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From: natalie <natalie@whoever.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Loading from network
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 20:57:44 -0500
Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services
Message-ID: <3408CF98.332F@whoever.com>
References: <5u4kfd$3vk@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net> <5u4m7h$19g$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk> <5u86rb$me2@news1.mnsinc.com>
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To: Barry Bocaner <barry@gslink.com>
Barry Bocaner wrote:
>
> 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>
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Well, I have a question, now...I've tried both, and it doesn't seem to
remember the command using either method. I can get into the GUI
eventually, though. Is there a way to reconfigure from here?
Also, where can I take care of some password administration? Being the
fool that I am, I was playing around with some of the commands, and set
myself a hardware password. I'm asked for my password during the single
user boot. After I supply the password, it goes into multi-user mode,
which I don't want to happen. Any suggestions on how to fix these
issues? Thanks!!
natalie
From: natalie <natalie@whoever.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Do you like to receive $2 million ?
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 21:01:16 -0500
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To: mailservice@bulkmail.net
mailservice@bulkmail.net wrote:
>
> Hello Reader,
>
> Would you be interested in.....
>
> * receiving money by snail mail from all over the world?
> * in terms of MILLIONS, starting with $2 million ?
> * magic hands who create your financial future?
>
> Look at mailto:mm5413@persnet.com
>
> You'll be very - very - sorry if you don't!
I'll be very - very - sorry if people don't flame the hell out of you.
You suck.
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NIS and NetInfo Questions
Date: 31 Aug 1997 02:31:14 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
Message-ID: <5ual1i$3pd@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
References: <34064218.9E64B479@isd.net> <5u6u67$1q3s$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>
bestor@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
: 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 :-).
NetInfo 4.11, which has been available for some months now, fixes the
installation problem you had. And yes, the manual has been updated.
cheers,
-- Luke
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: <10179872395226@digifix.com>
Date: 31 Aug 1997 03:53:18 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <16621873000033@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
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Announcements of general interest to the NeXT community (new
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
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Messages posted to announce should NOT be posted or crossposted
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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.
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Discussions about NeXT-label hardware and compatible peripherals,
and non-NeXT-produced hardware (e.g. Intel) that is compatible
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SCSI devices belong in comp.periphs.scsi. This isn't the place
to buy or sell used NeXTs--that's what .marketplace is for.
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NeXT stuff for sale/wanted. Material posted here must not be
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For stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else. Anything you post
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
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Generic UNIX questions belong elsewhere (comp.unix.questions),
although specific questions about NeXT's implementation or
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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.
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This is a place to talk about [third party] software products
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COMP.SYS.NEXT.SYSADMIN
Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
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** 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
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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
=====================================
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this, please send mail to nextanswers-request@next.com.
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From: moetteli@citeu.unige.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't boot anymore!!! --> Solved
Date: 31 Aug 1997 14:47:19 GMT
Organization: University of Geneva
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In PLEASE HELP: Can't boot anymore!!! comp.sys.next.sysadmin <ArticleDisplayer: 0x92558> writes,
> 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?
The crash destroyed about 20 block device files (/dev/*sd[0-3]?).
I had to reboot from CD and recreate them.
Regards
Phil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP: Can't boot anymore!!!
Message-ID: <EFsCEz.5uz@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 15:59:23 GMT
In article <5u9n6r$e6s@uni2f.unige.ch> root@citenext.citeu.unige.ch
writes:
> 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?
>
The boot sector is fine. Otherwise it would not have booted, even if only
into singleuser mode. Your gunshot hit the filesystem header of the root
partition, rendering the thing unmountable.
You should try 'fsck' in singleuser mode. If you're lucky the damage can
be repaired. if not you can unload the data to some backup medium and
reinstall the OS from sratch. There are several option depending on your
local situation. Unfortunately, they're too many to enumerate them all in
one single posting. Read the FAQ on Peanuts or, if that didn't do it,
drop me an E-mail describing your situation in detail.
--
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: kellyp@v-wave.com (Kelly Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Should I upgrade from NS 3.2 to NS 3.3
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 20:54:58 GMT
Organization: Videotron Communications Ltd. (V-WAVE)
Message-ID: <5ucllm$b4l2@crash.videotron.ab.ca>
I have a Color Station with 32 MB of RAM. I was wondering if there is any
advantage to upgrading from NS 3.2 to NS3.3. What are the differences?
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From: malte@oops.se (Malte Tancred)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: -NEWDB for NEXSTEP?
Date: 1 Sep 1997 06:41:16 GMT
Organization: OOPS, Gothenburg
Message-ID: <5udo2c$m111@parabol.taide.net>
References: <5tvcv0$shu@nnrp1.farm.idt.net>
In article <5tvcv0$shu@nnrp1.farm.idt.net>,
<Paul.J.Buckley@columbia.edu> wrote:
>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.
>
I have a ready to compile version of db 1.85 on the web. Just point
your browser to http://www.oops.se/~malte/Downloads.
I've compiled it on an intel machine running NEXTSTEP 3.3. Check the
directory /PORT/nextstep3.3 in the package for details of the port. I
haven't documented any of my changes, so if there are more changes
than those in the PORT directory I wouldn't know anything about them.
Run diff or something if your interested. :-)
Good luck!
Malte
--
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OOPS art, HB
malte@oops.se, http://www.oops.se/~malte
From: "Lee Byeong-ho" <bhlee@cnt.co.kr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OpenStep Install in Digital Prioris ZX 5133MP
Date: 1 Sep 1997 10:37:19 GMT
Organization: HanQ.Net
Message-ID: <01bcb6c2$f9205e50$68a77fd2@dooly>
Hi, All
I have a terrible problem with installing OpenStep 4.1J in my Digital
Prioris ZX 5133MP(133MHZ Pentium, 32M ECC RAM, 512KB Cache, CD 4x SCSI,
Graphic 512, Adaptec 7870 PC 2 channel Fast wide SCSI-2 Controller).
I inserted Installation Disk and Driver Disk, then select Adaptec 2940
Driver.
That driver supports Adaptec 7870 SCSI. That's why I chose that driver.
But I couldn't preceed any more.
"Can't find CD ROM and ...."
Must I find any other Drivers?
Please give me some tips on this problems.
Best Regards.
/Byeong-ho, Lee
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Loading from network
Date: 1 Sep 1997 12:23:58 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
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In <3408CF98.332F@whoever.com> natalie wrote:
> Well, I have a question, now...I've tried both, and it doesn't seem to
> remember the command using either method. I can get into the GUI
> eventually, though. Is there a way to reconfigure from here?
Unfortunately not --- you've got to get into the PROM monitor to deal with
this stuff.
> Also, where can I take care of some password administration? Being the
> fool that I am, I was playing around with some of the commands, and set
> myself a hardware password. I'm asked for my password during the single
> user boot. After I supply the password, it goes into multi-user mode,
> which I don't want to happen. Any suggestions on how to fix these
> issues? Thanks!!
That the machine won't boot single user suggests that you aren't providing it
with the correct hardware password --- unless you just typo'd the first time
and actually do have a good record of the hardware password you set, I think
you're going to have to crack your own machine...
Hmmm... I guess you need to wipe the prom by pulling out the battery and
either waiting for half an hour or shorting out the contacts --- that will
return the system to the default state. On a slab the battery can be found
right next to the fan --- it's a damn great yellow thing marked "Panasonic
Lithium Battery", or it is on the slab I just opened up to check.
Matthew
--
Certe, Toto, sentio nos in Kansate nin iam adesse.
Matthew Seaman P&L Systems, 12 The Broadway, Amersham, Bucks., HP7 0HP, UK
Tel: +44 1494 432422 Fax: +44 1494 432478
From: cejensen@bitstream.net (Christian Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: new users' $HOME is world-readable!
Date: 1 Sep 1997 15:36:28 GMT
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In <5u4rga$gpk$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>
> NOW: who can tell me why every time I open an existing user it says "Can't
> determine user's language"?
>
> TjL
>
I also get this, and would love to hear of a fix.
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From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
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Subject: Re: new users' $HOME is world-readable!
Date: 2 Sep 1997 11:10:55 GMT
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"Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> writes:
> Ok, how do I convince UserManager to NOT make a new user's $HOME
> world-readable?
>
> This is a rather large security hole, wouldn't you think?
Not really - UNIX has always been like this, or certainly as far back as I
can recall. Nice and friendly... if you want to make something private
then chmod it !
-bat.
From: cdl@best.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Turbo upgrade problems
Date: 2 Sep 1997 15:19:00 GMT
Message-ID: <5uhap4$kih$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
I recently replaced my home non-turbo color slab with a turbo color slab by
moving the SCSI disk from one to the other. The system basically works fine
(and I appreciate the speed and more memory) but I've run into two quirks:
Quirk 1) I've been having problems with my ZyXEL 2864 modem. At times it's
unresponsive to NXFax, SLIP and tip so I have to reset it a lot and generally
leave it off when I'm not using it. I did the S18 patch for NXFax when I
upgraded it from the 1496 and the 2864 worked fine on my non-turbo slab.
Quirk 2) Daydream.app hangs the system when I try to reboot into the
Macintosh emulator. The emulator itself seems to work fine when I manually
drop into the ROM monitor and boot it up but the friendly App to do so from
NEXTSTEP doesn't work properly like it did with the non-turbo slab. (I've
started exporting NFS volumes since I last used Daydream if it matters.)
The slab is running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched except for Foundation) and I've
checked the web for turbo quirks but wasn't able to find anything. Anyone
else run into these problems and know a solution?
Thanks,
- Christopher
From: rennich@lelepc4.stanford.edu (Rennich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Troubles Partitioning my Hard Drive
Date: 2 Sep 1997 15:51:23 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Message-ID: <5uhclr$3kr$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
Regarding: help partitioning a 4.3GB hard drive with 2BG OS4.0, 1GB Win95
and 1.5GBLinux.
Thanks to all who responded. Due mostly to time constraints and the
comment that "extreme measures" would be required to format the drive in a
sensible way, I simply re-initialized the drive with 3.3GB OS4.0 and 1GB
Win95. This worked, but the $*@&^!# thing gave me FOUR ~800MB partitions?
(all easily mounted using fstab). I had been expecting two ~1.6GB
partitions.
The good news is that otherwise OS4.0 works fine on the following system.
Intel Pentium II 266
Supermicro P6SNE II
Adapted 2940UW
Mattrox Millenium II 4MB
Steve Rennich
rennich@leland.stanford.edu
From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I stop spammers from using my host?
Date: 2 Sep 1997 16:28:55 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <5ug3dv$mbc$1@news.digifix.com> sanguish@digifix.com (Scott Anguish) writes:
>On 09/01/97, James E. Quick wrote:
>>I recently found that someone had tried to use my system as an
>>intermediate hop for a SPAM. The originating system sent the mail
>>through a university on the west coast, and then had the mail
>>delivered to the long list of recipients via my sendmail daemon.
>
>Your best bet is to updated to Sendmail 8.whatever the current
>version is, and use the anti-relaying stuff that is documented on
>www.sendmail.org.
I got hit my similar spamming earlier this year.
Options documented in http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html weren't
flexible enough for us last time I checked. We use the following
procedure.
I.
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From: gckaplan@ack.berkeley.edu (George C. Kaplan)
Newsgroups: ucb.sysadmin
Subject: Sendmail changes on mailhost.berkeley.edu
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This morning I upgraded sendmail on mailhost.berkeley.edu
(nak.berkeley.edu) to version 8.8.5. This version includes several
anti-spam provisions. Our setup includes filters to block spammers
from relaying through mailhost and to reject connections from known
rogue sites.
For anyone interested in installing similar filters on their own
systems, here's what we did on mailhost. Add the text at the end of
this message to the .mc file you use to build sendmail.cf. (If you're
not using m4, remove "LOCAL_CONFIG" and "LOCAL_RULESETS" and append the
rest to the end of your sendmail.cf)
Sendmail 8.8.5 defines 4 new rulesets that are useful for spam
filtering. We use two of them:
- check_relay rejects connections from SMTP sites that are listed in
/etc/sendmail.rogues (by domain) or in /etc/sendmail.rogueIP (by IP
address).
- check_rcpt stops spammers from using mailhost as a relay. It checks
that either the connecting SMTP client or the mail recipient (or
both) are "local." "Local" means any domain listed in
/etc/sendmail.relays. For mailhost, this contains a single entry:
.Berkeley.EDU
These rules are based on examples posted on
http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/check.html
You can find lots of hints on configuring and testing sendmail on
http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/%7Eca/email/english.html
Also check out http://www.sendmail.org/
George C. Kaplan gckaplan@ack.berkeley.edu
Communication & Network Services 510-643-0496
University of California at Berkeley
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LOCAL_CONFIG
# Domains that we'll relay for
F{Relays} /etc/sendmail.relays
# Domains, hosts & IP's we refuse to accept
F{Rogues} /etc/sendmail.rogues
F{RogueIP} /etc/sendmail.rogueIP
LOCAL_RULESETS
Scheck_rcpt
# first: get client addr
R$+ $: $(dequote "" $&{client_name} $) $| $1
R0 $| $* $@ ok no client addr: directly invoked here
R$*$={Relays} $| $* $@ ok on our allowed relay list
# not local, check rcpt
R$* $| $* $: $>3 $2
# remove local part, maybe repeatedly
R$*<@$=w.>$* $>3 $1 $3 deliver to this host?
R$*<@$*$m.>$* $>3 $1 $3 deliver to our domain?
R$*<@$*$={Relays}.>$* $>3 $1 $4 or to an allowed relay domain?
# still something left? Reject it
R$*<@$+>$* $#error $@ 5.7.1 $: "571 we do not relay for " $&{client_name}
Scheck_relay
R$*$={Rogues} $| $* $#error $@ 5.5.0 $: "550 access denied for " $2
R$* $| $={RogueIP}$* $#error $@ 5.5.0 $: "550 access denied for " $2
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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 12:22:25 -0600
From: jdev@andante.mn.org
Subject: smail to procmail conversion
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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To: jdev@andante.mn.org
I have a far less the well configured smail system running under NeXT
OS 3.3. This is on a non turbo NeXT cube which is a mail server for a
dual boot Mach 4.2/Linux Intel box. I want to change the mail system
on the cube from smail to procmail.
The question is what should I do to the current smail configuration
to:
1. allow me to go back to it as it is now?
2. leave it in a non functional state when procmail is installed?
I have read the docs on procmail and appnmail and I think I understand
that configuration but I am a little worried about the migration. I
use UUCP (non Taylor) for most mail delivery, although since I
installed ISDN and a Pipeline router, I am seeing that about 30% of
the outgoing mail goes out via SMTP over the ISDN line. There does
not appear to be any rhyme or reason that I can figure out easily as
to how the existing smail system decides to send out the mail via UUCP
or SMTP, therefore my desire to configure procmail.
All comments welcome.
John N. Alegre
Andante Systems
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From: jrudd@cygnus.com (John Rudd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .plan file content in the NEXTSTEP GUI - where?
Date: 2 Sep 1997 17:30:21 GMT
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In <5u9slo$6q3@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Uli Zappe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question that has been puzzling me for a long time, and it's about
> the .plan file.
>
> Of course I know that the content of the .plan file is to be read by the
> finger command.
>
> However, years ago, when I started with NEXTSTEP, I *know* I came across
the
> content of the .plan file *somewhere* in the *NEXTSTEP GUI* (I didn't even
> know about the finger command back then).
>
> But I simply can't remember where, nor can I find it again. I thought of
> something like the addresses inspector, but nope...
>
> This drives me crazy because I know somewhere in the GUI it is...
>
> Does anybody know where?
>
> Thanks for releasing me from this nagging question! ;-)
>
> Bye
> Uli
>
Are you sure you weren't looking at someone's .plan via a web finger gateway?
There are some cgi scripts out there on some web servers that if you go to a
URL of the form http://blah.blah.blah/cgi-bin/finger?user
Usually it will give you the output of "finger user@blah.blah.blah", with
bold lettering for the field names of the GCOS information at the top of the
finger output (like bold "Name:" and then regular print "John Rudd"). It was
just a way to keep the older "my personal info" unix network stuff current to
the web, when there isn't a finger: type url (as far as I recall -- though,
there should have been, considering they supported gopher).
--
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From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu@ (Stephen Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: logging who is logging in & login hook problem
Date: 2 Sep 1997 18:22:09 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
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On 08/28/97, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>In <5u56sd$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
Well, having it all together in the same log file would be convenient.
But
who /usr/adm/wtmp
will suffice, at least. I had looked at ac and that only gave total
times of logins.
>
>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?
>
I don't know if LoginHook runs under the UID of the user or not.
>
>> 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 $HOME / or /root (that happened with some earlier versions
of
>UserManager, right?
After rebooting, it seems to work correctly.
--
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Computer Consulting Intl, LTD
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: smail to procmail conversion
Date: 2 Sep 1997 19:54:03 GMT
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In <873218431.30552@dejanews.com> jdev@andante.mn.org wrote:
> I have a far less the well configured smail system running under NeXT OS
> 3.3. This is on a non turbo NeXT cube which is a mail server for a dual
> boot Mach 4.2/Linux Intel box. I want to change the mail system on the
> cube from smail to procmail.
Uh --- smail is a mail *transport* agent whilst procmail is a mail *delivery*
agent. I really don't think you want to do what you said...
If you want to get rid of smail, there are a number of alternative mail
transport agents out there, including things like qmail and Zmailer.
Personally, I prefer to use V8 sendmail --- you might think that this is
impossibly arcane and difficult to configure (although V8 is a lot easier
than earlier sendmail versions due to the m4 macro based configuration file
stuff), but quite honestly any e-mail transport agent will be complicated to
configure: it's just the nature of the beast.
V8 sendmail wins because there are pre-compiled installer packages on
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next with example configs for next systems that
are probably going to be pretty close to what you want.
Matthew
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Turbo upgrade problems
Date: 2 Sep 1997 20:06:48 GMT
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In <5uhap4$kih$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> cdl@best.com wrote:
> I recently replaced my home non-turbo color slab with a turbo color slab by
> moving the SCSI disk from one to the other. The system basically works
fine
> (and I appreciate the speed and more memory) but I've run into two quirks:
>
> Quirk 1) I've been having problems with my ZyXEL 2864 modem. At times it's
> unresponsive to NXFax, SLIP and tip so I have to reset it a lot and
generally
> leave it off when I'm not using it. I did the S18 patch for NXFax when I
> upgraded it from the 1496 and the 2864 worked fine on my non-turbo slab.
Hmmm... Have you got the latest firmware for your Elite 2864 modem? If you
were on an intel box, I'd suggest getting the latest serial port drivers
etc., but obviously that doesn't apply to black hardware.
You can download firmware from:
ftp://ftp.zyxel.com/pub/
ftp://ftp.plsys.co.uk/pub/Products/ZyXEL
You could be having hardware problems --- does switching the modem over to
the other serial port and reconfiguring NXFax to match make any difference?
> The slab is running NEXTSTEP 3.3 (unpatched except for Foundation) and I've
> checked the web for turbo quirks but wasn't able to find anything. Anyone
> else run into these problems and know a solution?
You should certainly apply the 3.3 patches as they fix a number of quite
serious bugs.
Cheers,
Matthew
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From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: smail to procmail conversion
Date: 2 Sep 1997 22:02:11 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
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John
I'm not sure what exactly you are trying to do, but I would recommend
checking out the procmail mailing list.
See the end of 'man procmail' or 'procmail -v' for the address.
They would probably do much better at explaining the various possibilities
and pitfalls.
TjL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter)
Subject: Re: .plan file content in the NEXTSTEP GUI - where?
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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:01:19 GMT
John Rudd writes
> In <5u9slo$6q3@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de> Uli Zappe wrote:
> > 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
> >
Hi Uli,
memory is failing me on this, but I do vaguely remember it had
something to do with the Workspace address inspector. Weren't you able
to somehow display the (unix) users in the Workspace address system?
Let's see if I can find this ...
BINGO!
Open /NextLibrary/Addresses/User.addresses in the Workspace address
inspector, select a user and voila c'est le fiche 'plan' (please excuse
my sad attempt at french).
Piers
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From: Cosmo Roadkill <cosmo.roadkill%bofh.int@rauug.mil.wi.us>
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Please include the X-CosmoTraq header of this message in any correspondence
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Sick-O-Spam, Spam-B-Gon!
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How do I stop spammers from using my host?
Date: 3 Sep 1997 07:22:59 -0400
Organization: Quick and Associates
Message-ID: <5ujhaj$7f8@papoose.quick.com>
References: <5ufhoq$122@papoose.quick.com>
I received a number of useful pointers via email on this subject.
Apparently version 8.8 of sendmail adddresses a number of security
issues regarding spam, including both rejecting mail from known
spammer domains, and preventing external hosts from coopting
resources by having your system send the spam for them.
Thanks to all who helped.
I found a lot of good information on this subject at.
http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html
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From: rgr@freedomnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Is this you?
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 08:18:46
Organization: FreedomNet
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Are you sick of all the Home Business hype? Most of them are either too expensive or so complicated that you can't explain them to other people. Are you ready for a simple Home Business that makes sense?
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From: benji@csa.bu.edu (Benjamin Cline)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: openstep for solaris
Date: 03 Sep 1997 14:40:43 -0400
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In-reply-to: tsengel@immd9.informatik.uni-erlangen.de's message of 26 Aug 1997
12:30:18 GMT
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 :-(
I just installed a demo version of Sun/Lighthouse's JavaPlan for Solaris, and
was (pleasantly?) surprised to find that it includes a rather complete version
of the OpenStep 1.1 runtime.
benji
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From: Denise Howard <deniseh@shell3.ba.best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help needed setting up PPP on Mach
Date: 3 Sep 1997 08:22:03 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
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Hey all--
I think this is going to be a relatively simple problem for _somebody_!
I'm running NS3.2 on a Turbo Color, in case it matters, and I've
successfully installed PPP 2.2. Now I'm trying to fire it up, and here's
what happens:
Sep 3 01:00:56 elrond pppd[245]: Serial connection established.
Sep 3 01:00:57 elrond pppd[245]: Using interface ppp0
Sep 3 01:00:57 elrond pppd[245]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
Sep 3 01:01:01 elrond pppd[245]: LCP terminated at peer's request
Sep 3 01:01:04 elrond pppd[245]: Connection terminated.
Sep 3 01:01:05 elrond pppd[245]: Exit.
What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I read the entire FAQ that came
with the PPP install package but couldn't find this one in the
troubleshooting.
Thanks for any help! If you choose to e-mail me, please send it to
deniseh@pdi.com rather than the reply address on this message.
Denise
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From: dnelson@slip.net (Dru Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Openstep Intel/Mach Install Tips page
Date: 3 Sep 1997 13:58:09 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net (http://www.slip.net)
Message-ID: <5ukj11$ml2@slip.net>
I have made a web page that has some tips for dealing with some
of the Openstep install issues. You can get to it here:
http://www.slip.net/~dnelson/openstep.html
Basically, it describes some of the problems I have had and some of
the solutions. If you have a problem/solution we can put the result
of that here.
contact me here: dnelson@slip.net
From: Curran Fey <fey@biotech.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating a Nextstep CD
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 15:04:48 -0700
Organization: University of Washington
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I want to create CDs of Nextstep filesystems. I know that certain
Macintosh based CD writing software will allow me to create a CD
directly from a scsi device (external drive). What I am having the most
trouble with is creating a Nextstep file system which will work when
written to a CD. The key issues are:
1. Create a partition which takes up no more than the first 650 Mb of
the scsi disk.
2. Create a partition which when copied to a CD will be read correctly
by the system.
Can you help me?
Thank you.
From: John David Adamski <jda@conglomerate.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: trouble with turbo slab serial ports
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 1997 17:24:19 +0000
Organization: Natural Figure Photography
Message-ID: <340D9D38.6CB0D57C@conglomerate.com>
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I recently purchased a NeXTstation Color Turbo, after about a year and a
half with out a NeXT. I plopped in my hard drive from my old
NeXTstation, and booted fine, had truoble shutting down until I purged
NXFax. I am still having trouble getting us of the serial ports. I
tried to print to my HP LaserJet 6MP and nothing happens, tried to
connect using my moden, and nothing happens. It as if the ports are not
there.
I know the NeXT boxes had hardware host ids, could this be the cause?
Do I have to reload the whole OPSys? Or cn I get my ports working?
Please email me if you have any suggestions.
John
jda@conglomerate.com
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: setting the environment variable for PERL5LIB not working
Date: 3 Sep 97 19:08:31 -0400
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How can I set it up so that all users have a PERL5LIB environment
variable? When I set a line for login.std inside /etc to:
set PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
it doesn't seem to work.
thanks,
rob
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From: nospam@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help needed setting up PPP on Mach
Date: 4 Sep 1997 00:27:14 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
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In <5uj6nb$ps4$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> Denise Howard wrote:
Denise: nextppp@listproc.thoughtport.com might be of more help... I've seen
this question a couple times, so I'll forward them on this.
> I think this is going to be a relatively simple problem for _somebody_!
> I'm running NS3.2 on a Turbo Color, in case it matters, and I've
> successfully installed PPP 2.2. Now I'm trying to fire it up, and here's
> what happens:
>
> Sep 3 01:00:56 elrond pppd[245]: Serial connection established.
> Sep 3 01:00:57 elrond pppd[245]: Using interface ppp0
> Sep 3 01:00:57 elrond pppd[245]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
> Sep 3 01:01:01 elrond pppd[245]: LCP terminated at peer's request
> Sep 3 01:01:04 elrond pppd[245]: Connection terminated.
> Sep 3 01:01:05 elrond pppd[245]: Exit.
>
> What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I read the entire FAQ that came
> with the PPP install package but couldn't find this one in the
> troubleshooting.
If you can turn logging on any more, try that.... Do they require PAP/CHAP?
It looks like there's some sort of authentication problem or something...
they are disconnecting you for some reason... don't know why, but perhaps
someone else will have a clue.
TjL
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From: chrish@cc.usu.edu (PUNCHOUT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q:Docs for Hostmanager and NetinfoManager
Message-ID: <Kmyhi0GKCYHb@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 97 18:42:13 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
I am really confused by the HostManager and NetInfoManager applications.
Could someone suggest some source of documentation for these applications?
I'm green to setting up NetInfo, so any reccomendation here would be
helpful. I checked manpages and came up empty.
Thanks in advance
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From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: setting the environment variable for PERL5LIB not working
Date: 4 Sep 1997 03:48:19 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
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In <B0336640-69F0@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
>
>
> How can I set it up so that all users have a PERL5LIB environment
> variable? When I set a line for login.std inside /etc to:
> set PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
> it doesn't seem to work.
try
setenv PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
or change their shells to a better shell, like zsh (http://www.peak.org/zsh/)
and use
PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5; export PERL5LIB
TjL
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From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q:Docs for Hostmanager and NetinfoManager
Date: 4 Sep 1997 05:52:03 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
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In <Kmyhi0GKCYHb@cc.usu.edu> PUNCHOUT wrote:
> I am really confused by the HostManager and NetInfoManager applications.
> Could someone suggest some source of documentation for these applications?
> I'm green to setting up NetInfo, so any reccomendation here would be
> helpful. I checked manpages and came up empty.
The first source is /NextLibrary/Documentation/NextAdmin/. There is an Intro
to NetInfo there. You can also plug the word ``netinfo'' into
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/Search.html
HostManager and UserManager (and several of the other /NextAdmin apps) are
merely easy ways of mucking with NetInfo without using NetInfoManager.
There are two things you should know:
1) backup /etc/netinfo/ and /etc/hostconfig before and after you change
anything. Heck, I back them up when I *think* about changing anything.
2) There are copies of the originals at /usr/template/client/etc/ which you
can *copy* (ie NOT MOVE) if you want/need to drop back ten and punt (ie start
from a fresh setup).
TjL
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From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <340eb528.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 4 Sep 97 13:18:32 GMT
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Hello,
I'm trying to install NextStep 3.3 on a Pentium 200 MMX computer which has a
Adaptec 2940AU SCSI-Controller attached. After loading the
Adaptec2940SCSIDriver from the device driver disk twice (Hard disk and cd-rom),
and saying, that I don't want to load additional drivers, the system doesn't
find the start disk (so the partitioning stage of the installation procedure
does not even start) and the SCSI driver says (after switching to the white
screen):
NeXt Mach 3.3:.....
.
.
Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING;
and a little bit later
No SCSI Controller or CD-ROM drive found
The driver on the CD-ROM is version 3.32. I also tried version 3.37 from
NeXTanswers with no success.
Can someone help?
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation
Date: 4 Sep 1997 14:22:26 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Distribution: world
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In <340eb528.0@news.uni-konstanz.de> Frank Burgbacher wrote:
> I'm trying to install NextStep 3.3 on a Pentium 200 MMX computer which has
a
> Adaptec 2940AU SCSI-Controller attached. After loading the
> Adaptec2940SCSIDriver from the device driver disk twice (Hard disk and
cd-rom),
> and saying, that I don't want to load additional drivers, the system
doesn't
> find the start disk (so the partitioning stage of the installation
procedure
> does not even start) and the SCSI driver says (after switching to the white
> screen):
> NeXt Mach 3.3:.....
> .
> .
> Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING;
> and a little bit later
> No SCSI Controller or CD-ROM drive found
>
> The driver on the CD-ROM is version 3.32. I also tried version 3.37 from
> NeXTanswers with no success.
>
> Can someone help?
Certainly. Here's a posting I made previously on this very subject. Hmmm...
is anyone compiling a FAQ for this group?
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 15:06:46 BST From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew
> Seaman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec
> 2940UW and NS 3.3 X-Newsreader: RadicalNews (TM) 0.9.1 Beta(n) Cc:
> ccboone@amber.indstate.edu
>
> In <868836333.29416@dejanews.com> ccboone@amber.indstate.edu wrote:
> > I am having trouble with booting NS 3.3 with an Adaptec 2940UW. I see
> > that the actual device is found, but then it aborts trying to register it
> > later in the boot process. Then I am unable to mount root. I am using
> > the 3.37 driver. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> NS 3.3 doesn't recognise some recent models of the Adaptec 2940 SCSI
> controller because Adaptec keeps revising the PCI ID No. of the controller
> with new hardware versions. However, you can make the driver recognise the
> card in the following manner:
>
> i) On bootup, find the PCI ID number for the Adaptec card from the list of
> PCI devices. It will end in the digits 789004 --- probably 0x61789004
>
> ii) Now comes the tricky part. You need to get access to the file
> usr/Devices/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config/Instance0.table on your hard disk.
>
> Either (a) you've got to mount your disk somehow, or (b) you've got to
> re-install NS 3.3.
>
> iii-a) Getting access to the contents of a SCSI disk: If you have a second
> machine with a working SCSI bus, it is often easiest to physically pull the
> disk out of the first machine and connect it temporarily to the second.
> Remember that you will have to change the SCSI ID by fiddling with various
> jumpers so that the two disks on the same bus don't conflict.
> Alternatively you can pull out the Adaptec SCSI card and replace it with a
> recognised version, and then boot 'config=Default'.
>
> iv-a) Edit the file
> private/Drivers/i386/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config/Instance0.table. Change
> the line that says:
>
> "Auto Detect IDs" = "0x70789004 0x71789004 0x72789004 0x73789004 0x74789004
> 0x75789004 0x76789004 0x77789004 0x78789004 0x79789004 0x7a789004
> 0x7b789004 0x7c789004 0x7d789004 0x7e789004";
>
> so that it reads
>
> "Auto Detect IDs" = "0x61789004 0x70789004 0x71789004 0x72789004 0x73789004
> 0x74789004 0x75789004 0x76789004 0x77789004 0x78789004 0x79789004
> 0x7a789004 0x7b789004 0x7c789004 0x7d789004 0x7e789004";
>
> (ie. add your PCI ID number to the list)
>
> v-a) Now put your machine back together and reboot. Et Voila --- one
> working SCSI controller.
>
> Alternative b --- re-installing the system:
>
> iii-b) In this case you will need to prepare an 'Extra_Drivers' floppy with
> a tweaked version of the driver. That's just a standard NeXT formatted
> floppy with the appropriate drivers copied into
> /floppy-name/private/Drivers/i386/ --- ie. copy the
> Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config into there.
>
> iv-b) Edit the file
> floppy-name/private/Drivers/i386/Adaptec2940SCSIDriver.config/Default.table
> as above, adding the PCI ID number of your Adaptec card to the "Auto Detect
> IDs" list.
>
> v-b) Re-install the system as per usual, but when prompted to load the
> driver for your CD ROm or hard disk, use the modified driver you made
> earlier. You'll be prompted several times during the install sequence to
> insert the Extra_Drivers disk to reload the modified driver.
>
> Oh --- under OS 4.x this isn't a problem, as the driver configuration has
> been updated to do wildcard matches against PCI ID numbers. The equivalent
> line from the Instance0.table file from the 4.x driver reads:
>
> "Auto Detect IDs" = "0x00789004&0x00ffffff";
Cheers,
Matthew
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From: Bob Ferrell <Bobby.Ferrell-2@kmail.ksc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Thinkpad 760ED Installation
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 10:54:46 -0400
Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center
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Has anybody out there installed nextstep, particulary 4.0 on an IBM
thinkpad 760, if so what SCSI device driver did you use. I have found
an updated Display adapter driver but not the correct SCSI driver.
Any help would be appreciated.
Bob
From: cdl@best.com (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Turbo upgrade problems
Date: 4 Sep 1997 15:48:09 GMT
Message-ID: <5uml7p$f4f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
References: <5uhap4$kih$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
In <5uhap4$kih$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> I wrote:
> I recently replaced my home non-turbo color slab with a turbo color slab
> by moving the SCSI disk from one to the other. The system basically works
> fine (...) but I've run into two quirks:
It turns out that the second quirk was caused by the first. As mentioned in
the NXFax help addendum available by automated EMail, with NXFax running, the
modem needs to be on for the system to reboot cleanly. I had my modem off
since it was giving me trouble, so Daydream.app couldn't reboot the system.
As far as quirk #1 goes, I tried Matthew's advice and upgraded the firmware
(I had been running fine with 1.04, NXFax 'supports' 1.09 & higher and the
current version is 1.18) Based on the glitches mentioned in the NXFax help
addendum, I decided to shoot for version 1.13 to minimize known problems.
Although a somewhat ugly experience (I wasn't happy not having any
functioning OS in my modem for some time while I sorted out my download
procedure problems) I manged to upgrade it. It seems happier than it was but
it's still not as stable (over long idle periods) as it was running 1.04 on
my non-turbo color system. Probably good enough for now though.
- Christopher
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: setting the environment variable for PERL5LIB not working
Date: 4 Sep 97 12:36:16 -0400
Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server
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On Wed, Sep 3, 1997 11:48 PM, Timothy J. Luoma
<mailto:nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
>setenv PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
>
THanks, that fixed it. However, a new problem has come up. I seem to be
missing vars.pm and about half of the other lib files i thought were
standard. Should I download perl and install? I'm using the standard
installation that came with the system.
thanks,
rob
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: Re: setting the environment variable for PERL5LIB not working
Date: 4 Sep 1997 17:23:18 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
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In <B0345BCE-2D1A1D@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
> THanks, that fixed it. However, a new problem has come up. I seem to be
> missing vars.pm and about half of the other lib files i thought were
> standard. Should I download perl and install? I'm using the standard
> installation that came with the system.
