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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:22:39 -0600 From: awest@m-w.com Subject: what's NS's equiv of /etc/init.d/sendmail? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <870293881.25904@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service Okay, on a machine running ancient NS 2.2, in order to start queue runners to read various mail queues (I'll explain later), I've been told to add lines like this to "/etc/init.d/sendmail": echo "/usr/lib/sendmail -q20m -C/etc/mail/sendmail.cf.list" |su majordom These instructions are from someone using a Sparc. So, should I put these kinds of commands in the /etc/rc file? The rc.local? Something completely different? Why am I doing this you ask... The machine has had mucho problemos distributing a once-a-day mailing to a list of 4,000 recipients: it's not reaching everyone on the list. (Using NS 2.2 with the old sendmail, which, now that I hear there's already a precompiled 8.8.5, I'm probably going to update, on the end of an ISDN line, and our ISP's mailhost as its relay host, and Majordomo 1.93.4 and Perl 4.036(?)). So, I'm going to try to use a second relay host to just handle that list traffic. To do that, I need to setup multiple sendmail.cfs and queues. So, I need the multiple queue runners. (If anyone has a better idea as to what the cause of the problem is, I'd like to hear it....) ---Amy West Benighted Admin -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: nextjoe@aol.com (NeXTJoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Backup strategies please Date: 31 Jul 1997 00:17:04 GMT Message-ID: <19970731001701.UAA09084@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Hi, I posted yesterday asking for advice on how to back up my Color station's 400 meg drive. I have NS 3.3. My backup device is a Zip drive. Someone suggested SafetyNet; unfortunately, I don't have the money to license it right now. I looked in the system administrator's manual; it recommends either tar or dump. I have very little Unix experience and I hope someone would be willing to share some advice and/or scripts for doing a full backup. Thank you, Joe NeXTjoe@aol.com
From: me_!SPAM_@traveler.uniscape.com (My Account) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: popper Date: 30 Jul 1997 10:30:50 GMT Organization: e-Scape Information Systems Inc. Distribution: world Message-ID: <5rn54q$ies$1@news.e-scape.net> References: <5risv4$chu@news.acns.nwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: daj@nwu.edu Hello Try qpopper from http://www.eudora.com/freeware/servers.html I compiled it for OpenStep 4.1, to see if it compiles. But I have not used it on OpenStep 4.1, mostly on Solaris and FreeBSD stef In <5risv4$chu@news.acns.nwu.edu> daj@nwu.edu wrote: > I'm looking for pop3d for OpenStep. > > The source I have will not compile under OpenStep Developer 4.1. Is there a binary version (precompiled) available anywhere? Is there source for Openstep? > > Thank's in advance, > > David A. Johnson > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Samuel Chow <samchow@idt.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: virtual desktops? Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:41:54 -0400 Organization: IDT Message-ID: <33DFFB6D.48A2@idt.net> References: <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> Robert A. Decker wrote: > = > Are there any apps that can give me virtual desktops? I'm on OpenStep= 4.2 > on Mach. > = > rob > -- I believe that this link has the answer to what you are looking for. http://www.nyro.com/NYRO/VS.htmld/ -- = Later, Samuel Chow ^ ^ 0 0 -ooo--|--ooo---------------------------------------------------- You will be disappointed if you fail But you will be doom if you don=92t try Check out the Ultimate NeXT http://idt.net/~samchow/NeXT/
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From: paquez1234@mindspring.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't get back into multiuser mode! Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 04:28:22 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: <33e01305.19446073@news.mindspring.com> References: <slrn5sod1u.a2n.billc@home.upside.net> <EDGM0M.88n@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:48:22 GMT, Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) wrote: ~In article <slrn5sod1u.a2n.billc@home.upside.net> billc@ns1.upside.net ~(Chris Bill) writes: ~> The story so far... ~> ~> I deleted /etc/hostconfig and my NeXTstation woudln't boot (it ~> hung on the automounter). I waited 30 minutes, which I thought ~> to be reasonable. Then I rebooted, starting the machine in single ~> user mode and copying a backup copy of hostconfig. ~> ~> When I finished, I tried to reboot with "reboot sd", the computer ~> rebooted, and plopped me back in single user mode. ~> ~> I looked through NeXT answers and couldn't find anything applicable ~> to this situation. ~> ~> Also, does anyone know how to start with a fresh netinfo config? ~> I've been using the machine off of a network, and assigned it ~> arbitrary values for the IP address, hostname and such. Now I ~> need to put it on a network. ~> ~The 'reboot' command issues the previously given boot command, AFAIK. I.e. ~if you did a 'bsd -s' manually it will reissue this command next time. ~Better do a 'halt' and when you're at the boot monitor prompt give a 'bsd' ~manually. ~ ~A pristine NetInfo config is attained by copying ~/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc/netinfo. But in your case ~simply running /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app should do the trick, ~i.e. get your network configured to work like intended. ~ ~-- ~Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth ~Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and ~D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked ~GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5 I need some help too. I have the same problem of going back into single user mode. I follwed the proceedure, but still no GUI. My tale started after I had edited my hostconfig file. My machine was prevoiusly configured for a network, but now it stands alone. After using vi to edit the fiole while in single user mode, the machine refuses to return to multi user mode. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank You please remove the numbers from the address for replies
From: jking@incentre.net (Joseph A. King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: More multi-boot problems Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 06:33:25 GMT Organization: Oz New Media Inc. Message-ID: <33e02de2.463207@news.v-wave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I recently installed OpenStep into a new partition on a 2 Gig drive. Prior to installation there were two partitions: a FAT partition on which resided Windows 95 and an Extended DOS partition on which resided NT 4.0 Workstation. Into the Free space went OpenStep 4.2. After installation of OpenStep 4.2 I get the NeXT boot prompt. Hit 'n' you get into OpenStep just fine. Hit 'd' you get into DOS just fine (hit anything else and it freezes). In DOS (I assume its DOS) I'm given the Microsoft boot manager menu: Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (VGA) Microsoft Windows Choose Windows and Win 95 boots fine. Choose NT and NT Detect does its thing, the screen clears and the OSLoader for NT begins and fails. It fails on its first file <winnt root>\system 32\winntkrnl (or something like that, sorry). Says the file cannot be found or is corrupted, please replace. NT Emergency disk? Kick me, but I'm already sore. Any suggestions? jking.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: virtual desktops? Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 10:54:02 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <cns_Q_q00WB_0AZVo0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235> In-Reply-To: <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.advocacy: 30-Jul-97 virtual desktops? by "Robert A. Decker"@umich > Are there any apps that can give me virtual desktops? I'm on OpenStep 4.2 > on Mach. VirtSpace. -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: NS year 2000 problem Date: 31 Jul 1997 14:11:41 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 1997 14:11:41 GMT I just thought I'd test to see how NeXTStep handles year 2000 and I found that if I attempt to set the date manually to 2000 (using either Preferences.app or date), it resets to 1970, but if I set the clock to Dec 31 1999 and let it roll it correctly goes to 2000. This is on 3.3/Intel. Does anyone know whether there are patched versions of date and Preferences.app that will allow correct date setting past 2000? -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren Kotan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: 31 Jul 1997 17:00:57 GMT Organization: NeXT/Apple European Professional Services Message-ID: <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Cc: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de In <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Marc Guenther wrote: > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just doesn't work > the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the black hardware password on > Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's everybody can get root access by just > turning the machine off and back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. Yes, rather like anyone can boot an NT machine with a DOS boot floppy and then access its NTFS partitions using the freeware NTFSDOS utility :) Ooops, did I give the game away there? I can almost visualise those NT server admin bods rushing to their PCs' BIOS setups to disable booting from floppy disk ;-} > I can disable boot from floppy drive or any other device in the BIOS Setup. I > can set a BIOS password, so nobody can change the Setup. But I can't disable > the Nextstep boot: prompt. What is all this Unix "security" about, when > everybody can get into singleuser mode ? The software can only be as secure as the hardware it's running on. Some PCs will allow you to set a password every time the machine is turned on. Some won't. ;-} Regards, Eren -- Eren Kotan - E-mail: Eren_Kotan@apple.com The best friend money can buy. Hamburgers can be vicious if they're only wounded. -Garfield- Apple Enterprise Professional Services - http://enterprise.apple.com/
From: Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren Kotan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: More multi-boot problems Date: 31 Jul 1997 17:09:05 GMT Organization: NeXT/Apple European Professional Services Message-ID: <5rqgrh$n4e$1@news2.apple.com> References: <33e02de2.463207@news.v-wave.com> Cc: jking@incentre.net In <33e02de2.463207@news.v-wave.com> Joseph A. King wrote: > Choose NT and NT Detect does its thing, the screen clears and the > OSLoader for NT begins and fails. It fails on its first file <winnt > root>\system 32\winntkrnl (or something like that, sorry). Says the > file cannot be found or is corrupted, please replace. > > NT Emergency disk? Kick me, but I'm already sore. > > Any suggestions? Oooh, many brave multi-OS installers have fallen for this one. So don't feel bad about it, you're not alone. :) This is why it is happening: When you installed OPENSTEP, it created a new partition on your disk, which was previously free space. This screws up NT's booter, which keeps track of which partition number on which disk NT should be booted from. Here is how to fix this: Boot into DOS/Win95, and edit the boot.ini file which will be inside the root directory of your C: drive. This file is set to be read only, so you'll have to make it readable first, by using the DOS attrib command, or via Windows Explorer's File Properties dialog. Then open the file in Notepad, and increase the "partition(x)" number by one: Example: default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT400 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(3)\WINNT400="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" ... Change this to read: default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT400 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT400="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" ... Save the file and reboot. You don't need to set it to be read only, though you can, if you want. That should fix it! Regards, Eren -- Eren Kotan - E-mail: Eren_Kotan@apple.com The best friend money can buy. Can you imagine a world with no hypothetical questions? Apple Enterprise Professional Services - http://enterprise.apple.com/
From: Carl Jabido <cjabido@npl.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Whoops! (was Re: Hostname not found, other net problems) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 13:08:42 -0400 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <33D8DD9A.1099@npl.org> References: <33D85EC2.40A3@npl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Okay, I'm stupid. I figured out the hostname thing on my own. I can now mount both the hard drive and printer. But I have another question: how can I use a DeskJet (hooked up to the PC) on the NeXT through the network? Won't I need special drivers or something? Thanks. Still have those quesitons with PPP though... Oh, and I can successfully use smbclient which came with samba to access things on the PC. But I can't get rumba to work at all. I can use rumba to mount things from the NeXT on the NeXT but when I try to mount a PC drive, it gives IO Error [5] or something similar. Well, Thanks in advance! Carl
From: flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de (Gregor Hoffleit) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What is the File System type for the OPENSTEP CD's? Date: 31 Jul 1997 15:57:17 GMT Organization: InterNetNews at News.BelWue.DE (Stuttgart, Germany) Message-ID: <5rqckt$du6$1@news.belwue.de> References: <33DAED3E.AD8474A4@4thdim.com> <SCOTT.97Jul28014600@slave.doubleu.com> Scott Hess (scott@doubleu.com) wrote: : Perhaps search dejanews and other parts of the web for a UFS driver : which reads NeXTSTEP filesystems, The Linux module that reads NEXTSTEP ufs partitions is now called u2fs to distinguish it from the ufs module that's included in the Linux kernel (which can only read Sun partitions). u2fs is availble from sunite and mirrors: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/ALPHA/ufs/u2fs-0.4.3.tar.gz Gregor -- | Gregor Hoffleit Mathematisches Institut, Uni HD | | flight@mathi.uni-heidelberg.de INF 288, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany | | (NeXTmail, MIME) (49)6221 54-5771 fax 54-8312 | | "We will make windows invisible" |
From: gh@middlemarch.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: GateKeeper timeout error Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 15:50:16 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33E0EC78.3970@middlemarch.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have installed GateKeeper 2.1 with PPP 2.2.046 on OPENSTEP 4.0. When I try to manually dial with the Dial command, I get the following error message: Timeout error while initializing the modem: Error 0 [Process exited - exit code 255] In the Preferences:Defaults:Dial init: dialog box, I tried several different commands including AT&F, AT&F2&D0, ATZ, and AT&F&D0. All of them returned the same message. I am using an internal Supra Fax Voice modem. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Greg
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From: johnsonw@iamerica.net (W. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network a NeXT: use Win95 or Novell Lite Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:10:15 GMT Organization: LDS I-America Message-ID: <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net> A friend wants to take three PCs and network them in his office to share some data and the printer. Two units will be Win 95 PCs and the third is a NeXT unit. He wants the NeXT to act as the server with the NeXT printer hanging off it. He bought the Novell Lite product before Win 95 came out and is wondering whether to use it or the Win95 network platform. (I don't know what the ramifications are having the NeXT unit in this situation. Will it network with either?) There is little need for Novell's security -- the intent is just to share data and the printer (maybe a modem). All feedback is appreciated.
From: Carl Jabido <cjabido@npl.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problem setting up PPP/Gatekeeper Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 01:39:34 -0400 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <33D98D96.6755@npl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, Yeah, I posted before but I now have more focused questions... Okay, I've got Samba up and running pretty nicely (still have problems with Rumba though)... Now I'm trying to tackle PPP/Gatekeeper. I've got the latest Gatekeeper package as well as PPP 2_2. PPP is insatlled fine and the LKS works on bootup. Typing pppd at a terminal window yeilds the standard ASCII garbage, ie ppp stuff. I've also got the modem working fine, albeit with a Mac modem cable so no hardware flow control. The modem works fine at 9600 baud with hardware flow control turned off. I've got it setup on /cua for now at 9600 baud until I get a NeXT modem cable. My problem comes when I try to run Gatekeeper. It's setup to use cua and at 9600 but when I try to use the automatic linkup it doesn't access the modem at all. But the manual dial does pop open the term window and correctly accesses the modem. Another problem comes once I'm logged into the ppp server. The ascii garbage comes back from the server and so I click on the pppd button. Nothing happens at that point though. The ascii garbage keeps coming from the server. The Gatekeeper help doesn't help troubleshooting at all. I can't find any other help on it either. So any help you can provide would be great! Thanks, Carl
From: dbora@huitzilo.tezcat.com (Donald F. Bora) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cube problems Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 31 Jul 1997 14:22:20 -0500 Organization: Breakfast at Tezcat. Message-ID: <5rqolc$qlr@huitzilo.tezcat.com> Hello all, I have a real puzzler for those who are interested in saving a cube. A while ago I really messed up my cube when I tried adding a zip drive. I had some problems with the scanner's scsi (or lack thereof) interface and ended up having to rebuild my system from scratch. This cube has an original 300mb internal scsi drive and I installed an additional 500mb drive. I partitioned the 500 drive to have a 100mg swap partition and labeled the drive "swapdisk." Since the rc.swap script is setup to recognize sd?a I had to change this to sd?b so it sould find the swap partition which is at sd1b. Ever since I have made these modifications, I have been experiencing wierd thrash situtations where the thing just starts swappinar /both/ drives cranking away. The other day, I let the thing crank away until it finally hung. Upon rebooting my main 300 failed fsck and had a lot of garbage on it leading me to believe that the 300 is still somehow involvedin swapping. Any clues? Things worked just fine before I installed the second drive. The previous was meant to be a caveat to the proceeding spec of my cube: NeXT Dimenision (040) 16mg VRam 12mg Ram 300mg drive 500mg drive Thanks for your time -Don Bora
From: Tom Vogl <tlvogl@collins.rockwell.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.programmer Subject: Serial Driver Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:01:44 -0500 Organization: Rockwell Collins AT&E Message-ID: <33D8CDE8.1E43@collins.rockwell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi EveryBody: I'm new to NeXt and trying to write a driver for a keypad, am short on time and am finding some basic questions. I'm trying to read from com port 2 and have drivers installed, but don't know where exactly it "lives". I've looked through some of the on-line documentation that said the com port may be on /dev/cu(f)[ab]. I've also found some other code that looks at tty00 and tty01. How can you find out / set where the ports "live"? I have some example (C) code for for a few drivers and would appreciate pointers to more information. Thanks in advance for any help. Tom Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
From: nextjoe@aol.com (NeXTJoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: someone please help me Date: 31 Jul 1997 22:37:35 GMT Message-ID: <19970731223700.SAA13109@ladder01.news.aol.com> Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Hi, I posted yesterday asking for advice on how to back up my Color station's 400 meg drive. I have NS 3.3. My backup device is a Zip drive. Someone suggested SafetyNet; unfortunately, I don't have the money to license it right now. I looked in the system administrator's manual; it recommends either tar or dump. I have very little Unix experience and I hope someone would be willing to share some advice and/or scripts for doing a full backup. Thank you, Joe NeXTjoe@aol.com
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat+next@luomat.peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:31:42 -0400 Organization: IAASCAT Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970731180410.3512A-100000@luomat.peak.org> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Marc Guenther <yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just > doesn't work the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the > black hardware password on Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's > everybody can get root access by just turning the machine off > and back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. > > I can disable boot from floppy drive or any other device in the > BIOS Setup. I can set a BIOS password, so nobody can change the > Setup. But I can't disable the Nextstep boot: prompt. What is > all this Unix "security" about, when everybody can get into > singleuser mode ? > > What do I miss ? Marc This is actually an old security issue. Mark Majka wrote about it some time ago (1993). You can read it at: http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1339.htmld/1339.html ENHACING [sic] SINGLE USER MODE SECURITY I was looking for this for another reason, actually, so I am happy you asked. I searched NeXTanswers and found the above description -- but no source code! I emailed Mark and he sent it back along with his permission to put it on the FTP site. I compile it quadfat and put it here: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/Password_Check.1.0.README ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/Password_Check.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz The README includes full installation instructions, which can also be done with 'make install'. If anyone at NeXT/Apple reads this and wants to fix the four-year old typo there, I won't tell anyone ;-) Thanks to Mark Majka for the speedy response _and_ for keeping track of his source code.... I've contacted a lot of folks out there who have no idea where their source code is.... TjL
From: jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu (Jesse D. Goldberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems compiling ssh under NS 3.2 Date: 31 Jul 1997 21:49:14 GMT Organization: University of California, San Diego Message-ID: <5rr18q$j3a$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> I'm having a problem compiling ssh under NextStep 3.2. I get the following fatal errors when it tries to compile rsa.c: rsa.c: In function `rsa_random_prime': rsa.c:302: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `mpz_mod_inverse': rsa.c:353: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c:363: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `derive_rsa_keys': rsa.c:410: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c:431: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' rsa.c: In function `rsa_generate_key': rsa.c:531: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' I'm using cc. I've tried it with and without the -rsafer option. Does anyone know how what the problem is or how to get this to work? Any comments would be greatly appreciated. Email responses preferred. Sincerely, -- ********************************************************************* * Jesse Goldberg Work Phone : (619) 534-4778 * * UCSD Physics Dept 0319 Internet : jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu * * 9500 Gilman Drive Next Mail Accepted * * La Jolla, CA 92093 * *********************************************************************
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 12:56:30 -0400 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970731125352.25789A-100000@luomat.peak.org> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Marc Guenther <yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de> In-Reply-To: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Read Marc Majka's excellent article "ENHACING SINGLE USER MODE SECURITY" http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1339.htmld/1339.html which is exactly what I was looking for in relation to another problem altogether! Thanks! TjL
From: gh@middlemarch.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: Re: virtual desktops? Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 21:38:51 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33E13E2B.6A1D@middlemarch.net> References: <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu> There is an app called Widescreen at the Peak ftp site. I think it's in the /pub/next/apps/workspace folder or something like that. --Greg > Are there any apps that can give me virtual desktops? I'm on OpenStep 4.2 > on Mach. > > rob
Message-ID: <199707312257.SAA04046@kira.peak.org> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.1mach v148) From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 97 18:57:12 -0400 Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Organization: Princeton Theological Seminary Mail-To-News-Contact: postmaster@nym.alias.net > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just > doesn't work the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the > black hardware password on Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's > everybody can get root access by just turning the machine off > and back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. > > I can disable boot from floppy drive or any other device in the > BIOS Setup. I can set a BIOS password, so nobody can change the > Setup. But I can't disable the Nextstep boot: prompt. What is > all this Unix "security" about, when everybody can get into > singleuser mode ? > > What do I miss ? Marc This is actually an old security issue. Mark Majka wrote about it some time ago (1993). You can read it at: ENHACING [sic] SINGLE USER MODE SECURITY http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1339.htmld/1339.html I read this and wanted to try it myself --- but I couldn't find the source code anywhere in NeXTAnswers. I contacted Mark Majka and he sent me the source code, along with the permission to put it on the FTP site: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/Password_Check.1.0.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/Password_Check.1.0.README TjL
From: "Jeffrey Flowers" <dagdagh@exis.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network Installs Date: 1 Aug 1997 03:25:07 GMT Organization: Exis Net Inc Message-ID: <01bc9e22$12e363a0$f54cfccd@dagdagh> Is the only way to install NS via a network done through Netinfo? I have heard of people installing Linux and FreeBSD via FTP. Thanks, Jeffrey S. Flowers ------------------------- There is no freedom without freedom of speech
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: problem installing NS3.3 on color turbo Message-ID: <EE7qtr.197.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <5r9lvb$8pm$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> <EE3Mz3.2DF.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 02:27:27 GMT Oops, the first time I posted this, I accidently got Seagate and Quantum confused. Here's the corrected article: In article <5r9lvb$8pm$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu>, Ali Asad Lotia <lotia@toastman.us.itd.umich.edu> wrote: >i am using a next color turbo station and have been having the hardest >time installing from scratch a copy of nextstep 3.3 on a quantum fireball >3.2 gig hd. when the drive is installed in the machine, it reports a scsi >error when attempting to boot from drive. i am unable to escape to the >monitor. the scsi id on the quantum is set to 1, the cdrom is at 2. if you >have any suggestions for me at all, i would really appreciate an email at >lotia@umich.edu thanks a lot. I had similar problems with a Quantum Atlas 2.1 GB. The drive would format correctly and I could install NEXTSTEP 3.3, but as soon as I connected my usual array of SCSI devices and rebooted, the drive would lose data on a few cylinders. These lost data areas could not be recovered without a re-format, which was quite unfortunate. I went through this cycle several times to make sure that I was not doing something wrong. According to a local engineer who tests many SCSI drives, the current line of Quantum drives is so heavily optimized for speed - using hard-wired logic instead of a microprocessor with firmware - that they often develop problems when the SCSI bus timing is not perfect. If you are using a Quantum drive under conditions that it was optimized for, then apparently they scream. But my system was not successful. I never had problems before with my cables or SCSI devices, so I switched to a Seagate Barracuda 4.2 GB. I have seen no such problems. My suggestion: sell the Quantum to a Mac owner whose system the drive was optimized for, and then purchase a replacement drive from any other major SCSI drive manufacturer. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome
From: Carl Jabido <cjabido@npl.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hostname not found, other net problems Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 04:07:30 -0400 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Message-ID: <33D85EC2.40A3@npl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi all, I'm trying to get it running on a small network here at home (2 Win95, 1 Win3.1, 1 NeXT). I setup the NeXT networking according to the Mixed Networks setting and didn't use NetInfo. I only used HostManager. In it I setup a hostname, manhattan, with an IP address 192.168.0.2. One of the PCs is setup with the hostname paris, and IP address 192.168.0.3. My problem is with name resolution. Problem is the Next doesn't resolve manhattan to 192.168.0.2. It knows the hostname because it shows up in the login window. I've setup the hosts file and resolv.conf. I'm really new to NeXT networking so let me know what info you need! Oh, the computers do talk to each other already. I can ftp files from the PC <--> NeXT no problem using the IP address. I would just like to setup Samba so I can mount the drives, etc. I'm trying to setup Samba but that name problem keeps coming up. Is there any way to test out if Samba is working without using the name? I also wanna setup PPP or some kind of net connection on the system. I'm having problems setting it up but I think I have to spend more time with it before I can ask any questions. So far I noticed that the installation said that I have to change my IP address to 127.0.0.1. Why is this required? Do I really have to do this or can I keep it where it's set so I can use the home network? Well, any tips on sample config files from similar setups would be greatly appreciated! Hey, NextVegas is pretty fun! (Just got the NeXT last week and I've been downloading like mad!) Thanks, Carl
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: someone please help me Date: 1 Aug 1997 11:12:13 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5rsgad$lfl$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <19970731223700.SAA13109@ladder01.news.aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: nextjoe@aol.com In <19970731223700.SAA13109@ladder01.news.aol.com> NeXTJoe wrote: > I posted yesterday asking for advice on how to back up my Color station's > 400 meg drive. I have NS 3.3. My backup device is a Zip drive. Someone > suggested SafetyNet; unfortunately, I don't have the money to license it > right now. I looked in the system administrator's manual; it recommends > either tar or dump. I have very little Unix experience and I hope someone > would be willing to share some advice and/or scripts for doing a full > backup. Ok --- obviously you're going to need upto four 100Mb Zip disks to backup a 400Mb drive. Here's one way of doing it, which requires some manual intervention to change disks. You should prepare enough disks to hold all the backed-up data, which should all be named "Backup" so the Workspace will mount them in the same place in the file system, ie as /Backup. Put the first disk in te drive and then ppen up a terminal shell using Terminal.app and type the following --- give the root password when prompted: su root cd / gnutar --create --verbose --one-file-system --multi-volume \ --tape-length=975280 \ --exclude="/private/vm" --exclude="/private/tmp" \ --file=/Backup/`date | sed -e 's, *,-,g'`.tar ./ (Hint --- cut'n'paste the command out of this message. Note that there are *two* spaces before the "*" in the "sed -e 's, *,-,g'" part.) That will write a series of 95Mb tar archives prompting you to 'Prepare volume #x for /Backup/...' between each one. When prompted, you should eject the full disk and insert the next (empty) one, and then press return. It creates a file on each disk called after the date the backup was started, like so: Fri-Aug-1-11:33:56-BST-1997.tar Together the files will contain copies of all of the contents of your hard drive, except the swapfile (in /private/vm) or any temporary file (in /private/tmp). Nb. This will include all of the files from the distribution media. You may want to add more --exclude parts to cut some of them out and save a bit of space. 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: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Network a NeXT: use Win95 or Novell Lite Date: 1 Aug 1997 11:45:42 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5rsi96$lfl$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: johnsonw@iamerica.net In <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net> W. Johnson wrote: > A friend wants to take three PCs and network them in his office to > share some data and the printer. Two units will be Win 95 PCs and the > third is a NeXT unit. He wants the NeXT to act as the server with the > NeXT printer hanging off it. He bought the Novell Lite product before > Win 95 came out and is wondering whether to use it or the Win95 > network platform. (I don't know what the ramifications are having the > NeXT unit in this situation. Will it network with either?) There is > little need for Novell's security -- the intent is just to share data > and the printer (maybe a modem). All feedback is appreciated. NeXTen will communicate just fine with Win95 boxes provided you install the correct software. As you have the Novell Lite product, you can certainly use that to talk to the windows machines --- you'll need to use the 'NetWareManager.app' to get the NeXT to speak the NetWare protocols. You don't say what version of NextStep you're running: NetWare support was bundled with all 3.x versions by default, and is included in most 4.x distributions as an optional install item. It may be missing from some of the pre-release versions. On the other hand, you can use the Samba package which enables a NeXT machine to speak the native NetBEUI protocols used by Win95. That's another optional install bundled with NeXT versions after OS 4.1, or for earlier versions you can download a package from the archives. Cheers, Matthew [Posted and Mailed] -- Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse. Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hostname not found, other net problems Date: 1 Aug 1997 11:42:28 GMT Organization: @Home Networks Message-ID: <5rsi34$goa$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33D85EC2.40A3@npl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cjabido@npl.org In <33D85EC2.40A3@npl.org> Carl Jabido wrote: > My problem is with name resolution. Problem is the Next doesn't > resolve manhattan to 192.168.0.2. It knows the hostname because > it shows up in the login window. I've setup the hosts file and > resolv.conf. The hosts file is not used. You should read the online docs found in /NextLibrary/Documentation. You need to add the PCs hostname and IP to NetInfo under 'hosts'. TjL
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <5rrgpj$4147@webnt.uwsuper.edu> From: ddahlvan@staff.uwsuper.edu Date: 1 Aug 1997 02:14:11 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Superior Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin y Control: newgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin y Control message generated by Netscape Collabra Server.
From: alanf@izzy.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: LaserJet 5 double sided printing? Date: 1 Aug 1997 14:15:41 GMT Organization: "Comshare, Inc." Message-ID: <5rsr2d$ppc$1@inet-prime.comshare.com> I can't seem to get double-side print on a HP laserjet 5 I'm accessing via the Novell 3.1 client. Anyone willing to share their experiences? Regards, Alan Frabutt (alanf@izzy.net)
From: tom@basil.icce.rug.dev.null.nl (Tom Hageman -- remove .dev.null to reply) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: popper Date: 1 Aug 1997 16:41:57 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Sender: news@basil.icce.rug.nl (NEWS pusher) Message-ID: <EE76F6.u8@basil.icce.rug.nl> References: <5risv4$chu@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5rn54q$ies$1@news.e-scape.net> me_!SPAM_@traveler.uniscape.com (My Account) wrote: > Try qpopper from > > http://www.eudora.com/freeware/servers.html > > I compiled it for OpenStep 4.1, to see if it compiles. But I have not used > it on OpenStep 4.1, mostly on Solaris and FreeBSD > > stef > > In <5risv4$chu@news.acns.nwu.edu> daj@nwu.edu wrote: > > I'm looking for pop3d for OpenStep. > > > > The source I have will not compile under OpenStep Developer 4.1. Is there > a binary version (precompiled) available anywhere? Is there source for > Openstep? PopOver comes with a precompiled binary (and source) of popper. --Tom.
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Cube backup problems with gnutar Date: 1 Aug 1997 17:49:34 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5rt7je$59j@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <5rgsde$kr7@mochi.lava.net> arti@address.in.signature (Art Isbell) wrote: ># gnutar -c --totals --multi-volume --one-file-system --block-size=20 >--volno-file=1 -f /dev/nrst0 --listed=/usr/local/etc/tar-backup/temp.level-0 >--label="Full backup of / on nextcube at `date`" -C / . >zsh: 925 segmentation fault gnutar -c --totals --multi-volume >--one-file-system --block-size=20 -f -C Your zsh is spitting out "segmentation fault" error. Is your zsh alright? You might try other shell instead of zsh in your script to see whether the backup goes through or not > So it appears that gnutar is crashing as the backup nears completion :-( >I have attempted to build the current gnutar version under OS/Mach 4.1, but >even after apparently solving compilation problems, the executable fails >almost all tests :-( So something isn't correct with the build environment, >I suppose. > > Anyone have a built, tested gnutar 1.12 for m68k? A NEXTSTEP version >should do, but maybe an OPENSTEP version would be preferable. As previouly stated by Matthews at P&L Systems, compiling with "-DHAVE_UNION_WAIT" compils cleanly on 3.3. You might try same thing on Openstep, too. This is what I have done. configure ; make CFLAGS="-DHAVE_UNION_WAIT" ; make check Then I got "All 11 tests passed" Good luck! --- Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5rt5tp$59j@agate.berkeley.edu> Control: cancel <5rt5tp$59j@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 1 Aug 1997 17:43:13 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5rt77h$59j@agate.berkeley.edu> cancel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gtf@cirp.org.This.blocks.unsolicited.com mercial.email (Geoffrey T. Falk) Subject: Re: Problems compiling ssh under NS 3.2 Message-ID: <1997Aug1.174651.29903@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Originator: gtf@theorem Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/ References: <5rr18q$j3a$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 17:46:51 GMT In article <5rr18q$j3a$1@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, Jesse D. Goldberg <jesse@mocha.ucsd.edu> wrote: >I'm having a problem compiling ssh under NextStep 3.2. >I get the following fatal errors when it tries to compile rsa.c: > >rsa.c: In function `rsa_random_prime': >rsa.c:302: too many arguments to function `__builtin_constant_p' You need to compile using gcc. NeXT's C compiler won't work. It doesn't understand all of the compiler directives in the code. gcc is not *that* hard to configure and install, depending on your experience, if you follow the directions; but compiling it takes a fair bit of time. The libraries, etc. also consume a fair bit of disk space. If you don't want to do this, find somebody else who has already installed gcc, and compile SSH on their system. g. -- I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. ---Leo Tolstoy ADDRESS ALTERED TO DEFLECT SPAM. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL ADS BILLED $500/ITEM Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf(@)math.rochester.edu> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
From: "Jacob1" <timebomb@west.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Network a NeXT: use Win95 or Novell Lite Date: 1 Aug 1997 18:47:19 GMT Organization: Jacob Stern & Sons Message-ID: <01bc9eaa$bf70c940$0af047cf@jssadmin> References: <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net> Well, you can just use the TCP/IP networking built into Win95 and setup dummy IP's for all three devices. No problem. W. Johnson <johnsonw@iamerica.net> wrote in article <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net>... > A friend wants to take three PCs and network them in his office to > share some data and the printer. Two units will be Win 95 PCs and the > third is a NeXT unit...
From: gh@middlemarch.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Serial port settings on COM3 Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:04:58 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33E2416A.244B@middlemarch.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I boot my computer with Win95, the modem setting is on COM3 and it works fine. When I boot OPENSTEP, should I set the Serial Port driver in Configure.app to COM3? I assume to access the modem I would need to use /dev/cufc, however there is no entry for it. Should I create a new entry for /dev/cuc and /dev/cufc? If so, how would I do it? Thanks, --Greg nding the information from the ppd files on the finally printing host. If this is not a NeXT Host all information from the print panel is lost. Some ways to work around. 1. connect the printer to your next. 2. save the ps file from printpanel an choose "printer specific ps" 3. buy a jetdirect interface for you printer 4. install a printer with Printmanager.app an type JetDirect. JetDirect is this printer ip interface. It acts like a ip host but can't expand ppd files of cause. So the sending NeXT expands them on its own and send all, including the panel information and fonts. Now inspect with NetInfoManager.app what PrintManager.app really leaves in netinfo ( nidump -r /printers . ) Then change this to redirect the job to your netwareclient by comparing it with the former entry. 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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Sender: C. Patterson<Iccm@direct.ca> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5rt5ja$e6g$5732@brie.direct.ca> Control: cancel <5rt5ja$e6g$5732@brie.direct.ca> Date: 01 Aug 1997 18:56:33 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.5rt5ja$e6g$5732@brie.direct.ca> Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. A report will be published shortly on news.admin.net-abuse.bulletins. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Phillip Reilly <reillyof@hhs.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to Install PPP on server & client Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:05:05 -0400 Organization: Reilly Medical Offices Message-ID: <33E10C0F.E63FA397@hhs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Looking for instructions or documentation on how to install PPP on a server and local client machines. Have tried the standalone installation with the server however, the output message has never stated that "PPP-2.2 LKS was successfully loaded" in fact /usr/adm/messages states that server named ppp already exists. Any suggestions on resources would be appreciated. Thanks, mark
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: eject disk from unix command line Date: 1 Aug 1997 19:58:03 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net Message-ID: <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net> Hi, Does anyone know the instruction to eject the floppy from the unix command line? (I need it so that I can install PC applications in Soft-PC.) Thanks, Emmett
From: Valentino_Kyriakides@public.uni-hamburg.de (Valentino Kyriakides) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eject disk from unix command line Date: 2 Aug 1997 15:12:26 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Message-ID: <5rvioq$cu6$2@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> References: <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net> You (Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net>) wrote in newsgroup comp.sys.next.sysadmin, on 1 Aug 1997 19:58:03 -0700: > Hi, > > Does anyone know the instruction to eject the floppy > from the unix command line? (I need it so that I > can install PC applications in Soft-PC.) Use: /etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b Or even better make yourself an "eject" script: #!/bin/sh # # Eject a FloppyDisk from the raw device rfd0b. echo "Ejecting floppy disk on device rfd0b..." /etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b echo "OK!" Valentino ________________________________________________________________ Valentino Kyriakides Universitaet Hamburg, FB. Informatik Arbeitsbereich Softwaretechnik ________________________________________________________________ E-Mail: 1kyriaki@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (ASCII, MIME) NeXTmail: Valentino_Kyriakides@public.uni-hamburg.de ________________________________________________________________
From: jurgen@oic.de (Juergen Moellenhoff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: popper Date: 2 Aug 1997 14:51:11 GMT Organization: OIC, Bochum, Germany Distribution: world Message-ID: <5rvhgv$9lv$1@nexus.oic.de> References: <5risv4$chu@news.acns.nwu.edu> <5rn54q$ies$1@news.e-scape.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In <5rn54q$ies$1@news.e-scape.net> My Account wrote: It works (qpopper) for NEXTSTEP 3.3 and OPENSTEP 4.1/4.2. I compiled and used it on these systems. Juergen > Try qpopper from > http://www.eudora.com/freeware/servers.html > > I compiled it for OpenStep 4.1, to see if it compiles. But I have not used > it on OpenStep 4.1, mostly on Solaris and FreeBSD > In <5risv4$chu@news.acns.nwu.edu> daj@nwu.edu wrote: > > I'm looking for pop3d for OpenStep. > > > > The source I have will not compile under OpenStep Developer 4.1. Is there > a binary version (precompiled) available anywhere? Is there source for > Openstep? > > > > Thank's in advance, > > > > David A. Johnson
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eject disk from unix command line Date: 2 Aug 1997 16:13:59 GMT Organization: @Home Networks Message-ID: <5rvmc7$o7d$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: emclean@slip.net In <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net> Emmett McLean wrote: > Does anyone know the instruction to eject the floppy from the unix command > line? (I need it so that I can install PC applications in Soft-PC.) Yup: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/eject.1.1.NI.bs.tar.gz that is a shell script (which you must configure slightly) and a binary (which you don't) which should allow you to do this. I'd try the binary first, because it is more fool-proof, and if that doesn't work, then read the shell script and set that up (let me know if you need help). TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: What happend to Time.preference? Message-ID: <EEAG0F.CL@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5rm52v$hc0@nnrp2.farm.idt.net> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 13:26:38 GMT In article <5rm52v$hc0@nnrp2.farm.idt.net> Paul Buckley <buckley4@idt.net> writes: > Today Time.preference does not work. Can't remember the last time > I used it (a few months ago), but the system config (NS 3.3 on > moto) has not changed. I think I had timezones96 installed (and > working). No console message, Preferences.app just crashes (a > rare event here) when the module loads. The clock works fine. > > Any ideas? > A garbled executable? Try to copy over from the distribution CD. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: adding a scsi disk Message-ID: <EEAACC.4M@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970729175414.11415A-100000@sunphy1> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 11:24:11 GMT In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970729175414.11415A-100000@sunphy1> "B. Alex King III" <king@sunphy1.phy.uic.edu> writes: > Sorry for the lame question but I am a relatively new cube sysadmin > and am trying to add a new scsi drive. The drive is a Quantum > Fireball 3.2 gig. BuildDisk just refuses to format the drive. > The kernel and BuildDisk both recognize the disk, and I'm pretty > sure I got the termination and scsi id jumpers right. What's > going on? Thanks. bak > The answer might not be more specific than the question, but with only this few facts at hand ... You haven't set the drive to SCSI-1, asynch, and therefore get some disk driver error messages in the Console window? Then get the data sheet of the drive and configure accordingly. You're running a version prior to NS 3.3? You need a 'disktab' entry for the drive since 'disk' - and consequently BuildDisk - don't know to handle such big disks automatically. See man-page for details. And if you post more specific symptoms and give the config details I might be able to point to the right cause in the first time ;-) -- 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: Changing Memory from 1meg-nonparity to 4 meg-parity Message-ID: <EEAAsF.5G@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <33DE126D.677@cadvision.com> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 11:33:51 GMT In article <33DE126D.677@cadvision.com> Brent <charlebb@cadvision.com> writes: > Hi, > > I recently purchase 4 4meg simms (parity) and have tried installing them > in my next slab. I removed the 8 1 meg simms (non-parity) and installed > the new ones in slots 1 and 2 (the two banks closest to the power > supply). When I power up the machine, the fan turns on and I assume it > does it's power-up test but the screen remains blank and it doesn't > boot. > > Questions: > > Is there some configuration that has to be changed (non-parity to > parity) to get this working? > > Can I run the slab with parity memory in non-parity mode and mix the > memory with 4 of my old non-parity simms? > You're talking about the 30-pin SIMMs in an old slab, right? A bank consists of four SIMMs. Two are just not sufficient! If you keep the parity check switched off you can mix parity and non parity (boot monitor seeting!). Remenber, the first bank (close to the power supply) must hold the four Meg SIMMs if you have a mixed configuration. BTW, my old slab also runs on 20 Meg with NS 3.3. Not that bad if you don't expect miracles ;-) -- 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: maury@softarc.com (Maury Markowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network _still_ no running... Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:56:37 -0400 Organization: SoftArc Inc. Message-ID: <maury-0108971656370001@199.166.204.230> I posted some time ago about how I was unable to get the network running on my OpenStep/Intel box. This is still the case. I'm posting again hoping someone can think of something. a) the OS sees and installs the driver for the card. It only presents drivers for this card (one really, with a bunch of names), and this implies it actually does _see_ it on the bus. b) when I boot verbose, I can see the card appear in the list as the system walks the devices on the PCI, and that it's installing the 10Mbps driver (which is correct for our network). c) the ethernet cable into the card is working, I can plug it into my Mac or NT box and see the net d) when I get booted up, there is a Net icon in File Viewer, and it has a Novell icon. Opening this shows nothing inside e) opening the Novell setup program results in a panel saying that it's not running, and will be the next time I reboot. This happens every time I reboot of course, it never starts running f) SNS is configured properly, but refuses to show itself as working no matter what I do. g) from the command line I have inspected ifconfig and the tables are correct h) from the command line I can ping myself over the loopback, and the "ethernet" by pinging myself. This would imply the TCP/IP stack is up and running, as ifconfig notes i) I cannot see anything else on the network, nor ping anything. All the time the RC light on the card is showing packets coming to the machine. What I have surmised is that the card is working, the card's driver is working, and that the TCP stack is working. What's not working is that the card driver cannot get data to and from the stack. I assume this is due to some special incantation in the card driver's setup fields, but there's no information on how these should be set up. People have suggested that the "Address Offset" and/or "CSR12 10" settings should be altered, but I can find no information on what these values should be, nor did any of the suggested values have any effect (for that matter, I can't find anything on what these values _are_). So I'm still not running, and I can't get anything on the machine to return any additional information on what could be wrong. Any suggestions anyone? Maury
From: maury@softarc.com (Maury Markowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Network _still_ no running... Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 16:54:25 -0400 Organization: SoftArc Inc. Message-ID: <maury-0108971654250001@199.166.204.230> I posted some time ago about how I was unable to get the network running on my OpenStep/Intel box. This is still the case. I'm posting again hoping someone can think of something. a) the OS sees and installs the driver for the card. It only presents drivers for this card (one really, with a bunch of names), and this implies it actually does _see_ it on the bus. b) when I boot verbose, I can see the card appear in the list as the system walks the devices on the PCI, and that it's installing the 10Mbps driver (which is correct for our network). c) the ethernet cable into the card is working, I can plug it into my Mac or NT box and see the net d) when I get booted up, there is a Net icon in File Viewer, and it has a Novell icon. Opening this shows nothing inside e) opening the Novell setup program results in a panel saying that it's not running, and will be the next time I reboot. This happens every time I reboot of course, it never starts running f) SNS is configured properly, but refuses to show itself as working no matter what I do. g) from the command line I have inspected ifconfig and the tables are correct h) from the command line I can ping myself over the loopback, and the "ethernet" by pinging myself. This would imply the TCP/IP stack is up and running, as ifconfig notes i) I cannot see anything else on the network, nor ping anything. All the time the RC light on the card is showing packets coming to the machine. What I have surmised is that the card is working, the card's driver is working, and that the TCP stack is working. What's not working is that the card driver cannot get data to and from the stack. I assume this is due to some special incantation in the card driver's setup fields, but there's no information on how these should be set up. People have suggested that thge
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: cube problems Message-ID: <EEAC7n.98@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5rqolc$qlr@huitzilo.tezcat.com> Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 12:04:32 GMT In article <5rqolc$qlr@huitzilo.tezcat.com> dbora@huitzilo.tezcat.com (Donald F. Bora) writes: > > Hello all, > > I have a real puzzler for those who are interested in saving a cube. > A while ago I really messed up my cube when I tried adding a zip drive. > I had some problems with the scanner's scsi (or lack thereof) interface > and ended up having to rebuild my system from scratch. > > This cube has an original 300mb internal scsi drive and I installed an > additional 500mb drive. I partitioned the 500 drive to have a 100mg > swap partition and labeled the drive "swapdisk." Since the rc.swap > script is setup to recognize sd?a I had to change this to sd?b so it > sould find the swap partition which is at sd1b. > > Ever since I have made these modifications, I have been experiencing > wierd thrash situtations where the thing just starts swappinar > /both/ drives cranking away. > > The other day, I let the thing crank away until it finally hung. Upon > rebooting my main 300 failed fsck and had a lot of garbage on it leading > me to believe that the 300 is still somehow involvedin swapping. > > Any clues? Things worked just fine before I installed the second drive. > The previous was meant to be a caveat to the proceeding spec of my cube: > > NeXT Dimenision (040) > 16mg VRam > 12mg Ram > 300mg drive > 500mg drive > The efect you were experiencing is perfectly ok. Just your analysis was wrong. Therefore, your intervening action was inappropriate. Onehundret meg of swapspace is not that many. You can use it up in short time depending on user actions. And this was happening: you were depleting swapspace. Several processes were hung. You brought down the machine by force and several filesystem buffers were not written back. Unfortunately, this involved a number of i-nodes on the root partition and 'fsck' complained badly. This far everything is usual, undesirable but perfectly in the range of what you could expect. Now what should be done? My advice: take back you hacks. There were ill advised and ineffectual. There are much better ways to achieve vour ends. And since you garbled your root partition you might even be better off starting with a fresh install from scratch, but that's no prerequisite. You could just repair the filesystem (possibly by running 'fsck' in singleuser mode) and wait for possible errors due to garbled files or directories. You could then try to repair by copying over fron CD... Me being in your shoes (I got plenty more disk space, and I'm grateful for it), I would edit /etc/swaptab to specify two swapfiles, one on each drive. And I wouldn't partition the 500 meg drive, it's already small enough. If I'd fear the drive to be consumed by the swapfile (which I possibly would not), I'd put an appropriate 'hiwat' value in the 'swaptab' record. But don't put 'hiwat' on both swapfiles. You'd just repeat the error of your current setup. If you run NS 3.3 or later you can chose the swapfile on the larger drive (the one with the larger free space not total capacity) to be 'compressed' and 'preferred' (see man-page on 'swaptab'). That is as close to the ends you intended to come in your first attempt. -- 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: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: virtual desktops? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EE7nor.5ME@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 01:19:38 GMT References: <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235> Organization: University of Waterloo (I took out .advocacy--not sure why it was there...) In article <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235>, Robert A. Decker <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > > Are there any apps that can give me virtual desktops? I'm on OpenStep 4.2 >on Mach. > There was a programme called "VirtSpace" that did this but I don't know if it runs under 4.2. As I recall it was expensive--$100 US or so. Seemed like a lot for something like that, but that's IMHO. -- 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: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: virtual desktops? Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 21:21:08 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33E388A4.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235> <EE7nor.5ME@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Evans wrote: > > (I took out .advocacy--not sure why it was there...) > > In article <B004F920-9AA7DF@141.214.134.235>, > Robert A. Decker <comrade@umich.edu> wrote: > > > > Are there any apps that can give me virtual desktops? I'm on OpenStep 4.2 > >on Mach. > > > > There was a programme called "VirtSpace" that did this but I don't know if it > runs under 4.2. As I recall it was expensive--$100 US or so. Seemed like a > lot for something like that, but that's IMHO. > This one is free ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Tools/screen/WideScreen.0.5.NIHS.bs.tar.gz ______________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G. \ | ... openstep, the biggest step | | E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME welcome) ...since the invention | | Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 ...of the __/___/ | | Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| | WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried ...wheel\_/ \_/| \______________________________________________________________________/
From: Michael <tweak@metronet.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Alternative to OmniWeb for Cyrix processors Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 23:13:49 -0500 Organization: intelligent networks Message-ID: <82602AAA75F12FDE.B4468E02863F7C30.12C9819416711DB6@library-proxy.airnews.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Sat Aug 2 15:37:21 1997 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have a white-box with a Cyrix 150+ processor in it that refuses to run OmniWeb <any version>. I understand that this is a know problem with certain threading issues and the Cyrix processor. Is there any alternative web browser that works? If not, I wonder if I can port a version of Netscape for some other unix OS. Michael.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: error when trying to send fax notice email Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:43:19 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5s09ln$rjm@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:43:19 GMT After NXFax sends or unsuccessfully tries to send a fax it normally sends an email (via user agent) to the user notifying them of the success or failure, but now this error shows up in the console - Aug 1 16:12:53 ccc1 sendmail[294]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: cannot chdir(/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied This is what shows up in /usr/spool for the mqueue dir - drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 2048 Aug 1 16:00 mqueue/ which looks the same as the template. I deleted and reinstalled the fax_modem with NXFaxInstaller.app but no change. The user agent's home directory was /tmp for some unknow reason ~:-( but I changed it back to /private and still the same problem. I also rebooted after doing all the aforementioned changes. It started this in the past week or so, I don't know what could have changed to cause this. Does anyone know what the problem is or what to check, please? Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 NOTE - remove the trailing @ char. to mail to me.
