NOSPAM.michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (Michael Pieper, remove 'NOSPAM.' for reply) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior Date: 15 Jun 1997 12:23:04 GMT Organization: I.N.-Regionaldomain oche.de, Aachen, Germany Message-ID: <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> References: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) wrote: >I'm running OpenStep on black hardware and sporadically I have been >getting a problem when starting up emacs, which bombs out with the >message "Illegal instruction" and screws up the tty (no character echo >on input and no carriage return, just linefeeds). Any further >attempts to run that copy of emacs will cause the same problem on >other ttys too. But here's the really weird thing: if I run another >copy of the executable (e.g. from the cd-rom) it runs fine. I have >now taken to keeping a copy that I named emacs.clean on my disk drive >and every time I get this problem (it happened twice today) I just cp >it to /usr/bin/emacs and thenceforth everything runs fine (until the >next time it happens!) The number of bytes on the screwed up copy of >emacs is identical to the clean copy. Why don't you try a 'cmp emacs.clean /usr/bin/emacs' to see, if the original version is corrupted? Michael -- Michael Pieper, Bluecherplatz 14, D-52068 Aachen, Tel. : +49 - (0)241 - 902455 Fax: +49 - (0)241 - 902456 Mail : michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de (NeXTmail and MIME welcome) PGP : Public Key on demand
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 05:24:01 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nvu9h$68v$3@bashir.peak.org> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <x7zpsurlhl.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca In <x7zpsurlhl.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca> B. N. Bondoc wrote: > Hello, > > > I would appreciate a thread of discussion on this > I am new to perl You might start here: http://www.omnigroup.com/MailArchive/next-prog/1993/1622.html (it's obviously old but might be some help) there's also this http://www.next.com/WebObjects/Extras/Perl-5.002.pkg.compressed which isn't the version you wanted either.... and ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/devtools/Perl5.0002.NISH.b.tar.gz isn't it either.... v 5.001 is what ships with 4.1, if that means anything to you.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to register an application with Librarian Date: 15 Jun 1997 05:27:33 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5nvug5$68v$4@bashir.peak.org> References: <5nvs9h$d1f@slip.net> <5nvsjr$dcb@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5nvsjr$dcb@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > How does one register the documentation of a package > with Librarian? If it has a bookshelf, open that, otherwise add the index to your Notepad or whatever it is called... > Similarly I can't find documentation there on > other common things like PPP. I recall reading a post > which said the doc on PPP through Librarian was > pretty good. That would only be under 4.x, release notes has a section on PPP TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Cover page on print jobs Message-ID: <EBtqB2.5s5@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5nssni$smb$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 15:42:38 GMT In article <5nssni$smb$1@kaopala.mhpcc.edu> decoy_id@no_junk_on_the.net (Lee Altenberg) writes: > I finally got the modified PPD file to work for printing duplex > jobs on an HP Laserjet 4 SI/MX printer. But the cover page is > printed at the end of the job, instead of the beginning. The cover > page prints: > > User: > Host: > Class: > Job: > > Where is this cover page created? I couldn't find any entries that > refer to the cover page or its entries in > HP_LaserJet_4Si%4SiMX_PS_600dpi.ppd or > HP_LaserJet_4SiMX_Duplex_600DPI.ppd > > How can I get the cover page to be printed at the beginning? How > can I alter its contents? I recollect this from memory, the system with NeXTlaser isn't accessible right now, sorry. It seems to me that I ran into such control parameters when I browsed the rather extensive tree in the 'printers' directory of the NetInfo database. I propose to look there for clues. And not only the leaves hold properties! The reason for the control sheet to be printed last is certainly a consequence of the NeXTlaser to eject the pages face up. Thus the last page printed is visible when you look at the tray. -- 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: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior Date: 15 Jun 1997 20:41:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5o1k1d$9po@news.tamu.edu> References: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jun 1997 20:41:17 GMT Michael Pieper, remove 'NOSPAM.' for reply <NOSPAM.michael@nexus1.tng.oche.de> wrote: >Why don't you try a 'cmp emacs.clean /usr/bin/emacs' to see, if the original >version is corrupted? Jolly good idea---I'll do it next time I get a problem. I've been using unix for over a dozen years now and never knew of cmp. That's why I love these newsgroups. Thanks! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Frederic SAVOIR <fsavoir@dial.oleane.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: My original Openstep Device Drivers Disk Prerelease 4.2 is dead ! Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 23:22:31 +0200 Organization: Guest of OLEANE - PIPEX International Message-ID: <33A45D17.1BB72D66@dial.oleane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I received my Openstep for Mach (Intel) 4.2 prerelease 2 (Prelude to Rhapsody) but my second floppy disk is dead which is the Openstep device drivers disk prerelease 2.... Thus I can't install the software... If some got the same disk and could send it to me by Email (in raw format) or if someone knows where to get it.. please let me know because I would like to install it as soon as possible. Sincerely, Fred -- Email: Frederic SAVOIR <fsavoir@dialup.fdn.fr>
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 19:54:57 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5o1hah$68v$6@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I found perl5.003 compiled quadfat on my system. Of course I don't have any idea about the libraries, etc thou.... I must have downloaded it from somewhere..... If someone can tell me the other parts of the package, I can try and rebuild it (ie I'm guessing there's more than just the executable). TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: bchin@NOSPAM.richmond.freedomnet.com (Bill Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Novell support dropped in 4.x? Say it isn't so... Date: 16 Jun 1997 04:15:23 GMT Organization: FreedomNet - Your Full Service Internet Provider Message-ID: <5o2ekr$2d7$1@news.freedomnet.com> References: <5nno6f$25s8@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: >Of course, on installing 4.1 on the new system, I noticed that >/NextAdmin/NetWareManager.app doesn't exist. Yup... OPENSTEP 4.0 and 4.1 do *not* have Netware support. You might try installing /usr/netware and the NetwareManager from 3.3 or whatever earlier release you own to see if it works. I tried and didn't get very far (but that could have been due to other reasons). >Someone please tell me I am having a bad dream. Has the Netware support >simply been removed from the NeXT CDs? If so, where do I turn? There is a Netware package in OPENSTEP 4.2 so there's hope, but it's another $299 for 4.2. Haven't tried it yet though. -- Bill Chin - bchin@richmond.freedomnet.com - NeXTmail/MIME welcomed
From: Melissa O'Neill <NoOnSePiAlMl@cs.sfu.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 15 Jun 1997 23:53:44 -0700 Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Message-ID: <5o2nto$8sh@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> Summary: Ditch 5.003, use 5.004 Jim Freeman <freeman@cornell-iowa.edu> writes: > I have been using perl 5.003 on 3.3 black for some time without problem. > I needed to compile perl again, and I am having significant problems [...] > > Would anyone be willing to send me the configure.sh file you used to > successfully compile perl 5.003? The current version of Perl is 5.004, which has numerous bug-fixes, including fixes for some problems with NEXTSTEP installs (although I don't ever remember seeing the problems thats seem to plague when I did 5.003). Anyway, since 5.004 compiles out of the box on NeXTs, I suggest you try with that. If it doesn't work, something is probably broken elsewhere. Melissa. --- Should you wish to send an e-mail reply to this message, you must remove `N O S P A M' from my e-mail address. 'orrible, ain't it.
From: michal@gortel.phys.ualberta.ca (Michal Jaegermann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programming Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programming Date: 15 Jun 1997 16:58:53 GMT Organization: Disorganized Bits Message-ID: <5o170d$ar8$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> freeman@cornell-iowa.edu wrote: : I have been using perl 5.003 on 3.3 black for some time without problem. I : needed to compile perl again, and I am having significant problems with the : compilation. Why would anybody bother with recompiling 5.003 when 5.004 is out for some time? Everything what I did was './Configure ; make ; make test ; make install' and it worked without any problems (black 3.2). I did have some trouble when compiling 5.003 a while ago, although I worked around. Michal
From: andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Need alpha testers for simple DNS helper app Date: 16 Jun 1997 10:30:53 GMT Organization: Omni Development, Inc. Message-ID: <5o34kt$3no$2@gaea.omnigroup.com> I've whipped up a small OPENSTEP app for setting a system's domain name DNS servers, since the configuration apps that come with OPENSTEP don't provide a nice way of doing this. It's an OPENSTEP-only application (and has only been tested on OPENSTEP 4.2pr2). I'm hoping that I can get several alpha testers in the next couple of days so that I can make sure I didn't do anything stupid, after which time I'll make it publically available (including source). Preliminary guess at an open beta release is late this week. Potential alpha testers should be people who deal with /etc/resolv.conf or who set these values via NetInfoManager - typically, people using PPP or people with a lone OPENSTEP box on a non-NetInfo network. You should have some familiarity with what should be happening, so you can confirm whether or not things work as you would expect them to. Also, there's a help document that goes with this app - I'd like people to read over it and make sure that what I wrote 1) makes sense, 2) is correct, 3) doesn't leave gaping holes or lead anyone to screw up their machine. If you fit this profile and are willing to help please send me email. I plan on making this available to alpha testers sometime Monday afternoon. Also, if you are available and potentially willing to localize this app (for free), please note that fact - this app is targeted at new OPENSTEP users (especially the current flood from the Macintosh market), and I'd like the app to be as friendly as possible to other languages. -- andrew_abernathy@omnigroup.com - NeXTmail & MIME ok
From: csong@tip.com.sg (Chuang Shyne Song) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 on Black 3.3 Date: 16 Jun 1997 14:41:11 GMT Organization: Tip CyberCommune Message-ID: <5o3ja7$360$1@newton.pacific.net.sg> References: <5notls$n7m$1@flood.weeg.uiowa.edu> <5o2nto$8sh@alonzo.cs.sfu.ca> More importantly, as some of you know, 5.004 fixes a security problem in suidperl (sperl) which was discussed in a CERT advisory last month. Rgds, Song
From: me_!SPAM_@traveler.uniscape.com (My Account) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Modem problems Date: 10 Jun 1997 00:57:11 GMT Organization: e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Message-ID: <5ni8p7$i3t$2@news.e-scape.net> References: <33961818.2205671@news.american.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: heywood@american.edu In /etc/ttys set ttydfa "/usr/etc/getty D19200" dialup on and in /etc/gettytab set default:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT Mach (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:\ :er=\177:kl=^U:in=^C:lm=\r\n%h login\72 :sp#19200: # # Fixed speed entries # # The "std.NNN" names are known to the special case # portselector code in getty, however they can # be assigned to any table desired. # The "NNN-baud" names are known to the special case # autobaud code in getty, and likewise can # be assigned to any table desired (hopefully the same speed). # D19200:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#19200: D38400:\ :ap:im=\r\n\r\nNeXT (%h) (%t)\r\n\r\r\n\r:sp#38400: stef In <33961818.2205671@news.american.edu> John Quentin Heywood wrote: > I am running NS 3.3pl1 on an Intel P5 box with a Hayes Optima internal > 28.8 modem, and I am having some problems I hope someone can help me > with. > > First, I have set up PPP2.2, and on booting the machine I get a > message to the effect that all is well and PPP is up and running. But > when I dial in to this machine, the modem does not answer. I have set > /etc/ttys to allow dialup on serial port A (COM1). I can dial out on > /dev/cua and /dev.cuaf. The problem is not in the modem, because ppp > works fine in WinNT on the same box. I am muy confused. Any help > would be appreciated. > > Second, I cannot get this modem to operate as a fax modem on NS. I am > using the HSD modem choice. Is that correct? If this is a specific > modem config file, can I get one for my modem? If so, where? Again, > any help will be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > John Heywood > > John Quentin Heywood * > heywood@american.edu * > Room 115 * "On the Internet, > Washington College of Law * nobody knows > American University * you're a dog" > 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW * > Washington, DC 20016-8082 * > vox: 202.274.4329 * > fax: 202.274.4365 * > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stefanos Kiakas stefanos_!SPAM_@uniscape.com Remove _!SPAM_ to email me. e-Scape Travel Magazine http://www.uniscape.com/ e-Scape Information Systems Inc. (514) 878-1084
From: abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us (Adam Bridge) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:09:50 -0700 Organization: Bridge Family Message-ID: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> I'm working with Prelude to Rhasody on an Intel box. I have an HP 5MP printer which I connect to my Mac over an AppleTalk link. I attached a parallel cable from the OPENSTEP box to the printer and have attempted to print. There's SOME form of communication when I try that because I can see the green "BUSY" light flashing but it doesn't print. I can still print from the Mac. Now part of this may be chosing the right PPD. There isn't one for the 5MP. I boldly went over to the Mac and pulled it's file across by floppy disk but I still can't print even though both ends are trying. How do I debug this? I look at Console and there's no report of errors. Thanks Adam Bridge -- Adam Bridge
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: 16 Jun 1997 16:41:34 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5o3qbu$iuj$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> Cc: abridge@wheel.dcn.davis.ca.us In <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> Adam Bridge wrote: > I'm working with Prelude to Rhasody on an Intel box. I have an HP 5MP > printer which I connect to my Mac over an AppleTalk link. I attached a > parallel cable from the OPENSTEP box to the printer and have attempted to > print. There's SOME form of communication when I try that because I can > see the green "BUSY" light flashing but it doesn't print. I can still > print from the Mac. > > Now part of this may be chosing the right PPD. There isn't one for the > 5MP. I boldly went over to the Mac and pulled it's file across by floppy > disk but I still can't print even though both ends are trying. > > How do I debug this? I look at Console and there's no report of errors. > Most likely the following is happening: 1. You have attached the printer to the Intel box over a non-handshaking cable (PS printers ofter use a CTS-DTR handshake cable, so beware) 2. Your system is sending data quite fast, this overruns the printer thus resulting in PS errors which cause a flushing to end of job. You can test it by running 'kermit' or any other serial communication program on the Intel box, and (assuming kermit, printer on second serial interface): (type this after starting kermit) set port /dev/ttyb (or your port where the printer is attached to) set speed 19200 (or your speed you are talking to the printer in baud) c (now type slowly) 0 0 moveto 600 800 lineto stroke showpage (now type return) Ctrl-Alt-] quit you should now see a page coming out of your printer with a line on it. It proves the connection is ok, only the handshake is messed up. 3. If my assumption is valid you face two choices: - get a correct cable - run a Appletalk (Localtalk) to Ethertalk router on you Mac and attach the printer using my CAPer software over Ethernet (assuming your Mac has an Ethernet interface). See the CAP homepage (accessable over my CAPer page http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html) for a suitable software router. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 16 Jun 1997 20:25:27 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a standard next laser on my black hardware and I have finally gotten samba running with some great help from Michal Jaegermann. Can someone comment on what NT drivers they are using to produce NeXT friendly postscript? I have tried a couple apple ones and a few HP and still get offending postscript dialogs on the next. thanks vince
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: 16 Jun 1997 19:57:47 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5o45rr$l6k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> <5o3qbu$iuj$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: : In <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> Adam Bridge wrote: : > I'm working with Prelude to Rhasody on an Intel box. I have an HP 5MP : > printer which I connect to my Mac over an AppleTalk link. I attached a : > parallel cable from the OPENSTEP box to the printer and have attempted to : > print. There's SOME form of communication when I try that because I can : > see the green "BUSY" light flashing but it doesn't print. I can still : > print from the Mac. : > : > Now part of this may be chosing the right PPD. There isn't one for the : > 5MP. I boldly went over to the Mac and pulled it's file across by floppy : > disk but I still can't print even though both ends are trying. : > : > How do I debug this? I look at Console and there's no report of errors. : > : Most likely the following is happening: : 1. You have attached the printer to the Intel box over a non-handshaking : cable (PS printers ofter use a CTS-DTR handshake cable, so beware) He did write something about using a parallel cable so I would rather assume he's trying to use the centronics port of his PC. My guess is that his port is not producing valid interrupts (or that the irq is misconfigured) resulting in a single byte transmission every now and then (the page might appear after some days) First: check your IRQ configuration If this does not help (some parallel ports will simply not genrate interrupt requests) try the ParallelPort replacement driver you find on ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/NeXT/hardware/driver/intel/ParallelPortDriver1.5.I.bs.tar.gz This one is capable of reverting to a polling mode when no IRQs are available from the parallel port hardware. HTH -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: "Craig Cook" <t-ccook@microsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Can't defeat auto reboot Date: 4 Jun 1997 15:59:51 GMT Organization: Microsoft Message-ID: <01bc7100$3e993d20$78b5369d@chewie.dns.microsoft.com> When I power off my color slab restarts. I've UNCHECKED the restart after power off in the prefs but it still restarts. Does anyone have a clue?
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Setting up/debuggin a local printer Date: 16 Jun 1997 21:32:21 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5o4bd5$ljc$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <abridge-1606970909510001@dcn54.dcn.davis.ca.us> <5o3qbu$iuj$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> <5o45rr$l6k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Cc: kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de In <5o45rr$l6k$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> Axel Habermann wrote: > He did write something about using a parallel cable so I would > rather assume he's trying to use the centronics port of his PC. > Hups, I missed this one. Seems driving a PS printer on a line without backchannel is not part of my mindset. :-) Sorry for the wasted space... -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: can't remember the root password Date: 16 Jun 1997 22:52:07 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I recently changed the root password after local network security break-ins on my NS3.2/Intel system and subsequently didn't have any need to use the root account. So of course, I've now forgotten the password. This is the first time I've forgotten the root password on any Unix system, and I'm not quite sure what to do about it. How can I change the root password to something new without knowing the current password and without re-installing NS completely from scratch. -Karl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Pfleger kpfleger@cs.stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/~kpfleger/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rkurhajetz@aol.com (Rkurhajetz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: question: Soundblasters for NS 3.3 - what gives ? Date: 17 Jun 1997 00:02:00 GMT Message-ID: <19970617000201.UAA25054@ladder02.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Howdy I'm attempting to sort out the mysteries of life with Soundblasters and NS 3.3 -- We have a SB 16 PnP and have been having no luck whatsoever in getting it to function with a Triton motherboard-based 166 mhz PCI system running NS 3.3 - any and all suggestions most appreciated - it appears at this point as if the entire boot process just kind of ignores the board completely - thanks again Also, is anyone aware of big time benefits ( vis-a-vis Soundblaster support ) by moving onto OpenStep 4.2 for Intel ? Bob Kurhajetz PS - please reply to work e-mail robertk@ansel.dt.navy.mil
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Date: 17 Jun 1997 02:26:35 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5o4skr$5tq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone provide some suggestions on how > I should go about connecting my NeXT Cube > to my ISP with a ppp connection? Ah, I > have a fresh install of NS 3.3 User/Dev. get ppp2.3 off peak.... or (better) get it and compile it from the PPP page > Ah, also have another cube. So in addition > at some point I'd like to get these two machines > to talk to each other as well. Ethernet crossover cable or a small hub... > Ah, I don't have time to read a research > paper on exactly what ppp and slip are. You can't get Dynamic SLIP for NS without serious backflips and convolutions... > What I'd like would be a set of readings > explaining how to set up my network, which > IP addresses I should use for the two boxes, > which NeXT Tools should be used for various > administrative tasks. That or just some > email advice. /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/ 192.42.172.1 and 192.42.172.2 are probably the IPs you'll use. SimpleNetworkStarter is the main tool to use. Read the docs first and learn about NetInfo Masters, figure out which one will be it, set that machine up with SNS and then plug the other one in. This is not my forte, so I can't offer much help beyond that.... If you can get two static IPs from your ISP life will be much simpler. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: root@snaefell.tamu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: failing disk? (Was Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior) Date: 17 Jun 1997 04:15:21 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5o530p$919@news.tamu.edu> References: <5nqlc0$gpp@news.tamu.edu> <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de> NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Jun 1997 04:15:21 GMT In article <5o0mr8$ad6$1@nexusgate.tng.oche.de>, Michael Pieper wrote: >>other ttys too. But here's the really weird thing: if I run another >>copy of the executable (e.g. from the cd-rom) it runs fine. I have >>now taken to keeping a copy that I named emacs.clean on my disk drive >>and every time I get this problem (it happened twice today) I just cp >>it to /usr/bin/emacs and thenceforth everything runs fine (until the >>next time it happens!) The number of bytes on the screwed up copy of >>emacs is identical to the clean copy. > >Why don't you try a 'cmp emacs.clean /usr/bin/emacs' to see, if the original >version is corrupted? snaefell> cmp emacs emacs.clean emacs emacs.clean differ: char 34711, line 120 Ok--so what does this mean? How can the executable copy of emacs get corrupted? Is this an early sign of disk failure? Thanks.