Definitely. The current version is perl 5.00403, many bug-fixes and
enhancements ahead of the 5.001 version shipped with OpenStep. For instance,
the IO, CGI and CPAN modules are now parts of the default distribution. This
version of Perl compiles and installs pretty smoothly, except I found that I
had to edit the cflags script to make sure that toke.c compiled without
optimization --- the compiler crashes on that file otherwise:
five-bells:...local/src/perl5.004_03:% diff -u cflags.orig cflags
--- cflags.orig Thu Sep 4 18:21:34 1997
+++ cflags Thu Sep 4 18:20:37 1997
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
scope) ;;
sv) ;;
taint) ;;
- toke) ;;
+ toke) optimize="-O0" ;;
usersub) ;;
util) ;;
*) ;;
Matthew
[Posted and Mailed]
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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: setting the environment variable for PERL5LIB not working
Date: 4 Sep 1997 20:34:56 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
Message-ID: <5un61g$o6l$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <199709040348.XAA07076@kira.peak.org> <B0345BCE-2D1A1D@141.214.128.36>
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Cc: comrade@umich.edu
In <B0345BCE-2D1A1D@141.214.128.36> "Robert A. Decker" wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 3, 1997 11:48 PM, Timothy J. Luoma
> <mailto:nospam+next@luomat.peak.org> wrote:
> >setenv PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
> >
>
> THanks, that fixed it. However, a new problem has come up. I seem to be
> missing vars.pm and about half of the other lib files i thought were
> standard. Should I download perl and install? I'm using the standard
> installation that came with the system.
I don't know Perl from a strong blow to the head.... I do know that there are
new packages at ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/new_arrivals/perl.5.004_02.*
Maybe that will help?
TjL
--
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workable, shipping, and high-quality answers before most people
knew the questions." -- Gary Longsine, full text at:
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/TheHolyGrail.html
From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: what happen to all the posts?
Date: 4 Sep 1997 20:57:44 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <5un7c8$cj6$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Sep 1997 20:57:44 GMT
Shouldn't there be a bunch more posts here (I show 53 articles in
all)?
There were a few that I posted recently and they don't show up.
--
---
Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@2myriad.net
Computer Consulting Intl, LTD
PO Box 1046
College Station, TX 77841
NOTE - remove the 2 to mail to me.
From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NXFax problem
Date: 4 Sep 1997 21:08:12 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <5un7vs$dea$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Sep 1997 21:08:12 GMT
My ZyXEL E2864 fax modem is not answering even though I have it setup
up as a NXFax fax to answer after 1 ring.
This is what shows up in the console:
%> NXFax: activity on port Thu Sep 4 15:40:48 1997
%> NXFax: wait for connect
%> NXFax: time out waiting for connect
%> NXFax: call complete
%> NXFax: port freed Thu Sep 4 15:40:58 1997
With the phone still ringing the whole time. The modem never goes off
hook. I have tried deleting and reinstalling and it still does it. I
connect to the modem via tip and enter
ats0=1
and it will answer while I'm still in tip but if I get out of tip it
won't answer again.
Can anyone tell me what's happening and HOW to fix it?
~:o
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: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sending mail with NeXTMail
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 02:52:00 +0100
Organization: Treknet
Message-ID: <340F65C0.56C7@treknet.is>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Hi all
I'm trying to configure my nextmail, but with no luck.
I get all mail that is sent to me, the problem is with sending
mail from my localMachine.
My localMachine is: localhost and my domain: treknet.is
and mailhost: mail.treknet.is.
If I send locally to siffi, all is fine. If I send to
siffi@localhost.treknet.is, all is fine.
When I try to send mail to siffi@treknet.is from
I get the following error:
p.s. This message is also sent cc to siffi@localhost.treknet.is
-------------------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 01:52:37 GMT
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
To: siffi
----- Transcript of session follows -----
554 buildaddr: unknown mailer mail
----- Unsent message follows -----
Return-Path: <siffi>
Received: by localhost.treknet.is (NX5.67g/NX3.0S)
id AA00465; Fri, 5 Sep 97 02:28:20 GMT
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Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 97 02:28:20 GMT
Resent-To: siffi@treknet.is
Resent-Cc: siffi@localhost.treknet.is
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2)
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 01:52:37 GMT
Reply-To: siffi@treknet.is
Apparently-To: siffi@localhost.treknet.is
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desperate
siffi@treknet.is
From: Rene Berber <_r.berber@computer.org_>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help needed setting up PPP on Mach
Date: 5 Sep 1997 07:05:48 GMT
Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site
Message-ID: <5uob0c$je6$1@hp.fciencias.unam.mx>
References: <5uj6nb$ps4$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <5ukv92$m7k$3@ha1.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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Cc: deniseh@pdi.com
Denise Howard wrote:
>
> Hey all--
>
> I think this is going to be a relatively simple problem for
> _somebody_! I'm running NS3.2 on a Turbo Color, in case it matters,
> and I've successfully installed PPP 2.2. Now I'm trying to fire it
> up, and here's what happens:
>
> Sep 3 01:00:56 elrond pppd[245]: Serial connection established.
> Sep 3 01:00:57 elrond pppd[245]: Using interface ppp0
> Sep 3 01:00:57 elrond pppd[245]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cufa
> Sep 3 01:01:01 elrond pppd[245]: LCP terminated at peer's request
> Sep 3 01:01:04 elrond pppd[245]: Connection terminated.
> Sep 3 01:01:05 elrond pppd[245]: Exit.
>
> What does this mean, and how do I fix it? I read the entire FAQ
> that came with the PPP install package but couldn't find this one
> in the troubleshooting.
>
It probalby means that your ISP is using PAP or CHAP authentication. One way
to find out is setting the debug level in ppp to 17 and see what is rejected
when your machine starts negotiating parameters.
The debug level is usualy set in the options file (/etc/ppp/options) or as
parameter to pppd, with the kdebug option. You already have it, since your
output is the result of this, but the level is not showing the details needed
to know what happened.
Once you have this try to connect again and after it fails look in your log
for lines that have the REJ keyword. Something like this:
Sep 6 21:52:00 nn pppd[123]: rcvd [LCP ConfReq id=0x3 <asyncmap
0xa0000> <auth upap> <pcomp> <accomp>]
Sep 6 21:52:00 nn pppd[123]: lcp_reqci: rcvd ASYNCMAP
Sep 6 21:52:00 nn pppd[123]: (a0000)
Sep 6 21:52:00 nn pppd[123]: (ACK)
Sep 6 21:52:00 nn pppd[123]: lcp_reqci: rcvd AUTHTYPE
Sep 6 21:52:00 nn pppd[123]: (REJ)
This is an example of a server requesting PAP authentication, in <auth upap>,
and the client rejecting that.
If it is PAP or CHAP you can read how to set it in the man page of pppd.
Hope this helps,
---
Rene Berber
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 01:21:51 -0600
From: David.Hinz@mci.com
Subject: Need help partitioning drive
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <873439867.3572@dejanews.com>
Organization: Deja News Posting Service
I realize that this info is probably in a FAQ somewhere but I can't find
it.
I have a new drive that I used DOS fdisk to create 3 partitions. The
first partition is DOS and is 250 MB, the second partition is 375
megabytes and is currently unformatted. How do I create a NeXTstep file
system on the 2nd partition. I've looked at newfs and tried doing:
"newfs /dev/sd1b" but it returned "newfs: /dev/rsd1b: no disk label". I
tried using "/etc/disk /dev/rsd1b" and it returned "/dev/rsd1b: No such
device or address".
I would like to be able to create the new filesystem on the b partition
without destroying the "a" partition.
I know that I can access the drive because the /etc/disk command reports
the following: kenwig:19# /etc/disk /dev/rsd1a Only using BIOS-accessible
sectors disk name: DEC RZ26L (C) DEC 442D0 disk type: fixed_rw_scsi Disk
utility
disk>
Eventually I would like to be able to have the drive paritioned with 250
MB for DOS, 375 for NeXTstep, and 375 for Linux.
Below is the /etc/disktab entry that I found for the DEC RZ26L drive from
a DEC Unix system. Can it be modified to create the filesystems that I
described above?
rz26l|RZ26L|DEC RZ26L Winchester:\
:ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:ns#57:nt#14:nc#2570:\
:oa#0:pa#131072:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:ob#131072:pb#262144:bb#8192:fb#1024:\
:oc#0:pc#2050860:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
:od#393216:pd#552548:bd#8192:fd#1024:\
:oe#945764:pe#552548:be#8192:fe#1024:\
:of#1498312:pf#552548:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
:og#393216:pg#819200:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
:oh#1212416:ph#838444:bh#8192:fh#1024:
Thanks in advance for the help.
dave.
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From: uli@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de (Uli Zappe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: .plan file content in the NEXTSTEP GUI - where?
Date: 5 Sep 1997 14:02:43 GMT
Organization: Frankfurt University Computing Center
Message-ID: <5up3e3$14t@tallowcross.uni-frankfurt.de>
References: <5uhifd$m4i$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> <EFwLA7.p78@charly.mediahaus.de>
piers@ilink.de (Piers Uso Walter) wrote:
> BINGO!
> Open /NextLibrary/Addresses/User.addresses in the Workspace address
> inspector, select a user and voila c'est le fiche 'plan' (please excuse
> my sad attempt at french).
WOW! That's it!
I *knew* it had something to do with the addresses panel, but I couldn't
remember at all that there is such a thing in /NextLibrary for the users of a
machine, so I always looked at my private addresses files...
Thanks for giving me back my peace of mind! :-)
--
Bye
Uli
_____________________________________________________________________
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From: Thomas Harte <tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: can't COMPILE DYNAMIC LIBRARIES
Date: 5 Sep 1997 15:24:02 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University
Message-ID: <5up86i$pob$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Maybe I am going about building shared libraries the wrong way? Feel free to
put me right!
I'm having difficulty compiling a dynamic library. My version of
gcc does not support the -shared option so I am using ld. I get the
following errors:
bash-2.00$ gnumake -f makefile-shared.gnu
cc++ -g -DINTEL -I/Users/tph1001/Code/include/C++libs/ezee
-I/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys -c ezeeio.cc -o
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o
cc++ -g -DINTEL -I/Users/tph1001/Code/include/C++libs/ezee
-I/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys -c ezeeconvert.cc -o
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeconvert.o
ld -dynamic -dylib /Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeconvert.o -o
/Users/tph1001/Code/lib/C++libs/ezee/libezee.A.dylib.1
ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB output format
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common _RepnInfo
(size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_data_sizefield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_dcomplexfield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common _dsexfield
(size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_dtypefield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_idcodefield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_nbandsfield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_ncolsfield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_nrowsfield (size 4)
/Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee/ezeeio.o definition of common
_nsetsfield (size 4)
gnumake: *** [/Users/tph1001/Code/lib/C++libs/ezee/libezee.A.dylib.1] Error 1
Anyone have any idea what the "ld: common symbols not allowed with MH_DYLIB
output format"
error message means? I have included my makefile and the area in the source
where the problem
lines are as indicatedd by the error message.
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tph1001@CL.cam.ac.uk; phone: +44 1223 334628; fax: 334678;
http://www.CL.cam.ac.uk/users/tph1001 MIME & NeXT Mail OK.
HERE's THE MAKEFILE:
====================
# ========== libraries and headers ==========
MACHINE = INTEL
LIB_DIR = /Users/tph1001/Code/lib/C++libs/ezee
OBJ_DIR = /Users/tph1001/Code/obj/C++libs/ezee
INCLUDE_DIR = /Users/tph1001/Code/include/C++libs/ezee
INCLUDE = -I$(INCLUDE_DIR) -I/NextDeveloper/Headers/bsd/sys
LIBS = -liostream -lm
EZEELIB = $(LIB_DIR)/libezee.A.dylib
CC = cc++
#.cc.o:
# $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< $(LIBS)
CFLAGS =
CFLAGS += -g -D$(MACHINE) $(INCLUDE)
LD = ld
LFLAGS =
LFLAGS += -dynamic -dylib
OBJECTS = \
ezeeio.o \
ezeeconvert.o
# ========== Building rules for Makefile ==========
#
# ========== .so: shared object library==========
$(EZEELIB): $(EZEELIB).1
rm -f $(EZEELIB); ln -s $(EZEELIB).1 $(EZEELIB)
$(EZEELIB).1: $(OBJECTS:%=$(OBJ_DIR)/%)
$(LD) $(LFLAGS) $(OBJECTS:%=$(OBJ_DIR)/%) -o $(EZEELIB).1
$(OBJ_DIR)/%.o: %.cc
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< -o $@
clean:
rm -f $(OBJECTS:%=$(OBJ_DIR)/%) $(EZEELIB) $(EZEELIB).1
HERE ARE THE PROBLEM LINES:
============================
ezee.h:
/* sizeof the image data header's records important for byte reversal */
size_t idcodefield = sizeof(int32);
size_t dsexfield = sizeof(int16);
size_t dtypefield = sizeof(EzeeType);
size_t dcomplexfield = sizeof(int16);
size_t nrowsfield = sizeof(int16);
size_t ncolsfield = sizeof(int16);
size_t nbandsfield = sizeof(int16);
size_t nsetsfield = sizeof(int16);
size_t data_sizefield = sizeof(ulong);
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,uswest.test
Subject: Just a test
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10:15:10 PST
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From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax problem - additional info
Date: 5 Sep 1997 18:06:56 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <5upho0$avo$1@news.tamu.edu>
References: <5un7vs$dea$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Sep 1997 18:06:56 GMT
In-Reply-To: <5un7vs$dea$1@news.tamu.edu>
On 09/04/97, stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu wrote:
>My ZyXEL E2864 fax modem is not answering even though I have it setup
>up as a NXFax fax to answer after 1 ring.
>This is what shows up in the console:
>%> NXFax: activity on port Thu Sep 4 15:40:48 1997
>%> NXFax: wait for connect
>%> NXFax: time out waiting for connect
>%> NXFax: call complete
>%> NXFax: port freed Thu Sep 4 15:40:58 1997
>With the phone still ringing the whole time. The modem never goes off
>hook. I have tried deleting and reinstalling and it still does it. I
>connect to the modem via tip and enter
>ats0=1
>and it will answer while I'm still in tip but if I get out of tip it
>won't answer again.
>Can anyone tell me what's happening and HOW to fix it?
>~:o
>Stephen
>--
I have gotten some helpful info. But no solution.
**Note the setup had been working fine for years before a day or two
ago.
--
---
Stephen Johnson, sjohnson@2myriad.net
Computer Consulting Intl, LTD
PO Box 1046
College Station, TX 77841
NOTE - remove the 2 to mail to me.
From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax problem - more additional info
Date: 5 Sep 1997 20:25:38 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Message-ID: <5upps2$jsv$1@news.tamu.edu>
References: <5un7vs$dea$1@news.tamu.edu> <5upho0$avo$1@news.tamu.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Date: 5 Sep 1997 20:25:38 GMT
In-Reply-To: <5upho0$avo$1@news.tamu.edu>
On 09/05/97, stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu wrote:
>On 09/04/97, stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu wrote:
>>My ZyXEL E2864 fax modem is not answering even though I have it
setup
>>up as a NXFax fax to answer after 1 ring.
>>This is what shows up in the console:
>>%> NXFax: activity on port Thu Sep 4 15:40:48 1997
>>%> NXFax: wait for connect
>>%> NXFax: time out waiting for connect
>>%> NXFax: call complete
>>%> NXFax: port freed Thu Sep 4 15:40:58 1997
>>With the phone still ringing the whole time. The modem never goes
off
>>hook. I have tried deleting and reinstalling and it still does it. I
>>connect to the modem via tip and enter
>>ats0=1
>>and it will answer while I'm still in tip but if I get out of tip it
>>won't answer again.
>>Can anyone tell me what's happening and HOW to fix it?
>>~:o
>>Stephen
>>--
>
>I have gotten some helpful info. But no solution.
>
>**Note the setup had been working fine for years before a day or two
>ago.
>
I updated the firmware on the modem and when I hooked it back up it
answered ONCE but I can't seem to get to answer again (after NXFax
reset it after answering it). So, it seems that something is wrong in
the NXFax installation. So, I guess the next thing to try would be
installing it on another system but that doesn't solve my problem as
to how to get it working on the server. (I have deleted and
reinstalled NXFax with no change.)
--
---
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: Denise Howard <deniseh@shell3.ba.best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help needed setting up PPP on Mach
Date: 5 Sep 1997 21:57:54 GMT
Organization: BEST Internet Communications, Inc.
Message-ID: <5upv92$79b$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
References: <5uj6nb$ps4$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
Hi all--
Thanks to those who took the time to respond. The problem turned out to
be that my ISP had a different password for my connectivity than for my
shell account. Not knowing this, I had put my shell account password in
the ppp script. I should've known from the log messages. :-P
I probably could've found the problem a lot sooner if my ISP tech support
didn't clam up as soon as one utters the word "Unix." (They support only
Windows and Mac.)
Denise
--
Denise Howard | PROGRAM, tr. v., An activity similar to
Mountain View, CA | banging one's head against a wall, but
deniseh@best.com | with fewer opportunities for reward.
NeXTMail welcome! | http://www.best.com/~deniseh
From: jq@papoose.quick.com (James E. Quick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting the environment variable for PERL5LIB not working
Date: 5 Sep 1997 08:33:53 -0400
Organization: Quick and Associates
Message-ID: <5uou7h$hlp@papoose.quick.com>
References: <B0336640-69F0@141.214.128.36>
Note crosspost to comp.sys.next.programmer trimmed.
In article <B0336640-69F0@141.214.128.36>,
Robert A. Decker <comrade@umich.edu> wrote:
> How can I set it up so that all users have a PERL5LIB environment
>variable? When I set a line for login.std inside /etc to:
>set PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
>it doesn't seem to work.
Only global variable are visible to child processes.
Since you did not explicitly mention it in your post,
I am guessing that you did not remember to export that
variable. In the csh use:
setenv PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
In bourne compatible shells use either:
export PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
or
PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5
export PERL5LIB
--
___ ___ | 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: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax problem
Date: 5 Sep 1997 05:00:06 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <5uo3km$nf4$1@radjah.navigator.de>
References: <5un7vs$dea$1@news.tamu.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Cc: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu
In <5un7vs$dea$1@news.tamu.edu> stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu wrote:
> My ZyXEL E2864 fax modem is not answering even though I have it setup
> up as a NXFax fax to answer after 1 ring.
> This is what shows up in the console:
> %> NXFax: activity on port Thu Sep 4 15:40:48 1997
> %> NXFax: wait for connect
> %> NXFax: time out waiting for connect
> %> NXFax: call complete
> %> NXFax: port freed Thu Sep 4 15:40:58 1997
> With the phone still ringing the whole time. The modem never goes off
> hook. I have tried deleting and reinstalling and it still does it. I
> connect to the modem via tip and enter
> ats0=1
> and it will answer while I'm still in tip but if I get out of tip it
> won't answer again.
> Can anyone tell me what's happening and HOW to fix it?
If you have a newer Firmware revision (>= 1.14), you should set a
dwrite <your_modem_name> AuxATCommand "ATS18=0"
See the NXFAX.HelpAddentum at the ftp archive for further details.
--
Navigator Markus Wenzel info@navigator.de
IT Consulting & System Administration http://www.navigator.de/
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: siffi@treknet.is
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Parallel port trouble Intel and OpenStep 4.2
Date: 6 Sep 1997 17:39:22 GMT
Organization: Treknet
Message-ID: <5us4ga$sa3$1@news.treknet.is>
Hi all
I©m having some trouble getting my parallel port to work on my OpenStep 4.2.
I have set the port in the bios to:
port Address: 378h (Auto is default)
IRQ: 7 (Default)
Mode: normal (default)
DMA: 3 (default)
In Configure app, I©we set the Parallel port driver to the same values, but with no luck :-(
I get the following error in my message file:
IOParallelPort not allocated: controller not detected at address 0x378
Also, the bios supports some modes that I don©t have a clue about, they are:
Bi-Dir, EPP, ECP
Can someone tell me what those modes are?
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Sigthor Hrafnsson
Email: siffi@treknet.is
Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi
NeXTMail welcome...
From: siffi@treknet.is
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sending mail with NeXTMail
Date: 6 Sep 1997 17:54:02 GMT
Organization: Treknet
Message-ID: <5us5bq$sa3$2@news.treknet.is>
References: <340F65C0.56C7@treknet.is>
Hi all
Here is the solution:
I was using the default sendmail that came with OpenStep 4.2, and
thought that it would work, but it did not.
I had to install sendmail 8.8.5.
Use Sendmail 8.8.5 configuration for a standalone machine using PPP as
a dial-up sporadic network connection from http://brise.ere.umontreal.ca/~magnan.
Than I had to edit the inst_sendmail script that came with the package, the last command
in the script is: /usr/local/bin/m4 ../m4/cf.m4 next.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
This command had to be changed to:
/usr/local/bin/m4 /etc/sendmail/cf/m4cf.m4 next.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
And lastly edit the file /etc/sendmail/userdb by hand, since the script points to
/usr/local/bin/makemap, wish is not to be found on my system.
I hope this helps someone
Sigthor Hrafnsson
Email: siffi@treknet.is
Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi
NeXTMail welcome...
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to configure my nextmail, but with no luck.
>
> I get all mail that is sent to me, the problem is with sending
> mail from my localMachine.
>
> My localMachine is: localhost and my domain: treknet.is
> and mailhost: mail.treknet.is.
>
> If I send locally to siffi, all is fine. If I send to
> siffi@localhost.treknet.is, all is fine.
>
> When I try to send mail to siffi@treknet.is from
> I get the following error:
>
> p.s. This message is also sent cc to siffi@localhost.treknet.is
> -------------------------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 01:52:37 GMT
> From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
> To: siffi
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 buildaddr: unknown mailer mail
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Return-Path: <siffi>
> Received: by localhost.treknet.is (NX5.67g/NX3.0S)
> id AA00465; Fri, 5 Sep 97 02:28:20 GMT
> Resent-From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi>
> Resent-Message-Id: <9709050228.AA00465@localhost.treknet.is>
> Message-Id: <9709050228.AA00465@localhost.treknet.is>
> Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 97 02:28:20 GMT
> Resent-To: siffi@treknet.is
> Resent-Cc: siffi@localhost.treknet.is
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148)
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2)
> From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 01:52:37 GMT
> Reply-To: siffi@treknet.is
> Apparently-To: siffi@localhost.treknet.is
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> desperate
>
> siffi@treknet.is
From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Having the same Dock on each PC on the LAN
Date: 28 Aug 1997 13:03:28 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <5u3sv0$3id@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Hello,
When I create a new user (network-user) on the LAN and then drag some
Application-Icons to his dock, I do not see them, when I login from another
host. What's the problem here? Isn't the dockconfiguration stored in the
users homedirectory?
I suppose, having the same dock independant of the host I use should work,
but how? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Andreas Hoeschler
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: lozinski@openstepnews.com (Christopher Lozinski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.mac.advocacy
Subject: OpenStep Newsletter
Date: 6 Sep 1997 23:53:56 GMT
Message-ID: <5usqek$ft5$1@nntp2.ba.best.com>
1. Connecting One Mach Computer to the Internet
2. Connecting a Network of Mach Computers to the Internet
3. Uploading Email to the ISP
4. Downloading Email from the ISP
5. 213 OpenStep/WebObjects Developers Available
6. Apple Buys Power Computing
7. Steve Jobs is Brilliant
8. What is Going on at Apple?
9. Sun Dropping OpenStep
10. OpenStep Jobs
a)Great for "People Persons"
b)Object Director
c)Virginia
d)San Francisco Bay Area
e)Go Anywhere Consultants
11.NeXT Monitor on P.C.
12. BPG News
13. Mitch Manditch Promoted
14. Faxing From a Portable
15. Big Green CD 7.0
16.Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)
17. Project Design Reviews
18.Typing Injury FAQ
19. Subscriptions Now Available
1. Connecting One Mach Computer to the Internet
With the expected arrival of Rhapsody, new life has been breathed into the
Mach Operating System. Rather than migrating off of Mach, people are
investing in their Mach environments. One important area of development is a
method for connecting Mach based computers to the Internet. Here is the
basic approach.
For a single Mach-based computer it is reasonably easy to connect to the
Internet over a phone line using PPP. Once that is done, all of your
internet applications should work immediately except NeXTMail. The simplest
way to send and receive email across PPP is to use the Eloquent browser.
<http://www.take3.com/> Eloquent makes it easy to send outbound messages
with the smtp protocol, and to receive inbound messages from a POP server.
Eloquent also supports the IMAP protocol. Unlike NeXTMail, Eloquent talks
SMTP to the ISP's outbound mail server and POP3 to the ISP's inbound mail
server, eliminating the need to configure Sendmail and figure out how to
download email messages.
2. Connecting a Network of Mach Computers to the Internet
There are several ways to connect a Mach network to the Internet. If you
have money and are willing to spend a few hundred dollars per month, just
connect your Ethernet to an ISDN line or to a frame relay through a bridge or
router. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) will give you IP addresses for
all of your computers, you will configure the local routing, and all of your
Internet applications will work. On the other hand, if your budget is
smaller, or you live in Europe where connectivity costs are higher, then try
the following approach.
It is possible to connect a network of computers across a single phone line
to an ISP. If you are running PPP from a gateway computer over a single
telephone line, you need to route all traffic through the gateway computer.
There are two ways to do this, you can use static IP addresses or dynamic IP
addresses. With static addresses, it is possible to have your ISP give you
several ip addresses, one for each computer, and then you can configure your
network to use them. You will be fully on the Internet, and can use all of
the standard software painlessly. Alas this option is expensive, about $495
setup plus $145/month from my ISP.
That price is a lot more than the standard $25/month dynamic IP Internet
connection. Such discount connections cannot easily be used for a network
because they are typically a single dynamically assigned Ip address. The
ISP's computers do not know about all of your computers; they think that just
a single computer is being served. Although your network computers will be
able to route messages through the gateway, and send messages out to the
Internet, messages inbound will not find the desired host because the IPS's
computers only know of one host.
The best way to run a network across an inexpensive phone connection is to
have the gateway computer run proxy applications for the other computers.
Thus, the email server runs on the gateway computer and forwards and receives
email to the ISP. A proxy http server runs on that computer. For every
Internet application, there needs to be a proxy process on the gateway
computer that forwards and returns messages appropriately.
3. Uploading Email to the ISP
One Obvious gateway computer application is Sendmail. It comes with the
Mach OS and is important because it forwards and dispatches email. An
updated version is available at ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/.
Sendmail is historically at the heart of Internet mail. It was initially
developed by a college student as a way to deal with the rapidly evolving
nature of Internet email addresses. At the time, there were many different
email standards and the rules were changing daily. This student was studying
expert systems and built a complete expert system to figure out how to
dispatch email messages. As the rules changed, his software kept up to date
with the needs.
Of course today sendmail is no longer an appropriate tool for small networks.
Despite major changes to the user interface, it is just too complicated for
the average small business. Email addresses have standardized, the ISP can
deal with any complexities. Security is a huge issue when connecting to the
Internet, and Sendmail has numerous loopholes. Performance is also an issue
when running mailing lists, and again, Sendmail has lower performance than
competing packages.
Alternative choices for an email agent are Smail and Qmail
<http:/www.qmail.org>. I could not find either one publicly available and
precompiled for Mach and tested, but I have found individuals who are using
each of the products on Mach. Reportely Qmail has no NetInfo support, and
is not plug compatible with sendmail, so I recommend smail for this
application. Would anyone be willing to create an installation package for
one of these tools, and post it on the internet?
Let me know what you thought about this article. Its style is different than
what I have traditionally done. Would you like to see more articles like
this?
4. Downloading Email from the ISP
SendMail and Smail solve the problem of sending mail from a network of
computers, or from a single computer running NeXTMail, but they do not help
with the problem of downloading email. There are three solutions to that
problem. By now few people are running UUCP, so the original NeXT tools are
not much help. Popover reaches out to a POP server and downloads mail into
the file system for access by the local computers. It is simple and easy to
use in Mach. For a more advanced solution try Fetchmail. Fetchmail runs on
all the Unix machines, including Mach, but does not have a Mach GUI.
Fetchmail talks any variant of POP or IMAP to the server, and forwards the
downloaded mail to the local SMTP mail listener.
You can find the Fetchmail home page here:
<http://locke.ccil.org/~esr/fetchmail/>.
You can download Fetchmail for mach here:
<ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/>.
5. 213 OpenStep/WebObjects Developers Available
We now have 213 OpenStep/WebObjects developers, system administrators, QA
people, managers, and architects registered in our database. I have never
before managed to maintain so many active candidates properly registered in
the database. When companies call in now to hire someone, we can provide
them with numerous excellent candidates on a same day basis. If you need
OpenStep/WebObjects developers let me know. <lozinski@openstepnews.com>.
You will be amazed by the calibre of the individuals I know, and by the
quality of the service provided.
6. Apple Buys Power Computing
Apple has acquired Power Computing, the largest clone vendor, for $100
million in apple stock. Power Computing will continue to ship Motorola-based
hardware until the end of this year. After that it will ship Intel
computers, presumably with the Rhapsody Operating System. Power Computing's
first WinTel notebooks will be announced on Monday, and will begin shipping
this month.
7. Steve Jobs is Brilliant
Whereas most are criticizing Apple for its current decisions, I think I see
the strategy at play here. Let me lay it out and, with your feedback, we
will see if my crystal ball is any good.
I believe that Apple plans to use its proprietary technology as a competitive
advantage in selling Intel-based and Motorola-based hardware. First Steve
negotiates a deal with Microsoft, ensuring that the critical applications of
Excel and Word will continue to be available on the Macintosh Operating
System. That solidifies Apple's position, so that it is not as dependent on
the other third-party software vendors. That allows Apple the freedom to
flex its muscles in the market. Whereas the previous MacOS can be purchased
with hardware from the clone vendors, MacOS 8 can only be purchased bundled
with Apple (and now Power Computing) hardware. To buy a clone with Mac OS
bundled ($50 to apple) and add an aftermarket Mac OS 8 ($95) and spend an
hour doing it ($100) gives Apple a $250 dollar competitive advantage against
the clone makers while not closing them out of the market. I suspect that
Apple will eventually license OS8 to the clone vendors, probably about the
time that Rhapsody ships.
On the Intel side, Power Computing will start manufacturing Intel-based
computers beginning next year, at about the time Rhapsody is available. I
expect that Apple/Power Computing will be the only company bundling Rhapsody
on Intel hardware.
Again, I have no access to the Apple Board Room, so this is purely my
speculation based on the news available to all. Your comments appreciated.
8. What is Going on at Apple?
In general I have chosen a policy of not covering the activities at Apple,
except as they pertain to Rhapsody. But the following item is just too odd
to be ignored. Steven Jobs, in an email to all of his employees, explained
his reasons for purchasing Power Computing. It was a very Macintosh centric
memo with no mention of Rhapsody. You can read it at
http://www.sjmercury.com/business/apple/memo090297.htm
The top of the email gives a confusing message:
Subject: Apple Acquires Power Computing
From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com
To: apple_employees$@group.apple.com
A P P L E C O N F I D E N T I A L P L E A S E D O N O T F O R W A R D
A P P L E C O N F I D E N T I A L P L E A S E D O N O T F O R W A R D
Did he want this message kept confidential? Surely Steve is smart enough to
know that such an email would be forwarded to the press and given its due
attention. It reminds me of his last such "confidential" email to the staff
at Pixar, assuring them that he planned to stay at Pixar and did not plan to
be the CEO of Apple. I wish I knew what this meant.
9. Sun Dropping OpenStep
The following story is entirely pieced together from bits and pieces I have
heard on different days. I am confident that there are specific errors in
the details, but that the general story is correct. Sun's management is
very focussed on Java, and the company is dropping OpenStep in favor of Java.
First they changed the name of ObjectPlan to JavaPlan, and made it work with
Java source code as well as with OpenStep applications. Then they ported
JavaPlan to Java. Then Sun moved all 20 OpenStep developers to Lighthouse
to work on JavaPlan (in Java). Then Sun absorbed Lighthouse into Sun.
Meanwhile, rumor had it that Sun was trying to sell off the source code to
its Lighthouse applications. I also heard a rumor that they were giving away
license keys to their applications for free. There was also discussion on
Usenet of what was happening to the joint Sun-NeXT OpenStep specification.
My take is that it is no longer relevant.
10. OpenStep Jobs
If you are interested in any of the following positions, please send a note
to: <lozinski@openstepnews.com>. Even if you are already registered in the
database, please let me know of your interest in a particular spot, or even
if you are generally interested in what positions may come up. It is only
when I hear from you that I know that you are interested.
a)Great for "People Persons"
If you happen to be a OpenStep developer, but you think that your true
calling is in dealing with people, then we have a job for you. This job
requires you to help others, train them, write demo programs for them and let
them know that their issues are being addressed. If you are able to tune
into what someone else's issues are, and can address those issues
efficiently, then you will love this position. The best thing is that there
are no-long term deliverables; your managers will not measure you on
deliverables. It is all about people, but you need to be a developer first
and foremost.
b)Object Director
This is one of the more senior positions to cross my monitor. This company
wants a senior manager to take control of an entire group of 30 developers
and be in charge. The company needs someone who can manage such a large
group and make things happen. The leverage is huge, and they are willing to
pay what it takes to recruit such a person. Without saying where the
position is located, I will say that it is a popular destination among the
people who apply for positions.
c)Virginia
Virginia is a hot destination again this month, and it has nothing to do with
the usual companies. If you like Virginia I have a choice of
companies/environments where I can place you, based on what your preferences
are.
d)San Francisco Bay Area
Last month a major NeXTStep company laid off much of its work force, creating
a short-term glut of OpenStep developers. But now most have been hired, and
demand for developers in the Bay Area continues to be strong. I have one
client who is interviewing people this week, but they only want people who
are currently living close to the Bay Area.
e)Go Anywhere Consultants
We have a steady demand for consultants who are willing to pack their bags
and go to this month's hot destination. While new destinations may arrive
on a one-day-notice basis, this month's hot destination is Los Angeles.
11.NeXT Monitor on P.C.
If you have slow old black hardware, but a wonderful monitor, and you want to
run the same monitor on white hardware, try using the following video card:
<http://www.photonweb.com/>. 800-547-2349.
12. BPG News
Last month I announced that I had hired a Human Resources Professional
Vernetta Williams. Having her here has really helped my services. I simply
could not handle the volume of resumes and jobs without her. With her, I am
on top of my work on a daily basis. The volume of resumes correctly indexed
in the database is way up. The number of developers that we know is up. The
number of hiring companies that I am in touch with is up. BPG is well on its
way to becoming the hottest market for OpenStep/WebObjects Developers. It
has been great working with her. Furthermore she brings a Human Resource
perspective that I never had to this job function which I never had.
Certain aspects of the process are being measurably improved because of her
input.
13. Mitch Manditch Promoted
Apple has promoted Mitch Manditch to head of Sales in the Americas. This
territory includes North, South, and Central America. Prior to the
aquisition of NeXT, he was Vice President of Sales at NeXT. This promotion
increases the presence of NeXT Inc. alumni at the senior levels in Apple.
14. Faxing From a Portable
Tim Finnegan of WorkStation 2000 <w2000@cts.com> writes: When clients buy a
portable, they frequently need fax capability running on the new PCMCIA fax
modems. Alas, we have discovered that NXFax works with the 14.4Kbaud
modems, but needs to be updated to work with the 28.8 modems. Furthermore,
it is becoming increasingly difficult to purchase 14.4 PCMCIA modems. When
questioned about this issue, the vendor of NXFAX sales@bandw.com wrote: At
this point it is not likely that we will be adding new features or releasing
new versions of NXFax. We do give it thought, but over the last couple of
years we have had to move on to other things, making it difficult to move
back. There is a real need for a fix to this problem. Since this article
was first written Black and White Software has quite selling NXFAX, and has
made it publicly available.
15. Big Green CD 7.0
The Big Green CD is a very nicely organized collection of NeXTStep-related
materials. I was finally able to find the BackSpace Screen saver on their
discs after looking in vain in all the usual places. They have the entire
comp.sys.next.* Usenet hierachy indexed for searching with Digital Librarian.