From: stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't get back into multiuser mode! Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:51:47 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5s0a5j$rpn@news.tamu.edu> References: <slrn5sod1u.a2n.billc@home.upside.net> <EDGM0M.88n@nidat.sub.org> <33e01305.19446073@news.mindspring.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:51:47 GMT In-Reply-To: <33e01305.19446073@news.mindspring.com> On 07/30/97, paquez1234@mindspring.com wrote: >On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 10:48:22 GMT, Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter >Nitezki) wrote: > >~In article <slrn5sod1u.a2n.billc@home.upside.net> >billc@ns1.upside.net >~(Chris Bill) writes: >~> The story so far... >~> >~> I deleted /etc/hostconfig and my NeXTstation woudln't boot (it >~> hung on the automounter). I waited 30 minutes, which I thought >~> to be reasonable. Then I rebooted, starting the machine in single >~> user mode and copying a backup copy of hostconfig. >~> >~> When I finished, I tried to reboot with "reboot sd", the computer >~> rebooted, and plopped me back in single user mode. >~> >~> I looked through NeXT answers and couldn't find anything applicable >~> to this situation. >~> >~> Also, does anyone know how to start with a fresh netinfo config? >~> I've been using the machine off of a network, and assigned it >~> arbitrary values for the IP address, hostname and such. Now I >~> need to put it on a network. >~> >~The 'reboot' command issues the previously given boot command, AFAIK. >I.e. >~if you did a 'bsd -s' manually it will reissue this command next >time. >~Better do a 'halt' and when you're at the boot monitor prompt give a >'bsd' >~manually. >~ >~A pristine NetInfo config is attained by copying >~/usr/template/client/etc/netinfo/* to /etc/netinfo. But in your case > >~simply running /NextAdmin/SimpleNetworkStarter.app should do the >trick, >~i.e. get your network configured to work like intended. >~ >~-- >~Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who >knoweth >~Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure >and >~D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked >~GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter >1,3-5 > > >I need some help too. I have the same problem of going back into >single user mode. I follwed the proceedure, but still no GUI. > My tale started after I had edited my hostconfig file. My >machine was prevoiusly configured for a network, but now it stands >alone. After using vi to edit the fiole while in single user mode, the >machine refuses to return to multi user mode. Any help will be greatly >appreciated. > Thank You >please remove the numbers from the address for replies > Have you replaced the /etc/hostconfig with a new copy from /usr/template/client/etc/hostconfig while in single user mode, cp is the copy command. Then halt and b for the default dooy command. -- --- Stephen Johnson Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 NOTE - remove the trailing @ char. to mail to me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Subject: Can't NXHost from OS4.2 to NS3.3 Message-ID: <EEB4wI.52w@prosoft.com> Sender: lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) Organization: ProSoft Solutions Inc. (RDS Site) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 1997 22:24:18 GMT After upgrading a PC system to OS4.2 I tried NXHosting an app on the OS4.2 system to display on a NS3.2 system. I got the following error: DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host rdssun When the PC was NS3.2 this worked without problem. Anyone have a suggestion? -- 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: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: eject disk from unix command line Date: 2 Aug 1997 23:09:28 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5s0en8$8ff$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net> <5rvioq$cu6$2@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Valentino_Kyriakides@public.uni-hamburg.de In <5rvioq$cu6$2@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> Valentino Kyriakides wrote: > > Does anyone know the instruction to eject the floppy > > from the unix command line? (I need it so that I > > can install PC applications in Soft-PC.) > > Use: > > /etc/disk -e /dev/rfd0b > > > Or even better make yourself an "eject" script: 1) this would work only for root 2) you _must_ 'umount' the disk before ejecting it. TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- 'The biggest problem I have is that all my memory is "Random Access"' - me, after the midterm exam
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From: sboker@calliope.psych.nd.edu (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Network _still_ no running... Date: 3 Aug 1997 00:54:57 GMT Organization: University of Notre Dame Message-ID: <5s0kt1$7pp@news.nd.edu> References: <maury-0108971656370001@199.166.204.230> Here's one possibility that you didn't mention. Have you tried specifying your IP address, hostname and router name in /etc/hostconfig? Mine has the following lines. HOSTNAME=thalia INETADDR=129.74.96.140 ROUTER=129.74.96.250 IPNETMASK=255.255.0.0 IPBROADCAST=129.74.0.0 NETMASTER=-NO- YPDOMAIN=-NO- TIME=-AUTOMATIC- I've seen this problem on mixed nets. I assume from your description that there is no NetInfo server that you can just attach to. Things are a bit more difficult when you are all alone on a net full of other operating systems. When you can just ask your friendly SA to add your host to the database and you plug in and turn it on and OpenStep just attaches itself, you begin to see the advantages. If you are going to talk to DNS to get your internet names resolved to IPs, you'll probably need to add a file called /etc/resolv.conf that tells the IP addresses of your nameservers. It's just a plain textfile that has lines like the following: domain psych.nd.edu nameserver 129.74.250.100 nameserver 129.74.4.18 That is what was required here at Notre Dame. YMMV. 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: 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: <2376869976046@digifix.com> Date: 3 Aug 1997 03:53:39 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <9060870580820@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: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't NXHost from OS4.2 to NS3.3 Date: 2 Aug 1997 21:46:33 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5s12f9$1a6@mpaque.mpaque> References: <EEB4wI.52w@prosoft.com> In article <EEB4wI.52w@prosoft.com> lparkyn@prosoft.com (Lyle Parkyn) writes: > After upgrading a PC system to OS4.2 I tried NXHosting an app on the OS4.2 > system to display on a NS3.2 system. I got the following error: > > DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host rdssun > > When the PC was NS3.2 this worked without problem. Anyone have a > suggestion? In general, NXHosting newer apps to older WindowServers won't work, and hosting older apps to newer WindowServers will work. Newer apps may rely on communications channel extensions and PostScript operators (including NeXT and Apple extensions) that don't exist in older WindowServers. NXHosting apps from non-Mach platforms won't work, due to the AppKit and Foundation relying on operating-system specific features that don't work over network connections (such as Win33 GDI APIs and event messaging). -- Mike Paquette (mpaque AT wco.com ; Yank that .spa-am and nospam to reply.) 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)
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Can't NXHost from OS4.2 to NS3.3 Date: 3 Aug 1997 05:08:18 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5s13o2$8ff$7@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <EEB4wI.52w@prosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lparkyn@prosoft.com In <EEB4wI.52w@prosoft.com> Lyle Parkyn wrote: > After upgrading a PC system to OS4.2 I tried NXHosting an app on the OS4.2 > system to display on a NS3.2 system. I got the following error: > > DPS client library error: Could not form connection, host rdssun > > When the PC was NS3.2 this worked without problem. Anyone have a > suggestion? Your preferences for NS were in ~/.NeXT/ and for OS they are in ~/.OpenStep. Your PublicWindowServer preference was ON for NS and is OFF (by default) for OpenStep. Goto Preferences.app and turn it on, and hope no one bothers to try and muck with your machine (PWS is a security hole). TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat peak org> (add punctuation to email me) 'The biggest problem I have is that all my memory is "Random Access"' - me, after the midterm exam
From: rksingh@onr.com (Rajib Singh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OpenStep 4.2: Installation Questions Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 08:25:13 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Message-ID: <33e4404f.3327491@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Hi! I'm having some difficulties installing OpenStep 4.2 onto my Pentium 133 (on a Triton II motherboard). I have a S3/Virge VX video card, IDE hard drive, ATAPI CD drive, 48 megs of memory and an 850 meg partition on my hard drive for OpenStep. It looks like I have successfully gotten through the first part of the install. When I reboot the computer, everything looks normal but then the monitor will go black and the system seems to hang. I saw that this is a known issue and that typing '-v' should resolve it. I have tried that and it didn't work. When the CD is not in the drive, I get a window in the center of my screent that is titled "Alert." I can type in normal Unix commands in this window but I cannot get to the OpenStep GUI. HotBot and DejaNews searches didn't turn up anything useful. Also, are there any good introductory books that you would reccomend for OpenStep? Thanks in advance, Rajib Singh rksingh@onr.com
From: <> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Protocol Error Date: 3 Aug 1997 10:56:02 GMT Organization: World Access/Planet Internet Message-ID: <5s1o42$iob@halley.pi.net> We have staged a NextStep network. Nextstep was installed on 4 computers with no problems. We now seem to experience a problem. Whenever we try to rlogin or telnet into a machine we receive the following error Protocol error, citytax4 closed connection (citytax4 being the hostname we are trying to login in to.) We cannot seem to remotely login via the shell or through the login panel. We then reboot the computer and everything is back to normal for about 20 minutes and then we start receiving the errors again. We thought it could have something to do with a process that we wrote that we run. We moved the process around to different machnies and the problem seems to follow it. The thing is is this process is running in several other sites without this problem. It seems quite strange that I have never seen this before. We think it may have to do with our process but we don't have a clue as to what it could be. Help would be much appreciated Thanks in advance. Please reply go gary@instepmobile.com
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From: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: network problems Date: 03 Aug 1997 16:29:49 +0200 Organization: GWDG, Goettingen Message-ID: <we6oh7fmjaa.fsf@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Hi, has anyone here experienced similar problems? a NeXTstation started to have problems receiving big ethernet packets on en0. A ping with packet size 64 poses no problem, a ping with packet size 2000 has a loss rate of 95%. ftp get from this computer is 250K/s, ftp put to this computer is below 1 k/s. I suspect a hardware problem of the network cable (still thinwire) itself, but this doesn't really fit to the good transmit rate. Any ideas? Ciao, Stephan -- Task: System Administration Unix (HP-UX, Linux, FreeBSD) Email: Stephan Trebels <strebel2@cage.mpibpc.gwdg.de> Mail: Abt. 081, MPI bpC, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 201 1 454
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Protocol Error Date: 3 Aug 1997 16:06:46 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5s2aam$ghd$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5s1o42$iob@halley.pi.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gary@instepmobile.com In <5s1o42$iob@halley.pi.net> <NO AUTHOR> wrote: > We have staged a NextStep network. Nextstep was installed on > 4 computers with no problems. We now seem to experience a > problem. Whenever we try to rlogin or telnet into a machine > we receive the following error > > Protocol error, citytax4 closed connection > > (citytax4 being the hostname we are trying to login in to.) > > We cannot seem to remotely login via the shell or through > the login panel. Are the Home directories NFS mounted? I'm having this same problem to, and believe that it is due to the NFS mounts not behaving properly.... I'm not sure why it would work for awhile and then stop, unless something was breaking the NFS mounts after a certain time. Please let me know if you find out anything more specific TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat peak org> (add punctuation to email me) 'The biggest problem I have is that all my memory is "Random Access"' - me, after the midterm exam
From: Foellinger@t-online.de (Olaf Foellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Boot-problems after crash Date: 2 Aug 1997 13:41:46 GMT Organization: Telekom Online Internet Gateway Message-ID: <5rvdeq$k3$1@news02.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, after a crash and two starts with fsck the system boots fine until the end where the following message appears: 'loginWindow: could not find WindowServer port' and the computer stands. Here runs NSfIP3.3PL1. The following actions preceded this error: NS is installed on the second SCSI-disk, on the first there is only a 'kick-disk'. I've changed the graphics-driver back to vga and forgot to copy the entries to the kick-disk. After that NS didn't boot right of course. After changing the entries in single-user-mode now the problem mentioned above occurs. Any hints ? Thanks in advance Olaf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: error when trying to send fax notice email Message-ID: <EEByoB.1sn@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5s09ln$rjm@news.tamu.edu> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 09:07:23 GMT In article <5s09ln$rjm@news.tamu.edu> stephen@ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) writes: > After NXFax sends or unsuccessfully tries to send a fax it normally > sends an email (via user agent) to the user notifying them of the > success or failure, but now this error shows up in the console - > > Aug 1 16:12:53 ccc1 sendmail[294]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: cannot > chdir(/usr/spool/mqueue): Permission denied > > This is what shows up in /usr/spool for the mqueue dir - > drwxrwx--- 2 root wheel 2048 Aug 1 16:00 mqueue/ > which looks the same as the template. > This is no NXFax problem. It's sendmail having the trouble! P.S.: You should read your messages faithfully. It might spare you some trouble ;-) -- 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: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: turning off black laser printer Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 14:52:25 -0400 Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College Message-ID: <msg105823.thr-34980d.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-ID: <msg105823.thr-34980d.f4cdd.part0@flannet.middlebury.edu> (warning-stupid newbie question follows) I have a cube and a black laser printer. I am aware of the nppower on/off= command, and I recently discovered that I don't even have to turn on the= printer since it turns itself on automatically whenever I print from an = application (it even works when I print from any of the 3 macs on my little network here using CAPer). What I would like to set up is some automated way for powering off the pr= inter after n minutes of inactivity. Though I've even taught my wife to o= pen a terminal session, su to root (nppower doesn't seem to work unless I= switch user to root) and power off the printer, I just know there's got to be a way to do this automagically= =2E Any suggestions welcome. -- = David Herren www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren/ Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu Center for Educational Technology MaBell:(802) 443-5746 Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT 05753 dot syntax sux
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From: NNTP Component <nntpcomp@microsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,uswest.test Subject: Just a test Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 15:26:01 PST Organization: US WEST Advanced Technologies Message-ID: <5s08lc$ls0@news.advtech.uswest.com> Hey, this is only a test! About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Alternative to OmniWeb for Cyrix processors Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 16:05:52 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <YntCGU_00UhB01zY10@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <82602AAA75F12FDE.B4468E02863F7C30.12C9819416711DB6@library-proxy.airnews.net> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 1-Aug-97 Alternative to OmniWeb for .. by Michael@metronet.com > I have a white-box with a Cyrix 150+ processor in it that refuses to run > OmniWeb <any version>. I understand that this is a know problem with > certain threading issues and the Cyrix processor. Is there any > alternative web browser that works? I'd imagine Lynx would work okay. If you want a graphical web browser, you could try Netsurfer, but Netsurfer is also pretty heavily threaded, and it's likely that you're going to run into the same type of problem. Basicly, Cyrix is lying about their CPU's being Intel-compatible, and they are doing their very best to ignore the threading problem Cyrix systems running NEXTSTEP encounter. > If not, I wonder if I can port a version of Netscape for some other unix > OS. A) It probably wouldn't help, since Netscape is also threaded. B) Good luck doing the port-- I don't think NS is particularly interested...still, there would be a ton of NEXTSTEP people (including me) who would love to see it.... -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: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: turning off black laser printer Date: 4 Aug 1997 01:20:08 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5s3ao8$75a$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <msg105823.thr-34980d.f4cdd@flannet.middlebury.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu One of these will do what you want: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer/npoffd.1.0.N.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer/npoffd.1.0.README ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer/nppowerd.1.0.N.bs.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer/nppowerd.1.0.README TjL ps -- Hebrew started as of 2 July, and ends on 22 August, so please understand if responses are slow. I am taking a 2 semester class in 8 weeks for 6 credits -- TjL <luomat peak org> (add punctuation to email me) 'The biggest problem I have is that all my memory is "Random Access"' - me, after the midterm exam
From: 188333477@compuserve.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Get FREE PASSWORD TO 2000 SEX SITE. 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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Lunatic scheme for doing BuildDisk Date: 4 Aug 1997 12:57:09 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5s4jj5$da1$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <EDsDx6.8pq@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > Here's the lunatic idea. Could I use the slab's disk "in place"? That is, > connect the two SCSI ports together, make sure the disk IDs didn't match, You need to make sure the controller ID's are also different - that might be somewhat harder to do. In theory it should work though. I've done similar myself in the past with a cube and a PC. -bat.
From: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rhapsody Developer Release not on Performa 5200? Date: 4 Aug 1997 10:35:54 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5s4baa$p4f@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Rhapsody Performa Is that relly true: The Rhapsody Developer release won©t run on the Macintosh Performa 5200 PowerPC?
From: hoelzl.gps@t-online.de (Ruth Lütticken) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to create polish texts with NeXTstep 3.3 (Intel/Mach) Date: 4 Aug 1997 08:27:42 GMT Organization: Hans Hoelzl Message-ID: <5s43pu$vir$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit My problem: I want to create polish documents with NeXT. To do this I need some polish characters like the "e" with garcon (I dont know the exact name). Possible solutions: a) I have a polish postscript-font. I copied it into the LocalLibrary/Fonts/MyFont directory and named it MyFont and MyFont.afm . After running "buildafm /LocalLibrary/Fonts" the font "MyFont" is available in the font dialogbox but the characters are the same as in Helvetica. b) I read something about "CompositeChars". It should be possible to combine two characters to a new one. This is done in the .afm-file . But I didn't succeed in combining a letter with an accent (At least in DisplayPostscript; I never tried it on a printer). c) Another idea from you. Robert Hoelzl
From: hoelzl.gps@t-online.de (Ruth Lütticken) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How to write polish texts in NeXTstep 3.3 Date: 4 Aug 1997 08:26:20 GMT Organization: Hans Hoelzl Message-ID: <5s43nc$vio$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CC: comp.sys.next.misc My problem: I want to create polish documents with NeXT. To do this I need some polish characters like the "e" with garcon (I dont know the exact name). Possible solutions: a) I have a polish postscript-font. I copied it into the LocalLibrary/Fonts/MyFont directory and named it MyFont and MyFont.afm . After running "buildafm /LocalLibrary/Fonts" the font "MyFont" is available in the font dialogbox but the characters are the same as in Helvetica. b) I read something about "CompositeChars". It should be possible to combine two characters to a new one. This is done in the .afm-file . But I didn't succeed in combining a letter with an accent (At least in DisplayPostscript; I never tried it on a printer). c) Another idea from you. Robert Hoelzl
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Hard drive failure -- how to salvage data Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 14:46:57 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@apollo1.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970804143752.7258A-100000@apollo1.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I came into the office today only to find a dead hard drive. Lots of biosread and superblock errors upon reboot (could it be anything else?). I get 'Error reading drive C:' errors booting into DOS so the hard drive is the likely culprit (only 1.5 years old!). I have good backups, but would like to get a couple more files and a list of the apps I have to reinstall to save some time later. I tried to boot into single user mode and get the files from there but can't. Anything else I can try? I don't need much, but would just like to peruse and get a few things before I junk it. Thanks. rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: sendmail problem Date: 4 Aug 1997 22:00:27 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5s5jdr$8r0@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Aug 1997 22:00:27 GMT I am getting the following error from only one of our standalone next machines. I only get this message on this machine. It has the same sendmail.cf that the other next's have. I don't understand the difference. It seems that the >>> MAIL From:<jth9904@chenext4> needs to be either >>> MAIL From:<jth9904> or >>> MAIL From:<jth9904@chenext4.tamu.edu>. Does anyone know how to change sendmail.cf to make this work? Thanks, Jeromy ============ chenext4> mail -v slattery@tamu.edu Subject: test . slattery@tamu.edu... Connecting to mail.tamu.edu (ether)... 220 mail.tamu.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.6/8.8.6; Mon, 4 Aug 1997 16:56:29 -0500 (CDT) >>> HELO chenext4.tamu.edu 250 mail.tamu.edu Hello CHENEXT4.TAMU.EDU [128.194.6.64], pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From:<jth9904@chenext4> 518 <jth9904@chenext4>... invalid host name chenext4,check your configuration. >>> QUIT 221 mail.tamu.edu closing connection slattery@tamu.edu... 554 Remote protocol error Saving message in /users/Userdisk1/jth9904/dead.letter /users/Userdisk1/jth9904/dead.letter... Sent --
From: howardk@iswest.com (Howard Knight) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5s63ir$pkl@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Date: 5 Aug 1997 02:40:30 GMT Control: cancel <5s63ir$pkl@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Message-ID: <cancel.5s63ir$pkl@news1-alterdial.uu.net> Sender: dental@precipice.com (Rick Sanford) Spam cancelled. Autocancel spam type: UUNET-ALTERDIAL-UDP Original Subject: Re: Booting a 68040 Cube from CD-ROM
From: free4you@aol.com (free4you) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5rslef$ht6@world1.bawave.com> Control: cancel <5rslef$ht6@world1.bawave.com> Date: 4 Aug 1997 15:25:24 -0400 Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com/ Sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com Message-ID: <-5rslef$ht6@world1.bawave.com> Please cancel this posting
From: duane@shara.connect.com.au (Duane Schultz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Booting a 68040 Cube from CD-ROM Date: 5 Aug 1997 00:16:36 GMT Organization: Customer of Connect.com.au P/L, Melbourne, Australia Message-ID: <5s5rd4$hjt$1@perki.connect.com.au> I have managed to end up with a nice old Cube on my desk, which hasn't been touched since 1993. It's got an old version of OpenStep installed, and I would like to upgrade. Problems are that the media (3.2) is on CD-ROM, and I can't get an external CD to boot - I get disk label errors. This hardware is very new to me, and I would love some help. BTW, the screen seems to be very faint on this machine - have other people had this problem and had it repaired ? Any clues as to cost ? Duane. -- Duane Schultz | System Administrator Email: duane@connect.com.au | connect.com.au pty ltd Phone: 03 9251 3676 | Level 9, 114 Albert Rd, Fax: 03 9251 3666 | South Melbourne, Aust, 3205
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail problem Date: Mon, 4 Aug 1997 20:24:47 -0400 Organization: IAASCAT Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970804202221.26160F-100000@luomat.peak.org> References: <5s5jdr$8r0@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Jeromy Hollenshead <jth9904@tamu.edu> In-Reply-To: <5s5jdr$8r0@news.tamu.edu> On 4 Aug 1997, Jeromy Hollenshead wrote: > I am getting the following error from only one of our standalone next > machines. I only get this message on this machine. It has the same > sendmail.cf that the other next's have. I don't understand the > difference. Hrm... do they both have /etc/resolv.conf setup the same? It seems that sendmail on that machine is having trouble finding the rest of the domain name. If the sendmail.cf is the same, what about the host configuration? I recently made my hostname the FQ name, and that solved a lot of little problems. I made the short hostname an alias in NetInfo. I don't know if it is a good idea, but it did work pretty well (seemingly) TjL
From: bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: openstep for solaris Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 19:41:47 -0600 Organization: University of Illinois Message-ID: <bergv-ya02408000R0408971941470001@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris?
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: sendmail problem Date: 5 Aug 1997 03:32:26 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5s66sa$mq4@news.tamu.edu> References: <5s5jdr$8r0@news.tamu.edu> <Pine.NXT.3.96.970804202221.26160F-100000@luomat.peak.org> NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Aug 1997 03:32:26 GMT Timothy J. Luoma <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote: >It seems that sendmail on that machine is having trouble finding the rest >of the domain name. I have a guest account on Jeromy's machine and I just tested it with a sendmail connection to a different host, and everything worked fine, so I'm suspecting some sort of problem on mail.tamu.edu ... wouldn't be the first time something's been snafu'd on this campus! >I recently made my hostname the FQ name, and that solved a lot of little >problems. I made the short hostname an alias in NetInfo. > >I don't know if it is a good idea, but it did work pretty well (seemingly) I've done this on several machines too and it seemed to solve a lot of problems. It's been this way for a year or so, and I don't think it has been responsible for my spate of problems in the last 3 months...;-) -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: jasondv@col.hp.com (Jason Devries) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Perl Date: 4 Aug 1997 17:30:51 GMT Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division Message-ID: <5s53kb$9m0$1@nonews.col.hp.com> Does anyone know how I can install Perl on a NeXT machine? I'm reasonably experienced with general UNIX sysadmin, but all of this NeXT stuff is still a little weird. I'm trying to learn, but the resources on the web aren't the greatest. My goal is to fix up an old NeXT machine. At the moment, I can't even tell exactly which OS it is running. I know it is NS 3.something but I'm not sure exactly which one. I've been able to do some general things such as upgrade gcc to version 2.7.2.2, install an Apache web server, and sudo. A lot of the neat things that I want to do depend on Perl though. So, it would be great if someone could point me in the right direction. If you have an interest in Linux, I would be more than willing to help you with questions on that OS in exchange. Thanks, jasondv@col.hp.com
From: Stefan Ried <ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Perl Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 12:16:29 +0200 Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research Message-ID: <33E6FD7D.41C6@mpip-mainz.mpg.de> References: <5s53kb$9m0$1@nonews.col.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jason Devries wrote: > > Does anyone know how I can install Perl on a NeXT machine? I'm reasonably > experienced with general UNIX sysadmin, but all of this NeXT stuff is still > a little weird. I'm trying to learn, but the resources on the web aren't > the greatest. > OpenStep 4.x is coming with perl. For older systems (NeXT 3.3) there are easy to install packages like ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/script/perl.5002.NIHS.b.tar.gz (check out local site) > My goal is to fix up an old NeXT machine. At the moment, I can't even tell > exactly which OS it is running. I know it is NS 3.something but I'm not > sure exactly which one. I've been able to do some general things such as > upgrade gcc to version 2.7.2.2, install an Apache web server, and sudo. A > lot of the neat things that I want to do depend on Perl though. So, it would > be great if someone could point me in the right direction. > up to openstep 4.1 there was gcc version 2.5.8. 4.2 is coming with gcc version 2.7.2.1 !!! newer gcc are ported and available as binary somewhere too. But this versions might not fully support the objc implementation as the NeXT is expecting to. apache is also as binary, look in www.next.com is the sides where webobjects lives. If your system is prior to 3.3, I strongly recommend to upgrade it to 3.3 or 4.2. Upgrades to 4.0 and 4.1 are not recommended. stefan _____________________________________________________________________ /Stefan Ried, MPI f. Polymerforschung, Postf.3148, 55021 Mainz, F.R.G.\ |E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME/NeXT welcome) | |Telefon ++49 6131 379 267 Fax:++49 6131 379 340 __/___/ | |Project working on pattern-formation in liquid crystals /./\__/\\| |WWW http://www-theory.mpip-mainz.mpg.de/~ried \_/ \_/| | There are only three types of computer users: | | Those that use NeXTs. Those that wished they used NeXTs. | | Those that don't know what they are missing. | \_____________________________________________________________________/
From: gh@middlemarch.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Serial port problem Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 15:17:01 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33E77C2D.4BC5@middlemarch.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm having trouble reaching my internal modem. I noticed the following entry during the bootup in /usr/adm/messages: ISASerialPort1: Unable to detemine chip type at I/O base 0x3e8 Does this simply mean that the OS can't read the particular type of modem card that I have - and that if I just switched to a different card it should work okay? I'm using an internal Supra fax voice modem 28.8 with OS 4.0/Intel. The modem is on COM3 in Win95, so I set the serial port driver in OPENSTEP to COM3 also. Thanks for any help. --Greg
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 09:01:23 -0500 From: tneudeck@fish-net.*com (Tim Neudecker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Email Set-up Problem Message-ID: <tneudeck-ya02408000R0608970901230001@news.arkansasusa.com> References: <tneudeck-ya02408000R0508971256530001@news.arkansasusa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit In article <tneudeck-ya02408000R0508971256530001@news.arkansasusa.com>, tneudeck@fish-net.*com (Tim Neudecker) wrote: OK, Here is an update to my problem. I can now send email to aol.com if I use the following address, aol.com.com . for some reason when I send email to aol it strips the .com from the address. It does not do this to any of the other 50 addresses I have tested email to. I have sent email to postmaster at aol.net (went ok and received an autoreply saying they have it and will get to it, thanks TjL). I think the problem may be on my end with my setup. I cna no longer use simple network setup (it crash and shuts down before it is fully open) so I may need to do build disk. Any other Ideas out there? > I have just placed a turbo station with NS3.3 on it onto the net and I am > tring to set it up to do email withthe internet. I seem to be sending and > recieving email no problem with one exception, I can not send email to > aol.com here is the error I get... > > > ____begin Email sample________ > > > > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > While connected to e.mx.aol.com: > >>> RCPT To:<FergusonMM@aol> > <<< 550 <FergusonMM@aol>... Relaying denied > 554 <FergusonMM@aol.com>... 550 User unknown > > ----- Unsent message follows ----- > Return-Path: <tim@awards-net.com> > Received: from foghornleghorm.awards-net.com by awards-net.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0M) > id AA00746; Tue, 5 Aug 97 09:28:03 -0600 > Message-Id: <v03102808b00ce8151ee8@[206.28.105.90]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 09:24:36 -0500 > To: FergusonMM@aol.com > From: Tim Neudecker <tim@awards-net.com> > Subject: TEst > > test from next to aol > > > > ____End Email sample________ > > I know the fergusonmm user existes becuase I can telnet to other servers > and send them mail. they (aol) can send me mail no problem. a few of my > config files are as follows. Thanks for the help. > > /etc/resolv.conf > > nameserver 206.28.104.5 > nameserver 206.28.104.4 > > > # /etc/hostconfig > HOSTNAME=awards-net.com > INETADDR=206.28.105.89 > ROUTER=206.28.105.65 > IPNETMASK=255.255.255.192 > IPBROADCAST=206.28.105.0 > YPDOMAIN=-NO- > NETMASTER=-NO- > > /--------------------------------------------\ > | Tim Neudecker tneudeck@fish-net.*com | > | remove the * to email me | > | http://www.iso.net/~tneudeck/ | > | | > | New HomePage, Check it out today! | > | | > | All programmers are playwrights and | > | all computers are lousy actors. | > \--------------------------------------------/ /--------------------------------------------\ | Tim Neudecker tneudeck@fish-net.*com | | remove the * to email me | | http://www.iso.net/~tneudeck/ | | | | New HomePage, Check it out today! | | | | All programmers are playwrights and | | all computers are lousy actors. | \--------------------------------------------/
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT implementation of UNIX Date: 6 Aug 1997 00:58:47 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5s8i87$7lh$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: think@technologist.com In <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> "Jonathan D. Holloway" wrote: > I am considering a used NeXT Cube. Primarily because I am a > techno-junkie, but I am also looking for a cheap UNIX box. Is the BSD > on the NeXT boxes a true UNIX as far as remote logins, shell scripting, > etc? yes. It's a UNIX machine with a GUI. > Also, is there a single site, company, person, etc. that has an > abundance of information on the NeXT hardware (ie: SCSI, ADB, and SIMM > compatibility with Macs; using the laser printers on non-NeXT hardware; > modem connections - both analog and ISDN). In otherwords, is this info > out there somewhere or is it pretty much needle in a haystack. http://www.stepwise.com is the first site to go to. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ is the second (he said with an obvious bias.... ;-) > Any insight on what boxes to stay away from, etc... would be great as > well. I'm looking at the cube mostly for gadget-freak uniqueness... but > don't know if it is functional in the internet world of today. You don't want a 68030, you want a 68040 It's functional as long as you realize that it is older and operating at 25MHz or 33Mhz. Web browsing will be slow, but pretty much everything else will work just fine. TjL ps -- yes the email address is valid
From: sjohnson@1myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 6 Aug 1997 00:06:12 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Aug 1997 00:06:12 GMT Cc: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu In <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > I just thought I'd test to see how NeXTStep handles year 2000 and > I found that if I attempt to set the date manually to 2000 (using > either Preferences.app or date), it resets to 1970, but if I set the > clock to Dec 31 1999 and let it roll it correctly goes to 2000. > This is on 3.3/Intel. > > Does anyone know whether there are patched versions of date and > Preferences.app that will allow correct date setting past 2000? > > -- Good question... I've just been looking at that also... --- Stephen Johnson Computer Consulting Intl, LTD "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty." Thomas Jefferson Delete the 1 to mail to me...
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mail not being queued? Date: 6 Aug 1997 16:23:22 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5sa8dq$cpc@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Just wondering if I'm remembering things correctly. email, when offline, is supposed to be queued by sendmail, right? And then when you're online again you can do a 'sendmail -q' to purge the queue? Well, mail on my system is being lost when offline. It gets bounced back with an error message stating that host such-and-such couldn't be found: ============================================ ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 ix (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 mtrombin@ix.netcom.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) ----- Unsent message follows ----- Return-Path: <mark> Received: by jehu.netcom.com (NX5.67g/NX3.0S) id AA00321; Mon, 4 Aug 97 10:35:13 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Aug 97 10:35:13 -0700 From: Mark Trombino <mark> Message-Id: <9708041735.AA00321@jehu.netcom.com> To: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Subject: test 2 This is a test of mailing when offline. Lets see if I get this.... ============================================ Can anyone please point me in the right direction to correct this behavior? I'm sure that its a simple fix, I just don't know where to begin looking! Thanks! -- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Mark Trombino | J A M S o f t | | mtrombin@ix.netcom.com | Audio DSP Tools for Openstep & Rhapsody | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Why is Barracuda much slower than Atlas? Date: 6 Aug 1997 16:01:24 GMT Organization: NIEHS Message-ID: <5sa74k$nvs$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> Keywords: Seagate Barracuda, Quantum Atlas Hi, I have two 4-gb Ultra SCSI hard drives in an Intel-based NEXTSTEP 3.3 system: 1. Quantum Atlas II XP34550S 2. Seagate Barracuda ST34371N The SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC 7880P Ultra, which I believe is the on-board version of the AHA 2940U. I used the /ect/disk command to assess the transfer rate when reading from each of these two drives. The Atlas appeared about *three* times faster than the Barracuda. Is there something I need to "turn on" (e.g. the cache) for the Barracuda to perform better? Is there a more appropriate test for assessing both reading and writing speeds? Here is the output from the Seagate Barracuda (which has four NEXTSTEP partitions): # disk /dev/rsd1c NEXTSTEP partition base = 305235 NEXTSTEP partition size = 8177085 disk name: SEAGATE ST34371N 0338JD disk type: fixed_rw_scsi Disk utility disk> read starting block? 0 # sectors per transfer? 16 number of transfers? 1000 sector increment? 16 16384000 bytes in 7059 ms = 2323971 bytes/s Here is the output from the Quantum Atlas II (which has one NT partition and two NEXTSTEP partitions): # disk /dev/rsd0c NEXTSTEP partition base = 4192965 NEXTSTEP partition size = 4690980 disk name: QUANTUM XP34550S LXY118 disk type: fixed_rw_scsi Disk utility disk> read starting block? 0 # sectors per transfer? 16 number of transfers? 1000 sector increment? 16 16384000 bytes in 2429 ms = 6770247 bytes/s Based on this test, the Atlas appears to read about 3 times faster than the Barracuda -- 6.8 mb/s versus 2.3 mb/s. The Barracuda's rate is slower than I would have guessed. Is there something (simple) I can do to increase its speed? Is there a better test for assessing read speeds? How do I test write speeds without destroying useful data? Thanks in advance for the help. Bye, Gregg Dinse 919-541-4931 dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov
From: Christian Snediker <csnedike@netset.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SCSi drive initialization errors Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 12:52:42 -0400 Organization: NetSet Internet Solutions, Inc. Message-ID: <33E8ABDA.755C@netset.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm trying to install a 4G Seagate Barracuda (ST34371N) on my Intel NS3.2 sytem. I have a fast SCSI 2 bus from Buslogic running off of my local bus. The drive is ultra SCSI, but my card seems to handle it just fine. However, NeXTSTEP's auto initialization process is stopping with errors. The following is a copy of the output from my console. /usr/etc/disk -i -h tyglath -l "barracuda" /dev/rsd1a disk name: SEAGATE ST34371N 0484JD disk type: fixed_rw_scsi writeing disk label Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot Writing /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd1a /usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd1a setting optimization for space with minfree less than 10 /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 4248282 83 10 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s Warning: 488 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated /dev/rsd1a:4248282 sectors in 5119 cylinders of 10 tracks, 83 sectors 4350.2Mb in 320 cyl groups (16 c/g, 13.60Mb/g, 64 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b#) at: 16, 13384, 26752, 40120, 53488, 66856, 80224, 93592, 106960, 120328, 133696, ...many more numbers... 2086120,seek error: 2099504 wtfs: Error 0 /usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd1a failed (status 1) I wanted to confirm that the drive and Buslogic card were not causing the error, so I installed NT 4.0 on the drive. The installation process went without a problem. I need NT for my current job, but I do not want to give up NeXT. If I can not move my NeXt file systems to this drive, I will not be able to set up the dual boot. Does anyone have any clues? Thank you in advance, Christian Snediker
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Upgrading Nextstep on NeXT hardware Date: 6 Aug 1997 16:30:13 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5sa8ql$8kl$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I didn't have my own Nextstep box until the Intel release, so I've never administrated a Slab before this year. However, I'm about to upgrade Cygnus' Nextstation from 2.0 to 4.2, and then do the upgrade work for a friend from 3.something to 4.2. The problem is, when I put an Apple CDROM on to the NeXTstation, and put the Openstep 4.2 User CD in, it recognizes when I stick the CD in, and ejects it fine... after it tells me it can't read the CD. So then I NFS mounted the CD from my Openstep 4.2/Sparc box.. but then the slab doesn't recognize Upgrader.app as being an Application. :-/ The way you upgrade an Intel or Sparc box is by just running Upgradder.app. Is NeXT hardware different? Do you have to use the boot floppy to do an upgrade? Or is it that NS 2.0 doesn't recognise the 4.2 CDROM format? Will first upgrading to NS 3.3 fix it? If I need to use the NeXT hardware boot floppy to do the upgrade, can I use the NS 3.3 floppy for doing the 4.2 upgrade, or do I need to find my 4.1 floppy? -- John "kzin" Rudd jrudd@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~jrudd =========Intel: Putting the backward in backward compatible.============ Thought for the day: According to the supreme court, proof of innocence isn't enough to avoid execution if you've exhausted your appeals.