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: 17 Jun 1997 04:26:34 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nsfip-homebrew@mmg2.im.med.umich.edu I've got a stumper here. Two machines, one Intel, one slab. Intel has a static IP Slab does not (no I cannot get one for it) Intel has two ethernet cards, Cogent and Intel EtherExpress I have a hub and 3 "patch" cables (aka "straight"), one "crossover" cable. My Internet connection comes in to a cable modem that has a 'twisted pair' connector (looks like a phone jack plug). I am trying to connect the Intel to the slab so I can print from the Intel to the slab. If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection (the Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, I think it could work. I tried to read 'man gated' but some grey muck started leaking from my ears..... I'm not even sure that would help.... All I really need to do is be able to connect to the slab's printer.... Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html sed 's/End\ of\ sig/pithy\ quotation/g'
From: leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BuildDisk behaviour Date: 17 Jun 1997 05:39:10 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Message-ID: <5o57tu$m2i$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Can someone clue me in on the intended behaviour of BuildDisk? I'm running on 4.1 Intel. I tried to use it to install OS onto a new 2.14 Gb SCSI disk from an existing 1Gb SCSI disk. The intention was to use the 2Gb as the boot disk. I wanted a Win partition, so I used fdisk to create 141Mb space, the remaining 1867Mb as the active OS partition (only 2008Mb was available by the BIOS, hooray IBM). BuildDisk seems to format and build the disk, respecting the partitioning information, but always assuming the whole disk is OS (so I get 104% completed builds!). That's bearable... What's really crazy is BuildDisk gives you all the packages from the old disk to optionally install and generally seems to copy across the whole disk (1Gb old to 2Gb new) , but then makes a point of not copying across Drivers/i386/System.config and the Instance0 tables for the drivers, so you can't boot off the damn thing! My solution was to use BuildDisk to make the disk bootable with a minimal install and use tar to retrieve everything off tape (I had user partitions on tape that were not on the 1Gb disk, so I just restored everything). This is crazy and a friend using two IDE drives has had even more problems trying to simply duplicate one disk to another. If you are going to make a app front end, NeXT/Apple, at least make it easier to use *properly* than command line tools! Please someone tell me I've just missed the point... -- Leigh Computer Science, University of Western Australia Smith +61-9-9380-3778 leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (NeXTMail/MIME) "Home pages are the pet rock of the 90s. We all have them, we all think they're very cute. But in a few years we're going to look back and be pretty embarrassed." -- Tony Shepps <toad@pond.com> "Why wait?" -- Peter Langston
From: sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: question: Soundblasters for NS 3.3 - what gives ? Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:22:35 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5o5l0r$o73@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <19970617000201.UAA25054@ladder02.news.aol.com> Hi. for us (P166, NS3.3, SoundBlaster PnP) the following worked (after some days of trying around): newest drivers ISA/EISA Bus (v3.35) with PnP enabled, 16Bytes at 0x0, IRQ 2 SoundBlaster 16 PnP (v4.01)!! with DMA 1 and 5, 20Bytes at 0x220, IRQ 5 the second driver is for Openstep, but it works much better than all NS-drivers :-). both should be availible at next-answers. Sven
From: lkon@coli.uni-sb.de (Lars Konieczny) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: remote printer not working Date: 17 Jun 1997 12:19:25 GMT Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany. Message-ID: <5o5vcd$spf@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> References: <5nounf$4qa$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> In article <5nounf$4qa$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) writes: > In <5ngmck$62l@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> Lars Konieczny wrote: > > Sorry, I haven t mentioned that I did _niload_ the printcap data (I even > > restarted the computer). All printers do appear in the print-panel, and > > printing appears to be fine, except that no content is sent to the printer > > (although there is communication with the printer). Again, printing the > "Test" > > page from PrintManager, as well as printing from command line works fine. > > Maybe you have not unlimited the file size...put a mx#0 in your printcap > options. > What does lpq say? Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately, it doesn t change anything. I still cannot print from the PrintPanel, but printing via lpr is ok. lpq says: hu-pc1: lkon 7 > lpq avantgarde@nice 0 jobs BTW, the problem occurred after the technicians had changed the printer names and the printserver. Adapting the printcap database (and niloading) didn t help ... Still more ideas? Thanks, Lars -- NewsGrazer, a NeXTstep(tm) news reader, posting -- M>UQR=&8P7&%N<VE[7&9O;G1T8FQ<9C!<9G-W:7-S($AE;'9E=&EC83M]"EQM M87)G;#$R,`I<;6%R9W(Q,C`*7'!A<F1<='@U,S-<='@Q,#8W7'1X,38P,5QT M>#(Q,S5<='@R-C8X7'1X,S(P,EQT>#,W,S9<='@T,C<P7'1X-#@P,UQT>#4S M,S=<9C!<8C!<:3!<=6QN;VYE7&9S,C1<9F,P7&-F,"!);B!A<G1I8VQE(#PU M;F]U;F8D-'%A)#%`;W)I<W1A+FEP8RYU;FDM='5E8FEN9V5N+F1E/B!F<F%N M:T!T:&ES+DY/7U-004TN;F5T("A&<F%N:R!-+B!3:65G97)T*2!W<FET97,Z M7`H^($EN(#PU;F=M8VLD-C)L0&AA9&5S+G)Z+G5N:2US8BYD93X@3&%R<R!+ M;VYI96-Z;GD@=W)O=&4Z7`H^(#X@4V]R<GDL($D@:&%V96X@="!M96YT:6]N M960@=&AA="!)(&1I9"!?;FEL;V%D7R!T:&4@<')I;G1C87`@9&%T82`H22!E M=F5N("!<"CX@/B!R97-T87)T960@=&AE(&-O;7!U=&5R*2X@06QL('!R:6YT M97)S(&1O(&%P<&5A<B!I;B!T:&4@<')I;G0M<&%N96PL(&%N9"`@7`H^(#X@ M<')I;G1I;F<@87!P96%R<R!T;R!B92!F:6YE+"!E>&-E<'0@=&AA="!N;R!C M;VYT96YT(&ES('-E;G0@=&\@=&AE('!R:6YT97(@(%P*/B`^("AA;'1H;W5G M:"!T:&5R92!I<R!C;VUM=6YI8V%T:6]N('=I=&@@=&AE('!R:6YT97(I+B!! M9V%I;BP@<')I;G1I;F<@=&AE(%P*/B`B5&5S="(@(%P*/B`^('!A9V4@9G)O M;2!0<FEN=$UA;F%G97(L(&%S('=E;&P@87,@<')I;G1I;F<@9G)O;2!C;VUM M86YD(&QI;F4@=V]R:W,@9FEN92X@7`H^(%P*/B!-87EB92!Y;W4@:&%V92!N M;W0@=6YL:6UI=&5D('1H92!F:6QE('-I>F4N+BYP=70@82!M>",P(&EN('EO M=7(@<')I;G1C87`@7`H^(&]P=&EO;G,N(%P*/B!7:&%T(&1O97,@;'!Q('-A M>3]<"EP*5&AA;FMS(&9O<B!T:&4@:&EN="X@56YF;W)T=6YA=&5L>2P@:70@ M9&]E<V["="!C:&%N9V4@86YY=&AI;F<N($D@<W1I;&P@8V%N;F]T('!R:6YT M(&9R;VT@=&AE(%!R:6YT4&%N96PL(&)U="!P<FEN=&EN9R!V:6$@;'!R(&ES M(&]K+EP*7`IL<'$@<V%Y<SI<"EP*:'4M<&,Q.B!L:V]N(#<@/B!L<'%<"F%V M86YT9V%R9&5`;FEC92`@,"!J;V)S7`I<"D)45RP@=&AE('!R;V)L96T@;V-C M=7)R960@869T97(@=&AE('1E8VAN:6-I86YS(&AA9"!C:&%N9V5D('1H92!P M<FEN=&5R(&YA;65S(&%N9"!T:&4@<')I;G1S97)V97(N($%D87!T:6YG('1H M92!P<FEN=&-A<"!D871A8F%S92`H86YD(&YI;&]A9&EN9RD@9&ED;L)T(&AE M;'`@+BXN7`I<"@I<<&%R9%QT>#4R,%QT>#$P-C!<='@Q-C`P7'1X,C$R,%QT M>#(V-C!<='@S,C`P7'1X,S<R,%QT>#0R-C!<='@T.#`P7'1X-3,R,%QF8S!< M8V8P(%-T:6QL(&UO<F4@:61E87,_7`I<"E1H86YK<RQ<"EP*3&%R<UP*"GT* `
From: Serge Smadja <serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Drivers, more Drivers are needed Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 16:50:23 +0200 Organization: EDF - DER/IMA/ICI/ODI Message-ID: <33A6A42F.2577BC9F@der.edfgdf.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello All, I have installed OpenStep 4.1 on a G6 200XL from Gateway 2000, however my graphic adapter is a STB Virge velocity 3D and my network adapter is a 3COM Etherlink III PCI (PCI is very important) and it seems that there aren't adequate drivers on the CD or on the Next Site. Any help would be appriciated. Does anybody knows if those drivers will be available anytime soon. Thanks. -- Serge Smadja EDF - Direction des Etudes et Recherches - FRANCE Ingénieur Chercheur - Département Ingénierie de la Communication en Informatique Groupe Outils de Dialogue pour l'Informatique Tél : +33 (0)1 47 65 31 31 fax : +33 (0)1 47 65 35 23 email : serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:21:24 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617101953.5497M-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Karl Pfleger <kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/vfaq/no-password.html I wrote: Goto the ROM Monitor and then boot into Single User mode , then start NetInfo with this command sh /etc/rc & . Use the nu -m command to modify the root password, and reboot the machine! Easy as cake! TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk behaviour Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:27:06 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617102258.5497N-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Leigh Smith <leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <5o57tu$m2i$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> On 17 Jun 1997, Leigh Smith wrote: > What's really crazy is BuildDisk gives you all the packages from the old disk > to optionally install and generally seems to copy across the whole disk (1Gb > old to 2Gb new) , but then makes a point of not copying across > Drivers/i386/System.config and the Instance0 tables for the drivers, so you > can't boot off the damn thing! To quote someone who knows a lote more about this than me: "BuildDisk really doesn't work at all for Intel hardware". Yes the bug you are describing is very much there, and very much dumb. It doesn't make some links and the files you mentioned. They dropped HP, there are what, 4 people in the world with Sparcs for their own use running *Step, and NeXT hardware is EOL with 4.2. I'd say support for Intel had best improve a lot in the coming months... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: failing disk? (Was Re: HELP! weird emacs behavior) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:29:42 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617102748.5497O-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Operator <root@snaefell.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5o530p$919@news.tamu.edu> On 17 Jun 1997, Operator wrote: > snaefell> cmp emacs emacs.clean > emacs emacs.clean differ: char 34711, line 120 > > Ok--so what does this mean? How can the executable copy of emacs get > corrupted? Is this an early sign of disk failure? It means they differ. Could be a diskfailure.... Could be a patch applied to one and not the other. Could be someone tried to edit the emacs binary by hand. My first guess would be the patch... I generally don't think disks are nice enough to give such warning signs, but who knows.... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba and printer export Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:28:22 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5o66u6$gvk@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: vkoser@biggun.com,sanguish@digifix.com,bill In <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Vincent Koser wrote: > I would like to export my next laser printer from samba but can't seem > to get it working. Could someone share their config file from samba > that allows the standard laser printer to be exported? > > thanks > vince > I also would like the same thing: I tried a few months ago but got wierd behavior- only one page of the file would print then nothing... Is there a SAMBA Printing FAQ somewhere? Maybe we could make a comp.sys.next(Rhapsody).samba discussion group? -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: Dual Booting Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:32:51 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5o676j$gvk@corporate.hesta.com> References: <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu In <5nkf66$i70@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Darryl L. James wrote: > I have a PP200 that has NS 3.3 and NT 4.0 installed on the hard > drive. I have always been able to boot into either OS until today, > now I can only boot into NS. I no longer have the option type 'n' for > NS or 'd' for dos. I used fdisk to look at the disk partitioning, but > all seemed ok. Also NS recognized the dos partition as a folder from > the file viewer. Does anyone know how to get back the ability to dual > boot? Thanks in advance. > > On a similar note, I have a system with dual boot NS4.2 and Win3.1(yeeesh) If I want to upgrade to Win95 or NT what do I do? Step by step please, so I won't screw it up! I have full (non upgrade) packages for both. -- "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
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Date: 17 Jun 1997 15:37:03 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5o6auv$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> <5o4skr$5tq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> >You can't get Dynamic SLIP for NS without serious backflips and >convolutions... I beg to differ - its not that hard and Mamakos' SLIP package had a sample script that pretty much did dynamic IP assignment and is easy to modify. I submitted a "how to" for setting up dynamic SLIP to ftp.next.peak.org a while back. That said, unless you _have to_ use SLIP I'd also recommend using PPP. It is more widely supported and has a few nice GUI front ends available. - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: 17 Jun 1997 15:49:05 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> >If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection (the >Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, I >think it could work. If this is going to work at all you're going to need to be able to assign your Intel host multiple IP addresses. There's a package on ftp.next.peak.org called ps_if that supports virtual hosting multiple IP addresses on a single NEXTSTEP host (the NeXT kernel doesn't allow this by default). Of course, you still have the problem of tying these two IP's to different devices - sorry, can't help you there. If you already have a hub then you could just assign your slab any old IP address (making sure you _never_ use it to try and get out onto the net via your modem), plug both machines into the hub and just run a little LAN off it. You'll need to tinker with the routing tables on the Intel box to route IP requests for your NeXT out via en0 rather than ppp0. Hope it helps. - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 17 Jun 1997 14:09:42 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc. Message-ID: <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: : I have a standard next laser on my black hardware and I have finally : gotten samba running with some great help from Michal Jaegermann. Can : someone comment on what NT drivers they are using to produce NeXT : friendly postscript? I have tried a couple apple ones and a few HP : and still get offending postscript dialogs on the next. From Win95 I generally use an "Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0", and simply set the printer's memory preference up to a few megs. I've not had much trouble with this. This also has worked A-OK under WinNT 3.51. If you have NT 4, get the NeXT printer driver that John Michopoulos put together from the Peak archive (next-ftp.peak.org). --Chris Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst -------------------------------------- computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by | chris@computerActive.on.ca (NeXTMail) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk behaviour Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:14:09 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5o6k5h$btu@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970617102258.5497N-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> wrote: > To quote someone who knows a lote more about this than me: > [snip] > "BuildDisk really doesn't work at all for Intel hardware". > [snip] > > TjL > > -- > TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ > NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html > "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." > - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College > We had some bad disks in our NS/Intel machines at our department but I was able to build the new one with BuildDisk from 3.2. It worked acceptable except that it decided to leave some dwrite in the me account that told the system that it wasn't fully configured so I had to delete that dwrite. I hear that the 3.3 BuildDisk doesn't work on Intel, but the 3.2 version does. -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:58:05 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <Endh0hi00iWm05lMs0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jun-97 Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethe.. by bestor@cs.wisc.edu >> If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection >> (the Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, >> I think it could work. > > If this is going to work at all you're going to need to be able to assign > your Intel host multiple IP addresses. Yes...that's why the Intel box is multihomed-- ie, has two network interface cards. The solution is to give a different IP address to each of the Intel's interfaces, and set up local routing so that the Intel and the NeXT can communicate with each other. You see, hosts aren't assigned IP addresses; _interfaces_ are. Generally, each host only has one interface, so the distinction doesn't matter. However, it does in this circumstance because of what TjL is trying to do. > There's a package on ftp.next.peak.org called ps_if that supports virtual > hosting multiple IP addresses on a single NEXTSTEP host (the NeXT kernel > doesn't allow this by default). Virtual IP addresses solve roughly the opposite problem of what's going on. Attempting to use the ps_if software would only add confusion. > If you already have a hub then you could just assign your slab any old IP > address (making sure you _never_ use it to try and get out onto the net via > your modem), As I posted in my previous article, there are reserved IP address spaces which _should_ (strong emphasis) be used in this circumstance. Arbitrarily assigning IP numbers is a good way of causing yourself or someone else some evil problems down the line. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randall W. Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netinfo question Date: 17 Jun 1997 19:05:30 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> I have NSFIP 3.3 on a machine at home. I use ppp to connect to the internet. Now my problem: For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message "Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. Now since I have not needed to add new users or make any other system changes, I have just carried happily on. But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be messed up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers (recall that UserManager won't launch) 2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? Thanks. Randy Jackson -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: Re: Drivers, more Drivers are needed Date: 17 Jun 1997 19:37:54 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5o6p2i$9qe$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33A6A42F.2577BC9F@der.edfgdf.fr> In comp.sys.next.advocacy Serge Smadja <serge.smadja@der.edfgdf.fr> wrote: : Hello All, : I have installed OpenStep 4.1 on a G6 200XL from Gateway 2000, however : my graphic adapter is a STB Virge velocity 3D and my network adapter is : a 3COM Etherlink III PCI (PCI is very important) and it seems that there : aren't adequate drivers on the CD or on the Next Site. There is a generic driver for the Virge chipset, I would give it a try, maybe it works with your graphics card. There is no such thing an Etherlink III PCI adapter, at least not according to 3com's website. There is an Etherlink XL PCI adapter for which a driver is available: NeXTanswers #2165, #2166, #2534 HTH Axel -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: "Your full name" <replace_your_name@mail.ttn.com.tw> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.psion Subject: ¤j®a¨Óµo°] Date: 17 Jun 1997 19:57:39 GMT Organization: Taiwan Telecommunication Network Service Co., Ltd. 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From: michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SAMBA printer question Date: 17 Jun 1997 20:31:42 GMT Organization: HPI Capital, LLC Message-ID: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I am not doing this right... We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: [printers] print command = lpr -r %s lpq command = lpq lprm command = lprm %j comment = All Printers browseable = yes printable = yes public = yes path = /tmp writable = no create mode = 0700 Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| So how does the user on the win box know which printer it's going to to select? Will the names show up in NetworkNeighborhood somehow? Now all I get is "printers" under the server name.... -- "A measure of a man is what he will do for someone who can offer but nothing in return." -Unattributed. MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com
From: John Harris <john@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help removing banner page on HP Laserjet 4mplus Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 12:17:27 -0600 Organization: University of Utah Computer Center Message-ID: <33A6D4B7.EACFFE2D@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have a networked system on NeXT 3.2 and have setup an HP Laserjet 4Mplus. It works fine, but we don't know how to remove the last page - which is a banner page. Any help would be kindly appreciated. John Harris john@nurfac.nurs.utah.edu
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: 17 Jun 1997 18:40:08 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5o6lm8$sng$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5o6blh$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > >If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 connection > (the > >Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 connection, I > >think it could work. > > If this is going to work at all you're going to need to be able to assign > your Intel host multiple IP addresses. There's a package on ftp.next.peak.org > called ps_if that supports virtual hosting multiple IP > addresses on a single NEXTSTEP host (the NeXT kernel doesn't allow this by > default). Of course, you still have the problem of tying these two IP's to > different devices - sorry, can't help you there. No. No. No. He doesn't need virtual interfaces because he's got more than the normal quota of real interfaces. (a.k.a. "Multihoming"). The answer is simply to treat each interface as if it was a separate host and set it up in netinfo using HostManager.app, making sure to include the correct ether_addr field --- the rc.net script will then sort out all of the interfaces and set everything up automatically on boot-up. For extra credit, you can hardwire all of the config info by editing /etc/iftab (man iftab for details), but that's too much effort. Any Unix worth the name can cope with multiple interfaces, and NeXT/mach is no exception, despite the mutterings from NeXT that gateway configurations were "unsupported"... Otherwise, it would be impossible to run PPP simultaneously with a local ethernet interface. Matthew -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: randyj@lowana.sbs.ohio-state.edu (Randy Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: 17 Jun 1997 22:04:18 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <5o71l2$9e0$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 06/17/97, Randall W. Jackson wrote: >I have NSFIP 3.3 on a machine at home. I use ppp to connect to the >internet. Now my problem: > >For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, Whoops, actually, if I log in as root, I can launch HostManager, but not >NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message >"Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" Let me correct that, too, sorry. The precise error message is "Can't contact NetInfo server for local domain" > >I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. > > Now since I have not needed to add new users or make any other > system changes, I have just carried happily on. > >But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to >the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, > > 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up > the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be > messed up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers > (recall that UserManager won't launch) Okay, and I found that if I opened /etc/netinfo/local.nidb/Collection as a text file, the uid's are readable. > >2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? and if so, what will I need to do to restore ppp functionality? > Or 3. Is there some way to correct the problem without resorting to using a fresh netinfo directory? Thanks. Randy -- Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.northstar,comp.sys.nsc.32k,comp.sys.oric,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.misc,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.prime,comp.sys.proteon,comp.sys.psion From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: ¤j®a¨Óµo°] Distribution: inet Followup-To: comp.sys.northstar Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <EBy1tp.Ly3@nonexistent.com> References: <01bc7b59$5462d400$84b046cb@cs.ncku.edu.tw> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:41:49 GMT Your full name (replace_your_name@mail.ttn.com.tw) wrote: [snip] : ¨Ï¥Îºô´º NETSCAPE ªº¨Ï¥ÎªÌ : : 1)¥´¶}NETSCAPE NEWS¡A¦bºô´ºÂsÄý¾¹¤¤(Netscape Navigator)¤¤±q¥\¯à¿ï³æ : ¤¤¿ï¨úWindowsA¦A¿ï¨úNETSCAPE : NEWS¡A§Y¥i±Ò°ÊNETSCAPENEWS¡CµM«áÂI¨ú³Ì¥ªÃ䪺«ö¶s¡yTO Netscape? On a Northstar??
From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:28:47 GMT Organization: Navigator Message-ID: <5o6dvv$cqq$1@radjah.navigator.de> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: vkoser@biggun.com In <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> Vincent Koser wrote: > I have a standard next laser on my black hardware and I have finally > gotten samba running with some great help from Michal Jaegermann. Can > someone comment on what NT drivers they are using to produce NeXT > friendly postscript? I have tried a couple apple ones and a few HP > and still get offending postscript dialogs on the next. I use the packet available on NeXT ftp archives. However, you have to set "PageIndepence" to "Yes" in the printing options panel before each job. This is annoying, but I haven't found the registry key to change the default yet. And, I would not use Samba for printing, NT is capable of the LPR protocol. -- Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Fabien_Roy@no.spam.free.fdn.fr (Remove no.spam to reply) Subject: Re: Dithering on 12Bit color displays Message-ID: <EBy2Ez.MC@free.fdn.fr> Sender: news@free.fdn.fr Organization: Fabien Roy Consultant. References: <5ngg29$nbt@news.sns-felb.debis.de> <5nuoe4$l4@mpaque.mpaque> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:54:34 GMT mpaque@wco.com (Mike Paquette) wrote: [snip] > > > How can I adjust the "Gamma Correction" of a NeXTStep PC? > > A few PCs support gamma correction in hardware, mostly just in 8 bit > pseudocolor mode. If the PC hardware supports gamma correction in the > current display mode, you can use the NeXT PS extension > 'setframebuffertransfer' to modify the hardware gamma. > > The transfer functions are stored in PostScript shared VM, so you'll need > to do 'true setshared' before setting the new transfer functions. For a > gamma of 1.6, the pft session to set the gamma looks like: > > % pft > Connection to PostScript established. > true setshared > { 1 1.6 div exp } dup dup {} 0 setframebuffertransfer > > Here's the relevent documentation: > > setframebuffertransfer > > redproc greenproc blueproc grayproc fbnum setframebuffertransfer - > > Warning: This operator should only be used for the development of > screen-calibration products. > > Sets the framebuffer transfer functions in effect for the framebuffer > indexed by fbnum. fbnum ranges from 0 to countframebuffers-1. The > framebuffer transfer describes the relationship between the framebuffer > values of the display, and the voltage produced to drive the monitor. > > The initial four operands define the transfer procedures: Monochrome > devices use grayproc (but see the Note below), color devices use the > others. The procedures must be allocated in shared virtual memory. In > addition, the Window Server assumes that the framebuffer values are > directly proportional to screen brightness. This is important for the > accuracy of dithering, compositing, and similar calculations. > > The default transfer for NeXT Color Displays is > > { 1 2.2 div exp } bind dup dup {} > > Note: setframebuffertransfer is unsupported on the current generation of > NeXT monochrome displays. > > It's possible to make framebuffer transfer functions persist beyond the > lifetime of the Window Server by storing a property in the NetInfo screens > database. In the local NetInfo domain, /localconfig/screens holds the > configuration information for the screens known to the Window Server > (MegaPixel, NeXTdimension, and so on). These specify the layout and > activation state of the screen. The NetInfo defaultTransfer property can > contain a string of PostScript code suitable for execution by the > setframebuffertransfer operator (without the fbnum parameter). For > example, the following represents the NetInfo configuration for a > NeXTdimension screen with a default gamma of 2.0: > > localhost:1# niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/NeXTdimension > name: NeXTdimension > slot: 2 > unit: 0 > defaultTransfer: {1 2.0 div exp } dup dup dup > bounds: 0 1120 0 832 > active: 1 > _writers: * > > The defaultTransfer property is used to configure the screen each time the > Window Server starts up. This allows monitor calibration products to save > their settings so the next time the Window Server starts up, the new values > will be used. Note that in some cases, the NetInfo configuration state for > a monitor will not have active equal to 1, although the monitor is being > used by the Window Server. If there are no active screens (screens that > are explicitly marked as being active), the Window Server uses a suitable > default, however, the other NetInfo properties for that screen are ignored. > Thus, you must be sure that the screen for which you are adding a > defaultTransfer value has active set to 1. > > -- > Mike Paquette (mpaque@wco.com) > > Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding > that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, > so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so > what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future > can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. > (With apologies to Joe Straczynski) Mike On my Millenium 4 meg @ 1024 by 768 RGB:888/32 niutils reports fabien@p133> niutil -list . /localconfig/screens 148 MegaPixel and fabien@p133> niutil -read . /localconfig/screens/MegaPixel name: MegaPixel slot: 0 unit: 0 bounds: 0 1120 0 832 active: 0 _writers: * any clues ? -- Fabien Roy --------------------------------------------------------------------- Fabien_Roy@free.fdn.org (NextMail/MIME accepted) Fabien Roy Consultant NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/EOF Consultant, SYBASE DBA 10 rue de la DEFENSE 93100 MONTREUIL, France Tel: 33 (0)1 45 28 32 23 Fax: 33 (0)1 48 55 09 90 GSM: 33 (0)6 60 46 36 83
From: you@somehost.somedomain (guest) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Date: 18 Jun 1997 03:10:34 GMT Organization: Your Organization Message-ID: <5o7jja$8ta$1@nnrp3.snfc21.pbi.net> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII In article <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, SvenDroll says... > >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 ;-)) Although not the same combination of platforms, I have similar problems between BSDI and NeXT, and Between Novell's NFS Gateway and NeXT. However, I drop to a shell and verify from "importing Host's" console "showmount -e <exporting host>." If this looks good then create directory /<new directory off root> then "mount -o soft <importing host>:path /<new directory off root>" seems to work every time so far. Hope this is useful to someone.
From: peter@select-tech.si (Peter Levart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin.misc Subject: Format of NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP bitmap fonts Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:58:19 GMT Organization: SELECT Technology Message-ID: <5o6fnb$4ar$1@ned.select-tech.si> Keywords: fonts bitmap Hello! I am searching for information about the format of bitmap fonts for NEXTSTEP 3.x (and I think also OPENSTEP for mach). NEXTSTEP uses Adobe Type 1 fonts for DPS and can benefit from specialy rendered characters in bitmap form. NeXT supplies those bitmaps with the standard set of fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier, Ohlfs). Times-Roman.font in NS 3.3 for example looks like this: Screen-Times-Roman.10.afm Screen-Times-Roman.12.afm Screen-Times-Roman.14.afm Screen-Times-Roman.18.afm Screen-Times-Roman.7.afm Screen-Times-Roman.9.afm Times-Roman Times-Roman.afm Times-Roman.lepf I'm searching for info about the format of *.lepf files. In pre 3.3 versions of NEXTSTEP, there were *.bepf files. -- Peter Levart - SELECT Technology mailto:peter@select-tech.si phone: +386 61 1319244 fax: +386 61 1315047
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Wayne Barkhouse <barkhous@astro.utoronto.ca> Subject: HELP! can't log on Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <33A70E7E.41C67EA6@astro.utoronto.ca> Sender: nntp@utcc.utoronto.ca (News) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: UTCC Campus Access Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:23:58 GMT IMPORTANT NOTICE: I messed up my system so badly that I can't use it. I borrowed an account from a friend to make this post. If you can help, the only way to reach me is by mailing the following address: 105655.2105@compuserve.com PLEASE DON'T MAIL THE OWNER OF THIS ACCOUNT. HOW THINGS WERE: I had my NeXT on the net at shool as part of a network consisting mostly of SUN workstations. The campus sys-admin had fixed my slab so that it would run under AFS just like the suns. Hoping for the best, I turned the machine on at home without an internet connection. I knew the machine would complain but I thought it might not crash. Well, it worked, sort-of. After a VERY long time I'd get a login window and could log in as root (I have the passssword for my machine). I also managed to log into my own account ONCE and only once. After that, I could only log in as root. Either way, logging in took at least half an hour as the machine contemplated the password for some reason. WHAT I DID: I decided to try and convince the machine that it was no longer at school in the hopes that less time would be spent looking for a non-existant eithernet connection. I renamed "/etc/rc" and renamed "/etc/rc.standard" to replace the "/etc/rc" file. I renamed the "/etc/fstab" file since I did not wish to mount any of those file systems. I comentented out the first four lines of the "/etc/hostconfig" file and inserted replaacement lines with all entreis set to "-AUTOMATIC-" except for the "RROUTER" line which I changed to "ROUTER=-ROUTED- Things went very badly from this point so I guess that I made some REALLY dumb mistakes. I did read the NeXT sys-admin book VERY carefully before trying this but I am no expert. WHAT HAPENED: When I boot the machine now, I get a big white window that says "NexT mach operating system" across the top and the following messages: checking disks can't open checklist file /etc/fstab rebbbot failed... help! mouint: can't locate file system list faking root mount entries configuring ethernet interface to -AUTOMATIC- using default broadcast address the network is disabled or your computer isn't connected to it ifconfig: automatic address: the network is down setting hostname to localhost erase ^? intr ^C kill ^U # The pound seems to be the prompt for the root account. I can list all the files on the disk but it says that the file system is read only. I kept copies of all files that I tinkered with and could put everything back as it was if only I had werite perrmission. Can you please help?