If you are interested in more informaton check out
<http://www.skylee.com/> or send email to <disc@skylee.com>
16.Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)
The common hardware reference platform is a motherboard architecture designed
to allow Apple-compatible computers to use Intel-compatible components. The
volume and variety of Intel components are much greater than there are of
apple components and the price of Intel components is much lower. With the
CHRP architecture, it is possible to integrate those components into an
Apple Macintosh, or later into a Rhapsody computer, providing greater value
to the customer.
Mac OS8 runs on CHRP hardware, and presumably Rhapsody will as well. A
number of companies own CHRP designs, but none of them can now license Mac
OS8, nor can they yet license Rhapsody, so I assume that only Apple/Power
Computing will manufacture such designs.
17. Project Design Reviews
If your project is scheduled for a design review, you may be wondering what
questions to discuss. For some suggestions, check out:
<http://members.home.net/slater/previews/index.htm>
18.Typing Injury FAQ
I know far too many developers who have typing injuries, even shoulder
injuries. If you have concerns, check out the Typing Injury FAQ at:
Wright, K.S. & Wallach, D. S. (1997) "Typing Injury FAQ "
http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dwallach/tifaq/
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From: sef@kithrup.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cmsg cancel <5uslh2$d3n@world1.bawave.com>
Date: 7 Sep 1997 00:45:13 GMT
Control: cancel <5uslh2$d3n@world1.bawave.com>
Message-ID: <cancel.5uslh2$d3n@world1.bawave.com>
Sender: CASH4U@dream.com
Spam cancelled by sef@kithrup.com
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sending mail with NeXTMail
Date: 7 Sep 1997 02:59:48 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
Message-ID: <5ut5b4$2a9$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <340F65C0.56C7@treknet.is> <5us5bq$sa3$2@news.treknet.is>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: siffi@treknet.is
Did you download and install the sendmail.8.8.5 package?
ftp://ftp.next.peak.org/pub/next/apps/mail/sendmail.8.8.5.NIHS.bd.tar.gz
I think it should have had the `makemap' in it....
TjL
From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: name service configuration?
Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:00:15 GMT
Organization: Cows Unlimited!
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <5ut5bv$mb7@news1.mnsinc.com>
Hi! I just got my 1st NeXTStation not too long ago and I've just gotten
it hooked to the network. I was very frustrated until I discovered I had
a bad ethernet cable. :) After replacing the cable, the NeXT worked
great! The one thing I can't figure out is how to set the NeXT up to talk
to my network's domain name server. I'm not using NIS and none of the
other hosts on the network have netinfo. Where do I set it up?
--
--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Barry J. Bocaner
<barry@gslink.com>
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: nospam+next@luomat.peak.org (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: name service configuration?
Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:23:05 GMT
Organization: http://www.peak.org/~luomat/
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <5ut6mp$2a9$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <5ut5bv$mb7@news1.mnsinc.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: barry@gslink.com
What are you trying to do? telnet? NFS? Web browse?
To begin with you probably need to setup /etc/resolv.conf
domain gslink.com
nameserver 205.157.143.10
nameserver 205.157.143.11
That should give you access to other machines via hostname.
If you need something more than that, you'll have to be more specific.
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: 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: <16621873000033@digifix.com>
Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:52:35 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <8835873604833@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:
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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: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Need help partitioning drive
Date: 7 Sep 1997 04:04:45 GMT
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep6233733@slave.doubleu.com>
References: <873439867.3572@dejanews.com>
In-reply-to: David.Hinz@mci.com's message of Fri, 05 Sep 1997 01:21:51 -0600
In article <873439867.3572@dejanews.com> David.Hinz@mci.com writes:
I realize that this info is probably in a FAQ somewhere but I can't
find it.
Since these questions are getting more common, I've put up a short
document with the info I send out to people asking these questions ...
http://www.doubleu.com/Partition.html.
I have a new drive that I used DOS fdisk to create 3 partitions.
The first partition is DOS and is 250 MB, the second partition is
375 megabytes and is currently unformatted. How do I create a
NeXTstep file system on the 2nd partition. I've looked at newfs
and tried doing: "newfs /dev/sd1b" but it returned "newfs:
/dev/rsd1b: no disk label". I tried using "/etc/disk /dev/rsd1b"
and it returned "/dev/rsd1b: No such device or address".
I would like to be able to create the new filesystem on the b
partition without destroying the "a" partition.
I'll assume that we've booted NeXTSTEP or OpenStep from /dev/sd0a, and
don't care what's in sd1's third fdisk partition? Then what you want
to do first is use NeXT's fdisk on /dev/rsd1h, delete the 2nd
partition, and create a NeXT partition in the open space. After that,
do "disk -i /dev/rsd1a" to put a NeXT BSD-style partitioning scheme on
it. _Then_ you can use "newfs /dev/sd1a" to create the filesystem.
[Note that NeXT's consider "a" to be the first BSD-style partition on
the first NeXT FDISK partition. You can have more BSD-style
partitions in the NeXT FDISK partition, but NS/OS won't see more than
one NeXT FDISK partition.]
Otherwise, after you've done fdisk, you could logout and log back in,
and Workspace will offer to initialize the "new" disk. At least I
think it will. [Of course, it might just initialize the _entire_ new
disk. Call it a learning experience :-).]
Below is the /etc/disktab entry that I found for the DEC RZ26L
drive from a DEC Unix system. Can it be modified to create the
filesystems that I described above?
Don't mess with disktabs. Keep in mind that DEC Unix isn't inflicted
with an alien partitioning system (DOS FDISK), so it's _highly_
unlikely that the disktab will be helpful.
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: siffi@treknet.is
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sending mail with NeXTMail
Date: 7 Sep 1997 03:19:24 GMT
Organization: Treknet
Message-ID: <5ut6fs$9ih$1@news.treknet.is>
References: <340F65C0.56C7@treknet.is>
Hi again
I have defiantly made a mistake about the makemap, I checked
for it before I installed sendmail 8.8.5, and it was not there.
After installing, it is.
I did not know that the makemap was a part of sendmail.
So please ignore my remarks about the makemap in my last mail...
Sigthor Hrafnsson
Email: siffi@treknet.is
Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi
NeXTMail welcome...
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to configure my nextmail, but with no luck.
>
> I get all mail that is sent to me, the problem is with sending
> mail from my localMachine.
>
> My localMachine is: localhost and my domain: treknet.is
> and mailhost: mail.treknet.is.
>
> If I send locally to siffi, all is fine. If I send to
> siffi@localhost.treknet.is, all is fine.
>
> When I try to send mail to siffi@treknet.is from
> I get the following error:
>
> p.s. This message is also sent cc to siffi@localhost.treknet.is
> -------------------------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 01:52:37 GMT
> From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
> Subject: Returned mail: Unable to deliver mail
> To: siffi
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> 554 buildaddr: unknown mailer mail
>
> ----- Unsent message follows -----
> Return-Path: <siffi>
> Received: by localhost.treknet.is (NX5.67g/NX3.0S)
> id AA00465; Fri, 5 Sep 97 02:28:20 GMT
> Resent-From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi>
> Resent-Message-Id: <9709050228.AA00465@localhost.treknet.is>
> Message-Id: <9709050228.AA00465@localhost.treknet.is>
> Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Sep 97 02:28:20 GMT
> Resent-To: siffi@treknet.is
> Resent-Cc: siffi@localhost.treknet.is
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148)
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.118.2)
> From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi>
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 97 01:52:37 GMT
> Reply-To: siffi@treknet.is
> Apparently-To: siffi@localhost.treknet.is
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> desperate
>
> siffi@treknet.is
From: <usfs1@power-agents.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Internet Marketing Warriors SECRET Site.
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Organization: Erol's Internet Services
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From: "Michael Warnock" <skill@execpc.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help getting usr 56k pnp working on OS4.2
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 09:30:04 -0500
Organization: Exec-PC BBS Internet - Milwaukee, WI
Message-ID: <5uts4q$271@newsops.execpc.com>
Ok- the modem is plug and play and has no overide jumpers like previous
sportsters. In verbose mode i can see the kernel find it along with my
awe64 (which works) and i can do a pnpdump on eisa and look at all the fun
junk- now from the other end I have an isa serial port driver installed with
the correct irq and io (7 and 3e8) but in bootup the serial driver says that
the chip is unknown (same place that my mouse's serial port says its irq and
stuff) and that is where i am- I have searched all the ftp and web sites for
info and found ZIP almost nothing on modems at all and the stuff there was
basically assumed it was already being found. I am posting this message
with IE on 95 and I am getting tired of rebooting to do so:)
Michael Warnock -- Skill Labs
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Hi,
I'm in the process of switching to a different provider. At the same
time I'm also enlarging my LAN (from non-existant to 3 devices (Turbo
Slab, Mac and ISDN router). I'm also considering updating
sendmail. Thus a few questions arise:
My Network will only contain one NEXTSTEP system (3.3PL1). Do I have
to configure netinfo or just edit the files in /etc/ (eg. edit
/etc/hosts or netinfo's "machines")?
The ReadMe for sendmail 8.8.5 suggests adding my FQDN to netinfo, this
goes into machines, (similar to adding it to /etc/hosts and doing a
niload hosts / < /etc/hosts) right? And while I'm talking sendmail:
before playing with the configuration are there more files to back up
other than the binary and sendmail.cf? What are other places where my
hostname and my domain appear? (I know of /etc/hostconfig, /etc/hosts,
/etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/sendmail/senmail.cf (uucp stuff should be
no problem).)
Is there anything else to be considered when configuring a formerly
standalone system (well, just PPP) to become a real server for a local
LAN (I guess SNS does some of the job but not all of it)?
How do I actually check if the Internet connection is up without
actually bringing it up?
Thanks for any replies. Since I'm switching providers my newsfeed
might get interrupted, thus I kindly ask to also send copies of
follow-ups the the Reply-To address as it appears in the header of
this posting. Thank you.
Markus Gloede
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: adding scsi to eide system and Adaptec 2940UW questions
Date: 7 Sep 97 11:20:40 -0400
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I recently ordered a bunch of stuff for my eide OpenStep on mach station
(2 imagine 128's, adaptec 2940 uw, 4 gb scsi drive (the fastest I could
find), scsi cd-rom :-). I'm planning on keeping my boot drive as the
eide drive (I was told that you can't boot from a scsi device and still see
your eide devices, but can boot from eide and still see your scsi devices).
I think I know how to move my swapspace over to the scsi drive (with the
swaptab file).
I would also like to move some other essential stuff over to the scsi
drive. However, I'm new to UNIX and not sure what's really possible. Is it
possible to move the NextLibrary directories over? How do I set it up so
that Project Builder, WebObjects, the system, etc will still find the
libraries they need? Any other stuff you would suggest that should be moved
over to the fast drive?
Also, would it be possible to put a small DOS partition on the SCSI
drive, even though this isn't the OpenStep boot drive?
rob
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From: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with msql on black hardware?
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 16:02:16 -0500
Organization: CyberNews Network
Message-ID: <34131658.B0523E49@kypris.com>
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Can anyone help me?
I'm trying to install msql on NeXTSTEP 3.3 on black hardware(Turbo color
station).
I originally tried version msql-2.0-B7.1, obtained from Bond.edu.au.
It failed in the setup. First it complained about not being able to
determine my directory routines. I just picked one of the defaults and
hoped, then it quit because I don't have "mmap".
I then found version msql_1_0_5_1 on Peanuts. It's README says it should
run right out of the box on NeXT and it does already have the NeXTOS3.3
target directory already built, but when I try setup, first I get the
same complaint about directory routines, again, I just picked one, and
it finished setup. BUT when I 'make all' it dies saying
gcc -g -I../ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -c regexp.c
In file included from regexp.c:26:
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/stdio.h:234: parse error before '*'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/stdio.h:272: parse error before '*'
/NextDeveloper/Headers/ansi/stdio.h:234: warning: data definition has no
type or storage class
*** Exit 1
Stop
Does anyone know what I need to do or have binaries already built?
thanks,
Dan
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From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with msql on black hardware?
Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 18:37:33 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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To: Dan Nichols <dan@kypris.com>
In-Reply-To: <34131658.B0523E49@kypris.com>
On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Dan Nichols wrote:
> Can anyone help me?
> I'm trying to install msql on NeXTSTEP 3.3 on black hardware(Turbo color
> station).
>
> I originally tried version msql-2.0-B7.1, obtained from Bond.edu.au.
> It failed in the setup. First it complained about not being able to
> determine my directory routines. I just picked one of the defaults and
> hoped, then it quit because I don't have "mmap".
>
> I then found version msql_1_0_5_1 on Peanuts. It's README says it should
> run right out of the box on NeXT and it does already have the NeXTOS3.3
> target directory already built, but when I try setup, first I get the
> same complaint about directory routines, again, I just picked one, and
> it finished setup. BUT when I 'make all' it dies saying
>
I have failed to compile version 2.0 as well. And I suspect that it won't
be easy/possible.
I tried also version 1.7 on ftp.peak.org - seems to compile well on NS 3.3
on Intel. Black should work too.
Good luck.
Rudy.
P.S.: If you use the version 1.7, could you share your experience with the
DBKit and EOF adapters that are on the net as well? If you use them, that
is. I didn't have much luck. Thanks, Rudy.
From: Jack Nutting <jnutting@iaxs.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiboot across multiple EIDE drives
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 07:29:56 -0500
Organization: Infinity AccessNET
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I have two EIDE drives, the first of which is a two-gig that came with my
machine and has Windows 95 installed. The second drive is a new 6.4 gig. I
split it into three partitions and installed OpenStep 4.1 on one of those
partitions. Now I can only boot whichever of these drives is set up as the
"master"; The "slave" drive never seems to be able to boot. I've tried a
few different shareware multiboot managers to no avail. The closest I've
come is that with the Win95 drive as the "master", the multiboot manager
showed the "OpenStep boot loader 40.13" message before loading Windows 95
(augghh!)
So for the moment, I have to fiddle with jumpers to swap the master/slave
behavior of the two drives in order to switch between the two. It has
occurred to me that I could put the Win95 drive on the secondary EIDE
controller (together with the CDROM drive), leave the OpenStep drive on the
primary controller, and then whenever I need to boot Win95, I can go into
the BIOS setup and disable the primary controller; This solution, while
workable, has "crap" written all over it.
Any insights into this dilemma would be appreciated.
--
Jack Nutting
jnutting@iaxs.net
From: "Darren Grant" <-darren@oxford.i-way.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Parallel port trouble Intel and OpenStep 4.2
Date: 8 Sep 97 10:53:41 GMT
Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK)
Message-ID: <01bcbc44$98f7b5a0$6ec081c2@PC.i-way.co.uk>
References: <5us4ga$sa3$1@news.treknet.is>
Have you installed a serial driver for each serial port or just one copy ?
If you have just installed one serial driver then the driver will steal
inturupts 5 and 7 therefore causing problems with sound cards and printer
ports.
Darren
siffi@treknet.is wrote in article <5us4ga$sa3$1@news.treknet.is>...
> Hi all
>
> I©m having some trouble getting my parallel port to work on my OpenStep
4.2.
>
> I have set the port in the bios to:
> port Address: 378h (Auto is default)
> IRQ: 7 (Default)
> Mode: normal (default)
> DMA: 3 (default)
>
From: GehleSoftware@t-online.de (Carsten Gehle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation
Date: 4 Sep 1997 14:12:12 GMT
Organization: Gehle Software
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Frank Burgbacher wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install NextStep 3.3 on a Pentium 200 MMX computer which has a
> Adaptec 2940AU SCSI-Controller attached. After loading the
> Adaptec2940SCSIDriver from the device driver disk twice (Hard disk and cd-rom),
> and saying, that I don't want to load additional drivers, the system doesn't
> find the start disk (so the partitioning stage of the installation procedure
> does not even start) and the SCSI driver says (after switching to the white
> screen):
> NeXt Mach 3.3:.....
> .
> .
> Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING;
> and a little bit later
> No SCSI Controller or CD-ROM drive found
>
> The driver on the CD-ROM is version 3.32. I also tried version 3.37 from
> NeXTanswers with no success.
>
> Can someone help?
Have you set 3.37 driver either for the CD-ROM and for your harddisc?
The error message is a hint that the system still loaded a 3.32 driver.
Carsten
From: GehleSoftware@t-online.de (Carsten Gehle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating a Nextstep CD
Date: 4 Sep 1997 07:10:39 GMT
Organization: Gehle Software
Message-ID: <5ulmtf$tlb$1@news00.btx.dtag.de>
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Curran Fey wrote:
>
> I want to create CDs of Nextstep filesystems. I know that certain
> Macintosh based CD writing software will allow me to create a CD
> directly from a scsi device (external drive). What I am having the most
> trouble with is creating a Nextstep file system which will work when
> written to a CD.
Why do you want to write CDs of Nextstep filesystem. If you use
CDDesigner, you can write CDs based on ISO9660 with a Nextstep-extended
Rockridge format. There will be two differences to the Nextstep
filesystem: The length of filesnames is limited to 100 and the CDs may
be a litte bit slower on Nexts black hardware. User/Group IDs,
Permissions and special characters can be handled and the first eight
directory levels will still be readable by most common OSs.
See http://www.ip-service.com/gehle
Carsten
From: Markus Wildi <wildi@semafor.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Amanda and NeXTSTEP 3.3
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 14:29:11 +0200
Organization: EUnet AG
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Hallo,
I'm lookung for a compiled version of amanda on
NeXTSTEP 3.3.
Does anybody has a pointer where I can get that ?
Thank yoy, Markus Wildi
From: nurban@sps1.phys.vt.edu (Nathan Urban)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiboot across multiple EIDE drives
Date: 8 Sep 1997 08:54:51 -0400
Organization: Data Systems Consulting, Inc.
Message-ID: <5v0sir$2js$1@sps1.phys.vt.edu>
References: <3413EFC4.785E814A@iaxs.net>
In article <3413EFC4.785E814A@iaxs.net>, Jack Nutting <jnutting@iaxs.net> wrote:
> I have two EIDE drives, the first of which is a two-gig that came with my
> machine and has Windows 95 installed. The second drive is a new 6.4 gig. I
> split it into three partitions and installed OpenStep 4.1 on one of those
> partitions. Now I can only boot whichever of these drives is set up as the
> "master"; The "slave" drive never seems to be able to boot.
I think you're going to have to boot from a floppy. Either that or put
a 7-meg bootable OpenStep filesystem on the first drive to bootstrap
you onto the other one, as described in one of the NeXTanswers.
OpenStep wants to be on the primary drive to boot automatically.
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiboot across multiple EIDE drives
Date: 8 Sep 1997 14:04:46 GMT
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
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References: <3413EFC4.785E814A@iaxs.net>
In-reply-to: Jack Nutting's message of Mon, 08 Sep 1997 07:29:56 -0500
In article <3413EFC4.785E814A@iaxs.net>,
Jack Nutting <jnutting@iaxs.net> writes:
I have two EIDE drives, the first of which is a two-gig that came
with my machine and has Windows 95 installed. The second drive is
a new 6.4 gig. I split it into three partitions and installed
OpenStep 4.1 on one of those partitions. Now I can only boot
whichever of these drives is set up as the "master"; The "slave"
drive never seems to be able to boot.
This, in general, is going to be how it works. Microsoft operating
systems pretty much insist on booting from the primary master
controller, as do NeXT operating systems. This is somewhat annoying,
but I can't blame them, since the vast majority of users only install
and operate one operating system... and of those who have these
"oddball" setups, a substantial portion use SCSI, which has more
obvious ways to do this (just put one drive external, the internal at
ID=1, and adjust the external between ID=2 and ID=0 to alternate the
boot).
You can do some stuff to get things working closer to what you want,
though. The most obvious would be to install both operating systems
to one drive, and use the other drive as auxiliary storage. In fact,
in this case, that makes good sense, make the 6.4G drive the boot
drive, and leave the 2Gig for extra room, or swapfiles.
Another option is to install a kickstart partition of some sort on the
boot drive. For NeXTSTEP/OpenStep, you can install a small (~8M)
partition on the boot drive, which mounts the secondary drive as root.
It's not too hard, there's info on how to do it on NeXTAnswers at
NeXT's web site. I know that you can do a similar thing with NT (I
kickstart NT on my EIDE drive from a DOS partition on my SCSI boot
drive). Perhaps you can do it with Windows95. Note that Microsoft
operating systems have some interesting drive-letter crap that goes on
in this case, insisting that they give that kickstart partition
special treatment, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT.
</rant>,
--
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From: ted.allen.nospam@theory1.physics.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: telnet access trouble with clients but not server
Date: 8 Sep 1997 15:49:55 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Message-ID: <5v16r3$1dmg$5@news.doit.wisc.edu>
We have a server and three clients in our theory group, all
running NS 3.3 (unpatched). Lately we've been having
trouble getting access to the clients via telnet or the
web from outside. No problem getting to the server, though.
Has anyone seen this before? I recall that we had this
trouble when we first set up the system and then it went
away. This summer we got moved to a switch from a hub
on our local network and the trouble (coincidentally?)
has returned. Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
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From: Jack Nutting <jnutting@iaxs.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: The Problem With NS/OS Intel Internal Modems
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 16:29:56 -0500
Organization: Infinity AccessNET
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People of Earth,
I'm trying to make the generic-cheapo-internal-modem-that-came-with-
my-machine work with OpenStep 4.1, and having limited success. In
trying to solve this problem, I've been digging through DejaNews,
and have found *lots* of people posting the same problem, but have
never seen a real solution. The following is a typical symptom of
the NS/OS Internal Modem Problem:
Apr 9 14:55:01 localhost mach: ISASerialPort1: Unable to determine chip
type at I/O base 0x2f8
The general problem I've seen described, and from which I'm suffering
as well, is that you have your internal modem all set up as com2, irq 3,
address 0x2f8, working perfectly well with Win95 and everything else you
throw at it. You've got two instances of the ISA Serial Driver set up,
and the first one works fine for com1, but the second one, pointing at
the modem, chokes as above.
The Configure.app help files say that this means the driver can't
recognize the UART at the specified address. So I guess I should infer
that the UART in the modem I've got, as well as those in the modems all
these other folks have, is somehow "nonstandard". The problem I have
with this hypothesis is that it seems unlikely to me that the broad
range of modems I've seen mentioned, ranging from USR down to generic
equivalents, are all using "nonstandard" UARTs. In fact, some posters
with this error even said that their modem documentation claimed to have
the "standard 16550". So what gives? My hunch is that there is
a tiny oversight in the ISA Serial Driver that doesn't recognize some
slight variation in the UART included with a few types of modems, and
chokes on those. I've checked NextAnswers to see if there's an updated
driver, but there doesn't seem to be any.
If anybody has any sort of solution to this problem, please do share it.
--
Jack Nutting
jnutting@iaxs.net
From: Brad Verd <brad@verd.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: IMAPD question???
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 23:58:31 -0400
Organization: Verd Enterprises
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I have installed the imapd off of ftp.peak.org on my NeXT mail server.
I am currious if anyone has been able to get it to work with Netscape
mail client, which says the mail server is not an IMAP4 mail server.
Any ideas??? I do have a NeXT IMAP mail reader that is working with it
just fine.
I have tried it with two different entries in my services "imap" and
"imap4", both on port 143.
Thanks in advance,
Brad
brad@verd.com
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IMAPD question???
Date: 9 Sep 1997 04:33:58 GMT
Organization: none
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In <3414C967.74E4C5D6@verd.com> Brad Verd wrote:
> I am currious if anyone has been able to get it to work with Netscape
> mail client, which says the mail server is not an IMAP4 mail server.
> Any ideas???
My guess is that it is imapd 3.x rather than 4.x (since 4.x is rather new)
> I do have a NeXT IMAP mail reader that is working with it
> just fine.
Probably because the NeXT reader is OK with imapd 3.x
> I have tried it with two different entries in my services "imap" and
> "imap4", both on port 143.
in NetInfo also I assume?
There's source to imapd 4.x at ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imapd/
4.1beta seems to be the latest version, about 4 days old. If there is
sufficient demand, I can see if it will compile. Drop me a note if you need
it, most likely that will be enough demand ;-)
TjL
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TJL> ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/imapd/
TJL> 4.1beta seems to be the latest version, about 4 days old. If
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It also includes pop3 and pop4 deamons and compiles without problems.
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From: Håkan Jonsson <Hakan_Johnsson@vtc.volvo.se>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help:Crash!
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 14:40:58 +0200
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Hi!
I am using NSFIP3.3. My NextLibrary files were corrupted during a crash.
I ran fsck, so now I can boot, but the login window does not show up.
Can I reinstall the NextLibrary files from the cd using the command
line? How? Is there any meaning in trying to, or should I go for a
complete reinstall?
/Hakan
From: alvin@neander.com (Alvin Jee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation
Date: 9 Sep 1997 16:02:24 GMT
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Hello!
Frank Burgbacher wrote:
> NeXt Mach 3.3:.....
> No SCSI Controller or CD-ROM drive found
Going through the same pains as you. I am setting up another NS3.3/I
machine and got the same results. I found out that you _have_ to have the
SCSI card set to I/O address 330, IRQ 11 and DMA 7 before the SCSI card can
be recognized. You may not need to set the DMA to 7, but the port and IRQ
seem pretty important.
So, my problem lies in the fact that something on the Intel machines
requires that the boot disk have 512-byte sectors. Not sure if it's a
hardware, BIOS, or NS3.3 thing. Unfortunately, I'm trying to install NS3.3 on
the Maxtor 330 drive that came with my 030 cube(!) that has 1024-byte
sectors. Anybody know how to reformat the thing to have 512-byte sectors?
Calls to Maxtor and Sequel have produced no results--e.g. nobody knows if or
how it can be done.. :-(
Damn this IBM PC garbage!!! Apple should make some Pentium or PowerPC
motherboards we have jam into our cubes and slabs that don't need all this
futzing to make it work.
Ok, I feel better now :-)
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From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane)
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation
Date: 9 Sep 1997 16:34:41 GMT
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alvin@neander.com (Alvin Jee) wrote:
> Unfortunately, I'm trying to install NS3.3 on the Maxtor 330 drive that
> came with my 030 cube(!) that has 1024-byte sectors. Anybody know how to
> reformat the thing to have 512-byte sectors?
Unfortuantely, all I can provide is confirmation that it can be done -- I
converted several. The 1024 byte sectors on those drives were a custom setup
for NeXT, to convert them back requires some software and instructions from
Maxtor which I no longer have. It involved using Maxtor's utility to upload
the firmware, change some hex values, download it and reformat. I got the
tool and instructions from Maxtor's technical support folks some years ago.
- Christopher
From: Smurf <sdmurphy@taz.dera.gov.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Bob Ferrell wrote:
>
> Has anybody out there installed nextstep, particulary 4.0 on an IBM
> thinkpad 760, if so what SCSI device driver did you use. I have found
> an updated Display adapter driver but not the correct SCSI driver.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Bob
I have installed OS4.0 onto a IBM 760ED. The internal CD is ATAPI and
the hardisk EIDE but for the SelectaDock II docking station,that I
have, the inbuilt SCSI card ran OK on an Adaptec 2940 driver ( This is
from memory since I leant the laptop to someone else - trying to convert
them to OS).
A warning to others who are going to buy this laptop. The IBM 760ED
actually has two versions - one with a screen resolution of 800x600 and
the other with 1024x768, the drivers exist to drive the 1024x768.( This
might have changed when IBM offer the laptop with a 13.3 inch screen )
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In <5v3rug$lct$1@tyler.aplatform.com> Alvin Jee wrote:
> So, my problem lies in the fact that something on the Intel machines
> requires that the boot disk have 512-byte sectors. Not sure if it's a
> hardware, BIOS, or NS3.3 thing.
It's a hardware thing.
> Unfortunately, I'm trying to install NS3.3 on the Maxtor 330 drive that
> came with my 030 cube(!) that has 1024-byte sectors. Anybody know how to
> reformat the thing to have 512-byte sectors?
I'd guess that it's either `sdformat' or `disk'
I might even try
tunefs -e 512 -m 10 /dev/rsdXa
(where X is my drive)
but I sure wouldn't blame anyone else if this didn't work!
> Calls to Maxtor and Sequel have produced no results--e.g. nobody knows if
or
> how it can be done.. :-(
Not surprising.... I'd bet 98% of the PC users in the world don't know the
distinction is even possible, since PC hardware can't use it.
TjL
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From: stephen@2ccc1.tamu.edu (Stephen Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NXFax problem
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In <5uo3km$nf4$1@radjah.navigator.de> Markus Wenzel wrote:
snip
>
>
> If you have a newer Firmware revision (>= 1.14), you should set a
> dwrite <your_modem_name> AuxATCommand "ATS18=0"
>
>
> See the NXFAX.HelpAddentum at the ftp archive for further details.
The dwrite fixed it! I actually used "ATS18=4".
Stephen
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>
>If you have a newer Firmware revision (>= 1.14), you should set a
>dwrite <your_modem_name> AuxATCommand "ATS18=0"
>
>
>See the NXFAX.HelpAddentum at the ftp archive for further details.
>
Thanks! That fixed it!
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From: daj@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (David Jaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Disk problem: bad cksum, bad label
Date: 10 Sep 1997 03:36:06 GMT
Organization: CCRMA, Stanford University
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Can anyone help me with this disk problem?
On black hardware, NS 3.2...
When booting, I got a strange scsi error and
the boot failed. I suspect a loose cable,
which I replaced. After that, I was unable
to boot at all from this disk. I get the error "Bad cksum"
several times followed by "Bad label".
I *was* able to boot off of another disk and
run fsck on this disk. It found some problems,
but eventually fsck was happy.
One of the "problems" was that /sdmach was
trashed. So, I loaded a new copy of /sdmach
and a few other files from another identical system.
(Also black hardware, also NS 3.2.)
Note also that when I boot off of the good disk,
the bad disk reports the following:
"Label cksum error: was 0xecaa sb 0x2871"
On the theory that the boot block was bad, I
tried fsck -b 16. It found a valid superblock.
(First I tried -b 32, but that had an invalid
magic number, so it was apparenlty wrong.)
I also tried running disk with the -B option,
passing it the argument /MyDisk/usr/standalone/boot.
After all this, the disk seems fine in all ways
(I could mount it, fsck was happy, all the data
seemed there), but I can't boot it.
I just get the error "Bad cksum" and the
label error.
If I use the disk program
to print out the label information, it looks
fine. Here's what it prints (I'm typing this in by hand
so there may be a typo or two):
current label information on disk:
disk label version #3
disk label: F
disk name: FUJITSU M2266S-512-512
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
ncyls 1658 ntrack 15 nsect 43 rpm 3600
sector_size 1024 front_porch 160 back_porch 0
ngroups 0 ag_size 0 ag_alts 0 ag_off 0
boot blocks: #1 at 32 #2 at 96
bootfile: sdmach
host name: localhost
root partition: a
read/write partition: b
part base size bsize fsize cpg density minfree newfs optim automount type
a 0 1053692 8192 1024 16 4096 10% yes time yes 4.3BSD
Any ideas on how to fix this?
David Jaffe
daj@ccrma.stanford.edu
From: EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de (Thomas Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solstice Network Client and NS 3.3
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 04:58:18 GMT
Organization: Landesamt fuer archaeologische Denkmalpflege Sachsen-Anhalt
Message-ID: <5v5gdn$ebn$1@goof.Germany.EU.net>
Has anyone succesful iinstallled Solstice Network Client 3.1 from
Sunsoft on Windows 95 (normal version) and a NEXTSTEP 3.3
maschine as pcnfs server.
Ping and telnet work.
The software fails during the authentication procedure on the nfs
server (NEXT Cube with NS 3.3 and installed patch, on an IBM
RS/6000 with AIX 3.2.5 too) with the error message
"invalid user account or password".
It´s is possible to compile (with minor changes of the code) and
install the pcnfs daemon from the installation CD, but with the new
daemon on the server it´s impossible from the client to find the
authentication server, so it´s no help to use the new compiled
rpc.pcnfsd.
NEXTSTEP-Clients have no problems with the default and the
new compiled daemon.
Thanks for any help
Thomas
Thomas Richter
Landesamt fuer Archaeologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Richard-Wagner-Strasse 9-10
06114 Halle (Saale)
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From: lerche@nxth04.cern.ch (Wolfgang Lerche)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940AU and NextStep-Installation
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:58:49 GMT
In article <5umfjs$jo8$1@news01.btx.dtag.de> GehleSoftware@t-online.de
(Carsten Gehle) writes:
> Frank Burgbacher wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to install NextStep 3.3 on a Pentium 200 MMX computer which
has a
> > Adaptec 2940AU SCSI-Controller attached. After loading the
> > Adaptec2940SCSIDriver from the device driver disk twice (Hard disk and
cd-rom),
> > and saying, that I don't want to load additional drivers, the system
doesn't
> > find the start disk (so the partitioning stage of the installation
procedure
> > does not even start) and the SCSI driver says (after switching to the
white
> > screen):
> > NeXt Mach 3.3:.....
> > .
> > .
> > Adaptec2940: Can't get configSpace; ABORTING;
> > and a little bit later
> > No SCSI Controller or CD-ROM drive found
> >
> > The driver on the CD-ROM is version 3.32. I also tried version 3.37
from
> > NeXTanswers with no success.
> >
> > Can someone help?
I had the same problem before and got the following tip
by somebody (that fixed it):
The brand new 2940U models have a PCI ID strings which is not listed in
driver release 3.37. However, you can add the device ID yourself in the
driver's Default.table (and Instance0.table if it exists):
"Auto Detect IDs" = "0x70789004 0x71789004 0x72789004 0x73789004
0x74789004 0x75789004 0x76789004 0x77789004 0x78789004 0x79789004
0x7a789004 0x7b789004 0x7c789004 0x7d789004 0x7e789004 0x50789004
0x51789004 0x80789004 0x81789004 0x61789004
";
Watch for the IDs printed at boot time - mine has 0x61789004.
Best, W. Lerche
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 11:42:07 -0600
From: lauzonan@rmoc.on.ca
Subject: Rumba
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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Organization: RMOC
To: lauzonan@rmoc.on.ca
Does anyone have a version of rumba compiled for the sparc archietecture?
I have used it on my NS on Intel, but I would love to use it on my Sun
workstations....
please send me an email if you have a sparc version.
Thanks
Andrew
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From: rexr@starr.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Multiple Network cards
Date: 10 Sep 1997 17:23:40 GMT
Organization: CERFnet
Message-ID: <5v6l2s$9kb$1@news.cerf.net>
I'm trying to install multiple netwoprks cards in my NS machine. I remember
something about ip-forwarding having to be turned off for routing to work,
but I can't find the article anymore.
Can somebody point me to the right place ?
From: Thomas_Richter@t-online.de (Thomas Richter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Solstice Network Client 3.1 and NS 3.3
Date: 8 Sep 1997 19:49:04 GMT
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Has anyone succesful installed the Solstice Network Client 3.1
on Win95 (original version) with an pcnfsd server (NeXT Cube with
NEXTSTEP 3.3 and installed patch).
The message "invalid user account or password" occurs ( independent of
the nfs client settings in win95 and it´s the same error on an
IBM RS/6000 with AIX 3.2.5). No problems with SUN PCNFS PRO 2.0 on the
Win95 client. Ping and Telnet are ok, so it´s an pcnfs problem.
If i compile the pcnfsd source (with some minor changes) the problem
increases ("no authentication server found" on win95 machines,
NEXTSTEP machines have no problem to use the nfs server with the new
compiled pcnfsd daemon ).
Thanks for any help..
Thomas
Thomas Richter
Landesamt fuer Archaeologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Richard-Wagner-Strasse 9-10
06114 Halle (Saale)
email: EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de (NEXT and MIME mail)
Thomas_Richter@t-online.de (MIME only)
Thomas Richter
Landesamt fuer Archaeologie Sachsen-Anhalt
Richard-Wagner-Strasse 9-10
06114 Halle (Saale)
EDV@lfa.hal.eunet.de
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with msql on black hardware?