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Email Set-up Problem Date: 6 Aug 1997 17:40:31 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sacuf$ckv$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <tneudeck-ya02408000R0508971256530001@news.arkansasusa.com> <tneudeck-ya02408000R0608970901230001@news.arkansasusa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tneudeck@fish-net.com In <tneudeck-ya02408000R0608970901230001@news.arkansasusa.com> Tim Neudecker wrote: > I think the problem may be on my end with my setup. I cna no longer use > simple network setup (it crash and shuts down before it is fully open) so I > may need to do build disk. You should never use SNS after the network has initially been setup. TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EEH0F7.7IK@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 02:33:07 GMT References: <bergv-ya02408000R0408971941470001@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <bergv-ya02408000R0408971941470001@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@uiuc.edu> wrote: >Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? If you dig around on Sun's web pages you can find it. Do a search and it should come up. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
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From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Why is Barracuda much slower than Atlas? Date: 6 Aug 1997 21:01:31 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Aug6161702@slave.doubleu.com> References: <5sa74k$nvs$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov> In-reply-to: dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov's message of 6 Aug 1997 16:01:24 GMT In article <5sa74k$nvs$1@jeeves.niehs.nih.gov>, dinse@catatac.niehs.nih.gov (Gregg E. Dinse) writes: I have two 4-gb Ultra SCSI hard drives in an Intel-based NEXTSTEP 3.3 system: 1. Quantum Atlas II XP34550S 2. Seagate Barracuda ST34371N The SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC 7880P Ultra, which I believe is the on-board version of the AHA 2940U. I used the /ect/disk command to assess the transfer rate when reading from each of these two drives. The Atlas appeared about *three* times faster than the Barracuda. Is there something I need to "turn on" (e.g. the cache) for the Barracuda to perform better? Is there a more appropriate test for assessing both reading and writing speeds? <snip> Obviously something's wrong, because my Seagate Hawk with a $60 NCR810 SCSI controller can do nearly 5MB/s under NeXTSTEP (and an additional .5MB/s under Linux :-). I would recommend getting iozone or Bonnie and seeing if that has a difference. A big question is whether disk's "read" command reads repeatedly from a single area of the disk, or if each transfer is from a progressively higher block. This can have a big effect depending on the cache and readahead settings - consider, is it really appropriate for the drive to cache the block you just read, or should it assume the OS is smart enough to cache it? If so, it can use that space for additional readahead. iozone will write a very large (use 2x-4x real memory) file, fsync(), and then read the file. After all of this is done, it prints out some stats. Bonnie does things slightly differently, with both sustained I/O tests and some seeking tests. Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 6 Aug 1997 14:32:18 -0500 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5sajg2$38f$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> <5s8hvt$t1t$4@cronkite.cygnus.com> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) writes: >The problem is basically that the date program only looks at the last 2 >digits of the year field. The date program that will ship with Rhapsody will >fix this. I don't know if they're willing to provide a patched 'date' for NS >3.x or OS 4.x users. >I wonder, though, if it's something a third party can fix. Has anyone tried GNU date?
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 6 Aug 1997 23:07:58 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sb04e$4ul$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> <5s8hvt$t1t$4@cronkite.cygnus.com> <5sajg2$38f$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bettis@inetnebr.com In <5sajg2$38f$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> Mr. Jeremy Bettis wrote: > Has anyone tried GNU date? Yup % /usr/local/gnu/bin/date 011012122022 Mon Jan 10 12:12:00 EST 2022 TjL
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Partitioning Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 17:29:45 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@apollo5.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970806172652.7484A-100000@apollo5.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I am installing NS 3.3 on a new 2.1 GB hard drive and am looking for recommendations on how to partition it. I'm looking at the following: 400 MB -- DOS/Windows 95 1.7 GB -- NeXTStep 3.3 Anything else I should include or recommendations on sizes? Is is useful to have a swap partition in NeXTStep? Thanks. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Partitioning Date: 7 Aug 1997 00:55:29 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sb6e1$342$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970806172652.7484A-100000@apollo5.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU In <Pine.HPP.3.95.970806172652.7484A-100000@apollo5.Stanford.EDU> Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote: > I am installing NS 3.3 on a new 2.1 GB hard drive and am looking for > recommendations on how to partition it. I'm looking at the following: > > 400 MB -- DOS/Windows 95 > 1.7 GB -- NeXTStep 3.3 > > Anything else I should include or recommendations on sizes? 2047 MB NS 3.3 whatever is left over can be set aside for DOS ;-) > Is is useful to have a swap partition in NeXTStep? There was a long thread about this a few months ago. Basically, no, because it has to travel to the swap partition and then back again. A swap_disk_ would help, however. See my FAQ on this at my web page: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/ TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic.
From: postmaster <postmaster@journeyman.unity.ncsu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Single Sign on with openstep Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 15:13:10 -0400 Organization: priv Message-ID: <33E629C3.D7E49B74@journeyman.unity.ncsu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does any one have information on setting up single sign on with novell and kerberos v4 on Openstep 4.1? I have seen reference to this configureation in a couple of NeXT Answers...
From: <fh@poseidon.crosslink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: POP3d inet problems... Date: 7 Aug 1997 01:46:08 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5sb9d0$ed0$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Hi.... I've had some troubles getting pop3d to work on NS3.3/intel... after setting: /etc/inetd.conf pop3 stream tcp nowait root /etc/pop3d pop3d /etc/services pop3 110/tcp postoffice And after: kill -HUP [inetd pid] I get: # telnet foo.foobar.com 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connection refused Yet: # ./pop3d +OK pneuma POP3 Server (Version 1.004) ready. user +OK please send PASS command pop3d seems work after compiling successfully... Has anyone else experienced this and can they offer some advice? Much thanks in advance! -fh
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: POP3d inet problems... Date: 7 Aug 1997 02:08:35 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sban3$ffd$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5sb9d0$ed0$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fh@poseidon.crosslink.net did you put the service into NetInfo? If not, /etc/services won't do you any good... PopOver has a setup script that automates this. TjL
From: wswats@boat (William Swats) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer for Mach missing headers in /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++. Date: 7 Aug 1997 04:04:15 GMT Organization: North Bay Network, Inc. news server - not responsible for content Message-ID: <5sbhfv$e78@miwok.nbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi; I have a NeXTstation Turbo Color machine on which I did a complete install of OPENSTEP 4.2 User and Developer from scratch. However the headers in /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++ are missing. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks William -- William Swats VOICE: 415-456-9669 31 San Marino Dr. VOICE: 500-488-9669 San Rafael, CA 94901-1535 FAX: 415-456-7751 EMAIL: wswats@nbn.com (NeXTMail, MIME, ASCII)
From: owolf@NOSPAMpdnt.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Alternative to OmniWeb for Cyrix processors Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 00:18:30 -0500 Organization: Orange Wolf Software Message-ID: <owolf-ya02408000R0708970018300001@news.pdnt.com> References: <82602AAA75F12FDE.B4468E02863F7C30.12C9819416711DB6@library-proxy.airnews.net> <YntCGU_00UhB01zY10@andrew.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <YntCGU_00UhB01zY10@andrew.cmu.edu>, Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: >> If not, I wonder if I can port a version of Netscape for some other unix >> OS. > >A) It probably wouldn't help, since Netscape is also threaded. >B) Good luck doing the port-- I don't think NS is particularly >interested...still, there would be a ton of NEXTSTEP people (including >me) who would love to see it.... You could always get the source code for Mosaic (which Netscape is based from) from the University of Illinois archives (uiarchives.cso.uiuc.edu, I think) and attempt to do the port that way. But if threads aren't supported on Cyrix processors then I think your SOL. Scott Johnson
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 7 Aug 1997 07:41:50 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5sbu7u$5fo6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> Timothy J. Luoma (nospam+next@luomat.peak.org) wrote: : In <5sajg2$38f$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> Mr. Jeremy Bettis wrote: : : > Has anyone tried GNU date? : : Yup : : % /usr/local/gnu/bin/date 011012122022 : Mon Jan 10 12:12:00 EST 2022 Hello, fine, but I don't understand: NS3.3 yields: %> /bin/date Thu Aug 7 09:43:05 MET DST 1997 so at least output is 4 digits (for the year), although input might be a problem: usage: date [-nu] [yymmddhhmm[.ss]] OS 4.2 yields: %> /bin/date Thu Aug 7 09:44:22 MET DST 1997 usage: date [-nu] [[yy]yymmddhhmm[.ss]] and here are (optional) four digits (for the year). (Hopefully) no further update needed! So where is the big difference??? Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: SCSi drive initialization errors Date: 7 Aug 1997 08:27:32 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5sc0tk$5fo8@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <33E8ABDA.755C@netset.com> Christian Snediker (csnedike@netset.com) wrote: Hello, : /etc/mkfs /dev/rsd1a 4248282 83 10 8192 1024 16 5 60 4096 s This line seems to indicate to me, that more than 2GB of diskspace are to be allocated to NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP, which isn't possible. If my computation is correct 2x1024x1024 x 2 for the number of blocks in 512 Byte/blocks results in 4194304. Also the start of the partition has to lie within the first 2GB of the disk. Read man pages and NeXTanswers about how to modify /etc/disktab or give 'disk'- and 'mkfs'-commands with 'correct sizes'. That is if you can do it and there is no catch 22 because you have no system running :-). I hope that's it, the reason of the failure, I mean. 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
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From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 7 Aug 1997 08:47:06 -0400 Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc. Message-ID: <5scg4a$7fh$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <5saat7$1vp$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Here is the original request, followed by more detailed information. I would appreciate it if someone could help me out; I really don't know enough about these matters. Does anyone else have experience installing OPENSTEP for Mach on a completely EIDE PC? ... I tried installing OSfM/I 4.0 on a Pentium with two EIDE hard drives and an EIDE CD-ROM. I wanted to install on the first partition of the second drive. One of the NeXTanswers said that you needed to specify the Adaptec 154x driver for the CD-ROM and the EIDE/ATAPI driver for the hard drive, as well as make the hard drive primary master and the CD-ROM primary slave. To this end, I unplugged the first drive, jumpered the CD-ROM to slave, and jumpered the hard drive to "single" (BIOS wouldn't even recognize the drive when jumpered to "primary master with slave"). During the boot process, it scanned hc0 and seemed to have found the CD-ROM there. It also detected the other drive (gave the correct size and everything), but then complained something about not being able to find a disk label.. then it reported something along the lines of "Cannot find CD-ROM or hard drive" after trying to register the drive (hd0), and prompted me for the root device ("sd%d, hd%d, ..."). I typed in "hd0" (also "hd0a") and it rescanned everything, gave the same messages, and then panicked. ... Here are the messages in more detail: Adaptec 154x Not Found at port 0x330 hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0... Detected ... hc0: Resetting drives... Registering: hc0 hd0: ST52520A 840160 hd0: 4970 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 spt (disk geometry) hd0: using multisector (16) transfers Registering: hd0 hd0: No Valid Disk Label hd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes hd0: Device Capacity: 2446 MB ... No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found use sd%d, hd%d, fd%d, en%d, or tr%d root device?
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 7 Aug 1997 13:16:35 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5saat7$1vp$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5scg4a$7fh$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Nathan Urban (nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu) wrote: : Here is the original request, followed by more detailed information. I : would appreciate it if someone could help me out; I really don't know : enough about these matters. Does anyone else have experience installing : OPENSTEP for Mach on a completely EIDE PC? : : ... Hello, yes, I've installed 4.1 (and 4.2) on Toshiba Tecra. This has an EIDE-disk on the first EIDE-controller and its CD-ROM on the second. To succeed with an initial installation I could not use 4.2 (the 'pickdisk' program with this distribution didn't allow the disk to be installed, the 4.1 'pickdisk' works for/with both versions, if you know, how to get it working :-); it is alas, on a CD). To achieve installation you should get the Dual-(E)IDE driver from NeXTanswers for your OS-version (3.3 or 4.x) on a disk an choose it, and only it, for installation, i.e. for the disk as well as for the CD option. Works/worked for me. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: 7 Aug 1997 15:08:37 GMT Organization: The University of York, UK Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk Message-ID: <5scodl$mf7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> References: <bergv-ya02408000R0408971941470001@news.cso.uiuc.edu> bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) writes: > Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? it used to be on http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep - but seems to have vanished ! anyone got any ideas ? -bat.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: NeXT implementation of UNIX Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EEIF7q.L4K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 20:50:14 GMT References: <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com>, Jonathan D. Holloway <think@technologist.com> wrote: >I am considering a used NeXT Cube. Primarily because I am a >techno-junkie, but I am also looking for a cheap UNIX box. Is the BSD >on the NeXT boxes a true UNIX as far as remote logins, shell scripting, >etc? Yes. >Also, is there a single site, company, person, etc. that has an >abundance of information on the NeXT hardware (ie: SCSI, ADB, and SIMM >compatibility with Macs; using the laser printers on non-NeXT hardware; >modem connections - both analog and ISDN). There is a FAQ that discusses lots of this but I'll save you part of it: you can't use a NeXT laser printer on non-NeXT hardware without hackery that, if you could do it, would net you about $100k+ as a designer. >In otherwords, is this info >out there somewhere or is it pretty much needle in a haystack. > It's out there. Start with http://www.stepwise.com/ and Tomothy Luma's web page (can't remember what it is now...) >Any insight on what boxes to stay away from, etc... would be great as >well. I'm looking at the cube mostly for gadget-freak uniqueness... but >don't know if it is functional in the internet world of today. > Not a problem; I'm sitting in front of one right now. -- 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
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From: tom@basil.icce.rug.dev.null.nl (Tom Hageman -- remove .dev.null to reply) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 7 Aug 1997 17:42:21 GMT Organization: Warty Wolfs Sender: news@basil.icce.rug.nl (NEWS pusher) Message-ID: <EEIHGD.32@basil.icce.rug.nl> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> <5s8hvt$t1t$4@cronkite.cygnus.com> jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) wrote: > In <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> Stephen Johnson wrote: > > In <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > > > I just thought I'd test to see how NeXTStep handles year 2000 and > > > I found that if I attempt to set the date manually to 2000 (using > > > either Preferences.app or date), it resets to 1970, but if I set the > > > clock to Dec 31 1999 and let it roll it correctly goes to 2000. > > > This is on 3.3/Intel. > > Apple's year 2000 page addresses this problem. > > The problem is basically that the date program only looks at the last 2 > digits of the year field. The date program that will ship with Rhapsody will > fix this. I don't know if they're willing to provide a patched 'date' for NS > 3.x or OS 4.x users. > > I wonder, though, if it's something a third party can fix. As far as the command-line date utility is concerned, yes. Just use GNU date: tom@polly 54) date --version date (GNU sh-utils) 1.16 tom@polly 55) date --help Usage: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT] or: date [OPTION] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]] Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date. [...] tom@polly 57) man date [...] CC first two digits of year (optional) YY last two digits of year (optional) [...] Don't think this helps the date Preferences bundle, though. --Tom.
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: no access to sound prefs on Black HW Date: 6 Aug 1997 19:02:23 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5sahnv$2cp@unity.westfalen.de> Hi, somebody saw this: In Preferences are no sounds selectable and it is not possible to change the volume with the slider. That happens for root and any other user. strange thank you very much for help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome URL Firma:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com URL Privat:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com/Private.html Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: 7 Aug 1997 19:01:36 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Aug7145717@slave.doubleu.com> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> In-reply-to: Eren_Kotan@apple.com's message of 31 Jul 1997 17:00:57 GMT In article <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren Kotan) writes: In <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Marc Guenther wrote: > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just > doesn't work the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the > black hardware password on Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's > everybody can get root access by just turning the machine off and > back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. Yes, rather like anyone can boot an NT machine with a DOS boot floppy and then access its NTFS partitions using the freeware NTFSDOS utility :) You mean that you can't do the same thing under NeXTSTEP, Linux, Solaris, or anything else? Amazing. [For the saracasm impared, FFS and EXTFS and most other Unix filesystems are well-documented, and I don't think there would be much trouble at all writing a program to read the filesystem from DOS. Annoying as heck, sure. Probably quicker/easier to just pull or duplicate the entire drive and hook it up to another machine where I _am_ root... damn physical access.] Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: POP3d inet problems... Date: 7 Aug 1997 19:18:39 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5sd72f$181e@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> References: <5sb9d0$ed0$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Keywords: pop netinfo HI, It is necessary to add an entry for pop3 to the Netinfo services directory. One easy way to do this would be to duplicate the entry for pop (actually pop2 on port 109) and then change the port number to 110 and the name to pop3. Alternatively: niutil -create . /services/pop3 niutil -createprop . /services/pop3 port 110 niutil -createprop . /services/pop3 protocol tcp In article <5sb9d0$ed0$1@kronos.crosslink.net> <fh@poseidon.crosslink.net> writes: > Hi.... > > I've had some troubles getting pop3d to work on NS3.3/intel... after > setting: > > /etc/inetd.conf > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /etc/pop3d pop3d > > /etc/services > pop3 110/tcp postoffice > > And after: > > kill -HUP [inetd pid] [snip] > Much thanks in advance! > > -fh > -- 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: Milo Velimirovic <milov@uwlax.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: POP3d inet problems... Date: 7 Aug 1997 19:18:46 GMT Distribution: world Message-ID: <5sd72m$181g@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> References: <5sb9d0$ed0$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Keywords: pop netinfo HI, It is necessary to add an entry for pop3 to the Netinfo services directory. One easy way to do this would be to duplicate the entry for pop (actually pop2 on port 109) and then change the port number to 110 and the name to pop3. Alternatively: niutil -create . /services/pop3 niutil -createprop . /services/pop3 port 110 niutil -createprop . /services/pop3 protocol tcp In article <5sb9d0$ed0$1@kronos.crosslink.net> <fh@poseidon.crosslink.net> writes: > Hi.... > > I've had some troubles getting pop3d to work on NS3.3/intel... after > setting: > > /etc/inetd.conf > pop3 stream tcp nowait root /etc/pop3d pop3d > > /etc/services > pop3 110/tcp postoffice > > And after: > > kill -HUP [inetd pid] [snip] > Much thanks in advance! > > -fh > -- 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: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Upgrading Nextstep on NeXT hardware Date: 7 Aug 1997 18:37:59 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5sd4m7$163$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5sa8ql$8kl$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: jrudd@cygnus.com In <5sa8ql$8kl$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> John Rudd wrote: > > I didn't have my own Nextstep box until the Intel release, so I've never > administrated a Slab before this year. However, I'm about to upgrade Cygnus' > Nextstation from 2.0 to 4.2, and then do the upgrade work for a friend from > 3.something to 4.2. Wow, NS 2.0 --- I'm coming over all nostalgic... > The problem is, when I put an Apple CDROM on to the NeXTstation, and put the > Openstep 4.2 User CD in, it recognizes when I stick the CD in, and ejects it > fine... after it tells me it can't read the CD. So then I NFS mounted the CD > from my Openstep 4.2/Sparc box.. but then the slab doesn't recognize > Upgrader.app as being an Application. :-/ Hmmm... It's a long time ago now, but was the .app wrapper introduced in the 1.x -> 2.0 upgrade? I guess Upgrader.app could also be linked using the NS 3.x shlibs, although I'd have expected it to be statically linked so it could run anywhere. > The way you upgrade an Intel or Sparc box is by just running Upgradder.app. > Is NeXT hardware different? Do you have to use the boot floppy to do an > upgrade? Or is it that NS 2.0 doesn't recognise the 4.2 CDROM format? Will > first upgrading to NS 3.3 fix it? Nope --- NeXT hardware should just use Upgrader.app like any other hardware type. If you can't get Upgrader.app to run under NS 2.0, then I guess your options are: i) Do a complete re-install of 4.2 ii) Pull the disk out of the slab and put it into an Intel NeXT box using a more modern version of the OS as a second drive. Upgrader.app should let you upgrade disks which aren't mounted at the root of the filesystem. iii) Upgrade in steps 2.0 -> 3.x -> 4.2 Actually, I think that i) might be your best option in general: it's amazing what you find has accreted into your system after a while, and an occasional clear out can do wonders. > If I need to use the NeXT hardware boot floppy to do the upgrade, can I use > the NS 3.3 floppy for doing the 4.2 upgrade, or do I need to find my 4.1 > floppy? I believe that any of the 3.x or 4.x boot floppies should work pretty well to do a 4.2 installation on m68k hardware --- after all, no worries about driver disks. 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: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 7 Aug 1997 15:50:45 -0400 Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc. Message-ID: <5sd8ul$a2t$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <5saat7$1vp$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5scg4a$7fh$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> In article <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>, phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: > To achieve installation you should get the Dual-(E)IDE driver > from NeXTanswers for your OS-version (3.3 or 4.x) I"ve never heard of this driver. What's the NeXTanswer number for it? (The one I'm using is the one that comes on Driver Disk #1, which I believe is identical to the one in NeXTanswer 1838). (Incidentally, the instructions I've been following are from NeXTanswer 1933).
From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Duplicating Root Filesystem Keywords: NextStep, disks, duplicate Distribution: world Message-ID: <33e98e70.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Date: 7 Aug 97 08:59:28 GMT Organization: University of Constance, Germany Hello World, I attached a new bigger disk to my Intel maschine running NS3.3. I created a 2GB partition on this new disk with fdisk and put a new filesystem on it. Now I want to make this partition the new root filesystem. What is the best way to copy the whole old filesystem to this new disk, and will it then be bootable? I think, that initializing the disk put some bootsectors on the disk, but I am not sure, if this was enough. Can someone give me a hint, what has to be done? Thank you Frank Burgbacher frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: "Deborah Grits" <grits@apple.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2 Developer for Mach missing headers in /NextDeveloper/Headers/g++. Date: 7 Aug 97 13:38:24 -0700 Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <B00F8055-15EE62@17.203.20.189> References: <5sbhfv$e78@miwok.nbn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit William, Due to resource constraints, libg++ was removed from OpenStep 4.2, since it wouldn't compile. The associated header files were removed as well. We're working on correcting these things for the Developer Release. Deborah
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT implementation of UNIX Date: 7 Aug 1997 23:36:39 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sdm67$q2o$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> <EEIF7q.L4K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca In <EEIF7q.L4K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: > It's out there. Start with http://www.stepwise.com/ and Tomothy Luma's web > page (can't remember what it is now...) One of the more interesting spellings of my name.... My web page isn't too hard to find if you remember I'm at peak.... and how to spell my last name & first initial. http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ (the /next part at the end is also easy to forget ;-) TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic.
From: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com (Mark Trombino) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please, please, please someone help.... Date: 8 Aug 1997 00:23:57 GMT Organization: Egghead Billy, Inc. Message-ID: <5sdout$96e@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca Hi. I'm getting myself into a heap of trouble here, and now I'm starting to freak out a little. I was having trouble with email, where I thought things weren't getting queued when I was offline: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 550 ix (ether)... 550 Host unknown 554 mtrombin@ix.netcom.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from name server) I then noticed that things were getting queued, but were bouncing back to me because they were undeliverable: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 421 mailhost (ether)... Deferred: Network is unreachable After reading FranÛois Magnan's description of how to configure sendmail for a NeXT machine, I tinkered around with some NetInfo things and started getting these messages: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- While connected to mailhost: >>> HELO jehu.netcom.com <<< 553 jehu.netcom.com config error: mail loops back to myself 554 luomat+next@luomat.peak.org... 554 Service unavailable I then went ahead and did a full installation of sendmail 8.8.5, following Francois' directions to the T, and now can't send mail at all. During the boot process, I get the following error messages: Aug 7 17:01:03 jehu sendmail[122]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): error on output channel sending "451 No local mailer defined: Socket operation on non-socket": Bad file number Aug 7 17:01:03 jehu sendmail[122]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): No local mailer defined: Socket operation on non-socket Aug 7 17:01:03 jehu sendmail[122]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set and when I try and send mail, I get: Aug 7 17:06:53 jehu sendmail[238]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(mark): No local mailer defined: Socket operation on non-socket Aug 7 17:06:53 jehu sendmail[238]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(mark): QueueDirectory (Q) option must be set I'm rushing out right now to get a book on sendmail. I don't think its going to help me but I gotta do something. Have I completely hosed my mail configuration? Can I recover from this? Can anyone help? I can't respond to mail, but I can receive it. Please, if you can, drop me a line :) -- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Mark Trombino | J A M S o f t | | mtrombin@ix.netcom.com | Audio DSP Tools for Openstep & Rhapsody | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
From: Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Missing time zone Date: 8 Aug 1997 02:41:38 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <5se112$g95$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> About a week or so ago I noticed that the Time preference module would not load (Preferences.app crashes without a word about why). Copying a new copy to disk did not help. In trying to find out what was going on, I played with /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone without knowing the correct input and now my clock is set to GMT. How can one set the time zone from the command line? -- _____________________________ "Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic." -- TjL Who's a bigger sucker, me or Jobs?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: ergo@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de (Olaf Foellinger) Subject: Re: Boot-problems after crash - solved Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Message-ID: <EEK4Gt.F8@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de> Sender: news@merlin.stuttgart.netsurf.de Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Foellinger@t-online.de Organization: none References: <5rvdeq$k3$1@news02.btx.dtag.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:53:17 GMT In <5rvdeq$k3$1@news02.btx.dtag.de> Olaf Foellinger wrote: > Hi, > > after a crash and two starts with fsck the system boots fine until the > end where the following message appears: > 'loginWindow: could not find WindowServer port' > and the computer stands. Here runs NSfIP3.3PL1. > > The following actions preceded this error: > NS is installed on the second SCSI-disk, on the first there is only a > 'kick-disk'. I've changed the graphics-driver back to vga and forgot to > copy the entries to the kick-disk. After that NS didn't boot right of > course. After changing the entries in single-user-mode now the problem > mentioned above occurs. Any hints ? The solution (thousand thanks to Markus Wenzel):Something was wrong either with the VGA-driver or the graphics card VGA mode. Replacing the VGA-driver with another one in /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table "Active Drivers" = "...VGA..." (e.g. "...miro20SV...") solved the problem. Greetings Olaf -- Olaf Foellinger homepage: http://www1.stuttgart.netsurf.de/~ergo/ NeXTMail & MIME welcome!
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Please, please, please someone help.... Date: 8 Aug 1997 03:21:13 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5se3b9$sld$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5sdout$96e@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mtrombin@ix.netcom.com Are you rebooting to reinit sendmail, or just sending 'kill -HUP' ? You need to get the 'ether' out and replace it with 'mailhost' and put 'mailhost' in your NetInfo (point it to mail.netcom.com/192.100.81.99). 'mydomain.m4' should look like this: divert(-1) # # The following is a generic domain file. You should be able to # use it anywhere. If you want to customize it, copy it to a file # named with your domain and make the edits; then, copy the appropriate # .mc files and change `DOMAIN(generic)' to reference your updated domain # files. # divert(0) VERSIONID(`@(#)mathcn.umontreal.ca.m4 8.2 (Berkeley) 4/21/95') define(`confFORWARD_PATH', `$z/.forward.$w:$z/.forward')dnl define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`mail.netcom.com')dnl define(`SMART_HOST',relay:mail.netcom.com)dnl define(`LUSER_RELAY',relay:mail.netcom.com)dnl MASQUERADE_AS(ix.netcom.com)dnl FEATURE(redirect)dnl maybe 'next.mc' should also have this: MASQUERADE_AS(ix.netcom.com)dnl sendmail.cw should look like this: jehu ix.netcom.com jehu.ix.netcom.com These are my best guesses. TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic.
From: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Becki Kain) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: securing 3.2 black Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 7 Aug 1997 23:36:06 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Message-ID: <5se476$ab7$1@quip.eecs.umich.edu> Hi: I am looking for tips/web pages/etc for securing nextstep black 3.2 since I suddenly got one on my network. I can do the "normal unix stuff" like /etc/inetd.conf, kill sendmail, good passwords, but I am curious if there is anything specfic to nextstep that I can do. thanks and please reply to both me (beckers@umich.edu) and this group. beckers
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: securing 3.2 black Date: 8 Aug 1997 04:02:45 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5se5p5$2lm$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5se476$ab7$1@quip.eecs.umich.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: beckers@quip.eecs.umich.edu In <5se476$ab7$1@quip.eecs.umich.edu> Becki Kain wrote: > I am looking for tips/web pages/etc for securing nextstep black 3.2 since I > suddenly got one on my network. I can do the "normal unix stuff" like > /etc/inetd.conf, kill sendmail, good passwords, but I am curious if there > is anything specfic to nextstep that I can do. Turn off public window server. Don't give accounts to anyone else. Install tcp_wrappers and deny connections to anyone who doesn't have a specific reason for needing one (killing sendmail isn't really necessary, as long as you are using a recent version, 8.8.5 or later should be OK) Limit the NetInfo database to the local network. Set a hardware password (in case anyone gets physical access). That should pretty much cover it, as long as no one else is using the machine. Once you start giving out accounts you have to do things like replace rlogin and anything else that can be buffer-overrun. Here is another page that deals with some larger holes. http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/index.html TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic.
From: jhogan@remove.pfmc.net (Jack Hogan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Possibly dumb NS3.3 68k questions re: desktop background image? Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 04:09:02 GMT Organization: ACME Ball Bearing Co. Message-ID: <33ea99f3.4473324@news.pfmc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi -- I'm running NeXTStep 3.3 on a color turbo slab. I've tried to figure out how to set the background of my desktop to an image file without any success. Any hints? An FAQ I haven't read? Thanks. -- JH
From: "Oscar J. Shearer" <merlin4@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 22:13:54 -0700 Organization: SafeNet Service & Support Message-ID: <33EAAB11.2F31DD6A@pacbell.net> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> <SCOTT.97Aug7145717@slave.doubleu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scott Hess <scott@doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote: > In article <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren > Kotan) writes: > In <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Marc Guenther > wrote: > > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just > > doesn't work the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the > > black hardware password on Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's > > everybody can get root access by just turning the machine off and > > > back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. > > Yes, rather like anyone can boot an NT machine with a DOS boot > floppy and then access its NTFS partitions using the freeware > NTFSDOS utility :) > > You mean that you can't do the same thing under NeXTSTEP, Linux, > Solaris, or anything else? Amazing. > That's why I like NOVELL 4.x, nice. secure, and impressive uptime! Later,
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Every 10 minutes, on the dot cpu up to 75-80% Date: 8 Aug 1997 05:15:59 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sea2f$qn0$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit All evening, at :11 intervals (ie :11 :22 :33 etc) my system has gone up to 75-80% CPU luomat 929 79.8 2.3 6.95M 1.47M ? RW 18:17 /usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/WM.app/WM -NXAutoLaunch YES -MachLaunch 1 32 No cron jobs are running. No OmniWeb, no RadicalNews (ie nothing that would be polling that I can think of). Help? TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic. that is highly-optimistic.
From: "Oscar J. Shearer" <merlin4@pacbell.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 22:17:03 -0700 Organization: SafeNet Service & Support Message-ID: <33EAABCF.16187B61@pacbell.net> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> <SCOTT.97Aug7145717@slave.doubleu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scott Hess <scott@doubleu.com> Scott Hess wrote: > In article <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren > Kotan) writes: > In <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Marc Guenther > wrote: > > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just > > doesn't work the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the > > black hardware password on Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's > > everybody can get root access by just turning the machine off and > > > back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. > > Yes, rather like anyone can boot an NT machine with a DOS boot > floppy and then access its NTFS partitions using the freeware > NTFSDOS utility :) > > You mean that you can't do the same thing under NeXTSTEP, Linux, > Solaris, or anything else? Amazing. > That's why I like NOVELL 4.x, nice. secure, and impressive uptime! Later,
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 8 Aug 1997 10:02:04 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5saat7$1vp$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5scg4a$7fh$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <5sd8ul$a2t$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Nathan Urban (nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu) wrote: : In article <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>, phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: : : > To achieve installation you should get the Dual-(E)IDE driver : > from NeXTanswers for your OS-version (3.3 or 4.x) : : I"ve never heard of this driver. What's the NeXTanswer number for it? : (The one I'm using is the one that comes on Driver Disk #1, which I : believe is identical to the one in NeXTanswer 1838). (Incidentally, the : instructions I've been following are from NeXTanswer 1933). If memory serves me right, this are just the latest EIDE-drivers available for NS/OS (NeXTanswer 1977 for 3.3 and 2266 for 4.x (excecpt 4.2 which has this already, but not on the bootdisk(!!!) as it seems)). You have to copy these to a NS/OS formatted disk in the path-structure the drivers have to be to be accepted for booting (look at the original drivers diskette and copy its naming behaviour). Then, once you are offered the chance to input 'yet another disk with drivers' use this diskette with the 'dual mode - boot only' option, if memory serves me well and up you go (hopefully). Greetings, Ruediger
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing time zone Date: 8 Aug 1997 10:09:22 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5ser8i$hl22@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5se112$g95$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu wrote: : About a week or so ago I noticed that the Time preference module would not : load (Preferences.app crashes without a word about why). Copying a new copy : to disk did not help. In trying to find out what was going on, I played with : /usr/lib/Preferences/set_time_zone without knowing the correct input and now : my clock is set to GMT. How can one set the time zone from the command line? For NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP by the 'dwrite' command: dwrite NeXT1 TimeZone 11 dwrite NeXT1 TimeZoneLabel Poland where 'Poland' has to reflect your zone ('Poland' server for CET (Central European Time, or MEZ in German, with DST in effect)! Same is true for the 'number "11"'. With 'conventional' Unix'es set the TZ (Timezone environment variable to the proper value (or file)). 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: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Upgrading Nextstep on NeXT hardware Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EEJuvL.E94@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 15:26:08 GMT References: <5sa8ql$8kl$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5sa8ql$8kl$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>, John Rudd <jrudd@cygnus.com> wrote: > >I didn't have my own Nextstep box until the Intel release, so I've never >administrated a Slab before this year. However, I'm about to upgrade Cygnus' >Nextstation from 2.0 to 4.2, and then do the upgrade work for a friend from >3.something to 4.2. > Wow--2.0! >The way you upgrade an Intel or Sparc box is by just running Upgradder.app. >Is NeXT hardware different? Do you have to use the boot floppy to do an >upgrade? Or is it that NS 2.0 doesn't recognise the 4.2 CDROM format? Will >first upgrading to NS 3.3 fix it? > The problem is 2.0; I've upgraded 3.0->3.2 and 3.1->3.2->3.3 happily on black using Upgrader.app. >If I need to use the NeXT hardware boot floppy to do the upgrade, can I use >the NS 3.3 floppy for doing the 4.2 upgrade, or do I need to find my 4.1 >floppy? > I would think that the 3.3 floppy will work fine. It's just a dumb booter. -- 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: jason@fisher.psych.uh.edu (Jason L. Asbahr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems with OPENSTEP/NT Install Date: 7 Aug 97 06:24:50 Organization: C.R.A.S.H. The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston Message-ID: <JASON.97Aug7062450@fisher.psych.uh.edu> Hi! I'm having trouble with OPENSTEP/NT 4.2 -- after installation, with all necessary daemons running, all OPENSTEP programs crash with a "c000dead" or similar error. I've got plenty of RAM and disk space, so it doesn't seem like a resource problem. What gives? Jason Asbahr jason@crash.org
From: ians@cam-ani.co.uk (Ian Stephenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Upgrading Nextstep on NeXT hardware Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:41:59 GMT Organization: Cambridge Animation Systems Ltd Sender: news@cam-ani.co.uk Message-ID: <EELKq0.1x6@cam-ani.co.uk> References: <EEJuvL.E94@novice.uwaterloo.ca> In article <EEJuvL.E94@novice.uwaterloo.ca> dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) writes: > In article <5sa8ql$8kl$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>, > John Rudd <jrudd@cygnus.com> wrote: > > > >I didn't have my own Nextstep box until the Intel release, so I've never > >administrated a Slab before this year. However, I'm about to upgrade Cygnus' > >Nextstation from 2.0 to 4.2, and then do the upgrade work for a friend from > >3.something to 4.2. > > > > Wow--2.0! > The problem is 2.0; I've upgraded 3.0->3.2 and 3.1->3.2->3.3 happily on black > using Upgrader.app. 3.0 upgrade came with a floppy which patched 2.X so it could read the 3.0 CD-ROM. You installed the 2.0 patch, rebooted, and then could run the upgrader app from the CD, as with later versions of the OS. Installing the patch (if you've got the 3.0 floppy) might allow you to read the 4.X CD. $an
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 8 Aug 1997 14:36:46 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5sfatv$l1t@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> In article <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) writes: > If memory serves me right, this are just the latest EIDE-drivers > available for NS/OS (NeXTanswer 1977 for 3.3 and 2266 for 4.x (excecpt > 4.2 which has this already, but not on the bootdisk(!!!) as it seems)). The updated EIDE driver (for dual channel support on install) was included in my copy of 4.2. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Please, please, please someone help.... Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 00:03:52 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <snudecm00UzxQ2Vb0z@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5sdout$96e@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <5sdout$96e@sjx-ixn7.ix.netcom.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Aug-97 Please, please, please some.. by Mark Trombino@ix.netcom. > I'm getting myself into a heap of trouble here, and now I'm starting to freak > out a little. I was having trouble with email, where I thought things > weren't getting queued when I was offline: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 550 ix (ether)... 550 Host unknown > 554 mtrombin@ix.netcom.com... 550 Host unknown (Authoritative answer from > name server) Hmm....'ix.netcom.com' is in the DNS...are you running a local nameserver which is misconfigured? You should either add that address into NetInfo and/or /etc/hosts, and/or become a secondary for that domain, assuming that that isn't your machine. If it is, have NetInfo use the fully qualified domain name, and add ix as an alias. > I then noticed that things were getting queued, but were bouncing back to me > because they were undeliverable: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > 421 mailhost (ether)... Deferred: Network is unreachable That behavior is configurable by changing sendmail.cf. > After reading FranÛois Magnan's description of how to configure sendmail for > a NeXT machine, I tinkered around with some NetInfo things and started > getting these messages: > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > While connected to mailhost: > >>> HELO jehu.netcom.com > <<< 553 jehu.netcom.com config error: mail loops back to myself > 554 luomat+next@luomat.peak.org... 554 Service unavailable Sounds like the classic sendmail/MX record error-- that machine needs to add "jehu.netcom.com" to Cw (the class of names treated as local) in sendmail.cf. > I then went ahead and did a full installation of sendmail 8.8.5, following > Francois' directions to the T, and now can't send mail at all. During the > boot process, I get the following error messages: > > Aug 7 17:01:03 jehu sendmail[122]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): > error on output channel sending "451 No local mailer defined: Socket > operation on non-socket": Bad file number > Aug 7 17:01:03 jehu sendmail[122]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): No local mailer > defined: Socket operation on non-socket > Aug 7 17:01:03 jehu sendmail[122]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): QueueDirectory (Q) > option must be set Sounds like your sendmail.cf is misconfigured...maybe you didn't correctly generate a new sendmail.cf? -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: myers@meitner.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Eric Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT implementation of UNIX Date: 8 Aug 1997 14:47:11 GMT Organization: Department of Physics, University of Michigan Message-ID: <5sfbhf$cgb$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> References: <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> <EEIF7q.L4K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5sdm67$q2o$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> In article <5sdm67$q2o$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>, Timothy J. Luoma <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote: > >Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the >anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest >in Apple than that is highly-optimistic. So you don't think he's aiming at a Win95 port to future Apple hardware? :-( Be afraid. -- Eric Myers <myers % umich.edu> | "If God had intended for man to fly, Department of Physics | He would have given us University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | the brains to build airplanes."
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 09:43:18 -0500 From: tneudeck@fish-net.*com (Tim Neudecker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Running a List Server Message-ID: <tneudeck-ya02408000R0808970943180001@news.arkansasusa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit What Public Domain Software Should I look for to run a List Server on my NeXT? I should be handling small lists but I will want to have more than one list (small meaning <20 subscribers). Thanks for the pointers. (oh yea I fixed my previous mail routing problem, I had my resolv.conf file set wrong.) Tim /--------------------------------------------\ | Tim Neudecker tneudeck@fish-net.*com | | remove the * to email me | | http://www.iso.net/~tneudeck/ | | | | New HomePage, Check it out today! | | | | All programmers are playwrights and | | all computers are lousy actors. | \--------------------------------------------/
From: Patrick Schulz <pschulz@symphony.amd.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 10:17:10 -0500 Organization: AMD Fab30 Message-ID: <33EB3876.564D@symphony.amd.com> References: <bergv-ya02408000R0408971941470001@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <5scodl$mf7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, please take a look at my posting in comp.sys.next.programmer (thread named Re: Developing on sparc with NS) Patrick. -- Patrick Schulz; 1704 Nelms Dr. #2025; Austin, TX 78744 email: pschulz@symphony.amd.com (MIME welcome) - vmunix: panic - no coffee detected, user halted.
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 8 Aug 1997 16:07:01 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5sfg75$hie19@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <5sfatv$l1t@crcnis3.unl.edu> Rex Dieter (rdieter@math.unl.edu) wrote: : In article <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109 (H.-R. : Oberhage) writes: : The updated EIDE driver (for dual channel support on install) was included : in my copy of 4.2. I don't remember very well, it can be true. The reason is that because of the 'damaged' "pickdisk" program on the 4.2 CD I had to fix up some diskettes for booting and then using the 4.1 "pickdisk" on the floppy. So maybe I copied the driver just because of this. If it's there, you may use it directly! Sorry if I was wrong there. It certainly isn't within 3.3 or 4.0, 4.1. Thanks, Ruediger -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NeXT implementation of UNIX Followup-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 12:56:25 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <8nuoytu00iUy03X3I0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> <EEIF7q.L4K@novice.uwaterloo.ca> <5sdm67$q2o$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <5sfbhf$cgb$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <5sfbhf$cgb$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu> [ ...followups redirected to advocacy... ] Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 8-Aug-97 Re: NeXT implementation of .. by Eric Myers@meitner.physi >> Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the >> anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest >> in Apple than that is highly-optimistic. > > So you don't think he's aiming at a Win95 port to future > Apple hardware? :-( Be afraid. No, I don't. Windows 95 is too strongly tied to the Intel architecture to be very portable. Windows NT was designed to be a lot more platform-neutral, but Microsoft _canceled_ a planned NT deployment for the PPC. Regardless of what Microsoft does, Apple needs to face the reality that if they plan to do both hardware and software, they need to be more competitive. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Charles William Swiger <cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Job priority Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 13:01:11 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <0nup3LO00iUy03X4w0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <5s7mge$q0n$1@ncar.ucar.edu> In-Reply-To: <5s7mge$q0n$1@ncar.ucar.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 5-Aug-97 Job priority by David Blanchard,,,@mrd3. > Is there a way to force an application to have a lower job priority at > job initiation? From the command line, using 'nice' or 'renice' is > fine, but what about *.app programs that are started with a double-click? Not unless the program itself allows you to change it's priority (ala Backspace). Or, you could start Foo.app from the CLI via 'open' or executing Foo.app/Foo.... -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: <fh@poseidon.crosslink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: IMAP4 for NS3.3/I? Date: 8 Aug 1997 17:12:26 GMT Organization: CrossLink Internet Services Message-ID: <5sfk1q$8q3$1@kronos.crosslink.net> Much thanks to Timothy Luoma on the help on POP3... Is there a FAQ or RTFM on a IMAP4 daemon port for NS3.3/I or FAT? TIA! -fh
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From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Weird Problem with Sound Card Date: 8 Aug 1997 13:27:25 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5sfrut$ho4$1@xmission.xmission.com> I just upgraded my home machine to a Pentium Pro 200 with an Intel Venus motherboard. I was able to move all my cards and peripherals from the old 133 to the new PP 200 with complete success, save a problem with the sound card. What happens with the sound card is OPENSTEP 4.2 recognizes it at boot time, but when I trigger an event that plays a sound, the entire machine freezes up. It also does the very same thing under Windows NT. However, in DOS, the sound card works flawlessly. I suspect a PnP or IRQ/DMA conflict, but alas, I have found none. I've tried setting the IRQ/DMA channels all over the spectrum. In DOS it works flawlessly. It freezes up OS and NT consistently. The card is a ProAudio Basic 16. Yes, it's old, but it's serviceable, and doggone it, I want to use it. Any suggestions? ...............kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contains freshness saver packet. DO NOT EAT.