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SAMBA printer question Date: 18 Jun 1997 06:04:20 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Distribution: world Message-ID: <5o7tp4$bpm@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> In article <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) writes: >I am not doing this right... >We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. >Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: > >[printers] > print command = lpr -r %s > lpq command = lpq > lprm command = lprm %j > comment = All Printers > browseable = yes > printable = yes > public = yes > path = /tmp > writable = no > create mode = 0700 > >Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: >HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I believe this name is too long for SAMBA. As I recall, I had to make all printer names in the first entry 8 chars or less. Also, don't forget to create /etc/printcap by nidump printcap / >/etc/printcap (this will dump public entries) And, if you have NeXT 400 dpi laser, disable page reversal for jobs coming from the PC side (filter the first line to just "%!"), or disable page reversal entirely by commenting out the line: *DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse change this to *%DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/NeXT_400_dpi_*.ppd Windows PS from many programs/drivers cannot withstand page reversal because they are broken with respect to DSC conformance. (Checking DSC conformance in setup doesn't do it.) Here's mine which works fine for exporting 4 different printers. I didn't have to do anything special for each printer and the following comes directly from one of the examples: [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no printable = yes public = no writable = no create mode = 0700
From: "Markus Lankeit" <mlankeit@foxinternet.net> Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970523230522.23966D-100000@kira> <5m9jmt$lmu$1@news.inc.net> <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5o7jja$8ta$1@nnrp3.snfc21.pbi.net> Message-ID: <01bc7bb5$28139400$4ad308d0@amadeus> Date: 18 Jun 97 08:15:34 GMT > In article <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, SvenDroll says... > > > >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. I've exported/mounted disks between all permutations of available hardware (m68k, i486, hppa, and sparc). This is a setup issue--nothing wrong with the hardware. Email me the results of: cat /etc/fstab nidump exports . nidump fstab / I'll tell you what you need to do then... markus
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 18 Jun 1997 13:21:36 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5o8nd0$jvl$1@news2.gte.net> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 17 Jun 1997 14:09:42 GMT, csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) wrote: >From Win95 I generally use an "Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0", and simply >set the printer's memory preference up to a few megs. I've not had much >trouble with this. This also has worked A-OK under WinNT 3.51. doens't seem to like this driver from NT 4, still get the postscript error dialog on next. >If you have NT 4, get the NeXT printer driver that John Michopoulos put >together from the Peak archive (next-ftp.peak.org). can someone help me find this? I looked around there but didn't see it. thanks vince
From: vkoser@biggun.com (Vincent Koser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SAMBA printer question Date: 18 Jun 1997 13:27:41 GMT Organization: GTE Intelligent Network Services, GTE INS Message-ID: <5o8nod$ih5$1@news9.gte.net> References: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> <5o7tp4$bpm@agate.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Page reversal problem was what was wrong with mine. thanks a ton.... vince On 18 Jun 1997 06:04:20 GMT, izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) wrote: >In article <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) writes: >>I am not doing this right... >>We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. >>Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: >> >>[printers] >> print command = lpr -r %s >> lpq command = lpq >> lprm command = lprm %j >> comment = All Printers >> browseable = yes >> printable = yes >> public = yes >> path = /tmp >> writable = no >> create mode = 0700 >> >>Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: >>HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >I believe this name is too long for SAMBA. As I recall, I had to >make all printer names in the first entry 8 chars or less. > >Also, don't forget to create /etc/printcap by >nidump printcap / >/etc/printcap >(this will dump public entries) > >And, if you have NeXT 400 dpi laser, disable page reversal for >jobs coming from the PC side (filter the first line to just "%!"), >or disable page reversal entirely by commenting out the line: >*DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse > change this to >*%DefaultOutputOrder: Reverse > >in /NextLibrary/PrinterTypes/English.lproj/NeXT_400_dpi_*.ppd > >Windows PS from many programs/drivers cannot withstand page reversal >because they are broken with respect to DSC conformance. >(Checking DSC conformance in setup doesn't do it.) > >Here's mine which works fine for exporting 4 different printers. >I didn't have to do anything special for each printer and the following >comes directly from one of the examples: > >[printers] > comment = All Printers > browseable = no > printable = yes > public = no > writable = no > create mode = 0700 > >
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Suggestions on connecting to ISP with PPP connection Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:52:50 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618094849.11436A-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5nt2a4$be@slip.net> <5o4skr$5tq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5o6auv$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: bestor@cs.wisc.edu In-Reply-To: <5o6auv$1tro@news.doit.wisc.edu> On 17 Jun 1997 bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > >You can't get Dynamic SLIP for NS without serious backflips and > >convolutions... > > I beg to differ - its not that hard and Mamakos' SLIP package had a sample > script that pretty much did dynamic IP assignment and is easy to modify. I > submitted a "how to" for setting up dynamic SLIP to ftp.next.peak.org a while > back. I'll defer to your experience, however, when I was first starting out with my NeXT and was trying to get setup, reading the "how to" was very confusing to me because I didn't have all that much experience doing it. > That said, unless you _have to_ use SLIP I'd also recommend using PPP. > It is more widely supported and has a few nice GUI front ends available. Obviously I'd agree with that, and there is source code available, which makes it nice if you want to tinker with things (I had mucked around with PPP's source code to make it easier for me to reconnect automatically if the PPP connection unexpectedly died). There's also a listserv for PPP. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Any busmastering EIDE drivers? Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:14 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May20123253@howard.one.net> Purchased a 3.1G EIDE drive and a 12x ATAPI CD-ROM at a computer fair this weekend. I've more-or-less got things all installed and booting and loving each other, but ... Under NeXTSTEP, my 2.1G SCSI Seagate Hawk does around 3.5MB/s, and the EIDE drive does 1.6MB/s. Heheh, glad I went with SCSI Back When. Under Linux, my 2.1G Hawk does 4.5MB/s, and the 3.1G EIDE drive does 4.2MB/s. Ho ho, looks like Linux has better drivers than NeXTSTEP. Anyone know if NeXT is going to be releasing busmastering EIDE drivers? Or does anyone else have such a driver? I like SCSI, it's easy to setup, works well with most operating systems I run, but that 2.1G Seagate drive still costs about 2x when the 3.1G Western Digital cost. That can be tough to justify for single-user workstations ... Thanks, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: shess@one.net (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: a question of disks Date: 18 Jun 1997 14:12:40 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SHESS.97May22195122@ra.one.net> References: <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil> In-reply-to: Bob Kurhajetz's message of Thu, 22 May 1997 12:52:39 -0400 In article <338479D7.41C6@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, Bob Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> writes: 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. I've a 1Gig Seagate Hawk which has been working wonderfully for a year or so, now, which lead me to get a 2Gig Hawk which has been working similarily well for the last six months. Recently I put in a Western Digital EIDE drive, and it seems to be working fine, too - I had no problems installing it (well, none with _NeXTSTEP_, WindowsNT doesn't like my system reconfiguring much), but I can't vouch for reliability as it's only been in there for a week. No error messages or anything yet. Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP! can't log on Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:18:41 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618100520.11436C-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <33A70E7E.41C67EA6@astro.utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: 105655.2105@compuserve.com In-Reply-To: <33A70E7E.41C67EA6@astro.utoronto.ca> On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Wayne Barkhouse wrote: > I renamed "/etc/rc" and renamed "/etc/rc.standard" to replace the > "/etc/rc" file. Eeek. > I renamed the "/etc/fstab" file since I did not wish to mount any of > those file systems. good god > I comentented out the first four lines of the "/etc/hostconfig" file and > inserted replaacement lines with all entreis set to "-AUTOMATIC-" except > for the "RROUTER" line which I changed to "ROUTER=-ROUTED- ack > Things went very badly from this point so I guess that I made some > REALLY dumb mistakes. I did read the NeXT sys-admin book VERY carefully > before trying this but I am no expert. Ok, we can fix this. Did you read the top part of /etc/fstab that says: # # DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE, IT IS REQUIRED FOR BOOTING # It was right :-) Ok, sarcasm aside (like I haven't fubar'd my machine 4k times). When you get to the # prompt, speak in gentle terms to the computer. Then do /usr/etc/mount -o remount / if that doesn't work, try /usr/etc/mount -o remount,rw / then do cat /etc/fstab (just to see if it is there) If it isn't, try this: echo "/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1" > /etc/fstab or /bin/cp /usr/template/client/etc/fstab.sd330 /etc/fstab basically you need to tell the NeXT there is a hard drive attached, and /etc/fstab needs to look like this /dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1 Then you need to replace the /etc/rc* files. You can get the default ones in /usr/template/client/etc/ I'd probably do: /bin/mkdir /etc/FUBAR.rc /bin/mv /etc/rc* /etc/FUBAR.rc/ just in case you ever want them back. Then I'd do /bin/cp /usr/template/client/etc/rc* /etc/ Then I would once again speak nicely to the computer, and reboot (command key and the "~" key over the 7 on the keypad, then 'r for reboot') NOTE: this may not work! You may have to boot off the CD, which will require a SCSI CD-ROM drive and the original CD. You may not have these. Do not worry. You will get the machine back up and running, and you probably will not have to reinstall the OS. Don't panic. I've done worse. At the very least you'll know better next time ;-) Feel free to email me directly if you so desire. Tj "FUBAR King" Luoma -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:03:54 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> On 17 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, > NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message > "Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" I had this problem at one point also.... > I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. right... if this were totally hosed you couldn't login at all... > But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to > the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, I take it 'nidump passwd .' in terminal.app gives the same error? > 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up > the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be messed > up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers (recall that > UserManager won't launch) If nidump won't work, then I don't think so... well, unless you have 'id' and login as each user and record what 'id' says..... Actually, if 'id' works (and id does not depend on NetInfo) then there must be a way..... someone else may even know what it is... I've got a NeXT&Intel binary of 'id' if you need it.... > 2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? Probably not.... but if you have setup sendmail for PPP (which I guess you have) then you will need to set that up again. I think the real issue is figuring out what caused this problem in the first place. I _think_ it has something to do with the machine trying to connect to NetInfo and NetInfo not realizing that the machine is the same machine that owns the NetInfo database.... Did you change the loopback address (127.0.0.1) by any chance? TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: marc@htl.com (Marc Respass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Openstep 4.2 PR on NT network? Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 15:13:12 GMT Organization: HTL Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <33a7f9ff.883683@htlmst.htl.com> Hi, I recently got the Prelude to Rhapsody (Openstep 4.2 Pre-Release). I installed it on my Pentium PC in a dual-boot config with Win95. I'd like to put the Openstep system on the local network but I'm having a hard time of it. It seems Samba is installed and I haven't taken a look at the docs for it but mostly, I can't figure out how to setup my network config so that I can get to our DNS server. I can't get on the internet but I can see other machines by IP address, though not by name. I don't know the first thing about NetInfo but editing the network files by hand didn't seem to matter - adding an entry to /etc/hosts didn't let me see that machine by name. If anyone can give me some tips on setting up Openstep to work on our local network and the internet, I'd appreciate it. Thanks --Marc Respass High Technology Logistics mailto:marc@htl.com http://www.htl.com
From: ***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch (Will Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Unbootable OpenStep 4.2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 16:35:46 GMT Organization: IFI, Uni Zurich Message-ID: <5o8vd1$b21@bioko.ifi.unizh.ch> I have tried to run OpenStep 4.2 "Prelude to Rhapsody" on my homebrew PC with great difficulty and very little success. My system has an Intel Triton II motherboard (AMI BIOS 1.00.04.BS0) and four IDE drives: Primary Interface ----------------- Master -> Western Digital AC2700H 720 MB Slave -> Conner CFS 1621A 1.6 GB Secondary Interface ------------------- Master -> Quantum Fireball TM3840A 3.8 GB Slave -> Goldstar CRD-8160B ATAPI 16 speed cdrom drive I intended to have OpenStep reside on a 620 MB partition at the beginning of the Quantum drive (i.e. hd(2)), and I would like to be able to leave these drives as they are currently set up, as I have 3 other operating systems and don't want to disturb them too much. I could possibly switch the Quantum and Conner drives around, but the Western Digital drive will remain the first disk no matter what. I managed to successfully install the OS by removing the two drives from the first IDE interface and putting the Quantum and Goldstar cdrom in their place. The system boots fine if nothing is connected to the secondary interface. However, if I attach those other two drives to the secondary interface, the system boots to a desktop, but is completely unresponsive. When I replace the drives back in their original configuration, I can't boot at all, even from the floppy with the installation CD in the drive and a "boot: hd(2)mach_kernel -s" command line. The drives all appear to be successfully identified during bootup, but after the "power management enabled" message, I just get lots of spurious IDE timeout and error messages. So much for a PC operating system! I have followed all the instructions and advice in NeXTanswers documents 1839, 1487, and 1933, including removing the installation "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE/ATAPI" driver and installing two normal "EIDE/ATAPI" drivers with the appropriate ports and IRQs, but I am still stuck with an unusable OpenStep system. Any help appreciated. Cheers - Will Harris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANTI-SPAMBOT NOTE: For email contact, remove the ***RemoveMe*** prefix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I was going to be a Neo-Deconstructivist, but Mom wouldn't let me..." Institut fuer Informatik EMAIL: ***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch der Universitaet Zuerich WWW: http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/staff/harris.html Winterthurerstr. 190 TEL: +41-1-257-4346/4566 (office/lab) CH-8057 Zuerich +41-1-251-0135 (home) Switzerland FAX: +41-1-363-0035 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:58:46 -0400 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970618114537.543A-100000@lubra> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> yOn Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > On 17 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > > > > For some time now, I have been unable to start HostManager, > > NetInforManager, or UserManager. When I try, I get the message > > "Unable to connect to NetInfo Server" > > I had this problem at one point also.... > > > > I am, however, still able to su or log in as root when needed. > > right... if this were totally hosed you couldn't login at all... > > > > But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to > > the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, > > I take it 'nidump passwd .' in terminal.app gives the same error? > No, "nidump passwd ." does, in fact, execute as expected. > > > 1. if I replace /etc/netinfo with the cd-ROM version, and set up > > the old users' accounts, etc, I know that the user id's will be messed > > up. Is there a way for me to get a list of these numbers (recall that > > UserManager won't launch) > I got the user id' successfully. > If nidump won't work, then I don't think so... well, unless you have 'id' > and login as each user and record what 'id' says..... > > Actually, if 'id' works (and id does not depend on NetInfo) then there > must be a way..... someone else may even know what it is... I've got a > NeXT&Intel binary of 'id' if you need it.... > > > > 2. Will the /etc/netinfo replacement affect my ppp setup? > > Probably not.... but if you have setup sendmail for PPP (which I guess you > have) then you will need to set that up again. > > I think the real issue is figuring out what caused this problem in the > first place. I _think_ it has something to do with the machine trying to > connect to NetInfo and NetInfo not realizing that the machine is the same > machine that owns the NetInfo database.... Did you change the loopback > address (127.0.0.1) by any chance? > I did have some kind of loopback problem in ppp connections at one point, but I don't recall what I did to remedy the problem. How/where do I check the loopback address? In hostconfig, my INETADDR=127.0.0.1 Thanks for the reply. > TjL > > -- > TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ > NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html > "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." > - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College > > > Randy Jackson, Associate Professor ,_ o __o Geography, The Ohio State University / //\, _`\<,_ 1036 Derby Hall, 154 North Oval Mall \>> | (*)/ (*) Columbus OH 43210-1361 \\, FAX (614) 292 6213 randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu http://www.geography.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jackson/
Message-ID: <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:07:41 -0600 From: Kris Magnusson <kmagnusson@novell.com> Organization: Novell Java Class Libraries MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 in Hungarian? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a NeXTstation I want to loan to my friend, who is Hungarian. Is there a Hungarian language option for OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 someplace? It's not on the media.... ................kris
From: Christian Neuss <neuss@informatik.th-darmstadt.de.NOSPAM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: BuildDisk behaviour Date: 18 Jun 1997 17:24:10 GMT Organization: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt Message-ID: <5o95jq$pfk$3@news.th-darmstadt.de> References: <5o57tu$m2i$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> leigh@cs.uwa.edu.au (Leigh Smith) wrote: > Can someone clue me in on the intended behaviour of BuildDisk? > I'm running on 4.1 Intel. I've successfully been able to use BuildDisk on a 4.1 system, but it requires some postprocessing. First, run BuildDisk on the new disk. Then, create the missing symlink in /private: cd /private ln -s Drivers/i386 Devices Now for the extra step: BuildDisk does not create the System.config entry, nor does it copy any Instance0 tables. Hence, at least copy (e.g. via Workspace drag and drop) System.config from the original disk to the corresponding /private/Drivers/i386 on the new disk. You'll then be able to boot "config=Default" with the new disk, and then change settings to match your system. Alternatively, copy over the complete folder Drivers/i386. This will preserve all Instance0 tables and hence give an identical driver setup. This approach is useful when you have to build a disk for an identical or almost identical Intel system like the one you created the disk with. After this, you're done. Power down and you are ready to boot from the new SCSI disk! :-) HTH, Chris -- // Christian Neuss "static typing? how quaint.." // http://www.nexttoyou.de/~neuss/ // fax: (+49) 6151 16 5472
From: david@wood.net (David R. Perry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: routing IP Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:47:21 -0700 Organization: USF InfoTech Message-ID: <david-1806971047210001@tiggr.usfca.edu> does anyone use a NeXTCube as an IP router? I'd like to be able to use my cube as a PPP client and then route IP to the other machines I have hooked up to ethernet... any ideas? David...
From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netinfo question Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:08:11 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618120516.13336H-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5o6n5q$6qd$1@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970618095706.11436B-100000@cc344191-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <Pine.NXT.3.92.970618114537.543A-100000@lubra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "Randall W. Jackson" <randyj@lubra.sbs.ohio-state.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.92.970618114537.543A-100000@lubra> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: >On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > > On 17 Jun 1997, Randall W. Jackson wrote: > > > But there comes a time, and that time is now, that I need access to > > > the netInfo database (new user to be added). What I want to know is, > > > > I take it 'nidump passwd .' in terminal.app gives the same error? > > No, "nidump passwd ." does, in fact, execute as expected. You could try to 'niload' the user information, just don't set a password, then login as that user and set a password with Preferences.app (can you change your password? > I did have some kind of loopback problem in ppp connections at one point, > but I don't recall what I did to remedy the problem. How/where do I check > the loopback address? In hostconfig, my INETADDR=127.0.0.1 /etc/ifconfig -a look for the lo0 address > Thanks for the reply. no problem... TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Fam.Moser@t-online.de (Familie Moser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software Subject: glib++ for NextStep 3.0 Date: 17 Jun 1997 10:50:05 GMT Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Message-ID: <5o5q4t$q0s$1@news02.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi everybody, I am looking for a port of glib++ on NS 3.0. At had a look at the sources of glib2.0, but I am afraid that the effort in porting it is too much for me. So I was wondering if there is somebody out there who has a port available. It need not be the latest version, I am just interested in hacking a little bit C++. Any kind of advice or pointer is welcome. Please mail to either martin@shiratori.riec.tohoku.ac.jp or fam.moser@t-online.de. Thanks in advance for your kindness, Martin
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Zip Drive Icons Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:31:42 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sorry for this question. I tried to search DejaNews but for some reason without success. Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. Could you give me a pointer? Thanks Rudy. blazek@stt.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: cjones@netcom.com (Carl Jones) Subject: Paradox Runtime 3.0 - anyone using it? Message-ID: <cjonesEBzw5M.KJ4@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom On-Line Services Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 23:34:33 GMT Sender: cjones@netcom.netcom.com anyone using the Paradon Runtime Engine Version 3.0 ? we are, with Windows for Workgroups I'd like to make contact with anyone who has or has had experience with that environment. I am picking up some pieces of what some people have left (where have you heard that before). BTW anyone use PXNetTblRefresh call? One of our routines does and 3 others do not. What are pros/cons? thanks, carl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: SAMBA printer question Message-ID: <EBz54x.82L@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 13:50:57 GMT In article <5o6s7e$6u@corporate.hesta.com> michael@hesta.com (Michael Verruto) writes: > I am not doing this right... > We have 4 Next printers we want to get accessible from the win boxes. > Here's the entry for printers on the server for Samba config: > > [printers] > print command = lpr -r %s > lpq command = lpq > lprm command = lprm %j > comment = All Printers > browseable = yes > printable = yes > public = yes > path = /tmp > writable = no > create mode = 0700 > > Heres's what I have as /etc/printcap.smb: > HPI_corporate_Color|HPI_corporate_Plain| > > So how does the user on the win box know which printer it's going to to > select? Will the names show up in NetworkNeighborhood somehow? Now all I > get is "printers" under the server name.... > -- > "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 The [printers] section is one of the three special sections in the smb.conf file (along with [global] and [homes]). These have some sort of alias function, which means that you shouldn't set them 'browseable = yes' but 'browseable = no'. The [printers] section represents all printers specified in your printcap file. The winbox user needs to connect to a service named HPI_corporate_Color for example (out of the printcap). There will be a new service created on the fly with this name and the parameters specified in the alias section. You could of course also create one section for each printer and set those browseable. Then they will also show up in the NetworkNeighborhood. If you had 100 printers, this isn't the easy way of course, hence the alias sections (same for [homes]). You should also set 'load printers = yes' in the [global] section. This should make at least the first printer specified in your printcap file show up in the NNeighborhood. Hope this helps, Robert. ========================================================================== Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ==========================================================================
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 18 Jun 1997 21:04:57 -0500 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5oa449$opj$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) writes: >If you have NT 4, get the NeXT printer driver that John Michopoulos put >together from the Peak archive (next-ftp.peak.org). I am using that driver and have no problems with most programs (as long as I set the page independence) EXCEPT for Adobe Acrobat Reader 3. You would think that adobe would be the one program that generated real postscript, but I guess not. It seems to notice that the printer is PS and ignore the driver and generate its own postscript. I get the first and last page then an error panel. Any ideas?