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:18:17 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
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On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 7 Sep 1997, Dan Nichols wrote:
>
> > Can anyone help me?
> > I'm trying to install msql on NeXTSTEP 3.3 on black hardware(Turbo color
> > station).
> >
> > I originally tried version msql-2.0-B7.1, obtained from Bond.edu.au.
> > It failed in the setup. First it complained about not being able to
> > determine my directory routines. I just picked one of the defaults and
> > hoped, then it quit because I don't have "mmap".
> >
> > I then found version msql_1_0_5_1 on Peanuts. It's README says it should
> > run right out of the box on NeXT and it does already have the NeXTOS3.3
> > target directory already built, but when I try setup, first I get the
> > same complaint about directory routines, again, I just picked one, and
> > it finished setup. BUT when I 'make all' it dies saying
> >
>
> I have failed to compile version 2.0 as well. And I suspect that it won't
> be easy/possible.
>
> I tried also version 1.7 on ftp.peak.org - seems to compile well on NS 3.3
> on Intel. Black should work too.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Rudy.
>
> P.S.: If you use the version 1.7, could you share your experience with the
> DBKit and EOF adapters that are on the net as well? If you use them, that
> is. I didn't have much luck. Thanks, Rudy.
>
>
I am replying to my own message, since I got a response from Aleksey that
I was asked to put on the usenet.
In addition, there is one more person who sent me a patch to compile mSQL
2.0 on OS 4.2, so it should work on NS 3.3 (going to try that soon.)
Thanks.
Rudy
blazek@stt.msu.edu
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Hey, sorry I cannot post to usenet, so perhaps you could forward this
message to the other guy as well.
>I have failed to compile version 2.0 as well. And I suspect that it won't
>be easy/possible.
Well, I have "ported" (compiled) mSQL.2.0.rel to OpenStep Intel. I don't
think there should be a problem with NeXT boxes, thought one need to do
some tweaks in the target directory.
Anyway, the source is available at
http://dev.rkinc.com/~zander/Projects/projects.html
It works fine for me. I know about just one problem (DATEs and TIMEs
doesn't work 100%).
Hope that would help,
Aleksey
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple Network cards
Date: 10 Sep 1997 21:26:28 GMT
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In <5v6l2s$9kb$1@news.cerf.net> rexr@starr.com wrote:
>
> I'm trying to install multiple netwoprks cards in my NS machine. I remember
> something about ip-forwarding having to be turned off for routing to work,
> but I can't find the article anymore.
> Can somebody point me to the right place ?
I've got this in my machine.
ipforwarding is off by default, I believe, so that shouldn't be causing you
any problems.
Basically /etc/hostconfig & NetInfo control en0, but en1 (and any others)
must be done more manually, using `route' commands (I have mine in
/etc/rc.local) and /etc/iftab.
/etc/iftab looks like this:
lo0 inet -AUTOMATIC- netmask -AUTOMATIC- -trailers up
-1- inet -HOSTCONFIG-
en1 inet my.real.ip.address netmask 255.255.255.0 -trailers up
/etc/rc.local has this:
/usr/etc/ifconfig en1 my.real.ip.address netmask 255.255.255.0 up
/usr/etc/route add default my.router.ip.address 1
I hope that's helpful. Feel free to drop me a note if it isn't ;-)
TjL
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From: sdroll@NOSPMmathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de (Sven Droll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help:Crash!
Date: 11 Sep 1997 09:11:47 GMT
Organization: University of Wuerzburg, Germany
Message-ID: <5v8ckj$vie@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
References: <341543DA.20ED@vtc.volvo.se>
Hi
Are you sure only /NextLibrary is corrupt, loginwindow is as far as I know in
/usr/lib...
but anyway (the following is untested, but what I would do after a crash):
- try booting in single-user-mode (command line mode) with "bsd -s" or
something. you need the root-password, and perhaps the hardware-password for
this...
- if the filesystem / is readonly, do a "mount -o remount /"
- insert the cdrom with NS3.3 on it and mount it with "/etc/mount /dev/sdx0
/cdrom0", where x is your cdroms scsi-id and /cdrom0 is your favourite
mountpoint
- do a "mv /NextLibrary /NextLibrary.old"
- then "cp -R /cdrom0/NextLibrary /NextLibrary"
- after copying the files to your hd you may want to thin all binaries (if
there are any) with Thinner or lipo in /NextLibrary to Intel
hope this works and llap
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From: Florian Marquardt <a0047@btr0xe.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Bypassing login panel for remote login??
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 13:42:22 +0200
Organization: Universitaet Bayreuth
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Hello!
I have the following urgent problem:
I want to log into a NEXTSTEP computer remotely and tell it
to close the login panel and start up WorkSpace Manager, so
I can launch a GUI-based app (which quite probably won't run
when WM is not up, would it ?). Is there a way to accomplish
this via telnet (so I don't have to take a 2 hours drive to
the place where the computer is installed?)
(The computer is running a WebServer that depends on an
interface to that app -- obviously it has rebooted after
some crash or power failure...)
Thanks in advance
Florian Marquardt
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: can't open NetInfo parent domain [help!]
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 08:51:15 -0400
Organization: OSU Extension
Message-ID: <jray-1109970851150001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Hello,
Every 2-3 minutes, I'm getting this error message:
Sep 11 08:44:32 leviathan syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
Sep 11 08:46:51 leviathan syslog: can't open NetInfo parent domain
This is after much futzing around, going from a NetInfo networked setup to
a standalone setup, to a networked setup, then, finally, back to a
standalone setup. Hostmanager *doesn't* have "bind to parent domain"
checked. Is there someplace I should be looking w/ NetInfo manager? I
can't seem to find the solution.
Another oddity, which doesn't *seem* to make any difference: Opening the
local netinfo domain brings up a window titled "local @ 0.0.0.0" instead
of "local @ leviathan" as it used to... Doesn't seem to make much
difference, but, if I open up an old copy of local.nidb, it appears
identical, though I know I haven't seen this behavior in the past.
Thanks very much for your time,
Email appreciated,
John Ray
The Ohio State University Extension
From: haibach@musca.unm.edu (frederick george haibach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: unable to get network name for local machine
Date: 11 Sep 1997 12:40:09 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Message-ID: <5v8or9$g5k$1@lynx.unm.edu>
Hi,
I'm having a problem with printing to a remote network. lpd complains
whenever I send a file to the spool
Oct 11 06:28:42 stallion lpd[1865]: unable to get network name for local
machine stallion
What fixes are possible?
OS4.1
black hardware
NeXT-ppp2.2-0.4.6
(telnet, mail, ftp and http work fine)
(ip address is dynamic)
The printserver is set up to print burst pages identifying the file
printed and the user@machine-printed-from .
FgH...
Please email replies and post if you think this is of general interest.
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Multiple Network cards
Date: 11 Sep 1997 13:39:51 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5v8sb7$g9s$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
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In <5v6l2s$9kb$1@news.cerf.net> rexr@starr.com wrote:
> I'm trying to install multiple netwoprks cards in my NS machine. I remember
> something about ip-forwarding having to be turned off for routing to work,
> but I can't find the article anymore. Can somebody point me to the right
> place ?
ip-forwarding is only important if you are either trying to build a firewall
in which case it should be off), or if you're trying to do proxy-arp tricks
or the like. For a regular host with two network cards everything should
"just work" without worrying about that point.
Setting up a machine with two network cards isn't too tricky IMHO, but there
are some things you can do to make it even easier. The main idea you should
remember is that each network interface should basically be treated as if it
was a separate host. Giving each interface it's own hostname is quite a good
idea --- usually the system will take the first configured one to be the
machine's hostname, unless you override it specifically.
Things to do to make multihoming easier:
i) Use the BOOTP service provided by netinfo servers --- make a /machines
entry for each interface using HostManager.app, filling in the ethernet
address field. You can find the ethernet MAC address for an installed
interface by:
grep Ether /usr/adm/messages
On boot up, the system will auto-configure each ethernet interface for which
there is a MAC address to IP address translation. If you've set up the
"automatically add new hosts to netinfo" feature, you will be prompted to add
each new interface as if it was a new machine.
ii) Run `routed' to automatically manage routing between the different
interfaces. Multiply homed machines are usually gateways between different
networks, so you may want to run routed in broadcast mode so that it will
tell machines on the other networks about routing too. Make the following
change to /etc/rc to enable routing broadcast:
ivyhouse:/tmp:% diff -u rc.orig rc
--- rc.orig Thu Sep 11 14:29:38 1997
+++ rc Thu Sep 11 14:30:16 1997
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
case ${ROUTER=-NO-} in
-ROUTED-)
if [ -f /usr/etc/routed -a $NETWORKUP = "-YES-" ]; then
- /usr/etc/routed -q && (echo -n ' routed') >/dev/console
+ /usr/etc/routed && (echo -n ' routed') >/dev/console
fi
;;
-NO-)
While you could put both interfaces onto the same network, it won't gain you
anything. The kernel routing table would cause one of the interfaces to be
used preferentially, and even so, only one of the interfaces could transmit
on the same network at a time, unless you have a very fancy switched
ethernet.
Matthew
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk problem: bad cksum, bad label
Date: 11 Sep 1997 13:53:05 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5v8t41$g9s$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
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In <5v54j6$7ar$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> David Jaffe wrote:
> When booting, I got a strange scsi error and the boot failed. I suspect a
> loose cable, which I replaced. After that, I was unable to boot at all
> from this disk. I get the error "Bad cksum" several times followed by "Bad
> label".
The problem is not with the file system as such (which is what fsck fixes),
but with the boot block and the partition header information. These are data
that are stored on the disk outside the normal BSD 4.3 filesystem structure
which are used in booting the machine and similar lowlevel stuff.
To fix, use the /usr/etc/boot command --- I assume you've got the disk in a
second machine mounted as /dev/sd1:
/usr/etc/disk -b -H hostname -L label /dev/rsd1a
`hostname' and `label' are arbitrary: `label' is often simply `Disk' --- it's
this value that the WorkSpace uses for the mount-point directory when it
automounts a disk.
If that still doesn't fix the problem, then you've probably trashed the
partition table information. In this case it will probably be necessary to
wipe the disk and reload the OS onto it from scratch --- which might be a
good idea in any case, if you've had a bad head crash. Doing a low-level
reformat of the drive (sdformat or disk -F) will help clean up or reallocate
any bad blocks.
Matthew
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: From standalone to server
Date: 11 Sep 1997 14:20:11 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5v8umr$g9s$3@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <7x2031idz3.fsf@burrow.muc.de>
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In <7x2031idz3.fsf@burrow.muc.de> Markus Gloede wrote:
> I'm in the process of switching to a different provider. At the same
> time I'm also enlarging my LAN (from non-existant to 3 devices (Turbo
> Slab, Mac and ISDN router). I'm also considering updating
> sendmail. Thus a few questions arise:
>
> My Network will only contain one NEXTSTEP system (3.3PL1). Do I have
> to configure netinfo or just edit the files in /etc/ (eg. edit
> /etc/hosts or netinfo's "machines")?
Under NS 3.3p1, the /etc flatfiles (hosts, passwd, services, fstab[*] etc.)
are never accessed once netinfo is up and running. In fact, netinfo is the
only place most next machines can store this sort of information --- the
exceptions are for networks using Sun's NIS and the DNS system, but I guess
that neither of those are going to be much used on your home LAN.
> The ReadMe for sendmail 8.8.5 suggests adding my FQDN to netinfo, this
> goes into machines, (similar to adding it to /etc/hosts and doing a
> niload hosts / < /etc/hosts) right? And while I'm talking sendmail:
> before playing with the configuration are there more files to back up
> other than the binary and sendmail.cf? What are other places where my
> hostname and my domain appear? (I know of /etc/hostconfig, /etc/hosts,
> /etc/resolv.conf, and /etc/sendmail/senmail.cf (uucp stuff should be
> no problem).)
Yes --- v8 sendmail insists on having a FQDN when it boots. The files you
need to back up when installing v8 sendmail are:
/usr/lib/sendmail
/usr/lib/sendmail.hf
V8 sendmail uses /etc/sendmail.cf by default, whilst the original sendmail
uses /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf by default. Either version will use whatever
is configured in the netinfo /locations/sendmail directory, if there's
anything setup there. V8 sendmail installation will replace a number of
other programs like `mailq' and `newaliases', but these are just links to the
original /usr/lib/sendmail binary and so do not need to be preserved in their
own right.
> Is there anything else to be considered when configuring a formerly
> standalone system (well, just PPP) to become a real server for a local
> LAN (I guess SNS does some of the job but not all of it)?
Hmmm... SimpleNetworkStarter.app is really intended to start up networks of
NeXT machines. You don't actually need to use it to make your machine a
server for non-NeXT clients, although it does no harm. You'll probably need
to install a bunch of extra server programs to service your client machines,
like a POP daemon or CAPER to keep your Mac happy.
> How do I actually check if the Internet connection is up without
> actually bringing it up?
Most ISDN routers will have a status display that will show whether the
connetion is up or not when you telnet into them.
> Thanks for any replies. Since I'm switching providers my newsfeed
> might get interrupted, thus I kindly ask to also send copies of
> follow-ups the the Reply-To address as it appears in the header of
> this posting. Thank you.
Matthew
[*] /etc/fstab is exceptionally the one flatfile that *does* get consulted on
bootup before netinfo starts up. It's used for mounting local disk
partitions, something that occurs very early in the boot sequence.
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From: shaffer@durer.phyast.pitt.edu (C. David Shaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: gateway <---> (next running ppp) <--> (another next) ???
Date: 11 Sep 1997 15:22:34 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <SHAFFER.97Sep11112234@durer.phyast.pitt.edu>
Hello,
In case my subject line doesn't explain my question completely :-)
I currently have two next boxes. One is running ppp and is connected
via phone to our ppp gateway. I do not get a fixed IP address from
the ppp server and my connection is not persistant.
I have another next box which I would like to connect to the one
mentioned above. I don't care if I can access the rest of the net
from this new box, I simply want to be able to network the two nexts
but still have ppp access to the net from the first next.
My question: Can this be accomplished? If so, how to I configure the
box that is connected to the ppp line so that the other box can find
it? Do I use arp to configure it to have to addresses (one fixed and
one the ppp address)?
I've searched the FAQ's but didn't find anything (that I understood)
that addressed this issue. Any help/comments would be deeply
appreciated.
David
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bypassing login panel for remote login??
Date: 11 Sep 1997 17:48:02 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5v9asi$2eq$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <Pine.GSO.3.96.970911133707.1878B-100000@btr0xe.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>
Florian Marquardt wrote:
> I want to log into a NEXTSTEP computer remotely and tell it
> to close the login panel and start up WorkSpace Manager, so
> I can launch a GUI-based app (which quite probably won't run
> when WM is not up, would it ?). Is there a way to accomplish
> this via telnet (so I don't have to take a 2 hours drive to
> the place where the computer is installed?)
If the PublicWindowServer is on (or you are using NXHost app from Scott Hess)
it might work even if no one is logged in. *might*.
> (The computer is running a WebServer that depends on an
> interface to that app -- obviously it has rebooted after
> some crash or power failure...)
How is it rebooting?
Do you have one of those ROMs which allows for an automatic reboot after
power loss?
(You might want to get a UPS also.....)
There is a way (albeit a little tricky) to use the automatic login process
(like the ``me'' account does if there is no password). I wrote a little
script to do this... let me know if you want to know how to do it...
TjL
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From: rupert@noir.net
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bypassing login panel for remote login??
Date: 11 Sep 1997 17:53:12 GMT
Organization: Internet Connect, Inc. http://www.inc.net usenet@news.inc.net
Message-ID: <5v9b68$g9s$1@news.inc.net>
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In <Pine.GSO.3.96.970911133707.1878B-100000@btr0xe.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>
Florian Marquardt wrote:
Hello!
I have the following urgent problem:
I want to log into a NEXTSTEP computer remotely and tell it
to close the login panel and start up WorkSpace Manager, so
I can launch a GUI-based app (which quite probably won't run
when WM is not up, would it ?). Is there a way to accomplish
this via telnet (so I don't have to take a 2 hours drive to
the place where the computer is installed?)
(The computer is running a WebServer that depends on an
interface to that app -- obviously it has rebooted after
some crash or power failure...)
Thanks in advance
Florian Marquardt
---
This is a piece of cake with NEXTSTEP. Read the section in
DigitalLibrarian's SysAdmin.bshlf called "SetUpNet.rtfd" The section there
you will be looking for is called "Remote Application Execution". By using
NS's built-in "NXHost" feature, you should be able to telnet to the remote
host, and have it run any app that you want locally, just as if that remote
app was installed on your local host. Works just dandy.
Luck!
Hans Rupert
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From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: MouseX problem
Date: 11 Sep 1997 18:16:08 GMT
Organization: Cows Unlimited!
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <5v9ch9$mkj@news1.mnsinc.com>
Hi. I picked up the MouseX 2.3 at the peak.org site for my ColorStation.
I would like to use it so I can run some expensive math packages that
they've got at school on my NeXT at home. I gunzipped and untarred it and
installed the Xnext.color in /usr/local/bin. I made a symlink from there
to /usr/X11/X (or something like that, whatever it says to do in the help
screen) and started the mousex app. I also changed the perms on /dev/vid0
like it says to do in the help. When I go to start x from the mousex app
the mousex app just closes. I went to try starting it manually, from
terminal by typing X -bs -su the screen goes blank and the computer
crashes. I have to unplug it and then plug it back in (cringe) to get it
to come up, and the screen stays messed up until it is fully rebooted
again. Anyone have any ideas about what may be wrong?
PS: i just got my NeXT and I absolutely LOVE it :)
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From: daj@ccrma.Stanford.EDU (David Jaffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Disk problem: bad cksum, bad label
Date: 11 Sep 1997 18:12:02 GMT
Organization: CCRMA, Stanford University
Message-ID: <5v9c9i$ed4$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
References: <5v54j6$7ar$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
I found that I was able to save it by changing the host name using the disk program.
Apparently, this caused it to recompute the cksum.
It seems to be working fine now, though I can't help wondering if there is any other hidden rot lurking. Thanks to those of you who responded.
David Jaffe
From: Raphael Marmier <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: Re: Installation of NeXTSTEP 3.3 on an EIDE system
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 21:28:31 +0100
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <34185463.50A8@hei.unige.ch>
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To: jfranco@eyestreet.com
Hello
your message is pretty old so you have perhaps already solved the
problem :)
I've installed OS 4.1 on an EIDE drive from an ATAPI CD-Rom. Your
problem, I suppose comes from the driver which is probably designed for
OS 4.0
You'll need to find a driver for 3.3 (I think there is one available at
Next).
Loading the Adaptec driver is the right thing to do. I think you can
remove it afterward.
cheers
Raph
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: gateway <---> (next running ppp) <--> (another next) ???
Date: 11 Sep 1997 19:21:41 GMT
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In <SHAFFER.97Sep11112234@durer.phyast.pitt.edu> C. David Shaffer wrote:
> I currently have two next boxes.
Ok so far ;-)
> One is running ppp and is connected via phone to our ppp gateway. I do not
> get a fixed IP address from the ppp server and my connection is not
> persistant.
Dynamic PPP, OK...
> I have another next box which I would like to connect to the one
> mentioned above.
The one running PPP and connecting to the PPP gateway.
> I don't care if I can access the rest of the net from this new box, I
> simply want to be able to network the two nexts but still have ppp access
> to the net from the first next.
How is this 2nd NeXT connected ?
Does it also run PPP?
Is it on a dedicated connection? (it has a static IP, etc etc)
> My question: Can this be accomplished? If so, how do I configure the
> box that is connected to the ppp line so that the other box can find
> it? Do I use arp to configure it to have to addresses (one fixed and
> one the ppp address)?
I'm not sure why it wouldn't be automatic. What are you trying to which
failed?
TjL
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From: darryl@thermal.me.ttu.edu (Darryl L. James)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Booting problems: Windowserver port?
Date: 11 Sep 1997 21:26:23 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <5v9nlv$82v@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
My intel running NS3.3 machine hangs up at the very end of the
booting process giving an error message stating that the login
window[200]: could not find windowserver port. I have search the
archives on NextAnswers but cannot find any help there. Does anyone
know what might possible be the problem and how to correct it?
Thanks in advance.
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From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: MouseX problem
Date: 11 Sep 1997 23:15:43 GMT
Organization: Cows Unlimited!
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <5v9u2v$4is@news1.mnsinc.com>
References: <5v9ch9$mkj@news1.mnsinc.com>
that Barry Bocaner (barry@gslink.com) scribbled:
> Hi. I picked up the MouseX 2.3 at the peak.org site for my ColorStation.
> I would like to use it so I can run some expensive math packages that
> they've got at school on my NeXT at home. I gunzipped and untarred it and
> installed the Xnext.color in /usr/local/bin. I made a symlink from there
> to /usr/X11/X (or something like that, whatever it says to do in the help
> screen) and started the mousex app. I also changed the perms on /dev/vid0
> like it says to do in the help. When I go to start x from the mousex app
> the mousex app just closes. I went to try starting it manually, from
> terminal by typing X -bs -su the screen goes blank and the computer
> crashes. I have to unplug it and then plug it back in (cringe) to get it
> to come up, and the screen stays messed up until it is fully rebooted
> again. Anyone have any ideas about what may be wrong?
> PS: i just got my NeXT and I absolutely LOVE it :)
okay... responding to my own post here... I have figured out that I
actually need to get X11R5 as well as the mousex 2.3 to start it, and I
downloaded all the files from peak, but they are all tar.Z.chunk.0,
tar.Z.chunk.1, etc. I suppose i have to put all these "chunks" back
together before I can uncompress them and untar them, but what software do
I use to do that???
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: IMAPD question???
Date: 12 Sep 1997 01:26:37 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc
Message-ID: <5va5od$49c@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <3414C967.74E4C5D6@verd.com> <5v2jjm$o5h$12@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Timothy J. Luoma (nospam@all.please) wrote:
: > I am currious if anyone has been able to get it to work with Netscape
: > mail client, which says the mail server is not an IMAP4 mail server.
: > Any ideas???
: My guess is that it is imapd 3.x rather than 4.x (since 4.x is rather new)
Actually, it is probably the IMPA2bis server from Washington U (the one
that also comes with the pine distribution). I don't think there was a v3
IMAP.
They currently have an IMAP4rev1 server you can get from
http://www.washington.edu/imap/
This should support Netscape clients.
I've been meaning to build it, and will probably do so in the next couple
of weeks for NeXTSTEP 3.3pl1 or OpenStep 4.2; I'm not sure yet. I can let
people know how it goes if other readers here haven't already done so.
--Chris
Chris Saldanha, Software Analyst --------------------------------------
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From: Smith <smithpartnrs@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Color printing
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 20:31:45 -0700
Organization: EarthLink Network, Inc.
Message-ID: <3418B7A0.1463@earthlink.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I have never used this (news service) before, so I hope it is working.
Is any one out there using a color printer (other than a NEXT printer)
and printing directly from NextStep. I am very frustrated with having
to use JetPilot for printing.
Please let me know what will work with NextStep and what is required to
get it set-up.
Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Kerry Smith
From: pemmerik@solair1.inter.NL.net (P.J.L.van Emmerik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help on lines in /usr/adm/messages wanted
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 06:56:40 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <5vap3d$gv$1@news.NL.net>
In the file /usr/adm/messages i see some messages that i do not understand.
Can anyone tell me what they mean and what is causing them?
Here are the messages:
Aug 29 00:06:39 dbe_s netmsgserver[23]: port_set_add() returned 4
Aug 29 09:01:15 dbe_s netmsgserver[23]: Warning: ipc_in_reply: the transport module failed
to get a message to machine 0x9c494f91.
0x9c494f91 9c=156 49=73 4f=79 91=145 => 145.79.73.156 -> dbe_c1
Sep 1 13:50:33 dbe_s mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
Sep 4 16:02:59 dbe_c3 mach: event0: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
Sep 4 17:33:12 dbe_c3 netmsgserver[22]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr = -102.
Sep 4 17:33:12 dbe_c3 netmsgserver[22]: netname_main.port_type fails, kr = 4.
Aug 25 07:19:38 dbe_c2 BusStation[222]: *** hashtable: count differs after rehashing;
probably indicates a broken invariant: there are x and y such as isEqual(x, y) is TRUE but
hash(x) != hash (y)
Please Email to: emmerik@hpb.holec-projects.nl
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From: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
Subject: 7-disc CD-ROM tower for NS/OS ?
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 12 Sep 1997 17:00:48 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <5vbsg0$dvm@agate.berkeley.edu>
Keywords: CDROM tower
Hi,
Has anyone attached a multi-disc CDROM drive to NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
machines, like the one shown below for about $400?
And it it possible to export all these drives via NFS?
http://www.corpsys.com/cgi-bin/select?17186032468453&SP&CD7DI
I am not looking for the type that swaps disks like jukeboxes, but
an array of drives that are online all the time.
If there is none that works with NS/OS, then what platforms can
use this for serving via NFS?
Linux, FreeBSD, or NT with some additional NFS component?
Any pointers appreciated.
--
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help on lines in /usr/adm/messages wanted
Date: 12 Sep 1997 16:57:20 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vbs9g$hha$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <5vap3d$gv$1@news.NL.net>
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Cc: emmerik@hpb.holec-projects.nl
In <5vap3d$gv$1@news.NL.net> P.J.L.van Emmerik wrote:
>
> In the file /usr/adm/messages i see some messages that i do not understand.
> Can anyone tell me what they mean and what is causing them?
> Here are the messages:
Here are my guesses
> Aug 29 00:06:39 dbe_s netmsgserver[23]: port_set_add() returned 4
>
> Aug 29 09:01:15 dbe_s netmsgserver[23]: Warning: ipc_in_reply: the
transport module failed to get a message to machine 0x9c494f91.
> 0x9c494f91 9c=156 49=73 4f=79 91=145 => 145.79.73.156 -> dbe_c1
The only times I've seen this was when I had some problem printing from my
Intel to my NeXT
> Sep 1 13:50:33 dbe_s mach: ttyscc0: receive error 2 (-901)
>
> Sep 4 16:02:59 dbe_c3 mach: event0: postEvent LLEventQueue overflow.
Don't know...
> Sep 4 17:33:12 dbe_c3 netmsgserver[22]: netname_main.msg_send fails, kr =
-102.
>
> Sep 4 17:33:12 dbe_c3 netmsgserver[22]: netname_main.port_type fails, kr =
4.
This is usually OmniWeb looking for other hosts running OmniWeb, I think.
> Aug 25 07:19:38 dbe_c2 BusStation[222]: *** hashtable: count differs after
> rehashing; probably indicates a broken invariant: there are x and y such as
> isEqual(x, y) is TRUE but hash(x) != hash (y)
Some random PostScript error... doesn't actually do any harm...
TjL
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From: Florian Marquardt <a0047@btr0xe.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Bypassing login panel for remote login??
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 19:58:49 +0200
Organization: Universitaet Bayreuth
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970912195803.18411C-100000@btr0xe.hrz.uni-bayreuth.de>
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Thanks to all who responded to my question.
This is the solution that worked for me:
I telnetted into the computer and changed the "me"-password to none by
using "nu" under root:
"nu -m", option 2 ("change pw."), Return, Return -> Password: (none),
option e (write out changes)
Then I issued a "/usr/etc/shutdown -r now" to reboot the (Intel-)machine.
After waiting an appropriate amount of time, I was able to telnet into the
machine again (have your routing tables set up correctly by some init
script!).
I reset the "me"-password and launched my app ("open -a MyApp";
I have a public window server running on the machine).
That was all.
Of course I should use some more sophisticated version to automate these
things.
Florian Marquardt
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.hardware
From: walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin Walsh)
Subject: Fujitsu M2694ES-512 Rev 8117 jumper settings
Sender: news@ecf.toronto.edu (News Administrator)
Message-ID: <EGEwEH.I9r@ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 20:18:16 GMT
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
I have the above drive, but no manual. The drive is
recognised at boot, but I cannot find jumper settings
that will let me initialise the drive.
I want to attach it to a mono Turbo running NS3.0
Can anyone help out?
Thanks
Colin Walsh
University of Toronto, Institute for Aerospace Studies
walshc@ecf.toronto.edu
From: "Wes Spears" <jspears@weston.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT PPP Host
Date: 13 Sep 1997 04:08:34 GMT
Organization: The Weston Group
Message-ID: <01bcbffa$fed78e40$5be532ce@jspears.onramp.net>
I would like to set up a CUBE as a PPP Host. Is the best way to approach
this with OPENSTEP? If so, what is the upgrade cost and where can I
actually get it. If there is another solution, please let me know. I am
running 3.3.
Thanks
WEs
From: godwin@unixg.ubc.ca (Godwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 7-disc CD-ROM tower for NS/OS ?
Date: 13 Sep 1997 07:19:54 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <5vdeqq$irn$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>
References: <5vbsg0$dvm@agate.berkeley.edu>
I have a Nakamichi.. and I don't think NS can read past 7 devices.
there was a thread a while ago by a long time NEXTer from
u.washington.edu.. he is with the Pine group.. his name slips my mind..
check dejanews..
godwin
Izumi Ohzawa (izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu) wrote:
: Hi,
: Has anyone attached a multi-disc CDROM drive to NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
: machines, like the one shown below for about $400?
: And it it possible to export all these drives via NFS?
: http://www.corpsys.com/cgi-bin/select?17186032468453&SP&CD7DI
: I am not looking for the type that swaps disks like jukeboxes, but
: an array of drives that are online all the time.
: If there is none that works with NS/OS, then what platforms can
: use this for serving via NFS?
: Linux, FreeBSD, or NT with some additional NFS component?
: Any pointers appreciated.
: --
: Izumi Ohzawa <izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu> [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ]
: USMail: Univ. of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020
: Tel: 510-642-6440, Fax: -3323, Web: http://totoro.berkeley.edu/~izumi/
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Color printing
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 16:52:00 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970913163756.20523A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi
> Is any one out there using a color printer (other than a NEXT printer)
> and printing directly from NextStep. I am very frustrated with having
> to use JetPilot for printing.
I'm using a HP Deskjet 870 Cxi. Works fine. But I have to use
Ghostscript print filter since this is no Postscript printer.
It doesn't give the very best quality, because of the lack of driver that
would allow for alignating the ink cartridges. But it works fine. Black
and white printing is outstanding.
Note that with some printers (as mine), you'll have to do some hacking to
get it work, but nothing bad.
You'll find Ghostscript at:
ftp://ftp.peak.org/pub/next/apps/utils/printer/GSPrintFilter.1.31.README
Mail me for further details
Raph
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT PPP Host
Date: 13 Sep 1997 16:32:58 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vef7q$12e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <01bcbffa$fed78e40$5be532ce@jspears.onramp.net>
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Cc: jspears@weston.com
In <01bcbffa$fed78e40$5be532ce@jspears.onramp.net> "Wes Spears" wrote:
>
> I would like to set up a CUBE as a PPP Host. Is the best way to approach
> this with OPENSTEP? If so, what is the upgrade cost and where can I
> actually get it. If there is another solution, please let me know. I am
> running 3.3.
There's no need to upgrade to OpenStep to do this (or, IMO, anything else,
unless you're a programmer).
PPP is a generic UNIX program, and there is a NeXT port of it.
If you want folks to be able to dial-in, you'll need a modem pool of some
sort. I'm not sure exactly how this would be done, but somewhere someone
must have done it.
TjL
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Fujitsu M2694ES-512 Rev 8117 jumper settings
Message-ID: <EGFzp1.EFD@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
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References: <EGEwEH.I9r@ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 10:27:01 GMT
In article <EGEwEH.I9r@ecf.toronto.edu> walshc@ecf.toronto.edu (Colin
Walsh) writes:
>
> I have the above drive, but no manual. The drive is
> recognised at boot, but I cannot find jumper settings
> that will let me initialise the drive.
>
> I want to attach it to a mono Turbo running NS3.0
>
I operate two of these, although I don't recall the revision numbers. One
dates from early '93, the other from late '94. Both have totally
different controller boards.
The older one has everything configured by jumpers. The termination
resistor array sits next to one mounting hole, and the external ID
connectror sits right behind the term resitor towards the center of the
board.
This model needs both jumper 3-4 (SCSI level 1) and 13-14 (asynch mode) on
jumper group CNH1 removed to function properly.
The newer model has the termination resistor right next to the connector
and most of the conf is done through a switch in the center of the board.
For this model SW1 position 1 should be on (SCSI level 1) and position 6
should be off (asynch mode).
BTW, are really going to run NS 3.0 for good? I was mighty happy when all
those bugs were gone with NS3.1...
P.S.: Did you recognize that there is a 'c.s.n.hardware' group?
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Fujitsu M2694ES-512 Rev 8117 jumper settings
Date: 13 Sep 1997 18:37:11 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vemgn$12e$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <EGFzp1.EFD@nidat.sub.org> Peter Nitezki wrote:
> BTW, are really going to run NS 3.0 for good? I was mighty happy when all
> those bugs were gone with NS3.1...
Didn't 3.1 have the ``no more processes' bug? There would be tons of
``<mach-task>'' processes running if you were trying to do too much (perhaps
it was worse without enough RAM) at once until you basically had to reboot?
I've never seen that with 3.2 or +
TjL
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From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
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Date: 14 Sep 1997 03:49:15 GMT
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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
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This is a moderated newsgroup, meaning that you can't post
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Material e-mailed to Bug_NeXT@NeXT.COM is not published, so
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COMP.SYS.NEXT.HARDWARE
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no crossposting!!!
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Questions and discussions of interest to NEXTSTEP programmers.
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Stuff relating to NeXT system administration issues; in rare
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Message-ID: <341BB30D.83B552BF@docs.uu.se>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 11:49:01 +0200
From: Carl Erickson <carle@docs.uu.se>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: ThinkPad 760ED + Adaptec SlimSCSI problem
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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Hi,
I'm unable to install OS 4.2 on my 760ED ThinkPad with a CD ROM attached
via an Adaptec SlimSCSI using the 6x60 driver on the OpenStep floppy.
I get a boot message saying that the PCMCI SCSI adaptor card is
recognized on the bus, but then I get an error message from the driver:
6x60: Can't find host adaptor!
And of course nothing much happens after this point.
I'd be very greatful for suggestions on resolving this problem.
Thanks,
Carl
---
Carl Erickson, carle@docs.uu.se
Dept of Computer Systems
Uppsala University
Uppsala Sweden
From: wtheller@SPAM.THIS.SPARKY.hhserv.rice.edu (William Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: printer problem
Date: 14 Sep 1997 12:49:35 GMT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Message-ID: <5vgmgv$s0k$1@joe.rice.edu>
Hello,
I am having trouble with one of the printers in my lab. I need to
modify one of the printers and for some stupid reason, the "modify" button in
PrintManager.App is disabled. I tried to do the modification as root on that
machine and the server for the group, and nothing I try will allow me to modify
that printer.
Is there a simple way to do this via a text file editing? I assume
that all of this information is held someplace that I can get to somehow. Any
help would be greatly appreciated.
William
my address has been modified. the three words to remove should be pretty
apparent
--
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From: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ethernet boot problem -- Black
Date: 14 Sep 1997 19:32:54 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I'm setting up a lab of old next hardware, and have run into the
follwoing problems:
1. For the timebeing until we can scrounge disks, these machines
will boot off the net. I've set up one with a disk, and I've
set up a two lelvel netinfo domain, and have set up bootparams
and bootptab, and have loaded that info into netinfo. I've run
newclient for the new machines.