From: holger@object-factory.REMOVETHIS.com (Holger Hoffstaette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: 8 Aug 1997 09:32:20 GMT Organization: Object Factory GmbH (Germany) Message-ID: <5sep34$3sc$1@leonie.object-factory.com> References: <bergv-ya02408000R0408971941470001@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <5scodl$mf7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit -bat. wrote: > bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) writes: > > Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? > > it used to be on http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep - but seems > to have vanished ! anyone got any ideas ? Yeah. It vanished, just like you said. Remember: 'All the wood behind one arrow'. These days, Java is SUNs preferred arrow. I'm waiting for the bow to break.. Holger -- holger"at"object-factory.com (NeXTMail, MIME) 'Where I come from it's important to develop stuff that doesn't suck.' -- David Young <dwy"at"ace.net>
From: Software Solutions International <Monica@softsolint.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Part time help needed Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 15:58:14 -0400 Organization: Software Solutions International Message-ID: <33EB7A56.209A@softsolint.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One of our clients is looking for part time help. The work involves normal maintenance and emergency support. For details contact Vimal 212-480-2112 or email vimal@softsolint.com thanks vimal
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From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 9 Aug 1997 02:04:54 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sgj86$qub$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> <5sbu7u$5fo6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <5sfsap$bml@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: colin@lemond.tamu.edu In <5sfsap$bml@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > H.-R. Oberhage <phy070@spo109> wrote: > >Thu Aug 7 09:44:22 MET DST 1997 > > > >usage: date [-nu] [[yy]yymmddhhmm[.ss]] > > Must be new for 4.2, because under 4.1 you get: > > usage: date [-nu] [yymmddhhmm[.ss]] What version of 4.1 do you have? % /bin/date -q /bin/date: illegal option -- q usage: date [-nu] [[yy]yymmddhhmm[.ss]] Also: The 'Time.preferences' module under 4.1 will allow you to reset the time to after the year 2000 I just did this, it worked fine. 4.1/mach/intel. TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: gtf@cirp.org.This.blocks.unsolicited.com mercial.email (Geoffrey T. Falk) Subject: Re: Loop in corrupt Netinfo Message-ID: <1997Aug9.025528.14530@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Originator: gtf@theorem Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: For circumcision information, http://www.cirp.org/CIRP/ References: <5sft0t$3e8@newstand.syr.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 97 02:55:28 GMT In article <5sft0t$3e8@newstand.syr.edu> you write: > >Somehow I've managed to corrupt my Netinfo database in a strange way. ... If all else fails, you can try editing the database by hand: hostname# nidump -r / / > file hostname# emacs file hostname# niload -r / < file >Unfortunately, I made my most recent backup of my nidb without realizing I >had this problem. For this reason I always keep several months worth of backups. Damaged/lost files are sometimes not noticed right away. Best g. -- I conceal nothing. It is not enough not to lie. One should strive not to lie in a negative sense by remaining silent. ---Leo Tolstoy ADDRESS ALTERED TO DEFLECT SPAM. UNSOLICITED E-MAIL ADS BILLED $500/ITEM Geoffrey T. Falk <gtf(@)math.rochester.edu> http://www.cirp.org/~gtf/
From: colin@snaefell.tamu.edu (Colin Allen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 9 Aug 1997 03:15:37 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station Message-ID: <5sgncp$rir@news.tamu.edu> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5sbu7u$5fo6@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <5sfsap$bml@news.tamu.edu> <5sgj86$qub$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Aug 1997 03:15:37 GMT Timothy J. Luoma <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote: >What version of 4.1 do you have? > >% /bin/date -q >/bin/date: illegal option -- q >usage: date [-nu] [[yy]yymmddhhmm[.ss]] My mistake. I forgot that the machine I was on was running 4.0, not 4.1. Time to get all these machines in sync! -- Colin Allen http://snaefell.tamu.edu/~colin/
From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Job priority Date: 5 Aug 1997 17:05:18 GMT Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado Message-ID: <5s7mge$q0n$1@ncar.ucar.edu> Is there a way to force an application to have a lower job priority at job initiation? From the command line, using 'nice' or 'renice' is fine, but what about *.app programs that are started with a double-click? Thanks, -db- -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David Blanchard NOAA/NSSL & OU/CIMMS Boulder, Colorado | | blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 04:21:13 -0600 From: lukeh@xedoc.com.au Subject: Re: Single Sign on with openstep Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <871118132.3390@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service To: postmaster@journeyman.unity.ncsu.edu,lukeh@xedoc.com.au References: <33E629C3.D7E49B74@journeyman.unity.ncsu.edu> postmaster (postmaster@journeyman.unity.ncsu.edu) wrote: : Does any one have information on setting up single sign on with novell : and kerberos v4 on Openstep 4.1? I have seen reference to this : configureation in a couple of NeXT Answers... As I replied in private email, the Kerberos part is certainly doable. I'm not sure whether the Novell client utilities are included with OPENSTEP for Mach, so you may be out of luck with Novell, although I think single-signon for Novell is probably also doable. The interface for pluggable authenticators (this applies only to loginwindow.app) is proprietry, in spite of what NeXTanswers suggests. However, a little poking around with class-dump should reveal all the information you need. I've had some linking problems with bundles under OPENSTEP for Mach (due to changing the library format) but I wrote a Kerberos V authentication bundle without a lot of hassle. Unfortunately, I don't have a KDC setup so I can't test it. I'm hoping someone will do a port of Cygnus' KerbNet to Rhapsody, including the admin tools. Unfortunately, I can't get the source from outside the U.S., so I'll have to wait until I move before attempting it myself. It would also be good to have something like PAM (if not PAM itself) under Rhapsody. -- Luke -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: sjohnson@myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Hard drive failure -- how to salvage data Date: 5 Aug 1997 23:57:59 GMT Organization: Computer Consulting Intl., LTD Message-ID: <5s8em7$8cl@news.tamu.edu> References: <Pine.HPP.3.95.970804143752.7258A-100000@apollo1.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Aug 1997 23:57:59 GMT Cc: rjacobs@voyager.Stanford.EDU In <Pine.HPP.3.95.970804143752.7258A-100000@apollo1.Stanford.EDU> Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote: > I came into the office today only to find a dead hard drive. Lots of > biosread and superblock errors upon reboot (could it be anything else?). > I get 'Error reading drive C:' errors booting into DOS so the hard drive > is the likely culprit (only 1.5 years old!). > > I have good backups, but would like to get a couple more files and a list > of the apps I have to reinstall to save some time later. I tried to boot > into single user mode and get the files from there but can't. Anything > else I can try? I don't need much, but would just like to peruse and get > a few things before I junk it. > I'm not sure if there is a boot floppy for PCs (check the archives) but try booting from a floppy (or better yet if you can add another hd from which to boot or put the problem hd in a working NEXTSTEP PC) . Here are some tips from the boot floppy package readme - To clean up a damaged filesystem on the scsi disk type "/etc/fsck /dev/rsd0a". See the fsck man page for details. To attempt to mount the scsi disk type "/etc/mount /dev/sd0a /tmp/hd". See the mount man page. If the mount succeeds, you can refer to the hard disk as /tmp/hd. To unmount the scsi, type "/etc/umount /tmp/hd". If you are able to mount your scsi disk, I would suggest you copy important files to floppy disks as soon as possible. To copy files to a (formatted) floppy other than the boot floppy, use the following: /etc/mount /dev/fd1a /tmp/fd cp file(s) /tmp/fd Be prepared to swap floppies quite a bit (the OS will prompt you for the floppy it needs). If you need to write multiple floppies, do a "/etc/umount /tmp/fd" after filling the first floppy. Then repeat the mount process with a new floppy. blessings, Stephen --- Stephen Johnson Computer Consulting Intl, LTD "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty." Thomas Jefferson
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Email Set-up Problem Date: 5 Aug 1997 22:24:29 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5s896t$7lh$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <tneudeck-ya02408000R0508971256530001@news.arkansasusa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tneudeck@fish-net.com Try asking the AOL postmaster: Postmaster <pmd@aol.net> TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: allan@ali.bc.ca (Allan Noordvyk) Subject: Re: How to write polish texts in NeXTstep 3.3 Message-ID: <EEGKAJ.KpH@gateway.ali.bc.ca> Sender: nobody@gateway.ali.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: hoelzl.gps@t-online.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: ALI Technologies Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 20:44:42 GMT References: <5s43nc$vio$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In comp.sys.next.sysadmin Robert Hoelzl wrote: > I want to create polish documents with NeXT. To do this I need some > polish characters like the "e" with garcon (I dont know the exact name). > > Possible solutions: > a) I have a polish postscript-font. ... Probably not needed. See below. > b) I read something about "CompositeChars" ... > I didn't succeed in combining a letter with an accent (At least in > DisplayPostscript; I never tried it on a printer). Most commonly used accented Latin characters are available by default in NeXTSTEP by using extended key sequences introduced by the alt key. For example if you type: alt-u followed by e you will get an e with an umlaut (ie. two dots) above it. While typing: alt-, followed by c will give you a c with a cedilla (ie. the little tail) beneath it. I wonder if this is what you mean by a garcon? In any case, use the following Alt in combination with the indicated key below will generate the indicated accent on the subsequent typed letter, if appropriate: Alt-Letter Accent e acute ^ circumflex , cedilla u umlaut a dieresis I too am not a linguist and thus may have misidentified some of the accent names. If so I welcome correction. I also forget the sequence for a grave accent. Also note that the alt-s combination by itself will give you the special symbol used for a double-lowercase-s in German. This is all documented somewhere in the user manual, but I don't remember where. The complete extended set of characters understood by NeXTSTEP is given in the diagram in Appendix C of the General Reference manual which talks about key codes. -- Allan Noordvyk, Software Artisan ALI Technologies
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: eject disk from unix command line Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EEG75A.Fr2@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 16:00:46 GMT References: <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5ru7nr$nbh@slip.net>, Emmett McLean <emclean@slip.net> wrote: >Hi, > >Does anyone know the instruction to eject the floppy >from the unix command line? (I need it so that I >can install PC applications in Soft-PC.) > "disk -e /dev/fd0a" should do it. -- David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/ University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: Can't find network config. server? [HELP] Message-ID: <EEGEpE.116.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <jray-2907970913220001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> <5rn3qv$oou$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 18:44:02 GMT >In <jray-2907970913220001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> John Ray wrote: >> Unfortunately, I have a NeXT slab that *was* a netinfo client to >> the above machine, which I also turned into a standalone machine... >> now I can't get it to go back :( I've used hostmanager to tell it to >> attach to "Bind to network Netinfo server", I've set everything to >> "AUTOCONFIGURE", but only get a "Can't find network configuration >> server" message when starting up. Matthew wrote an excellent summary of the issues involved, but I would like to add one more thing: your client must have the same NETMASK as the server. It's not enough to merely connect a network cable between the machines. You must configure the ethernet interface network mask by editing /etc/hostconfig and setting IPNETMASK to match between the client and server, otherwise the server will ignores the client's request for boot configuration and/or the client will ignore the server's response. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby) Subject: Re: adding a scsi disk Message-ID: <EEGFsv.14M.0.scream@sounds.wa.com> Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970729175414.11415A-100000@sunphy1> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:07:42 GMT In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.970729175414.11415A-100000@sunphy1>, B. Alex King III <king@sunphy1.phy.uic.edu> wrote: >Sorry for the lame question but I am a relatively new cube sysadmin and am >trying to add a new scsi drive. The drive is a Quantum Fireball 3.2 >gig. BuildDisk just refuses to format the drive. The kernel and >BuildDisk both recognize the disk, and I'm pretty sure I got the termination >and scsi id jumpers right. What's going on? Thanks. I have had severe problems with a Quantum drive on a mixed SCSI bus, and have been told by someone who has done extensive research on many modern drives that the entire current line of Quantum drives (above 500 MB) has the same problem. In a nutshell, Quantum have replaced the typical microprocessor and firmware - which are typical to SCSI drives - with a hard-wired state machine that can interpret SCSI commands. This makes the drive really fast, but at least a few people have found that the Quantum drives lock up when there are other devices on the SCSI bus, or even when the quality of the SCSI cabling is not perfect. To be more specific, I could format my Quantum Atlas, but it would destroy its own cylinder data at a random location during boot. The only way to restore the blocks on those cylinders was to low-level format again, I was unsuccessful using reasb to reassign the blocks elsewhere on the disk. If you have ruled out everything else like termination and jumper settings, I would suspect that the state-machine is flaking out because of your SCSI bus timing. I don't have a great deal of experience with SCSI drives, but I have never had such problems with any other SCSI drive. As the author of sdformat for NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP, I have tried some fairly complicated combinations of SCSI devices on the same bus, and have never experienced the low-level damage that the Quantum exhibited. -- Brian Willoughby NEXTSTEP, OpenStep, Rhapsody Software Design Sound Consulting Apple Enterprise Alliance Partner NeXTmail welcome
From: sjohnson@1myriad.net (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: mail file is set to ownership of 'nobody' Date: 6 Aug 1997 00:12:17 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5s8fh1$99k@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Aug 1997 00:12:17 GMT I have a network of NS computers and one of the mail clients causes the incoming mail spool file to be set to owner of 'nobody' of whoever is logged onto this workstation and uses Mail. But those users work fine from elsewhere. There is a mail server, the /usr/spool/mail folder is shared across the network. This computer has done this I guess as long as I know of, ~1.5 yrs. Any suggestions as to how to fix it? Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson Computer Consulting Intl, LTD "The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty." Thomas Jefferson Remove the 1 to email me
From: sef@kithrup.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.sgi,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sg Subject: cmsg cancel <01bca4d7$76dc3c40$7c36e0c2@infovia> Date: 9 Aug 1997 23:29:12 GMT Control: cancel <01bca4d7$76dc3c40$7c36e0c2@infovia> Message-ID: <cancel.01bca4d7$76dc3c40$7c36e0c2@infovia> Sender: "Pedro L.Molina Ruiz." <DUENDE@teleline.es> MMF cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: "Jonathan D. Holloway" <think@technologist.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXT implementation of UNIX Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 18:18:29 -0500 Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <33E7B41B.4D4378E3@technologist.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am considering a used NeXT Cube. Primarily because I am a techno-junkie, but I am also looking for a cheap UNIX box. Is the BSD on the NeXT boxes a true UNIX as far as remote logins, shell scripting, etc? Also, is there a single site, company, person, etc. that has an abundance of information on the NeXT hardware (ie: SCSI, ADB, and SIMM compatibility with Macs; using the laser printers on non-NeXT hardware; modem connections - both analog and ISDN). In otherwords, is this info out there somewhere or is it pretty much needle in a haystack. Any insight on what boxes to stay away from, etc... would be great as well. I'm looking at the cube mostly for gadget-freak uniqueness... but don't know if it is functional in the internet world of today. Thanks, Jonathan think@technologist.com
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: 21" Monitor - no added real estate???? Date: 10 Aug 1997 03:10:28 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5sjbf4$8u4$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33ED0985.989@cnagel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: cjn@cnagel.com In <33ED0985.989@cnagel.com> Christopher Nagel wrote: > In other words, everything is just fatter - I still have 13 dock icons, > even though I have an added 4" (diag) of space! What gives? Am I just > not setting up something correctly? I installed OS4.2 (clean), but > configure is apparently an Intel-only app. You are correct.... no additional real estate, TjL -- Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic.
From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS year 2000 problem Date: 6 Aug 1997 00:54:21 GMT Organization: Cygnus Solutions Message-ID: <5s8hvt$t1t$4@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sjohnson@1myriad.net In <5s8f5k$99k@news.tamu.edu> Stephen Johnson wrote: > In <5rq6et$1g8@news.tamu.edu> Colin Allen wrote: > > I just thought I'd test to see how NeXTStep handles year 2000 and > > I found that if I attempt to set the date manually to 2000 (using > > either Preferences.app or date), it resets to 1970, but if I set the > > clock to Dec 31 1999 and let it roll it correctly goes to 2000. > > This is on 3.3/Intel. > > > > Does anyone know whether there are patched versions of date and > > Preferences.app that will allow correct date setting past 2000? > > > > > > > Apple's year 2000 page addresses this problem. The problem is basically that the date program only looks at the last 2 digits of the year field. The date program that will ship with Rhapsody will fix this. I don't know if they're willing to provide a patched 'date' for NS 3.x or OS 4.x users. I wonder, though, if it's something a third party can fix. -- 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: marc keilwerth <mkeilwerth@kkf.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: x server wanted Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 13:38:40 +0200 Organization: KKF Datensysteme GmbH Sender: news@server.kkf.de Message-ID: <33EB053F.A036EBD4@kkf.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hello, I´m looking for a X window server for a next system. hints via email, please. mkeilwerth@kkf.de
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: <9060870580820@digifix.com> Date: 10 Aug 1997 03:53:41 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <446871185624@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: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Sender: klsaASdklASDI@HOTMAIL.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5sj0id$cn4@server-b.cs.interbusiness.it> Control: cancel <5sj0id$cn4@server-b.cs.interbusiness.it> Date: 10 Aug 1997 05:29:42 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.5sj0id$cn4@server-b.cs.interbusiness.it> Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: sterling@newton.colorado.edu (David Sterling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP on old Black Hardware Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 20:09:16 -0600 Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder Message-ID: <sterling-1008972009160001@128.138.249.165> Hi, I'm a Next neophyte with general UNIX background and a few simple questions. A friend gave me his Next Turbo Mono workstation with vintage 3.0 NextStep and a whopping 47 Mb of free disk space. I'd like to use the machine as an Xterminal, but I need a PPP(or SLIP) setup since it won't be on a net. Does anyone out there know where I can find the necessary PPP goodies for a old tired Next station? Thanks, David (David.Sterling@colorado.edu)
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 23:34:20 -0600 From: nextjet@bellsouth.net Subject: Nfs Sgi&Next&Mac Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi,admin,comp.sys.sgi.misc,.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs Message-ID: <871273355.31205@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service I find myself in the midst of configuring nfs with,A Turbo ND running 3.2,2 Sgi Indi's running 5.3 irix & 1 powermac8100/80 running OS8. I have setup the cube as a master netinfo server.The Indy's have the nfs option installed.And the mac has nfs share installed.So far I can ftp,telnet,rlogin from the command line.But the automounter on all machines simply mounts empty directories at the mount points. If anyone has these same problems I would appreciate any info you may have on the subject.tia german gobel. -------------------==== 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: 21" Monitor - no added real estate???? Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 10:37:51 -0400 Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Message-ID: <MnvR8zC00iUy01cfY0@andrew.cmu.edu> References: <33ED0985.989@cnagel.com> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.sysadmin: 9-Aug-97 21" Monitor - no added real.. by Christopher Nagel@cnagel > I just picked up a color Turbo with a 21" monitor and I am totally > incredulous to see that I get NO ADDITIONAL REAL ESTATE with this huge > piece of glass! That's correct. > In other words, everything is just fatter - I still have 13 dock icons, > even though I have an added 4" (diag) of space! What gives? The color Turbo hardware was designed as a workstation-- specificly, it has a fixed amount of video memory specificly configured for precisely one display resolution, and the monitors being used are fixed-frequency monitors (not multisync monitors). Even if the computer hardware was capable of displaying a different resolution, the monitor wouldn't be able to display it. -Chuck Charles Swiger | cs4w@andrew.cmu.edu | standard disclaimer ----------------+---------------------+--------------------- I know you're an optimist if you think I'm a pessimist.
From: Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren Kotan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: 31 Jul 1997 17:00:57 GMT Organization: NeXT/Apple European Professional Services Message-ID: <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Cc: yoda@cis.uni-muenchen.de In <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> Marc Guenther wrote: > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world just doesn't work > the way it should ? What is the equivalent of the black hardware password on > Intel PC's ? On our new Nextstep PC's everybody can get root access by just > turning the machine off and back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. Yes, rather like anyone can boot an NT machine with a DOS boot floppy and then access its NTFS partitions using the freeware NTFSDOS utility :) Ooops, did I give the game away there? I can almost visualise those NT server admin bods rushing to their PCs' BIOS setups to disable booting from floppy disk ;-} > I can disable boot from floppy drive or any other device in the BIOS Setup. I > can set a BIOS password, so nobody can change the Setup. But I can't disable > the Nextstep boot: prompt. What is all this Unix "security" about, when > everybody can get into singleuser mode ? The software can only be as secure as the hardware it's running on. Some PCs will allow you to set a password every time the machine is turned on. Some won't. ;-} Regards, Eren -- Eren Kotan - E-mail: Eren_Kotan@apple.com The best friend money can buy. Hamburgers can be vicious if they're only wounded. -Garfield- Apple Enterprise Professional Services - http://enterprise.apple.com/
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 10 Aug 1997 13:33:21 -0400 Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc. Message-ID: <5sku11$sdd$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> References: <5saat7$1vp$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <5sd8ul$a2t$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> [Posted to comp.sys.next.sysadmin, Cc:'ed to original poster.] In article <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>, phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: > Nathan Urban (nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu) wrote: > : In article <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>, phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: > : > : > To achieve installation you should get the Dual-(E)IDE driver > : > from NeXTanswers for your OS-version (3.3 or 4.x) > : I"ve never heard of this driver. What's the NeXTanswer number for it? > : (The one I'm using is the one that comes on Driver Disk #1, which I > : believe is identical to the one in NeXTanswer 1838). (Incidentally, the > : instructions I've been following are from NeXTanswer 1933). > If memory serves me right, this are just the latest EIDE-drivers available > for NS/OS (NeXTanswer 1977 for 3.3 and 2266 for 4.x (excecpt 4.2 which > has this already, but not on the bootdisk(!!!) as it seems)). > You have to copy these to a NS/OS formatted disk in the path-structure the > drivers have to be to be accepted for booting (look at the original > drivers diskette and copy its naming behaviour). > Then, once you are offered the chance to input 'yet another disk with > drivers' use this diskette with the 'dual mode - boot only' option, if > memory serves me well and up you go (hopefully). It's still not working. Let me summarize everything I've done (I posted some of this before, but I also tried some new things): I have a Pentium with two EIDE drives and an EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. I want to install OSfM/I 4.1 on the first partition of the second drive. NeXTanswer 1933 instructs me to make the installation drive the primary master, and the CD-ROM primary slave. I unplugged the first drive, jumpered the second drive to "single drive" (it also has a setting for "primary master with slave, but the BIOS doesn't seem to be able to recognize the drive in that state), and jumpered the CD-ROM drive to "primary slave". I created a disk with the driver structure for the EIDE package in NeXTanswer 2266. When I'm asked to select a driver for my CD-ROM, I tell it to use a driver from another disk, and insert the one I created. From the list of drivers on that disk, I select option 6, "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE and ATAPI Device Controllers (v4.01)". When asked to select a driver for my hard disk, I choose the same driver. It then attempts to boot. The messages I get are: ... hc0: device detected at port 0x1f0 irq 14 hc0: Checking for ATA drive 0... Detected. hc0: Checking for ATA drive 1... hc0: Checking for ATAPI device 1... hc0: Resetting drives... Registering: hc0 hd0: ST52520A 840160 hd0: 4970 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 spt (disk geometry) hd0: using multisector (16) transfers. Registering: hd0 hd0: No Valid Disk Label hd0: Device Block Size: 512 bytes hd0: Device Capacity: 2446 MB hc1: no devices detected at port 0x170 Instance 1 of Dual EIDE failed the probe ... No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found use sd%d, hd%d, fd%d, en%d or tr%d root device? ... If I type in 'hd0a' (or 'hd0') at this point, it complains something about with messages like the following: ... hd0a: Read attempt with no valid label vfs_mountroot: error=5 panic: (Cpu 0) vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root ... System Panic: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root (Type 'r' to reboot or 'm' for monitor) ... Does anyone have any further suggestions?? I'm getting very frustrated.
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No sounds In Nextime and anywhere else Date: 10 Aug 1997 11:48:25 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5sk9q9$3lp@unity.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Friends, did somebody when starting Nextime notice this: Aug 10 13:41:56 unity NTServer[1237]: NTSoundOutDevice: Cannot alloc/init NXSoundOut the Preference panel for sound also let no option be available sounds are light grey and the slider to choose the volume can not be moved. thank you very much for help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome URL Firma:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com URL Privat:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com/Private.html Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No sounds In Nextime and anywhere else (addition) Date: 10 Aug 1997 11:51:05 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5sk9v9$3lp@unity.westfalen.de> References: <5sk9q9$3lp@unity.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Friends, did somebody when starting Nextime notice this: Aug 10 13:41:56 unity NTServer[1237]: NTSoundOutDevice: Cannot alloc/init NXSoundOut Aug 10 13:46:30 unity Preferences[290]: Cannot get sound input device Aug 10 13:46:30 unity Preferences[290]: cannot get sound device the Preference panel for sound also let no option be available sounds are light grey and the slider to choose the volume can not be moved. thank you very much for help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome URL Firma:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com URL Privat:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com/Private.html Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: No sounds In Nextime and anywhere else (addition) Date: 11 Aug 1997 09:04:26 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5smkiq$ik23@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5sk9q9$3lp@unity.westfalen.de> <5sk9v9$3lp@unity.westfalen.de> Did you activate the NEXTIME-sound driver in Configure(.app) under the miscellaenous (drivers) column - in addition to a valid sound driver for a valid sound-card, of course :-)? Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120 pgrade). A bunch of netinfo files were changed in the process, and I assume the problem had something to do with the netinfo configuration, although I didn't see anything strange in them beforehand. Sidney Lehky Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) Saitama, Japan
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 15:02:08 -0600 From: mvitalo@sprynet.com Subject: nextstep 3.0 boot disks Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <871241699.7472@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service I am a windows developer and the company I work for originally wrote its software under NEXT. We have two copies of release 3.0 that I uncovered going through some boxes during our last move. I also found NEXTSTEP developer version 3.1. The problem is that the boot floppies needed to install the software, the os, are gone. We have had no luck in trying to get them from apple. I am curious if you know where I can get my hands on a set of the necessary disks so I can load up NEXT. I appreciate any help. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Sender: Unbeliev@ble.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <8b7cd$53732.31a@NEWS> Control: cancel <8b7cd$53732.31a@NEWS> Date: 11 Aug 1997 10:46:41 GMT Message-ID: <cancel.8b7cd$53732.31a@NEWS> Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: "Stephen J. Perkins" <perkins@ti.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP on old Black Hardware Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:05:35 -0500 Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. Message-ID: <33EF1C2F.6A6FCCB@ti.com> References: <sterling-1008972009160001@128.138.249.165> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Sterling wrote: > > Hi, I'm a Next neophyte with general UNIX background and a few simple questions. > > A friend gave me his Next Turbo Mono workstation with vintage 3.0 NextStep and > a whopping 47 Mb of free disk space. I'd like to use the machine as an > Xterminal, but I need a PPP(or SLIP) setup since it won't be on a net. > > Does anyone out there know where I can find the necessary PPP goodies for > a old tired Next station? > > Thanks, > > David (David.Sterling@colorado.edu) Hi David, Check http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/PPP_for_early_OS.html Hope this helps. - Steve
From: tom@sumoweb.com (Thomas McCarthy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Logout -- nothing happens Date: 11 Aug 1997 01:44:57 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services Message-ID: <5slqqp$nbu$1@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net> Hi, I have just done a little fiddling with my machine (installed mix and a fax modem), and now when I logout, everything disappears from my screen except my cursor...and then that's it. No login panel. The only way I can get things going again is to enter the NMI mini-monitor and type "r." Any ideas on how to get things back to the way they are supposed to be? Thanks, -- Tom ---------- Thomas McCarthy tom@sumoweb.com
From: sams@best.com (Samuel G. Streeper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Adding NeXTstep to NT's boot menu Date: 11 Aug 1997 10:35:05 -0700 Organization: BEST Internet Communications Message-ID: <sams.871318094@shellx> Adding a NeXTstep item to NT's boot menu turns out to be very easy, but I didn't find the solution in Deja News. You can copy NeXT's boot1 boot sector to drive C:. I copied /usr/standalone/i386/boot1 to "C:\nextboot" Now my NT boot.ini file looks like this: [boot loader] timeout=8 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Windows NT" C:\nextboot="NeXTstep" C:\="Windows 95" Everything works fine. A few other notes: I'm still using NeXT's original boot sector, so first I get the "N for NeXTstep, D for dos" choice, then if it boots dos it goes to the NT boot menu and once again I get the choice to boot NeXTstep, NT, or win 95. Just in case I'm slow... NeXT's booter is necessary to get the behavior I want when restarting from LoginWindow. I have DOS as the active partition but interestinly enough if I hit restart it restarts in NeXTstep, so I have to tell LoginWindow to restart in DOS to get the NT boot menu. This is not what I would expect, though actually it's what I want. If you use NT, you really want NT as the active partition when NT boots up. If you boot NT sometimes from the active partition and sometimes when it is not the active partition, it may reorder your drive letters (C: D: E: point to different partitions at different times), at least if you have DOS partitions on multiple drives. Doh! This will break most configurations. Anyway, even if NT is the active partition, you can set up what really gets loaded by default in the boot.ini file. In case anyone is curious, my NT is on the NTFS filesystem. How do I like NT? Well it's nice to have access to the latest versions of stuff; you can't even view Microsoft's support section with Omniweb anymore. But really everything blows chunks. Every textfield behaves differently, and none quite as you might hope. What UI moron thought scrolling ought to be a cancellable action? Really, every panel contains some UI abortion, you can't get a really good text editor or terminal, menus go away in the middle of scrolling thanks to "multitasking". I could go on and on, but suffice it to say that the end result is about what you might expect from a few thousand second rate microcomputer hackers who have never been exposed to well thought out systems working independently without the benefits of decent toolkits. Welcome to the future of computing. cheers, -sam
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 11:22:07 -0700 Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970811112123.22339H-100000@kira> References: <5scodl$mf7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "-bat." <pete@ohm.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <5scodl$mf7$1@netty.york.ac.uk> On 7 Aug 1997, -bat. wrote: > bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) writes: > > Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? > > it used to be on http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep - but seems > to have vanished ! anyone got any ideas ? Yeah, this is one more sign that Sun is dropping the OpenStep 'standard' to focus on Jhavah TjL
From: Robert Gibson Jacobs <rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: What's in Developer Release 3.3? Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 12:24:58 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@epic4.Stanford.EDU Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970811122135.20725B-100000@epic4.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I'm trying to decide what to install from the Developer CD. All I want to be able to do is compile source code (primarily from .tar.gz files) for use on my machine only. What do I need of the following? DeveloperTools.pkg DeveloperLibs.pkg DeveloperDoc.pkg GNUSource.pkg What's in each one and what kinds of development require each one? Thanks for the info. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Network a NeXT: use Win95 or Novell Lite Date: 11 Aug 1997 14:49:01 -0600 Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900) Message-ID: <5sntrt$9l0$1@xmission.xmission.com> References: <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net> <5rsi96$lfl$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew Seaman <Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk> wrote: : In <5rqrmu$i33@news1.iamerica.net> W. Johnson wrote: : > A friend wants to take three PCs and network them in his office to : > share some data and the printer. Two units will be Win 95 PCs and the : > third is a NeXT unit. He wants the NeXT to act as the server with the : > NeXT printer hanging off it. He bought the Novell Lite product before : > Win 95 came out and is wondering whether to use it or the Win95 : > network platform. Bag NetWare Lite. See below for why. : > (I don't know what the ramifications are having the : > NeXT unit in this situation. Will it network with either?) There is : > little need for Novell's security -- the intent is just to share data : > and the printer (maybe a modem). All feedback is appreciated. : NeXTen will communicate just fine with Win95 boxes provided you install the : correct software. Absolutely. NetWare isn't the correct software because it adds an extra layer of complexity. Samba is the apropos solution here because it uses NetBEUI, the native networking system for Windows, and NeXT machines have no problem serving Win95 boxes using NetBEUI. If you had a NetWare network already, I might still suggest using Samba, but on the NetWare server. It really is a nice solution for file and print. .................kris -- Kristopher Magnusson kris@xmission.com (no NeXTmail, please) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Network a NeXT: use Win95 or Novell Lite Date: 11 Aug 1997 22:05:26 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5so2b6$r41@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5sntrt$9l0$1@xmission.xmission.com> In article <5sntrt$9l0$1@xmission.xmission.com> planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com> writes: > layer of complexity. Samba is the apropos solution here because it uses > NetBEUI, the native networking system for Windows, and NeXT machines have > no problem serving Win95 boxes using NetBEUI. I think (??) this is incorrect, technically. Samba speaks XXX (insert name here for Windows filesharing) over TCP/IP, not NetBEUI. Your Win95 boxes require the tcp protocol to be installed and configured for them to see/speak-with the samba box. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's in Developer Release 3.3? Date: 12 Aug 1997 01:39:40 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5soess$cvv$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970811122135.20725B-100000@epic4.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU In <Pine.GSO.3.96.970811122135.20725B-100000@epic4.Stanford.EDU> Robert Gibson Jacobs wrote: > I'm trying to decide what to install from the Developer CD. All I want to > be able to do is compile source code (primarily from .tar.gz files) for > use on my machine only. What do I need of the following? > > DeveloperTools.pkg > DeveloperLibs.pkg > DeveloperDoc.pkg > GNUSource.pkg I believe you need the Tools and the Libs absolutely.... I think the GNU is very helpful but not required I think the docs are the man pages that you'd like but not necessarily need That's what I think.... someone else may know better TjL
From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Running a List Server Date: 12 Aug 1997 02:35:14 GMT Organization: Cows Unlimited! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5soi52$9u4@news1.mnsinc.com> References: <tneudeck-ya02408000R0808970943180001@news.arkansasusa.com> that Tim Neudecker (tneudeck@fish-net.*com) scribbled: > What Public Domain Software Should I look for to run a List Server on my > NeXT? I should be handling small lists but I will want to have more than > one list (small meaning <20 subscribers). Thanks for the pointers. > (oh yea I fixed my previous mail routing problem, I had my resolv.conf file > set wrong.) I'd get PERL and Majordomo -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Barry J. Bocaner <barry@gslink.com> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 07:34:41 -0600 From: peter@us.upnet.se (Peter Lindberg) Subject: Problems with parallel port Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <871388727.20101@dejanews.com> Organization: Upnet Security AB To: peter@us.upnet.se Hello. I have the following problem: On a Pentium Pro running NEXTSTEP 3.3, with the standard ParallelPort driver installed, printing to a matrix printer attached to /dev/pp0 works fine. However, on a similarly set up Pentium it doesn't work at all. On the Pentium Pro you can verify that writing to /dev/pp0 works by piping text from a shell ('echo testing > /dev/pp0'), but on the Pentium this seems to cause a timeout (tree seconds) and nothing prints. However, something does get sent to the printer, because it sometimes (the first try after switching it off and on) begins to adjust the paper like it does under normal operation. I have tried to upgrade the BIOS, and switching the port in the setup from Compatible to EPP, ECT and Bi-Directional, without success. If I boot DOS from floppy and try 'echo testing > lpt1' it works, so there's nothing wrong with the hardware. I have also tried it on four identical machines. The motherboard is an Intel Advanced Morrison with a Pentium 133MHz processor. The BIOS version is 1.00.07.BU0. Does anyone know what I need to do to get it working? Peter. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with parallel port Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 12 Aug 1997 12:45:18 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5splsu$5fq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <871388727.20101@dejanews.com> Peter Lindberg (peter@us.upnet.se) wrote: : Hello. : : I have the following problem: : [...] : : Does anyone know what I need to do to get it working? Sometimes it is important, that the printer is hooked up and switched on(!), just to be recognized. On the other hand: Check that there is no problem between driver and port (i.e. boot verbose (-v) and see if there are any (additional) messages when pp0 is reported available. 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: csaldanh@computerActive.on.ca (Chris Saldanha) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: What's in Developer Release 3.3? Date: 12 Aug 1997 14:01:04 GMT Organization: computerActive Inc Message-ID: <5spqb0$30n$1@news.magma.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970811122135.20725B-100000@epic4.Stanford.EDU> <5soess$cvv$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Robert Gibson Jacobs (rjacobs@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote: : I'm trying to decide what to install from the Developer CD. All I want to : be able to do is compile source code (primarily from .tar.gz files) for : use on my machine only. What do I need of the following? : DeveloperTools.pkg Required. Install for your machine-type only. : DeveloperLibs.pkg Required. Install for those machines you want the programs you compile to run on (in this case, probably your machine-type only) : DeveloperDoc.pkg Contains all the documentation for the NeXTSTEP programming system (ie Objective-C class libraries) and all the tools. You may wish to install it initially, and then remove it if you don't find it useful. : GNUSource.pkg These are the sources to the NeXT C/C++/ObjC compiler. You absolutely don't need these, unless you wish to modify the NeXT compiler tools. --Chris Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst ------------------------------------- computerActive, Inc | "The telephone was not invented by | csaldanh@computerActive.com (NeXT/MIME)| Alexander Graham Unitel" -Bell Ad | http://www.mae.carleton.ca/~csaldanh -------------------------------------
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer)?= Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Is this a serious message? Date: 13 Aug 1997 09:09:41 GMT Organization: University of =?ISO-8859-1?Q?W=FCrzburg,?= Germany Message-ID: <5srtkl$ul@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <5sqi53$arv@agate.berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu In <5sqi53$arv@agate.berkeley.edu> Satoru Uzawa wrote: > > Hi all, > > Recently, I noticed that I'm getting a following message in > /private/adm/messages file like > > loginwindow[203]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 > > This messages are repeated 4 times after rebooting. Is this serious for the > system or can I neglect it until I upgrade to the OpenStep 4.2? I'm running > 3.3 on an Intel machine. The system is running fine (to be precise, I > haven't notice any problem other than this message yet :) > > Thanks for any suggestions or answers. Nope. Means you got no sound support, as far as I remember. -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Korn Shell for openstep intel Date: 14 Aug 1997 01:21:34 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5stmiu$6nf$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pzagiel@cafc.be In <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be> Zagiel Patrick wrote: > I was disapointed not to see the korn shell in openstep 4.2. Is it an > installation option? I think just the pdksh... don't know how old or how compatible with regular ksh... ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/loginshells/pdksh.5.2.3.NIHS.b.tar.gz ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/loginshells/pdksh.5.2.3.README TjL
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: BIND 8.1.1 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 17:04:05 -0600 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-1308971704050001@slip-64-6.ots.utexas.edu> In view of the latest CERT advisory <ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-97.22.bind> on DNS, has anyone succeeded in compiling BIND 8.1.1 for NeXTSTEP? Jacques Distler -- PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
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From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NTSoundOutDevice: Cannot alloc/init NXSoundOut Date: 13 Aug 1997 22:52:51 -0700 Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16 Sender: mpaque@mpaque Distribution: world Message-ID: <5su6fj$j2@mpaque.mpaque> References: <5sqhaa$6j9@unity.westfalen.de> In article <5sqhaa$6j9@unity.westfalen.de> peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) writes: > Aug 10 13:41:56 unity NTServer[1237]: NTSoundOutDevice: Cannot > alloc/init NXSoundOut > Aug 10 13:46:30 unity Preferences[290]: Cannot get sound input device > Aug 10 13:46:30 unity Preferences[290]: cannot get sound device This can happen if you do not have a sound device driver installed, or your sound hardware was not detected by the sound device driver. -- Mike Paquette (mpaque AT wco.com ; Yank that .spa-am and nospam to reply.) Well, if there *were* anything to say, it would be with the understanding that the PR/Marketing people want to make the announcements on products, so anything I have to say wouldn't actually exist until after then, so what I might have to say now doesn't exist, and what I may say in future can't be said, so theoretically what exists, doesn't, for the immediate future. (With apologies to Joe Straczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: How to create polish texts with NeXTstep 3.3 (Intel/Mach) Message-ID: <EEn82C.Enq@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5s43pu$vir$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 11:03:48 GMT In article <5s43pu$vir$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> hoelzl.gps@t-online.de (Ruth L tticken) writes: > My problem: > I want to create polish documents with NeXT. To do this I need some > polish characters like the "e" with garcon (I dont know the exact name). > > Possible solutions: > a) I have a polish postscript-font. I copied it into the > LocalLibrary/Fonts/MyFont directory and named it MyFont and MyFont.afm . > After running "buildafm /LocalLibrary/Fonts" the font "MyFont" is > available in the font dialogbox but the characters are the same as in > Helvetica. > Now there are two possibilities: either your font just happens to look like Helvetica or it ain't Adobe type 1. But in general, the problem that you have at hand might be that most special fonts (I have about a dozen polish fonts that show all the characteristics) just have no keyboard equivalents for the characters you need (a font inspector is handy in finding out - I use TypeView.app, but there should also be some PD apps available). You then can either choose those characters from a character panel (if you happen to own a word processor that has one) or you can try to find a private mapping with the help of Keyboard.app. -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr (Xavier NICOLAY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: 14 Aug 1997 10:12:17 GMT Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Message-ID: <5sulm1$7hi@polytechnique.polytechnique.fr> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970811112123.22339H-100000@kira> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes On 7 Aug 1997, -bat. wrote: > bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) writes: > > Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? > > it used to be on http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep - but seems > to have vanished ! anyone got any ideas ? Yeah, this is one more sign that Sun is dropping the OpenStep 'standard' to focus on Jhavah You can find it at ftp://peanuts.leo.org/next/OpenStep/systems/solaris/OpenStep.1.0 -- (+simple) + (-simple) = different (si si) ***************************************** Xavier NICOLAY | Ecole Polytechnique / SITX Responsable Support | 91128 PALAISEAU Cedex mailto:Xavier.Nicolay@polytechnique.fr | Tel: (33) 01 69 333 585
From: iboehme@abm08.abm.de (Ivo Boehme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: GUI problem... Date: 14 Aug 1997 11:09:05 GMT Organization: Nacamar Data Communications Message-ID: <5sup0h$is1$1@news.nacamar.de> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970813095954.9386A-100000@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> Cc: rs007e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu Ryan, what exactly does your NeXT shows you? Are you in superuser mode? Does it emit any "strange" messages during boot time (use -v option)? Ivo In <Pine.SOL.3.96.970813095954.9386A-100000@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> Ryan Sowers-Martinez wrote: > I am having problems when I boot my NeXT. The GUI won't come up and I > don't know enough about NeXT to get it to work again. I know tons about > Solaris but little about NeXTStep. If you have any suggestions, I would > be *VERY* grateful for them. Thanks. >
From: Christopher Nagel <cjn@cnagel.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 21" Monitor - no added real estate???? Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 20:21:25 -0400 Organization: Christopher Nagel, Inc. Message-ID: <33ED0985.989@cnagel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I just picked up a color Turbo with a 21" monitor and I am totally incredulous to see that I get NO ADDITIONAL REAL ESTATE with this huge piece of glass! In other words, everything is just fatter - I still have 13 dock icons, even though I have an added 4" (diag) of space! What gives? Am I just not setting up something correctly? I installed OS4.2 (clean), but configure is apparently an Intel-only app. HELP!? (and thanks!) Chris PS: If there is no way to increase the resolution of the screen I will happily make an even trade for a 17" color monitor!