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Bad sendmail header Date: 19 Jun 1997 02:55:59 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> I am having a frustrating problem with outgoing mail that can be traced to one bad header. Lately some of my mail has been returned with messages such as: >----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><KLJensen01@aol.com> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >.... while talking to e.mx.aol.com.: >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 ><<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found in DNS(see >RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18). >554 <KLJnsen01@aol.com>... Service unavailable And another came back like this: > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- ><tmccarth@usc.edu> > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >.... while talking to usc.edu.: >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=696 ><<< 553 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Unknown host ganesh.bitstream.net >501 <tmccarth@usc.edu>... Data format error (This one took three days to come back.) By way of a test I sent myself a message, from my cube to my PC's CompuServe account, and saw the following headers: >Sender: cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net >Received: from bitstream.net (marley.bitstream.net [204.73.77.85]) by >dub-img-1.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) > id UAA08494; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 20:59:24 -0400 >Received: from ganesh.bitstream.net by bitstream.net (8.8.2/SMI-4.1.R930813) > id TAA25614; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:59:18 -0500 (CDT) >Received: (from cejensen@localhost) > by ganesh.bitstream.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00269 > for 105012.2377@compuserve.com; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:54:53 -0500 (CDT) >Message-Id: <199706190054.TAA00269@ganesh.bitstream.net> >Content-Type: text/plain >MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 3.3 v118.2) >X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b6) >Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2) >Sender: Christian Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> >From: cejensen@bitstream.net>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 97 19:54:51 -0500 >To: 105012.2377@compuserve.com >Subject: test 6/18 >Reply-To: cejensen@bitstream.net The very fist header is the one that some (not all) mail servers are choking on. All the others look OK (cejensen@bitstream.net is my real email address, ganesh is my machine name.) Somehow these mail servers won't accept mail from an "unknown host"; The problem is, I'm not mailing from an unknown host! I've just got this headache-making header. Does anyone know how to supress, remove, or correct this header? Any help would be most appreciated! Thanks to all who respond. --Chris -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 in Hungarian? Date: 19 Jun 1997 03:08:42 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun18223039@slave.doubleu.com> References: <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> In-reply-to: Kris Magnusson's message of Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:07:41 -0600 In article <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> Kris Magnusson <kmagnusson@novell.com> writes: I have a NeXTstation I want to loan to my friend, who is Hungarian. Is there a Hungarian language option for OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 someplace? It's not on the media.... Offhand, I don't think there has been a Hungarian option for any _previous_ NeXT operating system, not sure why there'd be one for this one. [And if there is, someone needs to go in and kick some butt at Apple. Don't get me wrong, we need those Hungarians behind Rhapsody - but what's the point of doing Hungarian nibs and documentation for a system which is likely to be heavily rewritten anyhow?] Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / (solution) Date: 19 Jun 1997 07:05:24 GMT Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany Message-ID: <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Hi. In article <5mbnvh$h04@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>, SvenDroll says... > >Hi > >We have got the same problem here (white machine exports a disk, black does >not mount it). As far as I know, this is a problem with the permissions (the >black machine has not the right to mount the disk). The permissions for our >black machine was granted through NFSManager, but it seems that this do not >work. > >Any hint how to solve this problem would be nice. >ciao >-- >Sven Droll The solution is that our black machine is known by more than one name. For access to exported directories you must give NFSManager the FIRST(!) name by which the client is known (in the hosts.equiv?) throughout the network. After changing the hostname in NFSManager the black machine mounts the directory like any other machine in our mixed network. For checking the names of machines which are allowed to mount the directories use "showmount -e <exporting host>." (thanx to x@mail-gw3.pacbell.net) Hope this helps someone Sven
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / (solution) Date: 19 Jun 1997 13:30:27 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5obc9j$nak@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> In article <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> sdroll@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll) writes: > The solution is that our black machine is known by more than one name. > For access to exported directories you must give NFSManager the FIRST(!) > name by which the client is known (in the hosts.equiv?) throughout the > network. After changing the hostname in NFSManager the black machine > mounts the directory like any other machine in our mixed network. An easy alternative to all this is to use netgroups. Assign every machine you want NFS access to a netgroup, say, nfstest. Now list nfstest (for access rights) in NFSManager. note: netgroups can't be used to assign root access. This way, when you add a machine to your network, you don't need to update your NFS servers. -- 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: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:30:34 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970619092214.6504F-100000@cc3441910a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Christian Jensen <cejensen@bitstream.net> In-Reply-To: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Note: followups set to comp.mail.sendmail, as this is only loosely a NeXT related issue On 19 Jun 1997, Christian Jensen wrote: > I am having a frustrating problem with outgoing mail that can be traced to one > bad header. Lately some of my mail has been returned with messages > such as: This is an anti-spam measure. Your host 'ganesh.bitstream.net' is not registered in the DNS (ie: I cannot ping or traceroute to 'ganesh.bitstream.net'). Solution #1: get a static IP tied to the name 'ganesh.bitstream.net' (contact the sysadmin there). This will cost you $$ more than likely. Solution #2: fix sendmail. This will cost you time. If you use the sendmail 8.8.5 instructions (linked to my web site, also on next-ftp.peak.org) you can tell your machine to 'masquerade_as' a host (in your case I would suggest 'mail.bitstream.net' and then tell it to just use the domain name). This will correct the 'Message-ID' hostname. AOL and many other places are tightening their restrictions on how they accept mail, in an effort to squash spam. Sendmail.8.85 should take about 30 minutes to read, re-read, read again without the TV on, and configure. Most of the work has already been done and notes taken.... all you need to do is follow them. Sure if you want you can muck with sendmail rulesets rather than upgrade your sendmail. I'm not that daring, however. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Unbootable OpenStep 4.2 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:28:00 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5obflg$300@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5o8vd1$b21@bioko.ifi.unizh.ch> Will Harris (***RemoveMe***harris@ifi.unizh.ch) wrote: : [...] : Any help appreciated. : It is necessary to adapt the 'hd' (or 'sd' in case of SCSI) entry in /etc/fstab to reflect the actual number of the disk with the root (/) filesystem - in your case i would guess /dev/hd2a where it now reads /dev/hd0a. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail and virtual ip Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:52:03 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jun 1997 14:52:03 GMT Having used Hideo Morishita's code to add some virtual ips to this machine, I now find that sendmail has a problem with mail sent to users at a virtual address. For example, logic.tamu.edu is one of my virtual addresses and mail sent to colin@logic.tamu.edu gets bounced with the following message: While connected to logic.tamu.edu: >>> HELO snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu <<< 553 snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself 554 <colin@logic.tamu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable I have set up my sendmail.cf file to accept mail for logic.tamu.edu and curiously, mail sent to @snaefell.tamu.edu:colin@logic.tamu.edu is delivered just fine. What else do I need to change to tell sendmail to accept mail sent to the virtual address? Thanks in advance. -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: Anyone upgraded from NS3.3 to OS4.2? Message-ID: <EC15MA.63v@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 15:56:34 GMT I recall sometime ago a post about problems resulting from a direct upgrade from NS3.3 to OS4.1. Has anyone succeeded upgrading directly to OS.4.2 from 3.3? In particular I am thinking about doing this to an Intel system so I'd appreciate any comments. -- Lyle Parkyn ProSoft Solutions Inc. (http://www.prosoft.com) lparkyn@prosoft.com (NeXTmail, text or MIME formats welcome) Bus:(604)324-3311 Fax:(604)538-7694
From: Matthias Klose <Matthias.Klose@cs.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ThinkPad 760ED drivers? Date: 19 Jun 1997 19:11:28 +0200 Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <784tauiklb.fsf@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Since NeXT has a driver for the Thinkpad 760ED display, support for the other devices should available as well; unfortunately I cannot configure the following ports correctly: Sound, Serial, Parallel, InfraRed and the internal modem. Does somebody could email me the correct config files? Many Thanks, Matthias
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NFS -- export a fixed disk other than / (solution) Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 19:13:55 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33A968D3.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5oalnk$sjg@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <5obc9j$nak@crcnis3.unl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rex Dieter wrote: > An easy alternative to all this is to use netgroups. > Assign every machine you want NFS access to a netgroup, say, nfstest. And... if you use netgroups with NIS, don't forget that the lookupd in 4.0 and 4.1 is unable to handle this. Lookups of NIS-netgroups was fixed in 4.2. stefan ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and virtual ip Date: 19 Jun 1997 16:16:07 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5obm07$hud$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > Having used Hideo Morishita's code to add some virtual ips to this > machine, I now find that sendmail has a problem with mail sent to > users at a virtual address. For example, logic.tamu.edu is one of > my virtual addresses and mail sent to colin@logic.tamu.edu > gets bounced with the following message: > > While connected to logic.tamu.edu: > >>> HELO snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu > <<< 553 snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself > 554 <colin@logic.tamu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable Add *all* of the addresses for which you will do final delivery to class w. Also, check your DNS configuration --- from the looks of <snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu> I'd guess you are missing a "." on the A record. > I have set up my sendmail.cf file to accept mail for logic.tamu.edu > and curiously, mail sent to @snaefell.tamu.edu:colin@logic.tamu.edu > is delivered just fine. > > What else do I need to change to tell sendmail to accept mail sent > to the virtual address? In general, you don't need to muck about with virtual interfaces to configure sendmail. Grab the source code to sendmail-8.8.6 (ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/) and read the sendmail-8.8.6/cf/README file, paying particular attention to the sections describing masquerading and the virtusertable database. You will also need to set up an MX record for all of your virtual mail domains pointing at your server: logic.tamu.edu. IN MX 0 snaefell.tamu.edu The whole deal with virtual interfaces has been blown out of all proportion: it's only necessary for WWW servers because of an oversight made in the design of the HTTP 1.0 protocol --- this was (by definition) way back before the WWW took off, and no-one had really considered that there would be a demand to run several different web sites on a single machine. Anyhow, this is fixed in the current HTTP 1.1 version of the protocol so the egregious was of the limited IP namespace caused by virtual interfaces should start to slowly disappear. Matthew [Mailed and posted] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and virtual ip Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:28:50 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <UneOGGy00iWm08tA00@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Jun-97 sendmail and virtual ip by Colin Allen@snaefell.tam > While connected to logic.tamu.edu: > >>> HELO snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu > <<< 553 snaefell.tamu.edu.tamu.edu config error: mail loops back to myself > 554 <colin@logic.tamu.edu>... 554 Service unavailable > > I have set up my sendmail.cf file to accept mail for logic.tamu.edu > and curiously, mail sent to @snaefell.tamu.edu:colin@logic.tamu.edu > is delivered just fine. > > What else do I need to change to tell sendmail to accept mail sent > to the virtual address? Ah, the classic looping error; add "logic.tamu.edu" to the list of hostnames your machine recognizes as being local...ie, to the line in sendmail.cf beginning with 'Cw'. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 17:31:23 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gneOIf600iWm08tAU0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 19-Jun-97 Bad sendmail header by Christian Jensen@bitstre > I am having a frustrating problem with outgoing mail that can be traced to > one bad header. Lately some of my mail has been returned with messages > such as: > >> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- >> <KLJensen01@aol.com> >> >> ----- Transcript of session follows ----- >> .... while talking to e.mx.aol.com.: >> >>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 >> <<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found in >> DNS(see >RFC 1123, sections 5.2.2 and 5.2.18). >> 554 <KLJnsen01@aol.com>... Service unavailable Your hostname doesn't appear in the DNS: 81-tertius% nslookup -type=any ganesh.bitstream.net. Server: NETSERVER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU Address: 128.2.35.50 *** NETSERVER.ANDREW.CMU.EDU can't find ganesh.bitstream.net.: Non-existent hostname 82-tertius% nslookup -type=any ganesh.bitstream.net. bitstream.net. *** Can't find server name for address 204.73.77.85: Timed out *** Default servers are not available Tell your service provider to create at least an 'A' and 'PTR' record for your machine, and preferably an 'MX' record as well if you get mail delivered directly to your machine. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail and virtual ip Date: 20 Jun 1997 01:33:02 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5ocmke$2rt@news.tamu.edu> References: <5obh2j$8ii@news.tamu.edu> <UneOGGy00iWm08tA00@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jun 1997 01:33:02 GMT Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >Ah, the classic looping error; add "logic.tamu.edu" to the list of >hostnames your machine recognizes as being local...ie, to the line in >sendmail.cf beginning with 'Cw'. Indeed I had done this already, but what I did not realise is that one must reboot for the change to take effect. All's well now. Thanks! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip Drive Icons Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 21:36:58 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970619213532.5087A-100000@cc344191-a> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote: > Sorry for this question. I tried to search DejaNews but for some reason > without success. Did you try sending me an email with the SUBJECT search-peak zip > Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. > Could you give me a pointer? had you done the above you would have gotten to see: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README TjL, who isn't asking how this is 'sysadmin' related ;-) -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What happened to /NextApps/Mail.app/safetar ? Date: 20 Jun 1997 03:06:35 GMT Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc Message-ID: <5ocs3r$6e8$1@bashir.peak.org> I see that safetar has been removed from Mail.app What does what it used to do? TjL -- -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: what NT printer driver are you using with samba Date: 19 Jun 1997 16:34:15 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5obn27$omv@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> References: <5o47fn$lns$2@news9.gte.net> <5o65r6$l77@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca> <5o8nd0$jvl$1@news2.gte.net> Vincent Koser (vkoser@biggun.com) wrote: : >From Win95 I generally use an "Apple LaserWriter II NTX v47.0", and simply : >set the printer's memory preference up to a few megs. I've not had much : >trouble with this. This also has worked A-OK under WinNT 3.51. : doens't seem to like this driver from NT 4, still get the postscript : error dialog on next. You need to set the preferences for the driver so that it sends PostScript is the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions format (ADSC), which is in the advanced preferences, as I recall. --Chris Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst -------------------------------------- computerActive, Inc |"The telephone was not invented by | chris@computerActive.com (NeXT/MIME) | Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh --------------------------------------
From: creator@null.net (Anton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hardware Password! ..help.. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:09:22 GMT Organization: nodupplikuble Message-ID: <33ab2aa0.1648466@news.isource.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I've got my hands on a NeXTstation which i got all the manuals for, but not a single password. When I was trying to reset the root password through ROM monitor, I was asked for a hardware password, which I don't have either.. . There's a fat battery inside of the machine which I removed for an 1/2-hour (pc experience). That did not seem to help. All that manual advises is not to lose HW passwd or else. Big help. If anybody have any idea about how to change or wipe out this sucker, your help would be so much appreciated. Maybe you will even get flowers (joke). Thanks. Anton. ¶
From: sieg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: shutdown-script Date: 20 Jun 1997 11:17:18 GMT Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen Message-ID: <5odoru$db9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Hello! I have to execute a program before I can shutdown. This should be automatic. The only solution I see is the following: Writing a shutdown script. Link /etc/shutdown to /etc/.../script This script calls at the end /usr/etc/shutdown Has anyone done this? Is there a better solution with bsd 4.3 unix? Thanks in advance. --- Arne Sieg, StuMi-Sysadmin-PST url: http://www.pst.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/~sieg/ pgp: key fingerprint = 79 78 8E 76 B5 B6 AA 71 D8 1A C4 41 ED 86 46 C9
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Zip Drive Icons Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EC12o6.C8K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 14:52:54 GMT References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > >Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. >Could you give me a pointer? > Not to slam whoever made them, but they're a little ugly. ;) Only 2-bit greyscale was my main complaint. Hmmm...maybe I should digitise a Zip disk and head over to Pixelsight? -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
From: sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: make mail folder searchable? Date: 20 Jun 1997 12:27:53 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5odt09$brd$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit hello after more than 4 years of NextMail the problem of finding old mails gets harder and harder. So: is there a good easy solution to search within NeXTMail in all folders ? Something like another button in the active Mailfolder? Or a Service? thanx alot later SfR
From: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: bus error with rsh... Date: 20 Jun 1997 14:02:52 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oe2ic$js3@news.tuwien.ac.at> Hi all, I'm using OpenStep4.1/Intel. Sometimes I got an error "Bus error" when I use rsh, rlogin, telnet or talk. Before upgrading to 4.1, I have never face with such a problem (but the problem might come from other softwares that I installed). When it happens, reboot the machine does help, but after a while, the problem appears again. Any idea/clue/help ? Thanks very much, Khanh Nguyen
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hardware Password! ..help.. Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:52:45 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970620075208.23419E-100000@kira> References: <33ab2aa0.1648466@news.isource.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Anton <creator@null.net> In-Reply-To: <33ab2aa0.1648466@news.isource.net> Remove the battery for a longer time.... and hour.... overnight... somewhere in between should be long enough :-) TjL
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 11:53:53 -0600 From: tguyette@is.com Subject: Intel next 3.3 not launching Opener.app and OpenSesame.app Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <866824852.2236@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Usenet Posting Service I have been running 3.3 on Intel for some time now. I have had several system crashes and subsequent disk repairings happen. After one such incident (it may or may not be the cause), Opener.app and now OpenSesame.app give me the following errors: OpenSesame: execute: [/bin/su -c /NextAdmin/Configure.app/Configure] asRoot: 1 OpenSesame: subprocessError: 'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.' OpenSesame: Open on highlander OpenSesame: execute: [rsh highlander /NextApps/Mail.app/Mail -NXHost orchid] asRoot: 0 OpenSesame: subprocessError: 'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.' OpenSesame: Open on highlander OpenSesame: execute: [rsh highlander /NextApps/Terminal.app/Terminal -NXHost orchid] asRoot: 0 OpenSesame: subprocessError: 'Error grabbing ptys for subprocess.' Can anyone tell me how to repair this problem? I have tried to contact ask_next and they have not responded after 1 month with my repeat appeals. They must be developing apple's attitude toward customer's fixing problems themselves. I have a disk full of lots of stuff I am not wanting to reinstall. Tom -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
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From: walker@imap1.asu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: (Simple) Memory Upgrade Doesn't Take Date: 20 Jun 1997 21:01:10 GMT Organization: Arizona State University Message-ID: <5oer2m$h23@news.asu.edu> Quite simply, my Intel-based 3.3 system doesn't like it when I upgrade from 32mb to 64mb. I am going from 2 16mb chips to 4 16mb chips on a PCI bus. It hangs while trying to start network service (towards the very end of the sytem boot up sequence). Things are just peachy when I go back down to 32mb. Any ideas? Much obliged, -Robin
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: make mail folder searchable? Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:01:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5of257$nam$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <5odt09$brd$1@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> sfr@cs.tu-berlin.de (S. F. Ruehauf) wrote: > >hello > > >after more than 4 years of NextMail the problem of finding >old mails gets harder and harder. > >So: is there a good easy solution to search within NeXTMail >in all folders ? >Something like another button in the active Mailfolder? >Or a Service? > >thanx alot >later >SfR Try the MailSearch.app, you can find it at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/MailSearch.3.0.NIHS.b.tar. gz It isn't part of Mail.app, but it does provide a service from the Services menu. --Ryan Scott
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Commandline process to 'check for disks'? Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:50:01 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970620134906.13946D-100000@kira> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII How do I achieve a 'Check for Disks' from the commandline? My floppy drive doesn't automount :-( TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Zip Drive Icons Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 19:42:50 -0400 Organization: Michigan State University Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970620194200.14174C-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <EC12o6.C8K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <EC12o6.C8K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, David Evans wrote: > In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970618182956.24975A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, > Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > >Someone mentioned that (s)he created a set of icons for zip disks. > >Could you give me a pointer? > > > > Not to slam whoever made them, but they're a little ugly. ;) Only 2-bit > greyscale was my main complaint. Hmmm...maybe I should digitise a Zip disk and > head over to Pixelsight? > The links Tim posted in a reply to my question are quite nice. Have a look: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Different-Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.NIHS.d.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/graphics/icons/Zip-Jaz-Icons.1.0.README Rudy.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: shutdown-script Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7x205wkg6r.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: sieg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg) Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) References: <5odoru$db9@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 23:28:12 GMT >>>>> "AS" == Arne Sieg <sieg@informatik.uni-muenchen.de> writes: AS> Writing a shutdown script. Link /etc/shutdown to AS> /etc/.../script This script calls at the end /usr/etc/shutdown AS> Has anyone done this? Is there a better solution with bsd 4.3 AS> unix? The better way is to use /etc/halt but other than that you're on the right track.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: wirehead@netcom.com (David J Harr) Subject: Internal 4 GB HD and IDE zip drive Message-ID: <wireheadEC4CH7.JxC@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: The Programmers who say NEE! Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 09:17:31 GMT Sender: wirehead@netcom.netcom.com OK, I've been trying to get this to work for weeks. What is the magic incantation necessary to partition and use a 4 GB internal SCSI hard disk with and OPENSTEP/Intel system? Everytime I try to use BuildDisk, it calims it is a 61 Mbyte drive and attempts to turn it in to a swap disk. mkfs refuses to allocate more than 800 Mbytes of storage on the disk.How can I get this to work? If I have to split it into two partitions, I'd like to make each of them just under 2GB, and leave about 200 MBytes to use as a swap disk. Any pointers to the right thing to do would be appreciated... Problem, the second...I have an IDE internal zip drive installed in my machine, It would be spiffy if I could actually use it...Ocasionally, if I have a DOS disk in the drive at bootup, the disk will actually mount, but then the WorkSpace Manager thinks it is a fixed device and won't let me eject it.Any idea on how to get the system to recognize this as a removable media drive? Problem, the third. How do I keep the Workspace mamnger from attempting to mount an internal hard disk containing an NTFS partition from my other work. It is very irritating to get the "SCSI drive damaged, ignore, initialize" dialog box every time I sogn on. Is there a way to tell the WorkSpace Manager that a particular device is forever off limits? Problem, the fourth. Is ther a way to keep the damn OS from attempting to start up every SCSI device on the bus? Of course the CD-ROM players and the zip drive may or may not have anything in them. If they do not, the computer keeps waiting for the device to time out, then it tries again. Again, I would like to make it easy to just ignore whether these devices are spun up at startup, and have the OS just drive on, because it knows that a removable drive can be inserted at any time... Well, these are my peeves about MacOS/Rhapsody. We'll see if anyone can help me with them. Thanks... David
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: 21 Jun 1997 20:15:39 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> I have a problem with a file in /dev. I first noticed errors on the Console: %>localhost_fax: /dev/cufa is locked. Then the next time I booted, the same message appeared among the usual startup lines referring to NXFax. I also could not connect to my ISP, so I knew something was SNAFUed royally. I peeked into /dev, and saw that cufa no longer has question mark icon as per the other /dev files. It now has a text file icon. I checked the permissions and saw he following: cua, cub, and cufb all look like- crw------- But cufa looks like- -rw------- Who knows how this ever got changed, but needless to say I can't figure out how to change the file type back to c. As root, I tried to copy the file from the NS 3.3 CD /private/dev directory into /private/dev, but the copied file still has the -rw------- permissions and text icon, and is still "locked". I tried to copy cufa from a command line with a -p, but this hung. At the moment I have reconfigured everything to use port B, but this just sidesteps the problem. Anyone know how to fix this?? What little step am I overlooking... :-) Many thanks.... -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:47:30 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nf3rWe00iVG028t40@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 21-Jun-97 Corrupted /dev/cufa? by Christian Jensen@bitstre > Anyone know how to fix this?? What little step am I overlooking... :-) Run '/dev/MAKEDEV std', which will ensure that all standard device files get recreated appropriately, or do 'mknod cufa c 11 224; chmod 600 cufa ; chown uucp cufa', which will just fix /dev/cufa. -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: Scott Klein <sklein@panix.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PERL install problems Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 20:06:01 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Message-ID: <33AC6C66.7A41@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install the PERL.pkg on my black hardware ns3.3... First, it says "The Perl package contains programs that will be run during this operation. Continue?" -- I click Continue. As soon as Installer is done with the checking progress, the install stops and I get the following error: Running installation program ... /private/tmp/.Perl.tmp/Perl.pre_install: Permission denied. Now, I'm logged in as root, and I haven't fiddled with the permissions at all since I got the thing. What am I doing wrong? Is this a problem with the installer? I heard that there was a 5.0004 package that fixes installation problems. Any chance someone could point me toward that? Thanks for your advice, Scott.
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From: Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: 21 Jun 1997 13:24:17 GMT Organization: Public Electronic Access to Knowlege,Inc Message-ID: <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> On 06/21/97, Brian Wotring wrote: >On Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400, Dario Ringach ><dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: > >>I installed NS4.1/Mach and set aside a DOS partition on which >>I want to install Windows-95. However, when I boot with the >>Win-95 startup diskette it wants to format my entire disk... >> >>How do I install Win-95 on the DOS partition? >>Thanks... > >Windows sucks. Well that's one of the most useless responses I've ever heard, regardless of the veracity of the claim. Man I long for the days when sysadmins setup their news server so you couldn't quote more than you wrote. It saved us from these one liners, or at least made it more difficult. Dario -- a more helpful answer (although unfortunately not much more) is that if you can, it is much easier to partition the drive using Win95 or something else, and install W95 on the first partition. 4.1 will see the partition and ask where you want to install 4.1. W95 is a fascist system that will easily install itself over any non-M$ system without worry. 4.1 is a smart OS that recognizes that people sometimes decide to have more than one OS, even if the other OS isn't as good. TjL -- -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html "Everything is easy when you know what you are doing." - Dr Robert Cupper, Department of CS, Allegheny College
From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: netinfo config in 3.3 & 4.2 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 01:12:22 -0400 Organization: personal Message-ID: <33ACB436.57A0@worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need to upgrade from NS/intel 3.3 to 4.2. Since I would be the first one to do so in the company, I wonder how netinfo works in 4.2. If I save the netinfo config in 3.3 on a disk and copy it to /etc after upgrade to 4.2, will it work? Thanks, ZiZi
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: <3108866347221@digifix.com> Date: 22 Jun 1997 03:57:06 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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!!! 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. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** 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. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. 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. 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From: prak@usl.edu (Brian Wotring) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:55:23 GMT Organization: Continual Flux Message-ID: <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> On Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400, Dario Ringach <dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: >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... Windows sucks.