When the clients boot, they are successful, but the login window
never appears. Looking at the syslog file, it appears that loging
window is trying to start /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk, which
since there is no hard disk is somewhat pointless. It appears that
loginwindow is trying to do this instead of running Workspace Manager.
The net effect of this is that getty starts loginwindow, which starts
BuildDisk which crashes, which causes loginwindow to exit. Not
very useful. Hints requested. Please email as well as post.
2. I've got some Connor CP3100 drives that I am considering putting
in to use as either boot or swap disks. The drive is not recognized on
startup, although it does spin up. What's up?
--
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System Administrator | Tel: 403 492 5728
Trouble shooter | Fax: 403 492 6826
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet boot problem -- Black
Date: 14 Sep 1997 19:54:52 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vhfec$cv5$8@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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Cc: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
I've never done this, so it's not only free advice but just guessing...
In <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sherwood Botsford wrote:
> When the clients boot, they are successful, but the login window
> never appears. Looking at the syslog file, it appears that loging
> window is trying to start /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk, which
> since there is no hard disk is somewhat pointless. It appears that
> loginwindow is trying to do this instead of running Workspace Manager.
Could it be that BuildDisk is the LoginProgram, rather than Workspace?
I admit I have no idea how this would happen, but when I run 'ps' I see:
root 5691 0.0 0.7 5.07M 448K ? S 0:01
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace -LoginProgram YES
and I see this in /usr/adm/messages:
Sep 12 12:14:02 localhost loginwindow[319]: running
/usr/lib/NextStep/Workspace.app/Workspace
I'm not sure where that would be stored, as I don't see an entry for it in
root's defaults...
> 2. I've got some Connor CP3100 drives that I am considering putting
> in to use as either boot or swap disks. The drive is not recognized on
> startup, although it does spin up. What's up?
Not sure....
TjL
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From: "Wes Spears" <jspears@weston.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: New User without UserManager
Date: 14 Sep 1997 19:39:45 GMT
Organization: The Weston Group
Message-ID: <01bcc146$2f91ff60$2de532ce@jspears.onramp.net>
Can anyone point me to some informaiton describing how to make a new user
from the the command line or without UserManager.
All help is appreciated.
Thanks
WEs
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New User without UserManager
Date: 14 Sep 1997 21:28:02 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vhkt2$cv5$9@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <01bcc146$2f91ff60$2de532ce@jspears.onramp.net>
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Cc: jspears@weston.com
In <01bcc146$2f91ff60$2de532ce@jspears.onramp.net> "Wes Spears" wrote:
> Can anyone point me to some informaiton describing how to make a new user
> from the the command line or without UserManager.
Sure... `man nu'
or `nu -a'
I think it just adds Local users though.. not `Network' users... although
maybe you can change that if you want.
TjL
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From: atl2@lehigh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet boot problem -- Black
Date: 14 Sep 1997 22:37:28 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <5vhov8$2468@fidoii.cc.Lehigh.EDU>
References: <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
In article <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford) writes:
> I'm setting up a lab of old next hardware, and have run into the
> follwoing problems:
>
> 1. For the timebeing until we can scrounge disks, these machines
> will boot off the net. I've set up one with a disk, and I've
> set up a two lelvel netinfo domain, and have set up bootparams
> and bootptab, and have loaded that info into netinfo. I've run
> newclient for the new machines.
>
> When the clients boot, they are successful, but the login window
> never appears. Looking at the syslog file, it appears that loging
> window is trying to start /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk, which
> since there is no hard disk is somewhat pointless. It appears that
> loginwindow is trying to do this instead of running Workspace Manager.
>
> The net effect of this is that getty starts loginwindow, which starts
> BuildDisk which crashes, which causes loginwindow to exit. Not
> very useful. Hints requested. Please email as well as post.
>
> 2. I've got some Connor CP3100 drives that I am considering putting
> in to use as either boot or swap disks. The drive is not recognized on
> startup, although it does spin up. What's up?
>
>
Check the very first line of /etc/ttys. This should be an entry for
"console." On my system, this line reads:
console /usr/lib/NextStep/loginwindow NeXT on secure
window=/usr/lib/NextStep/WindowServer onoption="/usr/etc/getty std.9600"
I dimly recall that this is the place where alternate applications may be
specified as default login windows.
Regards,
Alex
--
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Philosophy Department
Lehigh University
ATL2@lehigh.edu
From: sanchez@newton.slu.edu (Dr. Paul Sanchez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: New User without UserManager
Date: 14 Sep 1997 21:23:29 -0500
Organization: Me, organized? You must be joking.
Message-ID: <t1sov7qpr2.fsf@newton.slu.edu>
References: <01bcc146$2f91ff60$2de532ce@jspears.onramp.net>
Cc: jspears@weston.com
"Wes Spears" <jspears@weston.com> writes:
> Can anyone point me to some informaiton describing how to make a new user
> from the the command line or without UserManager.
>
> All help is appreciated.
type "man nu", and all will be revealed.
--
--paul http://www.umsl.edu/~psanchez/
================================================================
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time he will pick himself up and continue on." -- Churchill
================================================================
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT PPP Host
Date: 14 Sep 1997 23:10:25 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <5vijgh$68a@slip.net>
References: <01bcbffa$fed78e40$5be532ce@jspears.onramp.net> <5vef7q$12e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
>>
>> I would like to set up a CUBE as a PPP Host. Is the best way to approach
>> this with OPENSTEP? If so, what is the upgrade cost and where can I
>> actually get it. If there is another solution, please let me know. I am
>> running 3.3.
>
MorningStar PPP is still commerically supported (they are located
in Columbus Ohio) and it sells for 400$. Just go to your
favorite search engine to find out how to contact them.
When you buy it you get free support, and one thing I'm certain of
is that you can figure your machine to recive calls and to be a PPP server.
They should be able to provide some pointers on setting up that modem
pool.
Emmett
From: scott@doubleu.com (Scott Hess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Configure.app and custom configurations.
Date: 15 Sep 1997 07:05:40 GMT
Organization: Is a sign of weakness
Message-ID: <SCOTT.97Sep15022420@howard.doubleu.com>
I've had a somewhat strange thing happening with Configure.app under
NS3.3. For quite some time, now, I've had a file called OS.table in
System.table. OS.table provides an appropriate kernel and kernel
flags for booting OpenStep4.2, so I can type "Config=OS" to
automagically boot OpenStep.
I also have a file called Single.table, so I can type "Config=Single"
to boot NS3.3 in single-user mode. I just installed that file a
couple weeks ago. But when I use Configure.app, now, I find that
Instance0.table contains a line "Default" = "Single";. Furthermore,
the kernel and kernel flags entries from Single.table are copied into
Instance0.table. I have no idea why, though it's annoying to have to
go in and hand-edit them out if I expect to boot successfully.
Any ideas?
--
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: Ÿúƒravi@crown.plsys.co.uk.plsys.co.uk (Ravi Mendis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: NeXT UUCP installation in Sri Lanka...
Date: 15 Sep 1997 08:52:28 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5vit0c$if7$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
This is a forwarded S.O.S from Sri Lanka:
>Yes I am an
>engineer here for LAnka Internet I have successfully done 95 % of your
>next Installation but the story goes like this..
> Internal UUcp works fine when I send a mail it correctly puts
>the message in the correct dir's and control files but when I run UUCICO
>it is not transmitting the files finally it say wrong role SLAVE (1)
>Uucico exit code -1 -> assert error I thought it got something to do
>with the sendmail.cf but I cant see anything wrong there
>Please Advice ...
Any help will be much appreciated,
Thanks,
ravi
----
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Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/
From: Ÿravi@plsys.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: NeXT UUCP installation in Sri Lanka...
Date: 15 Sep 1997 08:57:00 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5vit8s$ikq$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
Here is a forwarded SOS from Sri Lanka..
>Yes I am an
>engineer here for LAnka Internet I have successfully done 95 % of your
>next Installation but the story goes like this..
> Internal UUcp works fine when I send a mail it correctly puts
>the message in the correct dir's and control files but when I run UUCICO
>it is not transmitting the files finally it say wrong role SLAVE (1)
>Uucico exit code -1 -> assert error I thought it got something to do
>with the sendmail.cf but I cant see anything wrong there
>Please Advice ...
Any help will be much appreciated,
Thanks,
ravi
--
Ravi Mendis (NeXTmail) ravi@plsys.co.uk
Tel: (01494)432422 P & L Systems
Fax: (01494)432478 http://www.plsys.co.uk/
From: david@onestep.co.uk (David Knight)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Color printing
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:39:43 GMT
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <874316383.18756.0.nnrp-04.c30b1c08@news.demon.co.uk>
References: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970913163756.20523A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
Hi,
> Is any one out there using a color printer (other than a NEXT printer)
> and printing directly from NextStep. I am very frustrated with having
> to use JetPilot for printing.
We and our customers use on a daily basis the following colour printers;
LexMark Optra C
*Nearly the entire Tektronix range of dyesub and wax printers
*Nearly the entire QMS range of colour printers
The HP colour laser
*Only proviso is that they are all running with PostScript Level II and we
had to recode some of the PPD files to make them run or run faster.
---
Regards David Knight
OneStep Solutions Plc | UK phone: 01702 426400 | Vendors of NS/OS
351 London Road | fax: 01702 551515 | MCCAs, Hardware
Hadleigh | Int'l prefix: +44 1702 | Apps, Networks
Essex | | ISDN, Training
SS7 2BT | Email: david@onestep.co.uk | Maintenance
England | (NeXTMail/MIME ok) | and Support
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] EOModeler and Oracle 7.3
Date: 15 Sep 1997 10:23:51 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <5vj2bn$7p2$1@news.Leiden.NL.net>
Pardon my ignorance, but could someone clarify how EOF is supposed to work on
Windows NT?
I started on the tutorial and tried the EOModeler application that came with
our OPENSTEP Enterprise 4.1 for Windows NT.
However, it first complained that it needed several DLL files (ora72, core34,
core34o, nlsrtl31), which I then took from our Oracle CD and put in the
system32 folder. It then ran, and after clicking 'New model', and choosing
the Oracle adpator I could fill in an Oracle login panel, but apparently the
DLLs are older versions, because logging in to the oracle server (version
7.3) produces error 3121, which seems to indicate that.
The login info is correct, because on the same machine is also installed the
Oracle Application User client software, and connecting with that works OK.
Connecting with the ODBC module (which needed no other DLL files) produces
the same error.
Do I need a newer EOModeler? I tried tricking it, by renaming the ora73.dll
to ora72, but it was smarter than me ;-(. Am I missing something here? How is
it supposed to work?
Thanks in advance for any hints,
Jan-Willem
--
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http://www.fygir.com/
From: jwdb@fygir.nl (Jan-Willem de Bruijn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] EOModeler and Oracle 7.3
Date: 15 Sep 1997 12:32:41 GMT
Organization: NLnet
Message-ID: <5vj9t9$8kr$1@news.Leiden.NL.net>
References: <5vj2bn$7p2$1@news.Leiden.NL.net>
After posting my question, I actually found a relevant link to a possible
solution in NeXTanswers, and I was going to hit myself on the head for not
looking there sooner, but alas.
Applying the patch (Oracle Adaptor 278.1) from NeXTanswers 2484/5 things
haven't changed a bit. I still get error 3121 when trying to login to our
Oracle 7.3 server.
Any more ideas? Should I get rid of all obsolete looking libraries installed
by previous Oracle versions? But how do I know which ones are those?
Hints still appreciated,
Jan-Willem
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet boot problem -- Black
Date: 15 Sep 1997 13:45:41 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5vje65$m1e$2@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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Cc: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca
In <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca> Sherwood Botsford wrote:
> I'm setting up a lab of old next hardware, and have run into the follwoing
> problems:
>
> 1. For the timebeing until we can scrounge disks, these machines will boot
> off the net. I've set up one with a disk, and I've set up a two lelvel
> netinfo domain, and have set up bootparams and bootptab, and have loaded
> that info into netinfo. I've run newclient for the new machines.
So far, so good. Although performance will *really* suck until you can get
the machines running off a local drive. Swapping over ethernet is a
nightmare...
> When the clients boot, they are successful, but the login window never
> appears. Looking at the syslog file, it appears that loging window is
> trying to start /NextAdmin/BuildDisk.app/BuildDisk, which since there is no
> hard disk is somewhat pointless. It appears that loginwindow is trying to
> do this instead of running Workspace Manager.
> The net effect of this is that getty starts loginwindow, which starts
> BuildDisk which crashes, which causes loginwindow to exit. Not very
> useful. Hints requested. Please email as well as post.
Yep --- that's standard. The first time you netboot a client it tries to
install the OS on it's local drive. What should happen is that a file gets
created in the *clients'* /private/adm directory flagging that this has
already
been tried. Subsequent reboots will then ignore the buildDisk stage.
Arrgh... memory fails me. It's either BuildDisk.custom or CDIS.custom or
maybe even both... If you try creating these in the client's /private/adm
directory which you created by running newclient it should then netboot
correctly.
> 2. I've got some Connor CP3100 drives that I am considering putting in to
> use as either boot or swap disks. The drive is not recognized on startup,
> although it does spin up. What's up?
You need to initialise the disks with an operating system and a boot block?
If you haven't got the installation media, the best way to do this is to
stick the disk into a working machine as the second SCSI drive --- remember
to jumper it to SCSI ID 2 or above --- and then initialize the disk and copy
over the OS. From the command line it goes something like this:
su root
umount /dev/sd1a
disk -b -h host -l Disk -i /dev/rsd1a
mount -o rw,noquota /dev/sd1a /tmp/foo
cd /
gnutar --one-file-system -cpf - . | (cd /tmp/foo ; gnutar -xpvvf - )
umount /dev/sd1a
Then log out, power down and put the drive back in the original machine.
To use as a swapdisk, the initialization is similar, except that you label
the disk as "swapdisk", and don't copy the OS onto it..
su root
umount /dev/sd1a
disk -h host -l swapdisk -i /dev/rsd1a
then log out, power down etc. as before.
Matthew
[Posted and mailed]
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:13:34 -0600
From: jnutting@iaxs.net
Subject: PPP troubles
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <874335315.6925@dejanews.com>
Organization: Deja News Posting Service
To: jnutting@iaxs.net
Hello,
I've got almost everything working on my OpenStep system, the only
trouble I have right now is with ppp. First off, kermit can only connect
to cufb (the modem) if I run it as root. Otherwise, I get this:
/usr/spool/uucp/LCK: Permission denied
Sorry, access to lock denied: /dev/cufb
It's no big deal to su to root first, but still.
Also, if I launch any apps that use NetInfo (e.g. OmniWeb, HostManager)
after the ppp connection is up, they hang while launching, and spit this
out on the console:
Sep 15 09:49:10 dobbs HostManager[399]: NetInfo timeout
connecting to local domain, sleeping
If I launch the same apps *before* the ppp connection is up, they work
fine. I looked at the installation notes, and set up everything the way
they recommended using HostManager. /etc/hostconfig looks like this:
HOSTNAME=dobbs
INETADDR=192.42.172.1
ROUTER=-NO-
IPNETMASK=
IPBROADCAST=-AUTOMATIC-
NETMASTER=-NO-
YPDOMAIN=-NO-
TIME=-NO-
I also added a "route add dobbs localhost 0" line to my rc.local as the
notes recommended, but no luck.
Any ideas, anyone? I used to have ppp working on 3.3 a while back, but I
don't remember having these kind of problems.
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From: Stefan Huy <huy@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NE2000 and Openstep sleeps
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:42:37 +0200
Organization: RRZN - Newsserver
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970915183526.7821C-100000@studserv>
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Hi there!
After having installed the freeware NE2000 driver (v3.3) on OpeneStep 4.2
(Prelude to Rhapsody), I get some strange results when trying to telnet
the machine.
After some time of non-operation the machine does not respond to any
telnet client trying to connect. If I activate the net connection from
"inside" let's say by starting a web browser and fetching a page on the
OpenStep machine, OpenStep responds to the telnet client.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
- Stefan
__Stefan Huy___________________________________________________________
____
______ mailto:huy@stud.uni-hannover.de
________ http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~huy
_______________________________________________________________________
From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Etherlink III PNP vs. OPENSTEP 4.2
Date: 15 Sep 1997 16:07:39 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <5vjmgb$p8u$1@tribune.usask.ca>
I'm trying to get OPENSTEP 4.2 running on a new P233 machine. I'm having troubles getting the
3Com Etherlink III PNP board to work.
Here's what shows up in Configure.app when I `Show Drivers for Detected Devices':
3Com Etherlink III PNP Adapter(Card:0x506d5094 Serial:0x97566cb9 Logical:0x0)(v4.03)
When I `Add' the driver it shows:
IRQ Level 10
Port Address 16 bytes at 0x300
When the machine reboots it finds the device and puts this in /usr/adm/messages:
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: PnP: configuring 3Com 3C509B EtherLink III
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: Registering: en0
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: en0: auto detecting the network interface
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: en0: AUI port selected
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: 3Com EtherLink III 3C509 Combo at port 0x300 irq 10 using AUI
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: IP protocol enabled for interface en0, type "10MB Ethernet"
Apr 20 13:10:55 w801mon mach: en0: Ethernet address 00:60:97:56:6c:b9
As far as I can tell, I've configured all the network stuff properly using
SimpleNetworkStarter.app. Here's my /etc/hostconfig:
HOSTNAME=w801mon
INETADDR=128.233.14.60
ROUTER=-ROUTED-
IPNETMASK=255.255.0.0
IPBROADCAST=128.233.255.255
YPDOMAIN=sal
NETMASTER=-NO-
TIME=-AUTOMATIC-
Here's what ifconfig reports:
en0: flags=63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING>
inet 128.233.14.60 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 128.233.255.255
Here's what netstat reports:
Routing tables
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Interface
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 343 lo0
default 128.233.22.1 UG 0 0 en0
128.233 128.233.14.60 U 6 1184 en0
*********
All the above seems exactly correct. Any attempt to access the network fails, though. For
example, when I try to `ping' another host I never get a reply. With a packet sniffer I can
see the following happen:
My machine broadcasts an ARP request for the machine I'm trying to ping.
An ARP reply is sent to my machine -- but it seems like my machine never receives the
packet!
This repeats for a while till my machine gives up.
What is even more confusing to me, is that netstat -s says that packets are being received!
I get the same effect no matter which port (AUI, BNC, RJ45) I use.
Any suggestions are welcome!
--
Eric Norum eric@skatter.usask.ca
Saskatchewan Accelerator Laboratory Phone: (306) 966-6308
University of Saskatchewan FAX: (306) 966-6058
Saskatoon, Canada.
From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Ethernet card woes
Date: 15 Sep 1997 17:37:42 GMT
Organization: Systemix, Inc.
Message-ID: <5vjrp6$3jq@iserver.stem.com>
I've got two Ethernet card problems on our dual boot Compaq machines that I'm
hoping someone has solved as I'm not making any headway:
Problem 1) We set up some Compaq 6000's with Intel 100B cards (driver
version 3.33 under NS 3.3 & driver version 4.04 under OS 4.2) which work fine
*EXCEPT* that they don't see our Netware servers (file or print). Switching
the Intel 100B card for an Intel EtherLink XL in the same machine, we can see
Netware services again but,
Problem 2) We appear to have some sort of conflict with the EtherLink XL and
the Adaptec 2940 card as the dual-boot Compaq systems in which we use both (a
Compaq 6000 and a Compaq 2000), we can't reboot cleanly between Windows and
NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP without a power cycle (sometimes we can but mostly we end
up powercycling after the machine hangs during the reboot cycle.)
Anyone run into either of these before? We've other machines with various
combinations of cards that work fine, including a non-dual boot, non-Compaq
EtherLink XL and Adaptec combination.
Thanks,
- Christopher
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /dev/cufb: Device busy link down
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 18:06:52 +0100
Organization: Islandia ISP
Message-ID: <341D6B2C.36FB@treknet.is>
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Hi all
I'm having a irritating problem with dial-out.
I'm using Gatekeeper 2.1 and PPP 2.3 (I think).
When I connect to my provider, I always have to init cufb
in a shell with:
tip b288... at&f... at&d0... at m1...
(open another shell)
ps... kill tip processes
It's only then I can use Gatekeeper to call the provider (if
I try to use Gatekeeper without this prior process, I get:
Connect script failed). This works most of the time, but sometimes
cufb does not init, then I get the following errors in gatekeeper:
Sep 13 17:24:31 localhost lookupd[125]: thread 2: getpwuid 101
Sep 13 17:24:31 localhost lookupd[125]: thread 1: gethostbyname
localhost
Sep 13 17:24:31 localhost lookupd[125]: thread 2: getpwuid 101
Sep 13 17:24:31 localhost pppd[802]: pppd 2.2.0 started by siffi, uid
101
Sep 13 17:24:31 localhost pppd[802]: Device cufb is locked by pid 794
Sep 13 17:24:31 localhost pppd[802]: Exit.
Sep 13 17:24:34 localhost lookupd[125]: thread 1: getpwuid 101
Sep 13 17:24:34 localhost lookupd[125]: thread 0: gethostbyname
localhost
Sep 13 17:24:34 localhost lookupd[125]: thread 1: getpwuid 101
Sep 13 17:24:34 localhost pppd[807]: pppd 2.2.0 started by siffi, uid
101
Sep 13 17:24:34 localhost pppd[807]: Device cufb is locked by pid 794
Sep 13 17:24:34 localhost pppd[807]: Exit.
Sep 13 17:24:35 localhost pppd[794]: Connect script failed
Sep 13 17:24:37 localhost pppd[794]: Exit.
This all, is very annoying.
I checked /usr/spool/uucp/LCK for open lock file on the terminal line,
but there was no file. I tried to use cua, it's also busy.
So the question is this: how do I unlock cufb or cub, in a shell or in
GateKeeper?
Sigthor Hrafnsson
Email: siffi@treknet.is
Www: http://www.treknet.is/siffi
NeXTMail welcome...
From: james@instepmobile.com (James Ford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Screen Saver with password protection
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:32:09 GMT
Organization: InStep Mobile Communications Inc.
Message-ID: <341d9adf.504152382@news.bctel.net>
I am looking to see if there is a screen saver for NextStep 3.3 that
includes password protection so that we have another level of
security.
Help is appreciated
James
From: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet boot problem -- Black
Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:26:24 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <5vk960$r84$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
References: <5vhe56$u24$1@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
The answer is simple, once known:
touch /client/<hostname>/adm/BuildDisk.custom
loginwindow checks for existence of this file, and if not present, or
if it has specific instructions in it will build the local disk.
It's not very graceful about diskless stations.
--
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System Administrator | Tel: 403 492 5728
Trouble shooter | Fax: 403 492 6826
From: sherwood@vega.math.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Conner CP3100 disk drive
Date: 15 Sep 1997 21:29:10 GMT
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Message-ID: <5vk9b6$r84$2@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>
I've got a CP 3100 drive that I would like to set up to use as a swap disk
on a machine. Right now on boot the drive isn't seen by the operating
system. (That is in the boot sequence, it will usually show all scsi
devices as it polls the bus. This isn't happening.)
I've several drives, so I'm pretty sure it's not the drive as such.
These drives were once used in an OS/2 box. This make any difference?
--
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System Administrator | Tel: 403 492 5728
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From: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to telnet an OpenStep 4.2 Mach Host
Date: 3 Sep 1997 14:57:09 GMT
Organization: Offenes Netz Luebeck e.V.
Message-ID: <5ujts5$f1@merkur.on.on-luebeck.de>
Hello,
when I try to telnet a host in our LAN, I get the following result:
emerkur:1# telnet venus
Trying 192.168.1.2... Connected to venus.
Escape character is '^]'.
NeXT Mach (venus) (ttyp0)
Password:
Last login: Wed Sep 3 15:53:44 from merkur
login: no shell: No such file or directory.
Connection closed by foreign host.
He immediately asks for a password. What username does he assume. Whatever
password I enter then, the result is the same each time.
Has telnet to be configured somehow? Thanks in advance!
Please email your answer to: ahoesch@on-luebeck.de
Andreas Hoeschler
From: sieg@xxx.uni-muenchen.de (Arne Sieg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen Saver with password protection
Date: 15 Sep 1997 22:38:04 GMT
Organization: Institut fuer Informatik der Universitaet Muenchen
Message-ID: <5vkdcc$1a9@pizzastation.ppp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de>
References: <341d9adf.504152382@news.bctel.net>
james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) wrote:
>I am looking to see if there is a screen saver for NextStep 3.3 that
>includes password protection so that we have another level of
>security.
Take BackSpace.app
(It is in /NextDeveloper/Demos/ and is included in the User Release of
Nextstep/OpenstepMach)
>
>Help is appreciated
>
>James
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: cdouty@netcom.com (Chris Douty)
Subject: Re: [Q] EOModeler and Oracle 7.3
Message-ID: <cdoutyEGKMo9.JzF@netcom.com>
Organization: Netcom
References: <5vj2bn$7p2$1@news.Leiden.NL.net> <5vj9t9$8kr$1@news.Leiden.NL.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 22:33:45 GMT
Sender: cdouty@netcom17.netcom.com
In article <5vj9t9$8kr$1@news.Leiden.NL.net>,
Jan-Willem de Bruijn <jwdb@fygir.nl> wrote:
>
>
>After posting my question, I actually found a relevant link to a possible
>solution in NeXTanswers, and I was going to hit myself on the head for not
>looking there sooner, but alas.
>Applying the patch (Oracle Adaptor 278.1) from NeXTanswers 2484/5 things
>haven't changed a bit. I still get error 3121 when trying to login to our
>Oracle 7.3 server.
>
>Any more ideas? Should I get rid of all obsolete looking libraries installed
>by previous Oracle versions? But how do I know which ones are those?
>
>Hints still appreciated,
Rather than just copying in the DLLs, you should probably use Oracle's
installer program to install SQL*Net. I must admit that I didn't spend
much time using OS/EOF on NT since Mach was so much nicer, but I'm pretty
sure that you need to install SQL*Net separately.
Try this:
Start Oracle's installer and install SQLPlus. This should force it to
install all the required support files including SQL*Net. You may need
to select the SQL*Net v2 adaptor for your networking protocol.
Use TNSPING and SQLPlus to make a connection to your 7.3 server. You'll
probably find that you need to have TNSNAMES.ORA, SQLNET.ORA, and some
other config files set up in \ORAWINNT\NETWORK\ADMIN for anything to work.
Other things:
SQL*Net doesn't work without a network alias found in TNSNAMES.ORA.
There is also the OracleNames server (similar to DNS) but I was never
able to make it work even once.
Talk to your DBA (assuming that's not you :-) about this problem. EOF
doesn't do anything special wrt to connecting to Oracle. It just uses
the client libraries like anything else, even on Mach. The primary
difference between Mach and NT installations is that Mach installs the
client libraries when you install the adaptor since they don't seem to be
available elsewhere. NT requires a separate installation (and licence).
Good luck,
Chris
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aspects of communication are irrelevant to the engineering problem." -Shannon
From: karen@manta.ucsf.edu (Karen Vranizan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Docks
Date: 15 Sep 1997 23:21:53 GMT
Organization: UCSF, ITS
Message-ID: <5vkfuh$15rm@itssrv1.ucsf.edu>
Can somebody tell me how to give my dock protected visibility. I once
knew a special command sequence to toggle the capacity for windows to
slide over the dock. But I've forgotten what that was. And I want to
change it back. Thanks. karen
From: "Robert A. Decker" <comrade@umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen Saver with password protection
Date: 15 Sep 97 19:47:59 -0400
Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server
Message-ID: <B0434188-9C125@141.214.128.36>
References: <341d9adf.504152382@news.bctel.net>
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Cc: "James Ford" <james@instepmobile.com>
Let me know if someone responds to this. I'm interested in this as well.
As a side note, I use a Dvorak keyboard layout and have found that it's
the ultimate in security. No one can figure out the layout! (although I
still have the us layout available in the preferences)
rob
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From: herren@flannet.middlebury.edu (David Herren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Docks
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:41:02 -0400
Organization: Language Schools of Middlebury College
Message-ID: <msg141202.thr-4c661c27.54c5638@flannet.middlebury.edu>
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<bold>karen@manta.ucsf.edu,UseNet writes:</bold>
>Can somebody tell me how to give my dock protected visibility. I once =
>knew a special command sequence to toggle the capacity for windows to =
>slide over the dock. But I've forgotten what that was. And I want to =
>change it back. Thanks. karen
Hold down the alt key and click on the Next Icon at the top of the dock--=
this toggles back and forth from floating dock to non-floating dock.
-- =
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Assoc. Dir. for Tech. & Instruction herren@flannet.middlebury.edu
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /dev/cufb: Device busy link down
Date: 16 Sep 1997 03:36:24 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vkuro$cku$2@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <341D6B2C.36FB@treknet.is> Sigthor Hrafnsson wrote:
> When I connect to my provider, I always have to init cufb
> in a shell with:
> tip b288... at&f... at&d0... at m1...
> (open another shell)
> ps... kill tip processes
You should put those AT commands in your `chat' script.
That should allow it to init the line before dialing.
TjL
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ordination exams (like the bar exams, except for ministry).
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: PPP troubles
Date: 16 Sep 1997 03:47:20 GMT
Organization: none
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In <874335315.6925@dejanews.com> jnutting@iaxs.net wrote:
> I've got almost everything working on my OpenStep system, the only
> trouble I have right now is with ppp. First off, kermit can only connect
> to cufb (the modem) if I run it as root. Otherwise, I get this:
>
> /usr/spool/uucp/LCK: Permission denied
> Sorry, access to lock denied: /dev/cufb
>
> It's no big deal to su to root first, but still.
So change the permissions to allow other members of the group to write to it,
then add your user to that group.
This is nice so other users on your system cannot bring your PPP up and/or
down.
> Also, if I launch any apps that use NetInfo (e.g. OmniWeb, HostManager)
> after the ppp connection is up, they hang while launching, and spit this
> out on the console:
>
> Sep 15 09:49:10 dobbs HostManager[399]: NetInfo timeout
> connecting to local domain, sleeping
Checkout the PPP FAQ at
http://www.peak.org/next/ppp/NeXT_PPP_FAQ.html
which suggests putting this in /etc/ppp/ip-up
/usr/etc/route add $4 127.0.0.1 0
and this in /etc/ppp/ip-down
/usr/etc/route delete $4 127.0.0.1
> I also added a "route add dobbs localhost 0" line to my rc.local as the
> notes recommended, but no luck.
I'm not sure what notes you were referring to...
TjL
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From: "Timothy J. Luoma" <nospam@all.pls>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: help with /etc/inetd.conf comprehension?
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:59:45 -0700
Organization: The PEAK FTP site for OpenStep & NeXTStep
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970915215645.17463A-100000@kira>
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Who can tell me what all these are for, and what I will lose if I comment
them out?
I'd rather not run anything I don't really understand.
echo stream tcp nowait root internal
discard stream tcp nowait root internal
chargen stream tcp nowait root internal
daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
time stream tcp nowait root internal
echo dgram udp wait root internal
discard dgram udp wait root internal
chargen dgram udp wait root internal
daytime dgram udp wait root internal
time dgram udp wait root internal
# Are there ANY of these I need? For NFS, etc...
rquotad/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rquotad
rpc.rquotad
rstat_svc/1-3 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd
rusersd/1-2 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rusersd
rpc.rusersd
sprayd/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.sprayd rpc.sprayd
walld/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rwalld rpc.rwalld
renderd/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/prman/rpc.renderd
rpc.renderd
I've got a 2-machine LAN, with NFS mounts and NetInfo on a different
machine....
Thanks
TjL
From: Spuds McCat <spuds@castlefur.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen Saver with password protection
Date: 16 Sep 1997 07:06:46 GMT
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James Ford wrote:
> I am looking to see if there is a screen saver for NextStep 3.3 that
> includes password protection so that we have another level of
> security.
>
> Help is appreciated
>
> James
Well, there's the classic/standard backspace.app, which comes on the
Develper CD in the Demos directory. Do read the documentation, it
explains how it's NOT a greatly secure program, ( can get the password
with a niload) but works nicely. for quick console locking
It and other screensavers are available at
ftp://pub.next/apps/screensavers/
From: fischer@fokus.gmd.de (Robert Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: snmp: Where to put 'sysLocation'?
Date: 16 Sep 1997 07:35:44 GMT
Organization: GMD-FOKUS
Message-ID: <5vlcsg$pbk@stern.fokus.gmd.de>
Hi,
our sysadmin wants to use snmp widely. So I set up snmp on all of my NeXT
systems. But: where is the place to put in information like 'sysLocation',
'sysDescr' or 'sysContact'?
Any hints are greatly appreciated,
Robert
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with /etc/inetd.conf comprehension?
Date: 16 Sep 1997 09:20:39 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5vlj17$fnv$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
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Cc: luomat@peak.org
In <Pine.SUN.3.96.970915215645.17463A-100000@kira> "Timothy J. Luoma" wrote:
>
> Who can tell me what all these are for, and what I will lose if I comment
> them out?
>
> I'd rather not run anything I don't really understand.
>
> echo stream tcp nowait root internal
> discard stream tcp nowait root internal
> chargen stream tcp nowait root internal
> daytime stream tcp nowait root internal
> time stream tcp nowait root internal
> echo dgram udp wait root internal
> discard dgram udp wait root internal
> chargen dgram udp wait root internal
> daytime dgram udp wait root internal
> time dgram udp wait root internal
These are some curious oddities left over from the early development of inetd
--- they should probably be considered as debug code. On the other hand,
they are completely harmless, and there's no possibility of anyone breaking
into your machine through them.
> # Are there ANY of these I need? For NFS, etc...
>
> rquotad/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rquotad
> rpc.rquotad
>
> rstat_svc/1-3 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd
>
> rusersd/1-2 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rusersd
> rpc.rusersd
>
> sprayd/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.sprayd rpc.sprayd
>
> walld/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/etc/rpc.rwalld rpc.rwalld
>
> renderd/1 dgram rpc/udp wait root /usr/prman/rpc.renderd
> rpc.renderd
Hmmm... most of these probably are superfluous on your sort of small LAN.
`rusers' is occasionally useful, as is `rwall' on a bigg-ish network. `spray'
is good for stress testing a network, but you don't need to do that very
often. Quotas never have worked on NS systems and rstat has pretty much been
superceded by SNMP. `renderd' is cool for distributed rendering if you do
that sort of thing. You could probably disable all of those without bringing
your system to a grinding halt.
However, a slightly less heavy handed method to protect all rpc based
services --- which includes all of these run out of inetd, plus things like
netinfo and NFS --- is to grab Wietse Venema's improved portmap daemon from:
ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/portmap_5beta.tar.gz
This will compile under NS 3.3 with a little tweaking (Duon't know about
OS4.2 yet --- I'm going to be trying to compile it there fairly soon though)
--- and it has an option to link against the libwrap.a from tcp_wrappers and
so lets you control access to those services via /etc/hosts.{allow,deny}.