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From: Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: local and mail_hub mail one in the same? Date: 14 Aug 1997 18:20:03 GMT Organization: Columbia University Message-ID: <5svi8j$o8e$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> References: <5st9nc$i8m$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <5st9nc$i8m$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> The problem: a local username 'paul' and a domain mailserver username 'paul@columbia.edu' do not refer to the same people (and even if they did, they still represent two different accounts). I cannot seem to get my mailer to deliver mail to 'paul' locally and to 'paul@columbia.edu' to the domain mailserver; either all mail goes out to the domain server or all mail to 'user@columbia.edu' is delivered locally. The question: is this really a sendmail problem? One explanation is that sendmail is behaving as expected provided it cannot distinguish between the localhost and the domain host (columbia.edu). Per extant instructions I have a netinfo machines entry that has the name of my host 'cuchulainn' as well as the additional value for the fully qualified name 'cuchulainn.columbia.edu'. Without the fully qualified domain name sendmail hangs on startup. How should the localhost netinfo be set up? -- _____________________________ "Gates isn't dumb, he knows Apple's survival means he can keep the anti-monopoly folks at bay. Thinking he has any more interest in Apple than that is highly-optimistic." -- TjL Who's a bigger sucker, me or Jobs?
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From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Duplex control of printer possible Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:56:43 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970814115400.677A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "Reply-To: " I have an HP Laserjet 4M Plus printer that I use through a JetDirect card. I am running NeXTStep v3.3. Is there any way I can tell the printer to print simplex or duplex through the printer driver rather than having to go to the printer and change the setting manually? Thanks. Robert
From: "Marc P. Duchesne" <mduchesn@easynet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP : NeXT Software Programmers Support Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:04:46 +0200 Organization: Marc Duchesne IT Consultant Message-ID: <33F364DE.996@easynet.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi there, I'm registered as developper at NeXT Software (1991). I've lost the email' adresses of the Developper Support and have no access to a NS machine to read it on CD-ROMs. (have to notify them my own email adress changes). Please can anyone help ? -- Marc P. Duchesne mduchesn@easynet.fr Information Technologies Consultant, Fiberoptics Specialist Les Fans, 77510 Villeneuve Sur Bellot, France +33 (0)16-404-8229 <http://www.optoroute.com/fiber66> ---------------------------------------------
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: How to prevent anybody from becoming root ? Date: 9 Aug 1997 16:01:55 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Aug9113304@slave.doubleu.com> References: <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de> <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com> <SCOTT.97Aug7145717@slave.doubleu.com> <33EAAB11.2F31DD6A@pacbell.net> In-reply-to: "Oscar J. Shearer"'s message of Thu, 07 Aug 1997 22:13:54 -0700 In article <33EAAB11.2F31DD6A@pacbell.net>, "Oscar J. Shearer" <merlin4@pacbell.net> writes: Scott Hess wrote: > In article <5rqgc9$n5k$1@news2.apple.com>, > Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren Kotan) writes: > In <5rns9f$6bk@arcadia.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>, > Marc Guenther wrote: > > Either I miss something completely obvious, or the world > > just doesn't work the way it should ? What is the equivalent > > of the black hardware password on Intel PC's ? On our new > > Nextstep PC's everybody can get root access by just turning > > the machine off and > > > back on, and typing -s at the boot prompt. > > Yes, rather like anyone can boot an NT machine with a DOS boot > floppy and then access its NTFS partitions using the freeware > NTFSDOS utility :) > > You mean that you can't do the same thing under NeXTSTEP, Linux, > Solaris, or anything else? Amazing. > That's why I like NOVELL 4.x, nice. secure, and impressive uptime! Uh, I think you miss my essential point, which is that if you're going to give me physical access to the machine (if I can put a floppy in the drive, I have physical access), there are likely a few dozen ways I can break it. Even without an available floppy drive. Novell gives you no more protection from that than anything else. Put another way, no mere "operating system" gives you physical protection. The best an OS can do is offer media encryption, and require you to enter a password at boot time to enable. But with enough physical access, one can write a password spoofer, or add something to the bootstrap code to leave a backdoor so you can remotely scam the data from memory after the decryption has occurred. Anyhow, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: local and mail_hub mail one in the same? Date: 15 Aug 1997 11:11:48 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Message-ID: <5t1dhk$7h0@suriname.earthlink.net> References: <5st9nc$i8m$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <5svi8j$o8e$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu In <5svi8j$o8e$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu wrote: > > The problem: a local username 'paul' and a domain mailserver username > 'paul@columbia.edu' do not refer to the same people (and even if they did, > they still represent two different accounts). I cannot seem to get my mailer > to deliver mail to 'paul' locally and to 'paul@columbia.edu' to the domain > mailserver; either all mail goes out to the domain server or all mail to > 'user@columbia.edu' is delivered locally. > > The question: is this really a sendmail problem? One explanation is that > sendmail is behaving as expected provided it cannot distinguish between the > localhost and the domain host (columbia.edu). Per extant instructions I have > a netinfo machines entry that has the name of my host 'cuchulainn' as well > as the additional value for the fully qualified name > 'cuchulainn.columbia.edu'. Without the fully qualified domain name sendmail > hangs on startup. How should the localhost netinfo be set up? This is something one can handle with the proper sendmail configuration. So first off, I'm going to sleep now, but will be able to answer you tomorrow or the next day. Secondly, what version of sendmail are you using? If you are using a recent version I will dig up the piece of mc file that you should insert. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: wpbrown@xensei.com (WPBrown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: syslog error question Date: 15 Aug 1997 13:21:25 GMT Organization: All USENET -- http://www.Supernews.com Message-ID: <5t1l4l$780$1@usenet76.supernews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi Folks, In viewing /private/adm/messages, I have numerous messages "syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain". The timestamps on them are about 2-3 minutes apart, so as you can imagine, I do generate quite a lot of these messages. Any advice on how to correct this would be appreciated. Other than the above, the machine appears to be functioning fine. Please respond to wpbrown@xensei.com Thanks, Will
From: chrish@cc.usu.edu (PUNCHOUT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: CAP on black hardware... file transfer problem Message-ID: <1VJSAV9hpXdB@cc.usu.edu> Date: 15 Aug 97 03:33:44 MDT Organization: Utah State University Here is an odd question / problem... I'm just not finding the info in the man pages for CAP on this... After long hours of tinkering, I got CAP to work, I'm able to mount my mac volumes fine, and copy from them and to them at will. I can also log into the shared mac folder on the black hardware... but... and here is the problem... no matter what I log in as, when I try and copy a file to that volume, it ends up quitting about 2/3 of the way through with a disk error. I suspect some sort of file permissions problem... But I"m not sure and figured I would ask... I assumed that if I logged in as root, that their should be no read/write restrictions... I know this must be a wrong assumption on my part... Thanks in advance-- Christian Shank Nothing special... No titles or honoraria CHRISH@CC.USU.EDU Quote? I have no stinking quote!
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From: bettis@inetnebr.com (Mr. Jeremy Bettis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: POP3 server Date: 15 Aug 1997 23:24:38 -0500 Organization: Internet Nebraska Message-ID: <5t3a26$p9m$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> References: <5sq4j9$3i2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-User: bettis Babak Ashrafi writes: >Is anyone using the POP3 server which comes with POPOver v1.5? Is it >feasible for a turbo NeXT station running NS3.3 to act as a POP server for >40 people who will be using Eudora on Windows machines across ethernet? >Does POP3Server work on OS 4.2 in case I upgrade? I use the Wash U IMAPD server on a nextstep 4.2 box, for our NT machines running Netscape mail. Works swell. (Does POP3 too)
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Korn Shell for openstep intel Date: 14 Aug 1997 18:09:27 GMT Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company Message-ID: <5svhkn$s15$2@ocean.cup.hp.com> References: <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be> In article <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be>, Zagiel Patrick <pzagiel@cafc.be> wrote: >I was disapointed not to see the korn shell in openstep 4.2. Is it an >installation option? >If not is it posssible to find it elsewhere If you want the real ksh, you have to buy it from AT&T. I think it's US$2000. At least you get the source. Ken -- Ken Lui, klui@cup.hp.com 19111 Pruneridge Avenue M/S 44UR Enterprise Systems Division Cupertino, CA 95014-0795 USA Open Warehouse Team 1.408.447.3230 FAX 1.408.447.1053 Views within this message may not be those of the Hewlett-Packard Company
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: POP3 server Date: 16 Aug 1997 05:50:49 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5t3f3p$ggt$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5sq4j9$3i2@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> <5t3a26$p9m$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bettis@inetnebr.com In <5t3a26$p9m$1@falcon.inetnebr.com> Mr. Jeremy Bettis wrote: > Babak Ashrafi writes: > >Is anyone using the POP3 server which comes with POPOver v1.5? Is it > >feasible for a turbo NeXT station running NS3.3 to act as a POP server for > >40 people who will be using Eudora on Windows machines across ethernet? > >Does POP3Server work on OS 4.2 in case I upgrade? > > I use the Wash U IMAPD server on a nextstep 4.2 box, for our NT machines > running Netscape mail. Works swell. (Does POP3 too) FYI imap4.1 compiles out of the box for NS also... not sure about OpenStep TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 8 Aug 1997 10:02:04 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5seqqs$hl21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5saat7$1vp$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5scg4a$7fh$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> <5sd8ul$a2t$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Nathan Urban (nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu) wrote: : In article <5schrj$5fo10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de>, phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: : : > To achieve installation you should get the Dual-(E)IDE driver : > from NeXTanswers for your OS-version (3.3 or 4.x) : : I"ve never heard of this driver. What's the NeXTanswer number for it? : (The one I'm using is the one that comes on Driver Disk #1, which I : believe is identical to the one in NeXTanswer 1838). (Incidentally, the : instructions I've been following are from NeXTanswer 1933). If memory serves me right, this are just the latest EIDE-drivers available for NS/OS (NeXTanswer 1977 for 3.3 and 2266 for 4.x (excecpt 4.2 which has this already, but not on the bootdisk(!!!) as it seems)). You have to copy these to a NS/OS formatted disk in the path-structure the drivers have to be to be accepted for booting (look at the original drivers diskette and copy its naming behaviour). Then, once you are offered the chance to input 'yet another disk with drivers' use this diskette with the 'dual mode - boot only' option, if memory serves me well and up you go (hopefully). Greetings, Ruediger
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: CAP on black hardware... file transfer problem Date: 16 Aug 1997 08:47:54 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5t3pfq$rso$1@news.seicom.net> References: <1VJSAV9hpXdB@cc.usu.edu> chrish@cc.usu.edu (PUNCHOUT) wrote: > Here is an odd question / problem... I'm just not finding the > info in the man pages for CAP on this... > > After long hours of tinkering, I got CAP to work, I'm able > to mount my mac volumes fine, and copy from them and to them > at will. I can also log into the shared mac folder on the > black hardware... but... and here is the problem... no matter > what I log in as, when I try and copy a file to that volume, > it ends up quitting about 2/3 of the way through with a disk > error. I suspect some sort of file permissions problem... > But I"m not sure and figured I would ask... I assumed that > if I logged in as root, that their should be no read/write > restrictions... I know this must be a wrong assumption on > my part... Do you speak of CAP (you did compile yourself) or about a version of CAPer? Talking about CAPer: If this happens when accessing remote Macintosh volumes: There was a known bug in older versions of CAPer (afpmount) that showed a similar pattern. Upgrade to CAPer V8 should solve this. If this happens when accessing a NeXT filesystem from a Macintosh: Check the permissions or ownerships of your exported filessystems. Attention should be paid to the .resource and .finderinfo subdirectories that _must_ be present in the exported filesystem (See the CAPer 'Readme Install' under the Info Menu). AUFS does not create these directories (except for the users ~/mac filesystem). CAPer V8 should keep track of these directories automatically so an upgrade may help too. Tell me if this helps... --- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with parallel port Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 11:31:26 +0200 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970816112015.27931A-100000@hei.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Peter Lindberg <peter@us.upnet.se> Hi I've had pretty similar troubles with my own parallel port on my old P100, and I'm running OS 4.1 . The trouble rather comes from a bug in ParallelPort.config ... There is a alternative Parallel port driver available at: ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/i486/parallel/ I used it and it works fine. The bug concern NS 3.3 and later. More informations are available in the README file from the alternative Par.config. Hope this work for you cheers Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 12:47:26 +0200 Organization: University of Geneva Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970816120642.28289A-100000@hei.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: Nathan Urban <nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Ok, I've stubled in such a problem since I have 2 hdd and 1 atapi... Let's see > It's still not working. Let me summarize everything I've done (I posted > some of this before, but I also tried some new things): > > I have a Pentium with two EIDE drives and an EIDE/ATAPI CD-ROM. I want > to install OSfM/I 4.1 on the first partition of the second drive. > NeXTanswer 1933 instructs me to make the installation drive the primary > master, and the CD-ROM primary slave. I unplugged the first drive, > jumpered the second drive to "single drive" (it also has a setting for > "primary master with slave, but the BIOS doesn't seem to be able to > recognize the drive in that state), and jumpered the CD-ROM drive to > "primary slave". No way to have one hdd on primary and one ATAPI one secondary... it is supposed to work, but I never seen it in practice ... > > I created a disk with the driver structure for the EIDE package in > NeXTanswer 2266. When I'm asked to select a driver for my CD-ROM, > I tell it to use a driver from another disk, and insert the one I > created. From the list of drivers on that disk, I select option 6, > "Primary/Secondary(Dual) EIDE and ATAPI Device Controllers (v4.01)". > When asked to select a driver for my hard disk, I choose the same > driver. It then attempts to boot. The messages I get are: > > > ... > hc1: no devices detected at port 0x170 > Instance 1 of Dual EIDE failed the probe > ... > No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found > use sd%d, hd%d, fd%d, en%d or tr%d > root device? > ... > > If I type in 'hd0a' (or 'hd0') at this point, it complains something > about with messages like the following: hd0a is the HDDE, which is empty. Installation process start from the CD-ROM > OK! I get it all. You used the dual EIDE driver, but you had already reverted to a normal configuration: only using primary... This special controler probe for ATAPI on address 170h , which is SECONDARY port... So two solutions: Either you put your two HDD on primary with ATAPI on secondary (if ATAPI isn't recognized, jumper it to MASTER) Then try installing OS 4.1 BUT: I don't know whether the installation process will ask you on which drive to install or not... never tried. BUT: Beware, Openstep will install its own boot manager on rhd0. If you want to use another one, it can get tricky, but that's another problem (see NeXTanswers, or ask me). Normally, Openstep boot manager will do fine. I hope so... but you'll have Openstep on the first HDD I think... and you'll probably need to reserve a Dos partition for booting the other OSs ... I don't think Next booter can redirect boot to other drives. Solution number 2 is to unplug the other HDD, plug target HDD and ATAPI on primary port, then install with normal procedure (NO need for dual EIDE!!). Use the EIDE driver provided with the Floppy, it's enough. Then install Openstep. PROBLEM: this way, Openstep is alone on the MASTER HDD... no way to redirect boot to the second, Openstep doesn't do that. So you'll have to use Openstep HDD as SLAVE (second primary drive), and redirect boot from the PRIMARY (lets name it the Dos HDD), to the Openstep HDD. To do this, you'll need some stuff like OS2 boot manager, NT multi-boot, Linux's LILO, or any other .. (see Nextanswers for using a boot manager with next) BUT that's not all: For Openstep to boot from hd1 (the second hdd), you must change the device in /etc/fstab ! so it use hd1 as rootdevice. Since this is quite dangerous if ever you cannot redirect boot, make a bootFloppy pointing to hd1, so you can boot in case of troubles... and edit fstab again... In place of a third party Bootmanager, you can make a Next partition on hd0, make it bootable (ask me in private in case ...), make it point to hd1. Of course, you need to repartition your Dos disk ... That's what I did on my computer and it works fine. This is a bit long, but I hope that it helps Raph ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Raphael Marmier --> marmier4@hei.unige.ch --> http://heiwww.unige.ch/~marmier4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: Logout -- nothing happens Message-ID: <EF04Iq.9LI@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5slqqp$nbu$1@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 10:16:02 GMT In article <5slqqp$nbu$1@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net> tom@sumoweb.com (Thomas McCarthy) writes: > I have just done a little fiddling with my machine (installed mix and > a fax modem), and now when I logout, everything disappears from my > screen except my cursor...and then that's it. No login panel. > > The only way I can get things going again is to enter the NMI > mini-monitor and type "r." > At least one of the processes spawned from your Workspace is refusing to quit. There are several possible causes. One very prominent is having opened a serial line to a modem that was switched off thereafter. The way of diagnosis: Close all apps manually before you log out. If that works isolate the app that makes logoff hang. If not gat a 'ps -ax' listing and look for all processes that belong to you. Then 'kill -9' all suspects until logoff works. If you've isolated the guilty process you can start to think about the reason for the undesirable behaviour (or ask the Net about your observation). -- 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: 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: <446871185624@digifix.com> Date: 17 Aug 1997 03:53:43 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <13779871790424@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. 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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. 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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: satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (Satoru Uzawa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Is this a serious message? Date: 12 Aug 1997 20:47:31 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Message-ID: <5sqi53$arv@agate.berkeley.edu> Hi all, Recently, I noticed that I'm getting a following message in /private/adm/messages file like loginwindow[203]: bootstrap_register failed - -102 This messages are repeated 4 times after rebooting. Is this serious for the system or can I neglect it until I upgrade to the OpenStep 4.2? I'm running 3.3 on an Intel machine. The system is running fine (to be precise, I haven't notice any problem other than this message yet :) Thanks for any suggestions or answers. --- Satoru Uzawa, satoru@candenext.lsa.berkeley.edu (NeXTmail welcome)
From: Amando Blasco <ablasco@gcomm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: SUPRA PnP MODEM & OPENSTEP 4.2 Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 19:06:48 +0200 Organization: SERVICOM Message-ID: <33F72FA8.6BF6@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anybody knows if a SUPRA 33.6 Internal PnP does work with OpenStep 4.2 (INTEL). I don't know which is the Address and IRQ of the modem. Help, please! Amando
From: Trey McClendon <tgm@hiwaay.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Logout -- nothing happens Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 13:44:11 -0500 Organization: haphazard Message-ID: <33F7467B.D9E6214A@hiwaay.net> References: <5slqqp$nbu$1@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net> <EF04Iq.9LI@nidat.sub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I wonder if this is something specific to Intel hardware. Granted the serial port thing will do it everytime, but it will stop a reboot, too. The thing I've noticed is that if you start a background job, using nohup/& and so forth, it will still hang or greatly delay getting a login panel after logging out. On m68k hardware this does not seem to be true. Strangely, if you login to a remote host, then rlogin back to your host and start the background job, then log off all your shells to get back to the original terminal shell, you can log out of the Workspace and it will NOT hang. If anyone can explain this weirdness please do so. Trey Peter Nitezki wrote: > > In article <5slqqp$nbu$1@nnrp1.snfc21.pbi.net> tom@sumoweb.com (Thomas > McCarthy) writes: > > I have just done a little fiddling with my machine (installed mix > and > > a fax modem), and now when I logout, everything disappears from my > > screen except my cursor...and then that's it. No login panel. > > > > The only way I can get things going again is to enter the NMI > > mini-monitor and type "r." > > > At least one of the processes spawned from your Workspace is refusing > to > quit. There are several possible causes. One very prominent is > having > opened a serial line to a modem that was switched off thereafter. > > The way of diagnosis: Close all apps manually before you log out. If > that works isolate the app that makes logoff hang. If not gat a 'ps > -ax' > listing and look for all processes that belong to you. Then 'kill -9' > all > suspects until logoff works. > > If you've isolated the guilty process you can start to think about the > reason for the undesirable behaviour (or ask the Net about your > observation). > -- > 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: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with transfer of email mbox files to Eudora on Macintosh Date: 13 Aug 1997 08:55:11 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5srspf$5f83@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <jcl-1208970932220001@luby-mac.apl.washington.edu> Hello, maybe this information will help you: As long as there is no 'NeXTmail' and no 'external attachment' in the box, and you wrote, that you only saw mbox and table-of-contents, so there isn't, you should know, that you have a straight UNIX-like mailbox, nothing NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP specific in the mbox-file, you may ignore the table-of-contents-file totally. It's automatically (re-)built, if one fiddles with the 'mbox'-file content, by Mail.app. The UNIX mailbox follow the convention, that a blank line (there may be nothing(!) in it not even a blank, just a single new-line (in UNIX), lineend or CR-LF in DOS) followed by From (that's "From "), where the exact writing of the From and the blank is important (no colon ':', not FROM or from etc!), separate 'different mailings' in a UNIX mailbox. As I'm sure, but can't say from knowledge, that Eudora can deal with a UNIX mailbox, to just 'ftp' the mbox-file, give it an Eudora-admitted filename representing you old 'structure' and telling Eudora that it is a 'UNIX' mbox should do the trick. Otherwise there must(!) be tools to convert a 'standard UNIX mailbox' to an Eudora mailbox somewhere. The important part is, that you are not dealing with a proprietary 'NeXT'-mail format (as long as no NeXTmail-type is involved), but with the standard UNIX format used by mail/sendmail. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Korn Shell for openstep intel Date: 16 Aug 1997 18:31:05 -0400 Organization: Quick and Associates Message-ID: <5t59n9$clb@papoose.quick.com> References: <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be> <5svhkn$s15$2@ocean.cup.hp.com> In article <5svhkn$s15$2@ocean.cup.hp.com>, Ken Lui <klui@cup.hp.com> wrote: >In article <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be>, >Zagiel Patrick <pzagiel@cafc.be> wrote: >>I was disapointed not to see the korn shell in openstep 4.2. Is it an >>installation option? >>If not is it posssible to find it elsewhere > >If you want the real ksh, you have to buy it from AT&T. I think >it's US$2000. At least you get the source. Or just set up the key mapping in zsh to emulate ksh. It's free. -- ___ ___ | James E. Quick jq@quick.com / / / | Quick & Associates NeXTMail O.K. \_/ (_\/ | Apple, we know the song's not written yet, ) | but could you at least hum a few more bars?
From: David Grindrod <grindrod@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printing problems with npd-lpr Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 11:12:51 +0200 Organization: EMBL Distribution: world Message-ID: <33F17A93.17DA2304@NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am experiencing problems with printing from my Intel OPENSTEP 4.0 server. All the queues are lpr queues to a a Sun and they work from all other OPENSTEP/NeXTSTEP machines. The problem is that most postscript files do not seem to print out. A sample error message is given below. Sometimes iti s possible to printout with previewer other times not. always when using Tailor.app it does not printout. I have tried copying the directory /usr/lib/NextPrinter from a working system and also the /usr/ucb/lpr program just to check. Always the same problem. Has anyone seen anything like this or have any suggestions on how to track the problem down. It seems this is a local problem as there seems to be no network connection to the printserver before the job is lost. It seems to be in the spooling of the file the problem is seen. I have the correct ppd files installed and if the particular ps file is loaded into another machine then it prints okay. Any help would be appreciated. Dave Aug 13 10:16:51 wallaby npd[213]: /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npd-lpr of Untitled - View 1 exited status = 1 -- David grindrod, NMR System Manager, EMBL Heidelberg. Email: mailto:grindrod@EMBL-Heidelberg.DE HTML Home Page: http://www.NMR.EMBL-Heidelberg.DE/grindrod/
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Crontabs Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:24:43 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970812142226.901A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "Reply-To: " What is the best way for individual users to run cron jobs on a NS 3.3 machine? Other machines I've worked on have had a command /usr/bin/crontab which was used for individual users (as well as root) to submit their crontab list. I see no such crontab command anywhere. Rob
From: customer <customer@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: fsck missing superblocks Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:32:14 -0500 Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <33F0BA3E.2561BADE@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 1997 19:33:13 GMT We had a brownout which hosed the Maxtor XT-8760S in my venerable '040 cube running 3.3. When the power was stable I powered on and the disk will spin up and home but not come ready. It retries every 8 seconds. A disk recovery company was able to copy the sectors to another disk but fsck says "BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG" and the /etc/disk scan function can't find any alternates. The /etc/disk label print and block 16 look reasonable (what I know of them). Is there any way I can write a good magic number in block 16 and fsck -b 16??? Please e-mail daugher@cs.tamu.edu. Many thanks! P.S. The sector size (block size) is 1024.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: fsck missing superblocks Message-ID: <33F0BA5D.FB62D1AA@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> From: customer <customer@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:32:45 -0500 Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Aug 1997 19:33:43 GMT We had a brownout which hosed the Maxtor XT-8760S in my venerable '040 cube running 3.3. When the power was stable I powered on and the disk will spin up and home but not come ready. It retries every 8 seconds. A disk recovery company was able to copy the sectors to another disk but fsck says "BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG" and the /etc/disk scan function can't find any alternates. The /etc/disk label print and block 16 look reasonable (what I know of them). Is there any way I can write a good magic number in block 16 and fsck -b 16??? Please e-mail daugher@cs.tamu.edu. Many thanks! P.S. The sector size (block size) is 1024.
From: Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Has someone created a DISKTAB entry for Iomega ZIP disks? Date: 18 Aug 1997 10:04:28 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Message-ID: <5t96nc$a09@argentina.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Has someone created a DISKTAB entry for Iomega ZIP disks? If so, would you please send it to me? I'm very frustrated on my black hw trying to use the zip drive. TIA -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Ryan Sowers-Martinez <rs007e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> Subject: GUI problem... Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970813095954.9386A-100000@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:01:22 -0400 I am having problems when I boot my NeXT. The GUI won't come up and I don't know enough about NeXT to get it to work again. I know tons about Solaris but little about NeXTStep. If you have any suggestions, I would be *VERY* grateful for them. Thanks. -Ryan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ryan Sowers-Martinez **e-mail: superfly@santafe.edu University of Rochester rs007e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu CPU Box 277395 superfly@aardvark.bcs.rochester.edu Rochester, NY 14627 root@aardvark.bcs.rochester.edu PAGER: 1-888-582-5360 sowers@bcs.rochester.edu (H)716-274-0518 (W)716-275-4067 ** My homepage is located at: http://www.santafe.edu/~superfly -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am reachable by email. My address is: superfly@santafe.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- ________ __ __ ______ ______ _______ ______ __ __ __ | ______| | | | | | ___ | | ____| | ____ | | ____| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | || | | | | \ \ / / | |_____ | | | | | | || | |___ | | || | |___ | | \ \ / / |______ | | | | | | |__|| | ____| | |___|| | ____| | | \ v / | | | | | | | ____| | | | __| | | | | | | ______| | | |__| | | | | |___ | |\ \ | | | |____ | | |_______| |______| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| |______| |_| ********* ******** *** ******* *** *** *** ******** *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Ryan Sowers-Martinez <rs007e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> Subject: Re: x server wanted In-Reply-To: <33EB053F.A036EBD4@kkf.de> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970813100337.9386B-100000@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> To: marc keilwerth <mkeilwerth@kkf.de> Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester Computing Center References: <33EB053F.A036EBD4@kkf.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 10:05:20 -0400 Check out this ftp site: ftp.sunet.se There is a couple of X Windows servers for NeXT you can try. One's called XNeXT and the other is called CubX. Both are pretty good but are commercial packages. I don't know, off hand, of any freeware X window servers for NeXT. Good luck. Let me know what you find. -Ryan ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ryan Sowers-Martinez **e-mail: superfly@santafe.edu University of Rochester rs007e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu CPU Box 277395 superfly@aardvark.bcs.rochester.edu Rochester, NY 14627 root@aardvark.bcs.rochester.edu PAGER: 1-888-582-5360 sowers@bcs.rochester.edu (H)716-274-0518 (W)716-275-4067 ** My homepage is located at: http://www.santafe.edu/~superfly -------------------------------------------------------------------- I am reachable by email. My address is: superfly@santafe.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------- ________ __ __ ______ ______ _______ ______ __ __ __ | ______| | | | | | ___ | | ____| | ____ | | ____| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || | | | | || | | | | \ \ / / | |_____ | | | | | | || | |___ | | || | |___ | | \ \ / / |______ | | | | | | |__|| | ____| | |___|| | ____| | | \ v / | | | | | | | ____| | | | __| | | | | | | ______| | | |__| | | | | |___ | |\ \ | | | |____ | | |_______| |______| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| |______| |_| ********* ******** *** ******* *** *** *** ******** *** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Firewall tool kit and PPP setup Date: 13 Aug 1997 11:41:40 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5ss6hk$lgi$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <33F0E8CE.421D@ana.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: morris@ana.com In <33F0E8CE.421D@ana.com> Morris Djavaheri wrote: > Where can I find software to setup firwall and ppp setup for black > hardware. Setting up a firewall needs more than just some software to run on a machine: to do it properly, you need a bastion host running proxying servers (aka "firewall software") and two packet filtering routers (or equivalently one router with 3 ethernet ports and the capability to filter packets between any combination of the ports). These are used to set up three "trust zones" --- internal, where your client machines will reside, the "DMZ" or "de-militarised zone" where the bastion host and any externally visible WWW/FTP/Mail etc. servers will reside, and the rest of the world. The idea is to force network traffic that crosses the firewall to go via the proxy servers on the bastion host. While in theory it should be possible to use a NextStep or OpenStep machine as a bastion host, this is not recommended since it is relatively easy to enable IP source routing in the kernel by software action *without rebooting the system*, and that can defeat the whole firewall set up. Standard recommendations for a bastion host are to run something like FreeBSD or Solaris. The best place to read about Firewalls is the excellent book by Chapman and Zwicky: "Building Internet Firewalls" D. Brent Chapman & Elizabeth D. Zwicky, O'Reilly & Associates , Sebastopol, California, 1995. ISBN 1-56592-124-0 You can do some filtering on a per-host basis using the tcp_wrapper software by Wietse Venema: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/misc/tcp_wrappers.7.4.NIHS.tar.gz As for PPP software, grab: ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/GateKeeper.2.1.NI.b.tar.gz and ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/internet/ppp/ppp.2.3b3.NIHS.b.tar.gz > Is it possible to setup a black box between you local network and > internet using ISP. Uh --- that depends on exactly what you mean by "set up" and what services your ISP is willing to provide for you and how much you are willing to pay. If (as is usual) your ISP only allocates you a single IP number and won't route packets to your local network unless you pay them lots of money, then you're limited in what you can do. You can run your black next as a proxy web server or as a news server. If your ISP is willing to send you SMTP mail, then your can use the black next as a POP mail server for your local network. 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: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: EIDE install problems (updated) Date: 18 Aug 1997 13:07:21 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5t9he9$ajo@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970816120642.28289A-100000@hei.unige.ch> In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.970816120642.28289A-100000@hei.unige.ch> MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch> writes: > No way to have one hdd on primary and one ATAPI one secondary... it is > supposed to work, but I never seen it in practice ... Funny, that's how EVERY EIDE machine we have is configured, and it works fine. -- 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc From: fugue@ccp.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: fsck missing superblocks In-Reply-To: customer's message of Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:32:14 -0500 Message-ID: <ukv4t8u9j5m.fsf@dura.spc.uchicago.edu> Sender: fugue@dura.spc.uchicago.edu Organization: University of Chicago -- Academic Computing Services References: <33F0BA3E.2561BADE@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 15:50:29 GMT customer <customer@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> said: > > We had a brownout which hosed the Maxtor XT-8760S in my venerable > '040 cube running 3.3. When the power was stable I powered on and the > disk > will spin up and home but not come ready. It retries every 8 seconds. > A disk > recovery company was able to copy the sectors to another disk but fsck > says "BAD > SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG" and the /etc/disk scan function > can't find any alternates. The /etc/disk label print and block 16 look > reasonable > (what I know of them). Is there any way I can write a good magic number > in block > 16 and fsck -b 16??? Please e-mail daugher@cs.tamu.edu. Note: Please read newsgroups in which you ask for a response. :) Now then. You should be able to directly fsck on block 16, as 16 is always a backup superblock w/a good magic number (on at least 4 UNIXen I can think of, including NS/OS). However, you should be aware that it'll only work if the underlying data hasn't been too severely hosed. Depending on the data integrity, a fsck may or may not get your fs back. But then, you've got a recent level 0 of it, right? :) --Mark
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: cmsg cancel <5t9e6d$5qn5234@ren.usr.com> Control: cancel <5t9e6d$5qn5234@ren.usr.com> Date: 18 Aug 1997 13:42:52 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5t9e6d$5qn5234@ren.usr.com> Sender: detective@PI.com Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
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From: dwrenhar@u.washington.edu (David Wren-Hardin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: 4.2 Upgrade problem Date: 18 Aug 1997 18:32:24 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Message-ID: <5ta4fo$1dp4@nntp6.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-User: dwrenhar I'm trying to upgrade a pentium system running openstep 3.3 to 4.2. I put the CD in, ran the installer, and performed a manual upgrade. There were only three files that the program said were "different", only one of which was set to be updated, a file associated with the CD-Rom. I clicked for the upgrade to proceed, and everything appeared to go off without a glitch. I got the message that the upgrade was successful, and to restart. But when I try to reboot, the it just hangs. When I reboot with the -v option, I get a short list of message, starting with NeXT Mach:4.2, several lines saying it found the various PCI devices, then it says: PCI bus support enabled PnP: Plug and Play support enabled And hangs. Obviously, something went wrong. I can't find any mention of such a problem in the FAQ, or on NeXT's web site, or the documention. I can't get into the system to look at the update log to see what files might have been changed. Any ideas? Replies to the group or email are fine. -- David Wren-Hardin | Thousands of years ago the Egyptians dwrenhar@u.washington.edu | worshipped cats as gods. Cats have http://weber.u.washington.edu | never forgotten this. /~dwrenhar/
From: cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Chih Nam Yap) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mounting harddisk problem Date: 18 Aug 1997 20:25:16 GMT Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Message-ID: <5tab3c$8nv$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Hi there, I brought a computer recently, it is a window NT workstation. Later on, I installed Openstep 4.2 onto it. When I run openstep, all the files and directories in the window NT has become a folder under openstep. Due to some window NT problems, I reinstall window NT again, after installation I realise the NT folder originally under openstep has gone. It seems that openstep does not mounted window NT anymore. Can anyone tell me how I can make the window NT files and directories to be one of a folder under openstep again ? Thank you. C.Yap
From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Date: 18 Aug 1997 21:31:39 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> I've been upgrading an intel machine to OS4.2 PR2 "Prelude to Rhapsody". To my surprise the boot progress messages I've been used to: - Checking disk, Configuring devices, Configuring network - and so on have all vanished in favour of the much less informative and useful "Starting OpenStep". Does anyone know of a way to restore the previous behaviour? I've looked at all the rc files - which look the same as ever - checked that /usr/etc/fbshow exists and even tried replacing it with a previous incarnation. Next attempt was using "disk -B" to write back the previous version of /usr/standalone/boot, but this made no difference either. Obviously this doesn't matter much but I'd got used to the earlier and more helpful messages. 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: jth9904@tamu.edu (Jeromy Hollenshead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Printer Parts Date: 18 Aug 1997 21:51:36 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5tag58$djb$1@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Aug 1997 21:51:36 GMT I have several black printers that need to have the gears replaced. Thorough various postings I found a place that would sell the parts to me, but they say the parts are for the canon SX engine and not the UX engine that the NeXT is supposed to have. Is this a problem? Is it possible that these gears are the same? Has anyone ordered these parts and got their printer up and running again? Also, any idea on how long the process should take? Thanks, Jeromy > We have plenty in stock of all of the following: > > rs1-0116, $ 0.81- if you buy 10 they are $0.71 each. > rs1-0132, $ 0.37- if you buy 10 they are $0.30 each. > ra1-8449 (changed to ra1-3851) $6.73. > >The parts you are requesting are for the Canon SX based engines. We >do not have individual parts available for the UX engine at this >time. The only products we can provide are exchanges on the whole >printers for $195.00 or the fuser units for $99.00. >The SX pick up roller can be used though it is slightly larger and >temporally buckles the paper as it passes through the printer. The > part # for the roller is RA1-3851-000, and the cost is $6.95. --
From: Kai Cherry <mrkai@sakurakai.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: new to next-need setup help! Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 17:47:10 -0400 Organization: @Home Networks Message-ID: <33F8C2DD.5A12EEEA@sakurakai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit If there is a FAQ that will help me I'll glady read it :) My problem: I'm on a tcpip network. I need to know where to plug in what I need to access the nameserver, etc. In other words: How do I set up my TurboColor slab as a client on a non next TCP/IP network? Thanks heaps for all help!