From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: entering NMI monitor Date: Sun, 22 Jun 1997 20:17:06 +0000 Organization: RIKEN Message-ID: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm running NS 3.3/Intel booting from Linux LILO on an NS/Linux dual boot machine. I would like to enter the NMI monitor. Right-Alt + NumLock puts up a window that seems just to give the options of restarting or halting. What I really want to do is go to the ROM monitor and set the "verbose test mode" parameter to No. Any suggestions? Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research Saitama, Japan
From: aa056@chebucto.ns.ca (George White) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: samba and printer export Date: 22 Jun 1997 11:44:07 GMT Organization: Chebucto Community Net Message-ID: <5oj367$o9t$1@News.Dal.Ca> References: <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> <5o66u6$gvk@corporate.hesta.com> Michael Verruto (michael@hesta.com) wrote: : In <5nu2gd$dmt$1@news12.gte.net> Vincent Koser wrote: : > I would like to export my next laser printer from samba but can't seem : > to get it working. Could someone share their config file from samba : > that allows the standard laser printer to be exported? : > : > thanks : > vince : > : I also would like the same thing: I tried a few months ago but got wierd : behavior- only one page of the file would print then nothing... : Is there a SAMBA Printing FAQ somewhere? : Maybe we could make a comp.sys.next(Rhapsody).samba discussion group? : -- : "A measure of a man is what he will do for : someone who can offer but nothing in return." : -Unattributed. : MIME & NeXTMAIL accepted : Michael Styles Verruto - michael@hesta.com I'm running Samba on 3.0 NeXT and printing works fine from an OS/2 Warp 4.0 client. From a Win 3.11 client, only one printer works, but this is mentioned somewhere as a bug in Win 3.11. I did have to work a bit to compile Samba, as some of the settings in the default configuration were incorrect. As I recall, it wanted fcntl flags F_SETLK, F_GETLK, etc. I did not try to use any OS calls for file and record locking. The printers are both external networked printers running BSD-style lprd. -- George White <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca> <gwhite@bionet.bio.dfo.ca>
From: jasonben@aol.com (jasonben) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Control: cancel <5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Date: 9 Jun 1997 12:40:39 -0400 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com/ Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <-5nc9k8$d7n$1024@usenet85.supernews.com> Please cancel this posting
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 22 Jun 1997 17:40:08 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: luomat@peak.org This might sound like a hardware problem, given the Subject but it isn't. Here's the deal, I have 2 ethernet cards in my Intel, one at "en0" and the other at "en1". If I connect the en0 to the cable modem that gives me my internet access, and use HostManager to set all my correct Internet parameters, then I can access the Internet quite well (as I am doing now). In this scenario I use en1 to connect to the slab, using the IP address of the NeXT defined C class for private use (192.42.172.xxx) HOWEVER, in order to use NetInfo more easily, I'd prefer that en0 = my connection to the slab and en1 = my connection to the Internet. I set that up and tell the slab to do autohost-config and things go smoothly between the two machines. When I try to set it up that way, the Internet connection never is made, ie the network seems to be down. My guess is that I need to set up some sort of routing so that en1 knows to look out over the Internet? Any guesses on what I should do NeXT would be deeply appreciated. I can give more information via email if necessary. Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: 22 Jun 1997 16:27:43 GMT Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <5ojjpv$ps5@news.nd.edu> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org> In article <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org>, Timothy J. Luoma <luomat@peak.org> wrote: >On 06/21/97, Brian Wotring wrote: >>On Sat, 31 May 1997 10:36:58 -0400, Dario Ringach >><dario@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> wrote: >> >>>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... >> >>Windows sucks. > >Well that's one of the most useless responses I've ever heard, >regardless of the veracity of the claim. > Opinion aside, I just went through this yesterday, so I can give you a fresh memory trace on it. If you format with NS Mach first and leave an area for DOS, and then boot up with the Win-95 startup disk it will _say_ it's going to format the whole disk, but it doesn't. It formats the first partition. Go ahead and let Windows do that. When you are through with the windows format, you'll need to get a DOS boot disk with FDISK.EXE on it. Boot up using that and set the active partition to the NeXTSTEP partition. Now you can boot to NS. As root, run the following command: /usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive -useBoot0 This will re-install the boot manager that Win-95 so thoughtfully erased. All will be well again! Good luck, Steve -- Dr. Steven M. Boker 219-631-4941 (voice) sboker@nd.edu 219-631-8883 (fax) http://www.nd.edu/~sboker/ 219-257-2956 (home) Dept. of Psychology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Date: 22 Jun 1997 17:31:36 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> wrote: >I'm running NS 3.3/Intel booting from Linux LILO on >an NS/Linux dual boot machine. I would like to enter >the NMI monitor. Right-Alt + NumLock puts up a window >that seems just to give the options of restarting or >halting. What I really want to do is go to the ROM >monitor and set the "verbose test mode" parameter to >No. Any suggestions? This is an easy one - buy a NeXT, Intel boxes have no ROM monitor! :-) If you want the verbose boot sequence on an Intel box then wait for NeXT's booter to start up and when it displays the "boot:" prompt type "-v". - Gareth -- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: 22 Jun 1997 19:07:50 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ojt66$1c4k@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 17 Jun 1997 16:25:28 GMT Organization: Systemix, Inc. Message-ID: <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) wrote: > How can I change the root password to something new without knowing the > current password and without re-installing NS completely from scratch. Greetings Karl, My personal alternative to the solution Timothy suggests is if, as sysadmin, your personal account is in the wheel group, then you can boot single user, go to /bin and set the high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel to be the same as su.nowheel, finish booting (^D) and then use su.wheel in combination with your own password to become root and then reset root's password via passwd. Of course, remember to unset the permissions on su.wheel when you're done if you don't normally support it policy-wise. I find this simpler to remember but it only works if you're a member of the wheel group. - Christopher
From: urban@athena.onramp.net (Marcus Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail problems Date: 23 Jun 1997 06:48:16 GMT Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP Message-ID: <5ol67g$7vl@nntp.onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii After finally getting ppp set up, WWW, newsgroups, and telnet work fine. Receiving mail (via PopUp) works fine, as well. I have NS 3.3/Intel on a stand-alone machine connected to the provider via ppp. The machine's name is set to athena. However, sending mail is a complete catastrophe. First, I tried the "easy" method described in the Help for PopUp. As a result, all non-local mail worked fine, but I local mail was getting sent to the wrong addresses. For example, mail to localuser was getting sent to localuser@remote.somewhere. My next try was to attempt to install sendmail 8, which totally bombed. Once I installed that, no mail went anywhere, whether it was local or remote email. I de-installed sendmail and re-copied the old sendmail program. Things still weren't right, but I played with some of the sysadmin utilities and got things into the following state: Local mail works fine. It gets delivered within the local system without even trying to contact the mailhost. Remote mail fails. Here's a sample: athena> mail -v urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu Subject: Remote Mail This won't go anywhere useful. Cc: urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu... Connecting to mailhost via ether... mail exchanger is mailhost.onramp.net Trying 199.1.11.3... connected. 220 mailhost.onramp.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5; Mon, 23 Jun 1997 01:45:40 -0500 (CDT) >>> HELO 501 HELO requires domain address >>> QUIT 221 mailhost.onramp.net closing connection urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu... Service unavailable Saving message in /Users/urban/dead.letter /Users/urban/dead.letter... Sent ======================== In case you're wondering, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this: domain onramp.net nameserver 199.1.11.2 nameserver 199.1.1.15 The mail host should be mailhost.onramp.net, which is set up as an alias for mailhost in NetInfo. I don't know what to do. I've searched through a great number of previous postings, and I only saw one posting with this symptom ("HELO requires domain address"), and the only way the poster could resolve it was to re-install his system, which I really don't want to do. Please direct replies to urban@gauss.cl.uh.edu.
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:29:05 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, Cable modems have just been introduced in my area. I'm not much of a sysadmin, so I'm wondering if its possible to run them with a turbo slab. From what I gather, they simply plug into your ethernet port. Is there more to it than that? Anyone using one out there? thanks! -- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Mark Trombino | J A M S o f t | | mtrombin@ix.netcom.com | Audio DSP Tools for Openstep & Rhapsody | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: root@radiation.me.ttu.edu (Operator) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CDPlayer.app help Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:19:36 GMT Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services Message-ID: <5omi88$2jh@ttacs7.ttu.edu> I have several students that would like to use the CDPlayer.app. I am aware of the help in Nextanswers and have modified the CDPlayer accordingly. The problem is that some of the students can play a CD while others cannot and are given the error message (no CD-ROM found). All the students have similar (network) accounts and belong to the same group. Does anyone know what could possibly causing this unique behavior? Thanks in advance for any help. Darryl James
From: Theodore J. Allen Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: 22 Jun 1997 19:11:42 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5ojtde$1c4k@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) wrote: > I have a problem with a file in /dev. I first noticed errors on the > [snip] > I peeked into /dev, and saw that cufa no longer has question mark icon > as per the other /dev files. It now has a text file icon. I checked > the permissions and saw he following: cua, cub, and cufb all look > like- > > crw------- > > But cufa looks like- > > -rw------- > [snip] > Anyone know how to fix this?? What little step am I overlooking... :-) Sorry for the previous empty post. (Oops, I can't control my new mouse!) What you want to do is delete the bad /dev/cufa and then run ./MAKEDEV std in the /dev directory as root. That should fix it after a reboot. -- Ted Allen, Ph.D. High Energy Physics University of Wisconsin-Madison tjallen@wishep.physics.wisc.edu http://theory1.physics.wisc.edu/~tjallen/
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 23 Jun 1997 19:10:59 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5omho3$2st$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> Christopher Lane wrote: > My personal alternative to the solution Timothy suggests is if, as sysadmin, > your personal account is in the wheel group, then you can boot single user, > go to /bin and set the high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel to be > the same as su.nowheel, finish booting (^D) and then use su.wheel in > combination with your own password to become root and then reset root's > password via passwd. Of course, remember to unset the permissions on > su.wheel when you're done if you don't normally support it policy-wise. This won't work. You'll still be prompted for the root password when you use su.wheel, even if you set it to mode 4755. It's one of those essential security things. The only way to change the root password is to be logged in as root's UID, and the only way to do that without having to give the root password is to boot single user. Most unixen behave in this way, although some of the more security conscious ones will demand either the root password or a "hardware password" to boot into single user mode. Changing the root password in single user mode is more complicated under OpenStep, since you have to manually start up the Netinfo system, but otherwise follows this behaviour. The whole point of su.wheel and su.nowheel is to control who can use su to become root. "su.nowheel" will allow anyone to us it to become root, so long as they know the right password --- this is the standard behaviour on most unices, and also what the GNU version of su supports. The "su.wheel" program only lets people that are members of group wheel become root, again, only if they know the right password. By setting the SUID bit on whichever version you want to use and changing the /bin/su symbolic link to point at it, you can switch the behaviour of the su command. Nb. the SUID bit on either of su.wheel or su.nowheel must be set for the program to work at all. Matthew [posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No Login Screen Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 18:25:24 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> Hi, I've been busy the last week assembleing my "Compatible Intel Based System" and have OPENSTEP installed on it. To be more specific, I upgraded the drives in my old 486 running Linux that acts as an Appletalk server, and installed OPENSTEP on that. At which point I decided a 486DX/33 was too slow for OPENSTEP 4.2 and took the drives and used them as the basis for building a Pentium 133. OPENSTEP runs very nicely, there is just one slight problem, where is the Login screen? When it boots it dumps me directly into a user session for the default user. If I log out, it dumps me right back into that session. I'd like to be able to set up a normal user account, plus I'd like to use the root account to install some additional software (i.e. the Developer stuff). Does anyone have any idea what the problem is? Has anyone else had this problem? It existed in both the install I did for the 486 and the one that I did for the Pentium (I had to reinstall it so I could reformat the hard drive to use all 3.1Gb instead of the 500Mb the 486 let me have). BTW I've got an EIDE HD and CD-ROM if that matters, and that is all that has been in both systems. Any help would be appreciated, I can see how this system can be useful for more than just a tool to get used to programming for Rhapsody. I love the UNIX underpinnings. Thanks, Zane
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 00:02:20 -0600 From: sidney@postman.riken.go.jp Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <867127679.754@dejanews.com> Organization: RIKEN References: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu> In article <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu>, bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote: > > Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> wrote: > >I'm running NS 3.3/Intel booting from Linux LILO on > >an NS/Linux dual boot machine. I would like to enter > >the NMI monitor. Right-Alt + NumLock puts up a window > >that seems just to give the options of restarting or > >halting. What I really want to do is go to the ROM > >monitor and set the "verbose test mode" parameter to > >No. Any suggestions? > > This is an easy one - buy a NeXT, Intel boxes have no ROM monitor! :-) > > If you want the verbose boot sequence on an Intel box then wait > for NeXT's booter to start up and when it displays the "boot:" > prompt type "-v". > > - Gareth Actually what I want is the opposite. The computer now always boots in verbose mode even without the -v option, just by hitting "return" at the "boot:" prompt, and I want to shut this off. I realize that the Intel machine has no NeXT ROM, but I would expect some of boot options still reside in the system somewhere and are accessible, including the "verbose test mode" flag. I'm assuming this is a purely NeXT configuration problem and not the result of some LILO setting in Linux. Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet guru needed! Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:32:20 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nfpjYG00iWp0BzRw0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <5o53lq$dg4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 17-Jun-97 NetInfo/Networking/Ethernet.. by Timothy J. Luoma@peak.or [ .... ] > I am trying to connect the Intel to the slab so I can print from the Intel > to the slab. If I could figure out how to setup one IP address for the en0 > connection (the Internet connection) and a separate IP address for the en1 > connection, I think it could work. Yep. Take a look at 'man iftab' and /etc/iftab. Alternatively, you can manually configure the second interface on en1 and set up the appropriate local route in /etc/rc.local. You want to assign the second interface on the Intel box and the primary interface on the NeXT to two IP addresses within one of the reserved private IP ranges, which are (from RFC1918, which is worth reading): 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix) 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix) 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix) [ IP ] [ netmask ] > I tried to read 'man gated' but some grey muck started leaking from my > ears..... I'm not even sure that would help.... Gated is overkill for what you're trying to do (gated is used mainly by ISP's who are using BGP or EGP to peer with other autonomous regions)-- routed is sufficient. -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: No Login Screen Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 01:39:50 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <4nfpqaq00iWp0BzEg0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 23-Jun-97 No Login Screen by Zane H. Healy@ix.netcom. > OPENSTEP runs very nicely, there is just one slight problem, where is > the Login screen? When it boots it dumps me directly into a user > session for the default user. If I log out, it dumps me right back into > that session. I'd like to be able to set up a normal user account, plus > I'd like to use the root account to install some additional software > (i.e. the Developer stuff). It's very simple-- just give the "me" account a password via /NextApps/Preferences.app or the CLI 'passwd' command; logout; and the system will present a login panel instead of automatically logging you in as "me". You can then login as "root" to install software and/or create user accounts (via /NextAdmin/UserManager.app). -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Albino Santos <asantos@individual.EUnet.pt> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Corrupted /dev/cufa? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 00:10:24 +0100 Organization: VANTeC Message-ID: <33ADB0E0.E4D4FF17@individual.EUnet.pt> References: <5ohcpb$l0s$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Christian Jensen wrote: > = > I have a problem with a file in /dev. I first noticed errors on the > Console: > = > %>localhost_fax: /dev/cufa is locked. Look somewhere in /etc/uucp for the lock file and delete it. = > = > I peeked into /dev, and saw that cufa no longer has question mark icon > as per the other /dev files. It now has a text file icon. I checked > the permissions and saw he following: cua, cub, and cufb all look > like- > = > crw------- > = That=B4s a special character file. So run /dev/MAKEDEV std. -- = Albino Santos Email albino@vantec.pt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VANTeC Tel +351 2 6107420 Rua da Preciosa, 306 - 1 Fax +351 2 6107419 4100 PORTO MIME & NeXTmail welcome PORTUGAL URL: http://www.cibertribe.pt/vantec/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: netinfo config in 3.3 & 4.2 Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Date: 24 Jun 1997 07:13:09 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5ons25$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <33ACB436.57A0@worldnet.att.net> zizi zhao (ziziz@worldnet.att.net) wrote: : I need to upgrade from NS/intel 3.3 to 4.2. Since I would be the first : one : to do so in the company, I wonder how netinfo works in 4.2. If I save : the : netinfo config in 3.3 on a disk and copy it to /etc after upgrade to : 4.2, : will it work? It should work fine. No changes to the database format were made between 3.3 and 4.2, to my knowledge. -- Luke
From: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP: Dual Boot NS4.1/Mach and Windows-95 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 22:04:14 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <19970623220414891856@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> References: <3390378A.41C6@hobson.cns.nyu.edu> <33acb028.966248@news1.lig.bellsouth.net> <5ogkm1$4ft$1@bashir.peak.org> <5ojjpv$ps5@news.nd.edu> Steven M. Boker <sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu> wrote: > When you are through with the windows format, you'll need to get > a DOS boot disk with FDISK.EXE on it. Boot up using that and set > the active partition to the NeXTSTEP partition. Now you can boot I was able to do this from the DOS box under Win95, of course I've only got the upgrade so I first had to install DOZ & Windoz 3.11 for all I know that might be why I was able to do it that way. > to NS. As root, run the following command: > > /usr/etc/fdisk /dev/rsd0h -setNeXTActive -useBoot0 > > This will re-install the boot manager that Win-95 so thoughtfully > erased. All will be well again! I REALLY wish I'd seen this prior to reinstalling OS4.2 to get this back :^( I knew there had to be an easy way. Zane PS now that I've embarassed myself by admiting to having Win95, let me try to dig myself out of the hole by stating it's because of the lack of new strategy games under MacOS :^)
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: bus error with rsh... Date: 24 Jun 1997 08:23:48 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oo06k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5oe2ic$js3@news.tuwien.ac.at> Khanh P. Nguyen (knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at) wrote: : Hi all, : I'm using OpenStep4.1/Intel. Sometimes I got an error "Bus error" when I : use rsh, rlogin, telnet or talk. Before upgrading to 4.1, I have never : face with such a problem (but the problem might come from other : softwares that I installed). When it happens, reboot the machine does : help, but after a while, the problem appears again. Are you using DNS? Sounds like a known problem with lookupd in 4.1. Solution: upgrade to 4.2. Alternatively, backup /usr/etc/lookupd and copy your old 4.0 lookupd (this ain't guaranteed to work, but it should) to your 4.1 system. (You do have the original CDs, don't you? :-)) -- Luke
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: 24 Jun 1997 08:22:12 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5oo03k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : This might sound like a hardware problem, given the Subject but it isn't. : Here's the deal, I have 2 ethernet cards in my Intel, one at "en0" and the : other at "en1". Excuse my ignorance -- I didn't know NEXTSTEP supported multi-homing. : My guess is that I need to set up some sort of routing so that en1 knows to : look out over the Internet? You could put a static route in /etc/gateways and turn routed on in /etc/hostconfig... -- Luke
From: droege@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Detlev Droege) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Date: 24 Jun 1997 11:21:50 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ooake$kjc$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <867127679.754@dejanews.com> In article <867127679.754@dejanews.com> sidney@postman.riken.go.jp writes: > > >I'm running NS 3.3/Intel ... > > ... [at] the "boot:" prompt type "-v". > Actually what I want is the opposite. The computer now always > boots in verbose mode even without the -v option, just by hitting > "return" at the "boot:" prompt, and I want to shut this off. In Configure.app, select the "Expert" options button from the main window. There, most probably the entry "Boot Graphics" is set to "No". Set it to "Yes" to switch to the graphic boot mode. Beware - booting with "Boot Graphics" = "Yes" triggers a known bug on motherboards with the "Triton" chipset in combination with S3-based graphic adapters. If you have such a combination, you should stay with the non-graphic boot mode. [Except for the look there is no technical or speed difference between both boot modes anyway.] If you have a "kick-start" partition for NS remember to copy the changed .config files to it since Configure.app will only change the "local" copys on the system disk. 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: lemson@penguin.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT Hardware and Cable Modems Date: 24 Jun 1997 13:13:13 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Message-ID: <5ooh59$7gl$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5omiq1$djj@dfw-ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) writes: >Hello, >Cable modems have just been introduced in my area. I'm not much of a >sysadmin, so I'm wondering if its possible to run them with a turbo slab. >From what I gather, they simply plug into your ethernet port. Is there more >to it than that? Anyone using one out there? If your provider is Time-Warner and the product is Road-Runner, then you will have a problem. They have a Windows and Mac client that contacts their firewall and lets you through once you have authenticated. Phil Karn of Qualcomm in San Diego reverse-engineered it and ported it to UNIX, so maybe you can find him and get his code. Ask your cable company if you need a PC client to use the cable modem system. If it's just a standard cable modem with no extra security, it should just work with your ethernet port. I'm using my NeXT with a Zenith cable modem - the Zenith is just a bridge.