Matthew
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Date: 16 Sep 1997 07:40:22 GMT
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 08:12:21 -0600
From: tim@awards-net.com
Subject: problem with two NeXT on same subnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <874414973.14610@dejanews.com>
Organization: Deja News Posting Service
about 2 months ago I put a NeXT on my lan to be a mail server. it was
very easy to set-up, I made the resolv.conf file, edited hostconfig and
installed pop3d. every thing has been working fine on this machine. I
just added a second NeXT (3.3OS also) and I am having the darnest time
with it. I can send email from it to anywhere, but it cannot receive
email. I can telnet to it but it can not telnet out. FTP works going in
but I can not FTP out of the machine. If I telnet into it at port 25 I
can manually send email to it with no problem. This is the one thing that
has me really confused.
any Ideas? I have included a few of the headers from emails below, thank
you very much for your help.
tim Neudecker
tim@awards-net.com
The bum machine is ip 206.28.105.123 (next.neudecekr.org , neudecker.org)
the good machine is is ip 206.28.105.89 (awards-net.com )
------email from outside my sub net to neudecker.org------------
------this one really is strange, note it mentions awards-net.com (the
good machine that should not be involved in this email mesg.-------
>Received: from awards-net.com (ftp.awards-net.com [206.28.105.89]) by
>comp.uark.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA16236 for
><domiles@comp.uark.edu>; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:48:56 -0500 (CDT)
>Received: from comp.UARK.edu by awards-net.com (NX5.67e/NX3.0M)
> id AA00267; Mon, 15 Sep 97 10:48:04 -0600
>X-UIDL: 874338984.000
>Date: Mon, 15 Sep 97 10:48:04 -0600
>From: NeXT Mail Agent
>Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
>Message-Id: <9709151648.AA00267@awards-net.com>
>To: domiles@comp.uark.edu
>Content-Type: text
>Content-Length: 1354
>
> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>While connected to mail.awards-net.com:
>>>> HELO awards-net.com
><<< 553 awards-net.com config error: mail loops back to myself
>554 <tim@neudecker.org>... 554 Service unavailable
--------end email sample 1---------------------
----Email sample 2 from good next on same net to Bum next on net---------
Email to the bum machine from the first (and working fine NeXT machine)
X-POP3-Rcpt: tim@awards-net.com
Return-Path: <Mailer-Agent>
Received: from foghornleghorm.awards-net.com by awards-net.com
(NX5.67e/NX3.0M)
id AA00416; Mon, 15 Sep 97 14:49:08 -0600
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 97 14:49:08 -0600
From: NeXT Mail Agent <Mailer-Agent>
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Message-Id: <9709152049.AA00416@awards-net.com>
To: tim@awards-net.com
----- Transcript of session follows -----
While connected to mail.awards-net.com:
>>> HELO awards-net.com
<<< 553 awards-net.com config error: mail loops back to myself
554 <tim@neudecker.org>... 554 Service unavailable
---------end email sample-----------
---------outgoing ftp sample------------(same thing for telnet)
neudecker.org> ftp specent.com
Connected to specent.com.
421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection
ftp>
----------outgoing ftp sample end-----------
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From: Eren_Kotan@apple.com (Eren Kotan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Ethernet card woes
Date: 16 Sep 1997 19:04:14 GMT
Organization: NeXT/Apple European Professional Services
Message-ID: <5vml7e$11b2$1@news2.apple.com>
References: <5vjrp6$3jq@iserver.stem.com>
Cc: clane@stem.com
In <5vjrp6$3jq@iserver.stem.com> Christopher Lane wrote:
> Problem 2) We appear to have some sort of conflict with the EtherLink XL
and
> the Adaptec 2940 card as the dual-boot Compaq systems in which we use both
(a
> Compaq 6000 and a Compaq 2000), we can't reboot cleanly between Windows and
> NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP without a power cycle (sometimes we can but mostly we end
> up powercycling after the machine hangs during the reboot cycle.)
I've seen a similar problem on my Compaq 2000 a while ago. I've solved it by
going into the BIOS setup utility, and changing "Bus Priority" setting from
"PCI" to "ISA". I was able to reboot cleanly after this.
See if it helps solve your problems,
E@
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From: Jacob Jones <jacobjon@erols.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: gateway <---> (next running ppp) <--> (another next) ???
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:51:03 -0700
Organization: Erol's Internet Services
Message-ID: <341FA807.2729@erols.com>
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C. David Shaffer wrote:
> I currently have two next boxes. One is running ppp and is connected
> via phone to our ppp gateway. I do not get a fixed IP address from
> the ppp server and my connection is not persistant.
>
> I have another next box which I would like to connect to the one
> mentioned above. I don't care if I can access the rest of the net
> from this new box, I simply want to be able to network the two nexts
> but still have ppp access to the net from the first next.
>
> My question: Can this be accomplished? If so, how to I configure the
> box that is connected to the ppp line so that the other box can find
> it? Do I use arp to configure it to have to addresses (one fixed and
> one the ppp address)?
Just network the 2nd next machine to the first next machine with ethernet
and nothing more is needed. The 2nd machine will not interfere with the
dynamic PPP connection set up on the first machine. ARP and proxyarp are
not needed in this setting.
My home system is set up this way and works fine. You can remote login
from the second to first machine with telnet and start up PPP, then
-NXHost OmniWeb.app onto the second machine if desired (if second machine
has no modem).
I have not been able to solve the problem of automatically broadcasting
packets to the second machine from the first (in this setting with
dynamic PPP connection). Anyone else got ideas? I guess the home
network addresses must be a subnet of gateway (i.e. the ISP address), but
how is this done dynamically, and will it interfere with DNS if the
dynamic address you assume is someone elses? I have fiddled with routing
and netstat already, cried uncle, and have moved on to other problems.
Good luck,
Jay
From: Sub- <gansen@arthur.avalon.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mac Internet Gateways and NeXT config
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 23:11:45 -0500
Organization: Avalon Networks Inc.
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OK, I am trying to get my NeXT an IP address using Vicom INet Gateway on
my Mac running PPP and an ethernet connection to the NeXT. Has anyone used
Vicom INet Gateway successfully with a NeXT?
I can get the Mac to dial and set up PPP (which is actually not even that
stable under Vicom's software), but I can't get the NeXT to find it over
the network to get an address. I suspect that if it is possible, the
problem is with my configs both on the NeXT and in Gateway. So, I am
wondering if anyone out there has already pulled it off and can shed some
light on this for me.
--Chris
_____________________________________________________________________________
Chris Gansen gansen@avalon.net
http://www.avalon.net/~gansen
From: victor@vail.net (Victor Brilon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mac Internet Gateways and NeXT config
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 01:34:34 -0600
Organization: OnRamp Technologies, Inc.; ISP
Message-ID: <victor-1709970134340001@ppp-hg2-48.dllstx.onramp.net>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970916230914.4317A-100000@arthur.avalon.net>
Hi Chris,
I have that exact setup running. The trick was making two interfaces on
the Vicom software. One for the PPP and one for a fake internal address (
I used 192.168.10.1) for the Ethernet address. Then I made the NeXT box
be 192.168.10.2, and manually set the routes to route everything through
the .1 address. Got it up and running in about 10 minutes. Feel free to
email me for more details.
Victor
In article <Pine.HPP.3.96.970916230914.4317A-100000@arthur.avalon.net>,
Sub- <gansen@arthur.avalon.net> wrote:
>OK, I am trying to get my NeXT an IP address using Vicom INet Gateway on
>my Mac running PPP and an ethernet connection to the NeXT. Has anyone used
>Vicom INet Gateway successfully with a NeXT?
>
>I can get the Mac to dial and set up PPP (which is actually not even that
>stable under Vicom's software), but I can't get the NeXT to find it over
>the network to get an address. I suspect that if it is possible, the
>problem is with my configs both on the NeXT and in Gateway. So, I am
>wondering if anyone out there has already pulled it off and can shed some
>light on this for me.
>
>--Chris
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Chris Gansen gansen@avalon.net
>http://www.avalon.net/~gansen
From: Stefan Ried <nospam@ried_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: printer problem
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:09:31 +0200
Organization: Max Plank Institut for Polymer Research
Message-ID: <341CFB4B.167E@ried_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de>
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William Heller wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I am having trouble with one of the printers in my lab. I need to
> modify one of the printers and for some stupid reason, the "modify" button in
> PrintManager.App is disabled. I tried to do the modification as root on that
> machine and the server for the group, and nothing I try will allow me to modify
> that printer.
> Is there a simple way to do this via a text file editing? I assume
> that all of this information is held someplace that I can get to somehow. Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.
>
William,
The button is disabled if a plain unix printer (not from another netinfo
host, not local and not with HPJet Direct Interface) is in your
Printcap.
Use NetInfoManager (in table mode) to edit it or
% nidump printcap . > file
% vi file
% niload printcap . < file
to edit it.
stefan
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From: nospam@ried_at_mpip-mainz.mpg.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen Saver with password protection
Date: 16 Sep 1997 11:33:41 GMT
Organization: Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz, Germany
Message-ID: <5vlqql$llc$2@esmeralda.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE>
References: <341d9adf.504152382@news.bctel.net>
james@instepmobile.com (James Ford) wrote:
> I am looking to see if there is a screen saver for NextStep 3.3 that
includes password protection so that we have another level of security.
> Help is appreciated
/NextDeveloper/Demos/BackSpace.app
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|E-Mail ried@mpip-mainz.mpg.de (MIME/NeXT welcome) |
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From: sas <sas5@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: modem trouble
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 15:23:05 +0200
Organization: ARNES
Message-ID: <341FD9B9.AA2B88ED@hotmail.com>
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hello,
I am new to Openstep (4.2), and need help getting ppp to work. I've read
the faq, .rtf about ppp...
I have USR sportster 28.800 int. and I cannot (don't know) to get it
recognised. I followed instructions in ppp.rtf, and I don't have text
that module sucessfully installed in /usr/adm/message in the log
ppp2.2.log I can see the line saying device doesn't exist in /dev/ttyda
. My modem is at com4, irq3 (it works in win95). Which device is it to
be used?
Why isn't a report about module being successfully/not installed?
Please help me, sas
From: atownley@informix.com (Andrew S. Townley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Faxing cover page strangeness
Date: 17 Sep 1997 15:01:31 GMT
Organization: Informix Software, Inc. Menlo Park, CA 94025
Distribution: WORLD
Message-ID: <5vorcb$d1d@news.informix.com>
Keywords: faxing, NXFax, OPENSTEP 4.2
I have recently upgraded two of my three machines to OS 4.2 from 3.3.
This morning, I went to send a fax (something I haven't done since
the upgrade) and couldn't get the cover page controls to enable. I
finally had to open the file via NXHost from the 3.3 machine to get
the cover page included.
Has anyone seen anything like this before? My configuration is the
following:
OS: OS 4.2
Hardware: NeXTcube and HP Vectra XU
Software: NXFax (whatever the last version was/is)
Also, on a totally unrelated note, I am experiencing problems using
the PPP-2.2 for NeXT ppp client under OS 4.2. Before the upgrade
when running 3.3, I had two different connect scripts which would do
the connect, swap the /etc/resolv.conf and do a kill -HUP of the
lookupd so the name resolution would work correctly.
Since installing 4.2, I have noticed that it works fine to one of the
ppp connections, but once I try and use the other one the machine
must be rebooted. It is very strange because it seems like there is
some sort of kernel level memory corruption. All network traffic
comming in (telnet, rsh, etc.) get protocol error messages and no
connection and when a user tries to log in on the console, they are
not prompted for a password. Once the machine is rebooted,
everything is fine.
I had originally thought it was because I was trying to use a MAB
installation shared between two machines, but installing for NeXT
only didn't seem to fix the problem. I also tried to get a newer
version of the PPP software, but all the ftp links on thoughtport
were busted.
The same machine/modem/software didn't have any trouble under 3.3.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
ast
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From: csaldanh@mae.carleton.ca (Chris Saldanha)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: help with /etc/inetd.conf comprehension?
Date: 17 Sep 1997 15:22:34 GMT
Organization: computerActive Inc.
Message-ID: <5vosjq$cid@bertrand.ccs.carleton.ca>
References: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970915215645.17463A-100000@kira> <5vlj17$fnv$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
Matthew Seaman (Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk) wrote:
: [entries for chargen,echo,daytime,etc...]
: These are some curious oddities left over from the early development of inetd
: --- they should probably be considered as debug code. On the other hand,
: they are completely harmless, and there's no possibility of anyone breaking
: into your machine through them.
Not true. They are pretty much useless in most setups, and good practice
says turn anything off you don't use. I quote from the CERT denial of
service document:
2) Using Your Own Resources Against You
An intruder can also use your own resources against you in unexpected
ways. One example is described in
ftp://info.cert.org/pub/cert_advisories/CA-96.01.UDP_service_denial
In this attack, the intruder uses forged UDP packets to connect the
echo service on one machine to the chargen service on another
machine. The result is that the two services consume all available
network bandwidth between them. Thus, the network connectivity for all
machines on the same networks as either of the targeted machines may
be affected.
: > # Are there ANY of these I need? For NFS, etc...
: [discussion of RPC services]
No, you don't need them for normal operation, and none of them are needed
for NFS.
: However, a slightly less heavy handed method to protect all rpc based
: services --- which includes all of these run out of inetd, plus things like
: netinfo and NFS --- is to grab Wietse Venema's improved portmap daemon from:
: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/security/portmap_5beta.tar.gz
And, of course, to also use TCP wrappers over all your other inetd
services.
--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: donovanp@NOSPAM.hotmail.com (Donovan Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Mac Internet Gateways and NeXT config
Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:21:21 GMT
Organization: BHA
Message-ID: <donovanp-1709971327400001@pm074-27.dialip.mich.net>
References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970916230914.4317A-100000@arthur.avalon.net>
In article <Pine.HPP.3.96.970916230914.4317A-100000@arthur.avalon.net>,
Sub- <gansen@arthur.avalon.net> wrote:
> OK, I am trying to get my NeXT an IP address using Vicom INet Gateway on
> my Mac running PPP and an ethernet connection to the NeXT. Has anyone used
> Vicom INet Gateway successfully with a NeXT?
>
> I can get the Mac to dial and set up PPP (which is actually not even that
> stable under Vicom's software), but I can't get the NeXT to find it over
> the network to get an address. I suspect that if it is possible, the
> problem is with my configs both on the NeXT and in Gateway. So, I am
> wondering if anyone out there has already pulled it off and can shed some
> light on this for me.
On the NeXT machine, set the Gateway address to the private IP assigned to
the ethernet address in Vicom on the mac (if you used easy setup, it's
probably 192.167.1.100 off the top of my head), the IP address of the next
box to something in that subnet (192.167.1.1 is good), the subnet mask to
255.255.255.0, and the domain name servers as usual.
Any more problems, email me. VIG is quite nice, I've used it in PPP
dialup applications as well as ethernet to ethernet type applications.
While I'm talking about it, might as well ask if anyone knows for sure if
VIG is capable of routing appletalk packets? Not tcp encapsulated in
appletalk, appletalk packets. I've had several people tell me this is
possible but I am unable to get it to work.
From: Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@gte.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Creating device floppies, intel
Date: 17 Sep 1997 17:55:42 GMT
Organization: gte.net
Sender: Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@garibaldi.gte.net>
Message-ID: <5vp5iu$lkc$1@gte1.gte.net>
Hey folks trying to install new device drivers for Nextstep 3.3 for Intel:
What's the correct way to put files such as: 1838.compressed onto floppy?
I tried on my sun:
dd if=1838.compressed of=/dev/rfd0
I see the light go on and it writes it to floppy but when I select option
"8" to load from floppy and it craps out about can't find device
directory. What to do?
PS - I've also tried rawrite for DOS, doesn't work
j
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating device floppies, intel
Date: 17 Sep 1997 18:44:13 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5vp8dt$6n5$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <5vp5iu$lkc$1@gte1.gte.net>
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In <5vp5iu$lkc$1@gte1.gte.net> Justin B. Harvey wrote:
> Hey folks trying to install new device drivers for Nextstep 3.3 for Intel:
>
> What's the correct way to put files such as: 1838.compressed onto floppy?
> I tried on my sun:
>
> dd if=1838.compressed of=/dev/rfd0
".compressed" is just the NeXT file manager's way of saying .Z or .tar.Z, so
you can try this:
gunzip 1838.compressed
or maybe
gunzip -c 1838.compressed | tar -xvf -
However, if you end up with a .pkg directory (which you would do with
1838.compressed, which is version 3.31 of the EIDE driver for NS 3.3) and
you're on a sun (presumably not running NS) then you're somewhat stymied.
Although the .pkg directory contains a .tar.Z file, it is unreadable by a
standard tar program --- NeXT ran into a problem with the 100 character file
name limitation on standard tar and so created their own incompatible
"installer_bigtar" with support for longer filenames.
Similarly if you're on a BSD 4.2-ish machine (SunOS 4.x) or a SysV machine
(Solaris) then you might possibly be able to generate a usable drivers floppy
by dd'ing a floppy image onto a floppy. The problem with those two is that
they don't use the BSD 4.3 filesystem, which is what NeXTen and OS for Mach
uses, so the floppyimage may not get created correctly. If you're on a
machine that does support the BSD 4.3 filesystem (eg. linux), then you're
laughing. I could be wrong here, as I've never actually tried to build a
drivers floppy on a non-NeXT Unix box, but the docs. do specify a NeXT
formatted (ie BSD 4.3) floppy disk.
If you do want to try building a floppy image, you need to read NextAnswer
1921 (http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/HTMLFiles/1921.htmld/1921.html)
-- the instructions -- plus download NextAnswer 1923 "3.3 Additional Drivers
Floppy Image" which includes the EIDE driver you want.
Matthew
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From: stanifor@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Stuart Staniford-Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Jaz drive problems
Date: 17 Sep 1997 19:29:35 GMT
Organization: University of California, Davis
Message-ID: <5vpb2v$t2u$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
I bought a Jaz drive to use with my Pentium (an Ecesys running
Nextstep 3.3). It isn't working out, and I'm wondering if anyone can
help me.
The Jaz disks came formatted for DOS. My NeXT would apparently read and
write them ok (I didn't stress test it though). It would not reformat
them with a NeXT filesystem. However, I found that if I first reformatted
them for the Mac, and then for the NeXT, it worked (at least superficially).
What I now find is the disks work most of the time, but they're much too
flaky. Every day or so, there is a read error which crashes the machine.
Frequently, the disk gets completely messed up too (way beyond what fsck
can fix) and has to be reformatted again. Several different disks exhibit
similar problems.
Do I have a software problem? A hardware compatability problem? Or do I
have a lousy Jaz unit which I should return to the seller?
Thanks,
Stuart
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From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Trivial sendmail question.
Date: 17 Sep 1997 18:29:40 -0700
Organization: Idiom Communications
Message-ID: <5vq064$jqh@idiom.com>
This is about as trivial as possible.
I have a NeXTstation connecting to my ISP via PPP. The link works, name
resolution works, I can use a web browser, etc.
Mail retrieval with PopOver is working great..
The question is: How do I tell sendmail that the machine I dial in to is
the mailhost?
advTHANKSance,
-jcr
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive problems
Date: 18 Sep 1997 01:41:56 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vq0t4$i3h$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <5vpb2v$t2u$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
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In <5vpb2v$t2u$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> Stuart Staniford-Chen wrote:
> Do I have a software problem? A hardware compatability problem? Or do I
> have a lousy Jaz unit which I should return to the seller?
Sounds like hardware to me.
Return it and get a SyJet (http://www.syquest.com/syquest/pinfo.htm).
TjL
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From: scollarw@cadvision.com (guzzibill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /dev/cufb: Device busy link down
Date: 18 Sep 1997 02:03:15 GMT
Organization: CADVision Development Corp.
Message-ID: <5vq253$29ja@elmo.cadvision.com>
References: <341D6B2C.36FB@treknet.is>
In-Reply-To: <341D6B2C.36FB@treknet.is>
On 09/15/97, Sigthor Hrafnsson composed a News article about
/dev/cufb: Device busy link down:
>
>Hi all
>
>I'm having a irritating problem with dial-out.
>
>I'm using Gatekeeper 2.1 and PPP 2.3 (I think).
>
>When I connect to my provider, I always have to init cufb
>in a shell with:
>tip b288... at&f... at&d0... at m1...
>(open another shell)
>ps... kill tip processes
>
>It's only then I can use Gatekeeper to call the provider (if
hi. I also have to initialize my modem before usage with PPP, but I
only have to do it once after each reboot. Basically it sets the
modem up to attach at the correct speed for my service provider. The
trick here is that after my configuration parameters, I enter an
ATZ(return)
followed by
~.(kills tip process interactively)
It is my understanding that the ATZ "sets" the previously entered
parameters more or less "permanently" into the flash memory of the
modem until the next reboot.
Hope this helps.
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From: Mike Harris <booknet@rmharris.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Lost Root - black hardware
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 22:30:56 -0700
Organization: booknet/rmharris_ltd
Message-ID: <3420BC90.4EBC@rmharris.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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While attempting to set up a "Simple" network between our Color Station
and our old Cube, something went wrong. When the software attempted to
restore the old configuration, it failed. We were able to manually
restore (apparently) the /etc/hostconfig and /etc/netinfo... so the
machine now appears to boot ok, however root cannot be accessed nor any
of the user accounts. In single user mode, it is not in root, does not
recognize su root, and assigns user id 0 (zero) to any files created.
Any suggestions would be greatfully accepted before we waste more time
and effort trying to get this sorted out. (The machine is running NS
3.3 User if that helps).
Please email direct to booknet@rmharris.com since we are going to be
busy in the real world for the next several days. Thanks.
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From: brockway@(see-ess).cmu.edu (Jared Brockway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trivial sendmail question.
Date: 18 Sep 1997 02:36:35 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon Univ. -- Computer Science Dept.
Message-ID: <5vq43j$8vq$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
References: <5vq064$jqh@idiom.com>
In-Reply-To: <5vq064$jqh@idiom.com>
>How do I tell sendmail that the machine I dial in to is the mailhost?
Every ISP I know of has a designated mailhost--not necessarily the
machine at the other end of the PPP connection--but whichever it is,
if you make a mailhost entry in netInfo with that machine's address it
should work. No sendmail changes required.
~> nidump hosts . |grep mailhost
128.2.222.174 mailhost
-Jared
From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Screen Saver with password protection
Date: 18 Sep 1997 05:28:32 GMT
Organization: HanNuri Internet Service
Message-ID: <5vqe60$bc7$1@news.nuri.net>
References: <341d9adf.504152382@news.bctel.net>
/NextDeveloper/Demos/BackSpace.app
You could get some cool BackSpace Modules form famous NeXT ftp sites
like peanuts, peak...
James Ford (james@instepmobile.com) wrote:
> I am looking to see if there is a screen saver for NextStep 3.3 that
> includes password protection so that we have another level of
> security.
> Help is appreciated
> James
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From: jcr@idiom.com (John C. Randolph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Trivial sendmail question.
Date: 17 Sep 1997 23:45:26 -0700
Organization: Idiom Communications
Message-ID: <5vqim6$li1@idiom.com>
References: <5vq064$jqh@idiom.com> <5vq43j$8vq$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu>
brockway@(see-ess).cmu.edu (Jared Brockway) writes:
>>How do I tell sendmail that the machine I dial in to is the mailhost?
>~> nidump hosts . |grep mailhost
>128.2.222.174 mailhost
> -Jared
That did it. I did this about six years ago on a mixed network at Legent,
and I *knew* it was trivial. I just didn't remember exactly how trivial.
Thanks, Jared.
-jcr
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Creating device floppies, intel
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:13:22 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970918144520.2663A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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To: jbharvey@gte.net
Justin B. Harvey wrote:
>
> Hey folks trying to install new device drivers for Nextstep 3.3 for
Intel:
>
> What's the correct way to put files such as: 1838.compressed onto
floppy?
Format a Floppy in workspace, then create directories: /usr/Devices
and copy the uncompressed driver into it. (the driver should look
like this: xxxx.config)
Then you'll be able to select it at boot
But I suppose you need just to add a driver to your current configuration.
In this case, the procedure is straighforward: uncompress the file (you
should end up with a xxx.config file), then go into config and ask to add
driver (at the proper place: screen, sound, ....). Brows to it and select
it... You can then configure your driver and save configuration.
The same procedure is possible manually. But it is a bit more complex.
> dd if=1838.compressed of=/dev/rfd0
forget this, this brings nowhere
> when I select option
> "8" to load from floppy and it craps out about can't find device
> directory. What to do?
>
Then at this point, the booter search for directory /usr/Devices on the
Floppy and displays a list of the drivers it found in it.
Hope this helps
Raph
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From: frank@spock.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Frank Burgbacher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Kingston EtherRx KNE-100TX PCI Ethernet Adapter
Keywords: Kingston, Ethernet-Adapter
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3421369b.0@news.uni-konstanz.de>
Date: 18 Sep 97 14:11:39 GMT
Organization: University of Constance, Germany
Does someone know, whether the Kingston EtherRx KNE-100TX PCI Ethernet Adapter
works under NextStep 3.3 for Intel (OpenStep ?)? I know, that drivers for
KNE-40T and KNE-40BT exist.
Thank You
Frank Burgbacher
frank.burgbacher@uni-konstanz.de
From: Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@gte.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: 2 HD's, one Win95 one Nextstep, booting question
Date: 18 Sep 1997 19:29:16 GMT
Organization: gte.net
Sender: Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@garibaldi.gte.net>
Message-ID: <5vrvec$9g$1@gte2.gte.net>
Alright, thanks to those people who helped me get my floppyimages going.
Now I have two EIDE hard drive's, one with NeXTStep 3.3. and one with
Win95, what is the best way for dual boot so I can choose which one to
boot up? I can make either primary.
Justin
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From: Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@gte.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 2 HD's, one Win95 one Nextstep, booting question
Date: 18 Sep 1997 19:41:34 GMT
Organization: gte.net
Sender: Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@garibaldi.gte.net>
Message-ID: <5vs05e$9g$2@gte2.gte.net>
References: <5vrvec$9g$1@gte2.gte.net>
Actually I think I'm going to have to use a boot disk per earlier threads.
j
Justin B. Harvey <jbharvey@gte.net> wrote:
> Alright, thanks to those people who helped me get my floppyimages going.
> Now I have two EIDE hard drive's, one with NeXTStep 3.3. and one with
> Win95, what is the best way for dual boot so I can choose which one to
> boot up? I can make either primary.
> Justin
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From: sroller@txpsmc.seanet.com (Stephen V. Roller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Jaz drive problems
Date: 18 Sep 1997 20:14:11 GMT
Organization: Seanet Online Services, Seattle WA
Message-ID: <5vs22j$1dn@q.seanet.com>
References: <5vpb2v$t2u$1@mark.ucdavis.edu>
Cc: stanifor@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu
Hi Stuart,
>
> Do I have a software problem? A hardware compatability problem? Or do I
> have a lousy Jaz unit which I should return to the seller?
You may have one of the recalled Jaz disks. Members of our Users group use
the Jaz drive with few problems.
Visit our site for more information:
http://www.seattle.net/~nextpsug/iomega.htm
Steve
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: jin@ghost.nuri.net (Jin Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [Q] Automounting Win95
Date: 19 Sep 1997 04:21:15 GMT
Organization: HanNuri Internet Service
Message-ID: <5vsujr$4vt$1@news.nuri.net>
I have both of NEXTSTEP3.3 and Windows95 in my Intel system.
Whenever I log in as a user in NEXTSTEP, it automatically mounts
windows95's vfat as fat. The "df" command shows:
---------------------------------------------------------------------
quaint[jin]:/jin> df
Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/hd0a 717422 450723 194956 70% /
/private/vm/swapfile 717422 450723 194956 70% /private/vm/swapfile.front
/dev/rhd0h 308256 270776 37480 88% /windows95
---------------------------------------------------------------------
And, the owner of /windows95 directory (and its files, subdir's) is the user
which I loged in as.
I don't like this behavior and wanna forbid the vfat's being mounted.
How can I do this?
Thanx.
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From: zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: no devices detected on port 1f0
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:21:11 -0400
Organization: personal
Message-ID: <34220BC7.496C@worldnet.att.net>
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I have openstep 4.2 working on a 2GB scsi diak. I got a
free seegate 3541a 540MB ide disk from somewhere and wanted
to use it as a SWAP disk. however, the booting message
says: "no devices detected on port 1f0." does that mean
this ide disk is bad or not compatible with openstep's
ide disk driver 4.01?
thanks in advance,
ZiZi
From: klui@cup.hp.com (Ken Lui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: My experiences w/ Mac<>NeXT connectivity
Date: 17 Sep 1997 22:28:54 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
Message-ID: <5vplj6$sfr$1@ocean.cup.hp.com>
I recently had a need to catalog files on my Mac using my NeXT
so that their index files are in UNIX "ls -lFR" format. These files
are on disk images that will be burned onto CD Writable discs in
hybrid Mac/ISO9660 format. Here are my experiences using several
Mac-to-NeXT connectivity software. Boxes are an 8500 running OS8
and two types of NeXT boxes: Cube and Station running 3.3 and 3.2
respectively.
First, I used IPT's partner, which I purchased 4 or so years ago.
This is unsupported software from IPT. First I had to turn on
File Sharing on my Mac. IPT's mounting of AppleShare drives is
flaky and most times my Mac don't show up; and when it does,
selecting my volume doesn't give me a spinning disc telling me it's
retrieving the file heirarchy. I can mount when the planets align
just right and I can run my ls command... until some volumes give
an error of some NS key having a value of -1 on the console. While
having these messages displayed doesn't do anything bad immediately,
my Mac will hang while during the ls's execution. Oh, and when it
runs, data goes across the wire very slowly.
Then, for kicks, because my Station doesn't have a valid license
for partner, I decided to use the AppleShare connectivity package
from NS3.0. The first thing I noticed was it was _fast_. Unfortunately
it also has a habit of wedging my Mac but without outputting messages
to the console. The hanging appears at random--sometimes midway
through the ls, sometimes towards the beginning, others towards the
end. There are smaller quirks with the software. Once machines are
mounted, not all volumes show up in the browser; but it's easily
corrected by reselecting or updating the view. This, like partner,
requires File Sharing to be on for my Mac.
Next, I tried CAP, in the form of CAPer V8. Setup is a breeze, but
it couldn't find my Mac. Doing a search for all members of the
current zone does show my machine, but selecting it won't work by
the Chooser interface Frank wrote. I didn't try, or don't remember
trying, to use mount as root from a shell, as the problems file
suggested on Frank's page. File Sharing is required to be on.
Finally, I tried NFSd for Macintosh. This actually works pretty well.
No crashes and so-so fast. Perhaps the lack of speed was due to me
having debug logging on. An annoyance is the volumes online has to
be writable or else you'll only see directories and no files; or NFSd
just hangs if you relaunch. File Sharing isn't required to be turned on.
If NS3.0's AppleShare client were to work w/out crashing my Mac,
it would be perfect. It's more polished and intuitive than IPT's past
offering or any of the freely available solutions. I only wish NS3's
source were made available so its immediate problems could be
corrected. Once someone posted that NeXT sold that product to IPT;
but since IPT has dropped the ball on the NeXT platform, maybe NeXT
(now Apple) can release it into the NeXT community. Or someone within
Apple fix it, release it but not with the source. What are the odds?
Probably 100000:1 against.
Regards,
Ken
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From: Matthew_Seaman@plsys.co.uk (Matthew Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] Automounting Win95
Date: 19 Sep 1997 11:27:41 GMT
Organization: P&L Systems
Message-ID: <5vtnjd$mjr$1@ironhorse.plsys.co.uk>
References: <5vsujr$4vt$1@news.nuri.net>
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In <5vsujr$4vt$1@news.nuri.net> Jin Ko wrote:
> I have both of NEXTSTEP3.3 and Windows95 in my Intel system.
> Whenever I log in as a user in NEXTSTEP, it automatically mounts
> windows95's vfat as fat. The "df" command shows:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> quaint[jin]:/jin> df
> Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hd0a 717422 450723 194956 70% /
> /private/vm/swapfile 717422 450723 194956 70%
/private/vm/swapfile.front
> /dev/rhd0h 308256 270776 37480 88% /windows95
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> And, the owner of /windows95 directory (and its files, subdir's) is the
user
> which I loged in as.
>
> I don't like this behavior and wanna forbid the vfat's being mounted.
> How can I do this?
That's a FAQ. Or it would be if there was a FAQ file for this group.
As root, edit /etc/fstab and add the line:
/dev/hd0h /windows95 ignore
man fstab(5) for the gory details.
Matthew
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From: c_ismora@hotmail.com (Charles Ismora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SimpleNetworkStarter : bus error !
Date: 19 Sep 1997 01:13:46 -0700
Organization: None
Message-ID: <19970919081314.22002.qmail@hotmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain
Hello,
I have two 040 slabs and wanted to connect them by network.
When running SimpleNetworkStarter to create the network on the more
powerful one (NS3.1), the app. dies with a bus error.
Aaargh, why so much cruelty ?
After starting SimpleNetworkStarter,
- I checked the radio button to tell I want the station to be a server,
then pressed [Create],
- the app tells me that I have enough space for 6 users (well, [OK]),
- then a message box tells me that I have already modified some files
(hostconfig, iftab, crontab ; this is mainly related to ppp
installation, see below) and that I should want to make backup copies
- a small message box appears less than 1/10 sec. (so I had no chance to
read it ; is this normal ?)
- then the app asks me for the password for adding new hosts on the
network, and then for confirmation
- and as I press [OK] in this latter dialog box, the app crashes saying
(when launched from a terminal) "bus error".
Has anyone any idea of where it can come from ?
Perhaps I would precise that the slab once was a client in another
network, but in principle I swept all that was related to that.
I also have PPP running, which asked me to do some network related
configuration (those who use the great S.Perkins' ppp package may know
what I'm talking about), but I don't know it that can interfere.
Using SNS to make the station go back to standalone works, but doesn't
solve the problem.
So any help is welcome !
Thanks,
Charles.
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From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: [Q] Automounting Win95
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 15:44:59 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970919153106.23097A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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To: Jin Ko <jin@ghost.nuri.net>
Hi
NextStep doesn't know how to read vfat partition, but there is a small
utility called vmount that can. You just add a line in rc.local and you
then have your vfat partition mounted automatically. You can even specify
a owner to this drive...
ftp://ftp.peanuts.org/pub/comp/platforms/next/Unix/disk/vmount.0.6a.README
the line I put in rc.local:
/usr/local/bin/vmount -m Windows95 -t vfat -U marmier -p 2 -w /dev/rhd0h
m, U, p are optional, w enable read/write
cheers
Raph
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From: shaffer@durer.phyast.pitt.edu (C. David Shaffer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: gateway <---> (next running ppp) <--> (another next) ???
Date: 19 Sep 1997 16:07:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Message-ID: <SHAFFER.97Sep19120736@durer.phyast.pitt.edu>
References: <SHAFFER.97Sep11112234@durer.phyast.pitt.edu>
<341FA807.2729@erols.com>
In-reply-to: Jacob Jones's message of Wed, 17 Sep 1997 02:51:03 -0700
> Just network the 2nd next machine to the first next machine with ethernet
> and nothing more is needed. The 2nd machine will not interfere with the
> dynamic PPP connection set up on the first machine. ARP and proxyarp are
> not needed in this setting.
Thanks Jay! Both Jay and Timothy Luma (SP? -- sorry!) are right. It
was just a matter of getting the local network to work and ppp didn't
complain at all. For people who are currently attempting to do what I
described in my message, be careful with SimpleNetworkStarter. Your
ppp configuration probably has messed up your local domain enough that
SNS can't figure things out. Just read the SysAdmin docs and use
NetInfo Manager to configure your network. It worked for me!
Thanks to all who helped!
David
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From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help ! Apache 1.2.4 problems.
Date: 19 Sep 1997 17:17:45 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <5vuc3q$qoc@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Using a M/T NextStation, Next Step 3.3
Last night, I downloaded Apache 1.2.4 from next-ftp.peak.org.
Anyways...
I am currently running it from root, and have not yet put it in
rc.local(as suggested in the docs)
httpd is running as nobody, group -2(I think)
On occasion, logging out from console causes the system to hang.
All windows go away, but the Dock remains. Clicking on the Dock
does nothing. Pressing the "power" button brings up the "Do you
want to..." dialog box, but clicking on "yes" does nothing. a
hard reboot is nessecary.
This has happend for both root and my normal user account.
When I log into my normal user account, BackSpace
( /NextDeveloper/Demos/BackSpace.app ) does not do anything.