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: new to next-need setup help! Date: 18 Aug 1997 22:27:23 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tai8b$206$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33F8C2DD.5A12EEEA@sakurakai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mrkai@sakurakai.com In <33F8C2DD.5A12EEEA@sakurakai.com> Kai Cherry wrote: > If there is a FAQ that will help me I'll glady read it :) at least you didn't post it to all the groups. > I'm on a tcpip network. @Home ? Me too! Neat, eh? > I need to know where to plug in what I need to access the nameserver, > etc. Assuming you have your NeXT's hostname set to "cc643893-a" then your /etc/resolv.conf file should look like this: catv1.md.home.com 24.3.xxx.yyy 24.3.aaa.bbb Where those last numbers are the Primary & Secondary DNS Server Addresses, as listed on the work order sheet you should have received when they installed it. > How do I set up my TurboColor slab as a client on a non next TCP/IP > network? A TCP/IP network is a TCP/IP network.... it has nothing to do with being a NeXT or non-NeXT one.... You will want to set up the router information (called the Default Gateway Address on the work order) in HostManager.app, I think. TjL ps -- if your cable company carries the F/X channel and you'd like to do me a favor, please drop me an email asap! -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Printer Parts Date: 18 Aug 1997 22:19:52 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tahq8$206$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5tag58$djb$1@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jth9904@tamu.edu The exact part can be found at http://www.peak.org/~luomat/next/printerinfo.html TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: Jochen Klinke <jklinke@ucsd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help with standalone setup Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:10:58 -0700 Organization: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Message-ID: <33F8D682.D4AD1889@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> Dear Sysadmins, <BR>I have been trying to set up a P133 laptop as NS3.3i standalone machine with PCMCIA network connection to the internet. I followed the instructions in the Network and Sysadmin documentation, to set the host name, IP, router, broadcast, net mask, etc. in the HostManager. On bootup the machine hangs/stops on "starting file service daemons" and complains "autonfsmount: can't get my address". Then it stops at "network service daemons: inetd" and after a while of waiting it finally completes the boot process. So I entered a host entry (host name, IP and en addresses) for the machine. Now it boots without complaining, but for some reason, I still cannot reach any machine on my local network, even if I ping the IP addresses of the respective machines (and yes, I do have a /etc/resolv.conf with the correct domain and name server entries). "ifconfig en0" shows the interface up and running with the correct values for net mask, etc. "netstat -ir" shows output as one finds it in the documentation and the LED's on the PCMCIA adapter show network traffic. What did I do wrong? <P>Any ideas and/or help very much appreciated, <BR>Jochen</HTML>
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with standalone setup Date: 18 Aug 1997 23:33:41 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tam4l$206$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33F8D682.D4AD1889@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jklinke@ucsd.edu In <33F8D682.D4AD1889@ucsd.edu> Jochen Klinke wrote IN HORRIBLE HTML FORMAT WHICH HE PROMISED NEVER EVER EVER TO DO AGAIN :-) > I have been trying to set up a P133 laptop as NS3.3i standalone > machine with PCMCIA network connection to the internet. I followed > the instructions in the Network and Sysadmin documentation, to > set the host name, IP, router, broadcast, net mask, etc. in the > HostManager. Sounds good. > On bootup the machine hangs/stops on "starting file service > daemons" and complains "autonfsmount: can't get my address". > Then it stops at "network service daemons: inetd" and after a > while of waiting it finally completes the boot process. > > So I entered a host entry (host name, IP and en addresses) for > the machine. Now it boots without complaining, but for some > reason, I still cannot reach any machine on my local network, > even if I ping the IP addresses of the respective machines (and > yes, I do have a /etc/resolv.conf with the correct domain and > name server entries). "ifconfig en0" shows the interface up and > running with the correct values for net mask, etc. "netstat -ir" > shows output as one finds it in the documentation and the LED's > on the PCMCIA adapter show network traffic. What did I do wrong? Hrm... I'm not sure what the 'right' way to solve this is... Is there an entry for 'localhost' with an IP 127.0.0.1? And another one for the other hostname and IP? Do you have a static IP? IE what does 'nidump hosts /' show? TjL, reeling from having seen _two_ nasty HTML attachments in one day *yuck ptooey* -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: kwong@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Kai S. Wong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Korn Shell for openstep intel Date: 18 Aug 1997 23:35:07 GMT Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland Message-ID: <5tam7b$h3p$1@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> References: <pzagiel-1410560109070001@cafc.eunet.be> pzagiel@cafc.be (Zagiel Patrick) writes: >I was disapointed not to see the korn shell in openstep 4.2. Is it an >installation option? >If not is it posssible to find it elsewhere >Thanks in advance >Zagiel Patrick >pzagiel@odyssey.lu (bruxelles) I don't see any reason why not using pdksh.5.2.12.NI.tar.gz. It is POSIX compliance. kai kwong@cs.mun.ca O DO AGAIN :-) > > Hrm... I'm not sure what the 'right' way to solve this is... > > Is there an entry for 'localhost' with an IP 127.0.0.1? And another > one for > the other hostname and IP? Do you have a static IP? I guess. The IP was assigned by a sysadmin and will not change for that host name. Is that what static IP refers to? > > IE what does 'nidump hosts /' show? iT SHOWS AN ENTRY FOR LOCALHOST AT 127.0.0.1, an entry for broadcasthost at 255.255.255.255, even though I set the broadcast to 132.239.255.255 in the Hostmanager, one entry for the host with the correct ip address, and another entry for another UNIX box. Should I remove the broadcasthost entry? Thanks for your effort, jk PS Is the format better now? > TjL, reeling from having seen _two_ nasty HTML attachments in one day > *yuck > ptooey*
From: not_a@real_address-antispam.com ("Arthur C. Kyle") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Can't access SlimSCSI on Toshiba Tecra 740CDT Date: 19 Aug 1997 00:07:26 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <5tao3u$7ps$2@news2.sirius.com> I've installed OPENSTEP 4.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 740CDT (the dual IDE driver accessed the internal CD). However, though the machine boots and runs fine, I cannot access an Adaptec SlimSCSI card. I have been told that the ATAPI driver grabs the internal CD drive, allowing access to it as if it were a SCSI drive (making it sd0), thus precluding the use of a real SCSI bus. I have switched to the regular, single IDE driver (though there are apparently corruption dangers in this due to the different ways each driver determines disk geometry) but though the machine boots, I still cannot access the SlimSCSI. I'm specifying the Adaptec PCMCIA to 6360 SCSI driver v4.00 in Configure, but when booting -v I see no reference to the SCSI bus. I do get a reference to PCMCIA in /usr/adm/messages: [snip] : PCI Ver=2.10 BusCount=22 Features=[ BIOS16 CM1 ] : Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x06011179 at Dev=0 Func=0 Bus=0 : Found PCI 2.0 device: ID=0x00e4102c at Dev=4 Func=0 Bus=0 : PCI bus support enabled : PnP: Plug and Play support enabled : PnP: Plug and Play BIOS present : PnP: read port 0x0, max csn 0 : ISA/EISA bus support enabled : ISA bus : DriverKit version 420 : Registering: ISASerialPort0 : ISASerialPort0: Base=0x03f8, IRQ=4, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16 : Registering: ISASerialPort1 : ISASerialPort1: Base=0x02f8, IRQ=3, Type=16550AF/C/CF, FIFO=16 : Registering: fc0 : Registering: fd0 : Registering: PS2Controller : Registering: PCKeyboard0 : Registering: PCMCIA0 : PCI bus support enabled : Registering: PCI0 : Registering: EISA0 [etc.] No references to Adaptec or SCSI. I know the card is likely OK, because it works fine under Win95. I tried again to reinstall the OS, but although I load the PCMCIA and IDE drivers and nothing more, I end up with this: No SCSI controller or CD-ROM drive found use sd%d, hd%d, fd%d, en%d or tr%d root device? I've used a variety of CD drives (Toshiba, Yamaha, Panasonic) and HDs, at different IDs. I suspect that I have a driver problem, or perhaps the 740's PCMCIA chipset is different from the 720's? I'd appreciate any tips, as I am about to go out of town and need to access Jaz disks. Thanks for your help. --Arthur Kyle ack at skylee dot com
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with standalone setup Date: 19 Aug 1997 01:00:01 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tar6h$206$10@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33F8D682.D4AD1889@ucsd.edu> <5tam4l$206$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <33F8E4A4.2B06E8F2@ucsd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jklinke@ucsd.edu In <33F8E4A4.2B06E8F2@ucsd.edu> Jochen Klinke wrote: > > > > > Is there an entry for 'localhost' with an IP 127.0.0.1? And another one > > for the other hostname and IP? Do you have a static IP? > > > I guess. The IP was assigned by a sysadmin and will not change for that > host name. Is that what static IP refers to? Yup... static = non-changing versus dynamic (new one every time you dial-up) > > IE what does 'nidump hosts /' show? > > iT SHOWS AN ENTRY FOR LOCALHOST AT 127.0.0.1, an entry for broadcasthost > at 255.255.255.255, even though I set the broadcast to 132.239.255.255 > in the Hostmanager, one entry for the host with the correct ip address, > and another entry for another UNIX box. broadcasthost should be 255.255.255.255, I believe. Run 'ifconfig -a' and see if you get something like this: lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet your.ip.address.here netmask ffffff00 broadcast 132.239.255.255 > PS Is the format better now? Yes, thank you TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: siffi@localhost.treknet.is (Sigthor Hrafnsson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: seting up Openstep client Date: 18 Aug 1997 19:37:56 GMT Organization: Treknet Message-ID: <5ta8ak$g58$1@news.treknet.is> Hi all I'm about to connect a OpenStep machine to intranet as client. I don't have any idea as to where to start? There are 3 Win95 machines that are connected with a D-link. The server is Solaris. I need to to connect OpenStep to this D-link. Can anyone tell me where I need to start, suggested reading... And if this process is a complicated one? help! thanks in advance siffi@treknet.is rochester.edu> writes: > I am having problems when I boot my NeXT. The GUI won't come up and I > don't know enough about NeXT to get it to work again. I know tons about > Solaris but little about NeXTStep. If you have any suggestions, I would > be *VERY* grateful for them. Thanks. > > -Ryan > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ryan Sowers-Martinez **e-mail: superfly@santafe.edu > University of Rochester rs007e@uhura.cc.rochester.edu > CPU Box 277395 superfly@aardvark.bcs.rochester.edu > Rochester, NY 14627 root@aardvark.bcs.rochester.edu > PAGER: 1-888-582-5360 sowers@bcs.rochester.edu > (H)716-274-0518 > (W)716-275-4067 > > ** My homepage is located at: http://www.santafe.edu/~superfly > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > I am reachable by email. My address is: superfly@santafe.edu > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > ________ __ __ ______ ______ _______ ______ __ __ __ > | ______| | | | | | ___ | | ____| | ____ | | ____| | | | | | | > | | | | | | | | || | | | | || | | | | \ \ / / > | |_____ | | | | | | || | |___ | | || | |___ | | \ \ / / > |______ | | | | | | |__|| | ____| | |___|| | ____| | | \ v / > | | | | | | | ____| | | | __| | | | | | | > ______| | | |__| | | | | |___ | |\ \ | | | |____ | | > |_______| |______| |_| |_____| |_| \_\ |_| |______| |_| > ********* ******** *** ******* *** *** *** ******** *** > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: "Gerardo Quinonez, M.D." <quinonez@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: help with sendmail and glitches Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 01:07:32 -0700 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <33F95444.E6EB610C@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I sent this message to Francois Magnan but it keeps getting sent back to me by his filter. I tried to send it under NT and NSFIP3.3 without success. Hope he reads this or someone else can help. To MR. Magnan: Hello, I initially sent this mail from my NeXT partition, but it got sent back to me by your filter. My original questions are at the bottom. Essentially, I cant send mail to newsgroups from NSFIP 3.3 because they think its spam I guess. The From: field must not match my machine. Please help. This is my mail filter. This email has headers which match the following pattern: * The Received: headers indicate it came through a particular system whose mail servers are open and which has a problem with SMTP forgeries. * The From: line shows an email address from a totally different and unrelated system. This pattern is typical of a particularly nasty kind of forged spam, and as far as I know cannot be produced without intentional forgery of headers except when sent to a site at that system or which gets connectivity from that system. It was therefore flagged by my mailer as spam based on this. I am therefore notifying the appropriate "abuse" addresses for their action. Happy hunting! <sigh> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >From gq@earthlink.net Tue Aug 19 00:11:00 1997 Return-Path: <gq@earthlink.net> Received: from esi20.ESI.UMontreal.CA (esi20.ESI.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.90]) by condor.CC.UMontreal.CA with ESMTP id AAA04405 (8.6.11/IDA-1.6 for <magnan@dms.umontreal.ca>); Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:10:08 -0400 Received: from condor.CC.UMontreal.CA (condor.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.103]) by esi20.ESI.UMontreal.CA with ESMTP id AAA25080 (8.6.11/IDA-1.6 for <magnan@MATHCN.UMontreal.CA>); Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:10:41 -0400 Received: from belize.it.earthlink.net (belize-c.it.earthlink.net [204.250.46.130]) by condor.CC.UMontreal.CA with ESMTP id AAA04401 (8.6.11/IDA-1.6 for <magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca>); Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:10:07 -0400 Received: from earthlink.net (ip36.an5-new-york4.ny.pub-ip.psi.net [38.26.16.36]) by belize.it.earthlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07053 for <magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca>; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 21:10:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gq@localhost) by earthlink.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA00232 for magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca; Tue, 19 Aug 1997 00:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199708190712.AAA00232@earthlink.net> Content-Type: application/x-nextmail 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: Gerardo Quinonez <gq@earthlink.net> From: quinonez@earthlink.net Date: Tue, 19 Aug 97 00:12:26 -0700 To: magnan@mathcn.umontreal.ca Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.8.5 for PPP Reply-To: quinonez@earthlink.net content-length: 3907 hello sir. I installed your software, everything works just fine. However there are a couple of glitches that I cant seem to resolve. The following is what I get when I send mail to another of my other accounts. Return-Path: <gq@earthlink.net> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 3.3 (Enhance 2.0b6) Sender: Gerardo Quinonez <gq@earthlink.net> From: quinonez@earthlink.net Date: Mon, 18 Aug 97 23:59:58 -0700 To: quinonez@ucla.edu Subject: eart Reply-To: quinonez@earthlink.net My machine name at home is typhus. My login is gq. My provider domain is earthlink.net, and do not have a static IP address. My true email address is quinonez@earthlink.net. However , in the above fields I still get the return path as gq@earthlink.net which does not exist. This also happens in Sender. This does not affect my mail and people can respond just fine. But what can I do to change this? I followed your instructions exactly. As a matter of fact, I would want the From to be just my name and not my email address, is this changeable? I tried to change the from field in the expert settings but reverts back to quinonez@earthlink.net Another problem that I get is that I cannot seem to send to newsgroups from any software since it tells me that "From: address not in Internet syntax". Isthat a configuration issue with sendmail? Actually, where does mail.app or popover.app get my name Gerardo Quinonez from? Can I change that, in what file? Sorry for all the questions? Thanks for your help. Gerardo Quinonez -- _____________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@earthlink.net> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SUNmail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: help with sendmail and glitches Date: 19 Aug 1997 06:25:30 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tbe8q$4tu$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33F95444.E6EB610C@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: quinonez@earthlink.net In <33F95444.E6EB610C@earthlink.net> "Gerardo Quinonez, M.D." wrote: > I sent this message to Francois Magnan but it keeps getting sent back to > me by his filter. I tried to send it under NT and NSFIP3.3 without > success. Hope he reads this or someone else can help. Complain to earthlink that their lax spam-policies are interfering with your legitamate use of their services! Earthlink has a number of open STMP port which allow spammers to 'relay' their spam off their machines. Therefore earthlink mail is increasingly being filtered as being more spam than not. [this part is from Francois' mail filter] > * The Received: headers indicate it came through a particular > system whose mail servers are open and which has a problem > with SMTP forgeries. > * The From: line shows an email address from a totally different > and unrelated system. My guess is that if you setup sendmail properly, this will no longer be a problem. [ note: now quoting quinonez@earthlink.net ] > Return-Path: <gq@earthlink.net> > Sender: Gerardo Quinonez <gq@earthlink.net> > From: quinonez@earthlink.net > To: quinonez@ucla.edu > Reply-To: quinonez@earthlink.net > > My machine name at home is typhus. My login is gq. My provider domain is > earthlink.net, and do not have a static IP address. > My true email address is > quinonez@earthlink.net. However , in the above fields I still get the > return path as gq@earthlink.net which does not exist. This > also happens in Sender. This does not affect my mail and people can > respond just fine. But what can I do to change this? 1) make your username on your machine 'quinonez' rather than 'gq' it will solve this problem 2) try the 'allmasquerade' feature for sendmail -- it might solve the problem The sender line is there for some verification, to keep you from pretending to be someone else. Change your local username and it will go away... You cannot change the Return-Path without changing your local username, I think > I followed your instructions exactly. As a matter of fact, I would want the > From to be just my name and not my email address, is this changeable? I > tried to change the from field in the expert settings > but reverts back to quinonez@earthlink.net You do _not_ want to do this. There are (admittedly deficient) mail programs out there that ignore the Reply-To line. If you send to them you can never get a response! > Another problem that I get is that I cannot seem to send to newsgroups > from any software since it tells me that "From: address > not in Internet syntax". Isthat a configuration issue with sendmail? How are you trying to 'send to newsgroups'? That is not something that sendmail does. > Actually, where does mail.app or popover.app get my name Gerardo > Quinonez from? Can I change that, in what file? Probably from UserManager/NetInfo > Sorry for all the questions? I don't know, are you? Further questions should go to comp.mail.sendmail, as this is not really a NeXTStep issue... and read www.sendmail.org for further information and configuration. TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: gh@middlemarch.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PPP connection problem Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 03:04:01 -0400 Organization: Smartnet Internet Services [via news] Message-ID: <33F94561.221D@middlemarch.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm having problems getting PPP running properly. I've installed PPP 2.2 and GateKeeper 2.1 on Openstep 4.0/Intel. I select the Dial command from GateKeeper, enter the phone number and get a connection to my ISP. The terminal window pops up and I enter my user name, password, select PPP (my ISP requires that I select PPP or SLIP etc. from a menu), then the ascii garbage starts filling the window. When I click on the GateKeeper ppp switch at this point, I get the following response in the Diagnostics window: /usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/options Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton pppd[344]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (BUSY) Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (NO CARRIER) Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (ERROR) Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: send (AT&F^M) Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: expect (OK) Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: alarm Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: Failed Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton pppd[344]: Connect script failed Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton pppd[351]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 What's going wrong and how can I get a PPP connection at this point? Thanks, Greg
From: jut@ukrv.de (Jens-Uwe Thieme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mounting harddisk problem Date: 19 Aug 1997 08:30:14 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Message-ID: <5tblim$km1$2@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> References: <5tab3c$8nv$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk In <5tab3c$8nv$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Chih Nam Yap wrote: > > Hi there, > > I brought a computer recently, it is a window NT workstation. Later on, > I installed Openstep 4.2 onto it. When I run openstep, all the files and > directories in the window NT has become a folder under openstep. > > Due to some window NT problems, I reinstall window NT again, after installation > I realise the NT folder originally under openstep has gone. It seems that > openstep does not mounted window NT anymore. > > Can anyone tell me how I can make the window NT files and directories to > be one of a folder under openstep again ? > > Thank you. > > > > > C.Yap > I think in your first installation you use the FAT-filesystem on NT, now you have installed NT with the NTFS-filesystem. NextStep and OpenStep can only read (and write) FAT partitions but not NTFS parts. CIAO JUT -- -------------------------------------------------------------- - send to : jut@ukrv.de or jut@rz.charite.hu-berlin.de - - -> NeXTMail & PGP welcome <- - - phone : +49 30 450 66127 - - fax: +49 30 450 66937 - -------------------------------------------------------------- - location : virchow-hospital in berlin (germany) - -------------------------------------------------------------- - "I am saddened -- not by Microsoft's success, I have no - - problem with their success, they've earned their success - - ...for the most part -- I have a problem with the fact - - that they just make really third-rate products." - - - - Steven Paul Jobs - --------------------------------------------------------------
From: Kirk <kirk@unforgettable.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Mailx for NeXT 3.1 Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 16:59:29 -0600 Organization: Brigham Young University Message-ID: <33F8D3D1.1A39890B@unforgettable.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone know where to get MAILX for NeXT? I've installed qmail instead of sendmail and it requires mailx it seems. I've tried to find mailx but haven't been able to yet. This NeXT admin is new to me yet. Any help would be great! Kirk
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help with standalone setup Date: 19 Aug 1997 09:43:53 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5tbpsp$fs21@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <33F8D682.D4AD1889@ucsd.edu> <5tam4l$206$6@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> : [...] : broadcasthost should be 255.255.255.255, I believe. : : Run 'ifconfig -a' and see if you get something like this: : : lo0: flags=869<UP,LOOPBACK,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> : inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 : en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> : inet your.ip.address.here netmask ffffff00 broadcast 132.239.255.255 This asks for trouble! Either your netmask ist 'ffffff00', then your broadcast address (not the broadcasthost, leave that as it is!) is 132.239.xxx.255, with xxx not being 255, but your (class-c like) subnetaddress. On the other hand if you really are on a non-subnetted class-c network, then the mask should be 'ffff0000'. The latter could/would explain, why you don't get a 'response', as if you have no 'default' route, the system doesn't now where to transmit the packages to. To analyze, try the following, using IP-addresses (not names) at first: ping localhost! Any response? ping 'the address of your interface'! Any response. ping 'the broadcastaddress' (like 132.239.255.255 if that's valide!)! Any response? Change the 'all one' to all zeroes and ping that (e.g. 132.239.0.0)! Any response? If your address is dynamically assigned, ping the address of the assigning host. It must have reached you at least once, after all. If ping's other than from your own host are answered, test the naming system (netinfo, and DNS, if applicable). Check for reverse (number to name) resolution. If on a PPP-like connection, check the 'arp-proxy' of your counterpart for your IP-number. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can't access SlimSCSI on Toshiba Tecra 740CDT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 19 Aug 1997 09:52:04 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5tbqc4$fs22@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5tao3u$7ps$2@news2.sirius.com> The problem is most likely (from your boot-messages), that you didn't include the driver for the PCMCIA-hostbridge, which hopefully is an Intel-compatible PCIC one. It used to be on a 730CDT, because I had a jaz-drive on it under OPENSTEP. So add the PCIC-driver, which should lead to the detection of your PCMCIA-(SCSI-)card, which in turn should lead to the detection of (SCSI-)devices. The ATAPI cdrom always get an 'sd'-entry (faked), regardless of the (E)IDE driver (dual or not) and if real scsi-devices are present. Just see to it, that the real SCSI-devices are registered first (order of 'bootdrivers' in System.config) before the ATAPI-CD device, otherwise you can get into trouble in that the device is detected properly, but can't be 'managed' once the system is up and if there then is an 'sd0'-entry in the '/etc/fstab' file, you'll lose. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can't access SlimSCSI on Toshiba Tecra 740CDT Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Date: 19 Aug 1997 09:55:58 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5tbqje$fs23@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5tao3u$7ps$2@news2.sirius.com> And one thing I forgot. Put the notebook chips to PCIC-compatible mode(!); there used to be a selection on 'hardware' setup under DOS/WIN(95) between that and another on I forgot on the 730CDT Ruediger
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Message-ID: <EF5Mv6.5B0@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:40:18 GMT In article <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) writes: > I've been upgrading an intel machine to OS4.2 PR2 "Prelude to > Rhapsody". > > To my surprise the boot progress messages I've been used to: > - Checking disk, Configuring devices, Configuring network - and so on > have all vanished in favour of the much less informative and useful > "Starting OpenStep". > > Does anyone know of a way to restore the previous behaviour? > > I've looked at all the rc files - which look the same as ever - > checked that /usr/etc/fbshow exists and even tried replacing it with a > previous incarnation. > > Next attempt was using "disk -B" to write back the previous version of > /usr/standalone/boot, but this made no difference either. > > Obviously this doesn't matter much but I'd got used to the earlier and > more helpful messages. > > 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 > Have a look at /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table (Open System.config as folder). Modify the line "Boot Graphics" = "Yes"; to "Boot Graphics" = "No"; You can also use Configure.app's expert button in the first (the overview) window to change this. Hope this helps, Robert. -- ========================================================================== Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany ==========================================================================
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: robert@onevision.de (Robert Wunderer) Subject: Re: Mounting harddisk problem Message-ID: <EF5MpC.5A3@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <5tab3c$8nv$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:36:47 GMT In article <5tab3c$8nv$1@bignews.shef.ac.uk> cnyap@dcs.shef.ac.uk (Chih Nam Yap) writes: > > Hi there, > > I brought a computer recently, it is a window NT workstation. Later on, > I installed Openstep 4.2 onto it. When I run openstep, all the files and > directories in the window NT has become a folder under openstep. > > Due to some window NT problems, I reinstall window NT again, after installation > I realise the NT folder originally under openstep has gone. It seems that > openstep does not mounted window NT anymore. > > Can anyone tell me how I can make the window NT files and directories to > be one of a folder under openstep again ? > > Thank you. > > > > > C.Yap You can format your windows nt partition using the fat or ntfs filesystem. Perhaps you first had fat, which can be mounted by nextstep/openstep and you now have ntfs, which cannot be mounted. If you have ntfs and don't want to reformat (and therefore reinstall) your windows nt, you'll need vmount. See ftp://peanuts.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount* for further information. Hope this helps, Robert. -- ========================================================================= Robert Wunderer OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeissstrasse 9 Email:robert@onevision.de 93053 Regensburg (NextMail,MIME welcome) Germany =========================================================================
From: far@ix.netcom.com(Felipe A. Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: PPP connection problem Date: 19 Aug 1997 14:13:47 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5tc9mr$r70@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> References: <33F94561.221D@middlemarch.net> In article <33F94561.221D@middlemarch.net> gh@middlemarch.net writes: >I'm having problems getting PPP running properly. >I've installed PPP 2.2 and GateKeeper 2.1 on Openstep 4.0/Intel. >I select the Dial command from GateKeeper, enter the phone number >and get a connection to my ISP. The terminal window pops up and I >enter my user name, password, select PPP (my ISP requires that I >select PPP or SLIP etc. from a menu), then the ascii >garbage starts filling the window. When I click on the GateKeeper >ppp switch at this point, I get the following response in the >Diagnostics window: > >/usr/local/bin/pppd -detach file /LocalApps/GateKeeper.app/options >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton pppd[344]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (BUSY) >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (NO CARRIER) >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (NO DIAL TONE) >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: abort on (ERROR) >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: send (AT&F^M) >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: expect (OK) >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: alarm >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton chat[346]: Failed >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton pppd[344]: Connect script failed >Aug 16 12:51:22 tipton pppd[351]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0 > > >What's going wrong and how can I get a PPP connection at this point? > The above suggests that your options file is directing pppd to call a chat script. The latest versions of GateKeeper do this for you in scripted mode. In the case of manual dial it makes no sense to call a chat script once you've connected and logged in to your provider. Edit the options file to remove the directive which calls a chat script. See "man pppd" for details. Also look at GateKeeper's online help as well as the example files. >Thanks, >Greg -- Felipe A. Rodriguez # Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from Agoura Hills, CA # being a private citizen because he was # armed; his successors, since they avoided far@ix.netcom.com # the inconveniences of arms, became private (NeXTmail preferred) # citizens after having been dukes. (MIMEmail welcome) # --Nicolo Machiavelli
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From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Date: 19 Aug 1997 15:38:57 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <5tcemh$cl@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> References: <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> <EF5Mv6.5B0@onevision.de> Robert Wunderer (robert@onevision.de) wrote: > > Have a look at /usr/Devices/System.config/Instance0.table (Open > System.config as folder). Modify the line "Boot Graphics" = "Yes"; to > "Boot Graphics" = "No"; You can also use Configure.app's expert button in > the first (the overview) window to change this. This isn't quite what I meant I'm afraid. This setting switches between a graphical boot screen and what's effectively a text-mode verbose boot. Boot Graphics = "No" is helpful in solving a problem with the Intel Triton chipset and some S3 video cards. The problem I have is one of a graphical boot but without the familiar progress messages including a bar-graph and fbshow messages indicating the start of various unix and NeXT services. Instead of this I get only the initial graphical screen saying "Starting Openstep" which persists until switching video modes to the login prompt. I can see why Apple might want to hide any mention of unix services in the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, so maybe this is just something I'll have to live with. Thanks, Neville -- Internet: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk PGP 2.x public key available
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:01:18 -0600 From: dobst@dlink.com Subject: Re: seting up Openstep client Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <872026587.2067@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service To: wbrown@dlink.com References: <5ta8ak$g58$1@news.treknet.is> In article <5ta8ak$g58$1@news.treknet.is>, siffi@treknet.is wrote: > > Hi all > > I'm about to connect a OpenStep machine to intranet as client. > > I don't have any idea as to where to start? > > There are 3 Win95 machines that are connected with a D-link. > The server is Solaris. > > I need to to connect OpenStep to this D-link. > > Can anyone tell me where I need to start, suggested reading... > > And if this process is a complicated one? > > help! > > thanks in advance > > siffi@treknet.is Which D-link product are you using? Detlev Obst Sr. Network Engineer D-Link Systems, Inc. -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: not_a@real_address.see_below ("Arthur C. Kyle") Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Can't access SlimSCSI on Toshiba Tecra 740CDT - SOLVED Date: 19 Aug 1997 22:26:19 GMT Organization: Sirius Connections Message-ID: <5td6ib$9dj$2@news1.sirius.com> References: <5tao3u$7ps$2@news2.sirius.com> <5tbqc4$fs22@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) wrote: > The problem is most likely (from your boot-messages), that > you didn't include the driver for the PCMCIA-hostbridge, > which hopefully is an Intel-compatible PCIC one. I had indeed not loaded the proper PCMCIA drivers. I had been loading the Intel824X0 PCI host bridge and the Intel 82365 PCMCIA->PCI Bus Bridge as well as the PCMCIA Bus Support, but actually I should have loaded only the Intel 82365 PCMCIA Adapter and the PCMCIA Bus Support drivers. With that change, the SlimSCSI card is working now. Thank you! > The ATAPI cdrom always get an 'sd'-entry (faked), regardless > of the (E)IDE driver (dual or not) and if real scsi-devices > are present. Just see to it, that the real SCSI-devices are > registered first (order of 'bootdrivers' in System.config) > before the ATAPI-CD device I've changed to the dual EIDE driver, and the internal CD-ROM drive appears as a SCSI device after whatever is on the SlimSCSI. My Boot Drivers are, in order, "ISASerialPort Floppy PS2Keyboard PCMCIABus PCIBus EISABus PCIC AIC6X60SCSI EIDE." > And one thing I forgot. Put the notebook chips to > PCIC-compatible mode(!); there used to be a selection > on 'hardware' setup under DOS/WIN(95) between that and > another on I forgot on the 730CDT Interesting. I had changed that mode from 16-bit/CardBus to PCIC using the "Toshiba System" utility (you can also hit Esc during initial boot and make the change in the BIOS), though at the time it was an act of desperation. All is working now. Thanks again for your help. --Arthur ack at skylee dot com
From: Michael Groff <mg8@mssm.doc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Help: can't read from disk Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:28:10 -0700 Organization: Mount Sinai Hospital Message-ID: <33FA482A.1E5A@mssm.doc.edu> References: <33F94561.221D@middlemarch.net> <5tc9mr$r70@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When my NeXT Slab '040 accesses the external hard drive (also the boot device) it generates the following error: MEDIA ERROR; block whatever retry n I would like to remove these bad blocks from the disk and then reinstall the OS from CD-ROM. Any suggestions? Thaks in advance, michael groff mg8@doc.mssm.edu
From: Enrique Batista <erb@u.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Accounts lost Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 18:06:23 -0700 Organization: University of Washington Message-ID: <Pine.A41.3.96a.970819175147.66000A-100000@dante29.u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-User: erb Hi everybody, Here we had a problem. When trying to set up a new account we entered as directory name for the new account, /Homes, and nothing else. As a result, all the existing accounts, were erased. The home directories were inside of /Homes. Does anybody know if there is any way of recovering something? Thanks for your help, Enrique PS: The system is a Nextstation running NEXTstep 3.0.
From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Problems with parallel port Followup-To: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: 12 Aug 1997 12:45:18 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5splsu$5fq3@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <871388727.20101@dejanews.com> Peter Lindberg (peter@us.upnet.se) wrote: : Hello. : : I have the following problem: : [...] : : Does anyone know what I need to do to get it working? Sometimes it is important, that the printer is hooked up and switched on(!), just to be recognized. On the other hand: Check that there is no problem between driver and port (i.e. boot verbose (-v) and see if there are any (additional) messages when pp0 is reported available. Greetings, Ruediger Oberhage -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Possible to use PC internal speaker for system beeps? Date: 20 Aug 1997 00:38:37 -0400 Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc. Message-ID: <5tdscd$o6p$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Is it possible for OSfM/I to use the PC internal speaker for system beeps? No sound card is installed, but I want to be able to hear incoming talk requests.
From: dwy@ace.net (David Young) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Date: 20 Aug 1997 04:40:37 GMT Organization: 21st Century Software, New York City Sender: daver@ts3-4.nj.cnct.com Message-ID: <5tdsg5$qkh$1@darla.visi.com> References: <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> <EF5Mv6.5B0@onevision.de> <5tcemh$cl@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 1997 23:40:37 CDT Cc: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk In <5tcemh$cl@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Neville Wilford wrote: > I can see why Apple might want to hide any mention of unix services > in the Prelude to Rhapsody bundle, so maybe this is just something > I'll have to live with. No, it's not. /usr/etc/fbshow ... is used to show messages on the framebuffer (duh). Usage is as follows: fbshow -B -I "Starting local services" -z 92 I don't boot with graphics on any of my machines, so I'm not sure if this works, but this is the command you'd want to use. -- :: d a v i d y o u n g ::::: smtp dwy@ace.net http www.ace.net :: :: "I graduated from the school of ruckus." -- Wyclef Jean :::::::
From: iboehme@abm08.abm.de (Ivo Boehme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PROBLEM: configuration server not responding to request for hostname Date: 20 Aug 1997 09:23:20 GMT Organization: Nacamar Data Communications Message-ID: <5ted29$8gs$1@news.nacamar.de> Hi all, we are experiencing a problem for which we don't have an explanation. After setting up a network of 3 clients and one server (all intel boxes), the clients are at boot time unable to receive their correct hostname (and probably their inet number). Of couse, the hostconfig file on the server has the entry: NETMASTER=-YES- The bootpd demon is running as well to serve the BOOTP protocol. Any pointers are greatly appreciated. ThanX id advance ... Regards, Ivo
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From: phy070@spo109 (H.-R. Oberhage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Possible to use PC internal speaker for system beeps? Date: 20 Aug 1997 09:37:06 GMT Organization: Universitaet Essen GH, Germany Message-ID: <5teds2$gkm10@mx2.hrz.uni-essen.de> References: <5tdscd$o6p$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Nathan Urban (nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu) wrote: : Is it possible for OSfM/I to use the PC internal speaker for system : beeps? No sound card is installed, but I want to be able to hear : incoming talk requests. Nothing easier that that, just select the 'Beep' driver with Configure(.app) in /NextAdmin in the "soundselection"-compartment and you're done! Greetings, Ruediger -- H.-R. Oberhage Mail: Univ.-GH Essen E-Mail: phy070@sp2.power.Uni-Essen.DE Fachbereich 7 (Physik) ruediger@Theo-Phys.Uni-Essen.DE S05 V07 E88 Universitaetsstrasse 5 Phone: (+49) 201 / 183-2493 D-45117 Essen, Germany FAX: (+49) 201 / 183-2120
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From: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Date: 20 Aug 1997 10:32:40 GMT Organization: (dis)organised Message-ID: <5teh48$e0@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> References: <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> <EF5Mv6.5B0@onevision.de> <5tdsg5$qkh$1@darla.visi.com> David Young (dwy@ace.net) wrote: > /usr/etc/fbshow > ... is used to show messages on the framebuffer (duh). Usage is as follows: > fbshow -B -I "Starting local services" -z 92 > I don't boot with graphics on any of my machines, so I'm not sure if this > works, but this is the command you'd want to use. Thank you David. What's very odd is that all the fbshow lines are in the various /etc/rc files exactly as they always were - it's just that they no longer have any effect. Diffs on my old rc files and the new ones show no changes except for a few things I'd added to the old rc.local. Permissions are ok and as I wrote earlier, I've tried replacing the fbshow binary with an earlier one to no effect. I can only assume that something like init has been nobbled in 4.2 to prevent fbshow from working? Just as an experiment I stuck a spare disk into my ColourStation and upgraded it to 4.2 PR2 too. Now this has no boot progress messages at all except for the very earliest "Loading from disk". Very strange. Thanks, Neville -- Internet: jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk CompuServe: 100042,3501 j.n.wilford@ncl.ac.uk PGP 2.x public key available
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Date: 20 Aug 1997 13:33:03 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5termf$gbj@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <5tcemh$cl@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> In article <5tcemh$cl@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> jnw@phaedrus.demon.co.uk (Neville Wilford) writes: > Boot Graphics = "No" is helpful in solving a problem with the Intel > Triton chipset and some S3 video cards. Correction: This is required for ALL S3 video cards, NEXTSTEP 3.x. OpenStep 4.x does not have this problem. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Help: can't read from disk Date: 20 Aug 1997 17:22:02 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tf93q$asi$3@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33F94561.221D@middlemarch.net> <5tc9mr$r70@sjx-ixn10.ix.netcom.com> <33FA482A.1E5A@mssm.doc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mg8@mssm.doc.edu In <33FA482A.1E5A@mssm.doc.edu> Michael Groff wrote: > When my NeXT Slab '040 accesses the external hard drive (also the boot > device) it generates the following error: > MEDIA ERROR; block whatever retry n > > I would like to remove these bad blocks from the disk and then reinstall > the OS from CD-ROM. Any suggestions? 'man reasb' is all I can suggest. That plus checking dejanews for other examples of how to use it with those 'block whatever' numbers. TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: mgt@maximilian.uni-hamburg.de (Matthias Goetzke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NS 3.3 with MMX cpu? Date: 20 Aug 1997 18:42:41 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Message-ID: <5tfdr1$omi$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> References: <5r81lm$7ei@ttacs7.ttu.edu> Keywords: MMX OPENSTEP NEXTSTEP I am using OPENSTEP running with an AMD-K6-200MHz MMX CPU, and it doesn't make any problems, neither should it, since the new registeres MMX provides are handled with the very same CPU-Intruction ,thta also saves the current FPU-registers. So any operating system, that takes care of the FPU-stack upon task switch also takes care of the MMX set of regs. In article <5r81lm$7ei@ttacs7.ttu.edu> darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James) writes: > I am upgrading my P90 to a P200 and the only cpus that I can get > quotes on are the MMX P200 cpus. I am running NS 3.3 and am curious > as to whether anyone has had any problems with a MMX cpu and NS. > > Thanks. > -- > Darryl > ________________________________________________________ > Darryl L. James darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu > Mechanical Engineering NeXT, MIME and ASCII mail > Texas Tech University http://www.osci.ttu.edu/ME_Dept/ > ________________________________________________________
From: mgt@maximilian.uni-hamburg.de (Matthias Goetzke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Possibly dumb NS3.3 68k questions re: desktop background image? Date: 20 Aug 1997 19:06:13 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Message-ID: <5tff75$pdn$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> References: <33ea99f3.4473324@news.pfmc.net> Or try: Cycles.app, it also has a performance meter, and let choose a logo to composite upon the backgroud. Nicely done ... (Done by Caffein Software, the guys that also did TIFFany). In article <33ea99f3.4473324@news.pfmc.net> jhogan@remove.pfmc.net (Jack Hogan) writes: > Hi -- > I'm running NeXTStep 3.3 on a color turbo slab. > > I've tried to figure out how to set the background of my desktop to an > image file without any success. Any hints? An FAQ I haven't read? > > Thanks. > > -- JH
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From: "Scott E. Snyder" <natural1@slip.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.sgi,admin,comp.sys.sgi.misc,.next.software,comp.sys.next.bugs Subject: System for Sale Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 05:35:16 -0700 Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net) Message-ID: <33FAE484.1CFB@slip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am selling my WebForce Indy: Asking $3000.00 obo CONTACT: SCOTT SNYDER 510-843-5372 E-MAIL: natural1@slip.net the system has NFS and Photoshop and Illustrator.. 32 Mbytes of Ram 1 gig internal IndyCam specs: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 4.1.0 1 133 MHZ IP22 Processor FPU: MIPS R4600 Floating Point Coprocessor Revision: 2.0 CPU: MIPS R4600 Processor Chip Revision: 2.0 On-board serial ports: 2 On-board bi-directional parallel port Data cache size: 16 Kbytes Instruction cache size: 16 Kbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 512 Kbytes on Processor 0 Main memory size: 32 Mbytes Vino video: unit 0, revision 0, IndyCam connected Integral ISDN: Basic Rate Interface unit 0, revision 1.0 Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1 Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93B, revision D Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 Graphics board: Indy 24-bit -- Scott E. Snyder Highly Graphic, Inc. Website: http://www.slip.net/~natural1 E-mail: natural1@slip.net Voice: 510.843.5372
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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 03:21:39 -0600 From: stefan.osterman@upnet.se Subject: Creating bulk users fails. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Message-ID: <872151399.20379@dejanews.com> Organization: Deja News Posting Service When I create bulk users with random generated passwords, it fails to actually create the passwords. The bulk tool worked last time I used it, but this time it really fucked up. Anyone, any hints?? /Stefan -------------------==== Posted via Deja News ====----------------------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Post to Usenet
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: [Q] TP560 Sound Problem Date: 21 Aug 1997 08:00:30 GMT Organization: HanNuri Internet Service Message-ID: <5tgsiu$ssl$1@news.nuri.net> Hi, I use NEXTSTEP3.3 on my IBM ThinkPad560. The laptop has ESS audio chipset in it and I installed ESS1x88AudioDriver which is from the NeXTAnswer. The problem is that whenever I run any program which plays sound, it plays broken sound. -- sounds for a few seconds, doesn't sound for a few seconds and sounds again, ... (sndplay, Sound.app, EditSound.app, NEXTIME.app, MMP.app...) I know a few people who use TP560. Some of them have the same problem with me and some don't. I tried changing the IRQ setting but useless. Does anybody have good idea on it? Thanx ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mailto:jin@nuri.net (NeXTMail OK) Jin Ko http://ghost.nuri.net/ Network Engineer phone:+82-2-531-7924 (fax:+82-2-555-8127) Inet, Inc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Has someone created a DISKTAB entry for Iomega ZIP disks? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EF6vxD.9pu@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 01:53:37 GMT References: <5t96nc$a09@argentina.earthlink.net> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5t96nc$a09@argentina.earthlink.net>, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> wrote: >Has someone created a DISKTAB entry for Iomega ZIP disks? > >If so, would you please send it to me? I'm very frustrated on my black hw >trying to use the zip drive. > What problems have you had with the Zip drive? I've never had a problem with my Zip drive and I don't use a disktab entry. -- 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: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: gnu cc search path Date: 21 Aug 1997 15:05:43 GMT Organization: Cambridge University Message-ID: <5thlg7$1o$2@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii [Q.] How do I set the default paths for Gnu cc other than in a makefile and without recompiling? I am new to C++ and NS and am having trouble with default search paths for Gnu cc. I have to explicitly include libiostream: cc++ $(CFLAGS) -c trial.cc -liostream I should have thought that this was on a default path. It makes me wonder how many other errors I am going to get by not including common libraries. Remember that I am unused to C++ library errors, so I don't want to spend half my life tracking down libraries that should be included by default. I have no system admin to deal with this, so my apologies for the basic level of the request. -- thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university; tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 334628; fax: 334678; http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: NNTP Component <nntpcomp@microsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,uswest.test Subject: Just a test Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 18:32:04 PST Organization: USWAT Message-ID: <5tg27q$i252@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Hey, this is only a test! About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes. About 3 kilobytes.