From: carl@norumrez.usask.ca (Carl Norum) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail 3.3 w/ mailapp-utilities. Date: 22 Jun 1997 20:28:07 GMT Organization: Hand of Evil Web Productions Message-ID: <5ok1sn$man@tribune.usask.ca> Hello everyone! I've just got one question, that I hope someone can answer for me. I'm using procmail and appnmail in conjunction in order to sort the messages from different mailing lists into separate mailboxes. (Oh, and I also have EnchanceMail 2.0b6 installed.) My problem is that although EnhanceMail checks all of the mailboxes for new mail and shows the results in the mailboxes panel, the fancy fanning bit that happens with the Mail.app icon doesn't work. Right now, to be able to see new mail when it comes, I have taken to keeping the Mailboxes panel open all the time. This is starting to get rather annoying, though, so I thought I'd ask about getting the icon to behave properly. Thanks a lot! Carl Norum carl@norumrez.usask.ca
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 2 ethernet cards and "multi homing" Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:43:44 -0400 Organization: Fifth yr. senior, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <gnfzZ0G00iWQ03eiU0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5ojo1o$cfr$2@bashir.peak.org> <5oo03k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> In-Reply-To: <5oo03k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 24-Jun-97 Re: 2 ethernet cards and "m.. by Luke HOWARD@ecr.mu.oz.au > Excuse my ignorance -- I didn't know NEXTSTEP supported multi-homing. Actually, NeXT does not support multihomed systems under NEXTSTEP. But such systems do work fine, from what I've seen. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: eide problem Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 17:09:29 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. I can have the 2 ide on primary controller, then the cd dosn't work on the secondary controller. I can have the 1 ide and cd on the primary controller, then the second ide dosn't work on the secondary controller. The secondary controller is not broke, I can see the 2 ide and the cd in windows 95 (I got 2 oses on the same machine). Any ideas? siffi@treknet.is
From: thrall@serv.net (Dean Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding new SCSI partioned disk Date: 24 Jun 1997 18:27:31 GMT Organization: Not Sure Yet Message-ID: <5op3ik$94b$1@brockman.serv.net> I am having a bit of a problem getting a new disk added to my NS/I system. I have a 1 gig boot drive that has NT and OPENSTEP installed on it. Obviously that isn't enough room so I decided to add another 1 gig disk. With NT I selected a 500 meg partion FAT and left the other free. Using NeXT's fdisk set the other free partion to NeXTSTEP. fdisk reports that that went ok. Now the bits that I am confused on. NS mounts the dos partition as /dev/rsd1h /unlabled. How do I see the other partion? And how do I get it to be the standard /dev/sdn stuff? Also does the naming convention go with the sd's? From the Sysadmin book it looks like if the drive is SCSI 2 that the disk would be /dev/sd2a. What about the partition? Since it really is the second partition on the drive (dos being the first one) why is it not sdxb? Anyway, before I ramble too much. What about initializing the NS partition. How do I specify the second partition? I don't want to mess up the dos partition. Thanks in advance for any help or tips, dean johnson
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: can't remember the root password Date: 24 Jun 1997 21:00:23 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun24142827@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5o4g2n$8mr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> In-reply-to: clane@stem.com's message of 17 Jun 1997 16:25:28 GMT In article <5o6dpo$10n@iserver.stem.com> clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane) writes: kpfleger@hpp.Stanford.EDU (Karl Pfleger) wrote: > How can I change the root password to something new without knowing the > current password and without re-installing NS completely from scratch. Greetings Karl, My personal alternative to the solution Timothy suggests is if, as sysadmin, your personal account is in the wheel group, then you can boot single user, go to /bin and set the high order (seduid) permission bits on su.wheel to be the same as su.nowheel, finish booting (^D) and then use su.wheel in combination with your own password to become root and then reset root's password via passwd. Of course, remember to unset the permissions on su.wheel when you're done if you don't normally support it policy-wise. I find this simpler to remember but it only works if you're a member of the wheel group. If you can boot singleuser, you could just source /etc/rc.net (do ". /etc/rc.net"), and then "passwd root". If that doesn't work (I'm _not_ going to reboot just to test it :-), you could do "nidump passwd . >/tmp/passwd", edit to remove root's password, and "niload passwd . </tmp/passwd". Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No Login Screen Date: 24 Jun 1997 21:00:29 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> In-reply-to: healyzh@ix.netcom.com's message of Mon, 23 Jun 1997 18:25:24 -0800 In article <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com>, healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) writes: OPENSTEP runs very nicely, there is just one slight problem, where is the Login screen? When it boots it dumps me directly into a user session for the default user. If I log out, it dumps me right back into that session. I'd like to be able to set up a normal user account, plus I'd like to use the root account to install some additional software (i.e. the Developer stuff). As noted elsewhere, give me a password. I'm actually posting for another reason. Generally, you shouldn't even have to login as root to install stuff. "Simply", select the app you want to run as root in Workspace, and choose Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is a demo program (and thus may not be installed unless you installed the demos). In any case, that opens the app as root, and away you go. You can also select a document file and do the same thing. So you don't have to know Installer.app is in /NextAdmin. You can also su root from a command-line, and then execute /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer. Of course, there are other valid reasons to not want to automagically login as user me... -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding new SCSI partioned disk Date: 24 Jun 1997 19:33:31 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5op7eb$o0$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5op3ik$94b$1@brockman.serv.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5op3ik$94b$1@brockman.serv.net> Dean Johnson wrote: > With NT I selected a 500 meg partion FAT and left the other free. > Using NeXT's fdisk set the other free partion to NeXTSTEP. fdisk > reports that that went ok. > > Now the bits that I am confused on. > > NS mounts the dos partition as /dev/rsd1h /unlabled. How do I see the > other partion? And how do I get it to be the standard /dev/sdn stuff? You've got to initialize the file system on the new Next partition before the system can mount it. You need to log in as root and run something like: newfs -v /dev/rsd1a where you should be very careful that /dev/rsd1a is the correct partition --- if you happen to newfs on top of one of your other partitions you will completely destroy the contents. > Also does the naming convention go with the sd's? From the Sysadmin > book it looks like if the drive is SCSI 2 that the disk would be > /dev/sd2a. What about the partition? Since it really is the second > partition on the drive (dos being the first one) why is it not sdxb? No --- not quite. Under OpenStep, SCSI disks are numbered counting from zero in the order that they occur along the SCSI bus. Thus the disk with the lowest SCSI ID will be /dev/sd0 (the default boot disk, btw.), and the next lowest SCSI ID will be /dev/sd1 and so on. Furthermore each disk can have several partitions on it, and on intel machines there are two types of partition. (Uh --- a 'partition' is Unix-speak for what most other OS's would call a 'drive'). The first is that established by 'fdisk', or the equivalent FDISK.EXE under windows. Typically this establishes partitions each of which can be assigned to a different operating system. If you disk is partitionned this way, you will see the 'Press n for nextstep, d for dos...' message when you boot up --- for a machine that runs nothing but openstep, you don't have to do this sort of partitioning at all, and can use just the second type. The second type of partition is the native BSD 4.3 unix partitioning mechanism, which results in the devices /dev/rsd0a, /dev/rsd0b, /dev/rsd0c ... dev/rsd0g, as established by using the 'disk' command. The partition dev/rsd0h is special, and is meant to be an image of the whole surface of the disk. Typically nowadays it is used to denote the 'foreign' filesystem partitions. Each of these partitions a -- g can contain precisely one unix filesystem with a maximum capacity of 2Gb: however, unless you build a custom disktab file, the system will by default split the available space into 1Gb partitions. Well, actually, it is possible to use the -p parameter to the 'disk' command to change the size of the first partition it creates. > Anyway, before I ramble too much. What about initializing the NS > partition. How do I specify the second partition? I don't want to mess > up the dos partition. Once you've run the newfs command, the Workspace will recognise your second OpenStep partition and automount it as if it was a removable disk when you log in. That means that all files on the disk will belong to the *currently logged in user* --- which is often a problem on machines used by more than one person. Also the disk is mounted at the root of the file system. You can override this behaviour and get the system to mount the disk wherever you want at boot time by editing the /etc/fstab file. This will give you the standard unix ownership/permissions behaviour. Add a line similar to the following to the /etc/fstab file: /dev/sd1a /some/mount/point rw,noquota 0 2 Nb. You *don't* want the 'noauto' option in there for second and subsequent disks. Also note that parent directories of the mount point must exist, ie some/mount must already exist in our example. Read the man pages for fstab and mount for more details. Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Installing stuff as root Message-ID: <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: scott@doubleu.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 23:15:02 GMT References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Scott Hess wrote: > Generally, you shouldn't even have to login as root to install > stuff. "Simply", select the app you want to run as root in > Workspace, and choose Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is > a demo program (and thus may not be installed unless you installed > the demos). In any case, that opens the app as root, and away > you go. > > You can also select a document file and do the same thing. So > you don't have to know Installer.app is in /NextAdmin. You can > also su root from a command-line, and then execute > /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer. This is one of the things I hope they improve in Rhapsody. Namely, given that many of the other applications in /NextAdmin will ask you for the root password when it is needed, it would be really nice if Installer.app did the same. It is irritating to have to do the launch from an su'd terminal window trick, and many folks aren't aware of it. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.821.6317 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Markus Gloede <no.spam@burrow.muc.de> Subject: Re: Mail 3.3 w/ mailapp-utilities. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <7xen9r39yk.fsf@burrow.muc.de> To: carl@norumrez.usask.ca Sender: tm@burrow.muc.de (the mole) References: <5ok1sn$man@tribune.usask.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.92) Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:36:03 GMT >>>>> "CN" == Carl Norum <carl@norumrez.usask.ca> writes: CN> My problem is that although CN> EnhanceMail checks all of the mailboxes for new mail and shows CN> the results in the mailboxes panel, the fancy fanning bit that CN> happens with the Mail.app icon doesn't work. The fancy fanning thang only happens when mail ends up in you regular mail spool file. If all messages are sorted into different mailboxes this doesn't happen. With the latest appnmail appending to open mailboxes also works so even when you have mail appended to Active[.mbox] there is no fanning action. (Before that you should have directed in your last recipe all unsortable mail to /usr/spool/mail/$USER (in most .procmailrc files this is also set as DEFAULT).) CN> I have taken to keeping CN> the Mailboxes panel open all the time. This is starting to CN> get rather annoying, though, so I thought I'd ask about CN> getting the icon to behave properly. Here's something nice I do for some mailboxes: :0 * [matching conditions] { :0 ic | /usr/bin/sndplay /LocalLibrary/Sounds/[some.snd] :0 w | appnmail [some mailbox] } Maybe you like that idea. Markus "n.s." Gloede -- *DON'T* remove "no.spam" from my address.
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: entering NMI monitor Date: 24 Jun 1997 22:33:38 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5opi02$568$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <33AD8842.2B7F@postman.riken.go.jp> <5ojnho$2886@news.doit.wisc.edu> <867127679.754@dejanews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: sidney@postman.riken.go.jp In <867127679.754@dejanews.com> sidney@postman.riken.go.jp wrote: > Actually what I want is the opposite. The computer now always > boots in verbose mode even without the -v option, just by hitting > "return" at the "boot:" prompt, and I want to shut this off. Boot Graphics = no in configure.app / expert this causes problems with some video cards TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Installing stuff as root Date: 25 Jun 1997 00:15:27 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5opnuv$3i9$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: allan@ali.bc.ca In <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Allan Noordvyk wrote: > In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Scott Hess wrote: > > Generally, you shouldn't even have to login as root to install > > stuff. "Simply", select the app you want to run as root in > > Workspace, and choose Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is > > a demo program (and thus may not be installed unless you installed > > the demos). In any case, that opens the app as root, and away > > you go. > > > > You can also select a document file and do the same thing. So > > you don't have to know Installer.app is in /NextAdmin. You can > > also su root from a command-line, and then execute > > /NextAdmin/Installer.app/Installer. > > This is one of the things I hope they improve in Rhapsody. > Namely, given that many of the other applications in /NextAdmin > will ask you for the root password when it is needed, it would > be really nice if Installer.app did the same. It is irritating to > have to do the launch from an su'd terminal window trick, and > many folks aren't aware of it. > > You don't have to do that. In Workspace, single click on the package you want to install. Go to the "Services" Menu -> "OpenSesame" -> "Open as Root". It'll ask you for the root password, and poof the Installer is running as root. Given that there are packages you can install under your UID (like apps in ~/Apps), I can see the rational for NOT having it ask for the root password when you directly run Installer (or run it via double-clicking on a package). You may just be trying to install something as you. But then, that means the Installer program isn't for Admin use only, and belongs in /NextApps, not /NextAdmin -- and thus /NextAdmin would have the consistancy you mention. I guess another option would be to have Installer have two "open" menu items. One would be "Open" (implying 'open this package under my current uid'), and one "Open as root", which would then ask for the root password. This wouldn't help those who are trying to install by clicking on the package though. -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Thought for the day: According to the supreme court, proof of innocence isn't enough to avoid execution if you've exhausted your appeals.
From: George Sperling <sperling@uci.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: unable to add new users Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 21:03:33 -0700 Organization: UCI Message-ID: <33B09895.53118ECC@uci.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: sperling@uci.edu We are using nextstep 3.3 on a black box --color NeXT Station After a period of normal use, we are unable to add new users Running UserManager gives a bus error msg Does anyone know how to resolve this problem without reinstalling the system?
From: cwolf@wolfware.com (Christopher Wolf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No Login Screen Date: 25 Jun 1997 06:54:42 GMT Organization: WolfWare Message-ID: <5oqfbi$k5s$1@vader.wolfware.ipc.net> References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> In-Reply-To: <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> On 06/24/97, Scott Hess wrote: >I'm actually posting for another reason. Generally, you shouldn't >even have to login as root to install stuff. "Simply", select the app >you want to run as root in Workspace, and choose >Services/OpenSesame/Open As Root. This is a demo program (and thus >may not be installed unless you installed the demos). In any case, >that opens the app as root, and away you go. I may be mis-remembering but I believe OpenSesame (and many of the other demos which live in NeXTDeveloper/Demos) are only shipped with the Developer release and thus may not be available to everyone. It's such a useful tool (for just the reasons that you describe) that it always frustrates me if I find a machine where it's not installed. - 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: knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at (Khanh P. Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: bus error with rsh... Date: 25 Jun 1997 09:36:38 GMT Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria Distribution: world Message-ID: <5oqor6$311@news.tuwien.ac.at> References: <5oo06k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> In article <5oo06k$6gn@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) writes: > Khanh P. Nguyen (knguyen@ariane.nt.tuwien.ac.at) wrote: > : Hi all, Hi Thanks to all the people who pointed out that there is a bug in lookupd of OpenStep4.1. I replaced it with lookupd4.0 and it works. cheers, khanh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 From: wrich@lyceum.com (Walter Rich) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> Date: 25 Jun 97 02:43:21 GMT I know you've seen this question before: [ Win 95 and NeXT OS Ver. 3.3 ] Can they happily co-exist in two partitions? I would think I would install Win95 first, then install NeXT which would see I have another partition? Third question: Anybody have NeXT 3.3 to sell? Or know of a place to get it? Walter wrich@lyceum.com
From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: DNS problems Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:00:55 +0000 Organization: RIKEN Message-ID: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The problem is that I can't connect to hosts by hostname using ping or telnet. If I use IPs instead of hostnames everything works. /etc/resolv.conf is: domain riken.go.jp nameserver 134.160.4.5 nslookup works, output is: Default server: ns.riken.go.jp Address: 134.160.4.5 I also tried going into NetInfo and setting up the /locations/resolver directory to read: name resolver domain riken.go.jp nameserver 134.160.4.5 When outgoing mail is rejected because of "host unknown" it also says: (Valid name but no A or MX record) Judging from previous posts to this group, this problem happens a lot, but the posted solutions haven't worked for me. Thanks, Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
From: Sidney Lehky <sidney@postman.riken.go.jp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS problems Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:03:57 +0000 Organization: RIKEN Message-ID: <33B195CD.779@postman.riken.go.jp> References: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sidney Lehky wrote: > > The problem is that I can't connect to hosts by hostname using ping > or telnet. If I use IPs instead of hostnames everything works. In the previous message I forgot to mention that the system is NS 3.3/Intel. Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eide problem Date: 25 Jun 1997 12:59:58 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5or4oe$34e@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: : Hi all : : I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. : : I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. : : [...] : Any ideas? Did you add a second instance of the eide driver for the second controller in Configure(.app)? Otherwise only the first controller is known! Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: benjy@vt.edu (Ben E. Cline) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NFS version 3 for OpenStep? Date: 25 Jun 1997 13:38:56 GMT Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia Message-ID: <5or71g$931$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> I'm posting this for a friend, so forgive me if I get the terminology wrong. He's looking for NFS version 3 (abiility to run NFS over tcp instead of just udp) for NeXTStep/OpenStep. Do any versions of OpenStep support this or is there an NFS port to NeXT with this support. Benjy -- Benjy Cline, AC4XO, Ph.D. Virginia Tech Academic Projects benjy@vt.edu http://benjy.cc.vt.edu:1951/~benjy/
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Getty Date: 25 Jun 1997 15:00:00 GMT Organization: BCTEL Advanced Communications Message-ID: <5orbpg$ges$1@news.bctel.net> I have configured getty to be turned on for dialup on a remote system. When I dial in getty fires up properly with the login prompt. I enter the username and then I get a password prompt. I enter the password, hit enter and everything just stops. I do not enter the system and I have to hang up the modem. Is this because of something to do with getty, I don't think it is because I thought getty dealt with the login prompt and that was it. I am running NeXTStep 3.3 on Intel. Thank you. -- James
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail problems Date: 25 Jun 1997 14:54:38 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5orbfe$pi7$1@bashir.peak.org> References: <5ol67g$7vl@nntp.onramp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: urban@athena.onramp.net There are very good instructions for setting up sendmail 8.8.5 that can be found here: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.INSTALLATIONINSTRUCTIONS.tar.gz (thanks to Francois Magnan for this!) A precompiled, installer-.pkg of sendmail 8.8.5 can be found here: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.README (Thanks to Robert La Ferla for doing this!) Using those you should be up and running in about 30 minutes & a reboot. BTW there is a 8.8.6 version of sendmail out, but the web page says: 8.8.6 contains many mostly minor fixes -- see the RELEASE_NOTES for details. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP to LAN connection problem Date: 25 Jun 1997 16:11:38 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5orfvq$f12@uni2f.unige.ch> Hi I have 3 Computers: 1. Linux-box 2. NeXTstation 3. Intel-box with NeXTstep. Acts as Server for Everything The connections are as follows: _____________ ___________ ___________ |NeXTstation|<===PPP===>|Intel-box|<===Ethernet===>|Linux-box| ------------- ----------- ----------- From the Intel-box I can ping to both other hosts. The NeXTstation can ping to the Intel-box, but not to the Linux-box (no message from ping). The Linux-box can not ping to any other host ("ping: unknown host xy"). The Linux-box is a NIS client of the Intel-box. So, I can not telnet from the NeXTstation to the Linux-box directly, but by first telnetting to the Intel-box and then to the Linux-box. My question is: What©s wrong with my configuration? What do I have to change? Especially the connections from the NeXTstation to the Linux-box are important for me. Thanks for all replies! Phil
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS problems Date: 25 Jun 1997 13:20:19 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5or5uj$lp6$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> Sidney Lehky wrote: > The problem is that I can't connect to hosts by hostname using ping > or telnet. If I use IPs instead of hostnames everything works. > > /etc/resolv.conf is: > domain riken.go.jp > nameserver 134.160.4.5 > > nslookup works, output is: > Default server: ns.riken.go.jp > Address: 134.160.4.5 > > I also tried going into NetInfo and setting up the > /locations/resolver directory to read: > name resolver > domain riken.go.jp > nameserver 134.160.4.5 If you're using OS 4.x, check out the /locations/lookupd netinfo directory, as this can be configured to cause lookupd to skip using DNS for lookups. Documentation is in the release notes for 4.x. If you're running 3.x or the /locations/lookupd stuff doesn't exist, the default behaviour is to look up hosts first in netinfo, then in DNS, plus optionally in NIS if you're running that. Refresh the lookupd cache by doing kill -HUP `cat /etc/lookupd.pid` --- lookupd can cache the results (both positive and negative) of hostname lookups for nonsensically long times. > When outgoing mail is rejected because of "host unknown" it > also says: (Valid name but no A or MX record) Hmmm... Are you trying to get your hosts to masquerade using the domain name 'riken.go.jp'? That name only has NS and SOA records --- you should get your DNS admin to add an MX record for it pointing at your mailhost. Otherwise everything in your domain looks OK to me. Matthew [Posted and mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Dial-in problems Date: 25 Jun 1997 20:02:59 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5orthj$4r@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> I apologize if this is too trivial a problem for most of you seasoned SA's. I just set up a system at the college where I teach to enable dial-in. I followed the NS SysAdmin Manual, edited the /etc/ttys file, and I configured the modem to allow dial in. I am able to connect but I do not get the login: prompt. What do I do to get this prompt? Thanks. Vicki Bragin -- ********************************************************** Victoria M. Bragin E-mail: vbragin@ix.netcom.com Associate Professor of Chemistry, Physical Sciences Division Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA Phone: (818) 585-7147 Fax: (818) 585-7919 **********************************************************
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: csh question. cd with an ls every time? Date: 25 Jun 97 16:18:10 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Can anyone tell me how I can do a ls -Fsa everytime I do a cd? something like: alias cd "cd ; ls -fsa" (the above doesn't work, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do.) rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: pjb@nospam.imaginet.fr (Pascal Bourguignon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: csh question. cd with an ls every time? Date: 25 Jun 1997 22:18:46 GMT Organization: ImagiNET Message-ID: <5os5g6$sck@belzebul.imaginet.fr> References: <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> In article <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> writes: > > Can anyone tell me how I can do a ls -Fsa everytime I do a cd? something > like: > > alias cd "cd ; ls -fsa" > > (the above doesn't work, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do.) You should use 'Alias substitution' (cf. csh(1)): alias cd "cd \!* ; ls -fsa" __Pascal Bourguignon__
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eide problem Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 22:56:09 +0100 Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <33B193F9.6ED0@treknet.is> References: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> <5or4oe$34e@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > > Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: > : Hi all > : > : I got a pentium pc with 2 x eide 1 gb + cd. > : > : I can't get nextstep to mount more than 2 at a time. > : > : [...] > : Any ideas? > > Did you add a second instance of the eide driver for the second > controller in Configure(.app)? > Otherwise only the first controller is known! > > Greetings, > Ruediger Oberhage > -- > H.-R. Oberhage > Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE > Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE > S05 V07 E88 > Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 > D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120 Hi Yes, I have tryed that with all the drivers i could find with the correct addresses and all: 0x170 and IRQ 15 , but no luck :-( If I put the 2 ide on the primary and cd on secondary. I put a listing in fstab to mount the second eide, and when I boot the system I get the error: inconsitency bla bla... cant mount disk, run fsck manualy. When I try to run fsck /dev/rhd1a, I get: disk not found... I did not mention earlier that I have each disks partitioned in two 500 mb partitions. One for win95 and one for next. Sigthor Hrafnsson siffi@treknet.is
From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eide problem Date: 26 Jun 1997 08:11:55 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5ot88b$7fl@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <33AFF139.2117@treknet.is> <5or4oe$34e@sun3.uni-essen.de> <33B193F9.6ED0@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson (siffi@treknet.is) wrote: : [...] : Yes, I have tryed that with all the drivers i could find with the : correct addresses and all: 0x170 and IRQ 15 : , but no luck :-( : : If I put the 2 ide on the primary and cd on secondary. : I put a listing in fstab to mount the second eide, and when I boot the : system : I get the error: inconsitency bla bla... cant mount disk, run fsck : manualy. That's very strange. For quite some time I had such a combination ((E)IDE + ATAPI-CD on controller1, EIDE on controller2) running under NS3.3 and OS4.1 (and there are SCSI-devices attached, too). All had two or more partions, no WIN95, though, just DOS or NS. : When I try to run fsck /dev/rhd1a, I get: disk not found... Strange: Any trouble in (E)IDE-lookup? (direct mapping vs LBA etc.)? Trivial question, but anyhow: Was the second disk jumpered as slave (correctly)? : : I did not mention earlier that I have each disks : partitioned in two 500 mb partitions. : One for win95 and one for next. Not unusual (except for WIN95) for me. I have similar configs. What would happen, if the first controller is left empty for a test and something (a disk) is attached to only the second controller? Let's find out if it is the device or the controlling unit/ adapter or a resource problem (DMA, IRQ, Port). Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) Subject: Re: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Message-ID: <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> Sender: news@AWT.NL Organization: Adviesraad voor het Wetenschaps- en Technologiebeleid References: <5obqka$ona$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 08:11:01 GMT [crossposted to csn.sysadmin because that is where it belongs] This is probably a software problem. This may happen when you start processes that end up in the same process group as the loginwindow program (which is responsible for the login panel and shutdown). When the loginwindow program starts killing all processes, one of the processes in turn makes that the loginwindow program is killed (because of it being in the same group). This happens before the loginwindow program can finish the shutdown procedure. The system is left with some process running, under which the WindowServer. I have had this behaviour when I started a cern httpd daemon from /etc/rc.local, by combination with backgroun (&) and shell script or something like that. I posted the solution to this problem a while ago. Normally, running the NMI panel and hitting 'r' will cleanly reboot the system (no fsck's needed). If you have a fsck on every reboot, the culprit might be a program you are running. Samba is one that has this property. This may not have anything to do with the reason why you get the unsynced disk. To be sure, have a look at the file /etc/rc.local and tell me what is started there. Or, before shutting down, run the command 'ps axww' in a shell window and send me the output. This IMO is not likely to be a hardware problem. Yours, Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >When I want to shut down the NeXT Station Turbo Color of my >friend, >1) >I click on the power button in the loggin window or on the >restart button if I want to restart the station, and I get a >panel which tell me if I realy want to shut down or restart the >computer. After I click on the button and normaly the station >should stop after killing all the proccess. >2) I just obtain that all panels disappear and nothing more. >To stop completely the station I need to press at the same moment >the right Command Key and the upper left keys of the numeric >keyboard. >After that I obtain a mini panel telling me if I want to Power >off the computer or to restart it or stay like that. >I have to press the power button or the r and after that to press >simultaneously the right Cmd key and the upper left numeric key >and press after the r or the power key. >Normally the station stop. >The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take >approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I >think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. > >A) Is it a hardware failure or a part of the OS is broken ? >B) What do I do to repair ? >C) Is the checking of the HD not good for the HD' life time ? -- 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 fool can state more than a thousand wise men can question."