It seems to be running, but is non-responsive(spinning cursor) and
it displays nothing(it is set to run as a background window.)
These problems go away when httpd is not running.
The httpd program seems to work fine serving up pages and stuff...
but this is just irritating.
TIA,
Josh Hesse
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From: dob@mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Corruption of logins
Date: 19 Sep 1997 17:32:03 GMT
Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado
Message-ID: <5vucuj$t2n$1@ncar.ucar.edu>
Help! We are having extreme difficulty with our NeXTstep v3.3 running
on a Sparcstation. After making some modifications to NetInfoManager
to update some printers, we were no longer able to log into some of
our accounts. root still works; me does not. Other users can log in,
but get question marks on the dock icons and the Browser does not work.
If logged in as root, attempting to su to another account fails with
the message 'no shell'.
Does anybody know what we corrupted and how to fix it? Thanks.
-db-
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| blanch@ucar.edu http://mrd3.mmm.ucar.edu/~dob/www/ |
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From: js@euler.han.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: 7-disc CD-ROM tower for NS/OS ?
Date: 19 Sep 1997 03:56:06 GMT
Organization: Ink Unknown
Message-ID: <5vst4m$sld$1@beyond.han.de>
References: <5vbsg0$dvm@agate.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5vbsg0$dvm@agate.berkeley.edu>
On 09/12/97, Izumi Ohzawa wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone attached a multi-disc CDROM drive to NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP
>machines, like the one shown below for about $400?
>And it it possible to export all these drives via NFS?
>
>http://www.corpsys.com/cgi-bin/select?17186032468453&SP&CD7DI
>
>I am not looking for the type that swaps disks like jukeboxes, but
>an array of drives that are online all the time.
Quite some time ago someone mentioned the generic scsi drivers
required to support the cd-drives logical volumes (?) would at most
support 4 of the physically available drives. So no real 7 drives.
>If there is none that works with NS/OS, then what platforms can
>use this for serving via NFS?
>Linux, FreeBSD, or NT with some additional NFS component?
Linux can do this from what I heard. It can deal with the 7 disks and
can do the nfs export.
Juergen
From: Chris Brougham <brougham@cstudies.ubc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: No Telenet or SU Root Login (black hardware)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:36:28 -0700
Organization: University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <3422C62B.F4AB85F1@cstudies.ubc.ca>
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Hi Folks,
I've just inherited a version 2.2 040 color NeXT. I've connected it to
the network, but the box doesn't allow root logins over telnet. su also
doesn't work ... giving me a "permission denied" error. Any suggestions?
--
Chris Brougham
Distance Education and Technology
Continuing Studies, UBC
(604) 822-1699
From: Chris Brougham <brougham@cstudies.ubc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Upgrade to 3.3? (black hardware)
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:38:13 -0700
Organization: University of British Columbia
Message-ID: <3422C695.69DF162D@cstudies.ubc.ca>
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Hi Folks,
Is the 3.3 OS black hardware upgrade free or must I pay? Can someone
point me to a Web page where I can download or pay!?!
--
Chris Brougham
Distance Education and Technology
Continuing Studies, UBC
(604) 822-1699
From: mpaque.spa-am@nospam.wco.com (Mike Paquette)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: no devices detected on port 1f0
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:05:48 GMT
Organization: Electronics Service Unit No. 16
Message-ID: <3422ccbc.16665633@news.wco.com>
References: <34220BC7.496C@worldnet.att.net>
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 01:21:11 -0400, zizi zhao <ziziz@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
>I have openstep 4.2 working on a 2GB scsi diak. I got a
>free seegate 3541a 540MB ide disk from somewhere and wanted
>to use it as a SWAP disk. however, the booting message
>says: "no devices detected on port 1f0." does that mean
>this ide disk is bad or not compatible with openstep's
>ide disk driver 4.01?
The EIDE interface is not turned on in the BIOS settings.
Note that if you do turn it on, the darn PC BIOS will set it to be
Drive C and insist on booting from it. You could partition the
internal drive, putting a small NEXTSTEP partition on the disk and
setting it up to boot onto your SCSI drive. There's a NeXTAnswer
describing the process in gory detail.
You can also use a PC utility called System Commander, which lets you
con the system into believing that any drive you select is Drive C,
allowing you to boot from the SCSI disk while ther IDE drive is
enabled.
From: "Steve M." <mallocsc@music.gla.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! can't boot
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 18:37:37 +0100
Organization: University of Glasgow
Message-ID: <3422B861.7DE1@music.gla.ac.uk>
References: <5vucuj$t2n$1@ncar.ucar.edu>
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CC: Stephen Arnold <s.arnold@music.gla.ac.uk>
Dear All,
Our NeXT guru admin type person is on holiday and our incoming mail
server has bombed.
Is there an equivalent to booting in single-user mode on NeXT? - This is
a black box 68k running (I think) System 3.2
THere are three points where it stops on booting: first, when it tries
to mount remote filesystems it goes looking for /Users which is not a
directory we normally use in our network (users are grouped together by
class, year, staff etc each in their own directory.) It hangs there
saying the mount failed and is retrying.
Eventually I Ctrl-C this 'cos it's going nowhere. And it carries on
booting a little - start filesystem daemons ok (exported directory from
sad machine can now be viewed remotely) and gets as far as starting the
internet daemon inetd. At this point it gets stuck again. (However,
remote systems can 'half' connect i.e. telnet gets message back saying
'connected to hostname. Escape char is ctrl-]' but the login prompt
never appears.)
When I eventually ctrl-c this as well it gets worse. The 'half'
connectivity goes away (since inetd has not started properly I presume)
and it ends up in a loop looking for some dirs which it can't find
(LocalApps/Utilities and /Common/bin), and says it can't find
/etc/rc.local. Also says nfs server is not responding, but all other
machines in the network seem ok.
Any clues anyone?
Is there anything useful one can do from the NMI or ROM monitors? If I
could get to single user mode I could check on the mounts etc it expects
and even reconfigure the daemons launched at startup up the monitors
don't seem to give any such option :(
Last thing you need on a Friday afternoon :( !!
any help much appreciated, -steve.
PS. server pings ok in its half-booted state.
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mallocsc@music.gla.ac.uk Glasgow University
Tel. +44 (0)141 330 6065 Fax. +44 (0)141 330 3518
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From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help ! Apache 1.2.4 problems.
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 19 Sep 1997 20:07:21 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <5vum1p$qua@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <5vuc3q$qoc@crcnis3.unl.edu>
After doing some more checking, the console doesn't actually hang,
it just takes a *REALLY* long time to get back to the login screen.
:
: On occasion, logging out from console causes the system to hang.
: All windows go away, but the Dock remains. Clicking on the Dock
: does nothing. Pressing the "power" button brings up the "Do you
: want to..." dialog box, but clicking on "yes" does nothing. a
: hard reboot is nessecary.
: This has happend for both root and my normal user account.
:
-Josh
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From: 00093182@bigred.unl.edu (Josh Hesse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help ! Apache 1.2.4 problems.
Followup-To: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Date: 19 Sep 1997 21:09:01 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
Message-ID: <5vupld$r0c@crcnis3.unl.edu>
References: <5vuc3q$qoc@crcnis3.unl.edu>
Josh Hesse (00093182@bigred.unl.edu) wrote:
:
: I am currently running it from root, and have not yet put it in
: rc.local(as suggested in the docs)
...and as it turns out, I should have done this anyway after I found
out that it would run. Something doesn't like it when root logs out.
Problem solved, case closed, thanks for your time, shouldn't have
screamed to usenet so fast...
-Josh
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Telenet or SU Root Login (black hardware)
Date: 19 Sep 1997 23:02:07 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vv09f$s1u$14@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <3422C62B.F4AB85F1@cstudies.ubc.ca>
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In <3422C62B.F4AB85F1@cstudies.ubc.ca> Chris Brougham wrote:
>
> I've just inherited a version 2.2 040 color NeXT. I've connected it to
> the network, but the box doesn't allow root logins over telnet. su also
> doesn't work ... giving me a "permission denied" error. Any suggestions?
Boot into single user mode, run 'sh /etc/rc &' and then 'nu -m' and modify
the root password.
TjL
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From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: No Telenet or SU Root Login (black hardware)
Date: 20 Sep 1997 00:39:12 GMT
Organization: Cows Unlimited!
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <5vv5vg$af9@news1.mnsinc.com>
References: <3422C62B.F4AB85F1@cstudies.ubc.ca>
that Chris Brougham (brougham@cstudies.ubc.ca) scribbled:
> Hi Folks,
> I've just inherited a version 2.2 040 color NeXT. I've connected it to
> the network, but the box doesn't allow root logins over telnet. su also
> doesn't work ... giving me a "permission denied" error. Any suggestions?
are you in the wheel group?
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<barry@gslink.com>
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help ! Apache 1.2.4 problems.
Date: 20 Sep 1997 04:13:34 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vvihe$s1u$18@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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<insert regular gripe about crossposting within csn.*, and not setting
followups>
The hanging of a reboot/logout is usually the sign of a process that won't
die.
Glad you've got it worked out.
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! can't boot
Date: 20 Sep 1997 04:16:55 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <5vvinn$s1u$19@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <5vucuj$t2n$1@ncar.ucar.edu> <3422B861.7DE1@music.gla.ac.uk>
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In <3422B861.7DE1@music.gla.ac.uk> "Steve M." wrote:
> Is there an equivalent to booting in single-user mode on NeXT? - This is
> a black box 68k running (I think) System 3.2
Yes. Goto the ROM monitor and type 'bsd -s'
Check the hardware connections, and reboot the other machines (if possible).
That sometimes helps on my 2-machine-lan.
TjL
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From: Nitezki@NiDat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 3.3? (black hardware)
Message-ID: <EGsxr3.9yu@nidat.sub.org>
Sender: nitezki@nidat.sub.org (Peter Nitezki)
Organization: private site of Peter Nitezki, Kraichtal, Germany
References: <3422C695.69DF162D@cstudies.ubc.ca>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 10:13:51 GMT
In article <3422C695.69DF162D@cstudies.ubc.ca> Chris Brougham
<brougham@cstudies.ubc.ca> writes:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Is the 3.3 OS black hardware upgrade free or must I pay? Can someone
> point me to a Web page where I can download or pay!?!
>
No download! Nothing for free!
You either point your browser to www.next.com and order an upgrade to get
your own shrink wrap package mailed to you, or you could try to find a
reseller in your area, or you could post a WTB on c.s.n.marketplace.
--
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From: perkins@netmass.com. (Stephen J. Perkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: sshd on OS 4.2
Date: 20 Sep 1997 20:02:21 GMT
Organization: Texas Instruments
Message-ID: <601a4d$99c$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>
Hi all,
I used to have sshd working before the OS 4.2 upgrade. I pulled over
the latest precompiled sshd (version 1.2.20). Installed fine.
Unfortunatley, I cannot get the sshd server to start. ssh works fine.
I used ssh-keygen to create the /etc/ssh_host_key
/etc/ssh_host_key.pub pair. I used the command:
ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f /etc/ssh_host_key -N <password>
The files are in the /etc/ directory. However, when I start sshd (as
root) via:
/usr/local/sbin/sshd -d
I get the following:
debug: sshd version 1.2.20 [i386-next-nextstep3]
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
fatal: Please check that you have sufficient permissions and the file
exists.
Changing the file permissions to 777 on the /etc/ssh_host* pair
doesn't solve the problem.
Anybody have any ideas what I'm doing wrong.
Thanks in advance,
Steve
---
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NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com
NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
--
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From: planetary <kris@xmission.xmission.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: sshd on OS 4.2
Date: 20 Sep 1997 17:15:21 -0600
Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
Message-ID: <601le9$8c1$1@xmission.xmission.com>
References: <601a4d$99c$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>
I too have had lots of problems getting sshd to start. Please add me to
any email conversations you are having about how to get it working.
........kris
Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@netmass.com.> wrote:
: Hi all,
: I used to have sshd working before the OS 4.2 upgrade. I pulled over :
the latest precompiled sshd (version 1.2.20). Installed fine. :
Unfortunatley, I cannot get the sshd server to start. ssh works fine.
: I used ssh-keygen to create the /etc/ssh_host_key :
/etc/ssh_host_key.pub pair. I used the command: : ssh-keygen -b 1024 -f
/etc/ssh_host_key -N <password>
: The files are in the /etc/ directory. However, when I start sshd (as :
root) via: : /usr/local/sbin/sshd -d
: I get the following:
: debug: sshd version 1.2.20 [i386-next-nextstep3]
: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
: fatal: Please check that you have sufficient permissions and the file
: exists.
: Changing the file permissions to 777 on the /etc/ssh_host* pair
: doesn't solve the problem.
: Anybody have any ideas what I'm doing wrong.
: Thanks in advance,
: Steve
: ---
: Stephen J. Perkins
: NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com
: NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
: --
: ---
: Stephen J. Perkins
: NetMass Communications, e-mail: perkins@netmass.com
: NeXT PPP-2.3 info at: http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
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If you know so much about Usenet, then why are you still posting?
From: eharley@pacbell.net (Eric Harley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help! Dont have a cufa or cufb!
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 08:38:22 -0800
Organization: Harley Consulting
Message-ID: <eharley-2009970838220001@ppp-207-214-149-9.snrf01.pacbell.net>
I have the driver installed for the two serial ports and they are working
in Configure.app, but none of my programs can access the serial ports.
What can I do?
--
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Dont have a cufa or cufb!
Date: 21 Sep 1997 03:51:46 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <6025ki$bng$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
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In <eharley-2009970838220001@ppp-207-214-149-9.snrf01.pacbell.net> Eric
Harley wrote:
> I have the driver installed for the two serial ports and they are working
> in Configure.app, but none of my programs can access the serial ports.
>
> What can I do?
Did you install both parts, the Serial Drivers and the TTY stuff? IE do you
have
Serial Port #1
Serial Port #2
TTY Port Server #1
TTY Port Server #2
{{ Why does Configure take sooo long to start??? }}
If not you need to add them.....
TjL
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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: <9488874209621@digifix.com>
Date: 21 Sep 1997 03:49:30 GMT
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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 )
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
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From: jurgen@oic.de (Juergen Moellenhoff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Dont have a cufa or cufb!
Date: 21 Sep 1997 17:12:43 GMT
Organization: OIC, Bochum, Germany
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <603kib$21l$1@nexus.oic.de>
References: <6025ki$bng$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <6025ki$bng$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> nospam@all.please (Timothy J.
Luoma) writes:
> Did you install both parts, the Serial Drivers and the TTY stuff? IE do you
> have
>
> Serial Port #1
> Serial Port #2
> TTY Port Server #1
> TTY Port Server #2
>
> {{ Why does Configure take sooo long to start??? }}
>
> If not you need to add them.....
Are you sure that you need two TTY Port Server? I believe that you need only
_one_ TTY Port Server and for each serial port a Serial Port Driver, that's
all. It works for me :-).
Bye,
Juergen
From: Eren_Kotan@REMOVETOREPLY.apple.com (Eren Kotan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help! Dont have a cufa or cufb!
Date: 21 Sep 1997 17:49:27 GMT
Organization: NeXT/Apple European Professional Services
Message-ID: <603mn7$srs$1@news2.apple.com>
References: <eharley-2009970838220001@ppp-207-214-149-9.snrf01.pacbell.net> <6025ki$bng$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Cc: nospam@all.please
In <6025ki$bng$4@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
> {{ Why does Configure take sooo long to start??? }}
Because it looks at all the drivers on the disk upon startup. Simply delete
those drivers in /NextLibrary/Devices that you know you'll never need and
it'll start up a lot faster. :)
Have fun,
Eren
---
Eren Kotan
The best friend money can buy.
Can you imagine a world with no hypothetical questions?
Apple Enterprise Professional Services - http://enterprise.apple.com/
From: Sigthor Hrafnsson <siffi@treknet.is>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: SoundBlaster 64 awe on OpenStep 4.2
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 17:49:49 +0100
Organization: Islandia ISP
Message-ID: <3425502D.1D71@treknet.is>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hi all
Has anyone been able to use soundBlaster 64 on OpenStep 4.x?
siffi@treknet.is
From: hocker@odin.egate.net (Matthew Hocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NeXT MouseX question
Date: 21 Sep 1997 20:47:45 GMT
Organization: E-Gate Communications (odin.egate.net), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID: <60415h$q2b@odin.egate.net>
I'd like to display my headless linux machine's xclients on my
NeXTstation colour w/MouseX. What settings do I have to make
on the linux machine? I've got the MouseX part working; I just
can't seem to coerce the DISPLAY variable to show the linux
xclients on the NeXT.
Any help is appreciated.
Matt
(I'd prefer a response to mhocker*dttus.com where the
* is replaced by a @, of course)
From: hocker@odin.egate.net (Matthew Hocker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mail just queuing up - not sending
Date: 21 Sep 1997 21:00:41 GMT
Organization: E-Gate Communications (odin.egate.net), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Message-ID: <6041tp$q2b@odin.egate.net>
I've got sendmail 8.6.12 running on my NeXTstation running NS3.3, and
I've got a problem. Well, several apparently. The first, and most
obvious, is that mail has been just queuing up in my /usr/spool/mqueue
directory and not being sent. The files have names like:
QfCAB09728 QfLAB03351 dfFAB01660 dfOAB04617 qfXAB00855 xfLAB03338
and contain headers and mail messages. Most of this is spam, and has
been flooding my mailbox, and a lot is being returned to sender.
The problem is that sendmail has been panicking with "nowhere to store
unsent message" or something like that, and eventually brings NS down.
Compound this with the fact that /usr/lib/sendmail -q just hangs the
machine, and there are some real problems here!
If anyone could help, I'd be incredibly appreciative. I've made no
changes to sendmail.cf at all - all this appears to be by some
divine intervention!
Please email to mhocker*dttus.com (where the * is replaced by a @- I'm
trying to keep spam away from that account, at least!)
Thanks
Matt
From: appleyar@ohsu.edu (Richard J Appleyard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NextSTEP login problems
Date: 23 Sep 1997 01:12:28 GMT
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University
Message-ID: <appleyar-2209971812070001@137.53.25.54>
For some reason I am getting login errors,
Via terminal
"No directory /Home/<login ID>", and the window closes
Via console
The screen clears as if logging in, but returns back to the console login
screen instead
when logging to a user account. Currently, root login is the only one that
works.
All the user accounts (on both internal and external drives) are affected
(except root). The internal and external drives mount correctly at
start-up (from the /etc/fstab file). root can successfully cd into the
mounted directories and all the user accounts.
The only other error on start-up is from inetd that complains it cannot
find /usr/spool/uucp. However, this directory does exist (when examined by
root).
Any thoughts? I am currently using NS3.2 on black HW.
Thanks in advance,
Richard.
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HELP! : "Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2cOH retry 1"
Date: 22 Sep 1997 19:15:11 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6078nf$geg@slip.net>
Hi,
When my 040/25 starts up it can't read some of the
the blocks on the bootdisk. On booting it prompts
the user into manual fsck. Eventually it goes into
a loop and spews out messages very similar to
what's shown below. I copied this from the
console upon exiting fsck and continuing the boot.
Software Version 3.3 (Lightning9I)
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 3
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 4
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 5
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 6
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 7
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 8
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 11f4abH retry 9
sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
SCSI Block in error = 1176747; Partition a F.S. sector 588213
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 1
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 2
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 3
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 4
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 5
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 6
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 7
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 8
Target 1: MEDIA ERROR; block 4a2c0H retry 9
sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x3 additional sense code:0x11
SCSI Block in error = 303808; Partition a F.S. sector 151744
Does any one have any suggestions as to what I should do?
I reinstalled the operating system which didn't seem to help.
Before reinstallation it had a problem right around the
same 151744 sector.
The hard drive is a 3 month old 2.4 Gig ST43400 SEAGATE under
warranty. Should I take it back? Will they believe me it
I tell them it's defective?
Thanks,
Emmett
From: emclean@slip.net (Emmett McLean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: How to bring down 040/25 when it hangs
Date: 22 Sep 1997 19:35:20 -0700
Organization: Slip.Net
Message-ID: <6079t8$hpk@slip.net>
Hi,
I know one can bring down a 040/25 when it hangs
and you can type halt in a terminal window as su,
but there there have been times when the system
hangs so badly that entire system gets totally frozen.
Like when I started up pppd before initializing
my network configuration with SNS.
I've tried varations of command alt and * to no avail.
It's strange, what is the point of my having a UPS
when I've got to occassionally pull the plug :-)
Anyway I have a hunch that pulling the plug has been
messing up my hard drive.
Thanks,
Emmett
From: root@turbulence.me.ttu.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Help: S3 video with Triton II mb
Date: 23 Sep 1997 04:42:13 GMT
Organization: Texas Tech Academic Computing Services
Message-ID: <607hb5$ikf@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
I have upgraded by mb and cpu (Triton II and P200) but now cannot get to
the boot prompt. I have read in NeXTAnswers about the video conflict when
one has a video card based on the S3 chipset (I do, Stealth 3D) and the
Triton mb. Their solution, however, assumes that you can type '-v' at the
boot prompt. My screen turns blank. I see the boot prompt for a fraction
af a second before it goes to never-never-land. I am hoping that somebody
else has experienced a similar problem and found a solution?
Thanks for any help.
Darryl
From: lhow@ecr.mu.oz.au (Luke HOWARD)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: loginwindow authenticator testers
Date: 24 Sep 1997 00:37:26 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne
Message-ID: <609nc6$j8c@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Cc: lukeh@xedoc.com.au
I'm looking for a few people to alpha test a Kerberos authenticator
for NEXTSTEP (it may work on DR1, but I can't confirm that).
Please get in touch via email if you're interested. (It is being
distributed as source, so you'll need Developer.)
-- Luke
From: Joao Pedro Sousa <jsousa@ccg.uc.pt>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Mounting NS CD-ROM through NFS from FreeBSD
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:07:08 +0100
Organization: CCG/zgdv
Message-ID: <3428E646.A3D2ADB4@ccg.uc.pt>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Hello,
I recently bought a NeXTstation TurboColor with NS3.0 installed and in CDROM.
As I don't have a SCSI CDROM, I was thinking of accessing it through NFS from
my Intel box running FreeBSD 2.1.0-CURRENT.
Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to mount the CDROM on FreeBSD. Is there
a way around this?
If so, would I be able to upgrade to a newer system version through NFS, or
would I have to boot from an external CDROM?
Thanks for any info.
--
Joao Pedro Sousa
Research engineer @ "CCG/zgdv - Centro de Computacao Grafica"
Tel: (+351) (39) 48 000 05 email: jsousa@ccg.uc.pt
Fax: (+351) (39) 48 000 48 WWW: http://www.ccg.uc.pt/~jsousa
From: pete@ohm.york.ac.uk (-bat.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT PPP Host
Date: 24 Sep 1997 11:07:35 GMT
Organization: The University of York, UK
Sender: pcf1@york.ac.uk
Message-ID: <60as9n$sa0$1@netty.york.ac.uk>
References: <5vef7q$12e$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) writes:
> PPP is a generic UNIX program, and there is a NeXT port of it.
The 4.X port might be better than the 3.3 version though. NeXT did things
to the original free code (not that I've looked at the changes) and this
may well have tidied up some bits that couldn't really be done right due to
lack of info from NeXT at the time.
> If you want folks to be able to dial-in, you'll need a modem pool of some
> sort. I'm not sure exactly how this would be done, but somewhere someone
> must have done it.
Not necessary - just connect a modem to the back of the cube. Or else dial
in through someone elses termina server and run the protocol tunneld. This
worked fine for me for ages until they got a terminal server which actually
supported ppp.
-bat.
From: barry@gslink.com (Barry Bocaner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT MouseX question
Date: 24 Sep 1997 16:22:03 GMT
Organization: Cows Unlimited!
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <60benb$63s@news1.mnsinc.com>
References: <60415h$q2b@odin.egate.net>
that Matthew Hocker (hocker@odin.egate.net) scribbled:
> I'd like to display my headless linux machine's xclients on my
> NeXTstation colour w/MouseX. What settings do I have to make
> on the linux machine? I've got the MouseX part working; I just
> can't seem to coerce the DISPLAY variable to show the linux
> xclients on the NeXT.
> Any help is appreciated.
I'm doing this, works great. Did you do a xhost + on the NeXT? Did you
setenv DISPLAY nexthostname:0.0 in your linux shell?
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 16:38:44 -0400
From: Goncalo Rodrigues <gnrodrig@phobos.senecac.on.ca>
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Subject: Trouble booting OpenStep 4.2 on DUAL EIDE disks
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This is my configuration, for better or worse, which I would like to
avoid changing as much as is possible:
Dual EIDE Controller
{
IDE INTERFACE 0
DISK 1: (a) Linux [ext2] (b) WinNT [ntfs] (c) ext2 [swap]
FUJITSU M1638TAU, 2.6GB
DISK 2: (a) FAT16 (b) ext2
IBM DPEA-31080, 1.08
IDE INTERFACE 1
DISK 1: OpenStep 4.2
SEAGATE ST51080A, 1.08
DISK 2: ATAPI CDROM
MITSUMI FX120T
}
I was able to install OpenStep on the second disk of the secondary
interface, but have not been able to boot from it (except by physically
swapping the IDE connectors, making it the primary disk). I'm using
Linux's LILO as a boot manager, and with the configuration above, LILO
actually does begin loading the OpenStep boot1 loader ("OPENSTEP boot1
40.xxxx" appears on the screen) but that's all. It just hangs there.
Is it perhaps impossible to boot from the third hard disk, or a hard
disk on a secondary EIDE port?
Oh, and incidently, OpenStep never seems to acknowledge the existence of
the second disk on the primary interface (maybe just the IBM drive
itself, but I doubt it), unless its the CDROM.
And what type of partitioning scheme does OS4.2 use when it has a whole
disk to itself? Nothing seems to recognize it ...
Pointers to any technical resources (hopefully better and more up to
date than NeXTAnswers!!) would be greatly appreciated ...
From: richarde@sophisticated.com (Richard Elmore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Can I tell OpenStep to ignore SCSI disk?
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 11:50:37 -0700
Organization: Sophisticated Circuits, Inc.
Message-ID: <richarde-2409971150370001@rich.sophisticated.com>
I have an OpenStep (4.2) system that has a second SCSI hard drive that is
formatted NTFS.
Every time I startup, OpenStep tells me that this disk is unreadable and
asks if I want to initialize it. I would like to tell OpenStep to ignore
this disk and stop asking me if it is OK to format it, but I cannot find
any way to do that.
Any hints?
TIA!
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT PPP Host
Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:13:56 GMT
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In <60as9n$sa0$1@netty.york.ac.uk> -bat. wrote:
> nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma) writes:
> > PPP is a generic UNIX program, and there is a NeXT port of it.
>
> The 4.X port might be better than the 3.3 version though. NeXT did things
> to the original free code (not that I've looked at the changes) and this
> may well have tidied up some bits that couldn't really be done right due to
> lack of info from NeXT at the time.
Might be. There's POSIX in it that NeXT removed.
Unfortunately the 4.x version is based on 2.2, and there are some features in
2.3 I'd want (idle timeouts, ipparam, etc)
> > If you want folks to be able to dial-in, you'll need a modem pool of some
> > sort. I'm not sure exactly how this would be done, but somewhere someone
> > must have done it.
>
> Not necessary - just connect a modem to the back of the cube. Or else dial
> in through someone elses termina server and run the protocol tunneld. This
> worked fine for me for ages until they got a terminal server which actually
> supported ppp.
Right. You can do this with one modem, but it sounded like they wanted many
people to be able to dial in at the same time.
TjL
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Can I tell OpenStep to ignore SCSI disk?
Date: 24 Sep 1997 21:31:11 GMT
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In <richarde-2409971150370001@rich.sophisticated.com> Richard Elmore wrote:
> I have an OpenStep (4.2) system that has a second SCSI hard drive that is
> formatted NTFS.
>
> Every time I startup, OpenStep tells me that this disk is unreadable and
> asks if I want to initialize it. I would like to tell OpenStep to ignore
> this disk and stop asking me if it is OK to format it, but I cannot find
> any way to do that.
man fstab:
If the mnt_type is specified as ``ignore'' the entry is
ignored. This is useful to show disk partitions which are
currently not used. Disks that are specified as as
``ignore'' are also not automounted by the Workspace in
NEXTSTEP. This is useful when your disk has data in a for-
mat that NEXTSTEP doesn't recognize, and you want it to
ignore the disk.
So I'd *guess* that it would look something like this
/dev/sd0a / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
/dev/sd1a /Disk ignore ro,noquota 0 2
but test it yourself to make sure, YMMV, UOATYOR
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From: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: OPENSTEP 4.2/Intel -- 61. Gb disk
Date: 24 Sep 1997 22:35:37 GMT
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
Message-ID: <60c4jp$t8v$1@tribune.usask.ca>
I am having no luck getting an ST36450A 6.1 Gb disk onto my OPENSTEP
4.2/Intel system. Here's the disktab entry I've prepared for this drive. I
got most of the numbers from NeXTAnswers #1849. The disk geometry numbers
came from running the Linux FDISK program on the drive. I used FDISK to set
the entire drive as a single NextStep partition.
ST36450A|st36450a|Seagate 6.1 Gigabyte ide drive:\
:ty=fixed_rw_ide:nc#748:nt#255:ns#63:ss#512:rm#3600:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=mach_kernel:z0#32:z1#96:\
:hn=localhost:ro=a:\
:pa#0000000:sa#4000000:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:ta=4.3BSD:ia:oa=time:ra#
10:da#4096:\
:pb#4000000:sb#4000000:bb#8192:fb#1024:cb#16:tb=4.3BSD:ib:ob=time:rb#
10:db#4096:\
:pc#8000000:sc#4000000:bc#8192:fc#1024:cc#16:tc=4.3BSD:ic:oc=time:rc#
10:dc#4096:
When I tried:
disk -i /dev/rhd1a
I got a complaint about the boot blocks overwriting the label.
I tried to fix this by adding 63 to the pa, pb and pc values of the disktab
entry. I then tried to run `disk -i /dev/rhd1a' again.
Something has gotten really corrupted, though. Whenever I try to run disk on
the drive my machine panics!
So, I've got 2 questions:
1) What's wrong with the above disktab entry?
2) How do I get disk to run without crashing my system?
BTW -- I think the fact that OPENSTEP requires all this messing around is a
real crock of &**&#@.
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From: "Lee Byeong-ho" <bhlee@cnt.co.kr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: I can't start apache server...
Date: 25 Sep 1997 09:30:17 GMT
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Hi,
We have a fire wall and I configured OmniWeb Proxy Preference( Proxy Server
URL : http://myproxy server: 8080).
I gave command '/NextLibrary/WebServer/httpd -d /NextLibrary/WebServer >
/dev/console', but I got error message 'httpd: could not bind to port 8080,
bind: Address already in use'
I can't start server.
And I can't find domain name.( not ip address, I wrote nameserver
information in /etc/resolv.conf)
Please give me some tips.
Thanks in advance...
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From: Andrew Richter <arichter@nwu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: freezing during package install
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 02:53:42 -0500
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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I've just gotten OpenStep 4.2 to install on my Intel box (whew, what
an ordeal!). But, whenever I try to install a package, the whole system
freezes in the middle of the install. Has anyone else encountered this,
and does anyone know what's wrong here? I would appreciate
any help you could offer.
John K. Watson
jkwatson@nwu.edu
From: zamora@vnet.ibm.com (Tony Zamora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Errors initializing new internal hard drive in NeXTstation
Date: 25 Sep 1997 12:47:36 GMT
Organization: IBM Global Services -- Lexington KY
Message-ID: <60dmh8$i30$1@news.lexington.ibm.com>
I have replaced the internal disk drive in my original (25 MHz)
NeXTstation with a Seagate ST32107WC (Cayman, also known as a Conner
CFP2107E) and am having trouble initializing it.
I installed the drive, booted from another disk and used the following
command to try to initialize it:
disk -t CFP2107E -i -b /dev/rsd0a
I got the following output:
disk name: CFP2107E
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
Writing /usr/standalone/boot
creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a
/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a
/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 2097152 63 10 8192 1024 16 10 120 2048 t
sd0 (1,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x21
SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
write error: 2097151
wtfs: I/O error
/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd0a failed (status 1)
Here is the disktab file that I am using:
CFP2107E|CONNER CFP2107E:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3999:nt#10:ns#63:ss#1024:rm#7200:\
:fp#160:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#32:z1#96:hn=hexagon:\
:pa#0:sa#2097152:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#2048:ra#10:\
:oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
Before I used this disktab file, I got the following error when I
tried to initialize the disk:
boot block extends past front porch
I figured putting fp#160 in the disktab file would fix this, but I
don't know what the error from mkfs means (is it suspicious that both
errors I've gotten say something about the front porch?). I don't
think it's a media error because running "disk -F /dev/rsd0a" didn't
report any errors. Has anyone gotten this disk to work in a NeXT?
What do I need to do?
Tony
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From: powell@aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Getting NS to recognise HD partitions on a 2.16 GB drive
Date: 20 Sep 1997 18:37:15 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <60154r$kas@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
I recently replaced my internal HD on a turbocolor with a 2.16 GB Seagate
ST52160N. I checked nextanswers and reformatted the disk to 2 partitions
using disk and a disktab for the HD. Then I installed OPENSTEP 4.1. The
booting shows two partitions and I entered a mount point for the 2nd
partition in the fstab file but it does not show in the workspace manager.
Any ideas on what I should do to see my 2nd partition on the drive? After
several hours on this I'm now at a loss.
Thanks for any help from you gurus out there!
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From: "Simon (V. ILyushchenko)" <simonf@rrg.msk.su>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: What are file permissions for Mail.app to work???
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 21:17:03 +0400
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Hello,
I have been trying to get Mail.app to work with an NFS-mounted
/usr/spool/mail from another server. The trouble is, I could not read
the new mail unless the directory was world-writable.
Since the default Next user is called "me" but his mail name is (say)
"john", I have added user "me" to the mail server, copied the mailbox
"john" to "me", set the correct group and owner both on the new mailbox
and on the spool directory (which was not a real spool directory
anyway). Then I set the spool directory permissions to 700. No luck.
OK, I thought, maybe their UIDs are different. Since "me" on Next is
(say) 123, I have changed "me" on the mail server to have the same UID
and even made it a member of the group "wheel", just like on the Next
station.
So, Mail.app HAS to have some user id to access the NFS directory. Does
anyone know what it is?
Thanks,
Simon
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From: powell@aoml.noaa.gov (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP
Date: 18 Sep 1997 15:27:47 GMT
Organization: U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA/AOML
Message-ID: <5vrh9j$ila@nil.aoml.noaa.gov>
I cant seem to get to the PPP web site at
http://www.thoughtport.com:8080/PPP/
I seem to remember a post that mentioned this site being moved.
Does anyone know what the status is?
I need to redo my PPP installation and thought I'd try the latest available
for NS.
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From: zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/private/... (unending loop?)
Date: 25 Sep 1997 20:38:35 GMT
Message-ID: <60ei4b$suq$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
In an attempt to find out where 50 MB suddenly disappearted to, I did
a recursive listing of files on the root directory using the command
"ls -sR > /tmp/size.txt", putting it in the background. After a long
while, I notice that there was a pattern developing: first the
internal drive would spin a long time, then the external drive (which
is configured as a backup boot disk mounted at /backup) would spin a
long time, and then back to the internal drive, etc.
I finally killed the process and looked at size.txt (which had grown
to 15MB). Apparently, the process had been following what looks like
an infinite loop in the directory structure:
/backup/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot
Now the second occurrence of tftpboot is a link to /, and that is what
gets the chain going. However, I noticed that this same chain
appears on the internal drive:
/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/....
Is this the normal configuration? How does one tell the process not
to go down these looping links and allow itself to terminate?