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int%rauug.mil.wi.us@bofh.int> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,uswest.test Subject: cmsg cancel <5tg1lc$hs49@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Control: cancel <5tg1lc$hs49@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Date: 21 Aug 1997 20:55:05 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5tg1lc$hs49@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Sender: NNTP Component <nntpcomp@microsoft.com> My From: line has been fudged because many test newsgroup autoresponders respond to control messages. My apologies! Please see the X-Cancelled-By: line for my proper address. Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int%rauug.mil.wi.us@bofh.int> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,uswest.test Subject: cmsg cancel <5tg27q$i252@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Control: cancel <5tg27q$i252@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Date: 21 Aug 1997 20:57:06 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.5tg27q$i252@utoepia.advtech.uswest.com> Sender: NNTP Component <nntpcomp@microsoft.com> My From: line has been fudged because many test newsgroup autoresponders respond to control messages. My apologies! Please see the X-Cancelled-By: line for my proper address. Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: MaRK_BeSSeY@Apple.Com (Mark Bessey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Missing boot progress messages in OS4.2? Date: 21 Aug 1997 21:30:07 GMT Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Message-ID: <5tic0v$10h2$1@news.apple.com> References: <5taevr$gj@phaedrus.demon.co.uk> Neville Wilford writes > I've been upgrading an intel machine to OS4.2 PR2 "Prelude to > Rhapsody". > > To my surprise the boot progress messages I've been used to: > - Checking disk, Configuring devices, Configuring network - and so on > have all vanished in favour of the much less informative and useful > "Starting OpenStep". > > Does anyone know of a way to restore the previous behaviour? > > I've looked at all the rc files - which look the same as ever - > checked that /usr/etc/fbshow exists and even tried replacing it with a > previous incarnation. The fbshow program just plain doesn't work in 4.2 due to a really (really!) obscure bug. It's been fixed for Rhapsody, and fbshow is working again :-) -- Mark Bessey Apple Computer, Inc. -->I DON'T SPEAK FOR APPLE<--
From: vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Rumba or samba? Date: 22 Aug 1997 01:32:23 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <5tiq77$bnf@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> We have a network consisting of a combination of older 486's and Pentiums running NeXTSTEP 3.2 or 3.3, and some newer Pentiums running NS 3.3 and with Win NT partitions. Server is a NEXTSTEP only machine. Currently, when we want to use the WinNT partitions, we use each machine as a standalone machine. We would like to be able to log on to the WinNT side using the login names on the NS server. Do I use rumba or samba? 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: (626) 585-7147 Fax: (626) 585-7919 **********************************************************
From: peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Please Help Date: 20 Aug 1997 12:38:27 GMT Organization: Peter's Private Newsserver Message-ID: <5teog3$2bu@unity.westfalen.de> Hi Friends, as I posted it already, my soundpanel in Preferences is not to use. No sounds to select (all light grey), no posibility to use the volume slider. All Black Hardware Next 3.3 thank you very much for help Peter -- peter@unity.westfalen.de (Peter Kopatzki) Peter Kopatzki Am Bredberg 21 D-49143 Schledehausen "The only purpose of life is Bliss" -Go and create it! NeXTmail, MIME and SUN Solaris welcome URL Firma:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com URL Privat:http://www.globalsalesnetwork.com/Private.html Phone:+49(0)5402 98050 Public Key on request
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Please Help Date: 22 Aug 1997 13:02:28 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tk2l4$j6a$7@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5teog3$2bu@unity.westfalen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: peter@unity.westfalen.de In <5teog3$2bu@unity.westfalen.de> Peter Kopatzki wrote: > as I posted it already, my soundpanel in Preferences is not to use. > No sounds to select (all light grey), no posibility to use the volume > slider. All Black Hardware Next 3.3 That is very strange. Do you have 'audio' chosen for system beeps, rather than 'visual'? That's all I could *guess* but it is not a very good guess. TjL -- Hebrew is over. I passed. (85 on the final :-) Ordination exams begin Sept 11 or 12th The 'nospam' address is a valid email address for non-UCE email
From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: gdb won't 'view' Date: 22 Aug 1997 14:02:05 GMT Organization: Cambridge University Message-ID: <5tk64t$dsf$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii gdb won't fire its graphical end when I type 'view' having fired it in a terminal. i start ProjectBuilder beforehand and Edit.app is in developer mode, but nothing happens to Edit.app (a new menu button is supposed to appear). i haven't used PB but have tried various things to get some sort of debugging inof but no joy. also, i want to stay with gdb if at all possible. what am i doing wrong? running NS 3.3 on Intel PPro. -- thomas harte @ computer laboratory, cambridge university; tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 334628; fax: 334678; http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
From: Konstantin Wiesel <kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Logging user activities? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 16:53:55 +0000 Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany) Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970822165213.11441C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I would like to turn on accounting on a NS3.3 and OS4.1 machine, to log all user activities, how can i accomplish this? Regards Konstantin Wiesel Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de
From: Mansoor <mansoorl@esystem.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Memory used. Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 10:58:47 -0700 Organization: ESC Message-ID: <33FDD356.A891719F@esystem.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit How can I find out how much memory is free on a OpenStep Machine. I have a linux machine and all I do is 'cat /proc/meminfo', but there is no proc system on OpenStep. Please email me the answer since I don't frequent the newsgroups. Thankss in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans) Subject: Re: Possible to use PC internal speaker for system beeps? Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News) Message-ID: <EF9t1L.D01@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 1997 15:44:09 GMT References: <5tdscd$o6p$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo In article <5tdscd$o6p$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu>, Nathan Urban <nurban@vt.edu> wrote: >Is it possible for OSfM/I to use the PC internal speaker for system >beeps? No sound card is installed, but I want to be able to hear >incoming talk requests. There's a driver called something like "SystemBeep" that's what you want. -- 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: John van Heteren <vanhet@sirius.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Problems installing v3.3 on Intel Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:32:39 -0700 Organization: CellNet Data Systems, Inc. Message-ID: <33FE2FA7.24CC@sirius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm trying to install v3.3 on an Intel 200 MHz Pentium, and I'm having the following problem: Just after choosing the CD-ROM and Hard-drive Drivers, the installation program asks me to 1: go ahead with installation 2: install other drivers (tho I shouldn't need them) I type '1' and hit return. The system usually freezes here (no activity on hard drive or CD-ROM LEDs). The CRT is blank. Why do I say "usually"? Because on 2 previous occasions (when I had the wrong configuration) the CRT switched to VGA mode and displayed the system boot messages until it couldn't find the CD-ROM. Why don't I pursue those configurations further? Because I have. It seems that the first time that I choose an incorrect CD-ROM drive, I see these messages. When I start from scratch all over again with the same choices, I no longer see the VGA messages. I've tried several incorrect CD-ROM drivers and only once before have I seen the boot messages. Out of roughly 20 boots with various driver choices, I have seen the message sonly twice. When I repeat those configurations, the system fails and does not even show the messages again. My system: - Intel 200MHz CPU - 32 MB RAM - TC430HX Motherboard with onboard EIDE controller - Seagate 2.1GB drive plugged in to Primary IDE controller, at the end of the 40 pin cable (which I assume is the Master position). - Seagate Jumpers set to Master Mode. - Toshiba XM6002B CD-ROM drive with jumpers set to 'Slave' - CD-ROM connected to middle connector on the same 40 pin cable (I assume that this correspond to Slave position). - Display = Number Nine Reality 332 - NeXTAnswers driver 2166 is an update to this but booting should work for all graphics cards in VGA mode, right? - I am using 3 diskettes in the installation process: - Original boot diskette - 2145_3.3_Core_Drivers.floppyimage for PCI bus, etc drivers - 2078_3.3_Beta_Drivers.floppyimage for - Adaptec 154x SCSI driver - EIDE v3.35 driver (I tried the 1923_3.3_Additional_Drivers.floppyimage for the EIDE v3.31 driver, but it does not have the Adaptec 154x driver which is recommended by 1933_EIDE/ATAPI_Support_3.3 ). So do you have any advice as to why my boot is freezing? Please reply to j.g.vanheteren@ieee.org Thank you, John van Heteren
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Memory used. Date: 23 Aug 1997 00:22:59 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tlah3$5j8$1@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33FDD356.A891719F@esystem.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mansoorl@esystem.com In <33FDD356.A891719F@esystem.com> Mansoor wrote: > How can I find out how much memory is free on a OpenStep Machine. I have > a linux machine and all I do is 'cat /proc/meminfo', but there is no > proc system on OpenStep. I think 'vm_stat' is what you are looking for. > Please email me the answer since I don't frequent the newsgroups. > Thankss in advance. Old Usenet adage: if you can find the group to post the question, you can find the group to receive the answer. You caught me on a good day, and RadicalNews makes email CCs easy, so I'll CC you on this message, but you might consider taking some time to read the newsgroup in dejanews to see if a question has been answered before, so you don't ask an FAQ and then ask for an emailed reply. Might rub someone the wrong way. Free advice, do with as you please. -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rumba or samba? Date: 22 Aug 1997 07:35:43 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5tjfgf$mbm$2@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5tiq77$bnf@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> vbragin@ix.netcom.com (Vicki Bragin) wrote: > We would like to be able to log on > to the WinNT side using the login names on the NS server. Do I use > rumba or samba? To log on from an NT machine to an NS server, you need Samba. To log on from an NS client to an NT server, you need Rumba. 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: moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp Subject: PPP: ProxyARP et al. Date: 23 Aug 1997 08:03:14 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5tm5g2$gkv@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: PPP ProxyARP Keywords: ProxyARP PPP Hi all ProxyARP is a very nice thing. The Problem for me is, what should one do if he has a subnet as a PPP client? The only and so far not usable solution I found, is to manually add a proxy arp and a routing table entry in "ip-up" for the added computers (please see more details on the bottom of the posting). But if I do this, I have two _very_ annoying problems: 1. The two PPP sides send continously network packets. So many, that the computer uses all of its power for that. It's _impossible_ to work on it. It even crashes the modems or the computers. 2. Do I have to manually add and remove entries on the server side for every computer I add or remove on the subnetwork? That wouldn't be very elegant at all. Thanks for all ideas! Phil --------------------More Details---------------------------------------- The subnet (client side) has the IP addresses from x.y.z.248 on upwards: en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> inet 192.33.227.250 netmask fffffff8 broadcast 192.33.227.255 ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> inet 192.33.227.250 --> 192.33.227.111 netmask fffffff8 This gives me the following routing table (also on the client): Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 755 lo0 192.33.227.250 127.0.0.1 UH 7 772 lo0 192.33.227.111 192.33.227.250 UH 2 17895 ppp0 default 192.33.227.111 UG 1 18267 ppp0 192.33.227.248 192.33.227.250 U 18 17035 en0 Btw: I specified the PPP client as the router for the other computers on the subnet. On the server side I had to manually add in "ip-up" a proxyarp for all the computers (only one for the moment) that are connected to the computers but the one that establishes the PPP connection: /usr/etc/arp -s enigma 00:00:0f:00:82:27 pub And a routing entry: /etc/route add net 192.33.227.248 monster 1 This gives me the following routing and arp tables: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 1947 lo0 192.33.227.250 192.33.227.111 UH 2 144 ppp0 default 192.33.227.1 UG 1 3144 en0 192.33.227.248 192.33.227.250 UG 2 68501 ppp0 192.33.227 192.33.227.111 U 10 45265 en0 monster.citeu.unige.ch (192.33.227.250) at 0:0:1a:10:e:46 permanent published ? (192.33.227.1) at 0:0:c:8e:82:30 enigma.citeu.unige.ch (192.33.227.251) at 0:0:f:0:82:27 permanent published
From: in6y126@public.spam-killer.uni-hamburg.de (Matthias Goetzke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: OpenStep 4.2: Installation Questions Date: 23 Aug 1997 11:19:47 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Message-ID: <5tmh0j$695$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> References: <33e4404f.3327491@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Keywords: VIDEO BLACK-SCREEN DRIVERS TROUBLE BOOT In article <33e4404f.3327491@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> rksingh@onr.com (Rajib Singh) writes: > Hi! > > I'm having some difficulties installing OpenStep 4.2 onto my Pentium > 133 (on a Triton II motherboard). I have a S3/Virge VX video card, IDE > hard drive, ATAPI CD drive, 48 megs of memory and an 850 meg partition > on my hard drive for OpenStep. > Hi, I am not sure wether you still need help, but I would like to know more about your problem. If you boot using config=Default on the startup prompt, does NeXT successfully boot, using 640x480xGray graphics mode ? If it does, it may be a problem with the graphics driver you are using, in relation to the amount of memory you have. I am using OPENSTEP 4.1 with 90MB of mem, in conjunction with an S3Trio64 chip-card. Now, this next-driver maps the card's memory by default to some area of memory located at about 62MB (Hexadecimal:3E00000). When I installed 90MB into my computer, I got a black screen, after the boot process completed. So I changed this mapping address via Configure.app to some location above 200MB at it works just fine. Greets, - Matthias Goetzke (in6y126 _AT_ public.uni-hamburg.de)
From: dcoyle@ctp.com (David A. Coyle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rumba or samba? Date: 23 Aug 1997 13:18:46 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5tmnvm$7gd$2@concorde.ctp.com> References: <5tiq77$bnf@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <5tjfgf$mbm$2@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) wrote: >To log on from an NT machine to an NS server, you need Samba. To log on from >an NS client to an NT server, you need Rumba. > >Marcel Marcel: perhaps you could point us to a good source of information on rumba? I've installed it, and despite all attempts (and every sort of capitalization I can think of) I can't mount an NT shared drive... thanks! Dave -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /\/\ David A. Coyle, David A. Coyle, / /_ \ Cambridge Technology Partners, Cambridge Technology Partners, \ / / 118-119 Sráid Bhagoid Íocht, 118-119 Lower Baggot Street, \/\/ Baile Átha Cliath 2, Dublin 2, Phoblacht na hÉireann. Republic of Ireland. Guthán: +353 1 6079008 Tel: + 353 1 6079008 Greasán: dcoyle@ctp.com Fax: +353 1 6079001
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: "The hard drive is unreadable." Date: 23 Aug 1997 09:36:50 -0400 Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc. Message-ID: <5tmp1i$678$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> On two systems running OSfM/I, I have the same problem: each one has a hard drive (EIDE, if that matters) that does not have a NEXTSTEP filesystem. Whenever I log in, it pops up a panel saying "The hard drive is unreadable.", with "Ignore" and "Initialize" buttons. What can I do to prevent it from doing that (especially because the "Initialize" button is the default!!).
From: fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us (Chris Osborn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NetInfo Master doesn't see parent domains Date: 23 Aug 1997 21:14:27 GMT Organization: Napa Valley College Message-ID: <5tnjrj$8k2$1@wiley.napanet.net> For some reason when I run nifind on my NetInfo Master, it reports back that it finds things in a 2 level domain! The computer currently has a 4 level domain on it. If I wipe NetInfo and rebuild from scratch just a 3 level domain, I get the exact same results. I've also tried it on another seperate computer (but both are Intel systems). If I do the same nifind on one of the clone servers (with a 3 level), the results are what I'd expect. Since I've been having lots of problems with this NetInfo server hanging daily, I really suspect that this has something to do with the problem. Results of nifind on the 4 level server: nvcc> nifind -v /machines/nvcc /machines/nvcc not found in /nvcc /machines/nvcc found in /, id = 2 Notice here it doesn't even mention the faculty domain: nvcc> nifind -a -v /machines/nvcc /: nvcc serves sme/sme - new child domain /: nvcc serves sme/lab/network - already have this child /sme: nvcc serves lab/network - new child domain /sme/lab: nvcc serves nvcc/local - new child domain /machines/nvcc found in /, id = 2 /machines/nvcc found in /sme, id = 12 /machines/nvcc found in /sme/lab, id = 2 /machines/nvcc not found in /sme/lab/nvcc On the computer that serves the faculty domain: hilbert> nifind -v /machines/nvcc /machines/nvcc not found in /faculty/hilbert /machines/nvcc found in /faculty, id = 79 /machines/nvcc found in /, id = 2 -- Chris Osborn, Network Administrator Napa Valley College 707 253 3130 - Voice 2277 Napa-Vallejo Hwy. 707 253 3063 - Fax Napa, CA 94558 <fozztexx@nvc.cc.ca.us> <http://www.nvc.cc.ca.us/~fozztexx>
From: Kumadisc1@aol.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PRESS RELEASE!!!!!!! Date: 18 Aug 1997 23:55:57 GMT Organization: Kuma Industries Message-ID: <5taned$bgi$77@e3000.supernews.com> Kuma Industries is proud to be the first to announce: Teac55S 4x 12x CD-r drive The release of the first 12x read CDR recorder from Teac. This drive writes at 4x and reads and verifies at 12x. Thanks to the SCSI interface this the fastest CDR recorder ever. Also we have the pleasure to announce the Panasonic/Compro 8x read 4x write. Also the SCSI interface make this drive a great addition to any computer or duplication system. Kuma is also the first company to release a multi-drive duplication system in the market place. For example a 7 drive system price is only $5900.00 for a stand alone one button duplication system. Kuma Industries 714-461-5150 fax 461-5155 Timothy Butler or Colin Maddison
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: <13779871790424@digifix.com> Date: 24 Aug 1997 03:53:23 GMT Organization: Digital Fix Development Message-ID: <10179872395226@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. 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To use a different address either set your Reply-To: line, or use the NeXTanswers command REPLY-TO If you have any problem with the system or suggestions for improvement, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY FAX To use NeXTanswers by fax, call (415) 780-3990 from a touch-tone phone and follow the instructions. You'll be asked for your fax number, a number to identify your fax (like your phone extension or office number), and the ID numbers of the files you want. You can also request a list of available files. When you finish entering the file numbers, end the call and the files will be faxed to you. If you have problems using this fax system, please call Technical Support at 1-800-848-6398. You cannot use the fax system outside the U.S & Canada. USING NEXTANSWERS VIA THE WORLD-WIDE WEB To use NeXTanswers via the Internet World-Wide Web connect to NeXT's web server at URL http://www.next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY ANONYMOUS FTP To use NeXTanswers by Internet anonymous FTP, connect to FTP.NEXT.COM and read the help file pub/NeXTanswers/README. If you have problems using this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com. USING NEXTANSWERS BY MODEM To use NeXTanswers via modem call the NeXTanswers BBS at (415) 780-2965. Log in as the user "guest", and enter the Files section. From there you can download NeXTanswers documents. FOR MORE HELP... If you need technical support for NEXTSTEP beyond the information available from NeXTanswers, call the Support Hotline at 1-800-955-NeXT (outside the U.S. call +1-415-424-8500) to speak to a NEXTSTEP Technical Support Technician. If your site has a NeXT support contract, your site's support contact must make this call to the hotline. Otherwise, hotline support is on a pay-per-call basis. Thanks for using NeXTanswers! _________________________________________________________________ Written by: Eric P. 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From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NeXTLibrary -- what is critical? Date: 25 Aug 1997 00:20:04 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tqj3k$9cg$1@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I am trying to make a bootable SyQuest disk of 4.1. BuildDisk fails to make it (UGH). I can't install directly onto the SyQuest either (UGH). The 'extended installation options' don't seem to work well. So I'm going to do it by hand. 1) Label the disk "/Disk" 2) copy these directories: /bin /lib /private /usr 3) copy this files /mach_kernel 4) make these links in the ROOT DIR ln -s \$BOOTFILE mach # what DOES this DO? ln -s private/dev dev ln -s private/etc etc ln -s private/tmp tmp Here is where I am having problems, which of these do I NOT need?: 5) copy these folders from /NextLibrary Adaptors/ Addresses/ Bookshelves/ Colors/ Devices@ Documentation/ Fax/ Fonts/ Frameworks/ Keyboards/ Preferences/ PrinterTypes/ PrivateFrameworks/ PS2Resources/ Readers/ References/ Rulebooks/ Services/ Shaders/ Sounds/ SystemResources/ Textures/ I want a fully bootable (ie including GUI) SyQuest cart that takes as little diskspace as possible. This is for OS/4.1/Intel Anyone able to help? TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: iboehme@abm08.abm.de (Ivo Boehme) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Re: gdb won't 'view' Date: 25 Aug 1997 08:34:17 GMT Organization: Nacamar Data Communications Message-ID: <5trg29$786$1@news.nacamar.de> References: <5tk64t$dsf$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Cc: tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk In <5tk64t$dsf$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Thomas Harte wrote: > gdb won't fire its graphical end when I type 'view' having fired > it in a terminal. i start ProjectBuilder beforehand and Edit.app > is in developer mode, but nothing happens to Edit.app > (a new menu button is supposed to appear). i haven't used > PB but have tried various things to get some sort of debugging > inof but no joy. > Are you working in a network? Inspect the files .gdbinit and PB.gdbinit to make sure that no former view [hostname] command already connected gdb to another host. Edit must show the gdb menu entry. Greetings, Ivo
From: bresink@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Marcel Bresink) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Rumba or samba? Date: 25 Aug 1997 09:26:24 GMT Organization: University Koblenz / Germany Message-ID: <5trj40$5qr$1@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> References: <5tiq77$bnf@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com> <5tjfgf$mbm$2@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> <5tmnvm$7gd$2@concorde.ctp.com> dcoyle@ctp.com (David A. Coyle) wrote: > Marcel: perhaps you could point us to a good source of information on rumba? > I've installed it, and despite all attempts (and every sort of capitalization > I can think of) I can't mount an NT shared drive... I'm sorry, but I know of no other source of information than the rumba man page. For me, it worked just "out of the box". I set up an NT machine with a public share and standard NT security. NT and NS are accessing the same DNS server. Then a rumba //ntmachine/share /nsmachine/mnt -U username as root just did it. (NT will ask for a password) The share "share" is mounted from "ntmachine" to the mount point "mnt" on "nsmachine". "username" is your account on the "ntmachine". The share name should be less than 9 characters, capitalization should play no role. I'm not sure, but there might be some problem, if you have the NT Service Pack 3 installed on you server. In this case, NT will use encrypted passwords across all network connections. You can disable this feature by adding the value [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters] "EnablePlainTextPassword"=dword:00000001 in the registry of your server and restarting it. 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: fahl@dataton.se (Mike Fahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Using Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI SCSI adapter Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 19:01:46 +0200 Organization: Dataton =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=AD=A0TRUE?= MULTIMEDIA Message-ID: <1997082519014620804@du44-24.ppp.algonet.se> My PentiumPro PC is equipped with an Adapted "AHA-2920 PCI-to-Fast SCSI Host Adapter" card. This isn't automatically recognized by NEXTSTEP. Is there any way I can get this card to work with NEXTSTEP? Mike Fahl dows NT I get 1152x864 @ 70Hz from this machine. However, that selection isn't available under NEXTSTEP. The closest I cound get was 1152x864 @ 60Hz, which unfortunately exhibits an annoying flickering. Is there any way I can convince the NEXTSTEP video driver to use the 1152x864 @ 70Hz mode? I'm a bit scared of messing too much with the video settings, since the last time I did this it rendered the machine totally "dead", forcong me to re-install from scratch. I tried setting the scan rate to 75 Hz, which the driver config panel allowed me to do. However, when I then restarted the machine, the screen went all black, preventing me from re-set the scan rate back to 60Hz. I assume it was my monitor that couldn't keep up at 75Hz. NT has a "TEST" button that displays a test image for a few seconds using the new settings - allowing you to make sure that it works - before the settings are stored in the driver's configuration file. I find the lack of any such feature a serious omission from the NEXTSTEP system. Hopefully, Apple gets around to fix this before it hits the streets, or they will face serious support problems with this point alone. Mike Fahl
From: "Robert G. Jacobs" <rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Sort Icons in WM.app Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 10:49:37 -0700 Organization: Stanford University Sender: rjacobs@rjacobs.stanford.edu Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970825104806.1963A-100000@rjacobs.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII "Reply-To: " How do I get Workspace Manager to automatically sort the icons whenever any file changes, rather than just manually through View->Sort Icons? Thanks. Rob rjacobs@vk.stanford.edu
From: jlincoln@us.oracle.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: 26 Aug 1997 03:11:22 GMT Organization: Oracle Corporation. Redwood Shores, CA Message-ID: <5tthgq$4j6$1@inet16.us.oracle.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970811112123.22339H-100000@kira> In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970811112123.22339H-100000@kira> "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: > > On 7 Aug 1997, -bat. wrote: > > > bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) writes: > > > Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? > > > > it used to be on http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep - but seems > > to have vanished ! anyone got any ideas ? > > Yeah, this is one more sign that Sun is dropping the OpenStep 'standard' > to focus on Jhavah > > TjL > I queried on Sun's Web Site for Openstep and found that Openstep for Solaris x86 will be out. Although I believe Sun is focusing on Java a great deal more than Openstep Sun has not ceased its Openstep work. Jason
From: Amando Blasco <ablasco@gcomm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: HELP INSTALLING PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2/INTEL Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 11:36:49 +0200 Organization: SERVICOM Message-ID: <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have been trying to install PPP as the instalation document but nothing works. Has anyone experience installing PPP? Could you explain me a bit how can I do it? I use the modem on /dev/cufb. TIA Amando Blasco
From: tsengel@immd9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Engel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: openstep for solaris Date: 26 Aug 1997 12:30:18 GMT Organization: Cambridge Technology Partners, Inc. Message-ID: <5tui8q$rmr$1@concorde.ctp.com> References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970811112123.22339H-100000@kira> <5tthgq$4j6$1@inet16.us.oracle.com> jlincoln@us.oracle.com wrote: >In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.970811112123.22339H-100000@kira> "Timothy J. >Luoma" <luomat@peak.org> writes: >> >> On 7 Aug 1997, -bat. wrote: >> >> > bergv@uiuc.edu (Maarten Bergvelt) writes: >> > > Where can I find information on Openstep for Solaris? >> > >> > it used to be on http://www.sun.com/solaris/products/openstep - but >seems >> > to have vanished ! anyone got any ideas ? >> >> Yeah, this is one more sign that Sun is dropping the OpenStep 'standard' >> to focus on Jhavah >> >> TjL >> >I queried on Sun's Web Site for Openstep and found that Openstep for >Solaris x86 will be out. Although I believe Sun is focusing on Java a >great deal more than Openstep Sun has not ceased its Openstep work. > Sun's Openstep is dead. Dead as dead can be IMHO :-( Openstep/Solaris 1.1, which should have been out by late '96, has not yet seen the light of day as far as I can tell... Sun's website even no longer contains the installation instructions for Openstep 1.0 :-( The whole web presence of OpenStep on Suns website, at least to me and some other people I know, looks like leftovers Sun accidently left on the web... Sounds really sad...but if someone really takes the time to remove content from the web which already existed...then he (read Sun) is definitly no longer willing to support that product. Aloha Tomi
From: mtie@carleton.edu (Michael Tie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: rdump from a Digital Unix 4.0 machine to a NeXT 3.3 tape drive Date: 26 Aug 97 13:47:04 GMT Organization: [poster's organization not specified] Message-ID: <3402de58.0@news.carleton.edu> I've just set up a Digital UNIX V4.0B alpha workstation, and I'm having trouble backing it up with rdump. The machine with the tape drive is a 68040 NeXT running NS 3.3 with a 4mm Dat tape. The tape drive was purchased in 1994, and the documentation lables it as a DB800, 2-8 GB, DDS-2 4MM Tape Drive. I'm using 90 meter tapes, and the drive's recording density is 61,000 bits/inch. The tapes are good; I've opened new ones, and I've tried tapes that I've used in the past with NeXT dumps... The NeXTs dump to this drive with the command /etc/rdump 0usdf 35204 61000 tape-server:/dev/rst0 / Both the NeXT and the Alpha have /etc/rmt and /etc/rdump, and I've tried setting Digital's recommendedenvironment vairiable OSF_RDUMP_SIMP_RCMD Here's what I get when I try to dump: # /etc/rdump 0usdf 35204 61000 tape-server:/dev/rst0 / rdump: Dumping from host alpha.carleton.edu rdump: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Aug 22 16:17:23 1997 CDT rdump: Date of last level 0 dump: the start of the epoch rdump: Dumping /dev/rrz0a (/) to /dev/rst0 on host tape-server.carleton.edu rdump: Mapping (Pass I) [regular files] rdump: Mapping (Pass II) [directories] rdump: Remote system is not known to be compatible for magtape functions, output being treated as regular file rdump: Estimate: 57705 tape blocks on disk The available blocks(28431),is less than the estimated blocks(57705) Dump is being aborted rdump: SIGTERM received rdump: The ENTIRE dump is aborted Any suggestions? Thanks for your help, -mtie -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael N. Tie mtie@carleton.edu Department of Math/CS phn: (507) 646-4067 Carleton College fax: (507) 646-4312
From: Samuel Goldberger <smg@orb.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.software Subject: Help installing Openstep Enterprise 4.2 for NT Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 08:15:10 -0700 Organization: Spherical Solutions Message-ID: <3402F2FE.17300A60@orb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been trying to install Openstep Enterprise for NT (v. 4.2). Everytime I try, I get errors of various kinds, but with one common factor--I cannot create the Program Manager group that I specify during the install process. Moreover, depending upon whether I'm trying to install user or developer versions, certain applications fail to build as well. What is the proper installation procedure? TIA. Sam -- Samuel Goldberger Spherical Solutions 47 Myrtle Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941 smg@orb.com--http://www.orb.com 415-383-2919--phone * 415-381-9556--fax
From: "Anthony E. Davis" <ACM_Computer@email.msn.com> Subject: Help with NextStep 3.2 - Network installation Message-ID: <01bcb240$8952fe60$5b072399@blackmail> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:53:10 -0700 We had an existing NextStep 3.2 network, and decided to split off some of the machines to create another network. All was fine with the installation, but for some reason, we cannot boot from the new network, only the scsi disk. It just hangs on the bootp prompt. Also, we have a router installed, and what I did was link the hub from the old network to the hub from the new network so we could have router access. It works fine, we can ping the router and we can ping the old server fine. But the problem we run into is that when the autoconfig adds new workstations to the network, it duplicates IP addresses to ones from the other (old) network. Is there a way to specify IP addresses on each local machine before hand, or a way to make the server supply a specific IP number to each workstation? The network booting problem I think has something to do with the netmask, which I will check today. But the IP problem is a serious situation. I thought that the autoconfig automatically detected IPs in use and shifted to another. Is this true? Is there an easier way to share the router then connecting the two networks together? If so, can someone please tell it to me! :) Please reply to this here or directly to me at ACM_Computer@MSN.COM. Thanks alot in advance. Anthony Davis
From: Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: -NEWDB for NEXSTEP? Date: 26 Aug 1997 20:05:52 GMT Organization: IDT Message-ID: <5tvcv0$shu@nnrp1.farm.idt.net> Can someone point me to information about installing the latest Berkeley DB 1.86 on NEXTSTEP 3.3. I'd like to have it to take advantage of the userdb and genericstable (now running sendmail 8.8.7). When I try the basic package there are errors about sigset_t and ssize_t being undefined in bt_open.c, and likely more after that. --
From: rennich@lelepc4.stanford.edu (Rennich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Troubles Partitioning my Hard Drive Date: 26 Aug 1997 22:58:16 GMT Organization: Stanford University Message-ID: <5tvn28$ala$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> I have upgraded my primary drive to an Atlas 4.3GB SCSI and have reinstalled OS 4.0 on it. I have partitioned it as follows 2.0GB OS4.0 - is there still a 2GB max? 1.0GB Win95 - for games and stuff 1.3GB linux - just another place to put stuff I have OS 4.0 and win95 working fine, but I can't seem to figure out how to format/mount the third partition. All I really want is a thrid partition that is accessible by OS 4.0. Since I had run into the 2GB Nextstep partition problem in the past and there can be only one Openstep partition this seemed like a reasonable way to go. I've been through NextAnswers and haven't had any luck. fdisk properly reports the partitions, but nothing else seems to work. It -seems- that a disktab entry is required, but I'm not certain. Do I need a disktab for the win95 partition? Do I even have a unix-style partitioned drive? Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do? Any help or pointers are greatly appreciated. Steve rennich@leland.stanford.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: hans@onevision.de (Hans Stoeger) Subject: Re: Using Adaptec AHA-2920 PCI SCSI adapter Message-ID: <EFIz1q.788@onevision.de> Sender: news@onevision.de Organization: OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH, Regensburg, Germany References: <1997082519014620804@du44-24.ppp.algonet.se> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 14:32:13 GMT In article <1997082519014620804@du44-24.ppp.algonet.se> fahl@dataton.se (Mike Fahl) writes: > My PentiumPro PC is equipped with an Adapted "AHA-2920 PCI-to-Fast SCSI > Host Adapter" card. This isn't automatically recognized by NEXTSTEP. Is > there any way I can get this card to work with NEXTSTEP? > > Mike Fahl Simply: NO. This card is Completly different from the supported 2940 -- ====================================================================== Hans Stoeger OneVision Vertriebs-GmbH Support Zeiss-Strasse 9 Email: hans@onevision.de D-93053 Regensburg No big mails, Please! Germany
From: "Gerardo Quinonez, M.D." <quinonez@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Media vision Proaudio drivers Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:31:12 -0700 Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc. Message-ID: <3403AD90.11677997@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Does anyone have the latest Media Vision Proaudio spectrum 16 drivers, written by a third party? I believe there is a preference module that comes with it. Thank you. Gerardo NeXTMail accepted -- _____________________________________ G. Quinonez, MD <quinonez@earthlink.net> NeXTStep 3.3/Windoze NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SUNmail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/ inonez@earthlink.net> NeXTStep 3.3/WinDOZE NT 4.0 NeXTMail/SUNmail Welcome http://emf.net/~ihouse/Alumni-pages/quinonez/
From: Popadich@umich.edu (Alex Popadich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP INSTALLING PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2/INTEL Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:36:40 -0500 Organization: Health Media Research Lab -- UofM Cancer Center Message-ID: <Popadich-2608972336400001@st080.ichange.net> References: <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> In article <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com>, Amando Blasco <ablasco@gcomm.com> wrote: > I have been trying to install PPP as the instalation document but > nothing works. Has anyone experience installing PPP? Could you explain > me a bit how can I do it? I use the modem on /dev/cufb. > > TIA > Amando Blasco I'm having problems at a much earlier stage. I can't communicate to my modem through the serial port. I'm trying to use the _tip_ command with /dev/cufb, and getting the following response: /dev/cufb: no such device link down I have a serial mouse plugged into comm1 and my modem into comm2. I am using a cable and modem which I know to be in working order, I have sucessfuly used both components on the same PC in Win95. I have looked at the setup for serial ports using /NeXTApps/Configure and everything seems to be in order comm2 is set to address:2F8 and IRQ3. If anyone has any suggestions as to what might be wrong aI would appreciate your help. Thanks Alex Popadich popadich@umich.edu
From: "Anthony E. Davis" <ACM_Computer@email.msn.com> Subject: Help with NextStep 3.2 Problems Message-ID: <01bcb2a7$592041a0$101d2399@blackmail> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 22:09:05 -0700 We had an existing NextStep 3.2 network, and decided to split off some of the machines to create another network. All was fine with the installation, but for some reason, we cannot boot from the new network, only the scsi disk. It just hangs on the bootp prompt. Also, we have a router installed, and what I did was link the hub from the old network to the hub from the new network so we could have router access. It works fine, we can ping the router and we can ping the old server fine. But the problem we run into is that when the autoconfig adds new workstations to the network, it duplicates IP addresses to ones from the other (old) network. Is there a way to specify IP addresses on each local machine before hand, or a way to make the server supply a specific IP number to each workstation? The network booting problem I think has something to do with the netmask, which I will check today. But the IP problem is a serious situation. I thought that the autoconfig automatically detected IPs in use and shifted to another. Is this true? Is there an easier way to share the router then connecting the two networks together? If so, can someone please tell it to me! :) Please reply to this here or directly to me at ACM_Computer@MSN.COM. Thanks alot in advance. Anthony Davis
From: t68@nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: No cut and paste anymore Message-ID: <4331@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 27 Aug 97 10:10:51 GMT Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Maybe someone knows what has happened here. I suddenly find that the copy and paste does not work any longer. I have looked in the defaults (dread -l) but cannot see anything there that may be of relevance. Restarting the computer does not help either. Hence somewhere there must be a setting that disables the paste (it usually does as if it does the copy but then the paste definitely does nothing). Where can I find such settings? What can I do about it? I am slowly running out of places to look and it is becoming quite inconvenient. Thanks in advance Jos Vermaseren
From: Marco van Dongen <MAA.vanDongen@student.unimaas.nl> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,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 Subject: This message is a non-commercial request for help on my research Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 14:25:30 +0200 Organization: Rijksuniversiteit Limburg Distribution: inet Message-ID: <34041CBA.1372@student.unimaas.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message is a non-commercial request for help on my research ================================================================ My name is Marco van Dongen and i am accounting student at the University of Maastricht (UM) in the Netherlands. To graduate i have to write a thesis. My thesis deals with the Internet and therefore i use this medium to address as many people as possible. I am going to write my thesis about the commercial use of the Internet. My focus will be on planning and implementing activities. What problems do you come across. What are the positive and what are the negative aspects. The paper will NOT be a technical paper. The paper will deal with the question how to deal/manage a growing load of information. I am looking for people to give me suggestions for literature, articles. People that work for companies and have first hand experiences. Research already been done by people. Companies that are willing to participate in a little research by questionaire send on email. Or anything that could possibly be of any help to me. Please respond to me on email. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + MAA.vanDongen@Student.unimaas.nl + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thanks Marco van Dongen
From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,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 Subject: cmsg cancel <34041CBA.1372@student.unimaas.nl> Control: cancel <34041CBA.1372@student.unimaas.nl> Date: 27 Aug 1997 12:47:36 GMT Organization: BOFH Space Command, Usenet Division Message-ID: <cancel.34041CBA.1372@student.unimaas.nl> Sender: Marco van Dongen <MAA.vanDongen@student.unimaas.nl> Article cancelled as EMP/ECP, exceeding a BI of 20. The "Current Usenet spam thresholds and guidelines" FAQ is available at http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/tskirvin/faqs/spam.html Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence specific to this spam. Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: rdieter@math.unl.edu (Rex Dieter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Best new Motherboard for P5 200Mhz? Date: 27 Aug 1997 13:51:28 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln Message-ID: <5u1bd0$6pl@crcnis3.unl.edu> References: <3403AD11.7B12DA33@earthlink.net> In article <3403AD11.7B12DA33@earthlink.net> "Gerardo Quinonez, M.D." <quinonez@earthlink.net> writes: > Hello, does anyone know which is the best motherboard for a P5 200Mhz > Intel chip to be used with a diamond stealth 2 mb Vram card is? I personally have always used/liked ASUS motherboards. > I remember reading something about conflicts with the S3 boards and a > particular chipset motherboard. NEXTSTEP 3.x only. NEXTSTEP 4.x (ala OpenStep) does NOT have this problem. -- Rex A. Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu (NeXT/MIME OK) Computer System Manager http://www.math.unl.edu/~rdieter/ Mathematics and Statistics University of Nebraska-Lincoln
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Troubles Partitioning my Hard Drive Date: 27 Aug 1997 13:36:28 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5u1ags$hpm$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5tvn28$ala$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: rennich@lelepc4.stanford.edu In <5tvn28$ala$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Rennich wrote: > I have upgraded my primary drive to an Atlas 4.3GB SCSI and have > reinstalled OS 4.0 on it. I have partitioned it as follows > > 2.0GB OS4.0 - is there still a 2GB max? > 1.0GB Win95 - for games and stuff > 1.3GB linux - just another place to put stuff Remember that there are two sorts of partitions used under OpenStep. There's the sort you create using fdisk, which was originally some sort of cheesy DOS thing. That typically allows you to split up your disk between different OS's. One "feature" of this sort of partitioning is that you may only have *one* partition of each type --- heaven knows why, but that's the way it is. So you need to divide your disk as follows: 3.0GB OS4.0 1.0GB Win95 1.3GB linux Now, you are completely correct that there is a 2.0GB partition size limit under OpenStep. However, that's the *other* sort of partition which is OpenStep specific. You can either write a custom disktab or use the command line 'disk' program to divide the 3.0GB reserved for OS4.0 into two partitions. Or, seeing as you would have to re-install anyhow given that using fdisk will have mangled the disk contents, you can use the option in the OS4.0 installation program to create the OpenStep partitions. Note that this will give you two equal 1.5Gb partitions unless you take extreme measures beyond the scope of this post to describe. 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: root can't get Workspace to come up Date: 27 Aug 97 10:48:12 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <B029B672-321AFB@141.214.128.36> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We recently moved an Openstep 4.2 on Mach machine from one part of the university to another. It's now on a new router and has a new ip. I eventually got all the networking stuff set, but I now have a weird problem. If I log in as a user everything works fine. If I log in as root the workspace never comes up. I just get the rainbow spinning thing (I let it go for 12 hours and the workspace still didn't come up). I can still get to the terminal app and other apps, but eventually everything just sort of freezes and I have to telnet into the machine and reboot. I ran fsck and everything seems to be ok. I really don't have much experience troubleshooting UNIX systems, so any help will be appreciated. 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,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: adding scsi to an eide system. Can I move my swapspace? Date: 27 Aug 97 11:23:22 -0400 Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server Message-ID: <B029BEB6-6FF2@141.214.128.36> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit nntp://news.itd.umich.edu/comp.sys.next.hardware I'm adding scsi to an OpenStep 4.2 on Mach system. I understand that if I put my boot system on the scsi drive I can no longer see my eide devices. Is it possible to continue using my eide drive as my boot system, but have my swap space and a few essential applications (Project Builder and WebObjects (and all the webobjects projects)) on the scsi drive? Also, if anyone is looking for a great vendor to buy NeXT compatible computers from take a look at Workstation 2000. They've given us excellent service. 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: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Troubles Partitioning my Hard Drive Date: 27 Aug 1997 16:03:41 GMT Organization: Is a sign of weakness Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Aug27114919@howard.doubleu.com> References: <5tvn28$ala$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> In-reply-to: rennich@lelepc4.stanford.edu's message of 26 Aug 1997 22:58:16 GMT In article <5tvn28$ala$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, rennich@lelepc4.stanford.edu (Rennich) writes: I have upgraded my primary drive to an Atlas 4.3GB SCSI and have reinstalled OS 4.0 on it. I have partitioned it as follows 2.0GB OS4.0 - is there still a 2GB max? 1.0GB Win95 - for games and stuff 1.3GB linux - just another place to put stuff I have OS 4.0 and win95 working fine, but I can't seem to figure out how to format/mount the third partition. All I really want is a thrid partition that is accessible by OS 4.0. Since I had run into the 2GB Nextstep partition problem in the past and there can be only one Openstep partition this seemed like a reasonable way to go. You can only access one fdisk-style NeXTSTEP/OpenStep partition, at least in my experience. But, you can also format that partition with multiple BSD-style sub-partitions. You would have to rearrange your fdisk partitioning to have the 3.3G OpenStep partition all in one fdisk partition. Then, you can use "disk -i -p" or something of the sort to partition it into two sub-partitions. I've done this on a couple drives, guided by the document "Developing and Maintaining NeXTSTEP3.3 Applications". It's on the OpenStep developer install in /Disk/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/ReleaseNotes/3_3Development.rtf. Otherwise, you might use the package out there which allows you to mount a Linux filesystem from NeXTSTEP. Later, -- scott hess <scott@doubleu.com> (606) 578-0412 http://www.doubleu.com/ <Favorite unused computer book title: The Demystified Idiots Guide to the Zen of Dummies in a Nutshell in Seven Days, Unleashed>
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer)?= Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP INSTALLING PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2/INTEL Date: 27 Aug 1997 19:37:04 GMT Organization: University of =?ISO-8859-1?Q?W=FCrzburg,?= Germany Message-ID: <5u1vl0$s2@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> <Popadich-2608972336400001@st080.ichange.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Popadich@umich.edu In <Popadich-2608972336400001@st080.ichange.net> Alex Popadich wrote: > In article <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com>, Amando Blasco <ablasco@gcomm.com> wrote: [snip] > I'm having problems at a much earlier stage. I can't communicate to my > modem through the serial port. > > I'm trying to use the _tip_ command with /dev/cufb, and getting the > following response: > > /dev/cufb: no such device > link down > > I have a serial mouse plugged into comm1 and my modem into comm2. I am > using a cable and modem which I know to be in working order, I have > sucessfuly used both components on the same PC in Win95. > > I have looked at the setup for serial ports using /NeXTApps/Configure and > everything seems to be in order comm2 is set to address:2F8 and IRQ3. > Have you installed the tty drivers *and* the "TTY Port Server" in Configure.app? Serial ports won't work correctly without the port server. -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Rainer =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer)?= Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP INSTALLING PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2/INTEL Date: 27 Aug 1997 19:36:21 GMT Organization: University of =?ISO-8859-1?Q?W=FCrzburg,?= Germany Message-ID: <5u1vjl$s2@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: ablasco@gcomm.com In <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> Amando Blasco wrote: > I have been trying to install PPP as the instalation document but > nothing works. Has anyone experience installing PPP? Could you explain > me a bit how can I do it? I use the modem on /dev/cufb. Nothing at all? First, check if you system does load the PPP kernel module on startup; in /etc/kern_loader.conf, check for /usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/mididriver_reloc /usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/midi_reloc_2.0 /usr/lib/kern_loader/ppp/ppp_reloc ... the last line. Next time you reboot, there should be a message about ppp0 and ppp1 configured (or so ...). Have you installed the tty drivers *and* the "TTY Port Server" in Configure.app? Serial ports won't work correctly without this. Finally, try to get your ppp config files right. My /etc/ppp/options files looks like this ....: ******************* connect "chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat-script" mtu 592 # speed rather than responsiveness lcp-echo-interval 15 # interval in seconds between touches lcp-echo-failure 3 # number of failed attempts before link shutdown kdebug 17 # necessary? lock defaultroute crtscts ******************* the "crtscts" switches on HW handshake. I omitted all the other comments. My /etc/pppp/chat-script looks like that: ******************* ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT "NO DIAL TONE" ABORT "ERROR" "" ATZ0 OK ATDT ###### CONNECT "" ogin: ######## assword: ########## ******************* This for a no-name Hayes 33600 modem. Replace the #######'s with the phone number, login and password. Now, if you do "pppd /dev/cufb 57600" the system should at least do *something*. You probably want to enable the loggin via /etc/syslog.conf, the procedure is in the docs. I know this was rather sloppy, hope it helps, -Rainer. -- ------------------------------------- "Um Energie zu sparen, wird das Licht am Ende des Tunnels vorlaeufig abgeschaltet." rainer@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (public key avaible at any key server near you ...)