From: Laurent Vinet <vinet@ina.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,fr.comp.sys.next Subject: OpenStep4.2 on PC Asustek/T2P4, Cyrix 166, MatroxMystique ? Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:03:31 +0200 Organization: INA - France Message-ID: <33AE3BE3.41C6@ina.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We are trying to install Prelude to Rhapsody on a PC: - Asustek/T2P4 (mother board), Cyrix 166(CPU) - Matrox Mystique as video card - Dual IDE Primary/Secondary - IDE Disk - IDE CD ROM (GoldStar) - US Robotics Modem (intern) with a lot of pb: 1: The first step of installation (Boot on disk and copy of the system) does not work in French but it's ok in English (default language). Some files does not exists ?? 2: Now i trying second step of installation after reboot. So i need to choose my hardware drivers. It's ok and then i have to finish the installation by installing "OpenStep Essential (78Mo) and some other applications. But It always failed after two or three files (???). All I can do it's reset my computer. The only solution that i found it's to do the first step, then to boot in single user, to remove the CDRom in the fstab file, then reboot. So the "OpenStep Essential 78Mo" is skipped by this way and i finished the installation by copying all files that i guess to be on the hard drive!!! Unbeleivable but it seems to works!!!! 3: Now i don't found any driver for my video card MatroxMystique(2Mo). In 640x480 it's impossible to work correctly. So if someone have a cool driver, can you send it to me. 4: I need also a driver for my modem but if i don't have it doesn't matter to much, all i want it's to work with OpenStep 4.2 correctly. Any idea ? Thank you -- Laurent VINET INA Phone (33) 01.49.83.22.63 4 avenue de l'Europe Fax (33) 01.49.83.25.82 94366 Bry sur Marne Cedex Mailto:vinet@ina.fr France http://www.ina.fr/People/Laurent.VINET/
From: Axel Habermann <kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 Date: 26 Jun 1997 12:17:55 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5otmlj$qph$1@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> Walter Rich <wrich@lyceum.com> wrote: : I know you've seen this question before: : [ Win 95 and NeXT OS Ver. 3.3 ] : Can they happily co-exist in two partitions? Yes. : I would think I would install Win95 first, then install NeXT which : would see I have another partition? Yes. -- Axel Habermann kiwi@buran.fb10.tu-berlin.de Fon:+49 30 45478986 Fax:4542296 Die Dateien, in denen die Programmdokumentation enthalten ist, haben normalerweise die Endung ".c", -- Kristian Koehntopp
From: tmc@barnyard.syr.edu (Terry R. McConnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: csh question. cd with an ls every time? Date: 26 Jun 1997 14:21:00 GMT Organization: Syracuse University Message-ID: <5ottsc$oqc@newstand.syr.edu> References: <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235> In article <AFD6F546-4E8007@141.214.134.235>, Robert A. Decker <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how I can do a ls -Fsa everytime I do a cd? something >like: > >alias cd "cd ; ls -fsa" > >(the above doesn't work, but hopefully you can see what I'm trying to do.) > Try: alias cd 'cd \!:1 ; ls -Fsa' If it does what you want, add the line to ~/.cshrc. -- ************************************************************************ Terry R. McConnell Mathematics/304B Carnegie/Syracuse, N.Y. 13244-1150 trmcconn@syr.edu http://barnyard.syr.edu/~tmc ************************************************************************
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From: Eric Smalling <Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: System Commander and Netware woes with OS4.1 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:02:24 -0500 Organization: The SABRE Group Message-ID: <33B29290.8C63D67F@amrcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install OS4.1 for Mach on Intel and, thank God had no problems with my EIDE HD/CDROMs! My two problems are: 1. It seems that System Commander's (a multiple OS loader) boot block on my HD is causing OPENSTEP to not recognize my DOS partition. When I have the NeXT installed boot block everything is peachy keen, OS mounts the DOS partition automatically, but with System Commander installed the DOS partition will not mount. (I entered "-v" at the BOOT: prompt and there is some kind of error that flies by when it is, apparently, trying to mount the DOS partition.) I have one HD, an EIDE 2GB with 3 partitions: 700MB as DOS (FAT16), 300MB for UNIX/OpenStep, 1GB NTFS (WinNT) and I need system commander to choose between the 3 OS's. 2. I have TCP/IP connectivity but, here at work, we have many Novel NetWare 3.x and 2.x file servers I need to be able to see. The doc's say to just go to the NextAdmin folder and run the NetWare Manager --- well, it's not there! I checked NeXTAnswers and, in the 4.1 release notes it says that NetWare support is not included in 4.1. Is the NetWare client software available anywhere like it is for Win95/NT/3.1? (I didn't see it on Novell's wed site). Any help would be greatly appreciated! -es -- ____________________________________________________________________ Eric A. Smalling Ft Worth, Texas USA --=== ------=== The Any views expressed are mine alone and are in no ----------- SABRE way the views of AMR or any of it's subsidiaries. ------=== Group --=== email:Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com Corp Web Site: http://www.sabre.com ____________________________________________________________________ --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Eric Smalling Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Eric Smalling n: Smalling;Eric org: The SABRE Group email;internet: Eric_Smalling@amrcorp.com title: Programmer Associate x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE end: vcard --------------EAD4F29FC793C21AD6502536--
From: bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: netgroups not working? Date: 24 Jun 1997 17:06:43 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> I'm trying to setup some netgroups to simplify administering NFS on our NetInfo network. I've added a netgroup name to a client with HostManager and similarly listed this name in the read/write and root access table in NFSManager on the NFS server. However, the server gives a "Host Unknown" error for the netgroup name when it tries to export that mount, and if the client tries to import it it gets an authentication error. As far as I can tell netgroups are only defined indirectly when they are added to a host in HostManager. Any ideas? - Gareth
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:45:07 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5ou9r3$r27$1@maryj.bitstream.net> References: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> In-Reply-To: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> On 06/24/97, Walter Rich wrote: >I know you've seen this question before: >[ Win 95 and NeXT OS Ver. 3.3 ] > >Can they happily co-exist in two partitions? Yes. >I would think I would install Win95 first, then install NeXT which >would see I have another partition? Yes, if indeed you do have two partitions. I and others recommend PowerQuest's PartitionMagic application for creating these. A terrific app. -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: 26 Jun 1997 17:04:45 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu wrote: > I'm trying to setup some netgroups to simplify administering NFS on our > NetInfo network. I've added a netgroup name to a client with HostManager and > similarly listed this name in the read/write and root access table in > NFSManager on the NFS server. However, the server gives a "Host Unknown" > error for the netgroup name when it tries to export that mount, and if the > client tries to import it it gets an authentication error. A common problem is that you can't mix real hostnames and netgroups in the read only, read/write or root access columns of NFSManager.app --- each of those columns must contain either all netgroup names or all genuine host names. Unlike the /etc/exports file on most Unices, NFSManager.app doesn't use the @ sign to mark netgroup names, even when dumping an exports format file from netinfo, something that would be a useful improvement and relatively easy to implement. There are also reported problems with OS 4.1 machines and use of netgroups, but all our machines, even those running OS 4.1 seem to work just fine with the netgroups we have set up here. > As far as I can tell netgroups are only defined indirectly when they are > added to a host in HostManager. Something like that. The netgroups mechanism on NeXTstep/OpenStep seems to be different to the mechanism on, say, Solaris in respect of the way that the configuration data is managed. Not only do NeXT boxes read the data out of Netinfo, but there seems to be no clear correspondance between the netinfo data and the standard Unix flat file /etc/netgroups, as there is for /etc/fstab or /etc/printcap. I've certainly never succeeded in geting an OpenStep box to read a flat /etc/netgroups file. Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: jayg@fuga.com (J. Goyal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: JOBS: program managers/UI leads -- handheld device - fuga corp. Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 16:08:09 +1000 Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <jayg.32.00B0467D@fuga.com> Keywords: prgram managers, UI, software Fuga Corporation (www.fuga.com), a Palo-Alto startup in consumer products, is looking for Software Engineers. Working with NexT/UNIX is a plus. If you have the following credentials, please contact Jay at jayg@fuga.com or 415 691 9424. see link--> www.fuga.com\www\jobs.html Job Role 1 - Program Manager (Software Engineering) Requires Project Leadership. Responsible for the entire product-line. Requirements/Roles (Experience in shipped "consumer retail" products a plus) -Product Architect (includes product strategy; prioritizing features/enhancements) -Leading debugging sessions -Defining processes (Design, Code reviews, Doc. guidelines) -Release Coordination (Development,Testing, Bug Tracking, Backups) -C programming (solid experience required) -BS or MS. Job Roles 2 & 3 - User Interface Project Leads (Software Engineering) Should have the potential to take on major responsibility, especially project leadership (includes defining product architecture & leading debugging/testing sessions) for a product-line. Requirements (Experience in shipped "consumer retail" products a plus) -C programming (LINUX/UNIX or DOS; solid experience) -UI experience (a plus) -BS or MS. These are very important job roles where the engineer is involved in programming & testing & being an integral part of a "start-up team" to release a globally available mass consumer product. The product, an exciting consumer handheld device, will be available in retail stores (circuit city, office depot, fry's). You get an opportunity to exercise creativity and to apply technology such that it solves problems of an everyday mass consumer. We are looking for exceptionally bright and driven people. Company offers very attractive compensation and stock-options. ********** End of Message *****************
Message-ID: <33B2E3B7.3D48@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:48:39 -0600 From: Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Testing Facility Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need a testing facility where the equipment is HP. This facility would house all of the equipment and such and I would be charged for the usage of said equipment. So basically I would have all of the disk space, memory and dedicated line for developing applications and all I would have to pay for is the time or however it is setup. I have heard of this existing, but no names have been mentioned. Any help would be appreciated....
Message-ID: <33B2E2F5.15C9@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 15:45:25 -0600 From: Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Testing Facility Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I need a testing facility where the equipment is HP. This facility would house all of the equipment and such and I would be charged for the usage of said equipment. So basically I would have all of the disk space, memory and dedicated line for developing applications and all I would have to pay for is the time or however it is setup. I have heard of this existing, but no names have been mentioned. Any help would be appreciated....
From: hanske@ratatosk.ratatosk.gol.com (Hans Shimizu Karlsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Merging, exporting mail addressbooks Date: 27 Jun 1997 01:52:29 GMT Organization: Global OnLine Japan Message-ID: <5ov6ct$33l$1@godzilla.gol.com> Hello I need to merge the address books of several users on my machine and then export all these addresses for use on a PowerBook. How do I go about doing this? ______________________________________________________________________________ Hans Karlsson hanske@ratatosk.com www@ratatosk.com info@ratatosk.com
From: Jason<jlsb@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Don't read this message! Date: 27 Jun 1997 02:43:20 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5ov9c8$g16@dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com> CALLING ALL LITERARY MINDS! I am trying to compose a coffee table book on the topic of EXCUSES. To add an original flavor to my project I am attempting to derive my research entirely from people I come in contact with on the Net. If you have, or know of, any interesting, unique, or even bizarre excuses, and would like to participate in this experiment in creative literature, please reply to this message with your excuse. Any excuse that is used in the published version will receive full literary credit. Thank you in advance for helping a fellow netizen. Long live free speech! Sincerely yours, Jason
From: pwm@cbr.dit.csiro.au (Peter Milne) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 04:22:04 GMT Organization: C.S.I.R.O Australia Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ovf5c$lbb@hercules.its.csiro.au> Folks I have upgraded my NeXTSTATION to NS3.3 and have my new 2.1G disk set up as an external drive. The first time I started my machine after upgrading to NS3.3 and adding the external drive it saw the new disk and asked if I wanted to initialise it. It initialised the disk successfully but Workspace reported its free space as being about half what it should be. Consulting the console log showed the following: /usr/etc/disk -i -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -d -2124974080 /dev/rsd3a disk name: SEAGATE ST52160N disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/boot creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3a /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3a 1059490 81 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 314 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3a: 1059490 sectors in 3271 cylinders of 4 tracks, 81 sectors 1084.9Mb in 205 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.31Mb/g 1280 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ...... ...... ...... creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd3b /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd3b /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd3b 1059491 81 4 8192 1024 16 10 60 4096 t Warning: 313 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd3b: 1059491 sectors in 3271 cylinders of 4 tracks, 81 sectors 1084.9Mb in 205 cyl groups (16 c/g, 5.31Mb/g, 1280 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: ...... ...... ...... initialisation complete Jun 26 17:19:10 Workspace: Mounted hard disk at /NeXTDisk Question: Is the reason why Workspace is only reporting half the free space on the disk due to the initialisation process creating two partitions but mounting only rsd3a? I ran BuildDisk hoping that this would help. It correctly saw the external disk as having 2069Mbytes. It built the disk successfully (I didn't specify any partitions) and reported that there were 1656Mbytes free (413 Mbytes used). (In BuildDisk I changed the disk's name to ST52160N). After running BuildDisk Workspace reports the external disk has 704Mbytes free and df returns: kbytes used avail 1023390 199132 721919 22% /ST52160N I'm confused. I thought NS3.3 knew how to initialise and build 2.1Gbyte drives. How should I proceed? Do I have to mess with disktab and fstab entries? My ultimate aim once the new disk is correctly built is to copy all my files over to it from the existing internal drive, then replace the internal drive with it. Cheers, Peter (peter.milne@cmis.csiro.au)
Message-ID: <33B14855.1F9D188C@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:33:26 -0400 From: Robert Kurhajetz <kurhajet@oasys.dt.navy.mil> Organization: U S Navy, Code 3441, NSWC CD, Bethesda, MD MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: a problem : no mouse control on Intel NS3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Have a problem with an NS3.3 / Intel - a vendor that we are working with was installing the ISAserial driver and after loading it he has lost control of the mouse - any clues on how to free this problem up ? He is not real familiar with the NS environment on Intel -- and he's indicating that he is not able to locate the NS alt-key on the PC keyboard - any and all help on this issue much appreciated - thanks again Bob K. --
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From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: 26 Jun 1997 23:50:48 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5ouv8o$8cj@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> In article <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) writes: > A common problem is that you can't mix real hostnames and netgroups in > the read only, read/write or root access columns of NFSManager.app --- > each of those columns must contain either all netgroup names or all > genuine host names. I don't know exactly if you can mix/match hostnames and netgroups... but... I DO know that: You CANNOT use netgroups for root access. These MUST be listed by hostname only. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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From: phy070@spo101 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: 27 Jun 1997 09:16:59 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5p00eb$e64@sun3.uni-essen.de> References: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew Seaman (Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk) wrote: : In <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> bestor@dpls.dacc.wisc.edu wrote: : [...] : : There are also reported problems with OS 4.1 machines and use of netgroups, : but all our machines, even those running OS 4.1 seem to work just fine with : the netgroups we have set up here. Yes, there is a problem with NIS/yp netgroups(!) in at least OS 4.0 and OS4.1 for which a patch-lookupd does exist, don't know if it is publicly available, though. Don't know about the state of OS4.2 with respect to this either, yet. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: bofh@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Sender: rrer@drtwthy.com Message-ID: <cancel.5ovvm3$h5n@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Subject: cmsg cancel <5ovvm3$h5n@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Control: cancel <5ovvm3$h5n@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> Organization: Usenet Canal Historique Date: 27 Jun 1997 09:04:03 GMT ECP/EMP aka SPAM or pyramidal scheme (MMF) cancelled by bofh@keltia.freenix.fr. It may also be an image too small for newsbot to be activated. See report in news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Date: Fri Jun 27 11:53:54 1997 Original subject was: New Service for your Pager!!
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 in Hungarian? Date: 27 Jun 1997 10:19:05 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5p042p$j0a$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> References: <SCOTT.97Jun18223039@slave.doubleu.com> In article <SCOTT.97Jun18223039@slave.doubleu.com> scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) writes: > In article <33A815DD.353CBC3D@novell.com> Kris Magnusson <kmagnusson@novell.com> writes: > I have a NeXTstation I want to loan to my friend, who is Hungarian. Is > there a Hungarian language option for OPENSTEP 4.2pr1 someplace? It's > not on the media.... > > Offhand, I don't think there has been a Hungarian option for any > _previous_ NeXT operating system, not sure why there'd be one for this > one. [And if there is, someone needs to go in and kick some butt at > Apple. Don't get me wrong, we need those Hungarians behind Rhapsody - > but what's the point of doing Hungarian nibs and documentation for a > system which is likely to be heavily rewritten anyhow?] > I know of a dozen of Hungarian NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP users in Hungary. They are all hardcore NeXTSTEPpers who speak English, so they don't really need the Hungarian version. But if Rhapsody wants to go mainstream, it would be nice if Apple taught Rhapsody some Hungarian, Polish and all those extreme languages :-). This should not be a huge problem I guess. Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------
From: pataki@next-4b.manuf.bme.hu (Balazs E. Pataki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No sync when NeXT Station shut down Date: 27 Jun 1997 10:32:50 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Message-ID: <5p04si$k8p$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> References: <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> Yves Pons <100321.1674@CompuServe.COM> wrote > The problem is that when I want to power on the station it take > approximatively 10 minutes to check the Hard drive (and sync it I > think) and to restart completely until the loggin window. In article <ECDIqD.64A@AWT.NL> G.C.Th.Wierda@AWT.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes: > [crossposted to csn.sysadmin because that is where it belongs] > > This is probably a software problem. This may happen when you start processes > that end up in the same process group as the loginwindow program (which is > responsible for the login panel and shutdown). I have the same problem. Is there any way to trace the shoutdown process in a verbose manner (I would like something I see when booting in verbose mode)? I think it is the debugger (GDB) which causes the fsck for my station, but I'm not sure at all, and I could not find a way to track down which process goes wrong. Any ideas or similar symptoms? Balazs ------ pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu ------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: Installing stuff as root Message-ID: <ECFtMv.Irs@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: jrudd@cygnus.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:01:43 GMT References: <1997062318252499654@por-or13-10.ix.netcom.com> <SCOTT.97Jun24144028@howard.doubleu.com> <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> <5opnuv$3i9$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> In comp.sys.next.sysadmin John Rudd wrote: > In <ECAz94.4Av@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Allan Noordvyk wrote: > > ... > > This is one of the things I hope they improve in Rhapsody. > > Namely, given that many of the other applications in /NextAdmin > > will ask you for the root password when it is needed, it would > > be really nice if Installer.app did the same. It is irritating to > > have to do the launch from an su'd terminal window trick, and > > many folks aren't aware of it. > > You don't have to do that. > > In Workspace, single click on the package you want to install. Go to the > "Services" Menu -> "OpenSesame" -> "Open as Root". Yeah, I know that (it is even mentioned in the quoted bit from Scott to which I was replying). Unfortunately, this is just as obscure as the su'd terminal thing. Furthermore, OpenSesame isn't present on 90% of the machines on which I need to install a package since it is an optional application and not used by our customers. Thus I only mentioned my default, never fails, method of installing root ownership packages. > Given that there are packages you can install under your UID (like apps in > ~/Apps), I can see the rational for NOT having it ask for the root password > when you directly run Installer (or run it via double-clicking on a package). > You may just be trying to install something as you. But then, that means > the Installer program isn't for Admin use only, and belongs in /NextApps, not > /NextAdmin -- and thus /NextAdmin would have the consistency you mention. My expectation was that the Installer wouldn't ask for the root password unless you were installing files into a directory which required root's permission to write. Thus if I left the install directory as ~/Apps and the package doesn't also want to write a little file into /usr/local or something, the application would behave just as it does now and the files would be written with the current user's ownership. If however, I choose to install in /LocalApps instead of ~/Apps by using the existing GUI to change the install location, or the package contains some file which must be written into a restricted directory, then the root password would be requested. This seems to be the simplest and most fool-proof means of enhancement. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan e-mail: allan@ali.bc.ca ALI Technologies Voice: 604.821.6317 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
Message-ID: <33B3CF0D.21AF@mail.amsinc.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 08:32:45 -0600 From: Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Time Synchronization Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a K250 class HP server. During shutdown, there is an error with stopping the TIME SYNCHRONIZATION. What and where is the error being sent from and what is the fix?
From: marc@marc.htl.com (Marc Respass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding new user Date: 27 Jun 1997 14:38:59 GMT Organization: HTL Technologies, Inc. Message-ID: <5p0ja3$6q5@htlmst.hlt.com> Hi, I'm almost done setting up my Openstep 4.2 PR (Prelude to Rhapsody) system. I want to change the user name of the "me" account but I can't so I thought I'd make a new user but it's not working out. I tried to run PopOver.app from the new account and it couldn't write to my home directory (/marc) because it didn't have permissions. I did chmod 777 /marc which set the directory for full permissions but it still didn't work. Logged out and back in; still nothing. Can anyone help me setup a new account that's identical to "me" so that I can add users. Thanks a lot -- --Marc Respass High Technology Logistics http://www.htl.com mailto:marc@htl.com
From: Gerald Wildgruber <gewil@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin Subject: Help on DAT Problem please! Date: 27 Jun 1997 18:30:10 +0200 Organization: Apatheia Corp. Sender: gewil@ue801be Distribution: world Message-ID: <x7205oau0d.fsf@ue801be.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de> I'm about to purchase a new DAT drive, perhaps anyone can give me some hints on the following: 1.) Has anyone experienced problems or joys using the HP 1536A or the Sony STD 5000 streamers, what is technically different in both devices? 2.) My old DAT streamer (HP 15480A) seems to fade away, yet shows strange inconsequences in doing so: whenever I try any operation using mt, cpio, gnutar (devices /dev/nrst0 or /dev/rst0, OS is NeXT Intel v.3.3), the streamer starts spooling forth and back, the process is no more killable (even with -9), everything ends with read or write errors. Yet strangely: dump/restore apparently continue to work flawlessly: no errors, the tapes are readable after having been written by a level 0 dump. Does anyone know of the internal differences of the above mentioned Unix programs: what does dump differently than, say, cpio when backing up / writing to a tape device? Does the different behavior give any hints of what could be wrong with my tape drive ? 3.) Are ther known problems of any tape drives running under NeXTSTEP on Intel 3.3. especially concerning the HP 1536 and the corresponding Sony models? Thanks for your time and help Gerald -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gerald Wildgruber No one can have an idea gewil@ue801be.ppp. once he starts really lrz-muenchen.de listening. - John Cage
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From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: setting up printing? Date: 27 Jun 97 15:20:13 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFD98AB8-3D2E17@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have an Apple Laserwriter 16/600 with an I.P. address. I want to print using that printer (I assume it just sends the ps files to the printer). How do I set this up? rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Adding a 2.1Gbyte disk under NS3.3 Date: 27 Jun 1997 13:51:58 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p0ghu$h14$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5ovf5c$lbb@hercules.its.csiro.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In <5ovf5c$lbb@hercules.its.csiro.au> Peter Milne wrote: > I have upgraded my NeXTSTATION to NS3.3 and have my new 2.1G disk set > up as an external drive. > > The first time I started my machine after upgrading to NS3.3 and adding > the external drive it saw the new disk and asked if I wanted to initialise it. > It initialised the disk successfully but Workspace reported its free space as > being about half what it should be. > > Consulting the console log showed the following: > > /usr/etc/disk -i -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -d -2124974080 /dev/rsd3a Yup. The disk command by default will try and partition a disk into 1Gb chunks. You can access all of your disk, but you're going to have to mount each partition (/dev/rsd3a, /dev/rsd3b) separately. You can override this behaviour from the command line, but only for the first partition: /usr/etc/disk -i -b -h gringo -l "NeXTDisk" -p 2097152 /dev/rsd3h The -p 2097152 part creates the 'a' partition as 2Gb, which is the maximum possible. The -b flag causes the disk to be made bootable, which you will need if you're going to use it as your system disk. Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Have you been "reengineered"? Date: 28 Jun 97 15:58:18 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFDAE521-35B0E5@141.214.134.235> References: <5p28if$l97$302@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit No, but I have a feeling your net access is going to be reengineered out of existence... rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: setting up printing? Date: 28 Jun 97 15:56:36 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <AFDAE4B8-359822@141.214.134.235> References: <AFD98AB8-3D2E17@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, Jun 27, 1997 3:20 PM, Robert A. Decker <mailto:comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > We have an Apple Laserwriter 16/600 with an I.P. address. I got things working thanks to some help from a couple people. One of the problems I had was that the Laserwriter 16 doesn't accept connections on port 9100, so I had to use a NextAnswer to set up lpr printing (which goes to port 515 on the Laserwriter). thanks, rob -- <mailto: "Robert A. Decker" comrade@umich.edu> Listen to my Realaudio playlist:<http://hmrl.cancer.med.umich.edu/Rob/index.ssi> Programmer Analyst - Health Media Research Lab University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center "Get A Life" quote #10: "Wow. I'm a genius too. I think. BEEP." -Chris Elliott
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Possible ppp problem? Date: 28 Jun 1997 19:50:03 GMT Organization: Bitstream Underground Message-ID: <5p3ptb$6mm$1@maryj.bitstream.net> Lately I have been experiencing connection problems with my ISP, and among various things I have been checking one thing I have noticed happening is the following message popping up from time to time (not every time I connect) on the Console: ppp0: no input netbufs! ppp0: no input netbufs! This strange message does not seem to point to any specific problem AFAIK, but it can't be a good sign. Can anyone diagnose this? Thanks to all who respond. -- ******************************** Chris Jensen cejensen@bitstream.net MIME, NeXTMail OK