Ed
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Getting NS to recognise HD partitions on a 2.16 GB drive
Date: 25 Sep 1997 22:04:42 GMT
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In <60154r$kas@nil.aoml.noaa.gov> Mark Powell wrote:
> The booting shows two partitions and I entered a mount point for the 2nd
> partition in the fstab file but it does not show in the workspace manager.
> Any ideas on what I should do to see my 2nd partition on the drive? After
> several hours on this I'm now at a loss.
What does /etc/fstab say?
Have you checked UNIX expert to see all the files?
Can you access it in Terminal.app (ie 'ls /whateveritiscalled')
Does it change if you login as root?
TjL
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From: mow@navigator.de (Markus Wenzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: SOLVED: Re: sshd on OS 4.2
Date: 25 Sep 1997 22:16:17 GMT
Organization: Navigator
Message-ID: <60enrh$80g$1@radjah.navigator.de>
References: <601a4d$99c$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> <EGvwJ6.Iz2@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
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In <609da1$gq1$1@tilde.csc.ti.com> Stephen J. Perkins wrote:
> Many thanks to Rex Dieter <rdieter@math.unl.edu> who gave the
> following tidbit:
> ---------------
> The host key should be created with NO password.
>
> Check the password thing above, I'll bet that's it. That's a common
> problem, and I think the ssh documentation could be a bit more clear
> on that.
You're right. I also failed badly generating the host key due to this lack of
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From: "Lee Byeong-ho" <bhlee@cnt.co.kr>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: I can't start apache server...
Date: 26 Sep 1997 09:06:13 GMT
Organization: HanQ.Net
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References: <01bcc995$8cbbf6d0$68a67fd2@dooly>
Lee Byeong-ho <bhlee@cnt.co.kr>ÀÌ(°¡) <01bcc995$8cbbf6d0$68a67fd2@dooly>
±â»ç¿¡¼ ÀÛ¼ºÇß½À´Ï´Ù...
> Hi,
>
> We have a fire wall and I configured OmniWeb Proxy Preference( Proxy
Server
> URL : http://myproxy server: 8080).
> I gave command '/NextLibrary/WebServer/httpd -d /NextLibrary/WebServer >
> /dev/console', but I got error message 'httpd: could not bind to port
8080,
> bind: Address already in use'
>
> I can't start server.
>
> And I can't find domain name.( not ip address, I wrote nameserver
> information in /etc/resolv.conf)
>
> Please give me some tips.
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> /BYEONG HO LEE
>
>
YES !!!
I found it's solution. I found that my web server port was similar to proxy
server port.
So I changed my web server's port from 8080 to 80.
But my system didn't support name service.
I made /etc/resolv.conf file.
So what's wrong?
Has anyone any experiences?
Best Regards.
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: OPENSTEP 4.2/Intel -- 61. Gb disk
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 17:14:58 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970926171040.22421A-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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To: eric@skatter.USask.Ca
In-Reply-To: <60c4jp$t8v$1@tribune.usask.ca>
I'm not quite sure that OS can mount such big partition. You should verify
this question in nextanswer. You'll find something on the topic in
sysadmin documentation perhaps (get a look in librarian -
libririan.bshlv). This may depend on the type of the disk too.
To avoid problems, split it into 2 or 3 partitions. This should work fine
I suppose.
Good luck
Raph
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From: guyt@is.twi.tudelft.nl (A. Guyt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Help: S3 video with Triton II mb
Date: 23 Sep 1997 13:13:24 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Message-ID: <608f9k$338$1@news.tudelft.nl>
References: <607hb5$ikf@ttacs7.ttu.edu>
Operator writes
> I have upgraded by mb and cpu (Triton II and P200) but now cannot get to
> the boot prompt. I have read in NeXTAnswers about the video conflict
when
> one has a video card based on the S3 chipset (I do, Stealth 3D) and the
> Triton mb. Their solution, however, assumes that you can type '-v' at
the
> boot prompt. My screen turns blank. I see the boot prompt for a fraction
> af a second before it goes to never-never-land. I am hoping that
somebody
> else has experienced a similar problem and found a solution?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Darryl
Unfortunately there is no solution. Get OS 4.2, Rhapsody or another video
card.
Abraham.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca (David Evans)
Subject: Re: sshd on OS 4.2
Sender: news@novice.uwaterloo.ca (Mr. News)
Message-ID: <EGvwJ6.Iz2@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 00:40:18 GMT
References: <601a4d$99c$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>
Organization: University of Waterloo
In article <601a4d$99c$1@tilde.csc.ti.com>,
Stephen J. Perkins <perkins@netmass.com.> wrote:
>
>The files are in the /etc/ directory. However, when I start sshd (as
>root) via:
> /usr/local/sbin/sshd -d
>
>I get the following:
>
>debug: sshd version 1.2.20 [i386-next-nextstep3]
>Could not load host key: /etc/ssh_host_key
>fatal: Please check that you have sufficient permissions and the file
>exists.
>
Was the precompiled version built using -posix? I have this memory that
POSIX support in 4.x was much worse than that in 3.3.
--
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From: clane@stem.com (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/private/... (unending loop?)
Date: 26 Sep 1997 16:40:58 GMT
Organization: Systemix, Inc.
Message-ID: <60goiq$osq@iserver.stem.com>
References: <60ei4b$suq$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU (Edward N. Zalta) wrote:
> How does one tell the process not to go down these looping links and
> allow itself to terminate?
Whether or not the loop you encounted is valid or not, you'll always end up
with information duplication due to symbolic links that point to directories.
Instead, use 'find' which can avoid following the symbolic links:
find / -xdev -ls > /tmp/size.txt
The -xdev predicate should also keep it from wandering onto other disks
and/or NFS mounts. Another useful predicate in your situation might be:
-size +2000
which would only include in your output files > 1MB (2000 512k blocks). Of
course, DarkForest is another way to go when hunting the elusive lost space.
- Christopher
From: jray@bigmac.ag.ohio-state.edu (John Ray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: [HELP] Strange problems...
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:38:50 -0400
Organization: OSU Extension
Message-ID: <jray-2309971138500001@primal.ag.ohio-state.edu>
Nothing seriously hurting our functionality, but weird things that have
appeared over time:
(This is a standalone server named leviathan, Intel, OS 4.0)
1. UserManager.app - behaves normally, right up to the point where I'm
about to save the user... then a dialog appears prompting me to "Enter
password for Netinfo Domain: /" ... essentially the same dialog that
appears if you start a program which requires root permission to run,
except I am logged in as root. If I type in the root password again, all
is well.
2. The local netinfo domain. When I start NetInfo manager, my local
domain window shows up as "local @ 0.0.0.0" instead of "local @ leviathan"
- which it always had. If I look at the "Servers..." selection under the
"Domain" menu, it shows "localhost" as the Master server... (this can't be
switched, presumably because I am running in a standalone configuration).
Comparing my setup (Netinfo machine properties, etc) to a NeXT slab in a
similar standalone configuration reveals nothing - they appear to be
identical (except for machine name/IP of course)... however, on the NeXT,
I get "local @ godzilla" when I open up the local domain, and under the
"Servers..." selection I see "godzilla" marked as a master server. I've
dug thru every property I can find, but haven't turned up anything. I
have no idea if whatever has caused this is affecting anything else - like
UserManager perhaps...
Leviathan has been thru several netinfo configurations, but is now back in
a simple configuration with just a lonely little "local.nidb" file in the
netinfo directory. Somewhere along the way, something got slightly out of
whack...
If anyone has any ideas on these two oddities, let me know...
Thanks for your time,
Email appreciated,
--- John
From: "John K. Watson" <jkwatson@nwu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: cyrix incompatibility
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:16:14 -0500
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <342C09FE.25D9EE9B@nwu.edu>
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Has anyone besides me had problems with programs
(and the OS itself) in OpenStep crashing on a Cyrix CPU? If so,
has anyone found a workaround for these problems?
I'd rather have a workaround, rather than buy a new CPU.
Thanks for any advice, tips, etc.
John K. Watson
jkwatson@nwu.edu
From: nick@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca (Mr. B. N. Bondoc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: NeXT MouseX question
Date: 26 Sep 1997 19:35:01 -0400
Organization: McGill University Computing Centre
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <xn3oh5fodi2.fsf@rebus.physics.mcgill.ca>
References: <60415h$q2b@odin.egate.net> <60benb$63s@news1.mnsinc.com>
In-reply-to: barry@gslink.com's message of 24 Sep 1997 16:22:03 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to do the same thing, I can display on my NeXT but my
remote clients die as soon as I press "a" key on the keyboard.
I have spoken to Mouse himself and the problem seems to be my ADB
keyboard ... the latest version of MouseX included an ADB keyboard
"driver" but Mouse and I were unable to find the source code for the
ADB keyboard ... apparently the person who wrote it left the
establishment where the source code was posted.
Does anyone have this source code?
Thanks in advance
nick
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fax: 514 - 398 - 7022
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From: "ýY" <cleeland@cs.wustl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfoManager.app dumps core
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 23:02:54 -0500
Organization: ttp://www.cs.wustl.edu/~cleeland
Message-ID: <342C90A8.EB8299CE@cs.wustl.edu>
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Hi,
I recently rebuilt my ColorStation running 3.3 due to a hard drive
crash. It was a complete install from the ground up--no bringing back
the OS from a backup.
Anyway, I finally got NetInfo configured the way that I needed it, and
now NetInfoManager.app won't start up. If I run it in gdb, I can see
that it's puking on a strcpy(), but I can't find the arguments to it and
the calling frames are obscured, probably by compiling with -O and
-fomit-frame-pointers or something like that.
If anybody has any ideas besides wiping out netinfo and starting again
from what's in /usr/template/client/etc/netinfo, please let me know.
Thanks!
-cj
From: jbf@frazer.com (James Frazer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: /private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/private/... (unending loop?)
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 01:00:15 -0400
Organization: The Internet Access Company, Inc.
Message-ID: <jbf-2709970100160001@frazer.com>
References: <60ei4b$suq$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>
In article <60ei4b$suq$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, zalta@mally.Stanford.EDU
(Edward N. Zalta) wrote:
>Apparently, the process had been following what looks like
> an infinite loop in the directory structure:
> /backup/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot/private/tftpboot
snip
> Is this the normal configuration?
This aggravation has been in the NeXT directory structure since 2.0
at least. I believe it has something to do with enabling booting over
the net.
From: trail@ix.netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: cyrix incompatibility
Date: 27 Sep 1997 14:15:51 GMT
Organization: Netcom
Message-ID: <60j4en$i11@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com>
References: <342C09FE.25D9EE9B@nwu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <342C09FE.25D9EE9B@nwu.edu>
On 09/26/97, "John K. Watson" wrote:
>Has anyone besides me had problems with programs
>(and the OS itself) in OpenStep crashing on a Cyrix CPU? If so,
>has anyone found a workaround for these problems?
>I'd rather have a workaround, rather than buy a new CPU.
There have been a number of posts on Usenet and the OmniWeb mailing
list about problems with Cyrix chips and NeXTstep's threading. It
seems that OmniWeb.app exposes these problems particularly well. From
what I gathered from the various discussions, the workaround was to
get a cpu from Intel or AMD.
Jeff
trail@ix.netcom.com
From: rimon@sas.upenn.edu (Rimon E. Huque)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: NetInfo Rebuild question
Date: 27 Sep 1997 14:45:58 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania
Message-ID: <60j676$e3t$1@netnews.upenn.edu>
How is sit possible to fix a Netinfo problm that began after trying to
configure a NeXT in a coax LAN, using standard UNIX ASCII files instead
of using NetInfo.
Attempts to setup TCP caused NetInfo Communication Failures, with most key
NeXTadmin apps not working. The machine was also intended to be an NFS
client, and this hangs due to Connection to the Server not being possible.
"ping" did work sometimes, when tested.
Is there a way to rebuild NetInfo without losing Applications installed on
this system? It is a NeXT 040 Cube, running 3.2 Developer. Trying to
make it a client (NFS) to a Sun running Solaris 2.5.1.
Any insights are appreciated.
Cheers,
RH.
--
****************************************************************************
* *
* Rimon Huque *
* *
****************************************************************************
From: "John K. Watson" <jkwatson@nwu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: cyrix incompatibility
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:10:25 -0500
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
Message-ID: <342D6831.6B5D9616@nwu.edu>
References: <342C09FE.25D9EE9B@nwu.edu> <60j4en$i11@sjx-ixn9.ix.netcom.com>
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trail@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On 09/26/97, "John K. Watson" wrote:
> >Has anyone besides me had problems with programs
> >(and the OS itself) in OpenStep crashing on a Cyrix CPU? If so,
> >has anyone found a workaround for these problems?
> >I'd rather have a workaround, rather than buy a new CPU.
>
> There have been a number of posts on Usenet and the OmniWeb mailing
> list about problems with Cyrix chips and NeXTstep's threading. It
> seems that OmniWeb.app exposes these problems particularly well. From
> what I gathered from the various discussions, the workaround was to
> get a cpu from Intel or AMD.
Thanks to all who have replied to me. I guess I'll be ordering a newCPU
now. :(
John
From: Ali Asad Lotia <lotia@toastman.us.itd.umich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: setting up NeXTMail
Date: 28 Sep 1997 01:44:57 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan ITD News Server
Message-ID: <60kcqp$26b$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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i am trying to set up NeXTMail on my machine which is a 68040 color turbo
slab. i am using NS 3.3 and used the instructions that were included in
the docs in NeXTLibrary. the machine does not seem to be delivering mail
to anything other than itself. i followed the instructions and was using
HostManager.app to configure it. the broadcasthost name was changed to the
name of the machine which is fatboy (the full name is
fatboy.us.itd.umich.edu). i followed the config instructions for the
mail server as were give in the doc. the exact doc is ch 6 in the
NeXTAdmin manual in the NeXTLibrary bookshelf. as the machine was going to
be a standalone mail server i did not see the need to export directories
or anything.
i knew something was different when i came to the examining the netinfo
databas section (i am not using one as the machine is in a totally
non-NeXT network. when i was looking at stuff in HostManager.app and came
to the mounts section, i saw that the dirctories had not been properly
mounted. i am a total novice with configuring NeXTMail but remember how
amazing it was when i was uing it. i would really appreciate some help in
setting up NeXTMail to work on my machine so i can have it be a standalone
mail server.
I would prefer to be emailed at lotia@umich.edu if possible as i do not
check this newsgroup as often as i check my mail.
thanksa lot in advance, ali asad lotia
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_______________________________________________________________________________
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_______________________________________________________________________________
ali asad lotia lotia@umich.edu
From: sanguish@digifix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.announce,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,comp.sys.next.bugs,comp.sys.next.programmer
Subject: NEXTSTEP/OpenStep Resources on the Net
Supersedes: <12335874814429@digifix.com>
Date: 28 Sep 1997 03:48:51 GMT
Organization: Digital Fix Development
Message-ID: <27562875419231@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: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting up NeXTMail
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 10:07:53 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970928100418.12354B-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References: <60kcqp$26b$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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To: Ali Asad Lotia <lotia@toastman.us.itd.umich.edu>
In-Reply-To: <60kcqp$26b$1@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu>
On 28 Sep 1997, Ali Asad Lotia wrote:
> i am trying to set up NeXTMail on my machine which is a 68040 color turbo
> slab. i am using NS 3.3 and used the instructions that were included in
> the docs in NeXTLibrary. the machine does not seem to be delivering mail
> to anything other than itself. i followed the instructions and was using
> HostManager.app to configure it. the broadcasthost name was changed to the
> name of the machine which is fatboy (the full name is
> fatboy.us.itd.umich.edu). i followed the config instructions for the
> mail server as were give in the doc. the exact doc is ch 6 in the
> NeXTAdmin manual in the NeXTLibrary bookshelf. as the machine was going to
> be a standalone mail server i did not see the need to export directories
> or anything.
>
Hi, did you look at /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf
and related files? I am not able to give you advice on details
but in our case changing this file helped.
Rudy.
From: Rudolf B Blazek <blazek@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: setting up NeXTMail
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 10:13:23 -0400
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970928101210.12408A-100000@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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To: Ali Asad Lotia <lotia@toastman.us.itd.umich.edu>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Rudolf B Blazek wrote:
>
> Hi, did you look at /etc/sendmail/sendmail.subsidiary.cf
> and related files? I am not able to give you advice on details
> but in our case changing this file helped.
>
> Rudy.
>
>
I meant /etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf, sorry.
Rudy.
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From: "Ron Green, Jr." <rgreen@firstnethou.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: HP LaserJet 4M and NEXTSTEP 3.3
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:18:14 -0500
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Hi,
I'm trying to get my HP LaserJet 4M to work as a stand alone printer
with my Intel computer running NEXTSTEP 3.3. I checked out the FAQ and
it says that I need to re-wire my serial cable. Can anyone tell if this
is absolutely necessary or if there might be another possibility.
Thanks in advance,
Ron Green
From: lal9@po.CWRU.Edu (Larry A. Latson, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: couple questions from a new user
Date: 28 Sep 1997 23:18:52 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Message-ID: <60moks$hnl@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>
hi all,
i finally got OpenStep4.2 running on my IDE-based Intel box.
I am having some problems, though...
first, my CD-ROM drive doesn't show up anywhere. when I
installed, i had to move my CDROM over to slave on the
primary rather than master/secondary. It installed great, but
now I want to install Developer, and there is no CD-ROM.
is there some simple thing I'm missing? and once it's recognized,
do I have to keep it on the primary IDE device, or can I move
it back to secondary?
second, i want to add another OS to the NeXT boot loader.
I have Win95 and OpenStep on one IDE drive, and Linux on
a second one. i guess it next doesn't supply the means to
do this, does anyone have experience using LILO to boot
OpenStep?
that's all for now. any and all help is greatly appreciated.
thanks,
LL
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of love is hello and goodbye. Until we meet again." -JimiH
From: ts110@pmms.cam.ac.uk (Tomaz Slivnik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: PPP gateway
Date: 28 Sep 1997 23:27:51 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University, Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Message-ID: <60mp5n$7t5$1@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
I've got an ethernet network of two NeXTs and one PC. One of the NeXTs is
connected to the outside world via a PPP link. The only problem is, the
NeXT won't forward any IP traffic from the other two machines to the
outside world.
What can I do?
Many thanks!
PS The gateway NeXT is running OpenStep 4.0 + the version of PPP 2.2
that came with it.
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
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Subject: IMPORTANT: Security bugfix for Samba - all versions. (FWD)
Date: 29 Sep 1997 02:46:22 GMT
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{{ FYI -- saw this and I know folks here are running Samba }}
Subject: IMPORTANT: Security bugfix for Samba - all versions.
From: jeremy@netcom.com (Jeremy Allison)
Date: 1997/09/26
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Newsgroups: comp.security.unix
IMPORTANT: Security bugfix for Samba
------------------------------------
A security hole in all versions of Samba has been recently
discovered. The security hole allows unauthorized remote users to
obtain root access on the Samba server.
An exploit for this security hole has been posted to the internet so
system administrators should assume that this hole is being actively
exploited.
The exploit for the security hole is very architecture specific and
has been only demonstrated to work for Samba servers running on Intel
based platforms. The exploit posted to the internet is specific to
Intel Linux servers. It would be very difficult to produce an exploit
for other architectures but it may be possible.
A new release of Samba has now been made that fixes the security
hole. The new release is version 1.9.17p2 and is available from
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-1.9.17p2.tar.gz
This release also adds a routine which logs a message if anyone
attempts to take advantage of the security hole. The message (in the
Samba log files) will look like this:
ERROR: Invalid password length 999
your machine may be under attack by a user exploiting an old bug
Attack was from IP=aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
where aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd is the IP address of the machine performing the attack.
Please report any attacks to the appropriate authority.
The Samba Team
samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
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From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
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Subject: Re: [HELP] Strange problems...
Date: 23 Sep 1997 21:53:44 GMT
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My solution to this is to goto / and duplicate localhost, and then change the
hostname and IP etc to reflect the IP and hostname of the machine.
I'm not sure if that is the right way, but it seems to have worked for me
without breaking anything noticeable.
TjL
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From: zamora@vnet.ibm.com (Tony Zamora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Errors initializing new internal hard drive in NeXTstation
Date: 29 Sep 1997 15:40:14 GMT
Organization: IBM Global Services -- Lexington KY
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References: <60dmh8$i30$1@news.lexington.ibm.com>
In article <60dmh8$i30$1@news.lexington.ibm.com>,
Tony Zamora <zamora@vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>I got the following output:
>
>disk name: CFP2107E
>disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
>writing disk label
>Writing /usr/standalone/boot
>creating new filesystem on /dev/rsd0a
>/usr/etc/newfs -n -v /dev/rsd0a
>/etc/mkfs /dev/rsd0a 2097152 63 10 8192 1024 16 10 120 2048 t
>sd0 (1,0): ERROR op:0x2a sd_state:4 scsi status:0x0
>sd0 (1,0): sense key:0x5 additional sense code:0x21
> SCSI Block in error = 0 (front porch)
>write error: 2097151
>wtfs: I/O error
>/usr/etc/newfs /dev/rsd0a failed (status 1)
It looks like the SCSI error means that I was trying to write beyond
the end of the disk. I got it to work by reducing the number of disk
blocks in the partition.
Here's the disktab I ended up using.
CFP2107E|CONNER CFP2107E:\
:ty=fixed_rw_scsi:nc#3999:nt#10:ns#104:ss#512:rm#7200:\
:fp#320:bp#0:ng#0:gs#0:ga#0:ao#0:\
:os=sdmach:z0#64:z1#192:hn=hexagon:\
:pa#0:sa#4193984:ba#8192:fa#1024:ca#16:da#2048:ra#3:\
:oa=time:ia:ta=4.3BSD:
Tony
From: "John K. Watson" <jkwatson@nwu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: couple questions from a new user
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 10:45:06 -0500
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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Larry A. Latson, Jr. wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i finally got OpenStep4.2 running on my IDE-based Intel box.
> I am having some problems, though...
Join the club. :)
> first, my CD-ROM drive doesn't show up anywhere. when I
> installed, i had to move my CDROM over to slave on the
> primary rather than master/secondary. It installed great, but
> now I want to install Developer, and there is no CD-ROM.
> is there some simple thing I'm missing? and once it's recognized,
> do I have to keep it on the primary IDE device, or can I move
> it back to secondary?
I noticed that it wasn't just that the CDROM didn't show up, butthat the
second controller wasn't recognized as being existant
at all, whether it had the cdrom on it, or a HD on it. I'm thinking
of trying this: Install while on the primary (one HD and one CDROM),
then move it to the secondary, and have LILO (from your linux)
load Openstep on the secondary controller. Anyone think this might
work? Would Openstep then acknoledge (sp!) the presence of
the second controller? Just a thought.
> second, i want to add another OS to the NeXT boot loader.
> I have Win95 and OpenStep on one IDE drive, and Linux on
> a second one. i guess it next doesn't supply the means to
> do this, does anyone have experience using LILO to boot
> OpenStep?
>
LILO works fine to boot openstep when openstep is on the
primarycontroller...I haven't tried it any other way.
John
From: MARMIER Raphael <marmier4@hei.unige.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: couple questions from a new user
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 19:22:54 +0200
Organization: University of Geneva
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970929191023.4840C-100000@hei.unige.ch>
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To: "John K. Watson" <jkwatson@nwu.edu>
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Hi
> I noticed that it wasn't just that the CDROM didn't show up, butthat the
> second controller wasn't recognized as being existant
> at all
Have you installed a second instance of EIDE driver in Configure.app? You
need it to access your secondary EIDE channel (parameters: Port:170
IRQ:15)
, whether it had the cdrom on it, or a HD on it. I'm thinking
> of trying this: Install while on the primary (one HD and one CDROM),
> then move it to the secondary, and have LILO (from your linux)
> load Openstep on the secondary controller. Anyone think this might
> work? Would Openstep then acknoledge (sp!) the presence of
> the second controller? Just a thought.
>
Might work.
But I suggest you put both disks on primary controller, and CDROM drive on
secondary, as MASTER. Should work fine.
Normally, Openstep is reported to boot with LILO. See
Nextanswers for this.
To boot openstep from another unit, you need to specify the right unit in
/etc/fstab : instead of hd0 , you need hd1 as root device.
There is an alternative way: creating a small (8mb) boot partition at the
beginning of the first disk to redirect boot to the second. But with this,
you cannot have any other system than Openstep on the second disk...
> > second, i want to add another OS to the NeXT boot loader.
No way, sorry
Raph
From: buster@stripe.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: can't find $LBL -- PC won't load NS3.3
Date: 29 Sep 1997 20:16:15 GMT
Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
Message-ID: <60p2af$lci@lace.colorado.edu>
NNTP-Posting-User: buster
I have a PeeCee that _was_ running NEXTSTEP.
Micron 133 32MB RAM
Adaptec 2940 (or 2490) PCI SCSI
Diamond Stealth 4MB
EtherLink ISA/EISA
It kept crashing when running OmniWeb and/or ppp.
With the last couple of freeze-up's, I lost some
files and so decided to reinstall the OS. BUT,
I didn't keep good enough notes last time around
and now I'm stuck.
The triton motherboard and S3 video blackout/freeze
problem is, I think, the problem. but, somehow I got
around it before. now I'm a win95 user, ugh.
The NS3.3 boot floppy, updated drivers, and 3.37
Adaptec floppies work fine. It loads the essentials
from the CD, and I reboot off the scsi disk using
the -v switch at the boot: prompt.
the system comes up with the default VGA and starts
the configure app. (I thought I used my DiamondStealth
driver off floppy at this point, but it doesn't want
floppies yet.) I set BootGraphics to NO and add my
ID string to the Diamond Stealth driver.
once I click the save button in the configure app,
the screen goes black and I have to power cycle the
system. now when I try to boot from sd(), it says
can't find $LBL
if I use config=sd()Default when booting off the
NS3.3 floppy, it looses my PSMouse, but it comes
up and offers to install the other NS subsets.
any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks
-paul
buster@Colorado.EDU
From: mgw@apache.com (Mark Wauchope)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: couple questions from a new user
Date: 29 Sep 1997 19:46:24 GMT
Organization: Apache Digital Corporation
Distribution: world
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References: <60moks$hnl@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>
In article <60moks$hnl@alexander.INS.CWRU.Edu>
lal9@po.CWRU.Edu (Larry A. Latson, Jr.) wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> i finally got OpenStep4.2 running on my IDE-based Intel box.
> I am having some problems, though...
>
> first, my CD-ROM drive doesn't show up anywhere. when I
> installed, i had to move my CDROM over to slave on the
> primary rather than master/secondary. It installed great, but
> now I want to install Developer, and there is no CD-ROM.
> is there some simple thing I'm missing? and once it's recognized,
> do I have to keep it on the primary IDE device, or can I move
> it back to secondary?
This should be no problem if you install a 2nd instance of the EIDE
driver. OPENSTEP only uses a single instance during setup and you
are required to add a 2nd instance of the driver if you want support
for the 2nd EIDE channel. Just go into Configure.app and add another
instance of the EIDE driver and it should default to the correct
parameters for the 2nd channel. Then put your HD on channel 1 and
the CDROM on channel 2 and reboot. Make sure the CDROm is set for
master after you move it to the 2nd channel.
> second, i want to add another OS to the NeXT boot loader.
> I have Win95 and OpenStep on one IDE drive, and Linux on
> a second one. i guess it next doesn't supply the means to
> do this, does anyone have experience using LILO to boot
> OpenStep?
LILO will boot OPENSTEP. Add an entry to lilo.conf something similar
to what you would use for Windows like this:
other = /dev/hda3
label = OPENSTEP
table = /dev/hda
be sure to replace hda3 with the actual partition of OPENSTEP. LILO
is configurable for almost any OS, so it is the best choice for any
multiboot which contains more than OPENSTEP and Windows.
I hope this helps.
---
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From: "Ron Green, Jr." <rgreen@firstnethou.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4M and NEXTSTEP 3.3
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:26:56 -0500
Organization: FirstNet
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Thanks to everyone who replied. As several people suggested, the simple
way to do this is simply use the parallel port.
Thanks again,
Ron
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From: Timothy J. Luoma <nospam@all.please>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: can't find $LBL -- PC won't load NS3.3
Date: 30 Sep 1997 00:18:43 GMT
Organization: @Home Networks
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On 09/29/97, Paul Buster wrote:
>I have a PeeCee that _was_ running NEXTSTEP.
>
>Micron 133 32MB RAM
>Adaptec 2940 (or 2490) PCI SCSI
>Diamond Stealth 4MB
>EtherLink ISA/EISA
>
>It kept crashing when running OmniWeb and/or ppp.
>With the last couple of freeze-up's, I lost some
>files and so decided to reinstall the OS. BUT,
>I didn't keep good enough notes last time around
>and now I'm stuck.
Are you using a Cyrix chip by any chance?
TjL
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From: chrish@cc.usu.edu (PUNCHOUT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Q. Reading NextMail with Elm
Message-ID: <zKg43kgL1hNU@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 29 Sep 97 16:25:02 MDT
Organization: Utah State University
Q.
I have just installed elm on my turbo color running NS 3.3
The deal is I'd like to be able to see my next mailap mail from elm.
this would be very nice for remote log in so that I can check my mail from
affar. As it stands, the nextmail ap keeps its mail in /Mailboxes
and I don't see any individual mail items here, only these nifty mailboxes.
So, is it even possible for me to have elm access my mailbox?
BAH!
Thanks in advance...--
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Christian Shank
Graduate Student
College of Natural Resources
Utah State University
Logan, Utah 84341
chrish@cc.usu.edu
From: Timothy J. Luoma <nospam@all.please>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q. Reading NextMail with Elm
Date: 30 Sep 1997 14:11:23 GMT
Organization: None
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On 09/29/97, PUNCHOUT wrote:
> >I have just installed elm on my turbo color
> running NS 3.3 >The deal is I'd like to be able
> to see my next mailap mail from elm. >this would
> be very nice for remote log in so that I can check
> my mail from >affar. As it stands, the nextmail
> ap keeps its mail in /Mailboxes >and I don't see
> any individual mail items here, only these nifty
> mailboxes. >So, is it even possible for me to
> have elm access my mailbox? >BAH!
Sure it's possible.
I'd test it first to make sure it doesn't do something nasty like
corrupt the mailbox.
I think what you want to do is get at the 'mbox' file which is inside
the '.mbox' wrapper, ie if you want to see Active.mbox what you really
want is:
~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
I use pine for this and made my life a little easier by doing this:
ln -s ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox ~/mail/active
(where ~/mail is where pine keeps its mailboxes)
I even wrote a script somewhere to set up these links automatically.
TjL
From: blazek@stt.msu.edu (Rudolf B. Blazek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q. Reading NextMail with Elm
Date: 30 Sep 1997 14:48:43 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Message-ID: <60r3gb$sbb$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
References: <zKg43kgL1hNU@cc.usu.edu> <60r1ab$o2h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
Timothy J. Luoma <nospam@all.please> wrote:
>On 09/29/97, PUNCHOUT wrote:
>
>> >I have just installed elm on my turbo color
>> running NS 3.3 >The deal is I'd like to be able
>> to see my next mailap mail from elm. >this would
>> be very nice for remote log in so that I can check
>> my mail from >affar. As it stands, the nextmail
>> ap keeps its mail in /Mailboxes >and I don't see
>> any individual mail items here, only these nifty
>> mailboxes. >So, is it even possible for me to
>> have elm access my mailbox? >BAH!
>
>Sure it's possible.
>
>I'd test it first to make sure it doesn't do something nasty like
>corrupt the mailbox.
>
It seems to me that pine works fine, but I had strange problems with
elm not being able to process the (for example) Active.mbox/mbox
files properly.
Has anyone a similar experience? Or did I do something wrong?
Good luck, and thanks.
Rudy.
From: nospam@all.please (Timothy J. Luoma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q. Reading NextMail with Elm
Date: 30 Sep 1997 15:36:32 GMT
Organization: none
Message-ID: <60r6a0$bc0$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
References: <zKg43kgL1hNU@cc.usu.edu> <60r1ab$o2h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
<60r3gb$sbb$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu>
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In <60r3gb$sbb$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek wrote:
> It seems to me that pine works fine, but I had strange problems with
> elm not being able to process the (for example) Active.mbox/mbox
> files properly.
>
> Has anyone a similar experience? Or did I do something wrong?
No, I would definitely use pine rather than elm.
I have heard several folks say that elm did funny things to their mailboxes,
and pine (while occasionally messing up the TOC) does not. The TOC is
rebuilt the next time you open the mailbox anyway....
I meant to mention this earlier.
TjL
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:41:43 -0600
From: David.Hinz@mci.com
Subject: Procedure for adding new disk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Message-ID: <875632760.6632@dejanews.com>
Organization: Deja News Posting Service
I'm trying to install a new disk on a system running NS 3.3. The disk
needs to have 3 partitions so I can't use the BuildDisk app. The problem
I'm having is knowing what raw device to use with the fdisk, disk, and
newfs. fdisk seems to want to use /dev/rsd1h, the disk command wants
/dev/rsd1a, and newfs wants /dev/sd1a. At least I think that is correct.
Is there documentation that explains in _detail_ exactly what commands and
options are needed to initialize, partition, label, and create a new
filesystem? The man pages help a little and the documentation in
NeXTanswers provides a little more information, but I still more
information.
dave.
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From: dob@mrd100.mmm.ucar.edu (David Blanchard,,,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Q. Reading NextMail with Elm
Date: 30 Sep 1997 17:20:36 GMT
Organization: NOAA/NSSL, Boulder, Colorado
Message-ID: <60rcd4$3q8$1@ncar.ucar.edu>
References: <zKg43kgL1hNU@cc.usu.edu> <60r1ab$o2h$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com> <60r3gb$sbb$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> <60r6a0$bc0$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>
In article <60r6a0$bc0$1@ha2.rdc1.nj.home.com>,
Timothy J. Luoma <nospam@all.please> wrote:
>In <60r3gb$sbb$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> Rudolf B. Blazek wrote:
>> It seems to me that pine works fine, but I had strange problems with
>> elm not being able to process the (for example) Active.mbox/mbox
>> files properly.
>>
>> Has anyone a similar experience? Or did I do something wrong?
>No, I would definitely use pine rather than elm.
>I have heard several folks say that elm did funny things to their mailboxes,
>and pine (while occasionally messing up the TOC) does not. The TOC is
>rebuilt the next time you open the mailbox anyway....
I have been using elm without any difficulties for almost 18 months.
I set up the symbolic links so that they reside within the Active.mbox
folder using the link command:
cd ./Mailboxes/Active.mbox
ln -s ./Mailboxes/user1.mbox/mbox user1
ln -s ./Mailboxes/user2.mbox/mbox user2
....etc....
A directory listing from ./Mailboxes/Active.mbox looks like this:
-rw------- 1 user0 mbox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user0 sent -> ../Outgoing.mbox/mbox@
-rw-r--r-- 1 user0 table_of_contents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user0 user1 -> ./Mailboxes/user1.mbox/mbox@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user0 user2 -> ./Mailboxes/user2.mbox/mbox@
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user0 user3 -> ./Mailboxes/user3.mbox/mbox@
Although the links have rwx (777) permissions, the actual files only
have owner read (400) permissions. TOC's get rebuilt when switching
back to the Mail.app, but this is not a problem. In my ./.elm/elmrc
file, I have the following pointers
# where to save my mail to, default directory is "Mail"
maildir = /Users/user0/Mailboxes/Active.mbox
# where to save received messages to, default file is "=received"
receivedmail = /Users/user0/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/mbox
# where to save copies of outgoing mail to, default file is "=sent"
sentmail = /Users/user0/Mailboxes/Active.mbox/sent
Good luck.
-db-
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