From: "Laurent" <solfra@worldnet.fr> Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.nextstep,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,pgh.next-users,tw.bbs.comp.os.nextstep Subject: How to change a video driver from the boot II ? (suite) Date: 27 Aug 1997 19:47:32 GMT Message-ID: <01bcb321$d33b41e0$080e03c3@worldnet.sct.fr> Hello, I'm using Openstep for Mach 4.1 on Intel platform (P200) I have a Diamond 3D 3000 video card. The problem : I changed the video driver : I'd try to use the 3D 2000 driver, but when the computer is booting the driver don't work, I see nothing on the screen. I would change another time my driver (and use the 3D 3000 driver) but I can't use the configuration panel. I have only access on the promt ("boot : "). 1) I have use the boot with the Default option (boot : config=Default) but it the same result.) 2) like in NEXTSTEP 3.3, I try : boot -default then I try : boot : "Active Drivers"="PS2Mouse BusMouse SerialMouse ParallelPort VGA" and (boot:=-s) But anything is the good option : the screen still black or the system reboot Did another boot option wich can run the computer with another driver ? Please, give me the good answer and become a god for me... Laurent BARNILS solfra@worldnet.fr
From: Amando Blasco <ablasco@gcomm.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP INSTALLING PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2/INTEL Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 00:13:01 +0200 Organization: SERVICOM Message-ID: <3404A66E.465A@gcomm.com> References: <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> <5u1vjl$s2@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Rainer =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer wrote: > > In <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> Amando Blasco wrote: > > I have been trying to install PPP as the instalation document but > > nothing works. Has anyone experience installing PPP? Could you explain > > me a bit how can I do it? I use the modem on /dev/cufb. > > Nothing at all? > > First, check if you system does load the PPP kernel module on startup; in > /etc/kern_loader.conf, check for > > /usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/mididriver_reloc > /usr/lib/kern_loader/Midi/midi_reloc_2.0 > /usr/lib/kern_loader/ppp/ppp_reloc > > ... the last line. > > Next time you reboot, there should be a message about ppp0 and ppp1 > configured (or so ...). > > Have you installed the tty drivers *and* the "TTY Port Server" in > Configure.app? Serial ports won't work correctly without this. > Thanks for your kind answer. Yes, I have done all you write in this message. The problem is (I think) that I don't now if my ISP send a login: or a Username: or nothing. I have called them I and they says that only offer support for Windowers and Macintosher, no Unix support. I have called directly whith microphone and I don't get any login or username prompt, doesn't show anything! Then I push the connect button and it connects. Well, this is in a Mac with FreePPP. Do you now if in my chat script I must use login or username for sending my userid and password? How does your ISP do this? Also, I don't get anything in /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log, and the debug option in enable. Thanks! Amando Blasco
From: martin@beauty.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Klocke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: adding scsi to an eide system. Can I move my swapspace? Date: 27 Aug 1997 21:43:49 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik Message-ID: <5u272l$hp7$1@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <B029BEB6-6FF2@141.214.128.36> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: comrade@umich.edu In <B029BEB6-6FF2@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote: snip > Is it possible to continue using my eide drive as my boot system, but have > my swap space and a few essential applications (Project Builder and > WebObjects (and all the webobjects projects)) on the scsi drive? > thanks, > > rob Hi ROb, I might not be aware of some Intel Ide/scsi problems, as I have a black machine running for me, and also on NS3.3, not OS4.2. So my answer might be slightly out of line... BUT, the location of the swapfile in NS is handled (as well as its size etc.) in the file called /etc/swaptab In that ascii file you can determine exactly the position (e.g. other harddisc) of the swapfile Mine looks something like that: /private/vm/swapfile lowat=188743680,hiwat=188743680,prefer # 180 Meg lowat 180 hiwat # First the location in the filesystem (must be mounted => fstab), then TAB and the min size, and maxsize in MB*1048576. This is just a hint, more is to be found under man or systemadmin bookshelves or nextanswers etc... or mail me... Bye Martin
From: distler@golem.ph.utexas.edu (Jacques Distler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: ICMP Flood and NeXTStep Date: Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:31:52 -0500 Organization: Physics Department, University of Texas at Austin Message-ID: <distler-2708971831520001@slip-117-17.ots.utexas.edu> The recent CERT Summary ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_summaries/CS-97.05 discusses a denial of service attack involving ICMP broadcast packets. I know (from bitter experience) that NS3.3 for HP is vulnerable (the kernel hangs). Does anyone have any information on other NextStep/OpenStep platforms? Unless I hear otherwise, I will assume that all are vulnerable for the purposes of my NS security web page: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/progs/index.html Jacques Distler -- PGP public key: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/distler.asc
From: frank@this.NO_SPAM.net (Frank M. Siegert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Media vision Proaudio drivers Date: 28 Aug 1997 00:36:48 GMT Organization: Frank's Area 51 Message-ID: <5u2h70$48j$1@news.seicom.net> References: <3403AD90.11677997@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: quinonez@earthlink.net In <3403AD90.11677997@earthlink.net> "Gerardo Quinonez, M.D." wrote: > Does anyone have the latest Media Vision Proaudio spectrum 16 drivers, > written by a third party? I believe there is a preference module that > comes with it. It is on ftp://peanuts.leo.org as far as I remember. -- * Frank M. Siegert [frank@this.net] - Home http://www.this.net * NeXTSTEP, Linux, BeOS & PostScript Guy
From: apptalk@sprynet.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: News & Tips Computers/Internet Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:57:28 Organization: Sprynet News Service Message-ID: <5tlg3j$4rh$892@juliana.sprynet.com> Please don't hit reply, send all inquiries to apptalk@sprynet.com DAILY NEWS & TIPS. http://www.activenetwork.com Are you interested in receiving our monthly free newsletter on the latest Computer technologies and the internet. Please send an email requesting to be added to our database, or check our web site for the latest news. If you have signed up already, please disregard this request. Download our catalog from our Internet Website http://www.activenetwork.com HARDWARE TRENDS BREAKING SPEED LIMITS Early benchmark tests on a prototype 300-MHz system are promising This fall will mark the arrival of a class of machines based on Intel's 300-MHz Pentium II processors, and early benchmark tests on some of the prototypes show healthy-- if not astounding-- performance gains over previous-generation Pentium systems. At NEC's invitation, PC Magazine had the chance to run tests on the company's new 300-MHz PowerMate Professional, due to ship in September. Although the configuration we tested was preliminary, the machine posted some impressive numbers. On the ZD High-End Winstone 97 test, the PowerMate earned a score of 34.8. This test runs a set of applications that heavily exercise the CPU and graphics subsystem, but purely CPU-intensive tests were really where the machine did well. On our CPUMark32 test, it posted a score of 735; on CPUMark 16, the system earned a speedy score of 556. To put these results in perspective, note that our recent test of the 266-MHz Dell Dimension XPS H266, resulted in a CPUMark32 score of 719, as opposed to the NEC system's 735, and the Dimension was the fastest by a wide margin in a group of systems based on Intel's 266-MHz Pentium II processor. The Dimension did, however, post a slightly higher score on High-End Winstone 97 than the PowerMate--36 rather than 34.8-- thanks to its advanced graphics subsystem. Most of the other 266-MHz system in our roundup posted speed scores well behind the PowerMates. Again, the configuration is still preliminary. More Adrenaline This Fall In the fall, Intel plans to ship its 440LX chip set, which supports Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) technology and will work with a new dedicated bus for graphics. The speeds posted by 300-MHz machines-- especially on graphics tasks--are likely to benefit greatly from these technologies, as bus bottlenecks currently undermine high-speed processors. Although tests show 300-MHz system to be marginally faster than 266-MHz Pentium units, the new chip set should provide a healthy shot of adrenaline. Many customers will want to time their purchases of 300-MHz machines to correspond with the chip set's arrival, but NEC's $4000 PowerMate is likely to ship in advance of the chip set. Also note that Intel has been speeding up price drops on its high-end chips in recent years, and 300-MHz systems should be substantially cheaper than $4000 by 1998. They promise to be an important step for Intel as it faces increased competition in high-end chips from AMD and Cyrix. ***************** MEMORY************************** HIGHEST QUALITY. LIFETIME WARRANTY Call for any type ofMemory not listed.Memory for Laptops and Desktops, All AppleMAC or any POWERBOOKS. EDO/ or fast page Simms 72pin Memory 2k, 60ns 8MB $35 16MB $54 32MB $99 168pin Dimms, 60ns 16MB DIMM $69 32MB DIMM $110 64MB DIMM $220 *************** COMPUTERS *************** Intel Pentium 133Mhz, 16/2GB 18xCD, 33.6 fax/mod $799 Intel Pentium 200MMX 16/2GB 20xCD, 17" Color Monitor, 33.6 Fax/Modem, 4yr onsite G.E. Warranty $1699/$58mo. Sager Laptop P233MMx, 11xCD, 16/2GB, 4Yr onsite Warranty $2995 Toshiba Laptop 445CDT, P133MMx, 16/1GBCD 12.1 TFT,FaxMod $2895 Apple 9500/200Mhz 32/2GB CD, $2395 Apple 9600/300Mhz 64/4GBCD $4225 Apple Performa6400/200Mhz, 15" Monitor,16/2GB, CD, Fax/Mod $1299 1- WE CAN E-MAIL YOU A COMPLETE CATALOG. 2- WHOLESALE PRICES ON PENTIUM LAPTOPS & DESKTOP. APPLE POWER MACS, MEMORY AND ACCESSORIES. 3- REPAIR ANY TYPE OF CPU, MONITOR, DRIVE,PRINTER FREE PICK UP & DELIVER FOR LOCALS, BEST RATES. 4- WE SHIP WORLDWIDE, OVER 11 YEARS EXPERIENCE SINCE 1985 CALL FOR OTHER CONFIGURATIONS- We carry Full line of Toshiba, Texas instruments, IBM, Radius, Daystar, Umax,Seagate, Quantum Samsung, or many other computer Printers,Scanners, Monitors, Modems Software, and peripherals.We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover,Diners,Cash, Cashier's Checks, Money Orders, COD. Prices reflect 3% cash discount. Active Network Solutions Inc. , 1611 Crenshaw Blvd #224, Torrance CA 9501 U.S.A Tel. (310)764-4357 Please send all inquiries to: apptalk@usa.net Internet Website http://www.ourlocation.com/ans IF YOU LIKE TO BE REMOVED PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL AND WRITE (REMOVE) IN SUBJECT AREA. 10
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From: perkins@netmass.com. (Stephen J. Perkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: HELP INSTALLING PPP on OPENSTEP 4.2/INTEL Date: 28 Aug 1997 14:40:54 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Message-ID: <5u42lm$hm8$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> References: <3402A3B0.5654@gcomm.com> <5u1vjl$s2@lobotomy.urz.uni-wuerzburg.de> <3404A66E.465A@gcomm.com> In-Reply-To: <3404A66E.465A@gcomm.com> >Thanks for your kind answer. Yes, I have done all you write in this >message. The problem is (I think) that I don't now if my ISP send a >login: or a Username: or nothing. I have called them I and they says >that only offer support for Windowers and Macintosher, no Unix support. >I have called directly whith microphone and I don't get any login or >username prompt, doesn't show anything! Then I push the connect button >and it connects. Well, this is in a Mac with FreePPP. Do you now if in >my chat script I must use login or username for sending my userid and >password? How does your ISP do this? > >Also, I don't get anything in /usr/adm/ppp2.2.log, and the debug option >in enable. I have included an old post. I suggest you try this approach as it simplifies starting PPP. As to the log file, make sure that you check that you have <tab> characters between the entries in /etc/syslog.conf. Once you change syslog.conf you either have to kill syslog via kill -HUP or restart your system. Also make sure the log file exists before you reset syslogd. Here is the old post: ------------------ I've been thinking a bit about the installation and configuration of PPP. I want to streamline this process for PPP-2.3. To this end, I have a request for you adventuresome types that have PPP access through commercial providers. Win95 came out a few years ago, and with it, an explosion of PPP usage. Since Win95 didn't intially come with anything like a 'chat' script (yes I know you can get one now), providers started using a PPP autodetection feature along with PAP or CHAP for authentication. Such a setup makes connection easy since all you have to do is dial the modem and start PPP. There is no "login sequence" to perform. If your provider supports Win95 clients (Yea... I know... who doesn't), I would like to request that you perform the following experiment: Make a new pppup script (maybe called pppup.test) that calls a new chat script. This chat script should simply dial the phone and wait for the CONNECT. In other words, it will be identical to your current chat script except that it doesn't have the login sequence stuff. Then, configure your system to use PAP or CHAP (whatever your provider requests). I am interested in hearing about the success or failure of your experiments. I suspect that most providers now support PPP autodetect (because of Win95) and I'm hoping that we can take advantage of this to simplify our lives! --------------------- hope this helps. - Steve -- --- Stephen J. Perkins NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Usermanager refuses to run (and other goodies) [NETINFO Probs?] [HELP] Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:08:38 -0600 Organization: The Ohio State University Message-ID: <jray-2808971108380001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> Hello all, It seems that everytime I think I know what I'm doing, something blows up on me. With the help of nice people on this group, I moved our Intel OpenStep 4.0 machine to the role of being a NetInfo server for 2 client NeXT slabs. This worked *somewhat*... The machine began to "hang" for periods of time, and we started getting frequent crashes. After moving my account to a network account, accessing my directory seemed to be rather unreliable... (other people could log in, but I'd just sit there for several minutes before it would log me in... on any of the 3 machines). I'd also get *alot* of NFS server not responding messages on the machine (So, I moved back to a non-NetInfo environment and I deleted the "netword.nidb"... Well, the machine then began to complain about not being able to find its parent domain about once every 3 minutes. I had no idea why, or where this could be fixed. HostManager looked fine, and, in fact, everything looked fine. Sooo... yesterday, as we were bring up a new OpenStep machine, I decided to try once again. I used SNS to create a new "network" domain, and set it up for autoconfigure etc. It brought the new machine up w/o any difficulty, and the "can't bind to Parent domain" messages stopped. So, everything seemed happy again. Then I went to run UserManager - and it now immediately exits as soon as its started. Running it from the command line gives me a "bus error"... The only strange thing I've noticed is that in Netinfo manager, when opening the local domain, it refers to it as "local @ 0.0.0.0<?>" (or something like that), which I don't remember seeing before. I'd *really* like to get this working. I've heard so many people tout NetInfo's wonderful abilities, but I have yet to have a stable configuration where network user accounts actually work *well* . Thanks for your time, and any thoughts you may have on where to head next... Email appreciated, John Ray
From: Andrew Sun <asrock@sunbird.ieps-sun.ml.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.ppp Subject: Re: PPP: ProxyARP et al. Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 11:44:40 -0400 Organization: none Message-ID: <34059CE7.848CABFF@sunbird.ieps-sun.ml.com> References: <5tm5g2$gkv@uni2f.unige.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit moetteli@amiga.icu.net.ch wrote: > Hi all > > ProxyARP is a very nice thing. The Problem for me is, what should one do if he has a subnet as a PPP client? > It's not really a subnet that he has.This looks like a split subnet arrangement, where some IP addresses in one subnet got moved to another. > The only and so far not usable solution I found, is to manually add a proxy arp and a routing table entry in "ip-up" for the added computers (please see more details on the bottom of the posting). > > But if I do this, I have two _very_ annoying problems: > > 1. The two PPP sides send continously network packets. So many, that the computer uses all of its power for that. It's _impossible_ to work on it. It even crashes the modems or the computers. There appear to be configuration ambiguities that may cause this. > 2. Do I have to manually add and remove entries on the server side for every computer I add or remove on the subnetwork? That wouldn't be very elegant at all. See below. > > > Thanks for all ideas! > Phil > > --------------------More Details---------------------------------------- > > The subnet (client side) has the IP addresses from x.y.z.248 on upwards: > > en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING> > inet 192.33.227.250 netmask fffffff8 broadcast 192.33.227.255 > ppp0: flags=51<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING> > inet 192.33.227.250 --> 192.33.227.111 netmask fffffff8 > > This gives me the following routing table (also on the client): > > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 755 lo0 > 192.33.227.250 127.0.0.1 UH 7 772 lo0 > 192.33.227.111 192.33.227.250 UH 2 17895 ppp0 > default 192.33.227.111 UG 1 18267 ppp0 > 192.33.227.248 192.33.227.250 U 18 17035 en0 > Ok, you arrange the client side to believe it is responsible for 192.33.227.248/29 > Btw: I specified the PPP client as the router for the other computers on the subnet. > > On the server side I had to manually add in "ip-up" a proxyarp for all the computers (only one for the moment) that are connected to the computers but the one that establishes the PPP connection: > What is the server side network interface configuration?This would be helpful information. > /usr/etc/arp -s enigma 00:00:0f:00:82:27 pub > > And a routing entry: > > /etc/route add net 192.33.227.248 monster 1 > > This gives me the following routing and arp tables: > > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 3 1947 lo0 > 192.33.227.250 192.33.227.111 UH 2 144 ppp0 > default 192.33.227.1 UG 1 3144 en0 > 192.33.227.248 192.33.227.250 UG 2 68501 ppp0 This is an ambiguous route.There is no subnet mask for the route and it is unclear what scope of IP addresses this route covers. > 192.33.227 192.33.227.111 U 10 45265 en0 > It looks as if the server is on a LAN with 192.33.227.0/24.Normally, it will believe all the client side addresses are on this LAN. > monster.citeu.unige.ch (192.33.227.250) at 0:0:1a:10:e:46 permanent published > ? (192.33.227.1) at 0:0:c:8e:82:30 > enigma.citeu.unige.ch (192.33.227.251) at 0:0:f:0:82:27 permanent published When proxy ARPing, the server must advertise its own ethernet address on its own LAN on behalf of all the client addresses on the other side of the PPP link. In effect, it must tell the other members of its LAN to "give me all traffic" destined to any of the addresses on the other side. Some of these permanently published ethernet addresses above can't be correct. Then, you need to set up host routes for all addresses on the far end of the PPP connection: route add host 192.33.227.249 192.33.227.250 1 route add host 192.33.227.251 192.33.227.250 1 . . . If you set up proxy arp, and routes, for all the client side IP addresses, you won't have to change them as the client side computers change. andrew
From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: new users' $HOME is world-readable! Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:13:28 -0400 Organization: IAASCAT Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Ok, how do I convince UserManager to NOT make a new user's $HOME world-readable? I thought if I changed the permissions on /usr/template/user/ that would do it -- but no. This is a rather large security hole, wouldn't you think? TjL
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Usermanager refuses to run (and other goodies) [NETINFO Probs?] [HELP] Date: 28 Aug 1997 17:53:31 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5u4dur$pss$3@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <jray-2808971108380001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu In <jray-2808971108380001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu> John Ray wrote: > It seems that everytime I think I know what I'm doing, something blows > up on me. With the help of nice people on this group, I moved our Intel > OpenStep 4.0 machine to the role of being a NetInfo server for 2 client > NeXT slabs. 1) I have heard 4.x/Intel does not like being the server 2) I have heard there are problems with the 4.x lookupd that are supposedly fixed in 4.2... it would be nice if NeXT/Apple released a patched lookupd for those who bought 4.0 or 4.1, but don't hold your breathe. > The only strange thing I've noticed is that in Netinfo manager, when opening > the local domain, it refers to it as "local @ 0.0.0.0<?>" (or something like > that), which I don't remember seeing before. That definitely looks wrong. I think it should be 'local @ hostname' I think *I* solved this by copying /machines/localhost and then setting things up as /machines/myhostname with the proper IP, etc etc. Note: I might have foggy memory on this.... It might not be the right way to do it.... IOW: use at your own risk > I'd *really* like to get this working. I've heard so many people tout > NetInfo's wonderful abilities, but I have yet to have a stable > configuration where network user accounts actually work *well* . NetInfo and SNS have both bitten me in the *ss more times then they have been helpful. TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: "Robert" <reckdale@students.wisc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Loading from network Date: 28 Aug 1997 19:44:45 GMT Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services Message-ID: <5u4kfd$3vk@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> I just purchased a NeXT Tubocolor slab (read: I am a NeXT newbie) and upon power up it says "loading from network". I am stuck, it appears to want to load the OS from a network instead of from the SCSI device and I don't know what file to modify to tell it to boot from the drive. I am sure this is a basic issue but I am stuck. I would appreciate any help... thanks thank you, Robert reckdale@students.wisc.edu
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: new users' $HOME is world-readable! Date: 28 Aug 1997 20:04:39 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5u4lkn$19g$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org In <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > Ok, how do I convince UserManager to NOT make a new user's $HOME > world-readable? UserManager.app uses the /etc/nu program to do the work of actually creating accounts and copying stuff into place. In particular you will probably want to customise /etc/nulib/nu1.sh (Arrgh! how horrible: that's a *csh* script. Yuk.) Or you can write your own script to enforce permissions on the newly created directory, and set it up as the "After creating a user's home" program hook using the User:Defaults menu item of UserManager.app --- there are all sorts of hooks for different customizations available. > I thought if I changed the permissions on /usr/template/user/ that would > do it -- but no. > > This is a rather large security hole, wouldn't you think? World readable? No --- not really. World *writable* would be a different matter. Actually, if you have a .rhosts file or a perhaps .forward file, you'll need to have 'other' read access for systems where the home directories aren't NFS mounted with root access permitted (which is a far worse security hole). Mind you, you probably want to change ~/Mailboxes to mode 0700 and any other directories where you keep personal stuff. 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: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Loading from network Date: 28 Aug 1997 20:14:41 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5u4m7h$19g$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <5u4kfd$3vk@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: reckdale@students.wisc.edu In <5u4kfd$3vk@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> "Robert" wrote: > I just purchased a NeXT Tubocolor slab (read: I am a NeXT newbie) and upon > power up it says "loading from network". I am stuck, it appears to want to > load the OS from a network instead of from the SCSI device and I don't know > what file to modify to tell it to boot from the drive. I am sure this is a > basic issue but I am stuck. I would appreciate any help... thanks That, for some reason, is just the default boot in the PROM. It's simple to change: power on the machine, and as soon as the 'Checking System' panel disappears, use the Cmd-Cmd-` "vulcan nerve pinch" to get into the PROM monitor (Depending on your keyboard, that means either: (old style keyboards) press both Command keys and the [`] key above the number pad 7 simultaneously or: (ADB keyboards) press Alt, Command and Numlock (I think) simultaneously. You should end up in the PROM monitor --- there will be a "NeXT>" prompt. Now, just type bsd and the system will boot from the SCSI disk. What's more, the system will remember that command for all subsequent reboots until you change it. 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: Bruce Gingery <bgingeryNoSpAm@pLeAsEgtcs.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: new users' $HOME is world-readable! Date: 28 Aug 1997 21:11:41 GMT Organization: Advanced Integrators, LC Message-ID: <5u4pid$qj7@horn.wyoming.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 12:13:28 -0400, in <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat>, Timothy J. Luoma <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote: > Ok, how do I convince UserManager to NOT make a new user's $HOME > world-readable? Sorry, been too far away from NeXTstep for too long, now to give a definitive answer, without going and looking on my cube. The last UserManager.app I looked at was merely a GUI front end to the /etc/nu scripts. You MIGHT check there. Perhaps in your current version it still is. > I thought if I changed the permissions on /usr/template/user/ that would > do it -- but no. template is a good place for things like a prototype .tcshrc or even .pinerc, if your local conventions differ from other defaults. > This is a rather large security hole, wouldn't you think? Now, that's arguable. Sendmail should have access to the user's home directory if ".forward" files are to be parsed. Similarly, fingerd needs access if the .plan and .project files are to be processed. Finally, if the user has personal web pages (e.g. tilde web address) the HTTPd needs access through to the subdirectory. Personally, I'd say that the user's home directory belongs with the permissions: drwxr-xr-t (octal 01755), and nearly all subdirectories should be drwx------ (octal 0700), along with -rw------- or -rwx------ for files in that home directory (octal 0600, 0700 as appropriate). Using sticky home directories without world (or even group) write access should still allow the user (and root) to manage that home directory. However the user must think of that home directory as a "front porch" rather than an "office" or "bedroom". Additionally, /Users should usually be owned by root and drwxr-xr-x or drwx-r-xr-t (assuming that's where you've left your user home directories, rather than adopting the BSD4.4 /usr/home/ ). The thing I've found objectionable were things like E-mail utility debugging files defaulting to world-readable in a world readable home directory. Bruce Gingery
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: new users' $HOME is world-readable! Date: 28 Aug 1997 21:44:42 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5u4rga$gpk$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> <5u4lkn$19g$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk In <5u4lkn$19g$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> Matthew Seaman wrote: > In <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote: > > > > Ok, how do I convince UserManager to NOT make a new user's $HOME > > world-readable? > > UserManager.app uses the /etc/nu program to do the work of actually creating > accounts and copying stuff into place. In particular you will probably want > to customise /etc/nulib/nu1.sh (Arrgh! how horrible: that's a *csh* script. I have NO idea why NeXT uses so many CSH scripts or why they give them 'sh' endings rather than 'csh' Regardless, I've not had much luck working with the 'nu' scripts... they never stop wanting to put new users at /users > Yuk.) Or you can write your own script to enforce permissions on the newly > created directory, and set it up as the "After creating a user's home" > program hook using the User:Defaults menu item of UserManager.app --- there > are all sorts of hooks for different customizations available. Now those are nifty! NOW: who can tell me why every time I open an existing user it says "Can't determine user's language"? > [Posted and mailed] If you emailed this, I never got it TjL -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: max.barel@wanadoo.fr (Max Barel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Print system do not use PPD file ? Date: 28 Aug 1997 22:38:09 GMT Organization: Wanadoo - (Client of French Internet Provider) Message-ID: <5u4ukh$h3$1@peuplier.wanadoo.fr> I am using Ghostscript to print to my Canon BJ. The PPD file is correctly used by the print panel and i can select different options, but when i print the PostScript code associated with these options is not output. If i chose "Save to ps file" and select "PostScript for the selected printer" then the code is correctly output. Is there a way to instruct the print system to generate specific code instead of standard PostScript ? -- mailto:Max.Barel@cuefa.inpg.fr
From: martin@beauty.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Klocke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: fsck missing superblocks Date: 27 Aug 1997 22:01:00 GMT Organization: Aachen University of Technology / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik Message-ID: <5u282s$hp7$2@news.rwth-aachen.de> References: <33F0BA3E.2561BADE@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: customer@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu In <33F0BA3E.2561BADE@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> customer wrote: > We had a brownout which hosed the Maxtor XT-8760S in my venerable > '040 cube running 3.3. When the power was stable I powered on and the > disk > will spin up and home but not come ready. It retries every 8 seconds. > A disk > recovery company was able to copy the sectors to another disk but fsck > says "BAD > SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG" and the /etc/disk scan function > can't find any alternates. The /etc/disk label print and block 16 look > reasonable > (what I know of them). Is there any way I can write a good magic number > in block > 16 and fsck -b 16??? Please e-mail daugher@cs.tamu.edu. Hi there ! I had a similar problem with a disk and superblocks...but in my case it just fucked up, and wasn't copied or so.. The thing is that the filesystem contains MANY superblock-backups. I guess, though, that you don't know where they are. And it's a bit weird that scan can't find ANY alternates...in my case it could, but they had nothing to do with the numbers fsck needed, as there was an offset in between the two... I had (luckily) a backup of the disk init-process, so I could give fsck the right backup-number. Another way is, to TRY any fsck -b nn numbers. i know that there are many, but that's the only chance you get. And, within the first odd 30s or so, there should be 2 superblock-backups... Someone suggested to write a shell script for that, that contains a loop running fsck -bnn with growing numbers, until fsck finds a usable superblock and executes. Perhaps you can try that one. The other thing is, that some data still will be lost...in my case they were. Anyway, I hope i could help Bye Martin
From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: logging who is logging in & login hook problem Date: 29 Aug 1997 00:58:53 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5u56sd$iui$1@news.tamu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Aug 1997 00:58:53 GMT I was wondering how I might write to /usr/adm/messages a record of the username of whoever logs in. Any suggestions? Also, when I try to change my login hook, it shows it changes in the Preferences.app but /usr/adm/messages still shows it trying to run the old login hook. Is this a known bug or is it just me?? I tried renaming /.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L but it still does it. blessings, Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@2myriad.net Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 NOTE - remove the 2 to mail to me.
From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Logging user activities? Date: 29 Aug 1997 00:47:15 GMT Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Message-ID: <5u566j$ile$1@news.tamu.edu> References: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970822165213.11441C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Aug 1997 00:47:15 GMT In-Reply-To: <Pine.NXT.3.95.970822165213.11441C-100000@ikarus.jura.uni-bonn.de> On 08/22/97, Konstantin Wiesel wrote: > >I would like to turn on accounting on a NS3.3 and OS4.1 machine, to log >all user activities, how can i accomplish this? > >Regards >Konstantin Wiesel >Email:kwiesel@mailhost.jura.uni-bonn.de > > > check man ac It's not as much logging as I would like but that's all that is automatically done. blessings, Stephen -- --- Stephen Johnson Computer Consulting Intl, LTD PO Box 1046 College Station, TX 77841 NOTE - remove the 2 to mail to me.
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: logging who is logging in & login hook problem Date: 29 Aug 1997 01:36:31 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5u592v$gpk$5@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <5u56sd$iui$1@news.tamu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu In <5u56sd$iui$1@news.tamu.edu> Stephen Johnson wrote: > I was wondering how I might write to /usr/adm/messages a record of the > username of whoever logs in. > Any suggestions? Not sure why you want this, when it is recorded in /usr/etc/wtmp or whatever the file 'who' uses is, but I assume you have a reason Doesn't the LoginHook run under the UID of the user who just logged in? If so, how can they write to /usr/adm/messages? And if they can write to it, doesn't that mean they can edit out the entry? > Also, when I try to change my login hook, it shows it changes in the > Preferences.app but /usr/adm/messages still shows it trying to run the > old login hook. Is this a known bug or is it just me?? I tried > renaming /.NeXT/.NeXTdefaults.L but it still does it. I assume you are doing this as root? what does ``dread -o loginwindow'' show you? Is root's $HOME / or /root (that happened with some earlier versions of UserManager, right? TjL NB: there's an app called MOTD.app out there which includes source code, and it might be of interest in writing something..... might not... either way, it's at: ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/unix/MOTD.NIHS.bs.tar.gz -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
Message-ID: <34064218.9E64B479@isd.net> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 1997 22:29:28 -0500 From: Eric Ulmer <eulmer@isd.net> Organization: Eric's Next Black Hole MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: NIS and NetInfo Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Q: How can I configure autonfsmount to use auto_master rather than auto.master so users home directories automount properly? Q: Can Netinfo be used to serve/redistribute information to other Unix workstations? Mainly SUNs. If anyone has the answers to these questions please Email me, and I'll add them onto my web site. http://www.isd.net/eulmer
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: new to next-need setup help! Date: 18 Aug 1997 22:27:23 GMT Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/ Message-ID: <5tai8b$206$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> References: <33F8C2DD.5A12EEEA@sakurakai.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mrkai@sakurakai.com In <33F8C2DD.5A12EEEA@sakurakai.com> Kai Cherry wrote: > If there is a FAQ that will help me I'll glady read it :) at least you didn't post it to all the groups. > I'm on a tcpip network. @Home ? Me too! Neat, eh? > I need to know where to plug in what I need to access the nameserver, > etc. Assuming you have your NeXT's hostname set to "cc643893-a" then your /etc/resolv.conf file should look like this: catv1.md.home.com 24.3.xxx.yyy 24.3.aaa.bbb Where those last numbers are the Primary & Secondary DNS Server Addresses, as listed on the work order sheet you should have received when they installed it. > How do I set up my TurboColor slab as a client on a non next TCP/IP > network? A TCP/IP network is a TCP/IP network.... it has nothing to do with being a NeXT or non-NeXT one.... You will want to set up the router information (called the Default Gateway Address on the work order) in HostManager.app, I think. TjL ps -- if your cable company carries the F/X channel and you'd like to do me a favor, please drop me an email asap! -- "NeXT continually embarrassed the rest of the industry for having workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: fsck missing superblocks Date: 29 Aug 1997 12:51:53 GMT Organization: P&L Systems Message-ID: <5u6gl9$knk$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> References: <33F0BA3E.2561BADE@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> <5u282s$hp7$2@news.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: martin@beauty.rwth-aachen.de In <5u282s$hp7$2@news.rwth-aachen.de> Martin Klocke wrote: > In <33F0BA3E.2561BADE@chisholm.cs.tamu.edu> customer wrote: > > We had a brownout which hosed the Maxtor XT-8760S in my venerable '040 > > cube running 3.3. When the power was stable I powered on and the disk > > will spin up and home but not come ready. It retries every 8 seconds. A > > disk recovery company was able to copy the sectors to another disk but > > fsck says "BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG" and the /etc/disk scan > > function can't find any alternates. The /etc/disk label print and block > > 16 look reasonable (what I know of them). Is there any way I can write a > > good magic number in block 16 and fsck -b 16??? Please e-mail > > daugher@cs.tamu.edu. > > Hi there ! I had a similar problem with a disk and superblocks...but in my > case it just fucked up, and wasn't copied or so.. The thing is that the > filesystem contains MANY superblock-backups. I guess, though, that you > don't know where they are. And it's a bit weird that scan can't find ANY > alternates...in my case it could, but they had nothing to do with the > numbers fsck needed, as there was an offset in between the two... I had > (luckily) a backup of the disk init-process, so I could give fsck the right > backup-number. Another way is, to TRY any fsck -b nn numbers. i know that > there are many, but that's the only chance you get. And, within the first > odd 30s or so, there should be 2 superblock-backups... Someone suggested to > write a shell script for that, that contains a loop running fsck -bnn with > growing numbers, until fsck finds a usable superblock and executes. Perhaps > you can try that one. The other thing is, that some data still will be > lost...in my case they were. > > Anyway, I hope i could help Bye Martin The trick to locate alternate superblocks is: newfs -Nv /dev/rsd0a 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
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware From: victor@comcon.kiev.ua (VVS) Subject: HELP with install 640M Fujitsu MO drive -M2513A. Disktab entry needed. Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: PHM Message-ID: <victor-2908971558290001@nntp.elvisti.kiev.ua> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:58:29 GMT Hello! 640M Fujitsu M2513A cant't report geometry information. SCSI Mode Sense command not supported in this drive. Some little programs on Peanuts wich determine drive geometry works only with native black hardware, no Intel. Please, help. SY, --victOr
From: jfranco@eyestreet.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Installation of NeXTSTEP 3.3 on an EIDE system Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:59:21 GMT Organization: Eye Street Software Message-ID: <3406d285.1534102@usenet.psinet.com> My problem is the following. I am attempting install NeXTSTEP 3.3 on my Intel EIDE system with the new EIDE/ATAPI drivers that NeXT/Apple has on their web site. I have configured the ATAPI CDROM as the slave and it is found on NT. (I am trying to set up a dual boot situation). When I attempt to load the EIDE drivers that I got off of the web site, I get the following error while in the floppy mode of installation: Error occurred while linking driver Adaptec1542B: rld(): Undefined symbols: _obj_getOrigClass An error occurred while loading the Adaptec1542B device driver The page describing the installation of NeXT on an EIDE system says that the necessaty of loading the Adaptec154x driver is a bug that will be fixed in later releases. What is going on here? Has anyone actually installed NeXT on an EIDE system? Thanks, Jeff Franco jfranco@eyestreet.com
From: bestor@cs.wisc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: NIS and NetInfo Questions Date: 29 Aug 1997 16:42:47 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison Message-ID: <5u6u67$1q3s$1@news.doit.wisc.edu> References: <34064218.9E64B479@isd.net> Eric Ulmer <eulmer@isd.net> wrote: >Q: Can Netinfo be used to serve/redistribute information to other Unix >workstations? > Mainly SUNs. Yes. Xedoc has a NetInfo package for several architectures, including Solaris. We have it setup to clientize (sp?) our to an exisitng NetInfo network. You can get a client only or server+client package - the latter is of course more expensive. On the Sun side it fakes itself as NIS so you have to setup NIS on your Sun's first. It works fine though I had a bitch of a time getting it set up the first time. Hopefully Xedoc has updated the manual (sorry Luke, but it _was_ a bitch :-). - Gareth --- Gareth Bestor bestor@cs.wisc.edu Computer Sciences Department http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~bestor University of Wisconsin-Madison
From: Bastian Schlueter <Bastian.Schlueter@blns.siemens.de> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: new users' $HOME is world-readable! Date: 28 Aug 1997 18:54:40 GMT Organization: Marvins home, a small place in Universe Message-ID: <5u4hhg$35r@marvin.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <Pine.NXT.3.96.970828120917.1996A-100000@luomat> Organisation: RRR "Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote: > > Ok, how do I convince UserManager to NOT make a new user's $HOME > world-readable? Have a look at /etc/nulib/nu[12].sh. I think Usermanager uses nu to create new accounts. > This is a rather large security hole, wouldn't you think? As long as it's not world writable I would say no. ciao Bastian -- e-mail: Bastian.Schlueter@blns.siemens.de http://www.first.gmd.de/~buzz RRR100R -- Was wir da machen ist verboten, aber es ist wunderbar (TSS) --
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From: Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Has someone created a DISKTAB entry for Iomega ZIP disks? Date: 29 Aug 1997 18:31:34 GMT Organization: Como me Gusta productions Message-ID: <5u74i6$k2b@ecuador.earthlink.net> References: <5t96nc$a09@argentina.earthlink.net> <EF6vxD.9pu@novice.uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca In <EF6vxD.9pu@novice.uwaterloo.ca> David Evans wrote: > In article <5t96nc$a09@argentina.earthlink.net>, > Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> wrote: > >Has someone created a DISKTAB entry for Iomega ZIP disks? > > > >If so, would you please send it to me? I'm very frustrated on my black hw > >trying to use the zip drive. > > > > What problems have you had with the Zip drive? I've never had a problem with > my Zip drive and I don't use a disktab entry. Well,,,,,, it was the cable! 8-) Now everything is cool. -- Be well, Matthew Reichman <mreichman@earthlink.net> NeXTMAIL, SUN Mail & MIME welcome PGP key --> email w/ subject "request_PGP"
From: Lee Byeong-ho <bhlee@cnt.co.kr> Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: How can I get Newsgroup? Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 04:10:01 +0900 Organization: Yuhan C&T Message-ID: <34071E89.A269AC00@cnt.co.kr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------9C925D79C87AE9B79F2E3121" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------9C925D79C87AE9B79F2E3121 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, All I'm using OpenStep 4.1J for Mach in Intel. So I don't know how to get Newsgroup. Can you give me some tips on this problem... Best Regards /Byeong-ho Lee. --------------9C925D79C87AE9B79F2E3121 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=x-UNICODE-2-0-UTF-7; name="vcard.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Byeong-ho Lee Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="vcard.vcf" begin: vcard fn: Byeong-ho Lee n: Lee;Byeong-ho org: Yuhan C&T adr: 1597-6 Seocho-Dong, Seocho-Ku;;;Seoul;;137-070;Korea email;internet: bhlee@cnt.co.kr title: S/W Engineer (OpenStep/Rhapsody-WebObjects,EOF) tel;work: +-82(2)5210102x602 tel;fax: +-82(2)5816123 x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version: 2.1 end: vcard --------------9C925D79C87AE9B79F2E3121--
From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Loading from network Date: 30 Aug 1997 04:16:43 GMT Organization: Cows Unlimited! Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5u86rb$me2@news1.mnsinc.com> References: <5u4kfd$3vk@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <5u4m7h$19g$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> that Matthew Seaman (Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk) scribbled: > In <5u4kfd$3vk@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> "Robert" wrote: > > I just purchased a NeXT Tubocolor slab (read: I am a NeXT newbie) and upon > > power up it says "loading from network". I am stuck, it appears to want to > > load the OS from a network instead of from the SCSI device and I don't know > > what file to modify to tell it to boot from the drive. I am sure this is a > > basic issue but I am stuck. I would appreciate any help... thanks > You should end up in the PROM monitor --- there will be a "NeXT>" prompt. > Now, just type > bsd > and the system will boot from the SCSI disk. What's more, the system will > remember that command for all subsequent reboots until you change it. It will? I am under the impression that you have to type p and then when it asks you? boot command? (en) you type sd and THEN from then on it will remember :) -- --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Barry J. Bocaner <barry@gslink.com> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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From: creat-jk@wdc.net (kim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: wtb: ns3.3 user and ns3.3 developor(academy version Date: 30 Aug 1997 04:58:27 GMT Organization: Western Datacom Message-ID: <creat-jk-ya02408000R2908982156130001@news.wdc.net> References: <3406d285.1534102@usenet.psinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I am looking for ns3.3 user and ns3.3 developor(academy version )for color turbo station
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Subject: Re: "The hard drive is unreadable." Message-ID: <EFqF2D.Mnv@nidat.sub.org> Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki) Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany References: <5tmp1i$678$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 15:01:24 GMT In article <5tmp1i$678$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu> nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban) writes: > On two systems running OSfM/I, I have the same problem: each one has a > hard drive (EIDE, if that matters) that does not have a NEXTSTEP > filesystem. Whenever I log in, it pops up a panel saying "The hard > drive is unreadable.", with "Ignore" and "Initialize" buttons. What can > I do to prevent it from doing that (especially because the "Initialize" > button is the default!!). > Both FAQ (Peanuts.leo.org) and RTFM (Man-page on 'fstab', for instance). -- Peter Nitezki | Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org # Blessed art thou who knoweth Staarenbergstr. 44 | Tel.: +49 7251 62495 # not about the pleasure and D-76703 Kraichtal | Fax : +49 7251 69215 # delight of being hooked GERMANY | E-mail defunct, sorry # up to the Net. Peter 1,3-5
From: root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: PLEASE HELP: Can't boot anymore!!! Date: 30 Aug 1997 18:02:03 GMT Organization: University of Geneva Distribution: world Message-ID: <5u9n6r$e6s@uni2f.unige.ch> Summary: Block/Character Device Hi After having connected a probably broken HD, my computer booted about 3/4 of the boot process until it stopped. It was such a hard crash, that I even couldn't use the ROM monitor to halt the system. Since then, when I reboot, the system tells me the following: /dev/sd0a is not block or character device Reboot failed...help! mount: /dev/sd0a on /: Block device required mount: giving up on: / After that I find myself in the single user mode. At least, I can access my files and the filesystem read-only. So I can use the Unix commands but I can't change anything. Of course I have disconnected the other HD, but no change. Apparently it does read the kernel, and then... why does it stop? Is there something wrong with the boot sector? What should I do? Please help! Phil
From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: .plan file content in the NEXTSTEP GUI - where? Date: 30 Aug 1997 19:35:20 GMT Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center Message-ID: <5u9slo$6q3@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Hi, I have a question that has been puzzling me for a long time, and it's about the .plan file. Of course I know that the content of the .plan file is to be read by the finger command. However, years ago, when I started with NEXTSTEP, I *know* I came across the content of the .plan file *somewhere* in the *NEXTSTEP GUI* (I didn't even know about the finger command back then). But I simply can't remember where, nor can I find it again. I thought of something like the addresses inspector, but nope... This drives me crazy because I know somewhere in the GUI it is... Does anybody know where? Thanks for releasing me from this nagging question! ;-) Bye Uli -- _____________________________________________________________________ Uli Zappe E-Mail: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (NeXTMail,Mime,ASCII) PGP on request Lorscher Strasse 5 WWW: - D-60489 Frankfurt Fon: +49 (69) 9784 0007 Germany Fax: +49 (69) 9784 0042 staff member of NEXTTOYOU - the German NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP magazine _____________________________________________________________________
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