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From: sanguish@digifix.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net Supersedes: <10436866952022@digifix.com> Date: 29 Jun 1997 03:56:52 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <1452867556825@digifix.com> Topics include: Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites NeXTanswers Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP World Wide Web Sites ============================================ The following sites are a sample of the OpenStep related WWW sites available. A comprehensive list is available on Stepwise. Stepwise OpenStep/Rhapsody Information Server http://www.stepwise.com Stepwise has been serving the OpenStep/NEXTSTEP community since March 1993. Some of the many resources on the site include: OpenStep Third Party Software guide, Developer Directory, Mailing List information, extensive listing of FTP and WWW sites related to OpenStep and NEXTSTEP, OpenStep related Frequently Asked Questions. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. NeXT Software Archives @ Peak.org http://www.peak.org/next http://www.peak.org/openstep PEAK is the premier NeXTStep/OpenStep FTP site in North America. This is the World Wide Web interace to the FTP site. Apple Enterprise Software Group (formerly NeXT Computer, Inc.) http://www.next.com Here is where you'll find the NeXTanswers archive, with information on OpenStep installation, drivers and software patches. Apple Computer's 'Prelude to Rhapsody' Self Support Site http://devworld.apple.com/dev/prelude.html This site has been constructed to help you help yourself to learn as much as possible about the foundation for Rhapsody, today's OPENSTEP. The site provides an informal collection of pointers, references, and starting points for developers who are using the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, distributed at this year's Worldwide Developer Conference. OpenStep/NEXTSTEP/Rhapsody Related Usenet Newsgroups ==================================================== 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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!!! 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. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SOFTWARE This is a place to talk about [third party] software products that run on NEXTSTEP systems. COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare cases this will spill over into .programmer or .software. ** RELATED NEWSGROUPS ** 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. COMP.LANG.OBJECTIVE-C Technical talk about the Objective-C language. Implemetations discussed include NeXT, Gnu, Stepstone, etc. 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 Major OpenStep/NEXTSTEP FTP sites ================================= ftp://ftp.next.peak.org The main site for North American submissions formerly ftp.cs.orst.edu ftp://ftp.peanuts.org: (Peanuts) Located in Germany. Comprehensive archive site. Very well maintained. ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/comp/next NeGeN/NiNe (NEXTSTEP Gebruikers Nederland/NeXTSTEP in the Netherlands) 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: healyzh@ix.netcom.com (Zane H. Healy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Misc Networking Questions Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 21:19:59 -0800 Organization: Avanthar Software Message-ID: <19970628211959219891@[197.2.200.2]> References: <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> <5p3bif$dvh$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> Frank M. Siegert <frank@this.NO_SPAM.net> wrote: > Not there, it was in there in Nextstep 3.0 for m68k but discontinued later. Amazing, I thought Linux had some dated documentation, but that about takes the cake! > http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html will most likely solve your > problems. It did at that, many thanks! > Configure your Openstep system as standalone (Give it an IP, Subnetmask, and > enter this and all other local system in the netinfo hosts) and enter your > Linux system as gateway in HostManager. I could have sworn that's what I'd done in the first place, anyway it's working now. I suspect my problem was the default broadcast address, but I'm terrified at the thought of going back into the settings and checkings! :^) Anyway thank you for your comments, I'm happy to say that at this moment my Linux server is on the net, and I'm accessing the internet from both my Mac and my OPENSTEP system. I've also got the Appletalk volumes from the Linux server mounted on the OPENSTEP system. Zane
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Misc Networking Questions Date: 28 Jun 1997 15:45:19 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5p3bif$dvh$1@orista.ipc.uni-tuebingen.de> References: <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> Cc: healyzh@ix.netcom.com In <199706272307371108046@por-or13-24.ix.netcom.com> Zane H. Healy wrote: > The first question is, where is the Appletalk networking that the online > manual talks about??? According to it I should see something when > running "Preferences.app". Not there, it was in there in Nextstep 3.0 for m68k but discontinued later. http://www.this.net/~frank/next_cap.html will most likely solve your problems. > However, ideally I'd like to be able to access the net from the OPENSTEP > system. From the Mac I can do this by going through the Linux server > which is configured to act as a Firewall, and has IP-Masqurading set up > on it. > From the Mac I just go into the TCP/IP control panel, tell it to connect > via ethernet, put in the machines IP address, the subnet mask, list the > Linux system as the router, put in NETCOM's DNS server addresses, and > list 'ix.netcom.com' as my starting domain. Simple. Configure your Openstep system as standalone (Give it an IP, Subnetmask, and enter this and all other local system in the netinfo hosts) and enter your Linux system as gateway in HostManager. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: luomat@peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Multi-Homing and sendmail: "My unqualified host name (xxxx) unknown, sleeping for retry Date: 29 Jun 1997 05:23:37 GMT Organization: The PEAK FTP Archive for NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Message-ID: <5p4rgp$1q6$2@bashir.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have just about completed the multi-homing of the Intel w/2 Ethernet cards. The last piece that broke is sendmail, which isn't too surprising, since it was setup under PPP. When I try to send email, I get this: Jun 29 01:00:01 peace sendmail[603]: My unqualified host name (peace) unknown; sleeping for retry Jun 29 01:01:01 peace sendmail[603]: unable to qualify my own domain name (peace) -- using short name "peace" is the name of the Intel _on the local net_, it is not the real Internet address. How can I tell sendmail what the FQDN is? (I've tried adding an entry for 'peace.full.domain.name' in NetInfo, and that didn't work, but perhaps I've done something wrong?) Alternately: how can I tell sendmail to use my real Internet address? (Note: I want my machine to MASQUERADE_AS peak.org for hopefully obvious reasons) I'm relatively sure it is my sendmail.cw file, but I have no idea what I am doing with sendmail, as I have really only set it up for PPP before now. Thanks all. TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. ***
From: "Mike Schardt" <mtschardt@internetMCI.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Win 95 and NeXT Os ver. 3.3 Date: 29 Jun 1997 06:38:41 GMT Organization: Internet MCI Message-ID: <01bc8456$f0ef4dc0$392637a6@default> References: <33b085c9.0@dnews.lyceum.com> In answer to your first question, yes they can happily co-exist. Many of the PC's we use at work have this setup. Order of installation is of prime concern since '95 is not very friendly when installing multiple bootable OS's. You are correct that '95 needs to be installed first, but not so NeXT can see the partition, but because the NeXT installation can implement it's own boot manager. This allows you to boot either '95 or NeXT. Mike mtschardt@internetMCI.com
From: "Greg Meece" <gregm@pcdocs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Driver for Novell/Anthem NE 2000 Ethernet card Date: 24 Jun 1997 15:52:33 GMT Organization: PC DOCS, Inc. Message-ID: <01bc80b6$72aa5520$e91c2cc7@Die_Bill_Gates.pcdocs.com> Does anyone have any experience using this card with OpenSTEP for Intel? It's the only card I've got and I'd like to connect the machine to the rest of the LAN while in OpenSTEP mode (I have System Commander to allow me to boot to Microsloth's OS's). Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. -- Greg Meece SQA Engineer PC DOCS, Inc. 124 Marriott Drive Tallahassee, FL 32301
From: Attila Suicmez <sunny@chemie.fu-berlin.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 21:09:01 +0200 Organization: Freie Universität Berlin Message-ID: <33B6B2CD.C655B215@chemie.fu-berlin.de> References: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the > WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT > 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory > > mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my > system. > The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, > nor > how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in > system panics on boot-up. > > Help, anyone? > > Hi Alex, I had the same problem when I upgraded my Matrox Millenium BIOS from 2.4 to version 2.5. The deal is to get the newer beta driver from NeXT-Answers (from their WWW-Site). This brings you back to the resolutions you want again. Cheers, Sunny
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Sender: ap38@ap38.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <33b4efd6.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> Control: cancel <33b4efd6.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> Date: 30 Jun 1997 11:13:21 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.33b4efd6.0@news.genesisnetwork.net> Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. A report will be published shortly on news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Solution: Multi-Homing an Intel, NetInfo, and all the rest Date: 30 Jun 1997 08:30:41 GMT Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Message-ID: <5p7qrh$b8b@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <5p7bgs$7it$1@bashir.peak.org> Timothy J. Luoma (luomat@peak.org) wrote: : Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface : 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 10461 lo0 : default 123.456.789.1 UG 3 12312 en1 : 123.456.789 123.456.789.1 U 0 0 en1 : Questions: : Can I 'limit access to administrative data to the local network' without : breaking anything else? : : What other NetInfo stuff should I do to make it more secure? You can restrict access to NetInfo by doing something like: # niutil -createprop . / trusted_networks 123.456.789 Also look at the security_options (as I recall) property in NetInfo. It's documented in the online sysadmin manual. -- Luke
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: DNS problems Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 18:29:50 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33B298FE.167E@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <33B19517.4D47@postman.riken.go.jp> <5or5uj$lp6$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Refresh the lookupd cache by doing > > kill -HUP `cat /etc/lookupd.pid` > do this only in 3.3. 4.x netinfo lookupd can't be restarted. The kill might crash your system. The 4.x lookupd can be restarted by rebooting only. 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: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: netgroups not working? Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 12:25:22 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33B39512.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5oour3$2a90@news.doit.wisc.edu> <5ou7fd$o51$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5p00eb$e64@sun3.uni-essen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit H.-R. Oberhage wrote: > Yes, there is a problem with NIS/yp netgroups(!) in at least OS 4.0 and > OS4.1 for which a patch-lookupd does exist, don't know if it is publicly > available, though. > Don't know about the state of OS4.2 with respect to this either, yet. Hallo Ruediger, der lookupd ist in 4.2 wirklich neu drin. Meine 4.2 Kiste lief "out of the box" mit NIS netgroups. Ich findet es allerdingt ein Unding, dass die 4.0 und 4.1 Inhaber dies nicht als NextAnswer bekommen sondern fuer DM 600,-- als 4.2 kaufen muessen oder sich bei NeXT so lange (penetrant) durch mailen muessen bis sich einer erbarmt und das Ding (auch fuer 4.0 und 4.1) rausrueckt. Der Doku-Bug wegen falsche Schreibung des Wortes "LookupOrder" ist in 4.2 immer noch drin. gruss stefan ------------------------------ this works --------------------------- nidump -r locations . / name = locations; CHILDREN = ( { name = lookupd; LogFile = /usr/adm/lookupd.log; MaxThreads = 12; CHILDREN = ({ name = hosts; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, YPAgent, DNSAgent, NIAgent); }, { name = users; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }, { name = groups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }, { name = netgroups; LookupOrder = (CacheAgent, NIAgent, YPAgent); }); }); ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: David J Harr <david@daikin-comtec.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My console is read only even when I'm root - how to fix? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 02:30:23 +0000 Organization: DAIKIN U.S. Comtec Laboratories Message-ID: <33B71A3E.5317@daikin-comtec.com> References: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Paul Nicholson <paul@eisusa.com> Paul Nicholson wrote: > > Hi > > The console window is read only and I can't type my favorite > UNIX commands into it. I am logged in as root. What's the > secret to getting it to work. It worked once before, but that > was before I completely reinstalled OpenStep after having > hardware problems. > > Paul Actually Paul, it is very simple...the console is _SUPPOSED_ to be read-only. What you are thinking of is the fact that you probably had terminal.app running at one point in time. Terminal.app is the command-line interface to NeXTStep. To open Terminal.app, just select the icon in the dock that looks like a computer monitor and has "Mach" written all over it. This should open up a command-line window and allow you to type command-lines to your herarts content. I know that it has a lot of historical justification, but I too feel that the artificial division of console and terminal is very confusing... ------------------------- Hastening the heat death of the universe since 1961! David J Harr Senior MPEG Engineer david@daikin-comtec.com (The Tick jumping off the roof of a building...) Tick: I'll bounce off that flagpole and flip to safety! (SNAP! WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB......>SMACK<) Tick: AHA! I'll bounce off that broad, flat surface and be in a lot of pain! --The Tick: Issue #1
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Getty Message-ID: <ECHEM3.9Lu@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5orbpg$ges$1@news.bctel.net> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 10:32:27 GMT In article <5orbpg$ges$1@news.bctel.net> james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) writes: > I have configured getty to be turned on for dialup on a remote > system. When I dial in getty fires up properly with the login > prompt. I enter the username and then I get a password prompt. > I enter the password, hit enter and everything just stops. I do > not enter the system and I have to hang up the modem. Is this > because of something to do with getty, I don't think it is because > I thought getty dealt with the login prompt and that was it. I > am running NeXTStep 3.3 on Intel. > The moment 'getty' turns over to 'login' the serial line protocol is switched and since you got a very unlucky combination the modem or terminal gets stuck and nothing is displayed. You must adjust the settings for 'getty' and 'ttys' in a compatible way. The matter is tricky and since serial line terminals are unfamiliar stuff now, almost no one seems to remember how it worked... (I must admit, that I also almost forgot about it ;-) -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: thomas@catlan.met.FU-Berlin.DE (Thomas Hensel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: Matrox Woes: Help! Date: 30 Jun 1997 10:12:43 GMT Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin Message-ID: <5p80qr$nti@fu-berlin.de> References: <5nno0t$15g2@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU> <33B6B2CD.C655B215@chemie.fu-berlin.de> Cc: sunny@chemie.fu-berlin.de In <33B6B2CD.C655B215@chemie.fu-berlin.de> Attila Suicmez wrote: > atl2@lehigh.edu wrote: > > > The problem: When my system has finished booting and starts the > > WindowServer, I get a black screen with any Millenium setting EXCEPT > > 640x480, 8bpp, 60Hz. Now, I know this has something to do with memory > > > > mapping (whatever that is); I have more than 32MB (128MB) on my > > system. > > The trouble is, I have no idea which of the expert settings to change, > > nor > > how to change them. My pathetic efforts have so far resulted only in > > system panics on boot-up. > > > > Help, anyone? > > > > > > Hi Alex, > > I had the same problem when I upgraded my Matrox Millenium BIOS from 2.4 > to version 2.5. The deal is to get the newer beta driver from > NeXT-Answers (from their WWW-Site). This brings you back to the > resolutions you want again. > I cannot verify this, sorry. Yesterday I installed a new system with 4mb Matrox, Asus XP55T2P4, NCR SCSI 64 MB etc ... Under WinNT and Win95 4MB are recognized and displayed under NS3.3p1 only the 2MB-Driver works, the 4MB-driver gives me a black screen (These are the latest NeXT-Answers-Drivers, BIOS 2.5) So at the moment I am clueless :-( Greetings, Thomas -- || Who: Dipl. Phys. Thomas Hensel MIKS - Meteorologische Informations- || EMail: thomas@bibo.met.FU-Berlin.DE und Kommunikations-Systeme || Voice: (+49 30) 838 71 225 an der Freien Universitaet Berlin || FAX: (+49 30) 791 90 02 Schmidt-Ott-Str. 13 - 12165 Berlin
From: Timothy Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: weird message from nidump Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:55:09 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970630075422.16043B-100000@peace> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm getting this message every now & again from nidump: Jun 30 05:00:01 peace nidump[14424]: ***warning: Object compatibility method 'release' in class NXPropertyList has been executed at least once Jun 30 05:00:01 peace nidump[14424]: ***warning: Object compatibility method 'dealloc' in class NXPropertyList has been executed at least once Has anyone seen this before?? Thanks TjL -- TjL <luomat@peak.org> / http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ NeXT bookmarks: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/bookmarks.html *** Starting July 2nd I will be taking Hebrew. Email and Usenet response time will be noticeably slower. *** n process in a > verbose manner (I would like something I see when booting in verbose mode)? > > I think it is the debugger (GDB) which causes the fsck for my station, but I'm > not sure at all, and I could not find a way to track down which process goes > wrong. Any ideas or similar symptoms? > > Balazs > ------ > pataki@next-1b.manuf.bme.hu > ------ > I suggest that when you want to shut down your computer you firstly log out. Then at the login panel, login as "console". This will cause the Window server to exit, which may be the process not allowing your filesystem to be unmounted properly -- but we can't really know for sure at this point. Anyway, you will be presented with a login prompt from the console window that is presented to you and you should then log in as root (you do need to know the root password). Once logged in, use the "shutdown" command to shutdown your system: shutdown -h now or shutdown -hp now if your intent is to power down the system. Caveat: Personally, I simply use the "halt" command directly because I am familiar with my system and know I have no applications that need to run through their own "shutdown scripts". However, I don't know yours nor your environment, so it is safer for you to use the "shutdown" command. While the system shuts down, watch closely for any error messages that may hint you towards why your filesystem(s) are not being unmounted properly. Good luck... -- Regards, Kevin Barth (kjb@amdahl.com) phone: +44-1252-346307 Open Systems Staff Support fax: +44-1252-346406 Amdahl Corporation
From: smarqzDOG@unm.edu (mtn biker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: boot error message on 'Cube Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 12:56:58 GMT Organization: univ of new mexico Message-ID: <33b7acc8.1052778@news.mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am receiving the following error message when booting a newly acquired 040 25Mhz cube: exception #2 (0x*)@1006C92 It proceeds no further. Any suggestions? TIA my return adress anti spammed please remove the animal from my return address, or respond to smarqz at unm dot edu (thanks)
Message-ID: <33B7CF0E.8542C339@polaris.umuc.edu> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 11:21:50 -0400 From: Steve Beavers <sbeavers@polaris.umuc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: missing init Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I just got a used NeXT machine and I am seeing the following error when booting up: (Window title is "Next Mach 3.3") [...about a dozen lines of messages removed...] load of /etc/mach_init failed, errno 2, trying /etc/init load of /etc/init failed, errno 2 (system stops booting) I am wondering if maybe the files on the hard drive were deleted? Is there any way I can boot up and see if there is anything on the hard drive? I tried creating a boot disk from the image file that NeXT provides on their website, but it asks for a CD (which I don't have). Is there anything like Norton Utilites that would allow me to see if these files were deleted and undelete them? Or, am I jumping to conclusions, is there something else I should try? The system is a Next Station N1100 68040-25MHz CPU, 20 MB RAM, 105 MB HD, 17" mono monitor Any help would be appreciated, Steve
From: sjohnson@myriad.net@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:40:48 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5p8k20$ne9@news.tamu.edu> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:40:48 GMT In-Reply-To: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> On 06/20/97, John Beck wrote: >Christian Jensen (cejensen@bitstream.net) wrote: >> ... I am having a frustrating problem with some outgoing mail that can be >> traced to one bad header. > >> >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 >> ><<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found in snip > >But ganesh.bitsteam.net is unknown to DNS; add an A record for it. Some >anti-spam rules don't allow MAIL FROM: values that DNS can't resolve. >Also, you may want to read up on masquerading in general: > http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html > >-- John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com> > I'm posting here since I haven't gotten a reply on comp.mail.sendmail and it seems like it may be more of a NEXTSTEP issue since it involves NEXTSTEP client/mailserver I have a similar problem, the difference is the name that is trying to be resolved is just the host name without the domain, ie foo w/o ..bar.com. But here is THE twist - when mailing directly from the mail server (foo) the message goes through fine BUT when mailing from one of the clients that forwards to the server the message is returned invalid host or domain. The error says it's the server (foo w/o ..bar.com) that it's not able to find, so the client is forwarding the message to the server to be sent out. But for some reason the server isn't adding the domain. But why isn't the server sending its full name when sending a client's message? Could be a problem on the client side? Any ideas anyone? Stephen -- -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty." Thomas Jefferson NOTE: delete the second @ to email to me.
From: scott@leorg.ucdavis.edu (Ryan Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Time Synchronization Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:48:19 GMT Organization: University of California, Davis Message-ID: <5p8o0j$716$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> References: <33B3CF0D.21AF@mail.amsinc.com> Rob Powers <robert_powers@mail.amsinc.com> wrote: >I have a K250 class HP server. During shutdown, there is an error with >stopping the TIME SYNCHRONIZATION. What and where is the error being >sent from and what is the fix? I would suggest posting this to comp.sys.hp.hpux. You might have better luck with getting a useful response. --Ryan
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: ZyXEL FAX Modem won't receive FAXes Date: 30 Jun 1997 16:46:58 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p8nu2$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> I have NXFax.app (a license'd copy) and a ZyXEL Omni 2864 Fax Modem. What does it take to get the modem to receive faxes? I've installed NXFax and configured a fax modem in the PrintManger.app. It can send faxes fine, I just cant receive faxes (unattended). The modem just doesn't answer. I've set the fax configuration in PrintManger to answer in 1 ring and I've tried a few other things (see below). I've tried using 'cu' to manually set things like ATS0=1 AT+FAA=1 ATAA=1 +FAA=1 but the thing still doesn't answer the phone. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Thank's in advance, David A. Johnson
From: daj@nwu.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What happened to eXTRAPRINT and GSCorp Date: 30 Jun 1997 17:03:06 GMT Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US Distribution: world Message-ID: <5p8osa$30l@news.acns.nwu.edu> Does anyone know if GSCorp is still in business? I've been trying to reach GSCorp to purchase eXTRAPRINT and eXTRASCAN. There phone seems to be still connected and they have an answering machine to leave messages on. I've also left email requesting them to contact me. In 2 weeks I haven't heard a thing. I hope they haven't gone the way of Optimal Object.... David A. Johnson
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5p7g1s$945$2880@cadmium.aware.nl> Date: 30 Jun 1997 15:42:04 GMT Control: cancel <5p7g1s$945$2880@cadmium.aware.nl> Message-ID: <cancel.5p7g1s$945$2880@cadmium.aware.nl> Sender: <remove@freemail.nll> Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: My console is read only even when I'm root - how to fix? Date: 30 Jun 1997 04:08:55 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <5p7bgn$neb$1@news.digifix.com> References: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <paul-2906971841480001@max1-np-ca-19.earthlink.net> On 06/29/97, Paul Nicholson wrote: >Hi > >The console window is read only and I can't type my favorite UNIX commands >into it. I am logged in as root. What's the secret to getting it to work. >It worked once before, but that was before I completely reinstalled >OpenStep after having hardware problems. > If by the 'Console Window' you mean the Window that you can bring up in the Workspace, its not a terminal window that you can type into. Its strictly status.. You need to launch /NextApps/Terminal.app -- Scott Anguish <sanguish@digifix.com> NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Information <URL:http://www.stepwise.com>
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Bad sendmail header - new ? Date: 30 Jun 1997 18:49:25 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5p8v3l$ph@news.tamu.edu> References: <5oa73v$nr1$1@maryj.bitstream.net> <5p8k20$ne9@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jun 1997 18:49:25 GMT In-Reply-To: <5p8k20$ne9@news.tamu.edu> On 06/30/97, Stephen Johnson wrote: >On 06/20/97, John Beck wrote: >>Christian Jensen (cejensen@bitstream.net) wrote: >>> ... I am having a frustrating problem with some outgoing mail that >can be >>> traced to one bad header. >> >>> >>>> MAIL From:<cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net> SIZE=508 >>> ><<< 550 <cejensen@ganesh.bitstream.net>... Sender domain not found >in >snip >> >>But ganesh.bitsteam.net is unknown to DNS; add an A record for it. >Some >>anti-spam rules don't allow MAIL FROM: values that DNS can't resolve. >>Also, you may want to read up on masquerading in general: >> http://www.sendmail.org/m4/masquerading.html >> >>-- John Beck <jbeck@eng.sun.com> >> > >I'm posting here since I haven't gotten a reply on comp.mail.sendmail >and it seems like it may be more of a NEXTSTEP issue since it involves >NEXTSTEP client/mailserver >I have a similar problem, the difference is the name that is trying to >be resolved is just the host name without the domain, ie foo w/o >...bar.com. But here is THE twist - when mailing directly from the mail >server (foo) the message goes through fine BUT when mailing from one >of the clients that forwards to the server the message is returned >invalid host or domain. The error says it's the server (foo w/o >...bar.com) that it's not able to find, so the client is forwarding the >message to the server to be sent out. But for some reason the server >isn't adding the domain. >But why isn't the server sending its full name when sending a >client's message? Could be a problem on the client side? > >Any ideas anyone? > >Stephen > -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@myriad.net@ Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 409-778-4717 NOTE - remove the trailing @ char. to mail to me.
From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Making a second NS/OS Partition? Date: 30 Jun 1997 21:36:49 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <5p98th$143@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Greetings helpful NeXTians. I'm driving myself mad trying unsuccessfully to create a second NS partition and filesystem on a disk which already has OS4.0 Intel installed. It's a 2Gb SCSI disk which has a ~250Mb dos partition, around 1Gb of OS4.0 (/dev/sd0a) and the rest used to be a Linux partition. I'm running out of space on the OS4.0 partition. Simple - I thought! I'll just blow away the Linux partition and put another OS4.0 filesystem there, mounted as /dev/sd0b. WRONG! Now I know that the OS4 fdisk can only cope with a single NeXT filesystem, so I've been reading the manpages for disk, newfs scsimodes et. al. until my head spins. Nothing works as I think it should - which probably means I've misunderstood something fundamental. It's easy to kill the Linux partition, and just as easy to put it back again. "disk /dev/rsd0b" in interactive mode tells me politely "/dev/rsd0b: No such device or address" "newfs -N /dev/rsd0b" says "newfs: /dev/rsd0b: no disk label" and any attempt to put a disk label in place with something like "disk -l diskname" or even "disk -h phaedrus -l diskname -i /dev/rsd0b" gives the familiar "dev/rsd0b: No such device or address". HELP, please. Just in case it's useful, here is what fdisk sees: NeXT fdisk v1.02 Device: /dev/rsd0h Type Start Size Status -------------------------------------------- DOS, 16 bit FAT 0 251 - NEXTSTEP 251 1035 Active Type 92 1286 777 - Partition Table ---------------- Act H S Cyl Id H S Cyl Begin Size --- - - --- -- - - --- ----- ---- 0 1 1 0 6 fe 3f 1f 3f 7d7e1 80 0 1 20 a7 fe 3f a3 7d820 205b84 0 0 1 a4 92 fe 3f 106 2833a4 1844a3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Disk Information ----------------- Disk statistics according to device driver and bios: device: 2064 Megabytes, 4226725 sectors bios: 2063 Megabytes, 4225095 sectors cylinders = 263, heads = 255, sectors/track = 63 It's the type 92 partition starting at 1286 and ending at 2063 which I want to replace with a second OS4 partition, but how to do it? Many Thanks, Neville Wilford -- Internet: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk PGP 2.x public key available
From: John Kheit <jkheit@cnj.digex.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Swap and Partioning... Date: 30 Jun 1997 23:22:12 GMT Organization: monoChrome, Inc., NJ, USA Message-ID: <5p9f34$mn$1@news2.digex.net> Well here's the latest results of my trials... I took some advice and setup my system as so: Partition1--OPENSTEP4.2, developer, eof, webobjects...1.7Gb Partition2--285Mb swapdisk, with lowat256Mb, hiwat 280Mb (made a single file while drive was empty. Partition3--2Gb for: LocalApps, LocalLibrary, LocalDeveloper, and User. The results... The system feels _slower_ than it did before with partitions 1&2 together. I think that is because of the following... First, It seems like there are upto about 5 types of disk activity that can and generally do go on at anyone time: 1) Accessing system files (unix utilities, filesystems...basic core OS type stuff). 2) A utility/app might will access /tmp (or some scratch like spot). This can be very HEAVY use when compiling things (not necessarily apps, but lists and caches too). 3) Swap, this can and is very heavy access. 4) Userfiles, your spreadsheet files, etc... This can vary in intensity, but let's just callit average/lite use. 5) Apps, your spreadsheet application resources, etc. Now, Ideally you would have a drive for each type of access, and when you compile something big and heavy in PB/IB, and all the above gets accessed simultaneously, you'll have a huge speed up... But, now when we deal with partitions that isn't the case... And I think because use 2 and 3 are perhaps the HEAVIEST uses, it pays to have them near each other. And when I didn't split the swap space from the rest of the system stuff, they were closer together on average, and the access was better. Now, it wouldn't do to put /tmp into the swapdisk...it's generally known to make weirdness happen and the system less stable...so that's not an option... Also, some drives don't use /tmp, and have their own .../customTMP location... Which leads me to my original observation...that partitioning is an overall performance drag, and that partitioning a slot for swapspace leads to decreased performance by increasing head travel/thrashing... -- 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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